February 2004 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: Again: "hanging" for a lot of paragraphs?
by Steffen Wolfrum 20 Feb '04

20 Feb '04

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 10:45 20/02/2004, you wrote: > >"a secret feature" - great! > > > >So, sometimes it really is worthwhile to ask the same question twice :o) > > well, that way you learn more tricks on the way Yes, that's right. Those quick hacks on the way are often surprising little lectures. > >By the way: Any news from the placefigure-cookery? > > no > > Hans Hm, that's a pity. But I keep on asking for it if you don't mind? Steffen

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\setupsection ... works how?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 20 Feb '04

20 Feb '04

Hi there, while replying to a post on comp.text.tex I made the interesting discovery that \setupsection[section-2][conversion=Romannumerals] cannot be replaced by \setupsection[chapter][conversion=Romannumerals] even though chapter is section-2 ... why is it? Shouldn't it be possible to use those names? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Re: Again: "hanging" for a lot of paragraphs?
by Steffen Wolfrum 20 Feb '04

20 Feb '04

"a secret feature" - great! So, sometimes it really is worthwhile to ask the same question twice :o) Thank you very much Hans Steffen By the way: Any news from the placefigure-cookery? Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 21:55 18/02/2004, you wrote: > >Hi friends, > > > >there are for sure more sophisticated and more urgent problems, > >but my question to me is really a big problem. > > > >Isn't there anybody that knows a command or a work-around that could help? > > Hm, for some time there is a secret feature in cont-new.tex which i still > have to finish: > > \starttext > > \start > \setupparagraphintro[reset,first][\hangafter-2 \hangindent2em FIRST] > \input ward \blank \input ward \blank > \input ward \blank \input ward \blank > \stop > > \page > > \start > \setupparagraphintro[reset,next][\hangafter-2 \hangindent2em NEXT] > \input ward \blank \input ward \blank > \input ward \blank \input ward \blank > \stop > > \page > > \start > \setupparagraphintro[reset,each][\hangafter-2 \hangindent2em EACH] > \input ward \blank \input ward \blank > \input ward \blank \input ward \blank > \stop > > \stoptext > > The next option only works when you have the following patch in > cont-new.tex (Search for original): > > \def\dosetupparagraphintro[#1][#2]% > {\processallactionsinset > [#1] > [ \v!reset=>\global\chardef\everyparagraphintro\zerocount > \global\everyfirstparagraphintro\emptytoks > \global\everynextparagraphintro \emptytoks, > \v!eerste=>\global\chardef\everyparagraphintro\plusone > \doglobal\appendtoks#2\to\everyfirstparagraphintro, > \v!volgende=>\ifcase\everyparagraphintro\global\chardef\everyparagraphintro\plusone\fi > \doglobal\appendtoks#2\to\everynextparagraphintro, > \v!elk=>\ifcase\everyparagraphintro\global\chardef\everyparagraphintro\plustwo\fi > \doglobal\appendtoks#2\to\everyfirstparagraphintro > \doglobal\appendtoks#2\to\everynextparagraphintro]} > > > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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strange dependency between cbox and whitespace?
by Stefan Wachter 20 Feb '04

20 Feb '04

Hi all! I came across the following behaviour: cboxes seem to suppress white space in certain conditions. In the following example there is no whitespace output between paragraph no. 2 und 3. Yet, if I change \setupwhitespace to 'none' or if I do not enclose the paragraphs in cboxes then the whitespaces between the paragraphs appear as expected. Does anyone know a workaround for this 'strange' behaviour of cboxes? Thanks for your attention, --Stefan \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupinteraction[openaction={firstpage,FitHeight},state=start] \setupwhitespace[small] \setupblank[100pt] \def\Para#1{\cbox{#1 \dorecurse{10}{this is some paragraph text}}\par} \starttext \Para{1} \blank[big] \Para{2} \blank[medium] \Para{3} \blank[small] \Para{4} \stoptext

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aligned equation numbers in nath
by David Munger 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

