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Layouts in ConTeXt book finished and available
by Taco Hoekwater 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hi all, We are glad to announce the availability of another ConTeXt book: Layouts in ConTeXt Willi Egger & Hans Hagen & Taco Hoekwater "One of the principles behind ConTeXt is that you can create your own styles. Often defining a style starts with setting up the page layout. This booklet explains in detail how to do that. It also contains information on how to prepare your documents for professional printing, including page imposition." ISBN 978-94-90688-00-4, in English, 142 pages, 24 EURO excl. shipping. http://www.h2o-books.com/node/12 (English website interface) http://www.h2o-boeken.nl/node/12 (Dutch website interface) Please allow a little bit more time for delivery than 3-4 workings days when you place an order immediately. We ordered an initial set from the printer this morning, but it turned out that there were already more pre-orders than Taco had anticipated, so most of the books from that initial set are already sent out. And while our supply line is fast, it is not quite doable to get a new stack within 3 working days. Best wishes, Boekplan / H2O Books PS We have received a cease&desist for http://www.boekplan.nl/ from the company that owns http://www.boekenplan.nl/, we have switched to the new name "H2O Boeken" (H2O Books). This new name is based on the first letters of the last names of the owners of the company.

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Important 5th ConTeXt meeting news (again)
by Taco Hoekwater 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hi again, Some more important news follows. Please read carefully, especially the section about the early bird registration change. == Location change (again) == After further inquiries, it turned out that the proposed venue at Charneux did not have any internet access at all. Predicting that this would be somewhat of an inconvenience, I decided to move the location yet again. This location change is not very important except to people coming in by car: we will still be in the same part of Belgium, but now a little bit to the north of Liège, instead of to the east. The new location is a small romantic château in Bassenge-Boirs: http://www.sjetootje.nl/ The meeting website is updated as well, of course. == Early bird registration change == Mojca pointed out by email that it was now impossible to register as early bird for people that could not / would not attend Southern France, but would be interested in coming to Belgium. This would be a little unfair, so we came up with a new early bird solution: Anyone will be eligible for early bird reduction that manages to have the appropriate amount transfered to my bank account on July 31, 2011. Anyone paying after that day has to pay the full amount. As we are talking about reception date here and international transfers can take a few days, this means that international transfers should be started no later than July 25, 2011. *Please note* that this now also works the other way around: unless you manage the payment in time, you will not be eligible for the early bird discount. Not even if you registered at BachoTeX already! That is perhaps a little unfair, but it is the consistent thing to do (and it helps to make the new budget balance out). == Best wishes, Taco

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Optimal way to defining of macros in Luacode in ConTeXt
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hello ConTeXist. How best (optimally) in Lua code in ConTeXt define own ConTeXt macros? I was used recently LuaTeX syntax (for example) : tex.sprint(tex.ctxcatcodes,'\\def\\mymacro\{arg of mymacro\}') But someone advised me that I use the better syntax: context('\\def\\Mymacro\{arg of mymacro\}') or context("\\def\\test#1{#1}") etc... Exist other (best or most optimal) way to do? for example something like: context.def.mymacro("first arg", "sec arg:") (which of course does not work ...) Thanx Jaroslav My example: \startluacode function ar2rom(arnum) -- Convert Arabic numbers to Roman. Used for "numbering" column in the TeX macros local romans = {{1000, "M"}, {900, "CM"}, {500, "D"}, {400, "CD"}, {100, "C"}, {90, "XC"}, {50, "L"}, {40, "XL"}, {10, "X"}, {9, "IX"}, {5, "V"}, {4, "IV"}, {1, "I"} } local romnum='' for _, v in ipairs(romans) do -- create of the Roman numbers val, let = unpack(v) while arnum >= val do arnum = arnum - val romnum=romnum..let end end return romnum end for i = 1, 10 do tex.sprint(tex.ctxcatcodes,'\\def\\macro'..ar2rom(i)..'\{macro '..i..'\}') context('\\def\\Macro'..ar2rom(i)..'\{Macro '..i..'\}') end tex.sprint(tex.ctxcatcodes,'\\def\\mymacro\{arg of mymacro\}') context('\\def\\Mymacro\{arg of Mymacro\}') \stopluacode \starttext \macroI, \MacroI \macroII, \MacroII etc ... \macroIX, \MacroIX \macroX, \MacroX \Mymacro, \mymacro \stoptext

