April 2012 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Registers with distinguishable entries.
by Robert Blackstone 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

Dear list, For a book in the area of musicology I would like to make one register with entries of different kinds, distinguishable by their appearance in the register (or index or whatever). The index entries will mostly be authors, including composers, musical terms and musical compositions. The titles of the compositions and the foreign words are set in italic characters throughout in the text of the book. What I would like is to be able to distinguish all entries according to whether they are treated in the text, are shown in a musical example, or are mentioned only in a foot- or endnote. In many books page numbers indicating illustrations are set in italics. Pagenumbers indicating foot- or endnotes often have a suffix "n". Furthermore, when an indexed item is discussed on a number of consecutive pages, usually a range is given in the index, like 144-53, or 143 ff. Can all this be done in ConTeXt, and if so, can anybody give me advice on how to do it? I have tried making three different Registers, for text, for illustrations and for notes, but I cannot figure out how to combine them into one index. But also, whatever I set in \setupregister, they all look exactly the same: textstyle regular, pagestyle slanted. Moreover, in \setupindex (or whatever other name for the register), [indicator=no] is ignored. Are these bugs or am I doing things the wrong way? I add a (not so) minimal example. Thanks in advance for any help. Robert Blackstone

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Example only works in mkii
by Bill Meahan 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

Hi, folks. I've tried running the example from the "descriptions" article on the wiki and it works fine if I use MkII via "texexec" but fails miserably if I use MlIV via "context." Outside of changing "location" to "alternative" in the \definedescription command parameters, what else do I need to change to make the example run with MkIV? TIA! -- Bill Meahan K8QN Cat: n; A purr-bearing mammal

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Re: [NTG-context] Registers with distinguishable entries.
by Robert Blackstone 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 12:53:57 +0200, Philipp Gesang <gesang(a)stud.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote > You want the ?compress? switch in placeregister, or indicate > ranges with \{start,stop}register: > > ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? > \defineregister [demo] [demoes] > \starttext > > \demo{Demoitem} foo > \page[yes] > \demo{Demoitem} foo > \page[yes] > %%% Here?s the range; should work without ?compress? > \startregister[demo][demorange]{Demorange} > \demo{Demoitem} foo > \page[yes] > \demo{Otheritem} bar > \page[yes] > \demo{Otheritem} bar > \page[yes] > \stopregister[demo][demorange]%% <= you?ll need to explicitly terminate the ranges so they can overlap > \demo{Otheritem} bar > \page[yes] > \demo{Demoitem} foo > \page[yes] > \demo{Demoitem} foo > > \page[yes] > %%%% Here?s the relevant bit: > \placeregister [demo] [compress=yes] > > \stoptext > ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? > > Btw. have you read the small print: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Registers#Tricks ? > Thank you, Philipp, This works perfectly. I had seen the small print in that page but had obviously not read it carefully enough. So two of my problems are solved, the main wish, to be able to make an index with distinguishable entries, is still unfulfilled, not only for me but for at least two others. Let's someone on the list can shine some light on that one too. Kind regards, Robert

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Re: [NTG-context] Registers with distinguishable entries.
by Robert Blackstone 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 19:18:55 +0900 S Barmeier <severinbarmeier(a)googlemail.com> wrote > > Leaving out the plural in \setupregister gives you the setup you set up. > Thank you, Severin. I always wondered what the plural form of the name between the second pair of square brackets in the \setup command was for (I still do). But anyway, this solved one problem. Kind regards, Robert

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[MKIV] Itemize "nowhite" option broken
by Pierre-François Bonnefoi 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

Hello, I'm currently porting my work to the mkIV version of ConTeXt : I've found this annoying regression with this simple example : \starttext Some previous sentence before the list \startitemize[columns,n,nowhite] \item one \item two \stopitemize \startitemize[continue,columns,nowhite] \item one \item two \stopitemize \startitemize[continue,columns,nowhite] \item one \item two \stopitemize And the text continues after the list \stoptext I get some space between itemization with mkIV that I don't get with mkII. I use the standalone version on ConTeXt. mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.52 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /Volumes/MacBookProInternal/Users/pef/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2012.04.25 17:29 Thank you for your support, best regards, Pierre-François Bonnefoi. -- Bonnefoi Pierre-Francois | E-mail : bonnefoi(a)unilim.fr Universite de Limoges, Laboratoire XLIM | Tel : 06 28 18 03 38 83, rue d'Isle | Mrs. Peel, we're needed... 87000 Limoges - FRANCE | The Avengers.

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Bug in \page [left]
by Marco 26 Apr '12

26 Apr '12

Hi, the example doesn't produce a page break. It works in older versions. \starttext \input knuth \page [left] \input knuth \stoptext Marco

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install older beta
by Henning Hraban Ramm 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

While the current issues (footnotes, imposition) are open, I'd like to roll back to a working beta. Unfortately the latest listed at http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/context/ is from 2011; is this really the list of available versions? Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Commands with arguments with MetaPost
by Troy Henderson 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

I would like to be able to do something like this \def\foo#1{ \startMPcode fill (0,0)--(598,0)--(598,50)--(0,50)--cycle withcolor green; label.rt(btex #1 etex),(50,25); \stopMPcode } and then use this in my ConTeXt document by \foo{Some text} However, my syntax seems to be incorrect, and I would appreciate any help in fixing it. Thanks, Troy Henderson

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Scaling in setuplayout does not work with setuparranging
by Steffen Fritzsche 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Hi, I'm using the latest beta and tried to arrange two slides on a single A4 sheet. I've defined my own paper size for the slides the sizes oriented on our corporate layout for presentations. To print two slides on a single A4 I have to scale them but I can't get this to work. Have a look at the attached minified example below. Without \setuparranging set the slides are scaled an one is put on each A4. As soon as I activate the arraging the scaling does not work anymore. Any ideas how to get this work? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks! Steffen \definepapersize[SPP43][width=25.4cm,height=19.05cm] \setuppapersize[SPP43][SPP43] \switchtobodyfont[20pt] \startmode[handout] \setuppapersize[SPP43][A4] \setuplayout[scale=0.5,location=middle] %\setuparranging[2TOP] \stopmode \starttext \startitemize \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \stopitemize \stoptext

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Reducing inter-character spacing?
by Mari Voipio 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

Hello, here comes yet another "I could do this in Word but can't figure it out how ConTeXt does it" font-related question: How can I reduces inter-character spacing in a font? I've found out that the spacing can be temporarily expanded by \stretched{}, but what's the opposite and how to control it? And I want to do it all over one product in my project, but on the other hand I don't need to reset it for any individual words or anything. (I assume that if the overall inter-character spacing is reduced, inter-word spacing will follow, but if not, I need to be able to reduce that, too.) I guess it isn't easily available because I'm not really supposed to be cramping the nicely designed fonts, especially not my nice new shiny Lucida OT - but I'm trying to create something in the style of past centuries when the style and requirements were different from today's. I've decided to use ConTeXt just because it should allow me to produce both the period-looking-but-illegible and nicely-typeset-modern-but-actually-usable versions of the same project. :-) TIA, Mari

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