defineselector

defineselector

[Alan Braslau]

Hi,

One can select between short and long figure captions
(for an index of figures and the figure display itself, respectively)
using a selector. The syntax is:


\defineselector [caption] [max=2,n=2] % alternate {short}{long} captions

\starttext

\placefigure [here] [fig:reference]
	{\select{caption}
		{short caption}
		{long caption: bla, bla, bla.}
	}
	{\externalfigure [myfigure]}

...


\startchapter [title={Figure index}]
 \setupselector [caption] [n=1]
 \placelistoffigures [criterium=all]
\stopchapter

\stoptext




I find "\select{caption}" to be awkward
as the label caption is not typeset
(the convention of text between {}).

Should not the syntax be rather "\select[caption]{short}{long}"
or else "\selectcaption{short}{long}"?

What do the experts think?

Alan
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Re: defineselector

[Hans Hagen]

On 7-11-2011 16:32, Alan Braslau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One can select between short and long figure captions
> (for an index of figures and the figure display itself, respectively)
> using a selector. The syntax is:
>
>
> \defineselector [caption] [max=2,n=2] % alternate {short}{long} captions
>
> \starttext
>
> \placefigure [here] [fig:reference]
> 	{\select{caption}
> 		{short caption}
> 		{long caption: bla, bla, bla.}
> 	}
> 	{\externalfigure [myfigure]}
>
> ....
>
>
> \startchapter [title={Figure index}]
>   \setupselector [caption] [n=1]
>   \placelistoffigures [criterium=all]
> \stopchapter
>
> \stoptext
>
>
>
>
> I find "\select{caption}" to be awkward
> as the label caption is not typeset
> (the convention of text between {}).
>
> Should not the syntax be rather "\select[caption]{short}{long}"
> or else "\selectcaption{short}{long}"?
>
> What do the experts think?

this one had to think a while to recognize the mkii selector mechanism

in mkiv we do

\starttext

\startplacefigure[location=here,reference=fig:reference,title={lots of 
bla},list={less bla}]
     \externalfigure [myfigure]
\stopplacefigure

\startchapter [title={Figure index}]
   \placelistoffigures [criterium=all]
\stopchapter

\stoptext

but i saw that i don't pass the list entry ... will be in the next beta

Hans


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