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Math symbols missing
by gummybears 13 May '10

13 May '10

Hi The following math symbols are missing, 0x222B normal integral \int 0x222C double integral \iint 0x222D triple integral \iiint 0x222E contour integral \oint 0x222F surface integral \oiint 0x2230 volume integral \oiiint I also need the space-time integral \iiiint (4 i's) Kind regards PS Using latest stable context (MK-IV)

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Re: [NTG-context] Multiple pleas for help (long)
by Scott Steele 13 May '10

13 May '10

Thanks so much for the help! Pleas 1, 2, 5, and 6 are completely solved. (In particular, Mojca, the fix for accents is fantastic!) I wasn't able to get \Frowny to work any better with the advice provided, but I found that when I scaled it down, it stopped knocking the text off the grid, and I have a hard time telling the difference in size between the old and new. % New (works) : \useexternalfigure[frowny][Frowny][factor=7,type=pdf] \def\Frowny{\hbox{\externalfigure[frowny]}} \useexternalfigure[smiley][Smiley][factor=7,type=pdf] \def\Smiley{\hbox{\externalfigure[smiley]}} \useexternalfigure[slashy][Slashy][factor=7,type=pdf] \def\Slashy{\hbox{\externalfigure[slashy]}} I'm currently working on the Table of Contents formatting. I'm trying to format it as follows: \starttable[|r|c|l|] subjectName · pageNumber\MR subjectName · pageNumber\MR ...etc... \stoptable % Of course, where I don't actually input it subject by subject like this. Ideally, I'd like to be able to position the table on the page by deciding where the center line of single dots is (eg a setup where the dots are in the very center of the page layout or another setup where they are two-thirds of the textblock/pagelayout size (I'm not sure what the correct term is here) to the right). I've tried a number of different ways to set this up. This is the only thing close to what I want that I can get to work, but of course, it doesn't have the dots aligned: \def\ListCommand#1#2#3% { \starttabulate[|r|c|l|] \NC #2\NC ·\NC #3 \stoptabulate } \def\TableOfContents { \placelist[section] [criterium={chapter,subject}, alternative=command, command=\ListCommand] } Here's an example of what I tried to do but which doesn't work: \def\ListCommandOne#1#2#3% {#2\NC} \def\ListCommandTwo#1#2#3% {·\NC} \def\ListCommandThree#1#2#3% {#3\NC} \def\TableOfContents { \starttabulate[|l|l|l|] \NC \placelist[section] [criterium={chapter,subject}, alternative=command, command=\ListCommandOne] \NC \placelist[section] [criterium={chapter,subject}, alternative=command, command=\ListCommandTwo] \NC \placelist[section] [criterium={chapter,subject}, alternative=command, command=\ListCommandThree] \stoptabulate } Obviously that attempt—aside from not working—is incredibly un-elegant and could quickly screw things up with misaligned names and page numbers. Here is another attempt: \def\ListCommand#1#2#3{#2 · #3\MR} \def\TableOfContents { \starttable[|r|c|l|] \placelist[section] [criterium={chapter,subject}, alternative=command, command=\ListCommand] \stoptable } I think part of my problem is that I really don't understand what placelist {\em is} or what it is doing. Is this something that would be clearer only if I knew more about plain Tex? Note: I'm putting \TableOfContents in the frontmatter. Scott ----- This is a work of ﬁction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the writer's imagination or are used ﬁctitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coïncidental.

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Numbers in \definesynonyms
by Otared Kavian 13 May '10

13 May '10

Dear all, When defining abbreviations through \definesynonyms, if the abbreviation contains a digit then it seems that the built-in macro is not recognized: in the example below the command \EEG is recognized, whereas \M2 or \Y2K are not. Is there a way around this difficulty? Or should one use a definition like \definesynonyms[abbreviation][abbreviations][\inshort][\infull] and then use everywhere \inshort{Y2K}? Many thanks in advance, with my best regards: OK %%%% begin example-abbr.tex \definesynonyms[abbreviation][abbreviations][\infull] \starttext \abbreviation{EEG} {Electroencephalogram} \abbreviation{ERP} {Event-Related Potentials} \abbreviation{M2}{Master 2nd year} \abbreviation{Y2K}{Year 2000} Test inshort working: \EEG, \ERP, Test not working \M2, \Y2K Test infull: \infull{EEG}, \infull{ERP}, \infull{M2} \completelistofabbreviations \stoptext %%%% end example-abbr.tex

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processaction inside MP graphic
by Vianney le Clément 13 May '10

13 May '10

Hello, I'm having some trouble with a macro using \processaction inside a metapost graphic. Here is a minimal example. \def\Shape#1% {\processaction[#1] [square=>unitsquare, circle=>unitcircle]} \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} fill \Shape{square} scaled 1cm; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext It stops with the error "Use of \p!compareprocessaction doesn't match its definition." Any ideas? Vianney

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Section title customization
by Vladimir Lomov 13 May '10

13 May '10

Hi. Consider the following example: <file example.tex> \setuphead[section][stopper={.}, numbercommand=\Branch, style=bold] \def\Branch#1{Branch #1} \setupcolumns[2] \starttext \startcolumns \section{This is a short title} \input knuth \section{This is not a short title either, this is a long, very very long title} \input knuth \stopcolumns \stoptext </file> Q1. I want to add the word 'Branch' before a number in section title. May be there is another way to accomplish this. I looked through manual (cont-eni.pdf) but didn't find another solution. Q2. The text of second section is aligned on right edge of 'Branch 2.'. Is there option to make section text to be align on left edge of text body? I use last minimals on Linux (x86_64). --- WBW, Vladimir Lomov -- Q: How many IBM 370's does it take to execute a job? A: Four, three to hold it down, and one to rip its head off.

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Fonts in context minimals
by John Culleton 12 May '10

12 May '10

I want to identify and use a very basic kind of font, Times Roman. I have been plowing though all the fonts in context-minimal but I don't find a tfm file to meet my need, not ptm, not utm, not nimbus. The 8r-base.map lists several good candidates but they are not in the minimals distro AFAICT. do I need to copy them over (pfb afm and tfm) from my texlive distro? Or have the names been changed in some esoteric way? -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/ http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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problem with def
by John Culleton 12 May '10

12 May '10

In plain pdftex I can define a string thus: \def\booktitle{My Book Title} and then reuse it later as \rightline{\bf\booktitle} But in Context when I use \rightaligned{\bf\booktitle} it errors on the tag \booktitle I tried \the\booktitle but that didn't work either. -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/ http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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MKIV guide or tutorial.
by John Culleton 12 May '10

12 May '10

The MKIV reference guide runs over 300 pages. I am looking for something briefer that gives the basics of using MKIV, how to call it, how to use fonts and so on. Is there such a document? -- John Culleton Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/ http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Run context from Perl script
by Vnpenguin 12 May '10

12 May '10

Hi all, I would like to run context from a Perl script. Within this script I defined environment variables (TEXMFOS, TEXMFCAHE & PATH). The command to run is : exec("/path/to/context myfile.tex"); But context can not start. I have following error: MTXrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' With the same method, I can run "texexec" without any problem. Any idea for help ? Thanks,

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Colision stoppers? Distinction MKII vs MKIV
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 12 May '10

12 May '10

Hello. When I compile next example by MKII and MKIV I get diferent results. Is there any way to set diferent stoppers (stopper in caption and stopper in list) in MKIV? Thanx Jaroslav \setupcaption[figure][stopper={*}] \setuplist[figure][stopper={:}] \starttext \placelistoffigures[alternative=b] \chapter{One} \placefigure{one}{1} \section{Two} \placefigure{two}{2} \chapter{Three} \placefigure{three}{3} \section{Four} \placefigure{four}{4} \subsection{Five} \placefigure{five}{5} \subsubsection{Six} \placefigure{six}{6} \stoptext PS: When I set : \setupcaption[figure][numberstopper={*}] \setuplist[figure][numberstopper={:}] then in MKII isnt effect and in MKIV are stoppers the same.

