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TEI - conTeXt
by Jon Crump 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

All, More naive questions about xml and context. I'm finding this slow going and documentation opaque or just thin on the ground. I have XML markup like this: <ref target="#N003-06"> reference term</ref> where the reference text is in <div xml:id="notes"> <note xml:id="N003-06">reference text</note . . . etc. </div> I need to set this as an endnote reference. Can anyone give me a hint as to how a context environment file should look to achieve this? Thomas's excellent tutorial at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TEI_xml is a great help, but my grasp of the underlying protocols is fragile. More practical examples of TEI (or other xml texts)-> ConTeXt -> PDF would sure come in handy. thanks, jon

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Installation context minimals
by Curiouslearn 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Hello, Can someone please tell me if the instructions for installation/updating of minimals given on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals#Unix-like_platforms_.28Linux… are still valid. I went to my /Applications/ContextMinimals folder (on Mac OSX) and typed: sh first-setup.sh --extras=all Then I entered, mtxrun --selfupdate However, I got the following: MTXrun | resolvers: to be replaced old script /Applications/ConTeXtMinimalsStable/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin/mtxrun MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua' MTXrun | resolvers: unable to locate new script Seems like there was a problem here. Anyway, I went ahead and did luatools --selfupdate and I got: MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua' and, then I did context --make which gave me, MTXrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' Can someone please explain the recipe for installation. What I should do? Also, I have read long back in the forum that some people have two installations at the same time and you can switch between these. How is this done? Is there any information about this on the Wiki. Thanks.

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\do(single|double|etc)empty behaviour
by Marco Pessotto 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

Hello there. I was writing a small macro to emulate a custom \part command, and I broke my head against \dosingleempty (but finally I won). Why this example is working: %%%%%%%%% start %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \definelist[talpart] \define\talpart{\page[right]% \blank[2*big]% \startalignment[center]% \dosingleempty\doTalPart} \def\doTalPart[#1]#2{% \iffirstargument debug: I have the optional arg \bfc#1\blank[2*big] \writetolist[talpart]{}{{#1. }#2} \else debug: I don't have any arg \blank[2*big] \writetolist[talpart]{}{#2} \fi \bfd#2 \stopalignment \blank[2*big] } \starttext \placelist[talpart] \talpart[optional]{With optional argument} \input knuth \talpart{No argument} \input ward \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%% stop %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% While this, the original one, is definitively not working? %%%%%%%%% start %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \definelist[talpart] \define\talpart{\dosingleempty\doTalPart} \def\doTalPart[#1]#2{% \page[right] \startalignment[center] \blank[force,2*big] \iffirstargument debug: I have the optional arg \noindent{\bfc#1}\blank[2*big] \writetolist[talpart]{}{{#1. }#2} \else debug: I don't have any arg \blank[2*big] \writetolist[talpart]{}{#2} \fi {\noindent \bfd#2} \stopalignment \page[left] } \starttext \placelist[talpart] \talpart[optional]{With optional argument} \input knuth \talpart{No argument} \input ward \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%% stop %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% It's unclear to me how the arguments are passed between macros. Probably it's just a matter of knowledge of TeX macro programming (which obviously I don't have). My source of inspiration was: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Commands_with_optional_arguments Bests -- Marco

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color all the formulae?
by Yue Wang 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

Hi, Hans: Is there some way to color all the formulae braced in $$ and \start|stopformula? I search setupcolors, only textcolor is available. there are also no color key in setupformulae. Yue Wang

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Help: tweaking bibliography style
by Nicola 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

Hi, currently, in my document, an article reference looks like this: [1] Thor, A. U. (2010). ConTeXt is great. My Own Publishing, 2(4), 23-34. with the title in italics. How to make the year appear at the end and how to make the publisher in italics, too? I would like such changes to apply to other types of references as well (books, inproceedings, etc...) Second, \cite[Thor:2010,Bar:2009] produces something like [6 and 9]. How do I get rid of 'and' and get simply [6,9]? This is my current setup (mainly code copied from the Wiki): \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database=my-biblio,sort=author] \def\bracketed#1{\hbox to 20pt{\hfill [{#1}]}} \setuppublications[ sorttype=bib, numbering=yes, numbercommand=\bracketed ] \unprotect\def\UCauthor#1#2#3#4#5% {\bf\bibdoif{#2}{#2\bibalternative\c!vonsep}% #3\bibalternative\c!surnamesep \bibdoif{#5}{#5\bibalternative\c!juniorsep}% \bibdoif{#4}{#4\unskip}} \protect \setuppublicationlist[ artauthor=\UCauthor, editor=\UCauthor, author=\UCauthor, namesep={, }, lastnamesep={, }, finalnamesep={, } ] A last, less important, question: the Wiki suggests to \usemodule[bibltx]. If I do so, I get the warning “module bibltx not found”. It seems that omitting that module has no consequences. Is it needed at all? If so, for what? Nicola

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Own environment creating
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

Hello experts, I'll find somewhere perfect example of how to define and set parameters of my own environment. I want to create my own environment derived from framedtext environment. I want to use my own settings such as: \defineframedtext[MyFramedCols][MYTITLE=My title, MYNUMCOLS=3, ..., width = .... (ie the rest is inherited from the parent environment) ] Is such a thing possible? It is within the power of an ordinary user to do something similar (as for example using namespaces)? I was googling without result... Sufficient to link it somehow to try to wade through Thanx Jaroslav

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How to avoid that \writetolist becomes a page-breaker
by Marco Pessotto 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

Probably due to my abuse of \writetolist, I noticed that inserting \writetolist right after \subject makes TeX to think that it can break the page there without problems. See the following minimal example: %===============cut here============= \definelist[myrandompart] \starttext \dorecurse{12}{ \input reich } \subject{\bf Wrong!} \writetolist[myrandompart]{It's a test} \input knuth \page \dorecurse{12}{ \input reich } \subject{\bf Correct!} %\writetolist[myrandompart]{It's a test} \input knuth %===============cut here============= I'm pretty sure the solution is out there. Some hints would be very welcome. Thanks in advance -- Marco

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bold small caps
by Peter Münster 15 Dec '10

15 Dec '10

Hello, Is there a font in the minimals with bold small caps? I've tried lm and some tex-gyre fonts, but no success so far... Test file: \setupbodyfont[???] \starttext {\sc\bf Test} or {\bf\sc Test} should give bold small caps... \stoptext http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Pseudo_Small_Caps seems to apply only to mkii. TIA for any help! Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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how to redefine section headers
by Philipp A. 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

hi! i want to achieve the effect i see when using the following code, only in a semantically correct way (and without defining a \MyHeader macro like in some examples) \setuphead[section][numbercommand=\headtext{section}~] \setupheadtext[de][section=Aufgabe] \def\task{\section{}} so if my document looks like \starttext \task \task \stoptext this should render to: Aufgabe 1 Aufgabe 2 (i hope the mailing list delivers html mail) And maybe somebody knows a cool way to do this: \starttext \task \task[Graphs] \stoptext ↓↓↓↓ Aufgabe 1 Aufgabe 2: Graphs thank you!

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Minimal ConTeXt and texfont!
by Verhaag, G.C.H.M. 14 Dec '10

14 Dec '10

Hi, I've removed my old TeXLive installation from my Linux box, an decided to start using ConTeXt only! So, I installed the ConTeXt minimals (from contextgarden) and everything seems to work just fine, but.. I want to try to install some new fonts and it is common practice to use texfont for that. ConTeXt comes with its own texfont, but when I type texfont at my linux-prompt, no texfont can be found? Do I need to install additional tools to be able to build new fonts? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Regards, Gerard Verhaag

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