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From: Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Macro for acronyms
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:00:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinRq=Zw28FguVdior0Ggssz2gEuHWV70HZmfK4-@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1103182306540.29679@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>


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2011/3/19 Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>

> On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>
>  At the moment I have I my document:
>> {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf M}ust
>>
>> {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf S}hould
>>
>> {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf C}ould
>>
>> {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf N}ot now
>>
>> But I like to have a macro for this, so I could just do:
>> \Acronym{Must Should Could Not~now}
>>
>> Is more readable and when I want a change (for example another color for
>> the
>> first letter), this is much easier to implement. How should I implement
>> such
>> a macro?
>>
>
>
> Use recursion!
>
> \definestartstop
>  [FancyFirstLetter]
>  [style={\switchtobodyfont[big]\bf},
>   color=red]
>
> \def\FancyUppercase#1%
>  {\dostartFancyUppercase#1\dostopFancyUppercase}
>
> \def\dostartFancyUppercase#1#2\dostopFancyUppercase
>  {\FancyFirstLetter{#1}#2}
>
>
> \def\Acronym#1%
>  {\dostartAcronym#1 \dostopAcronym}
>
> \def\dostartAcronym#1 #2\dostopAcronym
>  {\doifsomething{#1}
>      {\FancyUppercase{#1} %space
>       \dostartAcronym#2 \dostopAcronym}}


Almost. dostartAcronym needs a blanco line to put the words under
each-other:
\def\dostartAcronym#1 #2\dostopAcronym
  {\doifsomething{#1}
     {\FancyUppercase{#1} %space

       \dostartAcronym#2 \dostopAcronym}}

-- 
Cecil Westerhof

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-19  4:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-19  2:29 Cecil Westerhof
2011-03-19  3:08 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-03-19  4:00   ` Cecil Westerhof [this message]
2011-03-19  4:37     ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-03-19  4:54       ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-03-19  9:30   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-03-19  9:22 ` Wolfgang Schuster

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