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Spot colors in mkiv
by Taco Hoekwater 12 May '10

12 May '10

Hi Hans, Is there a nice way to get spot color names into the PDF in mkiv? I now have: {\catcode`\#=12 \gdef\hash{#}} \definecolor[PANTONE\hash 4625][c=0,m=0.6,y=1,k=0.79] \definespotcolor[dark][PANTONE\hash 4625][p=1] but that does not really deserve a price for elegance. Best wishes, Taco

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Open Font Garden wiki
by Taco Hoekwater 12 May '10

12 May '10

Hi, Yesterday I installed a wiki for Open Type font information: http://www.openfontgarden.net The goal of this wiki is to collect as much (meta-)information about freely available OpenType fonts as possible: * status of the font (project) * supported character set / features * known bugs / problems * Example glyph pages * status of OpenSource support for that font (especially TeX of course, but also other programs like Troff and Inkscape) Currently there is no content except for a main page with some dead links, so as you can imagine: I am looking for people to help fill it in. :) Besides content, I wonder if there are people that have ideas for a nice logo and layout. Finally, I am also looking for help setting up and maintaining the wiki itself. This is my first mediawiki, and I don't really know what I am doing. :-/

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Re: [NTG-context] [NTG Context] Storm (Lido) font support seems to be broken in newer versions of MKII
by Honza Pohanka 12 May '10

12 May '10

Dne Thu, 06 May 2010 22:13:57 +0200 Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> napsal(a): > On 3-5-2010 10:09, Honza Pohanka wrote: >> Hello, >> the Storm font support by Vit Zyka is broken in actual version of MKII. >> I spoke with him, but unfortunately he uses old version and does not >> have the time for updates. I discovered that renaming the enco-*.tex >> files to enco-*.mkii solves a part of the problem, but there still >> remains an issue with math typesetting. Context does not know many >> characters (\times, \neq, ...), boldmath etc. Typescripts looks OK and I >> don't know enough to look deeper. Could anyone help? > > aren't there open type storm fonts? Yes, there are. Could you please give me an example of installing OpenType font and creating corresponding typescript? I tried to do that but with no succes. (otfinst is not working in windows). What was changed in MKII that makes Vit's type1 support unusable? He uses approximately two years old release? Jan > > Hans > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- Tato zpráva byla vytvořena převratným poštovním klientem Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Re: [NTG-context] Suppressing page number on chapter's last page
by Tom 12 May '10

12 May '10

The following link discusses a method for suppressing headers (including page numbers) from blank pages at the ends of chapters: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Titles in the section titled "Truly empty pagebreak before chapters." Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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Changing separator in BIBliography
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 12 May '10

12 May '10

Hello, I am using Taco's bib module in mkiv and I use only note field in misc layout. Now I have problem with setting separator of keys. I want use it in czech language and therefore I want modify separator, but I dont know relevant option. When I use in source \cite[15, 16] (keys of publications) then I get link to list of publications [15 and 16] When I use in source \cite[15, 16, 17] then I get link to list of publications [15, 16 and 17] I want set separator so that result was [15, 16] or [15, 16, 17] Where is point or option to change of separators?? Thanx Jaroslav I use this option: \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setuppublications[setupinteraction=start, alternative=ams, sorttype=cite, criterium=cite] \setuppublicationlist[andtext={ a }, lastpubsep={ a }, lastnamesep={ a }, finalnamesep={ a }, otherstext={ a~kol.}, authoretaltext={ a~kol.}, editoretaltext={ a~kol.}, artauthoretaltext={ a~kol.}, artauthor=\invertedauthor, author=\invertedauthor, surnamesep={ }, namesep={, }, Finalnamesep={}, totalnumber=200] \setuppublicationlayout[misc]{% \insertnote{}{ }{}% }

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How to get randomly coloured text in metapost?
by Marco 11 May '10

11 May '10

Hi, how to get random colours for text inside textext? Take a look at the following example (MKIV). \definecolor [static] [r=.9, g=.7, b=.8] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic {1} def col= (uniformdeviate(1),uniformdeviate(1),uniformdeviate(1)) enddef; % These dots have a random color for i=0 upto 5: fill fullcircle scaled 5mm xshifted i*1cm withcolor col; endfor; % withcolor does not work, »Test« is black for i=0 upto 5: label(textext("Test"), (i*1cm,-1cm)) withcolor col; endfor; % To get a static color I use the following construct for i=0 upto 5: label(textext("\color[static]Test"), (i*1cm,-2cm)); endfor; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic {1} \stoptext Is it possible to get the metapost construct »withcolor« to work with text or do I have to take a different approach? Thanks for any help. Marco

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Removing last skip or insert negative space to captions of figures
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 11 May '10

11 May '10

Hello, Inasmuch as I dont fix the problem with stoppers in MkIV (in MkII is OK) (settings \setupcaption[figure][stopper={*}] and \setuplist[figure][stopper={:}] isnt doesn't work), therefore I want be resolving it throught very beastly way: It is removing last skip (it is remove space after number of figure) from caption of figure or inserting negative space with stoppers to captions of figures by example: \placefigure{\negspacewithstopper Caption 1} {\externalfigure[figure1]} Definition of \negspacewithstopper is: \def\negspacewithstopper{$\!\!\!\!$:\quad } It seem to me, that removing last skip is clearer method, but I dont know, if any like this command exist in context. PlainTeX macro \unskip hasnt effect. Is there any way to removing last skip in Context (MkIV)?? Thankx Jaroslav

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sorting
by Tomáš Pustelník 11 May '10

11 May '10

Hi, thanks for your previous answers, they helped me. But now I'm little lost in sorting (in registers -- index etc.). I know there is file sort-lan.mkii with sorting rules for czech language, but Context is not sorting by these rules (letter ch is not recognized). So, is there some way how to use it? (I can add it to context.mkii and generate format again, but I'm not sure, it was supposed to be this way). Also mkiv version of this file doesn't exist, but sort-lan.lua does. So how is it handled in MkIV? Thank for your answers Tomas Pustelnik

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float problem
by Peter Rolf 11 May '10

11 May '10

Hi, I have problems with a figure in a multicolumn layout (3 columns). The graphic is around two columns wide and the caption text should be displayed beside the graphic (one column wide). Sadly the figure is shifted to the right and the width of the caption is not considered (overwritten by normal text). I have tried several things, but no success. Test file and resulting pdf are attached. Peter MTXrun | current version: 2010.05.08 13:33 This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.60.1-2010042809 (rev 3657)

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how to compute the sum of numbers
by Jan Pohanka 11 May '10

11 May '10

Hello, I'm preparing a simple template for exam tests. I have following commad. \question{3}{text text text} where firtst parametr stands for points. I'd like to compute the sum of points to be used as "Total points: xx" What is the correct approach to do that if I'm using MKII? greetings Jan -- Tato zpráva byla vytvořena převratným poštovním klientem Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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simple bibliography and dots after section numbering
by rogutes＠googlemail.com 11 May '10

11 May '10

G'Day, I'm trying out ConTeXt and have come up with 2 questions. 1. How does one add a dot after the numerals in headings, so that "\section{First}" becomes "1. First" instead of "1 First" ? 2. I would like to use something like this for bibliography: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Bibliography#Another_Approach but adapting it seems too hard for me. Perhaps someone could help? A very crude example: ----------------------------------------------------------- People are writing about this \cite[ref1], (\cite[ref2] - page 25). \startbibliography \bibitem[ref1] This is the first reference. \bibitem[Daniel, 2004][ref2] This is the second reference. \stopbibliography ----------------------------------------------------------- should be rendered as: ----------------------------------------------------------- People are writing about this [1], (Daniel, 2004 - page 25) 1. This is the first reference. 2. This is the second reference. ----------------------------------------------------------- That is, I want an environment and 2 commands: \startbibliography \cite [key] \bibitem [label_replacing_\cite[key]_but_not_the_item_number] [key] Thank you very much, -- Rogutės Sparnuotos P.S. Is there a paragraph somewhere describing the logic under the use of [] and {} for different commands (it seemed somehow more intuitive in LaTeX). What would a ConTeXt developer choose, \cite[x] or \cite{x} and why?

