May 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Rotating a label in Metapost
by David Arnold 15 May '05

15 May '05

All, I have a horizontal axis with tick marks. I'd like to label the tick marks with their numerical values, but I'd like to rotate the numerical label 90 degrees clockwise. Any suggestions?

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Re: ntg-context Digest, Vol 11, Issue 29
by Fei He 14 May '05

14 May '05

Hi all, I have a math equation question too. This has made me pulling my hair off, for a while. Please see below: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > \usemodule[amsl] > \starttext > > \startformula > {\bf f(x)} = > \cases{ > \sum_{x=1}^n x & if I am false > \\ ~~~~~~ I can never make this work for me to start new line in the equation. > \displaystyle% just to see the difference > \sum_{x=1}^n x^2 & \text{if I am true} ~~ this & never seems to give me the alignment that I need. > } > \stopformula any idea. thanks a lot!!! Best, Fei

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Hanging punctuation again.
by John R. Culleton 14 May '05

14 May '05

Is the the following kosher? \usetypescript [serif,sans,mono] [hanging] [thanh] \usetypescriptfile[type-enc] \usetypescript [adobekb] [8r] \usetypescript [palatino][8r] \setupalign[hanging][thanh] \setupbodyfont [palatino,12pt] I want optical alignment for all body text. -- John Culleton The answers to all your publishing questions are found in the excellent books listed in the word-famous shortlist! http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

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Re: [NTG-context] hyphenation problem with apostrophe (fwd)
by Taco Hoekwater 14 May '05

14 May '05

Peter Münster wrote: > Hello Taco, > the last sentence is for you. Do you have an answer? > Cheers, Peter That \lccode assignment makes the ' a letter, making it count for \righthyphenmin, so that``et voila'' can be hyphenated as ``et voil- a''. Taco

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typing questions
by Peter Münster 14 May '05

14 May '05

Hello, here a few questions about typing: - Is there a module for pretty-printing C-code? - How could I change the tabulator-width? - First tab is only 7 spaces, the other 8, why? - How could I embed ConTeXt macros? - Where does the vertical space in \framed come from? Some of these questions are illustrated in the following example: \starttext \starttyping void test() { 12345678 the first characters of the next lines are tabulations int i; for(i = 0; i < 10; i++) do_something(); 1234567812345678 Here I would like to \embed{ some context-code } } \stoptyping \framed[align=lohi, top=\vskip-1.8\baselineskip,bottom=\vskip-0.8\baselineskip]{% \starttyping Why do we need special top and bottom options? type type type type type type \stoptyping } \stoptext Thanks in advance for any help! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: Re: [NTG-context] Is there a mathematica typesetting manual for ConTeXt ?
by xiaojf 14 May '05

14 May '05

Hi,Adam Lindsay, ======= 2005-05-14 08:46:00 You wrote：======= >Tobias Burnus said this at Sat, 14 May 2005 07:05:44 +0200: > >>(I have to admit, I cannot find m-math.tex/t-math.tex anywhere.) > >I "assumed" Hans meant MathML. :) >\usemodule[mathml] > > >The basic math capabilities within ConTeXt do seem poorly documented, >mostly because they point to different sources, often in books. However, >ConTeXt does use Plain TeX as its model for mathematics. > >The basics in ConTeXt are roughly equivalent to those described in: ><http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Formula> > (I don't know if it will specifically help you, but I note there's a >zh version of that page) > > >....but it takes some practice to spot the things that don't work directly >in ConTeXt. Some differences are unimplemented features, some are >differing conventions, some are because LaTeX thought they would be >useful, and ConTeXt hasn't (yet). > >Some differences from the examples on that page that I notice immediately: > >Math is best delimited inline with \formula{ ... }, not $ ... $ >Display math is best delimited with \startformula ... \stopformula , not >$$ ... $$ > >\operatorname => \mfunction > >The double-, triple-, and quadruple-integrals (\iiiint) are undefined in >basic ConTeXt's math. I must say thank you very very much! In fact I've been looking for \iint in ConTeXt in the last two days -_- so i'll try to use \int\!\!\!\int instead of looking for a ConTeXt implementation :) I met another problem today. Since there are not as many arrows in ConTeXt as there in AMS-LaTeX,I don't konw how to type the formula in the attached picture which will be referred in my presentation next Monday. > >The \begin{case} environment needs to be simplified into the Plain >\cases{} command. > >The AMSmath/LaTeX-like: > >$$ \begin{bmatrix} p & q \\ > r & s \end{bmatrix} $$ > > ...can be interpreted as... > >\startformula >\left[ \matrix{ p & q \cr > r & s } \right] >\stopformula > > >This might not be the best answer to the original poster, but I do hope >it provides a bit of a guide to the general ConTeXt newcomer. > >-- >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk > Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 > Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >ntg-context(a)ntg.nl >http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = 　　　　　　　　xiaojf 　　　　　　　　jfxiao(a)sibs.ac.cn 　　　　　　　　　　2005-05-14

