Re: How to add your own modules?

[Matt Gushee <mgushee@havenrock.com>]

Thank you all for the suggestions.

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 10:53:38PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> Not really.
> Your own modules should go into (texmf-var or so)/tex/context/user
> and you should name them t-somewhat.tex (t for "third-party module").
> Then you can address them with \usemodule[somewhat] (without t-).

Is that all you need to do? I have tried that and it's not working. Do
you need to somehow "register" your module with the system or perhaps
generate a format file before using it?

> You can find my two presentation styles at the link below (mostly in 
> german...). One is a "translation" of the PowerPoint company style of my 
> employer, the other my own "corporate" style. They are not sophisticated, but 
> useful.

Thank you. I'll take a look at them.

On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 06:54:53PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 11:28 PM 10/18/2002 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> >
> >You may want to consider using "environments", though, rather than
> >modules, if all you want to do is "tweak" a pre-exisiting module.
> >(I don't know where environment files go, though; I keep them in
> >the root of my ConTeXt document tree, since ConTeXt looks up to
> >two levels up to find environments.)
> 
> let's not end up in thousands of modules; the m- s- p- x- prefixes are used 
> for the core distrubution, the t- is for users, but then you should be 
> aware of potential name clashes with other third party modules; if possible 
> follow GB's suggestion to use environments

That's a good point. I'm certainly in favor of non-invasive
modifications whenever they are possible. I guess I need to learn more
about environments. As long as I'm here, let me just ask: for the
presentation I mentioned last month, the style I used was basically the
Pragma "original" style (from 's-pre-01.tex'); as far as I remember I
didn't change the layout at all, just used different fonts and colors.
Would that be an appropriate task for an environment?

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