Re: [NTG-context] How to align numerals in lists on the dot or paranthesis that follows the numeral?

2007/6/25, Hamid Kamrani :

On 6/24/07, Hamid Kamrani wrote:

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On 6/24/07, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

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Hamid Kamrani wrote:

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Taco and Wolfang,

Thanks both for your responses. But: 1. The setup offered by Taco does not line up the numerals on the dots. Maybe my problem was misunderstood.

Did you miss this? On a follow-up to previous note: I think this is how I missed the width issue. In my testing, I had both distance and width parameters. I may be doing something wrong but these two conflict.

The width value need to be larger than the distance value because the resulting width for the number in your example is width (below 3em) - distance (below 5em) = -2em (5em - 3em). The same problem did also appear in my solution. Wolfgang

\unprotect \startsetups [numberitemleft] \hbox to \dimexpr\getitemparameter\itemlevel \c!width - \getitemparameter\itemlevel \c!distance\relax \bgroup\hfill \stopsetups

\startsetups [numberitemright] \egroup \stopsetups \protect

\starttext \startitemize[n][style=bold] \item As a college student, how do you rate yourself? \startitemize[R,packed][left={\setups[numberitemleft]}, right={\setups[numberitemright]}, stopper={.}, width=3em, style=\sc, distance=5em] \item The first item. \item The second item. \item The third item. \item The fourth item. \item The fifth item. \item The sixth item. \item The seventh item. \item The eighth item. \item The ninth item. \item The tenth item. \stopitemize \stopitemize \stoptext

Best, -Hamid

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I certainly did. I'm sorry, the misunderstanding was on my part.

I do like your solution. But how to make it the default? This should be the default behavior and in fact the required width should be calculated by ConTeXt. Otherwise ConTeXt is behaving like MS Word.

Please note that, second to paragraphs, lists are the most widely used text blocks. It is imperative that they format correctly.

If you're using Arabic numerals then you have the chance to list your first 9 items correctly.But, alas, if you have to use roman numeral. The problem shows up in the second item. (you would not itemize if you had only one item!)

Taco, I very much appreciate your solution. It allows me to continue for now but I humbly ask, in fact, beg to have a solution built in the core of ConTeXt.

My apologies for discounting your solution too quickly.

Best regards, -Hamid

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Taco wrote:

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You probably want to increase the 'width' parameter, but that should be straightforward.

It should work with width=2pc (two digits and a dot do not fit in the default allocated space, so the 10. sticks out to the right)

Taco