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Is there a mathematica typesetting manual for ConTeXt ?
by redox 14 May '05

14 May '05

hi all, I am a newbie of ConTeXt, i'm sorry if my question is foolish. I have two questions: 1. Is there a mathematica typesetting manual for ConTeXt ? There seems no ConTeXt manual focused on mathematica. Or I just need to find a mathematica manual for LaTeX ? 2. I'm running TeTeX 2.0.2 on Debian Sarge, and the version of texexec is 3.1 which I think is out of date, so i tried to update ConTeXt. I downloaded www.pragma-ade.com/context/latest/cont-tmf.zip , and unziped it to /usr/local/share/texmf/, then I ran "mktexlsr" and "texexec --make --all". But when i ran "texexec --version", the version was still 3.1. It seemed that the texexec wasn't updated. Thanks in advance!!

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encouraging line breaks
by Stuart Jansen 13 May '05

13 May '05

What is the best way to encourage line breaks without hyphenation? I've tried many combinations of \setuptolerances, \clubpenalty, \widowpenalty \emergencystretch, etc. All to no avail. Basically, I've got XML content that is being rendered. Part of that content needs to fit inside a small box at a large font size. (It's a custom command tied to \chapter.) Although a line consisting of a single word followed by copious white space would normally be very bad, in this case it is fine. Below is an example situation where I want the text to be rendered on two lines instead of one. I'm hoping I can do it without adding manual breaks to the XML, however. \definefont [GiantFont] [SansBold at 48pt] \setupalign[nothyphenated] \starttext \framed[width=3in,align=right]{\GiantFont Foobar Bazqux} \stoptext -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C.

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Context, LaTeX, or an XML for academic writing?
by CB 13 May '05

13 May '05

Hi, I'm returning to graduate study after a few years out in the workplace. I'm a bit rusty on what good stuff there is out there for academic writing, and after a bit of research I've come up with: ConTeXt, LaTeX or an XML dtd (tbook or DocBook?) plus appropriate tools. I'm ruling out Word (having wrestled with it at work), and am reluctant to use anything similar like OpenOffice. I have used LaTeX for some things in the past. There will a little maths in my writing, but it's not central. Here are my main criteria for choice, in order of priority: 1) future-proofing. ie. I want my text to be always available to me forever, or until I die, whichever comes first. I take this to mean that I want the canonical form of my documents to be plain text of some sort. It also means that the system needs to be widely-used enough that it will be translateable into essential future formats as they arise. 2) semantic rather than layout-oriented markup as much as possible. I'm impatient with, and marginally interested in, layout. I'm very interested in what my text means. As much as possible, I want to set up my layouts early in the piece, and never think about them again. 3) relatively easy integration with some form of bibliographic database(ish) system (bibtex would do). 4) ability to produce pdf's, html, and rtf versions (for interoperation with Word-users) at least. 5) no need for me to write any code. I used to be a programmer, and when I left, promised myself, my wife, and my cat that I would never write a line of code again. I don't mind a bit of TeXish fiddling if *absolutely* necessary. ConTeXt seems to fit the bill for 1,3 and 5. I'm not sure about 4 (html? rtf?) or 2 (I haven't had a proper look at the nature of the available macros yet) . Would anyone with 1st hand knowledge of writing in academia care to comment either on the above or your own reasons for your choice of tools? I am doing my own research on all this stuff, but I know that until I get into the fray, there will be things I haven't thought of. Cheers, CB.

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presentation style
by Fei He 12 May '05

12 May '05

Hi there, I used Skdk_style for a presentation, the style file downloaded from the contextgarden.net. It was all fine with the TexExec 5.2.3. I just updated TexExec to 5.2.4 version. However, the active link on the right side stopped working, i.e. after clicking on the title, it wont go to the title page which it was linked to. Also the page number now is explicitly shown on the slides too, as you will see the numbers in black. Attached is just one page from the presentation. Any suggestions how to have it fixed? Thanks a bunch!! Best, Fei

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