Have to confess I am still not getting far with the final problem in a book that is now fully laid out: frontmatter through to appendices is all correct and working, but the Table of Contents not the way I need it (as explained earlier and listed in a previous email). My latest effort focuses on just one item, the Foreword, since if I get that right, I can apply the same logic to sections. Chapters are already working correctly, thanks to Wolfgang's ChapterListCommand and I am assuming I need that for the several frontmatter 'chapters'. I was earlier using \title for foreword, preface and notes to contributors, but have abandoned that as complicating things, and am now using \chapter, since it does not produce a numbered item - however, it is producing the label 'Chapter' which I don't want for these item. You can see below how I tried to avoid that, but it failed. My MWE addition to what Wolfgang provided is: \definehead [foreword] [chapter] \setuphead [foreword] \setuplist [foreword] [label=foreword, alternative=command, command=\ChapterListCommand]% definition not included here. It was given in an earlier response from Wolfgang. .... And in the frontmatter itself: \startchapter[foreword][title={\ss Foreword}][author={A. Uthor}] .......... Of course, even if it did work, given the ChapterListCommand, it would probably put the author on a line below Foreword, instead of on the same line. There are four different components in the ToC, all needing to be arranged a bit differently, which is why I haven't got my head around what I need to do. They are: (1) Foreword author name (2) Chapter no. Title author name (3) Chapter no. Title 1 Title 2 or subtitle author name (4) Chapter no. Title Section author name Julian On 7/9/20 4:57 pm, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
jbf schrieb am 07.09.2020 um 01:31:
Yes, Wolfgang, that corrects the minor problem of including the author name correctly, even when there is no year range. Thank you.
But since I use \title, not \chapter, for the frontmatter items, ( Foreword, Preface, A note on Contributors), the ChapterListCommand clearly does not apply, so currently my ToC looks as follows (leaving out the pg numbers which correctly align right):
Foreword A. Uthor Preface A. Uthor A note on contributors Chapter One Year range A. Uthor
What I want is for 'Foreword', 'Preface' and 'A note on Contributors' to align flushleft with Chapter One, but with author names still where they should be (Foreword and Preface have authors, 'A note...' does not have an author).
So I tried creating a TitleListCommand which copies the ChapterListCommand. But where I run into difficulties then is with a new lot of \setuplist to accommodate that. There are three different labels involved (Foreword, Preface, and A note on Contributors).
And why is it that even with the current setup, 'Foreword' has aligned with author name, not with 'Preface' and 'A note...'? All three are \title, after all.
All in all this is a most complicated ToC! What I need is for the ToC to look like I show it below, and you will note the additional complication of Chapter Two which does not have an author, but instead it is the SECTIONS in the Chapter that have authors!
I'm sure if I can get on top of all this somehow, no future ToC is ever going to cause me problems! The body of the book is all looking good, all 300 pages of it. It is just the automatically produced ToC that is causing the headaches.
Foreword A. Uthor pg no. Preface A. Uthor " A note on Contributors " Chapter One Chapter Title A. Uthor " Chapter Two Chapter title A section Context A. Uthor " Another section Reflection A. Author "
So what I have below as an MWE is fundamentally what you gave me (I have left out the correctly working ChapterListCommand), altered for \title, but I haven't got the setups below correct because I don't know how to do it. I have replaced unknowns with a question mark!
And at the moment I have nothing for the 'sections' with authors I need for Chapter Two. I assume I would set up a third definition called \SectionListCommand. Sections will have different labels too - one will be called 'Context', the other 'Reflection'.
\define[3]\TitleListCommand {\hbox\bgroup \hbox to 3cm{\currentlistsymbol\hss}% number + labeltext \vtop\bgroup \hsize\dimexpr\makeupwidth-3cm\relax \doifsomething{\rawstructurelistuservariable{year}} {{\it\structurelistuservariable{year}}\crlf}% \currentlistentrytitle % title \doifsomething{\rawstructurelistuservariable{author}} {\crlf{\structurelistuservariable{author}}}% \hfill\currentlistentrypagenumber % pagenumber \egroup \egroup}
\setuplist [chapter] [label=chapter, alternative=command, command=\ChapterListCommand]
\setuplist [title] [label=?, alternative=command, command=\TitleListCommand]
\setuplabeltext [en] [chapter={\bf Chapter }]
\setuplabeltext [en] [title={\bf ? }] %There needs to be three different labels
You need extra headings for the forward and preface
\definehead [forward] [chapter] \definehead [preface] [chapter]
to have full control about their layout.
I can provide you a solution for your problems but you have to create a complete minimal example (including forward and preface titles) first.
Wolfgang