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\hfill at the end of line
by Honza Pohanka 11 May '10

11 May '10

Hello, I'd like add a word at the end of the last line of the paragraph. \hfill command works fine, when this word doesn't overflow to the next line. In that case the word stays on the next line but left aligned. example Zakreslete průběh na signálu TX při vyslání dvou znaků, které odpovídají vaším iniciálám. Jak dlouho bude tento proces trvat? (Předpokládejte rychlost 57600 Bd, 8 datových bitů, 1 stopbit.) \hfill (4 body) greetings Jan -- Tato zpráva byla vytvořena převratným poštovním klientem Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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weird en/em dash behaviour
by Marco 10 May '10

10 May '10

Hi, I've found some in my opinion weird behaviour concerning en/em dashes. Have a look at the following two MWEs. %%%%%%%%%% \starttext - % shows up -- % missing --- % missing \endash % missing \emdash % missing \stoptext %%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%% \setupbodyfont [11.9pt] \starttext - % shows up -- % shows up --- % shows up \endash % shows up \emdash % shows up \stoptext %%%%%%%%%% Is this expected behaviour? marco

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suppressing page number on chapter's last page
by Piotr Kopszak 10 May '10

10 May '10

Hello list, Last time I typeset a book I was reproached for not suppressing page numbers on chapter's end pages and would like to avoid it this time ;) I mean, is there any other way to suppress page numbers more "user-friendly" than peppering the text with \setuppagenumbering[state=stop]? I need not page numbers only in chapter's last page. I confess, I haven't checked the mail archive as diligently as I should but the number of messages one gets looking for "page numbering" is overwhelming. Piotr -- http://okle.pl

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Diferent numberstoppers in \setupcaption and \placelistoffigures
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 10 May '10

10 May '10

Hello I am setting figure and table captions as per this example: \setupcaption[figure][numberstopper=: ] Caption of pictures is OK - it means Figure 1: Description of Figure 1 Figure 2: Description of Figure 2 and so on.. BUT in contents of figures by using \placelistoffigures command is numberstopper : too for example: Figures: 1: Figure one ............................................. 5 2: Figure two ............................................ 10 e.t.c. Is there any way to get numberstopper only by the figure but not by the content of figures? It means diferent numberstopper by the content of figures and diferent numberstopper by the caption of figures. By example: Figures: 1. Figure one ............................................. 5 2. Figure two ............................................ 10 I want this stil by Tables Thanx Jaroslav

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Hyphenation of composed words
by Marco 10 May '10

10 May '10

Hi, I've yet another hyphenation problem. I cannot get proper hyphenation in composed words. Take this MWE: \setuplayout [width=1.5cm] \starttext composed-word\par % not hyphenated, as expected composed||word\par % wrong: hyphenated, but an en-dash is used, % not a hyphen, so [sign=wide] seems to be the default composed|-|word\blank % wrong: hyphenated, but the hyphen is at the start of % the next line \setuphyphenmark [sign=normal] % For hyphenation a hyphen is used, % not an endash composed-word\par % not hyphenated, as expected composed||word\par % wrong: hyphen is at the start of the next line composed|-|word % wrong: hyphen is at the start of the next line \blank[2*line] \setbreakpoints [compound] % my workaround composed-word\par % correct hyphenation behaviour with hyphen \stoptext I hope with the comments the problem is clear. At first the default value for »sign« is wrong. It has to be »normal«. But with »normal« I cannot get the hyphen at the end of the line, instead it always appeares at the beginning of the next line. The workaround works but has the disadvantage that everything is hyphenated, everywhere. I prevent this at the moment by using bars: |not-a-composed-word| Thanks in advance Marco

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\setuptyping[tab=...]
by Peter Münster 10 May '10

10 May '10

Hello, The length of the tab is always 7: % one tab before each "bla": \setuptyping[tab=2] \starttext \starttyping 12345678901234567890 bla bla \stoptyping \setuptyping[tab=4] \starttyping 12345678901234567890 bla bla \stoptyping \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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underbar and \color
by Jörg Hagmann 10 May '10

10 May '10

Hi, I need an underbar of the length it takes to print, say, 25'000 and used to do this (see minimal example). I now get no (or a white?) underbar. \starttext \underbar{\color[white]{25'000}} %no (white?) underbar \underbar{25'000} %underbar works \stoptext Context version 2010.05.08 13:33 Mark IV Thanks, Jörg

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funny bug
by Peter Münster 10 May '10

10 May '10

Hello, \starttext \startLUA print"bla" -- words are transposed! \stopLUA \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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quotechar and command with database module
by Vianney le Clément 10 May '10

10 May '10

Hello, There seems to be a bug in the database module when using the quotechar and command option at the same time. Here is a minimal example. \usemodule[database] \defineseparatedlist [CSV] [separator=comma, quotechar={"}, command=\Whatever] \def\Whatever#1#2{[#1][#2]\par} \starttext \startCSV One,Two Three,Four \stopCSV \startCSV One,Two "Three,three",Four \stopCSV \stoptext It works as expected when commenting the fifth line. Regards, Vianney

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strange error
by Marius 10 May '10

10 May '10

Hello, I am confronted with difficulties to understand why do I get this strage error then compile the attached document? And how to fix it? ! String contains an invalid utf-8 sequence. l.1 \setuppublicationlist[samplesize={ ─A},totalnumber=1] Thank you, Marius

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Switch for sans slanted
by Marco 09 May '10

09 May '10

Hi, I've a question concerning switching fonts in setups. How to get a sans slanted style? Have a look at the following table. Command Style Comment \ss sans OK \bf bold OK \ssbf sansbold OK \sl slanted OK \sssl sansslanted \sssl OK, sansslanted doesn't work I've made a minimal example to demonstrate how I use the commands. \starttext {\setuphead [section] [textstyle=sans] % OK \section {sans}\input knuth\relax} {\setuphead [section] [textstyle=bold] % OK \section {bold}\input knuth\relax} {\setuphead [section] [textstyle=sansbold] % OK \section {sansbold}\input knuth\relax} {\setuphead [section] [textstyle=slanted] % OK \section {slanted}\input knuth\relax} {\setuphead [section] [textstyle=sansslanted] % doesn't work \section {sansslanted}\input knuth\relax} {\setuphead [section] [textstyle=\sssl] % OK \section {Command: sssl}\input knuth\relax} \stoptext Is there a different command to achieve sansslanted? sansbold works, and bold is an alternative as slanted is, so intuitively I would expect sansslanted also to work. Thanks in advance

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current
by Hans Hagen 09 May '10

09 May '10

Hi, As some might have noticed, a new current has been released. One reason in that a texlive code freeze happens, another is that we need such a snapshot in order to do more drastic changes in mkiv as well as be able to use features that we introduce(d) in luatex > 0.60. Taco will post the usual detailed release notes soon. Apart from hotfix currents, the next current will be released around the context conference. Of course there will be betas in the meantime. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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TABLE in TABLE
by Xan 09 May '10

09 May '10

Hi, Is it possible to put a table in another table? Example: this code gives me an error: ! Argument of \parseTD has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \handleTBLcell ...\bTBLCELL \TBLcharalign {#2}{#4} \eTBLCELL \inTBLcell {#1}{... <inserted text> ...bl \begintblrow \makeTBL {1}{1} \nexttblcol \endtblrow \be... \endTBL ...x {\trialtypesettingtrue \the \tbltoks }\settbldis \maximumcol {\... \eTABLE ...}}\eTBL }\removeunwantedspaces \endTBL \stopTBLprocessing \fi \eg... l.172 \eTABLE ? x \placefigure [here,none] [fig:puntuacio-figures] {Puntuació de cada figura} {\bTABLE[frame=on,align={middle,lohi}] \bTR \bTD \bTABLE[frame=on,align={middle,lohi}] \bTR \bTD {\sc Cub} \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \externalfigure[figs/p-cube.jpg][scale=400] \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD 2 punts \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Número de cares: 6 Forma de les cares: quadrat \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD h \eTD \eTR \eTABLE} Thanks a lot, Xan.

