From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: HOWTO: Typesetting Poetry in ConTeXt
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:38:00 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1009151835420.4952@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimeFZ=LNJyW1JMX20a0PmddHSh1unKyUkVbg_UD@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, John Haltiwanger wrote:
> Apologies, as a very significant aspect of this process was omitted in the
> previous email!
>
> Don't forget to do:
>
> \setuplines[space=on]
>
> first!
>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:45 AM, John Haltiwanger <
> john.haltiwanger@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I thought I'd give the mailing list a small change of pace---instead of
>> asking how to do it, I will show you :)
>>
>> The short answer is:
>>
>> \starttext
>> My Concrete Poem
>>
>> \startlines
>> All the white space
>> will print !
>> \stoplines
>> \stoptext
>>
>>
>> However, \startlines..\stoplines is not available when defining a macro.
What do you mean by that these macros are not available?
Doesn't the following work? (untested, but I will be really surprised if
it doesn't work)
\def\startpoety
{\startlines
% All the remaining setup
}
\def\stoppoety
{%whatever setup you want
\stoplines}
Aditya
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-15 9:45 John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 22:26 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 22:38 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2010-09-15 22:42 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-09-15 22:43 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 22:47 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-15 22:57 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 23:12 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-15 23:36 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 23:51 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-15 23:58 ` Andrea Valle
2010-09-16 7:37 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-09-15 22:43 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-09-15 22:56 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-09-16 12:44 ` \setuplines[space=on] (was: HOWTO: Typesetting Poetry in ConTeXt) Philipp Gesang
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