From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30220 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: the closing bracket (structuring syntax) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:44:41 +0200 Message-ID: <44DB9AB9.4000809@wxs.nl> References: 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 1155242814 9159 80.91.229.2 (10 Aug 2006 20:46:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:46:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Aug 10 22:46:50 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 1GBHQR-0006VX-9I for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:46:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826D21FEF8; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:46:34 +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 29154-01; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:46:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E3481FEF0; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:44:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD5CA1FEF0 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:44:46 +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 28620-05 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:44:45 +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 28BCE1FED6 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:44:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 742 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:44:44 +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:30220 Archived-At: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Hi, > > in XML and alike there is a concept of dedicated start/stop in > formatting: > > ... > ... > ... > > But in ConTeXt/TeX we have always the same closing syntax "}". That > makes reading the code not easier. > > Is there a workaround to define the closing more precisely (like the > examples above), > so that finding a "}" in a ConTeXt source lets me distinguish what > it's about? > > But in such a way that the file still can be processed as a regular > ConTeXt file? > its' no problem to define most commands as start/stop, however keep in mind that some start/stop constructs (like tables) pick up pieces in order to store them so, if some commands need start/stop variants ... just make me a list and we'll see what we can do about it 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------