November 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

width (height?) or 90° rotated tabulate
by Philipp Gesang 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Good evening all, the following example demonstrates my problem: ··8<····························································· \showframe \newdimen\tabcolsize \tabcolsize=.25\vsize \def\knuth{\input knuth\relax} \startbuffer[sometable] \starttabulate[|p(\tabcolsize)|p(\tabcolsize)|p(\tabcolsize)|p(\tabcolsize)|] \dorecurse{5}{\dorecurse{4}{\NC\knuth}\NC\NR} \stoptabulate \stopbuffer \starttext \placetable[here,split,90]{none}{\getbuffer[sometable]} \stoptext ··8<····························································· As you can see, I need some advice on how to restrain the tabulate float from flowing over into the right margin. What dimension do I need to set and to what value? Thanks for your time Philipp

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adjusting accents under slant
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد 03 Nov '11

03 Nov '11

Dear Hans and gang, I got this working in mkii -- using other macros --, but mkiv is frustrating me: ====================== %% Hans' bottom accent code \unprotect \unexpanded\def\bottomaccent#1#2#3#4#5% down right slantcorrection accent char {\dontleavehmode % why this align mess \vtop {\forgetall \baselineskip\zeropoint \lineskip#1% \everycr\emptytoks \tabskip\zeropoint \lineskiplimit\zeropoint \setbox0\hbox{#4}% \halign {##\crcr\hbox{#5}\crcr \hidewidth \hskip#2\wd0 \hskip-#3\slantperpoint % in plain 1ex * dimenless value \vbox to .2ex{\box0\vss}\hidewidth \crcr}}} \unexpanded\def\buildtextbottomdot {\bottomaccent{0ex}{4}{5}{\kern.1em\textbottomdot}} \let\d\buildtextbottomdot \protect \defineactivecharacter ḥ {\d{h}} \starttext ḥ {\it ḥ} \stoptext ====================== I need to adjust the horizontal position of the dot under the slanted char. I would assume the third parameter would control it but nothing seems to work. Of course LM does not look so bad but I'm using a different font so this is just an illustration. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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[t-vim] [PATCH] vim-README.md: Correct some typos
by Paul Menzel 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 20:06:35 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] vim-README.md: Correct some typos --- You can use `git am <pathtosavedmboxfile>` to apply the patch. diff --git a/vim-README.md b/vim-README.md index 557cf8f..5853aa2 100644 --- a/vim-README.md +++ b/vim-README.md @@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ The vim module This module highlights code snippets using vim as a syntax highlighter. Such a task may appear pointless at first glance. After all, ConTeXt provides excellent syntax highlighting features for TeX, Metapost, XML, -and a few other langauges. And in MkIV, you can specify the grammer to parse a +and a few other languages. And in MkIV, you can specify the grammar to parse a language, and get syntax highlighting for a new language. But writing such -grammers is difficult. More importantly, why reinvent the wheel? Most +grammars is difficult. More importantly, why reinvent the wheel? Most editors, and many other syntax highlighting programs, already syntax highlight many programming languages. Why not just leverage these external programs to generate syntax highlighting? This module does exactly that. @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ The default color scheme is `pscolor`. Line numbering --------------- -To eanble line numbering for a particular snippet, use: +To enable line numbering for a particular snippet, use: \start<vimtyping>[numbering=yes] ... -- 1.7.7.1

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hi, I uploaded a beta. A few things requested the last couple of days have been added / patched (not all of course). Also, as a prelude to getting rid of the supp-fun modules initials have been rewritten. It was a hybrid of low level code and a wrapper but now is only available in \placeinitial (the old mechanism will become a module at some point). \starttext \placeinitial \input ward \par \input ward \par \placeinitial \input tufte \setupinitial [variant] [location=text, n=2, color=darkred, distance=-1em, hoffset=1em, voffset=-3ex, before=\blank] \placeinitial[variant] \input ward \par \input ward \placeinitial[variant] \input tufte \stoptext Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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http://modules.contextgarden.net/vim: invalid link for documentation
by Paul Menzel 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Dear ConTeXt folks, the URL [1] in the Module details for the vim module [2] returns an error. URL not supported Thanks, Paul [1] http://modules.contextgarden.net/doc/context/third/vim/vim.txt [2] http://modules.contextgarden.net/vim

