October 2002 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

startappendices creates an extra empty page
by Rob van Swol 10 Jul '04

10 Jul '04

Hi, When is use \startappendices \stopappendices to create appendices, I get an extra empty page. Is there a way to solve this? If I put another chapter after the \stopappendices statement, then there is no empty page. See the following test: \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \chapter[]{Chapter} This a chapter \section[]{Section} This a section \startappendices \chapter[]{Appendix} This the appendix \stopappendices % \chapter[]{extra} % This extra \stoptext Any suggestions? Regards, Rob -- _____________________________________________________________ Rob W. van Swol National Aerospace Laboratory NLR Tel. +31 527 248252 P.O. Box 153 Fax +31 527 248210 8300 AD Emmeloord E-Mail vanswol(a)nlr.nl The Netherlands http://www.neonet.nl/

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Re: bigger font families
by Hans Hagen 31 May '03

31 May '03

At 02:19 PM 4/1/2002 +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: >Ahoi! > >Is there a way for other type classes than roman, sans, math and mono? >E.g. I need sometimes an additional casual/script/handwriting font family >(think of Lucida...) and would like to address it as style=\hd or like that. > >I tried to define it with usual typescripts and "hand" instead of "sans" etc. >but had no success. If such *should* work, then I'll review it and look for >mistakes, but if it *can't* work I must abuse one of serif/sans/mono. > >An other way would be mapping the script font to an "exotic" style like >\sc\it -- what do you think? there is \hw and \cg for handwritten and calligraphy, and you can define more if you want (peek into font-ini.tex); also, in some type-* files you will find casuals; in principle you can create your own names (we do that for things like semi fonts), so we do things like: \definetypeface [mainfont] [rm] [serif] ... \definetypeface [semifont] [rm] [semi-serif] /... that's the nice thing of typefaces/scripts, that you can cook up your own names. the rm, ss, tt cg, hw entries are predefined which means that they will be recognized and have associated commands, if you want more (with as restiction that they should have two char names) you can define them with \definefontstyle; in a similar fashion you can define \tfp|q|r if you want or even map names onto families (math) etc etc Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-ade.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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URL
by Michał Morawski 29 May '03

29 May '03

Hi, I want to see active URL in my pdf document in similar way that is used by <a....>....</a> tag in html So I have written \setupinteraction[state=start] then \useexternaldocument [doc:Molik] [http://zskl.zsk.p.lodz.pl/~morawski/local/Praca dyplomowa p. Molika.pdf] [Metody routingu unikastowego] then I try to use \from, \goto; \url and even if I see the link, it is not active then I try: \useURL [Molik] [http://zskl.zsk.p.lodz.pl/~morawski/local/Praca dyplomowa p. Molika.pdf] and \from, \goto; \url result is less or more the same. Where is the problem? What I have missed in documentation? Michal Morawski

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Re: MP Graph
by Hans Hagen 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

At 09:09 PM 10/28/2002 +0000, you wrote: >The attached file (which uses one of the standard mp-graph data files) >fails (see pdf) in a directory without texnum.mpx, but succeeds when that >file is present. I'm sorting (doing a diff) through the logs generated on >each run to see which is the best to report on. Maybe something has changed to graph.mp (esp the trigger for reloading it), in mp-form add a line at the top: boolean mant_font ; mant_font := true ; this will prevent loading form.mp (which is replaced by a sligthly extended version mp-form) and therefore loading of texnum Also in your graphic: use the simpler \startMPcode ... \stopMPcode and not the low level macros; also saves keying. if you have the *.d files and m-graph.tex on the same path, you can run texexec --mode=demo --pdf m-graph to get a test file Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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FAQ format
by Jens-Uwe Morawski 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

