Re: Setting up chapter.

["John R. Culleton" <john@wexfordpress.com>]

On Tuesday 12 July 2005 01:15 pm, luigi.scarso wrote:
> John R. Culleton wrote:
> >On Monday 11 July 2005 09:34 pm, Stuart Jansen wrote:
> >>On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 17:12 +0000, John R. Culleton wrote:
> >>>I am trying to set up chapter heads a certain way and my code
> >>>keeps getting uglier. Here are the specs:
> >>>
> >>>1. Chapter number centered, with decorations on either side.
> >>>2. Chapter title centered below chapter number.
> >>>3. Additional decoration centered below chapter title.
> >>>4. Both number and text show up in TOC in normal Context manner.
> >>>
> >>>Can this be done easily using the normal chapter macro or should
> >>>I do it all from scratch? (If I roll my own I worry about getting
> >>>info to the TOC.)
> >>
> >>I am doing something like that now. Sorry the example isn't very pretty,
> >>had to rip out parts that were specific to the font I'm using, but
> >>should give you an idea of what you need to do.
> >>
> >>=====
> >
> >Your example was very helpful. Using it, and with some more
> >RTFM, I came up with this configuration:
> >
> >\setuphead[chapter][numbercommand=\numcommand,page=right,
> >header=none,textcommand=\texcommand,align=right]
> >
> >\def\numcommand#1{\hfil\webo m\hfil\tfd#1\hfil\webo m\hfil\break}
> >
> >\def\texcommand#1{\hfil #1 \hfil\crlf\deco}
> >
> >
> >My problem remains with the horizontal alignment of the chapter
> >text. I have tried left, right, normal, broad. All I want to do
> >is center it, per my specification 2 above.
> >
> >Webo is the webomints dingbat font.
>
> Maybe this can help you ?
>
> \def\Command#1#2{\ruledvbox{\hbox to \textwidth{\hfill #1 \hfill}\\%
> \hbox to \textwidth{\hfill #2 \hfill}\\%
> \hbox to \textwidth{\hfill deco! \hfill}}}
>
> \def\NCommand#1{\framed{#1}}% Insert here other stuff for decorate number
>
> \def\TCommand#1{\framed{#1}}% Insert here other stuff for decorate text
>
> \setuphead[chapter][command=\Command,numbercommand=\NCommand,textcommand=\T
>Command]
>
> Warning: \completecontent has a bizzarre look.
>
>
> luigi
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Some interesting approaches here, for sure. I am hanging on to
these posts. 

I chickened out and did a plain TeX macro. 

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\def\Chap#1 #2.{\page[yes]
\ifodd\count0\else\noheaderandfooterlines\page[yes]\fi
\noheaderandfooterlines
\line{\hfil\webo m\hfil\lower
4.5pt\hbox{\it\tfd#1}\hfil\webo m\hfil}\blank[big]
\line{\tfc\hfil#2\hfil}
\blank[big]
\writetolist[chapter]{\tf #1}{\tf #2}
\deco
}

\def\deco{\blank\noindent\hfil\webo 4\hfil\break\blank \rm}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
But when time permits I will play with the other approaches
mentioned. 


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