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make array of tables
by Dalyoung Jeong 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Dear all, I'd like to display several tables of the same size in an 3*2 array form. I tried the commands \placetables and \startcombination like in thd dispaly of figures, but it didn't work. My only solution is to use \startcolumns right now. Is it possible to use \startcombination in some way? Or, is there any way to perform such a display? Thank you for reading. Dalyoung

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generating formats with newtexexec
by Thomas A. Schmitz 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

I'm having a slight problem with generating the formats when I use newtexexec. texmfstart newtexexec --make --all I get the expected output without any errors, e.g.: ConTeXt ver: 2006.04.18 22:36 fmt: 2006.4.19 int: english mes: english Beginning to dump on file cont-en.fmt (format=cont-en 2006.4.19) 41222 strings of total length 690675 555192 memory locations dumped; current usage is 255&551843 38558 multiletter control sequences \font\nullfont=nullfont 0 words of font info for 0 preloaded fonts 232 hyphenation exceptions Hyphenation trie of length 98729 has 4367 ops out of 35111 117 for language 37 31 for language 36 13 for language 34 31 for language 33 26 for language 32 21 for language 31 29 for language 30 207 for language 29 220 for language 28 265 for language 27 127 for language 26 60 for language 25 80 for language 24 181 for language 23 224 for language 22 181 for language 21 71 for language 19 248 for language 18 248 for language 17 63 for language 16 63 for language 15 194 for language 14 194 for language 13 194 for language 12 19 for language 11 7 for language 10 7 for language 9 35 for language 8 35 for language 7 235 for language 6 235 for language 5 88 for language 4 88 for language 3 265 for language 2 265 for language 1 No pages of output. Transcript written on cont-en.log. But cont-en.fmt is never actually written to the disk. I searched high and low, but the only cont-en.fmt is the "old" one, written on Apr. 17; the same for cont-en.log. Generating the formats with texexec --make --all works. Is there anything I'm missing? Best Thomas

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solved - making array of tables
by Dalyoung 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Sorry again. I copied and pasted the codes in mp-cb-en.pdf and run it. It worked fine. Hence I modified the codes using my data and it also worked fine. I compared the structures of the codes in the documents and mine. The only difference is the blank lines between ............ \stoptable}{talbe 1} \starttable[...... and it was the cause of the trouble. The other day, I had a trouble in using \head because I didn't insert blank line, but today, I made another problem because inserting a blank line. Anyway, it is good to know ConTeXt better. Thanks for reading. Dalyoung

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Cranky booklet layout.
by John R. Culleton 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

First I built a letter-on-tabloid booklet like this: \definepapersize[tabloid][width=11in,height=17in] \setuppapersize[letter][tabloid] \setuparranging[2UP,rotated,doublesided] \setuplayout[width=7in,location=doublesided,backspace=0.73in, topspace=.0in,height=10.3in] This worked pretty well. For the next iteration I wanted to reduce the size by one half, in other words a half letter sheet on a letter sheet. I came up with this: \definepapersize[halff][width 5.5in,height=8.5in] \definepapersize[ful][width 8.5in,height=11in] \setuppapersize[halff][ful] \setuparranging[2UP,rotated,doublesided] Now no amount of fiddling with \setuplayout parameters seems to place the logical pages correctly on the paper. If I use no such parameters whatever the entire physical page image seem to slide toward the bottom of the piece of paper. As a result the bottom logical page slides halfway off the page. Can anyone spot an obvious goof? John Culleton -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf

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spurious line break in \switchtobodyfont
by Mojca Miklavec 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hello, there is a misterious linebreak in the second example: abc\switchtobodyfont[ss]def abc\switchtobodyfont[,,ss]def Is this ConTeXt's fault or mine? Mojca

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\to broken in figure captions
by Sanjoy Mahajan 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

In inline math, \to works fine (produces a right arrow), but in a figure caption all hell breaks loose. The culprit may be this redefinition of \to in enco-ini.tex: $ find texmf -name '*.tex' |xargs egrep -n '\\((e|g|)def|let)\\to\b' texmf/tex/context/base/core-pos.tex:642: %\edef\to {\POSprefix#1}% texmf/tex/context/base/enco-ini.tex:1565: {\appendtoks\let\to\everylowercase texmf/tex/context/base/enco-ini.tex:1570: {\appendtoks\let\to\everyuppercase [context : ver: 2006.04.17 23:14] This test file: \starttext \placefigure[abc]{ABC $n\to1$.}{} \input tufte \stoptext produces lots of errors beginning with ERROR: Missing control sequence inserted. --- TeX said --- <inserted text> \inaccessible <to be read again> 1 \convertargument #1\to #2->\dodoglobal \edef #2 {\detokenize {#1}} <argument> ABC $n\to 1 $. \docompletefloat ... \doglobal \convertargument #6 \to \asciititle \ifnofloat... <argument> ...abc}{figure}{ABC $n\to 1$.}\nextbox \else \docompletefloat {fi... ... l.2 \placefigure[abc]{ABC $n\to1$.}{} \input tufte

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\k in inline math
by Sanjoy Mahajan 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

\starttext $\k T$ \stoptext The above test file, to my surprise, compiled fine. [In Plain TeX I usually define \k as \kappa, but I had forgotten to carry over that definition.] The pdf output showed a T with little hook as a subscript. I can redefine \k as \kappa, but that might overwrite an important definition. However, I can't figure out where \k is defined. With \tracingmacros=1, the log had: \k ->\dohandleaccent {k} but lots of grepping in the context sources only produced: texmf/tex/context/base/mult-ini.tex:71:\def\k!prefix!{k!} \def\l!prefix!{l!} \def\m!prefix!{m!} -Sanjoy `A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.' - Bertrand de Jouvenal

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verb-c and tabulator width
by Peter Münster 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hello, thanks to Nikolai for the verb-c module! One (probably there will come more) question: How could I adjust the width of the tabulator? It seems to be always one space inside \startC...\stopC : \usemodule[verb-c] \chardef\spacespertab=4 \starttext \starttyping int main(){ int i; } \stoptyping \startC int main(){ int i; } \stopC \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Table width trouble
by nico 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hello, I come back with that damn table test case. With release 2006.04.22: - it works fine when the column width is passed as table option, - it's wrong when the width is passed via a column setup only, - it works ok when both table and column option are passed, and it's the column option that is used (which is the expected behaviour). - it's ok when no width specified at all. \starttext \startbuffer \bTR \bTD[nc=2] A \eTD\bTD x \eTD \bTD[nc=2] B \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD X \eTD \bTD[nc=3] C \eTD \bTD x \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD[nc=2] D \eTD \bTD x \eTD \bTD[nc=2] E \eTD \eTR \stopbuffer % ok \bTABLE[frame=on,width=3em] \getbuffer \eTABLE % nok, messy table \bTABLE[frame=on] \setupTABLE[c][each][width=3em] \getbuffer \eTABLE % ok, width=3em for each column \bTABLE[frame=on,width=0.1pt] \setupTABLE[c][each][width=3em] \getbuffer \eTABLE % ok \bTABLE[frame=on] \getbuffer \eTABLE \stoptext Regards, BG

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Register with numeric values
by luigi scarso 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

I'm using register with numeric values, eg \defineregister[MyReg][MyRegs] \starttext 123\MyReg[123] 345\MyReg[345] aaa\MyReg[aaa] \page \placeMyReg \stoptext but there aren't head as for entry 'aaa'. I'm looking into core-reg, but I've not ideas. luigi

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