ntg-context - mailing list for ConTeXt users
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \ReadFile in MkII vs MkIV
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:02:38 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1010171659130.7119@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CBB59D8.1010207@wxs.nl>

[-- Attachment #1: Type: TEXT/PLAIN, Size: 755 bytes --]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Hans Hagen wrote:

> On 17-10-2010 8:54, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>
>>> Maybe Hans forgot it for mkii but it doesn’t matter whether mkii/mkiv
>>> is a normal mode or a system mode.
>> 
>> IIRC, system modes cannot be reset using \(enable|disable)mode.
>
> there is nothing special about system modes: they just have a * in front so 
> you can enable and disable them (but of course deep down they can be set as 
> well)

OK. So the * is just so that they are not accidently overwritten.

But I do not like the different treatment for MkII:

cont-new.mkii

      \enablemode[mkii]

cont-env.mkiv

       \enablemode[mkiv] \newsystemmode{mkiv} \setsystemmode{mkiv}

One more minor difference to remember.

Aditya

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 486 bytes --]

___________________________________________________________________________________
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  : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki     : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-17 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-16 21:09 Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-17 12:50 ` luigi scarso
2010-10-17 17:21   ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-17 17:27     ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-17 17:28     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-10-17 17:58       ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-17 18:06         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-10-17 18:54           ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-10-17 20:17             ` Hans Hagen
2010-10-17 21:02               ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2010-10-17 22:23                 ` Hans Hagen
2010-10-17 20:15         ` Hans Hagen
2010-10-17 20:50           ` Aditya Mahajan

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=alpine.LNX.2.01.1010171659130.7119@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva \
    --to=adityam@umich.edu \
    --cc=ntg-context@ntg.nl \
    --cc=pragma@wxs.nl \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).