Re[2]: ConTeXt modules

[Giuseppe Bilotta <bourbaki@bigfoot.com>]

Wednesday, May 30, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:

HH> At 10:00 PM 5/29/01 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>>Hello, this is mostly directed to Hans.
>>
>>Is there a convention for the naming of modules, when creating new
>>ones? Since I'm quite sure not everybody is interested in the
>>thing I'm doing, and yet I'd like to distribute them as modules,
>>how should I name them?

HH> In order to prevent name clashes, the m- x- s- and p- prefixes are reserved
HH> for myself and pragma folks. I can support u-* for user modules, but we
HH> need to make sure that users make unique names. If needed i can put those
HH> public user things into a separate archive. So, how about a u- prefix? 

Sounds sensible to me. I just wanted to submit the "speech"
module, unless you plan to "stream-line" it in the core
distribution (btw, I finally have it working properly, so if you
want the final version, I can post it, here or privately).

HH> Also, *styles* never are modules, except from those in the standard
HH> distribution (the s- and x- ones that i make here). User styles are
HH> environments and are loaded with \environment  

Yes. Also please see my other post about the
environment/product/component stuff.

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta