May 2014 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Split in specific row in natural tables?
by Xan 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi, Is there a possibility of split a natural table in specific row? I want to split in row third or something like that. Thanks, Xan.

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Re: [NTG-context] Experience with DITA XML or XSL/FO
by Mica Semrick 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi Jan, Thanks for the pointer towards dbcontext. I had previoiusly used dblatex for some tech docs a while back, but never realized there was a ConTeXt version. Best, Mica

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Testing TeX Live 2014: last call
by Mojca Miklavec 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi everyone, I would like to invite you to try to install TL 2014 pretest to make sure that ConTeXt (and jit in particular) works as expected. https://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html You are invited to play with your installation and different settings and to test some of your documents. Theoretically we are already past the freeze date, but if any major problems show up, there might be still time for a fix. The version of ConTeXt that will end up in TL is 2014.05.21 22:04. Mojca

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Problem with \framed align and orientation on landscape pages
by Rik Kabel 25 May '14

25 May '14

For the /\framed/ command, any value for the key /align /other than a null value pushes the frame beyond the bottom margin on a landscape page for many values of /orientation/. The following MWE demonstrates this: \setuppapersize [A4,landscape] \starttext \framed[orientation=90,align=no]{\externalfigure[dummy]} \stoptext It also seems that the default value of /align/// is not /no/ as the wiki suggests, since there is a very different result when no align key is provided and when it is provided as above with /no/, if by a default value one means that, when a given key is not explicitly provided, processing will occur as if it had been provided with that particular value. -- Rik Kabel

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Re: [NTG-context] Experience with DITA XML or XSL/FO
by Mica Semrick 25 May '14

25 May '14

Hi Jan, >What is your real use case? A typical XML based workflow involves XSL-FO -> >PDF route using FO processor (Antenna House, XEP, FOP etc). I'm looking to use DITA to publish a literary journal. The journal will contain contributions from multiple authors. I also want to publish works by single authors. I won't make enough (or any) money to justify the very expensive license for Antenna House or XEP, thus they are not really an option. I find FOP to be really sub par. My basic work flow would have to be DITA XML > DITA OpenToolkit (build process) > ??? > ConTeXt > PDF, where ??? could be some Toolkit XML output, XHTML, HTML5, FO. >Anyway, there are several ways. If you are not locked to DITA yet, I would >strongly recommend switching to DocBook instead :-) The DocBook vocabulary does not fit my needs. TEI is much closer to what I want, but I'm already familiar with DITA. >This XSLT way is most natural for XML processing, but I understand that >writing XSLT transformation is discouraging for many people. Yes, I'm generally OK with working with XSLT. DITA has a build system, called the DITA OpenToolkit that is build with Ant, a bit of java, and XSLT. You can see the toolkit here: http://dita-ot.github.io/ The Toolkit already supports PDF output via FOP, but as I said, FOP leaves quite a bit to be desired. Best, Mica

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startbackground with footnotes cause problems
by Xan 25 May '14

25 May '14

Hi, I observe that if startbackground stopbackground has footnotes inside, then page breaks are placed before and after footnotes with blank pages... Anyone does know anything about that? Thanks

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\starttextbackground and \startbackground equivalent options
by Xan 25 May '14

25 May '14

Hi folks, Just a question: I have this textbackground environment: \definestartstop [teoria] [ before={\startbackground[background=color, backgroundcolor=mteoria, frame=on, width=broad, after={\bigskip}, before={\blank[big]\testpage[2]}, backgroundcorner=round, backgroundradius=5ex, backgroundoffset=5pt, framecorner=round, radius=5ex, frameoffset=5pt]}, after=\stopbackground ] and I want an equivalent one with starttextbackground. I try this: \definetextbackground[provateoria] [background=color, backgroundcolor=mteoria, location=paragraph, frame=on, width=broad, after={\bigskip}, before={\blank[big]\testpage[2]}, backgroundcorner=round, backgroundradius=5ex, backgroundoffset=5pt, framecorner=round, radius=5ex, frameoffset=5pt ] \definestartstop [teoria] [ before={\starttextbackground[provateoria]}, after=\stoptextbackground ] But I get: * The corners are not rounded * Can I achieve to "unbackground" footnotes inside \startteoria \stopteoria? Thanks in advance, Xan

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I'm too studpid for Context...
by Werner Hintze 24 May '14

24 May '14

I believe, it is possible to use in Conext the otf-fonts I have in my computer. I generated the database, the quert shows me, that the font is there, but I can not get it in my file. And when I read the chapter in the Manual or whatever I can find, I read a lot about Typescripts and unterstand absolutely nothing. I find how to make a typescript for palatino, which makes no difference, but I don’t unterstand why I shall make a typescript and how. Is there a text which tells step by step what I have to so and why? Now the situation is: I have a lot of Fonts and can use just four. That was much easier with LaTeX...

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Re: [NTG-context] Simple command with variable number of arguments
by Jeong Dal 24 May '14

24 May '14

Dear Hans, Here is the file in my desktop. The reason I didn’t define “sgn” in the function “uppertri” is that it is inherited from the call of “determinant’. However, I put “sgn=1” so that the function “uppertri” works independently. I checked the function “uppertri” and found that it worked fine. Here is a sample file. \environment MatrixLuacode \starttext \getbuffer[luaMatrix] \startformula\startalign \startluacode local mat = {{0, 2, 4, -4, 1},{0, 0, 2, 3 , 4}, {2, 2, -6, 2, 4 }, {2,0 , -6, 9, 7},{2, 2, -6, 2, 4 },{2, 2, -6, 2, 4 }} -- local mat = {{1,2,3},{3,4,5},{3,4,5},{3,4,5},{3,4,5}} context.NC("\\text{Given Matrix}\\quad\\Rightarrow\\quad") context.NC() matrixOP.write(mat) context.NR() context.NC() context("\\text{Upper Triangular}\\quad\\Rightarrow\\quad") mat = matrixOP.upperTri(mat) context.NC() matrixOP.write(mat) context.NR() \stopluacode \stopalign\stopformula \stoptext Sometimes, I got “-0” as an entry of matrix after calculation but I couldn’t resolve it(I asked about it to this list before). Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Re: [NTG-context] Simple command with variable number of arguments
by Jeong Dal 24 May '14

24 May '14

Dear Hans, Thank you for checking and enhancing. I also got an error at “uppertri” as you point out. The version that I have sent is one in my notebook which may be different from that in the desktop at school. When I made a class material, it worked fine. I have to check it and send it to you again. I appreciate you for making it more usable for ConTeXt users. I also found that there is a matrix module for lua programming. It is nice for the calculation of matrix, but I have a difficulty to typeset the result. That’s why I try to write a code even though I am not good in Lua programming. If it is easy to take over the result into TeX, using the lua module is much efficient and correct, I think. Anyway, I hope that it helps to typeset matrices. Best regards, Dalyoung > Hi, > > Can you check the attached? The uppertri is wrong but it was already wrong (e.g. sign is used but never assigned). I inlined some code so ... I think there were some more errors (obscured by the fact that that piece of code is not reached). > > We can turn this into m-matrix or so, maybe we need to add some more. > > Hans > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > <xtest.tex>

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