September 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Offtopic: a gift for Luigi
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Dear gang, Here is a gift for our favorite off-topic expert: "Typography Fans Say Ikea Should Stick to Furniture" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/arts/design/05ikea.html?hp Hans, you have to replace all your IKEA furniture now... Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Intro to Luatex
by John Culleton 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Luatex has a lot of features that Context doesn't. Where is the best place to start learning about it? -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters

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Problems with inner products
by Guilherme P. de Freitas 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Hi everybody, I am trying to define a command for inner products. I would like to type $\innerprod{x, y}$ and obtain in the output <x, y>. Now, I defined \define[2]\innerprod {\langle #1, #2 \rangle} but then, when I used the command, I got some weird behavior: the next character after "y" would "jump in" the inner product. For example, when writing $\innerprod{x, y} + z$ I was hoping to obtain as an output <x, y> + z But I got as an output <x, y +> z I am using the ConTeXt that came with MacTeX 2008 (I downloaded it a few days ago). Best, Guilherme -- Guilherme P. de Freitas http://www.gpfreitas.com

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Re: [NTG-context] long quotation without quotation marks
by Robert Blackstone 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009, Aditya Mahajan wrote > > On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Robert Blackstone wrote: > > > Hi all, > > In a text with some fairly long quotations I want to have these > quotations > > without their quotation marks, not indented and set in small type. > > > To make context ignore indenting of a signle paragraph, use > \noindentation. > > delimited text does not offer control of indentation inside the > environment, but offers sufficient hooks to enable manipulation of > indentations. > > If you want paragraphs inside the quotation to be indented use the > following (if not, replace noindentation with noindenting) > > \definedelimitedtext[LongQuote] > [style={\switchtobodyfont[9pt]}, > spacebefore=medium, > before=\noindentation, % also \noindenting, > ] > > \setupindenting[big,yes] > > \starttext > > \input ward > > \startLongQuote > \input knuth \par > \stopLongQuote > > \input ward > > \stoptext > > > Aditya > > Thank you Aditya, it helped. It was: before=\noindenting that did what I wanted. Surprisingly for me, in the example you gave, before=\noindentation resulted in no indentation for the first paragraph but the two others were indented. With before=\noindenting all three paragrapghs were unindented. I really couldn’t have guessed this. With some slight changes your example did almost exactly what I had in mind. (Almost, since in a text like this I would prefer some space between the paragraphs and I understand that it cannot be adjusted locally.) Just for the sake of completeness I add it here: \definedelimitedtext[LongQuote] [style={\switchtobodyfont[9pt]}, spacebefore=medium, before=\noindenting ] \setupindenting[big,yes] \starttext \input ward \startnarrower \startLongQuote \input knuth \par \stopLongQuote \stopnarrower \input ward \stoptext I have two related questions for the list: a. Would it be useful to add this information to the ConTeXt wiki page on Quotes? b. Is there a complete and up to date list of commands for ConTeXt, and what they are supposed to do, to be found somewhere? (I find things like the existence of \noindent, \noindenting and \noindentation, all apparently giving slightly different results, nice for the variety it offers but, for a beginner, quite confusing as well.) Kind regards, Robert Blackstone

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natural tables: when I say nc=2, I really mean it
by Zed Lopez 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Hi folks, When I compile this table: \starttext \setupTABLE[c][1][width=12pt,rightframe=off] \setupTABLE[c][2][width=108pt,leftframe=off] \setupTABLE[c][each][width=60pt] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD x \eTD \bTD y \eTD \bTD z \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD[nc=2] thisisaverylongwordishthing \eTD \bTD word \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \endtext I get the 2 rows I expect: the first with 1 narrow column, 1 wide column, and 1 medium column; the second with 1 even wider column and 1 medium column. When I do the same thing, but with the first row omitted: \starttext \setupTABLE[c][1][width=12pt] \setupTABLE[c][2][width=108pt] \setupTABLE[c][each][width=60pt] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD[nc=2] thisisaverylongwordishthing \eTD \bTD word \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \endtext it's as if the nc=2 is ignored -- it tries to squeeze "thisisaverylongwordishthing" into 1 12pt column instead of a combined 120pt column. How can I convince it to do what I mean with nc=2 despite having only one row with only 2 cells? thanks. (Long time subscriber, first time poster, love the macro package.)

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long quotation without quotation marks
by Robert Blackstone 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Hi all, In a text with some fairly long quotations I want to have these quotations without their quotation marks, not indented and set in small type. Thanks to the ConTeXt wiki I found I could fulfill two of the three requirements by using \setupdelimitedtext[blockquote][style={\setupbodyfont[9pt]}, and \startblockquote (text of the quotation) \blank \stopblockquote, but I still get the unwanted indenting. In the main text I want indenting of the first lines of most new paragraphs, so I have \setupindenting[20pt,yes] in the preamble, but I do not want it in the quotations. Placing \noindent at the beginning of the quotation does not do anything. As a hack I commented out \setupindenting[20pt,yes] and started every paragraph I want to indent with ~~~~~. That works. But somehow I feel there must be a more elegant solution, only I can’t find it. Is there somebody who could help me out? Thanks in advance. Robert Blackstone

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Re: [NTG-context] How can I start wiith 2 in itemize?
by Xan 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

>>> >>> >> xan@rulot:~$ textools --findfile strc-itm.mkii >> TeXTools | locating file in texmf tree >> TeXTools | >> TeXTools | no file found >> > > A clear sign that your ConTeXt isn't setup correctly. Are you using > the 'ConTeXt minimals'? > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals > > I once followed the installation instructions on Mandriva64 Linux and > it worked like a charm. > * > "NOTE:* The officially recommened way of installing ConTeXt on all > platforms is using ConTeXt Minimals > <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals>" > > There are also some instructions for using ConTeXt under TeXLive > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installation I have that installed but it does not serve me because I use tkiz (read above). So I _must_ use MKII. I use ubuntu 8.04. How can I do for fix the installation? Any ideas? Xan.

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mathalign with \{ ?
by Xan 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hi, I have \placeformula[-] \startformula F(n) = \startdisplaycases \NC F(0) + 2 \ln n!! - \frac{n}{2} \ln 2 \MC \text{si } n \text{ parell} \NR \NC F(1) + 2 \ln n!! - \frac{n+1}{2} \ln 2 \MC \text{si } n \text{ senar} \NR \stopdisplaycases \stopformula and I want to put \placeformula[-] \{ \startformula F(n) = \startdisplaycases \NC F(0) + 2 \ln n!! - \frac{n}{2} \ln 2 \MC \text{si } n \text{ parell} \NR \NC F(1) + 2 \ln n!! - \frac{n+1}{2} \ln 2 \MC \text{si } n \text{ senar} \NR \stopdisplaycases \stopformula But I received error. I have MKII. How can I put braces and do that enumeration formula is at middle possition (not in first or last line, just in the middle). I use Aditya manual but I did not see it. Xan.

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