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  1. % \begin{meta-comment}
  2. %
  3. % $Id$
  4. %
  5. % Various list-related things
  6. %
  7. % (c) 1996 Mark Wooding
  8. %
  9. %----- Revision history -----------------------------------------------------
  10. %
  11. % $Log$
  12. % Revision 1.1 1998-09-21 10:19:01 michael
  13. % Initial implementation
  14. %
  15. % Revision 1.1 1996/11/19 20:52:26 mdw
  16. % Initial revision
  17. %
  18. %
  19. % \end{meta-comment}
  20. %
  21. % \begin{meta-comment} <general public licence>
  22. %%
  23. %% mdwlist package -- various list-related things
  24. %% Copyright (c) 1996 Mark Wooding
  25. %%
  26. %% This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  27. %% it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  28. %% the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  29. %% (at your option) any later version.
  30. %%
  31. %% This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  32. %% but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  33. %% MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
  34. %% GNU General Public License for more details.
  35. %%
  36. %% You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  37. %% along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  38. %% Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
  39. %%
  40. % \end{meta-comment}
  41. %
  42. % \begin{meta-comment} <Package preambles>
  43. %<+package>\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
  44. %<+package>\ProvidesPackage{mdwlist}
  45. %<+package> [1996/05/02 1.1 Various list-related things]
  46. % \end{meta-comment}
  47. %
  48. % \CheckSum{179}
  49. %% \CharacterTable
  50. %% {Upper-case \A\B\C\D\E\F\G\H\I\J\K\L\M\N\O\P\Q\R\S\T\U\V\W\X\Y\Z
  51. %% Lower-case \a\b\c\d\e\f\g\h\i\j\k\l\m\n\o\p\q\r\s\t\u\v\w\x\y\z
  52. %% Digits \0\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9
  53. %% Exclamation \! Double quote \" Hash (number) \#
  54. %% Dollar \$ Percent \% Ampersand \&
  55. %% Acute accent \' Left paren \( Right paren \)
  56. %% Asterisk \* Plus \+ Comma \,
  57. %% Minus \- Point \. Solidus \/
  58. %% Colon \: Semicolon \; Less than \<
  59. %% Equals \= Greater than \> Question mark \?
  60. %% Commercial at \@ Left bracket \[ Backslash \\
  61. %% Right bracket \] Circumflex \^ Underscore \_
  62. %% Grave accent \` Left brace \{ Vertical bar \|
  63. %% Right brace \} Tilde \~}
  64. %%
  65. %
  66. % \begin{meta-comment}
  67. %
  68. %<*driver>
  69. \input{mdwtools}
  70. \describespackage{mdwlist}
  71. \def\defaultdesc{%
  72. \desclabelwidth{80pt}%
  73. \desclabelstyle\nextlinelabel%
  74. \def\makelabel{\bfseries}%
  75. }
  76. \newenvironment{cmdlist}
  77. {\basedescript{\let\makelabel\cmd}}
  78. {\endbasedescript}
  79. \mdwdoc
  80. %</driver>
  81. %
  82. % \end{meta-comment}
  83. %
  84. % \section{User guide}
  85. %
  86. % This package provides some vaguely useful list-related commands and
  87. % environments:
  88. % \begin{itemize*}
  89. % \item A way of building \env{description}-like environments.
  90. % \item Commands for making `compacted' versions of list environments
  91. % \item A method for suspending and resuming enumerated lists.
  92. % \end{itemize*}
  93. %
  94. % \subsection{Description list handling}
  95. %
  96. % Different sorts of description-type lists require different sorts of
  97. % formatting: I think that's fairly obvious. There are essentially three
  98. % different attributes which should be changable:
  99. % \begin{itemize*}
  100. % \item the indentation of the items being described,
  101. % \item the handling of labels which don't fit properly, and
  102. % \item the style used to typeset the label text.
