From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2913 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: LaTeX to ConTeXt: epigraphs Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 22:23:03 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001007222303.008ce3f0@pop.wxs.nl> References: <002101c0306f$616e5e20$685a0e97@nuovo> <39DF476A.3E6DE8E7@pobox.com> <39DF5385.974B223A@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393688 12812 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:21:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:21:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tobias Burnus , NTG-ConTeXt Original-To: Berend de Boer In-Reply-To: <39DF79C6.275C461C@pobox.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2913 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2913 At 09:30 PM 10/7/00 +0200, Berend de Boer wrote: >Tobias Burnus wrote: > >> epigraph A package for typesetting epigraphs. >> Epigraphs are the pithy quotations often found at the start (or end) >> of a chapter. Both single epigraphs and lists of epigraphs are >> catered >> for. > >Not supported therefore. A context version would be nice (perhaps by >making this package not dependent on latex but only on tex??) This looks rather trivial to implement. So, what is needed is a mechanism to typeset those 'quotes from famous books probably not read by the author but derived from one of those 10K famous quotes books' -) \startepigraph [tag] [author={Hans Hagen},note=2000} The fact that some installation programs ask you if you want to install the help info as {\em compiled html} or {\em pure html} makes me wonder if a next version of those programs will be distributed as pure c++ code. \stopepigraph \placeepigraph[tag] \setupepigraph[...] Now, what are the degrees of freedom needed? Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------