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[87.175.180.133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t11sm60360025eea.10.2012.01.31.07.33.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:33:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120131151459.GA20013@phlegethon> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1251.1) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=209.85.215.169; country=US; region=CA; city=Mountain View; postalcode=94043; latitude=37.4192; longitude=-122.0574; metrocode=807; areacode=650; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.4192,-122.0574&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 06GsfxzmA - 01dca039af08 - 20120131 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:74215 Archived-At: 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 no= n regulars send a answer. The ConTeXt package is huge and provides dozen of= commands but I guess many have *one* favorite command (maybe also function= ality). > = > Hi Wolfgang & Others, > = > my favorite feature maybe neither a command nor a macro as such: > I=92m especially fond of one =93linguistic=94 feature that makes > Context source code easily readable: the (often repeated) =93do=94 > prefix and =93indeed=94 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/cont= ext/base/ > reveals the longest prefixed macro name to be > =93\dofinishregisterstructurepageregister=94 > (not yet underscorified), and the longest suffixed one > =93\syst_helpers_inspect_next_parenthesis_character_indeed=94. > Finally, the macro > =93\dododododoGTC=94 > has the most =93do=94 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 =93\@EAEAEAEAEAEA=94? 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 ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________