From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20166 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Adam Lindsay" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt oddities Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 21:48:58 +0100 Message-ID: <20050501214858.20310@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> References: <4274FC6A.7060207@online-resourcen.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114980457 5698 80.91.229.2 (1 May 2005 20:47:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 20:47:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun May 01 22:47:32 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DSLLH-0002CI-B2 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 01 May 2005 22:47:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC27512795; Sun, 1 May 2005 22:53:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00321-03; Sun, 1 May 2005 22:53:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D64127A8; Sun, 1 May 2005 22:49:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74CCF127A8 for ; Sun, 1 May 2005 22:49:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00321-01-2 for ; Sun, 1 May 2005 22:49:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk [148.88.3.45]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A57A912795 for ; Sun, 1 May 2005 22:49:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.31.106] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j41Kmx69011189 for ; Sun, 1 May 2005 21:49:04 +0100 (BST) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: <4274FC6A.7060207@online-resourcen.de> X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail version 5.1 build 4340 English X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20166 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20166 Frank Grieshaber said this at Sun, 1 May 2005 17:57:30 +0200: >3. if a command has lots of options it's better to sort of >"pretty-print" those like the following: > >\setuplayout[ >backspace=15mm, >cutspace=10mm, >... >grid=yes, >marking=on, >] > >After some time (lots of time..) I figured out that the last "," is a >must, without it, the last option is ignored - why is that? Hi Frank. I think this complaint was one of the first ones I had on the list. ConTeXt does a great job of gobbling up spaces after the commas (actually, before keywords) in argument lists, but it doesn't do so well with other spaces. Your solution is good. Another would be to have the last line be: marking=on] Hans said a few more words on it here: -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-