On Thursday 01 July 2010 11:23:01 Peter Münster wrote:
On Thu, Jul 01 2010, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
Functionality such as the subject of this thread should be available by default, without having to mess with macros. In particular, functionality present in LaTeX for quite some time should be possible within ConTeXt rather easily, the ConTeXt way, of course.
The ConTeXt way is now: \startchapter[...] \stopchapter When you don't need the extra functionality, you can use the old \chapter command, but when you need it, the just use the new environment.
This is an unsatisfactory statement, indeed. No one has answered my question about to what belongs any text between a proceding \stopchapter and a following \startchapter, as in \startchapter{title} \stopchapter some text \startchapter{next title} \stopchapter There remains thus some logical/structural problem with this new scheme. (This does not mean, at all, that I dislike the \start \stop syntax.)
Thus,
\chapter[toc-entry]{title}
of LaTeX should have its equivalent in ConTeXt,
and this would be logically something like: \chapter [title={title},list={toc-entry}]
Why? LaTeX is not the reference for ConTeXt.
So you/we have nothing to learn from years of experience and use of LaTeX? It is indeed not a reference, but an indicator. Do not forget, as well, that many new ConTeXt users will be coming from LaTeX... Alan