September 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Support bei Einstieg in ConText
by ml-context＠dr-kopp.com 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Nach langem Winword-Leiden habe ich mich nun entschlossen für längere Texte auf ConTeXt umzusteigen. Aus Zeitgründen überlege ich, mir für den Umstieg Unterstützung zu leisten. Bevor ich bei uns an der FH Studenten dafür anspreche, versuche ich es hier über das Forum. Wer ist interessiert, gegen finanzielle Unterstützung bei folgenden Aufgaben zu leisten? - Unterstützung bei der Einrichtung einer TeX/ConTeXt-Umgebung - Beraten beim Layout für ein längeres Dokument - Bestehende Winword-Texte Schulungsunterlagen konvertieren und formatieren - Evtl. beraten bei Auswahl einer Digitaldruckerei Gruß Jörg

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penalties
by Hans Hagen 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Hi, There have been some requeste / demands / cries for more control over penalties lately. Since i needed something myself, i've implemented a mechanism for controling this. For the moment only at the outer level, but i'll add more hooks later. I have uploaded a beta that implements setups (well, this was already there, occasionallly even broken, but let's consider it public now). % output=pdftex interface=en \startsetups [something] \widowpenalty \maxdimen \clubpenalty \maxdimen \brokenpenalty\maxdimen \parfillskip \rapfillskip \stopsetups \startsetups [something] \setups[reset] \setpenalties\widowpenalties2\maxdimen \setpenalties\clubpenalties 2\maxdimen \brokenpenalty \maxdimen \stopsetups \starttext \setuplayout[lines=7,grid=yes,setups=something] \showgrid \nohyphens \dorecurse{2}{\input ward \endgraf} \page \stoptext The source-lovers may taker a look in cors-spa.tex and search for \startsetups; there they will see the two defaults, as well as that they may notice that the setups may depend on the grid being active. I'm not yet sure if i keep it that way. Now, the next thing is to decide how to deal with all those penalties; i can imagine that we collect interesting collections of penalties and so. 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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How \adaptlayout[*here*][height=+.5cm] ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi, is there a way to achieve \adaptlayout[*thispage*][height=+.5cm]? Maybe a kind of \adaptlayout[\getvalue{\pagenumber}][height=+.5cm] ? (Sorry, I am not so familiar with TeX commands...) Again, thank you for your help, Steffen

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strange tabulate
by Patrick Gundlach 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Dear ConTeXt users, I have a question (well, it was not really my question in the beginning, but I could not find any answers). The first tabulate gives me rules, the second does not. Which would not harm if this is documented. But in the MAPS article mentioned recently and in the up-to-date the examples clearly show that \HL should give me a horizontal line. What is going on? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \starttext \starttabulate[|l|p|] \HR \NC small \NC They say, small is beautiful. \NC \NR \HR \NC medium \NC It seems that the medium is the message. \NC \NR \HR \NC large \NC Large T||shirts are always sold out. \NC \NR \HR \stoptabulate \starttabulate[|l|p|] \HL \NC small \NC They say, small is beautiful. \NC \NR \HL \NC medium \NC It seems that the medium is the message. \NC \NR \HL \NC large \NC Large T||shirts are always sold out. \NC \NR \HL \stoptabulate \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Patrick -- nothing here

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What about \framed[align=outer] ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi, does anybody know a way to achieve something like \framed[align=outer] or \framed[align=inner] ? I would be very happy of this is possible! Steffen

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Editor for ConTeXt ?...
by ^Nitram^ 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi, Anybody know about any editor with ConTeXt support ?... For windows unfortunately... TeXnicCenter looks good, but there is support only for LaTeX... -- Best regards Martin

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block question
by Patrick Gundlach 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi ConTeXt users, I have a question concerning blocks: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% hello.tex %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \beginhiho Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec hendrerit tempor tellus. Donec pretium posuere tellus. Proin quam nisl, tincidunt et, mattis eget, convallis nec, purus. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Nulla posuere. Donec vitae dolor. Nullam tristique diam non turpis. Cras placerat accumsan nulla. Nullam rutrum. Nam vestibulum accumsan nisl. \endhiho %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% test.tex %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \starttext \defineblock [hiho] \setupblock [hiho] [file=hello] Test \useblocks[hiho] \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% gives no sensible output (only "Test"). What am I doing wrong? Patrick -- You are your own rainbow!

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Re: [NTG-context] \let \def \relax ?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Thursday, September 25, 2003 Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Hi, > for reasons of consistency I'd like to define a kind of master-line. > So I have everywhere the same proportions even when changing this master value. > My idea was > \def\MyGrid{15pt} > and to use it for example like > width=1.5\MyGrid > But this doesn't work (error massage mentions problem with units). > What is the right syntax for definitions like this? \newdimen\MyGrid MyGrid=15pt -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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\let \def \relax ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi, for reasons of consistency I'd like to define a kind of master-line. So I have everywhere the same proportions even when changing this master value. My idea was \def\MyGrid{15pt} and to use it for example like width=1.5\MyGrid But this doesn't work (error massage mentions problem with units). What is the right syntax for definitions like this? Steffen P.S. I'd like to use it in ConTeXt, but I guess this way of defining is pure TeX, right?

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Hans, why don't you...
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 25 Sep '03

25 Sep '03

Hi Hans! I found the following XML tabulate environment implementation in xcont-ml.tex file: ... \defineXMLsingular [context:tcell] [align=] {\appendtoks|\to\XMLtabtoks \processaction [\XMLop{align}] [left=>\appendtoks l\to\XMLtabtoks, right=>\appendtoks r\to\XMLtabtoks, center=>\appendtoks c\to\XMLtabtoks, middle=>\appendtoks c\to\XMLtabtoks]} ... How about para=>\appendtoks p\to\XMLtabtoks It makes it a little bit more flexible. Is there any reason You didn't add 'p' template token to the \processaction list? Regards, Pawe/l

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