November 2002 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

updates to Help Page
by Bill McClain 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

I recently finished a large project and have added new material to my ConTeXt Help Page at http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html. * Marginal notes. See a sample double-page spread at http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/csky-sample.pdf * X-Y positioning of graphics with layers and overlays. Sample jpeg version of a page at: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/csky-cover-large.jpg * Using \definestartstop. Example for blockquotes. * Table of contents with different sections. * Dropped caps. * Little things: \index placement, passing variables on the command line, using line numbering. * How to install the FontSite-500 CD font collection for ConTeXt, with an archive of scripts and sample files. * * * I just uploaded all this; please let me know if you see any errors. -Bill -- Sattre Press Tales of War http://sattre-press.com/ by Lord Dunsany info(a)sattre-press.com http://tow.sattre-press.com/

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Re: [NTG-context] setupinteraction breaks moving from 2001.11.13 to 2002.1.28
by Hans Hagen 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

At 11:37 AM 11/25/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Interactions in a simple document that work under ConTeXt version >2001.11.13 break under 2002.1.28. The simple document and logs for >both ConTeXt versions ("old" and "new") are attached - note the >entry "check : missing '=' after '\let...'" in "new". > >Any suggestions about how to fix this would be most appreciated. see previous mail, use \startinteractionmenu .... (see s-pre-* files) 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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setupinteraction breaks moving from 2001.11.13 to 2002.1.28
by Daniel Graham 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Interactions in a simple document that work under ConTeXt version 2001.11.13 break under 2002.1.28. The simple document and logs for both ConTeXt versions ("old" and "new") are attached - note the entry "check : missing '=' after '\let...'" in "new". Any suggestions about how to fix this would be most appreciated. -Dan

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additional structures, DocBook, etc.
by Bruce D'Arcus 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Another issue that's periodically come up, and would seem all the more relevant with the DocBook project (which will hopefully be incorporated into ConTeXt itself at some point): There are a number of structures that, AFAIK, do not yet exist in ConTeXt, but should. Ones that are a) in DocBook, b) broadly useful, and c) useful to me :-): subtitle author abstract (and other such meta info) epigraph Any plans to add these? It'd certainly make customizing DocBook output, ConTeXt stuff itself, easier as well as... And here's a wild thought (though I don't know if a good one): Why not link the meta info stuff to the forthcoming new bib system? I have a new article I'm working on in ConTeXt: I enter it in the bib database complete with abstract and a status of draft, and the meta information gets imported into the document. Bruce

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more on block quotes
by Bruce D'Arcus 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

This came up a few weeks back, but I quickly lost the conversation. Shouldn't the quotation environment work as it does in LaTeX? If one has a \startquotation after a paragraph break (white space, or \par) and a break after the \stopquotation, then the following paragraph should understood to be new, and hence requiring a first line indent. If, however, there are no breaks, then the quote is understood to be a part of the larger paragraph on either side of it, and hence the text after block quote is not indented. (And might this be default behavior? Relevant, say, if typesetting a DocBook doc with its blockquote element.) Seems to me this is easier and more elegant than specifying some option every time one wants to use the command... Bruce

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Re: [NTG-context] setupinteraction breaks moving from 2001.11.13 to 2002.1.28
by Hans Hagen 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

At 07:38 AM 11/25/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Interactions in a simple document that work under ConTeXt version >2001.11.13 break under 2002.1.28. The simple document and logs for >both ConTeXt versions ("old" and "new") are attached - note the >entry "check : missing '=' after '\let...'" in "new". > >Any suggestions about how to fix this would be most appreciated. the new (more flexible and robust) syntax is: \startinteractionmenu[bottom 1] \but [LastPage] \labeltext{help} \\ \hfill \but [SubmitForm{http://localhost.localdomain/cgi-bin/record}] ... \\ \stopinteractionmenu .... \defineinteractionmenu [bottom 1] [bottom] [state=stop] \setupinteractionmenu [bottom, bottom 1] no need for the bottom 1 in the setup..., since by default it inherits from bottom 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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setupinteraction breaks moving from 2001.11.13 to 2002.1.28
by Daniel Graham 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Interactions in a simple document that work under ConTeXt version 2001.11.13 break under 2002.1.28. The simple document and logs for both ConTeXt versions ("old" and "new") are attached - note the entry "check : missing '=' after '\let...'" in "new". Any suggestions about how to fix this would be most appreciated. -Dan -- Daniel A. Graham 238 Social Sciences TEL: (919) 660-1802 Department of Economics FAX: (919) 684-8974 Duke University daniel.graham(a)duke.edu Durham, NC 27708-0097

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Aligning things within tables
by drymartini＠gmx.de 22 Nov '02

22 Nov '02

I am trying to typeset tables using natural tables and XML. In the head of the table I want the text typeset flush left, but in the table itself I want the figures aligned on the commas. Can this be done? I see I can set the alignment for each column, but can I have different alignments for each row? -- WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT STELLA ARTOIS HERE.. This is a chemical wheapon against the working class ....

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tbook?
by Bruce D'Arcus 21 Nov '02

21 Nov '02

Just wondering if anyone has taken a look at tbook. http://tbookdtd.sourceforge.net/ It's a DTD, along with a collection of XSLT files and shell scripts designed for output to LaTeX, DocBook, and XHTML (complete with support for MathML, as well as xindy). My thought is that it might be an interesting XML authoring tool in conjunction for ConTeXt, though the current LaTeX XSLT files would have to be tweaked obviously. Don't know how much work is involved in that, but at some point I'll take a look. Something like this would be all the more useful, I assume, once we see m-bib v2 (sometime soon Taco?)... Bruce

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vanishing leftarrow
by Hans van der Meer 20 Nov '02

20 Nov '02

I did encounter something strange with leftarrow in metapost math: In normal text: All three arrows appear with $l\leftarrow r\rightarrow lr\leftrightarrow$. In metapost: The leftarrow does not appear, the others do in: \placefigure{}{\startMPgraphic u = 180mm; v = 40mm; label.bot(textext("$l\leftarrow r\rightarrow lr\leftrightarrow$"),(u/2,v)); \stopMPgraphic\loadcurrentMPgraphic{}\placeMPgraphic} How is that possible and how can it be repaired? Hans van der Meer

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