September 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

\setupheadertexts
by John Culleton 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

I want to have chapter names in the header text and I want them in boldface. This works: \setupheadertexts[text][{\bf My book}][chapter] but this: \setupheadertexts[text][{\bf my book}][\bf chapter] just shows the literal word "chapter". So how do I do this? John Culleton

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spacing in heads
by Patrick Gundlach 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Hello ConTeXt-hackers, why is there so much space above the word hello? Anybody know how to get rid of it? \starttext \setuphead[section][textcommand=\framed,before=] \hbox{\framed[width=5cm,height=5cm,align={middle,high}]{\section{Hello} why is there so much space above the word hello??}} \stoptext Patrick

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ConTeXt project structure?
by Gerben Wierda 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

It is probably my lack of brain cells, but I do not understand chapter 2 of the ConTeXt manual at all. Suppose I have a manual-like document and I want to produce different PDF-files out of it: 1. The book 2. The book in another layout 3. The book in screen format with navigation 4. A simple presentation with bullet points, one or more pages per chapter As I understand it I will need 4 environments: .../foo/bookenv.tex .../foo/book2env.tex .../foo/bookscreenenv.tex .../foo/presentation.tex and I can put each chapter in a component file, i.e. chapter1.tex, chapter2.tex etc. .../foo/chapter1.tex .../foo/chapter2.tex But here my understanding stops. - Should I create a project file for each of the 4 modes above? And put these in different subdirectories as in: .../foo/book/book.tex .../foo/book2/book2.tex etc.? Or do I use multiple environments in one project and I can get 4 PDF's as a result? Or are these multiple products (I would guess this, but how then to set it up)? Should my chapter files contain \startcomponent \stopcomponent and does that mean they are independently compilable? I have been reading and re-reading this, but the relation between project, environment, component and product keeps escaping me. Is there a good example somewhere?

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strange itemize
by Patrick Gundlach 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Dear ConTeXt hackers, I try such a simple itemize, but I do get a warning: check : missing or ungrouped '=' after 'serried' in line 6 (@@opitemiz but the documentation says: \startitemgroup[...][...,...,...][...,...=...,...] ... \stopitemgroup [...] <name> [...,...,...] a A KA n N m r R KR <number> continue standard broad serried packed stopper joinedup atmargin inmargin intro columns [...,...=...,...] see \setupitemgroup (1) And this is what I try: -------------------- \starttext \defineconversion[patrick][\numbers] \startitemize[patrick][serried] \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \stopitemize \stoptext -------------------- Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

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naming and distribution of typescripts
by Jens-Uwe Morawski 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Hi, Walter Schmidt has made the font DayRoman from Apostrophic Labs available to TeX. Currently the support package doesn't contain any ConTeXt support, i.e. typescripts. I've made for me a typescript for these fonts and now Walter is interested in including ConTeXt support in his package. His package is distributed as zip-file that can be directly unpacked in a texmf-tree. Thus, where should the typescript-file be located? In my private texmf-tree i use TEXMF/tex/context/user/typescripts/ and the file names start with "cts-" (i.e. cts-dayroman.tex). Is there some standard how to name typescripts and locate them in a texmf-tree, so that distribution of typescripts is possible in a controled way? BTW, i would prefer that \usetypescriptfile[dayroman] first tries to load dayroman.cts and if it is not available it tries dayroman.tex. Then we can use the extension "cts" for ConTeXt TypeScripts in the future. Best, Jens

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\digits
by Patrick Gundlach 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Hello, while browsing the source, I came across the very nice \digits macro. But I have some comments: In my opinion some characters don't look right \starttext \digits 123.222,= % short, OK \digits 123.222,== % should be em dash (?) \digits +123.222,22 % OK \digits -123.222,33 % too small \stoptext The + and - should be the same size. Any comments? Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

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MetaPost error
by ^Nitram^ 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Hello I'm very newbie in ConTeXt and I can't generate any document with MetaPost... For example: \startFLOWchart etc. I generate: makemem metafun I did texexec --make --alone metafun and I still have error: initexmf: don't know to dump metafun I can't find default mem file! Where I can set it or something else do to fix this ?... Best regards martin

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: Greek letters?
by Hans Hagen 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

At 14:00 04/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Hello Mari, > >On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > Mari Voipio <mari.voipio(a)iki.fi> writes: > > > Or something I should put around the command? > > > > You could put "math mode" ($\Omega$) around the command. But I am not > > sure if this will be taken from the default font. At least it is a > > workaround. > >I think, math mode is set up in the typescripts you use. If you use none >explicitely, you probably get computer modern (roman in text, math (italic?) >in math mode, so they are probably different). > >For the case you want the same style as in the text, and you know, which >font you are using, you can use something like the following to get a table >of available characters (to see, whether an Omega is available in your font, >and to note its character code) and then use its character code for the >macro \getglyph (first argument is the fontname, second the character >code). The following gets me an omega with the default font selection >(Serif is in this case cmr10): > >\starttext >\showfont[Serif] >The character: ''\getglyph{Serif}{10}'' >\stoptext this can be smoothed by: \definesymbol [omega] [\getglyph{Serif}{10}] ... \symbol[omega] ... in symb-*.tex you can see how to define symbols that adapt to the style; btw, such glyph calls also automatically scale with the font scaling mechanism 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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Re: AW: [NTG-context] Re: Answer too obvious?
by Hans Hagen 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

At 16:07 04/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Patrick, > >I hope so, too. Thank's for looking into it. in cont-new.tex add: (after the \unprotect): \unexpanded\def\referencepagenumber[#1]% {\doifelsenothing{#1}{?} {\preparepaginaprefix\??rf\paginaprefix\??rf[#1]\translatednumber[#1]}} then in your doc: \setupreferencing [partnumber=yes] shpuld work (many other commands have thsi feature; somehow it got lost in refs 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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Re: Problems with ConTeXt - anybody can help ?
by Hans Hagen 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

At 11:49 04/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Hello > >I have miktex 2.3 - work fine with built-in ConTeXt... >When I updated ConTeXt from zip file occurs errors in every run of texexec - >I attached log file... > >Anybody help me ?... looks like you still use the old format with a new cont-new.tex; try to locate the format file (efmt), delete it and generate a new one 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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