From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/21221 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolai Weibull Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Making texshow easier to edit Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:39:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20050707123910.GD5452@puritan.pnetwork> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120739984 8036 80.91.229.2 (7 Jul 2005 12:39:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:39:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jul 07 14:39:41 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 1DqVew-0005AR-Fv for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:39:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FBE61280D; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:39:18 +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 21029-04-3; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:39:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15D7812812; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:39:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0406412812 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:39:13 +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 21029-04-2 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:39:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com (mxfep01.bredband.com [195.54.107.70]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D4C1280D for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:39:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from puritan.pnetwork ([213.112.43.228] [213.112.43.228]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20050707123909.SBLX26070.mxfep01.bredband.com@puritan.pnetwork> for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:39:09 +0200 Original-Received: by puritan.pnetwork (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 45FE4ADFEA; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:39:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: NTG-context List Mail-Followup-To: NTG-context List Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Virus-Scanned: 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-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:21221 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:21221 The following things would make editing the texshow wiki a lot easier to edit: * Preview displays of changes * Easy cross-referencing between commands * Not putting everything inside 
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tags When making changes, having a preview display makes it easier to decide on what works and what doesn't before "commiting". I added documentation to the \quote command and thought that having links to \setupquote and \setuplanguage would be helpful. I had to create -type tags for this with long-winded query-strings. It would be much easier to have some automatic cross-referencing going on (a la WikiWords perhaps, but using \ as a signal?). When everything is put inside 
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tags, line-breaks become significant, which makes it very hard to tell where to break a line. It would be much better if the browser could decide this for itself. Anyway, I think that texshow is a great utility and hopefully more commands will be described and commented upon. For me to continue doing this, I'd probably have to have the above features available before I did so, nikolai -- Nikolai Weibull: now available free of charge at http://bitwi.se/! Born in Chicago, IL USA; currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden. main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}