November 2012 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

ConTeXt: Page numbering in words for spanish
by Acidrums4 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Hello there and thanks for finally let me into this mailing list! So I tried to hack the macro given in the ConTeXt wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Page_numbering_in_words) to write pagenumbering in words in spanish, my native language. Things were great until I had to reach the 100th page. ConTeXt claims when compiling, but I don't know how to fix the macro so it can write hundred-numbers. 'Cien' is 100 for spanish. 'Ciento uno' for 101, 'ciento dos' for 102 and so (You can see a more detailed example in http://spanish.about.com/cs/forbeginners/a/cardinalnum_beg.htm) So basically I need to prepend the word 'cien' for each word number from 1 to 99 to write the one-hundreds, 'doscientos' for the two-hundreds... Here is my dirty hacked version of the macro (you may save it as 'numstr.tex' for compiling), and a minimal example as follows: \input numstr \defineconversion[numstring][\numstr] \setupuserpagenumber[numberconversion=numstring] \starttext \dorecurse{100}{\recurselevel\page} \stoptext I'm such a noob with TeX and I cannot figure out how to do this, and I need this for this friday!. However, Aditya in the TeX section of StackExchange (http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82722/context-page-numbering-in-word… for-spanish#comment178155_82722) told me that I could do this witk Lua (editing the file core-con.lua, as seen in http://repo.or.cz/w/context.git/blob/HEAD:/tex/context/base/core-con.lua ), 'cause I'm using MkIV for doing this. But I don't know anything about Lua (seems pretty easy, but I don't know how to test the code Aditya gave me) and If I knew how to do that, I don't know how to make it work in my document... All I could do is translate the 'words' array to spanish, but I couldn't do more... Could you guys give me a hand on this? Thank you so much!

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"Hiding" columns in m-database & TABLE
by Marcin Borkowski 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi all, I'd like to process a csv file (with the database module) in order to typeset a (nice) TABLE. However, I have a few columns I'd like to omit. I can (of course) hand-edit the csv file; but is there a way to do it automatically? Something like \setupTABLE[column][3,4,5][kill] I did [empty=yes,width=0pt] in place of [kill], and it worked, but it seems like a hack (and I don't know whether it does actually process the cells I'm omitting - which in my case wouldn't bother me, but might be an additional layer of inelegance;)). And better ideas? Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with ConTeXt
by "H. Özoguz" 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Am 23.11.2012 15:17, schrieb ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl: > The table*is* the workaround ;P As long as you don?t mind being > limited to columns on one page, the tabulate syntax and the > restrictions on the input order, you?ll definitely be fine. > > The additional code was supposed to show how to handle an issue > that is very likely to manifest itself with what you are doing: > translations of this kind are usually accompanied by some special > pagination. Using plain counters for that can have undesirable > side-effects. > > Regards > Philipp Ok, thanks, so I misunderstood :) But now a different issue arises, it could be that for my purpose of the dual-languaged book, it is better to divide every page NOT into left and right, but into up and down. Of course now the tabluate does not work, is there a workaround for this? Huseyin

