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Questions regarding the bibliography
by Marco 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Hi, I've a bunch of questions regarding the bibliography. I didn't find much useful information somewhere, neither in the wiki, the manual or in bibmod-doc.pdf. If my questions are answered elsewhere feel free to point me to the right direction. 1) Why are there redundant keys in the publication list: \startpublication [ k=ram, t=book, a=Ramez Elmasri, % BTW: How to input many authors in this place? y=1981, % not taken into account u=http://foo.bar.com ] \author {Ramez}[R.]{}{Elmasri} % Is it OK to leave out the first bracket? \pubyear {2007} \biburl {http://foo.bar.com} \stoppublication I checked that the »y=1981« is not taken into account, in fact I can remove it without problems, if I remove \pubyear it doesn't work. What's »y=...« for? Same goes for \author vs. a=... Why two locations for the author and url...? 2) What about not valid entries? \biburl for example is not a valid BibTeX entry type, it's neither required, nor optional. Can I provide it without running into problems? Providing for example \country leads to problems with the year. But \biburl is not used in the style, \country is. 3) During testing I forgot to say \usemodule[bib] and it worked well. Is this line not needed any more? 4) How to specify the \edition entry? Use the attached file for testing. If I specify \edition {5} I get »5 edition« using the setup \setuppublications[alternative=num]. That's wrong, either 5th edition or edition 5. When I use \setuppublications[alternative=ams] I get 5th ed. That's correct. For this reason I cannot enter \edition {5th}. The correct input should be independent from the style used. 5) How to specify online sources? BibTeX has no proper data type for this. But BibLaTeX has the type »online« with the special field urldate (for the access date). Maybe there's a corresponding functionality in ConTeXt. Thanks in advance. Regards Marco

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Fonts
by Cecil Westerhof 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Is there a list of the standard fonts to use? I found: serif regular roman sans support sansserif mono type teletype handwritten cmr mm rm But none of them I find very pleasing. (And handwritten looks different as the name suggest.) How can I find out which fonts I can use? -- Cecil Westerhof M CLDWesterhof(a)gmail.com O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/

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startlocalfootnotes
by Andreas Harder 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hi, it seems that it is not longer possible to set options for local footnotes. \starttext \startbuffer \bTABLE \bTR \bTD one \footnote{\dorecurse{10}{abcd }} \eTD \bTD two \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD three fout five six seven eight nine \eTD \bTD ten \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stopbuffer \startlocalfootnotes[n=0,location={text,none}] \placelegend[n=2]{\getbuffer}{\placelocalfootnotes} \stoplocalfootnotes Has the syntax changed? Greeting Andreas

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\startchapter syntax
by Alan BRASLAU 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hello, What is the correct syntax to define a reference with \startstructure\stopstructure? \starttext \startchapter [ref] [title=My title] \stopchapter \stoptext Yields: check : missing or ungrouped '=' after 'ref' in line 2 (@@ns) Alan

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producing offprints
by Bowen Alan C. 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

I use a structure like \startproduct prd_JournalVolume \component c_A.tex \component c_B.tex \stopproduct to produce a single PDF file for the volume of a journal. Is there a way in MKII to adapt this so that instead of a single JournalVolume.pdf, I get c_A.pdf c_B.pdf where each component file has the proper pagination as well as functioning external and internal hyperlinks? Alan

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Update ConTeXt into TL2010...
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hello, Is there anyone who updated ConTeXt MkIV in TL2010? Is there more information about how this can be done safely? (where you copy and what to run ...) I am interested in the latest updates, but I do not want to get into trouble with a bad update. Last time I stopped in ConTeXt TL2009 quite work and I had to completely install TL2010. Thanks Jaroslav

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New typescript mechanism for weights/opticals?
by Marco 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hi, I like Mojcas idea for new typescripts: %%%%%%%%%%% \startsomenewfonttypescriptcommand [kepler] [width={condensed,semicondensed,*regular,extended}] [size={caption,*regular,subhead,display},switch={10pt,12pt,17pt}] [weight={light,*regular,medium,semibold,*bold,black}] ... %%%%%%%%%%% \switchtofontdimension[width=semicondensed,weight={light,medium}] %%%%%%%%%%% That would make different weight/opticals font handling much less cumbersome. At the moment its no fun dealing with weights/opticals. I really would appreciate that (or any other easy usable) solution that provides a standardized way to handle weights/opticals with not too much overhead. Regards Marco

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How to use a true type font?
by Procházka Lukáš 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hello, I'm trying to use the BrickToBrick.ttf font. It can be freely downloaded from http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/klein05/pic05/brick2brick.htm. Problems are: 1) What's the best destination where the BrickToBrick.ttf should be placed? (Now, I've copied the file to c:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-local\BrickToBrick.ttf.) 2) How to make ConTeXt realize that a new (.ttf) font has been added to use? Is it necessary to run any special routine? 3) How to use the font? I tried: \definefont[BRICK][BrickToBrick.ttf at 30pt] \starttext {\BRICK abcdefghijklmnopqrtsuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRTSUVWXYZ 0123456789 } \stoptext But I got just letters and numbers. 4) Another thing is that there are only 14 pictures (= letters) in the font. So I don't know whether to use them via "a", "b", "c"... and what would happen for "z" as for 25th letter, or how. - I saw this font working - it was used in the thick "Book of Fonts III" by Pavel Stříž; it was used in the right bottom quarter at page 171. But the book was typeset by pdfLaTeX and I'd like to make it work in ConTeXt. Thank you in advance. Lukas

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ConTeXt mkiv and --autopdf option
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hello all, Is it possible to open a PDF file (after compilation of ConTeXt) in other PDF viewer which is not the default setting? I mean change the default choice: context --autopdf file.tex to another, for example: context --viewer=PDFViewer file.tex I would like to retain the default browser settings, but I would like after ConTeXt compilation opened the files with something else. Thanx Jaroslav

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TEST
by Procházka Lukáš 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Please ignore this message - it's just a test due to some problems delivering e-mails to this conference. Lukas

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