April 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

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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MKIV: Wrong conversion for \date
by Wolfgang Schuster 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hi Hans, there are a few problems with the keywords for \date in MkIV. \starttext \starttabulate[|l|l|l|] \NC keyword \NC MkII \NC MKIV \NC\NR \NC day \NC 4 \NC \currentdate[day] \NC\NR \NC day+ \NC 4 \NC \currentdate[day+] \NC\NR \NC month \NC April \NC \currentdate[month] \NC\NR \NC year \NC 2011 \NC \currentdate[year] \NC\NR \NC d \NC 4 \NC \currentdate[d] \NC\NR \NC d+ \NC 4 \NC \currentdate[d+] \NC\NR \NC m \NC April \NC \currentdate[m] \NC\NR \NC j \NC 2011 \NC \currentdate[j] \NC\NR \NC y \NC 2011 \NC \currentdate[y] \NC\NR \NC w \NC Monday \NC \currentdate[w] \NC\NR \NC dd \NC 04 \NC \currentdate[dd] \NC\NR \NC dd+ \NC 4 \NC \currentdate[dd+] \NC\NR \NC mm \NC 04 \NC \currentdate[mm] \NC\NR \NC jj \NC 11 \NC \currentdate[jj] \NC\NR \NC yy \NC 11 \NC \currentdate[yy] \NC\NR \NC weekday \NC Monday \NC \currentdate[weekday] \NC\NR \NC referral \NC 20110404 \NC \currentdate[referral] \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stoptext What i miss is also a way to get the month with a single digit, e.g. \currentdate[day,.,month,.,year] print “4.April.2011” but i want “4.4.2011”. Wolfgang

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[OT] ymacs
by luigi scarso 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

http://www.ymacs.org/ -- luigi

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Section stoppers
by Aditya Mahajan 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

Hi, I want the section titles to look like: Section 1 – Section heading How do I get the endash between the section number and the header in MkIV? Thanks, Aditya

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Position of MetaPost graphics
by Tim Steenvoorden 03 Apr '11

03 Apr '11

Dear list, I'm trying to make some fancy chapter headers. With MetaPost I drew a wave, which I'd like to place in the margin. I've read details.pdf and metafun.pdf, but I don't manage to get the positioning right. The wave should begin where the bottomframe ends and move on to the page border. Also, the graphic is placed in the page background layer, but nevertheless the text after the the graphic is shifted down. \startuniqueMPgraphic{wave} numeric periods, width; path wave; periods := 3 + 1/4; width := periods * 2*pi; wave := origin for x=0 step 0.1 until width: -- (x,x*sin(x)) endfor; pickup pencircle scaled 1pt; draw wave xscaled (OverlayWidth/width) yscaled (OverlayHeight/(2*width)); \stopuniqueMPgraphic \definelayer[decorations][position=yes,option=test,location=r] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=decorations] \defineoverlay[wave][\uniqueMPgraphic{wave}] \starttext {\ss\bfc A chapter title} \blank[small] \framed[frame=off,bottomframe=on,width=broad,rulethickness=1pt] {\ss\bfx \date \hfill Author Name} \setlayer[decorations]{\framed[background=wave,frame=off,width=\cutspace,height=2\lineheight]{}} \input knuth \stoptext What am I doing wrong? Is it a better idea to draw the bottomframe in MetaPost too? How do I take care of positioning in that case? Absolute positioning is not an option, because the length of the chapterheads can be two lines. It should also work on other paper sizes (A5 in particular). Kind regards, Tim Steenvoorden

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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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something's wrong with arranging
by Thomas A. Schmitz 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

Hi all, something doesn't work with arranging pages in the latest beta. Minimal example: \setuppapersize[A6][A4] \setuparranging[2*4] \starttext \dorecurse{24}{\input tufte \page} \stoptext Only the first two sheets are properly arranged. Must be pretty recent, it worked about two weeks ago. All best Thomas

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Need help with \setuphead and spacing
by Nicola 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

Hi, I still have a couple of requests from a publisher, which I do not know how to fulfill: 1) I need to shift the title 12pt below the top margin. This is my command now: \definefont[TitleStyle][SerifBold at 14pt] \setuphead[title][ style=TitleStyle, align=middle, textstyle=WORD, before={\blank[12pt]}, after={\blank[3pt]} ] But 'before' does not seem to have any effect. My document starts with \starttext\title{...}. 2) I need (sub)section titles indented by .75cm, regardless of the section number, so that in: 1 First Section 1.1 First Subsection 100 Another Section Title 100.1 Another subsection the section titles are aligned. I have tried to use the 'distance' option, but that seems to set the distance between the section number and the section title. I am stuck with these, so any help would greatly be appreciated. I am using MKIV 2011.02.25 22:03 to compile. Nicola

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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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string 'space' instead of space ' ' in Russian/Ukranian translations
by Yury G. Kudryashov 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Hi! While converting translations to lang-txt.lua many spaces in Russian and Ukranian translations were replaced by the string "space". See attached patch.

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