September 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: [NTG-context] [Layout] Problem with ConTeXt mkII
by Pierre-François Bonnefoi 26 Sep '11

26 Sep '11

Hello Luigi, Thanks for the footer ;-) But, currently, I've some difficulties to commit to the "Don't panic !" I've tried the following : %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setuptolerance[verytolerant,stretch] \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout[ backspace=3cm, topspace=1.5cm, rightmargin=0cm,leftmargin=1.3cm, width=15cm, leftmargindistance=0.2cm, height=fit, header=0cm, footer=1cm, textheight=25.7cm ] And I obtain this (with \showlayout) : topspace 1.49979cm height 26.6962cm header 0.0cm headerdistance 0.0cm textheight 25.69635cm footer 0.99985cm footerdistance 0.0cm %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% BUT, when I add the following : %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \definelayout[1][ topspace=5.2cm, height=fit, textheight=23.7cm ] \definelayout[2][reset] For the page (1): topspace 5.19925cm height 19.29726cm header 0.0cm headerdistance 0.0cm textheight 18.2974cm footer 0.99985cm footerdistance 0.0cm For the page (2) and the following : topspace 1.49979cm height 26.6962cm header 0.0cm headerdistance 0.0cm textheight 18.2974cm footer 0.99985cm footerdistance 0.0cm %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The textheight is blocked to an unexpected value : 18.3cm for the whole document. I've read and re-read the manual, but I've not found my error... Thank you for your help, Pierre-François. -- Bonnefoi Pierre-Francois | E-mail : bonnefoi(a)unilim.fr Universite de Limoges, Laboratoire XLIM | Tel : 06 28 18 03 38 83, rue d'Isle | Mrs. Peel, we're needed... 87000 Limoges - FRANCE | The Avengers.

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Missing booktitle in "incollection" bib-entries
by Stefan Müller 26 Sep '11

26 Sep '11

Hi list, I have an @incollection-entry with "booktitle" set in a bib-file used in a ConTeXt document. Unfortunately there is no \title, generated from "booktitle", in the respective .bbl file. Only \arttitle, generated from the bib-key "title", is present. Guess it's a bug(?) Best regards, Stefan

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[Layout] Problem with ConTeXt mkII
by Pierre-François Bonnefoi 26 Sep '11

26 Sep '11

Hello, I use extensively ConTeXt for my work as a teacher. I run into this problem : I've defined the following layout for giving work for my students : \setuptolerance[verytolerant,stretch] \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout[ backspace=3cm, topspace=1.5cm, rightmargin=0cm,leftmargin=1.3cm, width=15cm, leftmargindistance=0.2cm, height=26.7cm, header=0cm, footer=1cm ] \definelayout[1][ topspace=5.2cm, height=23cm, textheight=22cm] \definelayout[2][reset] The purpose is to give some space on the first page to put a layer with a big title (it's for a document full of exercices, an example could be found at http://ishtar.msi.unilim.fr/uploads/media/Reseaux_I_TD_1_2011_2012.pdf) But, after having the correct layout for the first page, the second page gives me a reduced textheight : the text don't flow on the lower part of the page. That could be explain as the textheight variable is not computed for the second page. This is very annoying. I've found a workaround by using the same layout for the whole document and put some blank lines on the first page. I use the following version "ConTeXt ver: 2011.05.18 18:04 MKII fmt: 2011.8.31 int: english/english". Thank you for your help, Pierre-François. -- Bonnefoi Pierre-Francois | E-mail : bonnefoi(a)unilim.fr Universite de Limoges, Laboratoire XLIM | Tel : 06 28 18 03 38 83, rue d'Isle | Mrs. Peel, we're needed... 87000 Limoges - FRANCE | The Avengers.

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Frame around float and its caption, how to?
by Stefan Müller 25 Sep '11

25 Sep '11

Hi list, I'm using 201100920 00:09 MkIV standalone. Some time ago Marcin Borkowski asked [1] on this list about framing floats together with their captions. It seems to be unanswered and now I stumbled upon a similar problem. I want to have a figure with a caption together in a frame as wide as the surrounding text, aka \textwidth and the caption filling the available horizontal space. I.e. I want something like \setupcaption[width=\textwidth] \starttext \placefigure[here]{\input tufte}{\externalfigure[cow]} \stoptext with a frame around it. I see two approaches here and none of them gives me what I need. First using \setupfloat[frame=on] only frames the cow and not the caption. I think I can manually correct this with "framedepth" and "width" but doing something "manually" in ConTeXt seems not like a good idea. Am I overlooking something about \setupfloat? Secondly, I tried \framed{...} around \placefigure but there are two issues here: How do I setup the caption to fit nicely into the frame? "\setupcaption[width=\textwidth]" is to much because of the frame spacing... And there is another serious issue, see the following minimal example. The frame is where the figure was placed but is empty, because the figure floated to the next page. \setupcaption[width=max] \starttext \dorecurse{2}{\input tufte \par} \framed{\placefigure[here][fig:muh]{\input tufte}{\externalfigure[cow]}} \input tufte \stoptext I have no idea how to procede with this. Hopefully someone on this list knows how to do this right. Thanks in advance, Stefan. [1] http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20090724.123610.ddad55af.en.html

