Re: Clean way of doing certain kind of outline?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 08:23 AM 3/8/01 -0800, you wrote:
>
>--- Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>> At 10:37 AM 3/7/01 -0800, James Ramsey wrote:
>>  
>> >Thanks. BTW, do you know if ConTeXt has either a
>> >built-in way or at least a not too klunky way of
>> doing
>> >an outline like:
>> >
>> >1.0 Foo
>> >    1.1 Foobar
>> >    1.2 Foobaz
>> >2.0 Misc
>> >    2.1 Miscellaneous
>> >    2.2 Miscreant
>> >        2.2.1 Fancy term for criminal
>> >        2.2.2 Sounds funny
>> >
>> >So far, the only way I can think of to do it is to
>> >define an elaborate macro to put in the argument to
>> >startitemize/stopitemize's "\sym" (which is why I
>> >asked how to do an optional argument).
>> 
>> Is this an automatically generated list (toc) or a
>> manually composed one
>> (in which case enumerations can handle it) ? 
>
>It's manual. How would enumerations be able to handle
>it? They can do the numbering, I know (at least four
>levels deep) but what about the indenting?

\defineenumeration[LikeThis][location=left,before=,after=,text=]

\setupenumerations[LikeThis]      [width=2em]
\setupenumerations[subLikeThis]   [width=3em,margin=2em]
\setupenumerations[subsubLikeThis][width=4em,margin=5em]

\startbuffer
\startLikeThis some text \stopLikeThis
\startsubLikeThis some more text \stopsubLikeThis
\startsubLikeThis some more text \stopsubLikeThis
\startsubLikeThis some more text \stopsubLikeThis
\startsubsubLikeThis some more text \stopsubLikeThis
\startsubsubLikeThis some more text \stopsubLikeThis
\startsubsubLikeThis some more text \stopsubLikeThis
\startsubLikeThis some more text \stopsubLikeThis
\startsubLikeThis some more text \stopsubLikeThis
\startsubLikeThis some more text \stopsubLikeThis
\stopbuffer

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Hans
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