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multiple backgrounds
by Henning Hraban Ramm 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

I'm playing around with layers and try to rewrite the letter style in a cleaner way. How can I use several layers as page backgrounds and switch them on and off independently from each other? With \setupbackgrounds[rightpage][page][state=start, background=logolayer] \setupbackgrounds[rightpage][page][state=start, background=senderlayer] the second background overwrites the first, but I can't define them together, because there could be several combinations of 5-7 layers. Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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spurious space in cite
by Hans van der Meer 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

I was typesetting bibliography references with the command \cite[data][ref] and then found that a spce preceded the author name; surrounding the space with X and Y, it gives "X Yauthor" instead of "XYauthor I was able to trace it down to the macro invertedshortauthor in thise case, but I suspect the others (invertedauthor, normalauthor, normalshortauthor) will exhibit the same phenomenon. The macro is: \def\invertedshortauthor#1#2#3#4#5% {\bibdoif{#2}{#2\bibalternative\c!vonsep}% #3\bibalternative\c!surnamesep \bibdoif{#5}{#5\bibalternative\c!juniorsep}% \bibdoif{#4}{#4\unskip}} tracingmacros shows an empty #2-argument takes the \c!vonsep, in bibl- apa.tex defined as a space. I first wondered if the \bibdoif's shouldn't be replaced by a \bibdoifnot. Anyway, that makes the spurious spaces go away. But it seems not right, so I investigated the bibdoif's and found the following behaviour when calling with empty and nonempty arguments. bibdoif:\crlf empty = \bibdoif{}{empty}\crlf notempty = \bibdoif{x}{notempty}\par bibdoifnot:\crlf empty = \bibdoifnot{}{empty}\crlf notempty = \bibdoifnot{x}{notempty}\par bibdoifelse:\crlf empty = \bibdoifelse{}{first}{second}\crlf notempty = \bibdoifelse{x}{first}{second}\par Typesetting gives as a result: bibdoif: empty = empty notempty = notempty bibdoifnot: empty = notempty = bibdoifelse: empty = first notempty = first So I have my doubts about the doif's. Finally another observation on the typesetting by \cite[data][ref]. When typesetting a reference ending on a period, for example "Publ. Co. Inc.", the result has a double period "Publ. Co. Inc.." That looks somewhat silly. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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MPinclusions
by Hans van der Meer 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

I thought to incrementally add to MPinclusions by successive blocks \startMPinclusions ...... \stopMPinclusions \startMPinclusions ...... \stopMPinclusions etc. But according to the generated mp-file it seems to incorporate the last one only. Is this correct and if so, is it an option to allow appending in the above manner? Or will that be too difficult to build. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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strange stretching with \blank[...]
by Peter Münster 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

Hello, please consider the following example file: \setupalign[line] \starttext \input knuth \blank[big] \input knuth \blank[2*big] % 2*big is much smaller than simple big ! \input knuth \placetable{bla}{\vbox to 18cm{bla}} \stoptext But \blank[big,big] is working right. It seems, that we should replace all "2*big" by "big,big" in core-sec.tex Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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mode dependend character handling
by Henning Hraban Ramm 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

(This mail was rejected as spam in my first try, and the reject message was catched by my spam filter...) A happy new year! I'd like to typeset a text in both German and Swiss German orthography, i.e. I'd like to expand "s (or the like) to ß in German and ss in Swiss German mode, or even better, automagically change ß to ss in Swiss mode. This is what I have: \startmode[swiss] \def\S#1{ss\relax} \stopmode \startnotmode[swiss] \def\S#1{\sz\relax} \stopnotmode That forces me to use \S{} in the middle of words, very ugly. I know this is possible in a more sophisticated way! Please? (My favorite solution would be to make ß expand to ss in Swiss mode.) Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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linenumbering
by Thomas A. Schmitz 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

All, I have a document with several sections and would like to have lines numbered consecutively across all sections. However, when the \startlinenumbering ... stoplinenumbering spans a \section command, it doesn't work any longer; lines are not numbered. Is there a solution or a workaround? Thanks, and best Thomas

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Reg. fonts and math
by Kumar Appaiah 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

I have been using ConTeXt for a short time now, after I switched from LaTeX. I find it quite great, but I have two queries regarding it. I am using teTeX in Debian (unstable). 1. Are the Lucida Bright fonts used in the documentation part of the complete teTeX documentation or are they fonts which need to be obtained separately? I have read a thread about this on the archive of this list, and tried all possible combinations suggested there in vain. 2. The tutorial tells us to refer to other sources (The TeX Book) for more on Math typesetting. Is there any online resource which would explain TeX (as opposed to LaTeX) math? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036

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MPgraphic question
by Hans van der Meer 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

I find it difficult to see the difference -- and therefore when to use the one or the other -- between useMPgraphic and uniqueMPgraphic. Is there someone who will enlighten me? Because I hate not knowing what I am doing. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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texexec and missing file
by David Arnold 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

All, If the file doesn't exist, here is what happens: figures $ texexec --pdf --use=fig-make --mode=letter figlibSection3.xml TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 fixing engine variable : pdfetex total run time : 1 seconds figures $ Would it not be better if texexec reported "$filename not found" or some such thing?

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Keep framed on the baseline
by David Arnold 14 Jan '06

14 Jan '06

All, I have: \placeformula[-] \startformula \eqalign{ &\text{Divisors of 12}: \framed{1},\ \framed{2},\ \framed{3},\ 4,\ \framed{6},\ 12\cr &\text{Divisors of 18}: \framed{1},\ \framed{2},\ \framed{3},\ \framed{6},\ 9,\ 18} \stopformula But I'd like to keep the numbers on the same baseline and let the frame dip below the baseline.

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