January 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Para and Section marks oversize in 2007-01-23
by Mike Bird 25 Jan '07

25 Jan '07

\starttext \P ~I Have to go back to version 2007-01-12 because\crlf \P ~these enormous paragraph and section marks make\crlf \S ~context 2007-01-23 useless for me. Where they\crlf \S ~occur together (e.g. TOC) they look like some\crlf \S ~kind of decoration and are unrecognisable. \stoptext context_2007.01.23-1_all.deb lmodern_1.00-3_all.deb --Mike Bird

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delimiter bigger then \Biggr
by Jano Kula 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

Greetings! How would you make right delimiter } bigger then $\Biggr\}$ to join several lines in table? A AA -| B BB | C CC |- description D DD | E EE -| Is there a better solution (?) than $\left.\blackrule[width=0pt,height=14mm]\right\}$ Here is this example used in natural table: \starttext \setupTABLE[frame=off] \bTABLE[align={middle,lohi}] \bTR \bTD A \eTD \bTD AA \eTD \bTD[nr=5]$\left.\blackrule[width=0pt,height=14mm]\right\}$\eTD \bTD[nr=5] description \eTD \eTR \bTR\bTD B \eTD\bTD BB \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD C \eTD\bTD CC \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD D \eTD\bTD DD \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD E \eTD\bTD EE \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext Thanks. Jano

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Re: [NTG-context] Preventing page break
by Elliot Clifton 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

Hi, Thanks for the replies. You confirmed what I suspected -- that by default there are no auto page-breaks after most sections. I have no idea how I got into this mess but I think I'll start over with a fresh setup. I guess, it's all part of the learning process. Elliot Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:52:51 +0100 From: Willi Egger <w.egger(a)boede.nl> > Hi Elliot, > > humble, I agree with Mike's statement. > In general the \setuphead command is used to organize the behaviour of > the section titles. By default only the \chapter and \part start on a > right page in a doublesided layout. > See also cont-enp.pdf (The manual) on page 148 (text elements) section > 8.5 Alternative mechanisms. > > > Willi > > Mike Bird wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 January 2007 08:21, Elliot Clifton wrote: > > > >> Mike wrote: > >> > >>> Does "\setuphead[chapter][before={\page[yes]}]" do what you want? > >>> > >> No. I want to remove empty pages that are being auto generated at the > >> end of a section. > >> > > > > Hi Elliot, > > > > I think you'll need to post the relevant part of your setup, as > > ConTeXt does not create empty pages after sections by default, > > even in double-sided documents: > > > > \starttext > > \setuppagenumbering[alternate=doublesided] > > \section{A} > > \section{B} > > \stoptext > > > > --Mike Bird

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Re: [NTG-context] Preventing page break
by Elliot Clifton 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

Hi Mike Thanks for the reply. Mike wrote: > Does "\setuphead[chapter][before={\page[yes]}]" do what you want? No. I want to remove empty pages that are being auto generated at the end of a section. Elliot

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Figures protruding into the margin in double-sided document
by Tim Eyre ティム 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

I am composing a double-sided document with wide outer margins to allow space for figures. One type of figure is in-line with the text and protrudes into the wide margin. This is easy to do on left-hand pages by saying \setupfloats[location=right] and on right-hand pages by saying \setupfloats[location=left]. Is there any way to automate this so that inserting a new page does not mean I have to fix all the figures? I tried using a macro along the lines of \ifoff\pageno\\setupfloats[location=right]\else\\setupfloats[location=left]\fi but the asynchronousness of output routines means that the page number is usually wrong. Any help much appreciated. Tim

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Quotation nesting is broken
by Mike Bird 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

\starttext \quotation{This \quote{works} as expected.} \startquotation Closing double-quote is \quote{broken} here. \stopquotation \stoptext --Mike Bird

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database
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hallo! I tried some examples with m-database and Mojca's 'My Way' and had some problems ==========Example-1=============================================== \defineseparatedlist[NaturalTable][separator=comma,%quotechar={"}, before=\bTABLE, after=\eTABLE, first=\bTR, last=\eTR, left=\bTD, right=\eTD] \startseparatedlist[NaturalTable] Of,course ,it is! \stopseparatedlist ================================================================== This example does only work as expected if one explicitly gives quotechar. So what is the default quotechar? Can anybody explain the above behaviour? ==========Example-2=============================================== \def\Whatever#1#2#3{[#1][#2][#3]\endgraf} \defineseparatedlist[CSVX][command=\Whatever, separator={,}, % quotechar={"}, first=\bTR,last=\eTR, left=\bTD,right=\eTD, before=\bTABLE,after=\eTABLE] \startCSVX eins,"und, zwei",drei one,two,three \stopCSVX ================================================================== If I give an command (\Whatever) then the options 'first', 'last', 'left', 'right', 'before' and 'after' are ignored. That's ok, I think! But if I uncomment the quotechar option, then the options 'left' and 'right' are no longer ignored. Commenting them out or settings like 'left=' etc. are not working. What I am doing wrong here? ==========Example-3=============================================== \processquotedlist(){,}{"}\command(a=>b=>c=>d) ================================================================== Does not work for me. Can anybody give an example? '\processseplist' does not work too. There has to be an '%' in front of 'raw'!

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Preventing page break
by Elliot Clifton 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hi In my double sided layout how can I stop ConTeXt from adding an empty page when a section ends. Thanks, Elliot

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XeTeX questions
by Thomas A. Schmitz 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

I'm trying (once again) to find out if learning something about XeTeX is worth the trouble. So far, I haven't seen any compelling reason, but I'd like to experiment a bit more. Here are two questions I have run into: 1. in the wiki pages "Talk:XeTeX," there's this anonymous piece of wisdom: Referencing fonts by filenames (just a note from the XeTeX mailing list as a reminder for later) in texmf.cnf: OPENTYPEFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/opentype//;c:/Resources/Fonts// Then \setromanfont{[KalligraphiaLTStd.otf]} Is this possible or usable in ConTeXt? I have lots of OpenType fonts in ~/texmf/fonts/opentype, but not installed as system fonts, and would like to see whether they can just be used with XeTeX as with vanilla pdftex. texmf.cnf is set up accordingly, but so far, I haven't had any success. 2. When generating the formats, texexec complained about "unknow control sequence" because of lines 25 and 26 in syst-xtx.tex \setcclcuc 201C 201C 201C \setcclcuc 201D 201D 201D I had to comment out these lines to generate the formats (this is with a texlive2007 snapshot of last week and the latest ConTeXt). Is this a known bug? All best Thomas

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Long and short captions
by Robin Kirkham 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hi again, Is there a way in ConTeXt to have "long" and "short" versions of a figure caption, as one can in LaTeX? The "long" caption is placed with the figure, the short one for the list of figures. Thanks, Robin

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