February 2012 - ntg-context

Questions on Table of Contents
by Kip Warner 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hey folks, I am familiar with the \completecontent command, but was wondering if there is a way to also typeset just a summary of the table of contents (e.g. just chapters and no sections, sub sections, etc.)? I've also noticed that all of the colours in my table of contents appear to be the same. I don't know if it has always been this way or if it is a recent bug or something has changed in ConTeXt. Regardless, I wonder if someone could tell me how to customize the colours of the various parts of the table of contents, such as the chapter/section number, the name, and the page number it starts on. Thank you, -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

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\footnote and \chapter
by Otared Kavian 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hi Hans, For your information, I just tested the latest beta (ConTeXt ver: 2012.02.08 21:58 MKIV fmt: 2012.2.8) with my usual test suite and found that the following gives an error message: %%%%% begin \starttext \chapter{Testing a chapter\footnote{Actually for testing footnotes in a chapter header\dots}} \stoptext %%%%%% end Hitting « r » the file typesets, but there is no number in the footnote, and the footnote number in the text is strangely very small. Best regards: OK PS: The error message is: \handlenoteinsert ...enoteitself {#1}{#2}}\egroup \the \everyafternoteinsert... l.7 } \flushnotes ...{structures.notes.flushpostponed()} \global \setfalse \postpon... \endheadplacement ...tionheadbox }\fi \flushnotes \endgraf \ifvmode \ifnum \... \dohandlehead ...mber \placecurrentheadnumbertext \else \placecurrentheadtex... l.5 ...esting footnotes in a chapter header\dots}}

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no liga with Brill font
by Pablo Rodríguez 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hi there, there is a zero-cost font (not available for commercial works without previous permission) from Brill (http://www.brill.nl/news/brill-typeface) Standard ligatures such as fi and fl don't work: \usemodule[simplefonts] \definefontfeature[default][default][script=latn] \setmainfont[Brill] \starttext fi fl ff ffi ffl \stoptext The glyphs are defined (ﬀ, ﬁ, ﬂ, ﬃ, ﬄ), but when I test ligatures with FontForge (Ctrl+K) these glyphs aren't used and single substitution lookups in different subtables are performed for the different ligatures (actually no ligatures are used). Sorry, my explanation isn't as accurate as it should. I'm not a font expert, but Substitutions can be browsed in FontForge selecting the glyph info (Ctrl+I). Is there something to report to the font designer or is there something not yet implemented in ConTeXt? Thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.oudeis.tk

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Manuals in ePub?
by Matija Šuklje 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hullo, Now that the user manual is being revised, it would be an excellent opportunity to publish the manual(s) also in ePub. I'd be really happy to see them in that format, so I can read then on my eBook reader in its neat reflowing glory. cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org sip: matija_suklje(a)ippi.fr

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Titles break TikZ
by Philipp A. 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

with some recent beta (sorry for vagueness), tikz stopped working after titles. (i use first-setup.sh to install: these are the betas, not something different, right?) (quite) minimal example: —————✁————— \usemodule[tikz] \def\pic{\framed{\starttikzpicture \node[draw] (A) {A}; \node[draw] (B) at (1, 0) {B}; \draw[green, ->] (A) -- (B); \draw[red, <->] (A) -- (B); \draw[blue, <- ] (A) -- (B); \stoptikzpicture}} \starttext Works: \pic \section{This fucks things up} Doesn’t work: \pic \stoptext —————✃————— result: [image: tikztest.png] (if this gets scrapped: https://imgur.com/GV1gK )

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xtables: vertical stretch
by Thomas A. Schmitz 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hi all, I was wondering if it is possible to have some vertical stretch in xtables so they fill the entire page area. I know this sounds a bit bizarre, but it would look good on slides: have an option that will automatically calculate the height of every row as \textheight/x for any x. All best Thomas

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problem with externalfigure
by Pavel Dohnal 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Hello, I installed context according to this page on my Fedora 15 system. Installation seems to went well. But after runing context on this document: \starttext \externalfigure[http://donsmaps.com/images7/lucy2reconstsmh.jpg] \stoptext I got this strange output: mtx-context | run 1: luatex --fmt="/var/lib/texmf/luatex-cache/context/254f26b81d3615bc933c9bf20a856557/formats/cont-en" --lua="/var/lib/texmf/luatex-cache/context/254f26b81d3615bc933c9bf20a856557/formats/cont-en.lui" --backend="pdf" "./a.tex" This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.70.1-2012020407 (rev 4277) \write18 enabled. (a.tex ConTeXt ver: 2011.05.18 18:04 MKIV fmt: 2012.2.6 int: english/english system > cont-new.mkiv loaded (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv system > beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv ) system > a.top loaded (a.top) fonts > latin modern fonts are not preloaded languages > language en is active {/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map} fonts > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv){/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map} fonts > virtual math > unable to resolve name mapsfromchar fonts > fallback modern rm 12pt is loaded system > begin file a.tex at line 1 backend > xmp > using file '/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/lpdf-pdx.xml' mtx-context | fatal error: no return code, message: luatex: execution interrupted Can enyone advise me what to do?

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interlinear space and Crimson font
by Pablo Rodríguez 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Hi there, I have the following code (font available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/crimsontext/files/) \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[Crimson] \setupinterlinespace[line=10ex] \starttext \dorecurse{5}{\input knuth\par} \stoptext And no matter whether I comment the third line or not, I get the same interlinear space. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.oudeis.tk

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setupfloat[Myfloat] does not work
by Steffen Wolfrum 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hi, I want to set up individual floats with different spaces before/after. Setting the frame on/off works, but the spaces show no effect: \definefloat[Myfigure][Myfigures] \setupfloat[Myfigure][frame=on,spacebefore=200pt,spaceafter=300pt] \starttext test \placeMyfigure{example}{{\externalfigure[foo][frame=off]}}% text \stoptext Steffen

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Cross-document referencing; How to?!
by Verhaag, G.C.H.M. 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hi, After going through the suggested reading "This Way", sep 2011 (http://pragma-ade.com/show-mag-15.htm) in relation to this topic it was time to do some tests! Well, I stumbled on the very first basic problem! Using the \useexternalfile[logical_name][filename] resulted in an Undefined control sequence ... error message!? Anybody any suggestions about the syntax of this command?! The description in the reference part of the ConTeXt Garden wiki site is not of much help to me either, sorry! Regards, Gerard Verhaag P.S. Currently using ConTeXt ver: 2012.01.25 14:16 MKIV fmt: 2012.1.30 int: english/english

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