November 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Defining a command for enumeration+block
by Glen Callaghan 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hello, I'm having some problems using blocks and enumeration together. I can get it to work using something like this (see complete minimal example further down): \beginBlock \startEnum Some text A \stopEnum \endBlock But it doesn't seem to work if I try to define a command (macro?) to keep my source file a bit tidier. \define[1]\Revs{ \beginBlock \startEnum #1 \stopEnum \endBlock } \Revs{Missing Text B} I don't get any output from the call \Revs. No doubt I'm doing something silly...... I've also noticed that it breaks if I put the \beginBlock \startEnum commands on the same line, as in: \beginBlock \startEnum Some text A \stopEnum \endBlock I've been trying this on TeX Live 2010. thanks Glen --------- \defineblock[Block] \defineenumeration[Enum][location=left,text=Test] \define[1]\Revs{ \beginBlock \startEnum #1 \stopEnum \endBlock } \starttext \section{Use} \useblocks[Block] \reset[Enum] \section{Define} \beginBlock \startEnum Some text A \stopEnum \endBlock \Revs{Missing Text B} \stoptext

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Ugly bug with TikZ in recent ConTeXt MKIV
by Mojca Miklavec 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Dear Hans, The following example worked perfectly fine with the version of ConTeXt MKIV I was using one hour ago (no idea which version, but something less than two weeks old). It still works OK with MKII and it works much worse in the real document that I'm using. In my document both images are completely screwed up. Here it's only the second one and if I comment out the first one, the second figure comes out fine, so I'm a bit clueless about what magic is going on inbetween. Nothing in TikZ has changed (I'm still using the "frozen" version from November 2009 from minimals), so it must have something to do with ConTeXt MKIV. It just messes up with some boxes on the page in some unpredictable way. \usemodule[tikz] \starttext \placefigure[force][BCl3 sigma]{x}{ \hbox to .9\textwidth{\hss\starttikzpicture \node[circle,inner sep=0pt] (B) at (0,0) {B}; \node[circle,inner sep=0pt] (a1) at ( 90:0.9cm) {Cl}; \node[circle,inner sep=0pt] (a2) at (210:0.9cm) {Cl}; \node[circle,inner sep=0pt] (a3) at (330:0.9cm) {Cl}; \draw (B)--(a1); \draw (B)--(a2); \draw (B)--(a3); \stoptikzpicture \hbox to 2cm{} \starttikzpicture[>=stealth,very thick] % \node[label=above:$a_1$] (a1) at ( 90:1cm) {$a_1$}; \node[circle,inner sep=0pt] (a1) at ( 90:1.2cm) {$a_1$}; \node[circle,inner sep=0pt] (a2) at (210:1.2cm) {$a_2$}; \node[circle,inner sep=0pt] (a3) at (330:1.2cm) {$a_3$}; % \draw[->] (0,0)--(-30:1cm); % \draw[->] (0,0)--( 90:1cm); % \draw[->] (0,0)--(210:1cm); \draw[->] (0,0)--(a1); \draw[->] (0,0)--(a2); \draw[->] (0,0)--(a3); \stoptikzpicture\hss} } \stoptext Thanks, Mojca

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MetaPost version of the Gantt chart module
by Reviczky, Adam 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi, I've made a MetaPost version for creating Gantt charts. Florian: The label alignments are fixed in this module. Further, it should be trivial to place the names into the ganttbars, for both versions. For more information see the wiki entry: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gantt_charts Adam

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Help Winedt 6.0 MikTeX 2.9 ConTeXt
by barney schwartz 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

MikTeX 2.9 says ConTeXt is once more available. Winedt 6.0 provides a drop-down menu However, ConTeXt fails to execute. I having been waiting sin MikTeX dropped ConteXt support and was SO happy to see it included once again. Anyone got any ideas how to make ConTeXt functional using MikTeX 2.9 and Winedt 6.0??

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Choosing TeX um ... stuff
by Peter Davis 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

I've been on the periphery of TeX for years, as a casual user of LaTeX and also as an implementer of publishing software. However, I'm afraid I haven't kept in as close touch as I'd like, and now I find myself trying to absorb a lot in a short time. I'm trying to choose what software to use in building an XML->TeX workflow. I'd appreciate any help with the following questions: 1. True or False: TeX can be categorized along three orthogonal axes: 1. by format (plain TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, others?) 2. by implementation (web2c, pdfTeX/pdfLaTeX, LuaTeX, others?) 3. by distribution (MikTeX, TeXLive, MacTeX, others?) 2. True or False: plain TeX and LaTeX(2e) are warhorses ... been around for decades, quirks well known, lots of documentation, etc. 3. True or False: ConTeXt is newer, with a lot of built-in features, but still changing quite a bit from build to build. Other comments welcome vis. picking which software to use. One point is that since the actual TeX input files will be generated programmatically, readability or ease-of-coding is not a factor. I was going to use plain TeX, but it seems a lot of features like placing text boxes and graphics anywhere, using system fonts, etc. are more available for LaTeX and ConTeXt. Thank you for any comments! -pd

