[NTG-context] (ConTeXt LMTX 2.11.05) how do I make it so that sections, descriptions, and itemizations have just a space between some of the text that they produce

[NTG-context] (ConTeXt LMTX 2.11.05) how do I make it so that sections, descriptions, and itemizations have just a space between some of the text that they produce

[Felix]

\setuppapersize[letter][letter]

\setupalign[normal]

\setuplayout[
    backspace=0.5in,
    topspace=0.0in,
    header=.5in, % No headers
    footer=.5in, % Space for the footer
    width=middle,
    height=middle,
]

\definefontfeature[timesfeatures][default][
    trep=yes, % Enables single and double quotes to show up correctly in text, perhaps does more
    dlig=yes,
    % cpsp=yes, use for all caps only
]

\definefontfamily [myfonts] [rm]        [Times New Roman] [features=timesfeatures] % dlig enables times new roman ligatures, and cpsp is used by tnr, not aptos

\setupbodyfont[myfonts,12pt]

\mainlanguage[en-us]

\setupindenting[yes,0.5in]

\definedescription[description]

\setupdescription[description][
    alternative=serried,
    headstyle=bold,
    style=normal,
    width=broad,
    before=,
    after=,
]

\setupheads[indentnext=yes] % To get indentation after section numbers, use this

\setuphead[section][
    sectionstopper={.}, % Add period after numbers
    conversion=R,
    before=,
    after=,
    style=sc, % Small caps style
    align=middle, % Center the section titles
]

\startsetups document:start
    \centerline{\documentvariable{title}}
    \centerline{\documentvariable{author}}
    \centerline{\documentvariable{date}}
    \blank[line]
\stopsetups

\startdocument[
    title={Chapter 4 Quiz},
    author={Author},
    date={September 16, 2024}
]

\startitemgroup[itemize][n]
    \startitem
        I'm not a fan of the default spacing
    \stopitem
\stopitemgroup

\startdescription{I'm not a fan of the}
    default spacing
\stopdescription

\startsection[title={I'm not a fan of the}]
    default spacing
\stopsection

\stopdocument

This code shows how I am getting the default spacing between the words from itemize, description, and the spacing between the roman numeral and the section title. I tried figuring out how to get the spacing for all of these to be set to a single space worth but it seems to not be possible with `distance`, because it asks for a dimension. How can I get a `\space`'s worth of spacing to be the default in descriptions, itemizations, and sections? for itemizations and descriptions the spacing seems to vary and I really don't like that. I would be thankful to know if there's a way to change the spacing.
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[NTG-context] Re: (ConTeXt LMTX 2.11.05) how do I make it so that sections, descriptions, and itemizations have just a space between some of the text that they produce

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Felix schrieb am 16.09.2024 um 16:24:
> [...]
>
> This code shows how I am getting the default spacing between the words from itemize, description, and the spacing between the roman numeral and the section title. I tried figuring out how to get the spacing for all of these to be set to a single space worth but it seems to not be possible with `distance`, because it asks for a dimension. How can I get a `\space`'s worth of spacing to be the default in descriptions, itemizations, and sections? for itemizations and descriptions the spacing seems to vary and I really don't like that. I would be thankful to know if there's a way to change the spacing.

Please remove everything from your examples which isn't necessary to 
show the problem, in your example you can get rid of

- the page layout,
- the font settings,
- the title page and
- all settings from \setupdescription and \setuphead unrelated to the 
space between number/title and the text.


The value you're looking for is \spaceamount which can be used with the 
distance-key to set the width of a space as separator.


For descriptions you have to set the value of the width to fit and use 
the distance key to set a fixed
value for the space between the title and following text, to ensure the 
space doesn't increase set
also the shrink and stretch values to 0.

%%%% begin example
\definedescription
   [description]
   [alternative=serried,
    width=fit,
    distance=\spaceamount,
    stretch=0,
    shrink=0]

\starttext

\startdescription [title={I'm not a fan of the}]
default spacing
\stopdescription

\stoptext
%%%% end example


For itemize you can use the fit keyword but be aware once you have more 
than 9 entries you get
a bigger space between the number and content because the environment 
set the width of all
entries to width of the widest number.

%%%% begin example
\starttext

\startitemize[n,fit][distance=\spaceamount]
\startitem
I'm not a fan of the default spacing
\stopitem
\stopitemize

\stoptext
%%%% end example


For section titles you just have to change the distance value.

%%%% begin example
\setuphead
   [section]
   [distance=\spaceamount]

\starttext

\startsection[title={I'm not a fan of the}]

default spacing

\stopsection

\stoptext
%%%% end example


Wolfgang

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