From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39761 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henning Hraban Ramm Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: New Member Introductory Rant Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:23:58 +0200 Message-ID: <9953FA9D-142E-4D03-AC72-40C848D0CBFC@fiee.net> References: <47EF48DA.3070200@studiochango.com> <6faad9f00803300750r79ddc5aclcea203d33f2e8836@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206995146 31390 80.91.229.12 (31 Mar 2008 20:25:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:25:46 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Mar 31 22:26:17 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 1JgQa8-0001gC-Sh for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:26:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A5001FBC9; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:25:31 +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 09349-02; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:24:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB4A1FBBA; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:24:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F871FBB9 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:24:51 +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 09721-01-2 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:24:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lvps87-230-27-118.dedicated.hosteurope.de (fiee.net [87.230.27.118]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9B481FBC1 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:24:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 17707 invoked from network); 31 Mar 2008 22:24:00 +0200 Original-Received: from 80-20.203-62.cust.bluewin.ch (HELO ?10.128.9.3?) (62.203.20.80) by fiee.net with (AES128-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 31 Mar 2008 22:23:59 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753) 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:39761 Archived-At: Am 2008-03-31 um 17:33 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: >> >> "How-to-find-your-way-thru-the-source Tutorial for total newbie". > The first thing that you need to know is the file where a particular > command is defined. You can search the source tree on > contextgarden; or > grep the files in your computer. After a while you will remember which > file defines a particular command. In case someone overread this: "You can search the source tree on contextgarden" http://source.contextgarden.net/ And besides the wiki pages, a lot of command documentation is in texshow-web: http://texshow.contextgarden.net/ (Even if unfortunately some groups of commands are missing completely.) >> On my mac, >> they are hidden: so, first step, change your visualization >> preferences thru a >> googled script form Terminal. > Sorry, I have no idea of how things work on a Mac, but it seems > strange to > hide the entire tex tree. MacOS X hides most of its UNIX stuff from a normal user. But you can just e.g. "open /usr/" in Terminal and continue to browse in Finder. >> >> Third, and most important, how to extract infos >> from sources? > This is the easiest. Most of ConTeXt commands are written in a > consistent > manner. Hans uses verbose variable names, which makes it easy to > "read" > the code. Also in most cases the source files have lot of comments. And I guess the ConTeXt sources are the only place where the Dodo survived. (At least every Dodo would feel at home between all those dodododos.) ;-) Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________