Re: styling individual parts of ToC entry

[jbf <roma83537@gmail.com>]

Have to confess I am still not getting far with the final problem in a 
book that is now fully laid out: frontmatter through to appendices is 
all correct and working, but the Table of Contents not the way I need it 
(as explained earlier and listed in a previous email).

My latest effort focuses on just one item, the Foreword, since if I get 
that right, I can apply the same logic to sections. Chapters are already 
working correctly, thanks to Wolfgang's ChapterListCommand and I am 
assuming I need that for the several frontmatter 'chapters'.

I was earlier using \title for foreword, preface and notes to 
contributors, but have abandoned that as complicating things, and am now 
using \chapter, since it does not produce a numbered item - however, it 
is producing the label 'Chapter' which I don't want for these item. You 
can see below how I tried to avoid that, but it failed. My MWE addition 
to what Wolfgang provided is:

\definehead [foreword] [chapter]

\setuphead [foreword]

\setuplist [foreword]
  [label=foreword,
  alternative=command,
  command=\ChapterListCommand]% definition not included here. It was 
given in an earlier response from Wolfgang.

.... And in the frontmatter itself:

\startchapter[foreword][title={\ss Foreword}][author={A. Uthor}]

..........

Of course, even if it did work, given the ChapterListCommand, it would 
probably put the author on a line below Foreword, instead of on the same 
line. There are four different components in the ToC, all needing to be 
arranged a bit differently, which is why I haven't got my head around 
what I need to do. They are:

(1) Foreword    author name

(2) Chapter no.   Title

                                   author name

(3) Chapter no.   Title 1

                             Title 2 or subtitle

                                   author name

(4) Chapter no.   Title

                            Section

                                   author name

Julian




On 7/9/20 4:57 pm, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> jbf schrieb am 07.09.2020 um 01:31:
>>
>> Yes, Wolfgang, that corrects the minor problem of including the 
>> author name correctly, even when there is no year range. Thank you.
>>
>> But since I use \title, not \chapter, for the frontmatter items, ( 
>> Foreword, Preface, A note on Contributors), the ChapterListCommand 
>> clearly does not apply, so currently my ToC looks as follows (leaving 
>> out the pg numbers which correctly align right):
>>
>>
>>                      Foreword
>>                      A. Uthor
>>                             Preface
>>                      A. Uthor
>>                              A note on contributors
>> Chapter One        Year range
>>                     A. Uthor
>>
>> What I want is for 'Foreword', 'Preface' and 'A note on Contributors' 
>> to align flushleft with Chapter One, but with author names still 
>> where they should be (Foreword and Preface have authors, 'A note...' 
>> does not have an author).
>>
>> So I tried creating a TitleListCommand which copies the 
>> ChapterListCommand. But where I run into difficulties then is with a 
>> new lot of \setuplist to accommodate that. There are three different 
>> labels involved (Foreword, Preface, and A note on Contributors).
>>
>> And why is it that even with the current setup, 'Foreword' has 
>> aligned with author name, not with 'Preface' and 'A note...'? All 
>> three are \title, after all.
>>
>> All in all this is a most complicated ToC! What I need is for the ToC 
>> to look like I show it below, and you will note the additional 
>> complication of Chapter Two which does not have an author, but 
>> instead it is the SECTIONS in the Chapter that have authors!
>>
>> I'm sure if I can get on top of all this somehow, no future ToC is 
>> ever going to cause me problems! The body of the book is all looking 
>> good, all 300 pages of it. It is just the automatically produced ToC 
>> that is causing the headaches.
>>
>> Foreword                   A. Uthor            pg no.
>> Preface                     A. Uthor               "
>> A note on Contributors                         "
>> Chapter One         Chapter Title
>>                                   A. Uthor              "
>> Chapter Two         Chapter title
>> A section              Context
>>                                   A. Uthor             "
>> Another section    Reflection
>>                                   A. Author           "
>>
>> So what I have below as an MWE is fundamentally what you gave me (I 
>> have left out the correctly working ChapterListCommand), altered for 
>> \title, but I haven't got the setups below correct because I don't 
>> know how to do it. I have replaced unknowns with a question mark!
>>
>> And at the moment I have nothing for the 'sections' with authors I 
>> need for Chapter Two. I assume I would set up a third definition 
>> called \SectionListCommand. Sections will have different labels too - 
>> one will be called 'Context', the other 'Reflection'.
>>
>> \define[3]\TitleListCommand
>>   {\hbox\bgroup
>>      \hbox to 3cm{\currentlistsymbol\hss}% number + labeltext
>>      \vtop\bgroup
>>        \hsize\dimexpr\makeupwidth-3cm\relax
>>        \doifsomething{\rawstructurelistuservariable{year}}
>>          {{\it\structurelistuservariable{year}}\crlf}%
>>        \currentlistentrytitle % title
>>        \doifsomething{\rawstructurelistuservariable{author}}
>>          {\crlf{\structurelistuservariable{author}}}%
>>        \hfill\currentlistentrypagenumber % pagenumber
>>      \egroup
>>    \egroup}
>>
>> \setuplist
>>   [chapter]
>>   [label=chapter,
>>   alternative=command,
>>    command=\ChapterListCommand]
>>
>> \setuplist
>>   [title]
>>   [label=?,
>>   alternative=command,
>>    command=\TitleListCommand]
>>
>> \setuplabeltext
>>   [en]
>>   [chapter={\bf Chapter }]
>>
>> \setuplabeltext
>>   [en]
>>   [title={\bf ? }] %There needs to be three different labels
>
> You need extra headings for the forward and preface
>
>     \definehead [forward] [chapter]
>     \definehead [preface] [chapter]
>
> to have full control about their layout.
>
> I can provide you a solution for your problems but you have to create 
> a complete minimal example (including forward and preface titles) first.
>
> Wolfgang
>
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