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Wanted: ConTeXt: The poster
by Martin Schröder 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

Hi, for use at a conference booth I'd like to have a poster (A3 up to A0) describing (and of course promoting) ConTeXt. You may assume that the audience already knows (La)TeX. :-) The first use would be at OpenRheinRuhr in November. Since most ConTeXt developers will be together next week, could you please spend some time creating one? A short (say 20 frames) PDF presentation on the same subject would also be nice to have. Best Martin

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Re: [NTG-context] Furigana
by S Barmeier 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

Thank you, it's almost working. I am making use of projects, products, environments and components. My \usemodule[ruby] sits in my environment file, but I'm using the \ruby command down in the component file. The environment is only called in the project file, but the component links back to the product (with \product - I guess that's how you do it?) and the product back to the project. The error occurs, no matter at which level (project/product/component) I am compiling. Do I really need to call the module in each component? I thought the component should trace back to the higher levels to find which modules to load... Many thanks for your quick answers, Severin >> >> I am looking to add furigana (readings) above the Kanji (Chinese characters) in a Japanese text. >> >> >> >> In XeTeX I'd be used to something translating to >> >> >> >> \usemodule[simplefonts] >> >> \usemodule[ruby] >> >> \starttext >> >> \ruby{??}{????}? >> >> \stoptext >> >> >> >> What would be the correct command for mkiv? >> >> >> > > You wrote it yourself above but you need at least a font with japanese characters. > > > > Wolfgang > > >

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Extra spaces in APA bibliography style
by Florian Wobbe 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

Hi, I just noticed that there is an extra space after the booktitle and before ', pages' in the publicationlayout inproceedings in the english APA bibliography style. Here is a suggested patch: --- texmf-context/tex/context/bib/bibl-apa.tex.orig 2009-01-05 15:03:34.000000000 +0100 +++ texmf-context/tex/context/bib/bibl-apa.tex 2010-10-15 11:47:41.000000000 +0200 @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ {}% {}% \insertchap{\unskip, }{ }{ }% - \insertpages{, pages~}{}{}% + \insertpages{\unskip, pages~}{}{}% \insertorg{. }{.}{.}% }% {In \insertcrossref{}{}{}% Best, Florian

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A few puzzling problems (bugs?) with enumerations
by Mathieu Boespflug 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

Hi, using the latest beta, I've had a bunch of problems using enumerations in mkiv. Earlier betas have had the same problems. Consider the following document: \defineenumeration [definition] [ text=Definition, title=yes, list=all, listtext={Definition }] \defineenumeration [theorem] [ text=Theorem, title=yes, style=italic, list=all, number=definition, listtext={Theorem }] \defineenumeration [proof] [ text=Proof, number=no, headstyle=italic, title=no, closesymbol={\mathematics{\square}}, style=normal] \starttext blah blah \startdefinition{foo} body1 \stopdefinition \startdefinition body2 \stopdefinition \startdefinition[-] body3 \stopdefinition \starttheorem $P = NP$ \stoptheorem \startproof too long to fit here. \stopproof \section{Inside sections} \subsection{Inside subsections} \startdefinition{foo} body1 \stopdefinition \startdefinition body2 \stopdefinition \startdefinition[-] body3 \stopdefinition \starttheorem[thm:pnp] $P = NP$ \stoptheorem \startproof too long to fit here. \stopproof Let's talk about \in{theorem}[thm:pnp]. \stoptext I see five problems : 1. Even when the enumeration has no title, the parentheses appear. Judging by Aditya's code in his MyWay on theorems, it used to be that when there is no title, the parens don't appear. How do I recover this behaviour? 2. I want the "theorem" enumeration to share its number with the "definition" environment. That doesn't seem to work. Outside of any section, the theorem just doesn't have any number. Inside a section, the theorem very oddly displays the section number. 3. I want the "proof" enumeration to have no number. That doesn't work inside a section. As for the "theorem" enumeration, the section number is printed even though here i requested no number at all! 4. Suppressing the number for a specific enumeration using the [-] switch doesn't work. As before, inside a section, the section number appears instead of no number. 5. Citing a specific theorem using \in{theorem}[thm:pnp] doesn't show the number of a theorem. I'm guessing the last four points are all related. Best regards, Mathieu

