Command/startspecialitem

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Summary

The environment \startspecialitem ... \stopspecialitem is an alternative for \startitem with different symbols.

Settings item

\startspecialitem[...][...,...] ... \stopspecialitem
[...] item
[...,...] reference

Settings none

\startspecialitem[...] ... \stopspecialitem
[...] sub its

Settings symbol

\startspecialitem[...]{...} ... \stopspecialitem
[...] sym ran mar
{...} text

Description

This is the start/stop form of some \item alternatives like \its, \sub and \txt.

Examples

Example 1

Wolfgang posted to the mailing list on 2024-05-05:

  • \starttext
    
    \startitemize[width=3em,symstyle=bold]
    \txt{1540} some event happened
    \txt{1541} some other event happened
    \txt{1542} some event happened quite differently
    \stopitemize
    
    \blank[2*line]
    
    \startitemize[width=3em,symstyle=bold]
    \startspecialitem[txt]{1540} some event happened \stopspecialitem
    \startspecialitem[txt]{1541} some other event happened \stopspecialitem
    \startspecialitem[txt]{1542} some event happened quite differently \stopspecialitem
    \stopitemize
    
    \stoptext
    

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