August 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

RE: Figure captions with text in wrong language
by Roelof Langman 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hans, thanks. That's chapter 7 of the cont-enp manual on Language-Specific Issues. Roelof > Hi, I'd like my figures to have dutch captions when I write a text in > dutch. Unfortunately, context shows my captions with the text "Figure" > instead of "Figuur", which would be the dutch way. > > My code looks like this: > > \language[nl] \mainlanguage[nl] (\language is for a local switch)

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Figure captions with text in wrong language
by Roelof Langman 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi, I'd like my figures to have dutch captions when I write a text in dutch. Unfortunately, context shows my captions with the text "Figure" instead of "Figuur", which would be the dutch way. My code looks like this: % output=pdf \language[nl] \starttext \placefigure [here] [fig:uur] {Figuur een} {} \stoptext and the text shown is "Figure 1 Figuur een". I use texexec version 5.2.5 with cont-nl version 2005.03.16. I assumed setting the language to nl would give me dutch captions. What did I miss? Cheers, Roelof Langman

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ConTeXt-mode and AUCTeX
by rb 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

I recently switched from context.el to AUCTeX 11.55, with "built in context-mode". One feature from the original which I am unable to find within the AUCTeX version is the automatic prompt (open square bracket) for arguments with every \start... \stop... pair. In original I used C-c C-o (tex-context-block), in AUCTeX, I'm using C-c C-e (to insert any \start \stop pair), not the same command, but the original doesn't seem to be available. Is there a way to get the automatic prompt for arguments? Thank you --

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Re:[NTG-context] Presentation
by piskala upendran 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi, Jessica The context/base has so many modules s-pre-**.tex. At the end of the module you have the examples are given. copy the examples in seperate file and add the module no name from with the example was taken. \usemodule[pre-**] and compile the files. iam sure you can select your flavour. you can also tweat the colors to suit your requirement. thanks upendran __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Sorting index (in Spanish)
by Mari Voipio 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Dear Fellow-Contexters, I have been charged with editing a ConTeXt document in Spanish (of which I understand preciously little). This far I have gotten over the hurdles of hyphenation, labeltexts and the upside-down exclamation mark (and as far as we can tell, the Spanish hyphenation patterns get loaded, too), but now I have a problem sorting the index: the words 'ángulo' and 'índice' get sorted in the beginning of the index instead of among a and i. It tried putting something like the example below in a) the setup part of my document, b) just before the index (a bit like in the example at <http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2005/008346.html>, except that I use the command \placeindex and not \completeindex) and c) in the lang-ita.tex file. % Changes to sorting to fix the sorting of accented letters \startlanguagespecifics[es] \definesortkey {\´a}{a}{a}{\´a} % á sorted among 'a' \definesortkey {\´i}{i}{i}{\´i} % í sorted among 'i' \stoplanguagespecifics None of the options a)-c) worked and I'm thinking that this is more of a "stupid user" problem, i.e. as I cannot find any description on how \definesortkey works, I just don't understand how to use it properly. Any help??? Mari PS. Tried to find related info in contextgarden.net, but can't find much - if it isn't there, I can add stuff (*after* I solve this problem) if somebody tells me where I may start growing this flower of mine.

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Re: [NTG-context] Presentation
by piskala upendran 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

