September 2013 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: [NTG-context] captions in float combinations
by Robert Blackstone 09 Sep '13

09 Sep '13

Hi Marco, hi Aditya, Thank you very much for the solutions you have proposed for my problem, that of making a side by side combination of two figures of unequal height with both the figures and their (sub)-captions located at the top. In order not to make this mail too long I simply refer to the ntg-context Digest numbers and message number containing the proposed solutions: Marco's in ntg-context Digest, Vol 111, Issue 23, Message 1, and in ntg-context Digest, Vol 111, Issue 24, message 5, Aditya's in ntg-context Digest, Vol 111, Issue 24, message 4 These solutions give me all the possibilities I need. When I just want both figures in the combination to be located at the top without subcaptions I will probably use Marco's second proposal, which is both simpler and far more elegant than the hack I found myself. If I want them at the top with subcaptions I will use Aditya's method, which, by the way, is nearly identical with Marco's first solution, but for two arguments for \externalfigure, the fllename of the figure and [location=top]. This fully solved my problem. Thank you both. Wouldn't it be worthwhile to add it to the wiki? Best regards, Robert

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\startfloattext ... \stopfloattext
by Christian Prim 09 Sep '13

09 Sep '13

What is the context way to place text near a table (or another float) in an enumeration-environment? I just want to have the text "just this...." right to the table. The second item "2)" should be below the table. In the (not so) MWE all is fine, but the table is not indented. When I use \placetable the text is indented, but the second item is placed near the table on the right. (I could insert a \blank[xycm] but I don't think it's the way to solve my problem.) Thanks for all comments Christian \starttext \startitemize[n,packed,joinedup][stopper=)] \item Abhängigkeit der Beschleunigung von der Wagenmasse $m$: \blank $M=$ \hl[5] \unit{kg} \blank \starttabletext[left,high,none]{}{ %\placetable[left,high,none]{}{ \starttable[|l|l|] \HL \VL $m$ in kg \VL $a$ in \unit{m isquare s} \VL\NR \HL \VL \qquad \VL \qquad \VL\AR \VL \VL \VL\AR \HL \VL \VL \VL\AR \VL \VL \VL\AR \HL \VL \VL \VL\AR \VL \VL \VL\AR \HL \stoptable} Just this text near the table! \stoptabletext \item second item ... \stoptext

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[***SPAM***] YATM (Yet Another Table Method)
by hwitloc＠gmail.com 09 Sep '13

09 Sep '13

I just noticed the YATM, "yet another table method", built in ConTEXt, called "extreme tables", which is said to be a variant of the natural table mechanism. Is extreme-tables a superset of natural-tables functionality? Is the future in extreme-tables and will natural-tables eventually take a back seat and then fade away, being surpassed in development, features and usage? Cheers

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Strange page break before \title
by Xan 09 Sep '13

09 Sep '13

Hi, I have this setuptitle: \setuphead[title][before={\page[no]}, after={\startalignment[center] {\dorecurse{30}~}\thinrule{\dorecurse{30}~}% and this document: \starttext \startalignment[center] Nom: \hl[24] Curs: \hl[4] \stopalignment \title{Nom del tema} ... \stoptext Before title, context breaks a page. Why? If I do that manually no page break. Thanks in advance, Xan. PS: Please CCme

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Re: [NTG-context] captions in float combinations
by Robert Blackstone 08 Sep '13

