April 2004 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

\index + \definedescription
by Pavel Stupin 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

Hello, In my document, I have a description defined in this way: \definedescription[DictEntry][headstyle=bold,location=serried,width=broad] I use the DictEntry description like this: ***************************************************************** \startDictEntry{Walters, Barbara (1931- )} a US television journalist known especially for her series Barbara Walters Special... \stopDictEntry \startDictEntry{Waterhouse, Keith (1929- )} an English journalist and writer of novels and plays... \stopDictEntry \startDictEntry{West, Rebecca (1892-1983)} an English writer and journalist. She wrote many novels... \stopDictEntry ... etc. ***************************************************************** What I would like to do is to automatically create an \index{} for every DictEntry so that every entry then appear in the register. Probably, I should use 'between' parameter when defining my DictEntry description, but I'm confused with what should be the proper argument in 'between=\index{???}. I would appreciate any help. Thank you in advance. Best, Pavel.

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ConTeXt and the blind
by Alan Bowen 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

I have very recently launched a new journal which has been designed on the assumption that it will exist in both electronic form and in print—hence, it is produced using ConTeXt and exists natively in PDF files. This morning I was asked by a colleague who is totally blind whether it would be possible to for him have ASCII or .txt files that he could use easily with his screen reading software. (My sense is that he may be able to use PDF files with this software, but that it is not easy.) So, does anyone on the list have ideas about how to produce such files from the files I currently have in hand or any experience with this sort of problem? Is there, for instance, a way to strip away all the formatting commands from a ConTeXt source file automatically so as to leave an unencoded .txt file that I could send him? I gather that he can use .htm files, but so far as I can tell there is no path from a ConTeXt source file to an HTML file—at least, a specific query about this made recently on this list by someone else seems to have gone unanswered. Cheers, Alan

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vim syntax file for ConTeXt
by Gour 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

By lookin' at mailing lists' archive I saw several posts regarding Scite as editor of choice for ConTeXt. Since I'm using vim, I'd like to stay with it, so does someone have some vim syntax file tailored for ConTeXt? Any ConTeXt vim user? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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Re: request for help with suffix arrays
by Jonathan Nicholl 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

> Message: 11 > From: "vinuth madinur" <vinlin(a)linuxmail.org> > To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:40:27 +0800 > Subject: [NTG-context] Re: help required w.r.t " vardef " > Reply-To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > > Thanks Hans! > That wolud help me a lot.Also thanks for the reference u > mentioned.I'll try it. > > Now one last thing : > > Is there a way of having variable arrays whose contents can be used > as "suffixes"? > > something like , > > a[0]:= "A" ; > a[1]:= "B" ; > a[2]:= "C" ; %a variable array "a[]" > > > there are other three "pair" variables : T.A,T.B,T.C; > > so now I want to have , > > i := 0; > T.a[i] = blahblah(); > > so here I want to use the contents of "a[]" as suffix of variable " T > " . > > I don't know what kind of data type to use for "a[]". > I tried a[] as string type and used it with > > forsuffixes $=a[0],a[1],a[2]: > ..... > endfor; > but this does not work. > > So, can u please help me out here? > thanx in advance. > > Vinuth. > -- > ______________________________________________ > Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org > This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. > > > Powered by Outblaze You could use 'scantokens': string a[]; a 1 := "A"; a 2 := "B"; a 3 := "C"; T A := 11; T B := 12; T C := 13; for i = 1 upto 3: show (T scantokens a [i]); endfor; end This produces the output >>11 >>12 >>13 The idea is to store the suffixes as strings, and then use 'scantokens' to extract them. Best wishes, Jonathan ----------------------- Jonathan Nicholl Department of Philosophy King's College London

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Generalized \installcompoundcharacter
by Matija Pretnar 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

With the advent of UTF-8, there comes a great possibility to improve readability of the TeX code. For example: instead of \int_a^b, you could write S_a^b, where S is the character for integral. Or greek letters and any other math symbol imaginable. I tried using \installcompoundcharacter S {\int} and similar commands and all the characters show up nicely, but the spacing is all wrong, because they are interpreted as variables instead of operations, relations, ... I think this replacement would be easy to implement (if it isn't already implemented), because with math symbols, you don't have to worry about hyphenation. You could simply replace the characters with corresponding command before sending it to TeX. I already made some kind of python script that does that, but for each file separately. And with many files, you have to preprocess each one individually, which sums up to another shell script and many temporary files. Cheers, Matija

