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print many cards (pages) on one A4 paper
by Jonas Stein 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hi, i want to print many (lets say 2 x 4) file cards on one DIN A4 paper. I played around with the BusinessCard[1] example. Thats close to what i need, but all cards are cloned there. How can i gain the same with 2x4 or 2x5 different cards on one side? (Sorry for the stupid question its my first context document) Kind regards, -- Jonas Stein <news(a)jonasstein.de>

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Re: [NTG-context] Simpleslides module is broken?!
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hi, > I added the following two lines > > \usemodule[simplefonts] > \setmainfont[Minion Pro] > > and I got the attached output. Thank you very much, indeed! But in my output the font is smaller (I need it bigger), and the image still does not 'fit'. Source and output are uploaded here (too big for an attachment): http://rapidshare.com/files/428217689/1.zip -- Best Regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Simpleslides module is broken?!
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

Hi, Please, help me a.s.a.p with Simpleslides module. I have a project sucessfully compiled a year and a half ago, and now it is broken. Reduced script of my presentation: \usemodule[simpleslides] [font=Gothic, style=Swoosh] \language[ua] \setupalign[stretch,hanging,hz] \setupinteraction[state=start] \setuppagetransitions[random] \setupinteractionscreen [option=max,delay=10] \setupcaptions[location=] \setupTitle [ title={\\ \bfa Кафедра \\ Авіаційних Комп'ютерно-\\ Інтегрованих Комплексів}, author={Факультет \\ Аерокосмічних Систем Управління}, date={}] %\usemodule[t][fixme] \defineoverlay [simpleslides:background:title] [{\externalfigure[Airbus-wing-over-sea-blue-sky-JR][factor=fit]}] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \starttext \placeTitle \SlideTitle {Спеціальності} Кафедра проводить пiдготовку спеціалістів за напрямом 0502 Автоматика та управління -- \bf 6.050202 автоматизація та комп'ютерно-інтегровані технології \tf %\bf компьютерно-итегрированным технологическим процессам и производствам. \tf { \startitemize \item автоматизоване управління комп’ютерно - інтегрованими \\ системами повітряних суден \item автоматизоване проектування комп’ютерно - інтегрованих комплексів \item технічний моніторинг комп’ютерно-інтегрованих комплексів. \stopitemize } \stoptext Problems observed when compiled today (I use the latest beta with --extra option): * No Russian (Ukrainian) letters at all, only numbers and punctuation signs. * The background image on the first page (the plane) is not fit to the page, but leaves blank stripes. Don't know where to fix, please help me -- my boss expects updated presentation tomorrow! Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] hyphenated url
by Aditya Mahajan 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > Am 31.10.2010 um 07:06 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: > >> On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> the "%" is a frequently used character in URL. >>> But \hyphenatedurl{} can deal with it ... >>> >>> Does someone has a fix? >>> >>> >>> \starttext >>> text\footnote{test \hyphenatedurl{www.test%it.com} test.} text. >>> \stoptext >> >> This is more a proof of concept so I did not take care of the optional argument of \footnote. >> > A very nice and clean solution! > > Is it also possible to adapt it to useURL? > > \setasciicommand\useURL > > test \useURL[one][http://www.google.com/some%20thing][][http://www.google.com/some%20thing] text It starts getting more confusing...the control passes from tex to luatex and then back to tex and at the last step ctxcatcodes are restored. I just bypassed the whole last leg. See the attached file for a working example. A proper fix is much more involved. Aditya

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transliteration russian
by Steffen Wolfrum 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

Hi all, I am just about to typeset a book of a russian author written in english, but with a lot of russian literature listed in the bibliography: The titles of theses sources are russian but in latin transliteration, like this ... O koordinacii mezhdunarodnyh i vneshnejekonomicheskih svjazej subjektov Rossijskoj Federacii But even though I assigned "\language[ru]" the word "vneshnejekonomicheskih" eg. does not get hyphenated. And there are some dozen titles more that show the same problem ... Is this (to not hyphenate) because of the transliteration? Do I have to choose another \language key? Yours, Steffen

