Am 2008-03-31 um 17:33 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: >> >> "How-to-find-your-way-thru-the-source Tutorial for total newbie". > The first thing that you need to know is the file where a particular > command is defined. You can search the source tree on > contextgarden; or > grep the files in your computer. After a while you will remember which > file defines a particular command.
In case someone overread this: "You can search the source tree on contextgarden" http://source.contextgarden.net/ And besides the wiki pages, a lot of command documentation is in texshow-web: http://texshow.contextgarden.net/ (Even if unfortunately some groups of commands are missing completely.) >> On my mac, >> they are hidden: so, first step, change your visualization >> preferences thru a >> googled script form Terminal. > Sorry, I have no idea of how things work on a Mac, but it seems > strange to > hide the entire tex tree. MacOS X hides most of its UNIX stuff from a normal user. But you can just e.g. "open /usr/" in Terminal and continue to browse in Finder. >> >> Third, and most important, how to extract infos >> from sources? > This is the easiest. Most of ConTeXt commands are written in a > consistent > manner. Hans uses verbose variable names, which makes it easy to > "read" > the code. Also in most cases the source files have lot of comments. And I guess the ConTeXt sources are the only place where the Dodo survived. (At least every Dodo would feel at home between all those dodododos.) ;-) Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
