February 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

New bib beta (release candidate)
by Taco Hoekwater 03 Mar '06

03 Mar '06

Hi all, I have finally uploaded a new beta for the bib module. I really hope this is the last one before a normal release in a week or two. http://tex.aanhet.net/bib/m-bib-beta-20060205.zip I do not intend to do any more work on the still open limitations/ wishlist at this time, because synchronisation with the standard context distibution is becoming an issue. Only the documentation still needs to be fixed, and of course any fatal bugs that may be in this beta. Compared to the november 23 beta, the following things have changed (many thanks to the people who pointed out bugs and submitted fixes): * Make right-aligned labels work even if autohang=no * Use 'et al.' instead of 'et.al.'. * Additional headtext for cz * Keep whitespace after \cite with single argument * Fix broken \cite-with-braced-argument * Fix \usepublications not finding it's files * Fix compressed version of authoryear style !!* Renamed the \url and \type to \biburl and \bibtype Most of those are only fixes and should not bother you, but watch out for that last one, it breaks compatibility. I really had to do this, because \url and \type clashed heavily with predefined context commands, but it invalidates some existent bbl files, sorry. Cheers, Taco

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Search in ConTeXt PDF files
by Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de So 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

Hi! Strangely Acrobat does not find words in headers. Did this ocurred already to anyone? Greetings from a sunny Brazil Marcus Vinicius --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments.

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Closing PDF file at each run
by Hooman Javidnia 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi, When compiling a file in SciTE using F7, if the file, is already open in Adobe Acrobat, the compilation stops and asks for a new file name to write the PDF file to. I think the normal behavior would be to automatically close the current instance of the file in Acrobat and compile it again. Is there something wrong with my installation, or this is a bug? Regards, -- Hooman

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some commands still use texexec without texmfstart
by Aditya Mahajan 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi, I use a standalone context distribution in parallel with miktex. The way miktex is configured, it provides a texexec.exe file in its bin directory. Context provides a texexec.bat file in its bin directory. Normally, texexec is supposed to be run using texmfstart which picks texexec.rb from the script directory and everything works fine. There are however some macros that call texexec without texmfstart. As a result the miktex texexec (texexec.exe) is called over context's texexec.bat. I am listing the files that call raw texexec. Shouldn't all of these be called using texmfstart? 1. core-fig.tex has a line \executesystemcommand{texmfstart texexec.pl --batch --pdf #1 #3}} Notice the texexec.pl 2. page-app.tex has a line \executesystemcommand{texexec \bufferprefix\@@texapp.tex --once --batch} No texmfstart 3. supp-mps.tex has a definition \def\executeMPTEX#1% {texexec .... } No texmfstart Some support scripts also use texexec without texmfstart 1. mptopdf.pl has a line $mpbin = 'texexec --mptex $PassOn' } 2. texfont.pl has if ($show) { system ("texexec --once --silent $texfile") } 3. texsync uses system("texexec --make --alone #{str}") 4. ctxtools.rb uses one = "texexec --make --alone --all #{interface}" two = "texexec --batch --silent --interface=#{interface} x-set-01" 5. pdftrimwhite uses $result = `texexec --batch --once --purge $resultfile` } 6. makempy.pl uses $tex{context} = "texexec --batch --once --interface=en --pdf" ; -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008

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setupbackgrounds?
by Hans van der Meer 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

I cannot get backgrounds to work as I understand from the manual. This example is from the manual: \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start] % don't if needed, manual p. 122 seems to suggest it \setupbackgrounds[header,text,footer][text] [background=color,backgroundcolor=darkcyan] \showframe This does not show coloring of the indicated area. It colors only when the first option is [page] or [paper] and then it colors the whole page. So I never get coloring in the indicated parts. The other example is from cont-new.tex: %\defineoverlay[Draft][{\scale[factor=max]{\rotate[rotation=90]{~MY|| DRAFT~}}}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=Draft] This also seems to work for [page] only. But I want the text in one of the edges or in the margin, not smack in the middle of the page. I am doing something wrong in not getting the finetuning per area as the manual seems to promise? What am I missing here? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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framing columns
by Hans van der Meer 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

A nasty problem arises when I try to enclose columns into a framedtext and at the same time want to typeset it narrower inside the frame. 1. framedtext: columns will not typeset, simplecolumns does 2. narrower: columns honors narrowing, simplecolumns does not. Now I am caught between two impossibilities. Is it an option that simplecolumns will also be honoring startnarrower..stopnarrower? Is there another, simple solution? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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\input introduces space
by Peter Münster 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hello, \input seems to introduce a space. Example: \starttext \immediate\write18{echo -n X >bla.tex} X\input bla\relax X \stoptext How could I get rid of this space? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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wrong order of content-list items if using balanced columnsets
by Vit Zyka 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hello Wizards, the next example illustrates the problem with wrong order of content-list items if using balanced columnsets: ----------------------------------------------------------------- \setuplayout[grid=yes,topspace=1cm,bottomspace=1cm,height=middle] \showgrid \definecolumnset[A][n=2,balance=yes] \setupcolumnsetlines[A][1][1][21] \setupcolumnsetlines[A][1][2][21] \definecolumnset[B][n=2,balance=yes] \starttext \startcolumnset[A] \section{Knuth} \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth \endgraf} \stopcolumnset \placeongrid{\hairline} \startcolumnset[B] \section{Zapf} \dorecurse{1}{\input zapf \endgraf} \blank Content: \placecontent[criterium=all] \stopcolumnset \stoptext -------------------------------------------------------------------- Problem is that the second section (Zapf) is inserted to .tui before the first one (Knuth). My observation: on the page where one columnset (A) is closed by \setupcolumnsetlines and the second (B) continues, .tuo contains marks from B firstly. This makes book content unsable in this configuration. Any solutions? I am thinking about: Proper order writting to .tuo or to sort items according to mark number - it is correct (not sure if it is implemented?). Thanks Vit

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Nath bugs?
by Jay Belanger 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

I've been trying to make some notes on typesetting math in ConTeXt, and using nath seems the way to go. An odd thing about using \binom with nath: in displayed equations, it works fine, in inline equations, \binom{1}{2} will typeset "1(2)" (with a raised "2"). I suppose it's known that \startalign won't work with nath if given an argument like [n=3]. Overall, though, this is very nice. Jay

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Just another Table splitting question..
by Fabian Doerk 27 Feb '06

27 Feb '06

Hi ML, which is the current preferred method to get a table splitted over multiple pages within an float environment? I've tried natural tables and linetables. Both within an \placefloat, \splitfloat and outside of an float environment. Only one variant splitted the table as expected, the natural table outside of an float environment. The ML archive showed that this is a hot topic with periodically repetition. But none of the former posted question regarding this issue gets an proper answer: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2005/010273.html http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2005/010631.html http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2004/005841.html ... Is the only solution to switch to another table implementation? The reason for preferring natural tables (or linetables) are their frame alike handling per row/column. Thanks in advance for clarifying this things.. Fabian

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