Re: setupitemize confusion

[Steffen Wolfrum <context@st.estfiles.de>]

Am 27.07.2006 um 08:05 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:

> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 27.07.2006 um 07:32 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
>>
>>> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> both paragraph should be indented 12 pt. But there are different:
>>>>
>>>> \starttext
>>>>
>>>> \startitemize[width=12pt]
>>>> \sym{\endash}\input tufte
>>>> \stopitemize
>>>>
>>>> \setupitemize[width=12pt]
>>>> \sym{\endash}\input tufte
>>>>
>>>> \stoptext
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How do I make the second the same as the first?
>>>
>>> Shouldn't you wrap the second one with \startstop itemize?
>>>
>>> \setupitemize[width=12pt]
>>> \startitemize
>>> \sym{\endash}\input tufte
>>> \stopitemize
>>>
>>> Aditya
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, I hope not!
>>
>> As far as I understood the manual (cont-eni) one can use \item and
>> \sym also without the start-stop environment: in cases where it is
>> just needed as one entry (not a list).
>> This works, somehow. But is there no setup possible?
>>
>> I need it in a bibliography: the normal entries "author, title etc.
>> maybe two lines" are hangindented with \hangafter=1\hangindent=12pt.
>> But when a author has two or more titles it is written "- title etc.
>> maybe two lines". And here the "- " must be the same space as the
>> hangindent (12pt), as one can imagine easily.
>> That's why I used a \item res. \sym for this. And a start/stop each
>> would make the code quite chaotic.
>>
>> But maybe there is even another solution for this construction, even
>> better?
>
> Ask Taco to implement this in the bib module :-)


The bib module won't help (I assume): the bibliography is already  
typed, not generated.

Steffen