Re: [NTG-context] What’s your favorite command?

30 Jan 2012


      On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Marco wrote:
...
On 2012-01-30 Wolfgang Schuster  wrote:
...
The  ConTeXt  package  is  huge and  provides  dozen  of
commands but  I guess  many have *one*  favorite command
(maybe also functionality).
I was surprised  by the unusual “Subject” line  in my mail
client. But I don't hesitate:
My  favourite  command  is  \externalfigure  [placeholder]
because it  produces very  pretty colourful  graphics (I'm
bored to use the dutch cow or the wind mill every time).
Example:
\useMPlibrary [dum]
\starttext
\dorecurse{10}{
  \startTEXpage
      \externalfigure [placeholder]
  \stopTEXpage}
\stoptext
You can also use my `\externalkitten` macro: 
http://randomdeterminism.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/images-for-documentation-e...

\def\externalkitten[#1]%
     {\getparameters[kitten][width=10pt, height=10pt, #1]
      \externalfigure
         [\ctxlua{context("http://placekitten.com/g/\%0.0f/\%0.0f",
                   \withoutpt{\the\dimexpr\kittenwidth},
                   \withoutpt{\the\dimexpr\kittenheight})}]
         [#1, method=jpg]}

\starttext
\placefigure[left,none]{}
     {\externalkitten[width=0.5\textwidth, height=0.3\textheight]}
   \input knuth
\stoptext

Aditya

Re: [NTG-context] What’s your favorite command?

Aditya Mahajan