November 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Using SciTE for both, ConTeXt and LaTeX, at the same time?
by Peter Wüsten 11 Nov '07

11 Nov '07

Dear all, please excuse me if my question is grossly off-topic. I am relatively new to ConTeXt, coming from LaTeX. I fell in love with SciTE the moment I first tried it, and I'm using it with Hans' set of .properties files that came with ConTeXt. I would love to have different sets of tool-menues for both, say "go" opens a .pdf for ConTeXt, but a .dvi for LaTeX. I think the best approach would be to get at the %interface-variable that determines the highlighting. Now, the default setting is lexer.tex.interface.default=0 (at which I can get), but I cannot seem to get at lexer.tex.interface to see what flavour of TeX Scite has recognized. What would be the variable to check? Peter Wuesten

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HTML to ConTeXt
by Aditya Mahajan 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

This is interesting. A website that converts html to context (actually uses markdown behind the scenes). http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/html2x.html This is how the context wiki looks like. http://johnmacfarlane.net/cgi-bin/html2x.pl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.contextga… The program is written in haskell and is also available for download. You can use it to convert markdown to context. I had been looking for this for a while, when multiple formats are needed. Write in markdown and generate html or context. I do not completely like the context output it generates (for example http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README gets converted to http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/example11.tex.html) Aditya

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Re: [NTG-context] Doc to ConTeXt [was Re: HTML to ConTeXt]
by Andrea Valle 10 Nov '07

10 Nov '07

On 10 Nov 2007, at 12:31, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Only as a note: all the opening quotation marks are wrong! Ok, Thanks Mojca, my fault. it was a problem of encoding, now I set pdftohml to utf8 and everything's fine Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong)

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[OT]UK TeX FAQ, v3.17, released
by luigi scarso 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

From http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes """ What is ConTeXt? ConTeXt is a macro package developed by Hans Hagen of Pragma-Ade. ConTeXt is a document-production system based, like LaTeX, on the TeX typesetting system. Whereas LaTeX insulates the writer from typographical details, ConTeXt takes a complementary approach by providing structured interfaces for handling typography, including extensive support for colors, backgrounds, hyperlinks, presentations, figure-text integration, and conditional compilation. It gives the user extensive control over formatting while making it easy to create new layouts and styles without learning the TeX macro language. ConTeXt's unified design avoids the package clashes that can happen with LaTeX. ConTeXt also integrates MetaFun, a superset of MetaPost and a powerful system for vector graphics. MetaFun can be used as a stand-alone system to produce figures, but its strength lies in enhancing ConTeXt documents with accurate graphic elements. ConTeXt allows the users to specify formatting commands in English, Dutch, German, French, or Italian, and to use different typesetting engines (PDFTeX, XeTeX, Aleph, and soon LuaTeX) without changing the user interface. ConTeXt is developed rapidly, often in response to requests from the user community. *ConTeXt doesn't yet have quite such a large developer community as does LaTeX, but those developers who are active seem to have prodigious energy.*Support is available via a WIKI site and via the mailing list. * *"""" (my bold-italic) Thank you very much , Mr. Fairbairns -- luigi

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Columnsets and footnote placement
by Elliot Clifton 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hi, Is there a way to place footnotes when using columnsets, so that they [the footnotes] span across the bottom of the page, like they do when using \startcolumn? TIA, Elliot

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Fwd: Flow charts forgetting text
by Willi Egger 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

I tried to send the files off line to Aditya, I could not get the message through, so it comes to the list ... Wili Begin forwarded message: > From: Willi Egger <w.egger(a)boede.nl> > Date: November 8, 2007 8:28:01 PM GMT+01:00 > To: Aditya Mahajan <adityam(a)umich.edu> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Flow charts forgetting text > > Hi Aditya, > > sorry for the late reply! > > Please find attached the pdf and sorce (I added another \FLOWchart > [test] > > I do hope, that the problem can be fixed. > > Kr > Willi > > > On Nov 5, 2007, at 6:44 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > >> Hi Willi, >> >> On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Willi Egger wrote: >> >>> Your code compiles correctly here. Well with the following >>> version of >>> Context >>> >>> ConTeXt ver: 2007.10.03 12:52 MKII fmt: 2007.10.4 int: english/ >>> english >> >> >> Thank you for checking this. Can you send me the pdf file off- >> list? I do >> not get a X_t in the second flowchart, either on my machine (MKII >> 09.28) >> or on contextgarden. >> >> Aditya >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> ______________ >> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an >> entry to the Wiki! >> >> maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ >> ntg-context >> webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net >> archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ >> wiki : http://contextgarden.net >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> ______________ > > Willi Egger > w.egger(a)boede.nl > > > Willi Egger w.egger(a)boede.nl

