November 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

how to write a section-like command (ignore following empty paragraphs)
by Karsten Heymann 18 Nov '06

18 Nov '06

Hello, I try to create a \section-like command in that respect that following empty lines are ignored. How do I have to change \SectionLike in the following example to achieve that? Yours, Karsten \setupindenting[medium] \indenting[yes,next] \setuphead[section][after={}] \def\SectionLike#1{\blank\par {\bf #1}\par\noindent\ignorespaces} \starttext \section{A Text} No empty line Second Paragraph \section{Another Text} With an empty line Second Paragraph \SectionLike{A Text} No empty line Second Paragraph \SectionLike{Another Text} with an empty line Second Paragraph \stoptext

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Problems with texexec & pdfarrange
by Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de So 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Hello, everybody In page 8 of the mtexexec manual we can see the following command: texexec --pdfarrange --paper=A5A4 --print=up live.pdf If I try it with a PDF file, for example, texexec --pdfarrange --paper=A5A4 --print=up --print gri.pdf I get an error message: ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> A \@@ppoffset ->A 5A4 \calculatepaperoffsets ...lue {\??pp #1\c!offset } \divide \scratchdimen \arr... <argument> ...dth }\fi \calculatepaperoffsets {A4} \xdef \papersize {A4} \firstofoneargument #1->#1 \next1 #1,->\docommand {#1} \doprocesscommaitem ... l.3 \setuplayout ? Do I miss something? Greetings Marcus Vinicius Details from the command: D:\context>texexec --pdfarrange --paper=A5A4 gri.pdf TeXExec | arranging file gri.pdf TeXExec | processing document 'texexec' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | writing option file texexec.top TeXExec | using randomseed 761 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en TeXExec | progname: context This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.0-beta-20060213 (Web2c 7.5.5) \write18 enabled. (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./texexec.tex ConTeXt ver: 2006.11.16 12:02 MK II fmt: 2006.11.16 int: english/english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkii)) system : cont-old loaded (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns nl->texnansi:texnansi->1->2:3 nl->ec:ec->2->2:3 fr-> texnansi:texnansi->3->2:3 fr->ec:ec->4->2:3 de->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:3 de->e c:ec->6->2:3 it->texnansi:texnansi->7->2:3 it->ec:ec->8->2:3 pt->texnansi:texna nsi->9->2:3 pt->ec:ec->10->2:3 hr->ec:ec->11->2:3 pl->pl0:pl0->12->2:3 pl->ec:e c->13->2:3 pl->qx:qx->14->2:3 cz->il2:il2->15->2:3 cz->ec:ec->16->2:3 sk->il2:i l2->17->2:3 sk->ec:ec->18->2:3 sl->ec:ec->19->2:3 ru->t2a:t2a->21->2:3 en->ec:e c->22->2:3 uk->ec:ec->23->2:3 us->ec:ec->24->2:3 agr->agr:agr->25->2:3 da->ec:e c->26->2:3 sv->ec:ec->27->2:3 af->ec:ec->28->2:3 no->ec:ec->29->2:3 deo->ec:ec- >30->2:3 es->ec:ec->31->2:3 ca->ec:ec->32->2:3 la->ec:ec->33->2:3 ro->ec:ec->34 ->2:3 tr->ec:ec->35->2:3 fi->ec:ec->37->2:3 hu->ec:ec->38->2:3 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : texexec.top loaded (./texexec.top specials : loading definition file tpd (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkii)) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) systems : system commands are enabled ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> A \@@ppoffset ->A 5A4 \calculatepaperoffsets ...lue {\??pp #1\c!offset } \divide \scratchdimen \arr... <argument> ...dth }\fi \calculatepaperoffsets {A4} \xdef \papersize {A4} \firstofoneargument #1->#1 \next1 #1,->\docommand {#1} \doprocesscommaitem ... l.3 \setuplayout ? --------------------------------- Sponsored Link Mortgage rates near 39yr lows. $510,000 Mortgage for $1,698/mo - Calculate new house payment

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Re: [NTG-context] postponed block and headers
by Paul Jones 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Below is somewhat of a silly example, but it does show the problem I am experiencing. It looks like the commands inside of the postponing block can not effect the headers. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? The only way I have been able to change the headers is to place a \page[blank] at the beginning of my postponed block, but then there are no headers for the rest of the document. Basically I just want there to be no headers on any page where I postpone a block. Any help would be much appreciated \setuppagenumbering[conversion=numbers, location=] \setupheadertexts[pagenumber] \setuphead[chapter][header=high, footer=high] \startpostponing[+2] \chapter{Chapter with header} \stoppostponing \starttext \chapter{Chapter no header} \dorecurse{20}{\input davis } \stoptext paul

