September 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 11 Jul '08

11 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 01 Jun '06

01 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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new feature / manual
by Hans Hagen 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hi, There is a new feature + manual, for those who love obscure mechanisms. http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xmanipulate.pdf Even if you dislike manipulations ... the manual mixes iwona and the new condensed latin modern monospace font. The preprocess feature is only supported by newtexexec. If you want to automatically run newtexexec instead of texexec, you need to set the environment variable TEXMFSTART_MODE to 'experimental' assuming that you use texmfstart as stub; for those who are not familiar with that: windows: texexec.bat @echo off texmfstart texexec.pl %* unix: texexec (shell script) #!/bin/sh texmfstart texexec.pl $@ (using texmfstart is a guarantee against changes in the policies of distributions with regards to scripts) Anyhow, the new feature concerns - preprocessing of files (e.g. recode for tex files or xslt-ing for xml files) - graphic manipulations (downsampling and beyond) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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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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New ConTeXt with old teTeX problem?
by Michal Kvasnička 04 Oct '05

04 Oct '05

Good evening. After some time I tried to install the newest ConTeXt over my old teTeX in SuSE Linux 9.2. Everything seems to work. I use texexec version 5.4.3 with ConTeXt version 2005.08.31. ConTeXt gives this warning: systems : pdfTeX version 110 -> please update systems : eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs) Then it failes on the minimal file: % output=pdf \starttext text \stoptext and gives this error: ! Missing { inserted. <to be read again> r <argument> \pdfobj r eserveobjnum {}\setxvalue \pdffontresource {\the \pdflas... \firstofoneargument #1->#1 <argument> ...tencoding }\to \everybeforeshipout } \fi \fi \ifcsname \pdffont... \firstofoneargument #1->#1 \doincludepdffontresource ...cludepdffontresource \fi ... l.5 \stoptext What's the problem? The old pdfetex? How can I upgrade it without reinstalling the whole SuSE system? I wouldn't mind to reject the teTeX and use Pragma's mimimum TeX distribution, but it does'nt include Metafont and I still need some .mf bitmapped fonts. Can you help me please? Your sincerely Michal Kvasnicka

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\noalign?
by Christopher Creutzig 03 Oct '05

03 Oct '05

Salvete, which tables allow using \noalign and in what places? E.g., the first of these works, but I'd also like to be allowed the second one (ignore what \pause does for the moment ...): \starttable[|c|c|c|] \HL \NC one \NC two \NC three \NC\AR \HL\noalign{\pause}% \NC one \NC two \NC three \NC\AR \noalign{\pause}\HL \stoptable I assume this has to do with trial typesetting or something like this, but what should I type instead? regards, Christopher

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