March 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

marginal note problems
by Michael Saunders 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Thank you for the help with headers---it worked. My marginal note problems continue: If I have a two-column text with margins on either side, is there a way for \inmargin{} or something like it to place text in the margin next to the column where it occurs? I haven't been able to avoid it overprinting the text in the opposite column. I tried using margin blocks but I couldn't get anywhere with them. Even: \startmarginblock test \stopmarginblock produces no output. And there is a new wrinkle: \setupinmargin[align=outer] ruins my footnotes. It causes the footnote marks that occur before the notes themselves to appear one margin-length left of where they should be, even if the overprint text.

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letter-module: reference
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Hallo, I am trying to make a simple invoice with Wolfgangs letter-module and have some questions: I have the following reference in mind \setupletterstyle[reference][ alternative=d, list={invoice,taxnumber,phone,date}] 1) How can one position this horizontaly and verticaly? 2) How can I define additional keys like 'taxnumber'? I have found a key 'frombank' but it is to long for the ref-line and I will put this in the footer, but \setupfootertexts[bla][blub] does not work 3) I have found a variable 'foot'. How can this be used? 4) Is it possible to use 'frombank' in other positions than the ref- line, in the footer per example? Thank you Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] margin text
by Robert Blackstone 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:00 PM, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso(a)gmail.com> wrote: > for expected behavior must be > backspace >= margin + margindistance > Try > backspace=23mm,margin=21mm,margindistance=2mm, > backspace=23mm,margin=23mm,margindistance=0mm, > backspace=23mm,margin=18mm,margindistance=0mm, > backspace=23mm,margin=2mm,margindistance=21mm, > luigi and Alain Delmotte <esperanto(a)swing.be> wrote: > When I tested some of the page layout possibilities I did read in * that > the margin and the text are *not* at the same level, so the margins can > be *under* the text. > This also means that changing the margin will not affect the text width, > and so on. > > Alain Thank you Luigi and Alain, This helped. This matter is clear to me now. Best regards, Robert Blackstone

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URL setup
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Hello, \setupurl[color=blue] does not work in mkiv again. Also, please look how I use \useURL and \goto to typeset the link. Is there a way do it less verbose? Regards, Vyatcheslav %====================EXAMPLE============================= \chapter{Modelling of Continuous-Time Dynamic Systems} \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupurl[color=blue] \starttext \subject{Introduction} \useURL[aurl][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_algebraic_equation)] [] [\hyphenatedurl{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_algebraic_equation}] \from[aurl] Our concern in this lecture is with exploring the modelling process of continuous-time dynamic systems (CTDS). The essential distinguishing feature of this category of system is the fact that a conceptual model can be formulated as a set of differential equations, possibly augmented with a set of algebraic equations\footnote{\goto{\hyphenatedurl{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differ…. For the most part, such models emerge from a deductive process that has its basis in physical laws that are known to govern the behaviour we seek to explore, that is, the behaviour of the SUI. \stoptext

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status of node.write
by Michail Vidiassov 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Dear All, I notice that broken code for inserting movies uses node.write in codeinjections.insertmovie (in back-pdf.lua), while figures.checkers.mov (in grph-inc.lua) expects text return from codeinjections.insertmovie to feed to "texsprint(ctxcatcodes". The 3D annotation code (it also seems not to work) has node.write variant commented out and replaced with "texsprint(ctxcatcodes" with "brrrr" comment! local annot, preview, ref = backends.pdf.helpers.insert3d { ...... } -- node.write(pdfannotation(width,-height,0,annot())) texsprint(ctxcatcodes,format("\\pdfannot width %ssp height %ssp {%s}",width,height,annot())) -- brrrr --~ if ref then -- wrong ! a direct ref should work --~ texsprint(ctxcatcodes,format("\\smash{\\pdfrefximage%s\\relax}",ref)) -- brrrr --~ end texsprint(ctxcatcodes,"\\stopfoundexternalfigure") And the question is: does it make sense to try to make the current 3D annotation handling code work by complaining to the maintainers and/or fixing it myself or nothing is supposed to work till migration to from "texsprint(ctxcatcodes" API to "node.write" API is complete? Sincerely, Michail

