Re: [NTG-context] margin in TocEntry definition

12 Mar 2021

      It works, though I'm happy also to have Wolfgang's very simple version! 
I'm learning a lot! I'm a great believer in Occam's Razor - the law of 
parsimony, so the simpler version is the way to go, and my earlier use 
of a TeX hack (\-\) can be put to rest!

Thanks Bruce and thanks Wolfgang.

Julian

On 12/3/21 11:51 am, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
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On 11 Mar 2021, at 22:22, jbf  wrote:
Thanks for trying, Bruce. That earlier question you refer to was for a similar situation and the answer resolved that one at the time (it was my question even then!) but not the precise one I am facing now.
The problem, you see, is that \startalignment only offers a few key words like flushleft, middle etc. and not what I need this time, which is a precise indentation feature like .5cm. I suppose my real problem is not being sufficiently au fait with how definitions work. I just can't seem to get a definition that gives me a result like
Chapter title
    author ..................................... page number
the \startalignment approach with flushleft would not give me the indentation obviously, and middle does not work for what I need, and either of them also pushes the page number line down onto the next line, which I don't want. I tried \skip .5cm, so:
\define[1]\SectionTocEntry{%
#1\crlf% title
\hskip .5cm\doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}%
}
But the \hskip is ignored at the beginning of a line. I wonder if there is something else I can substitute it for?
D'oh! Sorry - completely forgot about the indent.
Best I can come up with at the moment is this - but I'm not sure how to get leading dots.
\starttext
\define[3]\SectionToCEntry{
   #2\crlf
   \leftaligned
   \bgroup
     \hskip 0.5cm
     \structurelistuservariable{author}
     \rightaligned
      \bgroup
        #3
      \egroup
   \egroup
}
\setuplist
   [chapter]
   [alternative=command,
    command=\SectionToCEntry,
    after=\endgraf]
\completecontent
\startchapter
   [title={This is my chapter title}]
   [author={Dummy Name}]
\input Tufte
\stopchapter
\stoptext
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Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, UK