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{{todo|This is sort of a stub article which I sketched out to remind myself what I wanted to write later. If anyone else wants to work on it, feel free!}}
Category:From LaTeX
< [[From LaTeX to ConTeXt]] | [[Document Titles]] >
== LaTeX ==
== ConTeXt: A more reusable solution ==
As with [[Document Titles]], to replicate the spirit of the LaTeX environment, we might want to separate the document formatting commands from the actual text of the abstract. The low-level Context command <cmd>definestartstop</cmd> defines a pair of <cmd>start</cmd> - <cmd>stop</cmd> commands, so we can define an <code>abstract</code> environment using the following commands: <texcode>\definestartstop [abstract] [before={\midaligned{todo|Write this whole section\bf Abstract} \startnarrower[2*middle]}, along after={\stopnarrower \blank[big]}]</texcode> This code can be placed in the document header, or can be placed in a module file to be loaded in a number of documents. It could also be enhanced by <cmd>if</cmd> statements to distinguish between the one-column and two-column cases, as LaTeX does. In any case, once these commands are defined, they can be used in the obvious manner. <texcode>\starttext\startabstractThis is the document's abstract. It contains enough text for two lines, but no more.\stopabstract This is the main text of the document. Like the abstract, it contains enough textfor two lines , to show the margins.\stoptext</texcode> This, of course, produces exactly the parallel section in same result as the previous illustration. [[Document TitlesCategory:From LaTeX]].}}
