itemize + fill-in lines, (fancy and normal) lines, statistics output object

itemize + fill-in lines, (fancy and normal) lines, statistics output object

[Tobias Burnus]

Hi,

how can I have vertical space before the `2.' item, but not before the second
internal/nested itemize?

Second: I know there is somewhere a \command to draw lines (in the hight of the
base line) with a certain length. {as substitution for \MinDauer}

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\def\MinDauer{\hfill\underbar{~~~~~} min}

\startitemize[n]
\item Welche Hilfsmittel waren zur Benutzung w\"ahrend der Klausur erlaubt?
     \startitemize[2,packed,joinedup]
     \item Taschenrechner
     \stopitemize
     {\em Sonstige Hilfmittel bitte in den Kommentaren erw\"ahnen.}
\item Wie lange war die Bearbeitungsdauer?\MinDauer
\stopitemize

\end
-------------------

Two things more:
I have a LaTeX `style' which takes seven arguments which is uses to print
something like this

+---+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+------+
| 1 |####### |  |  |  |  |      |
| 2 |############  |  |  | .O'  |   
| 3 |#####|  |  |  |  |  | 2.1  |  
| 4 |###  |  |  |  |  |  |      |
| 5 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |      |
| 0 |################ |  |      |
+---+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+------+

(Example available at: http://uuhome.de/tobias.burnus/test.dvi, 7212 bytes)

which is automatical and iteractively created.
(The tex file asks for userinput, which is done using the a `< pipe'.
Now I want to create something, which looks similar (or identical) in ConTeXt
(It may use MP but it shouldn't slow down too much, and yes it can be fancy).

Is it possible to created  something like a ``Englische Line'' (sorry I don't
know the English term); it is a line, which is thicker in the middle than on the
edges:

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Re: itemize + fill-in lines, (fancy and normal) lines, statistics output object

[Hans Hagen]

At 07:16 PM 1/6/2000 +0100, Tobias Burnus wrote:

>how can I have vertical space before the `2.' item, but not before the second
>internal/nested itemize?

I admit that this is not trivial, so I added it as an option, instead of
forcing you to fool around with settings. 

\startitemize[n,joinedup]
\item A nested one:
      \startitemize
      \item alpha
      \item beta
      \stopitemize
\item A second one.
\stopitemize

\startitemize[n,paragraph]
\item A nested one:
      \startitemize
      \item alpha
      \item beta
      \stopitemize
\item A second one.
\stopitemize

You have to pickup the beta (from the 'private' taskforce page, you can
also pickup an revision control archive). 

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Re: itemize + fill-in lines, (fancy and normal) lines, statistics output object

[Hans Hagen]

>Second: I know there is somewhere a \command to draw lines (in the hight
of the
>base line) with a certain length. {as substitution for \MinDauer}

take a look in core-rul.tex  

>Is it possible to created  something like a ``Englische Line'' (sorry I don't
>know the English term); it is a line, which is thicker in the middle than
on the
>edges:
>
>                    ---------------
>------------========---------------========------------
>                    ---------------

I suppose you're joking? So, let's make it into a small lesson on MP
integration. Pretty efficient btw, if you use pdftex. 

% interface=en output=pdftex

\def\EnglishHRule%
  {\setlocalhsize
   \startreusableMPgraphic{EnglishLine:\the\localhsize}
     height = \the\linewidth ;
     x1 = 0 ; x3 = \the\localhsize ; x2 = x4 = .5x3 ;
     y1 = y3 = 0 ; y2 = -y4 = 2.5height ;
     pickup pencircle scaled height ;
     fill z1..z2..z3 & z3..z4..z1 & cycle ;
   \stopreusableMPgraphic
   \noindent\reuseMPgraphic{EnglishLine:\the\localhsize}}

\def\EnglishRule%
  {\startlinecorrection
   \EnglishHRule
   \stoplinecorrection}

\starttext

This kind of fancy stuff is not that hard to do in \CONTEXT,
given that you know a bit about \METAPOST\ support.

\EnglishRule

Why is this called an english line?

\startnarrower
  \EnglishRule
   Is it because they cannot draw a straight one? \par
  \EnglishRule
\stopnarrower

Then, how do germans draw a line?

\EnglishRule

\stoptext

Anyhow, it makes a nice example for the manual. I can package such things
in a mp archive file. 

Hans

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