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Xtreme tables and borders
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hello, do xtables have (or is it intended to have in the future) support of various borders of row or cells? - Personally, most often I'd would use double line, thick or dashed border bellow table head or a row, often also a thick border on the right side of the leftmost column: ASCII art: +---+---+---+ | A # B | C | +***#***+***+ | # | | +---+---+---+ | # | | +===#===+===+ | # | | +...#...+...+ | # | | +---+---+---+ * = thick horizontal line # = thick vertical line - = normal line = = double line . = dotted line 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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Rearranging existing A5 => A4
by Markus Finke 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

Hello, I have a ready document in A5 and want to rearrange selected pages next to each other on A4 (homeprinter, proofreading). In LaTeX I was using »pdfpages«, e.g.: \usepackage[final]{pdfpages} \begin{document} \includepdf[pages={42,1-41},landscape,nup=1x2,scale=1.005]{my.pdf} \end{document} Is something like this possible in ConTeXt? TIA!

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macro string in metapost
by Meer, H. van der 02 Nov '11

02 Nov '11

The goal is to make the following string in metapost: string s; where s must become "\MPcolor{Blue}". and ultimately execute this at the right moment with: scantokens s; The following makes s = "MPcolor{Blue}": s := "MPcolor" & char oct"134" & char oct"173" & "Blue" & char oct"134" & char oct"175"; But I seem unable to add a \ in front of it without expanding the string by TeX. Thus it does not work to put: s := char oct"134" & "MPcolor" & char oct"134" & char oct"173" & "Blue" & char oct"134" & char oct"175"; Placing a \noexpand in front does not help. How to? Hans van der Meer

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ConvertToConteXt 0.2 - convert special ConTeXt-characters (PHP)
by Jan Heinen 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

