December 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

footnote disappeared when used in background text
by Xiao Jianfeng 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hello, I found that \footnote cannot work correctly as I expected. Here is my source file: %-------------------------------------------------------------------------- %\loadmapfile[gbk] %\usemodule[chinese] \setuppagenumbering[location=inright] \setupbodyfont[lbr,12pt] \setupindenting[big,yes] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbackground[state=start,background=screen,cornor=round] \setupinterlinespace[line=20pt] \starttext \startbackground some words \footnote{ some words some words some words some words some words some words some words some words some words} \stopbackground \stoptex %-------------------------------------------------------------------------- This file can compile successfully and produce a pdf file, but if you try to compile this file on your system you will find that the footnote disappeared. I'm using the latest version(2005.12.01). Is this a bug ? Regrads, xiajf

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Is conTeXt good for book writing?
by leon 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hi all, I'm completely new to conTeXt though I've heard enough good thing about it. Now I have a chance to write a book. I'm wondering is it more effective to write in conTeXt than LaTeX given I'm new to both. Can you point out some help document that can start me off? Thank you for your help. -- .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:. . * . . /.\ Merry Christmas . . /..'\ . . /'.'\ -- Leon . . /.''.'\ . . /.'.'.\ . . /'.''.'.\ . . ^^^[_]^^^ . .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:.

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float over both text and margin
by Vit Zyka 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hi. 1) I am unsuccessfully solving the problem of making float spanning both text and margin. More over, it is inside columnset... Example follows. Is there some solution? ----------------------------------------- \showframe \setupcolors[state=start] \setuplayout[margin=0pt,rightmargin=1.5cm,width=middle] \starttext \startcolumnset \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth \endgraf\blank} \placefloat[page]{none} {\framed [width=\dimexpr\makeupwidth+\rightmarginwidth+ \rightmargindistance\relax, height=\textheight] {Here I would like to be a float over both text and margin. How?} } \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth \endgraf\blank} \stopcolumnset \stoptext ----------------------------------------- 2) As a side effect I discover that in the following example the float is over the text (so some text is disappeared). ----------------------------------------- \showframe \setupcolors[state=start] \setuplayout[margin=0pt,rightmargin=1.5cm,width=middle] \starttext \startcolumnset \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth \endgraf} \placefloat[page]{none} {\framed [width=\makeupwidth,height=\textheight,background=screen] {Here I would like to be a float over both text and margin. How?} } \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth \endgraf} \stopcolumnset \stoptext ------------------------------------------- Vit

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fonts
by Alan Bowen 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hraban— > I'm finally updating my typescripts and font packages for ConTeXt, see > http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4&lang=en Should the apostrophe-steinem and the bitstream-vera files include map files (apostrophe-steinem.map, bitstream-vera.map) too? I get Warning: pdfetex (file qx-bitstream-vera.map): cannot open font map file and then complaints about not being able to create a long list of bitmap fonts, when I try to compile your vera-test.tex. Alan

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problem with font variants in setupTABLE
by Henning Hraban Ramm 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hi wizards! In my typescript I define a condensed variant: \definefontvariant [Serif] [cond] [Cond] That works fine if I call \Var[cond] where I need it. But if I try to setup a TABLE column like this: \setupTABLE[c][3][width=10em, distance=2em, style={\Var[cond]}] I get: ! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 136. <inserted text> \fi <*> &cont-en test.tex What's wrong? Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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\setupinteraction[state=start,focus=...]
by Peter Münster 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hello, it seems, that the focus-option is only for links in the pdf. How could one get the right focus even on startup of acroread? TIA for any hint! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Font Question
by Henry Blodgiitt 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

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Tex drawing tool
by Boris Pedrofiets 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hi guys, I run into a drawing tool, capable of generating metapost. It's on http://tpx.sourceforge.net/ . It looks great to me, soo I like to share this with you all! Has anyone got any experiance with it? B. _________________________________________________________________ Een audiogesprek? Pak Messenger, niet de telefoon http://www1.imagine-msn.com/Messenger/Video.aspx

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modes in newtexexec
by Johan Sandblom 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hello. Doing texmfstart texexec now appears to call newtexexec. However, newtexexec does not seem to handle --mode at all. Is it coming? Should I set it up so I can call texexec directly in order to use modes? Regards, Johan -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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Re: mfonts.tex from manuals
by Mojca Miklavec 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

piskala upendran wrote: > hi, Mojca > > The complain about the fonts is 8t encoding. use 8r > encoding. it should work ok. > > I got the palatino font using 8r encoding using the > following. > > \usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding] > \usetypescript [palatino][\defaultencoding] > \setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt] > > it should compile ok. Thank you very much. I replaced \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] with \usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding] which finally worked. Installing cont-fnt as Hans suggested didn't have any influence at all. However, now some really strange bug(?) appeared. \type{\whatevercommand} doesn't work inside \starttabulate ... \stoptabulate. This is only true for MikTeX, everywhere else it works OK. \starttabulate and \type{\whatevercommand} both work when they are used separately, but fail when \type comes inside \starttabulate. It may be that MikTeX is a bit "old" (27.10.), but there is no newer version available yet, so I hope that the problem will go away with the next version. Mojca ! Missing $ inserted. <inserted text> $ <to be read again> \atop \tabulatecontent ->\NC \type {\atop } \NC \NR \fulltabulatecontent ...dcontent \tabulatecontent \tabulatetailcontent \remo... \processtabulate ...sa \crcr \fulltabulatecontent \crcr }}\ifnum \nofautotab... l.4 \stoptabulate ?

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