\definehighlight + \words | \WORDS
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Dear listmates, I rely on automated uppercasing and lowercasing a lot and I’m very happy with the \words and \WORD macros. But I can’t find a way to properly combine them with the “style” parameter of highlights: it breaks frames and enumerations. Example: ········································································ \definehighlight [tolower] [style=\words,] %%% This is problematic. \def\mylower#1{\bgroup\words#1\egroup} %%% The command itself %%% works, though. \starttext FOO \tolower{FOO} FOO\par %%% Works. \framed{BAR \mylower{BAR} BAR} %%% Works. \framed{BAR \tolower{BAR} BAR} %%% Fails. \startitemize %%% Enumerations don’t work either. \item FOO \mylower{FOO} FOO %%% Works. \item FOO \tolower{FOO} FOO %%% Fails. \stopitemize \stoptext ········································································ In short: while I can always wrap it in a \def, the more elegant doesn’t work in all cases. Is there anything wrong with my approach? Best regards Philipp
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Am 08.05.2012 um 10:35 schrieb Philipp Gesang:
Dear listmates,
I rely on automated uppercasing and lowercasing a lot and I’m very happy with the \words and \WORD macros. But I can’t find a way to properly combine them with the “style” parameter of highlights: it breaks frames and enumerations. Example:
········································································
\definehighlight [tolower] [style=\words,] %%% This is problematic. \def\mylower#1{\bgroup\words#1\egroup} %%% The command itself %%% works, though.
\starttext
FOO \tolower{FOO} FOO\par %%% Works. \framed{BAR \mylower{BAR} BAR} %%% Works. \framed{BAR \tolower{BAR} BAR} %%% Fails. \startitemize %%% Enumerations don’t work either. \item FOO \mylower{FOO} FOO %%% Works. \item FOO \tolower{FOO} FOO %%% Fails. \stopitemize
\stoptext
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In short: while I can always wrap it in a \def, the more elegant doesn’t work in all cases. Is there anything wrong with my approach?
You can use \definehighlight [tolower] [style={\setcharactercasing[2]}] to create the \tolower command. Wolfgang
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On 2012-05-08 11:07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 08.05.2012 um 10:35 schrieb Philipp Gesang:
Dear listmates,
I rely on automated uppercasing and lowercasing a lot and I’m very happy with the \words and \WORD macros. But I can’t find a way to properly combine them with the “style” parameter of highlights: it breaks frames and enumerations. Example:
········································································
\definehighlight [tolower] [style=\words,] %%% This is problematic. \def\mylower#1{\bgroup\words#1\egroup} %%% The command itself %%% works, though.
\starttext
FOO \tolower{FOO} FOO\par %%% Works. \framed{BAR \mylower{BAR} BAR} %%% Works. \framed{BAR \tolower{BAR} BAR} %%% Fails. \startitemize %%% Enumerations don’t work either. \item FOO \mylower{FOO} FOO %%% Works. \item FOO \tolower{FOO} FOO %%% Fails. \stopitemize
\stoptext
········································································
In short: while I can always wrap it in a \def, the more elegant doesn’t work in all cases. Is there anything wrong with my approach?
You can use
\definehighlight [tolower] [style={\setcharactercasing[2]}]
to create the \tolower command.
Perfect, thanks a lot. So it was caused by the \groupedcommand in the definition of \word. Philipp
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On 8-5-2012 11:18, Philipp Gesang wrote:
On 2012-05-08 11:07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 08.05.2012 um 10:35 schrieb Philipp Gesang:
Dear listmates,
I rely on automated uppercasing and lowercasing a lot and I’m very happy with the \words and \WORD macros. But I can’t find a way to properly combine them with the “style” parameter of highlights: it breaks frames and enumerations. Example:
········································································
\definehighlight [tolower] [style=\words,] %%% This is problematic. \def\mylower#1{\bgroup\words#1\egroup} %%% The command itself %%% works, though.
