From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Cloze Text (text with gaps)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 20:23:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47459C5E-209A-451D-9F32-2C04BFAF50F2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+9XOxrEZrkgVaMhhwJ0uyBFXgy059WPqhA=gs8QN7MTC4sp+w@mail.gmail.com>
Am 24.06.2013 um 16:36 schrieb Christian Prim <christian.prim@gmx.ch>:
> Hi list
>
> I wonder if I can typeset a cloze text using context. The gaps (__________) must have a given length (say in cm or the length of a given word, given sentence) and must break at the end of a line.
>
> \hl[4] is nice but won't do the trick since it won't break. \fillinline and others fill the hole line, but I only want to fill a given size.
>
> Are there some ideas how to deal with it?
\def\TextGap[#1]%
{\scratchdimen#1\relax
\divide\scratchdimen\plusten
\dorecurse\plusten
{\vrule width \scratchdimen height \linewidth\relax
\ifnum\recurselevel<10 \hskip\zeropoint\relax \fi}}
\starttext
a \TextGap[4cm] b \TextGap[4cm] c \TextGap[4cm] d \TextGap[4cm] e
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-27 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-24 14:36 Christian Prim
2013-06-27 4:31 ` David Rogers
2013-06-27 7:16 ` Christian Prim
2013-06-27 18:23 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2013-06-27 18:53 ` Jaroslav Hajtmar
2013-06-27 19:02 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-06-28 7:06 ` Christian Prim
2013-06-28 7:36 ` Jaroslav Hajtmar
2013-06-28 12:35 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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