July 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Letter backaddress
by Oliver Buerschaper 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Dear Wolfgang, I'm struggling with the backaddress option … I tried the following code --- \usemodule[letter] \starttext \setupletter [fromname={Arthur Thor}, fromaddress={Hidden Street 2\\57895 Mysterytown}, backaddress={Arthur Thor, Hidden Street 2, 57895 Mysterytown}] \setupletter [toname={Mike Willson}, toaddress={Lindenstreet 12\\78569 TeX City}] \startletter [subject={Step by step guide to writing a letter}, opening={Dear Reader,}, closing={Greetings from the Author}] \input knuth \stopletter \stoptext --- but couldn't see the backaddress line in the output. What do I have to change? Best wishes, Oliver

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Running heads peculiarity
by John Culleton 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

If I want the book title to appear on even pages and the chapter name on odd pages I hve to set up the pertinent command backwards as follows: \setupheadertexts[text] [chapter][pagenumber][pagenumber][Book Title] This is the wrong sequence per the manual on page 79. Has this been fixed or will this be fixed? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm

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luatex: compiling with the context command
by Alan Stone 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

What's the equivalent texexec's --result option for the context compile command ? Thanks, Alan

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Letter: address field
by Oliver Buerschaper 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Dear Wolfgang, is it possible to centre the text block in the address field vertically? At the moment the address is typeset with a constant vertical offset (measured from the top) which causes lengthy address data to look slightly off balance … Thanks, Oliver

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No output for layers
by Oliver Buerschaper 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Dear all, somehow the following won't produce any PDF output: --- \definelayer [mylayer] [x=78mm, y=3mm, height=43.5mm, width=128mm] \starttext \setlayer[mylayer][preset=middle]{Hello world!} \stoptext --- Any ideas? Oliver

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Fedora 9 (Linux) Installation
by abbg770＠city.ac.uk 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Hi, I can't seem to install ConTeXt manually. I've literally followed this page http://wiki.contextgaraden.net/Linux_User_Installation verbatim and I can't seem to compile even the most basic of documents. I'm running Fedora9 bit, and I do happen to have TeXLive with ConTeXt installed. The thing is I don't want to ruin the current install rather I'd like to have a version of ConTeXt that lives in my ~/. so that I can play about with it, I'm particurarly after the fonts that come with it. I've attached some files with the outputs of running the commands. a. source ~/.context_env $PWD/tex => results in nothing. b. mktexlsr => mktexlsrlog.txt c. texexec --version => texexec-version-log.txt d. texexec --check => check-texexec-log(copy).txt This simply doesn't work on my install it's meant to do what the author of the page said --- "This will give you a lot of lines of output including the versions of various scripts, the version of pdftex and the version of ConTeXt. It will also generate a test file and run it through ConTeXt. You should get a pdf file called texexec.pdf with the word "Test".". Didn't get anything :(. e. texexec first.tex => texexec-first-log.txt Ok now that's out of the way i've got a few questions regarding ConTeXt itself. 1. Is there an equivalent of the listing package? Take a look at listing-sample.pdf. It's also highly customizable, allowing me to change the colour etc. For instance here is my setup. \lstset{breaklines=true, showlines=true, % showing line numbers numbers=left, % where to show line numbers numberstyle=\scriptsize\sffamily\color{gray}, % numbersep=10pt, % stepnumber=1, % how often to show the line number on the left language=Java, % specifiy the language basicstyle=\scriptsize\ttfamily, % print whole listing small keywordstyle=\bfseries\color{eclipsekeyword}, % underlined bold black keywords identifierstyle=, % nothing happens commentstyle=\color{eclipsecomment}, % white comments, if you use commentstyle=\color{white}, it doesn't display the PRODID for the VCALENDAR stringstyle=\ttfamily, % typewriter type for strings showstringspaces=false, % no special string spaces frame=single, % bottom of listing gets a rule, use frame=single if you want awhole frame around it backgroundcolor=\color{white}, use frame=b for line a the bottom only backgroundcolor=\color{white}, tabsize=4, showspaces=false, showstringspaces=false} \lstset{morecomment=[s][\color{eclipsejavadoc}]{/**}{*/}}%, % morecomment=[s][\color{red}]{/*-}{*/}} And including the source code. \lstinputlisting[ caption={CalendarExtractor.java}, label=lst:CalendarExtractor.java] {source/CalendarExtractor.java} 2. Can someone please tell me if a book is being planned, I'd hate to print out the documentation and then come to realize that, say, two months down the line a book is available. 3. As you probably guessed I'm new to ConTeXt so if somewould could please tell me in what situation you would use each of the following files for, It'll clarify alot of things for. In particular what is the "the main CONTEXT distribution". context/current/cont-tmf.zip the main CONTEXT distribution context/current/cont-img.zip a few resources for testing functionality context/current/cont-fnt.zip font metrics of public fonts context/current/cont-ext.zip third party CONTEXT modules context/current/cont-win.zip a binary version of the texmfstart script context/current/cont-ppc.zip chemical formulas in TEX: PPCHTEX context/current/cont-mpd.zip METAPOST to PDF converter context/install/cont-bas.zip base TEX distribution context/install/justtex.zip minimal CONTEXT distribution (no binaries) context/install/mswintex.zip minimal CONTEXT binaries (windows) context/install/linuxtex.zip minimal CONTEXT binaries (linux) context/install/macosxtex.zip minimal CONTEXT binaries (macosx) context/install/mswincontext.zip stand-alone CONTEXTediting environment (windows) Thank you very much

