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Index
by Olivier 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Hi, is there a mechanism so that on is able to say \index[start from here]{great+topic} % we are on p3 blabla much material \index[stop there]{great+topic} % we are on p7 and the index will advertise the topic as great topic 3-7 Of course I don't want to put an \index at every page (I don't even know the page break when looking at the source file ;) This feature is especially nice when defining a concept in a manual. Many thanks in advance, Olivier

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fix for verbatim
by Hans Hagen 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

The following patch \unprotect \let\protectedfirsttype\string \bgroup \catcode`\[=\@@begingroup \catcode`\]=\@@endgroup \catcode`\{=\@@active \catcode`\}=\@@active \gdef\initializetypegrouping% [\catcode`\{=\@@active \catcode`\}=\@@active \let\normalactivebgroup{% \let\normalactiveegroup}% \def\activeleftargument% [\bgroup \let}\activerightargument \normalactivebgroup ]% \def\activerightargument% [\normalactiveegroup \egroup]% \let{=\activeleftargument \let}=\egroup ] \egroup \protect works ok for \setupcolors[state=start] \setuptype[option=color] \setuptyping[option=color] \setupwhitespace[big] \starttext \starttyping x\pdfoutput{xx} {nn} \pdfoutput{xx} {nn} \stoptyping \type{x\pdfoutput {xx} {nn}} \type{x\pdfoutput{xx} {nn}} \type{x\pdfoutput{xx} {nn}} \stoptext but no coloring here: \starttabulate[|l|] \NC \type{\pdfoutput {xx}{,,}} \NC\NR \NC \type{\pdfoutput{xx}{,,}} \NC\NR \NC \type{{xx}{,,}} \NC\NR \stoptabulate beware: since in tabulate args are passed, the { } in \type are seen as grouping tokens and disappear. i'll try to make up a solution (no way around space after \cs then, unless taco fixes tex -) Hans

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maximum of \externalfigure in MP
by andrea valle 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Hi to all, I'm including many externalfigures in pdf in a MPgraphic (300 pdfs, more or less). The MPgraphic draws some arrows connecting the pdf fragments. (it is the musical project using lilypond we discussed some time ago). Till now, everything has always gone very well. Now I'm getting a little crazy. in fact, I'm having a strange behaviour I cannot explain. When I render the context file, as output I have the MP drawing, but all the (many) pdfs are replaced with blank spaces. I noticed that it seems that pdfs are not loaded (the console doesn't print their names in any way). I also checked the utility files (.mp, etc) but I'm not able to extract any useful info. If I comment out some of the lines requesting \externalfigure, (remaining) pdfs are again displayed. So, I'm guessing that is should be something related with a maximum of \externalfigure. I'm surprised because I generated examples containing many more pdf fragments than the present one, and I have never had any problem. Here's the zipped directory I'm working with: www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/nodi3-.zip Any hint/help is much appreciated Best -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino andrea.valle(a)unito.it

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French spacing before punctuation
by Peter Münster 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hello, what do I need to do, to get the new automatic spacing before punctuation with recent pdfetex? - What version of pdfetex? - What version of ConTeXt? - And what commands to configure this? TIA for any hint! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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wasy symbol set
by Henning Hraban Ramm 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi ho! I needed some symbols from the wasy fonts (known from the LaTeX package wasysym), and here's the whole set for you. ;-) The ZIP contains the module symb-was.tex, the font map original- wasy.map and a test tex file. (The wasy fonts live in http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/fonts/wasy2/, but they're part of most TeX installations.) I left out the mathematical operators and integrals for I don't know nothing about math and I guess that the stuff is already part of core math. symb-was.tex addresses only wasy10 (see below), but there are also wasy5-9 and wasyb10 (bold?) - how can I use these? (Don't know if that makes any sense.) \definefontsynonym [WaSy] [wasy10] \def\WaldiSymbol#1{\getglyph{WaSy}{\char#1}} If someone can tell if the math stuff is needed and if the font design size issue is fixed, I'd be happy if this module would make it into the core distribution. Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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long quotation problem
by Alan Bowen 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