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How to set the caption length?
by seasoul 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

When a figure is placed, but this figure size is much smaller than the textwidth, the caption length will adjust after the figure size. \placefigure [][fig:xxx] {xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx} {\externalfigure[xxx]} when set the figure size to an arbitrary size, the caption length will also change. But what I expect is, i change the figure size, but the caption size is always the textwith, or i can set it arbitrarily, for example 90% of the text size. I know it should be very easy, but honestly, i do not know.

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Thesis example, source files
by Shishir Kumar 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

Hi, I am a PhD student and am starting on writing my thesis. I have looked at Aditya's and The Thanh's thesis, and they are very nice. Unfortunately, I could not find the sources for these. Does anybody know if they are available somewhere? It would be nice to have them on the wiki. The problems that I faced were related to placement of table of contents, references, figures and fonts. I also found that quite a lot of information is available on the wiki and at Pragma, but it is not organised well and needs rather large amount of time investment (both of which may be due to my ignorance). Shishir.

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Is it possible to pass unmarked paragraphs into Lua for processing
by Kevin D. Robbins 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

Hi all, I am wondering if and how it might be possible to catch all unmarked paragraphs in a TeX file and pass them into Lua. So, in the following example, each of the first three unmarked paragraphs would be passed to the Lua function "process_paragraph" for optional processing, but the fourth paragraph between \startmarkedparagraph...\stopmarkedparagraph would not be passed to "process_paragraph". I want the Lua function to be able to eat each of the first three unmarked paragraphs and optionally write some processed version back out to be typeset, but there should be the possibility that none of the paragraphs are typeset at all. In the latter case that no text is to be typeset at all, is there a way to prevent ConTeXt/LuaTeX from creating an empty PDF? \startluacode def process_paragragh (par) -- Some magic here... -- Maybe a context (processed_par) to typeset the processed paragraph... end \stopluacode \starttext Thus, I came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large||scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. \startitemize \item One \item Two \item Three \stopitemize The separation of any of these four components would have hurt \TeX\ significantly. If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important. But a system cannot be successful if it is too strongly influenced by a single person. Once the initial design is complete and fairly robust, the real test begins as people with many different viewpoints undertake their own experiments. \startmarkedparagraph Thus, I came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementer and first large||scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. \stopmarkedparagraph \stoptext Thanks, Kevin

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Problem with \date command
by Cedric Mauclair 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

Hi all, Today I wanted to use the command "\date[d=15,m=10,y=2010][weekday]". It gives "Friday" as it should. However "\date[d=2,m=1,y=2011][weekday]" gives the same result which is wrong (it's a Sunday). In fact, whatever the supplied date, it gives "Friday". I guess the parameter isn't taken into account here. Bug or feature? -- Cédric

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en-dash for ranges of numbers in Bibliographies
by Florian Wobbe 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

Hi, in BibTeX databases ranges of numbers are usually listed with a single dash (e.g. 3-7) for compatibility reasons. Therefore the standard BibTeX styles convert a single dash in page numbers or range of numbers to a double dash (3--7). How do I get the same behaviour for \volume \issue \pages in the bibliographic module? Thanks! Cheers, Florian

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\typefile from n-th line
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 15 Oct '10

15 Oct '10

Hello, I'd need to \typefile a file from n-th line (= ignoring first n-1 lines). Is there such an option for \typefile macro? (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Reference/en/typefile is silent.) I tried: \typefile[default][lines={10}]{a_file.txt} % Start at line 10 \typefile[default][lines={10,+1}]{a_file.txt} % Start at line 10, step = 1 \typefile[default][start=10]{a_file.txt} % Start at line 10 \typefile[default][from=10]{a_file.txt} % Start at line 10 No success. (The last Ctx minimals, WinXP.) Lukas

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