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mistake in lang-cjk.mkiv
by Tomáš Pustelník 09 May '10

09 May '10

Hi, I have found a glitch in lang-cjk.mkiv in definition of Japanese language name of days are shifted. It begins at line 136, sunday is actualy monday etc. In source code it looks like that: \setuplabeltext [\s!ja] [\v!sunday=月曜日] \setuplabeltext [\s!ja] [\v!monday=火曜日] \setuplabeltext [\s!ja] [\v!tuesday=水曜日] \setuplabeltext [\s!ja] [\v!wednesday=木曜日] \setuplabeltext [\s!ja] [\v!thursday=金曜日] \setuplabeltext [\s!ja] [\v!friday=土曜日] \setuplabeltext [\s!ja] [\v!saturday=日曜日] but it should be: \setuplabeltext [\s!ja] [\v!monday=月曜日] \setuplabeltext [\s!ja] [\v!tuesday=火曜日] \setuplabeltext [\s!ja] [\v!wednesday=水曜日] \setuplabeltext [\s!ja] [\v!thursday=木曜日] \setuplabeltext [\s!ja] [\v!friday=金曜日] \setuplabeltext [\s!ja] [\v!saturday=土曜日] \setuplabeltext [\s!ja] [\v!sunday=日曜日] Also I would like to ask if file lang-spe.mkii have some equivalent in MkIV and where the language specifics are defined (in which file)? Or is it treated in enco files? Thank you for answers. Tomas Pustelnik

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Figure numbering without sectionnumber
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 09 May '10

09 May '10

Hello. I am looking for solutions of my problem and googling but without success. I want get figurenumbering without sectionnumber. For example: List of figures: 1. figure one 2. figure two ... I tried \setupnumber[figure][sectionnumber=no] and similar things with \setuplist etc. but without efect. I always get: List of figures: 1.1. figure one 1.2. figure two ... Is there any solutions? Thanx Jaroslav Hajtmar

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Re: [NTG-context] PPCHTEX with PSTricks option
by Hans Hagen 08 May '10

08 May '10

On 7-5-2010 9:12, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > ppchtex has been rewritten for conTeXt using luatex > and line drawing has been considerably improved. > However, I do not believe that this version will (ever) > be adapted for use with LaTeX. Perhaps Hans can give > you a better answer. indeed the mkiv reimplementation will not be backported to latex as it involved a combination of tex, lua and mp now and is integrated into the context kernel (we have math in the kernel so why not chemistry) > I tried your example, with decent results (see test.pdf) > with the latest texlive version of pdflatex. > Yet trying the pstricks driver gives an error: > > ! Undefined control sequence. > <recently read> \c@lor@to@ps looks like a pstricks is not loadec completely i cannot test it here as pstricks with ppchtex in mkii does not work that well because i need to support latex and using the context pstricks layer would then complicat ethe code (in mkii we use metapost instead anyway) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Times Roman
by John Culleton 08 May '10

08 May '10

I want to set up Times-Roman at 12pt as my body font. Following (but not understanding) the advice in "Fonts in Context" I set up the following: \definebodyfont[12pt][rm][tf=Serif sa 1] \definefontsynonym[Serif][Times-Roman] \definefontsynonym [Times-Roman] [tir] [encoding=texnansi] \switchtobodyfont[pos,tir] \rm As a result Acrobat Reader shows these fonts in the document: TeXGyreCursor-Regular (Embedded Subset) TeXGyreTermes-Regular (Embedded Subset) 1.Is the document using Times-Roman? 2. Are any of the above statements duplicative, redundant or just plain wrong? 3. Is there a more up to date guide than "Fonts in Context"? -- John Culleton

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Accent anomaly.
by John Culleton 08 May '10

08 May '10

I created a sample sheet of accent marks using Context. I used Bitstream Charter as the font (bchr8r). The following combination didn't work: \t{uu} My examples were taken from page 71 of "Context an Excursion". -- John Culleton

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problem with package.path
by Peter Münster 08 May '10

08 May '10

Hello, I need to include lua-modules from different directories, but package.path does not seem to work: \startbuffer[test] bla = nil \stopbuffer \savebuffer[test][../mytest.lua] \starttext \startluacode package.path = "../?.lua;;" require("mytest") \stopluacode \stoptext Error message: ! LuaTeX error <main ctx instance>:3: module 'mytest' not found: TIA for any help! Cheer, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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[OT] Web based LaTeX editor for Google Docs
by Mojca Miklavec 08 May '10

08 May '10

http://code.google.com/p/latex-lab/ (someone needs to post some OT post every now and then when Luigi is busy)

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mp clippath broken (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 07 May '10

07 May '10

Hi, the latest version (06-05-2010) has problems with mp clippath. Example is attached. Best wishes, Peter ps: Believe it or not, but all leftovers of cuts are recycled/reused here for other graphics. I hate squandering ;)

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sort-lan.lua nitpicks and sorting
by Philipp Gesang 07 May '10

07 May '10

Hi again, 1. In sort-lan.lua, line 101 should read «['r'] = "r"», and line 144 «['r'] = 26, -- r». 2. Although I read the disclaimer about said file being “preliminary and incomplete” -- is there some rationale behind the range of integers for each language mapping? The mapping for English goes from 1 to 51, interleaving 2 integers for each letter (which is odd because it should start from index 3 with “a”, shouldn't it?), while the Czech one goes from 1 to 40 without skipping, Finnish and Austrian from 1 to 58. What about mapping them onto a larger but common scale that would alleviate multilingual sorting so that the alphabetical representation of the phoneme /a/ maps to the same value over different languages?† E.g. ["a"] = 3, -- in a Latin mapping, ["α"] = 3, -- in Greek mapping, ["а"] = 3, -- in a Russian mapping. 3. Is it intended that the digraph “ch” resolves (temporarily) to http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/ff01/index.htm according to line 72? Feel free to state more general opinions on the sorting topic as I am playing with different ways of sorting my bibliography. I will be glad about any advice, Philipp † I know this is impractical for many writing systems and even within the set of Latin or Greek based alphabets it largely depends on a given purpose how much precision you need in sorting. -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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Running standalone metapost file omits spaces between btex and etex
by Hongwen Qiu 07 May '10

07 May '10

I found that the following example \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} draw btex some text with space etex; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext can generate the text between "btex" and "etex" correct no matter I use MKII or MKIV. But, when I running the following example beginfig(0); draw btex some text with space etex; endfig; end with the command line: $ mpost --mem=metafun test.mp or $ texexec --mptex test.mp It dose generate output. But the output omits all the spaces between btex and etex, with the resulting string to be "sometextwithspace". So, the question is how to get the correct results when running standalong metapost file with btex-etex strings. Thanks.

