April 2016 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Move textrule closer to head
by Tom Harrop 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

Hello, I'm a ConTeXt beginner. I'm working on a document where I would like a textrule under my subsubsection headings. If I use after=\textrule, the placement of the textrule is too far from the heading, and I haven't found a way to move it closer to the heading either with \setuphead or \setuptextrules. Here is an example: > \setuphead[subsubsection] > [after=\textrule] > > \starttext > > \subsubsection{I would like less space between this heading and its > textrule} > > Here is some text. > > \stoptext > I realise that the spacing looks pretty good in the PDF produced by this example, so you'll just have to believe me that it needs to be closer to the headings in my document. I'd appreciate any help on this, including suggestions of alternative/better methods to do this. Thanks for reading, Tom

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Help with t-vim module and math
by Nicola 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

Hi, I am using the Vim module to typeset code, and I've found a situation where I'd like to use some math symbols, but not in comments. I am not sure whether it can be done. This is what I have tried: \usemodule[vim] \definefontfamily [slidesfont][mono][Latin Modern Mono Light] \definefallbackfamily[slidesfont][mono][Xits][range={"0222A}] \definevimtyping[pascal][syntax=pascal] \starttext \startpascal X := Y ∪ Z; \stoppascal \stoptext The ∪ symbol does not appear in the output. Am I completely off-track? Nicola

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Re: [NTG-context] docbook(5) to context conversion
by Henning Hraban Ramm 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

Am 2016-04-13 um 02:12 schrieb Jan Tosovsky <j.tosovsky(a)email.cz>: > As promised, I've published a set of XSLT stylesheets for DocBook to ConTeXt conversion. > Details can be found at http://doctribute.com/blog/ Thank you very much. I wikified it: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/DocBook I found also your other blog postings very interesting, since I work with InDesign a lot and used or at least tried to work with other typesetting/layout systems (LinoSetting, 3B2, QuarkXPress, Ventura P., Scribus et al.). (ConTeXt works mostly in the background, as long as updates don’t break compatibility…) Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) GPG Key ID 1C9B22FD

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Re: [NTG-context] Overfull annotations
by Hans Hagen 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

On 4/12/2016 10:49 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: > On 2016-04-12 Hans Hagen wrote: >> On 4/12/2016 9:11 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: >>> >>> But to be honest, the best for me would be PDF annotations >>> (rectangles) placed to that occurrences. In Acrobat Reader >>> you can easily list them and automatically navigate to the >>> target location (and then jump to the prev/next). >> >> \enabletrackers[builders.hpack.quality] >> \enabletrackers[builders.hpack.overflow] >> >> \starttext >> \hsize 8cm \input tufte >> \stoptext >> > > Nice. But.. > > My use case is 300+ pages book with several occurences. If those red rectangles were provided as annotations, I could efficiently jump from one to another, without browsing all the book (thanks to the special Annotation pane). > http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/chapter09_0321751256/elementLinks/rc_… > > Both searching occurrences (in PDF) using the line number of the original source or visually by looking for red rectangles is IMHO inefficient. > > However, I agree there are more important features to implement. indeed ... also, i consider it featurecreep Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NTG-context] Overfull annotations
by Hans Hagen 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

On 4/12/2016 9:11 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: > Dear All, > > thanks to the following command I can already filter out everything except > under/overfull cases: > context --noconsole source.tex > > It is nice, but would it be possible to print also affected page numbers of > the final PDF file? > > But to be honest, the best for me would be PDF annotations (rectangles) > placed to that occurrences. In Acrobat Reader you can easily list them and > automatically navigate to the target location (and then jump to the > prev/next). > > Thanks in advance for a new option :-) impossible as it's an existing option \enabletrackers[builders.hpack.quality] \enabletrackers[builders.hpack.overflow] \starttext \hsize 8cm \input tufte \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NTG-context] docbook(5) to context conversion
by Jan Tosovsky 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

