July 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

setups/setuplayout
by Patrick Gundlach 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

Hi, consider this example: \startsetups [empty] \stopsetups \starttext % \setuplayout[lines=7,grid=yes,setups=empty] \showgrid \setuplayout[lines=7,grid=yes] \showgrid \dorecurse{2}{\input ward \endgraf} \page \stoptext If you use the other setuplayout line, the result is different. Why? Feature or bug? Patrick

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old textbook style
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

Hello, I've always liked the style of old textbooks, where important terms were emphasized not by bold or italic, but extra spacing between letters. How to achieve this in ConTeXt? Best, Vyatcheslav

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\setupheader: leftstyle & rightstyle not working
by Matt Gushee 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

[sorry if this appears twice--I accidentally sent it from the wrong e-mail account] Hi, all-- I would like to use different styles for left and right headers in a book: I would like to set the left side (which shows the book title) in small caps, and the right side (chapter title) in italics. \setupheader[style=\sc] works fine. So does \setupheader[style=\it] But \setupheader[leftstyle=\sc,rightstyle=\it] Doesn't work. Both headers appear in the (medium-weight roman) body font. Any idea why this is the case? -- Matt Gushee

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A few natural table issues
by Brian R. Landy 22 Jul '07

22 Jul '07

Hi, I've noticed a few issues with natural tables. 1. Embedding images into tables do not scale correctly using recent ConTeXt releases. They do using the TeXLive 2007 version (2007.01.12). It does not matter whether I use factor=max or fit. I find I need to use the \vbox{\noindent{...}} structure to make the picture obey table's align= setups. test1.tex and weight.eps/pdf demonstrate this behavior. I attached pdf's to show the "good" behavior. 2. Background colors & frames -- bottomframe on a cell is obscured by a background color on the cell below. Similarly, a rightframe is obscured by a backgroundcolor to the cell to the right. test2.tex demonstrates this behavior. 3. Using \chardef\characteralignmentmode=2 widens columns and doesn't quite center the data. It appears as if the decimal is centered, but this does not necessarily center the text. The top row shows tables without setting the alignment mode, the second row of tables show what happens when it is set equal to 2. It would be nice if the left- hand tables looked the same, and the bottom right were centered better. test3.tex demonstrates this. 4. I was wondering if anyone had any pointers on improving performance and reducing memory usage with natural tables. Are there particular options or settings to avoid, and so on? I'm using Perl scripts to generate the ConTeXt code, so tend to output many setupTABLE commands. I have some tables which can take a minute or two to render for one page, and might have a document with 15 pages, so it takes some time. I saw some recent postings regarding linetables; I did not use them initially given they did not seem actively used and natural tables provide all the features I need; but I would be willing to give them a try if I understood what limitations they might have relative to natural tables. Many thanks! Brian

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Combining two pages on one, in landscape mode
by Mikael Persson 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

Dear list members, the following command: texexec --pdfcombine \ --combination=2*1 \ --paperformat=landscape \ --nobanner \ --result=twoinone.pdf \ file1.pdf file2.pdf used to work to get file1.pdf and file2.pdf in twoinone.pdf with two pages at one, and in landscape mode. However, since installing ConTeXt 20070403 (the minimal version), this no longer works for me. I get the output "texexec: No match." I also get the same error with the ConTeXt coming with texlive on ubuntu feisty. Any ideas of how to solve this? Thanks in advance /Micke P

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Several environments in a project?
by nicola 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

Hi, I have a project with a few products sharing the same layout, which is specified in a global environment file. Each product is in a separate subdirectory together with its components. Then, I want to put some setups and figure definitions in product-specific environments and I do it like this: \startproduct OneProduct \project MyProject \environment OneProductDir/LocalEnvironment ... The problem is that the local environment is not read when I typeset a particular component, but only when I typeset the whole product. How can I fix that? Nicola

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TABLE problems
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

Hallo, I have two problems/questions with the following tables: 1. Should'nt all the columns be .2\textwidth, as in the last table? 2. Why expands column width to \textwidth in the second table? Has to do with \type{} and/or color! 3. Why behaves table 1 (with \type{}) as table 3 (whitout \type{})? Wolfgang \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \input tufte \setupTABLE[row][odd][background=color,backgroundcolor=lightgray, width=.2\textwidth] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD \type{short} \eTD \bTD reads the whole file \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD kurz \eTD \bTD reads a string with up to num characters \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \input tufte \setupTABLE[row][odd][background=color,backgroundcolor=lightgray, width=.2\textwidth] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD short \eTD \bTD reads the whole file \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \type{kurz} \eTD \bTD reads a string with up to num characters \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \input tufte \setupTABLE[row][odd][background=color,backgroundcolor=lightgray, width=.2\textwidth] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD short \eTD \bTD reads the whole file \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD kurz \eTD \bTD reads a string with up to num characters \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \input tufte \setupTABLE[row][odd][background=color,backgroundcolor=lightgray, width=.2\textwidth] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD kurz \eTD \bTD reads a string with up to num characters \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \input tufte \stoptext

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presentation module
by Thomas A. Schmitz 21 Jul '07

21 Jul '07

Hi all, I have played around a bit and prepared a module to produce presentations with ConTeXt. It is inspired (of course) by Hans's work, but provides less frills and an easier interface; I hope it is especially suited for academic presentations. Before I actually unleash it on the unsuspecting masses, I would be grateful if somebody could test it. It comes with a demo file and some documentation, so all you have to do is run it through ConTeXt; I want to make sure that it'll work on other installations than mine. If you're interested, drop me a line, and I'll send it to you (it's just a zip file of 233 k). All best Thomas

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TOC fine-tuning (urgent)
by Steffen Wolfrum 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Hi, at a large project's end (480pages, 10pages TOC) I need to fine-tune content and MyContent (with \writebetweenlist ...). As processing these 1.5 million characters each time takes about 10 minutes, fine-tuning seems to be impossible. What is needed is a way to place the TUO file instead the re- calculated \complete content. Once, Hans kindly send this patch, but I can't make real use of it: \unprotect \def\dodoplacecombinedlist[#1][#2]% {\dobeginoflist \dosetuplist[#1][#2]% \doutilities{listentries,#1}\jobname{#1}\relax\par \doendoflist} \protect just change \jobname to {somename.tuo} I guess when my TUO normally is called test.tuo I should copy it to a testtest.tuo and next, instead of \completecontent I use \placecombinedlist [content][file=testtest] . This works, but takes long too, as again all chapters are processed. So I comment all the \component lines in my project structure in order just to integrate my placecombinedlist[content][file=testtest]. But these pages are empty now. Anyone can help me there? Steffen

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Displayed formula
by Oliver Buerschaper 19 Jul '07

19 Jul '07

Hi folks, I desperately need your help ... why does the following code not produce my formula? \starttext \startformula [-iH(A),-iH(B)]=-iH([A,B]) \stopformula \stoptext I have a feeling that ConTeXt interprets the first part of my formula as an argument to \startformula ... Thanks for your help, Oliver

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