August 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Overfull boxes using m-cweb
by Edwin Wisse 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Hello, I am running into overfull boxes when including a weaved cweb file into a context document. The original reference to the cwebmac.tex file (the plain TeX macro) is commented out and replaced by \usemodule[cweb]. The cweb macros appear to expand something into \*11ptmmmt* which seems to have something to do with it. Is there anyone here with experience and deep (Con)TeX(t) knowledge who understands what is happening? Regards, Edwin ----------------------------------part of my log file------------------------------------------------ Overfull \hbox (6.4885pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 3--13 \*11ptmmmr* for the ap-pli-ca-tion de-vel-op-ment mod-ule. This is a small ap-p li-ca-tion which loads file \hbox(7.63889+2.13889)x398.33858 .\*11ptmmmr* f .\*11ptmmmr* o .\*11ptmmmr* r .\glue(\spaceskip) 3.66628 .\*11ptmmmr* t .etc. Overfull \hbox (8.38132pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 3--13 \*11ptmmmr* with point and line da-ta and dis-plays it in a win-dow. It pro-vid es a us-er in-ter-face al- \hbox(7.63889+2.13889)x398.33858 .\*11ptmmmr* w .\*11ptmmmr* i .\*11ptmmmr* t .\*11ptmmmr* h .\glue(\spaceskip) 3.66628 .etc.

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compound titles, lists and headers
by Henning Hraban Ramm 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

Dear list, my publisher forces me to set different things as titles, in headers and table of contents. In some cases \nolist and \nomarking aren't enough. here are my actual definitions: ---- \def\Untertitel#1{\blank[3pt]{\ss\bf #1}\blank} % ok \def\Titel#1#2{{\nohyphens\chapter{#1}\Untertitel{#2}}} % ok \def\KomplexTitel#1#2#3{{\writetolist[chapter]{#3}\nohyphens\title{#1}\U ntertitel{#2}}} ---- with ---- \start \setupheadertexts[][manual entry][part][] % normally defined as [][chapter][part][] \KomplexTitel{Main chapter title}{chapter subtitle}{toc entry} Much text \stop % of other headertext ---- Real life example: \start \setupheadertexts [][Vorwort][][] \KomplexTitel{Die neutrale Schweiz und das globale Dorf}% {Vorwort von Prof.|~|Dr.|~|Heinrich Ott}% {Vorwort Prof.|~|Dr.|~|Heinrich Ott:\\Die neutrale Schweiz und das globale Dorf} ... Now there stay two issues: 1. I'd like to get a four-parameter command that can set the header text also. 2. I must get a line feed into the toc, but neither \\ nor \crlf works. Please help! Thanks. Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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listings.sty
by Peter Münster 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

Hello, I suggested to the author of the very feature rich LaTeX-Listings package, Carsten Heinz, to port this package to ConTeXt, and it seems, that he is interested. But before doing it, there are some questions: * What do Hans and other people thing about that? * listings.sty uses keyval.sty, how is the proper ConTeXt-way to do the same things as keyval, or should listings stay with keyval? Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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Fleurons
by Keith McKay 23 Jul '06

23 Jul '06

Dear All I am in the process of learning the wonders of Context and enjoying the challenge. My Context is the stand alone version for Windows which I downloaded from the Pragma site. I'm getting used to using the Scite editor although it was a little difficult in the beginning. Just now I'm putting together some short stories and am having fun playing about with layout and using different kinds of fonts. Also I'm reading 'The Elements of Typographic Style' by Robert Bringhurst which is absolutely superb! I would never have thought that a book on typography would be so easy to read. In Bringhurst's book he mentions fleurons - "A horticultural dingbat" which I would like to access. I have looked through the Context manuals but with no success. Could someone give me some hints? Thanks Keith McKay Hamilton, Scotland -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.2.0 - Release Date: 27/05/2005

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Font size in FLOWchart module.
by John R. Culleton 02 Jun '06

02 Jun '06

I am using the flowchart module to create various goodies. What I don't know how to do is regulate the size of the font for the text that goes inside the little boxes. Any suggestions? - John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf

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2 m-bib questions
by Peter Münster 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hello, here my m-bib questions: * The lost space after \cite[...], is it a bug or a feature? * I'm going to add some multi-lingual support to m-bib. My idea is, to replace in cont-XX.bst and bibl-XXX.tex "page" by "\pagename", "and" by "\andname" and so on. Is this method ok? If not, how should I do it (not too complicated please ;) ? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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Problems with Natural Tables
by Adam Duck 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

Hello ConTeXters, my girlfriend writes her dimploma thesis now and I talked her into using ConTeXt, but now I'm not sure anymore that this was the right thing to do. So, the problems are numerous and some of them are: - how do I set the spacing between a vertical line (between two columns) and the text inside that columns? I already used "framedoffest=-3pt", but the output is unacceptable. - how do I center the whole table? This one is really crucial: my GF also accepts hacks ;). - why doesn't \splitfloat{\placetable...} work with Natural Tables? (They won't get splitted at all, but with tables and linetables it works...) - how do I refer to tables then? I have chosen Natural Tables because they were the only one that splitted correctly (tables and linetables let out 2/3 of a page). So, that's all for now. bye, Adam.

