Okay, it works until I place an an argument in the stretched command. def\MyChapterCommand#1#2{ \framed[align=center,frame=off,width=\textwidth]{ \vbox{ fails--> \stretched{#2} works--> \stretched{This is a Test} } } \setuphead[chapter][ command=\MyChapterCommand } I get the following error when I run texexec: ! Missing \endcsname inserted. <to be read again> \let \nextprocessedtoken ...oup \ifincolor \ifcsname #1 #3\endcsname \let \dostopa... \dodoprocesstokens ...token \let \before \between \fi \let \nextprocessedtok... <argument> This is a test: \dostartattributes {\??ko \v!title }\c!style \c!c... \processtokens ...fore \before \doprocesstokens #5 \lastcharacter \endgroup \stretched ... \relax \hss \relax {\hss \hss }{#1} \egroup ... How can I use the #1 & #2 arguments in the stretched command? On Wednesday 12 November 2008 09:28:39 am Bart C. Wise wrote:

Wolfgang,

It works!

Thanks, Bart

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 08:54:49 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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Am 12.11.2008 um 16:48 schrieb Bart C. Wise:

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I am trying to change the spacing of a chapter title head. I found the "\kern" command; however, I could not get that to work over a string of text.

Then I found the following code: \def\dolist{\afterassignment\dodolist\let\next= } \def\dodolist{\ifx\next\endlist \let\next\relax \else \\\let\next\dolist \fi \next} \def\endlist{\endlist} \def\track#1\by#2{\def\\{\next\kern#2}% \leavevmode \hbox{\expandafter\dolist#1\endlist}}

Then I tried:

def\MyChapterCommand#1#2{ \framed[align=center,frame=off,width=\textwidth]{ \vbox{ \track{This is a Test} \by{.2em} \track #2 \by{.2em} } } \setuphead[chapter][ command=\MyChapterCommand }

The output from the \track{This is a Test} \by{.2em} works. However, the second track command (\track #2 \by{0.2em}) fails.

I spent many hours last night trying to change the kerning. What I want is something like: \kern{TEXT}{KERNING AMOUNT}.

What's available, or how do I fix the track command above. By the way,I'm running mkii.

Search for \stretched and \stretchednormalcase.

http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080815.074940.ae67f770.en.html

Wolfgang

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Wolfgang, thanks so much for your help so far. I was able to take the code and make it work correctly to stretch the chapter title. What I want is two lines for a chapter head. For example, Line 1: "Chapter One" Line 2: "Title for Chap 1" I want line 1 to be stretched. Everything I have tried does not work. I can get the "Chapter" word to stretch, but not the whole line (and it should probably be treated as a whole line when stretching). I was never able to get the chapter number (now a word) to stretch. So how do I grab the output for line 1 and then stretch it? Here's a sample of what I have without any stretching: \def\Myheader#1#2{% \framedtext[width=0.60\textwidth, frame=off, align=middle]{% \vbox{\headtext{chapter}~#1 \blank #2}}} \def\englishnumbers#1{ \ifcase#1 \or ONE\or TWO\or THREE\or FOUR\or FIVE\fi} \defineconversion[englishnumbers][\englishnumbers] \setupsection[chapter][conversion=englishnumbers] \setuphead [chapter][ command=\Myheader, textcommand=\bfd, ] \setupheadtext[chapter=CHAPTER] % used by \headtext \starttext \chapter{Title for Chap 1} \processfile{tufte} \stoptext P.S. If there's a better way to do the number->word conversion, let me know. On Wednesday 12 November 2008 10:17:35 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

Am 12.11.2008 um 18:03 schrieb Bart C. Wise:

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Okay, it works until I place an an argument in the stretched command.

def\MyChapterCommand#1#2{ \framed[align=center,frame=off,width=\textwidth]{ \vbox{ fails--> \stretched{#2} works--> \stretched{This is a Test} } } \setuphead[chapter][ command=\MyChapterCommand }

I get the following error when I run texexec:

! Missing \endcsname inserted. <to be read again> \let \nextprocessedtoken ...oup \ifincolor \ifcsname #1 #3\endcsname \let \dostopa...

\dodoprocesstokens ...token \let \before \between \fi \let \nextprocessedtok... <argument> This is a test: \dostartattributes {\??ko \v!title }\c!style \c!c...

\processtokens ...fore \before \doprocesstokens #5 \lastcharacter \endgroup \stretched ... \relax \hss \relax {\hss \hss }{#1} \egroup ...

How can I use the #1 & #2 arguments in the stretched command?

You could use it only with \deeptextcommand, here is a old mail with a example from Hans (you could ignore the other code).

http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060113.102321.bf24d7ca.en.html

Wolfgang

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On Thursday 13 November 2008 12:46:27 am Hans Hagen wrote:

Bart C. Wise wrote:

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Wolfgang, thanks so much for your help so far.

