Hi friends, In David's mail I found one of the problem I had been thinking of too, and I tried his code. Unfortionately, it does not work. I don't need it for math, but for case descriptions. A case consists of the following elements: Case 1 Eating fruit is healthy Text text text - case description -- Questions: 1. abcd 2. efgh .... Answers: 1. aaa bb 2. dderere ... Case 2 Everything about vitamins ... The elements themselves I can put in blocks in order to be able to separate the q's and a's. What I am wondering about is how to include the title in the macro. It does not seem very difficult, but I can't figure out how. The theorem environment seemed promising, but David's suggestion does not process. Has anyone an idea? Kind regards, Robert fonts : using map file: 8r-base.map fonts : using map file: ec-public-lm.map fonts : using map file: original-base.map systems : begin file tst4 at line 31 ! Undefined control sequence. \dostartLemma ...irstargument \startMathParagraph [#1] \else \startMathParag... l.34 ...Lemma[reference]{Algorithm xyz terminates} ? ! Undefined control sequence. l.36 \stopLemma David Antos wrote:
Hello Taco,
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 05:43:02PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
The "a while" turned out to be around 1999, and the code (hack) I used back then is no longer even remotely usable (for one because context was still in dutch, then), but I'll see if I can update my patch.
:-), that's great :-).
In the meantime, I solved the second part, i.e., adding the additional describing text. It goes somehow like this (well, it's a hack, but it works):
% MathParagraph is the enumeration (it ensures references and numbering, % and typesetting all the texts). In command, it calls a macro that refers % to \MathParagraphType etc.
\def\startLemma{\dosingleempty\dostartLemma} \def\dostartLemma[#1]#2 {% \def\MathParagraphType{Lemma} \def\MathParagraphName{#2} \def\MathParagraphList{MathParagraphs} \iffirstargument \startMathParagraph[#1] \else \startMathParagraph \fi } \let\stopLemma\stopMathParagraph
So I can use \startLemma[reference]{Algorithm xyz terminates} ... \stopLemma
I came to the idea to misuse command= to typeset the header and write to the list, it is given an argument containing the number of the enumeration. Anyway, it is not easy to feed it into \expanded{\writetolist...} as the argument is something with \edef and a pile of pretty ugly macros :-), so I still use \precedingsectionnumber\numberMathParagraph :-(
To sum up, a good way to obtain current enumeration number (in a form that goes into lists, etc.) would be completely enough, provided that one writes hacks to solve the rest (and does end up finding the real macro names with \tracingmacros=1 :-)). Creating something like enumerateddescription (a description with names and possibility to write lists) would be much nicer, of course :-))
Thank you very much, D.A.
P.S.: Hans said once that a Dutch mathematical journal is typeset with ConTeXt. Do you have an idea how they typeset theorems?