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Re: [NTG-context] Multipages registers
by Pierre-François Bonnefoi 25 Sep '11

25 Sep '11

> Where is such a macro given in the garden. A quick search did not show it. > > Aditya Hum... It's a long time ago...I think I've heavily modified the initial macro... Thank you for your much cleaner version. Pierre-François. -- Bonnefoi Pierre-Francois | E-mail : bonnefoi(a)unilim.fr Universite de Limoges, Laboratoire XLIM | Tel : 06 28 18 03 38 83, rue d'Isle | Mrs. Peel, we're needed... 87000 Limoges - FRANCE | The Avengers.

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Re: [NTG-context] caption labels
by Felix Ingram 24 Sep '11

24 Sep '11

> Am 23.09.2011 um 12:45 schrieb Felix Ingram: > >>>> I'm defining a new float that I'd like to caption with its own label. >>>> Something like: >>>> >>>> \definefloat[picture][pictures] >>>> >>>> I'd then like the caption to read: >>>> >>>> Picture 1 - my caption text >>>> Picture 2 - etc >>>> >>>> At the moment I've used \setupcaption[picture][way=bytext] to sort out >>>> the numbering but I cannot figure out how to do the label. >>> >>> \setupcaption[picture][way=bytext,label=Picture] does the trick >> >> This doesn't work for me. Setupcaption doesn't appear to support a >> label option (MKIV and assuming I'm looking at the correct source >> file…) > > Use “\setuplabeltext[picture=Picture ]”. > > Wolfgang Firstly, thanks for the reply. Secondly, apologies again for not supplying a minimal example - this would have helped me track down what's causing my issue. \mainlanguage[en-gb] %% Remove me for labels %\mainlanguage[en] %% or use me instead \definefloat[picture][pictures] % Define our fancy boxout \starttext \placepicture{This is my caption}{Some float text} \stoptext The above will fail to generate a caption. Removing the \mainlanguage command will cause the label to appear as expected. Using \setuplabeltext[en-gb][picture=Picture ] will fail to work. Changing the main language to 'en' or 'nl' will cause the label to reappear. I'll change the main language to 'en' for the time being. Thanks again for the help, Felix

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Console Verbosity & Optimized Output Generation
by Kip Warner 24 Sep '11

24 Sep '11

Hey folks, Two questions. Is there a certain set of command line switches recommended for cleaning up the console output when ConTeXt is executed? It is very verbose and I only need to see warnings and error messages. The typesetting source to a book I am working on is composed of many individual files. When I change one, the whole book needs to be regenerated which takes a long time to do. Is there some way for ConTeXt to cache work already done and take that into account when it is run? -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

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[PATCH] Small improvement for 'setuptex'
by Vladimir Lomov 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hello. I'm using standard 'setuptex' file to set apropriate variables for my shell. I'd like to suggest small improvement for this file. See attached patch. P.S. The real use of this file is in my shell initialization scripts. It is sourced in specific way so I faced a situation when 'export' is required. Besides that unsetting unused variables also good habit to interactive session. --- WBR, Vladimir Lomov -- Violence is molding.

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 87, Issue 51
by Felix Ingram 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

> > I'm defining a new float that I'd like to caption with its own label. > > Something like: >> > > \definefloat[picture][pictures] > > > > I'd then like the caption to read: > > > > Picture 1 - my caption text > > Picture 2 - etc > > > > At the moment I've used \setupcaption[picture][way=bytext] to sort out > > the numbering but I cannot figure out how to do the label. > > \setupcaption[picture][way=bytext,label=Picture] does the trick This doesn't work for me. Setupcaption doesn't appear to support a label option (MKIV and assuming I'm looking at the correct source file...) Felix

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Captions
by Felix Ingram 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

(apologies if you see this twice - posted from wrong account earlier) I'm defining a new float that I'd like to caption with its own label. Something like: \definefloat[picture][pictures] I'd then like the caption to read: Picture 1 - my caption text Picture 2 - etc At the moment I've used \setupcaption[picture][way=bytext] to sort out the numbering but I cannot figure out how to do the label. Any ideas? (Apologies for lack of minimal - afk atm) Felix Felix

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