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From: jbf <roma83537@gmail.com>
To: mf <massifr@fastwebnet.it>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Centered list of authors in ToC
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 07:50:01 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eab76928-9aa8-49d8-03ce-68ffb6f0c0ed@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <acbe416a-6c71-8067-3192-8ec5b3a65453@fastwebnet.it>

Resolved!

\define[1]\SectionTocEntry{%
#1\crlf% title
\startalignment[middle]\doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}%
\stopalignment}

Julian

On 9/2/21 9:02 pm, mf wrote:
> Il 09/02/21 10:49, jbf ha scritto:
>> I wonder if someone can assist me with the final step in a 
>> complicated Table of Contents where all items in the ToC are centred 
>> (except page numbers which continue to be on the right).
>>
>> Beneath each chapter title is a list of authors (Yes, there can be up 
>> to four authors per chapter!)
>>
>> I can successfully achieve everything (see MWE below) except for 
>> getting the list of authors to split and be centred. Because there 
>> are four of them, I would need to split them so they appear as two 
>> (centred) with the other two below(also centred).
>>
>> Here is my MWE for the essential bit (which is then called in as 
>> textcommand=\SectionTocEntry in \setuplist[chapter], obviously):
>>
>> \define[1]\SectionTocEntry{%
>> #1\crlf% title
>> \midaligned{\doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}}% 
>>
>> }
>
> try \startalignment[middle] ... \stopalignment instead of \midaligned
>
>>
>> My problem is that at the moment, the four authors appear on a single 
>> line, so I end up with:
>>
>>             My chapter title
>> Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge, Minnie Mouse  [p. 1, but in 
>> fact, Minnie Mouse runs across the page number!]
>>
>> What I want instead is:
>>
>>            My chapter title
>>      Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck
>>     Uncle Scrooge, Minnie Mouse        [p. number]
>>
>> Back at the chapter level my code reads:
>>
>> \startchapter[title={Chapter title}][author={Mickey Mouse, Donald 
>> Duck, Uncle Scrooge, Minnie Mouse}].
>
> \startchapter[title={Chapter title}][author={Mickey Mouse, Donald 
> Duck,\crlf Uncle Scrooge, Minnie Mouse}].
>
> Massi
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-09 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-09  9:49 jbf
2021-02-09 10:02 ` mf
2021-02-09 20:18   ` jbf
2021-02-09 20:50   ` jbf [this message]
2021-02-09 21:11     ` Hans Hagen
2021-02-09 21:58       ` jbf

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