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t-rsteps and starttyping
by Peter Münster 28 Sep '05

28 Sep '05

Hello, could somebody help me with the following problem please? With the following test file, I get the error "ERROR: Illegal parameter number in definition of \verbatimline." \usemodule[rsteps] \starttext \StartSteps \starttyping hallo \stoptyping \NextStep hallo \StopSteps \stoptext Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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TeX + Metapost syntax highlighting in Vim
by Mojca Miklavec 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

In case someone finds this experimental piece of code for highlighting metapost inside ConTeXt useful, put: " ConTeXt augroup filetypedetect au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.tex setfiletype context augroup END somewhere to your filetype.vim (probably after TeX) and move the attached file to syntax\context.vim. If you have something like \startMPpage draw ... \stopMPpage, it will do the syntax highligting for metapost inside the \start-\stop pair. There are still some "bugs" present (see comments in file), but I don't know how yet to get rid of them. I downloaded SpellChecker and SuperTab (autocomplete) today from the vim website and it works great! (see http://contextgarden.net/Vim and feel free to add any useful stuff there) I was astonished as I saw autocomplete work. There are only a couple of lines with an extraordinary functionality. I think that if someone writes a good script to convert texshow to vim syntax highlighting script, than autocomplete will be able to provide good hints for all the existing commands in ConTeXt and the corresponding parameters. I'll try to see what I can do, but please don't excpect any results too soon. Mojca " Vim syntax file " Language: ConTeXt " Maintainer: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec(a)guest.arnes.si> " Installation: " To automatilcally load this file when a .tex file is opened, add the " following lines to ~/.vim/filetype.vim: " " augroup filetypedetect " au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.tex setfiletype context " augroup END " " You will have to restart vim for this to take effect. In any case it " is a good idea to read ":he new-filetype" so that you know what is going " on, and why the above lines work. " Adapted from eruby by Michael Brailsford (Thanks for the idea!) " " This is just a testing version. " TODO: " - adapt tex.vim for plain TeX + ConTeXt support only (no LaTeX!!!) " - add MetaFun support on the top of Metapost " - add all the possible \start ... \stop delimiters which switch the " syntax highlighting to MetaFun, XML, JavaScript, ... " if version < 600 syntax clear elseif exists("b:current_syntax") finish endif "Source the tex syntax file runtime! syntax/tex.vim "Set the filetype to tex to load the tex %??? ftplugins set ft=tex unlet b:current_syntax " Put the metafun syntax file in @metafunTop " " TODO: should be changed to metafun once the support is there " javascript should probably be adapted to PDF specification too, but it " changes in every version anyway and doesn't work either " syn include @metafunTop syntax/mp.vim " for some reason I can't make both metapost and javascript working at the same time "syn include @javascriptTop syntax/javascript.vim syn region metafunBlock matchgroup=metafunDelim start=#\\startMPpage# end=#\\stopMPpage# keepend contains=@metafunTop " TODO: \startuseMPgraphic{the name} - "the name" has to be catched and " typeset in ConTeXt, not in metapost!!! " \start..MP.. may not be inside comments!!! syn region metafunBlock matchgroup=metafunDelim start=#\\startMPinclusions# end=#\\stopMPinclusions# keepend contains=@metafunTop syn region metafunBlock matchgroup=metafunDelim start=#\\startMPgraphic# end=#\\stopMPgraphic# keepend contains=@metafunTop syn region metafunBlock matchgroup=metafunDelim start=#\\startuseMPgraphic# end=#\\stopuseMPgraphic# keepend contains=@metafunTop syn region metafunBlock matchgroup=metafunDelim start=#\\startreusableMPgraphic# end=#\\stopreusableMPgraphic# keepend contains=@metafunTop syn region metafunBlock matchgroup=metafunDelim start=#\\startuniqueMPgraphic# end=#\\stopuniqueMPgraphic# keepend contains=@metafunTop syn region metafunBlock matchgroup=metafunDelim start=#\\startMPrun# end=#\\stopMPrun# keepend contains=@metafunTop " comments have to be added, \startJScode{name}, "name" has to be catched and " typeset in ConTeXt, not in javascript syn region javascriptBlock matchgroup=javascriptDelim start=#\\startJScode# end=#\\stopJScode# keepend contains=@javascriptTop syn region javascriptBlock matchgroup=javascriptDelim start=#\\startJSpreamble# end=#\\stopJSpreamble# keepend contains=@javascriptTop hi link metafunDelim texSTatement hi link javascriptDelim texSTatement let b:current_syntax = "context" " vim: set ts=4 sw=4:

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LaTeX \newcommands in ConTeXt.
by Brooks Moses 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

I've recently been doing a little work on implementing a few LaTeX kernel bits in ConTeXt, to simplify porting LaTeX code over. It's now at a point where a few of the pieces might actually be useful, and certainly to a point where some comments would be welcomed, so I've put up a version of it online, in this directory: http://dpdx.net/context/latex-compat/ What you'll find there is a fair number of module files, along with a couple of "latextest" files that I've been using to try out the results. latextext.tex is to be compiled in ConTeXt; latextext-latex.tex is to be compiled in LaTeX for purposes of comparison. In any case, I think the implementation of \newcommand (and its relatives) is about up to "beta" level. Ditto with LaTeX lengths. And there's a working LaTeX-like counter implementation, based on ConTeXt counters underneath. (It's not yet hooked into ConTeXt's counters for footnotes and equations and pages, though; I'm not really sure how to do that.) Also, environments are working, in a sort of hackish way. The "array" environment works, but again a bit hackish; I'm planning to clean that up soon, so both of those will get major revisions. I'd particularly appreciate any comments on the \newcommand and counters implementations -- those are in the t-ltcmds and t-ltcnts modules, though \newcommand also depends on t-lterrs and t-ltbase. - Brooks

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