October 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

ctx files
by Alan STONE 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Hi, How do you call ctx files from within a main ctx file ? Thanks, Alan -- * texexec --lua foo * ConTeXt minimals ver: 2008.10.08 23:34 MKIV fmt: 2008.10.13 int: english/english * Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

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Bib module and prefix=+
by Robin Kirkham 19 Dec '08

19 Dec '08

Hi, How can the bib module and \setuphead[chapter][prefix=+] be made to coexist? The following example works, but if you uncomment the \setuphead, the citations are broken and the reference list vanishes: \setupoutput[pdftex] % uncomment this line and it breaks %\setuphead[chapter][prefix=+] \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex[database={xampl.bib}] \setuppublications[refcommand=num] % makes no real difference %\setuppublicationlist[title=\chapter] \version[temporary] \starttext \chapter[chapt]{A Chapter} Some citations: \cite[article-full] \cite[inbook-full] \cite[manual- full]. This is chapter~\in[chapt]. \completepublications[criterium=all] \stoptext Any help much appreciated! PS: The following old mailing list article appears to describe the same problem, but the symptoms are different (citations disappear, but reference list does not) http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/ 20010516.173217.113e3787.en.html Robin

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Experience on writing a thesis with MKIV
by Aditya Mahajan 14 Dec '08

14 Dec '08

Hi everyone, I finished my thesis, writing both my thesis and my presentation using ConTeXt. Thesis: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam/publications/thesis/thesis.pdf Source: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam/publications/thesis/thesis.tar.gz Presentation: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam/publications/thesis/thesis-presentation.… Overall it was a pleasant experience, but there were some difficulties. I am summarizing my experience here. Hopefully, others will find it useful. * Layout and Formatting: It was extremely simple to set up the layout and formatting according to the thesis specifications. Due to the ease of changing formatting, I experimented quite a bit with the formatting before settling down to what is in the thesis (The school wanted "nothing fancy"). * Organizing large projects: The product-component structure made it easy to work on single chapters. However, I could not get correct numbering for the components (If I compiled chapter-02, it got numbered 1). In the end, I was just compiling the whole thesis at the time, since it was pretty fast (~10 sec). * Fonts: Using different fonts with MKIV was really easy. For the presentation, I did have some trouble in getting Euler to work with the minimals. Hopefully, this will be corrected soon. * Math: The math alignments worked very nicely, but I had to do a lot of manual tweaking at a lot of places. Also, equations seem to like to have a tendency of starting on a new page. I tried changing penalties for predisplay and postdisplay (which are set to zero), but it invariably led to bad page breaks at other places. At some places, the equation overlapped with the previous material. I am not sure what was causing this (medium interline spacing, wrong calculation of the width of the previous line, or something else). In the end, I simply put a few manual \break[small] here and there. Being able to write unicode math made simplified reading math markup. * Metapost: TeX-MP interaction is fast and easy. However, debugging metapost errors is difficult because context does not stop compiling on encountering a metapost error. * Bibliography. For a large part, the bib module was very easy. In the end, there were a few glitches with the formatting of the bibliography (too title space between entries) which I had to manually correct. (Look for \help inside the bbl file). The bbl file sorted authors with multiple entries incorrectly. If I had authors with four publications in a year, say 2000, the came out as 2000d, 2000c, 2000b, 2000a. I wanted 2000a, 2000b, 2000c, and 2000d, so in the end I just edited the bbl file by hand. There was also problem with maybe year. If I had 2000a and 2000b in the bib file, but only referred to 2000b in the thesis, the year came out as 2000b rather than 2000. For this also, I edited the bbl file by hand. Overall, ConTeXt made writing the thesis fairly easy. I mean the typesetting part of it. For those who are wondering, ConTeXt does not help with the content of the thesis :-) I would like to thank Hans and Taco for providing ConTeXt and everyone on the mailing list for answering my various questions. Aditya

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Figures are misplaced with \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT
by Khaled Hosny 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Figures are shifted to the right (the left edge is where right edge should) when I set \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT. See the attached example. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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color test not working
by Alan Stone 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

Hi, \setupcolors[state=start] \setupcolor[rgb] \setupcolor[xwi] \setupcolor[ema] \starttext \midaligned{\tfb \bf RGB colors} \blank[3*big] \showcolor[rgb] \page \midaligned{\tfb \bf XWI colors} \blank[3*big] \showcolor[xwi] \page \midaligned{\tfb \bf EMA colors} \blank[3*big] \showcolor[ema] \stoptext All give a black&white output, except the rgb (somecolor): and (somecolor)*: ones Qué pasa ? Best, Alan * using ConTeXt ver: 2008.08.18 14:00 MKIV fmt: 2008.8.22 int: english/english (on Windows XP)

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ansi codes
by Alan Stone 14 Nov '08

14 Nov '08

How do you typeset font characters by their ansi code number, ex. Alt+33 (21h) ? -- Best, Alan Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron (Desktop) * ConTeXt ver: 2008.09.16 19:49 MKIV fmt: 2008.9.20 int: english/english (ConTeXt minimals installation) * texexec --lua foo

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typefile
by Aditya Mahajan 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

Hi, Something is wrong with \typefile in latest context in MKIV. \starttext \typefile{somefile} \stoptext (the file 'somefile' should exist) gives ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \filepath \pathplusfile #1#2->#1 \f!pathseparator #2 \mktypefileverbatim ...rs.typefile("\readfilename ")} \dosometyping ...rt }{\typingparameter \c!stop }}} \stopverbatimcolor \stoppa... \dotypefile ...else \dodotypefile [\v!file ][]{#3} \fi \fi l.3 \typefile{somefile} Also, in MKII, when the file does not exist, you get a warning message in the pdf output. In MKIV, there is no warning. Missing files are silently ignored. Aditya

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Change line spacing of the publication list
by Roy Zuo 08 Nov '08

08 Nov '08

Hi, I find that when the lines pacing of the text is set by \setupinterlinespace, the line spacing of publication list is not affected at all. I am just wondering if it is possible to change the line spacing of the publication list produced by bibtex to make the article have a uniform look. Thanks in advance. Roy

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\use(sub)path
by Alan STONE 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

>From what I've found... - ConTeXt searches files up in the directory tree - directories can be set with \usepath and/or \usesubpath I haven't found how both of the latter commands works though. Any hints would be most welcome. Thanks, Alan -- * texexec --lua foo * ConTeXt minimals ver: 2008.10.08 23:34 MKIV fmt: 2008.10.13 int: english/english * Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

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Using a .fea file disable arabic contextual analysis
by Khaled Hosny 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

See the attached files, the mark features seem to work but contextual forms (init, medi amnd fina) don't Regards, -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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