From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/18916 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: h h extern Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: Learning ConTeXt, typical hurdle Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:42:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4234B3B8.4050504@wxs.nl> References: <60028.213.84.141.31.1110461682.squirrel@213.84.141.31> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110755483 22916 80.91.229.2 (13 Mar 2005 23:11:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:11:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Mar 14 00:11:22 2005 Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DAcCX-0002tp-K3 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:08:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 049C812898; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:09:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30216-03-32; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:08:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26CE0128C2; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:08:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F1A128AC for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:08:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30069-04-27 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:08:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8E64127D4 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:08:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j2DN8hs2005278 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:08:43 +0100 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 5DEDE18224; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:53:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [10.100.1.1]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3077117C1E for ; Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:53:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/744/Fri Mar 4 04:01:45 2005 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-MailScanner-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-MailScanner-To: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:18916 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:18916 Patrick Gundlach wrote: > Hey Gerben, > > >>Now what turns out to solve this? Empty lines before \description and >>\stopdescriptions > > > Things that were defined using \definedescription rely on \par as a > delimiter. > > >>Though I like ConTeXt if I look at certain design aspects, behaviour that >>depends on whitespace before a command frightens me. > > > Just the way it works :-) Nothing to worry about. there are only a few commands that depend on that for descriptions, you can also use \startwhatever {...} \stopwhatever in addition to \whatever {...} ... \par given that you defined whatever -) 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.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------