March 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

bibmodule: two small questions
by Thomas A.Schmitz 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

I've been playing with Taco's bibmodule, and I'm absolutely thrilled how easy it is to customize things. Once you've groked how things work, you can simply copy code from bibl-apa.tex and modify, it's just wonderful (OT: what does "apa" stand for in this abbreviation? For me, it's the American Philological Association, but I guess that's not meant here.) I even managed to typeset the numbers of my bibliography flushright in a \hbox and was very proud of myself. Two small questions remain: 1. Is there a general option to have the publicationlist typeset in a smaller font size? The default seems to be the general bodyfont, but I couldn't see where this could be modified. 2. The space between the items does not follow the normal interlinespace, but is fixed to a somewhat smaller value, which looks a bit bizarre. Is there any way to modify this behavior. But these are just cosmetic flaws, overall, the module works wonderfully. Very impressive! Best Thomas

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Greek in ConTeXt
by Thomas A.Schmitz 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Gang, during the last weeks, I've been working on two modules to support ancient (polytonic) Greek. THey are finished now and will be ready for download at Patrick's site soon. They require the latest ConTeXt beta 2005.03.16 (actually, some parts from these modules have been integrated into the main distribution). Moreover, I've written a MyWay about the process. Even if you're not particularly interested in Ancient Greek (rumor has it that some people might not be), this may be useful for you as it explains how I enabled support for Unicode TrueType fonts and utf-input, so this should be valid for other Unicode vectors as well. Patrick has agreed to host this MyWay at his site: http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/GreekInContext.pdf Hope this will be useful to some of you! Best wishes Thomas

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Problem with \type in captions
by Nikolai Weibull 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

\starttext \placefigure {\type{0|}} {} \stoptext gives me ! Argument of \next has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } <argument> ...p {\strutdepth }\begstrut \type {0|} \endstrut \endgraf \doattributes ...sname #1#2\@EA \endcsname \fi {#4 }\dostopattributes \putcompletecaption ...trut #3\endstrut \endgraf } \fi \dostopattributes \docheckcaptioncontent ...ecaption {#4}{#2}{#3}{0} }\ifdim \wd \tempcaptionbo... ... l.4 {} Remove the 0 and it works fine. Is there a quick fix?, nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: minimalistic.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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RE: [NTG-context] footnote placement
by Idris Samawi Hamid 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

>\setupnote[endnote][location=none] > >\starttext > >\dorecurse{100}{test \endnote{eee}\endgraf} > >\page > >\placenotes[endnote] > >\stoptext For the record, this also works:-) %\setupnote[endnote][location=none] \setupfootnotes[location=none] \starttext \dorecurse{14}{\ReadFile{tufte}\footnote{\ReadFile{tufte}}\par} \page %\placenotes[endnote] \placefootnotes[location=none] \stoptext It seems that \endnote is also new; nice-) Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] footnote placement
by Idris Samawi Hamid 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== > \starttext >> \startbuffer[tufte] >> \input tufte >> \stopbuffer >> \startbuffer[knuth] >> \input knuth >> \stopbuffer >> \dorecurse{100}{test \footnote{\typebuffer[knuth]} \endnote{eee}\endgraf} > >it's \getbuffer else you indeed get a verbatim buffer (which is what type does); > >\dorecurse{100}{test \footnote{\input knuth } \endnote{eee}\endgraf} So \endgraf (or \par) is needed here; I should have guessed-) >also works; put a space or \relax after \input, else tex keeps scanning; >alternatively use \ReadFile{knuth} or \readfile{knuth}{}{} I definitely prefer the \ReadFile option. I could not find it (or \readfile{}{}{}) in ConTeXt Commands or texshow; must be new... What's the difference between these two commands? Also: given the ConTeXt philosophy, shouldn't there be a non-cryptic replacement for \par or \endgraf, something like \paragraph or \endparagraph? Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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how to place figures next to each other
by Peter 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Dear list, How can I place two figures next to each other without using a \startcombination ... \stopcombination group? I now have this, but it is not what I want: \gebruikexternfiguur[kortoctaaf][cekort][type=eps,hoogte=30mm] \gebruikexternfiguur[gebrokenoctaaf][gebroken][type=eps,hoogte=30mm] \plaatsfiguur [hier] [fig:klavieren] {Enkele varianten van het groot octaaf} {\startcombinatie[2*1] {\kortoctaaf}{kort octaaf} {\gebrokenoctaaf}{gebroken octaaf} \stopcombinatie} I want to have the two figures numbered as seperate, independent figures, but when using a combination, the whole combination is treated as one figure and gets only one number and one label. XXXX XXXX X X X X XXXX XXXX fig.n fig.n+1 I've consulted the manuals and searched the list archives, but I have not found a solution. tnx in advance, Peter van Kranenburg

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Re: [NTG-context] Urgent index problem
by Duncan Hothersall 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

I wrote: > -- > \starttext > \startregister[index]{this term+in+particular} This term is discussed > from the start of this page.\page[yes] > Some more text about the term, and another page.\page[yes] > And the end of the info about that term. \stopregister[index]{this > term+in+particular}\page[yes] > A page unrelated to that term.\page[yes] > \index{this term+in+particular} And then another page on exactly the > same term.\page[yes] > \placeindex\page[yes] > Disaster! The entry on page 5 has been eaten! > \stoptext > -- I realise that there is a workaround for the sample above, using the literal ASCII string in [] which makes this specific example work. Unfortunately this doesn't make everything work correctly in a larger document. I'm now seeing two other specific behaviours as well: 1. When there is a range and a single entry, the range is sometimes listed first in the index, even if the single entry is many pages before it - i.e. 282-283, 170 2. On other occasions where a range and a single entry exist, I end up having a strange three-way range in the index - like 282-283-349. The last reference should be just a single one on its own. It's really difficult to post a minimal file for these because they only occur when the whole text is processed (several hundred pages). I have just synchronised my tree this morning and no difference is made. Any help, especially today, VERY gratefully received. Duncan

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line wrap marker
by Stuart Jansen 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

We have lines of text that shouldn't be wrapped. If one line must be wrapped onto the next, we'd like to insert a visual mark at the end of the line and (hopefully) indent the next line slightly. Obviously, there's the potential for wrapping over multiple lines. I've dug around TeX, LaTeX and ConTeXt, and none appear to support this yet. So far, ConTeXt has been the most enjoyable to work with, so I'm okay with a ConTeXt only answer. How hard will this be to implement? Where should I start looking to figure out how to do this? I'm hoping for an answer along the lines of "this set of macros will probably be helpful". -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C.

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PDF Forms
by Bob Kerstetter 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Hi, Is there some way to create PDF docs (as forms maybe?) so end users can add their own contact information and logos just by using Adobe Reader, not Acrobat? These are one to four page documents. Right now I can do this by supplying them with Word docs. Thanks.

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OT: metapost question
by Gerben Wierda 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Is it ok in a .mp file to do something like for k=1 step 1 until N: beginfig(k); % some stuff endfig; endfor; Thanks, G

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