margin in TocEntry definition

margin in TocEntry definition

[jbf]

Hi list,

I have:

\define[1]\SectionTocEntry{%
#1\crlf% title
\doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}%
   }

which successfully gives me a ToC with:

Chapter title
Author name

But I want the author name indented by .5cm and do not know how to use 
'margin' in the above definition, or some other way of getting the 
indentation. I have tried various versions of 'margin' before the 
\doifnot part of the definition, but to no avail.

Hopefully I can achieve:

Chapter title

      Author name

Julian

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Re: margin in TocEntry definition

[Bruce Horrocks]

> On 11 Mar 2021, at 02:20, jbf <roma83537@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> I have:
> 
> \define[1]\SectionTocEntry{%
> #1\crlf% title
> \doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}%
>   }
> 
> which successfully gives me a ToC with:
> 
> Chapter title
> Author name
> 
> But I want the author name indented by .5cm and do not know how to use 'margin' in the above definition, or some other way of getting the indentation. I have tried various versions of 'margin' before the \doifnot part of the definition, but to no avail.

There is a very similar previous question that might be what you are looking for.
<https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg97548.html>

Try that but use 'flushleft' instead of 'middle'.

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Hampshire, UK

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Re: margin in TocEntry definition

[jbf]

Thanks for trying, Bruce. That earlier question you refer to was for a 
similar situation and the answer resolved that one at the time (it was 
my question even then!) but not the precise one I am facing now.

The problem, you see, is that \startalignment only offers a few key 
words like flushleft, middle etc. and not what I need this time, which 
is a precise indentation feature like .5cm. I suppose my real problem is 
not being sufficiently au fait with how definitions work. I just can't 
seem to get a definition that gives me a result like

Chapter title
    author ..................................... page number

the \startalignment approach with flushleft would not give me the 
indentation obviously, and middle does not work for what I need, and 
either of them also pushes the page number line down onto the next line, 
which I don't want. I tried \skip .5cm, so:

\define[1]\SectionTocEntry{%
#1\crlf% title
\hskip 
.5cm\doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}%
}

But the \hskip is ignored at the beginning of a line. I wonder if there 
is something else I can substitute it for?

Julian


On 12/3/21 9:04 am, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
>> On 11 Mar 2021, at 02:20, jbf <roma83537@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I have:
>>
>> \define[1]\SectionTocEntry{%
>> #1\crlf% title
>> \doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}%
>>    }
>>
>> which successfully gives me a ToC with:
>>
>> Chapter title
>> Author name
>>
>> But I want the author name indented by .5cm and do not know how to use 'margin' in the above definition, or some other way of getting the indentation. I have tried various versions of 'margin' before the \doifnot part of the definition, but to no avail.
> There is a very similar previous question that might be what you are looking for.
> <https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg97548.html>
>
> Try that but use 'flushleft' instead of 'middle'.
>
> —
> Bruce Horrocks
> Hampshire, UK
>
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Re: margin in TocEntry definition

[jbf]

Re: indented line in TocEntry definition:

I have come up with what is probably an inelegant solution (using \-\ so 
that \hskip is recognised at the beginning of a line), but it works! 
Maybe someone could suggest how to make it more elegant, but for the 
moment, it's all I need!

\define[1]\SectionTocEntry{%
#1\crlf% title
\-\ \hskip 
.5cm\doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}%
}

Julian

On 12/3/21 9:04 am, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
>> On 11 Mar 2021, at 02:20, jbf <roma83537@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I have:
>>
>> \define[1]\SectionTocEntry{%
>> #1\crlf% title
>> \doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}%
>>    }
>>
>> which successfully gives me a ToC with:
>>
>> Chapter title
>> Author name
>>
>> But I want the author name indented by .5cm and do not know how to use 'margin' in the above definition, or some other way of getting the indentation. I have tried various versions of 'margin' before the \doifnot part of the definition, but to no avail.
> There is a very similar previous question that might be what you are looking for.
> <https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg97548.html>
>
> Try that but use 'flushleft' instead of 'middle'.
>
> —
> Bruce Horrocks
> Hampshire, UK
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________________
> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!
>
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Re: margin in TocEntry definition

[Bruce Horrocks]

> On 11 Mar 2021, at 22:22, jbf <roma83537@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for trying, Bruce. That earlier question you refer to was for a similar situation and the answer resolved that one at the time (it was my question even then!) but not the precise one I am facing now.
> 
> The problem, you see, is that \startalignment only offers a few key words like flushleft, middle etc. and not what I need this time, which is a precise indentation feature like .5cm. I suppose my real problem is not being sufficiently au fait with how definitions work. I just can't seem to get a definition that gives me a result like
> 
> Chapter title
>    author ..................................... page number
> 
> the \startalignment approach with flushleft would not give me the indentation obviously, and middle does not work for what I need, and either of them also pushes the page number line down onto the next line, which I don't want. I tried \skip .5cm, so:
> 
> \define[1]\SectionTocEntry{%
> #1\crlf% title
> \hskip .5cm\doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}%
> }
> 
> But the \hskip is ignored at the beginning of a line. I wonder if there is something else I can substitute it for?

