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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: Alan Braslau <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: footnotes setup
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:27:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6BCC82BD-A44C-4A2D-AEF0-E0B543C3BBE0@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120318231007.62efec68@iram-hb-003386.extra.cea.fr>


Am 18.03.2012 um 23:10 schrieb Alan Braslau:

> On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:59:17 +0100
> Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 2. Many of the \define… and \setup… commands are now auto generated
>>   from \installcommandhandler which generates only one setup-command
>>   which can be used for global (i.e. \setup…[..,..=..,..]) and local
>>   (i.e. \setup…[…][..,..=..,..]) settings.
> 
> Thank you Wolfgang for this explanation.
> 
> Do you mean: global (i.e. \define…[..,..=..,..] and local
> (i.e. \setup…[…][..,..=..,..]) settings?

No, I meant with \setupheads[style=bold] you can change the font of each
heading and with \setuphead[section][style=italic] you change only the font
for section. As you can see we have a plural and a singular form of the command.

With the new system to generate the setup commands we have only
\setuphead which handles bot cases.

>> For backward
>> compatibility you can find things like this: \let\setupnotes\setupnote
> 
> OK, but is this a good idea?
> I thought that mkii is kept around for backward compatibility
> and that mkiv takes the liberty to rationalize the syntax,
> sometimes sacrificing backwards compatibility in order not to be
> encumbered with inconsistent syntax, whenever possible.
> 
> Indeed, this sometimes generates much discussion on the mailing list
> when we discover that our favorite command has been removed
> or renamed - a good way of testing to see if we are active and alert. :)

It’s better to promote the new commands but we should take time
until the old variants vanish because we have to get used to them.

Wolfgang
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-19  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-17 19:38 Honza Hejzl
2012-03-18  6:56 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-03-18 12:14   ` Alan Braslau
2012-03-18 15:45     ` Steffen Wolfrum
2012-03-18 20:59     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-03-18 22:10       ` Alan Braslau
2012-03-19  8:27         ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2012-03-18 16:36   ` Pablo Rodríguez

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