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orphan headline
by Andrea Valle 29 May '16

29 May '16

Dear all, I’m finishing a book, and getting the following undesired result. Many times I have section or subsection title at the bottom of a page, with no text. Text starts on the next page. I have looked at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Widows_and_orphans_control but I wasn’t able to solve. I guess it could depend on the formatting of my headlines. Here they are: \setuphead[section] [style=\ss\tfa, before={\blank[0.5cm]\startframedtext[offset=0.25cm,framecolor=black, rulethickness=0.01cm, frame=off, topframe=off, bottomframe=on]\crlf},after={\stopframedtext\noindentation\blank[1cm]}] \setuphead[subsection] [style=\ss, before={\blank[0.5cm]\startframedtext[offset=0.25cm,framecolor=black, rulethickness=0.01cm, frame=off, topframe=off, bottomframe=on]\crlf},after={\stopframedtext\noindentation\blank[1cm]}] thanks Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - StudiUm Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.fonurgia.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderaalle/sets/ --> http://vimeo.com/vanderaalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- "This is a very complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous." (Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski) -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - StudiUm Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.fonurgia.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderaalle/sets/ --> http://vimeo.com/vanderaalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- "This is a very complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous." (Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski)

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extended printing options in ConTeXt
by Pablo Rodriguez 29 May '16

29 May '16

Hans, would it be possible to implement two extended printing options defined in the PDF specification? You have kindly implemented duplex printing and page scaling options. At my workplace, we are it on a daily basis for mail merging (I had to make an “extension” to distinguish between duplex printing and page scaling [it isn’t an option for me]). In the present implementation, page, portrait and landscape values sets page scaling to none. In most of the documents we generate, we have to fit page contents to printer margins. It is a must for us, since corporate templates are the way they are (wrong designed). Would it be possible to have the PDF printing options in different keys than the one used for the the viewing options? It would be also extremely useful to be able to specify the number of copies and select page size from PDF document. These are the keys /NumCopies and /PickTrayByPDFSize (described on page 365 from the PDF specification). The keys and their values would be: duplex page portrait landscape (only a duplex key required) fixed (no value is required) copies number pdfsize yes no This way, the user has only to press the OK button in the printing dialog or enter (and forget about selecting which kind of document requires which options). I’m asking this for my own needs (it is essential for us at work, where none knows what ConTeXt might be). But this implementation benefits any ConTeXt user. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Adjusting Kerning/Spacing between Letter
by Malte Stien 27 May '16

27 May '16

Hi, I am trying to typeset some strings in {\tt ...}, but they turn out to be pretty wide. So, I would like to compress those bits of text a little. Any hints on how I could do that locally, that is without adjusting the entire font. Thank you, Malte.

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Buffered metapost function freezes random numbers
by DesdeChaves 27 May '16

27 May '16

For educational purposes I try to simulate a ammeter for reading practice. I would like create six or more ammeter with different readings, but i'm not able to do that because metapost create the same random number every time I call the buffer that defines my ammeter. How can I fix that? Thanks Jorge My code: \startbuffer[ammeter] \startMPcode r := 4cm; len := 10bp; min_thickness := 1.75bp; hour_thickness := 3bp; path cadran; cadran = fullcircle scaled (2r); numeric escala; escala := 0; for i = 50 upto 70: if i mod 5 = 0: j := i div 5; angl := 90-30j; freelabel("\tfb\bf" & decimal escala, (r+len)*dir angl, r*dir angl); draw ((r, 0) -- (r - len, 0)) rotated angl withpen pencircle scaled min_thickness; escala:= escala + 0.5; else: angl := 90 - 6i; draw ((r, 0) -- (r - .5len, 0)) rotated angl; fi endfor pickup pencircle scaled min_thickness; numeric minute; %randomseed := uniformdeviate infinity; minute:= 50 + uniformdeviate(20); pair A, B, C; A:=1.6r*right+.5r*up; C:=1.6r*right+.8r*up; B:=1.1r*left; drawarrow origin -- r*dir(90-minute*6) cutends (0, 1.5len); fill fullcircle scaled .75len; draw unitsquare xscaled 3.2r yscaled 1.5r shifted B; label("\tfb I (A)", 1.2r*up+1.6r*right) withcolor red; draw fullcircle scaled 2len shifted A; draw fullcircle scaled 2len shifted C; \stopMPcode \stopbuffer \startbuffer[programa] \placefigure[center,nonumber]{}{ \startcombination[2*1] {\externalfigure[ammeter][type=buffer,width=8cm]}{\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_$\pm$\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_} {\externalfigure[ammeter][type=buffer,width=8cm]}{\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_$\pm$\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_} } \stopcombination \stopbuffer \starttext \dorecurse{3} {\getbuffer[programa]} \stoptext

