February 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: inlining pretty-printed XML
by Guy Worthington 18 Feb '03

18 Feb '03

I've looked at the verb-XML module, and verb-ini module, and have have seen hints that it may be possible to typeset XML code snippets, such as <table> into the main text. Is it possible to inline such XML expressions into the main text, using the same color setup as has been defined in the verb-XML macros?

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table column alignment
by Bruce D'Arcus 17 Feb '03

17 Feb '03

More on tables and such: Looking through "The Elements of Typographic Style," the author recommends tables be aligned on the decimal or flush right. If there is no decimal in an entry using the decimal alignment, in effect such a number is aligned as if it had a decimal. What you get is something like: 10 10.2 10.34 I cannot seem to do this in ConTeXt. It seem either all figures must have a decimal, or must not. Bruce

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Math Euler and mp-graph
by Adam Lindsay 17 Feb '03

17 Feb '03

Hello, Hans, all, I'm trying to finalise my euler-math typescripts and type encodings. It seems to work everywhere, except in metapost mode. It's a mystery. My latest math-eul and type-eul are attached, (play along at home! put them in your tex/context/third directory! Now with eulerbold!) and when the following is run with them, I don't get any decimals in the numerical labels. \usemodule [graph] \startMPenvironment%[global] \usetypescriptfile[type-eul] \usetypescript[eul] \setupbodyfont[eul,10pt] \stopMPenvironment \starttext \startMPcode draw begingraph(100mm,50mm); setcoords(linear,log); setrange(0,0.01,2,1.0); autogrid(itick.bot,itick.lft) withcolor .75white ; endgraph; \stopMPcode \stoptext ...I've tried the same code with math times and computer modern, and they work fine. Does anyone have a clue why metapost/metafun would be inserting something other than a normal mathperiod? That's the only guess I have as to where it might be happening. I spent a morning meditating on mp-form, mp-grph, and the like, but did not reach enlightenment. Can anyone else using m-graph confirm this behaviour? Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Inserting a mini toc into the chapter heading
by Guy Worthington 16 Feb '03

16 Feb '03

I'm stymied! I've looked at Hans' code for inserting a local toc into a chapter heading: http://ml-archives.mini.pw.edu.pl/ntg-context/msg04713.html I just can't get it to generate a local toc. Could someone please run the example. % output=pdftex \setuplist [section] [style=boldslanted, align=left, interaction=all, symbol=1, width=1em, pagenumber=no, before=, after=] \setuphead [chapter] [header=empty, style=BigHeadFont, alternative=command, command=\ContentsHead, page=right, after={\blank[2*big]}] \definefont[BigHeadFont][Serif at 36pt] \def\ContentsHead#1#2% {%\setupframed[frame=off] \framed[width=\hsize,offset=overlay] {\placesidebyside {\doifelsenothing{#1} {\framed[width=.6\hsize]{}} % dummy {\framed [width=.6\hsize,offset=1em,strut=no,align=right,background=screen] {In this chapter: \blank \placelist[section][criterium=chapter]}}} {\framed [width=.4\hsize,offset=1em,strut=no,align=left] {#1\par#2}}}} \starttext \title {Berend} \chapter {Berend} \section {Botje} \section {Botje} \section {Botje} \stoptext I've also a related question: Berend mentions a visual debugger, I want one! (by the way what is a visual debugger).

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\setupTABLE commands?
by Bruce D'Arcus 16 Feb '03

16 Feb '03

I've been looking for a summary of available commands in \setupTABLE, but can't find it. I had thought the following (modified from the nattab manual) would get me a table centered on the page, with spacing before and after, but it doesn't: \definecolor[back-1][r=.8,g=.8,b=.4] \definecolor[back-2][r=.8,g=.8,b=.6] \definecolor[back-3][r=.8,g=.8,b=.8] \setupTABLE[background=color, frame=off, framecolor=white, location=middle, spaecbefore=1*medium, spaceafter=1*medium] \setupTABLE[row][1] [rulethickness=2pt,bottomframe=on] \setupTABLE[row][1] [backgroundcolor=back-1] \setupTABLE[row][odd] [backgroundcolor=back-2] \setupTABLE[row][even][backgroundcolor=back-3] Bruce

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hyphenation with accented caharacters
by Henning Hraban Ramm 16 Feb '03