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Degree sign
by Marcin Borkowski 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi all, is there a "canonical" way to obtain a degree sign? I'd best like it to work in both text and math mode, and not use UTF-8 but some TeX-y \command (like \degree or so). Best -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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beta
by Hans Hagen 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi, As Mojca is moving the distribution to another server we have a few days of potential instability which gives us the change to experiment a bit. I've changed the defaults for the math fonts so that now we use the 'real thing'. However, as there can be issues, one can still say at the top of a document (of in cont-syst.tex): \enablemode[txmath] \enablemode[pxmath] \enablemode[lmmath] The design sized latin modern text font is still the default but one could already change that by \setupbodyfont[modern] There is currently some renaming going on for those math fonts but that should not affect us as context can handle older names too. 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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mtxrun server help broken
by Thomas A. Schmitz 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi all, with current minimals, the help server appears to be broken. Running mtxrun --script server --start --auto the server starts up, but when I click on "help," I get a page with the helpful hint ConTeXt Help Information no definition some error There is no error message on the terminal. Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with ConTeXt
by "H. Özoguz" 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Am 21.11.2012 23:41, schrieb ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl: > What you are looking for is text streams. They are not yet fully > functional in mkiv. But as long as you need the streams to appear > as columns on the same page, as seems to be the case, there is a > cheap workaround using the*tabulate* environment (see below). > > The great thing about \{start,stop}tabulate is that it allows for > page breaks inside paragraphs of arbitrary length. > > Regards > Philipp > > > ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? > > \newcount\progresscounter \progresscounter0 > \def\placeprogresscounter{% > %% caution when using dynamic content: check > %% for first pass to avoid multiple executions > \iftrialtypesetting42\else > \advance\progresscounter\plusone > \the\progresscounter > \fi > } > > \starttext > > \starttabulate[|r|p|p|] > \NC \placeprogresscounter > \NC \language[deo] Hallo, Welt! > \NC \language[en] \input knuth > \NC\NR > \HL % ????????????????????????% > \NC \placeprogresscounter > \NC \language[deo] N?chster Abschnitt! > \NC \language[en] \input ward > \NC\NR > \stoptabulate > > \stoptext Thank you. Why not simply a table without any workaround? \starttabulate[|p|p|] \NC \language[deo] Hallo, Welt! \NC \language[en] \input knuth \NC\NR \NC \language[deo] Nächster Abschnitt! \NC \language[en] \input ward \NC\NR \stoptabulate Huseyin

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\startitemize[columns] once again...
by Marcin Borkowski 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

This minimal example behaves in a strange way: \starttext Some text \startitemize[columns,two,joinedup] \item abc% $\frac{x^2-x+3}{x^2+x-3}$; \item xyz% $\frac{x^5-3}{x^3+x-2}$. \stopitemize \stoptext If we remove the percentage signs in the items, an additional vertical skip appears. Is it a feature or a bug? (Also, I encountered a *very* weird error where in some cases a whole page disappears in the pdf; I could not distil it into a minimal example, but I'll try and I'll post it here. I have a very vague suspicion that \startitemize[columns] is again the culprit.) TIA, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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Dash equivalent of $BASH_SOURCE (for setuptex)
by Mojca Miklavec 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Hi everyone, Hans wrote me the following, but I'm unable to figure it out myself. The script "setuptex" (which is in fact not urgently needed as one can just as well export the right path, but it comes in handy) can be used in two ways: (a) . /path/to/context/tex/setuptex (b) . /path/to/context/tex/setuptex /path/to/context/tex The first approach only works if the shell interpreting setuptex knows where the sourced script is located. Currently the script uses the following code and works in Bash, KSH (and maybe some other shells as well, but I'm not sure which ones). if [ z"$BASH_SOURCE" != z ]; then SCRIPTPATH="$BASH_SOURCE" elif [ z"$KSH_VERSION" != z ]; then SCRIPTPATH="${.sh.file}" else SCRIPTPATH="$0" fi Hans had problems with Dash, however, I have no clue how to enable (a) in Dash. The (b) approach always works though, so in the worst case the answer to Hans would be "provide the path to your tex root, or write your own script with hardcoded path ;)", but if anyone has any clue if finding path to the executed script is possible in Dash or in any other POSIX-compatible way, please let me know. Mojca On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi Mojca, > > One of the things you need to look into is the first-setup and setup tex > scripts (just look at the dash issues thread) .. i have the impression that > the setuptex script doesn't find its root (own) under dash because it has > different $0 handling (dash is the debian variant of bash, so we're talking > of debian installations) > > Hans

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rsync
by Hans Hagen 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Hi, rsync rsync://10.100.1.2/all -r work's here (internal ip) .. do you use more than -r ? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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