April 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Multi-page table and lengthy caption
by Johannes Graumann 20 Apr '06

20 Apr '06

Hello, In my field lengthy table captions are common. The attached example shows two problems I have with the multi-page tabeling I made work with the help of the included patch from Hans: 1) the table splitting does not calculate the right height for the caption - the table is too long for the page. 2) captions of this caliber should only appear together with the first part of the table and should be replaced with 'continued' or nothing when appearing with further parts. I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to fix/achieve these two issues. Thanks, Joh

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Two Problems: Colored Chapter and Footnote positioning
by Miguel Queiros 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Hello, I'm facing two problems. The first one has to do with the fact that if I use \color[darkblue]{\chapter{Capitulo 1}} the line with \setuphead[chapter][header=empty] seems to be ignored because the chapter page gets the header too. I'v attached an example in the file "capitulo-cores.tex". The second problem has to do with the fact that in the attached file "footnote-posicao.tex" I changed the layout of the page, so that I could have a bigger right margin. The problem is that I would like to have the page number centered on "the page" and note on the new dimensions of the text area (don't know if I' been clear but I think you will understand if you look at the attached file). In fact I have a third problem that is the fact that the page number is repeated. I don't want to remove the line \setupfootertexts[][\setups{t_footer}] because I want the footer in 10pt. Thank you! Miguel Queirós ----------------------------------------------------------- \setupcolors[state=start] \setuphead[chapter][header=empty] \setupheadertexts[][chapter] \starttext \completecontent \color[darkblue]{\chapter{Capitulo 1}} % \chapter{\color[darkblue]{Capitulo 1}} \page Nada. \chapter{Capitulo 2} \page Nada. \chapter{Capitulo 3} \page Nada. \stoptext -----------------------------------------------------------

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using \doifmodeelse the right way
by Peter Münster 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Hello, \externalfigure[prefix-\doifmodeelse{blub}{blub}{notblub}][width=0.5\textwidth] does not work. I tried some combination of \expanded, \unexpanded, \expandafter etc but without success. In the end, I write: \doifmodeelse{blub}{% \externalfigure[prefix-blub][width=0.5\textwidth]}{% \externalfigure[prefix-notblub][width=0.5\textwidth]} Is this the most elegant way, or do you know better? (I would prefer less redundancy) Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Figure caption on different page?
by Johannes Graumann 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Hello, Is it possible to place (for page sized figures) the caption on the next/previous page? Thanks, Joh

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wrong mail
by Hans Hagen 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

sorry, the previous mail was an error -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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ntg logo
by Hans Hagen 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

heeft iemand een eps (in kleur) van het ntg logo? 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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texexec is very coy
by Sanjoy Mahajan 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

When texexec doesn't find a program or a file, it doesn't complain loudly. In this output from a recent run extra program : dvipos z total run time : 3 seconds texexec went looking for 'dvipos'. I didn't suspect any problem since I didn't know that it wasn't installed (and hadn't heard of it until a few hours ago). An error message like this would be useful:: extra program : dvipos z ERROR: Could not run 'dvipos' total run time : 3 seconds Perhaps at the end of the run repeat all those error msgs (otherwise they gets buried in all the output). A similar message would be useful when the tex file itself doesn't exist: $ texexec nosuchfile.tex TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 fixing engine variable : pdfetex total run time : 1 seconds Eventually I learnt that a run time of 1 second meant I'd mistyped the file name, but a message would be useful (and more helpful than prompting for the correct filename: I like Unix programs to not ask questions). -Sanjoy `A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.' - Bertrand de Jouvenal

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XML and Multipage table
by Johannes Graumann 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Hello, Does anybody have an insight into why a table created with the following mapping rule for XML code does not present it's caption and is not split? Thanks Joh \defineXMLnested [table] {\bgroup \defineXMLsave[caption] \defineXMLsave[header] \defineXMLsave[body] %\defineXMLnested[header]{\bTABLEhead} {\eTABLEhead} %\defineXMLnested[body] {\bTABLEbody} {\eTABLEbody} \placetable [\XMLpar{table}{location}{here}] [\XMLpar{table}{label}{unknown}] {\XMLflush{caption}} \bgroup \setupTABLE[frame=off,split=repeat,style={\switchtobodyfont[small]\setupinterlinespace[line=2.8ex]}] \framed[frame=off,topframe=on,bottomframe=on,offset=none,rulethickness=0.75pt] \bgroup \bTABLE[distance=7.5pt] \bTABLEhead \XMLflush{header} \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \XMLflush{body} \eTABLEbody \bTABLEfoot\eTABLEfoot } {\eTABLE \egroup \egroup \egroup}

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Miktex woes
by David Arnold 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

All, A colleague of mine did an update of his miktex. Now his context won't work with this error: TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 warning : texexec.ini not found, try 'texexec --verbose' TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 current path : C:/Book/IntAlgText/trunk/chapter3 locating ini file : kpsewhiching texexec.ini on scripts locating ini file : kpsewhiching texexec.ini elsewhere locating ini file : kpsewhiching texexec.rme on scripts locating ini file : kpsewhiching texexec.rme elsewhere locating ini file : not found by kpsewhich locating ini file : not found by searching locating ini file : no environment variable set locating ini file : not found in own path warning : texexec.ini not found, did you read 'texexec.rme'? This was working before the Miktex update. Miktex has a texexec.exe in a bin/ file. That's the one being used, but we cannot find any instance of texexec.ini in the miktex tree. I don't think Miktex uses the ini file. Anyone know what's going on here? Alternatively, could I get a suggestion for a good miktex installation of context using the zip file from Pragma?

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XML floating figure and width.
by Johannes Graumann 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Hello, My XML mapping rule for a floating figure looks (thanks to Hans' help) as follows: \defineXMLenvironment [figure] [width=] [location=here] { \bgroup \defineXMLsave[caption] \defineXMLsave[graphic] } { \placefigure [\XMLpar{figure}{location}{}] [\XMLpar{figure}{label}{unknown}] {\XMLflush{caption}} {\externalfigure[\XMLflush{graphic}][width=\XMLpar{figure}{width}{}}]} \egroup } I want to make it possible to call '\textwidth' from the XML code. '<figure width="\textwidth">' does not work and does not make much sense when using the XML with something else but ConTeXt, so I want to implement a mapping of 'max' to '\textwidth'. I looked up some code Hans gave me for lists and came up with the following: \mapXMLvalue {figure:width} {max} {\textwidth} \defineXMLenvironment [figure] [width=] [location=here] { \bgroup \defineXMLsave[caption] \defineXMLsave[graphic] } { \placefigure [\XMLpar{figure}{location}{}] [\XMLpar{figure}{label}{unknown}] {\XMLflush{caption}} {\externalfigure[\XMLflush{graphic}][width=\XMLval{figure:width {\XMLop{width}}{}]} \egroup } This works great when saying '<figure width="max">', but I loose the possibility of giving absolute values for 'width' - as in '<figure width="10cm">'. Any hints on how to get the 'max' option while retaining compatibility with absolute values? Thanks, Joh

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