August 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Recapitulating
by Pepe Barbe 25 Aug '06

25 Aug '06

After jumping through hoops, with some help I managed to get XeTeX running and using TTF fonts directly with pdfTeX. But before I go any further I would like to know what is your opinion in using one or the other. When researching a bit on XeTeX I read there were several caveates vs. using pdfTeX with LaTeX. Is this the same? In ConTeXt. What can I expect to work and what not? If TTF can be used with pdfTeX (with some effort) what is the advantage of using XeTeX with ConTeXt? Thanks, Pepe

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Floating figure
by Pepe Barbe 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Hi, I want to use a floating figure in my text. I found an example on how to use hangsidefloat, but my results are less than desirable. Basically I have a long image I want to put on the side of the text. Given that the text does not start at the beginning of the page and I don't have extense paragraphs and the image is between two sections, the final layout looks poor. I would like to know if someone can recommend some way to improve the look of my document. Fors this purpose I am including some sample commands that illustrate my problem. Attached also I am including an image file to work with those commands. Any help is appreciated. Thank you, Pepe ------------------------ \setupwhitespace[big] \setuppapersize[letter][letter] \starttext \input zapf \input zapf \section{title 1} \input zapf \hangsidefloat[0] \placefigure[right][fig:dna_diag]{This is the}{\externalfigure[test_im][height=0.65\textheight]} \input zapf \section{title 2} \input zapf \input zapf \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] XeTeX and \placefigure
by Pepe Barbe 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

On 8/24/06, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Can you take a look at write18 (or shell-escape)? Try to google for it > since I don't know MacOS, but I'm sure you'll find it. You have to > enable it on your computer, usually it's residing in "texmf.cnf", but > that depends on the system used (on windows it's under miktex.ini for > example). Thanks! That did it. Pepe

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Empty last page, broken markings ??
by WN 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Hello, The last page in my documents is always empty. The document is setup as singlesided via *\setuppagenumbering[location=,alternative=singlesided,way=bytext,partnumber=no]* On http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Empty_page_at_the_end a workaround is given, by using \setupsectionblock[frontpart][page=no] \setupsectionblock[bodypart][page=no] \setupsectionblock[appendix][page=no] \setupsectionblock[backpart][page=no] In my environment I only use : *\setupsectionblock[bodypart][page=no]** * This eliminates the empty page at the end of my document, however the chapter and section markers in the page headers/footers for the last couple of pages are not working anymore. I use the following setup % reset footer texts \setupfootertexts[] % % First page of chapter has a footer, no header % \definetext[chapterfooter][footer][{{\blue\pagenumber} \hfill Hoofdstuk \getmarking[chapternumber]} ] \setuphead[chapter][footer=chapterfooter,header=empty] % % All other pages have a header, no footer % \setupheadertexts[\setups{texta}][][][\setups{textb}] \startsetups[texta] \inframed[frame=off,framecolor=black,rulethickness=0.8pt,bottomframe=on,width=\textwidth]{ {\blue\pagenumber} \hfill \getmarking[chapter] \hfill Hoofdstuk \getmarking[chapternumber]} \stopsetups \startsetups[textb] \inframed[frame=off,framecolor=black,rulethickness=0.8pt,bottomframe=on,width=\textwidth]{ {\blue\getmarking[sectionnumber]} \hfill \getmarking[section] \hfill {\blue\pagenumber}} \stopsetups I use a couple of environment files which all define several things, title page, Table of contents, Table of Figures, page layout, page numbering, headers/footers etc. I could attach all of them, but I think the above settings are the one's that matter. I am not sure how to proceed to provide the correct but minimal information. I tried to put everything in a test file, but I was not successful. I tried to attach the last three pages of my document, which demostrates the problem but I exceeded the 40 KB. Is there another way of uploading documents which are more than 40 KB in size ? Any help is appreciated Kind regards Wim Neimeijer

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Font's in Gerben Wierda's TeX distribution and ConTeXt
by Pepe Barbe 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Hello, I am using GW's TeX distribution with ConTeXt. I am interested in using a different font other than Computer Modern. This distribution seems to come with a ton of fonts (More than I need at least). Using the basic ConTeXt provisions to access the fonts I am able to access some fonts successfully (Like Palatino or Euler) and some unsuccsessfully (Like Optima, Iwona or Kurier). Ex: Works: \definetypeface [MyFace] [rm] [serif] [palatino] [default] [encoding=ec] Does not work: \definetypeface [MyFace] [ss] [sans] [iwona] [default] [encoding=ec] I realize this might be a very basic question but: What's going on? :-) I would appreciate if anyone could at least point me in the direction of some documentation that would explain why these fonts work/don't work. Thank you, Pepe

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meta-FLOWcharts or ... ?
by Renaud AUBIN 24 Aug '06

24 Aug '06

Hi all, I would try to design a figure like http://www.nibua-r.org/ConTeXt/sample.png FLOWcharts seems to be a good tool to do that, but I have some troubles to get "Simulation" and "Colision Detection" frames... First, I thought of a meta-flowchart but I'm not sure that's possible. Any idea ? TIA Renaud

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typesetting verse?
by Derek Schmidt 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hi, Another simple question--have at it! I'd like to typeset some poetry. It should be indented, obey lines, and the lines should be close together, not like separate paragraphs. So far I've got \definestartstop[verse][commands=\obeylines] What next? All best, Derek

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How to \processcommalist inside another commalist?
by Mojca Miklavec 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

Hello, I tried to print out primes (well, I tried to do something else, but I needed a more illustrative example), but it seems that my approach was too naive: \def\arePrime[#1]{% \bgroup \getparameters[Prime][p=,#1] \def\printPrime##1{##1 is prime.\crlf} \processcommalist[\Primep]\printPrime \egroup} \starttext \arePrime[p={2,3,5}] \stoptext I expected something like 2 is prime. 3 is prime. 5 is prime. But I got 2,3,5 is prime. Any suggestions or hints about how to change the macro to produce the desired result (using the same input)? Thank you a lot, Mojca

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Message supression revisited.
by John R. Culleton 23 Aug '06

23 Aug '06

I compile a Context file using an F key in my Gvim session. I I waste a lot of time watching messages scroll past in my Gvim window. What I am looking for is a command line switch or a combination of command line switches that will suppress ALL messages except for: 1. error messages that cause the compile to halt. 2. The message(s) that tells me that compilation is completed. If necessary I can live without this message. With most programs one can divert all ordinary messages to /dev/null but fatal error messages still return to the console or the console-equivalent (the 2> messages in Linux-speak.). Can this be done? Is there a way to modify texexec.rb to do this? -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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Newbie question: Linebreak after number in figure caption?
by william s 22 Aug '06

22 Aug '06

Hello, I would like to have Figure captions that look like this (centered, a newline between the number and the description): Figure 1 The description of the figure For now I put the linebreak manually in each caption text as you can see below. Putting the linebreak inside the style parameter indeed works, but the result is that "Figure 1" is left-aligned, even though the figure description is centered. I'm using a rather old version of ConTeXt and teTeX, but I have reproduced this behavior on the ConTeXt live page. I'm probably missing something really obvious, so can anyone suggest a better way of doing this? Thanks, William %% Doesn't work as expected % \setupcaptions[align=middle,width=\makeupwidth,headstyle=bold,style={\\\bf}] \setupcaptions[align=middle,width=\makeupwidth,headstyle=bold,style=bold] \starttext \reservefigure [height=4cm,width=10cm,frame=on][here][fig:reservation] {\\ An example of a reservation.} % I'm forced to put a linebreak in manually \stoptext Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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