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

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

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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