  103. % \end{itemize*}
  104. % The first two items should usually be decided for all description-like
  105. % lists in the document, to ensure consistency of appearance. The last
  106. % depends much more on the content of the labels.
  107. %
  108. % \DescribeEnv{basedescript}
  109. % The \env{basedescript} environment acts as a `skeleton' for description
  110. % environments. It takes one argument, which contains declarations to
  111. % be performed while constructing the list. I'd consider it unusual for
  112. % the \env{basedescript} environment to be used in the main text: it's
  113. % intended to be used to build other environments.
  114. %
  115. % The declarations which can be used to define description-type environments
  116. % include all of those which are allowed when setting up a list (see the
  117. % \LaTeX\ book for information here). Some others, which apply specifically
  118. % to description lists, are also provided:
  119. %
  120. % \begin{itemize}
  121. %
  122. % \item \DescribeMacro{\desclabelwidth}
  123. % The \syntax{"\\desclabelwidth{"<length>"}"} declaration sets labels
  124. % to be left-aligned, with a standard width of \<length>; the item
  125. % text is indented by \<length> plus the value of |\labelsep|.
  126. %
  127. % \item \DescribeMacro{\desclabelstyle}
  128. % The label style determines how overlong labels are typeset. A style
  129. % may be set using the \syntax{"\\desclabelstyle{"<style>"}"}
  130. % declaration. The following \<style>s are provided:
  131. % \begin{cmdlist}
  132. % \item [\nextlinelabel] If the label is too wide to fit next to the
  133. % first line of text, then it is placed on a line by itself;
  134. % the main text is started on the next line with the usual
  135. % indentation.
  136. % \item [\multilinelabel] The label is typeset in a parbox with the
  137. % appropriate width; if it won't fit on one line, then the
  138. % text will be split onto subsequent lines.
  139. % \item [\pushlabel] If the label is too wide to fit in the space
  140. % allocated to it, the start of the item's text will be `pushed'
  141. % over to the right to provide space for the label. This is
  142. % the standard \LaTeX\ \env{description} behaviour.
  143. % \end{cmdlist}
  144. %
  145. % \item \DescribeMacro{\makelabel}
  146. % The |\makelabel| command is responsible for typesetting a label.
  147. % It is given one argument, which is the text given as an argument
  148. % to the |\item| command; it should typeset it appropriately. The
  149. % text will then be arranged appropriately according to the chosen
  150. % label style. This command should be redefined using |\renewcommand|.
  151. %
  152. % \end{itemize}
  153. %
  154. % \begin{figure}
  155. % \begin{demo}[w]{Various labelling styles}
  156. %\begin{basedescript}{\desclabelstyle{\nextlinelabel}}
  157. %\item [Short label] This is a short item, although it has quite a
  158. % lot of text attached to it.
  159. %\item [Slightly longer label text] This is a rather longer piece
  160. % of text, with a correspondingly slightly longer label.
  161. %\end{basedescript}
  162. %\medskip
  163. %\begin{basedescript}{\desclabelstyle{\multilinelabel}}
  164. %\item [Short label] This is a short item, although it has quite a
  165. % lot of text attached to it.
  166. %\item [Slightly longer label text] This is a rather longer piece
  167. % of text, with a correspondingly slightly longer label.
  168. %\end{basedescript}
  169. %\medskip
  170. %\begin{basedescript}{\desclabelstyle{\pushlabel}}
  171. %\item [Short label] This is a short item, although it has quite a
  172. % lot of text attached to it.
  173. %\item [Slightly longer label text] This is a rather longer piece
  174. % of text, with a correspondingly slightly longer label.
