Hello,
thanks Aditya and Wolfgang for "deep" explanation in several last mails.
We are approaching the goal...
Aditya's ocde:
---- \starttext \startasciimode \footnote{\type{%APPDATA%\file.txt}} \stopasciimode \stoptext ----
gives (in the footnote):
" 1 %APPDATA%\file .txt " ^ ............... +------ So there is ONE UNWANTED SPACE - how to make it disappear?
Thank you again for patience and best regards,
Lukas
When you use \type in the argument of another command there are some limitation in TeX and this is another one. The reason for the space is that TeX adds a space after a command when it reads the argument which will in this case appears in the output. When you use \type outside of the footnote this won't happens because \file in the argument is treated as a backslash followed by four single letters but in this case TeX handles it as the commend \file. Below is a simple example which demonstrates the behaviour, with the \detokenize command (nothing you need in a normal document) you can visualize TeX's behaviour. The second example shows another problematic characters. \starttext \type{\dummy.} \firstofoneargument{\type{\dummy.}} {\tt\detokenize{\dummy.}} \blank \type{#} \firstofoneargument{\type{#}} {\tt\detokenize{#}} \stoptext A way to avoid this problem is to use a slash a path separator instead of the backslash. Another way to get rid of it is to save the path a buffer and print the content of the buffer with the \typeinlinebuffer command. \starttext \startbuffer %APPDATA%\file.txt \stopbuffer \footnote{\typeinlinebuffer} \stoptext Wolfgang