August 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Footnote not marked in narrative
by David Arnold 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

All, How can I have a footnote that is not marked in the narrative?

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Context 2006.08.04 released
by Taco Hoekwater 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '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 2006.08.04 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 2006.07.28: * \framed (and -text) now support an [indenting=] key * support for russian hyphenation * new version of the bib module * \[lL]commaaccent character definitions Bugfixes: * column alignment in natural tables * image inclusion: * bounding box discovery using rli files fixed * fix for Aleph in global TRT documents * some still-needed definitions from former supp-pdf re-instated * disappearing subtextblocks * unicode table 002 fix * some identation problems removed Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater

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marking files for delition in the next "texutil/ctxtools --purge" run
by Mojca Miklavec 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hello, is it possible to mark the files somehow, so that they are deleted in the next run of ctxtools --purge[files]? (I create a lot of temporary files with different macros and would like to get rid of them at the end.) Thanks, Mojca

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hyphenation by default off in lists ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hi, is hyphenation by default off in lists? If so, why doesn't align={hyphenated,right} start the hyphening? \starttext %\setuplist[section][align={hyphenated,right}] \completecontent \section{\input tufte} \stoptext Steffen

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environment files and indenting
by Sanjoy Mahajan 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Not sure what I'm doing wrong here, but this is the minimal example I could make. The environment file ne.tex contains \startenvironment ne \setupindenting[medium,yes] \stopenvironment And the test file is \environment ne \starttext \placeformula\startformula x = 10 \stopformula \stoptext texexec'ing test.tex says: Overfull \hbox (17.62474pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 4--4 [][] But if I inline the environment file, to get \startenvironment ne \setupindenting[medium,yes] \stopenvironment \starttext \placeformula\startformula x = 10 \stopformula \stoptext then texexec doesn't produce any overfull \hbox. My guess is that the 17.6247pt overage is the amount of medium indenting, and somehow the display math mode is getting confused and trying to indent itself? -Sanjoy

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safe way of writing arguments
by Jano Kula 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hi! Is it safe to leave spare comma at the end of the key=value list or other list of arguments? It is not nice, but when adding/commenting arguments in readable way (one per line) it's faster and while experimenting with parameters one doesn't have to care about the last comma adding or removing it back and forth, for example: \setuplayout[ grid=yes, %header=0mm, footer=7mm, %footerdistance=10mm, %cutspace=12mm, ] or \setuphead[ chapter, section, %subsection, %subsubsection, ][ textstyle=\ss, numberstyle=\ss, ] Thanks. Jano Kula

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How to get rid of header
by David Arnold 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

All, how do I get rid of the header on the second page of output? \setupwhitespace[medium] \setupindenting[medium,yes] \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppagenumbering [state=start, alternative=doublesided, location=, way=bytext] \definetext[chapter][footer][pagenumber] \setuphead [chapter] [alternative=inmargin, header=high, footer=chapter, page=right] \setuphead [section] [style=\tfc, page=right, continue=no, alternative=inmargin] \setuphead [subsection] [style=\tfb\sl, number=no] \definehead [toc] [section] \setuphead [toc] [number=no, incrementnumber=no, page=no] \def\OddPageHeader{\bold{\pagenumber}\hskip 1em Chapter \headnumber [chapter] \getmarking[chapter][current]} \def\headermarkleft{\bold{\pagenumber}\headerskip{\sc\headerskip Chapter \headnumber[chapter]\headerskip\getmarking[chapter][current]}} \def\headermarkright{{\sc{}Section \headnumber[section]\headerskip \getmarking[section][current]}\headerskip\bold{\pagenumber}} \def\headerskip{\hskip 1em} \setupheadertexts [][\headermarkright] %odd page on right [\headermarkleft][] %even page on left \setuplist [section] [style=bold, color=red, alternative=c] \setuplist [subsection] [alternative=b] \starttext \chapter{A Practice Chapter} \input knuth \toc{Table of Contents} \placecontent \section{First Section} \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth \par} \subsection{First Subsection} \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth \par} \section{Second Section} \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth \par} \subsection{Second Subection} \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth \par} \section{Third Section} \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth \par} \subsection{Third Subection} \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth \par} \stoptext

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buffers
by Hans van der Meer 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

The ConTeXt manual tells me on page 237: You can define your own buffer with: \definebuffer[...] ... name After this command /getbuffer and \typebuffer are available where buffer is the name of the buffer. I do: \definebuffer[left] \startbuffer[left] left\crlf \stopbuffer \typeleft and it gives me the error: ! Undefined control sequence. \typeleft ->\dodotypebuffer [left][def-3] l.92 \typeleft then I try: \typebuffer[left] this gives a typeset message [file examdoc-def-2.tmp does not exist] (file examdoc.tex being the containing tex file) when I try \getbuffer[left] or \getleft nothing at all seems to happen? Why doesn't it work according to the manual? Or do I misunderstand the manual completely? Hans van der Meer

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counting the words in a TeX document
by Mojca Miklavec 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hello, I would like to ask how difficult it would be to count the number of words in a TeX/ConTeXt document. If it's too complex, please ignore the rest of the message. Most recipes for LaTeX say that it's best to do something like "pdftotext" and then issue "wc" to count the words in the resulting text file, but windows users don't have "wc" and sometimes you only need to know the length of the abstract or so ... Some time ago Hans mentioned that he counts the number of appearance of single charactres, but I don't know how difficult it would be to extend it to count the number of words. The problem is not that well defined (how to handle equations, some would probably want to exclude headers, footers, buttons, ...), but it only needs to be an approximation and "backward compatibility" (in the sense that counter would have to result in the same number after some years) is not needed at all since algorithms might improve with time and the resulting document doesn't really depend on that number, it would only be written to the log file. My idea for the interface would be something like \startwordcount[abstract] \startframedtext Bla bla. \stopframedtext \stopwordcount which would write something like "abstract: 2 words" to the log file or \startstatistics[abstract][words] \startframedtext Bla bla. \stopframedtext \stopstatistics But this is really a low priority. I'm currently using Acrobat to copy the text, then I paste it into Office and take a look at statistics there when I need to obey some limitations. So, if there's a simple solution, I would be glad to use it, but if it takes too much time to implement it, it's probably not worth the effort. Thanks a lot, Mojca

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custom itemize
by Renaud AUBIN 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Hi all, Some times ago, Taco helps me to define a custom itemize: \setbox0=\hbox{--~} \def\indenteddash#1{\hskip\parindent--~} \definesymbol[indentdash][\indenteddash] \setupitemize[each][indentdash,packed,joinedup,intext][indentnext=yes,width=\dimexpr \parindent + \wd0 \relax] The result of, for example: \startitemize \item first paragraph ... with a lot of text (multiline), \item second paragraph ... with a lot of text (multiline). \stopitemize is: -- first paragraph .. .... with a lot of text (multiline), -- second paragraph .. .... with a lot of text (multiline). Now, I would a new custom itemize with numbered items: 1. first paragraph .. .... with a lot of text (multiline), 2. second paragraph .. .... with a lot of text (multiline). How to do that ? TIA Renaud

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