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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Highlight current chapter in list
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:03:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <509D3770.20807@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF=dkzxTw-qLUHgMus4sYXo2=L31m92MT0CWOs8=5NN3oSuYsg@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/9/2012 5:53 PM, Sietse Brouwer wrote:
> Hans wrote:
>> the next beta has: \namedstructureheadlocation{name}
>> so that you can compare
>>    \currentlistentrylocation
>> with
>>    \namedstructureheadlocation{chapter}
>> (todo: also store locations elsewhere?)
>> Best document this before we forget about it.
>
> Is this a good description of the command's behavior?
>
> All structure heads, regardless of level, get a location number in the
> order in which they appear. Like so (see also MWE at bottom of this
> e-mail):
>
> \section{Alpha}
>      % location number: 1; type: section; section number: 1
> \section{Beta}
>      % location number: 2; type: section; section number: 2
> \subsection{Aap}
>      % location number: 3; type: subsection; subsection number: 1
> \subsection{Noot}
>      % location number: 4; type: subsection; subsection number: 2
> \section{Gamma}
>      % location number: 5; type: section; section number: 3
>
> \namedstructureheadlocation{X} then returns the location number of the
> current X, where X is the name of a structure level (e.g. 'chapter',
> 'section', etc.)
>
> If you ask for e.g. \namedstructureheadlocation{chapter}, and you are
> not in a chapter, then 0 is returned.
>
> Anything missing?

a location number is some kind of unique internal reference, a pretty 
old feature btw, dating from the early days of context, when complex 
interactivity was added, but it comes in handy here

Hans


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-09 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-07 23:29 Marco Patzer
2012-11-08  8:44 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-11-08 10:06   ` Marco Patzer
2012-11-08 11:06     ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-08 11:15       ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-08 11:42         ` Marco Patzer
2012-11-08 17:32           ` Marco Patzer
2012-11-08 18:18             ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-09 16:53         ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-11-09 17:03           ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-11-08 21:37   ` Marco Patzer
2012-11-08 21:45     ` Marco Patzer
2012-11-08 21:48     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-11-08 22:16       ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-09  0:43         ` Tikz backgrounds (was Re: Highlight current chapter in list) Aditya Mahajan
2012-11-09  9:17           ` Hans Hagen

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