July 2012 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

## not permitted in the presence of &.
by eythanweg＠gmail.com 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

Hi, I run into trouble with mkiv (ConTeXt ver: 2012.05.30 11:26 MKIV fmt: 2012.7.7 int: english/english). A small example: \starttext \def\c#1#2{\halign{##\hfil&##\cr\bf#1&\quad#2\cr}} \c{11}{this} \stoptext gives and error: ! Only one # is allowed per tab. This runs error-free under mkii (pdftex, xetex), plain tex (luatex, xetex), latex (luatex) etc. Would someone comment? Thank you, Eythan

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Informations about nodes
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

Hallo ConTeXist. is there anything about nodes for beginners? I think any manual or practical examples. I would like trying make anything experiments with this. I found anything only on wiki (http://wiki.luatex.org/index.php/TeX_without_TeX) Thanks Jaroslav Hajtmar

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change caption position temporarily
by d_jan 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

Hello, Is it possible to set the caption position for some images to another position than the one defined in \setupcations ? The standard in my document is location=bottom but for some images I'd prefer =right. Regards, Jan

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math: diagonal dots
by Andreas Mang 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

Dear all, It seems that the \ddots in "modern" is mapped to the wrong Symbol: %%%%%%%%%%%%% \setupbodyfont[modern,12pt] \starttext $\ddots$ \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%% System: ConTeXt ver: 2012.07.10 09:52 MKIV result: three dots from bottom left to top right (corresponds to \iddots (which btw. does not exist in context, as it seems)) expected result: three dots from top left to bottom right Seems just to be the case for "modern". Cheers, Andreas

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PDF Preview Image
by Kip Warner 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

Hey list, Many different desktop environments display the first page of a PDF as the file's "thumbnail" image. Is there any way to customize what is used as the preview image for a PDF with ConTeXt? Or is it typesetting environment agnostic and the thumbnailers always look for the first page? -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

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flush page to bottom, even the last one
by Peter Münster 15 Jul '12

15 Jul '12

Hi, What could I do please, so that the second page looks like the first one? --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- \showframe \setupalign[line] \setupwhitespace[small] \def\MyBox{\dontleavehmode\externalfigure[hacker][height=0.4\textheight]\par} \starttext \MyBox \MyBox \MyBox \MyBox \stoptext --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- TIA for any help, -- Peter

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adjust width of text automatically
by Peter Münster 15 Jul '12

15 Jul '12

Hi, Is it possible to place one box beside another, both with the same height, one box with an image of unknown width, and the other uses the remaining width. I've tried this, but without success: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- \starttext \bTABLE[offset=0pt, height=7cm, textwidth=\textwidth, option=stretch] \bTR \bTD bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla \eTD \bTD \externalfigure[hacker][height=7cm] \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- If yes, how? If no, then I'll try to get the width of the image with img.scan() ... TIA for any hints! -- Peter

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indent a block of text
by Peter Münster 15 Jul '12

15 Jul '12

Hi, I want to indent a block of text to the right by the width of some other short text: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- \starttext \framed[height=5cm, offset=0pt, strut=no, frame=off]{% Bla:~\framed[location=top, align=flushleft, height=max, offset=pt, frame=off]{% This text is indented to the right by the amount of the width of \quote{Bla:~}. Can this be done better? \vfill \rightaligned{At the bottom of the outer box.}}} \stoptext --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Any hints, how to do this in a cleaner way? TIA, -- Peter

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linenumbering
by Thomas A. Schmitz 14 Jul '12

14 Jul '12

OK, here's another one. For the code, I must admit: http://www.alyssahiba.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/no-idea-what-im-doing-… I think it was the Wolfgang who helped me with this a couple of months ago. I want a start/stop pair that will take as an argument a key-value to set the beginning of the line numbering. So here's my example: \def\startnumberedblockquote {\dosingleempty\dostartnumberedblockquote} \def\dostartnumberedblockquote[#1]% {\getrawparameters[numberedblockquote][start=1,#1]% \blank[line]% \begingroup \setupindenting[no]% \setuplinenumbering[location=text] \startlinenumbering[width=1cm][\numberedblockquotestart]} \def\stopnumberedblockquote {\stoplinenumbering \endgroup \blank[line]} \starttext \startnumberedblockquote[start=3] \input knuth \stopnumberedblockquote \stoptext This works with 2012.06.30 12:32, but not with 2012.07.07 15:04. All best Thomas

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\seeindex and processors
by Wolfgang Schuster 14 Jul '12

14 Jul '12

Hi Hans, processors aren’t applied to the second argument of \seeindex, only the first is formatted. \defineprocessor[smallcaps][style=\sc] \starttext Apples\index{smallcaps->Apple} Malus domestica\seeindex{smallcaps->Malus domestica}{smallcaps->Apple} \placeindex[n=1] \stoptext Wolfgang

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