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timestamps with \date
by Mojca Miklavec 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hello, I would like to add timestamps to the document. The command \date seems handy for that, but it doesn't offer any hour/minute/second keyword, or at least I wasn't able to find it in documentation. Is there some more convenient way to add current date and time to the document? Thank you, Mojac

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How to align \mframed correctly?
by Marcin Borkowski 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

As the example below shows, \mframed part of the formula is placed too high. I found that \inmframed helps, but my question is: does \inmframed alter spacing? In other words: does $...whatever...$ look the same as $...\inmframed[frame=off]{whatever}...$? \starttext $E=\mframed{mc^2}$ % wrong $E=\inmframed{mc^2}$ % much better \stoptext Regards, -- Marcin Borkowski

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Parsing image pixels with lua
by Stefan Müller 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

Hi list, I'm trying to create a ConTeXt document that searches for image-files (png, jpg, any, whatever... that's not important) in the same directory and processes all found images in a certain way. I'm pretty sure that parsing the directory should work with lua in ConTeXt, but I'm stuck at the part where I want lua to process the image. Is it somehow possible to get the color of an arbitrary pixel in the image (file) given the vertical and horizontal position of the pixel? I could process the images beforehand with another application (which does not yet exist) and write its output to ASCII files or something, but I rather avoid that. If that's the only possibility, how would I call another application while processing a tex file with ConTeXt? Thanks in advance for any hints, Stefan

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My company and its client properly are going to use ConTeXt
by Cecil Westerhof 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

There was a long discussion about how to convert ConTeXt to another format. The gist was that it was not really possible and the best option properly would be to convert to XHTML. But it looks like they are ready to work with ConTeXt. I am asked to instal it on a Windows machine to show how it works. And when they are satisfied, they will make the switch. When anyone has tips how to showcase it … -- Cecil Westerhof

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Footer including "Page n of m"
by Alasdair McAndrew 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

I'm trying to recreate an MS Word document in ConTeXt. The reason for this is so the final document won't stand out from the others too much, and also so that I can have better control over the layout. One thing I'm having difficulty with is the footer, which consists of a rule, followed by "Name of document on the left << space >> Page n of m" where "n" is the current page number, and "m" is the total number of pages and is on the right. Is there an automatic way of obtaining "m", and what's the best way of preceding this footer by a rule? Thanks very much, Alasdair -- Blog: http://amca01.wordpress.com Web: http://bit.ly/Alasdair Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/alasdair.mcandrew

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When is \usetypescript needed?
by Marcin Borkowski 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

As in the topic. For example, \setupbodyfont[antykwa-poltawskiego] works without \usetypescript, but \setupbodyfont[antykwa] not. Why is that so? Regards, -- Marcin Borkowski

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accessing to system fonts in TL2011
by Pablo Rodríguez 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

Hi there, I'm new to ConTeXt. I would like to check some basic capabilities in ConTeXt, after browsing the really impressive presentation Thomas Schmitz gave on critical editions at Dante 2011 (congratulations, Thomas). I have just installed TL 2011 and I would like to be able access to system fonts (which are found in directories under /usr/share/fonts/). It seems that mtxrun --script fonts needs each individual directory listed. How could make it under Fedora 14? My initial script is (with no scripting performance): export OSFONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts/*/" Thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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[OT] Research into Generative Typesetting
by John Haltiwanger 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