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tex.toks & cld -- something weird
by Philipp Gesang 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

Hi all, while playing with the new extended cld stuff I encountered this: ----8<----------------------------------------------------------- context.starttext() context("\\toks0 = {Something}") context("\\the\\toks0") -- works --context(tex.toks[0]) -- fails print("·································································") print(tex.toks[0]) -- ‘The key mentioned above can't be used in a’ print("·································································") context.stoptext() ----8<----------------------------------------------------------- After setting ‘\toks0’ it cannot be accessed through ‘tex.toks’. Now, what’s so peculiar about this is that ‘tex.toks[0]’ carries a string from -- ‘thrd-tab.tex’‽ Any explanation? Did I miss something important? Thanks for any help, Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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\startindentation ... \stopindentation
by Herbert Voss 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

>From the documenation on pape 242 (13.4): -------------------------------- A series of indenting commands can be enclosed with the commands: \startindentation \stopindentation -------------------------------- It seems, that context didn't know these commands: \defineindenting[ra][text=rime a] \defineindenting[rb][text=rime b] \starttext \startindentations \ra pretty litte girl \par \ra pretty litte girl in a blue dress \par \rb pretty little girl in a blue dress \par \stopindentations \stoptext system > error on line 6 in file test2.tex: Undefined control sequence ... 1 \defineindenting[ra][text=rime a] 2 \defineindenting[rb][text=rime b] 3 4 \starttext 5 6 >> \startindentation Herbert

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hyphenated url
by Steffen Wolfrum 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

Hi, the "%" is a frequently used character in URL. But \hyphenatedurl{} can deal with it ... Does someone has a fix? \starttext text\footnote{test \hyphenatedurl{www.test%it.com} test.} text. \stoptext Thanks, Steffen

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Stop with an error signal
by Aditya Mahajan 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

Hi, I want to write a macro that checks for some settings and if the settings are wrong stop the current compilation and terminate with an error message. Right now I have \def\ERROR {\writeline \showmessage\??externalfilter??{forbidden}\getexternalfilterdirectory \batchmode \normalend} This prints the error message on the terminal and exits. However the exit status (the value of $?) is 0, if the tui file has changed the document is compiled a second time anyways. How can I force context (the macro package) to exit with a status of 1 so that context (the program) does not attempt a second compilation? Thanks. Aditya

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Grid typesetting
by Andrzej Orłowski-Skoczyk 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

Hello Contexters I've been typesetting (mainly books and reports) in LaTeX for ca 15 years now. Recently I got really fed up with various problems related to typesetting on grid in LaTeX, and this is how I learned about ConTeXt. You can't imagine how excited I was when I started reading about it, especially given my recent grid-related LaTeX frustrations. Now I'm past all the ConTeXt manuals available in English, but still with no practical experience. ConTeXt is still a wild animal to be tamed, for me, but with a lot of sex appeal. So - it's grid that attracted me. But I can't get it - the grid - in my test document. I find it hard to understand what the below commands (which are hardly documented) do: - placeongrid, - moveongrid, - start/stop|linecorrection and how is "framed" related to them. I experimented with various settings/combinations of the above, but none seem to actually FORCE my content on the grid. The explanation in the manual is not clear for me, there is no explanation in the Wikia. What I need is a way to FORCE a line of text onto nearest grid line available (so that baselines match), for example: - on page opening a chapter, so that all body text is forced on grid regardless of the amount of space taken by headers etc., - on any page, when the text is being interrupted by figures, tables, formulas or fancy breaks. Is there an easy way to accomplish that? By 'easy' I mean other than manual setting the height of headers/figures/tables/formulas/fancy breaks so that following text sits on the grid (which is more or less also doable in LaTeX). Thank you. -- Andrzej Orłowski-Skoczyk

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