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Underbar offset
by Mojca Miklavec 26 May '16

26 May '16

Hi, I would like to add a continuous underbar under a paragraph or a title as in: \setupbar [color=red,offset=10pt] \starttext \underbar{Test this \high{\tfxx ®}} \stoptext ... but I'm confused about two aspects: - How can I prevent \high{} from shifting the underbar? - How can I add more offset? The color keyword works, but offset doesn't seem to have any effect even though it's listed in the reference. I was able to address the second problem (adding more offset) with something like \definebar[BarU][offset=-0.7] \startbar[BarU] ... \stopbar but I wasn't able to get rid of the shift (and the bar had a different thickness when a smaller font was used). I can find ugly workarounds with frames, but it would be ideal if I could get one of the underbar mechanisms to work "out-of-the-box". Thank you, Mojca

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fontsize changes not understood
by Meer, Hans van der 25 May '16

25 May '16

Can someone explain to me the changes in fontsize in the following example? Enclosing the fontswitches in a group did not change the behaviour. \setupbodyfont[dejavu,12pt] \def\MarkMasterA{\inmargin[location=left]{\bgroup\switchtobodyfont[9pt]\red Master\egroup}} \def\MarkMasterB{\inmargin[location=left]{\bgroup\usebodyfont[9pt]\red Master\egroup}} \starttext \startsection[title=\MarkMasterA First title] \input hawking \MarkMasterA \input hawking \stopsection \startsection[title=\MarkMasterB First title] \input hawking \MarkMasterB \input hawking \blank contextversion=\contextversion \stopsection \stoptext In the first section the absolute value of 9 pt appears not to be honoured but it looks as if there is a reduction relative to the surrounding font. In the second section the size does not change and looks even bigger than the first one above. I am baffled and do not understand why not all fontsizes are the same absolute 9pt as requested? Hans van der Meer

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index-register automatic sorting
by Manuel Conzelmann 25 May '16

25 May '16

hi everybody, if i place a register at the end of my document its sorted by page numbers and not alphabetically. someone has an idea how to achieve this (from A to Z)? if it would be sorted alphabetically there would be only one indicator per letter: A B C D E F G .... at the moment it looks like B C P A B W J A thx and greetz manu ps: sry for spam, i sent this question to the wrong thread

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register sorting
by Manuel Conzelmann 24 May '16

24 May '16

hi everybody, if i place a register at the end of my document its sorted by page numbers and not alphabetically. someone has an idea how to achieve this (from A to Z)? if it would be sorted alphabetically there would be only one indicator per letter: A B C D E F G .... at the moment it looks like B C P A B W J A thx and greetz manu

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Bugs with minimals 2015.05.24 12:42
by david.boerschlein＠juno.com 24 May '16

24 May '16

(*) tex error > error on line 1 in file /var/www/vhosts/door43.org/tools/nototest.tex: ! Undefined control sequence l.1 \useregime [utf] 1 >> \useregime[utf] 2 \enableregime[utf] Version: 2015.05.24 12:42 (*) Upgrading with "first-setup.sh" deleted all the third-party fonts which we had spent months installing. (*) Installing the "context=current" installed a "beta" version of luatex: context --version mtx-context | current version: 2015.05.24 12:42 luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.80.0 (TeX Live 2015) (rev 5238) (*) http://tug.org/pracjourn/2005-2/schmitz/schmitz.pdf (none of the commands texfont, ttf2afm, updmap, come with the latest ConTeXt minimals 2015.05.24 12:42) [Is this really the up-to-date documentation on how to install a true-type font?] It does not seem to discuss what to do if all we have is an ".otf" but no ".ttf" (*) Documentation request: typescripts for "ttf" and "otf" files which may or may not have bold, italics, etc with fallback-families and Unicode ranges and separate files for Unicode-ranges (e.g., Google Noto fonts). David Boerschlein (214) 412-3275 home office land (585) 278-4687 cell www.linkedin.com/in/davidboerschlein ____________________________________________________________ Old School Yearbook Pics View Class Yearbooks Online Free. Search by School & Year. Look Now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/556da14029abe214072e9st01duc

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smaller size for particular style
by Meer, Hans van der 22 May '16

22 May '16

As usual I do a setup for the font with for example: \setupbodyfont[cambria]. For most style variants this is fine, but for \tt I find the size too big. Thus I would like to keep the sizes as setup by the \setupbodyfont for everything except for \tt: there all variants (like \tt, \ttx, \ttxx) should have the size as if the bodyfont had been setup with \setupbodyfont[cambria,small]. How to effectuate this? Hans van der Meer

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