I was able to take the code and make it work correctly to stretch the chapter title. What I want is two lines for a chapter head. For example, Line 1: "Chapter One" Line 2: "Title for Chap 1"

I want line 1 to be stretched. Everything I have tried does not work. I can get the "Chapter" word to stretch, but not the whole line (and it should probably be treated as a whole line when stretching). I was never able to get the chapter number (now a word) to stretch.

So how do I grab the output for line 1 and then stretch it?

Here's a sample of what I have without any stretching:

\def\Myheader#1#2{% \framedtext[width=0.60\textwidth, frame=off, align=middle]{% \vbox{\headtext{chapter}~#1 \blank #2}}}

\def\englishnumbers#1{ \ifcase#1 \or ONE\or TWO\or THREE\or FOUR\or FIVE\fi} \defineconversion[englishnumbers][\englishnumbers]

\setupsection[chapter][conversion=englishnumbers] \setuphead [chapter][ command=\Myheader, textcommand=\bfd, ] \setupheadtext[chapter=CHAPTER] % used by \headtext \starttext \chapter{Title for Chap 1} \processfile{tufte} \stoptext

P.S. If there's a better way to do the number->word conversion, let me know.

On Wednesday 12 November 2008 10:17:35 am Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

...

Am 12.11.2008 um 18:03 schrieb Bart C. Wise:

...

Okay, it works until I place an an argument in the stretched command.

def\MyChapterCommand#1#2{ \framed[align=center,frame=off,width=\textwidth]{ \vbox{ fails--> \stretched{#2} works--> \stretched{This is a Test} } } \setuphead[chapter][ command=\MyChapterCommand }

I get the following error when I run texexec:

! Missing \endcsname inserted. <to be read again> \let \nextprocessedtoken ...oup \ifincolor \ifcsname #1 #3\endcsname \let \dostopa...

\dodoprocesstokens ...token \let \before \between \fi \let \nextprocessedtok... <argument> This is a test: \dostartattributes {\??ko \v!title }\c!style \c!c...

\processtokens ...fore \before \doprocesstokens #5 \lastcharacter \endgroup \stretched ... \relax \hss \relax {\hss \hss }{#1} \egroup ...

How can I use the #1 & #2 arguments in the stretched command?

You could use it only with \deeptextcommand, here is a old mail with a example from Hans (you could ignore the other code).

http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060113.102321.bf24d7ca.en.htm l

look for the property mechanism

\startproperty[stretch]stretched\stopproperty

token processing is always tricky since the parser does not know what to expect; properties use a pdf trick; in mkiv we have more clever stretching

Hans, I tried the above code and it failed. I looked around on the ConTeXt site and the web in general. It seems like a \defineproperty[stretch] needs to be declared, but I can't find it anywhere. You'll have to excuse my ignorance, but will you be explicit on how to use the \startproperty[stretch] stretch \stopproperty. Bart

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Bart C. Wise wrote:

Wolfgang, thanks so much for your help so far.

I was able to take the code and make it work correctly to stretch the chapter title. What I want is two lines for a chapter head. For example, Line 1: "Chapter One" Line 2: "Title for Chap 1"

I want line 1 to be stretched. Everything I have tried does not work. I can get the "Chapter" word to stretch, but not the whole line (and it should probably be treated as a whole line when stretching). I was never able to get the chapter number (now a word) to stretch.

So how do I grab the output for line 1 and then stretch it?

Here's a sample of what I have without any stretching:

\def\Myheader#1#2{% \framedtext[width=0.60\textwidth, frame=off, align=middle]{% \vbox{\headtext{chapter}~#1 \blank #2}}}

\def\englishnumbers#1{ \ifcase#1 \or ONE\or TWO\or THREE\or FOUR\or FIVE\fi} \defineconversion[englishnumbers][\englishnumbers]

\setupsection[chapter][conversion=englishnumbers] \setuphead [chapter][ command=\Myheader, textcommand=\bfd, ] \setupheadtext[chapter=CHAPTER] % used by \headtext \starttext \chapter{Title for Chap 1} \processfile{tufte} \stoptext

\def\Myheader#1#2% {\framed [width=0.60\textwidth, frame=off, align=middle] {\determineheadnumber[chapter] \expanded{\stretchednormalcase{CHAPTER~\convertnumber{englishnumbers}{\currentheadnumber}}} \blank#2}} \def\englishnumbers#1{ \ifcase#1 \or ONE\or TWO\or THREE\or FOUR\or FIVE\fi} \defineconversion[englishnumbers][\englishnumbers] \setuphead [chapter] [command=\Myheader, deeptextcommand=\stretchednormalcase, textstyle=\bfd]

P.S. If there's a better way to do the number->word conversion, let me know.

Search for \numprint in the list archive. Wolfgang