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Fwd: chapter page on right.
by John Culleton 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

This message seems not to have gone through. Therefore I am resending it. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: chapter page on right. Date: Tuesday 08 July 2008 From: John Culleton <john(a)wexfordpress.com> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> I have set up the \chapter command thus; \setuphead[chapter][page=right,style={\nimbua},header=high] ....where nimbua is a font. The chapter head appears on a recto (odd numbered) page as expected but the verso blank page inserted where necessary before the chapter head has a running header. It should be blank. I can kludge this up with a wrapper macro containing \ifodd\pageno etc. but it seems there should be a more Contextish way to handle it. -- John Culleton

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ConTeXt cheatsheet
by abbg770＠city.ac.uk 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Hi, Could someone please make a cheatsheet much like the following; http://docs.codehaus.org/download/attachments/2715/groovy-reference-card.pdf. It really helps when learning a language. groovy source; http://svn.codehaus.org/groovy/trunk/groovy/groovy-core/src/latex/. I've attached a .zip containing everything in the dir. s=source and c=cheatsheet. latex homepage; http://www.stdout.org/~winston/latex/ latex c; http://www.stdout.org/~winston/latex/latexsheet-a4.pdf latex s; http://www.stdout.org/~winston/latex/latexsheet.tex cvs c; http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/cvsqrc.pdf cvs s; http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/cvsqrc.tex tex c; http://math.brown.edu/~jhs/ReferenceCards/TeXRefCard.v1.5.pdf tex s; http://math.brown.edu/~jhs/ReferenceCards/TeXRefCard.v1.5.tex -- Thanks Mohamed Bana

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Bug in mplib?
by Aditya Mahajan 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Hi, I get different results when I compile the following file using mkii and mkiv. See the attached pdf output. I am using (I know, I need to update) mpost -v = MetaPost 1.005 (Web2C 7.5.5) context --version = 2008.06.22 17:38 \setupcolors [state=start] \starttext \startMPpage z.1 = (-1cm, 0) ; z.2 = ( 1cm, 0) ; z.3 = (0, -1cm) ; z.4 = (0, 1cm) ; path p[] ; p.1 := z.1 -- z.2 ; p.2 := z.3 -- z.4 ; draw p.1 ; draw p.2 withpen pencircle scaled 3bp withcolor white ; draw p.2 ; \stopMPpage \stoptext Aditya

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Re: [NTG-context] table of contents and bookmarks issue
by Alan Stone 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Got fed up with context/xetex... Compiled with texmfstart texexec --lua instead and as expected (from a previous thread) bookmarks are scrambled when using accented (french) characters. Hope this (luatex) issue will be resolved very soon. Thanks for the backward compatibility though. Didn't have to change a single line of code. Hyperlink/bookmark jumps are a better, however... Can they be made so that they go to and include the corresponding chapter/section title, instead of jumping underneath them when in "single page continuous + page width" mode ? It works that way with word/openoffice generated pdfs. Thanks on beforehand, Alan

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