Command Syntax

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Arguments

• without argument: \hairline
• with mandatory argument: \overbar{...}
• with optional argument: \note[ref]
• with ??? argument: \moveongrid[...]
• and thier combinations: \chapter[ref,...]{...} or \date[...,.=.,...][...]

Pairing

Numbers (manuals), background colors (texshow), font colors (emacs help) in arguments don't have any special meaning, they just pair the argument with its desription below.

Exapmle: \setupheadertexts

• in the manual:

 \setupheadertexts[.1.][.2.][.3.]
 .1. text margin edge
 .2. text section date mark pagenumber
 .3. text section date mark pagenumber

• in the texshow

 \setupheadertexts[.1.][.2.][.3.]
 .1. text margin edge
 .2. text section date mark pagenumber
 .3. text section date mark pagenumber

• in the emacs help

  \setupheadertexts[.1.][.2.][.3.]
  .1. <text> margin edge
  .2. <text> <section> date  pagenumber
  .3. <text> <section> date  pagenumber

Notation, typographic convention

You can find command definitions in

• printed manuals,
• texshow,
• emacs ConTeXt help,
• xml description in cont-en.xml (and appropriate language variants).

Following table shows their notation. (add examples)

	manuals	texshow	emacs	xml description
arguments	x	x	x	x
mandatory	x	x	x	x
optional	x	x	x	x
???	x	x	x	x
argument values	x	x	x	x
key-value pair	x	x	x	x
user input	x	x	x	x
list of	x	x	x	x
default	x	x	x	x

Contexgarden wiki

While writing to this wiki you can refer to the user commands with

[[cmd:goto|\goto]]

which displays as \goto and the link brings you to the command definition in texshow-web.

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