It works, though I'm happy also to have Wolfgang's very simple version!
I'm learning a lot! I'm a great believer in Occam's Razor - the law of
parsimony, so the simpler version is the way to go, and my earlier use
of a TeX hack (\-\) can be put to rest!
Thanks Bruce and thanks Wolfgang.
Julian
On 12/3/21 11:51 am, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
On 11 Mar 2021, at 22:22, jbf <roma83...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for trying, Bruce. That earlier question you refer to was for a similar
situation and the answer resolved that one at the time (it was my question even
then!) but not the precise one I am facing now.
The problem, you see, is that \startalignment only offers a few key words like
flushleft, middle etc. and not what I need this time, which is a precise
indentation feature like .5cm. I suppose my real problem is not being
sufficiently au fait with how definitions work. I just can't seem to get a
definition that gives me a result like
Chapter title
author ..................................... page number
the \startalignment approach with flushleft would not give me the indentation
obviously, and middle does not work for what I need, and either of them also
pushes the page number line down onto the next line, which I don't want. I
tried \skip .5cm, so:
\define[1]\SectionTocEntry{%
#1\crlf% title
\hskip
.5cm\doifnot{\structurelistuservariable{author}}{}{\structurelistuservariable{author}}%
}
But the \hskip is ignored at the beginning of a line. I wonder if there is
something else I can substitute it for?
D'oh! Sorry - completely forgot about the indent.
Best I can come up with at the moment is this - but I'm not sure how to get
leading dots.
\starttext
\define[3]\SectionToCEntry{
#2\crlf
\leftaligned
\bgroup
\hskip 0.5cm
\structurelistuservariable{author}
\rightaligned
\bgroup
#3
\egroup
\egroup
}
\setuplist
[chapter]
[alternative=command,
command=\SectionToCEntry,
after=\endgraf]
\completecontent
\startchapter
[title={This is my chapter title}]
[author={Dummy Name}]
\input Tufte
\stopchapter
\stoptext
—
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, UK
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