Re: Possible inconsistency in the use of paragraphs in ConTeXt

From: Alain Delmotte <esperanto@swing.be>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Possible inconsistency in the use of paragraphs in ConTeXt
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:07:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5109372E.4020608@swing.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69E0FC04-505F-4766-8813-5D2689025B74@web.de>

Hi,

First I would like to ask not to change messages' subject if 
you want to see another point.
Changing subject breaks the normal links of threads, further 
it becomes very difficult to find a message embedded in 
another subject.
For a new subject create a new message/thread.

I also search for documentation, especially to understand 
the philosophy of ConTeXt.
I did find the thread "From LaTeX to ConTeXt" very 
interesting because, even if you do not know LaTeX, the 
steps to obtain certain results are well described, often in 
many steps more and more professional.

Good ConTeXting,

Alain Delmotte

Le 30/01/2013 10:00, Keith J. Schultz a écrit :
> Hi Everybody,
>
> Thank you for your help with the documentation.
>
> Inorder to teach myself ConTeXt I have to decided to write a
> learning by doing manual for ConTeXt.
>
> First off, I know I can get the formatting needed,
> by using defineparagraph and setupparagraphs, but then
> have I have to use start/stop-myparagraph, etc. .
>
>   Well, I wanted "format" my normal paragraphs.
> Following, the standard way of doing things in ConTeX, as
> with headers and wanted to use setupparagraphs.
>
> The problem want is the name of the standard(default) paragraph.
> I have not found any. Is there a name for it.
>
> As example lets take I want to have a little space between my paragraph.
>
> MWE
>
> \setupwhitespace{medium]
>
> \startext
>
> <paragraph 1>
>
> <paragraph 1>
>
> \stoptext
>
> What I would like is to do:
>
> MNWE:
>
> \setuparagraphs[][][before={\setupwhitespace{medium]]
> %% or
> %% \setuparagraphs[][][before=\bigskip]
> \startext
>
> <paragraph 1>
>
> <paragraph 1>
>
> \stoptext
>
> In other words there is no way, that I can find to globally set "standard" paragraphs!!
>
> The same goes for indenting of paragraphs. Yes, Yes there are the standard indenting commands.
>
> I feel though one should be able to use setupparagraphs for this.
>
> Also, it took me awhile to find the setupwhitespace command, because for me whitespace can be
> either horizontal or vertical. I think it would be better to rename it to setupparagraphspacing or something
> like that. Or at least define a synonym for it. This would make things easier for the casual or beginning user.
>
> Maybe I am missing something. Ideas welcome.
>
> regards
> 	Keith.
>
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