From: Philipp Gesang <gesang@stud.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: kip@thevertigo.com
Subject: Re: Itemize without page break
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:21:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120322112147.GA31869@phlegethon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBOmsZNdp555yQVirC1EEf_Cuf-sYk9fk1VpthtJGHk4Pt0kQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2012-03-22 11:38, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 03:01, Kip Warner wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 18:22 -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> >> Anything else will leave to undersirable behaviour (or segfaults :) ) As I
> >> had said in one of my earlier emails, this is the case for ALL context
> >> macros that take both options and assignments.
> >
> > Fair enough. I got it to work now with,
> >
> > \startitemize[R,2*broad][start=11,before=\startlinecorrection,after=
> > \stoplinecorrection]
> >
> > My only concern here is that, for something as incredibly fundamental
> > and recurring in the world of ConTeXt, the caveats and distinctions to
> > be made between options and assignments, that can and have taken down
> > entire operating systems, or cause hour after hour of no end of vague
> > syntactical errors, or even successful compilations with the wrong
> > effects, shouldn't that probably have been mentioned at least once, even
> > if only in passing, somewhere within the 369 page user manual? The word
> > "assignment" I couldn't locate once.
You’re right, it can cause confusion to people migrating from
Latex where package options, afair, allows mixed key-value/list
syntax (like e.g. Lua does as well). Random example from the
KOMA-Script manual:
\documentclass[BCOR=12mm,DIV=calc,twoside]{scrartcl}
^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
assignment … switch
Therefore the difference to Context deserves mention at least
somewhere in
<http://wiki.contextgarden.net/From_LaTeX_to_ConTeXt>
which said migrators are most likely to consult first.
> - Maybe it could be more explicit, but if you ever take a look at
> documentation, for example
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupitemgroup
> you will notice that some brackets are depicted with [...,...] and
> others with [...,...=...,...]
And while we are handing out reading assignments (pun intended)
here are two wiki links that provide background information:
<http://wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros/Comma_Separated_Lists>
<http://wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros/Key_Value_Assignments>
Perhaps it makes most sense to think of Comma Lists v. Assignment
Lists in terms of the two different argument parsers being used
to process them.
Regards
Philipp
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Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-17 1:47 Kip Warner
2012-03-17 9:21 ` luigi scarso
2012-03-17 10:21 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-03-18 23:25 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-18 23:29 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-19 8:17 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-03-20 1:04 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-20 5:22 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-03-20 5:31 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-20 5:46 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-03-20 5:49 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-20 7:21 ` [luatex] " Patrick Gundlach
2012-03-20 15:02 ` Khaled Hosny
2012-03-20 8:17 ` Hans Hagen
2012-03-20 10:05 ` luigi scarso
2012-03-20 18:50 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-20 14:57 ` [luatex] " Khaled Hosny
2012-03-20 18:59 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-20 19:26 ` Hans Hagen
2012-03-20 19:59 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-20 20:39 ` luigi scarso
2012-03-20 21:24 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-20 21:41 ` luigi scarso
2012-03-22 1:50 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-20 20:44 ` Hans Hagen
2012-03-20 21:26 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-20 22:18 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-20 22:22 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-03-22 2:01 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-22 10:38 ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-03-22 10:48 ` Hans Hagen
2012-03-22 10:48 ` Hans Hagen
2012-03-22 11:21 ` Philipp Gesang [this message]
2012-03-22 11:58 ` Philipp Gesang
2012-03-22 22:47 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-22 22:46 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-22 22:40 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-22 12:05 ` luigi scarso
2012-03-22 16:38 ` luigi scarso
2012-03-19 21:49 ` Hans Hagen
2012-03-20 0:43 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-20 8:11 ` Hans Hagen
2012-03-18 23:33 ` luigi scarso
2012-03-19 21:50 ` Hans Hagen
2012-03-20 0:41 ` Kip Warner
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