January 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Figures in a table?
by David Arnold 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

All, Has anyone put figures in a table? I'd like to have a 4 row, 3 column table, where the first column contains number lines with intervals of real numbers shaded. The second column would contain the setbuilder notation for the shaded interval, and the third column would contain the interval notation for the shaded interval. Ideas?

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SciTE Setup in Windows and .rb scripts
by Hooman Javidnia 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Hi I am new to ConTeXt. Once I saw the showcase, I thought that this is even much better than LaTeX which I have been using for 3 years. I have MikTeX installed on my WinXP machine and according to the advice tried to setup SciTE to write some practice documents. Still I have problems. I have done everything in SCiTE in ConTeXt manual, but I can't still compile my files. I have to go to command line and do it manually. Should I install Ruby on my machine? What is Ruby for anyway? Where should I get those .rb scripts and where should I put them? Keep up the good work, Cheers, Hooman

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\getbuffer question
by David Arnold 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

All, If you do something like: \startbuffer \setupYadaYada . . . . \stopbuffer Then you do: \getbuffer will the setup be in a group, and only pertain to the stuff set with \getbuffer?

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Font memory issues ?
by David Wooten 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Greetings ConTeXters, Just recently (after updating to the most recent i-Installer ConTeXt version / but also after writing/tweaking a little more), I am apparently running into some font memory issues.* I have tried to increase the available memory in web2c/texmf.cnf to no avail. One curiosity is the pdfTeX error further down: "<argument> hz,normal". I am using hz,hanging in this document. Any clues? Many thanks, David * [27.27] ! Font \*12ptrmtf*=texnansi-LIGA-KERN-ONUM-PNUM-MinionPro-Regular at 12.0pt not loaded: Not enough room left. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \ifskipfontchar... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \globalfontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\globalfo... ... l.27 \stopbackmatter ! pdfTeX error (font expansion): invalid font identifier. \dosetfontadjusting ...pdffontexpand \handledfont \csname \@fha@ \@fha@ #1\c... <inserted text> ...ntadjusting \askedfonthandling \setprotrudingfactor \aske... \dofastenablehandling ...\everyenablefonthandling \edef \fonthandling {\csna... \rawprocesscommaitem ...commalevel \endcsname {#1} \expandafter \rawprocessco... <argument> hz,n ormal \rawprocesscommalist ...er \rawprocesscommaitem #1 ,],\global \advance \comma... ... l.27 \stopbackmatter ! ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!

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Force indent
by David Arnold 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

All, What's the proper way to force an indent at the "However" below? Now, suppose that we're asked to shade all real numbers in the set $\ {x:\,x>3\}$. Because this requires that we shade every real number that is greater than 3 (to the right of 3), we use the shading shown in \infigure[fig:realline3] to represent the set $\{x:\,x>3\}$. \placefigure [][fig:realline3] {Shading all real numbers greater than 3.} {\externalfigure[realline3]} However,

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ggd
by Hans van der Meer 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

A very insignificant observation. But in my opinion Hans Hagen is a perfectionist, therefore I dare to throw this bone to him. In Dutch the greatest common divisor is not abbreviated as "gcd" but as "ggd". It is of course a simple matter to redefine this locally with: \definemathcommand [gcd] [limop] {\mfunction{ggd}} But the perfectionist would likely expect this to happen automagically on \language[nl]. Just mentioned this for fun, don't bother too much. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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marginblock placement
by Hans van der Meer 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Encountered some annoying behaviour in placing sidenotes in the margin with \startmarginblock (1) In a previous email I said I could get the notes in the right margin only. That was incorrect. \setupmarginblocks governs the placement and of course the last call gets precedence when several are placed on one page. I would like to be able to place the notes individually to the left or to the right, but startmarginblock has no [location=left/right] parameter]. It should in principle not be a problem to place floating notes left and right into the margin independently? (2) In doublesided layout startmarginblock places the notes on the right side neatly centered in the margin. But on the left it does not, there they are pressed against the left edge of the page. In both the doublesided as in the singlesided setup i gave \setuplayout[margin=30mm]. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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type backslash brace oddity
by Henning Hraban Ramm 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Still documenting tables: \type{\{} or \tex{{} doesn't work, I get the * prompt of the TeX interpreter instead of typing \{ I used {\tt \backslash\{}, but that's not quite the same. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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setuptabulate
by Hans van der Meer 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

What is with tabulation? I use it because I find it handy, but the setuptabulate seems not working. \starttext \setuptabulate[align=middle,rulethickness=1pt] \starttabulate[|c|c|] \NC abc \NC xyz \NC\NR \NC def \NC uvw \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext This gives NO alignment and NO rule. Is something wrong? Ran at the wiki live-ConTeXt and got the same negative result. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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Problems with Unicode and i-Installer
by Sebastian Sturm 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Hello, after installing the new ConTeXt package (same problem for 1/16 and 1/19 beta), the installation procedure reported some missing 'unic-ext.tex' file; compiling any files that used \enableregime[utf] didn't work anymore. Replacing 'unic-ext' by 'unic-exp' in the file context.tex and doing another configuration run in i-installer got rid of the error messages both during installation and compilation. So I'd like to know if there might be something wrong with my installation or if it really should say 'unic-exp.tex' in context.tex. In case (i), is there anything I could do besides rerunning the installation routines to fix my tex setup? Best regards, Sebastian

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