Re: Translating from LaTeX to ConTeXt: environments

[Hraban <angerweit@gmx.net>]

Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> The main problem (as Hans suggested, too) is that, while using LaTeX, I had
> an interface that is not "compatible" with ConTeXt (I used [...] to insert
> optional test). How could I do in a ConTeXt-like manner? My startstop needs
> to take at least one argument (text), and optionally another argument (more
> text). The "more text", if present, should go in margin, "text" is typeset
> alongside the normal body text, all with different colors. The main problem
> seems to be that \inmargin does not accept \pars in it, so I need to use \\
> instead of \pars. The second problem: how to know if I passed two {...}{...}
> or only one {...} argument to the macro? I found that with [...] this could
> be achieved wtih complexorsimple; how to do it with {...}?

Sorry, I'm just a ConTeXt beginner, also in LaTeX. I started with LaTeX
and changed over to ConTeXt, because I need grid setting.
"Normally" I work with QuarkXPress and FreeHand...

I solved a similar problem (quotation with footnote) defining separate
\StartSomething and \StopSomething. One of this (or both) could take
your text argument. Perhaps is would be a solution to work with two
args and leave one of them empty, if not needed.

(Sorry, I'm not able to use if/then constructs.)

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