August 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

How to align \mframed correctly?
by Marcin Borkowski 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

As the example below shows, \mframed part of the formula is placed too high. I found that \inmframed helps, but my question is: does \inmframed alter spacing? In other words: does $...whatever...$ look the same as $...\inmframed[frame=off]{whatever}...$? \starttext $E=\mframed{mc^2}$ % wrong $E=\inmframed{mc^2}$ % much better \stoptext Regards, -- Marcin Borkowski

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Parsing image pixels with lua
by Stefan Müller 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Hi list, I'm trying to create a ConTeXt document that searches for image-files (png, jpg, any, whatever... that's not important) in the same directory and processes all found images in a certain way. I'm pretty sure that parsing the directory should work with lua in ConTeXt, but I'm stuck at the part where I want lua to process the image. Is it somehow possible to get the color of an arbitrary pixel in the image (file) given the vertical and horizontal position of the pixel? I could process the images beforehand with another application (which does not yet exist) and write its output to ASCII files or something, but I rather avoid that. If that's the only possibility, how would I call another application while processing a tex file with ConTeXt? Thanks in advance for any hints, Stefan

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My company and its client properly are going to use ConTeXt
by Cecil Westerhof 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

There was a long discussion about how to convert ConTeXt to another format. The gist was that it was not really possible and the best option properly would be to convert to XHTML. But it looks like they are ready to work with ConTeXt. I am asked to instal it on a Windows machine to show how it works. And when they are satisfied, they will make the switch. When anyone has tips how to showcase it … -- Cecil Westerhof

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Footer including "Page n of m"
by Alasdair McAndrew 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

I'm trying to recreate an MS Word document in ConTeXt. The reason for this is so the final document won't stand out from the others too much, and also so that I can have better control over the layout. One thing I'm having difficulty with is the footer, which consists of a rule, followed by "Name of document on the left << space >> Page n of m" where "n" is the current page number, and "m" is the total number of pages and is on the right. Is there an automatic way of obtaining "m", and what's the best way of preceding this footer by a rule? Thanks very much, Alasdair -- Blog: http://amca01.wordpress.com Web: http://bit.ly/Alasdair Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/alasdair.mcandrew

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