From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Example only works in mkii
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:10:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2F5674AE-5FF2-484B-99C4-C5C6AD79F1B6@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F997988.6010603@gmail.com>
Am 26.04.2012 um 18:36 schrieb Bill Meahan:
>
> On 04/26/2012 11:11, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> Am 25.04.2012 um 23:20 schrieb Bill Meahan:
>>
>>> Hi, folks.
>>>
>>> I've tried running the example from the "descriptions" article on the wiki and it works fine if I use MkII via "texexec" but fails miserably if I use MlIV via "context." Outside of changing "location" to "alternative" in the \definedescription command parameters, what else do I need to change to make the example run with MkIV?
>> Which example doesn’t work?
>>
>> Wolfgang
>
> This one:
>
> \setupdescriptions[descr][
> headstyle=bold,style=normal,align=left,alternative=hanging,
> width=fit,margin=1cm]
>
> \definedescription[descr][
> headstyle=bold]
>
> \starttext
> \startdescr{Para}
> This is a shorter item label, and some text that talks about it.
> The text is wrapped into a paragraph, with successive lines indented.
>
> This is another paragraph under the "Para" item.
> \startdescr{Sub Item}
> This is a description of an item which is within the
> "Para" item.
> \stopdescr
> \startdescr{Sub Item}
> Another Sub Item
> \stopdescr
> \stopdescr
> \startdescr{Short with long title}
> A short item that's not part of that really long "Para" item.
> \stopdescr
>
> \stoptext
The example works for me but it’s bad style to use \setup… before you have created the command with \define…
You can also remove “align=left” because this will make the whole text right aligned, with MkII this isn’t a problem because the setting doesn’t work.
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-25 21:20 Bill Meahan
2012-04-26 15:11 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-04-26 16:36 ` Bill Meahan
2012-04-26 17:10 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2012-04-26 17:38 ` Bill Meahan
2012-04-26 18:50 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
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