From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9577 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matt Gushee Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: How to add your own modules? Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:36:32 -0600 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20021018203631.GD785@swordfish> Reply-To: Matt Gushee NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399884 4138 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 19:04:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:04:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from hermes.hrz.uni-giessen.de (hermes.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.15]) by osiris.hrz.uni-giessen.de (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9IKfCe12093 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 22:41:12 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from smail.let.uu.nl by hermes.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP for Guenter.Partosch@hrz.uni-giessen.de; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 22:40:51 +0200 Original-Received: by smail.let.uu.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3/JEvW) id WAA04685 for ntg-context-list; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 22:37:14 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: smail.let.uu.nl: majordom set sender to owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl using -f Original-Received: from swordfish ([216.241.35.41]) by smail.let.uu.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3/JEvW) with ESMTP id WAA04680 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 22:37:10 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: from matt by swordfish with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 182drE-0000cP-00 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:36:32 -0600 Original-To: ntg-context@let.uu.nl Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9577 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9577 Hi, Folks-- I'm new to this list--and to ConTeXt. Just a bit of background for those who care about such things: I have been working intensively with XML and SGML for several years, and lately I have been looking for a good way to produce printed documents from XML. I find FOP very disappointing, but I'm not very concerned about buzzword-compliance; I insist on quality output. ConTeXt looks very promising for XML as well as other inputs--and having some previous TeX experience, I find it easy to use. Anyway, I'm puzzled about how to add my own customized modules to the system. Last month I used ConTeXt to create a PDF slideshow for a presentation, but I wanted to use a modified version of one of the Pragma presentation styles. I tried putting my customized module, oh, I think in a directory under /usr/local/share/texmf, where my teTeX installation is supposed to be able to find files, but I was unable to make this work. I eventually gave up and just modified the original file in /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base (by the way, according to my reading of the license it is okay to do that for personal use, but if that's not the case, please tell me and I won't do it again). I have browsed through several manuals trying to find out how to do this, but haven't found any answers. Is there some documentation that explains how to customize the system? -- Matt Gushee When a nation follows the Way, Englewood, Colorado, USA Horses bear manure through mgushee@havenrock.com its fields; http://www.havenrock.com/ When a nation ignores the Way, Horses bear soldiers through its streets. --Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, trans.)