January 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

alpha release
by Hans Hagen 06 Jan '05

06 Jan '05

Hi, I uploaded an alpha release. Well, not that alpha, since i run it here as default, but this one has the bib files packahed. Some code moved to the system modules and some bits and pieces were cleaned up. Taco and I will discuss a further clean up / internationalization later. I hope that this fisex some of the reported problems. (next on the list is the nath module, but i wait till GB tells me to do so) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Figure captions
by Taco Hoekwater 05 Jan '05

05 Jan '05

Hi, Does anybody know how I can get a dot after the figure number in a caption, without 'promoting' that dot to figure references in the body text as well? I remember I've had this problem before, but that was a long time ago and I don't remember the solution any more. Greetings, Taco

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Re: ntg-context Digest, Vol 6, Issue 37
by Kai Straube 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Hans Hagen wrote: > can you try > > texexec --pdf --automp yourfile > > it may be that your context is configured for runtime mp processing while > your tex does not have write18 enabled Thank you for your answer, but this results in no other output ;-( Kai

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Bib module produces no output
by David Antos 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Hello, bib module of 30-8-2004 produces no bibliography list on \placepublications with ConTeXt 2004.12.17 (last stable) and/or latest beta. The workaround is to use \setuplist[pubs][criterium=all] somewhere in the setup. Can you please make including the whole bibliography make the default? I'm pretty sure that's what everybody expects :-) Thanks, D.A. -- Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. -- Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband

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Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip and pdfTeX 1.20b ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 04 Jan '05

04 Jan '05

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > Hi Hans, happy new year! > > > > When do you think you could provide us a mswincontext.zip > > that includes pdfTeX 1.20b ? > > when i have a pdftex 20b binary > > Hans I was asking for this on comp.text.tex and Hans Fredrik Nordhaug just told that MiKTeX has updated to version 1.20b. Steffen

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framed starts a paragraph...
by Adam Lindsay 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

hi all. What's happening here? \starttext hello world.\par \framed{hello} world.\par hello \framed{world}.\par \stoptext It looks like an extra \par is inserted after the first \framed. Is this new? (Using latest beta.) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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algorithms style : need \starttyping with TeX and math feature
by Maurice Diamantini 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Bonjour à tous, I'm trying to white some algorithms in natural language (versus pseudo-computing langage) I need to keep some "typing" for write space (i.e. indentation of text) while being able to white TeX commands (with \xxx{yyy}) and math (like $y_u(t)$) In fact I'd like some LaTeX algorithms style like feature. I could do some recursive \startitemize...\stopitemize... but it is two much verbose, so I thought looking at the ConTeXt "typing" system Also, perhaps my request is simply an option of \startlines which keep not only the lines break, but also the first spaces of each line (in a verbatim font fors these space) Thank you for any help! -- Maurice Diamantini

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Re: [NTG-context] mswincontext.zip and pdfTeX 1.20b ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Hi Hans, happy new year! When do you think you could provide us a mswincontext.zip that includes pdfTeX 1.20b ? Steffen Willi Egger <w.egger(a)boede.nl> wrote: > Hi Steffen, > > if my installation is not yet outdated: > > This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) > ConTeXt ver: 2004.12.06 > > then the annswer is no. > As you can see my installation based on mswincontext.zip is just 3 weeks > old. > > Kind regards Willi > > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am thinking about downloading the big complete mswincontext.zip > > (context/install/mswincontext.zip). > > > > Does it also include pdfTeX 1.20b ? > > > > I just want to be sure before starting a day long 56k-modem-download. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Steffen P.S. Happy new year!

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Sidebars and versals Oh my!
by John Culleton 03 Jan '05

03 Jan '05

Been working my way through the examples in the Columns Manual, the Details Manual etc. and had some thoughts on additional features. Versals come in many different flavors, of which the conventional dropped cap is just one. Even that facility could use a tweak. Conventionally, to provide a transition from the dropped cap to the normal text, the rest of the first word, or the next two or three words, or sometimes the entire first line is put in a small caps typeface. I cobbled up my own macro for this for a particular book I typeset: \def\drop#1#2{% \noindent {\head #1} \vskip -20pt \noindent \hangindent=1.7em \hangafter=-2 {\sc #2} } But this is not the only type of versal. Sometimes a large capital letter (perhaps in italics) is centered on the top of the textblock thus: \def\drop#1#2{\noindent\hglue .4\hsize{\tfd#1}{\sc#2}} Now there are other variations seen in fine books, such as a dropped initial cap partly or completely protruding into the left margin, often colored gray. The first macro above could be modified for a specific case. A general macro is more challenging. A matter of continuing interest is the sidebar, which can be placed in the outer margin, or flush left or right in a paragraph, or partly protruding into the outer margin. Usually these sidebars will have a gray background and often have a border. It appears that creating the sidebar separately as a pdf graphic and then importing and placing it would be the easiest way home. Context already has mechanisms for flowing or wrapping text around a graphic. How well the wraparound feature works when more than one short paragraph is involved I have not tested yet. In any case I will continue to explore these layout features, and if anything interesting shows up I will share. -- John Culleton Short list of publishing/marketing books: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

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mswincontext.zip and pdfTeX 1.20b ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 02 Jan '05

02 Jan '05

Hi, I am thinking about downloading the big complete mswincontext.zip (context/install/mswincontext.zip). Does it also include pdfTeX 1.20b ? I just want to be sure before starting a day long 56k-modem-download. Thank you, Steffen P.S. Happy new year!

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