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Multiple pleas for help (long)
by Scott Steele 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Hullo, all. I've been trying for 3 months now to get my last 2 years' worth of journal entries satisfactorily typeset for printing on lulu.com. This is my first major project using Context (with the Xetex engine—the current procedures required by Pdftex to set up and manage fonts are too intimidating for me (I {\em did} try it.)) as I'm no longer in school and had typeset the preceding year's worth of entries in Latex. I started to use (xe)Latex again this time but gave up in frustration with all of the predefined formatting, which I've moved away from as I've read more of Robert Bringhurst. Anyway, I have a number of problems. I apologize for putting them all into one message and for failing to find solutions elsewhere on the site. I've looked around a great deal, but am hampered in doing so by my limiting of my internet time with an {\sc ems} PowerCop (otherwise, I'd be on Wikipedia until they decided to lock me away). (I do my writing, editing, and typesetting on a little internet-crippled netbook with CrunchBang and Vim.) I'll include my current preämble information at the end of this message in case it is useful in addressing any of my issues. If they're addressed elsewhere, I'd be thrilled with links. If they're not, I'd greatly appreciate any help. I've found solutions to a number of previous problems, but here are all that I believe are in the way of my finishing this project: 1 How do I make bulleted lists not have lines between items in the list? 2 Is it possible to push the bullets for bulleted lists into the margin (and then have the text of each item start at the same level of indentation as normal text)? Also, given my target printing medium, this would require alteration of the space between the bullet mark and its text—how do I alter this and the glyph used as the bullet mark? 3 Is it possible to alter the way footnotes are displayed? I might want to have new footnotes follow previous ones with a 3-em space rather than starting a new line in the footer. And if I go that route, I'd need a way to pull the footer number in from the margin. 4 How can I adjust the formatting settings for the frontmatter (title page, table of contents) and backmatter (colophon, appendices, index). In general, I need to be able to set whether page numbers are used and what kind and positioning of the text on the page. In particular, how do I change the formatting for items in the table of contents (and what glyph/spacing go between the item's title and corresponding page number as well as how all of those elements are positioned)? 5 How can I have either unnumbered sections, or subjects that appear in the table of contents? 6 Does Xetex or Context have a facility for positioning accents over letters when those particular combinations are not in the font? (Or should I just go ahead and do this manually in Fontforge?) 7 Is there a built-in equivalent of the \fancybreak function from Latex? I think I know now how to put something like it together manually but don't want go the amateur route if there's something more polished available. 8 Since this is just a journal, I have used simple emoticons (don't laugh!). I tweaked a vector smiley from Wikimedia to get a frowny and slashy, and they work well except for when they end up on the first (printed) text line of a page. I have one page that has a subject title on the grid but that is followed by a (logical) line with a smiley that ends up on its first printed line. This printed line and all of the rest of the text on the page (including another subject title) sit several points (approx) lower than where they should (so that the grid lines bisect the bowls of all the lower-case a's). There is another page that does not start with a subject title but directly with a printed line containing an emoticon, and it has exactly the same problem as the first page, with the text sitting just low enough that the grid lines bisect the bowls of the lower-case a's. Pages with emoticons on them do not exhibit this problem when the emoticon is not on the first printed line, and all lines remain correctly positioned on the grid. You can see below how I'm putting in the emoticons. Many apologies for those answers that I failed to find, and thanks reading the whole message, Scott See my current preämble below: \version[final] \definepapersize[pocket][width=4.25in, height=6.875in] \setuppapersize[pocket][pocket] \setuplayout[location=middle, width=0.815\paperwidth, rightmargindistance=0in, leftmargindistance=0in, height=middle, margin=0.08\paperwidth, backspace=0.115\paperwidth, marking=off, grid=yes, topspace=0.018889\paperheight, header=0.044444\paperheight, footer=0.044444\paperheight, bottomspace=0.038889\paperheight] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, location={footer}] \setupinterlinespace[top=0.0] % `top=0.0' gets rid of unoccupied vertical white space at the top of the first line \setupwhitespace[big] % Turns on blank line between ¶’s \definetypeface[jenson][rm][Xserif][Adobe Jenson Pro] \setupbodyfont[jenson, 12pt] % Emoticons %—————————— \useexternalfigure[frowny][Frowny][factor=8,type=pdf] \def\Frowny{\hbox{\externalfigure[frowny]}} \useexternalfigure[smiley][Smiley][factor=8,type=pdf] \def\Smiley{\hbox{\externalfigure[smiley]}} \useexternalfigure[slashy][Slashy][factor=8,type=pdf] \def\Slashy{\hbox{\externalfigure[slashy]}} \setuptolerance[verytolerant] % Allows TeX to break lines even when doing so would be 'ugly' \showgrid \startfrontmatter \completecontent \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \subject{2/25/08} ... ----- This is a work of ﬁction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the writer's imagination or are used ﬁctitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coïncidental.

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Re: [NTG-context] Unicode bibliography
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

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Re: [NTG-context] Unicode bibliography
by Michael Saunders 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Mojca Miklavec: > Long ago (when I was still using JabRef) I was thinking about creating > support for export into ConTeXt-specific format. What do you use now? Is there something better?

