Hi Keith, many thanks for your explanation.
I cannot see the “structural” difference ;-) between the start/stop and the begin/end pairs. But I think structure is fine. Structural element seems too complex to me. Many thanks for your help again, Pablo On 02/03/2014 10:07 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote: > Hi Pablo, > > The start/stop mechanism in ConTeXt is not easy to relate to LaTeX. > > As the name indicates it means "start/stop doing 'something' "! > > This "something" can be either equivalent to "Command" or "Enviroment" > in LaTeX. > > e.g: > \startbuffer > ... > \stopbuffer > > starts storing "things" in a buffer(aka. Variable). This would be simailar > to "command" as you can access the buffer with \getbuffer and \putbuffer. > Of course one could argue that it is actually like an LaTeX environment that > has > a side effect of setting a variable for later use. > > On the other side you have \starttable \stoptable which one would put in the > realm of > LaTeX-environments. > > One can practically, use the start/stop mechanism almost anything you define. > > > Depending on the paradigm that you use structure (and/or) element would be > appropriate! > That is is a program source the definition of a function/procedure/method is a > structure/element of the program. Structure element is not necessarily > reserved for > data structures!! > > Just my two cents worth. > > Hope this helps > > regards > Keith. -- http://www.ousia.tk ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
