February 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

zotero
by Salil Sayed 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Hi, Today I checked zotero plugin for openoffice and was very impressed with its functionality and ease of use. Currently I have to export my bibliographies to bibtex format from zotero and then use it through the bibtex module in context. I think this is a awkward way. Can there be a closer connection? a zotero plugin or context module? Or will it be an editor function? Forgive me if i am ignorant of any development. I searched. Best, Salil

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YABQ - yet another bib question
by Thomas A. Schmitz 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Hi all, it was quite heartwarming to see how many of us rallied for better bibliographical support when Wolfgang asked what we missed most in ConTeXt... And it's wonderful to see that a new structure for the entire bibliographical stuff is on its way. Hans's xml-based approach will make things much easier than the obsolete bibtex stuff, I'm sure. In the meantime, I'm still struggling with our old bib stuff and have one question. I would like to have two different reference mechanisms for the cite commands and within the publication list. For "normal" cite commands, I would like authornum Author [1], whereas in the publicationlist itself only the num [1]. AFAICS, \setuppublications[refcommand=authornum] will influence both types. Is there a setup option for this, or is a hack needed? All best Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?
by Peter Münster 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

On Tue, Feb 09 2010, Sebastien Mengin wrote: > Thanks for the link, I failed to use it, as I have a ConTeXt/luaTeX > versions distributed by ubuntu/jaunty, which seems to be too old. I > should update and give it a try -- later. Hello Sebastien, Anyway, it was not the latest version. In the current version of MKIV, there is no support for language-specifics, so there is actually no support for switching back from French to another language. > Did you have a look at the doc I posted yesterday? Yes. I attach a recent t-french.tex file, that supports most of frenchb. In detail: > 1. the 1. paragraph of each section is indented (LATEX only); Done. > 2. the default items in itemize environment Done. > 3. vertical spacing in general LATEX lists is shortened; Done in itemize list. > 4. footnotes are displayed "à la française". What is this? > 1. French hyphenation patterns are made active; Done. > 2. `double punctuation' (: ; ! ?) is made active Done. > 3. \today prints the date in French; The command is "\date". > 4. the caption names are translated into French (LATEX only); Done. > 5. the space after \dots is removed in French. There is no space. > 1. French quotation marks \quotation{...} > 2. A command \up is provided M\high{me} > provided for ordinals: \ier, \iere, \iers, \ieres, \ieme, \iemes Done. > the macro \bsc (boxed small caps) does this, e.g., Leslie~\bsc{Lamport} \Bsc{...} > 4. Commands \primo, \secundo, \tertio and \quarto print 1o, 2o, 3o, 4o. > \FrenchEnumerate{6} prints 6o. No. > obtained via the commands \No, \Nos, \no, \nos. No. > 6. Two commands are provided to typeset the symbol for \degre No. > the TEXbook p. 134). The command \DecimalMathComma makes the comma \enablemathpunctuation \disablemathpunctuation > 8. A command \nombre was provided in 1.x versions to easily format numbers \dorecurse6{ \setdigitmode \recurselevel\relax \recurselevel: \digits{12.345,90} \digits{12.345.000} \digits{1,23}\par} > 9. frenchb has been designed to take advantage of the xspace package No. Here a test file: \usemodule[french] \starttext \section{test} \Bsc{Test} \Bsc{Test} \startitemize \item 1\ier\ item \item «bla» \item bla \stopitemize \quotation{bla} hello: hello; hello? hello! \date \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] indent lost after \placefigure
by Tom Benjey 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Is there something else I should do? I still have 2 instances of the paragraph immediately after a figure not indented. Both of these are on the tops of their respective pages. And I have one paragraph just before a figure that is not indented. I tried \indenting[yes] for the paragraphs in question to no avail. Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey Am 11.02.10 02:14, schrieb Tom: > When I place a figure at the bottom of a page, everything is fine if > it splits a paragraph, but if it falls between paragraphs, indentation > of at least one of the paragraphs, generally the one coming after the > figure, is lost. It appears that this has been a problem for some > people over the years. > \setupfloats[indentnext=yes] Wolfgang

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\showmathcharacters problems with TeXlive 2009 on Win 7 64bit
by commb07＠googlemail.com 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

hi i'm on Win 7 64bit and have installed TeXlive 2009 today via the net-installer. i can process context-files, but have some problems: i get "pdftex warning: pdftex.exe: no glyphtounicode entry has been inserted yet" if i use the command \showmathcharacters, and the table in the pdf is empty. in a more complex file i get "! Dimension too large. .."-error additionally on \showmathcharacters, table is empty as well. tried to get a recent version of context by directing texlive manger to "http://minimals.contextgarden.net/texlive/beta", but no matter what i try to update/install (by the way what should i do there?) , i get "00texlive.installation not found, cannot read option available_architectures. TLPDB::setting: no available_architectures, returning empty list ... Fertig. Executing action install 00texlive.config [1/1, ??:??/??:??] install: 00texlive.config [1k] Downloading http://minimals.contextgarden.net/texlive/beta/archive/00texlive.config.tar… did not succeed, please retry." i noticed that archives have the extension ".tar.lzma" on the server but texlivemanager is looking for ".tar.xz", can i do anything about that? if somebody had some hints what i could/should try/avoid, that would help a lot..

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Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

+1 for this, but they are type1 fonts (legacy) does they support Cyrillic? > I would like support for more fonts out of the box (in the minimals). > For example it would be really nice to be able to use > utopia+fourier (http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/fourier-GUT/ ) > charter+mathdesign ( > http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=mathdesign ) > > Mikael > Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] thesis
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Hello, > http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ > -- > luigi If so, I want to share a draft of my paper for the ConTeXt 2010 meeting: http://apps.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scicache/108/scimakelatex.88005.Vyatcheslav+Ya… )))) Vyatcheslav

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Where did page numbers go?
by Mojca Miklavec 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Hello Hans, \currentpage (as already reported by Peter Münster) doesn't work in MKIV (always returns 1) and \setnumber[page]{0} has zero effect (in MKII; in MKIV I cannot test it anyway). Thanks, Mojca

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\insertcrossref
by Philipp Gesang 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Hi all, is there any way to get \insertcrossref to get the title or the short title of the crossref'd publication, too? Right now it only retrieves author/editor name and the year but that doesn't suffice for some bibliography specifications. Thanks, Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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showlayoutcomponents: amazing!
by Otared Kavian 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

On 9 févr. 2010, at 13:47, Hans Hagen wrote: > […] > > now you know this trick ... try \showlayoutcomponents in a regular document (also quite old mechnaism already) another nice feature, which was unknown to me until now! (I assume that one has to view the PDF in Acrobat Reader). Thanks: OK

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