From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Descriptions ... I wish I understood them
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:37:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1EE6F778-214B-4AD4-BA94-D10AABDBEBA6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00809241145x27453f17uc2d87461c3ae2c4b@mail.gmail.com>
Am 24.09.2008 um 20:45 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> Hello,
>
> I have some weird problems with descriptions, but let's start at the
> beginning. (I have more problems with understanding how they work, but
> more about the rest later.)
>
> 1.) How do I get some space between "title" and "abc"? (I currently
> put the space there manually.) If I set distance=1em, weird things
> start happening.
width=broad
See my second example (thanks to your example I was able to solve the
first).
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080130.152108.77e74a14.en.html
> 2.) What exactly does "hang=1" do? I have no idea what it does there,
> but that was the only way to get the desired result, else everything
> gets indented. width=fit makes problems. With width=5cm everything is
> OK.
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/www-rz/schwanbs/TeX/ -> page 39
> \definedescription
> [ma]
> [headstyle=bold,
> style=italic,
> align=left,
> location=left,
> width=fit,
> distance=0pt,
> margin=0pt,
> hang=1,
> indenting=never,
> ]
\definedescription
[pa]
[headstyle=bold,
style=italic,
location=left,
width=broad,
hang=1]
> \starttext
>
> \input tufte
>
> \startma{title} abc. \input tufte
> \stopma
\pa{title} abc. \input tufte\par
> \input tufte
>
> \stoptext
Regards,
Wolfgang
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2008-09-24 18:45 Mojca Miklavec
2008-09-25 13:53 ` Otared Kavian
2008-09-25 19:37 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
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