July 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Export problems
by Andreas Harder 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hi, I played a little with the export feature. It's really fun. So far I've two questions/problems. 1. \setupbackend[export=yes,xhtml=yes,css=yes] \starttext before \quotation{test \quote{test}} after \stoptext exports to: before “test ‘test’ ” after -----------------------------^ (space between ’ and ”) But sometimes there is no space between the closing quote symbol and the following word. (I‘m trying to make an example). 2. Is there a possibility to “ignore” content the other way round? Something like: \startmode[export] … \stopmode Concrete it‘s problematic to export texts with onum- and pnum-features enabled. Greeting Andreas

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A question about layers
by Marcin Borkowski 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

OK, after a pm from Mojca concerning my previous question I decided to look into the "layers" mechanism. It won't work for me - just nothing shows up. What am I doing wrong? Here's a minimal example: \starttext \definelayer[title][x=105mm,y=20mm] \setlayer[title]{This is the title.} \stoptext (I'd also like to be able to "anchor" the title so that (105mm,20mm) are the coordinates of the center, not the lower-left corner etc. How to do that?) TIA -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl

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Re: [NTG-context] Anyone using dvipdfmx in minimals?
by Akira Kakuto 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Dear Mojca, > Therefore you can remove dvipdfmx from the minimals. I'm personally using dvipdfmx in ConTeXt on an engines eptex (experimental), and dvi mode of pdftex. But I believe it is not needed in the 'minimals'. Thanks, Akira

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Anyone using dvipdfmx in minimals?
by Mojca Miklavec 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Dear ConTeXt-ers, I'm trying to remember why we are shipping dvipdfmx in ConTeXt: was it because of Aleph or because of Eastern scripts? I'm not sure if it is still used or not. I know that it is pretty important in eastern scripts and as a basis for xdvipdfmx, but I don't know to what extent ConTeXt supports it and to what extent ConTeXt users are using it if at all. I would only like to know the situation. If people use it, it is no problem to keep it, but I would at least like to have a rough idea of its usefulness and usage in ConTeXt. (The dvips program will probably also be removed; I suspect that it doesn't work at the moment anyway.) Mojca

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Can not become member of NTG
by Cecil Westerhof 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

I tried to become a member, but after submitting the form I get: Not acceptable! I entered all the fields except postbus and telefoon. -- Cecil Westerhof

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How to prepare a template for list of names in ConTeXt
by Marcin Borkowski 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

Hi all, I have an ambitious plan to start (again) to use ConTeXt (MkIV, of course;)), so that I can learn it a bit; also, I'd like to play around with metapost/metafun (after a long break - I'm a metapost to tikz convert;)). I want to prepare a template for a list of names, looking like this (in ascii art;)): List of names Class ________ Date ____ A-F M-R ____ ____ ____ ____ G-L S-Z ____ ____ ____ ____ (Of course, there will be more horizontal lines). In other words, I'd like to have two columns (and a title spanning them) and a lot of places to put down a name. I'd like each horizontal line to have a little "hook" and one of the ends, i.e., a quarter of a circle. I'd like to have full control over the positioning (margins, width of the intercolumn space, height of each place for a name etc.). I'd like the labels like A-F to be also "underlined" by similar "hooked lines". How do you think I should do it? More specifically: 1. How can I do something like "metapost macro" putting a "left or right hooked horizontal line, of given length/width/color, at a specific place"? 2. How can I instruct ConTeXt to put things where I want them? In plain TeX or LaTeX, I'd use a bunch of boxes, vskips etc; what is the "ConTeXt way"? Thanks in advance! -- Marcin Borkowski

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\date bug with french
by Romain Diss 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

Hi, The date printed with the \date command is not correct in french (but ok in english). See this example : \mainlanguage[fr] \starttext \date \stoptext It prints "44 juillet 2011" (today). Without " \mainlanguage[fr]", it’s prints "July 4, 2011" (as expected). I have "ConTeXt - 2011.06.29 09:57" and "LuaTeX-0.70.1". I've never seen this bug before but I don't know if the problem is recent or not. -- Romain Diss <romain.diss(a)yahoo.fr>

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cont-sys.mkiv in texlive 2011
by eythanweg＠gmail.com 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

Hi, I have installed tl-2011 a few days ago. Context mkiv runs ok. But to configure page size I put a few commands in cont-sys.mkiv under home:.texlive2011/tex-config which is the result of mtxrun --expand-path TEXMFCONFIG. However, the file has no effect on context and nor is it found by mtxrun cont-sys.mkiv. TEXMF is found as: home:.texlive2011/texmf-config:home:texmf: !!selfautoparent:texmf-config:!!selfautoparent:texmf-project: !!selfautoparent:texmf-fonts:!!/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local: !!selfautoparent:texmf-dist:!!selfautoparent:linux-64:!!selfautoparent:texmf (one line) What do I miss? Thank you, Eythan

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Precise Destination of References
by H. Hodges 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

I have links to different parts of my document using \goto. I would like to know if there is some way to increase the precision of the links' destination. When I click them, they navigate to the correct page, but not the correct part of the page. Also, I've opened the document in several different pdf viewers, and, whenever I click a link, the document re-sizes itself. Is there a way to prevent this?

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interfaces.definecommand
by Wolfgang Schuster 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

Hi Hans, is it possible to extend “interfaces.definecommand” so that it is possible to create commands without optional arguments. \starttext \startluacode function test(opt_1, arg_1) context("%s",arg_1) end interfaces.definecommand { name = "test", arguments = { { "option", "list" }, { "content", "string" }, }, macro = test, } \stopluacode \test{whatever} \stoptext Wolfgang

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