Re: Re: My first week with ConTeXt

["Holger Schöner" <hfsch@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Hi Andreas,

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Andreas Gschwendtner wrote:
> Basically I want to typeset scientific documents in the form of a book
> -- nothing to fancy, nothing interactive. As a starting point, I would
> be very happy to have all the functionality back that I am used to with
> LaTeX and KOMA-Script:
>
> - Placing figures and captions (see earlier questions in this thread)

Unfortunately I cannot help you there (more than already done ...)

> - Different examples of formatting the table of contents (e.g.
> indenting sections and sub(...)sections, setting chapters boldface sans
> serif...)

In "ConTeXt the manual" (cont-enp.pdf) there are some examples (p. 149ff.).
To achieve formatting dependent on heading level, you can setup their lists
separately, eg. \setuplist[chapter][...] \setuplist[section][...]. These
setups should be kept also in the combined list (content). This way you
could provide different indenting space (margin and distance) for different
sublevels. The key "style" is understood as well
(\setuplist[chapter][style=bold]), and in case the available style do not
suffice, you can provide commands:
	\setuplist[chapter][style={\ss\bf}]
to get sans serif boldface.

> - How to format the index (divided into sections preceeded by the
> appropriate uppercase letter, pagenumbers aligned right, "\dotfill"
> between word and pagenumber)

I am wondering about that (the uppercase letter) as well.

You can right-align the numbers by typing
	\setupregister[index][distance={5pt plus 1fill}]
unfortunately this does not give you the opportunity to fill the space with
dots.

> - How to format the bibliography (e. g. vertical space between the
> entrys)

As far as I remember, the bibliography module uses descriptions to format
the entries; ie. it should be possible to use \setupdescriptions[...][...]
to tune spacing (eg. the keys "before", "after", "inbetween"). I remeber
having read about it in the bibliography manual, there should be more in
there.

> - Define different page styles for the first page of each chapter (e.
> g. no headers) and the following pages

You use eg.
	\setupheadertexts[text][][section][chapter][]
	\setupheader[state=normal,style={\ss},leftwidth=10cm,rightwidth=10cm]
for general setup, and for the chapter pages
	\setuphead[chapter][header=high,page=right]
instead of "high" you can also use "empty" (first removes header
completely, second leaves the space, although it is empty). You can also
define you own special header/footer texts:
	\definetext[chapter][footer][pagenumber]
	\setuphead[chapter][header=high,footer=chapter,page=right]
if you need a special footer on chapter pages. This is all in the mentioned
manual (p. 80f.).

But I know how hard it is to keep in memory where everything is written (or
at least, what is written ...) ;-)

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