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Export problems
by Andreas Harder 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hi, I played a little with the export feature. It's really fun. So far I've two questions/problems. 1. \setupbackend[export=yes,xhtml=yes,css=yes] \starttext before \quotation{test \quote{test}} after \stoptext exports to: before “test ‘test’ ” after -----------------------------^ (space between ’ and ”) But sometimes there is no space between the closing quote symbol and the following word. (I‘m trying to make an example). 2. Is there a possibility to “ignore” content the other way round? Something like: \startmode[export] … \stopmode Concrete it‘s problematic to export texts with onum- and pnum-features enabled. Greeting Andreas

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A question about layers
by Marcin Borkowski 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

OK, after a pm from Mojca concerning my previous question I decided to look into the "layers" mechanism. It won't work for me - just nothing shows up. What am I doing wrong? Here's a minimal example: \starttext \definelayer[title][x=105mm,y=20mm] \setlayer[title]{This is the title.} \stoptext (I'd also like to be able to "anchor" the title so that (105mm,20mm) are the coordinates of the center, not the lower-left corner etc. How to do that?) TIA -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl

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Re: [NTG-context] Anyone using dvipdfmx in minimals?
by Akira Kakuto 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Dear Mojca, > Therefore you can remove dvipdfmx from the minimals. I'm personally using dvipdfmx in ConTeXt on an engines eptex (experimental), and dvi mode of pdftex. But I believe it is not needed in the 'minimals'. Thanks, Akira

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Anyone using dvipdfmx in minimals?
by Mojca Miklavec 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Dear ConTeXt-ers, I'm trying to remember why we are shipping dvipdfmx in ConTeXt: was it because of Aleph or because of Eastern scripts? I'm not sure if it is still used or not. I know that it is pretty important in eastern scripts and as a basis for xdvipdfmx, but I don't know to what extent ConTeXt supports it and to what extent ConTeXt users are using it if at all. I would only like to know the situation. If people use it, it is no problem to keep it, but I would at least like to have a rough idea of its usefulness and usage in ConTeXt. (The dvips program will probably also be removed; I suspect that it doesn't work at the moment anyway.) Mojca

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Can not become member of NTG
by Cecil Westerhof 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

I tried to become a member, but after submitting the form I get: Not acceptable! I entered all the fields except postbus and telefoon. -- Cecil Westerhof

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How to prepare a template for list of names in ConTeXt
by Marcin Borkowski 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

Hi all, I have an ambitious plan to start (again) to use ConTeXt (MkIV, of course;)), so that I can learn it a bit; also, I'd like to play around with metapost/metafun (after a long break - I'm a metapost to tikz convert;)). I want to prepare a template for a list of names, looking like this (in ascii art;)): List of names Class ________ Date ____ A-F M-R ____ ____ ____ ____ G-L S-Z ____ ____ ____ ____ (Of course, there will be more horizontal lines). In other words, I'd like to have two columns (and a title spanning them) and a lot of places to put down a name. I'd like each horizontal line to have a little "hook" and one of the ends, i.e., a quarter of a circle. I'd like to have full control over the positioning (margins, width of the intercolumn space, height of each place for a name etc.). I'd like the labels like A-F to be also "underlined" by similar "hooked lines". How do you think I should do it? More specifically: 1. How can I do something like "metapost macro" putting a "left or right hooked horizontal line, of given length/width/color, at a specific place"? 2. How can I instruct ConTeXt to put things where I want them? In plain TeX or LaTeX, I'd use a bunch of boxes, vskips etc; what is the "ConTeXt way"? Thanks in advance! -- Marcin Borkowski

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\date bug with french
by Romain Diss 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

Hi, The date printed with the \date command is not correct in french (but ok in english). See this example : \mainlanguage[fr] \starttext \date \stoptext It prints "44 juillet 2011" (today). Without " \mainlanguage[fr]", it’s prints "July 4, 2011" (as expected). I have "ConTeXt - 2011.06.29 09:57" and "LuaTeX-0.70.1". I've never seen this bug before but I don't know if the problem is recent or not. -- Romain Diss <romain.diss(a)yahoo.fr>

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