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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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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-04 16:09 Thangalin
2020-03-04 17:04 ` Hans Hagen
     [not found] ` <2d3e75b2-f5eb-91f4-85a6-f71c43861958@xs4all.nl>
     [not found]   ` <df1a45f0-3a44-b09f-0538-bb985a851648@gmail.com>
2020-03-05  1:46     ` Thangalin
2020-03-05  8:46       ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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