From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Change the dots of the macro \periods[n]
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:18:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACF3DB2-EB27-4C2F-8FBE-8457773C8799@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54F9F9C1.4070203@wxs.nl>
> Am 06.03.2015 um 20:02 schrieb Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>:
>
> On 3/6/2015 6:42 PM, Fabrice Couvreur wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Is it possible to change the shape of the dots of macro \periods[n] to
>> be like the dots of macro \definefiller[dots][left=\dontleavehmode,
>> right=\hskip\ZeroPoint\par] ?
>
> % in cont-new.mkiv :
>
> \unprotect
>
> \def\periodsymbol {.}
>
> \unexpanded\def\enco_periods[#1]%
> {\dontleavehmode
> \hbox\bgroup
> \enco_periods_indeed[#1,\periodsymbol,]}
>
> \unexpanded\def\enco_periods_indeed[#1,#2,#3]%
> {\setbox\scratchbox\hbox to \periodswidth{\hss#2\hss}%
> \dorecurse{\iffirstargument#1\else\periodsdefault\fi}{\copy\scratchbox}%
> \egroup}
>
> \protect
>
> test:
>
> \starttext
> \startlines
> x\periods x
> x\periods[10]x
> x\periods[10,{,}]x
> x\periods[10,{!}]x
> \stoplines
> \stoptext
Why the weird syntax, something like \periods[n=10,symbol=!] would fit better.
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-06 17:42 Fabrice Couvreur
2015-03-06 19:01 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-03-06 19:02 ` Hans Hagen
2015-03-06 19:18 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2015-03-06 19:30 ` Hans Hagen
2015-03-07 8:48 ` Fabrice
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