Re: [NTG-context] need defaults for \definehighlight

Am 08.02.2015 um 13:56 schrieb Keith J. Schultz :

Hi Hans, Irdis, All,

It might sound like splitting hairs, but I find we should be careful how we call this beast!

Basically, a highlight allows one so setup a font style and color to be applied to it contents.

The problem is that is this REALLY a Highlight!

A style and color is applied so, what we have is a use color and style!

would it not be better to call it definecharstyle or definetextstyle

For compatibility we could use keep the definehighlight as a synonym.

As to setting up defaults, the question is their a generic usage of such ways of for so called highlights. These are, basically, by those that: 1) like this much fluff 2) idiosyncratic terminology

1) is supposed to avoided! And basically makes ConTeXt look like Word!

The use of another way of defining a command for the standard font styles is proof enough for 2. Also, not everybody would want the predefined styles and colors so they will have to be changed in the setuphighlight anyway!

The use of such a command is convient, but we should think about the nomenclature! The nomenclature should reflect what it does. We can have synonyms to satisfy the semantic usage of it!

There is a \definestyle command (you can disable the creation of command [e.g. \strong] when you add “method=” to \definestyle) but it doesn’t add tags in the export command. \definestyle [strong] [style=bold] \definestyle [emphasized] [style=italic] \starttext Strong: You can use \style[strong]{strong} or \strong{strong} or \startstyle[strong]strong\stopstyle. Emphasized: You can use \style[emphasized]{emphasized} or \emphasized{emphasized} or \startstyle[emphasized]emphasized\stopstyle. \stoptext Wolfgang