From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42586 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Devereux Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \startfrontmatter & Co. Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:02:04 +0100 Message-ID: <87bq0vqiyr.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> References: <326847810807180604j4384e90ah95f774aa28243571@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216397226 23219 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2008 16:07:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:07:06 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jul 18 18:07:53 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJsUj-0003VX-Oe for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:07:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 253B01FC66; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:06:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01079-03-7; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:06:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7AF31FCB1; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:06:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA3851FC98 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:06:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05084-02 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:05:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from cordelia.devereux.me.uk (cordelia.devereux.me.uk [217.169.15.178]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7541C1FCD3 for ; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:02:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [217.169.15.178] (helo=cordelia.devereux.me.uk ident=jd) by cordelia.devereux.me.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KJsPG-0007jA-6j for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:02:06 +0100 In-Reply-To: <326847810807180604j4384e90ah95f774aa28243571@mail.gmail.com> (Alan Stone's message of "Fri\, 18 Jul 2008 15\:04\:16 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:42586 Archived-At: "Alan Stone" writes: > On page 17, the ConTeXt manual mentions the commands > > \startfrontmatter - \stopfrontmatter > \startbodymatter - \stopbodymatter > \startbackmatter - \stopbackmatter > > What's the precise use and benefit of these commands, other > a cleaner project structure ? I used them because it lets me use \setupsection and \setupsectionblock to customise the appearance of each part, in the setup area (rather than in the document). -- John Devereux ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________