At first: I am ConTeXt-newby and know PHP very well. @Peter Münster/Aditya Mahajan : I think \startasci and \stopasci is not the solution, when you generate ConTeXt-code with php full of ConTeXt-macro-calls: because sometimes the special-characters are ConTeXt-special-characters and sometimes they are purely the wanted text. @Philipp Gesang: I think Luatex could do the same job for me as PHP - however I am familar with PHP. @all: of course not every Character, i am converting, is a ConTeXt-special-character. Though I don't know all important characters I took all I could imagine. Shurly I converted too much however it is no problem: I have tested my function "ConvertToConteXt" with 400 Pages full of text and lots of ConTeXt-special-characters and ConTeXt-macro-calls and compiled a nice book with ConText. Which character must not be converted? I had a mistake in the function, below is the next version: Regards, Janis function ConvertToConteXt ( $xstring ) { /* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ConvertToConteXt() * Version 0.2 * 01.11.2011 * * author: Jörg Kopp * www.dr-kopp.com * * Convert special ConTeXt-characters with php * Works with PHP5 * * Call it with the string you want to convert ... * ConvertToConteXt ($xstring); * * ... and you get back the converted string * * e.g.: * Input: * $string = "My root-Directory: /home/hans"; * $string = ConvertToConteXt ( $string ); * * Output/Return: * $string = "My root\\char45Directory\\char58 \\char47home\\char47hans"; * * When you write this into a file ... * file_put_contents ( "example.tex", "My root\\char45Directory\char58 \\char47home\\char47hans", FILE_APPEND ); * * ... You will find the following in example.tex: * My root\char45Directory\char58 \char47home\char47hans * * An when you compile example.tex with ConTeXt * context example.text * * You can read the following in the resulting example.pdf: * My root-Directory: /home/hans * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ $xstring = html_entity_decode ( $xstring ); // convert HTML-entities into normal characters // Braces and Backslash need to be handled first otherwise trash will be produced $xstring = str_replace ( "{", "*$##char123##$*", $xstring ); // geschweifte Klammer auf/left curly brace $xstring = str_replace ( "}", "*$##char125##$*", $xstring ); // geschweifte Klammer zu/right curly brace $xstring = str_replace ( "\\", "{\\char92}", $xstring ); // Backslash/backslash $xstring = str_replace ( "*$##char123##$*", "{\\char123}", $xstring ); // This trick is nessecary ... $xstring = str_replace ( "*$##char125##$*", "{\\char125}", $xstring ); // ... !!! $xstring = str_replace ( "!", "{\\char33}", $xstring ); // Ausrufungszeichen/ConvertToConteXt $xstring = str_replace ( "\"", "{\\char34}", $xstring ); // Anführungszeichen/quotation mark $xstring = str_replace ( "#", "{\\char35}", $xstring ); // Raute/number sign $xstring = str_replace ( "$", "{\\char36}", $xstring ); // Dollar-Zeichen/dollar sign $xstring = str_replace ( "%", "{\\char37}", $xstring ); // Prozent-Zeichen/percent sign $xstring = str_replace ( "&", "{\\char38}", $xstring ); // Kaufmännisches Und/ampersand $xstring = str_replace ( "'", "{\\char39}", $xstring ); // Apostroph/apostrophe $xstring = str_replace ( "(", "{\\char40}", $xstring ); // Klammer auf/left parenthesis $xstring = str_replace ( ")", "{\\char41}", $xstring ); // Klammer zu/right parenthesis $xstring = str_replace ( "*", "{\\char42}", $xstring ); // Stern/asterisk $xstring = str_replace ( "+", "{\\char43}", $xstring ); // Plus/plus sign $xstring = str_replace ( ",", "{\\char44}", $xstring ); // Komma/comma $xstring = str_replace ( "-", "{\\char45}", $xstring ); // Minus/hyphen $xstring = str_replace ( ".", "{\\char46}", $xstring ); // Punkt/period $xstring = str_replace ( "/", "{\\char47}", $xstring ); // Schrägstrich/period $xstring = str_replace ( ":", "{\\char58}", $xstring ); // Doppelpunkt/colon $xstring = str_replace ( ";", "{\\char59}", $xstring ); // Semikolon/semicolon $xstring = str_replace ( "<", "{\\char60}", $xstring ); // Kleinerzeichen/less-than $xstring = str_replace ( "=", "{\\char61}", $xstring ); // Gleichzeichen/equals-to $xstring = str_replace ( ">", "{\\char62}", $xstring ); // Größerzeichen/greater-than $xstring = str_replace ( "?", "{\\char63}", $xstring ); // Fragezeichen/question mark $xstring = str_replace ( "@", "{\\char64}", $xstring ); // at-Zeichen/at sign $xstring = str_replace ( "[", "{\\char91}", $xstring ); // eckige Klammer auf/left square bracket $xstring = str_replace ( "]", "{\\char93}", $xstring ); // eckige Klammer zu/right square bracket $xstring = str_replace ( "^", "{\\char94}", $xstring ); // Zirkumflex/caret $xstring = str_replace ( "_", "{\\char95}", $xstring ); // Unterstrich/underscore //$xstring = str_replace ( "°", "{\\char??}", $xstring ); // Grad/ < ------ missing $xstring = str_replace ( "`", "{\\char96}", $xstring ); // accent aigu/acute accent $xstring = str_replace ( "|", "{\\char124}", $xstring ); // Pipezeichen/vertical bar $xstring = str_replace ( "~", "{\\char126}", $xstring ); // Tilde/tilde //$xstring = str_replace ( "•", "{\\char??}", $xstring ); // ?/ < ------ missing //$xstring = str_replace ( "º", "{\\char??}", $xstring ); // ?/ < ------ missing return $xstring; }

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ConvertToConteXt - convert special ConTeXt-characters (PHP)
by Jan Heinen 01 Nov '11