  175. %\end{basedescript}
  176. % \end{demo}
  177. % \end{figure}
  178. %
  179. % \DescribeMacro{\defaultdesc}
  180. % To allow document designers to control the global appearance of description
  181. % lists, the |\defaultdesc| command may be redefined; it is called while
  182. % setting up a new \env{basedescript} list, before performing the user's
  183. % declarations. By default, it attempts to emulate the standard \LaTeX\
  184. % \env{description} environment:\footnote{^^A
  185. % This is a slightly sanitised version of the real definition, which is
  186. % given in the implementation section of this document.}
  187. % \begin{listing}
  188. %\providecommand{\defaultdesc}{%
  189. % \desclabelstyle{\pushlabel}%
  190. % \renewcommand{\makelabel}[1]{\bfseries##1}%
  191. % \setlength{\labelwidth}{0pt}%
  192. %}
  193. % \end{listing}
  194. % Unfortunately, \LaTeX\ doesn't provide a means for overriding a command
  195. % which may or may not have been defined yet; in this case, I'd probably
  196. % recommend using the \TeX\ primitive |\def| to redefine |\defaultdesc|.
  197. %
  198. % If you want to redefine the \env{description} environment in terms of
  199. % the commands in this package, the following method is recommended:
  200. % \begin{listing}
  201. %\renewenvironment{description}{%
  202. % \begin{basedescript}{%
  203. % \renewcommand{\makelabel}[1]{\bfseries##1}%
  204. % }%
  205. %}{%
  206. % \end{basedescript}%
  207. %}
  208. % \end{listing}
  209. % This ensures that labels are typeset in bold, as is usual, but other
  210. % properties of the list are determined by the overall document style.
  211. %
  212. % \subsection{Compacted lists}
  213. %
  214. % \LaTeX\ tends to leave a certain amount of vertical space between list
  215. % items. While this is normally correct for lists in which the items are
  216. % several lines long, it tends to look odd if all or almost all the items
  217. % are only one line long.
  218. %
  219. % \DescribeMacro{\makecompactlist}
  220. % The command
  221. % \syntax{"\\makecompactlist{"<new-env-name>"}{"<old-env-name>"}"}
  222. % defines a new environment \<new-env-name> to be a `compacted' version of
  223. % the existing environment \<old-env-name>; i.e., the two environments are
  224. % the same except that the compacted version leaves no space between items
  225. % or paragraphs within the list.
  226. %
  227. % \DescribeEnv{itemize*}
  228. % \DescribeEnv{enumerate*}
  229. % \DescribeEnv{description*}
  230. % So that the most common cases are already handled, the package creates
  231. % compacted $*$-variants of the \env{itemize}, \env{enumerate} and
  232. % \env{description} environments. These were created using the commands
  233. % \begin{listing}
  234. %\makecompactlist{itemize*}{itemize}
  235. %\makecompactlist{enumerate*}{enumerate}
  236. %\makecompactlist{description*}{description}
  237. % \end{listing}
  238. %
  239. % Some list environments accept arguments. You can pass an argument to a
  240. % list environment using an optional argument to its compact variant. For
  241. % example,
  242. % \begin{listing}
  243. %\begin{foolist*}[{someargument}]
  244. % \end{listing}
  245. %
  246. % \subsection{Suspending and resuming list environments}
  247. %
  248. % \DescribeMacro{\suspend}
  249. % \DescribeMacro{\resume}
  250. % The |\suspend| and |\resume| commands allow you to temporarily end a list
  251. % environment and then pick it up where you left off. The syntax is fairly
  252. % simple:
  253. %
  254. % \begin{grammar}
  255. %
  256. % <suspend-cmd> ::= \[[
  257. % "\\suspend"
  258. % \begin{stack} \\ "[" <name> "]" \end{stack} "{" <env-name> "}"
  259. % \]]%
  260. %
  261. % <resume-cmd> ::= \[[
  262. % "\\resume"
  263. % \begin{stack} \\ "[" <name> "]" \end{stack} "{" <env-name> "}"
  264. % \begin{stack} \\ "[" <text> "]" \end{stack}
  265. % \]]%
  266. %
  267. % \end{grammar}
  268. %
  269. % The \<env-name> is the name of the environment; this will more often than
  270. % not be the \env{enumerate} environment. The \<name> is a magic name you
  271. % can use to identify the suspended environment; if you don't specify this,
  272. % the environment name is used instead.
