April 2013 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

A simpler way to make a bibliography
by john Culleton 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

After struggling with all the programming prescribed by Context to set up a bibliography, and examining a few dozen *.bib, *.bst and a *bbl file, I decided to do things the simple way. My concept is, that instead of creating a *bib file I could with the same amount of effort create a plain text file to be imported directly into my Context file. I studied the bibliography of "The Chicago Manual of Style" to determine the order, punctuation and format. My file is called "book.foo." Now if I choose to use some of these entries in another book a simple cut and paste between two editor sessions will do. For ease in editing I put each item in each entry on a separate line. TeX/Context will take care of puttng them together in a paragraph. Of course this lacks the generality of the bibtex approach. But I don't need all that flexibilty. None of the current biblio styles specified for Context incorporate the ISBN field. So I just put it at the end of each entry preceded by a \crlf. Without further ado here is the book.foo file: ------------------------------------------ \chapter{References} %authors. title. city: publisher, year\crlf %isbn Bah, Tavmjong. {\it Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program}. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2011 \crlf ISBN 978-0-13-276414-8 Culleton, John R. Jr. {\it Create Book Covers with Scribus} (pdf e-book). Eldersburg, Maryland: Wexford Press, 2012 \crlf ISBN 978-1-60019-002-5 Drew, Ned and Paul Sternberger. {\it By its Cover: Modern American Book Design}. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005\crlf ISBN 978-1-56898-497-1 Kirsanov, Dimitry. {\it The Book of Inkscape\trademark : The Definitive Guide to the Free Graphics Editor}. San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2009\crlf ISBN 978-159327-181-7 Powers, Alan. {\it Front Cover: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design}. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2006\crlf ISBN 978-1-84533-242-6 ------------------------------------------- If by chance an entry ends up split between two pages a simple \page[yes] command can be inserted. I considered instead putting a \goodbreak between entries but figured it wasn't worth the bother. Since I call this fragment a \chapter it is listed in the TOC. I had to put \whitespace[medium] right after the \startbackmatter command just as I did after \startbodymatter. for my purposes for this task simple is better and much faster. -- 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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localfootnotes and bodyfontsize in a placetable
by Alan BRASLAU 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

The following attached "minimal" example using local footnotes and a small body font size exhibits two problems: 1. The \placelocalfootnotes are incoherently in the "normal" size, as I would expect them to be proportionally reduced. 2. The width of the first column gets incorrectly set (there is a break between "a" and "cell"). Probably there is a better way of achieving this correctly. Alan\setupbodyfont[10pt] \starttext 10pt \startplacetable [title=A title] \switchtobodyfont [6pt] \startlocalfootnotes \bTABLE \bTR \bTD a cell\startfootnote A footnote\stopfootnote\eTD \bTD another cell\eTD \eTR \eTABLE \placelocalfootnotes \stoplocalfootnotes \stopplacetable \stoptext \setupbodyfont[10pt] \starttext 10pt \startplacetable [title=A title] \switchtobodyfont [6pt] \startlocalfootnotes \bTABLE \bTR \bTD a cell\startfootnote A footnote\stopfootnote\eTD \bTD another cell\eTD \eTR \eTABLE \placelocalfootnotes \stoplocalfootnotes \stopplacetable \stoptext

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Set background color for a single page
by Tim Li 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Sometimes, I only want a single page, say, the titlepage or page 32, with colored background rather that the whole document. Here are some codes: \starttext% titlepage (yellow) \startmakeup[standard] \midaligned{How to make document} \stopmakeup % page1 (gray) Many \CONTEXT\ users $\ldots$ \page % page2 (darkyellow) Many \TEX\ users $\ldots$ \stoptext Of course, it is awful that if I set the titlepage yellow, page1 gray and page2 darkyellow. How can I achieve this? regrads, Tim

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``fallback" in Typescript
by Tim Li 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hi, In the wiki, fallback often appears in the definition of typescript. I am curious about this ``fallback", is there a place to learn the fallback in detail? I haven't found this place in our wiki. Regards, Tim

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Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit
by Jan Heinen 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Thank you all!!!!!! My book from last year (15.000 lines text + context-code and 1.500 lines macro-code now was compiled without no further problems! I only had to change all \define\variable ... to \defineexpandable\variable ... I think, now I understand a little bit more about ConTeXt and try again to give a little bit back to the community. I have started a new article on the context-wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Calculating_with_dimension_units Hopefully the more sophisticated ConTeXter help a little bit to improve the article. Please have a look what is wrong and what I have forgotten (or don't know). Regards Janis

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Accessing documentation repository
by contact＠thomas-corbiere.name 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Hello, I would like to access ConTeXt documentation repository to download and study how ConTeXt is used to produce the manuals, but it looks like the repositories are down. I tried the following: - Official(?) repository svn://ctx.pragma-ade.nl/manuals - Manual translations http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/contextman/scmsvn/ Can someone point me to the new location for the documentation repository? Regards, Thomas Corbière

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Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit
by Jan Heinen 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Hello, thanks for the helpfull tipps. Only one wasn't working: \defineexpandable\ColumnABii {\ctxlua{context([==[\ColumnA + \ColumnB]==])}} ColumnABii: \ColumnABii The result is: ColumnABii: 30mm+ 40mm And it should be ColumnABii: 70mm And in the other cases I get back: 199.16928pt instead of 70mm but this seems to be the same. I think this calculating with dimension is not very well documented in the context-wiki. Thus I would like to write a small article about "Calculating with dimension units" in the wiki.contextgarden.net to help others a bit. Or is there already an article somewhere? Regards Jannis

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calculating with dimension unit
by Jan Heinen 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

In a book I produced with ConTeXt last year, I did a lot of calculation to be able to change the layout dynamicaly. With the actual version of ConTeXt I can't compile the book. I have tried a lot of things today ... without success. I hope my minimal-example helps you to understand, what I want to do - and what I am doing wrong: \starttext \setupexternalfigures[location={local,global,default}] \defineexpandable\ColumnA {30mm} \defineexpandable\ColumnB {40mm} \defineexpandable\ColumnABi {\dimexpr(\ColumnA + \ColumnB)} \defineexpandable\ColumnABii {\ctxlua{context(\ColumnA + \ColumnB)}} \newdimen\ColumnABiii \ColumnABiii = \dimexpr(\ColumnA + \ColumnB) A \ColumnA% ok B \ColumnB% ok % I sadly get only errors when I delete the comments: %ColumnABi: \ColumnABi %ColumnABii: \ColumnABii %ColumnABiii: \ColumnABiii %\externalfigure[cow][width=\ColumnABiii] ~ \page \stoptext

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setuppagenumber--start at page xy
by "H. Özoguz" 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

> Minimal example: > > \setuppagenumber[number=3] > \starttext > \input tufte > \stoptext > > I'm using today's context version. > > Thanks, Jörg You could use \setcounter[userpage][2] \starttext \input tufte \stoptext Huseyin

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Re: [NTG-context] ConText on webspace
by Jan Heinen 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

>> Is it possible to instal and runl ConText on webspace? >> Which requirements and limitations are needed? > define webspace I have webspace hosted at the german provider (1und1) where my homepage is running. It contains php, perl, python, mysqld. I have access via - ssh - ftp It's NOT a managed server - there are lot's of other customers on the same server. Is this enough for your answer or which else information do you need? Regards Janis

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