On 2012-03-22 11:38, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 03:01, Kip Warner wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 18:22 -0400, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > >> Anything else will leave to undersirable behaviour (or segfaults :) ) As I > >> had said in one of my earlier emails, this is the case for ALL context > >> macros that take both options and assignments. > > > > Fair enough. I got it to work now with, > > > > \startitemize[R,2*broad][start=11,before=\startlinecorrection,after= > > \stoplinecorrection] > > > > My only concern here is that, for something as incredibly fundamental > > and recurring in the world of ConTeXt, the caveats and distinctions to > > be made between options and assignments, that can and have taken down > > entire operating systems, or cause hour after hour of no end of vague > > syntactical errors, or even successful compilations with the wrong > > effects, shouldn't that probably have been mentioned at least once, even > > if only in passing, somewhere within the 369 page user manual? The word > > "assignment" I couldn't locate once.
You’re right, it can cause confusion to people migrating from
Latex where package options, afair, allows mixed key-value/list
syntax (like e.g. Lua does as well). Random example from the
KOMA-Script manual:
\documentclass[BCOR=12mm,DIV=calc,twoside]{scrartcl}
^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
assignment … switch
Therefore the difference to Context deserves mention at least
somewhere in
<http://wiki.contextgarden.net/From_LaTeX_to_ConTeXt>
which said migrators are most likely to consult first.
> - Maybe it could be more explicit, but if you ever take a look at
> documentation, for example
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupitemgroup
> you will notice that some brackets are depicted with [...,...] and
> others with [...,...=...,...]
And while we are handing out reading assignments (pun intended)
here are two wiki links that provide background information:
<http://wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros/Comma_Separated_Lists>
<http://wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros/Key_Value_Assignments>
Perhaps it makes most sense to think of Comma Lists v. Assignment
Lists in terms of the two different argument parsers being used
to process them.
Regards
Philipp
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