At 07:45 AM 8/20/2001 +0000, Victor Sanchez wrote:
>Hans,
>
>    I am new to this list so my apologies if this has been answered before. I
>checked the Mail archives and there was much discussion back in 99 about
>providing sample styles for documents, like Latex does. Searching the Pragma
>site I can only find examples of presentation like documents. I much prefer

\setuplayout
\setuphead
\setupheadertexts
\setupfootertexts

is what you need for a basis layouy; the last two differ per doc, so that 
leaves two, means that the average style will be rather small

>to work from a almost ready style and just make the changes I require since I
>am not a good typographer and rather start from a sound foundation. Am I
>missing something? In this particular moment I need sample book documents. In
>Context, the sample documents are very important, IMHO, because the
>complexities of screen/paper publishing. It would be nice that both are taken
>into account in those samples.

the pdftex manual source is a nice example; also, since screen docs are 
more demanding, if you understand these ...

i will post paper styles later, when i start with the layout design manual

>BTW, the spanish settings for some of the keywords in comp-ita.tex are not in
>good, what is the procedure for requesting modifications? The manual seems to

just send me corrections [but discuss them with other spanish uses first if 
needed]

>imply that the spanish selector should be "es" but in reality is "sp".

\spanish is even better and should work,

it's no problem to provide an extra language synonym

Hans

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