From: John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: all about \about
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:31:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807221631.55047.john@wexfordpress.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0807221609340.8879@nqv-yncgbc>
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 04:12:48 pm Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, John Culleton wrote:
> > The \about cross reference command woks ok if I use
> > \about[aa]
> >
> > It delivers the title (or part of it in this case) of the section
> > marked aa.
> >
> > but when I try to give it some text it blows up on the text,
> > e.g., \about{foo}[aa]
> >
> > So what if anything goes between the { and the }? What purpose do
> > they serve?
>
> \about does not support \about{...}[...] kind of references like
> \in or \at. Does some documentation say that this is supported?
> This is what core-ref.tex says
>
> \definecommand about {\dospecialabout}
> ...
> \unexpanded\def\dospecialabout[#1]%
> {...}
>
>
> This explains the error message that you get when you try
> \about{foo}[aa].
>
> What do you want to achieve with \about{foo}[aa]? There may be some
> other way to do that.
On page 167 of the Cont-en manual \about is defined as:
\about{...}[ref]
. . . text
But you are right, if I want to change the text anyhow I can just
ignore \about and put in the text I want. What I was trying to do was
silly.
Page 167 has been suitably defaced so I won't try that stupid trick
again.
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John Culleton
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2008-07-22 19:50 John Culleton
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