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greek items broken:
by Meer, H. van der 09 May '12

09 May '12

I do not get lowercase greek letters on the itemize as should happen with symbol setup g. A minimal example, showing the demise of lowercase greek against succes for uppercase. \starttext \startitemize[g] \startitem nr 1\stopitem \startitem nr 2\stopitem \startitem nr 3\stopitem \startitem nr 4\stopitem \stopitemize \startitemize[G] \startitem nr 1\stopitem \startitem nr 2\stopitem \startitem nr 3\stopitem \startitem nr 4\stopitem \stopitemize \stoptext Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] References to floats
by Alan BRASLAU 09 May '12

09 May '12

> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 15:03, Robert Blackstone wrote: > > Thank you, Hans, for your quick reply. Unfortunately it does not help > me. The result is basically the same as when I write "on > \at{page}[ref]", except that, instead of "on page 20", I get "at page > 20", (with the float sitting on page 20). > Frankly, I'm rather surprised that this wish of mine seems not to have > come up before. > Indeed, something clean and automatic should be easy - after all the color of the reference is different (contrastcolor) when it is to be found on the same page or on a different page. \at{page}[ref] could be smart enough... What should the behavior be? "on \at{page}[ref]" could return "on ", but this would not be right. "\at{on page}[ref]" could return "", but otherwise "on page" would be a (colored) active link. I might try "\in{figure}[ref] \at{(page }{)}[ref]" and hope/expect "(page xx)" to be replaced by "" when referring to the current page. Maybe Wolfgang is right in suggesting writing a custom macro. I haven't looked at the code, though. Alan

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\xmlinclude throws no error
by Meer, H. van der 09 May '12

09 May '12

Why does \xmlinclude does not throw an error when the file to be read is missing? It causes a mssing file to go unnoticed. In contrast \xmlprocessfile does throw an error, as expected. Hans van der Meer

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\xmlcontext inoperative?
by Meer, H. van der 09 May '12

09 May '12

Loaded xml with: xmlinclude{problem}{include}{file} Then called up parts of its contents through a setup: \startxmlsetups xam:define:get % The definition is the one with content. \xmldoiftext{#1}{.}{ \foundtrue \xmlflush{#1} \xmlcontext{#1}{.} } \stopxmlsetups The strange thing is that the \xmlflush typesets verbatim the contents of the node called up: <math version="2.0" xmlns="http://www.w3c.org/mathml"> <apply> <eq/> <ci> f(x) </ci> <apply> <plus/> <ci> 1 </ci> <apply> <power/> <ci> x </ci> <ci> 4 </ci> </apply> <apply> <power/> <ci> x </ci> <ci> 7 </ci> </apply> </apply> </apply> </math> but, to my surprise the \xmlcontext{#1}{.} lets it disappear completely. So does \xmlflushcontext{#1}. In other parts of the program \xmlcontext does what it should do, thus the mkvi format seems ok. What could have happened? Some detrimental effect of the \xmlinclude? Hans van der Meer

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\xmlflushsetups missing
by Meer, H. van der 09 May '12

09 May '12

Calling \xmlregisteredsetups I find an error: \xmlflushsetups is an undefined controlsequence. Seems nowhere defined. Occurs in lxml-ini.mkiv What is wrong here Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] References to floats
by Robert Blackstone 09 May '12

