Re: using mag and "myway"

[Pau <vim.unix@googlemail.com>]

Hi Hans,

Dank u!

That was a quick answer.

Also, thanks a lot for your software, and for making it free. You have
made true a lot of little perversions of mine which usually cost me
sweat and blood with latex (no offense please, your work is great,
this is just intented to be a nice little joke)

It's amazing to see how I get the same result with context in one line
(or even one command) when I needed something like 20 lines or so with
latex!

You have gained a new ardent context fan.

Pau


2008/4/15, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>:
> Pau wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am worried because I would like to use mag-01 to write a document and
> > then upload it to the arxiv.org. Of course, I have a title for the
> document and
> > I would like to use it instead of having "My Way" written in the front
> page
> > (which nobody would understand)
> >
> > I see that
> >
> > -------------------------
> > %C This module is part of the \CONTEXT\ macro||package and is
> > %C therefore copyrighted by \PRAGMA. See mreadme.pdf for
> > %C details.
> > -------------------------
> >
> > I found this file on the net.  at
> >
> >
> www.tug.org/teTeX/tetex-texmfdist/doc/context/base/mreadme.pdf
> >
> > I see that it is (basically?) GPL.
> >
> > Ok... now, in mag-01 I read that:
> >
> > % This style is used for producing explanationary documents.
> > % Don't misuse it for other purposes, since it may confuse
> > % users. Don't change the title either, since it provides a
> > % way to categorize documents. Numbers are disabled in
> > % instances produced outside PRAGMA ADE.
> >
> > "Don't change the title either"
> >
> > ?!?!
> >
> > and
> >
> > % These are reserved for PRAGMA-ADE, don't use them yourself!
> >
> > % \setvariables[magazine][main=Tricky]
> > % \setvariables[magazine][main=Update]
> > % \setvariables[magazine][main=HOWTO]
> >
> > % \setvariables[magazine][main=This Way]      % preludes
> to a/the manual
> > % \setvariables[magazine][main=A Better Way]  % dirty versus clean
> > % \setvariables[magazine][main=No Way]        % how users should not do
> > % it
> > % \setvariables[magazine][main=Your Way]      % how users
> do it
> > % \setvariables[magazine][main=My Way]        % how users do it
> > % \setvariables[magazine][main=Our Way]       % how we do
> things at
> > % pragma
> > % \setvariables[magazine][main=Their Way]     % how to do
> latex things
> > % in context
> >
> >
> > What does this mean? Am I free to use the style but forced to write
> > "My Way" on the top of
> > it? Cannot I modify mag-01.tex, rename it to something which do not
> > lead to confusion (say "JourDiffTitle.tex") and -of course leaving the
> > comments there- use it as I want?
> >
> > Are the example tex files under the gpl or cannot one modify them?
> >
>
>  it's just that we don't want confusion .. a context user expects a
> myway/yourway to be a kind of manual
>
>  so, if you use one of the reserved titles, then it should preferaby be a
> kind of manual thing; often these end up on the garden or alongside modules
>
>  i have no problem if you create a document using another title
>
>  at the top of your document you can change the title using \setvariables so
> there is no real reason for a copy
>
>  Hans
>
>
>
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