01 Nov '11

Hello, I am just programming a catalog which should be printed. I have a lot of data, text and pictures in a MySQL-database and want to generate a nice catalog with ConTeXt. To get the data from MySQL to ConTeXt I use PHP as an Interface: MySQL -> PHP -> ConTeXt And lot's of ConTeXt-macros will make a nice layout :-) To give something back to this ConTeXt-community, I will put some helpfull PHP-functions into the wiki of contextgarden.net. Today I wrote the function "ConvertToConteXt" which converts special ConTeXt-characters. You can see it below. Before I put it into contextgarden.net ... 1. ... please test it. 2. You see three characters, where I don't know the code-number \char??? for ConTeXt. Do you know them? 3. Did I forget to convert a character? Regards Jannis function ConvertToConteXt ( $xstring ) { /* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * author: Jörg Kopp * www.dr-kopp.com * 01.11.2011 * * Convert special ConTeXt-characters with php * Works with PHP5 * * Call it with the string you want to convert ... * ConvertToConteXt ($xstring); * * ... and you get back the converted string * * e.g.: * Input: * $string = "My root-Directory: /home/hans"; * $string = ConvertToConteXt ( $string ); * * Output/Return: * $string = "My root\\char45Directory\\char58 \\char47home\\char47hans"; * * When you write this into a file ... * file_put_contents ( "example.tex", "My root\\char45Directory\char58 \\char47home\\char47hans", FILE_APPEND ); * * ... You will find the following in example.tex: * My root\char45Directory\char58 \char47home\char47hans * * An when you compile example.tex with ConTeXt * context example.text * * You can read the following in the resulting example.pdf: * My root-Directory: /home/hans * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ $xstring = html_entity_decode ( $xstring ); // convert HTML-entities into normal characters $xstring = str_replace ( "!", "\\char33", $xstring ); // Ausrufungszeichen/ConvertToConteXt $xstring = str_replace ( "\"", "\\char34", $xstring ); // Anführungszeichen/quotation mark $xstring = str_replace ( "#", "\\char35", $xstring ); // Raute/number sign $xstring = str_replace ( "$", "\\char36", $xstring ); // Dollar-Zeichen/dollar sign $xstring = str_replace ( "%", "\\char37", $xstring ); // Prozent-Zeichen/percent sign $xstring = str_replace ( "&", "\\char38", $xstring ); // Kaufmännisches Und/ampersand $xstring = str_replace ( "'", "\\char39", $xstring ); // Apostroph/apostrophe $xstring = str_replace ( "(", "\\char40", $xstring ); // Klammer auf/left parenthesis $xstring = str_replace ( ")", "\\char41", $xstring ); // Klammer zu/right parenthesis $xstring = str_replace ( "*", "\\char42", $xstring ); // Stern/asterisk $xstring = str_replace ( "+", "\\char43", $xstring ); // Plus/plus sign $xstring = str_replace ( ",", "\\char44", $xstring ); // Komma/comma $xstring = str_replace ( "-", "\\char45", $xstring ); // Minus/hyphen $xstring = str_replace ( ".", "\\char46", $xstring ); // Punkt/period $xstring = str_replace ( "/", "\\char47", $xstring ); // Schrägstrich/period $xstring = str_replace ( ":", "\\char58", $xstring ); // Doppelpunkt/colon $xstring = str_replace ( ";", "\\char59", $xstring ); // Semikolon/semicolon $xstring = str_replace ( "<", "\\char60", $xstring ); // Kleinerzeichen/less-than $xstring = str_replace ( "=", "\\char61", $xstring ); // Gleichzeichen/equals-to $xstring = str_replace ( ">", "\\char62", $xstring ); // Größerzeichen/greater-than $xstring = str_replace ( "?", "\\char63", $xstring ); // Fragezeichen/question mark $xstring = str_replace ( "@", "\\char64", $xstring ); // at-Zeichen/at sign $xstring = str_replace ( "[", "\\char91", $xstring ); // eckige Klammer auf/left square bracket $xstring = str_replace ( "\\", "\\char92", $xstring ); // Backslash/backslash $xstring = str_replace ( "]", "\\char93", $xstring ); // eckige Klammer zu/right square bracket $xstring = str_replace ( "^", "\\char94", $xstring ); // Zirkumflex/caret $xstring = str_replace ( "_", "\\char95", $xstring ); // Unterstrich/underscore //$xstring = str_replace ( "°", "\\char", $xstring ); // Grad/ < ------ missing $xstring = str_replace ( "`", "\\char96", $xstring ); // accent aigu/acute accent $xstring = str_replace ( "{", "\\char123", $xstring ); // geschweifte Klammer auf/left curly brace $xstring = str_replace ( "|", "\\char124", $xstring ); // Pipezeichen/vertical bar $xstring = str_replace ( "}", "\\char125", $xstring ); // geschweifte Klammer zu/right curly brace $xstring = str_replace ( "~", "\\char126", $xstring ); // Tilde/tilde //$xstring = str_replace ( "•", "\\char", $xstring ); // ?/ < ------ missing //$xstring = str_replace ( "º", "\\char", $xstring ); // ?/ < ------ missing return $xstring; }

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