  273. %
  274. % \begin{demo}{Suspended environments}
  275. %Here's some initial text. It's
  276. %not very interesting.
  277. %\begin{enumerate*}
  278. %\item This is an item.
  279. %\item This is another.
  280. %\suspend{enumerate*}
  281. %Some more commentry text.
  282. %\resume{enumerate*}
  283. %\item Another item.
  284. %\end{enumerate*}
  285. % \end{demo}
  286. %
  287. % You can pass arguments to a resumed list environment through the second
  288. % optional argument of the |\resume| command. If, for example, you're using
  289. % David Carlisle's \package{enumerate} package, you could say something like
  290. % \begin{listing}
  291. %\begin{enumerate}[\bfseries{Item} i]
  292. %\item An item
  293. %\item Another item
  294. %\suspend{enumerate}
  295. %Some intervening text.
  296. %\resume{enumerate}[{[\bfseries{Item} i]}]
  297. %\item Yet another item
  298. %\end{enumerate}
  299. % \end{listing}
  300. %
  301. % \implementation
  302. %
  303. % \section{Implementation}
  304. %
  305. % \begin{macrocode}
  306. %<*package>
  307. % \end{macrocode}
  308. %
  309. % \subsection{Description lists}
  310. %
  311. % \subsubsection{Label styles}
  312. %
  313. % \begin{macro}{\nextlinelabel}
  314. %
  315. % The idea here is that if the label is too long to fit in its box, we put
  316. % it on its own line and start the text of the item on the next. I've
  317. % used |\sbox| here to capture colour changes properly, even though I have
  318. % deep moral objections to the use of \LaTeX\ boxing commands. Anyway,
  319. % I capture the text in box~0 and compare its width to the amount of space
  320. % I have in the label box. If there's enough, I can just unbox the box;
  321. % otherwise I build a vbox containing the label text and an empty hbox --
  322. % |\baselineskip| glue inserted between the two boxes makes sure we get
  323. % the correct spacing between the two lines, and the vboxness of the vbox
  324. % ensures that the baseline of my strange thing is the baseline of the
  325. % \emph{bottom} box. I then bash the vbox on the nose, so as to make its
  326. % width zero, and leave that as the result. Either way, I then add glue
  327. % to left align whatever it is I've created.
  328. %
  329. % \begin{macrocode}
  330. \def\nextlinelabel#1{%
  331. \sbox\z@{#1}%
  332. \ifdim\wd\z@>\labelwidth%
  333. \setbox\z@\vbox{\box\z@\hbox{}}%
  334. \wd\z@\z@%
  335. \box\z@%
  336. \else%
  337. \unhbox\z@%
  338. \fi%
  339. \hfil%
  340. }
  341. % \end{macrocode}
  342. %
  343. % \end{macro}
  344. %
  345. % \begin{macro}{\multilinelabel}
  346. %
  347. % A different idea -- make the label text wrap around onto the next line if
  348. % it's too long. This is really easy, actually. I use a parbox to contain
  349. % the label text, set to be ragged right, because there won't be enough
  350. % space to do proper justification. There's also a funny hskip there --
  351. % this is because \TeX\ only hyphenates things it finds sitting \emph{after}
  352. % glue items. The parbox is top-aligned, so the label text and the item
  353. % run downwards together. I put the result in box~0, and remove the depth,
  354. % so as not to make the top line of the item text look really strange.
  355. %
  356. % All this leaves a little problem, though: if the item text isn't very long,
  357. % the label might go further down the page than the main item, and possibly
  358. % collide with the label below. I must confess that I'm not actually sure
  359. % how to deal with this possibility, so I just hope it doesn't happen.
