August 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: [NTG-context] Summary of user wishes for streams (Salil Sayed)
by Michael Saunders 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

This reminds me. Two columns of text over three columns of footnotes. Is it possible?

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OT: map of the world
by Taco Hoekwater 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hi, Check this out: http://nmap.org/favicon/ contextgarden.net is at (29.353, 29.233) and is 8 × 8 pixels. tug.org is at (4.520, 21.067) and is 32 × 32 pixels. Best wishes, Taco

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[***SPAM***] Re: Summary of user wishes for streams
by Michael Saunders 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

>>> This reminds me. Two columns of text over three columns of footnotes. >>> Is it possible? Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl>: >indeed, just multicolumns with page notes in 3 columns My footnotes all end up at the bottom of the last column.

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textext vs. btex ... etex
by Oliver Buerschaper 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hi, I've been trying to troubleshoot a problem with TeX labels I ran into the other day... finally I discovered that 1. MkIV (textext) includes TeX material as one single chunk apparently while MkII (btex ... etex) used to include a decomposable picture and that 2. the anchor point is completely different! Is there any way to restore both the "individual addressing" of glyphs and the MkII anchor point in MkIV? This would be crucial for a customized labelling macro... Best, Oliver P.S. Why is "h," included as one piece in MkII?

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Tikz calendar: \pgfutil undefined
by Fabrice Larribe 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello, I have a problem to use the calendar from the Tikz/Pgf module; here is a minimal example: %--------------------------------------- \usemodule[tikz] \usetikzlibrary[calendar] \starttext This should works: \blank \tikz \calendar[dates=2000-01-01 to 2000-01-31,week list]; \blank but this does not ! \stoptext %--------------------------------------- I'm using MKII (2010-05-24) from TeX Live 2010 (Note however that I had the same problem with TeXLive 2009). The error is when the calendar library is loaded: ! Undefined control sequence. l.36 \let\tikz@atbegin@day=\pgfutil @empty I have tried the Tikz distribution from TexLive, the latest Tikz distribution from the suport Tikz page, and the distribution from the module made for ConTeXt, but the problem remains. In the past (last academic year, in may), this worked well, but I'm not able to find what has changed. Thanks for hints and help ! Fabrice L.

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graphics "styles"
by Yury G. Kudryashov 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi! In tikz I can say \draw[help lines] (0, 0) circle (1cm); and setup what does "help lines" mean (color, linewidth etc.) in the environment file with \tikzset{help lines/.style={...}}. Is there any way to do something similar with ConTeXt+MetaPost? Should I add drawoptions(\MPvar{another-style-name}) before each draw/fill command, and drawoptions() after it?

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text looseness-tightness
by Horacio Suarez 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

hello all I have a 2 column A4 document, each 71,5mm wide. text is CMR 9pt. there is a paragraph 12 lines long. the 12th are the 3 last letters from the word "procesos", or "sos". I really need that 3 letters go up. I need 11 lines. they are just 3 characters in 11 lines. a single syllable. \looseness=-1 is not enough. I also tried inserting discretional hyphens where they can be more usefull, some times helps me but not now. How can I FORCE spacing bettween characters, words (or both). I don't care if it looks too tight. I know that this can seems sacrilegious, but nobody will notice it! thankyou in advance for you generous people. --------------------Horacio Suarez

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Summary of user wishes for streams
by Salil Sayed 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, We have rather few suggestions and they are not coming anymore. So I am summarizing what we have so far. Since my typesetting vocabulary is meager I choose to present it graphically. Then again my apologies for poor graphics as I did not attempt it in metapost. Below is the collection of the posts and attached is a pdf of a drawing generated in inkscape. I can send the original svg if needed. Best regards, Salil______________________________________________________________ Salil:Being able to flow multiple texts in parallel. A simple case is a translation of the same text running on opposite page while the original runs on left/right page. In my thesis these are not translations, but correlated texts written for different audiences. (think of levels in a CG game) So the texts need to be designed differently. To extrapolate this facility, if columns on one page can run such parallel texts then we can have multiple translations running together. Khaled:Old Arabic book, essentially all early Bulaq Press books used to typesettwo books in one, one is the main book running on the body of the page,while the other is a loosely related book running in the margins of thepage, the second book can be a commentary on the main book, but oftenthey just discuss the same subject with no direct correlation (not acritical edition). I'd like to be able to reproduce such layout. Taco:I would like to do something slightly more general: it would be nice ifcolumnset blocks could take their input from streams, even if the blockis not a full column (or multiple columns). Philipp:three items I'd like to add: * horizontal split page layout (upper and lower parts instead of columns), * asymmetric stream combinations (e.g. two streams on the left page, another stream on the facing page), and * easy reprinting (i.e. a photographic reproduction as one stream on the left and a text stream on the right page).I've seen all of this in printed books so it would be a pity to live ina world where the best typesetting system can't do that. Some of this Ialready mentioned to Hans a while ago, maybe he remembers. Kevin:I second the request to support horizontally split page layouts with one stream typeset above another on each page. Hans:it would help to see mockups for such requests Salil:I think this is good example of this function. http://books.google.com/books?id=qdltz8N9qSEC&lpg=PP1&dq=the%20body%20multi… Philipp:I got a less complex example from the library, in contrast to Salil'sexample this one is a translation: http://bayimg.com/oaoPpaaChhttp://bayimg.com/PAOpAAaChhttp://bayimg.com/pAo… Shows clearly that the streams are synced at every section (and thattranslation to English is a good compression for German…).

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Fwd: Troubles with indentation in ConTeXt
by Taco Hoekwater 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, Forwarded to the context mailing list. Best wishes, Taco > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Troubles with indentation in ConTeXt > Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:17:55 +0200 > From: Ogam Géry <maggyero(a)gmail.com> > To: info(a)bittext.nl > > Dear Mr Hoekwater, > > I'm a French ConTeXt user and I've found an issue with the ConTeXt command > “\setupindenting[yes,medium]” which removes usual spacing between formulas. > Mr Mahajan reported the same problem on a post from 2007 > (http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg20692.html) so I'm > wondering if it has been solved now in 2010 (it doesn't seem so, but > maybe there's a trick or something). > > Yours faithfully. > > Géry Ogam

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current head title and current number
by Peter Schorsch 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, I need to get the current *section/chapter title and number. I figured out that \fullstructureheadnumber gives the current number. But I can not figure out what gives the current head title. In strc-sec.mkiv I found this comment: \def\currentheadtext {obsolete, use marks} Is this a hint to use getmarking? I tried \getmarking[current] \getmarking[currentsection] \getmarking[currenthead] without success. Does anyone know how to access the current title?

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