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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: setupsynonym: 2 questions on width
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 01:05:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA80559-A8AB-49F1-984C-6BCF566C43C2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bc3554890903040934j1052a93bjfea26b87d1d25d04@mail.gmail.com>


Am 04.03.2009 um 18:34 schrieb Michael Bynum:

> 1.)  I have a list of synonyms that I need to print in an aligned
> list.  Is there a way to align the synonym definitions with the
> longest synonym entry (width=? option maybe)?  Here is a small example
> where the entries do not align.
>
> \definesynonyms[nomenclature][nomenclatures][\infull]
> \setupsynonyms[nomenclature][criterium=all,width=broad]
>
> \nomenclature[a]{a}{This is the letter a}
> \nomenclature[b]{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz}{This is the alphabet}
> \nomenclature[c]{c}{This is the letter c}

\def\setwidthof#1\to#2%
   {\bgroup
    \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{#1}%
    \expanded{\egroup\def\noexpand#2{\the\wd\scratchbox}}}

\setwidthof{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz}\to\nomenclaturewidth

\setupsynonyms[nomenclature][width=\nomenclaturewidth]

Wolfgang

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-05  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-04 17:34 Michael Bynum
2009-03-05  0:05 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2009-03-05 15:19   ` Michael Bynum

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