March 2012 - ntg-context

Integration of all the information around ConTeXt
by Jan Heinen 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hello, with the help of ConTeXt and the ConTeXt-Mailinglist I successfully have generated a book which will be printed next week :-) Thankl you - everyone! And now I would like to give something back to ConTeXt :-) There is a lot of information around ConTeXt: Material of Hans Hagen, this very dynamic Mailinglist/Forum, the command-reference-list of Wolfgang Schuster and the Contextgarden-Wiki. I think the best what I can do for ConTeXt is helping to structure, organize and integrating the huge amount of existing information. And the wiki ist a very good place to do al this work. Since several years I am running an own wiki with mediawiki. After informing Hans, Taco and Mojca Miklavec, I no have started, to rename all the commands from reference/en/... to command/... The .htaccess takes care, that all the old names will be forwarded to the new names. Then I have build a startting-category: "ConTeXt" and every subcategory is a branch of it. So we have a tree with all the wiki-information starting at "ConTeXt". You can find this startingpoint on http://www.contextgarden.net on the right side: Categories. I have started to organize the sub-categories ... but everyone who likes ConTeXt is invited to improve the wiki. A very good help would be: All the commands of context (more than 500) are in one huge category:commands For the users it would be usefull to build subcategories for the commands. 1. login (or first register on contextgarden.net) 2. Go to a command, e.g. command/about: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/about 3. Click on edit (top of page) 4. go to the bottom of the source-code 5. add to [[category:Commands]] [[category:xxx]] xxx = new name or existing name 6. save the changes 7. now you can see the category at the bottom of the page. 8. if it is red - click on it 9. then write [[category:commands]] to link it to the tree, I hope lot's of you help at least a little bit ... it's fun :-) And it's for ConTeXt. Regards Jannis

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Re: [NTG-context] more indenting
by Peter Wüsten 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Am Freitag, den 16.03.2012, 17:01 +0100 schrieb Alan Braslau: > % Minimal example: > \setupindenting [big,yes] > \setupquotation [before=\noindent] % no effect \setupquotation [indenting=next] % noindent only at beginning of quotation > \starttext > \input tufte > \startquotation > \input tufte > \stopquotation > \noindent > \input tufte > \stoptext Cheers, Peter Wüsten

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more indenting
by Alan Braslau 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

I'm sure that someone is going to tell me that indenting is ugly, bad typesetting practice. But if I do want to use indenting, there are times when it should be suppressed, perhaps automatically (like when immediately following a heading, as is the current practice). The minimal example below is another such situation: \startquotation\stopquotation \setupquotation [before=\noindent,after=\noindent] would be one solution, but it does not work - maybe the syntax is wrong; maybe I'm missing a critical \par. I haven't managed to figure this out myself, looking at the source code. Any suggestions? Thanks! Alan % Minimal example: \setupindenting [big,yes] \setupquotation [before=\noindent] % no effect \starttext \input tufte \startquotation \input tufte \stopquotation \noindent \input tufte \stoptext

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Footnotes in combinations don't work?
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hello, slightly discussed several days ago... Footnote in a combination is not shown anywhere: ---- \starttext \startcombination[1*1] {Aaa\footnote{Footnote}}{} \stopcombination \stoptext ---- Bug, feature (= footnotes are not supposed to be in a combination) or another approach must be chosen to show the footnote? 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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Line Wrapping/Hyphenation in Chapter/Section Headings
by Malte Stien 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hi all, I seem to have a problem with line wrapping/hyphenation in chapter/section headings. I have a chapter heading "Technical Definitions, Acronyms and Abbreviations". When I setup my chapter headings as follows \setuphead[chapter][style=\tfc\ss\bf, alternative=inmargin] the heading is hyphenated like so: Technical Definitions, Acronyms and Abbrevi- ations However, I don't want my headings hyphenated. How can I change that? I found this: \setuphead[chapter][style=\tfc\ss\bf, alternative=inmargin, align=nothyphenated] That prevents the hyphenation, but it also seems to prevent the wrapping of the line altogether with the result that now my headings run right across the right margin and over the right edge of the paper. How can I turn off hyphenation but retain wrapping of the line, like so Technical Definitions, Acronyms and Abbreviations Thank you, Malte.

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define macro from xml-attribute
by Meer, H. van der 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

I would like to accomplish the following in xml processing. <node macro="various macro calls"> and then define the attribute value as a TeX macro. For example, to use this in font switching: <node macro="\switchtobodyfont[helvetica]"> Doing this in the following manner does not work: \startxmlsetups namespace \def\macro{\xmlattdef{#1}{macro}{\empty}} \stopxmlsetups The contents evaluates not to a working macro. Something with catcodes, I presume, but I do not how to do it properly. Preferably I would like to see \meaning\macro evaluate to: \switchtobodyfont[helvetica]. Can someone enlighten me? Hans van der Meer

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footnotes (\autoinsertnextspace)
by Alan Braslau 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hello, I know that footnotes have been rewritten. Now, \autoinsertnextspace is ignored. Alan Minimal example: \setupfootnotes [next=\autoinsertnextspace] %\setupnote [footnote] [next=\autoinsertnextspace] % same as above... \starttext \input tufte \startfootnote This is a footnote. \stopfootnote \input ward \stoptext

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\placeinitial and indenting
by Alan Braslau 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

\placeinitial does not play well with indenting. % Minimal example: \setupindenting [big,yes] \starttext \placeinitial %\noindent \input tufte \input ward \stoptext % Of course, uncommenting the \noindent is an aesthetic solution. 1. Should \noindent be included by default in \placeinitial 2. or, should \placeinitial be fixed to correctly handle indenting? Alan

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Referencing a definition
by Kip Warner 16 Mar '12

16 Mar '12

Hey list, I have a definition, like so... \startdefinition[definition:Foo]{Foo} Definition of foo here... \stopdefinition I'd like to reference it in the same way I would a section like \in{section}[Node]. How can I do the same with a definition such that it will typeset a clickable section number or some such to get to the definition? Thanks. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

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placefloat in long parapgraph
by Steffen Wolfrum 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hi, the minimal example below maybe looks funny ... I was trying to fake one big paragraph (without parapgraph break). Here an image needs to be placed eg. on the second or third page (because its anchor is set eg. after the first third of this long paragraph). How can I place a float with out triggering a paragraph break? Steffen ------- \starttext \switchtobodyfont[rm,48pt] \dorecurse{1}{\input tufte}{\placefigure[here]{something meaningful}{\vskip3pt{\externalfigure[foo][frame=off,width=\dimexpr(\textwidth-10mm)]}}}\input tufte\par \input ward \stoptext

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