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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: context manuals sources
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:53:54 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806291151150.19909@nqv-yncgbc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <326847810806290409x2f5b984eu80a8b6b76b8f937e@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Alan Stone wrote:

> Euuuh, other than constant and variable...

See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros/Scratch_Variables

> LHS, RHS and enumeration are like klingon to me.  :O)
>
> Are these terms important to understand the code ?

While reading code you can simply ignore them. You can also ignore them 
while writing code (at least initially). The advantage of these \v! \c! 
thingies is that it makes it easier to catch typos and write a 
multi-lingual interface.

Aditya


> Alan
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com> wrote:
>> Alan Stone wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to figure out the meaning and use
>>> of the c! and v! prefixes in commands in, for
>>> example, the layo-xx.tex source files at
>>> http://context.aanhet.net/svn/manuals/context/
>>> aka...
>>
>> c is a constant (LHS), v is a variable (RHS enumeration).
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Taco
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-29 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-29 10:41 Alan Stone
2008-06-29 10:52 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-06-29 11:09   ` Alan Stone
2008-06-29 14:07     ` Charles P. Schaum
2008-06-29 15:53     ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2008-06-29 17:02       ` Alan Stone
2008-06-30 17:53 Alan Stone
2008-07-01  6:18 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-01  8:02   ` Alan Stone
2008-07-01  8:16     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-01  8:56   ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-01  9:18     ` Alan Stone
2008-07-01  9:32       ` Hans Hagen
2008-07-01  9:57         ` Alan Stone
2008-07-28  9:12 Alan Stone

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