November 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

ConTeXt
by Alan Raúl 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

Name: Alan Caruanambo Muñoz City: Cajamarca - Peru Hello: ConText was using for a while, then stop, now that I've tried to reuse write my thesis is that I can not compile successfully though and followed all the steps in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Windows_Installation I remember down mswincontext.zip aver pragma-ade in which compiled more easily, also wanted to know what the most recent version of ConTeXt MKIV because they lose http://minimals.contextgarden.net/pragma/ is the year 2008, and the installer ContextMinimalInstall.exe fails. My OS is Windows xp I wish my thesis has typography MKIV manual, please I would like to know what are the sources used in this. PD: Sorry if you can not really understand the message, what happens is I do not speak English. Thanks for taking the time to read my mail and dedicate to it ConTeXt project. - ALAN - xlxn_(a)hotmail.com

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metaobj
by Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Hi everybody, again a question by me, I found out that metaobj is included in ConTeXt minimals and now try to figure out how to input this in a ConTeXt document so I can use it in a \startuseMPgraphic{name} METAOBJ code \stopuseMPgraphic environment. Thanks everybody for your help... -- Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz Auf dem Sattler 4 34516 Ederbringhausen Germany Phone: +49 6454 799623 mobile: +49 176 63301749 Fax: +49 6454 7990138 e-Mail: scholz.m82(a)googlemail.com The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

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Grabbing first letter of a sentence
by Mathieu Boespflug 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Hi, I'd like to get access to the first letter of a chapter for the purpose of laying out the chapter heading, but I'm having difficulty with expansion. Here's my attempt: \def\MyChapterTitle#1#2{% \def\doMyChapterTitle##1##2^{% {\tfb ##1}##2 } #1 \doMyChapterTitle#2^ } setuphead[chapter][command=\MyChapterTitle] \starttext \chapter{Foo} bar \stoptext This doesn't work because the chapter title isn't expanded out before passing it to \MyChapterTitle. I know there is deeptextcommand but I need the chapter title during the layout of chapter number + title, so I need to use command instead of deeptextcommand. I attempted to get hold of the chapter title using the following \def\MyChapterTitle#1#2{% \def\doMyChapterTitle##1##2^{% {\tfb ##1}##2 } #1 \expandafter\doMyChapterTitle\expandafter{\fetchmark[chapter][first]}^ } but that doesn't seem to work either. Any ideas? Many thanks, M

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Section horizontal space adjustment (LaTeX -> ConTeXt) (reduced attachs)
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Hello all, what is the simplest way how to change the horizontal space between the number and the name of a section (chapter, subsection...)? (Migrating from LaTeX to ConTeXt.) There are two test documents attached - - t-Sec2.pdf - to see the default view of LaTeX section number/text spacing, - t-Sec.pdf - to see the same by ConTeXt (i.e. some less h-space). What is the best (or simplest) way how to adjust this? I tried to work with stopper and/or separator in \setupheads, but - to be honest - I don't know when they go to an action. I achieved the required job by defining a new command \MyCmd - but is this the best way? Or are there better options or commands to achieve this? - See the code (and result): --- \def\MyCmd#1#2{#1\hskip3ex#2} \setupheads[stopper=STOPPER,separator=SEPARATOR,command=\MyCmd] % When are the "stopper" and "separator" applied? \starttext \chapter{AAA} \section{BBB} uuu \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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configuring miktex for context
by piskala upendran 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

dear all, can anyone help me to configure context with update available with miktex. Regards upendran

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Hook environment into head/structure setup
by Andreas Harder 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Hi all, I don't think it is yet possible, but it would be nice if there was something like: \setuphead % or perhaps \setupstructure [chapter] [beforestructure=\startlinenumbering, afterstructure=\stoplinenumbering] Which should result in: \startlinenumbering \startchapter[title=test] Text \stopchapter \stoplinenumbering Is there already a way to achieve this? I've consequently used \start-\stopchapter, maybe one can append \start-\stoplinenumbering to them? I would appreciate any help Andreas

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problem with beta for linux-64
by Vladimir Lomov 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Hi. ** Aditya Mahajan [2010-11-13 21:11:31 -0500]: > On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Erik Margraf wrote: > >>I get the following error message while running first-setup.sh: >>------------ >>! I can't find file `catc-ini.mkiv'. >><to be read again> >> \relax >>l.42 \loadmarkfile{catc-ini} >>----------- >> >>Strange enough, I find it as >> ..../tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/catc-ini.mkiv >> >>Anything I can do about that? > > I had the same error. I am on linux-64 and the luatex binary in > linux-64/bin did not have the execute permission set. So the wrong > luatex was being used. > > But I use mtx-update directly, so do not know if this is the same > reason for the error in the minimals. I could confirm that there is the problem with context minimal installation on linux-64. The cause of the problem is missing permission for executable. Currently I could build the formats only if I split the actions: update and make. P.S. To ensure that the same problem would not arise in future the 'update' and 'make' procedures should be splitted and between them 'chmod +x bin/texlua tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/luatex' (texmf-$platform) is inserted. --- WBR, Vladimir. -- Perfect day for scrubbing the floor and other exciting things.

