ntg-context - mailing list for ConTeXt users
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: John Haltiwanger <john.haltiwanger@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: HOWTO: Typesetting Poetry in ConTeXt
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:43:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimnT397VnD+g+PEqC_1UCHg41ZbQd39-XOsV_tw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1009151835420.4952@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>


[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1709 bytes --]

I don't usually define macros like that (isn't that more of a
\definestartstop kind of deal?).

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, John Haltiwanger wrote:
>
>  Apologies, as a very significant aspect of this process was omitted in the
>> previous email!
>>
>> Don't forget to do:
>>
>> \setuplines[space=on]
>>
>> first!
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:45 AM, John Haltiwanger <
>> john.haltiwanger@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I thought I'd give the mailing list a small change of pace---instead of
>>> asking how to do it, I will show you :)
>>>
>>> The short answer is:
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>> My Concrete Poem
>>>
>>> \startlines
>>> All       the white        space
>>>    will               print           !
>>> \stoplines
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>>
>>> However, \startlines..\stoplines is not available when defining a macro.
>>>
>>
> What do you mean by that these macros are not available?
>
> Doesn't the following work? (untested, but I will be really surprised if it
> doesn't work)
>
> \def\startpoety
>  {\startlines
>   % All the remaining setup
>  }
>
> \def\stoppoety
>  {%whatever setup you want
>  \stoplines}
>
>
> Aditya
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________________
> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to
> the Wiki!
>
> maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /
> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
> webpage  : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
> archive  : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
> wiki     : http://contextgarden.net
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________________
>

[-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 2869 bytes --]

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 486 bytes --]

___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage  : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net
archive  : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
wiki     : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-15 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-15  9:45 John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 22:26 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 22:38   ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-15 22:42     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-09-15 22:43       ` John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 22:47       ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-15 22:57         ` John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 23:12           ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-15 23:36             ` John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 23:51               ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-15 23:58                 ` Andrea Valle
2010-09-16  7:37             ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-09-15 22:43     ` John Haltiwanger [this message]
2010-09-15 22:56       ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-16 12:44   ` \setuplines[space=on] (was: HOWTO: Typesetting Poetry in ConTeXt) Philipp Gesang

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=AANLkTimnT397VnD+g+PEqC_1UCHg41ZbQd39-XOsV_tw@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=john.haltiwanger@gmail.com \
    --cc=ntg-context@ntg.nl \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).