From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42584 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \startfrontmatter & Co. Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:37:15 +0200 Message-ID: <115224fb0807180837t5390f8f7yb0f4c235f4577c29@mail.gmail.com> References: <326847810807180604j4384e90ah95f774aa28243571@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216395540 16879 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2008 15:39:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:39:00 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jul 18 17:39:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJs3V-0008Ti-UO for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:39:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3DF61FC43; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:38:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00605-01-5; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:37:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF1911FC0D; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:37:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EBDF1FC0D for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:37:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00604-01-5 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:37:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.147]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3EF21FB6B for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:37:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 9so169289qwj.38 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:37:16 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.228.12 with SMTP id a12mr364495ybh.105.1216395435839; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:37:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.113.9 with HTTP; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:37:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <326847810807180604j4384e90ah95f774aa28243571@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:42584 Archived-At: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Alan Stone wrote: > On page 17, the ConTeXt manual mentions the commands > > \startfrontmatter - \stopfrontmatter > \startbodymatter - \stopbodymatter > \startbackmatter - \stopbackmatter > > What's the precise use and benefit of these commands, other > a cleaner project structure ? > > Alan You could use it to use different numbering methods for each parts. You could also use them to use roman numbering in the frontmatter and normal arabic numbers for the rest of the document and of this can be done in the environment file without hacking in the document itself (search for bodyfontenvironment in the mail archive). \starttext \startfrontmatter \chapter{Introduction} \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter{Knuth} \chapter{Zapf} \stopbodymatter \startappendices \chapter{Tables} \chapter{Figures} \stopappendices \startbackmatter \chapter{Imprint} \stopbackmatter \stoptext Regards, Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________