November 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

bib and bibltx problems
by Matthias Wächter 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

Hi Taco, I ran into the following problems: 1. see attached files. Three bib entries with different authors, but the resulting references are the same for two of them (!). Appearantly, without sorting the bib entries, the extra label numbering does not work correctly. Changing \setupbibtex to "sort=short" fixes the issue (appending "a" and "b") as well does changing "ITERATE {presort.none}" to "ITERATE {presort.clabel}" in cont-no.bst. But is this a once-and-for-all fix? 2. see attached files. In \setuppublications, numbering is given as "short", but the resulting list of references is only as good as "yes" - I only get the numbers, not the short references in the list. Hmmm, what's the cause for this? Any ideas? Or is it My Fault(TM)? 3. In general: If I'd use bib handwriting \{start,stop}publication without bibltx, would I have to care about the uniqueness of the "short" document names (the "s=" option to \startpublication)? Really? Considering hundreds of possible bibliography entries, this would double the effort: Not only the key (the "k=" option) but also the short name must be unique for correct references. 4. Sometimes, the build process ("texexec --pdf test") breaks after changing some text in the bibliography. Appearantly, sometimes the .bbl file is not updated. removing the .bbl file fixes the build. No recipy available, sorry. Thanks, - Matthias \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex[database=mybibs,sort=no] \setuppublications[refcommand=short,numbering=short] \starttext For all times, \cite[TRUE] is right and \cite[FALSE] is wrong. \completepublications \stoptext @techreport{TRUE, Title = "True Values", Author = "True Author", Year = "2005", } @techreport{GNUS, Title = "Gnus in the Wild", Author = "Another Doctor", Year = "2005", } @techreport{FALSE, Title = "False values", Author = "False Author", Year = "2005", }

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bookmarks using linebreaks in chapter titles
by Sanjoy Mahajan 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

I was trying out line breaks for long titles (at least, long when set in 36 or 48pt text), as well as have pdf bookmarks, so I defined a \1 shorthand local to the chapter heading: ====================================================================== \setupinteraction[state=start] \placebookmarks[chapter] \setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark] \setuphead[chapter][before={\bgroup\def\1{\hfil\break}}, after={\egroup}] \starttext \chapter{Long\1 title} hello \stoptext ====================================================================== If I inline the \1, as in \chapter{Long\hfil\break title}, then it's mostly fine except that the bookmark has "hfil penalty ..." Is there's another way to avoid that problem? Perhaps a magic option that says what the bookmark should be, the way one can tell \index what to typeset in the index when it is different from the inline text. One solution is to forbid hyphens during the \chapter (with before= and after= definitions) and also shrink the \hsize enough so that tex line breaks where I want, but that method requires unintuitive, fontsize-dependent dimension guessing for each chapter. Putting in line breaks by hand is not too bad. Plus one might want to break the lines according to meaning, which does not always produce the same results as where breaks would go according to line length. But meanwhile trying the hack method above, I get this error (./q.tuo) (./q.tuo) ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> Long\1 title \sanitizePDFdocencoding ...docencoding \edef #2{#1 } \doPDFinsertbookmark ...oding #3\to \bookmarktext \stripstring \bookmarktext.. \doplacebookmarks ...okmarkelement \flushbookmark \egroup \else \expanded {\.. <to be read again> \setupinteractionscreen l.3 \setupinteractionscreen [option=bookmark] It's from this line in q.tuo \listentry{chapter}{1}{1}{Long\1 title}{2--0-1-0-0-0-0-0--1}{1} and the \1 is not defined during \listentry, only during the \chapter. I didn't have a problem when the same code was part of a product (each component being chapter in a book, with the \setuphead in an environment file) -- only had it when I compiled one component, which is how I got to the test case above. [All with ConTeXt ver: 2006.10.24 13:47 MK II fmt: 2006.10.24] -Sanjoy

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Splitting a float that isn't a table
by Duncan Hothersall 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

I define a floating block called Exhibit \definefloat[Exhibit][table] which just contains paragraphs of text. I'd like to be able to split it using the \splitfloat mechanism but that only seems to work if the content of the float is a table, not paragraphs. ---- \definefloat[Exhibit][table] \starttext \input tufte\par \splitfloat[lines=auto]{\placeExhibit{Knuth}} {\dorecurse{4}{\input knuth \par}} \input tufte\page[yes] \stoptext ---- This outputs "there is nothing to split" in the resultant PDF. Is there any way to achieve the equivalent of ---- \definefloat[Exhibit][table] \starttext \input tufte\par \splitfloat[lines=auto]{\placeExhibit{Knuth}} {\bTABLE[frame=off]\dorecurse{4}{\bTR\bTD\input knuth \eTD\eTR} \eTABLE} \input tufte\page[yes] \stoptext ---- without having to make every paragraph a table cell? Thanks in advance. Duncan

