On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Andrea Valle wrote: >> >> By reading the source :) >> Joking of course ... but not entirely. >> > > > > Yes, that's an important point. Many times the options I'm searching for are > not documented: so, or I'm able to find an example in wiki/mailing list or > probably it would be easy to take a look to the sources, I guess. > I know it's far from being polite, but really I'd like to have a > "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. > 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. > Second, the (in)famous tex tree structure is > far from being clear for me. Almost all of ConTeXt files are in $TEXMF/tex/context/base (fonts, are of course a different issue) > 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. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
