Re: Description nesting

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Fri, 5 May 2006, nico wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to nest some descriptions, where the nested descriptions
> respect the enclosing indentation?
>
> Funnily the wiki speaks about the subject
> (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Description) but doesn't give any solution
> (btw, the given solution to have several paragraphs in a description looks
> obsolete since \start \stop works pretty well).
>
> Here is an example that I would like to see working:
>
> \definedescription[descr][
>   headstyle=bold,style=normal,align=left,location=hanging,
>   width=broad,margin=1cm]

Try,

  \definedescription[descr][
     headstyle=bold,style=normal,align=left,location=hanging,
     width=broad,margin=2em, before=\doMySetup]

  \def\doMySetup{
     \setupdescriptions[descr]
     [before=\startnarrower,after=\stopnarrower]}


>
> \setupwhitespace[medium]
>
> \starttext
>
> \startdescr{Para}
>   This is a shorter item label, and some text that talks about it.
>   The text is wrapped into a paragraph, with successive lines indented.
>
>   This is another paragraph under the "Para" item.
>
>   \startdescr{SubPara1}
>   This is a shorter item label, and some text that talks about it.
>   The text is wrapped into a paragraph, with successive lines indented.
>   \stopdescr
>   \startdescr{SubPara2}
>   This is a shorter item label, and some text that talks about it.
>   The text is wrapped into a paragraph, with successive lines indented.
>   \stopdescr
> \stopdescr
>
> \stoptext



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