Re: Fwd: Re: beginner's questions

[siep.kroonenberg@wkap.nl]

On 14 Nov, Berend de Boer wrote:
> siepo@cybercomm.nl wrote:
> 
>> I think I would like Context a lot better if there was less of that
>> hard-coded functionality. It is better to spend 10 minutes writing a
>> line or two of code than to search for hours for something that may or
>> may not be there, and, with my luck, probably isn't.
> 
> Well, I agree I had to spend some time adapting to ConTeXt, but in
> general the good index, list of macro's and grep have been my friends.
> 
> I'm not really a hard-core TeX programmer myself, so it would take me at
> least as long to lookup things in the TeX book than in the ConTeXt
> manual.
> 
> I think what you need is some kind of HOW-TO document. Couldn't you
> create an initial list, things you have found hard or impossible to do
> with ConTeXt? In that document we can answer things about fine-tuning,
> or making ConTeXt do things it does quite hard to prevent you to do :-)
> 
> Groetjes,
> 
> Berend. (-:

I just thought of another example of an important inadequately
documented topic: \setupbodyfont and \setupbodyfontenvironment. As to
the former: one can specify a Context font definition file, but this is
not documented in the manual. It is also a bit obscure what this command
is supposed to do with the various (combinations of) parameters. As to
the latter: this is the command to associate line height with font size,
but the manual makes no mention of this.

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Siep Kroonenberg
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Prepress Department
Achterom 119, 3311 KB Dordrecht, The Netherlands
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