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thinrules
by Meer, H. van der 17 May '12

17 May '12

Macro \thinrules places vertical whitespace before the first of its lines. I would like to get rid of that one, but have no success in doint that. Usage is: \par\thinrules[..]\par Howto? H van der Meer

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Adjust the tracking
by Marco 17 May '12

17 May '12

Hi everybody, how does one adjust the tracking of a font? The command \definecharacterkerning does almost what I need. However, it breaks the ligatures. \definecharacterkerning [track] [factor=.01] \starttext \showboxes \switchtobodyfont [72pt] final suffocating flange % all ligatures lost \setcharacterkerning [track] final suffocating flange \stoptext Marco

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\setupbodyfont restricted to pt as unit
by Marco 17 May '12

17 May '12

Hi! Is it by design, that \setupbodyfont only accepts “pt” as unit? %\setupbodyfont [18pt] % pt works \setupbodyfont [18bp] % bp fails \definefont [testbp] [Serif at 18bp] % bp works \setupinterlinespace [line=24bp] % bp works \starttext Foo\testbp Bar \stoptext Not that I see any difference between “pt” and “bp” with these small sizes, but usually all commands accepting a length unit can be fed with all TeX units. Marco

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xtable cell centering?
by Meer, H. van der 17 May '12

17 May '12

Sorry for the previous post, but accidentely the mail flew away far too soon! Hans van der Meer

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xtable cellcentering?
by Meer, H. van der 17 May '12

17 May '12

Why does this one centers the contents in the cells? \startxtable[offset=1cm] % By the way: coloring does nothing here. why? \startxrow \startxcell one \stopxcell \startxcell two \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell[foregroundcolor="blue"] alpha \stopxcell \startxcell beta \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable But the other example: <table> <tr> <td> One </td> <td> Two </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <b>Three</b> </td> <td> Four </td> </tr> </table> with Hans van der Meer

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xtable spaceinbetweent?
by Meer, H. van der 17 May '12

17 May '12

\startxtable[spaceinbetween=0cm] \startxrow \startxcell one \stopxcell \startxcell two \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell alpha \stopxcell \startxcell beta \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtable I cannot follow the behaviour of spaceinbetween. When absent the rows are put neatly against each other. But with spaceinbetween=0cm there is a gap, that does not seem to change with either changing the dimension or replacing it by small, medium, big, or even none. Could there be an error in the code for xtables? Hans van der Meer

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xtable question
by Meer, H. van der 17 May '12

17 May '12

I have the following xmlsetup for a tablecell in xtable (plus other appropiate definitions): \startxmlsetups xmlcommon:td \startxcell[\doifnot{\xmlatt{#1}{width}}{\empty}{width={\xmlatt{#1}{width}}},] \xmlflush{#1} \stopxcell \stopxmlsetups and the following table: <table> <tr> <td> One </td> <td width="8cm"> Two </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <b>Three</b> </td> <td width="8cm"> Four </td> </tr> </table> Why isn't the width setting on the cells not honoured and is the following message appearing in the log: check > missing or ungrouped '=' after '\doifnot {8cm}{}{width={8cm}}' Also I tried \expanded{startxcell..} but it made no difference. Neither does width={\xmlatt{#1}{width}} because the a broad setting results instead of a cell 8cm wide. How can I then accomplish the following parameter scheme? on <td width="dimension"> the \startcellx[ takes width=dimension, on <td> the \startcellx does not take a width-paarameter. Hans van der Meer

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Problem calling system
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 17 May '12

17 May '12

Hello, I'd need to call the OS, namely lua in it. I have the following code: ---- \write18{lua -e "require 'lfs'"} \write18{lua -e require'lfs'} \starttext A \stoptext ---- When calling directly from the command line lua -e "require 'lfs'" - there is no error. From within the Context code, I'm getting (see CmdLine.log): " ... lua.exe: (command line):1: '=' expected near 'lfs' lua.exe: (command line):1: '=' expected near '<eof>'... " What could be the problem? My OS is WinXP 32b. 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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tables
by Meer, H. van der 17 May '12

17 May '12

I started using starttable..\stoptable. Question: How can I force the table cells to fixed dimensions, for example squares of 1cmx1cm? I can see \setuptables[height= width= depth=] but that does not take dimensions (error Illegal unit). What it does with the numbers given is not clear to me, because the ConTeXtGarden has no explanation of its effect. By the way, the page Command/setuptables has the bodyfont parameter occurring twice in the table. Hans van der Meer

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[OT] An idea to promote context
by luigi scarso 17 May '12

17 May '12

http://video.repubblica.it/divertimento/un-pulsante-rosso-in-mezzo-alla-cit… Warning: keep the volume low. -- luigi

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