  360. %
  361. % By the way, I don't have moral objections to |\parbox|.
  362. %
  363. % \begin{macrocode}
  364. \def\multilinelabel#1{%
  365. \setbox\z@\hbox{%
  366. \parbox[t]\labelwidth{\raggedright\hskip\z@skip#1}%
  367. }%
  368. \dp\z@\z@%
  369. \box\z@%
  370. \hfil%
  371. }
  372. % \end{macrocode}
  373. %
  374. % \end{macro}
  375. %
  376. % \begin{macro}{\pushlabel}
  377. %
  378. % Now we implement the old style behaviour -- if the label is too wide, we
  379. % just push the first line of the item further over to the right. This
  380. % is really very easy indeed -- we just stick some |\hfil| space on the
  381. % right hand side (to left align if the label comes up too short). The
  382. % `push' behaviour is handled automatically by \LaTeX's item handling.
  383. %
  384. % \begin{macrocode}
  385. \def\pushlabel#1{{#1}\hfil}
  386. % \end{macrocode}
  387. %
  388. % \end{macro}
  389. %
  390. % \subsubsection{The main environment}
  391. %
  392. % \begin{macro}{\desclabelstyle}
  393. %
  394. % This is a declaration intended to be used only in the argument to the
  395. % \env{basedescript} environment. It sets the label style for the list.
  396. % All we do is take the argument and assign it to a magic control sequence
  397. % which \env{basedescript} will understand later.
  398. %
  399. % \begin{macrocode}
  400. \def\desclabelstyle#1{\def\desc@labelstyle{#1}}
  401. % \end{macrocode}
  402. %
  403. % \end{macro}
  404. %
  405. % \begin{macro}{\desclabelwidth}
  406. %
  407. % We set the label width and various other bits of information which will
  408. % make all the bits of the description line up beautifully. We set
  409. % |\labelwidth| to the value we're given (using |\setlength|, so that
  410. % people can use the \package{calc} package if they so wish), and make
  411. % the |\leftmargin| equal $|\labelwidth|+|\labelsep|$.
  412. %
  413. % \begin{macrocode}
  414. \def\desclabelwidth#1{%
  415. \setlength\labelwidth{#1}%
  416. \leftmargin\labelwidth%
  417. \advance\leftmargin\labelsep%
  418. }
  419. % \end{macrocode}
  420. %
  421. % \end{macro}
  422. %
  423. % \begin{environment}{basedescript}
  424. %
  425. % This is the new description environment. It does almost everything you
  426. % could want from a description environment, I think. The argument is a
  427. % collection of declarations to be performed while setting up the list.
  428. %
  429. % This environment isn't really intended to be used by users -- it's here
  430. % so that you can define other description environments in terms of it,
  431. %
  432. % The environment is defined in two bits -- the `start' bit here simply
  433. % starts the list and inserts the user declarations in an appropriate
  434. % point, although sensible details will be inerted if the argument was
  435. % empty.
  436. %
  437. % \begin{macrocode}
  438. \def\basedescript#1{%
  439. % \end{macrocode}
  440. %
  441. % We must start the list. If the |\item| command's optional argument is
  442. % missing, we should just leave a blank space, I think.
  443. %
  444. % \begin{macrocode}
  445. \list{}{%
  446. % \end{macrocode}
  447. %
  448. % So far, so good. Now put in some default declarations. I'll use a
  449. % separate macro for this, so that the global appearance of lists can be
  450. % configured.
  451. %
  452. % \begin{macrocode}
  453. \defaultdesc%
  454. % \end{macrocode}
  455. %
  456. % Now we do the user's declarations.
