March 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

spread box contents [trying again]
by Idris Samawi Hamid 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

Hi gang, Did not get any feedback, I'll try again: ================================== Date: 2007-03-02 07:34 -700 Hmm, no reply yet, maybe the following is more interesting: On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:30:42 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid.at.remove.this.colostate.edu> wrote: > How can I evenly spread the contents of a box or column-row? In PlainTeX > there is > > \hbox{Here\hfill is\hfill an\hfill evenly\hfill spread\hfill line.} > > but there must be a better (read "ConTeXt-") way. I looked into thisyears > ago and may have found the answer; but I've forgotten it... =================================== \starttext \defineparagraphs[TwoColumns][n=2,distance=2cm] \setupparagraphs[TwoColumns][each][width=5cm,tolerance=stretch] \setupframedtexts[frame=off] \startframedtext[middle] \startalignment[middle] \startTwoColumns \hbox spread \textwidth{Here is the first line 1a} \TwoColumns Here \hfill is \hfill the \hfill first \hfill line \hfill 1b \stopTwoColumns \startTwoColumns Here \hfill is \hfill the \hfill second \hfill line \hfill 2a \TwoColumns Here \hfill is \hfill the \hfill second \hfill line \hfill 2b \stopTwoColumns \stopalignment \stopframedtext \stoptext ============================== How can I get the first column right? Note that, according to the manual, \textwidth gives the width of a column but in this case it apparently gives a full \hsize. RELATED QUESTION: How can I control the distance between rows? I do not want any extra whitespace between rows (i.e., except the normal interparagraph space). Please advise! Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Streams
by Idris Samawi Hamid 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Hi, Does anyone have one or more samples using the m-stream module? If so, I'd greatly appreciate it if you'ld share it/them with me! (trying to model some issues related to parallel texts...) Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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printing problem (defined)
by Alan Bowen 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

I apologize if this amounts to hijacking a thread. The problem Using TeXShop (latest) I can produce but not print a PDF file that has both the TeX Gyre Bonum from GUST and the GreekKerkis font from Thomas Schmitz' ancient Greek module. This file will, however, print with Acrobat Pro 7 and 8. The problem is not with the fonts themselves—test documents with only Bonum or GreekKerkis behave as they should. The practical solutions are obvious. But if there is something I can do to facilitate a fix for this, please let me know. Alan PS I will be away from my setup for a week starting in about 5 hours. A.

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Some questions about context
by Xan 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Hi, I'm new user of context. I gone from latex, which I use in the last 5 years intensively I read your wiki but I don't find some answers to my wishes. Basically I want to know what are the equivalent of latex commands/packages in context. Can you help me in thay?. Thanks in advance.... so let's go: 1) The first question is about landscape mode and xdvi. In latex, if we want landscape, we put: \documentclass[a4paper,10ptt,landscape]{article} but when we see .dvi in xdvi, xdvi does not detects automatically that it's in landscape mode. For that, we have to put: \usepackage[dvips,...]{geometry} now the xdvi show .dvi in landscape mode The question is, how we get the same in context?. If we put: \setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape] the xdvi program does not detect that .dvi is in landscape mode. Is there an equivalent command of geometry that allow that? 2) In latex there is the fancyhdr package that allows to put lines at bottom and at top of the page and put right and left headings and footers like: \rhead{Hello} .... What is the equivalent in context? 3) Is there an equivalent to the package lastpage in context? So can we put [number of page]/[total number of pages] at the bottom of the page? 4) How can we create new counters in context? Like latex \newcounter{mycount} 5) In mathematics, in context there are three modules: "nath", "amsl", "new math", according to http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math What are these features and limitations? What is the "best"? 6) Is there an equivalent module of xyfig? 7) Is there an equivalence of amssymbols?. How can I display for example $x \leadsto \int_a^b \arcsin (x+\cos \alhpa)$? 8) How can we do a "minipage" in context? 9) Can you tell me some link about babel and hipernation? Thank you very much, Xan.

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Re: [NTG-context] lm update+ gyre and ctxtools doesn't work
by Dalyoung Jeong 07 Mar '07

07 Mar '07

Dear all, After updating ConTeXt to the newest version, I still have font error which was not the problem in the previous version. After downloading new version of LM fonts, I copied the files in the corresponding folder under .../gwTeX/texmf.texlive/. To use them in XeConTeXt, I tried "ctxtools --dpx --force /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.texlive", Then it asked to use proper texmfroot tree like "CtxTools | proper texmfroot". Does someone have any idea to resolve this problem? Thank you for reading. best regards, Dalyoung

