From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: LaTeX \newcommands in ConTeXt.
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:08:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42E5E173.3050408@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20050725173054.02ab1a98@cits1.stanford.edu>
Brooks Moses wrote:
> 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?
maybe (a patched version of \godown):
\def\godown[#1]%
{\ifhmode\endgraf\fi
\ifvmode\nointerlineskip\vskip#1\relax}
test
\godown[10cm]
test
is \vspace accumulating?
Hans
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-25 6:15 Brooks Moses
2005-07-25 23:28 ` Hans Hagen
2005-07-26 1:03 ` Brooks Moses
2005-07-26 7:08 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2005-09-23 17:01 ` Patrick Gundlach
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