2007/7/10, Norbert Zeh
Hi folks,
I've recently started to consider ConTeXt as an alternative to my long-time friend LaTeX. I like ConTeXt very much but noticed a few things that are either less than ideal or maybe I simply haven't figured out yet how to do them right. Here are the first two:
1) Enumerations
I've read in a few places that this is what is to be used whenever I would use theorem-style environments in latex. There are two things I seem to be unable to do: Creating Theorems that look like this.
--------------------- THEOREM 1 It would be nice if Context could produce a theorem where the title is not separated from the text and the next line has no hanging indent. ---------------------
\defineenumeration[theorem][text=THEOREM,location=left,hang=1] \starttext \theorem \input knuth \stoptext
I was able to produce only
---------------------- THEOREM 1
It would be nice ... ----------------------
or
---------------------- THEOREM 1 It would be nice ... ----------------------
using location=top or location=hanging. What I want is no hanging indent at all. (I also tried location=serried, which produced an overly large gap between THEOREM 1 and the theorem text. The second thing I am used to in latex is the option to place things in parentheses by providing an optional argument to the environment. E.g., in assignments I typeset, I often have either
\begin{question} ... \end{question}
which simply produces
-------------------- Question 1 ... --------------------
or
\begin{question}[20 marks] ... \end{question}
which produces
-------------------- Question 1 (20 marks) ... --------------------
This second option is easy to simulate if I can produce something that has no hanging indents. As it is, I can't.
2) Numbered labels
I tried to use numbered labels plus a little bit of tex-code to simulate the above environment. The gist is that I used
\definelabel[question][location=intext,text=Question]
to define the label and, wherever I needed a new question, \question [ref].
The result of writing \question[ref], however, was "Question Question 1". The label always seemed to be duplicated for some reason. Is this a known bug?
http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-4/mahajan/
Thanks for your help with this.
Cheers, Norbert
Wolfgang