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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: before= and after= for \setuphighlight
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 17:00:49 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.03.1505151659160.12597@hzvpu.rqh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55565DA6.9070403@wxs.nl>

On Fri, 15 May 2015, Hans Hagen wrote:

> On 5/15/2015 9:57 PM, Kate F wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking for something like \definehighlight which I can use to
>> markup various things in inline body text. I want different
>> environments to be able to have their own setups to configure how
>> these appear, just as \setuphighlight would provide.
>>
>> However there's one situation which I can't think how to handle; I'd
>> like to have a setup append and prepend some text, just like before=
>> and after= for various other setups. If \setuphighlight had before=
>> and after=, this would suit me perfectly. But it doesn't.
>>
>> Is there something similar to \setuphighlight which has before= and after=?
>> Or any other ideas?
>
> we have before/after in \definestartstop so let's add left/right there 
> for the inline variant

If you are chaging \definestartstop, can we change the commands key to 
setups key? It was never clear to me how the command key is supposed to 
work.


> \unprotect
>
> \unexpanded\def\syst_startstop_indeed#1%
>   {\groupedcommand
>      {\def\currentstartstop{#1}%
>       \startstopparameter\c!commands % better: setups so that will show 
> op soon
>       \dostarttagged\t!construct\currentstartstop
>       \usestartstopstyleandcolor\c!style\c!color
>       \startstopparameter\c!left}
>      {\def\currentstartstop{#1}% safeguard, nto really needed
>       \startstopparameter\c!right
>       \dostoptagged
>       \startstopparameter\c!inbetween}}
>
> \protect
>
>
> \starttext
>
> \definestartstop[foo][style=bold,left=(,right=)]
> \definestartstop[bar][style=italic,left=(,right=)]
>
> test \foo{test \bar{x} test} test
>
> \stoptext

Aditya
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-15 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-15 19:57 Kate F
2015-05-15 20:57 ` Hans Hagen
2015-05-15 21:00   ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2015-05-15 21:12     ` Hans Hagen
2015-05-15 21:45   ` Kate F

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