Re: 2 challenges:-)

[Idris S Hamid <ishamid@attbi.com>]

> >1. I want to drop the capital `I' so that its baseline is flush with the
> >basleline of the line in the narrower environment:
> >
> >Im\={a}m `Al\={i} (A) is reported to have said,
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> eh i see no drop caps here ..

That's because I don't know how to do it in the way described:-) I want to 
drop the `I' indicated above. Any suggestions?

> >2. I want to set the text in the itemize environment so that it is
> >[2*left,2*right] like the example above, with the bullets at the default
> >distance to the left of the text in the itemize environment (so the
> > narrower and itemize envs will be in mutual harmony). I tried
> >\setupitemize[1][2*left,2*right2] im my env file but that does not appear
> > to do anything.
>
> you can set width/margin/distance

How exactly? Forgive my ignorance!

>   \startitemize[2*broad] etc

I tried 

\setupitemize[2*broad]

but this appears to do nothing.

Let me pull things together, since I mentioned an itemization problem in 
another mail:

Here is my itemization setup (it works; thnx!):

\setupitemize[1][symbol=m]
\setupitemize[2][symbol=KA]
\setupitemize[3][symbol=KR]

In addition, I'd like the textblock of level-1 of itemization, _regardless_ 
_of_ _symbol_, to always be [2*broad], so that if I ever say, e.g., 

\startitemize[symbol=1]  %for bullets

I'll still get the right textblock width.

So I have to setup two distinct tasks:

1. The default width of the textblock of each itemization level (don't know 
what to do);

2.  The default symbol of each itemization level (solved!).

Changing the symbol for a given itemization level should not affect the setups 
for  textblock width within that level.

Question: Assuming I get the level-1 itemization textblock width set, do I 
have to setup the textblock widths of levels 2 and 3 as well, or does ConTeXt 
narrow each succeeding itemization level  as a function of the width of the 
immediately higher level?

Idris

-- 
Dr. Idris S Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80526