[NTG-context] descriptions with long titles

2022-01-08 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Hi again, I tried to use a description for a list of organizations with partly long titles. * title and description should both use linebreaking (works) * title should have a fixed width (doesn’t work) * description should run beside a multi-line title, without a gap (doesn’t work) Is this

Re: [NTG-context] descriptions -- symbol between head and text

2021-12-15 Thread Denis Maier via ntg-context
Thanks, Wolfgang. That helped. Denis Von: Wolfgang Schuster Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. Dezember 2021 17:05 An: mailing list for ConTeXt users ; Denis Maier via ntg-context Cc: Maier, Denis Christian (UB) Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] descriptions -- symbol between head and text Denis Maier via

Re: [NTG-context] descriptions -- symbol between head and text

2021-12-14 Thread Wolfgang Schuster via ntg-context
Denis Maier via ntg-context schrieb am 14.12.2021 um 16:44: Hi, is there a way to get some text between the head and the text of a description. Enumerations have stoppers, but I couldn’t find an equivalent setting for descriptions: \definedescription   [deflist]   [alternative=hanging,   

[NTG-context] descriptions -- symbol between head and text

2021-12-14 Thread Denis Maier via ntg-context
Hi, is there a way to get some text between the head and the text of a description. Enumerations have stoppers, but I couldn't find an equivalent setting for descriptions: The output should look roughly like this: ABC: asdfasdfasdf jklöjklööjklö CDE: asdfasdfasdf jklöjklöjklöö Denis

Re: [NTG-context] descriptions failing in mkiv

2010-03-22 Thread Hans van der Meer
Problem no longer existing. From another typeset text it later turned out to be the lack of \lbrack which manifested itself here as this error. And of course I always try to make a minimal example in the first place as I know its importance, but will not succeed everytime. Hans van der Meer

Re: [NTG-context] descriptions failing in mkiv

2010-03-22 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 22.03.10 11:01, schrieb Hans van der Meer: I made use of descriptions in mkii. For example: % Define the intro for the annotation % Block opened on \startquestion and closed on \stopquestion % \startannotation{} ... \stopannotation; {} required \definedescription[annotationblock][% \c!margin=\

[NTG-context] descriptions failing in mkiv

2010-03-22 Thread Hans van der Meer
I made use of descriptions in mkii. For example: % Define the intro for the annotation % Block opened on \startquestion and closed on \stopquestion % \startannotation{} ... \stopannotation; {} required \definedescription[annotationblock][% \c!margin=\v!no,\c!location=\v!top,\c!width=\v!bro

Re: [NTG-context] Descriptions ... I wish I understood them

2008-09-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 24.09.2008 um 20:45 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > Hello, > > I have some weird problems with descriptions, but let's start at the > beginning. (I have more problems with understanding how they work, but > more about the rest later.) > > 1.) How do I get some space between "title" and "abc"? (I cur

Re: [NTG-context] Descriptions ... I wish I understood them

2008-09-25 Thread Otared Kavian
On 24 sept. 08, at 20:45, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hello, > > I have some weird problems with descriptions, but let's start at the > beginning. (I have more problems with understanding how they work, but > more about the rest later.) > > 1.) How do I get some space between "title" and "abc"? (I curr

[NTG-context] Descriptions ... I wish I understood them

2008-09-24 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hello, I have some weird problems with descriptions, but let's start at the beginning. (I have more problems with understanding how they work, but more about the rest later.) 1.) How do I get some space between "title" and "abc"? (I currently put the space there manually.) If I set distance=1em,

[NTG-context] Descriptions and headerwidth, distance and align

2008-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi all, I tried to use descriptions in a module from me and get a few unwanted and wrong results from the settings. In my first example I try to set the headerwidth to 3cm and the distance between the header and the text to 1cm. The result I get from this example is a 2cm wide header and 2cm betw

[NTG-context] Descriptions and buffers.

2007-03-30 Thread John R. Culleton
I used the description facility (both definition and use} within a buffer and it did not work. But I removed the passage from the buffer and it worked fine. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpres

Re: [NTG-context] descriptions

2006-03-30 Thread Antoine Junod
"Jeffrey Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On page 180 of the manual, ConTeXt lists many kinds of descriptions. > Like one that indents the body of the definition. It is extremely > frustrating to me that it doesn't say how to do it and I can't figure > it out. > > Any ideas? http://wiki.conte

[NTG-context] descriptions

2006-03-30 Thread Jeffrey Drake
On page 180 of the manual, ConTeXt lists many kinds of descriptions. Like one that indents the body of the definition. It is extremely frustrating to me that it doesn't say how to do it and I can't figure it out. Any ideas? - Jeffrey ___ ntg-context mai