On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 21:50 (+0200), Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Jim schrieb am 04.06.2024 um 21:29: >> On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 20:31 (+0200), Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>>>> On 4 Jun 2024, at 20:16, Wolfgang Schuster >>>> <wolfgang.schuster.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Jim schrieb am 04.06.2024 um 19:48: >>>> > I did not realize the wiki software did that. On reflection I suppose >>>> > that >>>> > is useful in many (most?) cases. But I'd argue that it is not always a >>>> > good >>>> > thing, such as in this case. (If nothing else, it might mislead a n00b >>>> > into thinking that you should get output for text preceding \starttext.) >>> Here is the documentation for the <context> tag extension: >>> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Help:Context >> Hi Taco, >> thanks very much for the link. But, ummm, what it says there seems to >> contradict what Wolfgang told me in the other response to my message. >> [[ I see Wolfgang edited the \blank wiki page to move the text in question >> to after \starttext, but I'm sure if you don't believe what I say in the >> next paragraph, you can grab the previous version. ]] >> Specifically, the example in the (previous) \blank wiki page does, indeed, >> have a \starttext and \stoptext. So, according to the page you mention >> above, another \starttext and \stoptext should *not* be added. And yet the >> (previous) \blank page example does print the text (as well as the bullets) >> before the \starttext. Is there a discrepancy between what >> .../Help:Context says and what actually happens? > When you take a look at the settings which are applied here you can see > \setupbodyfont[8pt] which is the reason why the text appears, compare > %%%% begin example > Before \tex{starttext} > \starttext > After \tex{starttext}. > \stoptext > %%%% end example > with > %%%% begin example > \setupbodyfont[12pt] > Before \tex{starttext} > \starttext > After \tex{starttext}. > \stoptext > %%%% end example > The second example loads a font before the text appear in the document which > is the reason why you can see it. Thanks Wolfgang, all is now becoming clear. :-) Jim P.S. Well, "all" about this, I still have lots of questions about other things. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-context.ntg.nl webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror) archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
