October 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Visual creators for ConTeXt
by ^Nitram^ 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

Hi, I promised link to creators for ConTeXt ;) http://www.im.ps.pl/context/?en (and http://www.im.ps.pl/context/ for polish users) But - please note - there is early pre-beta version ;) I will work to increase functionality and performance of this. It works in IE6 (tested) and Gecko engine browsers (but there are some errors in display). Tables: left mouse button - select, right menu. Flowcharts: left button - inside object - choice type and changing text, 'o' is a connect point... There will be more helps at the site (in the future) :) For now, just try by clicking ;) If anybody has some advices or wishes please contact - I hope I will implement much more than now. PS. I think I will re-implement whole code (now it is awful ;) ) - if somebody want translate to other languages please contact - it will be possible ;) -- Best greetings, Martin

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font distribution for Bitstream Vera
by Henning Hraban Ramm 24 Oct '03

24 Oct '03

Ahoi! There's now a ConTeXt distribution of Bitstream Vera freeware font at my site: http://www.ramm.ch/fiee/texnique/?menu=0-1-4&lang=en (Source of the font is gnome.org, redistribution is allowed, so I packed it.) Vera is similar to Verdana and Lucida; it contains Sans (4), Serif (2) and Mono (4). Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

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Typestting all ConTeXt modules
by kopszak＠mnw.art.pl 24 Oct '03

24 Oct '03

Hello, I know it sounds a bit weird, but I would like to print out the whole ConTeXt source as one book. So, before I try on my own... Are there any clever commands which could be helpful? Also, would it be possible to index commands in all modules? Piotr -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -----------------------------> http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/

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columns and alignment at the bottom
by Alexander Klink 23 Oct '03

23 Oct '03

Hi, I am trying to typeset a text which should look roughly like that: |-----| |-----| |------| |text | |text | |text | | | |-----| | | |-----| | | |-----| | | |-----| |text | | | |text | |-----| |------| | | | | |-----| |------| | | |text | |text | |-----| |-----| |------| So I have a frames with some text (actually, addresses - Hans, maybe you remember the address booklet I showed you here in Darmstadt) in three columns. So I tried something like: \startcolumns[n=3] \framed{first address...} \vskip 0.5cm plus 1fill \framed{second address...} \vskip 0.5cm plus 1fill \framed{third address...} . . . \stopcolumns Which (obviously because I use TeX code inside ConTeXt - shame on me) fails, the frames are not aligned at the bottom. So I'm looking for a way to typeset them with a distance of at least 0.5cm and align at the bottom - the remaining space should be spread equally... I hope the question is understandable and I hope someone has already done something like this... Greetings, ALeX P.S.: Hans, thanks again for the tutorial in Darmstadt - now I know about the layer and overlay stuff, I use it extensively :-) -- ... Alexander Klink ... undergraduate in Mathematics with Computer Science ... alech(a)alech.de ... at Darmstadt University of Technology ... alech(a)3komma141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974.de

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Expert version: How to make empty pages by default empty?
by Steffen Wolfrum 23 Oct '03

23 Oct '03

Hi Hans (probably the only relevant recipient), while Patrick Gundlach could provide me a solution for all chapters in one file there still is no idea how to do it within the project structure. See for example the following: The generated empty pages after the TOC (page 2), and after the last chapter (14 and 15) all have pagenumbers. Quite ugly. How to get rid of them? How to make empty pages by default empty? Steffen Minimal Example: \definepagebreak [chapter] [yes,header,right] \setuphead [chapter] [page=chapter, ] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \setupsectionblock[frontmatter][page=chapter] % doesn't work \starttext \startfrontmatter \completecontent \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \stopbodymatter \stoptext

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pagenumbers in oldstyle
by gmorais 22 Oct '03

22 Oct '03

Hello All: I would like to know how I can change the default pagenumbers to oldstyle ones (in my case their location is on footer). Thanks in advance Gonçalo

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conteni style
by V. Sharma 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

I am a newbie to context. I have a management protocol for transplantation patients which would be great if presented in a format similar to the conteni document. Is the setup for the same available or is this proprietary and not available? Are any other setups of similar functionality available as source files? I intend to use pdfscreen and lyx if this is not possible, however the layout and searchability of the conteni are far superior and would help the doctors on the ward if this can be achieved without me having to spend more than a weekend on this.context is a longterm goal of course but any help now will be greatly appreciated and acknowledged in the protocol. regards vivek

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Centering lines of poetry.
by John Culleton 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

Here is a deceptively simple requirement: An author writes poetry where lines are ended by a carriage retrun and stanzas are ended by a blank line. Problem: How to enclose those lines somehow so that all lines are centered yet font changes are allowed. Of course \centerline{} works but this requires tagging each line. Any thoughts, anyone? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Pagebreak after section followed itemize
by Michal Kvasnicka 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

Good morning. How can I suppress the page break between section and itemize, i.e. in a following case: \section{Summary} \startitemize \item bum \item bac \stopitemize Many thanks for your help. Michal Kvasnicka

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page arranging
by Alex Berger 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

Hi, I'd like to place 2 A5 pages on a A4 landscape page. I tried with \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] \setuparranging[doublesided] and some other options. But the best result I got were A4 pages with 2 *identical* A5 pages (was this the "duplex" option?) Now I have no idea how to get my wanted result---and even less idea why ConTeXt arranged the pages the way it did... ;) Thanks, aberThanks, aber. -- Alex Berger <alex.berger(a)gmx.at> jabber:alb@jabber.at icq:65271130

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