June 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

list of figures (bug?)
by Rogutės Sparnuotos 03 Jun '10

03 Jun '10

Hello, What is the correct way to set 'alternative=c' for the \completelistoffigures? This works: \starttext \completelistoffigures[alternative=c] \placefigure[here]{x}{} \placefigure[here]{y}{} \stoptext But this doesn't: \setupcombinedlist[listoffigures][alternative=c] \starttext \completelistoffigures \placefigure[here]{x}{} \placefigure[here]{y}{} \stoptext Why? If I add \definecombinedlist[listoffigures][figure], it starts working, but the list is printed without the title... This seems inconsistent, so either I have something wrong or there is a bug, no? -- -- Rogutės Sparnuotos

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first-setup.sh
by Thomas A. Schmitz 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Hi all, esp. Mojca, I don't know if anything changed recently, but first-setup.sh doesn't fetch the latest beta for me anymore, even when I feed it the "-- context=beta" switch. At first, I thought it was a glitch, but I have now tried on 3 different computers, and after running first-setup.sh, I always get MTXrun | main context file: /Users/tas/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/ context/base/context.tex MTXrun | current version: 2010.05.24 13:05 even though the beta version 2010.05.27 has been available for a while. Am I missing something, or has something changed? All best Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] Numbered bookmarks in PDF
by Alan BRASLAU 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

> B. Tommy Jensen wrote: >> I am struggling a bit with numbered bookmarks in generated PDF files. On Wednesday 27 August 2008 19:03 Hans Hagen wrote: > since bookmarks do use lists the info is there but mkii bookmarks are > not going to be extended; you have to wait for the mkiv overhaul Would be a nice feature - is anything doing? grep finds: "Future version ... (rather trivial to implement)" Alan

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Re: [NTG-context] Multiple pleas for help (long)
by Scott Steele 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

If anyone has any insight on how to keep the footnotes from having their numbers in the margin and from having line-breaks after each one, that is the only issue from the original email that is still unsolved, I think. ——— In Latex, \fancybreak was part of a package called, I believe, fancyheader or fancypage. It produced a break frequently seen in published prose (I'm currently reading {\em Bluebeard} where Kurt Vonnegut uses it liberally) with significant vertical space between two paragraphs and, centered both in that vertical space as well as horizontally, a number of well-spaced marks. There are usually 3 marks, and they are frequently asterisks or traditional dingbats/fleurons. This sort of break is generally used when the author wishes to indicate a break more significant than a change in paragraph but short of an outright new chapter. \def\FancyBreak{\par\blank\hfill* * *\hfill\hfill\par\blank} \starttext \input tufte \FancyBreak \input tufte \stoptext I don't understand why I need the two consecutive \hfill's at the end for the marks to be centered, but the definition works well for me. ——— Thanks, Wolfgang, for your help with the emoticons—they work now. \useexternalfigure[frowny][Frowny][factor=8,type=pdf] \def\Frowny{\dontleavehmode\smash[h]{\externalfigure[frowny]}} Also, thanks for the \simplealignedbox, which works very well in my table of contents (although I have to put a \par at the end of it or it stays on one line and goes off the page). I don't understand why, but Tex didn't like having a \par inside the type of definition you used, but it allowed the following: \def\SectionListEntry#1#2#3% { \noindent \simplealignedbox{left}{2cm}{#2}% \simplealignedbox{middle}{5mm}{·}% \simplealignedbox{right}{3cm}{#3}% \par } (I have a few issues with my table of contents, but these are now less specific to \placelist, so I'm including them in a different posting.) Thanks again for all the help, Scott ----- This is a work of ﬁction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the writer's imagination or are used ﬁctitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coïncidental.

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Indents, enumerations, and modes (mk2+mk4)
by Matthias Weber 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Dear all, I have two questions regarding using spacing in enumerations. Depending on a mode being enabled, I would like to add a command at the beginning of an enumeration (I want to place something in the margin, but it doesn't actually matter what I do, only when). As shown in the minimal example below, invoking the macro that does something, a little extra space is added. I don't know why, it is probably something very TeX-basic I am ignorant of. So: How do I get rid of the extra space? The problem occurs both in mk2 and mk4, I would prefer a solution that also works in mk2. Thanks! Matthias \def\mma{ \startmode [mma] {} \stopmode } \def\enwidth{5em} \defineenumeration [example] [text=Example, way=bysubsection, location=hanging, width=\enwidth, letter=rm] \starttext \enablemode[mma] \startexample \mma \input tufte \stopexample %% \disablemode[mma] \startexample \mma \input tufte \stopexample %% \startexample \input tufte \stopexample \stoptext

