From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: Re: customizing footnote numbers
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 14:21:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4253D44D.1020406@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ll7wnvuu.fsf@levana.de>
Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> [...]
>
>
>
>>>We are in a fully programmable environment,
>>>and it is extremely unConTeXtish to hack the visual appearance.
>>
>>I am an XML author, so am pretty amazed to hear that one should not mix
>>appearance and content in ConTeXt. Most of a ConTeXt document involves
>>visual appearance. What is one saying when one writes \blank[12pt]?
>
>
> This is visual appearance, of cource. But I am not talking about one
> single instance of \blank anywhere, I am talking about changing a
> reaeated statement (like the footnotes) by visual means. And
> formatting instructions have no right to exist there (in fact they
> should be filtered out by \sanitizelogigalmarkup{\footnote...}. This
> is one of the great advantages of using a high level language such as
> LaTeX or ConTeXt (and ConTeXt so much more than LaTeX) that we can
> define layout in this way.
to this i can add that concerning the blank, one preferably should follow the
indirect approach, thereby avoiding hard coded numbers in the document source
\defineblank[mybig][33pt]
....
\blank[mybig]
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-06 12:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-03 19:58 Paul Tremblay
2005-04-04 6:10 ` Paul Tremblay
2005-04-04 8:29 ` Hans Hagen
2005-04-04 10:14 ` Patrick Gundlach
2005-04-04 20:30 ` Thomas A.Schmitz
2005-04-05 1:27 ` Paul Tremblay
2005-04-05 11:28 ` Patrick Gundlach
2005-04-05 15:52 ` Paul Tremblay
2005-04-05 16:17 ` Patrick Gundlach
2005-04-05 22:52 ` Paul Tremblay
2005-04-06 8:38 ` Patrick Gundlach
2005-04-06 12:21 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2005-04-06 20:03 ` Patrick Gundlach
2005-04-04 17:12 ` Paul Tremblay
2005-04-04 19:40 ` Hans Hagen
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