* Re: What’s your favorite command?
2012-01-30 18:55 What’s your favorite command? Wolfgang Schuster
@ 2012-01-30 19:08 ` Marco
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From: Marco @ 2012-01-30 19:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 2012-01-30 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
> The ConTeXt package is huge and provides dozen of
> commands but I guess many have *one* favorite command
> (maybe also functionality).
I was surprised by the unusual “Subject” line in my mail
client. But I don't hesitate:
My favourite command is \externalfigure [placeholder]
because it produces very pretty colourful graphics (I'm
bored to use the dutch cow or the wind mill every time).
Example:
\useMPlibrary [dum]
\starttext
\dorecurse{10}{
\startTEXpage
\externalfigure [placeholder]
\stopTEXpage}
\stoptext
Regards
Marco Patzer
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On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Marco wrote:
> On 2012-01-30 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> The ConTeXt package is huge and provides dozen of
>> commands but I guess many have *one* favorite command
>> (maybe also functionality).
>
> I was surprised by the unusual “Subject” line in my mail
> client. But I don't hesitate:
>
> My favourite command is \externalfigure [placeholder]
> because it produces very pretty colourful graphics (I'm
> bored to use the dutch cow or the wind mill every time).
>
> Example:
>
> \useMPlibrary [dum]
> \starttext
>
> \dorecurse{10}{
> \startTEXpage
> \externalfigure [placeholder]
> \stopTEXpage}
>
> \stoptext
You can also use my `\externalkitten` macro:
http://randomdeterminism.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/images-for-documentation-examples/
\def\externalkitten[#1]%
{\getparameters[kitten][width=10pt, height=10pt, #1]
\externalfigure
[\ctxlua{context("http://placekitten.com/g/\%0.0f/\%0.0f",
\withoutpt{\the\dimexpr\kittenwidth},
\withoutpt{\the\dimexpr\kittenheight})}]
[#1, method=jpg]}
\starttext
\placefigure[left,none]{}
{\externalkitten[width=0.5\textwidth, height=0.3\textheight]}
\input knuth
\stoptext
Aditya
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2012-01-30 18:55 What’s your favorite command? Wolfgang Schuster
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From: Thomas A. Schmitz @ 2012-01-30 19:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 01/30/2012 07:55 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> to bring some traffic to the list I have a question where I hope even non regulars send a answer. The ConTeXt package is huge and provides dozen of commands but I guess many have*one* favorite command (maybe also functionality).
>
> As I started this thread I’ll present my favorite command which is \donothing, it is a internal command and only a synonym for \empty but it’s one reason why I prefer ConTeXt’s coding style (especially with the recent changes in MkIV) over the unreadable LaTeX code.
>
> Wolfgang
Without a doubt, for me it's \dontcomplain - get rid of overfull
messages. The name is just brilliant; it would be wonderful to have it
available in real life! But if we want to be more serious: of course all
the xml processing commands, and then the multiple \doif... tests which
make programming in ConTeXt accessible even to people with no
programming or math background.
Thomas
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2012-01-30 23:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 30-1-2012 20:12, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Without a doubt, for me it's \dontcomplain - get rid of overfull
> messages. The name is just brilliant; it would be wonderful to have it
> available in real life! But if we want to be more serious: of course all
> the xml processing commands, and then the multiple \doif... tests which
> make programming in ConTeXt accessible even to people with no
> programming or math background.
don't forget \forgetall then
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2012-01-30 18:55 What’s your favorite command? Wolfgang Schuster
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Hi,
Mine is \doifmodeelse: it allows to do a lot!
Best regards: OK
On 30 janv. 2012, at 19:55, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> to bring some traffic to the list I have a question where I hope even non regulars send a answer. The ConTeXt package is huge and provides dozen of commands but I guess many have *one* favorite command (maybe also functionality).
>
> As I started this thread I’ll present my favorite command which is \donothing, it is a internal command and only a synonym for \empty but it’s one reason why I prefer ConTeXt’s coding style (especially with the recent changes in MkIV) over the unreadable LaTeX code.
>
> Wolfgang
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From: Steffen Wolfrum @ 2012-01-30 22:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi Wolfgang,
nice idea starting this thread!
