Re: Hello world title not flush left - beginner question?

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

Am 03.11.2011 um 15:15 schrieb Alan Braslau:

> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 02:36:06PM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> 
>> \def\startdictum
>>  {\dostartbuffer[dictum][startdictum][stopdictum]}
>> 
>> \setuphead
>>  [title]
>>  [insidesection=\texsetup{dictum}]
>> 
>> \startsetups dictum
>> 
>>  \doifelsebuffer{dictum}
>>    {\startframedtext[right][frame=off,offset=none,width=.5\
>> textwidth,foregroundstyle=\itx]
>>     \getbuffer  [dictum]
>>     \resetbuffer[dictum]
>>     \stopframedtext}
>>    {\donothing}
>> 
>> \stopsetups
>> 
>> \starttext
>> 
>> \startdictum
>> \input ward
>> \stopdictum
>> 
>> \starttitle[title=This is a heading with a epgigraph below]
>> 
>> \input knuth
>> 
>> \stoptitle
>> 
>> \stoptext
> 
> Wolfgang,
> 
> Looking at your message above,
> I do not really understand why it is best to set a buffer
> for a one-time use: to be typeset after the title and then reset.

This was just a example to demonstrate the “insidesection” key
to add something after the heading. When you want to use it only
one time the above is overkill but it’s useful when you want a epigraph
for each chapter. With \doifelsebuffer I can check if there the user
set a epigraph and only when there is one i want the framedtext
but I have to reset the buffer for the next chapter.

> Would it not be better (or more logical, in fact) to simply use:
> 
> \setupframedtext [frame=off,offset=none,width=.5\textwidth,
> 	foregroundstyle=\itx]
> % I did not check, but I imagine that this works...
> 
> \starttitle [title=This is a heading with an epigraph below]
> 
> \startframedtext [right]
> \input ward
> \stopframedtext
> 
> 
> Of course, one could (and probably should) define a special sort
> of framed text?
> I don't remember the proper syntax for this, though.

How is a framedtext more logical than a dictum or epigraph environment,
with my solution you can also change the definition of the code to place
the epigraph format without any change in the text while your framed text
is always a framedtext (I know you can avoid this with a named framedtext)
and changes to the layout require more work.

> I am interested, as in one of my documents, I do something like this
> (without any special typesetting, for the moment) stupidly as:
> 
> \def\sectionbis#1{{\it #1}\blank}
> 
> \startsection [title=Section title]
> 
> \sectionbis{\input ward}
> 
> \input tufte


\definestartstop[sectionbis][style=italic,inbetween=\blank]

Wolfgang

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