I have been adapting some of my old Plain TeX macros to ConTeXt, using hints and suggestions from the ConTeXt wiki. What I have thus far works exactly as desired in the body text, but fails in the footnotes. I have appended some encoded text that shows the problem. Note the poor line-spacing and (unwanted) indentation in the first line of the quotation in the footnote: this quotation should look the same as the one in the body text. I realize that I could fix this simply by inserting a \noindent in the footnote, for instance. But I am trying to reduce the amount of thinking an coder has to do, and so would really like to define the startextract..\stopextract environment more effectively. Any pointers or suggestions for fixing this will be gratefully received. Cheers, Alan **************************** % Paragraph setup \indenting[big,yes] \setupwhitespace[medium] \setupparagraphs[tolerance=verystrict] %Footnote setup \setupfootnotes[conversion=numbers, way=bytext,location=page,rule=on,bodyfont=10.1pt,style=normal] \setupfootnotes[indenting=yes] \setupfootnotes[interaction=yes] \setupnotedefinition[footnote][indenting={big,yes}] % Extract setup \definestartstop[extract][ before={\godown[0.10pc] \indenting[next] \setupnarrower[left=1.5pc,right=1.5pc] \startnarrower[left,right]}, after={\stopnarrower \godown[0.25pc] \indenting[yes]}] \starttext Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sed pharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar odio lorem non turpis. Nullam sit amet enim. Suspendisse id velit vitae ligula volutpat condimentum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed quis velit. \startextract Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sed pharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar odio lorem non turpis. Nullam sit amet enim. Suspendisse id velit vitae ligula volutpat condimentum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed quis velit. Nulla facilisi. Nulla libero. Vivamus pharetra posuere sapien. \stopextract \noindent Nam consectetuer. Sed aliquam, nunc eget euismod ullamcorper, lectus nunc ullamcorper orci, fermentum bibendum enim nibh eget ipsum. Donec porttitor ligula eu dolor. Maecenas vitae nulla consequat libero cursus venenatis. Nam magna enim, accumsan eu, blandit sed, blandit a, eros.% \footnote{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sed pharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar odio lorem non turpis. Nullam sit amet enim.% \startextract Suspendisse id velit vitae ligula volutpat condimentum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed quis velit. Nulla facilisi. Nulla libero. Vivamus pharetra posuere sapien. Nam consectetuer. Sed aliquam, nunc eget euismod ullamcorper, lectus nunc ullamcorper orci, fermentum bibendum enim nibh eget ipsum. Donec porttitor ligula eu dolor. \stopextract \noindent Maecenas vitae nulla consequat libero cursus venenatis. Nam magna enim, accumsan eu, blandit sed, blandit a, eros.}\ % Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed quis velit. Nulla facilisi. Nulla libero. Vivamus pharetra posuere sapien. Nam consectetuer. Sed aliquam, nunc eget euismod ullamcorper, lectus nunc ullamcorper orci, fermentum bibendum enim nibh eget ipsum. Donec porttitor ligula eu dolor. Maecenas vitae nulla consequat libero cursus venenatis. Nam magna enim, accumsan eu, blandit sed, blandit a, eros. \stoptext

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Header design
by Alexander Lazic 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi, i have now try to setup the CD pagedesign. Please can anyone help me to find a solution for this setup ;-) What i need is: Title_of_the_document | section on the left hand side in the header. I have found a solution for the headerrule but for the text ... I have added my solution on the bottom of this mail what i have also tryed: \setupheadertexts[text][{Title | \getmarking[chapter]}] from: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2003/003438.html which don't work because i get the following error: --- ! Argument of \next has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \doattributes ...name #1#2\@EA \endcsname \fi {#4} \dostopattributes \dosingletexts ...atetexts {#1#2#5}{#6{}{}{}}}}}}} \egroup <argument> ...?tk \v!header \v!text \c!righttext } \@@nmpos {\getvalue {\??tk... \dododoplacelayouttextline ...#2 #3}\hbox to #1{#4 }\stoplayoutcomponent \get... ... l.74 \section {sec2} ? --- Here know my texfile: --- \setuppapersize [A4][A4] \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,right}] \setupheadertexts[][section] % Solution from http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20050515.201803.67299570.html \setupthinrules[color=red,height=1mm] \setupheader[text][after=\thinrule] \starttext \section{sec1} \page \section{sec2} \stoptext --- Thanks in advaned for our help ;-) Greetings al ;-)

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[Fwd: Re: [NTG-context] Problems with Natural Tables]
by Vit Zyka 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hello Hans, (I guess you are the only person who can specify your previous answer), so please, is the file 'core-ntb-new.tex' somewhere available? Actually what I want. I have plenty of natural tables. If I want to make closer interline space between table lines the only way I know is to make smaller value of offset param. But after that, columns are too close together (framed object as a core of natural table does not distinguish between vertical and horizontal offsets). So bellow mentioned \setupTABLE[c][1][distance=2em] would be nice solution. So ones more, is the new code available? Thank you in advance for the answer. Vit Hans Hagen wrote: > Adam Duck wrote: > >> Eckhart Guthöhrlein <eckhart.guthoehrlein(a)uni-bielefeld.de> writes: >> >> >> >>> Am Sonntag, den 14.08.2005, 17:17 +0200 schrieb Adam Duck: >>> >>> >>> >>>> - how do I set the spacing between a vertical line (between two >>>> columns) and the text inside that columns? I already used >>>> "framedoffest=-3pt", but the output is unacceptable. >>>> >>> >>> Spacing is a weak point of natural tables. Afaik, there is no good way >>> to tune spacing. I would try using dummy colums like >>> \bTD[width=1em]\eTD. >>> >> >> OK, That sounds reasonable. I'll try that. On the other hand this >> means many \bTD<something>\eTD ... but one can write a macro for that, >> I think. >> >> > a next release will support: > \input core-ntb-new.tex > > \starttext > > \showframe > > \setupTABLE[c][1][distance=2em] > \setupTABLE[c][2][distance=3em] I was looking for core-ntb-new.tex or 'distance' in current beta core-ntb.tex but have not been successful. Please, where I can find it? Thanks Vit > \bTABLE > \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR > \bTR \bTD[nx=2] test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR > \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD[nx=2] test \eTD \eTR > \eTABLE > > > \bTABLE[option=stretch] > \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR > \bTR \bTD[nx=2] test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR > \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD[nx=2] test \eTD \eTR > \eTABLE > > \stoptext

