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From: Alan Braslau <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: externalfigure error in current mkiv beta
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 23:21:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105172321.45353.alan.braslau@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DD2E41F.9030706@wxs.nl>


On Tuesday 17 May 2011 23:09:51 Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 17-5-2011 10:41, Alan Braslau wrote:
> > "draw externalfigure"
> 
> I'm still not sure about that one ... compatibility vs clean
> 

I rather like the new syntax - indeed much cleaner.

(However, for compatibility issues, it might be nice to
somehow program a better error message, if possible,
so that 'externalfigure "hacker.jpg";' more elegantly fails.)

In fact, '\externalfigure' in ConTeXt and 'externalfigure'
in metafun (without 'draw') can be a bit confusing, as in
\starttext
\externalfigure "hacker" scaled 5cm ;
\stoptext
Of course, no-one would ever admit to such foolishness.

Alan
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-17 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-19 12:06 Lutz Haseloff
2011-04-19 12:26 ` luigi scarso
2011-04-19 14:36   ` Hans Hagen
2011-04-19 14:41     ` luigi scarso
2011-04-20  4:53     ` Lutz Haseloff
2011-04-20  5:09       ` Pontus Lurcock
2011-04-20  6:02         ` Lutz Haseloff
2011-05-17 20:41         ` Alan Braslau
2011-05-17 21:09           ` Hans Hagen
2011-05-17 21:21             ` Alan Braslau [this message]
2011-05-17 21:37               ` Hans Hagen
2011-05-18  0:04                 ` Aditya Mahajan

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