From: Ingo Hohmann <context@ingohohmann.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: block with different formatting per line?
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:16:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <510FD0CE.200@ingohohmann.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1E5A50C784A8AD44B420EF5A1E9B2806C82321D2@e14mbx23n.Enterprise.emory.net>
On 02/03/2013 04:56 AM, Rogers, Michael K wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2013, at 6:16 PM, Ingo Hohmann <context@ingohohmann.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> is it possible to define a block, where lines are automatically formatted differently?
>> For example:
>> first line in caps,
>> second in bold,
>> others normal.
>>
>> Is this possible? And how?
> If you mean input lines, then yes. But if you mean output lines, then I don't know. It seems a well-defined task, but a hard task judging by how the line-breaking algorithm is described by Knuth. I'll leave that question to experts.
>
> Here's a way to process the input lines. If there's a counter that counts the line number, there would be another way; but I couldn't find out that there was a counter. There may be better ways anyway.
>
> \define\FirstLine{\let\myLine\SecondLine\sc}
> \define\SecondLine{\let\myLine\OtherLine\bf}
> \define\OtherLine{\tf}
> \definelines[doMyLines][command=\myLine]
> \def\startMyLines{\let\myLine\FirstLine\startdoMyLines}
> \def\stopMyLines{\stopdoMyLines}
>
Yes, that's exactly what I meant, and you even answered my next
question, too.
Thank you!
Ingo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-04 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-01 23:16 Ingo Hohmann
2013-02-03 3:56 ` Rogers, Michael K
2013-02-04 15:16 ` Ingo Hohmann [this message]
2013-02-06 6:04 ` Ingo Hohmann
2013-02-06 13:29 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-02-06 15:00 ` Ingo Hohmann
2013-02-07 4:32 ` Rogers, Michael K
2013-02-06 19:21 ` Bill Meahan
2013-02-06 19:43 ` Paragraph formatting (was: block with different formatting per line?) Wolfgang Schuster
2013-02-06 19:45 ` block with different formatting per line? Aditya Mahajan
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