From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5633 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: cont-en.tws Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:03:26 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20010914170051.02397400@server-1> References: <200109141324.PAA02134@sol.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396214 3335 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:03:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:03:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Patrick Gundlach , ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Taco Hoekwater In-Reply-To: <3BA21144.7E00F3B0@elvenkind.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5633 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5633 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------