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Bug in Description?
by Karsten Heymann 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hello, I need to mimick enumerated lists with descriptions, as the list labels are passed to context by an external program. For this I need the text after the label indented exactly as far as the following lines. Following the wiki I set distance=0cm, but this does not seem to be honored, but setting it to a very small value does work. So I suppose it's a bug. Yours, Karsten \definedescription[DescA][align=left,location=hanging,width=1cm,margin=1cm,distance=0cm] \definedescription[DescB][align=left,location=hanging,width=1cm,margin=1cm,distance=0.0001cm] \starttext Wrong: \DescA{1.} \input knuth \DescA{2.} \input knuth Right: \DescB{1.} \input knuth \DescB{2.} \input knuth \stoptext

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volunteer wanted
by Hans Hagen 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hi, Is there someone here who wants to check (roughly) the context related man pages that ship with tex live? I have a tgz file. 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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beta -> current
by Hans Hagen 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hi, We've gone current with the beta. Next week there will be release notes as well as the formal tex live/collection code freeze. Apart from the usual bug fixes and extensions, the most noticeable change is that from now on there are also mkii files (and mkiv as well as lua files for those testing luatex). Next year, when the TeXGyre project has released all new base fonts, there will be a switch to using these fonts instead of the existing variants, for this release, one has to load type-gyr. There has been some organizational changes to the metapost inclusion (mptopdf uses supp-pdf, while context itself uses an [to be futher] optimized version as a prelude to mkiv conversion). If you want to know to what extend luatex will influence context, keep an eye on the mk.pdf document (or read the coming Maps, TugBoat or other user group magazines) which (will) describe some experiments, history and usage. 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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relative scaling for fonts
by Pablo Rodríguez 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hi there, I'm using XeTeX one of the features that I miss at most from XeLaTeX (from fontspec), is the possibility to set automatically the scaling of fonts so that they match the lowercase or uppercase letters of the roman font. I wonder whether there is something similar for ConTeXt. By the way, the ConTeXt uses in my view, the wrong XeTeX way to set the interlinear space, since it seems that \XeTeXuseglyphmetrics is set to 0. Probably I should be missing something, but if \XeTeXuseglyphmetrics is not set to 1, ConTeXt will set the interlinear space not by itself, but following the glyph metrics and in some fonts the font height. I guess it would be better to use \XeTeXuseglyphmetrics=1. Best, Pablo

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negative indenting
by Pablo Rodríguez 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hi there, I have set \setupindenting[yes,big,first] and I would like to have all paragraphs in a given document with negative indentation. AFAIK, "first" should enable indentation for all paragraphs, but the ones after \section, \subsection or \subsubtsection are not indented. How can I make that the indenting would be negative, that is, that is not the first line the one indented, but the other ones. Thanks, Pablo

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Header number separator
by Jeff Smith 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Hi, Some time ago I had a query on the list about roman numbering in headers. Once I got my answer, I asked something else relatively unrelated but in the same thread. It's probably bad etiquette, so I figure that is why it has remained unheeded. I'd like to submit my second query again. I have a problem with the separator in header numbers. I want to use a different separator between chapter and section numbers (-), than between section and subsection numbers (.). So, assuming I'm using roman numerals for chapters, I'd like numering of sections to be I-1, I-2, I-3, etc., of subsections to be I-1.1, I-1.2, I-2.1, I-2.2, I-2.3, etc. Now when I use \setuphead for section and subsection blocks with different [separator=] attributes: \setuphead[section][separator=-] \setuphead[subsection][separator=.] ... it defines the separator for the _whole_ header level, not the number position within any relevant header. So I get this instead: sections are numbered I-1, I-2, I-3, etc. subsections are numbered I.1.1, 1.1.2, I.2.1, I.2.2, I.2.3, etc. Is there a way to achieve what I want to do? Thanks! Jeff

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How to get a PhD with ConTeXt (+ hard work ;) )
by Renaud AUBIN 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Hi all, Maybe some of yours (from the ConTeXt POV) can be interested by my PhD dissertation and my presentation (both in french)... http://www.nibua-r.org/ConTeXt/PhD/ The slides are made to work under linux with sh script to run mplayer or custom simulations... These scripts will obviously not work without the movies or my simulator binaries... Renaud

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