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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: defining bug not setting up blank spaces
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:34:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd5e3b4f-adef-e4e8-7be9-8ee884ece533@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47397410-b7d6-d6e1-10fb-1bd46c73f12b@gmx.es>

On 2/14/2017 7:17 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> On 02/14/2017 06:41 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> I don’t understand why \setupblank[ab][big] doesn’t work (with a
>>> previous \defineblank[ab]).
>>>
>>> I mean, for most elements \setupelement is possible after \defineelement.
>>>
>>> What is different with \setupblank?
>>
>> Well, you cannot
>>
>> \definecolor[red][r=1]
>>
>> \setupcolor[red][r=.5]
>>
>> either. Adapting a blank this way would also be inefficient because then
>> we need to keep carry around more state info and all these relatively
>> basic core macro are tuned for efficiency
>
> Many thanks for your reply, Hans.
>
> Is there anything wrong in defining the same blank again?

not that know of

> I need to add special blanks in templates. In some documents, those
> blanks will be bigger than in other ones. Is there anything wrong in
> redefining in the second documents the blanks I previously defined in
> the template?
>
> Many thanks for your help,
>
> Pablo
>


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      reply	other threads:[~2017-02-14 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-13 20:16 Pablo Rodriguez
2017-02-14 12:13 ` Hans Hagen
2017-02-14 16:27   ` Pablo Rodriguez
2017-02-14 17:41     ` Hans Hagen
2017-02-14 18:17       ` Pablo Rodriguez
2017-02-14 19:34         ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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