Am 30.01.2012 um 19:55 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
> Hi all,
>
> to bring some traffic to the list I have a question where I hope even non regulars send a answer. The ConTeXt package is huge and provides dozen of commands but I guess many have *one* favorite command (maybe also functionality).
>
> As I started this thread I’ll present my favorite command which is \donothing, it is a internal command and only a synonym for \empty but it’s one reason why I prefer ConTeXt’s coding style (especially with the recent changes in MkIV) over the unreadable LaTeX code.
>
> Wolfgang
Compared to what Wolfgang, Thomas and Otared wrote my favorite command is a quite "high-level" command:
\offset[x=...,y=...]{...}
I really love his command: It's amazing, it gives so much "spontaneous" freedom and power in positioning elements!
Without this command the early years of ConTeXT were quite painful ...
Steffen
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From: Aditya Mahajan @ 2012-01-30 23:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> to bring some traffic to the list I have a question where I hope even non regulars send a answer. The ConTeXt package is huge and provides dozen of commands but I guess many have *one* favorite command (maybe also functionality).
My favorite is \framed. Once you understand all (or most) of the keys of
\framed, you know 60% of ConTeXt features because almost all other
commands accept a big subset of these keys.
Aditya
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 19:55, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
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> I guess many have *one* favorite command (maybe also functionality).
\simplethesis
(Sadly it is a bit buggy, else I would be finished already ;)
Mojca
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On 31-1-2012 00:23, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 19:55, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>
>> I guess many have *one* favorite command (maybe also functionality).
>
> \simplethesis
>
> (Sadly it is a bit buggy, else I would be finished already ;)
So you want me to \dosomething
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On 31-1-2012 00:23, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 19:55, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>
>> I guess many have *one* favorite command (maybe also functionality).
>
> \simplethesis
>
> (Sadly it is a bit buggy, else I would be finished already ;)
As I don't want to bre responsiible for you not passing an examn ...
here's a fix (actually the random args were always swapped but the mkii
code is not sensitive for wrong random ranges)
\unexpanded\def\fakefigure
{\dodoubleempty\dofakefigure}
\def\dofakefigure[#1][#2]#3#4#5#6%
{\getvalue{\e!place\v!figure}
[#1][#2]%
{\freezerandomseed
\let\endstrut\relax
\let\begstrut\relax
\doifinsetelse{#1}{\v!left,\v!right}
{\fakewords{2}{4}}
{\fakewords{4}{10}}}%
{\doifinset{#1}{\v!left,\v!right}
{\dimen0=.75\dimen0
\ifdim\dimen0>.6\hsize \dimen0=.5\hsize\fi
\ifdim\dimen0<.3\hsize \dimen0=.3\hsize\fi}%
\framed
[\c!width=\dimen0,
\c!height=\dimen2,
\c!frame=\v!off,
\c!background=\v!color,
\c!backgroundcolor=fakeparindentcolor]
{\bf\white#1}}%
\defrostrandomseed}
I'll upgrade that module anyhow (e.g we need random footnotes for thomas
and random font features for idris) ... then we can have a competition
for the smallest set of commands that generates the nicest thesis.
Hans
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2012-01-30 18:55 What’s your favorite command? Wolfgang Schuster
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From: Mikael P. Sundqvist @ 2012-01-31 5:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
<schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> to bring some traffic to the list I have a question where I hope even non regulars send a answer. The ConTeXt package is huge and provides dozen of commands but I guess many have *one* favorite command (maybe also functionality).
>
> As I started this thread I’ll present my favorite command which is \donothing, it is a internal command and only a synonym for \empty but it’s one reason why I prefer ConTeXt’s coding style (especially with the recent changes in MkIV) over the unreadable LaTeX code.
>
> Wolfgang
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I never thought I could be so happy Hans introduced \donothing :)
My favorite must be the natural table environments (\bTABLE ...
\eTABLE). It really makes it a joy to typeset boring tables.
On my wishlist for 2012 I have robuster math support. I recently had
problems with as simple things as fractions and integrals, things that
should just work. Also, I still am not able to use my favorite math
font fourier.
Mikael
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I'm with Mikael in that natural tables is one of the things that has
made a real difference to my ConTeXting, and I no longer hesitate with
adding tables to the my documents.
