From: David <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Generating a list of items
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 21:40:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080705214006243802.2eed7601@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807052326170.6452@nqv-yncgbc>
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 23:27:00 -0400 (EDT), Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, David wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I'm teaching some classes this summer, and want to make myself a
>> template for lesson planning. One of the things that I'd like to be
>> able to include, if it works easily, is an automatically-created list
>> of the materials I need to remember to bring. My intention is that I
>> will only have to type the name of my materials once, while composing
>> the plan itself, and have ConTeXt extract all the names and place them
>> in a list in the same document.
>>
>> I expect this means I would define something like \Materials , and then
>> while typing the main text of my plan be able to type
>> \Materials{Photographs} or \Materials{Sound Recording} and then have
>> ConTeXt generate a list of all the items like this ...
>>
>> "Materials: 1. Photographs 2. Sound Recording"
>>
>> ... near the top of the page.
>>
>> I've tried using \placeregister, but it seems to insist on printing a
>> page number for each item and alphabetical headings as in an index. I
>> would like to get a simple, numbered list of items. Can I tweak the
>> \register commands to do this, or perhaps is there something else I
>> should try?
>
> Have you looked at lists (like table of contents, list of figures etc.). I
> think that the main manual explains how to create new lists.
I thought I had looked there, but I was wrong. A list similar to a
table of contents seems like exactly what I need. I'll reply to this
thread if I encounter any problems with it.
Thank you Aditya.
David
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2008-07-06 2:07 David
2008-07-06 3:27 ` Aditya Mahajan
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