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ppchtex questions
by Jörg Hagmann 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

I just started using (and liking) ppchtex, and I have a few questions: 1. Is there a way to define a frame offset (there is "fit" and there are dimensions, but an offset would be more convenient)? 2. Is it possible to move the "\bottext" further down? It gets too close to the formula, especially with larger fontsize and smaller formula structures, see example)? \starttext \usemodule[chemic] \startchemical[width=fit,scale=small,size=big] \bottext{α-Glycerophosphate} \chemical[ONE,SB1357,Z0357][\TL{α}{C},\SL{OPO\lohi{3}{2-}},H,H] \chemical[MOV1,SB137,Z037][C,\SL{OH},H] \chemical[MOV1,SB137,Z0137][C,H,\SL{OH},H] \stopchemical \stoptext By the way: X_subscript and X^superscript don't work within \SL{...}. 3. How can I get \ss for *all* the atoms in the formulae and in the bottom text (I tried a few things within \setupchemical)? Thanks, Jörg

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Horizontal & vertical shift when inserting multipage PDF
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hello, just a brief question. How to avoid the horizontal and vertical shift which appears when inserting another PDF, both PDFs created "with the same options"? You can see page numbers and also the left "edge" shifted. (I'd need this to insert multipage scanned documents into the main PDF.) See the code (and result in the attachments): --- 1.mkiv \starttext \dorecurse{8}{\input tufte\par} \stoptext --- 2.mkiv \starttext AAA\page \copypages[1.pdf]\page BBB \stoptext --- Cheers, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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displaystyle switched off?
by Mojca Miklavec 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Dear Hans, in a recent version of ConTeXt the \displaystyle seems to be "switched off" inside \startformula in MKIV (\sum has no subscript): \starttext \startformula P^{(α)} = \sum_{a\in{\cal G}} χ_a^{(α)}T(G_a), \stopformula \stoptext In current version (tlcontrib's update to TL) and in MKII it works fine. Mojca

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font features
by Herbert Voss 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

What is wrong with my font setting for libertine that the fontsize is reset when activating a font feature. For latin modern it is ok. the output:http://perce.de/temp/xxx.png Herbert \starttypescriptcollection[mylibertine] \starttypescript[serif][libertine][name] \definefontsynonym[Serif][name:Linux Libertine O][features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[sans][biolinum][name] \definefontsynonym[Sans][name:Linux Biolinum O][features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[mylibertine] \definetypeface[mylibertine][rm][serif][libertine][default] \definetypeface[mylibertine][ss][sans] [biolinum] [default] \stoptypescript \stoptypescriptcollection \setupbodyfont[modern,12pt] \definefontfeature[noLigNoKern][zero=yes,liga=no,kern=no] \font\myNoLigNoKern=lmroman12-regular*noLigNoKern \starttext Fiffies schöner 0815-Text über die Schifffahrt mit den Schiffern. \par\myNoLigNoKern Fiffies schöner 0815-Text über die Schifffahrt mit den Schiffern. \setupbodyfont[mylibertine,12pt] {\font\myNoLigNoKern=fxlr*noLigNoKern Fiffies schöner 0815-Text über die Schifffahrt mit den Schiffern. \par\myNoLigNoKern Fiffies schöner 0815-Text über die Schifffahrt mit den Schiffern.} \setupbodyfont[mylibertine,12pt]\ss \font\myNoLigNoKern=fxbr*noLigNoKern Fiffies schöner 0815-Text über die Schifffahrt mit den Schiffern. \par\myNoLigNoKern Fiffies schöner 0815-Text über die Schifffahrt mit den Schiffern. \stoptext

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Stepping mechanism in MkIV
by Aditya Mahajan 17 Nov '10

17 Nov '10

Hi Hans, The current stepping mechanism (s-pre-60) is not too convinient because you have to click the screen to go to next screen. It will be nice if one could go to next screen using page down (and to previous screen using page up). Another annoyance is that it only works with acroread and does not work with evince (I don't know how well it works with preview). Are there any plans to have a mkiv based stepping mechanism? If so, it will be nice to have an option to be able to create multiple pages, one for each step. Thanks, Aditya

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