January 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Interaction messing with footnote positioning
by Mathieu Boespflug 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Hi all, consider the following document: \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext {\definedfont[Regular at 30pt] blah\footnote{hello}} \stoptext and compare it with the result for the same document where the first line is commented out. The footnote number isn't aligned the same. Shouldn't setupinteraction have no impact this sort of thing? Best, Mathieu

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the chart module broken
by Li Yanrui (李延瑞) 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Hi, With beta 2011.01.10 17:55, the chart module is broken. For this minimal example: \usemodule[chart] \starttext \startFLOWchart[example] \startFLOWcell \name {flow} \location {1,1} \text {Flow} \connection [rl] {chart} \stopFLOWcell \startFLOWcell \name {chart} \location{2,1} \text {Charts} \stopFLOWcell \stopFLOWchart \FLOWchart[example] \stoptext I got the error: (virtual://viafile.1) (virtual://viafile.2) (virtual://viafile.3 ! Undefined control sequence. \asciia ...LOLrulethickness ; connect_\cFLOWfrom_ \cFLOWto (\FLOWfrom ,\zFLO... \dostartMPdrawing ...data {\MPdrawingdata \asciia }\egroup \dodoFLOWconnectionC ...ace [0,0,0]\stopMPdrawing \fi \fi \fi \ignorespaces <argument> ...text {Flow} \connection [rl] {chart} \startFLOWcell ...FLOWconnectionC \ignorespaces #1 \unskip l.6 \stopFLOWcell ? -- Best regards, Li Yanrui

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Replacing a piece of a paper
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Hello, I'm trying to handle a special problem. I guess ConTeXt would be useful for this purpose, although its primary function is to typeset. But - I have many drawings - they are black-and-white one-sided PDFs of A1 or A2 size (typical technical drawings). The bottom right area of size 210 x 330 mm should be "deleted" - or over-painted by a white rectangle (or picture or MP code). And next a new PDF of A4 size should be placed on the right bottom area, just on the white ("deleting") area. I wouldn't have problem with batch processing the number of files. But I would need an example how to take the original A2 PDF, place a whitening area on it and then to place a new PDF over it; I'm not experienced enough in "layering" with ConTeXt and I guess this may be the way. Would it be possible to provide a small example of such processing an arbitrary file? I can send a sample A2 or A1 PDF, and also a replacing A4, if necessary. Thank you in advance. Kind regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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Which table environment?
by Felix Ingram 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Hello all, I've been playing with the various table environments but I thought I'd seek advice as to which would be the best for my requirements. I need to be able to do the following: - Repeating header row with coloured background and text (I can get this working with TABLE but not tabulate). - Multi-page tables (TABLE and tabulate are fine with these). - Insert images in a cell (TABLE seems to handle this better than tabulate). - Have rows that will split across pages - we will have large pieces of text and images which will end up being taller than the page. (tabulates paragraph support is the right sort of thing) - Start next row on current page. - Include other tables, lists etc in a cell (this is a "nice to have" rather than a "must have") The reason I need these various things is because Word acts this way and I need to produce something similar (until we can argue for a format change). At the moment I'm leaning towards tabulate but I'm having issues with images and the headers. I'm using Mk IV (bonus question: as a newbie, should I just start with IV and ignore II? Or is II better for any particular reason?). Thanks in advance, Felix

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Error with \placetable ... \starttable
by Khaled Hosny 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

Looks like \stattable ... \stoptable no longer do grouping, the following is broken unless \stattable ... \stoptable is grouped. \starttext \placetable[here,nonumber]{foo} \starttable[|r|r|] \NC foo \NC bar \AR \stoptable \stoptext Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

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Re: [NTG-context] Hairline in header
by Florian Wobbe 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

> \setupheader[text][after=\thinrule] > \setuplayout[header=1cm,headerdistance=1cm] > \starttext > \dorecurse{12}{\input knuth\par} > \stoptext Hi, how can I move the thinrule further up in this example? I'd like to use \thinrule but still want the position like this: \setupheader[text][after=\hrule] Florian

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Gnuplot module: Patching of Gnuplot binary still needed?
by Paul Menzel 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Dear ConTeXt folks, I read about the Gnuplot module [1] and I am wondering whether patching the Gnuplot binary is still necessary. Github is currently down and therefore cannot check if the code is included. But judging from gnuplot> help terminal […] Subtopics available for terminal: canvas cgm corel dpu414 dumb dxf eepic emf emtex epslatex epson_180dpi epson_60dpi epson_lx800 fig gif gpic hp2623a hp2648 hp500c hpdj hpgl hpljii hppj imagen jpeg latex mf mif mp nec_cp6 okidata pbm pcl5 pdfcairo png pngcairo pop postscript pslatex pstex pstricks push qms regis starc svg tandy_60dpi tek40xx tek410x texdraw tgif tkcanvas tpic vttek wxt x11 xlib xterm $ gnuplot --version gnuplot 4.4 patchlevel 0 it appears it is still required. Did some send this patch already upstream for inclusion? Thanks, Paul [1] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gnuplot

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\lgroup in mkIV
by Daniel Schopper 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Hi, are the delimiters \lgroup and \rgroup supported in MkIV? This \starttext $$\bigg\lgroup\dots\bigg\rgroup$$ \stoptext is ok in MkII (ConTeXt ver: 2011.01.06) but when compiled with MkIV (ConTeXt ver: 2010.07.30 11:35 and ver: 2010.07.30 11:35) the delimiters are not shown. (By the way, the same holds true for \rmoustache and \lmoustache.) Am I missing something? Searching the list archive and the contextgarden unfortunately didn't bring up in anything. Thanks in advance, Daniel

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mkiv: verbatim lua eats my quotes
by Thomas A. Schmitz 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Hi all, is this a bug or a feature: in verbatim lua code, my " double and ' single quotation marks are eaten up in mkiv (everything is colorless, but correct in mkii). Example: \starttext \startLUA require 'lpeg' sep = lpeg.P(",") \stopLUA \stoptext Thanks Thomas

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Handling EMBED tag in Tex
by Anand Raj 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Hi, I have embed tags in my xhtml can i render it in my pdf. How should I form the .tex file to handle this? <embed type='image/svg+xml' align='middle' width='200' height='200' src='/javascript/d.svg' script='initPicture(-.5,5,-.5,5);path([[0,0],[1,4],[4,4],[3,0],[0,0]]);text([2.5,4],"44","above");text([3.5,2],"44","right");stroke="red";fontfill="red";line([1,0],[1,4]);text([1,2],"?","right");' /> Thanks Anand

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