February 2012 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

pack_black_rule_pickup ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 18 Feb '12

18 Feb '12

Hi, what's wrong here?? \unexpanded\def\MyRule{\blackrule[color=orange,width=18mm,height=0.4pt]} \setupnote[footnote][rule=\MyRule] \starttext teset\footnote{text}. \stoptext ... gives ... {\currentnote }]{\pack_black_rule_pickup }\def \syst_helpers_next_optional_command_nop \ETC. ! File ended while scanning use of \setup_notation. system > tex > error on line 0 in file : File ended while scanning use of \setup_notation ... <empty file> <inserted text> \par <*> ./eeeee.tex \stoptext ? Steffen vers. 2012.02.16

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margin data prevent line numbering (latest beta)
by Pablo Rodríguez 18 Feb '12

18 Feb '12

Hi Hans, many thanks for the new beta. I have noticed that margin data prevent the lines in which they are located to be numbered. Here you have a minimal example: \definemargindata[mgch] \setupmargindata[mgch][location=outer] \starttext \startlinenumbering \dorecurse{10}{\mgch{0}unnumbered lines } \dorecurse{10}{numbered lines } \stoplinenumbering \stoptext Many thanks hanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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\setupcombinedlist[content][alternative=c] has no effect in latest experimental
by Vedran Miletić 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Minimal example: \setupcombinedlist[content][alternative=c] \starttext \completecontent \dorecurse{10}{ \section{sec} \input tufte \subsection{subsec} \input tufte \subsection{subsec} \input tufte \subsection{subsec} \input tufte } \stoptext With 2012.02.17 15:53 no dots appear. 2011.05.18 works fine. Regards, Vedran Miletić

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columnsets error in 2.08 beta
by Peter Park Nelson 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Updated to Feb. 8 beta, now none of my documents with columnsets will compile. Without the columnset, the example below works fine: \definecolumnset[body][n=2] \starttext \startcolumnset[body] \input tufte\par \stopcolumnset \stoptext Error message: 1 \definecolumnset[body][n=2] 2 \starttext 3 \startcolumnset[body] 4 >> \input tufte\par 5 \stopcolumnset 6 \stoptext \154>columnset:page_otr_command_routine ...outine \page_otr_commands_process ...outineparameter {#1} }\ifx \page_otr_specifics_... <inserted text> ...cess {page_otr_command_routine} \page_otr_commands_process... <inserted text> ...eset \the \t_page_otr_commands \let \page_otr_commands_pr... \setup_outputroutine ...\everyswitchoutputroutine \fi \else \let \previousou... <to be read again> \doifelsenothing ... l.4 \input tufte\par ? -- Peter Park Nelson peter.park.nelson(a)gmail.com

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Re: [NTG-context] UTF conversion via Lua (renaming attachments to .scr_)
by Hans Hagen 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

On 16-2-2012 14:14, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote: > Would it be possible to provide this? I'll provide: regimes.toregime('8859-1',"abcde Ä","?") but you'll have to test and wikify it. 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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beta
by Hans Hagen 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Hi, I uploaded a beta. Apart from some fixes, the biggest change is in dealing with positional info and text backgrounds (first stage cleanup). As I have no clue to what extend users mess around with background graphics themselves, it's hard to predict side effects, but the biggest impact is speed. The adventurous might want to try out \setuptextbackground [mp=mpos:par:region, method=mpos:par:region] or with some more visual tracing \setuptextbackground [mp=mpos:par:region:kind, method=mpos:par:region] A simple test with some 200 backgrounds brings down runtime with one second on my machine (not the fastest anyway). Apart from a performance gain, backgrounds are now also supported in regular multicolumns as well as in some specific mechanisms like tabulate and xtables. In xtables one needs to set region=yes in order to get the desired results. Actually, the region key is a new one in framed so anything that can be framed can also have fancy text backgrounds. Yet another improvement is that (although rather untested) you can do things like \starttextbackground[r] START \dorecurse{10}{ \dorecurse{1}{\input ward } \placefigure[right]{}{} some text before BEGIN \dorecurse{2}{\input ward } END some after \placefigure[left]{}{} some text before BEGIN \dorecurse{2}{\input ward } END some after \placefigure[right]{}{} some text before BEGIN \dorecurse{2}{\input ward } END some after } STOP \stoptextbackground \dorecurse{1}{\input ward } and get more or less expected results. Keep in mind that it can never get perfect due to all kind of possible interference. Also, keep away from internals as they will quite certainly change. 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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"Turning off" special chapter headings
by Alasdair McAndrew 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

I'm using the following: \def\chap#1#2{\vbox{Chapter #1\crlf\framed[frame=off,topframe=on]{#2}}} \setuphead[chapter][command=\chap,style=bfd,after={\blank[1cm]}] for my chapter headings. But one chapter: "Answers to Exercises" I want unnumbered, without the "Chapter" text, and also in the table of contents. Can anybody point me to the simplest way of achieving this? (I've tried various combinations of \setuphead, \definehead, but nothing so far has given me what I want.) Thanks, Alasdair -- Blog: http://amca01.wordpress.com Web: http://sites.google.com/site/amca01/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/alasdair.mcandrew

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\definedescription problems (beta)
by Peter Park Nelson 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

Two problems using \definedescription the 2.16 beta: \definedescription[mydescription][location=serried,text={Description}] %% This gives an error (no blank lines around content): \startmydescription This is a description \stopmydescription %% But this works (with blank lines): \startmydescription This is a description \stopmydescription 2. "location=serried" worked correctly before, but now I get a hanging indent instead. -- Peter Park Nelson peter.park.nelson(a)gmail.com

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Layout: odd, even and newLayout
by Jan Heinen 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

I first want to use layouts for "odd" and "even" pages and then I want to use a "newLayout" but it does not work: \setuppapersize[A5][A4] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, location=inleft] \setuplayout [marking=on, location=middle] \showframe \definelayout [odd][topspace=5cm,backspace=0cm] \definelayout [even][topspace=0cm,backspace=0cm] \definelayout [newLayout] [topspace=2cm,backspace=10cm] \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte} \page \setuplayout [newLayout] % Now backspace must be 10cm, but it is still 0cm \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte} \page \stoptext Regards Jannis

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UTF conversion via Lua
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

Hello, I have many files with ASCII encoding; this encoding must be kept as these files are processed also by another program. When I work with them in ConTeXt, I need to convert them to UTF. Does Lua (in ConTeXt scope) offer a transformation function or a table of chars [ASCII-code] -> [UTF-code] or anything to provide the conversion? Something like: \startluacode local str = loadFile("a.txt") -- ASCII coded str = context.ACSII2UTF(str) -- Or something like this \stopluacode Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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