Questions about \starttext
Hi all, doing some tests I discovered two interesting facts. The first is that commands \starttext and \stoptext do not behave as a group. Minimal example (tested on TL2015, TL2016, TL2017, current CTX from the Garden): \starttext text \starttext \bf text \stoptext text % this text is in bold, too. \stoptext Is this the expected behaviour, or not? The second interesting thing is that the unbalanced document is compiled without protests: Minimal example #1 (tested on TL2015, TL2016, TL2017, current CTX from the Garden): \starttext text % in this case, the "text" is shipped out Minimal example #2 (tested on TL2015, TL2016, TL2017, current CTX from the Garden): text % in this case, the "text" is not shipped out \stoptext If this is ok, it does not correspond to our garden wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/starttext): "The first command takes care of a number of initializations, and the last command tells TEX that processing can stop. When this command is left out TEX will display a * (a star) on the command line at the end of the job. TEX will expect a command, for example \end." Wishes, Tomáš Tomáš Hála ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mendel's University of Agriculture and Forestry, Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Informatics ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mendelova zemědělská a lesnická univerzita, Provozně ekonomická fakulta, Ústav informatiky, Zemědělská 5, CZ-613 00 Brno, tel. +420 545 13 22 28 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.mendelu.cz/~thala
Tomas Hala mailto:tomas.hala@mendelu.cz 20. März 2018 um 12:43 Hi all,
doing some tests I discovered two interesting facts.
The first is that commands \starttext and \stoptext do not behave as a group.
Minimal example (tested on TL2015, TL2016, TL2017, current CTX from the Garden):
\starttext text \starttext \bf text \stoptext text % this text is in bold, too. \stoptext
Is this the expected behaviour, or not?
Opening a group with \starttext makes no sense because there is nothing after \stoptext. The possibility to nest \starttext is necessary when you \startproduct etc. where components can be be documents on its own and this means \startcomponent includes \starttext in its definition.
The second interesting thing is that the unbalanced document is compiled without protests:
Minimal example #1 (tested on TL2015, TL2016, TL2017, current CTX from the Garden):
\starttext text % in this case, the "text" is shipped out
Take a look at the command line when you process a file and you should see something like this: mtx-context | run 1: luatex --fmt="[...]/cont-en" --jobname="test" [...] --c:input="./test.tex" [...] "cont-yes.mkiv" As you can see the luatex engine processes the file cont-yes.mkiv and not your document which put as argument to context. Your document is just read by cont-yes.mkiv and at the end of the document ConTeXt inserts an extra \stoptext which is ignored when your document is valid (equal number of \starttext and \stoptext).
Minimal example #2 (tested on TL2015, TL2016, TL2017, current CTX from the Garden):
text % in this case, the "text" is not shipped out \stoptext
The reason why no text appears is that ConTeXt doesn’t load the default fonts untill \starttext. The reason for this is to is a gain in speed and you save resources. You can test this by adding \setupbodyfont[modern] at the begin of your example. Wolfgang
A reasonable approach to a Context file includes preliminary information before the first printed page. My basic master file looks like this :
\input variables.tex\relax
\input layout.tex\relax
\input macros.tex\relax
\input fonts.tex\relax
\starttext\relax
%\showlayout
\startfrontmatter
\input half.tex\relax
\startstandardmakeup
\null
\stopstandardmakeup
\input title.tex\relax
\input copy.tex\relax
\input ded.tex\relax
\input contents.tex\relax
\input preface.tex\relax
%\startstandardmakeup \relax
%\null \relax
%\stopstandardmakeup \relax
\stopfrontmatter
\startbodymatter
\input body3.tex\relax
\stopbodymatter\relax
\startbackmatter\relax
\input bib.tex\relax
\input notes.tex
\input index.tex
\stopbackmatter
\stoptext\relax
By loading my usual macros in the macros file, standard items like author's name in a variables file and so on I save much time,
typing and errors.
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From: "Wolfgang Schuster"
On 4/3/2018 12:02 AM, John Culleton wrote:
A reasonable approach to a Context file includes preliminary information before the first printed page. My basic master file looks like this :
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in the distribution there are a lot of manuals of which the setup demonstrates ways to organize ... one probably not known to all is \startdocument[settings] ... \stopdocument Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Tue, Apr 03, 2018 ve 09:12:31AM +0200 Hans Hagen napsal(a): # On 4/3/2018 12:02 AM, John Culleton wrote: # >A reasonable approach to a Context file includes preliminary # >information before the first printed page. My basic master file # >looks like this : # > # > ... # # in the distribution there are a lot of manuals of which the setup # demonstrates ways to organize ... one probably not known to all is # # \startdocument[settings] ... \stopdocument ok, where can I find it? The thing I am a bit confused and which was the main reason of my question, is why the compiler does not report the unbalanced pair of start/stop in this case. Tomáš # Hans # # ----------------------------------------------------------------- # Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE # Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands # tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl # ----------------------------------------------------------------- # ___________________________________________________________________________________ # If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! # # maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context # webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net # archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ # wiki : http://contextgarden.net # ___________________________________________________________________________________ Tomáš Hála -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mendelova univerzita, Provozně ekonomická fakulta, ústav informatiky Zemědělská 1, CZ-613 00 Brno, tel. +420 545 13 22 28 -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://akela.mendelu.cz/~thala
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From: "Wolfgang Schuster"
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