D'oh! Sorry - completely forgot about the indent.

Best I can come up with at the moment is this - but I'm not sure how to get leading dots.

\starttext

\define[3]\SectionToCEntry{
  #2\crlf
  \leftaligned
  \bgroup
    \hskip 0.5cm
    \structurelistuservariable{author}
    \rightaligned
     \bgroup
       #3
     \egroup
  \egroup
}

\setuplist
  [chapter]
  [alternative=command,
   command=\SectionToCEntry,
   after=\endgraf]

\completecontent

\startchapter
  [title={This is my chapter title}]
  [author={Dummy Name}]
\input Tufte
\stopchapter

\stoptext

—
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, UK

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Re: margin in TocEntry definition

[Wolfgang Schuster]

jbf schrieb am 11.03.2021 um 23:22:
> Thanks for trying, Bruce. That earlier question you refer to was for a 
> similar situation and the answer resolved that one at the time (it was 
> my question even then!) but not the precise one I am facing now.
> 
> The problem, you see, is that \startalignment only offers a few key 
> words like flushleft, middle etc. and not what I need this time, which 
> is a precise indentation feature like .5cm. I suppose my real problem is 
> not being sufficiently au fait with how definitions work. I just can't 
> seem to get a definition that gives me a result like
> 
> Chapter title
>     author ..................................... page number
> 
> the \startalignment approach with flushleft would not give me the 
> indentation obviously, and middle does not work for what I need, and 
> either of them also pushes the page number line down onto the next line, 
> which I don't want. I tried \skip .5cm, so:
> 
> \define[1]\SectionTocEntry{%
> #1\crlf% title
> \hskip 
> .5cm\doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}% 
> }
> 
> But the \hskip is ignored at the beginning of a line. I wonder if there 
> is something else I can substitute it for?

Use \par after the first line (and add \relax after \hskip).

\define[1]}SectionTocEntry
   {#1\par
    \hskip.5cm\relax\doifnot{...}{...}}

Wolfgang
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Re: margin in TocEntry definition

[jbf]

It works, though I'm happy also to have Wolfgang's very simple version! 
I'm learning a lot! I'm a great believer in Occam's Razor - the law of 
parsimony, so the simpler version is the way to go, and my earlier use 
of a TeX hack (\-\) can be put to rest!

Thanks Bruce and thanks Wolfgang.

Julian

On 12/3/21 11:51 am, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
>
>> On 11 Mar 2021, at 22:22, jbf <roma83537@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for trying, Bruce. That earlier question you refer to was for a similar situation and the answer resolved that one at the time (it was my question even then!) but not the precise one I am facing now.
>>
>> The problem, you see, is that \startalignment only offers a few key words like flushleft, middle etc. and not what I need this time, which is a precise indentation feature like .5cm. I suppose my real problem is not being sufficiently au fait with how definitions work. I just can't seem to get a definition that gives me a result like
>>
>> Chapter title
>>     author ..................................... page number
>>
>> the \startalignment approach with flushleft would not give me the indentation obviously, and middle does not work for what I need, and either of them also pushes the page number line down onto the next line, which I don't want. I tried \skip .5cm, so:
>>
>> \define[1]\SectionTocEntry{%
>> #1\crlf% title
>> \hskip .5cm\doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}%
>> }
>>
>> But the \hskip is ignored at the beginning of a line. I wonder if there is something else I can substitute it for?
> D'oh! Sorry - completely forgot about the indent.
>
> Best I can come up with at the moment is this - but I'm not sure how to get leading dots.
>
> \starttext
>
> \define[3]\SectionToCEntry{
>    #2\crlf
>    \leftaligned
>    \bgroup
>      \hskip 0.5cm
>      \structurelistuservariable{author}
>      \rightaligned
>       \bgroup
>         #3
>       \egroup
>    \egroup
> }
>
> \setuplist
>    [chapter]
>    [alternative=command,
>     command=\SectionToCEntry,
>     after=\endgraf]
>
> \completecontent
>
> \startchapter
>    [title={This is my chapter title}]
>    [author={Dummy Name}]
> \input Tufte
> \stopchapter
>
> \stoptext
>
> —
> Bruce Horrocks
> Hampshire, UK
>
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