Hi everyone, As some of you may know, in 2010 I attained a masters degree in New Media from the University of Amsterdam. The title of my thesis is "Grammars of Process: Agency, Collective Becoming, and the Organization of Software". * [PDF](http://drippingdigital.com/gop/grammars_of_process.pdf) * [TeX](http://drippingdigital.com/gop/grammars_of_process.tex) * [HTML](http://drippingdigital.com/gop) * [thesis-groomer.rb]( https://github.com/ab5tract/new_media/blob/master/thesis/infrastructure/the…) in case you are interested in the glue. Linked above are the PDF and HTML versions of the thesis, which attempts to examine generative typesetting (ie, going from one input into multiple outputs with various properties) through the lens of new media theory and the 'transductive' cybernetics of Gilbert Simondon. The introduction is particularly heavy with new media theory, but as the chapters progress I think it becomes more readable for those unfamiliar with this discourse. The 'Operating Systems' chapter was quite fun to write and hopefully contains some interesting history and reflections. One of the things this list might be excited about is the typography itself. I use many of Robert Bringhurst's suggestions, and I think the output is much the better for his advice.[^1] The HTML version was never totally finished (I'd prefer it to have JavaScript interaction and more Web-specific functionality). In fact, I had quite some plans for it, but as the deadline of the thesis approached, I necessarily poured my efforts more into content than presentation, and where presentation was concerned I was much more preoccupied with the Context version. All in all, I am happy with the thesis but I also know that it could use some work. If you have any feedback, please let me know. [^1]: If anyone is interested, I'm thinking I might make a module that sets up the environment according to these conventions. Because I was concerned with both PDF and HTML output, I chose to work in Markdown with Pandoc as my input format. Through the course of trying to manage a generative workflow, I had to make some unfortunate concessions: on the one hand, I had to process some of the input in order to get some basic things I needed, such as a blockquote environment for Context, handling the title page layout and abstract, among other things; and on the other hand I was forced to avoid bibliographic automation and instead had to be very careful to manually cite all my references. (This was because, at the time, Pandoc did not have the any capacity to do citation management that would work within HTML; with its new CiteProc support it seems that this is now feasible). Tagged PDF support is out of the question due to Pandoc generally only having MkII support, including lacking newer stuff like \startchapter..\stopchapter and \hyphenatedURL. The main conclusion I had about generative typesetting is that we are missing a crucial "glue layer". I have written some on a system which I call Subtext, a mutable translation layer where one is in control of both the syntax and the translation effects from a configuration file. Pandoc is great, but Subtext approaches the edge cases of generative typesetting differently by encouraging output-specificities without requiring anyone to learn Haskell to gain a little more control. Looking over Hans' new `m-markdown` code, I am beginning to see a clearer vision of how to go about implementing this. I've done some presentations on generative typesetting: * [Generative Typesetting @ Libre Graphics Meeting 2011]( http://river-valley.tv/generative-typesetting-with-context/) * [Textual Liberation @ The Unbound Book Conference]( http://e-boekenstad.nl/unbound/index.php/john-haltiwanger-generative-typese… ) * [Sozi notes]( http://drippingdigital.com/conf/unbound-book/textual-liberation.svg) Anyway, I thought that perhaps someone here might find some bit of this interesting. Have a great weekend! Sincerely, John

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\hrulefill in ConTeXt?
by Marcin Borkowski 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

Hi, how to achieve an effect similar to \hrulefill in plain TeX? (Or maybe with a specified width instead of a "fill"?) Best, -- Marcin Borkowski

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Re: [NTG-context] [AUCTeX] PDF viewer: Evince
by Alasdair McAndrew 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

I'm using auctex within Emacs, and my .emacs includes: '(TeX-command-list (quote ( ... lots of other TeX-related commands... ("Evince" "evince %s.pdf" TeX-run-background nil (context-mode))))) -Alasdair On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Tassilo Horn <tassilo(a)member.fsf.org>wrote: > Christoph Bier <christoph.bier(a)web.de> writes: > > Hi Christoph, > > >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > >> (eval-after-load 'tex > >> '(add-to-list 'TeX-view-program-selection '(output-pdf "xpdf"))) > >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > >> > >> So, I suppose you just need to replace "xpdf" by "Evince". > > > > Thanks! But no, I already have this line---with Evince---in my > > .emacs. I think I need to adjust TeX View Program List similar to > > "okular %o#src:%n%b" for Okular. > > Depends on your AUCTeX version. At least the current CVS has Evince > support built in (including forward/backward search). > > ,----[ C-h v TeX-view-program-list-builtin RET ] > | TeX-view-program-list-builtin is a variable defined in `tex.el'. > | Its value is shown below. > | > | Documentation: > | Alist of built-in viewer specifications. > | This variable should not be changed by the user who can use > | `TeX-view-program-list' to add new viewers or overwrite the > | definition of built-in ones. The latter variable also contains a > | description of the data format. > | > | Value: (("xdvi" > | ("%(o?)xdvi" > | (mode-io-correlate " -sourceposition \"%n %b\" -editor \"%cS\"") > | ((paper-a4 paper-portrait) > | " -paper a4") > | ((paper-a4 paper-landscape) > | " -paper a4r") > | ((paper-a5 paper-portrait) > | " -paper a5") > | ((paper-a5 paper-landscape) > | " -paper a5r") > | (paper-b5 " -paper b5") > | (paper-letter " -paper us") > | (paper-legal " -paper legal") > | (paper-executive " -paper 7.25x10.5in") > | " %d")) > | ("dvips and gv" "%(o?)dvips %d -o && gv %f") > | ("gv" "gv %o") > | ("xpdf" > | ("xpdf -remote %s -raise %o" > | (mode-io-correlate " %(outpage)"))) > | ("Evince" > | ("evince" > | (mode-io-correlate " -p %(outpage)") > | " %o")) > | ("Okular" > | ("okular --unique %o" > | (mode-io-correlate "#src:%n%b"))) > | ("xdg-open" "xdg-open %o")) > `---- > > Bye, > Tassilo > > > _______________________________________________ > auctex mailing list > auctex(a)gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex > -- Blog: http://amca01.wordpress.com Web: http://bit.ly/Alasdair Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/alasdair.mcandrew

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