July 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

part problems
by Henning Hraban Ramm 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

(MkIV, latest beta) I'm trying to get a title page for book parts: \def\FPart#1#2{#2} \setupheads [align=right, tolerance=verytolerant, before=\nohyphen\startlinecorrection, after=\stoplinecorrection, number=no] \setuphead[part][command=\FPart, page=right, style={\bfc}] \part{My First Part} But the page is empty, also without "command", also with a suitable "textcommand", also without "style". Next problem: In my ToC I get "Part My First Part". (Or "Part 1 My First Part", if I enable the number.) How can I suppress that piece of text ("Part")? Generally, what's the best approach to get a fixed font size for some titles, e.g. the part title should have 64 pt. Should I use \setuphead[part][before={\switchtobodyfont[64pt]}] ? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Passing info from MetaPost to TeX
by Oliver Buerschaper 01 Aug '10

01 Aug '10

Dear all, is it possible to pass data from MetaPost back to TeX? This would be similar in spirit to, say, the MetaPost variable BodyFontSize that contains data from the TeX surrounding. Just the other way round. Best, Oliver Buerschaper

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Re: [NTG-context] Setting up protrusion, side-effects
by Martin Althoff 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

I hate to pick up on this again, but... The basic Palatino, together with protrusion and small caps is causing issues. Essentially horizontal placing of the characters fails (see previous PDF). In the example below, I can reliably cause the effect by commenting out (or not) the line with the \sc. This effect shows up the my "real" files. While trying to find the trigger by culling down the files, for a moment I could reliably (!) turn the effect on and off with the line %\setupfootertexts[chapter][pagenumber] and not changing the \sc lines. Weird side effect? Sorry, I can't reproduce that one anymore. One way to reduce, but not prevent the effect, is if more plain text is output before using \sc. eg by adding an \input tufte beforehand. But once the text after the \sc is a bit longer ie. 10x tufte the effect will show again. Gut feeling: successive and cumulative rounding errors. Question: Am I tripping over "side effects"? Is using SmallCaps a bad idea when using protrusion? It just feels odd that something like this would be so uncontrollable. Particularly since the palatino font is from the TexGyre set (so close to home) Thanks for thoughts! Martin \definefontfeature [default][default][protrusion=quality,expansion=quality] \setupalign[hz,hanging] %\setupfooter[text][before=\hairline,leftwidth=.85\textwidth,style=\tfx] %\setupfootertexts[chapter][pagenumber] %\usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] \starttext %\input tufte {\sc Erster Teil} \input tufte \stoptext > Fonts are sometimes special and when ypu load a font it's > setting (e.g. ligatures, protrusion etc.) are frozen. To change the > settings you need \definefontfeature before \setupbodyfont, > Wolfgang

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footnote missing
by Peter Münster 31 Jul '10

31 Jul '10

Hello, Example: \starttext \startlocalfootnotes AAA\footnote{aaa} \placelocalfootnotes \stoplocalfootnotes BBB\footnote{bbb} \startlocalfootnotes CCC\footnote{ccc} % footnote missing \placelocalfootnotes \stoplocalfootnotes \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Footnotes into a single paragraph (mkiv)
by Markus Finke 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hello, I need footnotes as a single paragraph at the bottom of each page for a second footnote system with \definenote [secondnote] [numberconversion=set 2] It’s the style of footnotes in critical editions – what’s the option for "para"? Thanks, Markus

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Error in newest beta/current
by Andreas Harder 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hi, the compilation of: \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext test\footnote{test} \stoptext ends with: ! LuaTeX error ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lpdf-ano.lua:66: pdf.pageref() needs page number > 0 stack traceback: [C]: in function 'pdfpagereference' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lpdf-ano.lua:66: in function 'pagedest' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lpdf-ano.lua:140: in function <...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lpdf-ano.lua:79> (tail call): ? ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lpdf-ano.lua:302: in function 'action' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lpdf-ano.lua:182: in function 'pdfaction' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lpdf-ano.lua:208: in function 'prerollreference' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/node-ref.lua:331: in function 'setreference' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/node-ref.lua:476: in function 'inject' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. \directgotobox ...,nil,\extrareferencearguments )} \dostoptagged \setlocation... \typesetsomenotesymbol ...age("#1",\number #2)})]} \globallet \lastnotesymbol... \@@notemakedescription ...ymbol \dolastnotesymbol \else \unskip \unskip \glo... Greeting Andreas

