March 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

How to put all floats in margin without any drawbacks?
by Zhichu Chen 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hi everyone, I just wrote a small test file: =========================== \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\placefigure[inright]{}{}}\dorecurse{10}{\input knuth\endgraf} \stoptext =========================== You can see that the in-margin figures do push the main texts away. How can I do with that? If you get any suggestions, please let me know. Thank you. -- 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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reset command for natural tables.
by JOHN CULLETON 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Sometimes when I combine different pieces of the same document the natural tables settings for one chapter will mess up tables in another chapter. I am looking for a generic \setupTABLE [reset] type command to put everything back to default values. Since there is no manual for natural tables, only examples, I don't know where to find this information. 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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\externalimage at the start of line
by Dean 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

I've just started using ConTeXt and I have run into a small problem that may be a bug. I'm trying to include a graphics file inline with text. For my page headers, I need the image to appear at the start of a line. If I use the following commands: \externalimge[logo] Some text here It gets rendered as <logo> Some text here I'd like to get <logo> Some text here \externalimage works fine in other places where there is some text preceding it, but I need to have the case where no text preceeds it. I image there are some workaround to this, but as I am fairly new to ConTeXt I am not sure the best way to go about it. If anyone could help me solve this, I would appreciate it. Thanks, Dean

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ConTeXt meeting programme
by Taco Hoekwater 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hello everybody. Below you will find the final programme of the ConTeXt User meeting that will take place at the end of this month. I am posting this message because I know some people cannot commit themselves too far ahead of time, and we can still allow for one or two extra participants, so last-minute registration is still possible until the day after tomorrow, at http://context.aanhet.net/epen2007/index.htm Happy TeXing, Taco = ConTeXt User Meeting Programme = == Friday March 23 == 12:00 Start of arrivals 19:00 Dinner 20:00 Taco Hoekwater Tutorial: Writing a ConTeXt module == Saturday March 24 == 08:00 Breakfast 09:00 Taco Hoekwater A short history of ConTeXt 09:30 Mari Voipio ConTeXting in Windows - a user's view 10:15 Patrick Gundlach, ConTeXt integration in the 'Textmate' editor 10:30 Break 11:00 Patrick Gundlach Creating a Pdf document, the hard way 11:30 Thomas A. Schmitz Classical greek with ConTeXt 12:00 Idris Samawi Hamid A short introduction to Critical Editions 12:15 Idris Samawi Hamid and Thomas A. Schmitz Discussion: Steps needed to expand ConTeXt to the demands of Critical Edition typesetting 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Sanjoy Mahajan Typesetting a physics textbook with ConTeXt 14:30 Mojca Miklavec Discussion: Documentation 15:30 Break 16:00 Willi Egger Tutorial: Page layout and arrangements, posters 18:30 Dinner 20:00 Hans Hagen Tutorial: XML == Sunday March 25 == 08:00 Breakfast 09:00 Idris Samawi Hamid Oriental TeX 09:30 Duncan Hothersall Using ConTeXt as part of a larger system 10:00 Duncan Hothersall Discussion/workshop: ConTeXt as part of a larger system 11:00 Break 11:30 Hans Hagen and Taco Hoekwater Luatex and ConTeXT MK IV preview 12:00 Sanjoy Mahajan Discussion: Quality assurance and Testing 12:45 Lunch 14:00 Hans Hagen and Taco Hoekwater Tutorial: Working with Lua and ConTeXt MK IV 16:00 Break 16:30 Arthur Reutenauer An introduction to OpenType fonts 17:00 Hans Hagen and Taco Hoekwater Tutorial: Fonts in ConTeXt MK IV 19:00 Buffet dinner == Monday March 26 == 08:00 Breakfast 10:00 End of departures

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\texteuro does not work
by Bernd Militzer 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hi all, \starttext 5,00\,\texteuro \stoptext does not work any more. What have I to do? Bernd here the message from contextgarden systems : begin file texweb at line 2 ! Font \thedefinedfont=fmvr8x at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not fou nd. <recently read> \scaledfont \symbolicsizedfont ...ntfontbodyscale \scaledfont \thedefinedfont \getglyph #1#2->{\symbolicfont {#1} \doifnumberelse {#2}\char \donothing #2} \dodosymbol ...bol \csname \??ss :#1:#2\endcsname \relax }\relax \donormalsymbol ... {#1}{#2}{\dodosymbol {#1}{#2}} \else \edef \currentsymbol... l.5 5,00\,\texteuro ? ! Emergency stop. <recently read> \scaledfont

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vertical interactionbar?
by Johan Sandblom 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

I am trying to make a presentation with a progress bar. I want it along the right edge of the screen. I remember seeing something like that but cannot find it now, and all the alternatives for interactionbar seem to require a horizontal one. How can I make a vertical progress bar? Regards, Johan -- 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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caption for code listings
by Steffen Fritzsche 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

hi, I'm currently writing my diploma thesis with context. I already read the wiki and searched the manuals but I didn't find something like a common practice for defining new caption types. My problem: I have a lot of code listings and I want to define a custom caption type (named listing) and aggregate them into a own register. I already set up a new register with \defineregister [listing][Listing] and it is also possible to place listings in this register with \placelisting{ \startJV ... \stopJV } but how can I add a custom caption to this listing? I'm thinking of something like \placefigure. Or perhaps I must just setup placelisting. Any Idea? Thanks in advance! Steffen

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caption for code listings
by Steffen Fritzsche 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

hi, I'm currently writing my diploma thesis with context. I already read the wiki and searched the manuals but I didn't find something like a common practice for defining new caption types. My problem: I have a lot of code listings and I want to define a custom caption type (named listing) and aggregate them into a own register. I already set up a new register with \defineregister [listing][Listing] and it is also possible to place listings in this register with \placelisting{ \startJV ... \stopJV } but how can I add a custom caption to this listing? I'm thinking of something like \placefigure. Or perhaps I must just setup placelisting. Any Idea? Thanks in advance! Steffen

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previous mail
by Hans Hagen 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Hi, The previous mail was actually for the ntg board but let's summarize it .. - i was at the dante meeting: interesting (also socially) but less attendents than usual (45) ... a pattern that is seen with more user group meetings ... user groups meetings are important for discussing dev issues, distributions, tutorials, etc - mplib project ... this is a new activity (subproject) in the luatex project ... programming in the the luatex project is financed as part of the oriental tex project; the mp lib project has a budget of 12KEUR and Dante is funding half of it; other user groups will be asked for a contribution too ... of course any financing of such activities is welcome - there was also a presentation of the gyre project ... halfway this year we will have all 8 fonts of the first stage ... after that ... math - dante members will receive Hermann Zapfs new book (looks real nice) .. so if you're not a member ... bad luck - there was a nice and impressing talk by Richard Hirsh about mpost; will end up as article in user group journals; some great animations too (will probably on line at dante site) - so ... consider coming to user group meetings Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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figure occupies space into next page
by Gerhard Kugler 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Hi, I have set a figure at left side. It approaches the botton of the page. The first line of the next page starts at the mid as if the rest of the figure would be there: ----------------------- | | text text text text text | figure | text text text text text | | text text text text text | | text text text text text | | text text text text text ----------------------- -------------automatic page break---------------- text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text How can I prevent this behavior? My command is simply: \placefigure [left][fig:gub3]{Das Relationsnetzwerk}{\externalfigure[gub3][width=0.45\textwidth]} Gerhard -- Gerhard Kugler Psychotherapeut http://www.psychotherapie-kugler.de

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