July 2012 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

columns in latest beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

I was writing a reply to Dalyoung, but Wolfgang beat me to it. So I'm going to ask a question myself: I'm a bit desperate about columns. I want nothing fancy, just a simple two-columns layout for a few pages. Unfortunately, the two betas I have on my computer both have trouble. 2012-06-30 complains about \column: "undefined control sequence." 2012-07-19 throws an error which I've never seen before: system > tex > error on line 901 in file reader.tex: Bad register code ... That's the line where I have \stopcolumns. The full error is this: \page_mul_flush_preceding_ongrid ...ceding_height -\dp \d_page_mul_preceding... \page_mul_flush_packaged_columns_indeed ...ongrid \else \page_mul_flush_prec... \page_mul_flush_packaged_columns_continued ...eed \box \columnpagebox \egroup \page_mul_routine_continue ...d_columns_continued }\page_otr_construct_and_s... \page_otr_command_routine ...mul_routine_continue \or \page_mul_routine_bala... \page_otr_triggered_output_routine ...and_routine \fi What does this "bad register code" mean? I don't even know where to begin to look for an error - there is one \start - \stopcolumns environment earlier in my document, which does appear to work normally. Any pointers? Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] making my own simpleslides module
by dalyoung 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Dear Woldgang and Marco, Thank you for your correction. It works after bracing the \externalfigure command. Now, I have to modify the numbers of header, footer, etc to make my style. I also change the order of "\setupexternalfigure[directory=...]" and "\usemodule[simpleslides]..." to apply the relational position. Now, I don't have to keep two mode "my own" and "simple slides". Instead, I just use "simpleslides-s-myown". Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung

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making my own simpleslides module
by dalyoung 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Dear Thomas, I tested making my simpleslides module "SsuWave" by modifying "simpleslides-s-Rounded.tex" (1) I just replaced MP figures for horizontal and title with some figures as follows for test : \defineoverlay [simpleslides:background:horizontal] % [\useMPgraphic{simpleslides:MP:horizontal}] [\externalfigure[/Users/graph/Documents/figures/background/ssuwave1][]] \defineoverlay [simpleslides:background:title] % [\useMPgraphic{simpleslides:MP:title}] [\externalfigure[/Users/graph/Documents/figures/background/ssuwave][]] But it does not work. I got error as follows: ! Argument of \douseexternalfigure has an extra }. ..... 22 \stopitemize 23 24 >> \SlideTitle{벡터의 연산 } 25 .... <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \pack_layers_set ...group \edef \currentlayer {#1} \edef \p_pack_layers_state... <to be read again> { \61>simpleslides:background:horizontal ...uwave1]{ \executedefinedoverlay {si... \pack_framed_process_background_indeed_external ... \else \kern -\framedbackgr... ... (2) In the log file, I checked that it was read during the process. mkiv lua stats > loaded tex modules - 6 requested, 6 found (*-animation *-simpleslides *-simpleslides-s-SsuWave *-units simpleslides-f-default simpleslides-s-default), 0 missing ... I think that it needs more job to do this. Would you please tell me any ideas? Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Need help
by Shiv Shankar Dayal 19 Jul '12

19 Jul '12

Hi, Mu current chapter setup is as below: \def\HeadTitle#1#2% {\hbox to \hsize \bgroup \hfill \setupframed[offset=.5em,frame=off] \tbox{\framed[width=3cm,align=left]{#1}}% \tbox{\framed[width=4cm,align=right,leftframe=on]{#2}}% \egroup} \setuphead [chapter] [color=green1, textstyle=, align=normal, continue=no, page=right, style=\tfc, before={\blank[2*big]}, after={\blank[2*big]}, command=\HeadTitle] I want a local TOC after each chapter title. If I manually put \placelist[section][criterium=chapter] immediately after \chapter command then it does not work. Please help. -- Best regards, Shiv Shankar Dayal

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Re: [NTG-context] write my own text in the header
by dalyoung 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Dear Hans and Thomas, Thank you for the reply. First, I tried \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=yellow-spring, state=repeat] but, there is no change. After the change "page" to "text", my figure appears but it covers slide title. I couldn't test \setupbackgrounds [page] [background={yellow-spring,exist-thing}, state=repeat] yet. As you said, I think that the best way to use my own figure as a background in SimpleSlide is to make my own slide template. I found "simpleslides-template.tex" and I may try to modify it to make a style file. I hope that I can do it using other samples. Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Is startalign broken in mkiv?
by Matthias Weber 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

\starttext \startformula \startalign v &= u + at \\ h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ \stopalign \stopformula \stoptext ---->> ConTeXt ver: 2012.07.17 16:42 MKIV fmt: 2012.7.17 int: english/english (...) ! Missing $ inserted. system > tex > error on line 3 in file test.tex: Missing $ inserted ... 1 \starttext 2 \startformula \startalign 3 >> v &= u + at \\ 4 h &= ut + \frac12 gt^2 \\ 5 \stopalign \stopformula 6 \stoptext Thanks - Matthias

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Width of text in startcolumns environment (MkIV)
by Martin Bruchanov 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Hello, I found following problem in version: 2012.07.17 16:42. The frame width goes over both columns (with texexec the width is only over one column, I used \makeupwidth but it is same). \setuppapersize[A5] \starttext \startcolumns[n=2] \title{Test page} \framed[frame=off,bottomframe=on,width=\textwidth,frameoffset=1mm]{ \startalignment[middle] {\tfx \copyright{} \date[][year] Donald E. Knuth} \stopalignment } \input knuth \stoptext Is there another variable defining the width of column? Best regards, -- Martin Bruchanov Skype : bruxytronics WWW : http://bruxy.regnet.cz/ GPG-Key : http://bruxy.regnet.cz/bruxy-gpg.key (0x8107ED53) Linked-In : http://www.linkedin.com/in/bruxy Google+ : http://gplus.to/BruXy

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glyph outlines
by Jan Kula 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Hello to everybody, how to draw character outlines for plotter to cut the letters out of the plate in mkiv? mmakempy.pdf is over 10 years old, so the situation could change since then. Anyway, even if I stick to the above method, the minimal example \starttext \startMPcode graphictext "Test"; \stopMPcode \stoptext doesn't work as expected in mkiv. *.mpy file is empty. In mkii error is issued during the run. Ignoring it finally produces the outlines, so it seems, everything needed is available (gs, pdftops, pstoedit). Anyway, mkiv way is preferred. Thanks for the help, Jano

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math symbol: blacktriangle
by Andreas Mang 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Dear all, The \blacktriangle and \blacktriangledown symbol seem to be missing, though \blacktriangleright and \...-left are defined. Is there a quick way to add missing symbols by myself from the knowledge of Unicode / XML identifier (http://www-sop.inria.fr/marelle/tralics/doc-b.html)? Cheers, Andreas

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A "Lorem ipsum" module?
by Marcin Borkowski 18 Jul '12

18 Jul '12

Hi all, in LaTeX, there is quite a useful package called "lipsum", for typesetting varioud amounts of "Lorem ipsum" stuff. Is there anything like that in ConTeXt? (I know about \input knuth, \input tufte etc., but that is not exactly what I have in mind, especially when giving a sample of some design to a customer;).) If not (as I suspect), what should I do to write such a module? I expect this shouldn't be too difficult, and I could learn a few things (like using key-value syntax in ConTeXt, for instance); are there any recommendations for people wanting to learn to write a (simple) module for ConTeXt (other than the relevant wiki page)? For example, which existing modules might I want to take and read the source code of? Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl

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