2007/7/10, Norbert Zeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've recently started to consider ConTeXt as an alternative to my
> long-time friend LaTeX. I like ConTeXt very much but noticed a few
> things that are either less than ideal or maybe I simply haven't
> figured out yet how to do them right. Here are the first two:
>
> 1) Enumerations
>
> I've read in a few places that this is what is to be used whenever I
> would use theorem-style environments in latex. There are two things
> I seem to be unable to do: Creating Theorems that look like this.
>
> ---------------------
> THEOREM 1 It would be nice if Context could produce a theorem where
> the title is not separated from the text and the next line has no
> hanging indent.
> ---------------------
\defineenumeration[theorem][text=THEOREM,location=left,hang=1]
\starttext
\theorem \input knuth
\stoptext
> I was able to produce only
>
> ----------------------
> THEOREM 1
>
> It would be nice ...
> ----------------------
>
> or
>
> ----------------------
> THEOREM 1 It would
> be nice ...
> ----------------------
>
> using location=top or location=hanging. What I want is no hanging
> indent at all. (I also tried location=serried, which produced an
> overly large gap between THEOREM 1 and the theorem text. The second
> thing I am used to in latex is the option to place things in
> parentheses by providing an optional argument to the environment.
> E.g., in assignments I typeset, I often have either
>
> \begin{question}
> ...
> \end{question}
>
> which simply produces
>
> --------------------
> Question 1 ...
> --------------------
>
> or
>
> \begin{question}[20 marks]
> ...
> \end{question}
>
> which produces
>
> --------------------
> Question 1 (20 marks) ...
> --------------------
>
> This second option is easy to simulate if I can produce something
> that has no hanging indents. As it is, I can't.
>
> 2) Numbered labels
>
> I tried to use numbered labels plus a little bit of tex-code to
> simulate the above environment. The gist is that I used
>
> \definelabel[question][location=intext,text=Question]
>
> to define the label and, wherever I needed a new question, \question
> [ref].
>
> The result of writing \question[ref], however, was "Question Question
> 1". The label always seemed to be duplicated for some reason. Is
> this a known bug?
http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-4/mahajan/
> Thanks for your help with this.
>
> Cheers,
> Norbert
Wolfgang
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