Re: LaTeX \newcommands in ConTeXt.

[Brooks Moses <bmoses@stanford.edu>]

At 04:28 PM 7/25/2005, you wrote:
>Brooks Moses wrote:
>>I'd particularly appreciate any comments on the \newcommand and counters 
>>implementations -- those are in the t-ltcmds and t-ltcnts modules, though 
>>\newcommand also depends on t-lterrs and t-ltbase.
>
>i just took a quick look at the code; if you run into tricky definitions, 
>let me know, often there are either already low level macros that do the 
>job, or i can add some stuff;

Thanks!  I'll probably have lots of questions as I go along -- this is 
certainly becoming a tour of the internals of both systems.

>btw, i renamed the internal \end macro so that you can get away from 
>stoptext refinitions (too messy)

Yeah, the \stoptext redefinition was one of the first pieces I wrote, 
nearly a year ago.  The reason I was doing the \stoptext redefinition 
wasn't the internal \end macro (which didn't exist then, I think) -- it was 
that the ConTeXt version I used then didn't have an \everystoptext 
hook.  But now that it exists, I can just use it.

One other question I have right now: what's a good way to duplicate LaTeX's 
\vspace macro (which is effectively a \vskip inside), without causing the 
problems that the ConTeXt manual warns about if we use \vskip?

- Brooks