[NTG-context] Re: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/blank

4 Jun 2024

      On Tue, Jun  4, 2024 at 20:31 (+0200), Taco Hoekwater wrote:
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On 4 Jun 2024, at 20:16, Wolfgang Schuster  wrote:
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Jim schrieb am 04.06.2024 um 19:48:
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I did not realize the wiki software did that.  On reflection I suppose that
is useful in many (most?) cases.  But I'd argue that it is not always a good
thing, such as in this case.  (If nothing else, it might mislead a n00b
into thinking that you should get output for text preceding \starttext.)
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Here is the documentation for the <context> tag extension:
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https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Help:Context
Hi Taco,

thanks very much for the link.  But, ummm, what it says there seems to
contradict what Wolfgang told me in the other response to my message.

[[ I see Wolfgang edited the \blank wiki page to move the text in question
   to after \starttext, but I'm sure if you don't believe what I say in the
   next paragraph, you can grab the previous version. ]]

Specifically, the example in the (previous) \blank wiki page does, indeed,
have a \starttext and \stoptext.  So, according to the page you mention
above, another \starttext and \stoptext should *not* be added.  And yet the
(previous) \blank page example does print the text (as well as the bullets)
before the \starttext.  Is there a discrepancy between what
.../Help:Context says and what actually happens?

Thanks.
                                Jim