October 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

absolute positioning of figures
by andrea valle 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Hi to all, In case of presentations sometimes one has to combine many figures in the page, maybe overlapping for some parts. Something very easy in powerpoint. What's the best technique? Taking a look at the wiki and ot "It's in the details" manual it seems that layers, which can be placed according to absolute positions, are the ConTeXt solution to the problem. Is it so? I was in fact considering to create a simple python GUI app to allow a visual control on position of figures on a page, outputting ConTeXt code to be copied and pasted. Thanks -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea andrea.valle(a)unito.it

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aux files organization
by andrea valle 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Hi to all, compiling a conTeXt file means generating 6 auxiliary files. This means that that if I have 4 related .tex files in a folder I will have 24 aux files. Is there a way to specify a folder where to place them in order not to clutter my project folder? (The ideal would be that the aux would be put in a subfolder of the folder containing the tex file). Best -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea andrea.valle(a)unito.it

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setup-en.pdf
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Hallo! I searched some of the first (p. 8-9) commands used in 'the details' in setup-en.pdf. But I didn't found \showgridboxes \setlayer \definelayer \layoutcolumnoffset ... Shouldn't be ALL the commands listet in setup-en.pdf? How is this document created? Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] setup-en.pdf
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

> Well, all user commands at least. Please also take a look at > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command_Syntax/Missing > and if you have some time, please edit this. I will do that. But I would like to know, how setup-xx.pdf is updated. The commands in 'the details' are rather old. As the other Wolfgang explained, the source of all this is a xml-file 'cont-xx.xml'. Is this file updated by hand? Who does this? Hans alone? I guess, the commands shown in texshow are depending on the same file. Btw. for me (MSIE 5.5) the texshow page is not working. I see the left frame and the right only for home, help and special. For all commands (server or dns not found). With wget I got all the stuff, but the language is sort of random. Sometimes I got en, sometimes other. May be I got the last selected language. Wolfgang

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Lists of cross-references
by Fredrik Sjunnesson 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Hello, I'm working on functions for displaying lists of cross-references between documents and I'm therefore a bit curious to here if others have similar needs. If there are, maybe I should try to make a real module and not just at private hack. Maybe modules for this already exist. A substantial part of my work as software engineer I spend writing and maintaining documents, e.g. 'User requirement specification', 'Functional specification', 'Design specification', 'Test specification', 'Test plan', 'Test results', 'Project plan'. Between these documents are often large number of cross-references, e.g. functions in the FS refer to requirements in the URS, tests in the TS refer to functions in the FS and requirements URS and so on and so on. To get a better overview of all this I would like to end each section with a list of relevant cross-references, e.g. at the end of function A it says that it refers to requirements B and C and is in turn referred to by test E, F and G etc. Any input is welcome, Fredrik -------------------------------- Teknisk projektledare PhD Complex Systems AcobiaFLUX AB fredrik.sjunnesson(a)acobiaflux.se Tel: +46 (0) 31 722 48 11 Fax: +46 (0) 31 722 48 01 Mob: +46 (0) 733 27 92 41 www.acobiaflux.se

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Make page number appear on top of image
by Aditya Mahajan 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Hi, I want to combine some papers into a single pdf file "with page numbers". I am including the papers using \copypages[filename] However, the pagenumber is not printed when the paper is a scanned copy. I guess this is because the page number is printed and then the scanned image is printed on top of it, thereby hiding the page number. How can I force the page number to appear on top? Thanks, Aditya

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Re: [NTG-context] Problems mapping Xml into ConTeXt
by Michael Wigston 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Hans Hagen wrote: > Michael Wigston wrote: > > 1. This def of <u> does nothing ... > > \defineXMLgrouped [u] \underbar > > > \defineXMLargument[u]{\underbar} > > underbar is not a font switch but a macro that takes an argument Hans, Thanks, that works fine with \underbar, as well as \underbars, \overstrike, \overstrikes, \low, \high and \lohi. You mentioned that \underbar (and presumably the others I mentioned above) are macros taking arguments e.g. \acommand{...}. However presumably something like \midaligned{...} is also a macro requiring an argument, but this works as a \defineXMLgrouped and as a \defineXMLargument - why does it work with both? The manual "XML in ConTeXt" very briefly sketched over these XML commands and I can see great potential to use them directly on XML to generate ConTeXt for PDF rather than the XSLT/XSL-FO route which seems to be gaining momentum in much of the industry. I don't suppose there is another more detailed document which elaborates on the XML commands, and how you may determine which of these is most appropriate for what kind of ConTeXt command mapping? Also at the moment a non-mapped element seems to automatically type out its contents as straight text - is there a way to override this behaviour and specify this as an error? (This is rather like the Ruby duck-typing approach - if an XML element is mapped, process it, else it is an error). Michael NOTICE This e-mail and any attachments are intended for the addressee(s) only and may be confidential. They may contain legally privileged or copyright material. You should not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender as soon as possible by return e-mail and then please delete both messages. This notice should not be removed.

