From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: new features
Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 15:59:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85c885d2-f4c6-0a97-0194-68d15ea87df7@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B5F96181-6780-4936-B993-6572C242073E@uva.nl>
On 5/22/2016 3:33 PM, Meer, Hans van der wrote:
>
>> On 22 May 2016, at 15:11, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl
>> <mailto:pragma@wxs.nl>> wrote:
>>
>>> Finally, when \definemode makes testing a lot faster why than not
>>> implement this always? That is, using \enablemode or \disablemode the
>>> first time implies a \definemode for that mode. Doing so avoids
>>> another macro to remember: less clutter for my brain ;-)
>>
>> because one property of modes is that one doesn't have to define them,
>> you'd be quite unhappy if you would have to define all possible modes
>> that could be introduced in styles
>
> The idea was not to have the user define the mode, but let ConTeXt
> automatically do the defining when it encounters a specific mode the
> first time. The work is done by ConTeXt then (would make me even more
> happy ;-)
it does define them when undefined but even then it gets a special state
(modes can be in enable, disable or prevent state)
normnally it's not something a user need to worry about
Hans
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2014-06-26 10:08 Hans Hagen
2016-05-22 8:07 ` Meer, Hans van der
2016-05-22 13:11 ` Hans Hagen
2016-05-22 13:33 ` Meer, Hans van der
2016-05-22 13:59 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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