epigraphs and subtitles?

epigraphs and subtitles?

[Bruce D'Arcus]

Am not sure if what is in essence a feature request should go to this 
list, but it'd be nice to have:

Subtitles.  Aside from the fact that one often wants to format 
subtitles differently than titles, generally speaking headers that 
include titles should not also include subtitles (and there is what I 
consider a bug with long titles such that they run into the header on 
the other side, rather than breaking into two lines)

Epigraphs.  Peter Wilson's epigraph LaTeX style is a good model, but it 
would work something like \epigraph[attribution]{epigraph text}.

Bruce

Re: epigraphs and subtitles?

[Tobias Burnus]

Hi,

> Epigraphs.  Peter Wilson's epigraph LaTeX style is a good model, but it
> would work something like \epigraph[attribution]{epigraph text}.
I think http://digilander.libero.it/bilotta/giuseppe/xdesc.zip
does such a thing (search for xdesc or epigraph at the list archive).

Tobias

Re[2]: epigraphs and subtitles?

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Wednesday, August 7, 2002 Tobias Burnus wrote:

TB> Hi,

>> Epigraphs.  Peter Wilson's epigraph LaTeX style is a good model, but it
>> would work something like \epigraph[attribution]{epigraph text}.
TB> I think http://digilander.libero.it/bilotta/giuseppe/xdesc.zip
TB> does such a thing (search for xdesc or epigraph at the list archive).

xdesc doesn't automatically provide epigraphs, but it can be used
for this. Now that I came back from vacations I can also look in my old
epigraph module and "convert" it to use xdesc.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Long section headings in footertexts

[Adam Lindsay]

Hi all,

I have a user who likes to have long \chapter titles, like {This is my
title: with a whole lot of specific clarification}. When we set
footertexts to be [chapter], it collides into the opposite footer (date,
in this case).

What I'd like to do is have some way of picking up the first part of the
chapter title ("This is my title") and put only that into the footer
text. I would call this a "subtitle" in a way. It's related to the second
half of this complaint Bruce made back in August:

Bruce D'Arcus said this at Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:55:16 -0400:

>Subtitles.  Aside from the fact that one often wants to format 
>subtitles differently than titles, generally speaking headers that 
>include titles should not also include subtitles (and there is what I 
>consider a bug with long titles such that they run into the header on 
>the other side, rather than breaking into two lines)

My temporary solution is to define an \AltFooter macro in the current
environment where the user can manually switch to a short version of the
chapter heading. As it is, however, I need a matching \ResetFooter macro
for the end of the chapter.

Anyone have any hints?

Cheers,
adam


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RE: Long section headings in footertexts

[Duncan Hothersall]

Adam Lindsay wrote:

> What I'd like to do is have some way of picking up the first part of the
> chapter title ("This is my title") and put only that into the footer
> text. I would call this a "subtitle" in a way. It's related to the second
> half of this complaint Bruce made back in August:
>
...
>
> Anyone have any hints?

I've used \nomarking{} in the past:

\chapter{Dr Strangelove\nomarking{ -- or how I learned to stop worrying and
love the bomb}}

That should just give you 'Dr Strangelove ...' in the headers/footers.
There's a \nolist which does something similar for tables of contents.

Duncan
dh@capdm.com

RE: Long section headings in footertexts

[Adam Lindsay]

Duncan Hothersall said this at Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:56:38 +0000:

>I've used \nomarking{} in the past:
>
>\chapter{Dr Strangelove\nomarking{ -- or how I learned to stop worrying and
>love the bomb}}
>
>That should just give you 'Dr Strangelove ...' in the headers/footers.
>There's a \nolist which does something similar for tables of contents.

Hi Duncan,

Many thanks for that. It's nearly perfect for what I need. Know of any
way of suppressing the ellipsis ("...")?

Off to look in the documentation...

Cheers,
adam


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RE: Long section headings in footertexts

[Hans Hagen]

At 05:06 PM 1/13/2003 +0000, Adam Lindsay wrote:
>Duncan Hothersall said this at Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:56:38 +0000:
>
> >I've used \nomarking{} in the past:
> >
> >\chapter{Dr Strangelove\nomarking{ -- or how I learned to stop worrying and
> >love the bomb}}
> >
> >That should just give you 'Dr Strangelove ...' in the headers/footers.
> >There's a \nolist which does something similar for tables of contents.
>
>Hi Duncan,
>
>Many thanks for that. It's nearly perfect for what I need. Know of any
>way of suppressing the ellipsis ("...")?

not yet, but Hraban is thinking real hard now about a proper keyword to 
switch it off (or maybe we should use a labeltext)

Hans
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