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The ConTeXt book
by Michael Saunders 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Taco: >> Some feedback on the quality other than 'it sucks' would have helped >> enormously. ... > Over the past four years, it has been next to impossible to get people > interested in the reference manual project, not even for something as > simple as reading the rewritten chapters and telling me what they think > about it. ... > The near total lack of feedback had led me to believe that most > complainers are in it just for the complaining. I've been trying to be more constructive than saying 'it sucks'. I'm not complaining just to complain---I want to get the most I can out of the software. Please point me to a rewritten chapter you would like me to look at and I will give it a try.

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Metapost inclusion does not work
by Marco 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Hi, the following example just prints »Hello World!«, without the square. What's wrong? \startuseMPgraphic{test} fill fullsquare scaled 5cm; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext Hello World! \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext ConTeXt ver: 2010.03.20 22:59 MKIV this is luatex, version beta-0.50.0-2009122419 BTW: The same with luatex 0.52 Thanks in advance. marco

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Bibtex: how to make autohang work?
by Hubertus 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Hello again, I'm using this setup for my bibliography: \setuppublications[alternative=apa, refcommand=short, autohang=yes, numbering=short, sorttype=bbl, criterium=cited] So the keys are sometimes 7 characters long and thus overwrite the actual bibliography. That's way I thought I should use "autohang=yes". Yet, there's not any change. Did I miss anything? Thanks for advice Hubertus

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footnote and hyphens splitting between pages
by Michael Saunders 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

>> Is there any way to prevent footnotes splitting between pages? ?I >> thought the undocumented key, 'split' might control this (who knows?), >> but it has no effect on anything. >> >> Also, is there any way to prevent hyphenation between pages? luigi scarso: > I'm completely ignorant about this subject. > Do you have a pathological example to test ? Consider a page of "Lorem ipsum dolor..." containing within its first half, a half-page long footnote of "Lorem ipsum dolor...". Context is likely to start the footnote on page one and continue it on page two. I want to forbid this. In the second case, imagine a very long book of "Lorem ipsum dolor...". There are likely to be occasions where a word is hyphenated at the very end of the page, splitting a word between two pages. I want to forbid this too.

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footnote and hyphens splitting between pages
by Michael Saunders 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

Is there any way to prevent footnotes splitting between pages? I thought the undocumented key, 'split' might control this (who knows?), but it has no effect on anything. Also, is there any way to prevent hyphenation between pages?

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setuptex.bat
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hallo, I don't know if the maintainer of the minimals or Hans is the person I have to ask. Is it possible to change the line set PATH=%TEXMFOS%\bin;%PATH% to set PATH=%TEXMFLOCAL%\bin;%TEXMFOS%\bin;%PATH% or set PATH=%TEXMFPROJECT%\bin;%TEXMFOS%\bin;%PATH% in 'setuptex.bat'? Wolfgang

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standardmakeup environment didn't work in MKIV
by Hongwen Qiu 01 Apr '10

01 Apr '10

Hi all, standardmakeup didn't work in MKIV. When I used this environment, It complains: error: Invalid field id writable for node type glue_spec (0) . \stopmakeup ...ter \c!color }{\stopcolor }\egroup \flushmarks \doflushmakeup... l.3 \stopstandardmakeup So, is this something deprecated or just some unexpected things happened? And what I supposed to do if I want to get the same results?

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