From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/1175 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: temp file name conflicts in unattended document generation Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 10:27:15 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3827E8F3.E7D@wxs.nl> References: <14366.46860.138989.757342@PC709.wkap.nl> <38213CFC.53BB@wxs.nl> <3821B4CE.60EC@wxs.nl> <38233624.5177@wxs.nl> Reply-To: pragma@wxs.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035392013 30526 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:53:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:53:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "Ed L. Cashin" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:1175 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:1175 Ed L. Cashin wrote: > ... and I noticed that the formatting looks nicer with \typefile > because of the way it handles tabs. Tabs are kind of weird. I should > look at the code for \typefile for educational purposes. > > The green in the \startPL version is a bit hard to read, but I suppose > that's configurable. A few years ago, when writing articles for the MAPS, I found out that I spent quite some time converting things to latex. I also needed some features not present in latex. So, I rewrote the verbatim environment to be generic. After that, taco started using the context verbatim macros for the latex articles too (the maps editors accept both context and latex input since there are two styles; actually, the maps was my main reason for writing the gridsnapper, since I wanted the context articles to have snapped column lines.) In the maps, taco uses different fonts instead of colors, so indeed, it is configurable. BTW, when you look at the verb-* files as well as the core-ver file, you will see that this is one place where color palets are used. We use colors, because they match our editing environment (that we wrote some 10 years ago and are converting to perl/tk now). There are several pretty printers: TEX, MP, PERL, JS, SQL, ..., and some can be used mixed (which is what \newprettytrue enables). Actually, the MP pretty printer handles for instance btex .. etex code as TEX, not as MP. Of course there are limitations! It's just a substitute for real literate programming, a thread that will be picked up soon. Another feature of the verbatim environment, is that display verbatim will not produce one line at the bottom or top of a page. One can turn off this feature. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------