From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/68469 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: externalfigure error in current mkiv beta Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 23:37:59 +0200 Message-ID: <4DD2EAB7.3070102@wxs.nl> References: <201105172241.34509.alan.braslau@cea.fr> <4DD2E41F.9030706@wxs.nl> <201105172321.45353.alan.braslau@cea.fr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305668306 4947 80.91.229.12 (17 May 2011 21:38:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 21:38:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users To: Alan Braslau Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue May 17 23:38:22 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QMRyA-0006HD-GH for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; 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Tue, 17 May 2011 23:38:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter2-nij.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p4HL1T60005949 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 23:01:30 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.101; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.2a) with ESMTP id 377-1713362 for multiple; Tue, 17 May 2011 23:37:58 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5 In-Reply-To: <201105172321.45353.alan.braslau@cea.fr> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0aEIJ1u0U - 982d21127ef8 - 20110517 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.153 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:68469 Archived-At: On 17-5-2011 11:21, Alan Braslau wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 May 2011 23:09:51 Hans Hagen wrote: >> On 17-5-2011 10:41, Alan Braslau wrote: >>> "draw externalfigure" >> >> I'm still not sure about that one ... compatibility vs clean >> > > I rather like the new syntax - indeed much cleaner. > > (However, for compatibility issues, it might be nice to > somehow program a better error message, if possible, > so that 'externalfigure "hacker.jpg";' more elegantly fails.) pretty hard in metapost > In fact, '\externalfigure' in ConTeXt and 'externalfigure' > in metafun (without 'draw') can be a bit confusing, as in > \starttext > \externalfigure "hacker" scaled 5cm ; > \stoptext > Of course, no-one would ever admit to such foolishness. maybe another name externalimage or so (as images in mp need to be drawn) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________