April 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Keep text elements together
by Uriel Avalos 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Hi all. I'm writing a Multiple Choice test set in two-columns. I would like to keep the multiple-choice items together with the question both on the same page AND on the same column. Question 1 Question 3 choice 1 choice 1 choice 2 choice 2 choice 3 choice 3 Question 2 Question 4 choice 1 choice 1 choice 2 choice 2 choice 3 choice 3 (Apologies, it's easier to draw than describe). So I don't want the multiple choices breaking to another page or going to another column. How can I achieve this? I tried setting the "intro" flag of itemize but it doesn't work. Here's what I did: \item[columns] ... \item Question \startitemize[intro] \item choice \item choice ... \stopitemize ... \stopitemize but the multiple-choice items would still break across pages and columns F

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How to set a layout shown in the attachment png file?
by Wei-Wei Guo 16 Apr '09

16 Apr '09

Dear all, I attached a PNG file to show the layout that I want. I want the text part narrowed and right aligned. I tried the following settings: \setuplayout [backspace=20mm, topspace=20mm, height=257mm, width=170mm, %textwidth=115mm, header=10mm, footer=0mm, rightmargin=0mm, leftmargin=25mm, leftmargindistance=-25mm,] The problem is that text is too wide. I commented the 'textwidth' for it will make the narrowed text centering. What else do I need to set? Best wishes, Wei-Wei

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script on attachment
by Bill Long 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

I use > \useattachment[auto][example_show][sample.data][./sample.data] > \attachment[auto] to attach my sample data to pdf, but as this data need open by specific script. Are there any way to open the attached sample.data with my script when viewer click on it. or else I have to let them download the script and change the preference application to open it. BR Bill

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Forced page break with tables macros?
by Design Department 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Is it possible to force a page break at an arbitrary row when using the 'tables' macros? -- david

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Natural Table Footers
by Design Department 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Is the lack of repeating footers in natural tables due to implementation difficulties well beyond that for repeating headers or is the feature considered inappropriate typography? -- david

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transparent colors in latest beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Hi Hans, the bad news is that transparent colors don't work at all in the latest beta with mkiv (they worked on and off with the beta before that). The good news is that this makes it easier to build a minimal example :-) Here comes: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} pair a, b, c, d ; a = (0,0) ; b = (0,5cm) ; c = (5cm,5cm) ; d = (5cm,0) ; path p ; p = a -- b -- c -- d -- cycle ; draw a -- c withcolor black ; fill p withcolor transparent (1,0.25,red) ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext All best Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] mkiv document size shrinks (nice)
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

> > Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: > >> > Hello, >> > >> > Files produced by the latest beta have smaller size then those compiled >> > at the beginning of the year. >> > >> > For example, typical lyrics documents shrinked from ~20Kb to ~14Kb each. >> > >> > It's nice. I just wonder -- is it connected with font subsets embedding ? >> > > No idea. Are you using Type1 fonts? > > Best wishes, > Taco > No, Minion Pro otf. Best, Vaytcheslav

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mkiv document size shrinks (nice)
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Hello, Files produced by the latest beta have smaller size then those compiled at the beginning of the year. For example, typical lyrics documents shrinked from ~20Kb to ~14Kb each. It's nice. I just wonder -- is it connected with font subsets embedding ? Best, Vyatcheslav

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TeXLive 2008 + ConTeXt problems (on Gentoo Linux)
by Matija Šuklje 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Hullo, it's been a while since I used ConTeXt (I simply didn't have to write any documents), but now that I upgraded to TeXLive 2008 I noticed that ConTeXt is giving me gripes. 'context test.tex' produces: MtxRun | error unable to identify cnf file MtxRun | error unable to identify cnf file MtxRun | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) MtxRun | unknown script: context 'texexec test.tex' actually produces a PDF. 'luatex test.tex' starts asking questions: This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.30.3-2009041418 (Web2C 7.5.7) (test.tex ! Undefined control sequence. l.1 \starttext ? ...and later on produces a completely messed up PDF 'luatools --generate' produces: LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file LuaTools | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.046 seconds I'm sure there's a step I missed in the upgrade, but I have no idea what. I've already tried a few things from the Wiki, which I think resulted in 'texexec' actually working, but the rest is still foo. Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Cheers, Matija Šuklje -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 e-mail: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net www: http://matija.suklje.name aim: hookofsilver icq: 110183360 jabber/g-talk: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org msn: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net yahoo: matija_suklje GPG/PGP fingerprint: FB64 FFAF B8DA 5AB5 B18A 98B8 2B68 0B51 0549 D278

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problem with module pre-05 (fuzzy): Missing number
by Héctor Palacios 14 Apr '09

14 Apr '09

Hi context users ! I want to test the presentations modules of context, because are very nice. I am testing module pre-05 (fuzzy), i am using the code at the end of the archive: %% code example.tex ----------> \usemodule[pre-05] \starttext \TitlePage{Title Page\\pre-fuzzy} \Topics{Some Nice Quotes} \Topic{A Few} \Subject{Knuth} \input knuth \Subject{Tufte} \input tufte \Topic{Some More} \Subject{Zapf} \input zapf \Subject{Bryson} \input bryson \stoptext %% endcode -------------> But this code not run: the command texexec example.tex says: %% --------> ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \endcsname \@@amvbox ... -\pagebackgroundvoffset +\endcsname \c!topoffset \relax \box \... <argument> ...ght\c!left }\interactionmenu [right] \getvalue {\??am right\c!r... \firstofoneargument #1->#1 \next2 #1,->\docommand {#1} \doprocesscommaitem \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1, ]\relax \global \advance \... ... l.10 \Subject{Knuth} \input knuth ? h A number should have been here; I inserted `0'. (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number, look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.) %% --------> I don'n know what is the problem because the example code is from the archive s-pre-05. Thanks in advance for your answers. Hector

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