Re: Adding custom key/value pairs

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
> > Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> >>
> >> Why not, I have nothing against a few predefined title pages layouts.
> >
> > Somewhat related: it would be nice if there was some common code for
> > titles (books as well as articles).
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Anyway, the maps module contains all the code to do everything. And
> > the same is true for the TUG module. And for quite a few others I have
> > laying around. Lots of duplicate code all over, so a common framework
> > would be great. I've been meaning to write one for a long time, but
> > somehow I never quite get around to actually doing it.
> >
> > Just saying this to let you know that I would really welcome a module
> > with commands like \setuptitle, \definetitle, and \placetitle.
>
> I agree with that. It will be really nice to have a module that does a few
> "simple" titles (alternate=(a|b|c), etc.) For one of my personal modules,
> I was following something along the lines of the maps module. But I find
> Wolfgang's solution on the wiki to be more ConTeXtish than what all other
> modules use.

Hi Aditya,

could you use a few lines what do you expect from a placetitle/placetitlepage
command or a titlepage environment.

What should we do with the abstract, did it depend on the document title ...

Wolfgang
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