March 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

paragraph question (the return :O)
by Alan Stone 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi, Re: files in attachment Why is step 3 typeset in chapter 2's first paragraph instead of chapter 1's first paragraph and how to correct ? -- Alan

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Incorrect bookmark title of \completelistofabbreviations and no abbreviations are listed
by Nikolai Weibull 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi! Long time no post. Anyway, I’m writing a document where I’m using abbreviations. In neither --lua nor --xtx do I get a list of abbreviations with \completelistofabbreviations. The bookmark text is \headtext {abbreviations} for both. With --pdf I get a list of abbreviations and the bookmark text is abbreviations. Here's a minimal example: \setupheadtext[en][abbreviations={Abbreviations Used in This Document}] \abbreviation{CSS}{Cascading Style Sheets} \setupinteraction [state=start, menu=on] \placebookmarks[chapter] \starttext \startbodymatter \CSS\ stands for \infull{CSS}. \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter \completelistofabbreviations \stopbackmatter \stoptext

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Official diary of countries, EU, regions, etc.
by Xan 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi, I have to use BIBTEX for putting official diary entries (for example the official diary of EU: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOIndex.do?ihmlang=en) Typically it has Title, Day, Month, Year, Number of Entry, Type of diary (Official diary of EU, Boletín Oficial del Estado (boe.es), ...). I want to bibtex display this items, like "title", type of diary (day, month, year). Number of entry. How can I achieve this? With options, I think @misc is the best option, but I don't know how to put and format this items. Thanks a lot, Xan.

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problem with t-bib module
by Lutz Haseloff 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hi Taco, hi all, trying to use the bibliography module I get following error when I use \placepublications[criterium=all]. Without it, citation works like expected. My file: ------------------- \usemodule[bib] \startpublication[k=me, t=manual, a=Hoekwater, y=2006, s=TH2006, n=1, u=http://contextgarden.net/Bibliography] \author{Taco}[T.]{}{Hoekwater} \title{\CONTEXT\ Publication Module, The user documententation} \pubyear{2006} \note{In case you didn’t know: it’s the document you are reading now} \pages{14} \stoppublication \starttext \input knuth \cite[me] \input knuth \placepublications[criterium=all] \stoptext ------------------- Error message: ------------------- (C:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/sample/knuth.tex) (C:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/sample/knuth.tex) ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \alltoclevels \doifdefinedelse #1->\edef \p!defined {#1 }\ifcsname \detokenize \@EA {\p!def... \filllocalpublist ...fdefinedelse {\alltoclevels } {\let \dosetfilterlevel \... \typesetpubslist ...fsortbycite \filllocalpublist \iftypesetall \let \locala... \dodoplacepublications ...sttrue \typesetpubslist \inpublistfalse \endgroup l.21 \placepublications[criterium=all] ------------------- What do I wrong? I use latest mkiv beta interface=xp, LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.35.0-2009030810, build 1950 I tested the t-bib from the pragma beta zip and the newer version from contextgarden. Greetings Lutz

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Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hello Hraban, Simplified table syntax is much appreciated! Thank you for http://wiki.contextgarden.net/wikitable. However, I cannot understand how to use it. :) Best, Vyatcheslav

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lists in mkiv
by Johan Sandblom 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

