Re: Document title (was: (no subject))

[Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

Am 12.09.2011 um 01:20 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:

> On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Am 11.09.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
>> 
>>> On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Am 10.09.2011 um 18:20 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
>>>> 
>>>>> If one is also interested in a usable XML export, then some \starttag..\stoptag must be added to the setups.
>>>> 
>>>> How about this: http://d.pr/o7Xz
>>> 
>>> Thanks, that is very nice.
>>> 
>>> Can you make the alignment and the \blanks configurable, perhaps using spacebefore and space after?
>> 
>> I can but when you need customization write your own style.
> 
> OK. Do you plan to release this on contextgarden? This will simplify the title page setup of the simple-slides module. I think that others might find it useful as well. If you don't want to go through the hassle, I can maintain it.

I can put the module on the garden but not yet, until then you can find the recent version here: https://bitbucket.org/wolfs/title

>>> Is there an easy way to add multiple authors. Sometimes you need to add authors and their affiliation and I don't know what is a good key-value driven way to add them.
>> 
>> The ConTeXt way would be “author={Author One,Author Two,…}” but with MkIV you can use Lua to provide a alternative key-val-interface:
>> 
>> \startplacetitle
>>   title = "…",
>>   author = {
>>       "First author",
>>       "Second author",
>>       "…",
>>   } ,
>>   date = "\\curentdate"
>> \stopplacetitle
> 
> Sorry, I should have explained in more detail. Suppose I want to indicate that there are two authors, "first author" and "second author". First author is at "institute 1" and second author is at institute 2. I want authors and institutes to be set in different styles. There are a couple of ways of setting this up:
> 
> […]
> 
> To me, none of these look satisfatory, so I am wondering if there is a better solution.

I can see what you mean and this is why a suggested a Lua input:

author = {
    [1] = { name = "…", institute = "…" },
    [2] = { name = "…", institute = "…" },
    …
}

Wolfgang
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