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From: "Bruce D'Arcus" <darcusb@muohio.edu>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: defining a subtitle?
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 09:49:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <28DF8CF1-C4C4-11D6-9BDF-0050E4258255@muohio.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020910102418.A7033689@aisa.fi.muni.cz>

On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 04:24 AM, David Antos wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 11:37:40PM -0400, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>>
>> Can someone please tell me how I ought to define a subtitle command?
>> If I do this...
>>
>> \def\subtitle{\switchtobodyfont[14pt,ss]\it}
>>
>> and then invoke it with \subtitle{A Subtitle}
>>
>> ...I get all subsequent text with the font I've switched to...
>
> \def\subtitle#1{{\switchtobodyfont[14pt,ss] #1}}
>
> Think about \def that it eats the {}, the {} after \def just tell what
> the definition is. You must also pass the argument of the macro to the
> ``inner'' group.
>

Thank you!  And what if I want to first define the command "subtitle" 
so that I can then use \setuphead{subtitle}.  Is that the better 
approach?  And if yes, how do I do that?

Bruce


  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-10 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-10  3:37 Bruce D'Arcus
2002-09-10  8:24 ` David Antos
2002-09-10 13:49   ` Bruce D'Arcus [this message]
2002-09-11 17:18     ` Hans Hagen
2002-09-12 11:36       ` John Culleton
2002-09-12 17:14         ` Henning Hraban Ramm

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