* Outlines in ConTeXt?
@ 2001-11-20 12:38 Giuseppe Bilotta
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From: Giuseppe Bilotta @ 2001-11-20 12:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hello,
Yet Another Dirty Question: my next requirement is "outlines". I
really don't know if such a thing is possible in ConTeXt (or in
TeX) though.
By outline I mean a text (usually a list) which contains subtext
that can be expanded and contracted:
1. item one
2. item two
3. item three
||
||
\/
1. item one
This is item one expanded
2. item two
This is item two expanded
3. item three
This is item three expanded
When I ask for outlines in ConTeXt of course I ask for
*interactive* outlines: you click on one item, and the expansion
show; you click again on it, and they roll up again. Something
like help screens, but without hiding the current page.
Such a thing ought to be used together with "elastic" page length
(a page is longer when items are expanded).
The only way I could think of to achieve a similar behavior is by
typesetting the text repeatedly, expanding the various items, and
then creating appropriate links. This is extremely long, slow,
inefficient (unless objects are *heavily* reused), creates very
big documents and provides just an "emulation".
So the question is: is there any (probably JavaScript) way to
implement "real" outlines?
--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
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