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register confusion
by Michael Saunders 07 May '10

07 May '10

Finding simple \at[] statements inadequate for glossaries (where there might be zero, one, or several page references per entry), I'm experimenting with registers, but I'm not getting the expected results: \defineregister[glind][glinds] \setupregister[glind][style=\it] \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext double\glind[double]{} \page single\glind[single]{} \page double\glind[double]{} \page single should read, '2': (p.\placeglind[single]) double should read, '1, 3': (pp.\placeglind[double]) zero should be blank: (\placeglind[zero]) \stoptext Note the problems: 1. \placeglind[label] doesn't point to the label, it points to any label. 2. Context forces a linebreak before and after the numbers. 3. The numbers aren't italic. Also, it would be nice to set 'p.', 'pp.', or nothing automatically, depending on whether there was one, several or zero instances of the label in the text. Is register not the mechanism to do this? If not, I don't know what is.

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PPCHTEX with PSTricks option
by Helge Kruse 07 May '10

07 May '10

The minimal example shows diagonal lines. Since the line output of pictex is limited, I would choose PSTricks as output driver for better quality. When I enable the pstricks option, these diagonal lines collide with the radical atoms. You can easily reproduce this by removing the % comment symbol. How can we improve the postscript output. Any hints are appreciated. Best regards, Helge Kruse \documentclass{minimal} \usepackage%[pstricks] {m-ch-en} \begin{document} \setupchemical[scale=small,width=fit,frame=off] \setupchemical[top=1200,bottom=1200] \[ \startchemical[right=2500] \chemical[ONE,SB258,Z05][CH,CH_3] \chemical[PB:Z2,Z0,SB1,Z1,PE][ O,C_2H_5] \chemical[PB:Z8,Z0,SB1,Z1,PE][ O,C_2H_5] \stopchemical \] \end{document} PS: I wrote this to ntg-ppchtes(a)ntg.nl as sussgested at http://www.pragma-ade.com/link-1.htm, but that list appears as dead.

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\installlanguage questions
by Tomáš Pustelník 06 May '10

06 May '10

Hello, I have few questions about command \installlanguage. First, in file lang-ini is command \setuplanguage for default language. It has parameters lefthyphen, righthyphen and hyphen. I would like to ask if these parameters can be used in command \installlanguage or not and what is their funcionality becouse I have tried use command: \setuplanguage[cz][lefthyphen=@,righthyphen=@,hyphen=€] and I didn't see any changes. I thought it's used to setup hyphen mark when the word is spilt at the end of line but I still get symbol - Also I would like to know whats the difference in \date and parameter date in \installlanguage? In parameter date in \installlanguage are curly backets, it's just some mask for command \date? Or those two are entirely different? Thank you answers. Tomas Pustelnik

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Article titles not capitalized in bibliography
by Tom 06 May '10

06 May '10

Book titles retain proper capitalization from the .bib file but articles from periodicals do not. Only the first word of an article title is capitalized in the .bbl file. Even proper names in titles lose their capitalization. Is there an option that needs to be set to cause article titles to retain proper capitalization? MKII Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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new issue with page break
by Peter Münster 06 May '10

06 May '10

Hello, IMHO there should never be a page break right *after* a section header, but here it is: \starttext \dorecurse{660}{text } \section{bla} % \par\page[no] % does not help \startTEX bla bla \stopTEX \stoptext My actual work-around: \page before \section{} Is there a better solution? TIA for any help! Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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4th ConTeXt Meeting, registration & call for submissions
by Taco Hoekwater 06 May '10

06 May '10

Early-bird registration (till May 31, 2010) for the 4th ConTeXt Meeting is now open. The 4th ConTeXt Meeting will take place in Brejlov, Czech Republic on September 13-18, 2010. For more information visit: http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2010/ *Call for submissions* As in previous years, anything at all related to ConTeXt and LuaTeX that you would like to share is an acceptable subject for a presentation, tutorial, discussion, Q&A session, demonstration, workshop, recital, sketch, or sermon. The informal theme is: ConTeXt typesetting documentation, teach as we preach It follows that if you have something to say on educating users on how to best use ConTeXt or to developers on how to best document ConTeXt (and who doesn't have an opinion on those topics!) your submission will be all the more appreciated. The program committee is Hans Hagen and Taco Hoekwater, feel free to email them with hints and ideas. Because we want something interesting on the website, abstracts should be sent in before May 31, 2010. Hans, Jano, Pavel & Taco The organizing committee

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Re: [NTG-context] tooltips and glossary
by Michael Saunders 06 May '10

06 May '10

Philipp: Thank you---I appreciate your effort on glossarium.lua very much, but I don't want to be dependent on you every time I want to tweek my glossary. I find it difficult to change the appearance and behavior of anything in Context, but I think my chances are better with it than with trying to work in lua. So, I have pursued the problem via the \definesynonyms approach. What I have so far can do all the basic things I imagined, and only seems to need some cosmetic work now. This is what I have: In the preamble: \definesynonyms[gentry][gentries][\infull][\inshort] %to connect headwords to entries \definesynonyms[gloss][glosses][\tttext][\ttkey] %to make short glosses available for tooltips \def\gldef#1#2#3{\gloss{#1}{#2}\gentry{#1}{#3 {(p.\at[g:#1])}}} \def\hint#1{\tooltip[middle]{#1}{\tttext{#1}}} \def\glref#1{\reference[g:#1]{}} %to place at a substantive reference in the text %then you have a file of definitions like this one: \gldef{vibrato}{a periodic fluctuation in pitch}{A periodic fluctuation of pitch, typically in the range 6--12~Hz.} Then, in the text, when you use an unfamiliar word and the reader could benefit from a quick, pop-up gloss: \hint{vibrato} (I just need a more sophisticated version of this that can deal with variants of the word). And, when you are about to engage in a substantive discussion of a word or phrase that appears in the glossary (for a given headword, there might be zero, one, or several such points in the text): \glref{vibrato} (This causes a page reference after the glossary entry.) I have two questions remaining: 1. I was somehow able to guess that \definesynonyms[gentry][gentries] creates a new command called "\setupgentries[]", and I imagine this command must inherit its possible keys and values from another command, but I don't know what. Where can I look it up? 2. How can I modify the appearance/location/behavior of tooltips? I tried \setuptooltips, but apparently that's not it. I'll tinker with this and test it for a while. Eventually I hope to contribute a glossaries "my way" to the garden. Hans: No problem! I'm sure whatever I put in the Google translator was just as articulate as what came out of it. Really, I think the mistake is mine. All along I have been assuming that Context was like LaTeX: a system for end-users, a language where an author could easily manipulate the appearance of his document. Apparently, it's more like a supporting infrastructure for that. Maybe it needs a layer of macros sitting on top of it to make it accessible and friendly to users/writers. I'm hoping Idris's book will shed light on this. Thanks, everyone.

