March 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Bibtex change short key
by Hubertus 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Dear Mailinglist, 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? Help would be much appreciated. Thanks Hubertus

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incorrect size of the font bounding box with MkIV
by Yanrui Li 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hi Hans, I tried to get the boundry of Chinese punctuation in the scrp-cjk.lua file. Such as the bounding box information of Chinese comma in the AdobeSongStd-Light.otf font: bbox[1] = 36, bbox[2] = -78, bbox[3] = 963, bbox[4] = 833 However I got the following result with luatex + plain bbox[1] = 171, bbox[2] = -58, bbox[3] = 370, bbox[4] = 240 The latter is right. What's the reason for it? -- Best regards, Li Yanrui

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xml and catcode switching
by Philipp Gesang 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hi, I'm formatting lots of urls and as some of them have ampersands in them I switch & to letter wherever they are placed. This works fine unless combined with XML which seems to impose its own catcodes on things. How could I fix things in the following example? Thanks for any suggestions, Philipp ···8<·········································································· \useURL [testurl] [http://elibrary.karelia.ru/book.shtml?levelID=004002&id=2570&cType=2] [] [http://elibrary.karelia.ru/book.shtml?levelID=004002&id=2570&cType=2] % these ampersands cause it \startxmlsetups urltest \xmlsetsetup{urltest}{main|url}{xml:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{urltest} \startxmlsetups xml:main \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:url \begingroup \catcode`\&=11 \from[testurl] \endgroup \stopxmlsetups \startbuffer[urltestbuf] <main> <url/> </main> \stopbuffer \starttext Test {\catcode`\&=11 \from[testurl]} % this one works: no xml \xmlprocessbuffer{urltest}{urltestbuf}{} Test \stoptext ···8<·········································································· -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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code with reserved words
by R. Bastian 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hello, is there a way to get Python code with reserved words highlighted ? Not colored as in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Verbatim_with_LuaTeX but {\bf ...} I use context 2010.01.26 Mk IV or texexec Thanks -- René Bastian www.pythoneon.org www.musiques-rb.org http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/

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overlays not working
by ARCOR 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hello context gurus, while learning about page design, I used Hans Hagen's sample file named "Simple Cover Page" from the wiki as a starting point. But it does not work. The overlay will not show up. The text itself is typeset properly. What I found out: Source: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Cover_Page saved as "test.tex". Procedure: 1 using TeX Live 2009 texexec --xtx test.tex No overlay, text ok 2 using TeX Live 2009 texexec --pdf test.tex No overlay, text ok 3 using online engine on live.contextgarden.net (pdfTeX) No overlay, text ok 4 using online engine on live.contextgarden.net (XeTeX) No overlay, text ok 5 using ConTeXt minimals context test.tex All working just fine System: ubuntu 9.10 (karmic koala) amd64, TeX Live 2009 without any modifications The only successful procedure was (5) with the most current ConTeXt-minimals distribution and therefore using the Mk IV version. Is the file not suitable for Mk II? Is something wrong with Mk II in TeX Live 2009? What am I doing wrong here? Best regards, Michael Ewe, Germany

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framedtext
by Hans van der Meer 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

I experience the following behaviour of framedtext in relation to inright and inleft. With \startframedtext[offset=value] the positioning of left and right margin inserts shifts with the size of 'value'. The next example shows the shift to the right of L2 and R2 (both mkii and mkiv). Change the offset to see the margin notes L2/R2 shift. \starttext \showframe[text,margin,edge] ABC \inright{\framed[width=10mm,height=5mm]{R1}} \inleft{\framed[width=10mm,height=5mm]{L1}} \startframedtext[offset=2cm] XYZ \inright{\framed[width=10mm,height=5mm]{R2}} \inleft{\framed[width=10mm,height=5mm]{L2}} \stopframedtext \stoptext Pictured: ..L1.|...................|.R1 .....|.L2................|.....R2 .....|...................| .....^...................^ ^ = frame lines of showpage I wonder if this is correct behaviour. The margins are imho fixed areas, defined as the areas on the left/right of the textframe. One would expect the margin texts put just there, not influenced by something that happens to be placed in the text. Or am I amiss? Hans van der Meer

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mongodb and ConTeXt?
by Xan 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hi, Just a curious idea: is there anything from connecting mongodb (or any other nosql database) and ConTexT? I'm thinking in load the data from the database into the ConTeXt document, and in save some information from ConTeXt document to database (for example paragraphs or cells in tables). Technically I think it's possible. Thanks in advance, Xan. PS: Please, CCme.

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\framedtext vs. \framed in columns
by Andreas Harder 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hi all, pleas have a look at the following example \setuplayout[grid=yes] \starttext \startcolumns \input tufte \par \input tufte \par \startframedtext[width=broad] % ,location=high \input tufte \par \stopframedtext \stopcolumns \page \startcolumns \input tufte \par \input tufte \par \framed[align=normal,width=broad]{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumns \stoptext shouldn't location=high be the default behaviour? Greeting Andreas

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beta: \underbar is broken (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hi, the underbar line is drawn vertically here. \starttext sonder\underbar{bar} \stoptext MTXrun | current version: 2010.03.20 22:59 This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.53.0-2010032213 (rev 3535) Peter

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new contextbeta distribution broken?
by Hans van der Meer 22 Mar '10

22 Mar '10

Downloaded contextbeta as usual: ConTeXt ver: 2010.03.18 14:42 MKIV fmt: 2010.3.20 int: english/ english Suddenly got this error from: \setupinterlinespace[big] ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> b <argument> b ig \doifdimensionelse ...mensionelse \scratchdimen #1 pt\relax \dosetspecifiedrelativeinterlinespace ...else {#1} {\setupspecifiedinterline... \dosetuprelativeinterlinespace ...erlinespace {#1} \fi \next1 #1,->\dosetuprelativeinterlinespace {#1} \doprocesscommaitem Then did luatools --generate that now broke: 02 ~/Documents/TeX/context/beta/bin: luatools --generate LuaTools | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTOLOC' set to '/Users/hans/ Documents/TeX/context/beta/bin' LuaTools | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTODIR' set to '/Users/hans/ Documents/TeX/context/beta' LuaTools | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTOPARENT' set to '/Users/hans/ Documents/TeX/context' LuaTools | fileio: variable 'TEXMFCNF' set to '{$SELFAUTODIR, $SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,.local,}/web2c}' LuaTools | fileio: no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.053 seconds 103 ~/Documents/TeX/context/beta/bin: Switching back to my previous version of contextbeta gave no problems. Processing lustools --generate without problems. Especially the previous culprit now does: LuaTools | fileio: variable 'TEXMFCNF' set to '{$SELFAUTODIR, $SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,.local,}/web2c}' LuaTools | fileio: loading configuration file '/Users/hans/Documents/ TeX/context/beta/tex/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' WHAT HAPPENED? Hans van der Meer

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