April 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

\useURL not working with '#' and '_' in URL in newest beta
by Drazen Baic 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Hello, URLs with '#' or '_' in the URL worked fine with LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.37.0-2009033116 and ConTeXt 2009.04.06 21:42 and still work with the newest beta LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.39.0-2009041623 and ConTeXt 2009.04.21 16:11 when compiled with '--xtx'. When compiled with '--lua' I got this error: ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \dodogetargument. <to be read again> s <argument> ...ce.contextgarden.net/core-pos.tex##s etpositions \dodogetargument ...{\douseurl [{setposition}][{#1 }][{##1}]}\dogetargument [... l.13 ...textgarden.net/core-pos.tex#setpositions}] here is a minimal example. It doesn't work no matter if \setupinteraction is active or not \setupcolors [state=start] \setupinteraction [state=start,color=blue] \useURL [minimals] [{http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals}] [] [\ConTeXt\ Minimals] \useURL [setposition] [{http://source.contextgarden.net/core-pos.tex#setpositions}] [] [\tex{setposition}] \useURL [setuppositioning] [http://texshow.contextgarden.net] [{cmd/en/setuppositioning}] [\tex{setuppositioning}] \starttext Lookup the source code of \from[setposition]! Or read about the syntax of \from[setuppositioning]. More Information about \CONTEXT\ Minimals at: \from[minimals] \stoptext Regards, Drazen

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\section and luatex
by Mohamed Bana 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

\section Current Activities displays 1 C urrent Activities could you please allow \section Other to use the entire word not just the first Letter. And how do I tell if LuaTeX is 64bit? $ luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.39.0-2009041607 luatex.web v2298 $ context --version MTXrun | main context file: /home/mbana/context.distro/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.tex MTXrun | current version: 2009.04.18 13:47 Many thanks Mohamed

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Less garbage and Re: columns break
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 22 Apr '09

22 Apr '09

Thanks to all, \column works fine :) And one more (good) thing in the new beta I noticed: .top, .tua and .tuc files are no longer kept after mkiv pass. Hurray! :) Vyatcheslav

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TOCS: part number, custom alternative and margins
by Jeff Smith 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hi all! A while ago I asked how to achieve a particular layout I wanted for part titles in my table of contents. I was given this solution: \definelistplacement[partlist][none]#1#2#3% {\sc\inframed[width=broad,align=right,bottomframe=on,topframe=off,rightframe=off,leftframe=off]{{#2}}} \setuplist[part][alternative=partlist] With that, I get no part number, no page number, a title in small caps and a bottom frame. So far so good. In the same table, I also want my section and subsection titles to indent, at different values depending on levels (the further the section in the hierarchy, the further it indents). I use the margin= parameter for that. When I do that, however, the next part title indents equally to the same level as the last section or subsection did. See the example file toc.tex attached. Obviously, I don't want that. The only way I've found to avoid that is to get rid of the custom alternative, and transfer the \inframed command to a textstyle parameter inside a normal \setuplist[part] command. See toc-2.tex attached. When I do that, however, I can't get rid of the part number. I tried everything I could think about, but to no avail. I'm using MKII+Xetex. (ConTeXt ver: 2008.11.10 21:40 MKII fmt: 2008.11.15 int: english/english) Can anyone help? What is the best solution? Thanks in advance! Jeff

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Some symbols of mathematical calculus missing?
by Tomas Kisela 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hi all, I need to typeset some equations and I found out that these commands are undefined or don't work correctly (ver: 2009.04.17 19:32 MKIV): \iint, \iiint, etc. \oint, \oiint, etc. \nabla What is the prefered way of typesetting those symbols? (e.g. \mathop{\int \!\!\! \int} or something like that?) Is there a website or a pdf-file dealing with mathematical symbols in ConTeXt? Thanks Tomas

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downgrading
by Peter Münster 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hello, I would like to downgrade my context to version 2009.01.18 (the latest version, where my file compiles fine). How could I do this? TIA for any help! Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Which Table Layout Mode
by Design Department 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

I'm having great difficulty finding a table mode that accomplishes everything I need: Multi-page: no problem Repeating headers: no problem Repeating footers: don't actually need columns in footers, just a table-wide block containing diagrams and abbreviation footnotes. Must appear on every page, though. 'tables' or 'tabulate' mode works OK. lintetables? Horizontal lines: no problem (except linetables?) Alternate row shading: natural tables work fine, don't see how to do this with 'tables' or 'tabulate' mode. linetables? Forced page break at arbitrary rows: [after=\page] doesn't seem to work in natural tables, don't see how to do this with 'tables' or 'tabulate' mode. linetables? I've tried all the table modes, including linetables and can't find a mode that gives me all required features. Is this combination of tabular features not possible? -- david

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\placeheadtext not known
by Peter Münster 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hello, I've something like this in one of my setups: \startsetups[header] \doiftextelse{\placeheadtext[chapter]} {\placeheadtext[chapter]}{\placeheadtext[title]} \stopsetups \setupheadertexts[\setups{header}] \starttext \chapter{bla} \stoptext With the latest version, I get: ERROR: Undefined control sequence. --- TeX said --- <argument> \placeheadtext Could you help please? Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Macro question - uppercase
by Wolfgang Schuster 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Hi, I have a macros which I use in a environment with uppercase letters but I want to define them in my module as lowercase with namespace and look for the best method to convert all of them from lowercase to uppercase, below is what I have for the moment, is there a better how I can do this (without \ascii)? \unprotect \def\saved!one{one} \def\saved!two{two} \def\savedcommands#1% {\edef\ascii{\csname saved!#1\endcsname}% \uppercase{\expandafter\let\csname#1\endcsname\ascii}} \processcommalist[one,two]\savedcommands \protect \starttext \ONE\ -- \TWO \stoptext Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] framed text question (Aditya Mahajan)
by Jos van Gisbergen 21 Apr '09

21 Apr '09

Okay, the "before={\testpage[] ...} seems to solve my problems with the hanging empty text backgrounds. Thanks Aditya ________________________________ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:10:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam(a)umich.edu> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] framed text question To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0904210908150.8859(a)ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Jos van Gisbergen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question regarding framed text. > To obtain framed verbatim text that breaks over pages, I use the macro > \definetextbackground. I have encountered a slight problem, however: > sometimes the upper part of the frame appears on the bottom of the > page with no text in it (because there's not enough room). The strange > thing is that if I comment out the setupcolors macro the problem > disappears (in the example that is). I sometimes use \definetextbackground[....][before={\testpage[3], .. other options .. ] The \testpage[3] checks if there is enough space to put three lines, if not it issues a page break. In most cases this gets rid of the hanging empty text backgrounds at the bottom of a page. Aditya

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