Hi Giuseppe, I know it's still work in progress, but could you suggest me some workaround in order to number individual aligned equations in nath? Maybe some \label command that would work like this way: \[ \startalign x^2 + y^2 &= a^2 \\ \label[eq:bogus] a^2 &= R^2 \stopalign \] In \in{equation}[eq:bogus], blah blah No matter wether the other aligned equations are numbered or not. All I wish is to be able to refer to a single equation. Or maybe there is a way to set a kind of anchor? \[ x^2 + y^2 \setanchor= a^2 \] \placeformula[eq:bogus] \[ a^2 \getanchor= R^2 \] so that both equal signs be aligned. Something like this would be very nice. Thanks in advance, David

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blank page in doublesided mode
by Alan Bowen 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

In doublesided mode ConTeXt seems to insert a blank page at the end of a document when there is an odd number of printed pages. I have checked the English documentation and so far I have only found out how to force a page in order to produce an even paged document. I have yet to come across anything that seems to show how to stop ConTeXt from adding a blank page. Any pointers will be very gratefully received. Alan

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bfmath in nath
by David Munger 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

Hello, The following outputs a nice bold displayed omega (the first one), and a thin normal inline one (the second one): \usemodule [nath] \setupbodyfont [12pt] \definebodyfont [12pt] [mm] [mibf=cmmib10 sa 1] \starttext \[\bfmath \omega\] $\bfmath \omega$ \stoptext Note that replacing nath with amsl in \usemodule[nath] results in two bold omegas, so the problem has to be in t-nath.tex. Btw, this nath module is very useful to me. If I'd be able to do some debugging into it, I sure would. Could you please point me to some ConTeXt hacking references? Thanks in advance, David

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How to setup german documents?
by Stefan Wachter 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

Hi all! I have a very basic question which occupies me for more than a week now: How to setup documents for german language properly, such that: 1. the used input encoding is ISO-8859-1, 2. german special character are available, and 3. german hyphenation patterns are used. The setup shown below does not work: TeX is not able to hyphenate "Änderungsabnahme" and the \quotedblbase symbol is broader than its counterpart the \quotedblleft symbol. Thanks for your attention and help, --Stefan \setupoutput[pdftex] \enableregime[il1] \usetypescript[times][ec] \mainlanguage[de] \starttext äÄöÖüÜß quotedblbase: \quotedblbase quotedblleft: \quotedblleft \showhyphens{Änderungsabnahme} \stoptext

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Again: "hanging" for a lot of paragraphs?
by Steffen Wolfrum 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

Hi friends, there are for sure more sophisticated and more urgent problems, but my question to me is really a big problem. Isn't there anybody that knows a command or a work-around that could help? Thank you very much, Steffen Steffen Wolfrum <st.wolfrum(a)estfiles.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I know there is \starthanging xxxx \stophanging and \hangafter=1 \hangindent=1em xxxx. > Both commands need to be added to each affected paragraph again and again, right? > > Is there a way to have this hanging first line for a series of paragraphs - with just a kind of > > > \starthangingarea > > aaaaaa > > bbbbbb > > cccccc > > \stophangingarea > > > > In cases like bibliographies and alike this would speed up work a lot!! > > Thank you very much, > > Steffen Wolfrum > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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newbie question about xml
by Thomas A.Schmitz 19 Feb '04

19 Feb '04

It would be wonderful if I could find an easy way to translate my ConTeXt source-files to html. So I was wondering if going via xml would be a viable method. Unofrtunately, I know next to nothing about xml. I played a bit with Emacs nxml mode and tried to understand "xml in context," but a couple of stupid questions remain: 1) even with specialized tools like onyx or Emacs xml mode, will writing these source files ever be as easy as writing TeX-source? Is it worth the extra effort? 2) Can anybody point me to an example document written in xml that can be processed by ConTeXt? 3) If I understand "xml in context" correctly, one has to specify quite a few of the xml commands in a dtd so ConTeXt understands them. I had a look at x-contml.tex to see what such definitions should look like. So I wonder: if I have to tell ConTeXt about these commands anyway, wouldn't it be easier to simply write a perl script that does these conversions and translates TeX into xml? Sorry if these are dumb questions, but these are my very first attempt at xml. All best Thomas

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