Re: [NTG-context] footnotes setup

Am 18.03.2012 um 23:10 schrieb Alan Braslau:

On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:59:17 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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2. Many of the \define… and \setup… commands are now auto generated from \installcommandhandler which generates only one setup-command which can be used for global (i.e. \setup…[..,..=..,..]) and local (i.e. \setup…[…][..,..=..,..]) settings.

Thank you Wolfgang for this explanation.

Do you mean: global (i.e. \define…[..,..=..,..] and local (i.e. \setup…[…][..,..=..,..]) settings?

No, I meant with \setupheads[style=bold] you can change the font of each heading and with \setuphead[section][style=italic] you change only the font for section. As you can see we have a plural and a singular form of the command. With the new system to generate the setup commands we have only \setuphead which handles bot cases.

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For backward compatibility you can find things like this: \let\setupnotes\setupnote

OK, but is this a good idea? I thought that mkii is kept around for backward compatibility and that mkiv takes the liberty to rationalize the syntax, sometimes sacrificing backwards compatibility in order not to be encumbered with inconsistent syntax, whenever possible.

Indeed, this sometimes generates much discussion on the mailing list when we discover that our favorite command has been removed or renamed - a good way of testing to see if we are active and alert. :)

It’s better to promote the new commands but we should take time until the old variants vanish because we have to get used to them. Wolfgang