February 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

No spacing for typed text in a spaced document
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

Hello everyone, I use \setupwhitespace[medium] globally but I want to have no spacing between \starttyping and \stoptyping. How do I have to set up this? Thanks in advance, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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\startalign and "underline"
by Mojca Miklavec 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Hello, is there a nice way to [mis]use \startalign or combine it with something else to typeset equations like the following one (in a fixed-width font)? a + b = 9 a - b = 3 ___________ 2a = 12 Thanks for any hints, Mojca

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edge+text figure
by Johan Sandblom 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

With the help of details.pdf, I have managed to define edgefigures that use the margin and goes into the text and if it is wide enough (criterium=xxx) becomes a normal figure. Is it possible to make an even wider figure use both the textwidth and the margin? I have tried to illustrate what I want below, a figure is placed as f1 until criterium is met, then it is placed like f2, and I would like to know how to achieve f3. It is not necessary that it is called the same thing and automatic, they are easily identified before. Regards, Johan aaaaaaaa bbbbbbbb aaaaaaaa f2f2f2 f1f1 aaaaa f2f2f2 f1f1 aaaaa bbbbbbbb aaaaaaaa bbbbbbbb cccccccc dddddddd f3f3f3f3f3 dddddddd f3f3f3f3f3 dddddddd cccccccc dddddddd cccccccc dddddddd -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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Tip: PlaceRegisterInline
by Mike Bird 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

In Context one can use registers for powerful sorting with single or multiple keys. However, it's a little tricky if you want the result to appear other than one element per line. Here's a macro that does the job: \def\PlaceRegisterInline[#1,#2,#3]{% Register Before After \bgroup \let\par=\empty \let\endgraf=\empty \edef\goodbreak{#2}% \let\doregistercharactera=\doregistercharacterb \placeregister[#1][% after=,% before=,% distance={0em{#3}},% indicator=no,% n=1,% symbol=none]% \egroup} For example, to place elements of register R in brackets one can use \PlaceInlineRegister[R,{[},{]}] and achieve something like [A][B][C]. --Mike Bird

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problem with inline use of \lim
by M.J. Kallen 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Hi all, this may have been mentioned before, but I haven't been able to find an answer to this: if I e.g. use $\lim_{t\rightarrow\infty} f(t)$, the subscript of \lim appears underneath it, i.e. in displaystyle. In LaTeX, it appears below right of \lim, much like with $\sum_{i=1}$. The latter behaviour is of course preferred. I use ConTeXt version 2006.08.08, is this bug/feature know and has it possibly been fixed up to now? Regards, Maarten-Jan ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html

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XeTeX "tex-text" mapping problem
by Oliver Buerschaper 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Hi all, there seems to be a problem with the XeTeX engine and the "mapping:tex-text" feature for OpenType fonts. Try this: --- \usetypescriptfile[type-minion] \usetypescript[minion][uc] \setupbodyfont[minion,13pt] \starttext There is --- without any doubt --- a tiny problem. \stoptext --- together with the attached typescript file. Unfortunately, "---" is not replaced by an em dash :-( Substituting works flawlessly for plain XeTeX examples. Of course, replacing "---" with the proper Unicode em dash in the above source solves the problem (by avoiding it). Any hints as to what I've done wrong? Best, Oliver

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twocolumn document has trouble with colors
by Zhichu Chen 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Hi there, Just a testing code: ============================= \setupcolors [state=start] \definecolor [testcolor] [r=1,g=.62,b=.0625] \starttext \startcolor [testcolor] \startcolumns [direction=left] \dorecurse{15}{\input knuth\endgraf} \stopcolumns \stopcolor \stoptext ============================= And I find it's not perfectly what I really want. Is there any tricks I can do to treat the color correctly when I start a multi-column with the option "*direction=left*?" -- Sincerely yours, Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Gap above \placefigure[top] ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Hi, sorry, the next looks so simple, it's probably an often answered thing (I just could not find the answer anywhere…) Why is there a little gap above the figure, though it should be "top". How to avoid it? \starttext \showframe \placefigure[top]{}{\externalfigure[../Figures/Test][frame=off]} \stoptext (With or without figure/path has the same gap) Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] e-mail - link in pdf not correct with dot in e-mail adress
by Ole Schoening 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

Thank you Sanjoy, your tip works fine! Obviously, I did not use \useURL in a proper way. Ole

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Re: [NTG-context] Newbie question: math font and bibliography
by Zulkifli Hidayat 12 Feb '07

12 Feb '07

>> Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:55:57 +0100 >> From: Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> >> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Newbie question: math font and bibliography > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> >> Message-ID: <45CC290D.3030105(a)elvenkind.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> Zulkifli Hidayat wrote: >>> For bibliography, I don't have any idea how to cite a bibliography item >>> in >>> the list of publications. I found the wiki is not clear enough for real > newbie like me. >> >> The easiest way to explain this is to point you to the manual of the > bibliography module. It is on the modules section of the wiki: >> >> http://dl.contextgarden.net/modules/t-bib/doc/context/bib/bibmod-doc.pdf >> >> But it should also be on your harddisk already, in: >> >> <context-texmf-local-tree>/doc/context/bib/bibmod-doc.pdf >> >> If you can't figure out what to do from the manual, you will need to > give a bit more information on what precisely is unclear (I know it is > probably hard that to expres that clearly, but ...) >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Taco >> >> > Dear Taco, > I'm sorry if made myself not clear and for the noise about the upright and > italic bold math. I found that it works. > > I have reread the bibliography manual, I think it should be clear enough > for me to do some experiments. But there's one thing makes me confuse, how > to cite the publications. From all of the publication fields, which one > should I use in \cite[1(opt)][2(reference)]? The first bracket is > optional, how about the second one? > > One more thing, for the test file above, I can't get uppercase greeks > appear right and their bold version as well. I tried it in context live. > Is there any suggestion for this? > > Thank you > > Regards, > > Zulkifli > I use the 12.01.2003 version and then the font appears as expected. I apologize for my dumb questions. Best, Zulkifli

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