Hi Wolfgang,

I do apologize.

ConTeXt, does have the functionality that I was suggesting.
I must say though that it seems just 2-3 weeks young and
searching for the command defineparagraph brings up
Nil on ConTeXt Garden. Thank, you for the example.

Yet, is not quite what I had in mind. But, that does not matter for right now.
Hans already said it is non trivial to get the functionality of what 
I has suggest. Which was to introduce the concept of a "paragraph" into
ConTeXt that TeX does not have and not have to use startparagraph and
stopparagraph all the time for a "standard" paragraph.

Yes, Yes, I know how to use setupbodyfont, setupdenting, and the likes
for that!

I was aware that I could develop my own environments for paragraphs

The paragraph environment does pretty much close the gap and it will be very beneficial 
to the beginners and converts.

Thanx to whoever did the work and to you, too.

regards
Keith.

Am 01.02.2013 um 04:58 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>:


Am 31.01.2013 um 23:02 schrieb "Keith J. Schultz" <keithjschultz@web.de>:

Hi Wolfgang,

You do seem to understand what I am getting at!

I purposely put "paragraph" in quotes. because the environment that I have suggest was
one that had setups for bodyfont, color, indenting etc. and one can just like the headers
have control over them.

[deleted example for brevities sake]

Furthermore, you have stated on the on the 30th:

ConTeXt provides also a paragraph environment but this add only tags when you export the document
as XML or create a tagged PDF.

The paragraphs (note the "s") environment has a Hans already mentioned nothing to do with paragraphs,
it just puts the content on columns where each column can con tai multiple paragraphs. The name
for the environment is misleading because columns is already taken as name.

Thank you anyway. I will look into creating what I need on my own. I already have an idea.
Just need to figure out the implementation.

You can use \definestartsetup or \definebuffer to create your own environments.