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strange page break
by Peter Münster 06 May '10

06 May '10

Hello, Here is a strange page break (version 2010.04.29 22:30): \def\mySection{\section{bla}\dorecurse{30}{text }} \starttext \dorecurse8{ \mySection\par bla} \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] tooltips and glossary
by Michael Saunders 06 May '10

06 May '10

About glossaries: Thank you, everyone. I'm not much of a TeXpert and certainly not a lua expert, but I'm trying to understand your different solutions and integrate them into a working system. There seem to be three approaches: I. Willi Egger---synonym-based II. Marius---modified index III. Philipp Gesang---lua-based I. So far, Willi's synonym-based solution looks simple and promising. I imagine something like this: \definesynonyms[gloss][glosses][\infull][\inshort]%to make short glosses available for tooltips \definesynonyms[gentry][gentries][\infull][\inshort]%to connect headwords to entries \def\gdef#1#2#3{\gloss{#1}{#2}\gentry{#1}{#3}} \def\hint#1{\tooltip[middle]{#1}{\infull{#1}}} %then you have a file of definitions like this one: \gdef{vibrato}{a periodic fluctuation in pitch}{A periodic fluctuation of pitch, typically in the range 6--12~Hz.} %within the text, where you need a tooltip on a word, you can say: ... \hint{vibrato} ... %at then end of the text, something like: Glossary: \placelistofgentries I see three problems with this: 1. I don't know how to tell \hint to refer to the "vibrato" in glosses and not in gentries. 2. There is no mechanism to refer to the page with a substantive discussion of "vibrato". 3. There is no way to handle cases where the string in the text is some variation of "vibrato" (e.g., Vibrato, vibrati, vibrato's) II. Marius's modified index solution is the only one to successfully link the entry back to a point in the text, but the resulting "glossary" really just looks like an index. III. Philipp Gesang's lua-based solution connects headwords to entries just as \definesynonyms[gentry][gentries][\infull][\inshort] does, and it produces something that looks like a glossary, but the entries have no link back to the text. Also, I don't see the point of the \usegloss{word} command unless it references the substantive discussion(s) of the word. I think that is what his "\usegloss[exp]{word}" is for, but then there should be a reference to it in the entry. Something like: {\bd headword}---entry text, p.\at[g:headword] There probably is some advantage in using the lua script for this, but I don't know what it is. About tooltips: \tooltip surprised me, and I was impressed that it appears to typeset the tooltip text with Context, but there are some problems with it: 1. It's stretched horizontally. 2. The active area begins at the baseline and stretches about 1 ex _under_ the word. 3. It appears without a border and under the cursor. I have seen tooltips in pdf files before, and they looked better than this. I suspect the reason is that, as you say, \tooltip uses Javascript, and the ones I saw use a different mechanism. I dug around and found this reference which describes how it's done with form fields and invisible buttons: http://gilbertconsulting.com/pdf/Build_tool_tips_in_InDesign.pdf (Notice how tidy the tooltips in it look.) That document describes setting them up manually in a point-and-click interface, but surely Context could automate this by putting an invisible frame around the word and creating a form field/button over it? And, correct me if I'm wrong, but that mechanism is not Javascript-based at all, is it? (by the way: I've not broken the thread again, have I?)

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TeX comments in Lua strings - message: Undefined control sequence
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 06 May '10

06 May '10

Hello, Is there any possibility use TeX comments (text behind character %) in Lua strings? When I use comment char % inside luastring, then rest of string (i.e. next TeX definitions) are for TeX invisible. For example: When I make string : TeXDefsByLua=[[ \def\printline{ \directlua{printline()} \par\hrule\par } \def\printall{ \directlua{printall()} \par\hrule\par } ]] tex.sprint(TeXDefsByLua) then is all right, BUT when I make string : TeXDefsByLua=[[ \def\printline{ % my comment inside string \directlua{printline()} \par\hrule\par } \def\printall{ \directlua{printall()} \par\hrule\par } ]] tex.sprint(TeXDefsByLua) then I get message: "Undefined control sequence" Is there possibility use TeX comments inside Lua strings? Thanx Jaroslav

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Re: [NTG-context] tooltips and glossary
by Michael Saunders 06 May '10

06 May '10

Marius: > Try this one: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/context-top-ten/cmds.pdf > -> page 14 Thanks, but that looks like it's just some extracts from cont-eni translated from Engijsh into Engrish along with a distracting background that makes it hard to read. The stuff about the not very useful abbreviation command is there again, but I'm drawn to the section about building a dictionary that says it's not about building a dictionary. It says: "All you have to do is inserting a \index at whatever the phrase you want to index is, and placeing a \placeindex where you want the glossary to be." and then goes on to describe and index, not a glossary, which seems to require commands that need a lot of redundant arguments. It also contains this gem: "Like many other ConTeXt command, users can define their own series of indexing, which pluses the default \index series are called register." That's the most remarkable thing I've read today. Maybe I need to be more clear. A glossary is like a little dictionary in the back of a book that defines the specialized words and phrases that the book uses that might not be known to the general reader. Here is a definition of "glossary": A collection of glosses; a list with explanations of abstruse, antiquated, dialectal, or technical terms; a partial dictionary. ("Glosses" were little explanatory notes written in the margins of medieval texts---the kind of thing I would do if Context's marginal notes weren't incompatible with its columns.) Ideally, I'd like a system where I could keep the entries in a bib database or in a special .tex file. The records would include the headword and the gloss, and maybe a cross reference to the point in the text that dealt with the headword definitively---the point where the term was explained. (A document that defines and explains the new words and phrases it coins---imagine such a thing!) It would be nice if there were a command that would automatically link this point in the text with the glossary entry. LaTeX has several packages (glosstex, gloss, glossary, glossaries) that do things like this. To do this in Context, I will probably have to do it all manually, defining a command to set an entry and then doing all the alphabetization and cross-referencing by hand. What I would really, really, like is to add short definitions to each glossary record that could pop up as tooltips when the reader hovers over an unfamiliar word. Since there is no mechanism for glossaries in Context, there is no mechanism to build this into, but I'm still interested in doing it. The idea is, I could write something like: \gloss{strange word}{short definition} The text would read "strange word". When you hover over it with the cursor, a tooltip would appear saying "short definition". It would be great if this were linked to a glossary mechanism so I wouldn't have to keep writing the short definition---I could say something like: \gloss{strange word} and its short definition would be looked up automatically for the tooltip. The automatic reference to the word might look like this, in the text: \gref{strange word} which would cause the page number at that point to be printed at the end of the glossary entry for "strange word".

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Re: [NTG-context] Captials in section head
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 06 May '10

06 May '10

> Am 04.06.2009 um 14:56 schrieb richard.stephens(a)converteam.com: > > > > > I need all section heads to be in full-size capitals, so I tried: > > > > \setuphead[section][textcommand=\uppercase] > > > > \starttext > > \section{New section} > > \input knuth > > \stoptext > > > > But I still get lowercase. > > Using 'textcommand=\cap' gives me small capitals, but I want full-size > > capitals. > > Is there a way to get what I want? > > In MkIV you can say \setuphead[section][style=WORD] or > \setuphead[section][style=\WORD] > > Wolfgang That's fantastic, thanks Wolfgang. Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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Columnset with defined height
by Honza Pohanka 05 May '10

05 May '10

Hello, is it possible to somehow define certain height of a columnset? I have tried to put it into the frame, but it does not work. I'm trying to create a conference poster and I think it could be useful for it. greetings Jan -- Tato zpráva byla vytvořena převratným poštovním klientem Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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existence of file
by Hans van der Meer 05 May '10

05 May '10

Is there a ConTeXt macro that can tell me if a certain file exists? If not, may I ask what Lua-call could be made in mkiv? I looked into the wiki but was not able to find the answer, allthough it probably is buried somewhere in it. Thanks beforhand. Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] tooltips and glossary
by Michael Saunders 05 May '10

05 May '10

>> Also, is there no Context method to produce a glossary? It might be >> enough to produce a secondary .bib file with special entries and to >> print this out as a secondary "References" section, but I don't know >> how to do this or how to control the appearance of the printed >> "references". Wolfgang Schuster: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Reference/en/definesynonyms If you read that page, you'll notice it doesn't say what the second and third arguments of \definesynonyms do, what the command \definesynonyms itself does, nor does it hint at what \infull is doing. There is certainly nothing there about using an external database. I don't see any way to use \definesynonyms for a glossary or any practical purpose for \definesynonyms at all, and the abbreviations example is obviously more trouble than it's worth. More to the point, there is nothing about tooltips. Is there a way for Context to produce tooltips in text (with invisible buttons, perhaps)?

