Generating a list of items
Hi all I'm teaching some classes this summer, and want to make myself a template for lesson planning. One of the things that I'd like to be able to include, if it works easily, is an automatically-created list of the materials I need to remember to bring. My intention is that I will only have to type the name of my materials once, while composing the plan itself, and have ConTeXt extract all the names and place them in a list in the same document. I expect this means I would define something like \Materials , and then while typing the main text of my plan be able to type \Materials{Photographs} or \Materials{Sound Recording} and then have ConTeXt generate a list of all the items like this ... "Materials: 1. Photographs 2. Sound Recording" ... near the top of the page. I've tried using \placeregister, but it seems to insist on printing a page number for each item and alphabetical headings as in an index. I would like to get a simple, numbered list of items. Can I tweak the \register commands to do this, or perhaps is there something else I should try? Thanks David
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, David wrote:
Hi all
I'm teaching some classes this summer, and want to make myself a template for lesson planning. One of the things that I'd like to be able to include, if it works easily, is an automatically-created list of the materials I need to remember to bring. My intention is that I will only have to type the name of my materials once, while composing the plan itself, and have ConTeXt extract all the names and place them in a list in the same document.
I expect this means I would define something like \Materials , and then while typing the main text of my plan be able to type \Materials{Photographs} or \Materials{Sound Recording} and then have ConTeXt generate a list of all the items like this ...
"Materials: 1. Photographs 2. Sound Recording"
... near the top of the page.
I've tried using \placeregister, but it seems to insist on printing a page number for each item and alphabetical headings as in an index. I would like to get a simple, numbered list of items. Can I tweak the \register commands to do this, or perhaps is there something else I should try?
Have you looked at lists (like table of contents, list of figures etc.). I think that the main manual explains how to create new lists. Aditya
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 23:27:00 -0400 (EDT), Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Sat, 5 Jul 2008, David wrote:
Hi all
I'm teaching some classes this summer, and want to make myself a template for lesson planning. One of the things that I'd like to be able to include, if it works easily, is an automatically-created list of the materials I need to remember to bring. My intention is that I will only have to type the name of my materials once, while composing the plan itself, and have ConTeXt extract all the names and place them in a list in the same document.
I expect this means I would define something like \Materials , and then while typing the main text of my plan be able to type \Materials{Photographs} or \Materials{Sound Recording} and then have ConTeXt generate a list of all the items like this ...
"Materials: 1. Photographs 2. Sound Recording"
... near the top of the page.
I've tried using \placeregister, but it seems to insist on printing a page number for each item and alphabetical headings as in an index. I would like to get a simple, numbered list of items. Can I tweak the \register commands to do this, or perhaps is there something else I should try?
Have you looked at lists (like table of contents, list of figures etc.). I think that the main manual explains how to create new lists.
I thought I had looked there, but I was wrong. A list similar to a table of contents seems like exactly what I need. I'll reply to this thread if I encounter any problems with it. Thank you Aditya. David
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