For a small manual-type document I am trying to include a phone directory. I would like it to be sorted. The following produces no output other than "test". Shouldn't it? Johan Sandblom \starttext test \definesorting[telefon][telefoner] \setupsorting[telefon][criterium=all] \telefon{Milad El Segaie, 0746231022} \telefon{Carina C, 33050} \placelistoftelefoner \definesynonyms[Phone][Phones][\PhoneName][\PhoneNumber] \setupsynonyms[Phone][criterium=all] \Phone{Milad El Segaie}{0746231022} \Phone{Carina C}{33050} \placelistofPhones \stoptext -- Johan Sandblom, MD PhD m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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Simplified input for natural tables
by Wolfgang Schuster 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hi Hans, natural tables are perfect to create tables with a fixed size for the cells but the syntax requires sometimes a lot of typing for small content and takes to many lines of code in the document. I wrote a while ago a simple wrapper to use a table/tabulate like syntax for the input, what I don't like is to load a extra module for just a few lines of code and I think they can be integrated in the core-ntb code. Wolfgang %D \module %D [ file=wolf-tab, %D version=2007.01.26, %D title=\CONTEXT\ User Module, %D subtitle=New Tables, %D author=Wolfgang Schuster, %D date=\currentdate, %D copyright=Wolfgang Schuster] \writestatus{loading}{Context User Module / New Tables} \unprotect %D This module provides an easy way to use natural in a similiar %D way as the older table module (based on the \TABLE\ macros) and %D the newer tabulate module. %D %D You can see the advantage in the following table, once created %D with the new macros and once with the normal macros provided %D with the natural table module. %D %D Let us start with the original macros: %D %D \starttyping %D \bTABLE %D \bTR %D \bTD Text 1 \eTD %D \bTD Text 2 \eTD %D \eTR %D \bTR %D \bTD Text 3 \eTD %D \bTD Text 4 \eTD %D \eTR %D \eTABLE %D \stoptyping %D %D and now with my new macros: %D %D \starttyping %D \startTABLE %D \NC Text 1 \NC Text 2 \NC\NR %D \NC Text 3 \NC Text 4 \NC\NR %D \stopTABLE %D \stoptyping \def\startTABLE {\dosingleempty\dostartTABLE} \def\dostartTABLE[#1]% {\bgroup \def\NC{\parseNC} \bTABLE[#1]} \def\stopTABLE {\eTABLE \egroup} \def\parseNC#1\NR {\bTR \processNC#1\stopNC\NC} \def\stopNC{\stopNC} \def\processNC#1\NC% {\def\temp{#1}% \ifx\temp\stopNC \eTR \else \bTD#1\eTD% \expandafter\processNC \fi} % shorter but did not work when external files are loaded in the table, % e.g. \bTD \input knuth \eTD. % %\def\parseNC#1\NC\NR % {\bTR % \processseparatedlist[#1][\NC]\processNC % \eTR} % %\def\processNC#1% % {\bTD#1\eTD} %D I used the same mechanism as in \type{core-ntb.tex} to allow different %D headers on the first and the following pages. The only changes ist that %D I renamed the commands from \tex{bTABLE...} to \tex{startTABLE...} and %D from \tex{eTABLE...} to \tex{stopTABLE...} to match the start and stop %D pair at begin and end of the table. \long\def\startTABLEhead{\dosingleempty\dostartTABLEhead} \long\def\startTABLEnext{\dosingleempty\dostartTABLEnext} \long\def\startTABLEbody{\dosingleempty\dostartTABLEbody} \long\def\startTABLEfoot{\dosingleempty\dostartTABLEfoot} \long\def\dostartTABLEhead[#1]#2\stopTABLEhead{\appendtoks \doTABLEsection[#1]{#2}\to\TBLhead} \long\def\dostartTABLEnext[#1]#2\stopTABLEnext{\appendtoks \doTABLEsection[#1]{#2}\to\TBLnext} \long\def\dostartTABLEbody[#1]#2\stopTABLEbody{\appendtoks \doTABLEsection[#1]{#2}\to\TBLbody} \long\def\dostartTABLEfoot[#1]#2\stopTABLEfoot{\appendtoks \doTABLEsection[#1]{#2}\to\TBLfoot} %D \startbuffer %D \startTABLE %D \NC Text 1 \NC Text 2 \NC\NR %D \NC Text 3 \NC Text 4 \NC\NR %D \stopTABLE %D \stopbuffer %D %D My example from the begin of this module %D %D \typebuffer %D %D looks like this: %D %D \startlinecorrection %D \getbuffer %D \stoplinecorrection \protect \endinput

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Design for Translation
by John Devereux 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hi, I am wondering how best to go about creating an evolving document that will need translation. This is a manual that will probably need to be produced - and maintained - in around 6 languages. For what it is worth, I have come up with two approaches, which follow. But I would really appreciate any insights anyone may have. ... 1) Just translate the file -------------------------- - Obey formatting rules in document tex file so as to most easily visually separate commands from text. - Distribute the files for translation with instructions. This will work until we need to modify the file, then how to communicate the modifications? An english diff? I think this may be the best solution, but there is also 2) Using blocks --------------- The "excursion" manual briefly describes an alternative (which I think may be too cumbersome). The idea would be to totally separate the text from any tex commands (except for a single type of begin/end sequence). Conceptually :- manual-env.tex: \defineblock[EN,de,it] \setupblock[EN][file=EN] \setupblock[DE][file=DE] \setupblock[IT][file=IT] \doifmode[EN]{\def\lang{EN}} \doifmode[DE]{\def\lang{DE}} \doifmode[IT]{\def\lang{IT}} manual.tex: \environment manual-env.tex \useblocks[\lang][installation-1] \useblocks[\lang][installation-2] EN.tex: \beginEN[installation-1] This is how to install the product type 1 \endEN \beginEN[installation-2] This is how to install the product type 2 \endEN DE.tex: \beginDE[installation-1] (german text here) \endDE \beginDE[installation-2] (german text here) \endDE IT.tex: \beginIT[installation-1] (italian text here) \endIT \beginIT[installation-2] (italian text here) \endIT -- John Devereux

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matrices with horizontal and vertical delimeters
by Jiří Cigler 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hello, I have problems with typesetting of matrices with delimiters. I need the same functionality like in the following LaTeX example: \begin{displaymath} \left(\begin{array}{c|c} 1 & 2 \\ \hline 3 & 4 \end{array}\right) \end{displaymath} but in ConTeXt I can't find method how to do that. My best result is \startformula \startmathmatrix[left={\left(\,},right={\,\right)}] \NC 1 \NC \vl \NC 2 \NR \NC \hl \NC \vl \NC \hl \NR \NC 3 \NC \vl \NC 4 \NR \stopmathmatrix \stopformula But the result is not ok. In addition, I would prefer dashed lines. Thanks, Jiri Cigler

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pdftex error
by Fengnan 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

When I updated my context minimal earlier today, at the end of the update process, the cmd window pops up a error message box which says "Unable to find kpathsea357-dev.dll, so this program cannot be started" ( I translate from Chinese). Just pure guess, did Mojca forget to put the file in the right place? Fengnan Gao <fnsteed(a)hotmail.com

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