Am 03.11.2011 um 15:51 schrieb Alan Braslau:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 03:33:48PM +0100, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>
>> How is a framedtext more logical than a dictum or epigraph environment,
>> with my solution you can also change the definition of the code to place
>> the epigraph format without any change in the text while your framed text
>> is always a framedtext (I know you can avoid this with a named framedtext)
>> and changes to the layout require more work.
>>
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> It is not too logical, however, to define a dictum or epigraph *before* the
> start of a new section or chapter. An author does not really think this way.
> Of course, it is logical to define a dictum or epigraph environment that can
> be used as in:
>
> \startchapter [title=Chapter title]
>
> \startepigraph
> \input ward
> \stopepigraph
>
> \stopchapter
The are reasons to put the epigraph environment before and after \startchapter
but the purpose of my example was the inside section key and for this i needed
to before \startchapter.
> It is indeed overkill to use a buffer as in your example. However, there may
> be a very good reason to more closely tie the epigraph to the typesetting of
> the chapter title. I could then see something like:
>
> \startchapter [title={Chapter title},epigraph={\input ward}]
>
> although I'm sure that the above (untested) syntax would cause problems
> with \input... (and probably a \par would be needed somewhere).
For a longer text \startchapter isn’t prefect but you can load a text with a
reference from \startchapter, e.g. with this modification of my former example
you can load a previously set buffer with the dictum key.
\def\startdictum
{\dosingleempty\dostartdictum}
\def\dostartdictum[#1]%
{\dostartbuffer[dictum\iffirstargument:#1\fi][startdictum][stopdictum]}
\setuphead
[title]
[insidesection=\texsetup{dictum}]
\startsetups dictum
\doifelsebuffer{dictum:\structureuservariable{dictum}}
{\startframedtext[right][frame=off,offset=none,width=.5\textwidth,foregroundstyle=\itx]
\getbuffer[dictum:\structureuservariable{dictum}]
\stopframedtext}
{\doifelsebuffer{dictum}
{\startframedtext[right][frame=off,offset=none,width=.5\textwidth,foregroundstyle=\itx]
\getbuffer [dictum]
\resetbuffer[dictum]
\stopframedtext}
{\donothing}}
\stopsetups
\startdictum[zapf]
\input zapf
\stopdictum
\starttext
\starttitle[title=This is a heading with a epgigraph below][dictum=zapf]
\input knuth
\stoptitle
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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