February 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

vertical offset on first page
by Peter Münster 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Hello, here the next problem: \starttext \starttablehead \HL \stoptablehead \starttables[|l|l|] \dorecurse{50}{\VL SomeText \VL SomeText \VL \AR} \stoptables Problem: top margin on first page is bigger. \stoptext Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Blocks in a macro?
by Michal Kvasnicka 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Good evening. How can I include \begin<block> ... \end<block> into a macro? I have defined: \defineblock[question] \defineblock[answer] \defineenumeration[question][location=serried, coupling=answer] \defineenumeration[answer][location=serried, coupling=answer] \hideblocks[answer] I'd like to simplify my code from \beginquestion \startquestion question ... \stopquestion \endquestion \beginanswer \answer answer ... \par \endanswer to \q{question ...}{answer ...} \q begin something like this: \def\q{% \beginquestion \question #1\par \endquestion \beginanswer \answer #2\par \endanswer } But no question/anwer is written into .tub file (only the beginning/end of those blocks). Any hint? Many thanks. Your sincerely Michal Kvasnicka

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Cross-reference to PDF via web
by Michal Kvasnicka 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Good evening. Is it possible to acces a inter-file cross-reference via web? I have some documents for my students, all created with ConTeXt. Each chapter in each document has a cross-reference. I can access one document from another via web like this: \goto{here}[URL(http://www.econ.muni.cz/\~qasar/vyuka/barro/barrografy.pdf)] Is it possible to go to some specific chapter? I tried \goto{here}[URL(http://www.econ.muni.cz/\~qasar/vyuka/barro/barrografy.pdf)::chap:somechpater] but it didn't worked. Is it possible to do it somehow? Many thanks for your answers. M.K.

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Re: [NTG-context] title, subject & table of contents
by VnPenguin 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 11:44:11 +0000, cormullion <cormullion(a)mac.com> wrote: > VnPenguin <vnpenguin(a)gmail.com> said on 2005-02-13, 1:02 (+0100 GMT): > > > ---------------------------- > > \setuphead > > [chapter] > > [number=no] > > ------------------------------------ > > and use \chapter instead of \title. So I can obtain the TOC. But I > > dont why there is no clickable link in the TOC at all :( > > \setuplist[chapter,section][interaction=all] ? Great! works well ;) Thank you so much, Q.

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title, subject & table of contents
by VnPenguin 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

Hi all, When I use: ----------------------------------------------------------- \setuplist [chapter] [before=\blank, after=\blank, style=bold] \setuplist [section] [alternative=c] \starttext \placelist[chapter,section][alternative=c] \chapter{One} \section{One A} Blahblah \section{One B} Blahblah \chapter{Two} \section{Two A} Blahblah \section{Two B} Blahblah \stoptext -------------------------------------------------------------------- I got TOC perfectly. But if I replace \chapter by \title; \section by \subject, I can not have a TOC at all. This is the code: ------------------------------------------------------------------ \setuplist [title] [before=\blank, after=\blank, style=bold] \setuplist [subject] [alternative=c] \starttext \placelist[title,subject][alternative=c] \title{One} \subject{One A} Blahblah \subject{One B} Blahblah \title{Two} \subject{Two A} Blahblah \subject{Two B} Blahblah \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Any ideas for help me ? Thank you in advance, Quy NGUYEN-DAI

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Re: [NTG-context] server down ?
by VnPenguin 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:25:08 +0100, Steffen Wolfrum <context(a)st.estfiles.de> wrote: > > Hi Hans, > > > I am trying to download > > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip > > > but there is no connection to pragma-ade.com or .nl at all. > > > Are you working on the server, when is it up again? > Me too I can't access to pragma-ade.com :( It's the time to think about several mirrors around the world ? Q.

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Re: [NTG-context] Thumb indexes
by cormullion 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban(a)fiee.net> said on 2005-02-12, 21:19 (+0100 GMT): > Perhaps describe a bit more exactly what you'd like to achieve. > As far as I understood: You want a black rectangle at the margin > that has no text in it, always same size, but moving position per > chapter? Yes. More precisely, chapter 1 - 5 would have a black box in the margin at the top right of each right page, then chapters 6 to whatever have the next box below, and so on. I usually do this ‘manually’ in a DTP app (by defining a set of master pages and applying them selectively to a group of ‘chapters’) but ConTeXt is clearly capable of doing it automatically. And I bet ConTeXt could also be persuaded to place white text on the box as well... I’ve read through the MetaFun manual. It’s amazing technology, but a bit too advanced for me at present.

