Re: cont-en.tws

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 04:16 PM 9/14/2001 +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > is the cont-en.tws (and the other tws-files) generated
> > automatically? Will they be existant in future versions of
> > context? Will the syntax change? I ask, because I am thinking of
> > making a helper mode for my favourite editor (emacs) that will
> > offer the currently known commands and present the possible
> > options.
>
>IIRC, Hans explained some time ago that they are 'semi-automatic':
>the actual TWS files are automatically generated from the 'normal'
>context files that are used for the various documentation manuals
>(the input files that create the syntax description blocks).
>
>It is very unlikely that there will be downward-incompatible changes
>to the TWS files, I think. However, there has been some talk about
>extending the \startsetup with explanatory comments, so it is likely
>that there will be an backward-compatible extension to the tws format
>somewhere in the future.

indeed

i can add to that generating a tws is not that complicated:

   texexec --once setupd.tex

will give you the one for the current interface. Setupd.tex takes the info 
from setupb.tex and conferts is.

In the future we may move to xml for setupb [time ....].

Hans

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