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xml and buffers
by Junod Antoine 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Hello gurus, I'm a bit into trouble wih buffers and xml parsing. Here is my problem: I've got a .xhtml with the following lines: [...] <meta name="course_name" content="Génie Logiciel" /> <meta name="date" content="23 décembre 2005" /> [...] <title>Auction: document d'analyse</title> [...] I'm trying to store the content of the meta tag in a buffer, one per meta tag, (ie "Génie Logiciel" in buffer course_name, "23 décembre 2005" in buffer date) to use these buffers when I meet the title tag: \XMLifequalelse{meta}{name}{course_name} {\startbuffer[course_name]\XMLpar{meta}{content}{}\stopbuffer}{} \XMLifequalelse{meta}{name}{date} {\startbuffer[date]\XMLpar{meta}{content}{}\stopbuffer}{} \defineXMLenvironment [title] {\startstandardmakeup \getbuffer[course_name] \getbuffer[date]}{\stopstandardmakeup} But it does not print anything else than the title. Any idea? Thanks a lot for you help! -AJ

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Units -- a few things
by Ville Voipio 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

There seems to be a small glitch in m-units.tex. The unit \Bit typesets "Bit". This is wrong, as bits are always in lowercase first letter: a single bit: bit a byte: B It is also possible to use b (for bit) and Byte (for B). However, bits are always small and Bytes large. The best practice seems to be to spell bits out (bit) and use abbreviation for Bytes (B). This minimizes confusion. I fixed this problem in my ConTeXt installation by tweaking rows 664 and 666. For more discussion, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte It might be worth it to implement the octet (o), as well. It is a good unit (more precise and descriptive than byte) but the abbreviation is horrible. --- Another related thing is whether ConTeXt should implement IEC 60027-2 binary prefices (Ki, Mi, Gi, Ti). More info on this: http://www.iec.ch/zone/si/si_bytes.htm --- Well, then to a more practical thing... This is a very trivial question, but still. When writing a number and the unit, it would be nice to have automatic formatting. What I mean is that when I have a million two hundred thousand kilograms, I would like it to be typeset: 1(small space)200(small space)000(small space)kg Everything on a single row despite where it is. Now I write: 1\,200\,000\,\Kilo\Gram It would be more legible, if I could just write: \unit{1200000}{\Kilo\Gram} Taking care of all the fancy small spaces should be computer's problem. not mine... (Or does this mechanism already exist?) - Ville

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margin text headings
by Idris Samawi Hamid 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Dear consortium, In \setuptexttexts[margin] it would be nice to have an option for the margin text (used for headings here) to start from the top of the textblock, instead of the middle, something like marginposition = top, middle % middle is default \setuptexttexts[margin][][\setups{text a}][\setups{text b}][] \setuptext[marginposition=top,state=high,] As is one has to do alot of guesswork. Can this be implemented (if it is not already)? In any case, is there a better way to do this (see example file)? Best Idris =============================================================== % output=pdf interface=en %\setuppapersize [A5][A4] \newdimen\Margin \Margin=1.5cm \newdimen\MarginRaise \MarginRaise=112.6ex % guesswork \setuptexttexts[margin][][\setups{text a}][\setups{text b}][] \setuptext[style=\it,state=high] \startsetups[text a] \raise\MarginRaise\hbox{\vtop{\hsize=\Margin% \startalignment[right] Testing Knuth 2 \stopalignment }} \stopsetups \startsetups[text b] \raise\MarginRaise\hbox{\vtop{\hsize=\Margin% \startalignment[right] Testing Knuth 1 \stopalignment }} \stopsetups \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, location={footer,middle}] \showframe \starttext \dorecurse{20}{\input knuth\par } \stoptext =============================================================== -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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\uchar and italics question
by sjoerd siebinga 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Hi all, Due to the nature of the font I am using (which has horrendous looking combining diacritics), I have to call the unicodeglyphs directly through the \uchar command. Which works fine for the regular face. But I am unable to get the italic glyphs via the same method. So {\it \uchar{1}{01}} renders the 'normal' regular glyph. Could somebody help me out? Sjoerd

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Stand alone Context editing environment
by David Arnold 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

All, At: http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm There is: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip Can someone explain to me what this is? If it is downloaded and unzipped, is it ready to go? Is there documentation of this particular zip? Is there an editor in this zip configured and ready to go? Very curious.

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Text wrapping in SciTE
by Hooman Javidnia 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Hi, I was wondering what is the correct way of wrapping text while typing in SciTE. SciTE can wrap the text, but it is basically a virtual wrap, it is a long line tailored to the view of your editing window. On the other hand you can wrap the lines yourself by pressing enter wherever you think it is necessary. Which one of these methods is better? Or maybe there are better alternatives? Cheers, Hooman

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Figures in a table?
by David Arnold 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

All, Has anyone put figures in a table? I'd like to have a 4 row, 3 column table, where the first column contains number lines with intervals of real numbers shaded. The second column would contain the setbuilder notation for the shaded interval, and the third column would contain the interval notation for the shaded interval. Ideas?

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SciTE Setup in Windows and .rb scripts
by Hooman Javidnia 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Hi I am new to ConTeXt. Once I saw the showcase, I thought that this is even much better than LaTeX which I have been using for 3 years. I have MikTeX installed on my WinXP machine and according to the advice tried to setup SciTE to write some practice documents. Still I have problems. I have done everything in SCiTE in ConTeXt manual, but I can't still compile my files. I have to go to command line and do it manually. Should I install Ruby on my machine? What is Ruby for anyway? Where should I get those .rb scripts and where should I put them? Keep up the good work, Cheers, Hooman

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\getbuffer question
by David Arnold 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

All, If you do something like: \startbuffer \setupYadaYada . . . . \stopbuffer Then you do: \getbuffer will the setup be in a group, and only pertain to the stuff set with \getbuffer?

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Font memory issues ?
by David Wooten 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Greetings ConTeXters, Just recently (after updating to the most recent i-Installer ConTeXt version / but also after writing/tweaking a little more), I am apparently running into some font memory issues.* I have tried to increase the available memory in web2c/texmf.cnf to no avail. One curiosity is the pdfTeX error further down: "<argument> hz,normal". I am using hz,hanging in this document. Any clues? Many thanks, David * [27.27] ! Font \*12ptrmtf*=texnansi-LIGA-KERN-ONUM-PNUM-MinionPro-Regular at 12.0pt not loaded: Not enough room left. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \ifskipfontchar... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \globalfontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\globalfo... ... l.27 \stopbackmatter ! pdfTeX error (font expansion): invalid font identifier. \dosetfontadjusting ...pdffontexpand \handledfont \csname \@fha@ \@fha@ #1\c... <inserted text> ...ntadjusting \askedfonthandling \setprotrudingfactor \aske... \dofastenablehandling ...\everyenablefonthandling \edef \fonthandling {\csna... \rawprocesscommaitem ...commalevel \endcsname {#1} \expandafter \rawprocessco... <argument> hz,n ormal \rawprocesscommalist ...er \rawprocesscommaitem #1 ,],\global \advance \comma... ... l.27 \stopbackmatter ! ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!

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