From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30114 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: safe way of writing arguments Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:02:36 +0200 Message-ID: <44D87D5C.6010904@wxs.nl> References: <44D84439.5080409@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155038584 31674 80.91.229.2 (8 Aug 2006 12:03:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 12:03:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 08 14:03:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1GAQIU-0002IK-Ic for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:02:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD461FDE6; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:02:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14221-02-3; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:02:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A6BE1FDED; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:02:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3413C1FDEC for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:02:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13843-02 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:02:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id F36941FDE6 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2006 14:02:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 263 for ; Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:02:39 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:30114 Archived-At: Jano Kula wrote: > Hans Hagen wrote: > >> Jano Kula wrote: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> Is it safe to leave spare comma at the end of the key=value list or >>> other list of arguments? >>> >>> >> in most cases it is ok >> >>> It is not nice, but when adding/commenting arguments in readable way >>> (one per line) it's faster and while experimenting with parameters one >>> doesn't have to care about the last comma adding or removing it back and >>> forth, for example: >>> >>> \setuplayout[ >>> grid=yes, >>> %header=0mm, >>> footer=7mm, >>> %footerdistance=10mm, >>> %cutspace=12mm, >>> ] >>> >>> >> in this case a space after 12mm is not that problematic because layout >> are calculated in vertical mode and the 12 mm is used in assignments >> >>> or >>> >>> \setuphead[ >>> chapter, >>> section, >>> %subsection, >>> %subsubsection, >>> >>> >> hm, here it can be troublesome unless i catch an empty case (not sure); >> if you run into troubles with such cases report it to the list and we >> can see if we can catch it >> >>> ][ >>> textstyle=\ss, >>> numberstyle=\ss, >>> ] >>> >>> >> 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 >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > Thanks, > > I've found the example of the different behaviour, though the reason > isn't the comma, but the space after the command, I think. So even > writing parameters one-per-line (with space left behind = last one > without comma or percent sign) can be dangerous. > > %\setuphead[chapter][style=\bfd] % works > %\setuphead[chapter][style={\bfd}] % works > %\setuphead[chapter][style={\bfd} ] % doesn't work > %\setuphead[chapter][style={\bfd},] % works > \starttext > \chapter{Test chapter} > \stoptext > > This is not seriuos, I just want to find, how the things work. > this is because the value of style is interpreted in its own special way; also, in {xx} the become part of the value, and {\bfd} is ineffective due to grouping then 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------