January 2012 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Text alignment influences page placement
by Wolfgang Schuster 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Hi Hans, the new alignment code influences the placement of the whole text block. \setuppapersize[A5][A3,landscape] %\setupalign[left] \setupalign[middle] \starttext \showframe text \stoptext Wolfgang

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Custom chapter footer
by Andreas Harder 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

Hi Hans, the following used to work. Has the syntax changed? \definetext[chapter][footer][pagenumber] \setuphead [chapter][footer=chapter] \starttext \chapter{test} \stoptext ! Undefined control sequence. Regards Andreas

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Pagereferences to more than one page
by Jan Heinen 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

Happy New Year! I want to reference to more than one page. In the exampe above only page 2 is referenced - how to get 2,4 ? \starttext You can find red vehicles on \at{page:}[red] Here I want to see: "You can find red vehicles on page 2,4" (only page 2 is wrong) \page \pagereference[red]Here is a red car. \page \pagereference[green]Here is a green car. \page \pagereference[red]Here is a red bus. \page \pagereference[green]Here is a green car. \page \stoptext Regards Jannis

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strip space in xml
by Meer, H. van der 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

I have the following problem with xml processing. Spurious space is typeset, annoyingly visible when nearly equivalent structures are typeset one under another. Take the following node structure where the <text> node is the one intended to contribute to the typeset material, whereas <anothernode> is not. <root> <node> <anothernode>..</anothernode> <text> .. </text> </node> </root> Doing in the <root>-node: \xmlstripnolines{#1}{/node}\xmlall{#1}{/node} removes some of the unwanted spaces but not all. Especially the space between </anothernode> and <text> does not completely disappear (seen with \xmlstrippednolines). This also occurs when </anothernode> and <text> are on the same line separated by a number of spaces. The space disappears when </anothernode><text> are put next to another. However, this destroys the neat typography of the xml. The manual tells me that \xmlstripnolines ..collapses embedded spaces from nodes under node.. That seems correct in that obviously the code leaves one space from the intervening spaces/newlines. But this gains me nothing! Why leaving a single space between <node> and <next-node>? For me this defeats the purpose of xmlstripnolines. Can this be remedied? Hans van der Meer

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escaping % in urls
by Pablo Rodríguez 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

Hi there, I have the following sample: \define[1]\url{\goto{\hyphenatedurl{#1}}[url(#1)]} \starttext \url{http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/SrvltGUIBusDPD?lema=puntos\%20suspensivos} \stoptext in which I try to escape %, but using the above approach I also get the \ printed. Which is the proper way to do it? (Not replacing %20 with a blank space.) Thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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indenting \startlines... \stoplines
by Pablo Rodríguez 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

Hi there, I want to be a \startlines... \stoplines environment to be 10cm away from the left margin. I know this is a basic question, but I have no idea how to do it. Since this is my last question to the list (this year ;-)), I'd really appreciate, if anyone would be so kind to answer it. Happy New Year, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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xml processing
by Meer, H. van der 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

Is there a macro to retrieve the name of the file when inside a call to \xmlprocessfile? Hans van der Meer

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

Hi, I uploaded a new beta. As I'm still in cleaning-up mode, the usual problems could show up as quite some code was adapted (moved around). For those interested there is a file 'status-mkiv' that can be run to get an overview of where we stand. One big change has been the way alignments are initialized. There were two methods (one for \setupalign and one for align keywords) and these have been merged into one. A side effect is that an alignment change is twice as fast as before which might make a difference in excessive usage of \framed and some table mechanisms. Another change is that \color[whatever]{} now always expects an argument (in \MKII {\color[red] ...} is valid too. Some more commands might get that restriction but not the style switchers etc). Again this is twice as fast as the previous method (probably not that noticeable as many switches happen otherwise). For those who won't/didn't get it by snail mail .. this years card can be found at http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-gra.pdf#page=33 In 2012 it will of course again be a gamble if the betas work out well, 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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\inpu
by Michael Talbot-Wilson 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

I thought I'd see if I could use ConTeXt. Here is my first try, hello.tex. \starttext \input header Hello, World!\startlua a = 1.5 b = 1.8 c = a * b tex.print(c) \stoplua plus1. \stoptext Didn't work because the file header.tex could not be found, even though kpsewhich can find it. (hello.tex publications : loading formatting style from bxml-apa (/usr/local/libexec/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/bxml-apa.mkiv) ConTeXt ver: 2010.06.23 12:45 MKIV fmt: 2011.12.24 int: english/english system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/libexec/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (/usr/local/libexec/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv)) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/libexec/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : ConTeXt File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (/usr/local/libexec/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (/usr/local/libexec/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-def.mkiv) (/usr/local/libexec/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-lua.mkiv) (/usr/local/libexec/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv) (/usr/local/libexec/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv)) system : hello.top loaded % % begin of optionfile % % % runtime options files (command line driven) % \unprotect % % feedback and basic job control % % handy for special styles % \startluacode % document = document or { } % document.arguments={ % } % document.files={ % "hello", % } % \stopluacode % % process info % \setupsystem[inputfile=hello] % \setupsystem[\c!n=1,\c!m=1] % % modes % % options (not that important) % \startsetups *runtime:options % \setupoutput[pdftex] % \stopsetups % % styles and modules % \startsetups *runtime:modules % \stopsetups % % done % \protect \endinput % % end of optionfile % (hello.top) fonts : preloading latin modern fonts {/usr/local/libexec/ConTeXt/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{/usr/local/libexec/ConTeXt/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map}{/usr/local/libexec/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map} bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : language en is active systems : begin file hello at line 1 ! I can't find file `header'. l.2 \input header Please type another input file name: ! Emergency stop. l.2 \input header End of file on the terminal! ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

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