December 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Questions about the rsteps module.
by Fabrice Larribe 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Hi, I'm presently trying to do slide, and I need to make things appear by steps. So, I've found the rsteps module, but I'm having some problems to use it. Here are my questions. I appreciate any hints or help. 1) When I define a theorem in a slide with steps, my theorem 1 is theorem 2 at the second step. How to control this ? 2) I wish to use the same text to print (wihout steps) and with slide (with steps). If I comment the "\usemodule [rsteps]", the instructions \StartSteps \NextStep.. are unknown of course, so how should I redefine them ? I guess I should provide new definitions only for screen mode ? Is there a simpler solution ? . 3) On each slide, the header contains the page number, which appears only at the last step of the slide.The same effect occurs with the footline which appears only at last step of a slide. Is there a way to correct this ? ie I wish the header and footer do not change, so the steps are more transparent. Thanks for help. Fabrice.

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\placepublications in appendix
by Peter Münster 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi, strange: \startbackmatter \placepublications \stopbackmatter works, but \startappendices \placepublications \stopappendices doesn't work. Any ideas? Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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How to realize this?
by R S Ananda Murthy 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hello, I want a new chapter to begin as shown below: Chapter No Title of the Chapter How to realize this in ConTeXt. Thanks for your help. Anand

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hanging=normal and hz
by Peter Münster 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hello, what is the syntax to get "hz,normal" ? I tried \setupfonthandling[highquality] and \setupalign[hanging,hz] but these two commands don't seem to change anything: \starttext \input tufte \setupfonthandling[highquality] \setupalign[hanging,hz] \input tufte \stoptext TIA for any help, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Standalone graphics
by David Arnold 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

All, If you have: \starttext \startMPpage metapost code \stopMPpage \startMPpage metapost code \stopMPpage \startMPpage metapost code \stopMPpage \startMPpage metapost code \stopMPpage \stoptext Is there a way to change all four output files directly to pdf without invoking a separate run of mptopdf?

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2 m-bib questions
by Peter Münster 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hello, here my m-bib questions: * The lost space after \cite[...], is it a bug or a feature? * I'm going to add some multi-lingual support to m-bib. My idea is, to replace in cont-XX.bst and bibl-XXX.tex "page" by "\pagename", "and" by "\andname" and so on. Is this method ok? If not, how should I do it (not too complicated please ;) ? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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pushed text in description
by Peter Münster 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hello, Taco said on http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector/66 that the new \txt should solve my problem, but I cannot find the right way. If nobody knows a solution, perhaps I'm going to translate the LaTeX macros to ConTeXt (at least trying to ...). Here is the LaTeX-code, that does the thing I'm looking for: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{mdwlist} \begin{document} \begin{basedescript}{\desclabelstyle{\pushlabel}\desclabelwidth{6em}} \item[Short] This is a shorter item label, and some text that talks about it. The text is wrapped into a paragraph, with successive lines indented. \item[Normal] This is a normal item label, and some text that talks about it. The text is wrapped into a paragraph in the same manner as above. \item[Rather longer label] This is a longer item label. It's somewhat an exception. As you can see, the text is pushed to the right, to leave some place for the label. \end{basedescript} \end{document} I would be glad about a ConTeXt-solution. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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widgets in layers (property)
by Peter Rolf 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hi all, I want to use widgets (tooltip, buttons,..) in some stacked pdf layers. My problem is, that the widgets are somehow not bound to the state of their layer. They are still active, even if the surrounding layer is deactivated. I add a mimimal example (it's best to open the 'Layers' tab in acrobat). The first layer with tooltip ist not active, the second one is active, but has no tooltip. Just move the mouse over the text and you can see the tooltip from the deactivated layer one. I have also tried it with a fieldstack, but 'annotations cannot be inside an XForm'. Any hints are welcome. Peter % interface=en output=pdftex % Time-stamp: <Freitag, 30 Dezember 2005 13:54:11; test.tex> % \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \def\Stackbox#1{\nointerlineskip\vbox\bgroup\wd#1=\zeropoint\ht#1=\zeropoint\dp#1=\zeropoint \dontleavehmode\noindent\box#1\egroup} \defineproperty[layer1][layer][title={one}, state=stop] \defineproperty[layer2][layer][title={two}, state=start] \newbox\Layerbox \startproperty[layer1] \setbox\Layerbox\vbox{\framed[width=160mm,height=120mm,framecolor=red] {\tooltip{First Layer with tooltip}{widget of layer one is active}}} \Stackbox\Layerbox \stopproperty \startproperty[layer2] \setbox\Layerbox\vbox{\framed[width=160mm,height=120mm,framecolor=green,frameoffset=1pt] {Second Layer without tooltip}} \Stackbox\Layerbox \stopproperty \stoptext %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: context %%% TeX-master: "" %%% End:

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bold sc again
by Peter Münster 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hello, finally I got bold small caps with the attached module. It's certainly a bad hack, but unfortunately I don't know nothing about typescripts, variants and other details about fonts in ConTeXt (it looks too complicated to me...). If somebody knows a cleaner way, feel free to update the wiki. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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'Glossary' on every page
by Gilles Pérez-Lambert 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hello to all, I have a problem: I want to add a kind of glossary on a book. It will be, in fact, an explanation of acronyms ('NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation' for instance). But... I'd want it on every page, only for the acronyms used on the current page (and alphabetically sorted if possible)... I tried using layers (with or without tying them to backgrounds), blocks (\begin... \end...), buffers, list of synonyms, etc. but I had problems with one of the requirements or another. :-) My first idea was to use blocks for each page : \beginABREV[1] NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation \endABREV \beginABREV[1] BLOB: Binary Large Object \endABREV and to use them with \useblocks[ABREV][\pagenumber] in the footer. To be sure to give the right page number to \beginABREV, I tried to define a label and use it, something like (from memory, I don't have my code near to me): \reference[abbrev\ABREVcount]% Put a label \beginABREV[{\ref[r][abbrev\ABREVcount]}]% and use the label to get the current page on subsequent runs. but I went on a nightmare of expansion problems... Plus it didn't eliminate duplicates nor sort the acronyms. But it would have been a start... :-) Can someone point me to the right direction? Thanks in advance, Gilles.

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