hello valle, I did test your example. It complained as you said. however, it works ok under miktex + winedt with the following changes. a. remove the small square in front of the \usemodule[pre-08]. b. \input reich changed to knuth because \citaat of reich is not decoded. I do not know the reason. Any contexpert can only tell.otherwise it compiled smoothly. you can try. regards upendran __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Fwd: Re: [NTG-context] \placelist disturbs grid?]
by Vit Zyka 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Hello, I was perhaps little descriptive in my last question. Let me discribe my real problem: I'd like to typeset a table of content as follows: ---------------------- Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 1 Section 2 Section3 Section with longer name 4 Section 5 Section 6 Chapter 2 Section 1 Section 2 ... .... ----------------------- Everything has to be on the grid. Problem is that 'Part 1' and 'Chapter 1' are typeset with bigger font (\bfa and \tfa respectively). And grid is too tight to fit \bfa/\tfa struts. But the character size is optically OK even preserving grid due to blank lines around bigger font. I do not want to use \placetogrid in this case since AFAIK it adds one blank line more. Solution: not to add struts to list items and set \lineskiplimit=-\maxdimen. I discovered that there is alternative 'none' that does not place struts. The only problem is that 'none' create one long line like ----------------------- Section 1 Section 2 Section3 Section with longer name 4 Section 5 Section6 ----------------------- oversized \textwidth. So the question is: How to typeset list items to paragraph without struts? Minimal test code is bellow. Thank you for replay Vit Hans Hagen wrote: > Vit Zyka wrote: > >> Hello Hans, Taco, and the next gurus, >> >> sorry for bother with another thing I can not understand. Very high >> glyphs like \v S disturb grid in the \placelist. The same glyph in the >> common paragraph with the same (intentionally) interline setting >> preserves grid: >> >> --------------------------------------- >> \setupbodyfont[10pt,rm] >> \setupinterlinespace[line=12pt] >> \setuplayout[grid=yes,width=8cm] >> \showgrid >> >> \writetolist[section]{}{See the next line:} >> \writetolist[section]{}{\v Sejba} >> \writetolist[section]{}{Another list line} >> >> \starttext >> \v Sejba\par >> Here grid is OK, but in \type{placelist}: >> >> \placelist[section] >> >> no! >> \stoptext >> ------------------------------------------ >> I was looking in definitions for some font-size dependent line >> setting, I also tried to >> \setuplist[section]{style=\baselineskip=12pt\lineskiplimit=-10pt} >> but without success to lounging on the grid. > > > > this is the default ratio: > > \setupinterlinespace > [height=.72, > depth=.28] Thank you Hans; after some experimenting I understood: - height and depth in \setupinterlinespace are baseline-ratio/size of struts (add description to tex-show) - some my chars (/,\v S, \tfa, ...) oversized \strut size of any ratio - list items are typeset with struts (perhaps all alternative) - only alternative without strut is 'none' with command=\Mycommand def So I do know how to preserve grid. But I do not know HOW TO TYPESET \Mycommand TO FIT THE PARAGRAPH WIDTH. It seem it is not in the restricted horizontal mode and continue on one long line. And another question/request: can the list distance param (alternative d,...) be glue instead of skip? For better line fitting. example: ------------------ \setupbodyfont[10pt,rm] \setupinterlinespace[line=12pt,height=.77,depth=.23] \setuplayout[grid=yes,width=8cm] \showgrid \setuplist[section] [style=\tfd,alternative=none,command=\MyListItem] \def\MyListItem#1#2#3{{\tfb (#1-#2-#3) }} \starttext \writetolist[section]{}{See the next line} \writetolist[section]{}{\v Sejba} \writetolist[section]{}{Another list line} \writetolist[section]{}{And the last one} \lineskiplimit=-10pt Line\par Anothet line of \v Sejba\par \placelist[section] \strut %% should be! why? After list line. \stoptext ------------------ Vit -- ======================================================= Ing. Vít Zýka, Ph.D. TYPOkvítek database publishing databazove publikovani data maintaining and typesetting in typographic quality priprava dat a jejich sazba v typograficke kvalite tel.: (+420) 777 198 189 www: http://typokvitek.com =======================================================

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Draw a line with Metafun
by Jessica Holle 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Hi, I want to draw a line myself with Metafun. This line should looks like in the module pre-05. I've copied a few lines and try to understand what there happend. But it failed. I've also read in the metafun.pdf, but it ist very hard to understand. I don't see the context between the numbers of x ond y. When I change the numbers the output varies but in no relation to the numbers. Can anyone help to explain this to me or has another documentation? so looks my test: \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[back2][r=.6,g=.7,b=.8] \definecolor[back][s=.95] \starttext \startMPinclusions def random_hash_frame (expr width, height, offset, linewidth ) = def delta = ((uniformdeviate .5offset) + .25offset) enddef ; x1 := 0.5cm ; y1 :=0.5cm ; x2 := 16cm ; y2 := 3cm ; drawoptions(withpen pencircle scaled linewidth withcolor \MPcolor{back2}) ; fill z1--(x2,y1)--z2--(x1,y2)--cycle ; enddef; \stopMPinclusions \startuseMPgraphic{jessi} random_hash_frame(height,width, 0.5cm,0.5cm) \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{jessi} \stoptext Greetings Jessi

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Clipping a path to a boundary
by David Arnold 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

All, I'm looking for a new idea for something I need to do. I typically create a path on a domain [-5,5] as follows, a arbitrary. Then I randomly reflect the path about and axis, a line, or maybe rotate it. The result is that parts of the path may lie outside a bounding window. % define linear function f vardef f(expr x)= a*x*x enddef; % define paths for functions f, g, and h, respectively path P; P:=(-5,f(-5)); for x=-5 step .1 until 5: P:=P--(x,f(x)); endfor; % initialize scale numeric u; 10u=w; % scale and draw graph P:=P scaled u; draw P withcolor blue; % clipping path path cpath; cpath:=(-5,-5)--(5,-5)--(5,5)--(-5,5)--cycle; cpath:=cpath scaled 1u; % clip and save current picture picture pic; clip currentpicture to cpath; pic:=currentpicture; % erase currentpicture currentpicture:=nullpicture; Then I do some stuff I need to do and bring back the path at a later time with: draw pic; This works fine. However, what I need to do is somehow clip the path P to the bounding box, but retain the resulting cutpath in a path variable Q. That is, I need to cut off the parts of the path P that lie outside the bounding box cpath:=(-5,-5)--(5,-5)--(5,5)--(-5,5)--cycle and store the clipped path in the path variable Q. The difficulty is I have no advance knowledge if the path P lies entirely inside the bounding box or if it escapes through one of the sides. Any hints, tips, etc., would be very appreciated. Thanks.

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style in registers
by Vit Zyka 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Good evening, I have opened another topic. Why both Hans's page numbers are bold? -------------------------------------- \defineregister[Name][Names] \setupregister[Name][pagestyle=\it] \setupregister[Name][bf][pagestyle=\bf] \starttext Names: \Name[bf::]{Hans} \Name{Taco} \page[yes] \Name{Hans} \placeregister[Name] \stoptext -------------------------------------- vit

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