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overlay page background missing
by Paul Jones 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Hello all, I am trying to put together a wedding book. I would like a nice watermark behind the text on each page. Left page containing the word 'together', and right page containing the word 'forever'. I can get this done with an overlay, but it is always centered in the page. So after reading some threads about layers in overlays I thought this might work. Putting a layer into an overlay does give me the ability to positiong the words, but I can no longer get them to show up on all of the pages. Am I doing this in a resonable way? Why did the setupbackgrounds stop working when I put the layer into the overlay? Much thanks, Paul %output=pdf \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbackgrounds[page][background={WatermarkOverlay}] \startsetups WatermarkSetup \doifoddpageelse {\framed[frame=off,foregroundcolor=gray] {\scale[sx=12,sy=12] {\rotate[rotation=20.0]{forever}}}} {\framed[frame=off,foregroundcolor=gray] {\scale[sx=12,sy=12] {\rotate[rotation=20.0]{together}}}} \stopsetups \definelayer[WatermarkLayer] \setlayer[WatermarkLayer][hoffset=-4cm,voffset=12cm]{\setups{WatermarkSetup}} \defineoverlay[WatermarkOverlay][{\placelayer[WatermarkLayer]}] \starttext \framed[height=\textheight, width=\textwidth, background={WatermarkOverlay}, frame=on]{overlay frame} \chapter{first} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter{second} \dorecurse{10}{\input davis } \chapter{third} \dorecurse{10}{\input zapf } \stoptext

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feedback on the wiki Linux_User_Installation article
by Antoine Junod 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Hello list, I'm trying to make a fresh minimal install following the wiki article 'Linux User Installation'. All goes fine till the 'texexec --make --alone' command. It says me 'the file 'texexec.rb' is not found'. I can copy it in the texmf-linux/bin directory but it trigs other errors. I can correct that error by recursively copying all the files of the texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/ directory into the texmf-linux/bin/ one. Should I update the wiki with that information or is it a problem tied to my system, or maybe a problem of the minimal context distribution/binaries files? Thanks for your replies. -AJ

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new beta / mp
by Hans Hagen 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Hi, I uploaded a new beta release. This one has support for some fresh metapost features (mpprocsets). This means that mp inclusion is slightly faster in mkii (some 5-10%) and that the (not yet public) mkiv converter is now faster than the mkii one (some 10%) due to the cleaner mp output code. Around 20/11 we need to go current because of the tex live code freeze which means that serious bugs need to be fixed before that time. 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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formula, bookmarks and misc
by Sebastian Rooks 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Dear ConTeXters, 1/ I would like to use a named formula with a reference containing several subformulae each with a reference. The closer I can get to is to add an empty namedformula followed by subformulae (see test file below). How can I get rid of the empty line with a number in the pdf ? 2/ I'm using bookmarks but abbreviations in heads do not work properly. I've used a workaround some 3 years ago but I cannot remember which. Any suggestion ? (see test file below) 3/ What should I do to get the bookmarks numbered with their chapter/section/ etc. number ? (see test file below) 4/ How can I redefine the \vec command in my formulae without having a warning "system : command \vec is already defined" 5/ I do like a lot the minimum distribution so easy to install. It would be even better if bibtex can be added. It's only 82.8 KiB Thanks for ConTeXt (special thanks to Hans and Taco of course), it's really a pleasure to work with it. Regards, Seb test.tex %%%%% %>< %>< %>< %%%%% \setupinteraction[state=start] \placebookmarks[chapter,section,subsection] \abbreviation [UK] {UK} {United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland} \starttext \placelist[formula] \chapter{Math formulae} \placenamedformula [eq:well_known] {Well known equalities} \startformula \stopformula \placesubformula[eq:first]{a} \startformula 1+0=1 \stopformula \placesubformula[eq:second]{b} \startformula 1+1=2 \stopformula \chapter{Weather in the \UK} \dorecurse {2} {\input dawkins \par} \stoptext

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another font in the gyre collection
by Hans Hagen 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Hi, The third font (bonum) is posted: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/ (btw, this project is substantially sponsored by user groups, but we can use more sponsors, esp since math is also on the agenda) 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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incorrect spacing in mathcases
by M.J. Kallen 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Hi, the following example shows space missing after the inequality sign: \startformula i = \startmathcases \NC i, \NC \text{if} i = j, \NR \NC j, \NC \text{if} i \neq j. \NR \stopmathcases \stopformula An extra '\ ' after \neq solves this, but I think this shouldn't be necessary since $i \neq j$ does not require this fix. Maarten-Jan

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Forcing XeTeX output
by Philipp Reichmuth 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Hi, is there a first-line comment directive or a \setupoutput[] parameter to force usage of XeTeX just like the --xtx commandline switch? Consider the following document: ---------------------- % ??? = xetex??? \starttext This is a piece of text \stoptext ---------------------- I just experimentally tried "engine=xetex", "tex=xetex" and "output=xetex" on the first line. The first two actually launch XeTeX, but they bail out with the comment "you should use pdfetex instad" and a \wait command, and the last one runs pdfetex instead and produces a DVI file. Philipp

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