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Re: [NTG-context] Append to a commalist
by Fredrik Sjunnesson 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Great! Thank you very much Hans. It would have taken me a lifetime to get there :) /Fredrik -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: ntg-context-bounces(a)ntg.nl [mailto:ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl] För Hans Hagen Skickat: den 12 oktober 2006 15:49 Till: mailing list for ConTeXt users Ämne: Re: [NTG-context] Append to a commalist Fredrik Sjunnesson wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a smart way to create a commalist? > > I want to get the equivalent of > > \setparameter[namespace][listname={item1,item2,item3}] > > but be able to append one item at the time, like > > \append{namepace}{listname}{item1} > \append{namepace}{listname}{item2} > \append{namepace}{listname}{item3} > > I have tired this: > > \def\append#1#2#3{ > \fullexpandoneargafter\doifemptyelse{\getvariable{#1}{#2}} > {\edef\tmp{#3}} > {\edef\tmp{\getvariable{#1}{#2},#3}} > \setvariables[#1][#2={\tmp}]} > > but it only works for one list. Apparently \tmp is not expanded so when > an item is appended to one list all other lists are affected. I have > tried \expanded but got the message stack full. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > \def\appendtovaluelist#1#2% {\ifcsname#1\endcsname \expandafter\ifx\csname#1\endcsname\empty \expandafter\def\csname#1\endcsname{#2}% \else \expandafter\def\csname#1\expandafter \expandafter\expandafter\endcsname \expandafter\expandafter\expandafter{\csname#1\endcsname,#2}% \fi \else \expandafter\def\csname#1\endcsname{#2}% \fi} % saves an argument: \def\appendtovaluelist#1% {\ifcsname#1\endcsname \expandafter\ifx\csname#1\endcsname\empty \expandafter\noappendtovaluelist \csname#1\expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\endcsname \else \expandafter\doappendtovaluelist \csname#1\expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\endcsname \fi \else \expandafter\noappendtovaluelist\csname#1\expandafter\endcsname \fi} \def\doappendtovaluelist#1#2{\expandafter\def\expandafter#1\expandafter{#1,#2}} \def\noappendtovaluelist#1#2{\def#1{#2}} \appendtovaluelist{mylist}{aap} \appendtovaluelist{mylist}{noot} \appendtovaluelist{mylist}{mies} \showvalue{mylist} ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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Append to a commalist
by Fredrik Sjunnesson 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Hello, Is there a smart way to create a commalist? I want to get the equivalent of \setparameter[namespace][listname={item1,item2,item3}] but be able to append one item at the time, like \append{namepace}{listname}{item1} \append{namepace}{listname}{item2} \append{namepace}{listname}{item3} I have tired this: \def\append#1#2#3{ \fullexpandoneargafter\doifemptyelse{\getvariable{#1}{#2}} {\edef\tmp{#3}} {\edef\tmp{\getvariable{#1}{#2},#3}} \setvariables[#1][#2={\tmp}]} but it only works for one list. Apparently \tmp is not expanded so when an item is appended to one list all other lists are affected. I have tried \expanded but got the message stack full. Any help would be greatly appreciated. /Fredrik -------------------------------- Teknisk projektledare Ph.D. Complex Systems AcobiaFLUX AB fredrik.sjunnesson(a)acobiaflux.se Tel: +46 (0) 31 722 48 11 Fax: +46 (0) 31 722 48 01 Mob: +46 (0) 733 27 92 41 www.acobiaflux.se

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color question
by Alan Bowen 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

If this is OT, my apologies to all. I am currently using ConTEXt to produce PDFs with a colored background which I specify using R G B settings. Unfortunately, this background does not look the same when others open the files on their computers. Is there anything I can do at my end to correct this? Alan

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