Descriptions ... I wish I understood them

Descriptions ... I wish I understood them

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hello,

I have some weird problems with descriptions, but let's start at the
beginning. (I have more problems with understanding how they work, but
more about the rest later.)

1.) How do I get some space between "title" and "abc"? (I currently
put the space there manually.) If I set distance=1em, weird things
start happening.

2.) What exactly does "hang=1" do? I have no idea what it does there,
but that was the only way to get the desired result, else everything
gets indented. width=fit makes problems. With width=5cm everything is
OK.

\definedescription
	[ma]
	[headstyle=bold,
	 style=italic,
	 align=left,
	 location=left,
	 width=fit,
	 distance=0pt,
	 margin=0pt,
	 hang=1,
	 indenting=never,
	]
\starttext

\input tufte

\startma{title} abc. \input tufte
\stopma

\input tufte

\stoptext

Thanks a lot,
    Mojca
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Re: Descriptions ... I wish I understood them

[Otared Kavian]

On 24 sept. 08, at 20:45, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have some weird problems with descriptions, but let's start at the
> beginning. (I have more problems with understanding how they work, but
> more about the rest later.)
>
> 1.) How do I get some space between "title" and "abc"? (I currently
> put the space there manually.) If I set distance=1em, weird things
> start happening.


Hi Mojca,

I wish too…
At some point some years ago, I used descriptions such as yours and  
the only way
I could solve the problem of your "abc" too clsoe to "title" was to  
put an empty {}:

\definedescription
	[ma]
	[headstyle=bold,
	 style=italic,
	 align=left,
	 location=left,
	 width=fit,
	 distance=0pt,
	 margin=0pt,
	 hang=2,
	 indenting=never]
\starttext

\input tufte

\startma[Thm]{Conjecture 1}{} abc. \input knuth
\stopma

\input tufte
\blank

As mentioned in \in {}[Thm], we can show that\dots
\stoptext


>
> 2.) What exactly does "hang=1" do? I have no idea what it does there,
> but that was the only way to get the desired result, else everything
> gets indented. width=fit makes problems. With width=5cm everything is
> OK.
>

the "hang" parameter is the number of lines which are hang-indenting  
after the beginning of the description;
however  "hang=0" means that all the description is hang-indenting.

Best regards: OK


> \definedescription
> 	[ma]
> 	[headstyle=bold,
> 	 style=italic,
> 	 align=left,
> 	 location=left,
> 	 width=fit,
> 	 distance=0pt,
> 	 margin=0pt,
> 	 hang=1,
> 	 indenting=never,
> 	]
> \starttext
>
> \input tufte
>
> \startma{title} abc. \input tufte
> \stopma
>
> \input tufte
>
> \stoptext
>
> Thanks a lot,
>    Mojca
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Re: Descriptions ... I wish I understood them

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 24.09.2008 um 20:45 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:

> Hello,
>
> I have some weird problems with descriptions, but let's start at the
> beginning. (I have more problems with understanding how they work, but
> more about the rest later.)
>
> 1.) How do I get some space between "title" and "abc"? (I currently
> put the space there manually.) If I set distance=1em, weird things
> start happening.

width=broad

See my second example (thanks to your example I was able to solve the  
first).

http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080130.152108.77e74a14.en.html

> 2.) What exactly does "hang=1" do? I have no idea what it does there,
> but that was the only way to get the desired result, else everything
> gets indented. width=fit makes problems. With width=5cm everything is
> OK.

http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/www-rz/schwanbs/TeX/ -> page 39

> \definedescription
> 	[ma]
> 	[headstyle=bold,
> 	 style=italic,
> 	 align=left,
> 	 location=left,
> 	 width=fit,
> 	 distance=0pt,
> 	 margin=0pt,
> 	 hang=1,
> 	 indenting=never,
> 	]

\definedescription
   [pa]
   [headstyle=bold,
    style=italic,
    location=left,
    width=broad,
    hang=1]

> \starttext
>
> \input tufte
>
> \startma{title} abc. \input tufte
> \stopma

\pa{title} abc. \input tufte\par

> \input tufte
>
> \stoptext

Regards,
Wolfgang

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