Re: buffer question

On 4/16/2026 10:36 PM, Jim Diamond via ntg-context wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 16:04 (-0400), Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2026, Jim Diamond wrote:
>>> Without having done my Lua programming yet, am I correct in assuming that
>>> if someone calls this \makePreamble as follows
>>>          \makePreamble{0.5"}
>>> then Bad Things will happen because of the " in the argument?
> 
>> The normal way to fix this is to use [[#1]] as quotes. [=[..]=] also works (this allows [[ ... ]] to be part of string), as does [==[..]==] and so on. Context defines \!bs .. \!es (begin string and end string) which I think maps to [===[ ... ]===]
> 
> Aditya,
> 
> thanks very much.  I guess I need to either
> - get up to speed on the Lua-ConTeXt interface, or
> - stop asking questions that provoke such answers.  :-)

- hang my plain-hat on the wall
- stay curious

Hans

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