August 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

compound titles, lists and headers
by Henning Hraban Ramm 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

Dear list, my publisher forces me to set different things as titles, in headers and table of contents. In some cases \nolist and \nomarking aren't enough. here are my actual definitions: ---- \def\Untertitel#1{\blank[3pt]{\ss\bf #1}\blank} % ok \def\Titel#1#2{{\nohyphens\chapter{#1}\Untertitel{#2}}} % ok \def\KomplexTitel#1#2#3{{\writetolist[chapter]{#3}\nohyphens\title{#1}\U ntertitel{#2}}} ---- with ---- \start \setupheadertexts[][manual entry][part][] % normally defined as [][chapter][part][] \KomplexTitel{Main chapter title}{chapter subtitle}{toc entry} Much text \stop % of other headertext ---- Real life example: \start \setupheadertexts [][Vorwort][][] \KomplexTitel{Die neutrale Schweiz und das globale Dorf}% {Vorwort von Prof.|~|Dr.|~|Heinrich Ott}% {Vorwort Prof.|~|Dr.|~|Heinrich Ott:\\Die neutrale Schweiz und das globale Dorf} ... Now there stay two issues: 1. I'd like to get a four-parameter command that can set the header text also. 2. I must get a line feed into the toc, but neither \\ nor \crlf works. Please help! Thanks. Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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Problems with the installation of the minimals on Win XP :-(
by Florian Baudach 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hi, after solving my problems with the minimals with Linux, I have now a problem with the Windows version. :-( My boss allowed me to use ConTeXt for a book project :-), unfortunately we work here with WinXP and the first-setup.bat fails with the following error: mtxrun.exe – Komponente nicht gefunden (mtxrun.exe – component not found) Die Anwendung konnte nicht gestartet werden, weil kpathsea60071.dll nicht gefunden wurde. Neuinstallation der Anwendung könnte das Problem beheben. (Couldn’t start the application. Couldn’t found kpathsea60071.dll. A new installation of the application could solve the problem.) I have installed ruby first. What could be wrong? Greetings Florian Baudach

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formla: listing and subnumbering
by Peter Schorsch 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hi, in my work I have a lot of formulas inkl. subformulas. Doing the examples at the wiki two questions came up: a) how to generate a table of formulas? b) what is the right/better way for subnumbering? a) I tried the example for generating a table of formulas from the wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math/Display#List_of_Formulas) but instead of a list I get in the pdf a »no list method«. What do I missed here? b) I found two descriped ways how to create formula (sub-)numbering: 1) using \formulanumber and \subformulanumber (third example from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math/Display#The_Manual_Method) But context always reports here: ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> ...^{\vfrac {1}{2}} &\subformulanumber {b}\cr a^2 + b^2 &= c^2 &\... 2) using the \NR[..] like it is described on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Multiline_equations#Working_with_equation_num… and http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/mathalign.pdf. This way compiles through. But which way is the future context way? In which way can I combine subnumbering and including to list some (not all) subformulas? Thanks for your help

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Recursive printing letters using Letters module...
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Hello, Can be deployed print letters due t-letter module in the cycle? When I use recursion, then an error occurs. I note that I am going to change the values (from CSV file) in a cycle (that someone thought that I want to write a few the same letters in cycle :-) here is my example: \usemodule[letter] \starttext \dorecurse{5}{ \startletter[ toname={Name}, toaddress={Address}, opening={Dear Name,}, subject={Step by step guide to write a letter}, closing={Greetings from the Author}] Thus, I came to the conclusion ... \stopletter \page } \stoptext Thanx, Jaroslav

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vim syntax highlighting in MKIV
by Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi Hans, Mojca, Aditya and List, just tried to use the vim Syntax Highlighting module in ConTeXt MKIV, but if running the documents complains it searches a file called filename-vimsyntax.tmp-vimsyntax.tmp sure that file not exists but there is a file called filename-vimsyntax.tmp is there a way to do a workaround so that the vim Syntaxhighlighting module would work in MKIV or does it need to be rewriten completedly? Greetings -- --- Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz Auf dem Sattler 4 34516 Ederbringhausen Phone: +49 6454 799623 mobile: +49 176 63301749 Fax: +49 6454 e-Mail: scholz.m82(a)googlemail.com Think sideways! -- Ed De Bono

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impostion
by Jan Pohanka 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hello, is it possible to create following impostion, please? \setuppapersize[A5,landscape][A4] \setuparranging[???] -------------------- | 2nd page | | bottom up | | | | | -------------------- | 1 st page | | normal | | | | | -------------------- -------------------- | 4th page | | bottom up | | | | | -------------------- | 3rd page | | normal | | | | | -------------------- regards Jan -- Tato zpráva byla vytvořena převratným poštovním klientem Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Postscript Type1 fonts & MK IV
by John Magolske 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

I'd like to get some Postscript Type1 fonts working with MK IV (installed via the minimals under Linux). I placed the *.pfb fonts in ~/.fonts and did: mtxrun --script fonts --reload mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=* ...but the output doesn't show any of the *.pfb fonts. The *.ttf fonts installed alongside them in ~/.fonts do show up, and I can create PDFs with those ttf fonts using the `context` command, but I'm not sure how to proceed with the Postscript fonts. Thanks for any suggestions, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

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ConTeXt meeting Lua tutorials
by Taco Hoekwater 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi all, Today I started preparations for my activities at the ConTeXt meeting. There are two small lua tutorials in the program, and I am looking for input on both. There is one that is supposed to be a general beginner's introduction, and one specifically about fonts. For both, I am looking for input on what subjects I should cover? Since both tutorials will end up as articles/wiki pages, it makes sense to ask everybody on the list for input (but requests by actual attendees will be scored considerably higher). Best wishes, Taco

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Centered framed text in two columns
by Flavien Lambert 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Dear All, I would like to vertically center a framed text in front of an item list, something like : - item - item - item my framed text - item - item I tried with two columns then by defining a paragraph but without success. I would also like the columns to have a fixed width like 70%-30% of the textwidth. Any hint ? Thanks in advance, -- Flavien. ---------------------------- "Quantum objects are completely crazy but, at least, they are all crazy in the same way." R.P. Feynman.

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Migrations: exactly LaTeX margins --> ConTeXt margins
by Xan xan 01 Sep '10

01 Sep '10

Hi, I want to "migrate" one LaTeX document to ConTeXt document. I only want to put the _exact_ margins LaTeX use for \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}. Anyone could say me the exact values I have to put in **layout**? Thanks, Xan.

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