September 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Module t-letter: Headers, Footers And Back Address
by benedikt k 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Hello everyone, an issue arised while writing a letter with the third party module t-letter (http://modules.contextgarden.net/letter) I've read the official documentation (Correspondence with ConTeXt) but I found no solution to: a) Setup a header/footer for the first page and configure a different one for the following pages. Page 46 of the documentation describes the setup of the specific (letter) layers. With the "state" parameter it's possible to enable (= "start"), disable (= "stop") the header or start it on the second page and the following (= "next"), but if I configure the header for the first page with \setupletterstyle[head] [ state=start, alternative=left, fromrule=top, ] and then for the following pages \setupletterstyle[head] [ state=next, ... ] only the second setup is typeset. From this it follows that the first setup is just overwritten. The header on the first page should only contain a name and than a thin line (a "\hairline" similar to the built-in variable "fromrule"). The header on the following pages should contain variable things and than also a thin line. Unfortunately I found no possibility to get this done. b) I would like to define a back address which should be typeset above the addressee. Page 44 of the documentation illustrates amongst other layers the back address layer, but there is no way to activate and configure this layer. I've tried it with \setupletter[backaddress][...] and \setuplayer[backaddress][...]. Maybe someone have a tip. Thank you and have a nice week. Benedikt ps: A small (commented) letter template is attached below (as tex file).

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Making checkboxes
by Cecil Westerhof 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

I am trying to define a (paper) feedback form. One of the things I need is checkboxes. A first stab for this (for example I need also a start text, but I do one step at a time) is, based on TeX by Topic, a Texnician's Reference page 106: \def\checkBox#1,{\space\space\space\space[\space\space] #1\par} \def\checkBoxes(#1,){\xcheckBoxes#1, xxx,} \def\endpiece{xxx} \def\xcheckBoxes#1,{\def\temp{#1}% \ifx\temp\endpiece \else \checkbox#1,% \expandafter\xcheckBox \fi} \starttext Some text \checkBoxes Yes, No, A little bit,xxx \stoptext I would expect: Some text [ ] Yes [ ] No [ ] A little bit but I get: Some text es, No, A little bit,xxx What am I doing wrong? Something else: how do I 'eat' spaces between parameters. I would like to have: \checkBoxes Yes,No,A little bit,xxx and: \checkBoxes Yes, No, A little bit, xxx the same result. And is there a way to know how many parameters a macro gets? Like ${#} in Bash. That would make things easier. -- 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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document links in the wiki
by Patrick Gundlach 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

Hi, on the page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_an_Excursion%2C_translations there are some broken links, such as: https://foundry.supelec.fr/docman/view.php/22/15/ma-cb-nl-screen.pdf does anyone know where to find these files? Or are they gone? Patrick

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Manipulating \pagenumber with Lua code : example need
by Vnpenguin 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Hi, I would like to manipulate \pagenumber with Lua code, in order to add an increment to page number, print out (\pagenumber + INC) instead of \pagenumber. I can't found any example in Wiki yet. Some lines of simple code will be very appreciated :) Thanks

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tikz fading graphic
by Peter Rolf 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Hi, this is the first time I use tikz and maybe something is missing in my example. I tried the second graphic from page 206 of the tikz manual. Sadly I only get a opaque blue square. Example and log file attached. I get the same error for both marks: [..] (./tikz206.tuo) systems : begin file tikz206 at line 6 Package pgfkeys: Error! I do not know the key '/tikz/innercolor' and I am going to ignore it. Perhaps you misspelled it. Package pgfkeys: Error! I do not know the key '/tikz/outercolor' and I am going to ignore it. Perhaps you misspelled it. Package tikz: Error! You need to say \usetikzlibrary{patterns}. Package pgfkeys: Error! I do not know the key '/tikz/patterncolor' and I am going to ignore it. Perhaps you misspelled it. Package pgfkeys: Error! I do not know the key '/tikz/pathfading' and I am going to ignore it. Perhaps you misspelled it. fonts : resetting map file list [..] Peter

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Context to RTF :-/
by Florian Baudach 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hi, is there any practical solution to convert a context-document into a rtf-document? (Unfortunately I must send my documents to word users :-( ) I do not need a perfect rtf file. It would be sufficient if the footnotes and headings would be tranformed. (Layout / Tabells etc are not so important) I've read the FAQ and I know there is no tool like latex2rtf. In 2005 (five years ago) there was a approach to the problem on the mailing list, which suggest to write the document in xml and the produce on pdf and one html file. Is this a practical solution or is it, if you have absolute no idea about xml like me, a to time consuming approach? I've also tried some free pdftortf tools, but so far the results were disillusioning :-(. I am open for any suggestions ;-). Greetings FloMo

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Insert page number into multi-page PDF
by Vnpenguin 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hi, I have a multi-page PDF without page number . Is there simple way to insert page number by using ConTeXt ? I'm thinking about: * Setup ConTeXt with zero or small margins, * Setup page number (possibility to start from some value, not necessary from 1) * Include each page of PDF as picture * Build PDF with ConTeXt but I can not found an example for that. Any ideas for help? Thanks in advance, Regards

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Room for comment on the backside of form
by Cecil Westerhof 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

I am still trying to make a useful environment for paper feedback forms. One thing I am trying to do now, is to but lines on the back for when someone needs more space to give the feedback. For this I made the following macro: \def\PageWithComment[#1]{ \page #1 \crlf\crlf \thinrules[n=35,inbetween=\vskip1.5ex] \page } There are several needed optimisations. For starters the number of lines is hard coded. Is there a way to calculate them? At the moment it is always called with: \PageWithComment[Room for extra comments] What is the best way to set a default? Because most of the time it will all the time be the same value. With this setup the pagination has to be done completely manually. Not very handy. Is there a way that when a new page is generated, the comment page is inserted before the new page? And also after the last? An example: http://decebal.nl/ConTeXt/sources/feedback-form and the pdf: http://decebal.nl/ConTeXt/sources/feedback-form.pdf -- 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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layer problem
by Andrea Valle 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hi to all, I'm using this code to insert a page from pdf into a layer: \enableregime[utf8] \mainlanguage[it] \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Colors %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %\definepapersize [flyer][width=99mm, height=210mm] \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout [width=fit, rightmargin=0cm, leftmargin=0cm, leftmargindistance=0pt, rightmargindistance=0pt, height=fit, header=0cm, footer=0cm, topspace=0cm, backspace=0cm, % cutspace=1cm, bottomspace=0cm, location=singlesided] \starttext \definelayer[layer0] \setlayer [layer0] [x=0,y=20cm] {\rotate[90]{\externalfigure[prog.pdf][page=3]}} \setupbackgrounds[page][page][background=layer0, state=repeat] \strut \stoptext Now, the only problem is that the y=20 parameters doesn't affect the output. But I have a 20cm printed into the pdf. It's exactly the structure I'm using for many other projects. Where it works fine. Any ideas? Thanks a lot -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderaalle/ --> http://www.youtube.com/user/vanderaalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " This is a very complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous." (Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski)

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XeLaTeX logo
by Mojca Miklavec 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Dear Hans, may I request the addition of XeLaTeX logo to ConTeXt core? I'm not sure if there's an official version of it, but I would simply define it the same way as XeTeX logo, only replacing \kern-.15em \TeX} with \kern0em \LaTeX} at the end of definition. (The original XeLaTeX logo definition is extra-complicated, so I'm not sure how it's done. I suspect that they use -0.125 kerning between mirrored E and L, but that makes the two letters clash too much. It's in tex/latex/metalogo/metalogo.sty) Thanks a lot, Mojca

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