From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31475 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Hardcoded options in the Ruby scripts Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:42:05 +0200 Message-ID: <453CB89D.3010703@wxs.nl> References: <20061023112454.9e201cbe@mx1.kerio.com> 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 1161607369 29377 80.91.229.2 (23 Oct 2006 12:42:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:42:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Oct 23 14:42:45 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 1Gbz8H-0005ZA-3H for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:42:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BCAB1FE11; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:42:20 +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 23459-02-6; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:42:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEA061FDF1; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:42:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D6A61FDF2 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:42:08 +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 23459-02-5 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:42:02 +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 8C3AD1FDEC for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:42:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 14477 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:42:02 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20061023112454.9e201cbe@mx1.kerio.com> 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:31475 Archived-At: Richard Gabriel wrote: > > Lines 131-137: > Here are a few languages predefined which texexec "knows". If I want > to add a format for another language, I have to add a new line here. such as ...? (adding a user inferface is more that adding something to texexec) > > Line 339: > Here are the "default" TeX formats defined. No problem to consider > something as default ;-), but the point is that "texexec --make --all" > actually does "make all DEFAULT formats", NOT "make all AVAILABLE > formats". :-( which would be quite a lot -) what do you mean with all? > > Anyway, the main problem I see is altering of a script which comes > with the ConTeXt distribution - the changes made into this scripts > must be done again and again after each update. > > My suggestion is: > 1. To put the format definition into a separate file (like user.rb or > so) which won't be owerwritten in any case. > [Note: cont-usr.tex is a good analogy to this] hm, must think about it ; i don't like too many dependencies > > 2. "Make all" should make ALL the defined ConTeXt formats, not the > default ones. --all means: all patterns 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------