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how to integrate graphics flexibly?
by Steffen Wolfrum 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Hi I am thinking about to switch from LaTeX to ConTeXt. The main reason for me is the need of "embedded" graphics (I'm not sure about the technical term typographically. In german it is "eingespiegelte Bilder".) The task could be like: - typesetting a book on art history - 450 pages A4 - 150 pictures included - all pictures should be placed close to the first time they are mentioned in the text - the shouldn't be more than two pictures per page. We will have three possibilities: a) Some pictures are in landscape format - they can be set width to textwidth. b) Others are moderate portrait format - in this case the title/caption can be set next to it (right/left) and both together can be set width to textwidth as well. c) But others are extreme portrait format (maybe height to width four to one). They need to be included into the text (with text floating around at one side). As a) and b) are set either at the top or at the bottom of a page it is necessary that also the graphics of case c) can be set this way. So I need to set figures with the following options: - ability to float - placing option top/bottom of page - placing option left/right respectively inner/outer edge of page - can be set to whole textwidth - can be alternatively included into the text (but floating, not only into the paragraph were they are mentioned)). Which TeX mode (LaTeX/ConTeXt) or which additional package can do this job? Thank you, Steffen Wolfrum Berlin, 25. August 2003

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parse trees
by Matthew Huggett 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Hello: I'm making some notes on English grammar for some students and I want to analyze a few sentences using parse trees. Is there a way to do trees in ConTeXt? I guess I'd need to use Metapost. Any pointers would be appreciated. Best wishes, Matt

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TeXExec patch
by Tobias Burnus 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Hi, I played a bit around with --pdfarrange and found out that I couldn't do: texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5*a4,landscape --print='2UP,doublesided' file.pdf Since: paper becomes [A5][A4,LANDSCAPE] and /.*2UP.*/ becomes [2UP,doublesided,rotated] and I don't want to have it rotated. The attached patch makes TeXExec a bit more flexiable. Hans, please apply. Tobias

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Re: Labeling of axes
by Christopher Creutzig 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

Hans Hagen wrote: > beginfig(1) ; > > numeric u ; u = 1.0cm ; > > for i=-10 upto 10 : > if not (i=0) : > draw textext.lft("$" & decimal i & "$") shifted (i*u,0) ; > fi ; > endfor; > > endfig ; > > end > > given that you have configured texexec well: > > texexec --mptex thisfile.mp > mptopdf thisfile.1 With ConTeXt 2003.8.15, I get (\000) in thisfile.1, which mptopdf does not handle: ! Undefined control sequence. l.14 (\0 00) cmsy10 11.95514 fshow These seem to be the minus signs. Regards, Christopher Creutzig

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combined list and spacing
by Alexander Klink 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

Hi, I've defined a combined list as my table of contents as follows: \setuplist[artikel][alternative=c] \definecombinedlist[content][chapter,artikel] \placecontent Now that my document nears 75 pages, the list is too full to go on one page. So I thought I might get rid of the spacing between the next chapter and make the chapters bold instead. Could anyone be so kind and explain to me how I would do this? I've seen \setuplist in the manual but I couldn't figure out where the spacing part was. TIA, Alex

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LaTeXDB equivalent for ConTeXt ?
by Jules Colding 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

Hi, Is there anything like LaTeXDB: <http://privat.hgesser.com/software/latexdb/> in ConTeXt? The short story is that LaTeXDB makes it possible to include SQL queries in a LaTeX document. Best regards, jules

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Changing word spacing of \tt
by Mari Voipio 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

I'm using the standard POS fonts and I'm otherwise happy with whatever I get (TexLive7), but the word spacing is far too big when I use teletype font (in relation to \ss and \rm fonts). Tight spaces are not an option here, nor do I want to use the \setupspacing switch. Is there any way I can tell ConTeXt to use tighter spacing with \tt and defaul spacing otherwise? Greetings, Mari

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How do I use entities in DocBook in ConTeXt
by Guy Worthington 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

Although I use emacs as a text editor, I'm not confident in using utf-8 encodings. So if I can I'd prefer to use entities for the characters not defined in ASCII. How can I define entities such as "“" (for the left double quotation character) and "”" (for the right double quotation character) so as the context-processor can process them.

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\underbar not allowing line-breaking
by Duncan Hothersall 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

A quick question: \underbar is demonstrated in the manual as allowing lines to break normally (page 204). In my texts line breaks won't happen in an underlined phrase, meaning that they stick out into the right hand margin. Is this a known problem, or does it work for other people? Thanks Duncan dh(a)capdm.com

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a line under the header
by Helmut Schwertner 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

Hello, I would like to put a line (not [underbared]) under the header and above the footer. The line shouldn't be to thin (not so thin as \hairline) and it would be nice, if I could have a coloured line (grey, red, whatever). A small example, so something like this (best view with non proportional font): header pagenumber ------------------------------------------- text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text ----------------------------------------- footer footer Thanks for any help, best wishes, Helmut

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