On 2011-05-24 14:16:16 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster said:
Am 23.05.2011 um 22:08 schrieb Jesse Alama:
I'd like to define an itemization that has two kinds of items,
representing a dialogue between two people. (One could imagine
extending this to more than two.) I'd like to have something like this:
\startdialogue
\john What did you have for breakfast?
\mary I skipped breakfast today.
\john Oh, why?
\mary Because I wasn't hungry. I was too distraught at what had
happened the previous night.
\stopdialogue
The \john and \mary parts would each be their own paragaphs. The
paragraphs would be colored with different text backgrounds, and joined
up with one another (that is, the blocks of text representing the
paragraphs for the different speakers would be adjacent to one another).
Solution 1:
\definetextbackground[john-background][frame=off,location=paragraph,backgroundcolor=green]
\definetextbackground[mary-background][frame=off,location=paragraph,backgroundcolor=red]
\defineenumeration
[john]
[ text=John: ,
width=3em,
number=no,
location=left,
before={\starttextbackground[john-background]},
after=\stoptextbackground]
\defineenumeration
[mary][john]
[ text=Mary: ,
before={\starttextbackground[mary-background]},
after=\stoptextbackground]
\starttext
\john What did you have for breakfast?\par
\mary I skipped breakfast today.\par
\startjohn Oh, why?\stopjohn
\startmary Because I wasn't hungry. I was too distraught at what had
happened the previous night.\stopmary
\stoptext
Solution 2:
\usemodule[annotation]
\definetextbackground[john-background][frame=off,location=paragraph,backgroundcolor=green]
\definetextbackground[mary-background][frame=off,location=paragraph,backgroundcolor=red]
\defineannotation
[john]
[ text=John,
stopper=: ,
inbetween=,
before={\starttextbackground[john-background]},
after={\stoptextbackground},
spacebefore=nowhite]
\defineannotation
[mary][john]
[ text=Mary,
before={\starttextbackground[mary-background]},
after={\stoptextbackground}]
\starttext
\john{What did you have for breakfast?}
\mary{I skipped breakfast today.}
\startjohn Oh, why?\stopjohn
\startmary Because I wasn't hungry. I was too distraught at what had
happened the previous night.\stopmary
\stoptext
Thanks! These fit the bill. (I note, though, that in the
annotation-based solution, the texts "John" and "Mary" don't show up.
Otherwise the annotation solution is just what I am looking for.)
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