16 Feb '03

According to Hans' mail from 2002-08-29 ("hyphenation of words with accented characters") the following should work, but it doesn't: \hyphenation{ aus-zu-\uumlaut ben Gro\ssharp -bri-tan-nien } I get: ! Not a letter. \@texnansi@ssharp ->\char 223 l.23 \hyphenation{Gro\ssharp -bri-tan-nien} or: ! Improper \hyphenation will be flushed. \dontleavehmode ->\ifhmode \else \ifmmode \else { \mathsurround \z@ \everymat... \smashaccent #1->\dontleavehmode \bgroup \setbox \scratchbox \hbox {#1}\ifdi... l.22 \hyphenation{aus-zu-\uumlaut ben} What's wrong? Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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bibtex
by Idris S Hamid 15 Feb '03

15 Feb '03

Dear syndicate, I heard that there is a bibtex module for context somewhere, but I could not find an m-bib module anywhere in tex/base. Is there a bibtex how-to for ConTeXt anywhere? I have a LaTeX file to insert in the journal and I don't want my *.bib database to go to waste;-) Secondary question: Assuming that there IS a bibtex module, can I place separate bibliographies from a single .bib file for separate chapters. That is, from a single journal.bib, can I generate a separate bibliography for each article? Idris

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page references
by Idris S Hamid 15 Feb '03

15 Feb '03

Dear posse, For this journal, I would like to have a description of the journal placed at the bottom of the first page of each article. This description gives the name of the journal, volume, year, publisher, and the range of pages over which the article spans. Here is what I came up with: \def\JSSlogo{\vbox {\noindent{\it \IJSS} {\bf 1} (2003) \at[#1]--\at[#2]}\\ \noindent\copyright{} 2003 {\it by Global Scholarly Publications}} \definelogo[ijss][footer][left][command=\JSSlogo] \setuphead[title][after={\placelogos[ijss]} This seems to work in regular ConTeXt, but is there a simpler way? In Gamma I have a problem: the \at[#1]--\at[#2] line does not work with \pagereference[]. Here is a test: ============ \starttext \at{}[test1]--\at{}[test2] \pagereference[test1] \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \input knuth \par} \pagereference[test2] \stoptext ============= and the error: ============= ! Argument of \dodododoinatreference has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \doifelsenothing #1->\edef \!!stringa {#1} \ifx \!!stringa \empty \expandafte... <argument> ...ce \ignorespaces \rightofreference } {\egroup \dosymbolreferenc... \doifreferencefoundelse ...ce \ifreferencefound #2 \else #3\fi \egroup \dores... \dododododoinatreference ...eference {#1}{#2}[#3]} \referentieinfo <{#3}\glob... ... l.3 \at{}[test1] --\at{}[test2] ? ============= it appears to work if press `q' and enter, but that's no way to run TeX... Idris

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contents pagebreak before new part
by Ron van Ostayen 14 Feb '03

14 Feb '03

Hello all, Our conference proceedings are divided into several sessions (\parts) with several articles (\chapters) in each part. I'm trying to force a page-break at a certain point in a table of contents, just before a new part. However, if I put \completecontent[pageboundaries={3}] in the file, the TOC doesn't page break before part 3 but before every 3rd chapter of each part. Any ideas how to correct this behavior? Ron van Ostayen laboratory of Tribology, WbMT, OCP, TUDelft

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Extraneous spaces in XML documents
by drymartini＠gmx.de 14 Feb '03

14 Feb '03

I'm typesetting some XML text with comments in and for the working version the comments are to go in the margin. For the final version the comments are simply to be ignored. In the end result there is a noticeably larger space between the words where the comma had been. Apparently more than one space is reaching TeX's stomach, though it's beyond me to work out how. I suppose I need a more sophisticated \gobble definition than the simple TeXbook one, yes? ----file minimal.tex %now we will map XML arguments to context ones. \defineXMLargument [title] \title \defineXMLargument [footnote] \footnote \defineXMLargument [section] \section % et cetera.... % this definition for drafts where comments are printed %in the margin %\defineXMLargument [comment] \inmargin %this definition for the final version where the % remaining comments are ignored \def\gobble#1{} \defineXMLargument [comment] \gobble \starttext \processXMLfilegrouped {sample.xml} \stoptext --- file sample.xml <article> <title>Nonsense</title> <text> <section>A section </section> Makes complicated pages by starting with simple individual characters and putting them together in larger units, and putting these together <comment>what does he mean here, putting these together???</comment> in still larger units, and so on. Conceptually, it's a big paste-up job.<footnote>From The TeXbook.</footnote> </text> </article>

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