08 Sep '13

On 8 sep. 2013, at 17:01, Marco Patzer <lists(a)homerow.info wrote: > > On 2013?09?08 Robert Blackstone wrote: > >> In my project I have all figure captions located above the figure. >> How can I move also these subcaptions to the top, to a position >> just below the main caption? > > As far as I can see, this is not supported by the combination > mechanism because the captions in combinations are not implemented > using the float captions mechanism. > > What you can do instead, is using a float caption and a float > combination, which will respect the global caption setups. > > \useMPlibrary [dum] > > \definefloat > [combinationfloat] > [combinationfloats] > [figure] > > \setupcaption > [combinationfloat] > [number=no] > > \setupcaptions > %% [location=bottom] > [location=top] > > \starttext > \startplacefigure [title=Foobar] > \startfloatcombination [2*2] > \startplacecombinationfloat [title=alpha] \externalfigure \stopplacecombinationfloat > \startplacecombinationfloat [title=beta] \externalfigure \stopplacecombinationfloat > \startplacecombinationfloat [title=gamma] \externalfigure \stopplacecombinationfloat > \startplacecombinationfloat [title=delta] \externalfigure \stopplacecombinationfloat > \stopfloatcombination > \stopplacefigure > \stoptext > > Marco Hi Marco, Thanks for your solution. It took me a while to harmonize your new float with my other floats in my document setups. These are all placed on the left side of the page and that caused yor float to move almost off the page. So I added: \setupfloat[combinationfloat][location=middle,spacebefore=medium,spaceafter=medium,sidespacebefore=medium,sidespaceafter=medium] and now it works beautifully. There is, however, another complication which makes that unfortunately I cannot use your solution "out of the box" in all situations. The paired figures in my particular project are often of different size, in particular of different height, (but small enough to be placed side by side). The author wants not only the figure captions at the top, but also the figures themselves. I did not mention this complication because, a) I had found a hack to place both figures at the top, and b) I had not expected that the solution for the problem I posted would be a new type of float instead of a new type of combination. So now the captions are at the top but the figures are not. (Law of Conservation of Misery) I will use your solution when the figures are of the same height and can be placed at the bottom You're far more experienced and ingenious in these matters than I am, so perhaps you have a solution for this additional problem, positioning figures of different sizes at the top too. (I should mention, however, that I have a fall-back solution, which consists of adding another line to the caption with info about the two figures in the combination) Thank you very much anyway. Best regards, Robert

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printed ConTeXt manuals
by Henning Hraban Ramm 08 Sep '13

08 Sep '13

Hi, esp. Taco and Hans, I just wanted to prove that there *are* printed ConTeXt manuals, but had a hard time finding http://www.h2o-boeken.nl/catalog/5 Apparently it’s nowhere linked (Wiki, Pragma, Elvenkind), and the site is only in Dutch (wasn’t there an English version before?) So, are you still operational? Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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captions in float combinations
by Robert Blackstone 08 Sep '13

08 Sep '13

Dear list, In two-column combinations of figures, the "subcaptions" for the individual figures are always placed at the bottom, below the figures, regardless of the position of the main figure caption. In my project I have all figure captions located above the figure. How can I move also these subcaptions to the top, to a position just below the main caption? Thanks in advance for any advice. Best regards, Robert Blackstone

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Re: [NTG-context] EPUB XHTML Format
by Aditya Mahajan 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, honyk wrote: > On 2013-09-04 Thangalin wrote: >> >> What needs to happen to take a minimal ConTeXt file (such as the >> attached) to produce a minimum viable EPUB that: >> > It is always difficult to parse and further process not well structured > plain text without advanced semantics. Garbage in, garbage out. The typical ConTeXt document has a lot of structure, and the XML export generates a well structured XML output. That can be directly used in most modern browsers that handle XML+CSS well. However, most (all?) EPUB readers don't. So, the question is asking if instead ConTeXt could generate a XHTML > If you need both EPUB and PDF, start with a semantically rich XML > vocabulary, e.g. DocBook. In this case you can relatively easy transfrom > (XSLT) input data into almost any format. These basic outputs like EPUB or > PDF (via XSL-FO) you can get out-of-the-box. The Context output can be > generated using dbcontext: http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/ > > In sum, use XML as your primary source and from it derive everything else. I haven't used XML-only toolchains. Is it possible to handle: - Automatic section numbering taking care of different conversions. - Automatic index generation and sorting - Inserting hyphenation points at the approriate place in the generated ouput (so that the browser can effectively rely on TeX's hyphenation algorithm to do linebreaking). - Convert TeX math to MathML. The current ConTeXT XML source can translate a well formed ConTeXt document into a XML document with the above features. Aditya

