April 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Typo in core-mat.tex
by Christopher Creutzig 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Salve Hans, \def\leqalignno#1% {\prepareleqaligno should be \preparealignno, with two n. Best regards, Christopher

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continued examples
by Christopher Creutzig 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Salvete, after a long time I got back to some ConTeXt file I had been working on and found that the following construct does not work (I assume it never did): \defineenumeration[example] [sectionnumber=chapter, text=Example, location=hanging, way=bychapter] \starttext \startexample Let $a=1$, $b=2$ \stopexample Something more generic \startexample[continue] Then, $a+b=3$. \stopexample \stoptext I would like the second example to come out as "Example 1 (cont.)". I must confess I did not quite understand which part of \dododefineenumeration actually defines \startexample ... Any ideas? Regards, Christopher

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itemize and vertical spacing
by Olivier 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Dear all, To put vertical space in an itemized construction is easy via \startitemize[inbetween={\blank[30pt]}] \item first % a 30pt vertical space will be inserted here \item second % a 30pt vertical space will be inserted here \item third % a 30pt vertical space will be inserted here \item fourth \stopitemize But, now assume I want to typeset the list in two columns: \startitemize[inbetween={\blank[30pt]}] \item first \item second \item third \item fourth \stopitemize the vertical space is discarded, whereas I would like to get the following result \startitemize[inbetween={\blank[30pt]}] \item first \item second % a 30pt vertical space will be inserted here \item third \item fourth \stopitemize Is there a way to achieve this? Thanks, Olivier

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Quick Metapost question
by Olivier 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hi all, I'm looking for an equivalent of \externalfigure[width=1mm] but for \reuseMPgraphic. Something like \reuseMPgraphic[width=1mm]{my-mp-drawing} There is always the way of tracking the generated file and including it with exernalfigure, but this is not very convenient since the numbering is subject to change. Is there an easy way to achieve rescaling of such Metapost figures? Thanks, Olivier

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Entries in \completelistoffigures - HOWTO?
by Johannes Graumann 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hello, I read out figures from my XML source by the following code: \defineXMLenvironment [figure] [width=\textwidth] [location=here] { \bgroup \defineXMLsave[floattitle] \defineXMLsave[caption] \defineXMLsave[graphic] } { \placefigure [\XMLpar{figure}{location}{}] [\XMLpar{figure}{label}{unknown}] {{\bf\XMLflush{floattitle}} \XMLflush{caption}} % {\externalfigure[\XMLflush{graphic}][width=\XMLval{figure:width {\XMLop{width}}{}]} {\externalfigure[\XMLflush{graphic}][width=\XMLpar{figure}{width}{}]} \egroup } My problem now is, that when calling '\defineXMLargument [listoffigures] {\completelistoffigures[criterium=text]}' I get figure numbers and pages, but no text. How can I show 'floattitle' in the TOF? Thanks, Joh

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ConTeXt 2006.04.24 released
by Taco Hoekwater 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip The current release has version 2006.04.24 A very short list of changes is given below. As usual, there is an html page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes New features since 20006.03.25: * The latest version of the bib module is included * Cont-ext.zip updated, now also contains f-urwgothic * Support for ancient greek * A regime definition for windows codepage 1250 * Some extra unicode support (tables 32,33,251) * Improvements to register sorting together with newtexutil * Textools now helps create module packages * Colors can inherit from palette colors * Support for buffer nesting * Modules can now be loaded with arguments * New math environments: \startintertext and \startsubstack * Linenumbering improved/extended * Marginfloat placement improvements * Gravitation&levitation of top and bottom floats * Texexec now supports a separate beta tree (for ConTeXt testers) * Float combinations * \symbol{whatever} is now also allowed * The Context version is now given in the PDF Creator field * Pretty typing of C code * Some natural table extensions Bugs fixed since 20006.03.25: * Textext() now works together with newtexexec. * Overlong MetaPost lines are automatically split now * Formula referencing and formulanumber placement problems * Active french punctuation was inactive * Accents in MetaPost picture labels did not work * Spaces in urls were ignored sometimes * Better subsentence handling * Better roundtripping of 8bit characters * Two small bugs in itemizations * Local and non-spacing footnotes had display problems * Textbackground had problems next to pagebreaks * And more ... Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater

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ConTeXt + asymptote
by Renaud AUBIN 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hi all, I like metapost but, according to the following mail (on the metapost ML): [metapost] MP vs. Asymptote I don't want to start a flame, but since someone posted a message some time ago mentioning Asymptote I got curious and I have to say that I was very impressed, even if I still have some problems with it. However, it seems a net improvement over MP, or not? Is there anyone with an informed opinion over Asymptote? Might Asymptote be the killer of MP? Cheers, (and always thanks for the help I got here now and then...) Maurizio _______________________________________________ metapost mailing list http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/metapost I wonder if someone has already tried to use asymptote with ConTeXt... IMHO, this doesn't seem obvious at all but I'm maybe wrong... Cheers Renaud

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Arranging pages
by Renaud AUBIN 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hi all, I'm working on my wedding's "Menu" with ConTeXt (I have started ConTeXt and metafun when making my wedding invitations ;) and already succeed to produce nice booklets) Considering two pages A and B, I would obtain: AB on the same page with setuparranging I obtain 0A B0 with 0 an empty page I have "succeeded" (is it really a success !!!) to obtain 00 AB using \page[even] and \page[yes] (I have to precise here that we would not to print a "booklet" for practical reasons) It's ok if I use --pages=2 but I feel frustating because I feel that it could be really simple to do what I wanted, i.e.: AB !!!!!!! I know that it could be done with overlay but I assume that there is a much simplier solution to this simple problem... Cheers Renaud

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Split TABLE plea.
by Johannes Graumann 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hello, Please have a look at the attached monster of a table - not very pretty to begin with - but I'll have to deal. Despite the patch from Hans the file includes, I'm unable to break the thing onto multiple pages. Can somebody please have mercy and nudge me into the right direction with this? Joh

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General Float Placement Question
by Randall Skelton 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hi all, Is it possible to combine placement attributes when specifying a floating figure or table? \placefloat[.1.][ref,..]{.2.}{.3.} .1. left right here top bottom inleft inright inmargin margin page opposite always force tall .2. text .3. text In my case, I'd like to ensure that figures in a double-sided document appear together, with the first on the left page and the second on the right. What I have reads: \placefigure [90,opposite] [Fig:a] {Figure a caption goes here} \externalfigure[a][width=0.8\makeupheight]} \placefigure [90] [Fig:b] {Figure b caption goes here} \externalfigure[b][width=0.8\makeupheight]} For the first figure, will a location of [90,opposite] ensure a rotated left-page figure? Likewise, is it possible to ensure that the second figure is forced to the next right page? Cheers, Randall

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