2011/8/15 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>

2011/8/15 Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com>

While writing the documentation about using ConTeXt I need some 'special' characters. A few I have found, for example \%, \backslash, \texttilde, \percent. But until now I did not find how to represent [ and ]. How would I use those characters in my document?

Also: is there somewhere a 'complete' list? I found several, but they where all for LaTeX and are not completely the same. For example LaTeX uses \textbackslash which does not work in ConTeXt which uses \backslash.

I could not find it at first (there are so many things), but one solution I found:
    \startasciimode
    %\backslash setupbackend[export=yes,xhtml=yes,css=yes]
    \stopasciimode

And while searching a little further I also found:
    \type{    %\setupbackend[export=yes,xhtml=yes,css=yes]}

This has the added benefit that it displays somewhat better because of the increased indentation (for which I misuse spaces).

\setuptyping[margin=yes]

\starttext

before

\starttyping
\setupbackend[export=yes]

\stoptyping

after

\stoptext

Very nice. I now use:
\setuptyping[

blank=small,

lines=no,

margin=30pt,

]

I have a bigger margin now. The problem is that there is a lot of white space above and under the typed text. I tried the blank and lines parameters to get rid of it, but that does not work. How can I get rid of the unwanted white space?