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Re: [NTG-context] tooltips and glossary
by Michael Saunders 04 May '10

04 May '10

> (Preliminary remark to M.S.: please, please, configure your MUA to > correctly reply to the current thread!) (What's wrong with my subject line? I'm merely hitting "reply" in gmail.) > No, it's plain English. Unfamiliar phrases are just one consequence of a > language becoming the world standard. Do you want to flame Italians or > French for not adhering to the norms of classical Latin? You don't. > There's no point at all in even mentioning somebody's stylistic > idiosyncrasies on the internets. Just face it: the world won't adopt > English as a global means of communication without interfering with its > norms. If you don't understand something why don't you contact the > author, his email adress is right there on the first page. I don't mind non-native speakers using bad grammar, strange usages, or odd constructions at all. Things like that are usually no problem for native speakers to understand, although the two sentences I quoted were not "plain English" at all---one was completely indecipherable. The biggest problem with the docs is far more basic---it's the most basic mistake a beginning writer can make. I'm sure documents like the ones I was shown on this thread make perfect sense to their authors---who already know what they mean---but they fail to communicate their message to anyone who doesn't already know it. The reader isn't being given enough information to decode the message and what he is given is in no particular order: it's whatever bits and pieces of the story the author thinks of in the order he happens to think of them. You can't tell the author this. It makes sense to him and he can't understand the criticism. He has to put himself in the place of the reader who doesn't already know the message. If he can't do that, he can't communicate. I'm sure that these documents would be just as bad in the native languages of the authors as they are in English. The fault is far deeper than bad translation. Increasingly, I'm wondering whether the problem with Context is just bad docs or bad language design (it's hard to control, it looks bad most of the time). I still don't know. I'm hoping that Idris's book will shed light on this. > I append a snippet that should allow basic glossaries. It doesn't > provide much functionality (capitalization might have to be implemented > …) but you may fit it to your needs. ... > > (As for the code, it's certainly not context style, I'm aware of that > but don't have the time to care.) > > Awaiting your feedback, Thank you. I'm not quite sure what to do with these files (the .lua file in particular). Unfortunately, I won't be able to get to them until tomorrow. > As for the tooltips, unfortunately > I don't know how to create them. The functionality would be nice, > though, as long as no javascript is involved. It's not done with javascript. As I understand it, the usual way is to place an invisible pdf "forms"-style button over the word you want to gloss and then set its "short description" feature. I think context knows how to make such buttons and to set bounding boxes around words, so I think it should be possible, no?

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Re: [NTG-context] 3D annotations
by gummybears 04 May '10

04 May '10

On Sun, 2 May 2010, gummybears wrote: I read your email (17 april 2010) on the mailing list and applied the two patches to my Context minimal distro (the very latest version). When I run your test.tex through context the preview image test.png is not shown. >did you recreate formats after patch >("context -make" if memory serves me right)? >I will test with current minimals today. Probably not (my mistake), but now I did make the formats and with the current minimals I got the following error (when running your test.tex file) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : language en is active systems : begin file test.tex at line 3 floatblocks : 1 placed ! LuaTeX error ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lpdf-mis.lua:163: attempt to call field 'timestamp' (a nil value) stack traceback: ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lpdf-mis.lua:163: in function 'setupidentity' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. \synchronizebackendidentity ...akeyword \!!es , }} \actualshipout ...lio \or \the \everyfirstshipout \global \everyfirstshipout... \myshipout ...\@@ppmethod }\gobbleoneargument {#1} \setnextrealpageno \afters... \dofinaloutput ...hbox {\vbox {\dopagebody #1#2}}} \the \everyaftershipout \a... \finaloutput ...EAEAEA \dofinaloutput \fi \fi #1#2 \resetselectiepagina \incr... \sidefloatoutput ...e \else \finalsidefloatoutput \global \sidefloatvsize \n... ... l.23 \stopTEXpage

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get tex-value in lua
by Peter Münster 04 May '10

04 May '10

Hello, How can I get the value of a variable or a mode in the lua part? Example: context --arguments=MyVar=true test And in test.tex: \starttext \startluacode local my_var = loadstring("return " .. get_value_of("MyVar")) if my_var then tex.print("TRUE") else tex.print("FALSE") end \stopluacode \stoptext TIA for any help! Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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tooltips and glossary
by Michael Saunders 03 May '10

03 May '10

Does Context have a mechanism for placing tooltips on text? I think the usual PDF way is to put an invisible button over the test and set its "short description". Does anyone know how to do this? Also, is there no Context method to produce a glossary? It might be enough to produce a secondary .bib file with special entries and to print this out as a secondary "References" section, but I don't know how to do this or how to control the appearance of the printed "references".

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Footnote numbers and leftmargin setup [mkIV]
by Thomas Floeren 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hello, in mkII I use to set my left margins to 0pt. When I do this now in mkIV, I get misplaced footnote numbers (at the bottom). Example: \setuplayout [leftmargin=\zeropoint] \starttext just text\footnote{foot text} \stoptext To get correctly placed numbers I have to either set the leftmargin to >= 5pt, or leave out the leftmargin key in setuplayout. Is this a bug or just the mkIV way? Thomas ConTeXt ver: 2010.04.29 22:30 MKIV fmt: 2010.4.30 int: english/english

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Re: [NTG-context] 3D annotations
by gummybears 02 May '10

02 May '10

Hi Michail, I read your email (17 april 2010) on the mailing list and applied the two patches to my Context minimal distro (the very latest version). When I run your test.tex through context the preview image test.png is not shown. Which version of ConText should I use to make it work Thanks in advance

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tt, bold
by R. Bastian 02 May '10

02 May '10

Hello, for printing python scripts, i wish that the code to be \tt and the reserved word \bold. They are but so lightly that the difference is quasi not visible. The normal text is [sansserif, 10 pt]. Is there a solution? Thanks, rb -- René Bastian www.pythoneon.org www.musiques-rb.org http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/

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Small bug in Italian hyphenation
by Giovanni Salmeri 02 May '10

02 May '10

I'm using ConTeXt Mk IV and I've found a small problem with the Italian hyphenation. Sequences like "dell'impossibile" are hyphenated "dell'im-pos-si-bi-le" instead of the correct "del-l'im-pos-si-bi-le" (i.e. the first hyphen is omitted, which is sometimes annoying). In the list it.comp.software.tex I was told to add \lccode`\'=`\' in my text: in fact, it works perfectly, but I suppose there is something to be corrected in the ConTeXt files. Could someone tell me which file and how? Thank you very much in advance. -- Giovanni Salmeri http://mondodomani.org/pers/salmeri/

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redefine word "Figure" for a specific language
by Fabio Tiriticco 02 May '10

02 May '10

Hi all, this is my first post here, and only because I couldn't find an answer in the database. I am using ConTeXt for an italian document (I used LaTeX years ago for my thesis and I like ConTeXt much better!) I would like to redefine the word used in figure captions. The default english is "Figure". If I switch to \mainlanguage[it] the word becomes "Fig." How can I arbitrarily decide what to show there? thanks for the attention, Fabio

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Font surprise from the Polish gurus
by Mojca Miklavec 02 May '10

02 May '10

There's a slightly bigger surprise font update in the minimals. Enjoy! (ConTeXt support still to come ... hopefully today ...) Mojca

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right aligned footnote
by Honza Pohanka 01 May '10

01 May '10

Hello, I can't find out, how to place footnote on the right side of the page. \setupfootnotes[location=page] \setupnotedefinition[footnote][location=right] This places the number on the right, but the text remains on the left. greetings Jan -- Tato zpráva byla vytvořena převratným poštovním klientem Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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table of contents
by Marius 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Hello, There must be two tables of contents in my document, one in a native language and the other in english. In LaTeX I made new commands \enchapter, \ensection, etc., which I use just after the \chapter or \section command. How do I make such commands in ConTeXt, so that these commands just insert a line into the english table of contents, but do not insert chapter or section in the current page? Thanks, Marius

