March 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

compound titles, lists and headers
by Henning Hraban Ramm 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

Dear list, my publisher forces me to set different things as titles, in headers and table of contents. In some cases \nolist and \nomarking aren't enough. here are my actual definitions: ---- \def\Untertitel#1{\blank[3pt]{\ss\bf #1}\blank} % ok \def\Titel#1#2{{\nohyphens\chapter{#1}\Untertitel{#2}}} % ok \def\KomplexTitel#1#2#3{{\writetolist[chapter]{#3}\nohyphens\title{#1}\U ntertitel{#2}}} ---- with ---- \start \setupheadertexts[][manual entry][part][] % normally defined as [][chapter][part][] \KomplexTitel{Main chapter title}{chapter subtitle}{toc entry} Much text \stop % of other headertext ---- Real life example: \start \setupheadertexts [][Vorwort][][] \KomplexTitel{Die neutrale Schweiz und das globale Dorf}% {Vorwort von Prof.|~|Dr.|~|Heinrich Ott}% {Vorwort Prof.|~|Dr.|~|Heinrich Ott:\\Die neutrale Schweiz und das globale Dorf} ... Now there stay two issues: 1. I'd like to get a four-parameter command that can set the header text also. 2. I must get a line feed into the toc, but neither \\ nor \crlf works. Please help! Thanks. Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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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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m-bib sorting, etc.
by Bruce D'Arcus 26 May '04

26 May '04

Another question on m-bib: Is it possible to get the bib list alphabetized? Or is the only way this can work if the bib file itself is so, and I use the bbl sort option? Also, I am getting some weird vertical spacing in the list (like extra blank space between a couple of entries). Is there any suggested workaround for this? Bruce

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Typo in d-en-all.tex
by John Culleton 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

I uncovered an ancient typo. Here is a text fragment from the above document: \ShowSample {001} {A simple document} \ShowSample {002} {Setting up the page} \ShowSample {003} {Using the margin} \ShowSample {004} {Adaptive headers and footers} \ShowSample {004} {Some bookmarks} The 004 file is called twice, and the 005 file is omitted. Sounds like a case for 007 :-) John Culleton

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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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Re[2]: [NTG-context] Backgrounds
by Hans Hagen 21 Apr '03

21 Apr '03

At 07:52 PM 3/24/2003 +0100, you wrote: >Actually I did have a look at it (assuming you're talking about >textbackgrounds), but I found their behaviour to be rather >different from that of backgrounds even when location=paragraph. >For example, setting frame=on doesn't give me a frame, and it >doesn't seem to support rounded corners for neither the background >nor the frame. Also, setting a largish offset "covers" the text >that precedes the background, and this isn't nice at all. I think >that textbackgrounds and backgrounds serve different purpouses. > >And what about the other requests? (Behaviour at splits, different >corner styles) \starttext \setupcolors[state=start] \definetextbackground[gb][state=start] \startuseMPgraphic{mpos:par:columnset} for i := 1 upto nofmultipars : fill multipars[i] enlarged 5pt cornered 5pt withcolor green ; draw multipars[i] enlarged 5pt cornered 5pt withcolor red ; endfor ; \stopuseMPgraphic \input tufte \blank \starttextbackground[gb] \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par} \stoptextbackground \blank \input tufte \stoptext they split, can have corners, lay behind the text, ... only some spacing issues need to be solved (working on that on and off) 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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Patch to get MetaPost-inclusions to work
by Dennis Brakhane 08 Apr '03

08 Apr '03

Hi. I'm running Debian/GNU (unstable) and was trying to get the following file to work: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext Bla \startuseMPgraphic{bla} u := 1cm; z0 = (0,0); z1 = (0,1)*u; z2 = (1,1)*u; z3 = (1,0)*u; draw z0--z1--z2--z3--cycle; z4 = whatever[z0,z2] = whatever[z1,z3]; dotlabel.bot(btex $z_4$ etex,z4); \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{blubb} z0 = (0,0); z1 = (0,1)*u; z2 = (1,1)*u; z3 = (1,0)*u; draw z0--z1--z2--z3--cycle; z4 = whatever[z0,z2] = whatever[z1,z3]; dotlabel.bot(btex $z_{42}$ etex,z4); \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{bla} \useMPgraphic{blubb} Blubb \stoptext When the dotlabel-Lines do not use btex..etex, "texexec --pdf" works just fine, creating mpgraph.{1,2}. But if I use btex, the files are not created. I think I found the reason for this. When texexec calls etex to typeset the labels, the file mpgraph.mp is overwritten with a simple "end." Now, texexec keeps a backup of it but seems to restore it too late. I've moved the specific lines futher ahead. Now everything seems to work fine. Is this a correct patch or am I missing something? Greetings, Dennis Patch follows... (texexec version is 3.2) --- texexec.pl.orig 2003-03-29 15:39:32.000000000 +0100 +++ texexec.pl 2003-03-29 15:42:55.000000000 +0100 @@ -2200,6 +2200,9 @@ rename $MpTex, $MpBck ; unlink $MpDvi } } print " metapost : $MpName\n" ; + if (-e $MpKep) + { unlink ($MpFile) ; + rename ($MpKep, $MpFile) } my $cmd = "$own_quote$MpExecutable$own_quote" ; if ($EnterBatchMode) { $cmd .= " $MpBatchFlag " } @@ -2218,9 +2221,7 @@ { while (/^l\.(\d+)\s/gmois) { print " error in metapost run : $MpName.mp:$1\n" } } unlink "mptrace.tmp" ; rename ($MpFile, "mptrace.tmp") ; - if (-e $MpKep) - { unlink ($MpFile) ; - rename ($MpKep, $MpFile) } } } + } } sub RunMPX { my $MpName = shift ; $MpName =~ s/\..*$//o ;

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Mixed page formats
by cohsb＠gmx.de 04 Apr '03

04 Apr '03

Hi all, I'm creating a usual document with the page format A4 portrait. But I have 2 special cases. a) Some tables and figures do not fit on a portrait page, but should be "landscaped" together with their caption. The page header and footer should remain in portrait format. So, we have a "mixed" page. b) Some pages with figures are printed on A3 landscape, the paper is folded afterwards to fit into the binding. Now: Is there a method to handle that with Context directly without manually creating PDFs and insert them in a second stage in the document? I'd really like to avoid that to get the numbering right. Again, many thanks in advance for your advice. Cheers, Chris. -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage!

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header/footer suppression
by Guy Worthington 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

I can't get both a blank page inserted whenever a chapter finishes on an odd page and also suppress my header on the first page of a chapter. Here's my minimal example: ----- % output=pdftex \starttext \setuphead [chapter] [before={\page\ifodd\realpageno\else\page[empty]\fi\page[right]}, header=empty] \setupheadertexts [chapter] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, option=doublesided] \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \stoptext -----

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