February 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Characters per inch with ConTexT
by Aditya Mahajan 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

Hi, I am writing a document where the guidelines say that I should use Times Roman font at 10pt with 15 characters per inch and 6 lines per inch. I am using thermes from tex gyre rscaled=1.015 as the bodyfont. At this setting I get a bit more less than 6 lines per inch (which is fine) but roughtly 17 characters per inch. Any way I could setup fonts so that both these criteria is automatically met? Why do people come up with such criteria :(( Aditya

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mails
by Hans Hagen 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

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Suppressing printing of chapter head.
by John R. Culleton 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

I have a specification for a chapter head that is so complex I have little hope of modifying the Context head within any reasonable time frame. But I still prefer to use the Context chapter head for TOC, numbering of figures and the like. So I decided to hand code the head but still use \chapter for these other purposes. Here is my current workaround: ------------------------------------------------------------------ \setuphead[chapter][command=\white,header=nomarking] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I still have to use \noheaderandfooterlines as well for some reason. Just FYI. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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Bolding the words "Figure 2-1"
by John R. Culleton 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

I too am stuck in specification hell. The specifier is ovenamored of stretching text and the like. I worked through that with the TeX/LaTeX macro soul.sty. My immediate problem is with putting the caption of a table in a different font. Currently I have: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ \setupcaptions[location=top,headstyle=bold,style=bold] \placefigure[here][tab:comp]{Comparison of Corporate and Government Bond Portfolios} { etc. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Currently I get the caption in bold but the string "Figure 2-1" is not in bold. A second problem: The designer asks for -------------------------------- Figure 2-1 Comparison of Corporate etc. -------------------------------- but I get: ------------------------------- Figure 2-1 Comparison of Corporate etc. -------------------------------- I can avoid \placefigure and hand code each caption of course but that deprives me of the ability to float the figures. Unfortunately they brought in the designer after I had already started work (and cashed the deposit check.) The first difficulty (typeface) is IMO the most critical. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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Natural table questions
by David Arnold 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

All, Using natural tales, how can I: 1. get some padding around text in each cell? 2. Increase the height of a cell (or row)? fix the height of a cell (or row)? David Arnold College of the Redwoods Mathematics Department Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 476-4222 http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/

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bold versions of fonts
by Jörg Hagmann 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

Hi all, I have installed the LinLibertine and Junicode fonts on Linux Ubuntu, minimal tex version. They only work if I comment out the lines concerning the Bold versions of the fonts in my type-scripts. With those lines, the error is: ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.23 13:32 MKII fmt: 2007.2.4 int: english/english ..... ! Font \*MyJunicode7ptrmbfrm*:=[Junicode-Bold at 7.0pt not loadable: Metric (TF M) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \dodosettextfamilyB ...amily \fontsize \endcsname \else \ifcsname \fontclass... \dosettextfamily ...ttextfamily \scriptscriptfont \let \fontbody \scriptface... <inserted text> ...y \c!tf \dosettextfamily \c!bf \dosettextfamily \c!sl \do... \synchronizetext ...athfonts \the \textstrategies \fi ... l.4 \setupbodyfont[MyJunicode,12pt] *************************** The lines I had to comment out are: \definefontsynonym [Junicode-Bold] [texnansi-Junicode-Bold] [encoding=texnansi] and \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Junicode-Bold] The fact that the problem occurs with two different fonts and type- scripts should exclude a typo. Thanks for your help, Jörg

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vertical stretch for TABLE ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

Hi, I understood that … \bTABLE[option=stretch] … gives a horizontal stretch, so that a TABLE snaps left and right to the frame (\showframe text edges). When along table is split over several pages with \bTABLE[split=yes] it is very unlikely that the bottom-line of the bottom most row sits on the bottom-line of the text frame. Is there also a kind of \bTABLE[split=yes,option=vstretch] that gives this little stretch over the page's respective rows so that there is also a vertical snap to the text frame? Or is this a too weird request? Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] Newbie question: math font and bibliography
by Zulkifli Hidayat 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:19:38 +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: <45D0150A.3040208(a)elvenkind.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Zulkifli Hidayat wrote: >>>> >>> >>>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? > > The simplest solution is to decide on a global style > > \setuppublications[alternative=apa] % this is actually the default > > other possible values are aps, ams, num, and ssa. > > Then you can just use \cite[key] and the style will decide what field > to pick. > >> I apologize for my dumb questions. > > There is definately no need to apologise. > > Cheers, Taco Thank you. From your simples example, I think I should read the manual more carefully and do some experiments. Furthermore, could you give pointers to style alternatives documentation or links? Yours, Zulkifli

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Source and Result Side by Side
by Helin Gai 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

Hi all, I'm wondering how I can achieve the effect similar to that in books like The LaTeX Companion, where the source and the final result are placed side by side in two boxes. Thanks! Helin -- Helin (Colin) Gai Class of 2009, Duke University Box 96332 Durham, NC 27708 Phone: 919-943-6302 helin.gai at gmail.com hg9 at duke.edu

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test
by David Arnold 13 Feb '07

13 Feb '07

All, please ignore this test.

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