[NTG-context] mirrored leftmarginwidth in enumerations
If anyone has a suggestion for putting enumeration texts toward the
right edge of the left margin, I would be grateful.
In MkII enumerations, I would put a triangle (fig.2) in the left margin
using
\defineenumeration
[pause]
[title=no,
text={\externalfigure[fig.2][height=1em]},
location=inleft,
number=no,
]
The triangle was automatically aligned toward the right side of the left
margin (fill glue on the left), which was what I wanted, on even and odd
pages.
In MkIV, the marginal text is automatically aligned to the left side.
I restored the MkII effect using this hack (using a instead of the
triangle, to make the example more self contained):
\defineenumeration
[pause]
[title=no,
text={\hbox to \leftmarginwidth{\hfil $$}},
number=no,
alternative=inleft,
]
But I just realized that the hack doesn't work for double-sided layouts.
Using the leftmarginwidth is correct on the odd pages, but it is too big
for the even pages. Thus, on page 2 of the example below, the
overlaps the question text.
Is there a more idiomatic MkIV replacement for my hack? Or is my hack
okay, but ConTeXt should be updated to interpret leftmarginwidth to mean
the leftmarginwidth, as appropriate for an odd or an even page?
Here is the example:
\setuplayout[marking=on,location=middle,
backspace=1.25in,
leftmargindistance=0.125in, leftmargin=0.625in,
width=4.75in,
rightmargindistance=0.25in, rightmargin=0.25in,
]
\setuppagenumbering[alternative={doublesided}]
\defineenumeration
[pause]
[title=no,
text={\hbox to \leftmarginwidth{\hfil $$}},
number=no,
alternative=inleft,
]
\def\question#1{\startpause\relax #1 \stoppause}
\showframe
\starttext
\question{hello}
\page
\question{hello}
\stoptext
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Re: [NTG-context] mirrored leftmarginwidth in enumerations
Am 30.03.2014 um 20:00 schrieb Sanjoy Mahajan san...@mit.edu:
If anyone has a suggestion for putting enumeration texts toward the
right edge of the left margin, I would be grateful.
In MkII enumerations, I would put a triangle (fig.2) in the left margin
using
\defineenumeration
[pause]
[title=no,
text={\externalfigure[fig.2][height=1em]},
location=inleft,
number=no,
]
The triangle was automatically aligned toward the right side of the left
margin (fill glue on the left), which was what I wanted, on even and odd
pages.
In MkIV, the marginal text is automatically aligned to the left side.
I restored the MkII effect using this hack (using a instead of the
triangle, to make the example more self contained):
\defineenumeration
[pause]
[title=no,
text={\hbox to \leftmarginwidth{\hfil $$}},
number=no,
alternative=inleft,
]
But I just realized that the hack doesn't work for double-sided layouts.
Using the leftmarginwidth is correct on the odd pages, but it is too big
for the even pages. Thus, on page 2 of the example below, the
overlaps the question text.
Is there a more idiomatic MkIV replacement for my hack? Or is my hack
okay, but ConTeXt should be updated to interpret leftmarginwidth to mean
the leftmarginwidth, as appropriate for an odd or an even page?
Here is the example:
\setuplayout[marking=on,location=middle,
backspace=1.25in,
leftmargindistance=0.125in, leftmargin=0.625in,
width=4.75in,
rightmargindistance=0.25in, rightmargin=0.25in,
]
\setuppagenumbering[alternative={doublesided}]
\defineenumeration
[pause]
[title=no,
text={\hbox to \leftmarginwidth{\hfil $$}},
number=no,
alternative=inleft,
]
\def\question#1{\startpause\relax #1 \stoppause}
\showframe
\starttext
\question{hello}
\page
\question{hello}
\stoptext
\defineenumeration
[pause]
[title=no,
text={\symbol[triangle]},
width=fit,
number=no,
alternative=inleft]
Wolfgang
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Re: [NTG-context] mirrored leftmarginwidth in enumerations
Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com writes:
\defineenumeration
[pause]
[title=no,
text={\symbol[triangle]},
width=fit,
number=no,
alternative=inleft]
Thank you. That works beautifully. Is my understanding right, that
width=fit is what makes the head (here the triangle symbol) fit into its
zone (here, the left margin)? How does it know to put the space on the
left side of the triangle, rather than on the right side?
Once I understand enough to not say nonsense, I'll wikify an example.
-Sanjoy
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