February 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Remove leading spaces
by Bart C. Wise 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

When a function is called, I would like to remove any leading space. Then the function can control the spacing. If I don't remove spaces, it then makes a difference whether or not I have a space before the function is called. I would like the output of the following two lines to be equal: This is a \MyFunction[1] test. This is a\MyFunction[1] test. However, they are not because the first line has a space before the function call. \def\MyFunction{\dosingleempty\doMyFunction} \def\doMyFunction[#1]{% \processaction[#1]% [1=>\medspace dog ,% 2=>\medspace cat ,% default=>\ldots]% } \starttext Test1: This is a\MyFunction[1] test. Test2: This is a \MyFunction[1] test. Test3: This is a \MyFunction test. Test4: This is a\MyFunction test. \stoptext Is there a way to do this and not cause any side effects? Thanks, Bart

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Section format using /def
by Michael Bynum 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

I, apparently, do not understand the syntax and/or uses of /def. I am trying to make section heads appear in all caps and underlined. I originally tried to just use \setuphead, but found that I using the "textcommand" option I could only either capitalize or underline and not both. I then figured that using a macro was my next best option. Below is what I tried and it does not work. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? \def\mysectionhead{\WORD\underbar} \setuphead[section] [number=no, textcommand=\mysectionhead, style={\tfa\bf}] Thanks, Mike

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Bug? thinrule in natural table & MKIV
by Bart C. Wise 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

I put a thinrule in a table as follows: \starttext \bTABLE \bTR\bTD\thinrule\eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext It worked fine under MKII. However, when I switched to MKIV (both current and beta) I got the following error message: ! Missing { inserted. <inserted text> { <to be read again> & <inserted text> ...blrow \makeTBL 1 1 \nexttblcol \endtblrow \flushtbltoks ->\begintbl \the \tbltoks \endtbl \endTBL ...x {\trialtypesettingtrue \flushtbltoks }\lettbldis \maximumcol \z... \eTABLE ...}}\eTBL }\removeunwantedspaces \endTBL \stopTBLprocessing \fi \eg... l.4 \eTABLE Is this a bug? Is there a workaround? Thanks, Bart

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ConTeXt en presentations
by Cecil Westerhof 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

I am still a novice with ConTeXt en TeX. I have suddenly to make a presentation. I am thinking about doing this with ConTeXt. I saw the articles in the wiki. Someone some other good pointers? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Re: [NTG-context] Korean
by polytope 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Dear Wofgang, I made a sample text by inserting space to the text which you used when you test Korean before. I used un fonts which you can download from KTUG. After you compile it using LuaTeX, you can see some overfull lines which was mentioned by Dr. DoHyun Kim. Thank you for your concern on Korean. Best regards, Dalyoung Jeong > > From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] korean > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Message-ID: > <115224fb0902040013u2639b102r8e46228f698b5aa3(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >>> Korean orthography has rules of >>> where spaces should be inserted and where not. >>> So here I proofread Korean texts provided by Wolfgang. >> >> I would be better you can provide us better examples, copy and past >> from other texts is not the best solution. > > > The dvipdfmx* site has a few examples, can you bring them in text > form with correct spaces. > > * http://project.ktug.or.kr/dvipdfmx/ > > Wolfgang > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:23:04 +0100 > From: "Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini" <wwl(a)musensturm.de> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] colored column > To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl