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RE: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
by Pearson, Mark (Capita Symonds) 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi All, I'm currently working in a team which is building a system for the automatic production of office stationery (business cards, letterheads and compliment slips) with ConTeXt at its heart. The system provides a web-application front end for selected users to create stationery orders. These orders are then processed to produce .tex files, which are processed by ConTeXt to produce press-ready PDFs. The PDFs are sent with order details straight to our in-house printing department. I was tasked with creating the PDF engine and chose ConTeXt because (a) I have a lot of experience with LaTeX and hence a great deal of respect for TeX's capabilities but (b) knew that controlling the layouts in LaTeX would be a pain. The following features of ConTeXt are used in this project: * Native support for OpenType fonts * Support for creation of high quality press-ready PDFs * Fine control over document layout, page design etc. * Support for embedding JPG, TIFF, PNG amd PDF images * Support for the use of named (PANTONE) spot colours The choice of ConTeXt was not an easy one having never used it before but my gut feeling was that it is a very powerful and flexible piece of software. It has met all my requirements so far but not without a fight, as the documentation can be very sparse! I will certainly contribute what documentation I can when I have more time. Mark ********************************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may be subject to legal privilege, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error or think you may have done so, you may not peruse, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message. Please notify the sender immediately and delete the original e-mail from your system. Computer viruses can be transmitted by e-mail. Recipients should check this e-mail for the presence of viruses. The Capita Group and its subsidiaries accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. ***********************************************************************************

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font-switching oddities
by Thomas A. Schmitz 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi all, I'm having some trouble with bodyfont switching. It involves two fonts that I adapted myself, so it's difficult to make a minimal example. Both fonts are defined in typescripts (these are just examples, it works the same for every typescript I tried). First one is Adobe Caslon: \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] \starttypescript [serif] [caslon] [texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Roman] [texnansi-KERN-LIGA- DLIG-ONUM-ACaslonPro-Regularnoct] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Bold] [texnansi-KERN-LIGA- DLIG-ONUM-ACaslonPro-Boldnoct] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Italic] [texnansi-KERN-LIGA- DLIG-ONUM-ACaslonPro-Italicnoct] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Bold-Italic] [texnansi-KERN-LIGA- DLIG-ONUM-ACaslonPro-BoldItalicnoct] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Roman-SmallCaps][texnansi-KERN-SMCP- LNUM-ACaslonPro-Regular] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Roman-OSF] [texnansi-KERN-SMCP- LNUM-ACaslonPro-Regular] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [caslon] [name] \usetypescript[serif][fallback] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Caslon-Roman] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Caslon-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Caslon-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Caslon-Bold-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [Caslon-Roman-SmallCaps] \definefontsynonym [OldStyle] [Caslon-Roman-OSF] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [Caslon] \definetypeface [MyCaslon] [rm] [serif] [caslon] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript Second one is one of my Greek fonts (doesn't matter which one): \starttypescript [serif] [greekgentium] [agr] \definefontsynonym [Greekgentium-Roman] [genagr-GentiumAlt] [encoding=agr] \definefontsynonym [Greekgentium-Italic][genagr-GentiumAItI] [encoding=agr] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [greekgentium] [name] \usetypescript[serif][fallback] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Greekgentium-Roman] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Greekgentium-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Serif] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Serif] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[GreekGentium] \definetypeface [MyGreekGentium] [rm] [serif] [greekgentium] [default] [rscale=\getvariable{Greek}{scale},encoding=agr] \stoptypescript The fonts are used thus: \setupbodyfont[MyCaslon,12pt] \switchtobodyfont[MyGreekGentium] Switching works when I set the bodyfont size to 9,10,11,12pt, but not if it is set to any other value. In that case, I get these messages in the log file Missing character: There is no a in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no > in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no u in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no t in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no o in font nullfont! etc. I must be missing something obvious about typefiles, but can't see what? Any help will be appreciated. All best Thomas

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