Re: styling individual parts of ToC entry

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>]

jbf schrieb am 07.09.2020 um 01:31:
>
> Yes, Wolfgang, that corrects the minor problem of including the author 
> name correctly, even when there is no year range. Thank you.
>
> But since I use \title, not \chapter, for the frontmatter items, ( 
> Foreword, Preface, A note on Contributors), the ChapterListCommand 
> clearly does not apply, so currently my ToC looks as follows (leaving 
> out the pg numbers which correctly align right):
>
>
>                      Foreword
>                      A. Uthor
>                             Preface
>                      A. Uthor
>                              A note on contributors
> Chapter One        Year range
>                     A. Uthor
>
> What I want is for 'Foreword', 'Preface' and 'A note on Contributors' 
> to align flushleft with Chapter One, but with author names still where 
> they should be (Foreword and Preface have authors, 'A note...' does 
> not have an author).
>
> So I tried creating a TitleListCommand which copies the 
> ChapterListCommand. But where I run into difficulties then is with a 
> new lot of \setuplist to accommodate that. There are three different 
> labels involved (Foreword, Preface, and A note on Contributors).
>
> And why is it that even with the current setup, 'Foreword' has aligned 
> with author name, not with 'Preface' and 'A note...'? All three are 
> \title, after all.
>
> All in all this is a most complicated ToC! What I need is for the ToC 
> to look like I show it below, and you will note the additional 
> complication of Chapter Two which does not have an author, but instead 
> it is the SECTIONS in the Chapter that have authors!
>
> I'm sure if I can get on top of all this somehow, no future ToC is 
> ever going to cause me problems! The body of the book is all looking 
> good, all 300 pages of it. It is just the automatically produced ToC 
> that is causing the headaches.
>
> Foreword                    A. Uthor			pg no.
> Preface                     A. Uthor			"
> A note on Contributors                                  "
> Chapter One                 Chapter Title
>                              A. Uthor                    "
> Chapter Two                 Chapter title
> A section                   Context
>                              A. Uthor                    "
> Another section             Reflection
>                              A. Author                   "
>
> So what I have below as an MWE is fundamentally what you gave me (I 
> have left out the correctly working ChapterListCommand), altered for 
> \title, but I haven't got the setups below correct because I don't 
> know how to do it. I have replaced unknowns with a question mark!
>
> And at the moment I have nothing for the 'sections' with authors I 
> need for Chapter Two. I assume I would set up a third definition 
> called \SectionListCommand. Sections will have different labels too - 
> one will be called 'Context', the other 'Reflection'.
>
> \define[3]\TitleListCommand
>   {\hbox\bgroup
>      \hbox to 3cm{\currentlistsymbol\hss}% number + labeltext
>      \vtop\bgroup
>        \hsize\dimexpr\makeupwidth-3cm\relax
>        \doifsomething{\rawstructurelistuservariable{year}}
>          {{\it\structurelistuservariable{year}}\crlf}%
>        \currentlistentrytitle % title
>        \doifsomething{\rawstructurelistuservariable{author}}
>          {\crlf{\structurelistuservariable{author}}}%
>        \hfill\currentlistentrypagenumber % pagenumber
>      \egroup
>    \egroup}
>
> \setuplist
>   [chapter]
>   [label=chapter,
>   alternative=command,
>    command=\ChapterListCommand]
>
> \setuplist
>   [title]
>   [label=?,
>   alternative=command,
>    command=\TitleListCommand]
>
> \setuplabeltext
>   [en]
>   [chapter={\bf Chapter }]
>
> \setuplabeltext
>   [en]
>   [title={\bf ? }] %There needs to be three different labels

You need extra headings for the forward and preface

     \definehead [forward] [chapter]
     \definehead [preface] [chapter]

to have full control about their layout.

I can provide you a solution for your problems but you have to create a 
complete minimal example (including forward and preface titles) first.

Wolfgang

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