April 2013 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Bug in the latest beta (\stopalignment)
by Jannik Voges 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Hello everbody, the following minimal example results in two lines with the centered word 'test'. \starttext \startalignment[middle] Test \stopalignment Test \stoptext Jannik

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float combinations
by Robert Blackstone 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Dear all, I would like to have in my document floats, i.c. musical examples, that basically have the same number, for example, Ex. 3a and Ex. 3b, with text in between and possibly not even on the same page. It seems that it can be done (Wiki-page Command/setupfloatsplitting) but I have no idea how to to accomplish it for figures. Alternatively can one create a combination of two figures but separate the two elements spatially? And if so, how? Thanks in advance for any advice. Best regards, Robert Blackstone

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Re: [NTG-context] Hanging and Protrusion with Typescript
by "H. Özoguz" 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Am 10.04.2013 00:44, schrieb ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl: > Or with the marvelous simplefonts module: > > \usemodule[simplefonts] > \setmainfont[AGaramondPro][boldfont=AGaramondPro-Bold, > italicfont=AGaramondPro-Italic, bolditalicfont=AGaramondPro-BoldItalic, > protrusion=quality, expansion=quality] > \setupalign[hz, hanging] > \starttext > \input tufte > \stoptext Thank your very much Peter, that works! I tried many times to get it work with SimpleFont, but did not know, that it is possible with SimpleFont to define regular, italic, bold separately. By the way: I still do not understand, why it is not possible in ConTeXt (in Simplefont) just to say \setmainfont[AGaramondPro] and nothing more! It should identify regular, bold, italic automatically, like all other programms here do without problems. Or do I miss an important point here? Thanks for your help. Huseyin

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Re: [NTG-context] Hanging and Protrusion with Typescript
by "H. Özoguz" 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Am 10.04.2013 00:44, schrieb ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl: > I corrected your example above: > > \starttypescript [serif] [nimbus] > \definefontsynonym [Serif] [file:AGaramondPro-Regular.otf] > \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [file:AGaramondPro-Bold.otf] > \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [file:AGaramondPro-Italic.otf] > \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [file:AGaramondPro-BoldItalic.otf] > \stoptypescript > > \definefontfeature[default][default][protrusion=quality,expansion=quality] > > \definetypeface [nimbus] [rm] [serif] [nimbus] [features=default] > > \setupbodyfont[nimbus,rm,12pt] > > \setupalign[hz,hanging] > > \starttext > \input tufte > \stoptext > > Wolfgang Hi Wolfgang, thank you. But your correction does not work, too. With your code the font AGaramondPro is not used, and no hanging either (even not with the then used Standard-Font). If I remove [features=default] then again Garamond is used, but still without hanging. It seems very tricky to define these things correctly, at least for me... :) Thanks. Huseyin

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math: size of sqrt to small for fractions
by Xenia 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hi list, I noticed that the sign for the square root does not adapt to the size of a fraction as in the attached minimal example. Thanks, Xenia

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single spacing TOC
by john Culleton 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Working with TOC layout and the "new" manual. The default layout leaves a blank line between section entries. I want to reduce this to zero. I tried this: \setuplist[section] [alternative=a,before=,after=,distance=1pt] \completecontent but this didn't remove the extra space. Hints? -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Hanging and Protrusion with Typescript
by "H. Özoguz" 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hi there, normally I use simplefont, with protrusion and typescript. But Simplefont does not recognize the regular, italic, and bold of AdobeGaramondPro correctly by default. So I tried to work with a typescript definition, and it works - with the exception of hanging (and protrusion?). This is my example: +++++++++++++++++++++++ \enableregime[utf] \starttypescript [serif] [nimbus] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [file:AGaramondPro-Regular.otf] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [file:AGaramondPro-Bold.otf] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [file:AGaramondPro-Italic.otf] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [file:AGaramondPro-BoldItalic.otf] \stoptypescript \definetypeface [nimbus] [rm] [serif] [nimbus] \definefontfeature [default] [default] [protrusion=quality,expansion=quality] \setupalign[hz,hanging] \setupbodyfont[nimbus,rm,12pt] \starttext \input tufte \stoptext +++++++++++++++++++++ The Font is correctly used by ConText, but no hanging is applied. How to achieve that? Thanks. Huseyin

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Unnumbered chapters (title), numbered appendices
by Alan BRASLAU 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hello, I am having difficulties with the use of unnumbered chapters (\title) as well as the use of appendices. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Titles#Unnumbered_titles_in_table_of_contents gives a few recipes for the use of unnumbered titles and their inclusion in the table of contents. Unfortunately, they do not work! \definehead [intro] [chapter] \setuphead [intro] [number=no] will increment the chapter number, as does \setuphead [title] [incrementnumber=yes,number=no] trying "coupling=no" gives missing number errors (in the toc). Furthermore, placing chapters into \frontmatter and \backmatter might not always be a solution. In a document structured in *parts*, one might want to have an introduction (and other "front matter") as well as conclusions (and other "back matter"). One needs a means of switching section blocks, for example, without resetting everything. Maybe this can become an option in \startfrontmatter [reset=no] \startappendices [reset=no] \startbackmatter [reset=no] for example, or else: \setupsectionblock [appendix] [resetnumber=no] % number=yes|no Another route could be through the use of the *mysterious* structureresetset \definestructureresetset [default] [0,0] [1] % do not reset parts and chapters \setuphead [part,chapter] [sectionresetset=default] coupled somehow to the section blocks. Alan

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graphics: figure combination and single figure side by side
by Xenia 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hi context list, I want to place three figures in a row, but two of them as part of a combination with a common caption. I tried this with columns, but did not manage it, because I only read how to span 2 columns with single figures. How can this be done properly? Thanks, Xenia

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prezi presentations
by Thomas A. Schmitz 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hi all, this is a very far shot, but just maybe... I have been looking at prezi (http://prezi.com/) There's lots of aspects there that don't appeal to me, but I find the general idea very nice: a presentation is sort of a big poster, with some background graphics. You define areas on this poster into which your content goes (so these would be the "slides" in a conventional presentation). When you show your presentation, your viewer will zoom in on these areas and present them full screen, and it will move along a predefined path, thus showing the areas (slides) in a certain order. The nice thing is that you can, at any moment, zoom out and show the entire poster, thus giving an overview of your presentation in which only the bigger elements (headlines etc.) will be readable. Now I was wondering if the same couldn't be done with ConTeXt, pdf and javascript: producing a big pdf with a background image would be fairly easy (metapost's vector graphics would look good at any zoom level). Placing slides with content there could be done via layers. Zooming in and showing certain areas is doable (but obviously would depend on the pdf viewer, especially for the full screen mode). I have no idea if we have support for rotating areas in a pdf viewer. Would javascript be capable of automating this, i.e. defining areas in a pdf, displaying them at a certain zoom level, and move from one area to the next? I think this would be a nice alternative to traditional slide shows. Thomas

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