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korean
by Hans Hagen 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Hi, is there someone on this list who has tried korean with mkiv? next week taco and i travel to korea (user group meeting) so we'd better know how to do korean 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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tool for reviewing hyphenation
by Lars Huttar 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Hello, We have a situation where hyphenation is an issue, due to a 2-column layout where the columns are not very wide. We've done a lot of tweaking of settings for hyphenation and interword spacing, and the result seems pretty good. In particular, there are not many cases of consecutive lines that end with hyphens, and not many cases where a hyphenation occurs over a right-hand page break. The few cases that exist, we have been fixing manually by using \hbox{...} to prevent hyphenation at the trouble spot. But the hyphenation is by nature somewhat volatile, so whenever we change something we would like to be able to easily recheck the hyphenation. And our book is over 1200 pages, so it would be very helpful to have tools to make the checking more efficient. One tool we found was the "evince" PDF viewer in Linux, which highlights all search results at once. So you can search for "-", and it will highlight all hyphens, which makes it easier to scan the PDF visually for hyphenation problems. Still, this approach has its limitations... our layout domain experts don't have Linux machines, and I haven't found a PDF viewer for Windows that can highlight all search results at once. Another approach we wondered about was having TeX highlight the hyphenations... e.g. changed the background color to yellow or red, when outputting a word that's dynamically broken/hyphenated. (Rather like we have TeX output red grid lines to help with debugging layout.) I think we would also want to highlight static hyphens that occur at the end of a line, as in "Niger- Congo," because they have a similar visual impact. Possibly using a different color. This would be an ideal solution, I think, but we don't know how to have TeX detect when a word gets dynamically hyphenated. Another possibility we've looked into is using javascript in Adobe Reader to find and highlight end-of-line (and end-of-page) hyphens. But this approach has proved more difficult than expected... the API and the DOM are complex, and I haven't figured out yet how to access the text of the document to search for hyphens. (The "search" method seems to just go to the first or next occurence, and highlight only one occurrence at a time.) Thanks for any help, Lars

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Re: [NTG-context] tool for reviewing hyphenation
by Alan BRASLAU 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Maybe something can be done using pdftk? http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/ (This tool may be of general use for ConTeXt users.)

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Re: [NTG-context] Korean
by polytope 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Dear Wofgang, I made a sample text by inserting space to the text which you used when you test Korean before. I used un fonts which you can download from KTUG. After you compile it using LuaTeX, you can see some overfull lines which was mentioned by Dr. DoHyun Kim in the previous mail. Thank you for your concern on Korean. Best regards, Dalyoung Jeong > > From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] korean > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Message-ID: > <115224fb0902040013u2639b102r8e46228f698b5aa3(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >>> Korean orthography has rules of >>> where spaces should be inserted and where not. >>> So here I proofread Korean texts provided by Wolfgang. >> >> I would be better you can provide us better examples, copy and past >> from other texts is not the best solution. > > > The dvipdfmx* site has a few examples, can you bring them in text > form with correct spaces. > > * http://project.ktug.or.kr/dvipdfmx/ > > Wolfgang > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:23:04 +0100 > From: "Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini" <wwl(a)musensturm.de> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] colored column > To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl

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When to migrate from MKII to MKIV?
by Dave 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Hi all, I've been using ConTeXt for a few years and I'm curious about whether it is worth migrating to MKIV (I've just re-read the mk.pdf document). Here are the features I often use: - Postscript fonts... I have typescripts setup for the fonts I bought (full versions of Utopia, Minion, Warnock, and a few compatible sans fonts). I believe I can get these as open-type as well if needed. - Bibliography via \usemodule[bib] - Chemistry via \usemodule[chemic] - Inclusion of PDF figures using an XML Figure database, i.e. \usemodule[fig-base] - Equations (with the multiline and alignment macros) using Fourier/Utopia including the bold math modifications in the MyWay document. - Tables (tabulate, natural, linetable) The questions I have: 1) Do all of the above work in MKIV? 2) How much of a pain is it to switch to MKIV? Do I need to rework my fonts/typescripts? Will all my current environments (setups, macros and one-line definitions) work? 3) Beyond speed and better font support, does it offer anything else to me? For the most part, I'm content with MKII and wonder if it is really worth the effort to move to MKIV. Perhaps the sample is skewed, but after reading the mailing list I get the impression that the current experimental/beta MKIV has a number of bugs and is not particularly feature complete when compared to MKII.

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