Hi, please find below a proposal for a XML-FAQ format. I hope it covers all suggestions Hans and Henning have made in the last discussions. More suggestions are welcome. notes: - the label= in <contextfaq> can be used for cross-references - the id= in <author> is a reference to the author database as requested by Henning - the modified= in <revision> should be used to highlight updated FAQs in a new ConTeXt-FAQ issue - there is only one key for sectioning, since IMO the "application" should know where this section (specified by id=) is in the document tree. This should allow easy reordering of the FAQ - and a question: what is the better solution for different types of parenthesis in TeX code; the 1st or the 2nd <texcode> block? Tschö Jens. <contextfaq label="jum-0001"> <head> <author id="jum"/> <revision published="2002-10-27" modified="2002-10-27"/> <keywords> <entry key="clipping">clipping</entry> <entry key="clip"> <tex>clip</tex> </entry> <entry key="externalfigure"> <tex>externalfigure</tex> </entry> <entry key="figure">figure</entry> </keywords> <section id="graphics-manipulation"/> </head> <body> <question> Is it possible to show only a part of an external figure? </question> <answer> The command <tex>clip</tex> allows to show only a part of a figure. You can either split the figure in rows and columns in order to show one of the resulting segments or you can specify a viewport directly. The following code tiles the figure in 3 columns and 2 rows and shows the segment in row 1 and column 2: <texcode> <macro>clip</macro> <sqbracket>nx=3,ny=2,x=2,y=1</sqbracket> <braces> <macro>externalfigure</macro> <sqbracket>yourfigure</sqbracket> </braces> </texcode> In order to specify the visible part directly you can use: <texcode> <macro>clip</macro> [hoffset=3cm,voffset=2cm,width=4cm,height=3cm] {<macro>externalfigure</macro>[yourfigure]} </texcode> </answer> </body> </contextfaq>

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Line break?
by mari.voipio＠iki.fi 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

This is probably "the dumbest question of the year", but I cannot find an answer in the manuals (beginner's and the real big one) and the mailing archives don't want to play with me today [Forbidden. You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/search.cgi on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.]. I badly need a working line break (comparable to the HTML tag ). In a side note in one of the manuals I found that \\ should work as line break, but it doesn't work for me, for example --- Example: To change 4-20 mA = 15 - 25 CONC\% to 4-20 mA = 10 - 30 CONC\%, key in the sequence\\ Calibrate/Parameters/Output signals/Current output\\ and then enter Zero = 10 and Span = 20. --- results in --- Example: To change 4-20 mA = 15 - 25 CONC% to 4-20 mA = 10 - 30 CONC%, key in the sequence Calibrate/Parameters/Output signals/Current output and then enter Zero = 10 and Span = 20. --- and that's not what I want. I'm open to other solutions as well, but I think I'd really prefer to have line breaks there (not least because I want to keep the code simple - other people will need to understand this too). Mari from Finland PS. Any hope with the mailing archive search?

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Re: [NTG-context] Line break?
by Hans Hagen 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

At 05:07 PM 10/31/2002 +0200, mari.voipio(a)iki.fi wrote: >On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Matthias Heidbrink wrote: > > > Try "\crlf". This and more is on page 37 in the manual > > "Context - an excursion". > >Nope, on *page* 37 there's some obscure chemistry (says the dummy). But >now that you all have shown me what to look for, I found it in *chapter* >37, Miscellaneous, on _page_90_ (under subsection 37.10 carriage return). > >Which explains why I couldn't find it - I'm almost too young to know what >a "carriage return and line feed" is and so I only used "line break" and >"linebreak" as search words and that doesn't help. And then I looked for >the line break under "paragraph formatting", not miscellaneous. > >Now I only feel somewhat dumb because I didn't find it myself (because >I've tried pretty hard), this was a Windows generation problem. :-) > > >If \break really works, I'll prefer using that because it will be more >transparent to other users, but I thank everybody for speedy replies - at >least the mailing list works even if the archives don't. \crlf also adds a strut and is less sentitive to those underful messages, Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Polish language
by Michał Morawski 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Hi, As I have read in the file minstall.pdf I have tried to generate polish format by: texexec --make --language=pl,uk --bodyfont=plr en However in the log file I see: language : language en is active ("en" instead of "pl") What do I do wrong? Thanks in advance Michał Morawski ############################################ ## Michał Morawski ## 95-200 Pabianice, Sempołowskiej 5 m 13 ## tel/fax ++48 42 2262228 ############################################ Wszystko, co idzie źle sprawia wrażenie, że idzie dobrze.

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Termn "C++" in index
by Matthias Heidbrink 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Hi, possibly a trivial question, but can't find it anywhere: How do I get the term "C++" into an index? Unfortunately ConTeXT interprets the "+" as a separator for indexed terms and I did not find a way to escape it that did not confuse the index mechanism. Another remark: In my view "texutil --purge" should also delete the ...tuo file because otherwise ConTeXt does not recover from a defective index entry. Ciao, Matthias -- Matthias Heidbrink E-Mail: Bundesratufer 12 mh(a)cs.tu-berlin.de 10555 Berlin, Germany Tel. +49-30-8536361 Mobil +49-179-3981150

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XML mapping
by Martin Kolařík 29 Oct '02

29 Oct '02

Hi all, is there any way to map some XML tag into another one? Something like \mapXMLvalue, but for elements? Thank you, Martin

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