Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-12 Thread Uriel Avalos
That sounds like a good idea. From what you are telling me and my experience, it seems that the gurus are too busy anyway to help newbies... On Tuesday 11 August 2009 13:13:02 Stéphane Goujet wrote: Wolfgang Schuster a écrit : Am 11.08.2009 um 17:41 schrieb U Avalos: How can I get a

Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-12 Thread Uriel Avalos
Isn't it well documented in the wiki? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Enumerations No, actually. The documentation says to use margins but that command does not seem to work for sub-lists. Unless my notation is wrong, it would seem that the margin values for a sub-list are hardcoded. For

Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-12 Thread Uriel Avalos
Like I said, I tried margin and it does NOT work. Margin has no effect on sub-lists. \startitemize[n] \item top level \startitemize[a,margin=5cm] \item sub item 1 \item sub item 2 \stopitemize \stopitemize margin does NOT affect the sublist at all. Oh I apologize if you took the rant

Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-12 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: It seems that no one either knows anything or are too busy for simple questions. People are busy, and no one necessarily reads every single mail. It is a busy list after all. But see above. I just saw this thread while approving Uriel

Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 11.08.2009 um 17:41 schrieb U Avalos: Say I want to change the whitespace before an item in an enumeration. The diagram below: |.(a) Item 2 |.(b) item 2 Say I want to change the whitespace (represented by the dots) in a list? How can I do that? Tried various settings:

Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-11 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
Wolfgang answered your main question, so that leaves On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:41:26 -0600, U Avalos amscopub-m...@yahoo.com wrote: How can I get a question answered on this list, BTW? Very simple: politely send the question a second time if you don't get a response. I've had to do that

Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-11 Thread Derek CORDEIRO
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:11 PM, U Avalos amscopub-m...@yahoo.com wrote: Say I want to change the whitespace before an item in an enumeration. The diagram below: |.(a) Item 2 |.(b) item 2 Say I want to change the whitespace (represented by the dots) in a list? How can I do

Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-11 Thread Stéphane Goujet
Wolfgang Schuster a écrit : Am 11.08.2009 um 17:41 schrieb U Avalos: How can I get a question answered on this list, BTW? It seems that no one either knows anything or are too busy for simple questions. FYI, devs, this language is going to die if you don't get more users You're really

Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-11 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:13:02 -0600, Stéphane Goujet stephane.gou...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Simple questions from end-users are barely answered while questions from developpers/people with experience are generaly answered and generate rather long threads. This is simply not true AFAICT. I've been

Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-11 Thread U Avalos
Like I said, I tried margin and it does NOT work. Margin has no effect on sub-lists. \startitemize[n] \item top level \startitemize[a,margin=5cm] \item sub item 1 \item sub item 2 \stopitemize \stopitemize margin does NOT affect the sublist at all. Oh I apologize for the rant. (At

Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-11 Thread U Avalos
No, actually. The documentation says to use margins but that command does not seem to work for sub-lists. Unless my notation is wrong, it would seem that the margin values for a sub-list are hardcoded. For example, the following code does NOT work for me: \startitemize[n] \item top level

Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-11 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:13:02 -0600, Stéphane Goujet stephane.gou...@wanadoo.fr wrote: I have tried posting questions once or twice and I never got a single answer. The result is that, now, I do not post them here any more. Just try again and don't take it personally. That's what I've done

Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-11 Thread U Avalos
You're right I should know better On Tuesday 11 August 2009 14:32:32 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:13:02 -0600, Stéphane Goujet stephane.gou...@wanadoo.fr wrote: I have tried posting questions once or twice and I never got a single answer. The result

Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 11.08.2009 um 20:29 schrieb U Avalos: Like I said, I tried margin and it does NOT work. Margin has no effect on sub-lists. You *never* wrote anything about sublevels before, who do you expect we should know what do you mean without enough information? The value for 'margin' as added to

Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-11 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 11.08.2009 um 19:13 schrieb Stéphane Goujet: Perhaps it would be time to split this mailing-list in 2 parts, one really for users and the other for developpers, beta testers, package programmers, etc. We already have two different lists:

Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-11 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Aug 11, 2009, at 8:48 PM, U Avalos wrote: You're right I should know better OK, since you're a brave man and can admit a mistake: here's an answer to your original question. I'm not sure if it's the best way to do this, but it allows you to finetune the whitespace and the distance

Re: [NTG-context] Change whitespace before item?

2009-08-11 Thread U Avalos
It works! That also was Wolfgang's solution ... however, the intext was not necessary. Funny thing is I could have sworn I tried left=\hskip before... Thanx On Tuesday 11 August 2009 14:55:44 Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Aug 11, 2009, at 8:48 PM, U Avalos wrote: You're right I should know