Re: LaTeX \newcommands in ConTeXt.

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Brooks Moses wrote:

> I've recently been doing a little work on implementing a few LaTeX 
> kernel bits in ConTeXt, to simplify porting LaTeX code over.  It's now 
> at a point where a few of the pieces might actually be useful, and 
> certainly to a point where some comments would be welcomed, so I've 
> put up a version of it online, in this directory:
>
>     http://dpdx.net/context/latex-compat/
>
> What you'll find there is a fair number of module files, along with a 
> couple of "latextest" files that I've been using to try out the 
> results.  latextext.tex is to be compiled in ConTeXt; 
> latextext-latex.tex is to be compiled in LaTeX for purposes of 
> comparison.
>
> In any case, I think the implementation of \newcommand (and its 
> relatives) is about up to "beta" level.  Ditto with LaTeX lengths.  
> And there's a working LaTeX-like counter implementation, based on 
> ConTeXt counters underneath.  (It's not yet hooked into ConTeXt's 
> counters for footnotes and equations and pages, though; I'm not really 
> sure how to do that.)
>
> Also, environments are working, in a sort of hackish way.  The "array" 
> environment works, but again a bit hackish; I'm planning to clean that 
> up soon, so both of those will get major revisions.
>
> 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; 

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

Hans 

 

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