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Am 18.01.2012 um 23:39 schrieb Kip Warner:
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 09:26 +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 18.01.2012 um 02:47 schrieb Kip Warner:
Ah, so \setupdescriptions inherits the default values of \definedescription?
WIth \definedescription you create a new command (e.g. \definition) and environment (e.g. \startdefinition \stopdefinition).
With \setupdescriptions you can afterwards change the values of the previous defined command/environment.
Each new created command has always default values for the location, style and color of the title etc. which be either changed when you create the command (\definedescription[][..,.=.,..]) or afterwards (\setupdescriptions[][..,.=.,..]).
Wolfgang
Thanks Wolfgang. I kind of understand. But when you say "create a new command", how does ConTeXt know what the command does?
The following is only a simplified explanation. When you define a new command with \definedescription, e.g. \definedescription[definition] you get the commands \definition and \startdefinition Both are only shortcuts for \dodescription[definition] and \dostartdescription[definition], as you can see the internal command tells context that it’s dealing with a description and “definition” is only the name of the instance. Wolfgang