I can't be the first to have wanted to try something like this. Is it possible
to use tabulate (or any of the table types) to customise the layout of the
table of contents?
I'd like 4 columns - title, subject, author and page - where subject and author
will (eventually) be additional parameters supplied to \startchapter. Bonus
points if it works in interactive mode as well.
Minimum non-working example below. This generates the 4 column values per
chapter heading but they run together into a single paragraph as if the table
formatting was not present.
%%% Begin %%%
\setuppapersize [A4] [A4]
\setupinteraction [state=start]
\setuplist [chapter]
[ alternative=command, %interactive
command=\myTOCrow,
before=\myTOCbefore,
after=\myTOCafter
]
% #1 == Section number; #2 == text; #3 == page number
\define[3]\myTOCrow{\NC #2 \NC dummy \NC John Doe \NC #3 \NC\NR }
\define\myTOCbefore{
\starttabulate[|pw(8.75cm)|l|lw(4.2cm)|r|]
\NC \underbars{Title}
\NC \underbars{Subject}
\NC \underbars{Author}
\NC \underbars{Page}
\NC\NR
}
\define\myTOCafter{%
\stoptabulate }
\starttext
\title{Tabulated Table of Contents}
\placelist[chapter]
\startchapter[title=Tufte 1]
\input tufte
\stopchapter
\startchapter[title=Tufte 2]
\input tufte
\stopchapter
\stoptext
%%% End %%%
--
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, UK
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