On Jan 29, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:

On 01/29/2012 01:05 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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The \type has to change the meaning of "\” to make it a normal symbol but when you use it with headcommand it is to late. A better command to show command is \tex{…} which appends a save version of "\” in front of the argument.

\definedescription[abc][headcommand=\tex] \starttext \abc{startext} not working \stoptext

Thanks for your reply, Wolfgang.

I'm afraid it doesn't work:

\definedescription[abc][headcommand=\tex] \starttext \abc{startext} not working \tex{stoptext} \stoptext

\tex{…} command works, but not if invoked from headcommand.

(untested) descriptions use titlecommand rather than headcommand. Aditya

Am 29.01.2012 um 16:17 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez:

On 01/29/2012 01:05 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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The \type has to change the meaning of "\” to make it a normal symbol but when you use it with headcommand it is to late. A better command to show command is \tex{…} which appends a save version of "\” in front of the argument.

\definedescription[abc][headcommand=\tex] \starttext \abc{startext} not working \stoptext

Thanks for your reply, Wolfgang.

I'm afraid it doesn't work:

\definedescription[abc][headcommand=\tex] \starttext \abc{startext} not working \tex{stoptext} \stoptext

\tex{…} command works, but not if invoked from headcommand.

Thanks for your help,

I tested it now myself and what you want doesn’t work in this way. As you can see in the example below “headcommand=\tex” does work when you also use “location=command” but only with some limitations, e.g. the font is wrong and you loose also the option the change the location of the title. %\definedescription[abc][location=command,headcommand=\quotation] \definedescription[abc][location=command,headcommand=\tex] \starttext \abc{startext} not working \tex{stoptext} \stoptext Wolfgang

Am 29.01.2012 um 18:42 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez:

On 01/29/2012 06:24 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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I tested it now myself and what you want doesn’t work in this way. As you can see in the example below “headcommand=\tex” does work when you also use “location=command” but only with some limitations, e.g. the font is wrong and you loose also the option the change the location of the title.

Thanks for your reply, Wolfgang.

The font can be fixed using headstyle, but the location of the title is important for the document.

You can use a two step mechanism where the commands you use in the document pass the content to a internal description environment. \usemodule[annotation] \definedescription[abcdescription] \define[2]\AbcCommand {\startabcdescription{\tex{\placeannotationtitle}}% \placeannotationcontent \stopabcdescription} \defineannotation[abc][alternative=command,command=\AbcCommand] \starttext %\abc{starttext}{This is a description for \tex{starttext}} \abc[title=starttext]{This is a description for \tex{starttext}} \startabc[title=starttext]This is a description for \tex{starttext}\stopabc \stoptext Wolfgang

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

You can use a two step mechanism where the commands you use in the document pass the content to a internal description environment.

\usemodule[annotation]

\definedescription[abcdescription]

\defineannotation[abc][alternative=command,command=\AbcCommand]

If you are using the annotation module, why use descriptions at all? Is there some feature that is offered by descriptions that is not possible using annotation module (it has been some time since I looked into the annotation module). Aditya