January 2003 - 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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Euler math again (virtually)
by Adam Lindsay 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

Hi all. I was wondering if anyone else was interested in the Euler math font. I was a bit frustrated in its incomplete coverage of certain symbols (e.g. delimiters, radicals), but then I discovered the Virtual Euler Math fonts/eulervm for LaTeX. It yields a set of virtual fonts (zeu*.vf) that make the glyph set look a lot like the default computer-modern math fonts. <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ eulervm.html?action=/tex-archive/fonts/> I've come up with a math collection (math-zeu) and a combined typescript file (type-zeu) that seem to give good enough results. Does anyone do enough math typesetting to want to test "zeuler" out? I've gotten good enough results this evening, but I don't have a lot of sophisticated formulae lying around to do a full test. Does anyone have some semi- demanding (non-AMS-territory) math for me to try? Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)1524 594 537 atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Re: [NTG-context] What DTD for a thesis
by Hans Hagen 12 Mar '03

12 Mar '03

At 10:55 AM 1/20/2003 +0100, you wrote: >Hi, > >I'm considering of writing a thesis using XML (instead of plain ConTeXt). >What DTD is best suited? The main point is good output, but I want to be >able to convert this document to e.g. HTML without too much hessle. > >I thought about using ContML + MathML, but I'd like to know whether you >have a better suggestion. contml sounds ok to me; we use it here in project for some big customers; if you need additional functionality, let me know ... [btw, there are xml interfaces for flowcharts, stepcharts, chemistry, units ...] 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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Index sorting in Czech
by AlterEgo Qasars 10 Feb '03

10 Feb '03

Good morning. I have to typeset a document in Czech with index. How can I make the ConTeXt to sort it according to a Czech custom/norm? I tried to learn it from the ConTeXt source but I failed. Is there any help/documentation for it? To show what I need, see this please: 1) accutes: A and Aaccute goes in one section, but Aacute is after A (the same holds for E/Eacute, I/..., O/..., Y/...; U is special, since there is U, Uaccute and Uring). 2) carons: Ccaron, Dcaron etc. have thier own section. So there is one section for C, one for Ccaron, then is there D, then Dcaron etc. 3) Ecaron is no problem, since no Czech word can begin with it. But it goes in one section with E and Eaccute in a following order: E, Eaccute and Ecaron. 4) CH is in Czech supposed to be one letter. It stands after H. (There are some words where CH is two letters, but it can be ignored.) 5) There are much more rules, but they can be hardly algorithmized since they depend on a meaning. I can ignore them. Can some of you send me an example how to do it? Then I would try to implement it myself. Many thanks and greetings. Michal Kvasnicka

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de quoteing
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

Hallo! I have set: \mainlanguage[de] But Apostroph is still 6 not 9. How can I change this? How to change quotation to >> something << and quote to > some < ? Thank you for answering this beginer questions Wolfgang

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hanging punctuation
by Patrick Gundlach 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

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Presentations in context: Is there a reference manual?
by Luis Miguel Pires Neves 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

Hi! Is there any reference manual for doing presentations with context? I only got art-pres.pdf but it doesn't give many details. What is the purpose of \presentationstep? My first attempts using context didn't show great diferences with and without this command. Is it possible to define timings for automatic transitions between slides? Best regards, Luís Neves

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missing Dstroke & dstroke
by Gour 01 Feb '03

01 Feb '03

I'm slowly getting into using DocBookInContext module for producing PDF output out of DocBook sources. One problem which I encountered is that I cannot get proper characters for two Croatian national letters: Dstroke & dstroke which are rendered as "D" & "d" and I see in mfonts.pdf (Fonts in ConTeXt) manual on p. 22nd that these chars are also not properly rendered. Is it some missing feature in ConTeXt since I remember that similar thing was present with LaTeX and it required some special *.sty file since those two characters cannot be handled like the rest of TeX accents? Any hint? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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