  457. %
  458. % \begin{macrocode}
  459. #1%
  460. % \end{macrocode}
  461. %
  462. % Now set up the other parts of the list. We set |\itemindent| so that the
  463. % label is up against the current left margin. (The standard version
  464. % actually leaves the label hanging to the left of the margin by a
  465. % distance of |\labelsep| for a reason I can't quite comprehend -- there's
  466. % an |\hspace{\labelsep}| in the standard |\makelabel| to compensate for
  467. % this. Strange\dots)
  468. %
  469. % To make the label start in the right place, the text of the item must
  470. % start a distance of $|\labelwidth|+|\labelsep|$ from the (pre-list) left
  471. % hand margin; this means that we must set |\itemindent| to be
  472. % $|\labelwidth|+|\labelsep|-|\leftmargin|$. Time for some \TeX\ arithmetic.
  473. %
  474. % \begin{macrocode}
  475. \itemindent\labelwidth%
  476. \advance\itemindent\labelsep%
  477. \advance\itemindent-\leftmargin%
  478. % \end{macrocode}
  479. %
  480. % Now we must set up the label typesetting. We'll take the |\makelabel|
  481. % provided by the user, remember it, and then redefine |\makelabel| in
  482. % terms of the |\desclabelstyle| and the saved |\makelabel|.
  483. %
  484. % \begin{macrocode}
  485. \let\desc@makelabel\makelabel%
  486. \def\makelabel##1{\desc@labelstyle{\desc@makelabel{##1}}}%
  487. % \end{macrocode}
  488. %
  489. % I can't think of anything else which needs doing, so I'll call it a day
  490. % there.
  491. %
  492. % \begin{macrocode}
  493. }%
  494. }
  495. % \end{macrocode}
  496. %
  497. % Now we define the `end-bit' of the environment. Since all we need to do
  498. % is to close the list, we can be ever-so slightly clever and use |\let|.
  499. %
  500. % \begin{macrocode}
  501. \let\endbasedescript\endlist
  502. % \end{macrocode}
  503. %
  504. % Note that with these definitions, the standard \env{description}
  505. % environment can be emulated by saying simply:
  506. % \begin{listing}
  507. %\renewenvironment{description}{%
  508. % \begin{basedescript}{}%
  509. %}{%
  510. % \end{basedescript}
  511. %}
  512. % \end{listing}
  513. %
  514. % \end{environment}
  515. %
  516. % \begin{macro}{\defaultdesc}
  517. %
  518. % Now to set up the standard description appearance. In the absence
  519. % of any other declarations, the label will `push' the text out the way if
  520. % the text is too long. The standard |\labelsep| and |\leftmargin| are not
  521. % our problem. We typeset the label text in bold by default. Also,
  522. % |\labelwidth| is cleared to 0\,pt, because this is what \LaTeX's usual
  523. % \env{description} does.
  524. %
  525. % \begin{macrocode}
  526. \providecommand\defaultdesc{%
  527. \desclabelstyle\pushlabel%
  528. \def\makelabel##1{\bfseries##1}%
  529. \labelwidth\z@%
  530. }
  531. % \end{macrocode}
  532. %
  533. % \end{macro}
  534. %
  535. % \subsubsection{An example}
  536. %
  537. % \begin{environment}{note}
  538. %
  539. % The \env{note} environment is a simple application of the general
  540. % description list shown above. It typesets the label (by default, the
  541. % text `\textbf{note}') at the left margin, and the note text indented by
  542. % the width of the label.
  543. %
  544. % The code is simple -- we take the environment's argument (which may have
  545. % been omitted), store it in a box (using |\sbox| again, to handle colour
  546. % changes correctly), set the label width from the width of the box, and
  547. % then create a single item containing the label text. The text of the
  548. % environment then appears in exactly the desired place.
  549. %
  550. % I've not used |\newcommand| here, for the following reasons:
  551. % \begin{itemize}
  552. %
  553. % \item I don't like it much, to be honest.