09 May '12

On Mon, 7 May 2012 22:25:37, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 07.05.2012 um 15:03 schrieb Robert Blackstone: > >> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> >> wrote >>> >>> On 6-5-2012 23:18, Robert Blackstone wrote: >> >>>> Sometimes however the example is placed at the same page as the text discussing it. >>>> Is there any trick to adapt the reference to this situation, so that, instead of saying, for instance, "ex. 3.4 on page 12", it just says "ex. 3.4", or "ex. 3.4 below" or even "ex. 3.4 on this page"? >>>> >> >>> >>> you can try \atpage[ref] >>> >> > > The best way is to define your own command for this. > > \starttext > > <\somewhere{above}{below}[fig:test]> > > \page > > <\somewhere{above}{below}[fig:test]> > > \placefigure[][fig:test]{Test}{\framed{test}} > > \page > > <\somewhere{above}{below}[fig:test]> > > \stoptext > > Wolfgang > Thank you, Wolfgang, for your help. Though this command works perfectly and is nicely adaptable, in the end it does not give me what I would have liked. Perhaps my description of what I want was not clear enough. For me, both commands, \somewhere{}{}[ref] and \atpage[ref], have in common that they are imprecise when I want precision, namely when the float is not at the same page as its reference, and precise when they are in fact redundant, that is, when float and reference are on the same page, where the reader will see it at one glance, whether it is above or below. Writing, for instance, on page 20: "See example 2 on page 20" is not wrong but somehow it looks clumsy and unprofessional to me, and unworthy of ConTeXt, if I may say so. The challenge would seem "to pick ConTeXt's brain" just before the final processing run, when it knows whether float and reference will be on the same page or not. Could this perhaps be solvable by some Lua-code? Anyway, for lack of a better solution, I will for the time being refer to each float with "\in{ex.}[ref] on \at{page}[ref] \somewhere{on the previous page}{on the next page}[ref] \somewhere{above}{below}[ref]" and manually comment out, after the final processing run, what I cannot use. Not very elegant, to put it mildly, and I hope that someone on this list has a better solution. Kind regards, Robert Blackstone

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Asian Language Support
by hwitloc＠gmail.com 09 May '12

09 May '12

I live in Japan and fequently have the need to create documents in Japanese. I would like to stop using WYSIWYG type word processing and switch over to TeX based systems. I've been starting and am learning to use ConTeXt but I've still a long way to go. I want to ask if anyone has already gone through this and has a "How to publish a Japanese language document using ConTeXt" or something like that, unless it is incredibly easy to do. I've not tried it yet, but will tomorrow. I wanted to write to the group first to see if this issue has already be solved or any other input. My current platform environment is not ideal, but using Cygwin on a Japanese XP Windows box. I've not had any problems with English documents. Regards, Henman (hwitloc)

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wrong footnote number in beta from today
by Pablo Rodríguez 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi there, I'm afraid that footnote numbering in body text is wrong in latest beta (the bug was also in the two previous betas). Here you have a sample that shows the bug: \setupnotation[footnote][number=no] \setuphead[chapter][number=no] \starttext \chapter{First chapter} one\footnote{two} \section{First section} three\footnote{four} \stoptext There should be no note footnote numbering, but the body text takes the sectioning command number for the footnote references (which is obviously wrong). Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Bottomspace / Layout question!?
by finkler 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hi there, I have a question regarding the spacing and margins of a text document. My layout is defined like this: \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout[ topspace=1cm,header=1.5cm, backspace=3cm,cutspace=3cm, bottomspace=1cm,footer=1cm, margin=0cm ] Everything works like it is supposed to, except the "bottomspace" parameter, instead of 1cm I have 3.5cm from bottom footer to bottom rim of paper. Can anyone tell me what the problem is here? I tried a lot of other parameters, like bottom, or bottomdistance, etc. It seems ConText is ignoring my bottom definitions, what can I do to increase my textheight, or decrease my bottom height? Regards, finkler

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Increase textbackground page break white space
by Kip Warner 09 May '12

09 May '12

Hey list, Some of my textbackgrounds occupy more than one page and break part way through them, as expected. Where their containing text is split at the page break, I am finding that the frame is too close to the contents. So I'd like to increase the white space of the bottom and top of the textbackground's frame and content where it splits across a page. This is what I have been using so far: \definetextbackground[SomeTextBackground] [location=paragraph, color=color_text, background=color, backgroundcolor=colour_text_background_shaded, frame=on, framecolor=colour_text, topoffset=0.5cm, bottomoffset=0.5cm, leftoffset=0.5cm, rightoffset=0.5cm, before={ \blank[2*big] }, after={ \blank[2*big] }, style=smalltype, corner=round] I've been trying to solve this problem for months without any luck. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

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