Re: Capitalization of synonyms

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:02 PM 5/30/01 GMT, Peter Jander wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am using quite a number of abbreviations with the synonym  mechanism in
>my text. It would sometimes be useful to capitalize  the first letter of
>the first word of the meaning e.g. to use it at the  start of a sentence.
>That is to get 
>
>Just some text
>
>in the sample below. But use of \Cap or \Word or any of these  gives an
error. 

>\definesynonyms[abbreviation][abbreviations][\infull]
>\abbreviation{sometext}{just some text}
>\starttext
>\infull{sometext}
>
>\Word{\infull{sometext}}
>\stoptext

First, patch this in cont-new.tex [after \unprotect]

\def\processsynonym#1#2#3%
  {\begingroup  % anders in mathmode lege \hbox, zie eenheden
   \ifsynonymmeaning
     \synonymmeaningfalse % moved outside {#3} to accept \Word etc 
     \doattributes{\??sm#1}\c!synoniemletter\c!synoniemkleur{#3}%
   \else
     \explicithmode
     \doattributes{\??sm#1}\c!tekstletter\c!tekstkleur{#2}%
   \fi
   \endgroup}

\setupsynonyms[abbreviation][synonymstyle=\Word]

Hans
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