  554. %
  555. % \item Until very recently, |\newcommand| only allowed you to define
  556. % `long' commands, where new paragraphs were allowed to be started
  557. % in command arguments; this removes a useful check which traps
  558. % common errors like missing out `|}|' characters. I'd prefer to
  559. % be compatible with older \LaTeX s than to use the new |\newcommand|
  560. % which provides a $*$-form to work around this restriction.
  561. %
  562. % \end{itemize}
  563. %
  564. % \begin{macrocode}
  565. \def\note{\@ifnextchar[\note@i{\note@i[Note:]}}
  566. \def\note@i[#1]{%
  567. \basedescript{%
  568. \sbox\z@{\makelabel{#1}}%
  569. \desclabelwidth{\wd\z@}%
  570. }%
  571. \item[\box\z@]%
  572. }
  573. \let\endnote\endbasedescript
  574. % \end{macrocode}
  575. %
  576. % \end{environment}
  577. %
  578. %
  579. % \subsection{Compacted environments}
  580. %
  581. % Normal lists tend to have rather too much space between items if all or
  582. % most of the item texts are one line or less each. We therefore define
  583. % a macro |\makecompactlist| whuch creates `compacted' versions of existing
  584. % environments.
  585. %
  586. % \begin{macro}{\makecompactlist}
  587. %
  588. % We're given two arguments: the name of the new environment to create, and
  589. % the name of the existing list environment to create.
  590. %
  591. % The first thing to do is to ensure that the environment we're creating is
  592. % actually valid (i.e., it doesn't exist already, and it has a sensible
  593. % name). We can do this with the internal \LaTeX\ macro |\@ifdefinable|.
  594. %
  595. % \begin{macrocode}
  596. \def\makecompactlist#1#2{%
  597. \expandafter\@ifdefinable\csname#1\endcsname%
  598. {\makecompactlist@i{#1}{#2}}%
  599. }
  600. % \end{macrocode}
  601. %
  602. % We also ought to ensure that the other environment already exists. This
  603. % isn't too tricky. We'll steal \LaTeX's error and message for this.
  604. %
  605. % \begin{macrocode}
  606. \def\makecompactlist@i#1#2{%
  607. \@ifundefined{#2}{\me@err{Environment `#2' not defined}\@ehc}{}%
  608. % \end{macrocode}
  609. %
  610. % The main work for starting a compact list is done elsewhere.
  611. %
  612. % \begin{macrocode}
  613. \@namedef{#1}{\@compact@list{#2}}%
  614. % \end{macrocode}
  615. %
  616. % Now to define the end of the environment; this isn't terribly difficult.
  617. %
  618. % \begin{macrocode}
  619. \expandafter\let\csname end#1\expandafter\endcsname%
  620. \csname end#2\endcsname%
  621. % \end{macrocode}
  622. %
  623. % That's a compacted environment created. Easy, no?
  624. %
  625. % \begin{macrocode}
  626. }
  627. % \end{macrocode}
  628. %
  629. % The general case macro has to try slurping some arguments, calling the
  630. % underlying environment, and removing vertical space.
  631. %
  632. % \begin{macrocode}
  633. \def\@compact@list#1{\@testopt{\@compact@list@i{#1}}{}}
  634. \def\@compact@list@i#1[#2]{%
  635. \@nameuse{#1}#2%
  636. \parskip\z@%
  637. \itemsep\z@%
  638. }%
  639. % \end{macrocode}
  640. %
  641. % \end{macro}
  642. %
  643. % \begin{environment}{itemize*}
  644. % \begin{environment}{enumerate*}
  645. % \begin{environment}{description*}
  646. %
  647. % Let's build some compacted environments now. These are easy now that
  648. % we've done all the work above.
  649. %
  650. % \begin{macrocode}
  651. \makecompactlist{itemize*}{itemize}
  652. \makecompactlist{enumerate*}{enumerate}
  653. \makecompactlist{description*}{description}
  654. % \end{macrocode}
  655. %
  656. % \end{environment}
  657. % \end{environment}
  658. % \end{environment}
  659. %
  660. %
  661. % \subsection{Suspending and resuming lists}
  662. %
  663. % This is nowhere near perfect; it relies a lot on the goodwill of the user,
  664. % although it seems to work fairly well.
