Thanks Wolfgang, while I don't pretend to fully understand the setup you
have provided (but am working on doing so!), of course it provides the
correct result for a chapter that has a title, an author, and a year.
My ever-so-complicated book (and its authors!) however, throws one small
further complication into the mix.
Where a chapter does not have a year-range, and I either omit that
declaration, or I leave the curly brackets empty (e.g. year={}), then I
find that the author name also does not appear in the ToC. What
adjustment to the \ChapterListCommand do I need to make to accommodate
the following? Possibly an \else statement, but not sure how to include
that:
\startchapter [title={Chapter title}] [author={Author Name}]
Julian
On 5/9/20 7:16 pm, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
jbf schrieb am 05.09.2020 um 03:35:
Now that with Hraban's invaluable assistance I am able to include
title, subtitle, author as and when necessary in the ToC and put them
on the same line if I need to, I have two questions that I have not
found a satisfactory solution to after playing around with various
possibilities.
I need:
(1) the author's names lined up vertically throughout the ToC, and
(2) the first part of the entry (e.g. Foreword) to be bold, but the
author name to be regular text.
An adjusted version of Hraban's setup can show what I have tried by
way of example:
%----------------
\define[1]\TitleTocEntry{%
#1\hskip 1cm% title
\structurelistuservariable{author}%
}
\setuplist[title][textstyle=bold,
textcommand=\TitleTocEntry,
]
%---------------
/Question 1:/ /How to get the two author names to line up
vertically./ Given that I have both a Foreword and a Preface, I am
using \title for these. And both have separate authors. The titles
will be simply 'Foreword' and 'Preface', obviously.
*Foreword Author name*
*Preface Author name*
I am using \hskip 1cm to separate the authors' names from either of
those two words. But this does not give me the kind of exact
positioning I need to get the two author names directly underneath
each other in the list. I have tried various alternatives to \hskip,
but none of them can give me the correct proportional distance. The
distance is obviously being controlled by the fact that 'Foreword' is
8 characters and 'Preface' is 7. Is what I want only obtainable with
a table setup?
The issue might or might not be more complicated when I get to main
chapters, where the author names need to line up with the Foreword
and Preface author names as well. There will be, e.g.
Chapter One Title
Author name
//
/Question 2:/ /How to independently get Foreword and Preface to be
bold, but the authors' names to be regular./ \setuplist offers me
options like textstyle, pagestyle, numberstyle, but they apply to
everything (both Foreword/Preface and Authors' name are bold). I
thought perhaps I could control it from within the document, e.g.
\starttitle[title={\ss\bf Foreword}][author={A. Uthor}]
But that does the same - both Foreword and A. Uthor end up bold. And
besides, I also want to style the ToC independently of the heads if I
can.
The wiki and various manuals do offer various tips on modifying the
ToC, but I cannot find anything regarding the two questions above -
not yet, anyway. If someone knows where, please point me to it.
\define[3]\ChapterListCommand
{\hbox\bgroup
\hbox to 3cm{\currentlistsymbol\hss}% number + labeltext
\vtop\bgroup
\hsize\dimexpr\makeupwidth-3cm\relax
\doifsomething{\rawstructurelistuservariable{year}}
{{\it\structurelistuservariable{year}}\crlf}%
\currentlistentrytitle % title
\doifsomething{\rawstructurelistuservariable{year}}
{\crlf{\bf\structurelistuservariable{author}}}%
\hfill\currentlistentrypagenumber % pagenumber
\egroup
\egroup}
\setuplist
[chapter]
[label=chapter,
alternative=command,
command=\ChapterListCommand]
\setuplabeltext
[en]
[chapter=Chapter ]
\starttext
\completecontent
\startchapter [title={Chapter title}] [author={Author
Name},year={1980--2000}]
\unknown
\stopchapter
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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