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Another issue with my magazine
by Mikoláš Štrajt 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

% Hello All! % % In the folowing style, I need to do some whitespace tweaks. Unfortunately, I didn't found solutions in manual, so I am asking here. % % I need: % % - make first paragraph after author name noindented, i tried to put some \nointdent here, but without any effect % - make vertical space between article head and author name shorter (also in general : modify vertical spaces of heads) % % Regards Mikoláš Štrajt % % PS: You can use this e-mail as source code of my solution. :-D %%% %%% FOLLOWING IS STYLE AS IS USED IN REAL LIFE %%% %%% % Čeština \enableregime[utf] % Fonty \definetypeface [iwona] [ss] [sans] [iwona] [default] [encoding=ec] \definetypeface [antykwa] [rm] [serif] [antykwa-torunska] [default] [encoding=ec] \usetypescript[modern][ec] \setupbodyfont[ss,10pt] % Papír a číslování řádek \mainlanguage[cz] \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,middle}] % Struktura \definehead[kochapter][chapter] \setuphead[title][style=\antykwa, number=no] \setuphead[kochapter][placehead=empty,before=,after=,number=no] \setuphead[section][page=no,style=\tfb\iwona\grave,number=no] \def\rubrika #1{\kochapter{#1}} \def\prispevek #1#2{ \section{#2} {\noindent \rm \sc #1} \noindent \endgraf \noindent } % Hlavička a patička \setupheadertexts[] \setupheadertexts[\setups{hlavicka}][][][\setups{hlavicka}] \startsetups[hlavicka] \zanrO{\getmarking[kochapter]} \stopsetups % Odstavce \setupindenting[yes, small] \setupheads[indentnext=no] % Záložky a PDF \placebookmarks[kochapter,section][force=yes] \setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark] \setupinteraction[state=start, title={Neslyšný kočkopes}, author={Psanci}] % TOC \setupcombinedlist[content][list={kochapter,section,subsection}] \setuplist[kochapter][interaction=text,color=green,textcommand=\WORD] \setuplist[section][interaction=text,color=green] % Barvy \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[indigo][r=.0, g=0.0, b=0.5] \definecolor[green][r=0, g=0.5, b=0] \definecolor[ruda][r=0.5, g=0, b=0] \definecolor[grave][r=0.5, g=0.5, b=0.5] % Makra \def\citat #1#2{ {\it #1 \blank[1*halfline] \rightaligned{--- #2} }} \def\trojtecka { {\bf \ruda \tt...} } \def \robotitulka{ \startstandardmakeup \title{Neslyšný kočkopes - \getvariable[cislo]} \placecontent \stopstandardmakeup \page } \def\zanrO #1{ \framed[ background=color, backgroundcolor=grave, foreground=color, foregroundcolor=white, frame=off. width=\hsize ]{\antykwa \rightaligned{\WORD{#1}~~}} } \setupdelimitedtext[blockquote][style=\slx,before={\setupinterlinespace[line=2.4ex]}] %%% %%% FOLLOWING IS EXAMPLE TEXT %%% %%% %%% `rubrika` is section of magazine \rubrika{Example} %%% `pripevek` is article %%% syntax is \prispevek{author name}{article name} \prispevek{Steve W. Hawking}{The Universe in a Nutshell} \dorecurse{10}{\input hawking\par}

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\underbar problem
by Alan Bowen 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

In a lengthy document, \underbar occasionally has no effect. From the wiki, I have learned that this can be rectified using \inframed[frame=off]{\underbar{….}}. The problem is that this only works for short text: lengthy text, say a paragraph, gets printed as a single line. Is there a way (a key?) that will allow \underbar to work with \inframed or perhaps another way of getting \underbar to work 100% of the time? Alan

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