April 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

aligning table in middle of page using startalignment
by Mark A. Lilly 07 Apr '03

07 Apr '03

these don't seem to work. any thoughts? \startalignment[middle] \starttabulate[|l|p|] \NC First edition: \NC 3 June 2003 \NC \NR \NC Second impression, with corrections: \NC 2 July 2003 \NC \NR \stoptabulate \stopalignment neither does this: \startalignment[bottom] \midaligned{\tfx IP} \midaligned{\tfx Inkwell Press} \stopalignment \stopstandardmakeup thanks, mark

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delays in mail
by Hans Hagen 07 Apr '03

07 Apr '03

Hi, Last friday (two hours before i had to do a talk) my laptop crashed (win2k), so due to reinstallation there will be some delay in answering mails, 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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Inmargin command.
by John Culleton 06 Apr '03

06 Apr '03

The Context Mamual describes the margin block suite of commands as "under construction" (p. 235.) Have they in fact been improved and if so what additional usage notes if any are applicable? What version of Context has the improvements? John Culleton

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a common interface for pretty printing
by Guy Worthington 05 Apr '03

05 Apr '03

With the xtags-* pretty printing macros, I can't find a common interface for pretty printing. For instance, to typeset my XML code at a small size, and using a grayscale palet, I require three different setups depending on whether I'm using \showXMLbuffer, \typebuffer, or \startXML ... \stopXML. % override xtag-* pretty printing options \definepalet [xtag] [0=grayprettyone, 1=grayprettytwo, 2=grayprettythree, 3=grayprettyfour] \def\ShowXMLBuffer{\bgroup\tfx\showXMLbuffer\egroup} % local override of global verbatim typing \def\TypeXMLBuffer% {\bgroup \setuptyping[option=XML,palet=graypretty,style=\tfx]% \typebuffer \egroup} % global XML pretty printing \setuptyping [XML] [palet=graypretty,style=\tfx,indentnext=no] As you can see, although each is trivial to customize but they don't share a common interface with each other. Am I just missing the context-way of achieving the above pretty printing?

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

03 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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ConTeXt and expert fonts (redux)
by Adam Lindsay 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

Hi, all. I'm trying to come to terms with some expert fonts, and to map a strategy for dealing with them. Right now, I'm looking at the limits described by font-ini, and trying to see if I understand them correctly. Small caps are treated as a style of their own, which doesn't interact with \bf boldface the same way \it italic or \sl slanted do. With some of the pro fonts I'm starting to deal with (e.g., Cronos Pro or Minion Pro), there are small caps for each of \bf, \it, and \bi, as well as the normal \tf typeface. <http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/pdfs/1733.pdf> The existing model can be interpreted this way: | shape | weight|norm |slant|ital |caps | ------|-----|-----|-----|-----| norm| tf | sl | it | sc | bold| bf | bs | bi | | I'm not enthusiastic about the slanted shape in general, so I would draw another model, basically as a 2x2x2 cube, but rendered here in 2 slices: (lowercase) (smallcaps) | shape | | shape | weight|norm |ital | weight|norm |ital | ------|-----|-----| ------|-----|-----| norm| tf | it | norm| sc | ic | bold| bf | bi | bold| bc | bt | (who knows what the short name of the last cell should be?) I see this as being typographically more attractive than the dependence on \kap{} and similar commands (since the stroke weight stays much more consistent when you use the pre-defined, non-faked glyphs). So. How would I manage this? I guess I'm wondering if I'm going to get into trouble if I experiment with redefining \slfam, \ttfam, and \bsfam for my own nefarious purposes? Do other people see another way of handling things? Side issues, but related... In August 2002, Hans replied to Bruce D'Arcus: >>Why not in ConTeXt then? If one has a complete expert set of a font >>like Minion, shouldn't what I outlined above be the default behavior of >>a TeX macro system? Once TeX supports OpenType this will become all >>the more relevant... > >you can set up a lot, like fonts and conversions of numbers so it's possible, Am I right in guessing that I would find this in supp-num.tex now? It's interesting, and it definitely seems to be similar in spirit to the font- based switches for tabular (monospaced) vs. proportional figures that are enabled by these pro fonts. I haven't studied this in detail (texexec -- module completely fails on this one), but can it include font switching? Would that be the appropriate approach? Any thoughts? 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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odd behavior (i think) on part in table of contents
by Mark A. Lilly 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

hi Again, Thanks in advance for the help here. I have the following: \setuphead[part] [incrementnumber=yes] \setuplist [part] [alternative=f, aligntitle=no, width=0em, margin=0em, before=\blank, after=\blank, style=bold] \definecombinedlist [contentList] [part,chapter,section,subsection,subsubsection] [level=subsection, criterium=local] \setupcombinedlist [contentList] [partnumber=no] When i place this list (the table of contents), i get the Part to show up in the ToC, but it's weird looking. First, it is resetting the Chapter numbering at each new Part. If i set incrementnumber=no, then the Part doesn't show up at all in the ToC. Also, when the Part shows up in the ToC [when i set incrementnumber=no], each subsequent Part is indented the margin of the previous one (plus resetting the chapter numbering). Any thoughts? Thanks, mark

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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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Re: [OS X TeX] Context texfont disaster with i-Installer 2.15.0
by Hans Hagen 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

Hi Gerben, strange. let's see if there is a mac user on the context list who knows why ... Hans >On Monday, Mar 24, 2003, at 21:40 Europe/Amsterdam, Hans Hagen wrote: > >>At 02:26 AM 3/20/2003 +0100, Gerben Wierda wrote: >>>On Thursday, Mar 20, 2003, at 00:54 Europe/Amsterdam, Nigel King wrote: >>> >>>>Gerben, >>>>It would be really nice to run the commands >>>>texfont --encoding=texnansi --batch type-tmf.dat >>>>texfont --encoding=8r --batch type-tmf.dat >>>>texfont --encoding=ec --batch type-tmf.dat >>>>As part of the installation if context is being enabled since this is >>>>rather >>>>an important precursor to use. >> >>when done, >> >> kpsewhich texnansi-uplr8a >> >>should report a path > >The commands above fail: > >>[dumbledore:~/tmp] root# texfont --encoding=texnansi --batch type-tmf.dat >> >> TeXFont 1.6 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2002 >> >> trying to locate : type-tmf.dat >> processing aborted : unknown batch file >> >> --help : show some more info > >Any reason? The file is available: > >/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/context/data/type-tmf.dat > >G > >================================================================ >Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd >op virussen. >Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst >waar op wordt gecontroleerd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Euler math again (virtually)
by Adam Lindsay 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '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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