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 16:08:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51093780.6040601@swing.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5109372E.4020608@swing.be>

I forgot to give the link :
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/From_LaTeX_to_ConTeXt

Alain

Le 30/01/2013 16:07, Alain Delmotte a écrit :
> 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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