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Russia (cyrillic letters)
by Rob Ermers 13 Feb '05

13 Feb '05

Dear Contexers, I am still struggling with a Russian text in koi8. The sample below, which I partially copied (from Mikael Persson's site) does not work. Can anyone help me out? Kind regards Robert Ermers ----------- \enableregime[koi8-r] \useencoding[cyr] \definetypeface [russian] [rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=t2a] \definetypeface [swedish] [rm] [serif] [latin-modern] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \setupbodyfont[russian] \starttext Some swedish text: {\switchtobodyfont[swedish]Jag tycker att Katja studerar d\aring ligt.} Some russian text: ÂÌÁÇÏÓÌÏ×ÉÔ áÌÌÁÈ ÅÇÏ É ÅÇÏ ÂÌÉÖÎÉÈ ÂÌÁÇÏÒÏÄÎÅÊÛÅÇÏ ÐÒÏÉÓÈÏÖÄÅÎÉÑ É ÄÁÒÕÅÔ ÉÍ ÍÉÒ %this sample works, but it's not koi8: Ìèå êàæåòñÿ, ÷òî Êàòÿ ïëîõî ó÷èòñÿ. \stoptext

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Right aligned caption text.
by Nikolai Weibull 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

I would like two different methods of typesetting the captions of figures. Short captions should be aligned in the middle, while longer ones (spanning more than one line) should be aligned to the right (well, ragged right...). What I did to achieve this was to \definefloat[describedfigure][describedfigures][figure] \setupcaption [describedfigure] [align=right] \placedescribedfigure [] [figure:...] {A long description of the figure...} {...} and this works fine (is there a simpler way?). What I would like now is to have the caption of describedfigure to have a small margin, so it doesn't quite fill the width of the described figure. I couldn't find this described in details.pdf (http://www.pragma-ade.com/ is down at the moment so I couldn't check for any other doc's either). Any suggestions?, nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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Fonts in ConTeXt!
by G.C.H.M. Verhaag 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

Beste ConTeXt gebruikers, Ik worstel al enige tijd met fonts in ConTeXt, en moet tot de conclusie komen dat ik er niets van begrijp, sorry! Heb ook geprobeerd diverse handleidingen m.b.t. fonts, zoals `Fonts in ConTeXt' door te spitten, maar ben hierin eveneens hopeloos vast gelopen. Afm-, tfm- en mapfiles voor mij ondoorgrondelijk! Ben er nog nooit in geslaagd een ander font te gebruiken dan het standaard font! Ik pas momenteel TeXLive 2003 toe. Is er iemand die op een simpele manier kan aangeven hoe ik dat werkend kan krijgen, zonder direct in jargon te vervallen? Ik krijg het Palatino font zoals bijvoorbeeld beschreven op pag. 91 van MAPS (najaar 2004) domweg niet werkend. Het boekje met al die mooie font voorbeelden is erg fraai, maar mij is het nog nooit gelukt een letter hiervan te produceren! En dit alles moet toch met de standaard TeXLive distributie makkelijk kunnen, zo begrijp ik. Ik ben onder de indruk van de kwaliteit van TeX, en dat is precies de reden waarom ik het gebruik! Maar dat gedoe met fonts maakt mij radeloos! Mijn laatste hoop is gevestigd op dit discussie-medium, om er achter te komen of ik de enige ben die dit probleem niet onder de knie weet te krijgen! Kan iemand mij op weg helpen, om dit probleem te begrijpen, en uiteindelijk op te lossen? Bij voorbaat dank! M.vr.gr., Geert -- Geert C.H.M. Verhaag St. Jorisstraat 29 5954 AN Beesel NETHERLANDS Tel.: (+31)-774742493, E-mail: verhaaggchm(a)ision.nl

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