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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: David Antos <xantos@informatics.muni.cz>, ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: defining a subtitle?
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:48:29 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020911224324.029d5d80@remote-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28DF8CF1-C4C4-11D6-9BDF-0050E4258255@muohio.edu>

At 09:49 AM 9/10/2002 -0400, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

>On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 04:24 AM, David Antos wrote:
>
>>On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 11:37:40PM -0400, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
>>>
>>>Can someone please tell me how I ought to define a subtitle command?
>>>If I do this...
>>>
>>>\def\subtitle{\switchtobodyfont[14pt,ss]\it}
>>>
>>>and then invoke it with \subtitle{A Subtitle}
>>>
>>>...I get all subsequent text with the font I've switched to...
>>
>>\def\subtitle#1{{\switchtobodyfont[14pt,ss] #1}}
>>
>>Think about \def that it eats the {}, the {} after \def just tell what
>>the definition is. You must also pass the argument of the macro to the
>>``inner'' group.
>
>Thank you!  And what if I want to first define the command "subtitle" so 
>that I can then use \setuphead{subtitle}.  Is that the better 
>approach?  And if yes, how do I do that?

\definehead[subtitle][subject]  % subject being a head lower than title

\setuphead[subtitle][style={\switchtobodyfont[14pt,ss]\it}]

[this also give you better breaking etc]

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-11 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-10  3:37 Bruce D'Arcus
2002-09-10  8:24 ` David Antos
2002-09-10 13:49   ` Bruce D'Arcus
2002-09-11 17:18     ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2002-09-12 11:36       ` John Culleton
2002-09-12 17:14         ` Henning Hraban Ramm

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