narrower

narrower

[frantisek holop]

hi there,

i am trying to make a document in the form of a movie script

			ACTOR
	hi there

			ACTRESS
	and hi over there



i thought this would work nicely:

\startnarrower
\midaligned{\sc actor}
hi there
\stopnarrower

but the default narrowness is not good for me.
but setupnarrower doesn't seem to work for me.
here's a minimal example:

\setupnarrower          [left=3cm, right=3cm]

\starttext
not narrower
\startnarrower
this is narrower
\stopnarrower
\stoptext


also, i put the actor line inside the narrower to get rid of
the whitespace between \midaligned and \startnarrower, is there
a better way?

-f
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Re: narrower

[Taco Hoekwater]

frantisek holop wrote:
> 
> but the default narrowness is not good for me.
> but setupnarrower doesn't seem to work for me.
> here's a minimal example:
> 
> 

The use of narrower is a bit abnormal. Either use:

   \setupnarrower[left=3cm, right=3cm]
   \startnarrower[left,right]

or

   \setupnarrower[middle=3cm]
   \startnarrower % [middle] is default

Cheers, taco

Re: narrower

[frantisek holop]

hmm, on Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:45:32AM +0200, Taco Hoekwater said that
> The use of narrower is a bit abnormal. Either use:
> 
>    \setupnarrower[left=3cm, right=3cm]
>    \startnarrower[left,right]
> 
> or
> 
>    \setupnarrower[middle=3cm]
>    \startnarrower % [middle] is default

thanks a lot.

is there a reason this was solved "abnormally"?
are there plans to make this more context-ish?

or is it confusing only for me?

-f
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saint: a dead sinner revised and edited.

Re: narrower

[Taco Hoekwater]

frantisek holop wrote:
> thanks a lot.
> 
> is there a reason this was solved "abnormally"?

\startnarrower (\startsmaller in dutch) is one of the oldest
commands in ConTeXt. It predates the now-normal conventions
by a few years.

> are there plans to make this more context-ish?

Don't expect any changes to \startnarrower. But perhaps
a more predictable alternative could be added.

Cheers, Taco