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cell padding-- Natural Tables
by Matthew Huggett 27 Oct '02

27 Oct '02

Hi : With Natural Tables, how do you set the padding or internal margins of table cells? Thanks Matthew

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Natural tables
by Giuseppe Bilotta 27 Oct '02

27 Oct '02

Where's the Natural Tables manual? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Showing parts of PDF files or splitting PDF files
by Matthias Heidbrink 27 Oct '02

27 Oct '02

Hi, I need to include a PDF picture in a ConTeXt document that is much too detailed to be scaled down onto a single page. So I need to distribute it across two ore more pages. - Is there a way to display only a part of a PDF file in ConTeXt, like it could be done with manipulation of the bounding box of a PostScript picture in LaTeX? - Does anyone know an application that will split a PDF file into user-defined parts (not just printing pages)? - Any other ideas? Ciao, Matthias

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new beginner's material
by Henning Hraban Ramm 26 Oct '02

26 Oct '02

Ahoi! I just uploaded a new edition of my presentations about ConTeXt and about Acrobat/PDF. The ConTeXt one finally has handouts, too. Source code is also available (but without pictures). BTW: I'm on holidays in Italy and read no mail for a week now. Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://www.ramm.ch/context/ ---

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Gamma support in TeXExec?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 26 Oct '02

26 Oct '02

Hello, I noticed that TeXExec has no "native" support for Gamma, in the sense that it doesn't change the "cont-" prefix to "gamma-" when the TeX executable is set to Omega. I did a patch to make this possible, but of course since there are no gamma-<language>.tex files, it doesn't work that simply. I therefore did a more extensive patch (it has to dump the format as cont-en and then rename it) but this is sub-optimal. It would be very easy to do if (recent) fpTeX and teTeX supported the --job-name option ... is this the case? If so, the patch can be done very easily. Anybody using fpTeX or teTeX know about this? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Fwd: Xindy and Context
by John Culleton 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

Apologies for the empty message, subject as above. I have found a set of macros that allow either makeindex or Xindy (in makeindex emulation) to run with Context. This allows for more functionality than the present register commands available from Context proper. They generate a makeindex type output file, which can either be processed by makeindex directly or by Xindy via the makeindex4 script and tex2xindy program called by it. Here are the requirements: Complete Xindy package (or complete makeindex package) index.tex from TeXsis site. A simple input statement starts things off: \input index.tex The indexing commands are \index{--- and \idx{--- \idx causes whatever is between { and } to be printed as well as added to the index. The usual conventions found in the LaTeX \index.sty package obtain. Here are some valid statements: \idx{foo} \index{foo!bar} %subitem \index{fable@foo!babble@bar} %subitem with alternate sorting on both %levels \index{Jose|(} %start range \index{Jose|)} %stop range \index{italicized|ital} %italicized page number. ...and so on. ` If the \idx statement form is used, and \markindextrue is present then the indexed terms will be printed in the document with a box around them indicating that they are indexed. This is a two pass system. The command to import the finished index is \input filename.ind ...where filename is the name of the tex file being indexed. In between the two passes one of these two commands must be run: makeindex filename.idx or for the Xindy alternative: makeindex4 filename.idx Here is a sample document: ---------------- \input index.tex \starttext \index{foo!bar} ... \index{France@{\it France}} \page[yes] \input filename.ind \stoptext --------------- The full power of Xindy in Context is not yet unleashed. But the above items plant the seed... -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters, Rowse Reviews, Culleton Editorial Services http://wexfordpress.com __________________________________________________ D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!" http://www.doteasy.com

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Xindy and Context
by John Culleton 25 Oct '02

25 Oct '02

-- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters, Rowse Reviews, Culleton Editorial Services http://wexfordpress.com __________________________________________________ D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!" http://www.doteasy.com

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Context manuals
by John Culleton 24 Oct '02

24 Oct '02

As Context continues to expand the number of manuals etc. needed to keep up also continues to expand. Is it perhaps time to either consolidate the manuals into a super manual or, more practically, provide a command/subject index that covers all the manuals? I offer as an example the \useURL statement which I figured out from a recent post. However I have no idea where it is described in a manual. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters, Rowse Reviews, Culleton Editorial Services http://wexfordpress.com

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Re: [Fwd: [NTG-context] \page[blank] not working]
by Hans Hagen 23 Oct '02

23 Oct '02

At 10:10 AM 10/23/2002 +0200, Rob van Swol wrote: >Hans, >Ik zag een andere discussie over "This page intentionally left blank"; >Ik was daar ook mee bezig maar ik zat nog met het volgende probleem >(\page[yes,blank] doet het ook niet; \page[yes,empty] wel maar dan hou >ik mijn headers): >Groet, >Rob > > >Hi, > >I tried hard but \page[blank] does nothing. \page[empty] works fine, but >in that case the headers are printed, which is not what I want. What to >do? you're right, seems that blank does not do its job (has to to with added grouping in the page handler), i'll fix it Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Fwd: [NTG-context] Table of content questions]
by Hans Hagen 23 Oct '02

23 Oct '02

At 10:11 AM 10/23/2002 +0200, Rob van Swol wrote: >Hi, > >I have used \setuplabeltext[en][appendix={Appendix~}] to create a header >like 'Appendix A blabla' above my appendix. However, in the table of >content I get 'A blabla'. Using \setuplist[appendix][label=yes] does not >work and \setuplist[chapter][label=yes] works only in combination with >\setuplabeltext[en][chapter={Chapter~}]. How to solve this for >appendices? \setuplabeltext[en][chapter={Chapter~}] \setuplabeltext[en][appendix={Appendix~}] \definehead[appendix][chapter] \setuplist[appendix][label=yes] \setuplist[chapter] [label=yes] \starttext \placelist[chapter,appendix] \startfrontmatter \chapter{test} \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter{test} \stopbodymatter \startappendices \appendix{test} \stopappendices \stoptext [this is something that should go into rhaban's faq database] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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