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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Reading the source...?
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:39:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081018093916.GG29313@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810171812430.18257@nqv-yncgbc>

Dnia Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 06:17:35PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan napisa&#322;(a):
> Hi Marcin,
> 
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > assume that I would like to read some parts of the ConTeXt source (to
> > learn something interesting, to learn how to do that-and-that in
> > ConTeXt, or just for fun;)).  Where do I start?  I mean: what is the
> > non-terribly-difficult way for the beginner?  I have rather good
> > expertise in plain TeX and also some in LaTeX (if this helps).
> 
> Start by reading http://wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros

Wow, I've just looked into this and it seems it's great - I hope I'll
finally be able to actually understand some parts of ConTeXt!

> This would explain how basic programming structures in Context work. Since 
> you know plain tex, you can also read syst-gen.tex. Most of it is fairly 
> straight forward.

I saw that this file seems to have some provisions for "pretty printing"
(i.e., nice formatting by TeX/ConTeXt).  How do I typeset it?  (It will
be more convenient to read than a bare text file, I guess.)

> Then I would suggest that you start with some functionality that you use 
> fairly often, and see how it is implemented in ConTeXt (don't start with 
> section heads, they are the most convoluted ConTeXt macros). Most of 
> ConTeXt source code is fairly easy to read.

I'll try it!

> Also see 
> http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080721.165918.1ce40456.en.html

Thanks, too!

> Aditya

Thanks a lot!!!

-- 
Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.pl)
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-18  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-17 22:01 Marcin Borkowski
2008-10-17 22:17 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-10-18  9:39   ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2008-10-18 16:29     ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-10-17 22:53 ` luigi scarso

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