March 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

\setuppublications problem
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 26 Apr '11

26 Apr '11

Hi all, Using the last mkiv from the minimals, \setuppublications seems out of order. If I write: .................................. \setupbibtex [database=/home/jean/biblio] \setuppublications[alternative=apa] \starttext {\bf Bibliography} \nocite[foo, bla, blu] \placepublications \stoptext ................................... the pub list is empty. But if comment out this line the bibliography is printed; it works also ok with \setuppublications[] -- Jean

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slide steps again
by Curiouslearn 25 Apr '11

25 Apr '11

Hi All, I am making some slides using the Swoosh style in simpleslides module. I wanted to reveal some content sequentially. I read the messages here and learn about pre-stepwise. I tried the following. It does not, however, work. \usemodule[simpleslides][style=Swoosh] \usemodule[pre-stepwise] \starttext \SlideTitle{Context can be used for \dots} \StartSteps \startitemize[n] \item Writing your articles \FlushStep \item Making slides for presentations \FlushStep \stopitemize \StopSteps \SlideTitle{Context Wish List} Can someone please enhance simpleslides so that one can do as many things with it as with Beamer? \stoptext The material on first slide does not appear. When one clicks next, one goes directly to the next slide. I am using ConTeXt ver: 2010.12.15 13:04 MKIV fmt: 2010.12.15 int: english/english Thanks, Bharat

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simpleslides/metapost bug ?
by zs 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hello everybody. Can you please confirm that following code fails: \usemodule[simpleslides] \starttext \IncludePicture[horizontal][cow][highlight=yes, alternative=circle, x=1, y=1, xscale=1, yscale=1, shadow=bottomleft]{hello} \stoptext And this does not: \usemodule[simpleslides] \starttext \IncludePicture[horizontal][cow][highlight=no, alternative=circle, x=1, y=1, xscale=1, yscale=1, shadow=bottomleft]{hello} \stoptext It seems like something goes wrong when circle is made. I can't find what is wrong from error messages. I will be back on Friday next week to answer. Regards Zdenek

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wikimedia2context: any existing solutions?
by Mojca Miklavec 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

Hello, Before I start reinvinting the wheel ... I have a feeling that some people were already doing some basic wikimedia2context syntax conversion. I would like to create PDF out of some wiki pages with very limited number of used commands. I have created a simple ruby script that fetches all the contents that I want in the final PDF, all that is left to be done is conversion from wiki to tex syntax: - replace =...= with \section{...}, ==...== with \subsection{...}, ===...=== with \subsubsection{...}, ... - replace ''...'' with {\bf ...}, '''...''' with {\it ...}, '''''...''''' with {\bi ...} - all lines starting with a space should be printed verbatim - lines starting with * should be bulleted itemize - lines starting with # should be numbered itemize - some trivial replacements like > - some links: [[abc def]] should become symlinks to begining of sections with that title - [[Image:chap1-f2.jpg|frame|Figure 1.2: Cylindrical scanner]] should become \placefigure{Cylindrical scanner}{\externalfigure[chap1-f2.jpg]} - a few tables Maybe there is more, but I think that this covers the majority of contents. The solution doesn't have to be too robust and I don't care what language it is written in (I just need a printed manual and I have no problem manually tweaking the pitfals after the conversion if needed). I can start writing regular expressions, but in case that somebody has an almost-ready-to-use solution, that would be much better than doing everything from scratch. (A Lua function that would simply read in a plain wiki file would be nice, but I have never tried to gain deep understanding of "parsing" in lua.) Thanks a lot, Mojca

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chapter and section titles in margin of each page
by C. 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hello, this is nice: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Headers_and_Footers#Marginal_headings_and_cent ered_headings However, the text in the margin has not the same interlinespace as the main text and that looks weird. See http://i52.tinypic.com/91rc.png The only solution I came up with is using \framed: \startsetups[text a] \framed[align=flushleft, height=24\lineheight, width=\rightmarginwidth, frame=off ] {\getmarking[section]} \stopsetups The drawback seems to be that with this, I can not use \raised , so I have to enlarge the frame (It says "A box is expected here" when I try to raise the frame). Is there a better solution? P.S: Bonus points: Align baselines of margin text and main text.

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rscale (only for integers?)
by Steffen Wolfrum 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hi, in a typescript I need to set sansserif font proportional bigger than serif font. Using "rscale"? As far as I have seen this only works when integers are used for bodyfont: \starttypescript [times] \definetypeface [times] [ss] [sans] [helvetica] [default] [rscale=10.2] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[times] %\setupbodyfont[times,10pt] % <- try this ... \setupbodyfont[times,10.1pt] % <- ... and then this \starttext Test \ss{text} \stoptext Unfortunately the sizes for bodyfont and footnotes are specified by publisher (10.1pt and 8.5pt). Is there a chance to get rscale working even for theses decimal fractions? Steffen

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Bibliography -- complete inline citations in footnotes
by Piotr Lesnicki 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hi, I'm new to ConTeXt and I'm greatly appreciating the rejuvenation it brings me in typesetting after several years using LaTeX. I'm confronted to a few little problems though, the main one being that I'd need to have references both in the footnotes and at the end of a document. Under LaTeX I found that the "inlibib" package is doing exactly that, inserting some "ibid" and "op.cit." when required for repeting references. After reading the bibmod-doc, I thought I would temporarly solve the problem by simply using \setuppublications[refcommand=data] which I thought would put the reference in the same format as in the bibliography, but it doesn't compile. Does any one have a solution? Piotr

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Gradient in table header
by Felix Ingram 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Is such a thing possible? I'd like to have a gradient changing from blue to white across my table header, spanning all columns. I'll probably be using the TABLE environment. Regards, Felix

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Minimal example for Cyrillic
by Aleksandr Sinicyn 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hello! Cyrillic characters get transliterated after being processed by "texexec". The following example: \enableregime[utf] \useencoding[cyr] \definetypeface[russian][rm][serif][computer-modern][default][encoding=t2a] \setupbodyfont[russian,24pt] \starttext Немного русского текста для пробы. \stoptext produces this result: Nemnogo russkogo teksta dlya probery. Solution posted at "http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2008/035330.html" no longer works with context version "ConTeXt ver: 2010.09.09 23:45 MKII fmt: 2010.9.10 int: english/english" but produces the following message: ! Font \*russian12ptrmtfrm*:=larm1000 at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> Thank you for help. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow

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columnset failed in the latest beta
by Zhichu Chen 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Minimal code: \definecolumnset[columntest][n=2,balance=yes] \definecolumnsetspan[wide][n=2] \starttext \startcolumnset[columntest] \startcolumnsetspan[wide] \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth\par} \stopcolumnsetspan \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth\par} \stopcolumnset \stoptext There is no columnsetspan, and a wide frame shows up instead. -- Best Regards Chen

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