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column breaks and TABLE
by Philipp Gesang 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Hi all, with natural tables I can’t seem to get column breaks right. Example: ··8<····························································· \setuppapersize[A5][A5] \definecolumnset[three][n=3] \starttext \startcolumnset[three] \dorecurse{5}{ \subject{Test nr. \recurselevel} Some paragraph.\par \penalty10000 % comment me to get even footer; well, sort of … \bTABLE[split=yes] \bTABLEbody \dorecurse{80}{ \bTR\bTC Nr.\eTC\bTC\recurselevel\eTC\eTR } \eTABLEbody \eTABLE Text after.\par\column } \stopcolumnset \stoptext ··8<····························································· The crude prevention of a column break before the table appears to cause the first column to extend into the footer. However, without the ‘\penalty’ the table will always appear on a new column -- not looking well if there’s not much to typeset besides the table itself. Is there a way to get the best of both worlds: an even footer without a break before the table? I’d be grateful for any hints or suggestions, Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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XSL-FO to PDF?
by Peter Davis 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Is there some recent information on using XML, and specifically XSL-FO, with ConTeXt? The pages on the contextgarden wiki appear to be 5 years old or more, and even the archive of this list seem pretty sparse on recent information. I'm trying to find the most direct route from XSL-FO to PS or PDF. I'll be generating hundreds or thousands of XSL-FO documents, and would like to process them. Thank you. -pd

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beta
by Hans Hagen 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Hi, I uploaded a new beta (so the minimals will have it in about an hour): - some cleanup at the lua end as side effect of documenting lua interfacing as part of writing the cld manual - a couple of bug fixed in the lua code that crept in during some optimizations - removal of some old lua code (not needed any more or replaced by better code) - a couple of patches (or extensions) to macros (due to reports on the list); for instance, the HideLayer and VideLayer reference actions were never implemented; also, some animation code has been added (for WS) - definitions like \definedfont[file:lbr.pfb] are ok now (remapped onto afm, a few line harmless extension) - a replacement of the existing marking mechanism (as used for running headers and footers): less interference with typesetting as mark nodes are no longer part of the game; more robust synchronization of chained marks (sectioning); more robust handling of marking in columns and columnsets; experimental marking in arbitrary constructs (thomas might like that one); not all is tested but we have: the usual marking: first, last, previous, current; these are strict in the sense that they take sectioning into account some new, less strict marking: firstpage, lastpage, previouspage; these ignore sectioning related resets some experimental methods: next, nextpage; these concern parts of paragraphs that end up on the next page, so limited lookahead (in there is interest we can make that full lookahead i.e. future marks) the usual column related marking: \getmarking[chapter][first]/ \getmarking[chapter][page][first]/ \getmarking[chapter][column:first][first]/ \getmarking[chapter][column:1][first]/ \getmarking[chapter][1][first] even more expermental: \definemarking[boxmark] \setbox0\ruledvbox{ \marking[boxmark]{tufte} \input tufte \par \marking[boxmark]{ward} \input ward \par } \synchronizemarking[zerobox][0] \box0 \getmarking[boxmark][zerobox][first] \getmarking[boxmark][zerobox][last] anyhow, it might be that something is broken, but at least this implementation has more potential - the properties mechanism is obsolete and replaced by three mechanism that used them (originally properties dealt with specific engine/backend functionality); the most important ones are \defineviewerlayer[name][options] \startviewerlayer[name]....\stopviewerlayer \viewerlayer[name]{...} and \defineeffect[name][options] \starteffect[name]....\stopviewerlayer \effect[name]{...} where we have predefined (as with former properties): \defineeffect [inner] [alternative=inner,rulethickness=.25pt] \defineeffect [outer] [alternative=outer,rulethickness=.25pt] \defineeffect [both] [alternative=both, rulethickness=.25pt] \defineeffect [normal] [alternative=normal] \defineeffect [hidden] [alternative=hidden] \defineeffect [stretch] [alternative=stretch,stretch=1] the properties commands are still there but map onto these so older code should work ok (but somewhat less efficient) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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