From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Thangalin <thangalin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Capitalize first word of first line within \startlines
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 09:46:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <74ce5c24-9947-f410-452a-1ad0680801fc@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAANrE7osh-68a4UEKm7NpGdQcDOWHma53TogOrr-FO2DTQyicw@mail.gmail.com>
On 3/5/2020 2:46 AM, Thangalin wrote:
> If it helps, here's why I thought it would work:
>
> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definefirstline
>
> The wiki page shows that the macro takes a style option. The style
> option links to:
>
> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Style_Alternatives
>
> This page has a list of predefined styles and describes how to set up
> an alternative style:
>
> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Style_Alternatives#Defining_a_Style_Alternative
>
> From the wiki page:
>
> \definealternativestyle [head:neat] [\WORD] []
>
> While \definealternativestyle[PoemFirstWord][{\bf\uppercasing}][] will
> work for my needs, I am concerned that it is inconsistent wrt wiki
> documentation, and also appears to expose an inconsistent API, as it
> were. Is there any way to make the two conform to the same usage? That
> is, it was not obvious (from the wiki) that I could not use "WORD" as
> an alternative style even though it is literally listed and used as an
> alternative style.
WORD is not a style but some operation on characters so it won't work
here (ok, i could probably make it work but it would be ugly code) .. it
happens that some operations can be uses as styles
Hans
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2020-03-04 16:09 Thangalin
2020-03-04 17:04 ` Hans Hagen
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2020-03-05 1:46 ` Thangalin
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