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Re: [NTG-context] ! Undefined control sequence
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

> > What is the following command for: > > > > > \setvariables[tst][set={\setupTst[1][n,\getvariable{tst}{broad}*broa > d] > > }] > > > > This is enough, or are there any problems? > > > > \setupTst[1][n,\getvariable{tst}{broad}*broad] > > > To explain it with simpler macros > > \setvariables[tst][set={...}] is similar to > > \def\tstset{\setupTst[1][n,\tstbroad*broad]} > > and > > \setvariables[tst][broad=5] is similar to > > \def\tstbroad{5} > > but the special thing is now that \setvariables calls \tstset (or to > be concrete the value of the 'set' key in \setvariables after the) value was > assigned to broad. > > In a complete and simple example this is what happens: > > \defineitemgroup[Tst] > > \def\tstset{\setupTst[1][\tstbroad*broad]} > > \starttext > > \startTst > \item text > \stopTst > > \def\tstbroad{5}\tstset > > \startTst > \item text > \stopTst > > \stoptext > > Wolfgang > Hi Wolfgang, my question was: Why is this \setvariables[tst][set=... necessary at all. The following example worked without that. \defineitemgroup[Tst] \setupTst[1][n,\getvariable{tst}{broad}*broad] \starttext \startTst \item text \stopTst \setvariables[tst][broad=5] \startTst \item text \stopTst \setvariables[tst][broad=9] \startTst \item text \stopTst % \showvariable{tst}{broad} \stoptext Wolfgang

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definition in mkiv
by Tomáš Pustelník 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Hi, During my work on bachelor thesis I was running throught source codes and I would like to ask about equivalent of file syst-gen.mkii in MkIV. And if there isn't one. Where I can found definitions of macros define in this file (like \dosingleargument and so on). Also I have another question. In file page-lay.mkii there is definition: \def\addpagecutmarks % #1 {\executeifdefined{\??ly:n:\c!marking:\@@lymarking}\gobbleoneargument} I don't understand this part: {\??ly:n:\c!marking:\@@lymarking}, especially I don't know what ":n:" does or means. Can someone briefly explain it to me? Thanks for your help. Tomas Pustelnik

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Unicode bibliography
by Michael Saunders 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

I'm using JabRef to generate a .bib file in utf8. I'd like to use this with Context to typeset a bibliography. I'm running into a lot of problems with Bibtex's Unicode incompatibility. What is currently the best way to do this? Googling, I came across this tantalizing suggestion from Idris (in 2008): "Can you port your database to bbl format -- \start-stoppublication -- and just use the bib module without bibtex?" That sounds good, but how can I do it?

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Strings [[...]] inside \startluacode \stopluacode
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Hello. I am experimenting with courious things in LuaTeX (combining TeX and Lua codes) and I have a problem with lua strings containing TeX definitions. When string (containing definition of TeX macro with \directlua call-in) is creating in the separate lua file (reading by command dofile) then script does work OK, but when string is inside \startluacode \stopluacode environment, then does work only when i use text string inside ' ' for example: luastring='\\def\\texmacro\#1\{\\directlua\{luafunction(\#1)\}\}' Script does not work when i use text inside [[ ... ]]! (message undefined control sequence) for example: luastring=[[ \def\texmacro#1{ \directlua{luafunction(#1)} } ]] Where is a problem? Is there any solutions with [[ ... ]] Thanx Jaroslav ============================================ Here are all functioning scripts: 1) all in one file: \startluacode function luafunction(num) if num==nil then num = 1 end for i=1,num do tex.sprint(i..') Hello\\par ') end end luastring='\\def\\texmacro\#1\{\\directlua\{luafunction(\#1)\}\}' tex.sprint(luastring) \stopluacode \def\texmacrotwo#1{ \directlua{luafunction(#1)} \par } \starttext \texmacro{7} \texmacrotwo{10} \stoptext ===================================================== 2) Script in two separates files: %this is file ulet.tex : \directlua{dofile("ulet.lua")} \def\texmacrotwo#1{ \directlua{luafunction(#1)} \par } \starttext \texmacro{7} \texmacrotwo{10} \stoptext And here is content of external file ulet.lua: function luafunction(num) for i=1,num do tex.sprint(i..[[) Hello\par]]) end end luastring=[[ \def\texmacro#1{ \directlua{luafunction(#1)} } ]] tex.sprint(luastring)

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a0 split into a4?
by Xan 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Hi, Is it possible to "split" a0 paper into a4? I want to write context document in a0 size but printing into 16 a4. Is it possible. If it's, surely it's with ConTeXt! ;-) Xan.

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float at fixed position
by Peter Rolf 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

Hi, in a multi column layout I want to place a figure at a fixed position. Inserting a floating object at a fixed position doesn't make any sense, but I need the correct caption (number) for the graphic. Sadly \placefigure fails with [..] todo : flush notes todo : enable notes ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \@@mc5@@mcwidth \@@ar@@4 ...ace \OTRSETlocalwidth \scratchcounter \relax \OTRSETcheckwidthga... \redoloop ->\expandrecursecontent \endofloop <to be read again> { <inserted text> 2 \dodoloop ...mexpr \recurselevel +\plusone \relax } ... l.16 \stopcolumnset ? Is this a bug or am I misusing the macro too much? Example code at the end of this mail. Peter %----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8 MTXrun | current version: 2010.04.16 21:08 This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.60.1-2010042015 (rev 3640) %----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8 \usemodule[visual] \definecolumnset[example][n=4] \definecolumnsetarea[one][left][x=1,y=1,nx=6,ny=6,state=start] \setupcolumnsetareatext[one][left][\setup{test}] \startsetups test \placefigure[here][test]{test}{\externalfigure[cow]} \stopsetups \starttext \startcolumnset[example] \dorecurse{25}{\fakewords{50}{100}} \stopcolumnset \stoptext

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Overfull
by Marius 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

Hello, why there is an overfull in the attached example? Overfull \hbox (25.73416pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 15--16 \**ArialFontXVI** NOTXXXXX THIS THAT WORD PHRASES Thanks, Marius

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