April 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

looking for document ...
by Paul Tremblay 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

About a week ago I came across a very nice and interesting document in ConTeXt, and now for the life of me I can't fine it and want to. I believe the author is someone on this mailing list. The example was a book on astronomy or physics. The author described himself as a serious book maker. The actual book itself was set with very narrow pages with scholarly notes. There were two pages from the book. The second pages started with a graphic. Sound familiar? Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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TABLE: spacing, before/after
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

Hi, three questions: - How can I control horizontal spacing of columns in natural tables? - What about vertical spacing? - How can I insert material after/before each cell, something like \setuptable[row][first][before=bla bla] ? Thanks, -- Eckhart

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Strange behaviour of width parameter in \setuplayout (Was: Floating table caption extends textwidth)
by Michael Fuchs 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

Hi! I have problems creating a "multi-line" caption for a floating table. If the caption is too long it will extend the defined text width. The following example shows this problem. I was able to find out, that this problem only appears if the variables "width" in the "setuplayout" command was used to define the textwidth. If you comment the line containing the "width" parameter (see comment in example) the caption will not extend the table. Regards Michael Example: -------------- \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout[ backspace=25mm, cutspace=25mm, width=16cm, % <-- COMMENT THIS TO SEE THE EXAMPLE WORK footer=10mm, footerdistance=5mm, bottom=5mm] \starttext \placetable[here][tab:Referenz] { \input tufte } { \setupTABLE[x][1][width=4cm, align=middle] \setupTABLE[x][2,3,4,5][width=3cm, align=middle] \bTABLE \bTR \bTH Anzahl \eTH \bTH Daten \eTH \bTH MC \eTH \bTH Daten \eTH \bTH MC \eTH \eTR \eTABLE } \stoptext

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is there a way to control kearning and word spacing
by Paul Tremblay 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

I know that ConTeXt does a good job kearning and determing spaces between words. However, is there a way to actually specify different kearning and word spacing than the default? Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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RE: [NTG-context] bug in \setuphead?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >> \appendix{Test} > >shouldn't that be \appendix{MyOwnNumber}{Test} I get it now-) It's amazing how one can try 101 things and still miss the obvious... Now that I can handle this manually, what I really want to do is have the first \appendix start with the numeral 1, after following previous sections. I seem to remember doing this once before; don't know why I can't seem to get it right this time. The following still inherits the section numeral from \section: how do I reset it to 1? (I also tried lots of other options but, as usual, I must be missing the obvious again->) =================================================== % output=pdf interface=en \definehead[appendix][section] \setuphead [appendix][continue=no] \setupheadnumber [appendix][1] \setuplabeltext[appendix=Appendix~] \starttext \section{Test} \appendix{Test} % should be 1 \appendix{Test} % should be 2 \stoptext =================================================== BEst Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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bug in \setuphead?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Dear gang, The [ownnumber=yes] option overflows ConTeXt's memory, and I have not found an adjustment to texmf.cnf to fix it (mswincontext 3-16, 2005). I increased the param and stack sizes by an entire order of magnitude. Other options such as [ownnumber=no] work fine. This bug is not benign:-) Please advise... Best Idris ======================= % output=pdf interface=en \definehead[appendix][section] \setuphead [appendix][ownnumber=yes] \setuplabeltext[appendix=Appendix~] \starttext \appendix{Test} \stoptext ======================= log: ======================= systems : begin file test5 at line 7 ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [parameter stack size=6000]. \previoussection #1-> \csname \??se #1\c!before \endcsname \countervalue #1->\csname #1 \endcsname \@@longsectionnumber ...?se \previoussection {#1}} >\zerocount \csname \previ... \finalsectionnumber ...alue {\@@sectie \c!number } \fi \fi \@@shortsectionnumber ...1\c!ownnumber \endcsname \fi \@@longsectionnumber ...\@@shortsectionnumber {#1} \fi ... l.9 \appendix{Test} If you really absolutely need more capacity, you can ask a wizard to enlarge me. ======================= ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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inheriting size characteristics
by Idris Samawi Hamid 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

An error, but does not affect the problem (forgot the `=default'): \definetypeface [lmtest] [rm] [serif] [lm] [lm] [encoding=default] Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] oldstyle figures
by Idris Samawi Hamid 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

>===== Original Message From Eckhart Guthöhrlein <eckhart.guthoehrlein@uni- >> should do everything you need: since u're not mixing text in \digits do you >> really need a global math font reencoding? > >In principle yes. For example, $f(x)=3x+7$ should come out with oldstyle >figures, if these are used by default, shouldn't it? No, I don't think so (see below) >Btw, striving for good typography, in which cases should oldstyle >figures *not* be used? I am no typography expert, but I think that old style figures are, generally speaking, inappropriate for math mode. The various heights, etc. make more work for the brain in complicated mathematics expressions. I can't recall ever seeing good mathematics/physics done in old style figures. OS numerals are actually _text_ figures, as Bringhurst points out. In my own academic journal there is little to no math, but when someone mentions, e.g., the version of a computer program, I put the version number in upright figures, thought the rest of the journal is in os figures. That's my two cents, for what it's worth:-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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texexec in a shell script
by Robert Ullrey 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

I know someone out there has the answer to this. If I run texexec through a shell, even with the full path to texexec, I get an error, "/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec: line 1: sed: command not found `.pl' not found." Running Google with the error shows that it is quit common, but I could not find a good fix. I guess kpsewhich gets lost in the shell because the shell needs full paths the whole way through the command. Has anyone written a shell to get texexec --pdf ? Thanks Robert

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Re: [NTG-context] oldstyle figures
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 at 16:30:04-0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > >So, how to tell \digits to use oldstyle > >figures, and/or how to make them the math mode default? > > Since it switches to math mode, one has to reencode the math fonts, i guess. > In the meantime: > > \def\OSdigits#1{\digits{\os#1}} > > \OSdigits{1234} Unfortunately not. It works in text mode, but produces a bunch of errors in math mode. \digits doesn't seem to like \os in its argument. This definition works here for now: \def\OSdigits#1{\ifmmode{\os\digits{#1}}\else\digits{\os#1}\fi} > should do everything you need: since u're not mixing text in \digits do you > really need a global math font reencoding? In principle yes. For example, $f(x)=3x+7$ should come out with oldstyle figures, if these are used by default, shouldn't it? Btw, striving for good typography, in which cases should oldstyle figures *not* be used? Best regards, -- Eckhart

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