My current favourite is probably \usemodule, especially
\usemodule[simplefonts]. Being a Windows dummy and working mostly in a
standard (M$) Office environment, the Simplefonts module has taken a
lot of sweat out of coding.
In my non-working life as a half-professional craftster and budding
publisher I'm learning to enjoy playing around with \setuplayout; the
learning curve is sometimes pretty steep, but it still beats fiddling
with Word because once you get something right, it stays right. :-)
Mari
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From: Alan Braslau @ 2012-01-31 8:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 07:55:51PM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> to bring some traffic to the list I have a question where I hope even non regulars send a answer. The ConTeXt package is huge and provides dozen of commands but I guess many have *one* favorite command (maybe also functionality).
>
> As I started this thread I’ll present my favorite command which is \donothing, it is a internal command and only a synonym for \empty but it’s one reason why I prefer ConTeXt’s coding style (especially with the recent changes in MkIV) over the unreadable LaTeX code.
>
> Wolfgang
Not quite the same as \null:
\def\null {\hbox{}}
My (LaTeX) code used to always be riddled with \mbox{}
(somehow, I got into the habit of using this rather than \hbox{})
But this is not my favorite.
Believe it or not, I quite often make the error of typing '\startext'.
(Hans, don't think about adding this as a synonym - each time that I make this mistake I am quite happy to get an error message... This is what I get for typing and reading too fast!)
I do like unicode support.
However, what I like best about ConTeXt commands is consistency, where the choice of syntax is constantly moving towards standardization. Often, when I want to do something new, I just try what seems logical, using the very same keywords as used elsewhere (when appropriate), and usually this just works!
Alan
P.S. I regret that ConTeXt and Mojca's \simplethesis command was not available when I needed it!
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2012-01-31 8:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 31-1-2012 09:34, Alan Braslau wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 07:55:51PM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> to bring some traffic to the list I have a question where I hope even non regulars send a answer. The ConTeXt package is huge and provides dozen of commands but I guess many have *one* favorite command (maybe also functionality).
>>
>> As I started this thread I’ll present my favorite command which is \donothing, it is a internal command and only a synonym for \empty but it’s one reason why I prefer ConTeXt’s coding style (especially with the recent changes in MkIV) over the unreadable LaTeX code.
>>
>> Wolfgang
>
> Not quite the same as \null:
> \def\null {\hbox{}}
there is \emptyhbox which for me is easier to grasp than \null
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> to bring some traffic to the list I have a question where I hope even non
> regulars send a answer. The ConTeXt package is huge and provides dozen of
> commands but I guess many have *one* favorite command (maybe also
> functionality).
>
> As I started this thread I’ll present my favorite command which is
> \donothing, it is a internal command and only a synonym for \empty but it’s
> one reason why I prefer ConTeXt’s coding style (especially with the recent
> changes in MkIV) over the unreadable LaTeX code.
>
\ruledvbox
I always need to see the bbox of my objects.
--
luigi
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2012-01-30 18:55 What’s your favorite command? Wolfgang Schuster
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2012-01-31 8:44 ` luigi scarso
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From: Philipp Gesang @ 2012-01-31 15:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 2012-01-30 19:55, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> to bring some traffic to the list I have a question where I hope even non regulars send a answer. The ConTeXt package is huge and provides dozen of commands but I guess many have *one* favorite command (maybe also functionality).
Hi Wolfgang & Others,
my favorite feature maybe neither a command nor a macro as such:
I’m especially fond of one “linguistic” feature that makes
Context source code easily readable: the (often repeated) “do”
prefix and “indeed” suffix in macro names. This way the majority
of macros are to a certain extent self-descriptive, their names
carrying a hint about the current nesting depth and the number of
steps already executed before the macro itself is encountered.
A crude scripted scan of the directory context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/
reveals the longest prefixed macro name to be
“\dofinishregisterstructurepageregister”
(not yet underscorified), and the longest suffixed one
“\syst_helpers_inspect_next_parenthesis_character_indeed”.
Finally, the macro
“\dododododoGTC”
has the most “do” prefixes of all.
I hereby declare these three my favorite macros, although I never
read their definitions, let alone used them.
Thanks for the clarity
Philipp
PS: Anybody fond of “\@EAEAEAEAEAEA”?
