From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40203 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Adding custom key/value pairs Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:11:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <2c62660f97846a8a50e04eab167dde42@quokka70.fastmail.fm> <4801DBAC.4000907@elvenkind.com> <5c2c86e70804140256wa4ab590r8dc19cd6e145766a@mail.gmail.com> <115224fb0804140318k66b32fefof645c851bfb34d01@mail.gmail.com> <5c2c86e70804140334o538ccae6l313f6bd04672ac8a@mail.gmail.com> <115224fb0804140358v691112sa6988b9a44e3a33e@mail.gmail.com> <48033E1B.9010301@elvenkind.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 1208190560 8471 80.91.229.12 (14 Apr 2008 16:29:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:29:20 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Apr 14 18:29:58 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1JlRM7-0006ev-Dt for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:16:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565241FCE4; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:15:51 +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 04355-01; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:15:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F5F41FB8F; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:12:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E72D71FC6B for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:12:16 +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 02868-01-13 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:11:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.93.161]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE581FCE5 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:11:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: FROM adi-laptop.local (c-68-40-40-75.hsd1.mi.comcast.net [68.40.40.75]) BY tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4803821A.34B8D.9223 ; 14 Apr 2008 12:11:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48033E1B.9010301@elvenkind.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) 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:40203 Archived-At: On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >> >> Why not, I have nothing against a few predefined title pages layouts. > > Somewhat related: it would be nice if there was some common code for > titles (books as well as articles). > > [snip] > > Anyway, the maps module contains all the code to do everything. And > the same is true for the TUG module. And for quite a few others I have > laying around. Lots of duplicate code all over, so a common framework > would be great. I've been meaning to write one for a long time, but > somehow I never quite get around to actually doing it. > > Just saying this to let you know that I would really welcome a module > with commands like \setuptitle, \definetitle, and \placetitle. I agree with that. It will be really nice to have a module that does a few "simple" titles (alternate=(a|b|c), etc.) For one of my personal modules, I was following something along the lines of the maps module. But I find Wolfgang's solution on the wiki to be more ConTeXtish than what all other modules use. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________