May 2014 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

[***SPAM***] texi2pdf
by hwitloc＠gmail.com 23 May '14

23 May '14

I have installed the standalone and it works well on my Xubuntu system. I tried to run texi2pdf, which not a part of the standalone system, but fails due to: "...don't have any working TeX binary installed.." If the standalone has one I will add its path to my PATH and the texi2pdf should work. I'm trying to avoid installing a full TeXLive distribution on this old limited memory machine. Any advice would help. Thenks

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LuaTeX/ConTeXt connect to SQL Server
by Matt Baker 23 May '14

23 May '14

FROM MY POSTING AT: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/180018/luatex-context-connect-to-sql… I am looking to connect ConTeXt to a SQL Server database. I have looked through the manuals, and even read pragma-ade's SQL PDF (which, for me, seems a bit abstract). I am not extremely familiar with Lua but have read up on the language (I am more familiar with JS). For LaTex I used nlatexdb which did the trick, but LaTex isn't able to do what ConTeXt can. - The connection needs to use Windows Authentication. - The document is set up as a letter with an environment that it pulls from. - It would be preferable to have the connection and queries be seperate from the letter itself, and be able to place variables into the letter that can be populated through the queries (much like nlatexdb) if possible. - example: Dear ??first ??last, Thank you for your interest in ??product... etc. I am rather new to ConText and just starting to get the hang of it, long time latex user, the transition starts off rather confusing, but once it makes sense it opens up a whole toolbox of available tools which is great. Just need this one last tool. Any help would be much appreciated. EDIT:: Honestly I haven't gotten to any point that I felt I could attempt trying the connection. Looking at the SQL PDF from pragma-ade it should look something like: local presets = { server = "XXX\XXX", Database = "Customer", Integrated Security = "True", } presets.id = "XXX" local template = [[ SELECT 'Control_Content' FROM 'Customer.dbo.Report_Client_Data' WHERE 'Control_Name' LIKE 'Long_Name' AND 'Client_Id' = 154; ]] local data, keys = utilities.sql.execute { presets = presets, template = template, variables = {}, } I can't seem to find where or how the connection is being made, except perhaps where utilities.sql.execute is called, but I can't find any information anywhere about such a call in lua or context...

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Re: [NTG-context] Experience with DITA XML or XSL/FO
by Hans Hagen 23 May '14

23 May '14

On 5/23/2014 7:39 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: > On 2014-05-22 Mica Semrick wrote: >> >> I've been contemplating making a ConTeXt output or parser for DITA XML >> and was wondering if anyone has worked with DITA and ConTeXt before? If >> you have and could offer any advice and/code, that would be most >> helpful! > > What is your real use case? A typical XML based workflow involves XSL-FO -> > PDF route using FO processor (Antenna House, XEP, FOP etc). Which makes all our workflows here non typical -) I never use an FO processor. The xml handler in mkiv is quite efficient and fast. > Anyway, there are several ways. If you are not locked to DITA yet, I would > strongly recommend switching to DocBook instead :-) You get similar single > source solution with the semantically rich vocabulary that allows you to > produce all typical outputs. Moreover, there is a special project dedicated > to DocBook to ConTeXt conversion 'dbcontext' > http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/releases/download.html although I had to > tweak it for my recent project to ensure compatibility with current ConTeXt > version (MkIV). > This XSLT way is most natural for XML processing, but I understand that > writing XSLT transformation is discouraging for many people. it depends ... context mkiv can load an xml tree and you can use path expressions similar to what xslt does but saving the intermediate step 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NTG-context] Simple command with variable number of arguments
by Jeong Dal 23 May '14

