Am 19.03.2013 um 13:24 schrieb d.henman :

While reading the ConTeXt Manual I tried the following two commands, which didn't work. Here is the sample souce.

\starttext First line. %\hskip With text here, this causes an compile time error. \hskip3em Indented?\crlf \hskip 3em Indented?\crlf \hskip3cm Indented?\crlf

%\sym{on} This causes an error. %\sym{$\diamond$} This causes an error. %\sym{$\diamondsuit$} This causes an error.

Last line. \stoptext

What happened to \hskip and \sym ? Or what am I doing wrong?

1.a: Tex ignores a skip at the begin of a paragraph but when you force horizontal mode with \dontleavehmode it works. \dontleavehmode\hskip<dimension> … 1.b: ConTeXt provides the \hspace command which can be used instead of \hskip. \definehspace[myspace][3em] \starttext \dontleavehmode\hspace[myspace] … \stoptext 2: The \sym command was removed but this shouldn’t be a problem because you can use either a itemize environment with the \txt command or use a a description command.

One further question. I tried nopping \before, \after, \between, and the none, and joinedup option but could not suppress white space occurring after \startitemize and the 1st \item. I tried looking in the garden as well, but had no luck. I believe th e information is in there but I couldn't find it after a hour or so. So please inform me as to how can tell ConTeXt how much space, including none, to place between the an item header (or none) and the list???

Provide a example for this. Wolfgang