Re: stepdescription?

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:57:17PM +0100, Prof. Dr. Jobst Hoffmann wrote:
> Dear texpower-users,
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> to get a dimmed list with highlighted items. Now I wanted to do the same
> trick for a stepdescription-environment. 
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> Every thing works fine, but the contents of the brackets - the arguments
> of item - come out all on the same place near of the slide's bottom. Is
> there anybody with a hint?
The problem is how you define \mystep - which you didn't include. 
I have two solutions:
1) Straight forward - by using the "\NOT" line you get the opposite.
----
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[lightbackground,display]{texpower}
\def\mystep{\usecolorset{stwcolors}%
    \dstep[][\boolean{firstactivation}]%
    % \dstep[][\NOT\boolean{firstactivation}]% 
}%
\newenvironment{stepdescription}{%
    \begin{description}
    \let\origitem=\item
    \renewcommand{\item}{\mystep\origitem}%
}{\end{description}}
\begin{document}
\stepwise*{
\begin{stepdescription}
\item[Something] some
\item[Another thing] another
\item[Yet another thing] yet another
\end{stepdescription}
}
\end{document}
----
2) Using functions from tplists.sty (which is part of texpower)
----
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[lightbackground,display]{texpower}
\usepackage{tplists}
\makeatletter
\newenvironment{flipdescription}{%
    \tpl@collect@body\@flipdescription%
}{\global\@ignoretrue}
\newcommand\@flipdescription[1]{%
    \@fliplist{description}{#1}}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{flipdescription}
\item[Something] some
\item[Another thing] another
\item[Yet another thing] yet another
\end{flipdescription}
\end{document}
----

The benefit of using tplists is that you don't have to surround the
environment with \stepwise. tplists.sty defines step/dim/flip
enviroments for several standard env - like itemize, enumerate and so
on. (Read the header of the file.) Should I also include the same for 
the description environment in the next release of TeXPower?

Sorry for the late replay.

Hans - wishing everyone on the list a Happy Easter! 

-- 
   Associate professor Hans F. Nordhaug
   Department of Informatics, Molde University College
   <http://home.himolde.no/~nordhaug/english.php>


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