  665. %
  666. % \begin{macro}{\suspend}
  667. %
  668. % The only thing that needs saving here is the list counter, whose name
  669. % is stored in |\@listctr|. When I get a request to save the counter, I'll
  670. % build a macro which will restore it when the environment is restored later.
  671. %
  672. % The first thing to do is to handle the optional argument. |\@dblarg| will
  673. % sort this out, giving me a copy of the mandatory argument if there's no
  674. % optional one provided.
  675. %
  676. % \begin{macrocode}
  677. \def\suspend{\@dblarg\suspend@i}
  678. % \end{macrocode}
  679. %
  680. % That's all we need to do here.
  681. %
  682. % \begin{macrocode}
  683. \def\suspend@i[#1]#2{%
  684. % \end{macrocode}
  685. %
  686. % Now I have a little problem; when I |\end| the environment, it will close
  687. % off the grouping level, and the counter value will be forgotten. This is
  688. % bad. I'll store all my definitions into a macro, and build the |\end|
  689. % command into it; that way, everything will be expanded correctly. This
  690. % requires the use of |\edef|, which means I must be a little careful.
  691. %
  692. % \begin{macrocode}
  693. \edef\@tempa{%
  694. % \end{macrocode}
  695. %
  696. % The first thing to do is to end the environment. I don't want |\end|
  697. % expanded yet, so I'll use |\noexpand|.
  698. %
  699. % \begin{macrocode}
  700. \noexpand\end{#2}%
  701. % \end{macrocode}
  702. %
  703. % Now I must define the `resume' macro. I'll use |\csname| to build the
  704. % named identifier into the name, so it won't go wrong (maybe). There's
  705. % a little fun here to make the control sequence name but not expand it
  706. % here.
  707. %
  708. % \begin{macrocode}
  709. \def\expandafter\noexpand\csname resume.#1\endcsname{%
  710. % \end{macrocode}
  711. %
  712. % The counter name is hidden inside |\@listctr|, so the actual counter is
  713. % called `|\csname c@\@listctr\endcsname|'. I'll use |\the| to read its
  714. % current value, and assign it to the counter when the macro is used later.
  715. %
  716. % \begin{macrocode}
  717. \csname c@\@listctr\endcsname\the\csname c@\@listctr\endcsname%
  718. % \end{macrocode}
  719. %
  720. % That's all we need to do there. Now close the macros and run them.
  721. %
  722. % \begin{macrocode}
  723. }%
  724. }%
  725. \@tempa%
  726. }
  727. % \end{macrocode}
  728. %
  729. % \end{macro}
  730. %
  731. % \begin{macro}{\resume}
  732. %
  733. % Resuming environments is much easier. Since I use |\csname| to build the
  734. % name, nothing happens if you try to resume environments which weren't
  735. % suspended. I'll trap this and raise an error. Provide an optional
  736. % argument for collecting arguments to the target list.
  737. %
  738. % \begin{macrocode}
  739. \def\resume{\@dblarg\resume@i}
  740. \def\resume@i[#1]#2{\@testopt{\resume@ii{#1}{#2}}{}}
  741. \def\resume@ii#1#2[#3]{%
  742. \begin{#2}#3%
  743. \@ifundefined{resume.#1}{\ml@err@resume}{\@nameuse{resume.#1}}%
  744. }
  745. % \end{macrocode}
  746. %
  747. % \end{macro}
  748. %
  749. % That's all there is.
  750. %
  751. % \begin{macrocode}
  752. %</package>
  753. % \end{macrocode}
  754. %
  755. % \hfill Mark Wooding, \today
  756. %
  757. % \Finale
  758. %
  759. \endinput