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From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: block with different formatting per line?
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:29:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <634360E3-F58A-4E97-97B3-BBE5C6516ECD@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5111F284.70404@ingohohmann.de>


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Am 06.02.2013 um 07:04 schrieb Ingo Hohmann <context@ingohohmann.de>:

> 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}
> As I said that works, but while trying to understand this, I found that the documentation for \definelines doesn't mention the "command=" option. On the other hand it does mention "align=" and this doesn't work. Neither does \setuplines.
> 
> I always get "undefined control sequence".
> 
> \definelines[doFirstBoldRight][command=\myLine]
> \setupdoFirstBoldRight[align=flushleft]     

\setuplines[doFirstBoldRight][…]

> OR 
> 
> \definelines[doFirstBoldRight][align=flushleft,command=\myLine]
> 
> gives the same error.
> 
> Do you have any idea what I am doing wrong?

Make a complete example.

BTW: I suggest to use my Lua example from the other thread.

Wolfgang


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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-06 13:29 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
2013-02-06  6:04   ` Ingo Hohmann
2013-02-06 13:29     ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
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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