Hi Hans,
just was busy to update Context....
There is a missing file error during updating: v-mp
Willi
On 26 Nov 2010, at 21:49, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I uploaded a new beta. The most important issues are the following:
>
> (1) Table
>
> I fixed a few things and there is limit color support
>
> \VL[10] rule ten times wider than normal
> \VL[red] red rule
> \VL[red,10] both
>
> The same applies to \HL and \DL, but with \DL the first argument hs the
> number of spans, so we can have: \DL[2,red,10].
>
> (2) Buffers and typing
>
> This whole bunch has been cleaned up and pretty printing has been redone. The
> \type command accepts an optional argument with settings. as does
> \starttyping, \typebuffer and \typefile (and the defined variants).
>
> The interface for defining visualizers might change a bit but I'm getting
> there. There is a chapter on it in the cld manual. In principle one can
> provide arbitrary manipulators, think of:
>
> \startluacode
> local function parser(s)
> local s = string.gsub(s,"show","demonstrate")
> local s = string.gsub(s,"'re"," are")
> context(s)
> end
>
> visualizers.register("MyThing", { parser = parser })
> \stopluacode
>
> \starttyping[option=MyThing,color=darkred,style=]
> This is just some text to show what we can do with this mechanism. In
> spite of what you might think we're not bound to verbose text.
> \stoptyping
>
> \startbuffer[demo]
> This is just some text to show what we can do with this mechanism. In
> spite of what you might think we're not bound to verbose text.
> \stopbuffer
>
> \processbuffer[demo][option=MyThing]
>
> There are only a few visualizers built in: TEX, MP, LUA, XML and PARSED-XML.
> There is also PARSED-LUA but that's for Luigi and me to play with first.
>
> Colors and fonts might change and are set up differently now, see v-*.mkiv
> files.
>
> (3) MkVI (or: moving on)
>
> Say that you have a file test.mkvi that has the following code:
>
> \def\TestOne[#1]%
> {this is: #1}
>
> \def\TestTwo#some%
> {this is: #some}
>
> \def\TestThree[#whatever][#more]%
> {this is: #more and #whatever}
>
> \def\TestFour[#one]#two%
> {\def\TestFive[#alpha][#one]%
> {#one, #two, #alpha}}
>
> \starttexdefinition TestSix #oeps
>
> here: #oeps
>
> \stoptexdefinition
>
> \starttext
>
> \startlines
> \TestOne [one]
> \TestTwo {one}
> \TestThree[one][two]
> \TestFour [one]{two}
> \TestFive [one][two]
> \TestSix {one}
> \stoplines
>
> \stoptext
>
> This will work out ok, in spite of the not so texy hash usage. This is an
> experimental feature and only meant for developers to play with.
>
> % macros=mkvi
>
> as top line also works. Files like that are preprocessed before they are
> passed to tex. (I'm considering permitting spaces before and after #whatever
> in the definition line.) More preprocessor features might show up. Of course
> the limitation of 9 arguments still applies.
>
> Hans
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