Dnia Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 06:17:35PM -0400, Aditya Mahajan napisał(a):

Hi Marcin,

On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Marcin Borkowski wrote:

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Hi,

assume that I would like to read some parts of the ConTeXt source (to learn something interesting, to learn how to do that-and-that in ConTeXt, or just for fun;)). Where do I start? I mean: what is the non-terribly-difficult way for the beginner? I have rather good expertise in plain TeX and also some in LaTeX (if this helps).

Start by reading http://wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros

Wow, I've just looked into this and it seems it's great - I hope I'll finally be able to actually understand some parts of ConTeXt!

This would explain how basic programming structures in Context work. Since you know plain tex, you can also read syst-gen.tex. Most of it is fairly straight forward.

I saw that this file seems to have some provisions for "pretty printing" (i.e., nice formatting by TeX/ConTeXt). How do I typeset it? (It will be more convenient to read than a bare text file, I guess.)

Then I would suggest that you start with some functionality that you use fairly often, and see how it is implemented in ConTeXt (don't start with section heads, they are the most convoluted ConTeXt macros). Most of ConTeXt source code is fairly easy to read.

I'll try it!

Also see http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080721.165918.1ce40456.en.html

Thanks, too!

Aditya

Thanks a lot!!! -- Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.pl)