h h extern said this at Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:38:27 +0100: >> Also, what's the status of contml? I like the idea of it as a simple, >> structural, basic markup that ConTeXt handles with zero effort, but is >> anyone actually using it? > >we sometimes mix it into other xml docs; i have no problem with extending it; >actualy, (see mag-0008.pdf), i want to map most context directly onto xml so >that we have a rather complete xml input syntax
Yes, indeed. I took a look at the magazine again last night, and it was put in an entirely new light. I'm very curious to work with x-fx now... I've been working on a general-ish conversion script from a new Mac application. I'd like to offer most of ContML as basic level constructs, but it should be possible for a user to add their own tags. If they can tap into fx:anything tags, it should make people (hi, Bruce!) fairly happy. My first reaction/critique of the approach was: why not fix at least one of the problems of TeX: that it's "a mixture between typesetting and programming features" as you say? What I propose is clearly a debatable XML-design issue, but it seemed strange that fx:definelayout and fx:p were put into the same namespace. Why do the formatting definitions share the same (theoretical) schema as markup? Your documents keep these categories separate, as one would expect. Why not encourage people to put them in separate files, as with "normal" ConTeXt workflows? The designer and author are more clearly divorced when you don't assume an XSLT-centric flow, right? (or, is this already planned with this tidbit from foxet: fs = setup) I'm curious about how the namespacing would work, though, because I want to use (and enable the use of) these nice fs:setuphead -like configurations with my hybrid ContML++ documents. Will: <fs:setuphead label='section' /> correctly (in my mind) affect a ContML element like this? <context:section>something</context:section> Curious, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
