Talk:Inside ConTeXt

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It would make sense to have texshow-style documentation for the low-level macros. How about Commands::getparameters et. al. ? Or \getparameters ?

  • yes, it would make much sense, but not in here. We should add them to texshow*, so they would be available not only to the online users but also to etexshow and perhaps other xml based texshow out there.
    • who does the job? The commands have to be given in an xml format, wich is not that trivial (but not complex either)
    • how do we keep the user interface of texshow(-whatever) clean? I would have to program some kind of filter based on keywords - but I wanted to do this anyway :-)
    • I'll post some more on this topic soon, since I'll work on texshow for a bit now

--Patrick Gundlach 11:12, 5 Aug 2004 (CEST)

  • The initial comment was me (I keep getting logged out for discernable reason).
    • It seems to me that the best way to do this is to consider the programmer-level macro's to be an extra interface (named 'api').
    • I volunteer for the creation of (at least the beginnings of) the needed XML.
    • I propose starting with a really barebones XML file that only lists the macros themselves (no invocation syntax), then add the correct definitions interactively using texshow-web itself.

--Taco