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Database module gives an error
by Rogers, Michael K 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

There is an example of an address label in Mojca'shttp://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/csv.pdf that throws an error in the current beta. I changed "\def\SendMe" to "\unexpanded\def.." which fixed one error. But now I get the following. Can it be fixed? \usemodule[database] \unexpanded\def\SendMe#1#2#3#4{\framed [align={flushleft,lohi}, width=6cm, height=2.6cm]{#1\crlf#2\crlf\crlf\uppercase{#3\crlf#4}}} \starttext \defineseparatedlist[Address][separator={;},command=\SendMe] \startAddress NTG;Maasstraat 2;NL-5836 BB Sambeek;The Netherlands Dante~e.V.;Postfach 101840;D-69008 Heidelberg;Germany \stopAddress \stoptext ! Missing { inserted. system > tex > error on line 18 in file foo9094.tex: Missing { inserted ... 8 Dante~e.V.;Postfach 101840;D-69008 Heidelberg;Germany 9 \stopAddress 10 \stoptext 11 <to be read again> \unskip \crlf ->\ifhmode \unskip \prewordbreak \crlfplaceholder \ifcase \raggedstatu... <to be read again> \uppercase \crlf MAASSTRAAT 2\crlf \SendMe \SendMe ...f #2\crlf \crlf \uppercase {#3\crlf #4} } \SendMe ...f #2\crlf \crlf \uppercase {#3\crlf #4} } l.18 \SendMe ... l.9 \stopAddress ? Thanks, Michael ________________________________ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments).

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How to draw a red frame of a row in a matrix?
by dalyoung 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Dear all, I made a matrix as follows and I'd like to draw a red frame over the i-th row in a matrix. \startformula \startmatrix[left={\left (\,},right={\,\right)}] \NC a_{11} \NC a_{12} \NC \dots \NC a_{1n} \NR \NC \vdots \NC \vdots \NC \vdots \NC \vdots \NR \NC a_{i1} \NC a_{i2} \NC \cdots \NC a_{in} \NR \NC \vdots \NC \vdots \NC \ddots \NC \vdots \NR \NC a_{m1} \NC a_{m2} \NC \cdots \NC a_{mn} \NR \stopmatrix \stopformula But \frame or \inframe is not working inside matrix. Is there a way to do that? Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Variables how-to needed
by Mari Voipio 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Hello All, I'm looking for some "for dummies" information about using variables. I tried looking for it in the wiki, but only found this "Internals" page that's a bit too advantaged to me: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Inside_ConTeXt#Using_variables I'm obviously missing something important, so I'd love to see a few more examples of variables and variable input files... What I want is price tags with the item name in Finnish and English/Swedish and then the price. These are placed on a small page and those small pages are then fit onto one A4 by imposition. Like this: Pieni nyörihaarukka, koivua %variable 1,v-descr-fi {\em Small lucet, beech} %variable 2, v-descr-en 6 eur %variable 3, v-price1 Made in xxx %variable 4, v-origin I can do the imposition, that is not a problem - and it works a lot better than a table, so no tables this way... . My data is in a list that can be converted to csv (although it'll then have a bunch of quotes to be removed), the list format is just like above: Item in Finnish, Item in English, price, country of origin. So the main problem is database/mailmerge/variablerelated: How do I (or should I) use variables to fetch this information from a separate spreadsheet type file, i.e. my price list? (IF this was MS Word or OpenOffice, it would be called Mail Merge, but in OO it sucks a bit; and I think the operation itself should be easy if I just figure out how to do it... Thank you, Mari

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Re: [NTG-context] How to draw a red frame of a row in a matrix?
by dalyoung 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Dear Otared, Henning Hraban, Thank you for the reply. \RedMath works! To use TABLE may be another solution. I will try soon. Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Small caps?
by Shriramana Sharma 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Hello. I'm a veritable noob to both TeX and ConTeXT, so please bear with my ignorance. I request your kind guidance. (BTW as I use Indic scripts a lot, my typesetting engine is XeTeX.) I want to produce small caps like those I can get in LibreOffice by doing Right Click > Character > Font Effects > Effects > Small Capitals. Basically the capital letters would be shown in their regular size and the small letters would be shown as small size capital letters. Using \sc seems to select a particular font and ignore my current font selection. (I am using DejaVu Sans Condensed font.) \kap or \cap seems to produce all small caps which is not what I want -- only the small letters in the text should be shown as small caps and the capital letters in the text should be left alone. Can anyone please advise me what to do to get small caps in my current font like in LibO and other popular GUI word-processing systems? Thanks! -- Shriramana Sharma

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alignment in TABLE
by Peter Münster 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Hi, How could I please align vertically the 2 table cells in the following example: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \bTD 1 \eTD \bTD \framed{1 Über} \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I've tried various combination with offset=0pt/overlay, strut=yes/no, rulethickness=0pt, but without success... TIA for any help! -- Peter

