Enumerations and numbered labels

* Enumerations and numbered labels
@ 2007-07-10 10:45 Norbert Zeh
  2007-07-10 11:38 ` Wolfgang Schuster
  2007-07-11  7:39 ` Aditya Mahajan
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Norbert Zeh @ 2007-07-10 10:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ntg-context

Hi folks,

I've recently started to consider ConTeXt as an alternative to my  
long-time friend LaTeX.  I like ConTeXt very much but noticed a few  
things that are either less than ideal or maybe I simply haven't  
figured out yet how to do them right.  Here are the first two:

1)  Enumerations

I've read in a few places that this is what is to be used whenever I  
would use theorem-style environments in latex.  There are two things  
I seem to be unable to do:  Creating Theorems that look like this.

---------------------
THEOREM 1  It would be nice if Context could produce a theorem where  
the title is not separated from the text and the next line has no  
hanging indent.
---------------------

I was able to produce only

----------------------
THEOREM 1

It would be nice ...
----------------------

or

----------------------
THEOREM 1  It would
         be nice ...
----------------------

using location=top or location=hanging.  What I want is no hanging  
indent at all.  (I also tried location=serried, which produced an  
overly large gap between THEOREM 1 and the theorem text.  The second  
thing I am used to in latex is the option to place things in  
parentheses by providing an optional argument to the environment.   
E.g., in assignments I typeset, I often have either

\begin{question}
...
\end{question}

which simply produces

--------------------
Question 1  ...
--------------------

or

\begin{question}[20 marks]
...
\end{question}

which produces

--------------------
Question 1  (20 marks)  ...
--------------------

This second option is easy to simulate if I can produce something  
that has no hanging indents.  As it is, I can't.

2)  Numbered labels

I tried to use numbered labels plus a little bit of tex-code to  
simulate the above environment.  The gist is that I used

\definelabel[question][location=intext,text=Question]

to define the label and, wherever I needed a new question, \question 
[ref].

The result of writing \question[ref], however, was "Question Question  
1".  The label always seemed to be duplicated for some reason.  Is  
this a known bug?

Thanks for your help with this.

Cheers,
Norbert

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NORBERT ZEH
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