ntg-context January 2004

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extensie pl
by Wilfried Van Hirtum 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Als ik aan de dos-prompt typ: texexec voorbeeld dan krijg ik de foutmelding "texexec wordt niet herkend als een interne of externe opdracht, programma of batchbestand" met texexec.pl voorbeeld lukt het wel. Ik ben overigens een absolute beginner in context. Ik vind op het net echter nergens een echte beginnershandleiding die alles van naaldje tot draadje uitlegt. Het lijkt een wereldje waar je zelf alles moet uitzoeken. Is dit zo? Wilfried Van Hirtum --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003

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style questions
by Janko Hauser 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Hello everybody, Over the last days I started to write a "Requirement" document. I started from the example documents provided at the fiee-site, which are a big help. I use this as an exercise to see, what markup is actually needed in the content, to transform from XML documents later on. First some things I already solved, but want to ask, if it was in the right way. 1. I want to mark some words consistently and used the \definesynonyms command for this, although I only use the second form. \definesynonyms[glossar][explanation][\infull] \glossar [ZOPE] {\em Zope} {Web Applikationsserver} Is there a better way to style words consistently? I find it difficult to distinguish between \ZOPE\ and \ZOPE, especially for the possible later translation from XML. 2. In the example there is an indirection for the section definitions. \definehead [Topic] [chapter] \definehead [Nopic] [title] Later on the newly defined headers are styled. But they are used as the only headers throughout the document. So why not style the original ones? 3. I have defined colored header bars in the following ways. \setuphead [subject, Subject,section] [command=\mysec, page=no, continue=no, style={\ss\bs}, color=black] \def\mysec#1#2{\framed[width=\textwidth, corner=round, radius=0.05em, background=color, backgroundcolor=HKS5, framecolor=HKS5]{\startnarrower[1*left,1*right] #2 \hfill #1 \stopnarrower}} They are spanning the complete textwidth. What I now want is to have a smaller textwidth, but the bars should remain broader, as broad as the header and footer lines. Any hints? 4. How to deal with metadata, like author, version, last modified and so. Would you recommend to use buffers for this? This information is probably used on the title page and the footer of each page. Ok, now a real question. I want to style the actual requirements in form of a papercard, whith their actual status at the top. This would be an new definition with 2 or 3 arguments. But the requirements should also be enumerated. How can one build such an environment? Derive somehow from \defineenumeration? --------------------------------------------------------------- |ReqNbr | Title | status | date| --------------------------------------------------------------- | longer text .... with paragraphs and pagebreaks | --------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry for the ascii-art (cough :-). These cards should be able to span more than one page. In the light of this a table with running heads would also be an option, right? Thanks for this great package, it is a lot of fun and full of gems. TIA, __Janko