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\input filename causes error.
by john Culleton 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

If I set up my main file thus: \starttext \input title.tex \input copyright.tex \startfrontmatter \completecontent \chapter{Introduction} \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \input body.tex \stopbodymatter \startappendices \stopappendices \startbackmatter \chapter{Index} %\chapter{Acknowledgement} \title{Colofon} \stoptext and set up my title.tex file thus: \startstandardmakekup Foo \stopstandardmakekup then "\startstandardmakeup" generates an error. I can work around it of course. I just wonder why it happens. The use of the \input file should be transparent to the rest of TeX. MKIV on slackware Linux. -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html

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Bug with rule between columns in columnset
by Marco 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Hi, this seems like a bug in the MetaFun or column set code. Printing a vertical rule between columns fails with ! terminal: >> NOfTextColumns-1 ! Improper final value has been replaced by 0. <to be read again> The code also fails, when the column set code is commented out, but then the NOfTextColumns doesn't make sense any longer. Older betas work perfectly. \startuseMPgraphic{verticalline} for i=1 upto NOfTextColumns-1 : draw (rightboundary TextColumns[i]) shifted (2.5mm,0) shifted -\MPxy\textanchor; endfor ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay [verticalline] [\useMPgraphic{verticalline}] \setupbackgrounds [text] [background=verticalline] \definecolumnset [example] [n=2] \starttext \startcolumnset [example] \input knuth \stopcolumnset \stoptext Marco

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Too large value of \definecolumnsethsize
by Marco 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Hi, the following test file has a weird page break, caused by a too wide image set with \definecolumnsethsize. I am talking about the blank space at the right of the image. \definecolumnsethsize defines a with of 202.01262pt, that's too wide, 202pt would be correct, I guess. Is that a rounding error? If the figure width is slightly decreased (see the commented part), the first page looks as intended. But that's exactly what the command \definecolumnsethsize is for -- to get the correct size. Another workaround is to define the column width, so it is a know value. The behaviour is reproducible in all betas. Bug or not? \useMPlibrary [dum] \definecolumnset [MyColumns] [distance=8mm] \starttext \startcolumnset [MyColumns] \definecolumnsethsize{MyColumns}{1}{1}\ColumnWidth \input knuth \startplacefigure \externalfigure [dummy] [width=\ColumnWidth, height=9.5cm] %\externalfigure [dummy] %[width=\dimexpr\ColumnWidth-1pt\relax, height=9.5cm] \stopplacefigure \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth} \stopcolumnset \stoptext Marco

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simpleslides help needed
by Pavneet Arora 24 Jul '12

24 Jul '12

Hello all, I am here at TUG 2012 updating the presentation that I am to give in the morning. I have had a couple of lingering questions regarding simpleslides that I thought I would put out there. They are not show stoppers, and I have lived with them in my other presentations. It is just that with my brain on TeX (and ConTeXt) for the past few days, I thought that I would try to resolve them once and for all. 1. Fonts I would like to specify separate mainfont and bodyfont using the simplefonts module (or some other consistent mechanism). I have read the thread from: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2011/056495.html and have tried to split up Wolfgang's suggestion into the two parts. I have tried: \usemodule[simplefonts][size=18pt] \setmainfont[grandesignneueserif] \setupbodyfont[dejavuserif] which gets me the title font, but not the body font. The other approach: \definetypeface[mainface][rm][serif][DejaVu Serif][default] \definetypeface[mainface][ss][sans][DejaVu Sans][default] \definetypeface[mainface][tt][mono][Inconsolata][default] \setupbodyfont[mainface] also doesn't seem to work at all. I get what I believe to be Latin Modern Sans across the board. I have resorted to using one of the default fonts via the module switch for now, but would like to customize the font selection to my taste. 2. Margins I have the following slide, where only the right margin is affected. I have tried variations on backspace, width and margin but haven't gotten the left margin to move. >>>> \definelayout[quotation][leftmargin=1.5in,rightmargin=1.5in] \SlideTitle{An exception: Lotus Improv, an exceptional spreadsheet} \blank \setuplayout[quotation] \quotation{Pito Salas, a developer at ATG, decided to attack this problem. After a few months of studying existing real-world examples, it became clear that the data, views of that data, and the formulas that acted on that data were very separate concepts. Yet in every case, the existing spreadsheet programs required the user to type all of these items into the same (typically single) sheet's cells.} \par \setuplayout[reset] \startalignment[flushright] \blank[2*big] {\em Source: Wikipedia:Lotus Improv} <<<< I am sure that it is something simple that I am missing here, but any guidance would be most appreciated. Many thanks. -- ----- - Pavneet Arora

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