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complicated layout - impostion
by Jan Pohanka 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hallo, I need to create a document with complicated layout. four A6 pages on one side of A4 sheet (two upper ones with bottom up) two A5 landscape pages on back side of A4 sheet (upper one with bottom up) How can I reach this in Context please? \setuppapersize[A6][A4] \setuparranging[2*4] This code works fine for A6 pages, but I'm not sure how to include also A5 landscape pages. Whole work should end with a document similar to http://www.eprona.com/kdp/data/skladacka2010.pdf greetings Jan -- Tato zpráva byla vytvořena převratným poštovním klientem Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Expansion and database module
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Hello all, My big weakness in TeX practice is working with the expansion. Perhaps because he speaks so Lua. I would like to ask whether there is any possibility of printing table columns (throw Mojca database module) when the column data are contained in a separate macro. Example: \usemodule[database] \defineseparatedlist [NaturalTable] [separator=comma, before=\bTABLE,after=\eTABLE, first=\bTR,last=\eTR, left=\bTD,right=\eTD] \def\tabrow{A, B, C} \starttext \startseparatedlist[NaturalTable] a,b,c A,B,C \stopseparatedlist \blank[big] \startseparatedlist[NaturalTable] \tabrow \stopseparatedlist %But I would like get table with three separate columns \stoptext While I can parsing column data contained in macro \tabrow, anyway I cant transmit column data to \startseparatedlist[NaturalTable] .. \stopseparatedlist environment to make it work. Thanx Jaroslav

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how to jump to figure and return to the original postion?
by dalyoung 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Dear all, In the presentation, I'd like to jump to a figure and return to the original position. For that purpose, I set a label for a figure like \placefigure[][fig:test]... and put \goto{figure}[fig:test] It works fine. It generates a ling to the figure so I click it, I can move to the figure. But I don't know how to come back. I tried similarly. Set a label like \item[start] ... and \goto{return}[start] It also displays "return" in changed color but the link is not working. Is there a way to come back to the original position? Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Minimals Beta on Windows 64bit
by Andreas Schneider 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Since one of the last Betas mtxrun seems to be aware of 64bit windows, but all the stubs and scripts seem to be missing support for that resulting in the whole setup to not work at all. First-setup fails with stuff like that: MTXrun | run: rsync -rpztlv --stats contextgarden.net::'minimals/current/bin/common/mswin/ minimals/current/bin/context/mswin/ minimals/current/bin/metapost/mswin/ minimals/current/bin/man/ minimals/current/bin/luatex/mswin/ minimals/current/bin/xetex/mswin/ minimals/current/bin/luatex/mswin/ minimals/current/bin/luatex/mswin/ minimals/current/bin/pdftex/mswin/' 'c:/context/tex/texmf-mswin'The source and destination cannot both be remote. rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1127) [receiver=3.0.2] Easy fix: in mtx-update.lua, line 294 the current check is if osplatform == "windows" or osplatform == "mswin" then which should also check for "mswin-64". But even after fixing that, mtxrun fails at several points, because it tries to run further commands from "tex/texmf-mswin-64". Another easy fix: add a hardlink/junction for that directory. But that only ended in the following error whenever I invoke mtxrun, texlua, etc.: "texlua.exe - Application Error The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000022). click OK to close the application." I don't know why that was changed, but afaik all 64bit versions of windows support 32bit too so I would vote to leave it as it was before - just deal with mswin-64 as if it was mswin. Best Regards, Andreas.

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