Re: Topic{} in s-pre-14 module

Re: Topic{} in s-pre-14 module

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:23 AM 8/10/2001 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>\Topic{David Ricardo (1772--1823)

There are a couple of ways [beware of spacing screw up]

\setuphead[Topic][incrementnumber=no]

\Topic{David Ricardo (1772--1823)}

\writetolist[Topic]{}{Whow}

so, now the Topic command will not write to the list but you can. You can 
package this as:

\def\MyTopic#1#2%
   {\Topic{#2}\writetolist[Topic]{}{#1}}

\MyTopic{David}{David Ricardo (1772--1823)}

A prelude to a more general mechanism is the following [i seem to have lost 
some code]

\let\Them\secondoftwoarguments

\setuplist[Topic][textcommand=\let\Them\firstoftwoarguments]

\starttext

\Topic{\Them{Ricardo}{David Ricardo (1772--1823)}}

\stoptext

which is a space safe operation.

Hans
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Re: Topic{} in s-pre-14 module

[Allin Cottrell]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Hans Hagen wrote:

> \def\MyTopic#1#2%
>    {\Topic{#2}\writetolist[Topic]{}{#1}}

Thanks -- that did it nicely.

Allin Cottrell.

Re: Topic{} in s-pre-14 module

[Hans Hagen]

At 12:30 PM 8/10/2001 -0400, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>
> > E.g. I have "\Topic{David Ricardo (1772--1823)".  At present the link
> > shows up as "David..." which is not what I want.  I'd like to be able
> > to write "\Topic[Ricardo]{David Ricardo (1772--1823)" and have the
> > link show up as "Ricardo".  Any pointers on how this might be done?
>
>Sorry to follow up on my own question, but I now see that the \nolist
>command looks useful:
>
>\Topic{\nolist{David }Ricardo\nolist{ (1772-1823)}}
>
>almost does what I want, except that I get "...Ricardo..." and I don't
>want the dots.

just say

\setuplist[Topic][maxwidth=] % or 10cm or so

Hans

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Re: Topic{} in s-pre-14 module

[Allin Cottrell]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> E.g. I have "\Topic{David Ricardo (1772--1823)".  At present the link
> shows up as "David..." which is not what I want.  I'd like to be able
> to write "\Topic[Ricardo]{David Ricardo (1772--1823)" and have the
> link show up as "Ricardo".  Any pointers on how this might be done?

Sorry to follow up on my own question, but I now see that the \nolist
command looks useful:

\Topic{\nolist{David }Ricardo\nolist{ (1772-1823)}}

almost does what I want, except that I get "...Ricardo..." and I don't
want the dots.

Allin Cottrell.

Topic{} in s-pre-14 module

[Allin Cottrell]

I like this module, but would like to make a modification.  On the
right-hand panel appears a list of topics in the presentation, each
one a link to the appropriate section.  That's fine.  But rather than
have the text for the link be a truncated version of the \Topic{}
text, I'd like to make it a chosen short string.

E.g. I have "\Topic{David Ricardo (1772--1823)".  At present the link
shows up as "David..." which is not what I want.  I'd like to be able
to write "\Topic[Ricardo]{David Ricardo (1772--1823)" and have the
link show up as "Ricardo".  Any pointers on how this might be done?
Thanks.

-- 
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC