September 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

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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Change line spacing of the publication list
by Roy Zuo 09 Nov '08

09 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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Textbackground with leftframe
by holzminister 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Hi! 1) I wanted to color some text inside a columnset-environment. That works fine for text that stays in one column or spans two consecutive ones. But if there's a pagebreak after the first page, only the left column gets the background. From page two on everything is fine again. Any ideas how this comes? >>> \setupcolors[state=start] \definetextbackground[test][ backgroundcolor=yellow, frame=off, leftoffset=5mm, location=paragraph, color=black] \definecolumnset[example][n=2,distance=5mm] \starttext \startcolumnset[example] \starttextbackground[test] \dorecurse{12}{\input knuth \par} \stoptextbackground \stopcolumnset \stoptext >>> 2) And another question: Is there a way to get a leftframe activated in my defined background? Have a nice evening, Eyke

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Feature Request: \startitemize[text]
by Aditya Mahajan 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

Hi Hans, I have always found the space at the beginning of each item in \startitemize[text] to be too large. Currently, this is hard coded to be \emwidth plus \intertwordstretch minus \interwordshrink (line 1132 of core-itm.tex with the comment "new per 2006/10/20"). I always end of copying the definition of complexdoitemgroupitem to my private modules and changing the emwidth in the definition to 0.5\emwidth. Can you please keep this key to be configurable with a key (textinbetween)? BTW, any particular reason not to simply say \removeunwantedspaces\space\ignorespaces instead of \removeunwantedspaces\hskip\emwidth\!!plus\interwordstretch\!!minus\interwordshrink\relax \stopitemgroup uses just the first variant. Thanks, Aditya

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XeTeX old style numerals
by Mohamed Bana 19 Oct '08

19 Oct '08

Hi guys, Why doesn't this definition use the old style numerals that come with the font? It seems to use the latin modern font when I try to use \os. Small caps are working fine. I'd like all the numbers in the document to be typeset in old style numerals unless I tell it otherwise, btw how do I achieve the latter? As in break out of onum and typeset in the normal numbers? I'm using TeXlive 2008 on vista, the pdf reports that I'm using XeTeX version; 2008.05.21 15:21. \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Minion Pro] % i've also tried %\definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Warnock Pro] \definetypeface[myface][ss][Xsans][Myriad Pro] \definetypeface[myface][tt][Xmono][Consolas] \setupbodyfont[myface, 11pt] Pdf; http://filebin.ca/rpctwz/testbackup.pdf or http://filebin.ca/rpctwz Thanks :) Mohamed % file % engine=xetex \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Minion Pro] % i've also tried %\definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Warnock Pro] \definetypeface[myface][ss][Xsans][Myriad Pro] \definetypeface[myface][tt][Xmono][Consolas] \setupbodyfont[myface, 11pt] \starttext \title {Introduction} \startlines 123456789 {\os 123456789} \stoplines {\sc On the \CONTEXT\ mailing list, occasionally a user asks if we can post a complete document with the associated style. One reason for not honouring this request is that we want users to cook up their own styles. Besides that, there are a couple of styles in the regular \CONTEXT\ distribution.} {\it When browsing through this document, a \CONTEXT\ user may wonder what style was used to achieve its look and feel. We hope that while reading the text and playing with the examples, the reader will accomplish the skills to define more than just simple layouts.} {\sl When browsing through this document, a \CONTEXT\ user may wonder what style was used to achieve its look and feel. We hope that while reading the text and playing with the examples, the reader will accomplish the skills to define more than just simple layouts.} {\it\sc This document is not easy reading. Occasionally we spend some time explaining features not described in the manuals. The design of this document is to a large extent determined by its purpose, and as a result not always functional. Also the order of presenting features, tips and tricks is kind of random and unstructured. The idea is that the visual effects will draw you to the right trick. Also, if you realy want to benefit from these features, there is no way but to read the whole story.} {\bf In spite of all its shortcomings, I hope that you enjoy reading this (yet unfinished) manual. Keep in mind that this manual is far from finished.} {\bi In spite of all its shortcomings, I hope that you enjoy reading this (yet unfinished) manual. Keep in mind that this manual is far from finished.} {\ss\sc In spite of all its shortcomings, I hope that you enjoy reading this (yet unfinished) manual. Keep in mind that this manual is far from finished.} \stoptext

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Labelling figures
by Wolfgang Schuster 18 Oct '08

18 Oct '08

Hi, what is the best method to add labels to a figure; I want them not only on the figure but their position should be relative to the figure size. I tried start/stopfigure (mentioned as outdated in the source) but the label is not shown. \setupexternalfigures[location={local,global,default}] \starttext \startfigure[kuh][cow] \referring(1,1)(1,1)[r:horn] \stopfigure \externalfigure[kuh] \stoptext After this I tried collector and got with a little extra and a box and to dimens what I wanted but it's not very elegant. \setupexternalfigures[location={local,global,default}] \starttext \newbox\labelbox \setbox\labelbox\hbox{\externalfigure[cow]} \newdimen\labelwidth \labelwidth \wd\labelbox \newdimen\labelheight \labelheight\ht\labelbox \definecollector[label][state=repeat] \setcollector[label]{\box\labelbox} \setcollector[label][x=.65\labelwidth,y=.75\labelheight]{udder} \placefigure {A labelled cow} {\flushcollector[label]} \stoptext Figurelabel as described in the label manual [1] seem to be the perfect solution but the module was finished :-( Is there not better way to achieve what I want and do I have to live with my second method or could I hope for the future. [1] http://pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/mlabels.pdf Greetings Wolfgang

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minimal example for Cyrillic
by Gour 14 Oct '08

14 Oct '08

Hello! I was able to persuade one user to prepare ConTeXt package for NixOS distro, but, unfortunately, being from Russia he quickly discovered that he minimal example from wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Russian) does not work, i.e. \enableregime[utf] \useencoding[cyr] \definetypeface [russian] [rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=t2a] \setupbodyfont[russian] \starttext Мама и Папа % Some Russian characters \stoptext does transliterate Russian characters. I do not have any experience working with Cyrillic, so if anyone can provide minimal working example it would be very nice? I persistently claimed that "it must work!" :-) Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Zagreb, Croatia | GPG key: C6E7162D ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Problem with text floating around tikz picture
by Marcin Borkowski 11 Oct '08

11 Oct '08

Hi again;), this won't work: \placefigure[right]{none}{\starttikzpicture \draw (0,0) -| (2,2) -| (0,0) -- (2,2) (2,0) -- (0,2) (1,1) circle(1); \stoptikzpicture} (some text...) The tikzpicture apparently extends to the whole text width, resulting in an overfull box (and nasty paragraph formatting). Putting it into an \hbox helps, so I know what to do; the question is, _why_ this works that way? Greets -- Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.faculty.fmcs.amu.edu.pl)

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Formatting TOC
by Diego Depaoli 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

Hi all, what is the magic option in \setuplist to put a word before the chapter's number like Chapter 1 First chapter instead of 1 First chapter ? Many thanks -- Diego Depaoli

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