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table layout
by Wolfgang Schuster 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hi, I try currently to write a table with a repeated header on all pages and rules above and below the header and another rule below the table on all pages. I tried this now with all tables in ConTeXt but I can't the desired result from any of them. Tabulate has problems with rule below the header and did not support repeated footers. TaBlE has problems with the spacing of his rows below the header and at the bottom of the tables, it has also a problem with the spacing from the rule at the bottom. Natural Tables allow me to put a rule above and below the header but I'm unable to get rule at last row on every page, the "last" key for rows use always the last row of the hole table. I played also a little bit with textbackground but I have a few problems with the results, the background has always the width of the current textwidth and it takes always the topskip into account. What it tried so far is the following code: \setuppapersize[A7,landscape][A7,landscape] \setuplayout[lines=5] \starttext \tracetablestrue \setuptables[split=repeat] \starttablehead \HL \NC Row 1 \NC Row 2 \NC Row 3 \NC\AR \HL \stoptablehead \starttabletail \HL \stoptabletail \starttable[|l|l|l|] \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\AR \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\AR \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\AR \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\AR \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\AR \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\AR \stoptable \page \startbuffer[tabulate] \starttabulatehead \HL \NC Row 1 \NC Row 2 \NC Row 3 \NC\NR \HL \stoptabulatehead \starttabulatetail \HL \stoptabulatetail \starttabulate[|l|l|l|] \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\NR \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\NR \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\NR \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\NR \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\NR \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stopbuffer \getbuffer[tabulate] \page \setuptabulate[header=repeat] \getbuffer[tabulate] \page \newconditional\tabulaterepeatfoot \settrue\tabulaterepeatfoot \def\dosplittabulatebox#1% {\resettsplit \def\tsplitminimumfreelines{2}% \def\tsplitminimumfreespace{0pt}% \setbox\tsplitcontent\box#1% \ifcase\tabulaterepeathead\or \setbox\tsplithead\vsplit\tsplitcontent to 3\lineheight \setbox\tsplithead\vbox{\unvbox\tsplithead}% \or \setbox\tsplithead\vbox{\hbox{\strut\tabulateparameter\c!title}}% \fi \ifcase\tabulaterepeatfoot %\setbox\tsplittail\vsplit\tsplitcontent to \lineheight %\setbox\tsplittail\vbox{\unvbox\tsplittail}% \setbox\tsplittail\vbox{\color[orange]{\hrule}}% \fi \handletsplit} \def\fulltabulatecontent {\tabulateheadcontent \tabulatecontent \ifcase\tabulaterepeatfoot\else \tabulatetailcontent \fi \removefunnytabulateline} %\tracetabulatetrue \getbuffer[tabulate] \page %\traceTABLEtrue \setupTABLE[split=repeat,frame=off] \setupTABLE[header][topframe=on,bottomframe=on] \setupTABLE[row][last][bottomframe=on] \bTABLE \bTABLEhead \bTR\bTH Row 1 \eTH\bTH Row 2 \eTH\bTH Row 3 \eTH\eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEfoot \bTR\bTD Row 1 \eTD\bTD Row 2 \eTD\bTD Row 3 \eTD\eTR \eTABLEfoot \bTABLEbody \bTR\bTD Text \eTD\bTD Text \eTD\bTD Text \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD Text \eTD\bTD Text \eTD\bTD Text \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD Text \eTD\bTD Text \eTD\bTD Text \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD Text \eTD\bTD Text \eTD\bTD Text \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD Text \eTD\bTD Text \eTD\bTD Text \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD Text \eTD\bTD Text \eTD\bTD Text \eTD\eTR \eTABLEbody \eTABLE \stoptext I will also show you what I tried to get with textbackgrounds. \setuppapersize[A7,landscape][A7,landscape] \setuplayout[lines=5] \setupcolors[state=start] \startuseMPgraphic{tableback} pickup pencircle scaled 1pt; path p; p = (multipars[1]); draw p withcolor red; \stopuseMPgraphic \definetextbackground [mytab] [location=paragraph, width=local, mp=tableback] \starttext %\topskip=0pt \setuptabulate [before={\starttextbackground[mytab]}, after=\stoptextbackground] \starttabulatehead \HL \NC Row 1 \NC Row 2 \NC Row 3 \NC\NR \HL \stoptabulatehead \starttabulatetail \HL \stoptabulatetail \starttabulate[|l|l|l|] \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\NR \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\NR \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\NR \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\NR \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\NR \NC Text \NC Text \NC Text \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] Easy way to start working with cyrillic? (Hans Hagen)
by Klaus Gena 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Thanks a lot for your help ! I managed to get xetex talking with the help of the Texlive DVD and Lutz's tips. I'm a happy ConText user now. Klaus > > > Klaus Gena wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am entirely new to Tex and Context. I installed the stand alone mswin > > context distro and manage to typeset Dutch texts without any problems, > using > > the manuals. > > > > I also need to typeset Russian texts, however, and I was wondering if > there > > exists a painless, 'out of the box', way to make Context understand > Russian > > (and not transliterating everything), or is it necessary to install > > additional fonts? > > > > The wikipage on the contextgarden site on Russian doesn't really give > any > > positive results, and browsing the mailinglist archives neither. > > just use context with xetex or luatex > > Hans > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 13:18:33 +0100 > From: "Lutz Haseloff" <lutz.haseloff(a)googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Easy way to start working with cyrillic? > To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Message-ID: > <a09128560711080418g20a4503do580d583a3c594df7(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi Klaus, > > try this: > --------------- > % engine=xetex > \definetypeface[MyFace][rm][Xserif][TeX Gyre Pagella] > \setupbodyfont[MyFace,10pt] > \starttext > \midaligned{\tfb\bf Arkadi und Boris Strugazki} > \blank > \midaligned{\tfb\bf ??????? ? ????? ??????????} > \blank[7*big] > \midaligned{\tfc\bf Milliarden Jahre vor dem Weltuntergang} > \blank > \midaligned{\tfc\bf ?? ???????? ??? ?? ????? ?????} > \blank[5*big] > \midaligned{\tfa\bf Eine unter seltsamen Umst?nden aufgefundene > Handschrift} > \stoptext > --------------- > > if this doesn't work, you can mail me directly. > > Greetings > > Lutz > >