\starttext
FOO \tolower{FOO} FOO\par %%% Works. \framed{BAR \mylower{BAR} BAR} %%% Works. \framed{BAR \tolower{BAR} BAR} %%% Fails. \startitemize %%% Enumerations don’t work either. \item FOO \mylower{FOO} FOO %%% Works. \item FOO \tolower{FOO} FOO %%% Fails. \stopitemize
\stoptext
········································································
In short: while I can always wrap it in a \def, the more elegant doesn’t work in all cases. Is there anything wrong with my approach?
You can use
\definehighlight [tolower] [style={\setcharactercasing[2]}]
to create the \tolower command.
Perfect, thanks a lot. So it was caused by the \groupedcommand in the definition of \word.
The next version will support named casing: WORD word Word Words capitals cap Capitals Cap none random ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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Am 08.05.2012 um 13:17 schrieb Hans Hagen:
On 8-5-2012 11:18, Philipp Gesang wrote:
On 2012-05-08 11:07, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 08.05.2012 um 10:35 schrieb Philipp Gesang:
Dear listmates,
I rely on automated uppercasing and lowercasing a lot and I’m very happy with the \words and \WORD macros. But I can’t find a way to properly combine them with the “style” parameter of highlights: it breaks frames and enumerations. Example:
········································································
\definehighlight [tolower] [style=\words,] %%% This is problematic. \def\mylower#1{\bgroup\words#1\egroup} %%% The command itself %%% works, though.
\starttext
FOO \tolower{FOO} FOO\par %%% Works. \framed{BAR \mylower{BAR} BAR} %%% Works. \framed{BAR \tolower{BAR} BAR} %%% Fails. \startitemize %%% Enumerations don’t work either. \item FOO \mylower{FOO} FOO %%% Works. \item FOO \tolower{FOO} FOO %%% Fails. \stopitemize
\stoptext
········································································
In short: while I can always wrap it in a \def, the more elegant doesn’t work in all cases. Is there anything wrong with my approach?
You can use
\definehighlight [tolower] [style={\setcharactercasing[2]}]
to create the \tolower command.
Perfect, thanks a lot. So it was caused by the \groupedcommand in the definition of \word.
The next version will support named casing:
WORD word Word Words capitals cap Capitals Cap none random
It would be also useful to change the following line in font-pre.mkiv to use \setcharacterchasing instead of \WORD (won’t work anymore when you remove \groupedcommand from the \WORD as written in the comments in typo-cap.mkiv) \definealternativestyle [\v!WORD] [\WORD] [\WORD] Additional entries for \word, Words etc. in font-pre.mkvi are useful as well because “style=word” looks better than “style={\setcharacterchasing[word]}”. Wolfgang
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On 2012-05-08 13:28, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
It would be also useful to change the following line in font-pre.mkiv to use \setcharacterchasing instead of \WORD (won’t work anymore when you remove \groupedcommand from the \WORD as written in the comments in typo-cap.mkiv)
\definealternativestyle [\v!WORD] [\WORD] [\WORD]
Additional entries for \word, Words etc. in font-pre.mkvi are useful as well because “style=word” looks better than “style={\setcharacterchasing[word]}”.
Seconded. That would be of great value and at least I will use it very often. philipp
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On 8-5-2012 13:28, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
The next version will support named casing:
WORD word Word Words capitals cap Capitals Cap none random
It would be also useful to change the following line in font-pre.mkiv to use \setcharacterchasing instead of \WORD (won’t work anymore when you remove \groupedcommand from the \WORD as written in the comments in typo-cap.mkiv)
\definealternativestyle [\v!WORD] [\WORD] [\WORD]
Additional entries for \word, Words etc. in font-pre.mkvi are useful as well because “style=word” looks better than “style={\setcharacterchasing[word]}”.
I had been thinking about a 'vector' key (in addition to style) but that's a bit of work as we then need to provide some *vectore variants as well and integrate it in the style/color switching helpers which is ab it of work but anyhow, it doesn't hurt to have them as alternative styles so you can test it later today (making a beta) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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