23 May '14

Dear Luigi and listers, Last year, I need to write a text for a linear algebra class. Since there are many \startmatrix … \stopmatrix and matrix calculations, I wrote a lua code which did matrix calculations and writing with a lot of help from this list. Using the code, I can write class materials easily. It is good enough for my purpose. I am not good in Lua coding, so there may be many things to be checked for efficiency and for stability. However, I attached the code because there may be someone who need it. It is also good thing to return what I get from the list back. I hope that you enhance the code for better performance since you are an expert in Lua. I always thank to this list and to developers of ConTeXt. Best regards, Dalyoung > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 13:44:30 +0200 > From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso(a)gmail.com> > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Simple command with variable number of > arguments > Message-ID: > <CAG5iGsCadu33Hw=hPhmDe+Wp1B_FcPjN0CaXwJAso+vnQBJEtA(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Matthias Weber <matweber(a)indiana.edu>wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> I would like to define a command that expands >> >> \vector{2,4} % or vector[2,4] if that?s easier >> >> to >> >> \startpmatrix >> \NC 2 \NR >> \NC 4 \NR >> \stoppmatrix >> >> and more generally >> >> \vector{2,4,1,7} >> >> to >> >> \startpmatrix >> \NC 2 \NR >> \NC 4 \NR >> \NC 1 \NR >> \NC 7 \NR >> \stoppmatrix >> >> Any hints how to achieve this? >> >> Thanks, >> > > > > \definemathmatrix > [pmatrix] > [left={\left(\,},right={\,\right)}] > > \startluacode > document = document or {} > document.matthias = document.matthias or {} > local function lua_columnvector(a) > context.startpmatrix() > for i,v in ipairs(a) do > context.NC() context(tostring(v)) context.NR() > end > context.stoppmatrix() > end > document.matthias.lua_columnvector = document.matthias.lua_columnvector or > lua_columnvector > \stopluacode > > \def\columnvector#1{\ctxlua{document.matthias.lua_columnvector(#1)}} > > \starttext > \startformula > \columnvector{{1,2,3}} %% watch the double { ! > \stopformula > > > \stoptext > > -- > luigi >

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Experience with DITA XML or XSL/FO
by Mica Semrick 23 May '14

23 May '14

Hi list, I've been contemplating making a ConTeXt output or parser for DITA XML and was wondering if anyone has worked with DITA and ConTeXt before? If you have and could offer any advice and/code, that would be most helpful! Best, Mica

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[OT] Twenty Questions for DEK
by Philipp Gesang 23 May '14

23 May '14

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858&WT.mc_id=Author_Knu… Quote: “The people at MSP wrote special software that converts my TeX source text into suitable input to other software that creates pdf files.” I wonder why using a TeX engine capable of producing PDF output directly wasn’t an option. Best, Philipp

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Bold small caps
by Mojca Miklavec 23 May '14

23 May '14

Hi, I always forget how to use bold or italic small caps (I keep mixing addff/setff and smcp/+smcp/smallcaps etc.). In ideal world it could be nice if simply {\sc Normal and \bf Bold Small Caps} or {\bf\sc Bold Small Caps} would work out-of-the-box. The first hit on the wiki was http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bold_small_caps which contained just the MKII example. I added a MKIV example {\setff{smallcaps} Normal and \bf bold Small Caps.} but the problem is that this example only works with <put any font name here> except for the default Latin Modern setup. Would it make sense to fix this for the default LM setup as well? Mojca

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\setuplist ignores width=<dim> in combination with headnumber=no
by Mojca Miklavec 23 May '14

23 May '14

Hi, I would like to remove header numbers for subsections, but keep subsections properly aligned in the table of contents. However, the width= parameter seems to be completely ignored in that case. Here's a nearly-minimal example: \setuplist[section][width=10mm,style=bold] \setuplist[subsection][width=15mm,headnumber=no] \setuplist[subsubsection][width=20mm,style=slanted,pagestyle=normal] \starttext \completecontent \page[yes] \section{First section} \subsection{First subsection} \subsubsection{First subsubsection} \subsubsubsection{First subsubsubsection} \section{Second section} \subsection{Second subsection} \subsubsection{Second subsubsection} \subsubsubsection{Second subsubsubsection} \stoptext The example has been adapted from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Table_of_Contents. The image on the wiki seems ok, but I get a different result if I try to run the same example with the latest version of ConTeXt (mkiv). Somewhat related: say that I wanted to setup \setuplist[<name>][width=10mm] for all the sections and sub(subsub)sections. The documentation seems to suggest that \placecontent[aligntitle=yes/no,width=10mm] should do that (it's not clear to me whether that's yes or no that should do it), but it doesn't seem to have any effect at all. Mojca

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Edit the arrows default Metapost
by Fabrice Couvreur 23 May '14

23 May '14

Hello, Is it possible to change the appearance Metafun arrows default to make them resemble those of PSTricks that I find most beautiful. Regards, Fabrice

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Simple command with variable number of arguments
by Matthias Weber 23 May '14

23 May '14

Dear All, I would like to define a command that expands \vector{2,4} % or vector[2,4] if that’s easier to \startpmatrix \NC 2 \NR \NC 4 \NR \stoppmatrix and more generally \vector{2,4,1,7} to \startpmatrix \NC 2 \NR \NC 4 \NR \NC 1 \NR \NC 7 \NR \stoppmatrix Any hints how to achieve this? Thanks, Matthias

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