Hi all, I want two paragraphs separated by a rule which has the same distance to the preceding and the following line (yes, I know that this is fuzzy, it's just the optical impression that counts). I can't get my head around the \setuptextrules command, which should allow to do this. I tried this: \def\smallblank{\blank[line]} \def\bigblank{\blank[2*line]} \setuptextrules[inbetween=\bigblank, before=\bigblank ] but I realize that the before, after, and inbetween keywords either don't do what I want or plain do nothing. Could somebody explain what their expected behavior is (and if I should use a different approach than textrule?). Thanks Thomas
Hi Thomas, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Hi all,
I want two paragraphs separated by a rule which has the same distance to the preceding and the following line (yes, I know that this is fuzzy, it's just the optical impression that counts). I can't get my head around the \setuptextrules command, which should allow to do this. I tried this:
\def\smallblank{\blank[line]} \def\bigblank{\blank[2*line]}
\setuptextrules[inbetween=\bigblank, before=\bigblank ]
but I realize that the before, after, and inbetween keywords either don't do what I want or plain do nothing. Could somebody explain what their expected behavior is (and if I should use a different approach than textrule?).
add \showskips to your source (better a small one). I just tested a bit (between my current mp examples) and 'inbetween={\blank[2*big]}' and 'after={\blank[2*big]}' should do the job. If you dare, ask Hans about the meaning of 'before' ;) Greetings, Peter
Thanks
Thomas
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On Oct 19, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Peter Rolf wrote:
Hi Thomas,
add
\showskips
to your source (better a small one). I just tested a bit (between my current mp examples) and 'inbetween={\blank[2*big]}' and 'after={\blank[2*big]}' should do the job. If you dare, ask Hans about the meaning of 'before' ;)
Greetings, Peter
Thanks Peter, that was very helpful. I still had to tweak a bit, but by combining "inbetween" and "after," I got an acceptable result. So the mystery thickens: what is before? :-) Best Thomas
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Oct 19, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Peter Rolf wrote:
Hi Thomas,
add
\showskips
to your source (better a small one). I just tested a bit (between my current mp examples) and 'inbetween={\blank[2*big]}' and 'after={\blank[2*big]}' should do the job. If you dare, ask Hans about the meaning of 'before' ;)
Greetings, Peter
Thanks Peter,
that was very helpful. I still had to tweak a bit, but by combining "inbetween" and "after," I got an acceptable result. So the mystery thickens: what is before? :-)
\textrule[top] does before ----------- (rule) inbetween \textrule[bottom] does inbetween ---------- after \textrule with no argumet is equal to \textrule[bottom] There is a \domiddletextrule that does inbetween ------------ inbetween but this is not interfaced with \textrule. It only becomes active inside a \starttextrule. \starttextrule{whatever} \input knuth \textrule \input knuth \stoptextrule To use this, you can define your own rule as \def\midtextrule{\dosinglegroupempty\domiddletextrule} \setuptextrules[inbetween={\blank[big]}] And midtextrule will use inbetween on both side. Hans, does it make sense to add this to core-rul? \def\complextextrule[#1]% {\processaction [#1] [ \v!top=>\let\next\dotoptextrule, \v!bottom=>\let\next\dobottomtextrule, middle=>\let\next\domiddletextrule, %<------- Added \s!default=>\let\next\dobottomtextrule, \s!unknown=>\let\next\dobottomtextrule]% \dosinglegroupempty\next} Aditya
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Oct 19, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Peter Rolf wrote:
Hi Thomas,
add
\showskips
to your source (better a small one). I just tested a bit (between my current mp examples) and 'inbetween={\blank[2*big]}' and 'after={\blank[2*big]}' should do the job. If you dare, ask Hans about the meaning of 'before' ;)
Greetings, Peter
Thanks Peter,
that was very helpful. I still had to tweak a bit, but by combining "inbetween" and "after," I got an acceptable result. So the mystery thickens: what is before? :-)
\textrule[top] does
before ----------- (rule) inbetween
\textrule[bottom] does
inbetween ---------- after
\textrule with no argumet is equal to \textrule[bottom]
There is a \domiddletextrule that does
inbetween ------------ inbetween
but this is not interfaced with \textrule. It only becomes active inside a \starttextrule.
\starttextrule{whatever} \input knuth \textrule \input knuth \stoptextrule
To use this, you can define your own rule as
\def\midtextrule{\dosinglegroupempty\domiddletextrule}
\setuptextrules[inbetween={\blank[big]}]
And midtextrule will use inbetween on both side.
Hans, does it make sense to add this to core-rul?
\def\complextextrule[#1]% {\processaction [#1] [ \v!top=>\let\next\dotoptextrule, \v!bottom=>\let\next\dobottomtextrule, middle=>\let\next\domiddletextrule, %<------- Added
\v!middle -) added
\s!default=>\let\next\dobottomtextrule, \s!unknown=>\let\next\dobottomtextrule]% \dosinglegroupempty\next}
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On Oct 20, 2006, at 1:32 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
\textrule[top] does
before ----------- (rule) inbetween
\textrule[bottom] does
inbetween ---------- after
\textrule with no argumet is equal to \textrule[bottom]
There is a \domiddletextrule that does
inbetween ------------ inbetween
but this is not interfaced with \textrule. It only becomes active inside a \starttextrule.
\starttextrule{whatever} \input knuth \textrule \input knuth \stoptextrule
To use this, you can define your own rule as
\def\midtextrule{\dosinglegroupempty\domiddletextrule}
\setuptextrules[inbetween={\blank[big]}]
And midtextrule will use inbetween on both side.
Hans, does it make sense to add this to core-rul?
\def\complextextrule[#1]% {\processaction [#1] [ \v!top=>\let\next\dotoptextrule, \v!bottom=>\let\next\dobottomtextrule, middle=>\let\next\domiddletextrule, %<------- Added \s!default=>\let\next\dobottomtextrule, \s!unknown=>\let\next\dobottomtextrule]% \dosinglegroupempty\next}
Aditya
Aditya, thanks for this in-depth explanation! One mystery solved! I have now tweaked my output so it looks the way it should. Best Thomas
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