On 2016-02-25 Jan Tosovsky wrote: > On 2016-02-23 David Nebauer wrote: > > On 23/02/16 06:33, Jan Tosovsky wrote: > > > On 2016-02-22 David Nebauer wrote: > > > > > > > > Are there any publicly available solutions for > > > > converting docbook/docbook5 to context? ... > > > > > > > > * dbcontext - part of dblatex, abandoned ~10 years ago > > > > > > I used this way some time ago, but it required tweaks in > > > approx 10 xslt files to make it compatible with Context MkIV > > > > Cool. Any chance you could post your amended xslt files to give a > > newbie a head start? > > Ok, I will publish it on my GitHub account later next week (after > necessary cleanup). As promised, I've published a set of XSLT stylesheets for DocBook to ConTeXt conversion. Details can be found at http://doctribute.com/blog/ There is also a step by step description how to test stylesheets on a sample DocBook v4 book. As you can see, I've changed my mind and instead of patching dbcontext project I created a new one. It finally took more time than originally estimated. If you encounter any misleading info or inclarity, let me know. Thanks, Jan

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automatically "smashing" È in xml typesetting
by massifr＠fastwebnet.it 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

Hello list, I'm typesetting italian text that contains "E" letters with a grave accent, like this: "È". In my "body font environment" the interline space is narrow and those "È" make their lines taller, making every following line move downwards. The problem is easily solvable putting "\smash" before "È". But my sources are XML and typesetting is done through xmlsetups, so I'm looking for an automatic way to replace every "È" in the text with "\smash{È}". Is it possible? Thanks, Massi

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Overfull annotations
by Jan Tosovsky 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

Dear All, thanks to the following command I can already filter out everything except under/overfull cases: context --noconsole source.tex It is nice, but would it be possible to print also affected page numbers of the final PDF file? But to be honest, the best for me would be PDF annotations (rectangles) placed to that occurrences. In Acrobat Reader you can easily list them and automatically navigate to the target location (and then jump to the prev/next). Thanks in advance for a new option :-) Jan

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Re: [NTG-context] Weird background colors in autogenerated index
by Wolfgang Schuster 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

> Jan Tosovsky <mailto:j.tosovsky@email.cz> > 12. April 2016 um 20:07 > > I am completely lost. I found page-grd.mkiv, but I have no idea what > to tweak here. > > By simple putting \showgrid[reset] at the beginning of the document no > grid is shown, but those colored areas are present. You can’t disable the backgrounds with the current beta but in one of the coming betas you can use the "reset" key to disable the grid visualizers and enable afterwards only the grid lines. Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] Weird background colors in autogenerated index
by Hans Hagen 12 Apr '16

12 Apr '16

On 4/11/2016 8:13 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: > On 2016-04-10 Hans Hagen wrote: >> On 4/10/2016 11:26 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: >>> On 04/10/2016 11:00 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: >>>> On 2016-04-10 Hans Hagen wrote: >>>>> On 4/9/2016 11:22 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> since LuaTeXt 0.81 my back-of-the-book index (register) is >>>>>> with generated strange background colors. The index title >>>>>> is typeset in yellowish background and the left column of >>>>>> the last index page has a blue background, see the attachment. >>>>>> >>>>>> ... It was fine in the version 0.80. >>>>> >>>>> no example >>> >>> here you have the minimal sample: >>> >>> \showgrid >>> \starttext >>> a\index{b} >>> \completeindex >>> \stoptext >>> >>> Comment the first line and colors background colors will disappear. > > a good catch, Pablo, thanks. > >> indeed, it's tracing related (no bug) > > My idea is to have a single PDF source to showcase some ConTeXt features, where displaying the grid is handy, yet allow disabling the grid on demand. > > So any visible \showgrid related issues, which cannot be switched off together with the grid layer, are unacceptable ;-) well, with tracing one gets what's provided .. after all it's tracing, so 'unacceptable' is a kind of unacceptable demand > Is there any chance to improve this a bit? currently not but you can influence the grid a bit: \showgrid[reset,...] options can be seen with context --extra=setups grid You're lucky that it's only a few lines to add 'columns' options (so in some upcoming beta you have to mess with 'reset' and whatever else). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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