May 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

force columns smaller in Table
by Paul Tremblay 01 Jun '05

01 Jun '05

Is there a way to force colums to be narrower than the default in the Table (basic) table environment? The first line of my column is: Amount spent on store modernization by the chains The columns underneath are all single numbers, meaning they have huges spaces to the right: year Amount spent on store modernization by the chains === ================================================= 1933 33,000,000 1934 37,000,000 Do I have to use the more sophisticated TABLE module? (I hope not, because I have already laid out things with Table!) Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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FW: fleurons - reprise
by Keith McKay 31 May '05

31 May '05

Sorry. This time with the attachment. Keith -----Original Message----- From: Keith McKay [mailto:mckaymeister@gmail.com] Sent: 31 May 2005 20:16 To: 'ntg-context(a)ntg.nl' Subject: fleurons - reprise Thanks to Hans and Adam for the helpful advice. The code from Adam looked a bit daunting to me as a learner at first but when I changed [pzdr] to [uzdr] it worked fine. I attach the output from Adam's code which also includes his query about symb-run in a previous message. Hope this is of use. From the further discussion between them I hope I didn't open a can of worms. One last question. I did a search on the web for fleuron fonts and came up with a few interesting hits. To use these in Context is it a case of following the 'Texfont explained' and 'Fonts in Context' manuals? I think I have seen some 'My Way' (or is it 'This way'... well, 'Whatever way' ;>) ) on the Wiki about this as well. I realize this is not a trivial pursuit for a beginner but I would like to give it a try. Are there any pitfalls to look out for or should I just dive in? Thanks Keith Keith McKay Hamilton, Scotland -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.3.0 - Release Date: 30/05/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.3.0 - Release Date: 30/05/2005

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vertical shift in tabulate
by Peter 31 May '05

31 May '05

Hello, I have the following tabuation: \starttabulate[|l|p|l|] ... \stoptabulate In the third column I put just single words, but in the middle column whole paragraphs. I want the word in the third column to be vertically aligned with the lowest line of the paragraph in the middle column (like the html valign=bottom). I cannot find how to accomplish this. Maybe someone can give me a hint? tanks Peter

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Re: ConTeXt tool for enabling comments in PDF ?
by Joachim Schlosser 31 May '05

31 May '05

> Vit Zyka wrote (long long ago in January): >> how is that one calculated, imagine that in the %! fields you fill in >> placeholders like hereshouldgosomemagiccode, then one can run a script >> over the pdf, calculate that magic, and replace the string; maybe this >> can be hooked into xpdflib > Yes, I agree, postprocessing is possible. But I did not find any digest > computing alg in the range of C/C++ or Perl. Also do not known links to > xpdflib. > > Vit Zyka One can sign PDFs with iText (http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net/) Perhaps this helps a little bit further. I experimented a little bit, but my knowledge on PDF internas is not yet in a state that allows me to be quite creative here :-) Joachim -- Joachim Schlosser (The e-mail address is fully repliable.) http://schlosser.info

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placing figures left with no wrap
by Paul Tremblay 30 May '05

30 May '05

How can I place a figure to the left of the page *without* having any text wrap around it? If I use: \placefigure[here]{{\bf figure 1.1: }Woolworth store in Lexington}{\externalfigure[WWORIG ref]} I get a graphic that is centered. I want to push the graphic to the left of the page. The only way I know how to achive this right now is with: externalfigure[WWORIG ref] \par {\bf figure 1.1:} Woolworth store in Lexington \par But this method probably won't keep my captions and graphics together. If the graphic is placed at the bottom of the page, my caption will appear on the next page. Do I need to save the graphic as a buffer and then place the buffer? I coudln't find any directions on how to use buffer, though I swear I saw it on the wiki. Thanks Paul ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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Suppreesin section header
by John R. Culleton 30 May '05

30 May '05

For a particular section I wish to substitute a graphic for the section header, but have the TOC entry named as usual. Is there a way to say e.g., \section{foo} and have foo show up in the TOC but not as a section header? -- 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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place for feature requests / todo list
by Peter Münster 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hello, is there already some place, where feature requests are collected and/or a todo list? Perhaps something like bugzilla but simpler? If not, what do you think about a page on the wiki? TIA for your opinions, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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List of figures with shorter captions
by Tim 't Hart 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hello all, I'm busy with writing a paper for university and the teachers "ordered" me to include a List of Figures. So now I'm using \completelistoffigures to get the list of figures. However, my captions with the figures are quite long so I was wondering if it's possible to let ConTeXt write a different text to the List of Figures. I thought something similar was possible with the Table of Contents and the \chapter command, but I cannot remember how...maybe I imagined. So is it possible to write a different text to the LoF? I use \placefigure[here]{This is my very long caption} {\externalfigure[myfigure]} to place my figures in the text. I've experimented with using \writetolist[figure]{1}{short caption} to write a text to the LoF, but there are some problems with that method. (the figure can be placed on a different page than the \writetolist, and I'll need a way to stop ConTeXt writing the caption text to the list as well). Any ideas? My best, Tim

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Lettrine in ConTeXt
by Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de Sousa 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hi ConTeXters! I played a little with Taco's implementation of Lettrine and it worked nice, but the capital letter is always in CMR10. The option TextFont works fine, and one can change the font that comes after the dropped cap with commands like \sc (default), \it, \sl or \bf, but the option FontHook, which changes the font of the capital, doesn't seem to work when one uses, for example, \setuplettrine[Lines=3,TextFont=\it,FontHook=\bf,Findent=0pt,Nindent=0pt] . Did I miss something? Marcus Vinicius __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [NTG-context] Lettrine in ConTeXt
by Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de Sousa 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hi Taco! It works perfectly! Thank you. Marcus Vinicius --- Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> wrote: > > The problem is that FontHook has to redefine the > font synonym > 'LettrineFont'. You have to do it like this: > > \unexpanded\def\myfonthook > {\definefontsynonym[LettrineFont][SerifBold]} > > \setuplettrine[Lines=3,TextFont=\it, > FontHook=\myfonthook, > Findent=0pt,Nindent=0pt] > > Greetings, Taco > > (I'll send a new zip with included documentation > to Patrick soon) > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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