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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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  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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