Re: [NTG-context] the closing bracket (structuring syntax)

2006-09-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote: And what would be the opposite? For example \startquote ... \stopquote to something like {\MyQuote ... } AFAIK, there is no easy way to do this. One can use \aftergroup trickery. \def\MyQuote{\symbol[leftquote]\aftergroup\endMyQuote}

Re: [NTG-context] the closing bracket (structuring syntax)

2006-08-15 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 13.08.2006 um 15:29 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: And what would be the opposite? For example \startquote ... \stopquote to something like {MyQuote ... } Steffen \def\MyQuote#1{\startquote#1\stopquote} \MyQuote{something to be quoted} ... should work OK, right? Steffen

Re: [NTG-context] the closing bracket (structuring syntax)

2006-08-14 Thread Aditya Mahajan
And what would be the opposite? For example \startquote ... \stopquote to something like {\MyQuote ... } AFAIK, there is no easy way to do this. Aditya ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] the closing bracket (structuring syntax)

2006-08-13 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 10.08.2006 um 22:47 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: You can always define your own startstop. \definestartstop[italic][before={\bgroup \it},after={\egroup}] and then do \startitalic This is italic \stopitalic When a command takes an optional agrument, you can do use something like

Re: [NTG-context] the closing bracket (structuring syntax)

2006-08-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, in XML and alike there is a concept of dedicated start/stop in formatting: begin heading ... end heading begin footnote ... end footnote begin italic ... end italic But in ConTeXt/TeX we have always the same closing syntax }. That makes reading the code

Re: [NTG-context] the closing bracket (structuring syntax)

2006-08-10 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, in XML and alike there is a concept of dedicated start/stop in formatting: begin heading ... end heading begin footnote ... end footnote begin italic ... end italic But in ConTeXt/TeX we have always the same closing syntax }. That makes

Re: [NTG-context] the closing bracket (structuring syntax)

2006-08-10 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Thank you. \footnote \index \chapter\section ... \it \bf \sc \mr \cap \language[...] That would be quite a good start. Steffen Am 10.08.2006 um 22:44 schrieb Hans Hagen: Steffen Wolfrum wrote: Hi, in XML and alike there is a concept of dedicated start/stop in