May 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Unskipping punctuation
by Florian Wobbe 10 May '11

10 May '11

Hi, is it possible to '\unskip' the last comma or period? This would be handy for defining the publication layout using \setuppublicationlayout. I have bibtex entries ending with period and adding another one looks odd. Thanks, Florian

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Bibliography and multiple years of the same author
by Florian Wobbe 10 May '11

10 May '11

Hi, how do I get an additional space after the comma separating the years in this cite? (Hagen, 2010b,2011) --> (Hagen, 2010b, 2011) Minimal example: \setupbibtex[database=sample] \setuppublications[alternative=apa, refcommand=authoryears] \starttext \cite[hh2010a, hh2011] \stoptext Also add the following entry to sample.bib: @ARTICLE{hh2011, author = hh, title = {The Font Name Mess (II)}, journal = {MAPS}, year = {2011}, volume = {41}, pages = {2-8}, keywords = {context}, } Thanks, Florian

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How to create a breakable text box inside math equation?
by Mojca Miklavec 10 May '11

10 May '11

Hello, This is probably a very trivial question, but I'm not sure how TeX works in that respect. I'm used to use a macro \def\unit#1{{\rm\ #1} in constructs such as $1\unit{cm^2} \times 2\unit{cm}$. However I figured out that the contents of \unit{} cannot be broken accross lines, most probably because this becomes an hbox. Is there any simple workaround? Thanks a lot, Mojca

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handouts blank
by Reviczky, Adam 10 May '11

10 May '11

Hi, I'm trying to make some (mkiv) handouts from my simpleslides presentation. Unfortunately the resulting pdf is blank for the slides, no frames either. Can someone give me an example that works? Here's my minimal: % slides.tex \usemodule[simpleslides][style=BigNumber,font=Helvetica] \setupTitle [title={Title}, author={Author}, date={\currentdate}] \starttext \placeTitle \SlideTitle{Title2} content \SlideTitle{Title3} content \stoptext % handout.tex \setuppapersize [A4][A4] % or [A4,landscape][A4,landscape] \setuplayout [header=0pt,footer=1cm,backspace=1cm,topspace=1cm,width=middle,height=middle] \setupfootertexts [presentation---\currentdate\space---\space\pagenumber] \starttext \combinepages[slides][nx=2,ny=3,frame=on] \stoptext I also tried it with the standard presentation examples and using .tex and .pdf suffixes for the combinepages command. Adam

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mtxrun --script metapost and fonts?
by Michal Kvasnička 10 May '11

10 May '11

Hallo. I've got a problem with metapost -> pdf translation. Since mptopdf is still broken in the last ConTeXt beta in the minimal distribution, I use "mtxrun --script metapost --split". It works well, only it ignores font setting. My code is like this: verbatimtex \definetypeface [times] [rm] [serif] [times] [default] [encoding=ec] \definetypeface [times] [mm] [math] [times] [default] [encoding=ec] \setupbodyfont [times,10pt] etex; beginfig(1); label(btex A $a_i$ etex,origin); endfig; end. I believe that the code in the verbatimtex ... etex environment should switch the major font to Times (it works with "texexec --mptex"). However, it is ignored by the "mtxrun --script metapost --split" script---Computer Modern in 12pt is used instead of Times in 10pt. Is there any way around this problem? Many thanks for your help. Best wishes, Michal Kvasnicka

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formula numbering in unnumbered sections
by Julian Becker 10 May '11

