November 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

ConTexT conversion to html/rtf/odt
by Manfred Lotz 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Hi there, I'm in a situation where I have to do some documentation which should be available in html and rtf/odt (would be nice to have). I do not need any fancy stuff, just simple things: ordered, unordered lists, verbatim, tables etc. As a ConTeXt newbie I thought this might be a good idea to get into ConTeXt. However, I'm not quite sure how to create HTML from ConTeXt. What I tried so far: Created a simple document: \starttext \section{Some section} \startitemize[1] \item bla bla \stopitemize \stoptext Tried htcontext test.tex and got: ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> <dl class="dd-\itemlevel "> \HCode ...ode \leavevmode \fi \ht:special {t4ht=#1 }\fi \a:itemize-group ... {<dl class="dd-\itemlevel ">} \global \let \end:dd =\empty \dostartitemgroup ... {\dodostartitemgroup [#2][]} \fi <to be read again> \item l.6 \item bla bla ? Perhaps there is some stupidity from my side. If yes I appreciate any corrections. If no then htcontext from package tex4ht doesn't really work for ConTeXt and then I would like to know what other alternatives I have. Also regarding rtf or/and odt. -- Thanks, Manfred -- Manfred

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\margintext
by Herbert Voss 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

I have two questions to \margintext \setupinmargin[left][separator=:,width=2cm,line=2] \starttext %foo \margintext[left]{margin text} \input knuth \stoptext this works fine, but when I uncomment the line with %foo, then the marginal note is placed in second line of the following paragraph. Why? Must \margintext always be the first statement in a paragraph? I do not understand the meaning of the optional argument separator? TeXLive2010 with tlcontrib Herbert

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\margintext
by Herbert Voss 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

The documentation says, that this should work, but it didn't: \starttext \margintext{foo}bar baz \stoptext However, in the documentation the example also didn't show the margin text (p 64). Herbert

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Dotted leader in index entries
by Duncan Hothersall 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

[Reposting because I think my last message got mangled.] Hello all. I'm using Mk II. When I use the following setup to get dotted leaders between an index entry and its page number: \def\MyIndexTextCmd#1{#1\dotfill} \setupregister[Index][n=2,textcommand=\MyIndexTextCmd,distance=1em,alternative=A] it works okay producing output like this: Index entry.....123 except when the entry text is just long enough to fill up the horizontal space, pushing the number over onto the next line. What I get in that scenario is this: Index entry text... 123 This is no good. What I really need is for all page numbers to be at the right hand side, with leading dots. So I'd like a solution to produce either this: Index entry text... ....................123 or preferably this: Index entry text..............123 At the moment I'm putting forced line breaks before the last word to achieve what I need, but I would really like to automate this! Thanks for any help, hope the issue is clear. Duncan

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margintext in mkii and mkiv
by Vladimir Lomov 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

Hi. Consider the attached example. When compiled with mkii (texexec) I get text in margin while if I compile the file with mkiv (context) I get only text with nothing in margin. I'm using context minimal: $ context --version | grep version MTXrun | current version: 2010.11.03 19:42 Did I miss something? --- WBR, Vladimir Lomov

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Brejlov pictures
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

I finally managed to put my pics online: http://picasaweb.google.de/fiee.visuelle/ConTeXtMeeting2010# (first few are in Prague) Can't keep up with the quality of Frans' pictures, the colors are rather horrible (picture correction of iPhoto)... Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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a ghost in the columns ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Hi, please have a look at the minimal below (tex+pdf): We always have a kind of heading followed by a block of two columns. But suddenly on page 6, entry "Cassius Dio" has a much larger vertical space above than "Novellen" for example! Why? And how can this be avoided? Any help very much appreciated! Steffen (MkIV) -------

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Page layout: doublesided
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Hello, although I guess this is one of the really basic tasks, I'm not able to setup successfully page layout for double-sided printing. My idea is to have different free "space" leftwards and rightwards from the text area. I just want to get different width of the left/right area: 2.5 cm left (for binding) and 2 cm right (odd pages); and the same values mirrored for even pages. My code is: --- \setuplayout[location=doublesided] %\setuplayout[location=duplex] %\setuplayout[location=middle] \starttext \showsetups \showlayout \showgrid \dorecurse{1}{\input knuth\par} \stoptext --- You can see the result: 1. The left margin is "pushed" left, so only 2 cm of it is visible (but the margin should have 2.5 cm - see listed value of "leftmargin"). - And obviously there is 0.5 cm extra "space" rightwards from the right margin. Moreover, if any horizontal "pushing" is present, I'd expect shifting to the right to get a bit more space left, so that to allow binding on the left side. (I tried the horizontal shift to the left was the same for single- and double-sided setup.) 2. Horizontal "pushing" (shifting) is the same for even and odd pages. - I succeeded to remove horizontal "pushing" by setting the "backspace" value to 3 cm. But it's strange to me that one has to set this value explicitly, when keeping all other values default. - I'm still not able to provide switching the size of the left/right "space" for even/odd pages. So how to achieve this? Btw: Why the dimensions (<- \showsetups) are printed 5 times? Thank you for patience. 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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description
by Herbert Voss 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

>From the documentation page 236 ( ConTEXt reference manual ) %----------------------------------------------------- \definedescription [definition] [location=serried, headstyle=bold,width=broad, sample={icon}%% senseless here ] \starttext \definition{icon} What for some languages looked like a handicap has now become a feature. Thousands of words and concepts are already layed down in characters. These characters therefore can be considered icons. \par \stoptext %----------------------------------------------------- The setting location=serried is useless here in fact of the empty line after \definition{icon}. If I delete the line and add another entry like \definition{iconize} some text here then I can see that the setting sample={icon} has no meaning. It is only taken into account _without_ location=serried. Herbert

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Wiki: ConTeXt vs. LaTeX and others
by Jonas Stein 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

for many users it is interesting, to get an overview how problems are solved in ConTeXt compared to the other TeX-Flavours. I like the wikimatrix for Wikis and i thought it could be nice to have a simple matrix for TeX. I started a table in the wiki to collect this knowledge [2], but i am not very happy with this table yet. Perhaps do you have ideas, how to improve it? [1] http://www.wikimatrix.org/ [2] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/What_is_ConTeXt and discussion on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Talk:What_is_ConTeXt kind regards, -- Jonas Stein <news(a)jonasstein.de>

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