January 2004 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Problems running context
by Adam Tee 21 Jan '04

21 Jan '04

Hi all, I'm having a number of problems when I run context on my documents I keep getting the following whenever a reference is required. systems : begin file Litreview/litreview at line 31 (./Litreview/litreview.tex ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> { \nummer ...lue {\@@thenumber {#1}\c!conversie }} { \countervalue {\@@thenumbe... \labeltexts #1#2->\leftlabeltext {#1}#2 \rightlabeltext {#1} <argument> ...anummer {\pageprefixes \pagenumber } \@@nmrechts \firstofoneargument #1->#1 \doattributes ...EA \csname #1#2\endcsname \fi {#4 }\dostopattributes ... l.4 \chapter[chap:litreview]{Literature Review} Is there any easy solution?? It happens with the bibliography as well but the final output seems correct. Adam

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page areas again
by Hans Hagen 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Hi, I uploaded a beta with a few more (rather small) modules. These provide a framework for experiments (which i guess Willy will start doing immediately). \usemodule[layout] % todo bindingedge, have to think that over since it's an arrangement related and not layout \starttext \setuplayout[preset-1-1] test \showframe \page \setuplayout[preset-1-1][width=65\averagecharwidth] \setuplayout[preset-1-1] test \showframe \page \setuplayout[preset-2-1] test \showframe \page \setuplayout[preset-2-1][columns=10] \setuplayout[preset-2-1] test \showframe \page \setuplayout[preset-2-2] test \showframe \page \setuplayout[preset-2-2][columns=10] \setuplayout[preset-2-2] test \showframe \page \stoptext (texexec --modu --pdf lang-frq should provide nasty details; lang-frd is a nice playground for language specific widths) 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 to get an image format flowchar?
by wei jm 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Hello,everybody, I have a problem while using context to create some flowcharts. The beginning of my tex source file looks like: \setupoutput[pdftex] \usemodule[chart] Naturally I got a flowchart in pdf version. But a pdf version flowchart is not suitable for inserting into a paper or a report. Then I try to use software to convert it from pdf format into some other imgage formats. But none of them was satisfied. I wonder how can I direct get a flowchart in some imgage formats (e.g. in png, jpg format) from the source tex file. Are there some tricks in the settings of the tex source file? Thanks in advance! Best regards 　　　　　　　　wei jm 　　　　　　　　wei(a)uni-duisburg.de 　　　　　　　　2004-01-20

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Unable to customize publication list
by Giuseppe Bilotta 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Hi, another m-bib problem from it.comp.software.tex ... it seems that none of the "list customizations" options (i.e. neither the \setuppublicationlist nor \setuplist[pubs] allows to change the numbercommand parameter (e.g. to put brackets around the bibref number in the list); a quick glance at the log shows that the numbercommand is getting overruled by \initializepublist ... how to cope with this? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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two problems - vertical align
by nn＠rtfm.cz 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

hi, I have two problems and I will be pleased if someone could help me. I'm working on my final work for school and the first problem: \title Abstrakt (in Czech) \title Abstract (in English) I need to have both of them on one page! (each about 10 lines of text) but ConTeXt makes two pages :-) ----- My second problem is that I have a page width about 10 lines of text where I give thanks to everyone who participates on my work and I need that paragraph align to the bottom of the page I have tryed this: \setupalign[bottom] but nothing was happen :-( I'm using Linux Debian and This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) (format=cont-en 2004.1.16) 20 JAN 2004 10:59 ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2004.1.16 int: english mes: english thank you very much for your time! Vitek

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Localizing the bibliography
by Giuseppe Bilotta 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Hi all, as a follow-up to a request on it.comp.software.tex (ya know, I managed to trick a couple of Italians in using ConTeXt ;)): the m-bib module and companion files have a bunch of strings that get inserted in the bibliography list; some of them are localizable (e.g. the "and" or the "et.al."), others are not; the idea would be that all the strings should be localizable; a couple of nonparametrized strings that come to mind are "pages" or "PhD thesis". -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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typearea
by Peter Münster 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Hello, I'm just switching from LaTeX to ConTeXt. Is there already a module with similar functionalities as the typearea¹ package that comes with LaTeX? ¹ typearea comes with KOMA-Script and permits to automatically calculate the right margins with respect to some typographic rules. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ------------------------------------ Film Search site: http://f-s.sf.net/

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how to get an image form flowchart
by wei jm 20 Jan '04

20 Jan '04

Hello,everybody, I have a problem while using context to create some flowcharts. The beginning of my tex source file looks like: \setupoutput[pdftex] \usemodule[chart] Naturally I got a flowchart in pdf version. But a pdf version flowchart is not suitable for inserting into a paper or a report. Then I utilized software to convert it from pdf format into some other imgage formats. But none of them was satisfied. I wonder how can I direct get a flowchart in some imgage formats (e.g. png, jpg) from the source tex file. Are there some tricks in the settings of the tex source file? Thanks in advance! Best regards 　　　　　　　　wei jm 　　　　　　　　wei(a)uni-duisburg.de 　　　　　　　　　　2004-01-20

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Footnotes with(out) backgrounds
by Giuseppe Bilotta 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

Hello, a user on it.comp.software.tex just discovered a bug in handling footnotes when backgrounds are present. Brief example: \starttext \setupfootnotes[rule=on] \setupbackground[topoffset=7pt,bottomoffset=7pt] % \startlocalfootnotes[n=0] \startbackground La {\bf locomozione} è un tipo di spostamento reso possibile nell'uomo dal movimento coordinato degli arti inferiori, degli arti superiori e da movimenti di torsione del tronco\footnote{PAOLO CERRETELLI, Fisiologia dell'esercizio, 2001}. \stopbackground \placefootnotes Possiamo facilmente comprendere come questa descrizione rispecchi sia la meccanica della {\bf marcia} sia quella della {\bf corsa}\footnote{Altro commento}. % \placelocalfootnotes % \stoplocalfootnotes \stoptext The commented lines have been added by me during the testing; indeed, local footnotes work, but standard footnotes don't. Any ideas/solutions/whatever? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Re: [NTG-context] Multiple charts of different size
by Shivkumar Chandrasekaran 18 Jan '04

18 Jan '04

> From: Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> > > can you provide a minimal example of what you want? > > Hans > Oops! My fault. I had \setupFLOWcharts before \starttext, and I issued a second call to \setupFLOWcharts before I had used the first flow chart. I moved everything past \starttext and it all works now. Thanks, --shiv--

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