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Default length units - can I change them from pt to bp or dd?
by Andrzej Orłowski-Skoczyk 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

Can I [easily] change the output of commands like \showlayout to show dimensions in bp/dd rather than pt? As a traditionalist I try to stick to dd/cc standard. For compatibility with others I sometimes have to use bp standard. I find TeX native standard of pt useless and very confusing. I would be happy to never see those pts around any more. Is that possible with ConTeXt? -- Andrzej Orłowski-Skoczyk

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tex @ stackexchange.com
by Taco Hoekwater 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

Hi all, If you are bored (it is the weekend, after all) please have a look at and consider joining this new Q&A site: http://tex.stackexchange.com/ A blurb to promote the site itself, not by me: <advert> StackExchange is specialized StackOverflow, which is a social website for programmers. StackExchange sites offer moderated (like digg), tagged (like delicious) questions and answers (like traditional mailing lists and forums). Plus avatars and badges for additional fun. For [him], StackExchange works really well for answering what I can and learning from the experts when I can't. Signing up is easy--you can link to your Facebook, Google, or OpenID account so no need to remember another username and password. The TeX SE site is in public beta now and could benefit from more users, more questions, and more answers. </advert> Why I ask: I think the site is a nice idea. For once, I have absolutely nothing to do with its existence, but I am a regular poster there, as are some other context users (Aditya, Patrick). I think this is a nice a idea for a number of reasons, but two reasons stand out. First, if someone asks a question on Google and finds a link to tex.se, they will see a nice website (as opposed to say a mailing list archive) and that will therefore promote TeX in general. Second, this gives us a nice opportunity to promote ConTeXt in a place that is mostly searched by (beginning) LaTeX users. At the moment, there is not that much content about ConTeXt on tex.se, which I think is a shame. I know people are used to this mailing list and the wiki, but please consider to now and then ask a question or write a context answer on tex.se. Best wishes, Taco

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NTG Meeting October 27, 2010
by Taco Hoekwater 30 Oct '10

30 Oct '10

Dear TeXies! The autumn meeting of the NTG will take place on October 27, 2010, from 10:00 until 16:30. We will meet at one of the locations of the Netherlands Defence Academy: complex 'Kasteel van Breda', Kasteelplein 10, 4811 XC Breda. The meeting will take place in building "'t Uiltje". The program is as follows: * John Haltiwanger: typesetting poetry (ConTeXt) * Hans Hagen: Tagged PDF (requirement for archival pdf) * Hans Hagen: Context Lua Documents (cld) * Taco Hoekwater: texlive 2010 / tlcontrib * Taco Hoekwater: Luatex in TeXlive 2010 * Frans Goddijn (+ Willi Egger): Eurotexquotes booklet production * Discussion topic: The rise of e-readers: will this be the end of typesetting or will we manage to survive? There will also be an opportunity to show off your own work, with two hands at the keyboard ... We cordially invite you to join us at this meeting. Please email Willi Egger or me with your personal details (because of NDA rules, we will need to know your passport or ID card number). Regretfully, it is extremely short day now (we apologize that we did not send this message to ntg-context earlier). If you do want to join us, please let us know before Thursday (tomorrow) evening. Best wishes, Taco Hoekwater NTG President

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error in beta
by Hans van der Meer 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Just loaded the latest beta announced by Hans. I missed a few beta in between, but now this error arises in \xmlstrip where it wasn't there before: nil value. ! LuaTeX error ...beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lxml-aux.lua:386: attempt to get length of global 'nedt' (a nil value) stack traceback: ...beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lxml-aux.lua:386: in function 'stripelement' ...beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lxml-aux.lua:417: in function 'strip' ...beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lxml-tex.lua:1412: in function 'strip' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. system > error on line 7 in file dvd.tex: LuaTeX error ... \xmlstrip #1#2->\ctxlua {lxml.strip("#1","#2")} \@@su:xml:case:title #1->\xmlstrip {#1}{.} \setupcds [title=\xmlflush {#1}]\s... l.7 }

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Footnotes in MkIV and MkII
by Matija Šuklje 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hullo, from what I can understand I'm using \footnote correctly (i.e. as on wiki), but if I generate the document with 'context' every footnote instance is just a direct copy of the first footnote. If I generate it with 'texexec' though, the footnotes are generated as expected. Is that a MkIV bug, feature or just me being stupid? Cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org

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Scaling of setminus in xits
by Aditya Mahajan 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hi, \setminus does not scale properly in xits. I am not sure if it is a bug in the font or in ConTeXt. \setupbodyfont[xits] \starttext $A \setminus B$ \stoptext Aditya

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asciimode
by Steffen Wolfrum 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hi, if I only want to benefit of asciimode in controlled situations (inline?) ... how do I completely switch it off again (see below)?? Steffen ------- \starttext test: {\asciimode http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/05/1156&format=H… text. &% <- this should give an error again \stoptext

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wrong link with url + footnote
by Peter Münster 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hello, Minimal example: \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \hyphenatedurl{www.test.com}\footnote{a footnote} Problem: the link is \quote{www.test.com1}. \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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How to put mark in right margin even for equation
by Vladimir Lomov 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hi. Please consider the attached example. I want to put a mark (how many points will give the answer on a question) on right margin. I define command '\pointsMark' to do that but it fails if I put it inside \start/stopformula. Could someone give advice how to put such mark on right margin even for equation? P.S. Neither equation would have number. P.P.S. I just began to work with context so my approach may be not 'context-ish', I'm glad to see any 'context-ish' solutions for the task. --- WBR, Vladimir Lomov

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sorttype for bibtex
by Aditya Mahajan 29 Oct '10

29 Oct '10

Hi, IIUC, the bib module manual says that \setuppublications[sorttype=bbl] will print the publications in the order in which they appear in the bbl file. However, one needs \setupbibtex[sorttype=bbl] \setuppublications[sorttype=bbl] to get that behavior (took forever to debug). Minimal example: \setupbibtex[sorttype=bbl] \setuppublications[sorttype=bbl] \unprotect \show\@@pbsorttype \protect %\tracingall \starttext \unprotect \show\@@pbsorttype \protect \stoptext (Try commenting on the of the \setup.... lines) Aditya

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