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Draw grid
by David Arnold 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Hans, This sample code will give you an idea of my last feature request for mp-tool. Often, I will design my schematic on graph paper, then start to code. But there are times when I like to work interactively, write a little code, test to see what I get, adjust, ... When I am in that mode, a grid is "very" helpful. Once I am through with adjustments, I simply comment out the line " drawgrid(0,0,20,10,1u,1u);". My drawgrid routine was stolen from the schema.mp file and adjusted for a quick fix (I am writing for a deadline again), but it works. But it would be nice if something like this were in mp-tool. Turn on your numbered grid, work interactively, turn it off when done. Very nice. Happy New Year! input mp-tool def drawgrid(expr xo,yo,nx,ny,sx,sy)= begingroup save cpen,result; pen cpen; picture result; cpen:=pencircle scaled 1pt; result:=nullpicture; for x=0 upto nx: for y=0 upto ny: addto result doublepath (x*sx,y*sy) withpen cpen; endfor endfor defaultfont:="cmr7"; defaultscale:=7pt/fontsize defaultfont; for x=0 upto nx: addto result also thelabel.bot(decimal(x),(x*sx,0)) withpen cpen; endfor for y=0 upto ny: addto result also thelabel.lft(decimal(y),(0,y*sy)) withpen cpen; endfor; draw result; endgroup enddef; beginfig(6); %initialize scale numeric u; 1u=0.25in; drawgrid(0,0,20,10,1u,1u); %draw line for measurement later draw (0,0)--(10u,0); %draw base for pivot path base; base:=unitsquare xyscaled (4u,1u); base:=base shifted (8u,-2u); stripe_path_a(withcolor black)(draw) base withcolor white; draw (8u,-1u)--(12u,-1u); %draw pivot path tri; tri:=(-1,-1)--(0,1)--(1,-1)--cycle; tri:=tri scaled u; tri:=tri shifted (10u,0); fill tri withcolor 0.85white; %initialize pendulum path pend; pend:=(9.5,-0.5)--(10.5,-0.5)--(10.5,10.5)--(9.5,10.5)--cycle; pend:=pend scaled u; draw pend; %draw pivot point drawdot(10u,0) withpen pencircle scaled 6pt; %draw spring block left path left; left:=(2,9)--(3,9)--(3,11)--(2,11)--cycle; left:=left scaled u; stripe_path_a(withcolor black)(draw) left withcolor white; draw (3u,9u)--(3u,11u); %draw spring block right path right; right:=(17,9)--(18,9)--(18,11)--(17,11)--cycle; right:=right scaled u; stripe_path_a(withcolor black)(draw) right withcolor white; draw (17u,9u)--(17u,11u); %spring path spring, link; link:=(0,0)--(0.25,0.5)--(0.75,-0.5)--(1,0); spring:=link; for k=1 upto 2: spring:=spring--(link shifted (k,0)); endfor spring:=spring scaled u; %left spring draw (3u,10u)--(5u,10u); draw spring shifted (5u,10u); draw (8u,10u)--(10u,10u); %right spring draw (10u,10u)--(12u,10u); draw spring shifted (12u,10u); draw (15u,10u)--(17u,10u); %draw spring contact point drawdot(10u,10u) withpen pencircle scaled 6pt; %label springs label(btex $k$ etex, (6.5u,11u)); label(btex $k$ etex, (13.5u,11u)); %label some measurement lengths pair A, B, C, D, E; A:=(1u,0); B:=(1u,10u); C:=(5u,0); D:=(5u,5u); E:=(10u,5u); drawdblarrow A--B; label.lft(btex $L$ etex, 0.5[A,B]); drawdblarrow C--D; draw (0,10u)--(2u,10u); label.lft(btex $L/2$ etex, 0.5[C,D]); draw (4u,5u)--(6u,5u); drawdot(E) withpen pencircle scaled 6pt; label.top(btex cm etex,E shifted (0,5)); endfig;

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Context update
by R. Ermers 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Dear friends, First of all, I would like to wish all of you a happy new year! The update of the most recent Context package (04.2.1.) + subsequent installation with Miktex (MiKTeX 2.1) does not work out on my system (Win 98). Miktex does not complete the installation of the context en and nl formats. The error messages follow below. Could anyone help me out? Thanks in advance! Kind regards, Robert Ermers ++++++++++++ Installation with Miktex, error messages in log file: system (E-TEX) : [line 473] \ifcsname ! Undefined control sequence. \@@su:*reset ->\widowpenalties \minusone \clubpenalties \minusone \in... \dosetups ...\csname \??su :#1\endcsname } \relax \next2 #1,->\dosetups {#1} \doprocesscommaitem \doprocesscommalist ...bbleoneargument #1, ]\relax \global \advance \c... \@@su:*default ...msetupsprefix \s!reset ] \widowpenalty \defaultwidow... \dosetups ...\csname \??su :#1\endcsname } \relax ... l.2084 \setdefaultpenalties % will happen later in \setuplayout No pages of output. Transcript written on cont-en.log. INITEXMF: pdfetex.exe failed on cont-en.tex ++++++++++++ Installation with the command: texexec --make --alone en nl or texexec --make -- alone en results in this error message: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=470502]. \setvalue ...er \def \csname #1\endcsname \@@expanded ...nded \setvalue {17.3pttttf} {\xxdododefinefont {1}{17.3... \dododododefinebodyfont ...scratchtoks }}} \else \global \letbeundefin... \next4 ...odefinebodyfont {tt}{17.3pt}{#1} \doprocesscommaitem <argument> \relax tf=cmtt12 sa 1, sl=cmsltt10 sa 1, it=cmitt10 sa 1 \doprocesscommalist ...obbleoneargument #1 ,]\relax \global \advance \... ... l.405 ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=470502]. \setvalue ...er \def \csname #1\endcsname \@@expanded ...nded \setvalue {17.3pttttf} {\xxdododefinefont {1}{17.3... \dododododefinebodyfont ...scratchtoks }}} \else \global \letbeundefin... \next4 ...odefinebodyfont {tt}{17.3pt}{#1} \doprocesscommaitem <argument> \relax tf=cmtt12 sa 1, sl=cmsltt10 sa 1, it=cmitt10 sa 1 \doprocesscommalist ...obbleoneargument #1 ,]\relax \global \advance \... ... l.405

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update succeeded
by R. Ermers 03 Jan '04

03 Jan '04

Dear Friends, In the mean time I have also updated miktex. Now everything seems to work fine. Sorry for bothering you. Robert Ermers

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