Topic{} in s-pre-14 module

Topic{} in s-pre-14 module

[Allin Cottrell]

I like this module, but would like to make a modification.  On the
right-hand panel appears a list of topics in the presentation, each
one a link to the appropriate section.  That's fine.  But rather than
have the text for the link be a truncated version of the \Topic{}
text, I'd like to make it a chosen short string.

E.g. I have "\Topic{David Ricardo (1772--1823)".  At present the link
shows up as "David..." which is not what I want.  I'd like to be able
to write "\Topic[Ricardo]{David Ricardo (1772--1823)" and have the
link show up as "Ricardo".  Any pointers on how this might be done?
Thanks.

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC

Re: Topic{} in s-pre-14 module

[Allin Cottrell]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> E.g. I have "\Topic{David Ricardo (1772--1823)".  At present the link
> shows up as "David..." which is not what I want.  I'd like to be able
> to write "\Topic[Ricardo]{David Ricardo (1772--1823)" and have the
> link show up as "Ricardo".  Any pointers on how this might be done?

Sorry to follow up on my own question, but I now see that the \nolist
command looks useful:

\Topic{\nolist{David }Ricardo\nolist{ (1772-1823)}}

almost does what I want, except that I get "...Ricardo..." and I don't
want the dots.

Allin Cottrell.

Re[2]: Topic{} in s-pre-14 module

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Friday, August 10, 2001 Allin Cottrell wrote:

AC> On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Allin Cottrell wrote:

>> E.g. I have "\Topic{David Ricardo (1772--1823)".  At present the link
>> shows up as "David..." which is not what I want.  I'd like to be able
>> to write "\Topic[Ricardo]{David Ricardo (1772--1823)" and have the
>> link show up as "Ricardo".  Any pointers on how this might be done?

AC> Sorry to follow up on my own question, but I now see that the \nolist
AC> command looks useful:

AC> \Topic{\nolist{David }Ricardo\nolist{ (1772-1823)}}

AC> almost does what I want, except that I get "...Ricardo..." and I don't
AC> want the dots.

I add myself to those who would like to have the equivalent of
LaTeX's

\sectioningcommand[short name]{Full name}

in ConTeXt. It's important to have it also because there are cases
in which you cannot just "strip off" (with \nolist) parts of the
full name to get the short name.

Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Re[2]: Topic{} in s-pre-14 module

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:12 AM 8/11/2001 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>Friday, August 10, 2001 Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
>AC> On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
> >> E.g. I have "\Topic{David Ricardo (1772--1823)".  At present the link
> >> shows up as "David..." which is not what I want.  I'd like to be able
> >> to write "\Topic[Ricardo]{David Ricardo (1772--1823)" and have the
> >> link show up as "Ricardo".  Any pointers on how this might be done?
>
>AC> Sorry to follow up on my own question, but I now see that the \nolist
>AC> command looks useful:
>
>AC> \Topic{\nolist{David }Ricardo\nolist{ (1772-1823)}}
>
>AC> almost does what I want, except that I get "...Ricardo..." and I don't
>AC> want the dots.
>
>I add myself to those who would like to have the equivalent of
>LaTeX's
>
>\sectioningcommand[short name]{Full name}

see other mail;

it would never be [short name] but {} and alas, that's taken by the own 
number, so either i package that into the main arg, or I hack something 
like bookmarks, or 1/2/3 optional {}'s

I'll think about it. [must be clean since i don't want a spacing screw up 
due to write nodes]

Hans
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Re: Topic{} in s-pre-14 module

[Hans Hagen]

At 12:30 PM 8/10/2001 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
> > E.g. I have "\Topic{David Ricardo (1772--1823)".  At present the link
> > shows up as "David..." which is not what I want.  I'd like to be able
> > to write "\Topic[Ricardo]{David Ricardo (1772--1823)" and have the
> > link show up as "Ricardo".  Any pointers on how this might be done?
>
>Sorry to follow up on my own question, but I now see that the \nolist
>command looks useful:
>
>\Topic{\nolist{David }Ricardo\nolist{ (1772-1823)}}
>
>almost does what I want, except that I get "...Ricardo..." and I don't
>want the dots.

just say

\setuplist[Topic][maxwidth=] % or 10cm or so

Hans

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Re: Topic{} in s-pre-14 module

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:23 AM 8/10/2001 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>\Topic{David Ricardo (1772--1823)

There are a couple of ways [beware of spacing screw up]

\setuphead[Topic][incrementnumber=no]

\Topic{David Ricardo (1772--1823)}

\writetolist[Topic]{}{Whow}

so, now the Topic command will not write to the list but you can. You can 
package this as:

\def\MyTopic#1#2%
   {\Topic{#2}\writetolist[Topic]{}{#1}}

\MyTopic{David}{David Ricardo (1772--1823)}

A prelude to a more general mechanism is the following [i seem to have lost 
some code]

\let\Them\secondoftwoarguments

\setuplist[Topic][textcommand=\let\Them\firstoftwoarguments]

\starttext

\Topic{\Them{Ricardo}{David Ricardo (1772--1823)}}

\stoptext

which is a space safe operation.

Hans
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Re: Topic{} in s-pre-14 module

[Allin Cottrell]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Hans Hagen wrote:

> \def\MyTopic#1#2%
>    {\Topic{#2}\writetolist[Topic]{}{#1}}

Thanks -- that did it nicely.

Allin Cottrell.