On Tuesday 22 July 2008 04:12:48 pm Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, John Culleton wrote: > > The \about cross reference command woks ok if I use > > \about[aa] > > > > It delivers the title (or part of it in this case) of the section > > marked aa. > > > > but when I try to give it some text it blows up on the text, > > e.g., \about{foo}[aa] > > > > So what if anything goes between the { and the }? What purpose do > > they serve? > > \about does not support \about{...}[...] kind of references like > \in or \at. Does some documentation say that this is supported? > This is what core-ref.tex says > > \definecommand about {\dospecialabout} > ... > \unexpanded\def\dospecialabout[#1]% > {...} > > > This explains the error message that you get when you try > \about{foo}[aa]. > > What do you want to achieve with \about{foo}[aa]? There may be some > other way to do that.
On page 167 of the Cont-en manual \about is defined as: \about{...}[ref] . . . text But you are right, if I want to change the text anyhow I can just ignore \about and put in the text I want. What I was trying to do was silly. Page 167 has been suitably defaced so I won't try that stupid trick again. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________