On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> in XML and alike there is a concept of dedicated start/stop in
> formatting:
>
> <begin heading> ... <end heading >
> <begin footnote> ... <end footnote >
> <begin italic> ... <end italic>
>
> But in ConTeXt/TeX we have always the same closing syntax "}". That
> makes reading the code not easier.
You can always define your own startstop.
\definestartstop[italic][before={\bgroup \it},after={\egroup}]
and then do
\startitalic
This is italic
\stopitalic
When a command takes an optional agrument, you can do use something like
this
\def\startfootnote%
{\unskip\dosingleempty\dostartfootnote}
\def\dostartfootnote[#1]#2\stopfootnote%
{\footnote[#1]{#2}}
You can make such definitions of all your frequently used environments
(or, if you prefer, write in XML and let ConTeXt handle XML).
> Is there a workaround to define the closing more precisely (like the
> examples above),
> so that finding a "}" in a ConTeXt source lets me distinguish what
> it's about?
There are \bgroup...\egroup which is same as {...} for all practical
purposes.
Aditya
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