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Overview screen containing multiple pages
by Aditya Mahajan 21 Nov '11

21 Nov '11

There is a python script called impressive (http://impressive.sourceforge.net/) that adds some eyecandy to presentations. One of the features that it has is an overview screen at the end, like this: http://impressive.sourceforge.net/oview.png This is similar to the overview screen used in the ConTeXt showcase by Hans: http://pragma-ade.com/show-man.pdf I want to include such an overview in my slides, but am not sure if it can be done without using a separate tex file. My slides look like this (sorry Thomas, I am not using simpleslides at the moment) \starttext \startsection[title={...}] .... \stopsection \startsection[...] ... \stopsection \stoptext Each section spans over multiple pages. What I want is to have a last page which is equivalent to the following: \startcombination[n*n] {\externalfigure[\jobname][page=<page-number-of-first-section>]}{} {\externalfigure[\jobname][page=<page-number-of-second-section>]}{} .... \stopcombination I tried a simple test case \starttext \input knuth \page \externalfigure[\jobname][page=1,width=0.3\textwidth] \stoptext but that does not include the first page. So, I think that what I want is not possible, but I wonder if others have different ideas on how this might be implemented (after all \setuparranging does manage to do something similar without the need for a separate tex file). Aditya

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referencing
by Hans van der Meer 20 Nov '11

20 Nov '11

I have the following question about references. Using for example \at one can say somehting like "see on \at{page}[ref] for the figure.. But when the figure is one the same page it seems a bit superfluous to reference to it. In the same manner it is a bit of an overkill to put a hyperlink to the page where this link resides itself. It is clear that ConTeXt knows if it is on the same page as is referenced, because then a link is coloured with contrastcolor instead of color. Now the question: how easy/difficult is it to either suppress such an \at-reference or switch between chosen alternate texts for links on or off the same page as the referenced item? Hans van der Meer

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\right)² not recognized as \right)^2
by Paul Menzel 20 Nov '11

20 Nov '11

Dear ConTeXt folks, is it expected that \right)² is not recognized as \right)^2? \starttext Using ^2: \placeformula \startformula \left( a + b \right)^2 = a² + 2ab + b² \stopformula \placeformula \startformula \left( a + \frac72 \right)^2 \stopformula Using ². The first example does not display the problem that well because the parenthesis are too small: \placeformula \startformula \left( a + b \right)² = a² + 2ab + b² \stopformula \placeformula \startformula \left( n + \frac72 \right)² \stopformula \stoptext Please find the example also attached. Thanks, Paul

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Is it possible to have \showlayout also display dimensions in inches?
by Pavneet Arora 20 Nov '11

20 Nov '11

Either in a separate column or in lieu of `cm'. For us those of us on the left hand side of the Atlantic, and who struggle with decimal numbers ;)? advTHANKSance. -- ----- - Pavneet Arora

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Hide section content
by Aditya Mahajan 20 Nov '11

20 Nov '11

Hi, I have a tex file that looks like follows: \startsection[title=...][review=yes] ... \stopsection \startsection[title=...][review=no] ... \stopsection When I compile the document with --mode=review, I want that all sections that have `review=no` should not be displayed. What is the best way of achieving this? In particular, can we have an option that'll let us say: \setuphead[section][placebody=hidden] (analogous to placehead=hidden). Aditya

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another referencing question
by Hans van der Meer 20 Nov '11

20 Nov '11

I see that a \pagereference[ref:a] gets a link to it with \at{see}[ref:a]. But when I click on it, the jump to that page is not made. Not in Adobe Reader, nor in Apple's Preview. Is that the intended behaviour? Is it something I am doing wrong? Or what? Hans van der Meer

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Placing a TOC at the end of a document
by Wolfgang Schuster 20 Nov '11

20 Nov '11

Hi, hm, I should place a table of contents at the end of my document. When issuing: \startsubject[title=Inhoud] \placelist[section] \stopsubject I get the section title but no TOC When issuing only \completelist[section] I get the TOC but no section title. Do I have to setup this differently or is this some bug? Try “criterium=all” or “criterium=previous”. Wolfgang

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Placing a TOC at the end of a document
by Willi Egger 20 Nov '11

20 Nov '11

Hi, hm, I should place a table of contents at the end of my document. When issuing: \startsubject[title=Inhoud] \placelist[section] \stopsubject I get the section title but no TOC When issuing only \completelist[section] I get the TOC but no section title. Do I have to setup this differently or is this some bug? Willi

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equation refs broken?
by Hans van der Meer 20 Nov '11

20 Nov '11

Can someone confirm this? It seems that the equation reference mechanism is broken some time in the recent past. I have a small example done in (1) ConTeXt ver: 2011.07.13 20:14 MKIV (2) ConTeXt ver: 2011.11.17 23:31 MKIV These are respectively the first and last pdf's below. If true, it is very serious for me, because the I cannot prepare the upcoming texts for my students! Furthermore: \pagereference now introduces spurious white. For the bad vertical spacing on the left I have submitted a tentative bugfix to Hans Hagen. Hans van der Meer \setuppapersize[A6][A6] \setupformulae[spacebefore=0pt,spaceafter=0pt] \starttext \placeformula[eq:one]\startformula a = 1 \stopformula \placeformula[-]\startformula a = 2 \stopformula \placeformula[eq:three]\startformula a = 3 \stopformula \pagereference[ref:p] Refer equation-1: \in{equ=<}[eq:one]> in page \at[ref:p].\par Refer equation-3: \in{equ=<}[eq:three]> in page \at[ref:p].\par \stoptext

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Small issue with dimensions
by Vedran Miletić 19 Nov '11

19 Nov '11

Hi, the following code \starttext 1\unit{bit / second} \stoptext gives 1 econd tested with: mtx-context | current version: 2011.11.14 16:17 Vedran

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