From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44821 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Reading the source...? Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:39:16 +0200 Message-ID: <20081018093916.GG29313@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> References: <20081017220151.GF29313@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224322868 20564 80.91.229.12 (18 Oct 2008 09:41:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:41:08 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Oct 18 11:42:07 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kr8Jz-0005kS-1G for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:42:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE9C1FC07; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:40:59 +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 19069-01-8; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:39:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 855F71FB89; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:39:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37AA91FB7E for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:39:55 +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 14154-04-7 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:39:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl (atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl [150.254.78.2]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D541FB89 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:39:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C081011F52 for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:39:17 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (PLD-Linux) at wmid.amu.edu.pl Original-Received: from atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10023) with ESMTP id 9keomzyTbuQk for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:39:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl (Postfix, from userid 3884) id F3E701013E10; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:39:16 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:44821 Archived-At: Dnia Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 06:17:35PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan napisał(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) ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________