From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7098 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: A fresh approach to learning Context. Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 18:20:59 -0500 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <0203011820590C.03740@publish> Reply-To: john@wexfordpress.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397587 16449 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:26:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:26:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7098 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7098 Context is built on pdftex and pdftex should be in most instances a superset of plain TeX. So a plain TeX file should compile on both pdftex and Context. This represents a radically different way to approach Context. Start with something already known to be workable and go from there. This is my new approach to learning Context and I will ride this horse till it gets tired. Following this idea I compiled an existing file with pdftex and then with Context. With minor tweaks things worked. I did get one strange and apparently non-germane error message. I use eplain.tex extensively. One line in eplain that works with plain and works with pdftex causes an error message in Context thus: ! Use of \def doesn't match its definition. l.79 \def\hpenalty {\ifvmode\leavevmode\fi \penalty}% This has nothing to do with my code. Something in eplain doesn't work in Context. Everything else seems fine. Can anyone suggest an explanation of the above error message? JOhn Culleton