June 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Itemizing from zero
by Kip Warner 16 Jun '11

16 Jun '11

Hey folks, I noticed some other people had issues with \startitemize[n] counting starting from zero as a bug a while ago. In my case, I need a specific list to start counting from zero. Is there any way to do this? -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

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beta
by Hans Hagen 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Hi, I uploaded a new beta. 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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LuaTeX + microtype: Small Caps vs. Letter Spacing
by N. Lindenhayn 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Hi everyone, I'm happy to see that by now almost all of microtype's features are available in Lua, almost like in the old days. There's one thing that seems a bit strange, though: While I have no trouble applying letter spacing using \textls or \lsstyle to regular, italic, or bold text, I can't get it to work on small caps. What's even stranger: while this problem occurs with all fonts I've tried, it does /not/ occur when I don't specify a font at all. Consider the example below. The only way to get the correct output, with spaced small caps, is to deactivate the \setmainfont line -- which obviously isn't what you'd want :) Any hints are appreciated; chances are I just have to add a thing here or there. best Nils. \documentclass{scrartcl} \usepackage{fontspec,microtype} \setmainfont{Minion Pro}%or TeX Gyre Termes, or Latin Modern Roman... \begin{document} stealing sheep\par \textls{stealing sheep}\par \textsc{stealing sheep}\par \textls{\textit{stealing sheep}}\par \textls{\textbf{stealing sheep}}\par \textls{\textsc{stealing sheep}} \end{document}

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Re: [NTG-context] writing the name of the section on all the pages
by alexandre＠stdin.fr 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Thanks again, it works very well. However I still have one question: is it possible to decide of the placement of the overlay and its alignment? With your example the section name is centered both horizontally and vertically. I'd like to flush it right at least. Greetings, Alex On Thu 19/05/11 19:31, "Marco" netuse(a)lavabit.com wrote: > On 2011-05-19 Alexandre Leray <alexandre@ > stdin.fr> wrote: > > Thanks Marco, > > > > I'm probably missing a piece here has it doesn't > produce anything > visible in my composition. I'm a newbie at context; > could you detail a > little bit more how to implement this or is this > snippet anything I'm > supposed to need? > > Here is a small complete example: > > > \setuplayout [location=doublesided] > \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided] > > \setupbackgrounds [state=repeat] > \defineoverlay [side] > [{\rotate[rotation=90]{\getmarking[section]}}] > \setupbackgrounds [text] [rightmargin] [background=side] > > \starttext > > \dorecurse{10} > {\startsection[title=Section \recurselevel] > \input knuth \page > \stopsection} > > \stoptext > > > Works here with MkIV 2011.05.18 22:26 > > Marco > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > maillist : ntg-contex > t(a)ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / > http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________ > ________ > >

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Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt PPA
by mathew 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:51, Reviczky, Adam <adam.reviczky(a)kcl.ac.uk>wrote: > > Why does it require Mono? That's a deal-killer for me. > > It does not. > OK, Launchpad's listing confused me. Sorry. Maybe it would have been better to use separate PPAs for unrelated projects? mathew

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ConTeXt PPA
by Kip Warner 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Hey folks, Adam was very kind enough to provide us with an up-to-date PPA for ConTeXt which makes installation much easier for those of us running Ubuntu. https://launchpad.net/~reviczky/+archive/ppa Thanks again Adam! PS I am not on the list, so you'll have to cc me if you need to. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

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[mkiv] \setupfootnotes[n=2] not working properly
by C. 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

When using columns in footnotes, the line length is not adjusted. Instead, they have the same length as if there where only one column (like in the normal setup). This works like it should in context-online (wich uses mkii, I suppose). Please make it work in mkiv, too. luatex version beta-0.70.1-2011051923 mtx-context | current version: 2011.06.08 19:06 Thank you very much! -Christian

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Modules inside project structure
by Andreas Schneider 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Hello, I'm currently trying to split our ConTeXt project into smaller parts, utilizing the ConTeXt project structure. I thought it might be a good idea to also extract reusable parts into private modules. Now I face the problem, that I can't find an optimal spot to place these modules. Currently I just have them at the root of the project where I also have the environment file that is used. That kinda works, since \usemodule uses resolvers.findctxfile which also traverses parent directories. Unfortunately \registerctxluafile doesn't, so the corresponding lua file isn't loaded (which I currently circumvent with dofile()). I guess it might be cleaner to make use of texmf-project or something similar, however that would require the "user" (who is working with that project) to modify their TeX tree and rebuild their formats. It's also a bit strange, since these modules are exclusive to that one project - a new project would at least require copies of these files anyway. So these modules should preferably lie somewhere beneath the actual project, and not "globally" on the system of the user. What would you suggest to handle such projects that should be separated and independent from the ConTeXt installation of the "users"? Would you use modules at all in that case? -- Best Regards, Andreas

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\Context bug?
by Vedran Miletić 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Hi, is it intentional that \starttext \Context \stoptext makes context (mkiv, haven't tried mkii) hang indefinitely? I'm using latest beta. Vedran

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fit to width by negative letterspacing or narrowing
by Henning Hraban Ramm 15 Jun '11

15 Jun '11

Hello again, it's been a while... ;-) I need to pack fixed lines into a fixed width box. Some years ago I had something similar in plain PostScript, where I pre-calculated the width of a text box, let the default font if it would fit my max size, otherwise try a narrow font and if that wasn’t enough decreased font size until it would fit. This time I've only one font and must not decrease font size, but must use negative kerning and perhaps some artificial narrowing. How can I do that with ConTeXt? I use MkIV, so any Lua solution is welcome. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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