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Font sizes using Chinese module
by Duncan Hothersall 09 Nov '07

09 Nov '07

Hello all. I hope this is quite a simple question. I'm using the Chinese module, with the font definitions in font-chi.tex, to typeset UTF-8 content. I can happily use the default sizes a, b, c, d and x, xx, xxx - so \bfd produces large bold, and \tfx produces small normal weight text. But I really need to be able to do the equivalent of \definedfont[Bold at 48pt]. Unfortunately this doesn't work - it produces normal text size and weight. Unfortunately it isn't easy to post an example, because you need UTF-8 content, and you need the fonts set up for Chinese (which I believe ConTeXt Live doesn't currently have). So I'm hoping that someone familiar with the workings of font-chi.tex can tell me how to get specific point sizes of specific fonts. Is there a unicode font equivalent of \definedfont? Or a way of adding an e and f size definition to the default set? Any help would be really appreciated, thanks. Duncan

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Easy way to start working with cyrillic?
by Klaus Gena 08 Nov '07

08 Nov '07

Hi, I am entirely new to Tex and Context. I installed the stand alone mswin context distro and manage to typeset Dutch texts without any problems, using the manuals. I also need to typeset Russian texts, however, and I was wondering if there exists a painless, 'out of the box', way to make Context understand Russian (and not transliterating everything), or is it necessary to install additional fonts? The wikipage on the contextgarden site on Russian doesn't really give any positive results, and browsing the mailinglist archives neither. Thanks, Klaus Gena

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