Re: setupitemize confusion

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

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 :-)

Aditya