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Re: [NTG-context] Asian Language Support
by dalyoung 08 May '12

08 May '12

> > Just a remark: for cjk one can best use the mkiv feature to combine > fonts; there are probably some examples of korean fonts mixed with e.g. > palatino or times in the email archive. Here is a sample typescript file for mixed Korean and English fonts suggested by Hans. Using this file, I can use Korean font for Korean and Palatino for English. It works well. You can modify this file for your purpose. Good luck! Best regards, Dalyoung

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\definehighlight + \words | \WORDS
by Philipp Gesang 08 May '12

08 May '12

Dear listmates, I rely on automated uppercasing and lowercasing a lot and I’m very happy with the \words and \WORD macros. But I can’t find a way to properly combine them with the “style” parameter of highlights: it breaks frames and enumerations. Example: ········································································ \definehighlight [tolower] [style=\words,] %%% This is problematic. \def\mylower#1{\bgroup\words#1\egroup} %%% The command itself %%% works, though. \starttext FOO \tolower{FOO} FOO\par %%% Works. \framed{BAR \mylower{BAR} BAR} %%% Works. \framed{BAR \tolower{BAR} BAR} %%% Fails. \startitemize %%% Enumerations don’t work either. \item FOO \mylower{FOO} FOO %%% Works. \item FOO \tolower{FOO} FOO %%% Fails. \stopitemize \stoptext ········································································ In short: while I can always wrap it in a \def, the more elegant doesn’t work in all cases. Is there anything wrong with my approach? Best regards Philipp

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FLOWcharts - connector line length?
by Mari Voipio 08 May '12

08 May '12

Hi, I've just fallen in love with the chart module, my first flowchart is almost done. I'll never draw these "by hand" again... Besides, it seems that the chart module forces me to do flowcharts "right", that should help with consistency and legibility. Now I just have to read a bit on how to do charts properly! I've figured out about text font and box sizes and making connections and all that, but there's one important question that I just can't seem to find the answer for: how do I adjust the connector line length? My labels just don't fit between the boxes and I'd have a whole A4 for a ny=5 flowchart, so I'd have space... (Oh, the other question is: is there a way to span a cell across several slots on the grid? If not, I can deal with *that*, the line is a lot more of a problem.) Thank you in advance, Mari (apparently in the "expand your ConTeXt skills" mode this week)

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Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?
by Mari Voipio 08 May '12

08 May '12

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > You have seen this one, haven't you? Posted by Don Knuth: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVuggGxeBVk > > So that's your next challenge. Yes, I've seen it, had to watch the whole thing, it is so fascinating. If I ever decide to invest in such a machine, it'll be an expensive one that allows me to digitize my own graphics (not just ready-made sets), preferably as vectors. In which case doing *that* isn't so much of a challenge any more. I've coveted one of those for a while, but currently cannot justifty getting one, neither for fun nor for my tiny craft business as that one is concentrated on the pre-steam era. However, I'm planning to use MetaPost to create blackwork charts, I've got the feeling that it'll give me neater results than any existing software. And I won't be stuck with one OS, either. :-) Mari

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Re: [NTG-context] References to floats
by Robert Blackstone 07 May '12

07 May '12

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] > 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. Kind regards, Robert

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context to markdown/html
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد 07 May '12

07 May '12

Dear gang, I have a paper done in ConTeXt that I would like to put online. I _could_ manually convert my input to markdown, but I was wondering if the xml/xhtml export options could be used to accomplish the same thing. Although I have done a lot of doc-to-context conversions via pandoc (doc->odt->markdown->context) I have never needed to go the other way till now. What would you guys suggest? Is there a way to convert context's xml/xhtml to markdown? (Note that I know little about html, css etc). One thing (bug?) I have noticed: bibliographic info gets lost in the backend export, so I end up with a lot of Xxxxxxxx (0000) etc in the output. Isn't there a tmp file the export backend can access to pick up this info? Any advice appreciated and Best wishes Idris

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multitone color problem
by Peter Rolf 07 May '12

07 May '12

Hi, just playing around with spot colors and run into this problem. tested with 23.04.2012 and ??.11.2011, same result. the color definition leads to an invalid pdf. % multitone.tex---- \nopdfcompression \setuppagenumber[state=stop] \definemultitonecolor[combicolor] [blue=.12,yellow=.28] [c=.1,m=.1,y=.3,k=.1] \starttext \null \stoptext %------------------ I also attached the original example (spot.tex). Best wishes, Peter

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Complexeslide module
by Romain Diss 07 May '12

07 May '12

Hi all, In some of the lasts Aditya's posts, one can understand that some work is already done on a new module: complexeslide. Is there any information about this new module: goal (beamer like?), actual state, roadmap... Thanks. -- Romain Diss <romain.diss(a)yahoo.fr>

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\systemparameter{n}
by Peter Rolf 07 May '12

07 May '12

Hi, the system parameter 'n' is not properly set on the third run. % test.tex \starttext \ifnum\systemparameter{n}=1\relax \ctxlua{print("*** 1st run")}\fi \ifnum\systemparameter{n}=2\relax \ctxlua{print("*** 2nd run")}\fi \ifnum\systemparameter{n}=3\relax \ctxlua{print("*** 3rd run")}\fi \stoptext % ------------ A fresh run (three runs) gives *** 1st run *** 2nd run *** 2nd run Peter

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References to floats.
by Robert Blackstone 07 May '12

07 May '12

Dear list, Presently I am working on a book that contains many musical examples, some of them rather large (even page-filling). It is difficult to predict where they will finally be placed, at least when I do not want to spoil the layout too much by forcing every example to be placed at the point where it occurs in the .tex-file. So when dicussing an example I always refer to it with \in{ex.}{ref} and \at{page}[ref]. 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"? (One imagines that in the last stage of typesetting the file ConTeXt "knows" that the reference and the referenced float will be on the same page, but I have no clue how I could use this knowledge.) Thanks in advance for any help. Robert Blackstone

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