From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30219
Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context
Subject: the closing bracket (structuring syntax)
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:46:33 +0200
Message-ID: <D277C0E6-989A-4170-B2DD-B83A2A0BD4CF@st.estfiles.de>
Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1155239218 29013 80.91.229.2 (10 Aug 2006 19:46:58 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:46:58 +0000 (UTC)
Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Aug 10 21:46:57 2006
Return-path: <ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl>
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 ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43)
	id 1GBGUP-0003QN-8V
	for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:46:47 +0200
Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD011FEF7;
	Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:46:44 +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 28469-01; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:46:40 +0200 (CEST)
Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EFD11FEDF;
	Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:46:40 +0200 (CEST)
Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBEE1FEDF
	for <ntg-context@ntg.nl>; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:46:38 +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 28239-07 for <ntg-context@ntg.nl>;
	Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:46:37 +0200 (CEST)
Original-Received: from smtprelay02.ispgateway.de (smtprelay02.ispgateway.de
	[80.67.18.14]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C6541FEDE
	for <ntg-context@ntg.nl>; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:46:37 +0200 (CEST)
Original-Received: (qmail 30991 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2006 19:46:36 -0000
Original-Received: from unknown (HELO [62.134.72.228]) (698580@[62.134.72.228])
	(envelope-sender <context@st.estfiles.de>)
	by smtprelay02.ispgateway.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP
	for <ntg-context@ntg.nl>; 10 Aug 2006 19:46:36 -0000
Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl
X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7
Precedence: list
List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context.ntg.nl>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context>,
	<mailto:ntg-context-request@ntg.nl?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context>
List-Post: <mailto:ntg-context@ntg.nl>
List-Help: <mailto:ntg-context-request@ntg.nl?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context>,
	<mailto:ntg-context-request@ntg.nl?subject=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:30219
Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/30219>

Hi,

in XML and alike there is a concept of dedicated start/stop in  
formatting:

<begin heading> ... <end heading >
<begin footnote> ... <end footnote >
<begin italic> ... <end italic>

But in ConTeXt/TeX we have always the same closing syntax "}". That  
makes reading the code not easier.

Is there a workaround to define the closing more precisely (like the  
examples above),
so that finding a "}" in a ConTeXt source lets me distinguish what  
it's about?

But in such a way that the file still can be processed as a regular  
ConTeXt file?

Steffen