Learning ConTeXt: \setupitemize
I'm learning ConTeXt, and I've chosen to beat up on \setupitemize to see how things work. (If the answers to my question are in some doc somewhere, please tell me where it is!) Consider the file below. I expected to see a hairline above the second itemization, and indeed I do. But if I remove the "columns" specifier, the hairline does not appear. Is this the correct behavior, or a bug? Also: what does the keyword "beforehead" do? If I replace "before" with "beforehead" in the example, I get nothing. Is it in the docs somewhere? In the lists of keywords for many commands there are parameters listed that I can't figure out. Some of them seem to do nothing, but I always wonder if they only operate in conjunction with some other feature, or I haven't implemented them correctly. Some of them do something, but I can't figure out what the rule is. Is there a doc somewhere describing the keywords? Is it in the manual and I've missed it? Thanks, Gary Pajer ConTeXt 2003.3.9 / up-to-date MikTeX / Win98 ----------------------------------------- \setupitemize[1][n] \setupitemize[2][a][before=\hairline] % \starttext % \startitemize \item Level One % \startitemize \item first \item second \item third \stopitemize % \stopitemize \stoptext
Gary Pajer
(If the answers to my question are in some doc somewhere, please tell me where it is!)
The answers to your questions are in the context's source code ;-)
Consider the file below. I expected to see a hairline above the second itemization, and indeed I do. But if I remove the "columns" specifier, the hairline does not appear. Is this the correct behavior, or a bug?
I'd consider this a bug. A while ago I had the same problem with after=... [ But, when looking at the source, I wonder why the \complexdoitemgroupitem ignores \itemlevel\c!voor ]
Also: what does the keyword "beforehead" do? If I replace "before" with "beforehead" in the example, I get nothing. Is it in the docs somewhere?
The beforehead has to do with the \head command also described in the manual (cont-eni.pdf, cont-enp.pdf). [...] \setupitemize[1][][beforehead=\hairline,afterhead=\hairline] \starttext \startitemize \head Level One [...] gives -------------- * Level One -------------- It is not documented as far as I know.
In the lists of keywords for many commands there are parameters listed that I can't figure out. Some of them seem to do nothing, but I always wonder if they only operate in conjunction with some other feature, or I haven't implemented them correctly.
One never knows... I have the same problem here.
Some of them do something, but I can't figure out what the rule is. Is there a doc somewhere describing the keywords? Is it in the manual and I've missed it?
No. There is documentation on special topics, such as tables or flowchart module. But for the itemize there is afaik only the main manual. Patrick
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