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BibLaTeX
by Peter Park Nelson 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

I frequently use LaTeX with BibLaTeX and the BibLaTeX-Chicago Style package to typeset scholarly material. For me, BibLaTeX is a great tool. However, I am attracted to ConTeXt because, coming from a desktop-publishing background, ConTeXt gives me more/easier control over document layout and structure. Thus I began to dream of a "chocolate + peanut butter" combination of the two. I would like to know if anyone has thoughts on the possibility of using BibLaTeX & Biber with ConTeXt -- perhaps through a wrapper module of some kind? I don't understand the internals of LaTeX or ConTeXt well enough to know if this is a ridiculous question. I respect the ConTeXt Bib module, but BibLaTeX-Chicago offers exactly what I'm looking for. Both BibLaTeX and ConTeXt use e-TeX, and the internals of BibLaTeX appear not to be LaTeX-specific. So, would it be possible to write a ConTeXt module that bypasses Bib and provides an interface between ConTeXt bibliography commands and BibLaTeX/Biber? Thanks, PPN

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Strange expansion behavior in XML/luatex
by Martin Kolařík 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

Hello, I had a problem with some my documents; I extracted it to as small code as possible. What is happening -- if any of xml flushing function (I tried xmlflush, xmlfilter and xmlall) is expanded to a macro (so the content of xml becomes a text of the macro), and the xml contains other hooked xml tags, the \edef (and its counterparts \xdef or \expandedaction) inside the inner tag is "skipped" by the log. Then macros relying on the expansion fail (I detected it in \doif and \processaction). Macros are normally expanded, only \edef fails (maybe some other TeX commands fail too, but I did not test it). In my example below, content of "il" is flushed to a macro, "inline" is the inner tag and "\processaction" is the example of macro using "\edef". Do not look for sense, it is an example. XML: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <il> Text <inline what="something" /> text. </il> TeX: \startxmlsetups doc:inline \processaction [\xmlatt{#1}{what}] [something=>A thing, nothing=>Hic sunt leones] \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups doc:il \edef\content{\xmlflush{#1}}% \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{xml:doc} \startxmlsetups xml:doc \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{inline|il}{doc:*} \stopxmlsetups I do not know, if it is a bug or a feature :-); but notwithstanding the fact, similar code I used in MkII worked very well. Thanks for hints, Martin -- Martin Kolařík martin.kolarik(a)email.cz martin.kolarik(a)jabber.cz +420603535593

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Title page layout
by Scott Steele 01 Jun '10

01 Jun '10

I'm trying to anchor a table or box containing my title and subtitle to the bottom right corner of the textblock (on a title page). The following comes very close to doing what I want, but there is still some vertical space between the bottom of the text of the subtitle and the last major horizontal gridline. How can I have the subtitle text be (above and) flush with the last major horizontal gridline in the same way that it is flush with the rightmost vertical gridline? NOTE: Small adjustments to the example I provide might not be helpful for me since, in actuality, I'm using Adobe Jenson, which makes both the metrics and the expression of the problem slightly different. Also, are there max/min functions for dealing with dimexpr's? %\definetypeface[jenson][rm][Xserif][Adobe Jenson Pro] %\setupbodyfont[jenson, 11pt] \definepapersize[pocket][width=4.25in, height=6.875in] \setuppapersize[pocket][pocket] \setuplayout[location=middle, width=0.815\paperwidth, rightmargindistance=0in, leftmargindistance=0in, height=middle, margin=0.08\paperwidth, backspace=0.115\paperwidth, marking=off, grid=yes, topspace=0.018889\paperheight, header=0.044444\paperheight, footer=0.044444\paperheight, bottomspace=0.038889\paperheight] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, location={footer,marginedge}] \def\givewidthof#1\to#2% { \bgroup \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{#1}% \expanded{\egroup\def\noexpand#2{\the\wd\scratchbox}} } % From a response by Hans to a mailing list question. It was originally \setwidthof#1\to#2, which—in English at least—sounds somewhat ambiguous with regard to which variable is providing a width. \def\TitlePage#1#2% { \givewidthof{\scc #2}\to\SubtitleWidth \newdimen\TitlePageVar \TitlePageVar=\dimexpr(\textwidth-\SubtitleWidth) \dontleavehmode\vfill \starttable[s(0pt)|lw(\TitlePageVar)|cw(\SubtitleWidth)|] \NC\NC{\scd #1}\AR \NC\NC{\scc #2} \stoptable \page } \showgrid \startfrontmatter \TitlePage{Title}{Longer Subtitle} \stopfrontmatter Thanks, Scott ----- This is a work of ﬁction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the writer's imagination or are used ﬁctitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coïncidental.

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