10 May '11

I came across the following problem recently: In my document I want chapters and sections to be numbered, but not subsections, subsubsections etc. Then, additionally I want my formulae to be numbered by chapter and section, but not subsection. In the following example the first equation gets numbered correctly as (1.1), (1.2) and (3) in the first chapter, and as (2.1), (2.2) and (3) in the second chapter respectively, which is not what I wanted. I'd rather have the formulae numbered as (1.1), (1.2) and (1.3) in the first chapter, and as (2.1), (2.2) and (2.3). Anybody has an idea how to accomplish this? Thanks, Julian ----------------- \setuphead[subsection][number=no] \setupnumber[formula][key=chapter] \starttext \chapter{Wake up} \placeformula \startformula a^2+b^2=c^2 \stopformula \section{Make Coffee} \placeformula \startformula c^2+d^2=e^2 \stopformula \subsection{Now waking up for real} \placeformula \startformula a^2+b^2=c^2 \stopformula \chapter{Wake up again} \placeformula \startformula a^2+b^2=c^2 \stopformula \section{Make Coffee again} \placeformula \startformula c^2+d^2=e^2 \stopformula \subsection{Now waking up for real} \placeformula \startformula a^2+b^2=c^2 \stopformula \stoptext ------------- "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for it is the wellspring of life."

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Bibtex to bbl-file conversion
by finkler 10 May '11

10 May '11

Hello there, somehow texexec (in the latest minimal distribution) does not convert my bibtex-file correctly into an bbl-file. ------------------------- My bibtex file: @BOOK{Fowler2006, author = {Fowler, C. M. R.}, year = {2006}, title = {The Solid Earth. An Introduction to Global Geophysics}, location = {New York}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, pages = {685}, edition = {2} } The resulting bbl-file: \setuppublicationlist[samplesize={Fow06},totalnumber=1] \startpublication[k=Fowler2006,t=book, a={{Fowler}},y=2006, n=1,s=Fow06] \author[]{C.~M.~R.}[C.~M.~R.]{}{Fowler} \pubyear{2006} \title{The Solid Earth. An Introduction to Global Geophysics} \pubname{Cambridge University Press} \edition{2} \stoppublication ---------------------------- As you can see, "pages" is omitted, and another problem is that I'd like to have "location" converted to "city"; is this possible? Can someone give me some hints as solve my problems, why does texexec not recognize the "pages" variable? regards, finkler

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AMSTeX compatibility: `\dotsb` is not defined
by Paul Menzel 09 May '11

09 May '11

Dear ConTeXt folks, `\dotsb` is not defined although it is defined in AMSTeX (amsmath) [1]. Please find the following minimal example also attached. \starttext This throws an error, since »\backslash dotsb« is not defined. \startformula 1 + 2 + 3 + \dotsb + n = \frac{n}{2} (n + 1) \stopformula \stoptext This is the error. […] system > begin file dotsb.tex at line 1 ! Undefined control sequence. system > tex > error on line 5 in file dotsb.tex: Undefined control sequence ... 1 \starttext 2 This throws an error, since »\backslash dotsb« is not defined. 3 4 \startformula 5 >> 1 + 2 + 3 + \dotsb + n = \frac{n}{2} (n + 1) 6 \stopformula 7 \stoptext 8 l.5 1 + 2 + 3 + \dotsb + n = \frac{n}{2} (n + 1) ? […] Is `\dotsb` not defined intentionally? Thanks, Paul [1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Mathematics#Introducing_text_and_dots_in…

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Re: [NTG-context] Error with export=yes
by Reviczky, Adam 09 May '11

09 May '11

> Do you set a value for the xhtml key? Yeah, I figured that out now, epub is generated now, still playing with it, trying with calibre .. Thanks

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Re: [NTG-context] Error with export=yes
by Reviczky, Adam 09 May '11

09 May '11

Further, using an example with dingbats: %%% \setupbackend[export=cld-mkiv-export.xml,xhtml=cld-mkiv-export.xhtml,css={cld-mkiv-export.css,mathml.css}] \starttext Hello world! \getnamedglyphdirect{name:dingbats}{a79} \stoptext %%% Produces a broken xhtml (XML Parsing Error: not well-formed), the pdf is fine of course. The end-mark is exported to "��" in xhtml. Not sure if that's anything to fix, just wanted to let you know. Adam

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