February 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

TOC question
by Alan Stone 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

Hi, How do you get the chapter number in front of the chapter heading in the TOC, in the following example with \setuphead[chapter][number=no] ? \setuplist[chapter][% alternative=b, numbercommand={\headnumber[chapter]}, % this has no effect % criterium=local] criterium=chapter] \setuphead[chapter][% % number=yes] number=no] \starttext \placecontent[% level=chapter, % criterium=chapter, alternative=b] \dorecurse{2}{\chapter{Chapter #1}\dorecurse{20}{\input knuth\par}} \stoptext -- Best, Alan

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How to decide on colors
by Cecil Westerhof 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

I am working with a flowchart. I would like to have the background of the flowchart, different from the background the flowchart is on. I do not know much about color combinations. (Just enough to know what I tried were not good choices.) Is there a site with good pointers about color combinations? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Invoices
by Cecil Westerhof 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Are there templates for invoices? I could not find them. -- Cecil Westerhof

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Arabic typesetting in Plain TeX over LuaTeX
by Ilda Khaki 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

I am trying to compare the results of Arabic typesetting between different TeX engines to decide the best one. Can anyone send a samplwe file for typesetting Arabic in Plain TeX over luatex where the alphabets are not isolated? Thanks

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Problem with flowchart in presentation layout
by Cecil Westerhof 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

With flow.tex flow.pdf is generated. When generating again flow2.pdf is generated. (And every time it is generated again, there are 8 more blanco pages inserted.) When deleting the flowchart part in flow.tex, flow3.pdf is generated. This looks okay. So there should be something wrong with my flowchart code. But I do not see anything. What is going wrong here? Also, I would like to have the complete flowchart on my screen. Is there a way to make the room between the shapes less? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Unicode Math - what it is
by Michail Vidiassov 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Dear All, sorry for a stupid question, the unicode math that is about to come means formula input using Unicode Math instead of tex commands as suggested in "Unicode Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics" http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v2.pdf or use of the Unicode fonts with math ranges in rendering the result? BTW, what are the options for getting a unicode math font? Taking one from MS Office 2007? Waiting for Stix fonts (what happened yo them, there seems to be a delay fir yunpublihrt reason.? Sincerely, Nichail

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chapter page question
by Alan Stone 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Hi, What's the way to test whether a page is a (start of a new) chapter page ? Didn't find it on&offline. -- Best, Alan

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How to set the colors for a flowchart
by Cecil Westerhof 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

I am experimenting with the flowchart module. How can I change the color of a shape, and the text color of an shape? -- Cecil Westerhof

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startup script stubs (for unix)
by frantisek holop 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

hello gang, after almost a year of traveling i am back. anybody missed me? :] thought so. i have made the openbsd installation of context on top of texexec3 wiki page on the context wiki because i frequently reinstall my notebook and start from scratch with all my software. i realize by now texlive is the new thing but before i make context minimal work on openbsd i still prefer to bring up to date context on the much less bloated base of tetex3. my biggest gripe at the moment always at the end the ruby scripts... but this is something that could be easily changed. i personally find the following instructions the most helpful: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation#Ruby_scripts at the moment, the directory /usr/local/share/texmf-local/scripts/context/stubs/unix/ contains a bunch of scripts that are nice but unusable because 1. they dont have the x bit set 2. most of them contain something like texmfstart somescript "$@" while texmfstart itself is not defined anywhere it would be really nice if these stubs could be just dropped as replacements for any current scripts and work out of the box. i am not sure my proposed solution is a good one, because frankly, except texexec i have never used any of the other scripts.. but looking at the afore-quoted wikipage it seems to me that the author favoured the approach of calling all the other sripts using texexec. the beauty of this is that no other scripts need to be installed. so what do you people think about the following approach: stub for texmfstart to be put under /usr/local/bin/texmfstart: #!/bin/sh ruby `kpsewhich --format=texmfscripts texmfstart.rb` "$@" stub for texexe to be put under /usr/local/bin/texexec: #!/bin/sh SCRIPTNAME=`basename $0` if [ X"$SCRIPTNAME" = X"texexec" ]; then exec texmfstart texexec.rb "$@" else exec texmfstart $SCRIPTNAME "$@" fi and all the other script stubs could be removed i guess... -f -- good words cost no more than bad.

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Problem of space in font names
by Mehdi Omidali 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Hi, I have noticed that luatex can not handle fonts with space in their names. I haven't had this problem in the past but now it happens in the latest context minimal both on windows and linux.

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