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Re: help required w.r.t " vardef "
by vinuth madinur 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

I'm sorry that I hadn't read the mail by Jonathan Nicholl. Yeah, that was very clear and precise . thank u all. But I still can't figure out how I can have the contents of variables or the expansion of "def" as suffixes.I now think it's not possible with "def". I'll try out somethings now. Thanks again. Vinuth. -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Re: help required w.r.t " vardef "
by vinuth madinur 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

Thanks Hans! That wolud help me a lot.Also thanks for the reference u mentioned.I'll try it. Now one last thing : Is there a way of having variable arrays whose contents can be used as "suffixes"? something like , a[0]:= "A" ; a[1]:= "B" ; a[2]:= "C" ; %a variable array "a[]" there are other three "pair" variables : T.A,T.B,T.C; so now I want to have , i := 0; T.a[i] = blahblah(); so here I want to use the contents of "a[]" as suffix of variable " T " . I don't know what kind of data type to use for "a[]". I tried a[] as string type and used it with forsuffixes $=a[0],a[1],a[2]: ..... endfor; but this does not work. So, can u please help me out here? thanx in advance. Vinuth. -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Pragma-ade site down?
by John Culleton 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

I can no longer access the www.pragma-ade.nl site. What has happened? I recommended it to others and they were blocked also. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Moving chapternumber in the margin ...
by Willi Egger 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Hi everybody, Studying the details manual I thought to have found a way to print the chapter number on the margin. Each increase of the chapternumber would move the figure a predefined distance downwards. Now when using a \def{\dimexpr(\realpageno\rightmarginwidth)} my chapternumber moves down. Replacing the \realpageno with \currentheadnumber the chapternumber is not moving or only after a couple of pages ... Is there someone who could hint me how to approach this? Please refer to the attached sample file "bleedingchapternumber.tex" Thanks and regards Willi % pagenumbers in the margin at half makeupheight % % Context file % filename: bleedingchapternumber.tex % W. Egger % 12.04.2004 \setupoutput[pdftex] \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,12pt] \setuppapersize[A4][A3,portrait] \setuplayout[location=middle] \setupcolors[state=start] \def\shifted{% \dimexpr(\realpageno\rightmarginwidth)} % \def\shifted{% % \dimexpr(\currentheadnumber\rightmarginwidth)} \setuppagenumbering[state=start,location={footer,marginedge}] \startreusableMPgraphic{Pagenumberbackground} path p; p := fullcircle scaled 50pt ; fill p withcolor blue; p := unitsquare xyscaled 50pt shifted (0,-25pt); fill p withcolor blue; setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox currentpicture leftenlarged 50pt ; % draw bbox currentpicture withcolor red ; \stopreusableMPgraphic \defineoverlay[Pagenumberbackground] [\useMPgraphic{Pagenumberbackground}] \definelayer [Pagenumber] [width=\rightmarginwidth, height=\makeupheight] \startsetups Pagenumber \setups[Pagenumber:Number] \setups[Pagenumber:Finish] \stopsetups \startsetups Pagenumber:Number \setlayerframed [Pagenumber] [x=1mm, y=\shifted, location={right,top}] [width=\dimexpr(\cutspace-\rightmargindistance), height=\dimexpr(\cutspace-\rightmargindistance), foregroundcolor=yellow, background=Pagenumberbackground, frame=on, offset=none] {\framed[frame=on, width=.8\rightmarginwidth, align={left,lohi}, offset=8pt] {\placeheadnumber[chapter]}}% \stopsetups \startsetups Pagenumber:Finish \framed [width=\rightmarginwidth, height=\makeupheight, background=Pagenumber, frame=off] {} \stopsetups \setuptexttexts[margin] [] [\setups{Pagenumber}] \starttext \showframe \chapter{This is chapter no \headnumber[chapter]} \chapter{This is chapter no \headnumber[chapter]} \chapter{This is chapter no \headnumber[chapter]} \chapter{This is chapter no \headnumber[chapter]} \chapter{This is chapter no \headnumber[chapter]} \stoptext

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Two lines in header
by John Culleton 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

A current book has a title that is too long to fit in the textwidth when set with expanded spacing. I want to set up the even page header like this: 101 Home Based Businesses for Pet Lovers \break doesn't work. Two backslashes don't work. Suggestions? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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