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Re: [NTG-context] Bibtex change short key
by Hubertus 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Dear Taco, > > I use the excellent BibTex module with this setup: > > \setupbibtex[database=biblio,sort=author] > > \setuppublications[alternative=apa,refcommand=short,sorttype=bbl,criterium=cited] > > So if I have something like this > > @ARTICLE{Akimoto2005, > > author = {R. Akimoto and B. S. Li and K. Akita and T. Hasama}, > > ... > > } > > in my *.bib file, the \cite[Akimoto2005] results in [ALAH05]. Is there a way > > to > > get only the first author with three letters and the year ([Aki05]) in the > > citation? > > Patch the generated .bbl file by hand. after its initial creation, it > will not be modified by context itself anymore. May be I should have tried it first, before editting about 200 entries as you suggested. As far as I can judge from the timestamp, at my system the bbl file is generatet every time I run texexec. Have I missed something? Thanks Hubertus

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Re: [NTG-context] margin text
by Robert Blackstone 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:00 PM, <luigi.scarso(a)gmail.com> wrote: (>> Is this normal?) > ....yes . > I have these line > \setuppapersize[A4][A3] > \setuplayout[location=middle] > right to show that default layout --- and it's the default layout from > 10years at least --- > perhaps is not adeguate to your needs; you need to setup* something. > > align (and ragged align) have always confused me, and I suspect that > here aligns are corrects. > > > > -- > luigi and <taco(a)elvenkind.com> wrote: (>> Is this normal?) > Yes, it is even a FAQ item. See here for why: > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Right_and_left > > In short: use flushleft or flushright. This gives the opposite behavior > of left and right, and avoids ambiguity. > > Best wishes, > Taco Thank you, Luigi and Taco, for your almost instantaneous replies. The answer to the left-right question, the recommended use of flushright and flushleft, is clear now. But the eccentricity of what apparently is the default layout is still a problem for me. What should I do to get the page in the middle of the paper so to speak, instead of shifted to the left, which happens with \setuplayout[location=middle]?? I tried specifying leftedgewidth but that does not change anything. Thanks in advance for any help. Best regards, Robert Blackstone

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Compiling under Windows (Visual Studio 2008)
by Graham Douglas 26 Mar '10

26 Mar '10

Hi I hope this message is not too off topic but I thought I would ask here first. I would very much like to (try...) to compile LuaTeX using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. But I'm not sure if this is likely to be enormously complex and maybe too difficult (for me, anyway). Does the list know it is possible to build LuaTeX under Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 --- if so, is this possible from Taco's source distribution without having to make substantial changes to anything. One small thing I can confirm is that Lunatic Python can be quite easily compiled to a Windows DLL to enable Python calls from Lua and hence LuaTeX on Windows. LuaTeX's support for exteral modules now makes it quite easy to do this. I can confirm this seems to work, although I've not really pushed it hard. The following very simple example does work. Inspiration for doing this is due to the intersting article by Luigi Scarso in the latest TUGBOAT. Here's a simple example (far away from the complexities of Luigi's work, but it shows the basic principle). This code is just quick hack to get it up and running. \directlua 0{ lib=package.loadlib('python.dll','luaopen_python') lib() pmw = python.globals() p=python.import('Image') im = p.open("c:\\logo.gif") r,s,t=im.format, im.size, im.mode tex.print(r,tostring(s),tostring(t)) sys = python.import("sys"); tex.print(tostring(sys.version_info)) } \stoptext Many thanks in advance to anyone who has time to share their expertise and insight on a Windows build. Why build it? Just as a way to learn more about how it works, that's it really. Warm wishes to all Graham

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CMap in MkII
by Vedran Miletić 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Can anyone confirm that CMap is still automatically included in MkII? Because copying of Croatian letters (čćđ) isn't quite working here. I'm more than willing to provide a minimal example if necessary. -- Vedran Miletić

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Re: [NTG-context] letter module not working
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 25 Mar '10

25 Mar '10

Hallo Wolfgang, > > I have problems compiling this with > > ConTeXt ver: 2010.03.20 22:59 MKIV > > [...] > > > I can't reproduce this. Can you take a look at the end of the log > for > this information: > > correspondence : t-correspondence.tex: 2010.02.28 > correspondence : t-letter.tex: 2009.10.10 > correspondence : default.nli: 2010.02.28 > correspondence : dinb.nls: 2009.10.07 > correspondence : default.nls: 2010.02.28 > correspondence : label.nle: 2009.07.03 > correspondence : addrentry.nle: 2008.12.26 > correspondence : dina.nls: 2007.02.11 I forgot how to tell context to produce a verbose log, but the hint was right. I normaly install the letter module in a local tex tree, but have made an update before with call first-setup --extras="t-letter" and this has installed the letter module in the standard tree where it was not found. Sorry for this! Wolfgang

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