September 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

letter module
by Wolfgang Schuster 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Hi all, I uploaded a new version of the letter module that deals with the recent changes in the MkIV spacing model, as a result of this you need todays beta (2009.09.21) or later. For MkII users this message is unimportant because the changes don't affect them and older installations can be used without problems, if there are problems report them and I will fix it. Wolfgang

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How to reset the chapter number
by Joshua Lee 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Hi Guys, Here's a little example, \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \completecontent \part{First Part} \chapter{First Chapter} \chapter{Second Chapter} \part{Second Part} \chapter{Third Chapter} \chapter{Chapter 4} \stoptext I would like to show the chapter number 1,2,3,4.. instead of 1.1,1.2,2.1,2.2 .. how to do it? Thanks. Best regards, Joshua

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Need help with bibliography
by Mika Ritola 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Hello, I'm planning to write my Master's thesis in history using ConTeXt, and I've done some experimenting on it to see if it's actually suitable for my purposes. Everything seems to be quite simple except for one thing: the bibliography. The bibliography guidelines for our history department are rather complex in comparison to the formats that come packaged with ConTeXt, and I have no idea how to implement them. So far, I've run into two problems: 1. This one's probably very simple: there's the /insertauthors macro for inserting the whole name of the author. But how do you insert just the last name of the author? 2. This one, on the other hand, is likely to be rather non-trivial: the bibliography needs to be broken up into several categories of sources. For example, audiovisual sources, newspaper sources and books should be listed under separate headings, somewhat like this: BIBLIOGRAPHY I. AUDIOVISUAL SOURCES [some sources] II. NEWSPAPER SOURCES [...] III. BOOKS [...] I've tried to decipher the source code of the Bib module but as I'm not particularly fluent in TeX, I haven't been able to make much headway so far. I'd appreciate some hints on where to start with this. I don't suppose there's any existing code for something like this? Maybe I'd be better off writing the bibliography by hand? Thanks for reading, Mika

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Language + bibliography
by Xan 20 Sep '09

20 Sep '09

Hi, Is it possible to bibliography put bibitems in localization of language. I mean for example to substitute "in" for "en" if we use \mainlanguage[ca]. Xan.

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\blank
by Wolfgang Schuster 20 Sep '09

20 Sep '09

Hi, the following examples did not give the expected results in mkiv. 1. Whitespace at the top of the page is ignored \starttext \blank[force,3cm] text \stoptext 2. Unbreakable whitespace is not possible. \doifmode{mkii}{\defineblankmethod[nobreak]{\penalty10000}} \starttext \dontleavehmode\vskip.95\textheight \doifmode{mkii}{text\endgraf\blank[nobreak,line]text} \doifmode{mkiv}{text\endgraf\blank[samepage,line]text} \stoptext Wolfgang

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letter module: Argument of \dodoubletestempty has an extra }
by Peter Münster 20 Sep '09

20 Sep '09

Hello, Here a minimal test file, to reproduce the problem with latest MKII: % engine=pdftex \usemodule[letter] \starttext \startletter \subject{Test} hello \stopletter \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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letter module: Missing number, treated as zero.
by Peter Münster 20 Sep '09

20 Sep '09

Hello, Here a minimal test file, to reproduce the problem with latest MKIV: \let\defineblankmethod\definevspacingamount \usemodule[letter] \starttext \startletter Test. \stopletter \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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ActualText
by Barry Schwartz 20 Sep '09

20 Sep '09

Please tell me this isn't in a FAQ. :) Is there support for ActualText tags so that searching and extraction will work with OpenType fonts and Unicode? If so, do discretionary hyphens get treated as 00AD instead of 002D?

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ctxtools error
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 19 Sep '09

19 Sep '09

Hallo, I had to install a new ruby and get errors with ctxtools now: ----------------------------------------------------------------- ConTeXt ver: 2009.06.14 21:01 MKII fmt: 2009.8.15 int: english/english >ruby --version ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-mswin32] >texmfstart ctxtools --purge --all e:/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ctxtools.rb:1330: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) e:/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ctxtools.rb:1330: invalid multibyte char (US-ASCII) e:/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/ctxtools.rb:1330: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ')' remap(">2r1<2r", "[2á¿¤1á¿¥]") ^ >Exit code: 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------- What can I do? Wolfgang

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further bib tests
by Thomas A. Schmitz 19 Sep '09

19 Sep '09

Hi Hans and all, I did some more tests with the new bib mechanism in mkiv and hit a problem: the refcommand=authornum is broken. Minimal example: \setuppublicationlist[samplesize={{{The}}24},totalnumber=1] \startpublication[k=silktragedytragic,t=book, a={{Silk}},y=1996, n=1855,s=Sil96] \editor[]{Michael~S.}[M.~S.]{}{Silk} \pubyear{1996} \title{Tragedy and the Tragic. Greek Theatre and Beyond} \city{Oxford} \pubname{Oxford UP} \stoppublication \setuppublications[state=start, refcommand=authornum] \starttext \cite[silktragedytragic] \placepublications[criterium=cite] \stoptext I get ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [parameter stack size=6000]. \namedlistparameter #1#2-> \csname \dolistparameter {\??li #1}#2\endcsname \doif #1#2->\edef \!!stringa {#1 }\edef \!!stringb {#2}\ifx \!!stringa \!!str... \dowritedatatolist ...eter {#1}\c!state }\v!start {\structurelistinject [#1]... \docitation ...\writedatatolist [pubs][bibref=#1]} \fi \next1498 #1,->\docitation {#1} \doprocesscommaitem \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1, ]\relax \global \advance \... ... l.19 \placepublications [criterium=cite] MTXrun | fatal error, return code: 1

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