Re: mkiv versus mkii: whitespace issues

[Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>]

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Sorry to ask again, but is there no solution?

G

On 16 Mar 2015, at 15:03, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl> wrote:

> 
> On 15 Mar 2015, at 23:24, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> Am 14.03.2015 um 15:54 schrieb Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>:
>>> 
>>> I am running into two issues with my mkii-to-mkiv conversion project
>>> 
>>> - The \chapter command in mkiv uses more whitespace between the header and the first paragraph. How can I influence this?
>> 
>> The different space before the \chapter is caused by the “fixed” keyword for \blank
>> which produce different result with MkII and MkIV and the MkIV behaviour need
>> to be corrected.
>> 
>> The space after \chapter comes from your \writetolist entry and you can correct
>> this with the \GotoPar command at the end of the entry as shown below.
>> 
>> %%%% begin example
>> \showgrid
>> 
>> \setuphead[chapter][before={\blank[force,2*line]}]
>> 
>> \starttext
>> 
>> \chapter{Knuth}
>> 
>> \writetolist[chapter]{}{}\GotoPar
>> 
>> \input knuth
>> 
>> \stoptext
>> %%%% end example
> 
> Thanks. I tried this
> 
> % Every chapter starts with a quote on the LHS page:
> \setuphead
>   [chapter]
>   [page=,
>    before={\setups[chapter:before]},
>    after={\setups[chapter:after]}]
> 
> \startsetups chapter:before
>     \page[left]
>     \noheaderandfooterlines
>     \startalignment[left,nothyphenated]
> 	\startnarrower[4*left]
>             \em \getbuffer[chapter:quote]
> 	\stopnarrower
>     \stopalignment
>     \resetsetups[quote:text]
>     \page[right]
>     \noheaderandfooterlines
>     \blank[force,2*big]
> \stopsetups
> 
> \startsetups chapter:after
>     \blank[3*big]
> \stopsetups
> 
> \definelist[chaptertext]
> \setuplist[chaptertext][margin=1.3em,pagecommand=\gobbleoneargument]
> \define[1]\ChapterAbstract{\writetolist[chaptertext]{}{\start\itx#1\stop}\GotoPar}
> 
> 
> (Adding the \GotoPar at the end) but it did not had any effect. At one place (no chapter but an unnumbered title, it doesn’t work as well. Here I now have:
> 
> \title[h:grief1]{Intermezzo:\\
> A short story about grief}
> \writetolist[chapter]{}{Intermezzo: A Short Story about Grief}\GotoPar
> \ChapterAbstract{A small fragment of a movie script that beautifully
> illustrates the gap between the rational and the real.}
> 
> I changed it to 
> \title[h:grief1]{Intermezzo:\\
> A short story about grief}
> \writetolist[chapter]{}{Intermezzo: A Short Story about Grief}\GotoPar
> \ChapterAbstract{A small fragment of a movie script that beautifully
> illustrates the gap between the rational and the real.}\GotoPar
> 
> And that works. So I changed it in another chapter to
> 
> \chapter[h:loosely]{Prologue:\\Loosely Coupled Spaghetti}
> \ChapterAbstract{Starting with an example of how things can go wrong in a
> current Business-IT landscape, we notice that these kinds of problems have
> existed almost for as long as IT has existed, and that no proposed `silver
> bullet' has ever solved them. The goal of the book is introduced.}\GotoPar
> 
> \placeinitial S{\kap{\bf uppose we}} have a system for the approval of loans. The
> business logic has been put into a Business Rule Engine (BRE)
> system\footnote{If you are not technical and terms like `application server',
> 
> But there it doesn’t. Apparently, I am still missing something. 
> 
> G
> 
> 
>> 
>> Wolfgang
>> 
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