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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Change the dots of the macro \periods[n]
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 20:02:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F9F9C1.4070203@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACyK-er-FPWYaaMFsc8014hRFV5ELzO=xzu_hRXDzEdT33mF6g@mail.gmail.com>

On 3/6/2015 6:42 PM, Fabrice Couvreur wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Is it possible to change the shape of the dots of macro \periods[n] to
> be like the dots of macro \definefiller[dots][left=\dontleavehmode,
> right=\hskip\ZeroPoint\par] ?

% in cont-new.mkiv :

\unprotect

\def\periodsymbol  {.}

\unexpanded\def\enco_periods[#1]%
   {\dontleavehmode
    \hbox\bgroup
    \enco_periods_indeed[#1,\periodsymbol,]}

\unexpanded\def\enco_periods_indeed[#1,#2,#3]%
   {\setbox\scratchbox\hbox to \periodswidth{\hss#2\hss}%
    \dorecurse{\iffirstargument#1\else\periodsdefault\fi}{\copy\scratchbox}%
    \egroup}

\protect

test:

\starttext
     \startlines
         x\periods x
         x\periods[10]x
         x\periods[10,{,}]x
         x\periods[10,{!}]x
     \stoplines
\stoptext


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-06 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-06 17:42 Fabrice Couvreur
2015-03-06 19:01 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-03-06 19:02 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2015-03-06 19:18   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-03-06 19:30     ` Hans Hagen
2015-03-07  8:48       ` Fabrice

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