May 2012 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Asian Language Support
by hwitloc＠gmail.com 09 May '12

09 May '12

I live in Japan and fequently have the need to create documents in Japanese. I would like to stop using WYSIWYG type word processing and switch over to TeX based systems. I've been starting and am learning to use ConTeXt but I've still a long way to go. I want to ask if anyone has already gone through this and has a "How to publish a Japanese language document using ConTeXt" or something like that, unless it is incredibly easy to do. I've not tried it yet, but will tomorrow. I wanted to write to the group first to see if this issue has already be solved or any other input. My current platform environment is not ideal, but using Cygwin on a Japanese XP Windows box. I've not had any problems with English documents. Regards, Henman (hwitloc)

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wrong footnote number in beta from today
by Pablo Rodríguez 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi there, I'm afraid that footnote numbering in body text is wrong in latest beta (the bug was also in the two previous betas). Here you have a sample that shows the bug: \setupnotation[footnote][number=no] \setuphead[chapter][number=no] \starttext \chapter{First chapter} one\footnote{two} \section{First section} three\footnote{four} \stoptext There should be no note footnote numbering, but the body text takes the sectioning command number for the footnote references (which is obviously wrong). Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Bottomspace / Layout question!?
by finkler 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi there, I have a question regarding the spacing and margins of a text document. My layout is defined like this: \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout[ topspace=1cm,header=1.5cm, backspace=3cm,cutspace=3cm, bottomspace=1cm,footer=1cm, margin=0cm ] Everything works like it is supposed to, except the "bottomspace" parameter, instead of 1cm I have 3.5cm from bottom footer to bottom rim of paper. Can anyone tell me what the problem is here? I tried a lot of other parameters, like bottom, or bottomdistance, etc. It seems ConText is ignoring my bottom definitions, what can I do to increase my textheight, or decrease my bottom height? Regards, finkler

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Increase textbackground page break white space
by Kip Warner 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hey list, Some of my textbackgrounds occupy more than one page and break part way through them, as expected. Where their containing text is split at the page break, I am finding that the frame is too close to the contents. So I'd like to increase the white space of the bottom and top of the textbackground's frame and content where it splits across a page. This is what I have been using so far: \definetextbackground[SomeTextBackground] [location=paragraph, color=color_text, background=color, backgroundcolor=colour_text_background_shaded, frame=on, framecolor=colour_text, topoffset=0.5cm, bottomoffset=0.5cm, leftoffset=0.5cm, rightoffset=0.5cm, before={ \blank[2*big] }, after={ \blank[2*big] }, style=smalltype, corner=round] I've been trying to solve this problem for months without any luck. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

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Re: [NTG-context] Asian Language Support
by dalyoung 08 May '12

08 May '12

> > Just a remark: for cjk one can best use the mkiv feature to combine > fonts; there are probably some examples of korean fonts mixed with e.g. > palatino or times in the email archive. Here is a sample typescript file for mixed Korean and English fonts suggested by Hans. Using this file, I can use Korean font for Korean and Palatino for English. It works well. You can modify this file for your purpose. Good luck! Best regards, Dalyoung

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\definehighlight + \words | \WORDS
by Philipp Gesang 08 May '12

08 May '12

Dear listmates, I rely on automated uppercasing and lowercasing a lot and I’m very happy with the \words and \WORD macros. But I can’t find a way to properly combine them with the “style” parameter of highlights: it breaks frames and enumerations. Example: ········································································ \definehighlight [tolower] [style=\words,] %%% This is problematic. \def\mylower#1{\bgroup\words#1\egroup} %%% The command itself %%% works, though. \starttext FOO \tolower{FOO} FOO\par %%% Works. \framed{BAR \mylower{BAR} BAR} %%% Works. \framed{BAR \tolower{BAR} BAR} %%% Fails. \startitemize %%% Enumerations don’t work either. \item FOO \mylower{FOO} FOO %%% Works. \item FOO \tolower{FOO} FOO %%% Fails. \stopitemize \stoptext ········································································ In short: while I can always wrap it in a \def, the more elegant doesn’t work in all cases. Is there anything wrong with my approach? Best regards Philipp

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FLOWcharts - connector line length?
by Mari Voipio 08 May '12

08 May '12

Hi, I've just fallen in love with the chart module, my first flowchart is almost done. I'll never draw these "by hand" again... Besides, it seems that the chart module forces me to do flowcharts "right", that should help with consistency and legibility. Now I just have to read a bit on how to do charts properly! I've figured out about text font and box sizes and making connections and all that, but there's one important question that I just can't seem to find the answer for: how do I adjust the connector line length? My labels just don't fit between the boxes and I'd have a whole A4 for a ny=5 flowchart, so I'd have space... (Oh, the other question is: is there a way to span a cell across several slots on the grid? If not, I can deal with *that*, the line is a lot more of a problem.) Thank you in advance, Mari (apparently in the "expand your ConTeXt skills" mode this week)

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Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?
by Mari Voipio 08 May '12

08 May '12

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > You have seen this one, haven't you? Posted by Don Knuth: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVuggGxeBVk > > So that's your next challenge. Yes, I've seen it, had to watch the whole thing, it is so fascinating. If I ever decide to invest in such a machine, it'll be an expensive one that allows me to digitize my own graphics (not just ready-made sets), preferably as vectors. In which case doing *that* isn't so much of a challenge any more. I've coveted one of those for a while, but currently cannot justifty getting one, neither for fun nor for my tiny craft business as that one is concentrated on the pre-steam era. However, I'm planning to use MetaPost to create blackwork charts, I've got the feeling that it'll give me neater results than any existing software. And I won't be stuck with one OS, either. :-) Mari

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Re: [NTG-context] References to floats
by Robert Blackstone 07 May '12

07 May '12

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote > > On 6-5-2012 23:18, Robert Blackstone wrote: >> Sometimes however the example is placed at the same page as the text discussing it. >> Is there any trick to adapt the reference to this situation, so that, instead of saying, for instance, "ex. 3.4 on page 12", it just says "ex. 3.4", or "ex. 3.4 below" or even "ex. 3.4 on this page"? >> > > you can try \atpage[ref] > Thank you, Hans, for your quick reply. Unfortunately it does not help me. The result is basically the same as when I write "on \at{page}[ref]", except that, instead of "on page 20", I get "at page 20", (with the float sitting on page 20). Frankly, I'm rather surprised that this wish of mine seems not to have come up before. Kind regards, Robert

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context to markdown/html
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد 07 May '12

07 May '12

Dear gang, I have a paper done in ConTeXt that I would like to put online. I _could_ manually convert my input to markdown, but I was wondering if the xml/xhtml export options could be used to accomplish the same thing. Although I have done a lot of doc-to-context conversions via pandoc (doc->odt->markdown->context) I have never needed to go the other way till now. What would you guys suggest? Is there a way to convert context's xml/xhtml to markdown? (Note that I know little about html, css etc). One thing (bug?) I have noticed: bibliographic info gets lost in the backend export, so I end up with a lot of Xxxxxxxx (0000) etc in the output. Isn't there a tmp file the export backend can access to pick up this info? Any advice appreciated and Best wishes Idris

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