> As I started this thread I’ll present my favorite command which is \donothing, it is a internal command and only a synonym for \empty but it’s one reason why I prefer ConTeXt’s coding style (especially with the recent changes in MkIV) over the unreadable LaTeX code.
>
> Wolfgang
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2012-01-31 15:15 ` Philipp Gesang
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2012-01-31 15:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On 31-1-2012 16:15, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> PS: Anybody fond of “\@EAEAEAEAEAEA”?
or: \tripleexpandafter
Hans
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2012-01-31 15:15 ` Philipp Gesang
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From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2012-01-31 15:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Am 31.01.2012 um 16:15 schrieb Philipp Gesang:
> On 2012-01-30 19:55, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> to bring some traffic to the list I have a question where I hope even non regulars send a answer. The ConTeXt package is huge and provides dozen of commands but I guess many have *one* favorite command (maybe also functionality).
>
> Hi Wolfgang & Others,
>
> my favorite feature maybe neither a command nor a macro as such:
> I’m especially fond of one “linguistic” feature that makes
> Context source code easily readable: the (often repeated) “do”
> prefix and “indeed” suffix in macro names. This way the majority
> of macros are to a certain extent self-descriptive, their names
> carrying a hint about the current nesting depth and the number of
> steps already executed before the macro itself is encountered.
> A crude scripted scan of the directory context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/
> reveals the longest prefixed macro name to be
> “\dofinishregisterstructurepageregister”
> (not yet underscorified), and the longest suffixed one
> “\syst_helpers_inspect_next_parenthesis_character_indeed”.
> Finally, the macro
> “\dododododoGTC”
> has the most “do” prefixes of all.
>
> I hereby declare these three my favorite macros, although I never
> read their definitions, let alone used them.
The second is part of the internals for \doifnextparenthesiselse.
> Thanks for the clarity
> Philipp
>
> PS: Anybody fond of “\@EAEAEAEAEAEA”?
The @ is a dying symbol in MkIV because the underscore has replaced it
and there are now alternative names for these function, the one you mention
can now be written as \tripleexpandafter.
Wolfgang
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* Re: What’s your favorite command?
2012-01-31 15:15 ` Philipp Gesang
2012-01-31 15:31 ` Hans Hagen
2012-01-31 15:33 ` Wolfgang Schuster
@ 2012-01-31 15:38 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2012-01-31 15:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Am 31.01.2012 um 16:15 schrieb Philipp Gesang:
> On 2012-01-30 19:55, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> to bring some traffic to the list I have a question where I hope even non regulars send a answer. The ConTeXt package is huge and provides dozen of commands but I guess many have *one* favorite command (maybe also functionality).
>
> Hi Wolfgang & Others,
>
> my favorite feature maybe neither a command nor a macro as such:
> I’m especially fond of one “linguistic” feature that makes
> Context source code easily readable: the (often repeated) “do”
> prefix and “indeed” suffix in macro names. This way the majority
> of macros are to a certain extent self-descriptive, their names
> carrying a hint about the current nesting depth and the number of
> steps already executed before the macro itself is encountered.
There are also variations of the prefixes and suffixes.
Prefixes:
- do
- dodo
- nodo
- redo
Suffixes:
- indeed
- ignore
- yes
- nop
Wolfgang
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2012-01-30 18:55 What’s your favorite command? Wolfgang Schuster
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2012-01-31 15:15 ` Philipp Gesang
@ 2012-01-31 16:45 ` Marco Pessotto
2012-01-31 18:34 ` Christian Neukirchen
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From: Marco Pessotto @ 2012-01-31 16:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ntg-context
Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> to bring some traffic to the list I have a question where I hope even
> non regulars send a answer. The ConTeXt package is huge and provides
> dozen of commands but I guess many have *one* favorite command (maybe
> also functionality).
\startmode & company changed my life. And the unicode support of luatex,
of course.
Many thanks to Taco and Hans (and the others contributors) for such
beautiful tools.
--
Marco
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2012-01-30 18:55 What’s your favorite command? Wolfgang Schuster
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2012-01-31 16:45 ` Marco Pessotto
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From: Christian Neukirchen @ 2012-01-31 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ntg-context
Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> writes:
> As I started this thread I’ll present my favorite command which is
> \donothing
My favourite command is \donknuthmode, which is the opposite of
\nonknuthmode of course.
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