October 2012 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Commutative diagrams.
by Andre Caldas 14 Oct '12

14 Oct '12

Dear gurus, How can I make commutative diagrams in ConTeXt? Cheers, André Caldas.

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PDF security settings
by Bill Meahan 14 Oct '12

14 Oct '12

Setting author, title, keywords metadata is rather simple. Is there a corresponding way to set PDF security properties, e.g. allow/disallow comments, allow/disallow printing &c. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan USA

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bug?: component inside component
by Zenlima 14 Oct '12

14 Oct '12

Hi, I tried to recompile a book (no project file, 1 product file, many component files) the first time for a while - but now it breaks with weird and random error messages. It starts when I have a component inside a component.. but only when I have more than just a few pages text. And is stops with e.g. "a missing bracket", "one bracket more than needed", "math module missing" etc etc. It is definitely not one of the reported errors.. and the error message changes as I add or remove some text (letters, paragraph). Also I realized that references over components borders don't work any more (they link to an external document: componentname.pdf). Is this a known bug? I found some remarks regarding broken references over component borders. Does there exists any other way of integrating tex-file into tex-files for context? I will continue trying to isolate the error.. but atm it tricks me pretty well. Thanks in advance H.

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Macro "inside" \component.
by Andre Caldas 11 Oct '12

11 Oct '12

Hi! This works: \startproduct assorted \project math_video_classes \unexpanded\def\pathrelativetome% {src/products/assorted/open_mapping_theorem/notes} % \component{\pathrelativetome} \component{src/products/assorted/open_mapping_theorem/notes} \stopproduct But this does not work (no PDF is generated): \startproduct assorted \project math_video_classes \unexpanded\def\pathrelativetome% {src/products/assorted/open_mapping_theorem/notes} \component{\pathrelativetome} % \component{src/products/assorted/open_mapping_theorem/notes} \stopproduct WHY? Thank you, André Caldas.

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Problem with ConTeXt (MkIV), Hebrew and ligatures
by Simo Ojala 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

This is a problem originally posted in TeX/StackExchange. However, since I have not had any luck in finding a solution I post it here too. I am confident that somebody here should know the answer. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/73970/problem-with-context-mkiv-hebr… "Since I last played with the latest ConTeXt MkIV, there has been introduced this new feature. It now seems to combine Hebrew characters automatically when possible to ligatures. So for example. If I have a word with following two characters: U+05D5 (HEBREW LETTER VAV) U+05BC (HEBREW POINT DAGESH OR MAPIQ) ConTeXt will combine these to: U+FB35 (HEBREW LETTER VAV WITH DAGESH) However, I would need to disable this feature for a number of reasons. For example, this breaks my little database query, because the query key is changed before(?) macro gets it. So if somebody would know how to turn this off and maybe also that what has changed." Sincerely, Simo Ojala smsojala(a)gmail.com

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\unit and french
by Romain Diss 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

Hi all, As you know, the french number format is almost opposite to the english one: period and comma have opposite roles. My question concerns the way to render properly numbers in french with the \unit command. I already tried different combinations of \setupunit[method=,order=] but I can’t find the right way. I tried even to type french or english format as input for \unit but none output is right (actually I'd prefer to type french format as \unit input). Also, when there are "three digits" separators on both sides of the decimal point, some method outputs are not consistent. I attached a not so minimal exemple. Thanks for any idea to solve this. -- Romain Diss <romain.diss(a)yahoo.fr>

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Frozen callback.
by Andre Caldas 10 Oct '12

10 Oct '12

Hello! I am trying to redefine the ’open_read_file’ callback. I am getting this error: callback ’open_read_file’ is frozen Why is it "frozen"? Can I "unfreeze it"? André Caldas.

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Misplaced figure
by Rogers, Michael K 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

Hi, I wanted to start a proof with "Proof:" in italics and place a figure next to the right margin. There are many ways to accomplish this, but my normal way, {\it Proof:\/}, fails. Is this a bug or am I making a mistake? \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{ProofPQR} numeric u; u:=2.5cm; draw ((0, 0)--(1,0)--(1, 0.7)) scaled u withpen pencircle; dotlabel.bot(textext("$P$"),(0,0)*u); dotlabel.bot(textext("$R$"),(1,0)*u); dotlabel.rt(textext("$Q$"),(1,0.7)*u); \stopuseMPgraphic % MISPLACED \placefigure[right,none]{}{\useMPgraphic{ProofPQR}} {\it Proof:\/} \input knuth \hairline % WORKS \placefigure[right,none]{}{\useMPgraphic{ProofPQR}} %{\it Proof:\/} \input knuth \hairline % WORKS \placefigure[right,none]{}{\useMPgraphic{ProofPQR}} \strut{\it Proof:\/} \input knuth \stoptext Thanks, Michael ________________________________ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments).

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Header without chapters/sections
by Troy Henderson 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

I would like to create a header on every page with some fixed text in the header. Simply doing \setupheadertexts[Some text] \setupheader[state=start] Does not produce a header on any page, yet \setupfootertexts[Some text] \setupfooter[state=start] does produce a footer on every page. Why does one work and the other does not? Troy Henderson

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Need help with \definetabulate
by Malte Stien 08 Oct '12

08 Oct '12

Hi, I am trying to define two tabulate styles as follows: - \setuptabulate[split=yes, bodyfont=small] - \setuptabulate[split=yes] ...such that I can just refer to them when I \starttabulate...\stoptabulate somewhere. I thought, the command \definetabulate would come in handy here, but I can't work it out and it appears the documentation on that command is pretty scarce. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definetabulate Any help? Thank you, Malte.

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