November 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

letter style
by Janko Hauser 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

Hello, my name is Janko Hauser, I'm a new context user, after many years of LaTeX :-) I want to use context for two different projects. 1. Produce styled PDF documents from a web-content-managment-system. This will be web-page based but also complete sets of pages to generate longer documents. One conceptual idea is to have something like a clip-board of visited pages, which can be printed as one document. Ok, this Zope-based site will be an effort going into the next year. I mention it only for background for the coming questions in the next months. 2. I want to generate my invoice and business-letters with context. I searched the mailinglist but the only note I got was a reference to "the last MAPS" which should contain an article about this. Ah and Hans has mentioned that there is something in the making :-) Is there already something to look at? Does someone know a direct link to the mentioned MAPS-article? Thanks in advance, I'm really looking forward to using context. __Janko

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bold math
by Sytse Knypstra 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

Hi all, I would like to use bold greek math symbols (I have the lucida family installed). In the `Fonts in ConTeXt' manual I concluded from page 12 that this should be relatively simple. However all my attempts failed: either I got the normal math symbols or I got all (roman and greek) symbols bold, whereas I want to use them alternately. I tried the description on the pages 13 and 14, but I couldn't get it working. I simply inserted `,boldmath' in the lucida typescript in the file type-exa and it gave me all symbols bold. I must admit that I don't understand much of what is written in the `Fonts in ConTeXt' manual. Can anybody give me a solution of how to achieve this? BTW. Shouldn't this feature be a standard one in ConTeXt? Thanks Sytse

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Easy lucida font use
by David Arnold 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

All, There was an easy way shared to use the Lucida fonts without having to do any special font or map generation via texfont. Something involving Adobe KB or some such thing. Can someone remind me?

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resolution
by Severin Obertuefer 10 Nov '03

10 Nov '03

Hi I made a context-file that contains a lot of *.jpg pictures. The file is very big now, because the pictures are in good quality. I'll use the document for the web and I think there you can see no more then 72dpi (I'm not shure with that) Is there a command to set down the resolution of the whole document (including the pictures) ?? or do I have to reduce the resolution of each jpg graphic with a graphic-program. severin -- NEU FÜR ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - für Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gruß, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden unter http://www.gmx.net +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++

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Simple problem using texexec to combine pdfs
by Martin Buchmann 10 Nov '03

10 Nov '03

Hello, i am rather new to ConTeXt but i had to try it after i met Hans in a little workshop about his system in Darmstadt this year. Thanks again for the insights Hans :-) Now i found out that texexec is also a pretty nice tool for combining single pdf files into one. So i tried: texexec --pdfcombine --combination=1*1 --result=felix.pdf *.pdf to combine all pdfs in the wd to felix.pdf. That's working fine besides the fact that a footnote is added to each page containing the file name and the date. That's maybe pretty handy sometimes but not for me at the moment. I checked the texexec manpages and the manual but i did not find the right command/switch to do it. May be i'm just missing some rooky stuff. Could someone help me out here? BTW: I'm using the latest TeXlive installation on RedHat. Best regards Martin P.S.: I know that i could change the temporary texexec.tex by hand and rerun that file. But that's a bit to clumsy for such a sophisticated system, isn't it?

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backgrounds
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 10 Nov '03

10 Nov '03

Hi all! Could You give me some hint how to setup different backgrounds for even and odd pages? Lets say I would like to have something like \setupbackgrounds[footer][rightmargin][background=screen] % for even pages and \setupbackgrounds[footer][leftmargin][background=screen] % for odd pages Thanks in advance, Pawel

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margintext drifting down the page
by Duncan Hothersall 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Hello all. I have an odd behaviour which I think I just about understand but can't fix. I use \margintext{Note that ...} to place little notes into the margin next to things in the running text. It has worked beautifully for all my content up till now, but I now find myself wanting to put a note next to a \bTABLE...\eTABLE and the margin text now drifts down so that it is beside the content that follows the table, rather than next to the table itself. So, \margintext{This works well} Normal running text takes a margintext without problems... but \margintext{This drifts down below the table} \bTABLE \bTR ... ... \eTABLE The margintext appears next to this normal running text... I'm using the latest stable release. I'd be happy with a workaround that enables me to have this appearance. I have tried putting a \strut in front of the table but this only shifts the margintext up a little bit. Is there something else I can do? (I tried wrapping the table in a \vtop, and in an \hbox, and in an invisible \frame, but no luck.) Thanks for any help. Duncan

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Czech patterns in TeXlive2003
by David Antos 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Hello, Petr Olsak has changed slightly Czech pattern file czhyph.tex for TeXlive2003, it's a bit `Babelized' now. It produces \errmessage for Babel's \addlanguage being \undefined. It also contains several ugly hacks to make both plain and LaTeX read \v and \' syntax for Czech accents, and finally it reads czhyphen.tex containing real patterns. The result is that generating ConTeXt format ends with the \errmessage. Simple workaround is to change alias in cont-usr.tex to pattern files from czhyph.tex to czhyphen.tex. My discussion with Petr Olsak suggests to make a more systematic correction: to add a test into czhyph.tex and make it directly read czhyphen.tex if ConTeXt is detected. This needs two things to make sure: 1. Is it OK to read patterns with \v and \' syntax into ConTeXt? 2. Is there a way to detect ConTeXt in order to put into czhyph.tex something like: \ifx\<something-typical-to-detect-ConTeXt>\undefined \else % for ConTeXt \input czhyphen.tex \endinput \fi Is there a more systematic/clean solution? Or shall I ask Petr Olsak to change this in the czhyph.tex file? Thanks, D.A. -- Science is what happens when preconception meets verification.

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enumeration and countproblem
by Bernd Militzer 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Hi all, Writing examinations I want to tell my students the points of each question and the max points they can reach. I wrote a macro which prints the points at the right side of the question and count the points. % % % ad the points of each question \def\getPunkte[#1]{\advance\summeP by \number#1} % % show the points on the right side \def\showP[#1]{\inright{\hfill(#1 P.)}} % % handle the points \def\pkt[#1]% {% \ifnum\ZeigeP=1 \showP[#1]% \ifnum\addP=1 \getPunkte[#1] \fi \fi% } % Using this macro in normal text like TestQuestion \pkt[5] it works without problems! But when I use this macro in combination with enumeration I run in a problem example: % \defineenumeration[question][location=inmargin,text=,width=fit] % \question\pkt[5] TestQuestion\par nothing ist count in this case! How can I fix this problem? Thanks in advance. Bernd

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"bug" in OC support
by Peter Rolf 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Hello all, just a small fix for the Optional content (OC) support. The keywords for the default state (visible or not) must be changed to uppercase letters. spec-fdf.tex: def\flushPDFtextlayers {\ifx\PDFtextlayers\empty \else ... \doPDFaddtocatalog {/OCProperties << % display in menu /D << /Order \!!stringa /On \!!stringb > ^^ > /ON \!!stringb /Off \!!stringc >> > ^^ > /OFF \!!stringc >> % used properties /OCGs \!!stringa >>}% Thanks to Hans for implementing it. It works perfect and I love it... Greetings, Peter

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