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Theorems, etc with ConTeXt
by Aditya Mahajan 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi, (This post actually belongs to dev-context, but I do not know if everyone interested in this reads dev-context, so I am posting it to this list). I have been looking at what is the best way to do theorems etc with ConTeXt. There are ways to handle most of the requirements, but some of them are not possible out of the box with ConTeXt. I have searched the archives and this questions about theorems and proofs keep on coming on and off. I want to see what is the requirements for theorems, what all is possible right now, and what needs to be done. Below I am writing my requirements of theorem. Does anyone have anything more to add? 1. They should be numbered, it should be possible to control the numbering mechanism, for example way=bysection, bychapter, etc. > Can be done using enumerations. 2. It should be possible to have two different types of theorems have the same number. For example, \definetheorem[theorem] \definetheorem[lemma][number=theorem] should follow the same number as theorems. > Is possible using enumerations 3. It should be possible to get a list of theorems. It should be possible to say which types of theorems go to the list and which do not. > Is possible using enumerations 4. The theorem should have a title. The title should be optional. > Is partially implemented 5. There should be a mechanism to do end-of-proof marks. The end-of-proof marks should also work with itemizations, and formulas. > Not implemented at all. 6. Anything more...? Requirement 4 is not completely implemented. With \defineenumeration[theorem][title=yes] I always have to give a title. Normally, while writings theorems, there are only a few theorems that have a title. The rest of them do not. Right now, I can work around this restriction, by either having two different theorems (titledtheorem and nontitledtheorem) or always adding {} at the beginning of each theorem. I want the behaviour closer to title=maybe. I do not understand why \@@startdescription contains \dowithwargument{\@@startsomedescription{#1}[#2]} I would prefer it to contain \dosinglegroupempty{\@@startsomedescription{#1}[#2]} (well this will of course not work, but I hope the idea is clear) So that I can do \defineenumeration[theorem][title=yes] \starttheorem A silly theorem not worth a title \stoptheorem as well \starttheorem {My Fancy Theorem} A fancy theorem that needs to be given a title \stoptheorem I do not think that changing this will break anything. I am not even sure why dowithwargument is there. I cannot imagine anyone writing \startthoerem Title this is a theorem \stoptheorem instead of \starttheorem {Title} this is a theorem \stoptheorem The title also needs some more attributes. Right now, only titlestyle, titlecolor and titledistance are there. To be more flexible, you would also need something like titleleft, and titleright, which should not be too difficult. The last things, that is the end of proof marker, is right now not possible in ConTeXt. There are a lot of things that need to be taken care of while having a end-of-proof marker: basically, you need to ensure that there is no page break between the proof and the marker. Also the marker needs to be moved up or down, depending on how the proof ends. At the very least, ConTeXt should have something that ensures that the end of proof marker does not go onto a page of its own. Finally, my question is: Does it make sense to include all these functionality into enumerations, or have them in a separate module? Aditya

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quotation
by Jörg Hagmann 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

Hi, I need guillemots instead of lowerleftdouble- and upperrightdoublequotes in the German environment. On my minimal installation (Linux) I managed to change that by editing the cont-sys.tex file in texmf-local/tex/context/user. At work, on a Mac with gwTeX, nothing I tried had any effect: editing the cont-sys.tex file (in texmf.pkgs/tex/context/user) copying cont-sys.tex to texmf.texlive/tex/context/user editing the lang-ger.tex files (in texmf.pkgs or texmf.texlive) Thanks for the help, Jörg PS 1: I didn't forget texhash PS 2: It's the first time I have to use the German environment. Are lowerleftquotes and quotations really still used? To me they look strange -- at least in a scientific text. And my publisher doesn't want them either (ok, he is Swiss).

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An Index problem (repost II)
by luigi scarso 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

I have the following \starttext %%\placemaincontent \chapter{AAA} \section{Hause one} Foo one \page \section{Hause two} Foo two \page \section{Hause three} Foo three \page \section{Hause four} Foo four\page \section{Dog boo} Koo \page \section{Dog foo} Boo \page \section{Money ba} Boo \page \section{Mail bee} Ugh \page \stoptext In main content I should like to have \bf{AAA} %% no problem here \bf{HAUSE} one ..... page x Hause two ..............page x Hause three............page x Hause four ..............page x \bf{DOG} boo ...........page x Dog foo.....................page x \bf{MONEY} ba.........page x \bf{MAIL} bee.............page x ie, the very first word in bold face and upper case, the following in normal face if and only of the very first word was equal to the first word of actual item (I know, it's strange). Many thanks in advance luigi

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Headers for natural tables.
by JOHN CULLETON 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

I hve determined by trial and error that the multiline feature [nr=2] of Natural Tables does not work well, if at all, in the TABLEhead area. But the TABLEhead area is necessary for readable split tables. Currently I use single lines in the header area and suppress some of the rules to create a multiline effect thus: \bTABLE [option=stretch,split=repeat] \setupTABLE[r][1][height=0cm,width=0cm,frame=off] \setupTABLE[c][1][width=1.7in] \setupTABLE[r][2][bottomframe=off] \setupTABLE[r][3][topframe=off] \bTABLEhead \bTR %dummy row \bTH \eTH \bTH \eTH \bTH \eTH \eTR \bTR %first visible row \bTH {\bf Investment} \eTH \bTH {\bf Portfolio } \eTH \bTH {\bf Average Stock } \eTH \eTR \bTR \bTH {\bf Category} \eTH \bTH {\bf Allocation} \eTH \bTH {\bf Market Exposure} \eTH \eTR \eTABLEhead ... This example also uses the (apparently) obligatory dummy row as described by others. Natural Tables have been around for a while. It is unfortunate that no one has come up with a real manual for these tables. All that exists are "learn by example" documents, which do not describe limitations such as the one I worked around in the above code. John Culleton _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

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An Index problem (repost)
by luigi scarso 06 Mar '07

06 Mar '07

I have the following \starttext %%\placemaincontent \chapter{AAA} \section{Hause one} Foo one \page \section{Hause two} Foo two \page \section{Hause three} Foo three \page \section{Hause four} Foo four\page \section{Dog boo} Koo \page \section{Dog foo} Boo \page \section{Money ba} Boo \page \section{Mail bee} Ugh \page \stoptext In main content I should like to have \bf{AAA} %% no problem here \bf{HAUSE} one ..... page x Hause two ..............page x Hause three............page x Hause four ..............page x \bf{DOG} boo ...........page x Dog foo.....................page x \bf{MONEY} ba.........page x \bf{MAIL} bee.............page x ie, the very first word in bold face and upper case, the following in normal face if and only of the very first word was equal to the first word of actual item (I know, it's strange). Many thanks in advance luigi

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