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Referencing a Figure
by Troy Henderson 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

I am trying to reference a figure, and the results are not as expected. Here is my snippet. \placefigure[fig:myfigure]{A beautiful circle}{ \startMPcode draw fullcircle scaled 72; \stopMPcode } Isn't Figure \in[fig:myfigure] beautiful? When this code renders, the text says "Isn't Figure ?? beautiful?" How can I get the correct figure number? Thanks, Troy

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Re: [NTG-context] How to use musical symbols from a font
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

A-ha! The solution that file name should be wingding.ttf versus wingdings.ttf. OSFONTDIR is ok, my installer sets it properly :) Thanks for help. works perfectly. I only cannot understand what the following do: \def\Check% {{\tfa\symbol[box]}} > Apparently the font is not found. So make sure that TeX can find the font. Probably you need to check whether the OSFONTDIR is set correctly. Otherwise copy the to a place e.g. texmf-local en run luatools --generate. > > I hop this helps. -- Best Regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Re: [NTG-context] How to use musical symbols from a font
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hi, Thanks, Willi, for the idea, but I cannot get it to work. My version of the script \starttext \definefontsynonym[Wingdings][Wingdings.ttf] \definesymbol[box][\getglyph{Wingdings}{\char113}] %\def\Check% % {{\tfa\symbol[box]}} \symbol[box] \stoptext gives the following error (I have Wingdings.ttf in my Windows/Fonts folder): !define font : forced type ttf of Wingdings not found !define font : font with name Wingdings is not found !define font : unknown font Wingdings, loading aborted ! Font \thedefinedfont=Wingdings.ttf at 12pt not loadable: metric data not found or bad. <to be read again> \relax \symbolicsizedfont ...cale \scaledfontsize \relax \thedefinedfont \getglyph #1#2->{\symbolicfont {#1} \doifnumberelse {#2}\char \donothing #2} \dodosymbol ...bol \csname \??ss :#1:#2\endcsname \relax }\relax \donormalsymbol ...bol \redosymbol \currentsymbol \fi \fi <to be read again> \stoptext l.8 \stoptext ? > > The approach to using symbols could be done along the following line: > > > \definefontsynonym[Dingbats][uzdr] > \definesymbol[box][\getglyph{Dingbats}{\char113}] > \def\Check% > {{\tfa\symbol[box]}} -- Best Regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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requesting multipass
by Philipp Gesang 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hi all, how do I trigger another pass? Using md5 and io I want to save data to a helper file and reuse it in a second pass (like e.g. mtx-context.lua) or update the file if appropriate. But I couldn't quite figure out how to request another pass from the lua end. Thanks for any help, Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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bibliography overprinting and out of order
by Michael Saunders 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

For example, with this .bbl file: \setuppublicationlist[samplesize={Gob06},totalnumber=3] \startpublication[k=siBrochure,t=techreport, a={{Gobel}},y=2006, n=1,s=Gob06] \author[]{E.}[E.]{}{Gobel} \pubyear{2006} \title{The international system of units} \pubname{Organisation Intergouvernementale de la Convention} \stoppublication \startpublication[k=siNist,t=techreport, a={{Taylor},{Thompson}},y=2008, n=2,s=TT08] \author[]{Barry~N.}[B.~N.]{}{Taylor} \author[]{Ambler}[A.]{}{Thompson} \pubyear{2008} \title{The international system of units ({\addff{sc}si})} \bibtype{{\addff{sc}nist} Special Publication} \volume{330} \city{Washington, {\addff{sc}dc}} \pubname{The National Institute of Standards and Technology ({\addff{sc}nist}), United States Department of Commerce} \note{http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP330/sp330.pdf} \stoppublication \startpublication[k=siGuide,t=techreport, a={{Thompson},{Taylor}},y=2008, n=3,s=TT08] \author[]{Ambler}[A.]{}{Thompson} \author[]{Barry~N.}[B.~N.]{}{Taylor} \pubyear{2008} \title{Guide for the use of the international system of units ({\addff{sc}si})} \bibtype{{\addff{sc}nist} Special Publication} \volume{811} \city{Washington, {\addff{sc}dc}} \pubname{The National Institute of Standards and Technology ({\addff{sc}nist}), United States Department of Commerce} \note{http://www.nist.gov/physlab/pubs/sp811/index.cfm} \stoppublication and these commands: \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database=Mydatabase] \setuppublications[numbering=yes,alternative=ams,setupinteraction=start] \startext \placepublications[criterium=all] \stoptext ...I get 3 and 2 printing out on top of each other (text overprinting text), and out of order. I'd like the references to be alphabetical (so you can find them by looking in the bibliography), numbered in order, and these numbers used to print the citations. I'd also like to prevent text from printing on top of text (that's so you can read it).

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Some short questions
by Antoine Cailliau 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hi, I'm looking for two specific "tricks": First, declaring one (and only one) page as empty. I mean with no footer/header texts. This is for my cover page, and some page left intentionnaly blank. Second, I want to change the layout (margin, textwidth, etc) of a page. I know there is a "clean" way to declare a new layout for a specific page but I can't find my source again. Thanks in advance for your answers, Antoine

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Why page is breaking after combined itemize list?
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 29 Apr '10

29 Apr '10

Hi, all. I want make enumeration list as per: 1. a) b) 2. a) b) etc. When I use: \startitemize[n,columns] \item \startitemize[a][stopper=)] \item Pravděpodobnost \item Logaritmická funkce a~její vlastnosti \stopitemize \item \startitemize[a][stopper=)] \item Rovina a~přímka v~analytické geometrii \item Exponenciální rovnice a~nerovnice \stopitemize etc..... \item \startitemize[a][stopper=)] \item Komplexní čísla v~algebraickém tvaru a~operace s~nimi \item Řezy těles \stopitemize \stopitemize %%---------------------------------------- And here is a regular text after the list .... : then page page is breaking afer \stopitemize command (and regular text is on next page) although bottom on page with list is enough place. My pagesetup is : \enableregime[utf-8] \mainlanguage[cz] \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \setuplayout[width=middle, topspace=1cm, header=0mm, footer=0mm] Where is a problem? Thankx Jaroslav

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How to use musical symbols from a font
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

Hi, I want to use musical symbols (e.g. rest) in my documents. I have MusicalSymbols.ttf font, and know that the rest is, say "r" symbol. How to make a macro that will place this symbol and possibly crop it? -- Best Regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Float placement in margin
by Antoine Cailliau 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

Dear all, I would like to put a figure my edge margin, at the bottom of the page. (so, the bottom left corner on my left pages). I tried \inmargin but the figure is not placed in margin but at the top of the page. I tried \placefigure[margin] but it is placed on the top of the margin. This is nearly what I want :) Any clue for me ? Thanks in advance, Antoine

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Help on \dostartbuffer needed
by Antoine Cailliau 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

Hi, I'm trying to deal with \dostartbuffer. I found an old message on the ML about \dostartbuffer http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg08222.html and its is pretty what I want except that I do not know how can I get access to the buffer :) For instance, \def\startLST[#1]% {\def\stopLST{End of #1}% \dostartbuffer[LST][startLST][stopLST]} \starttext \startLST[whatever] bla bla \stopLST alb alb \stoptext will print End of whateveralb alb. I just want to get the content blabla in \stopLST. I guess, it should not be hard :) Antoine

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Questions about \setuphead and \framed
by Michael Ewe 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Hi ConTeXt Gurus, enclosed please find a little snippet of code: %---snip--snip--snip--- \usetypescript[pagella] \setupbodyfont[pagella,rm,11pt] \definefont[FontA][Sans at 36pt] \definehead[ChapterA][chapter] \setuphead[ChapterA][command=\Cmd,style=\FontA] \definehead[ChapterB][chapter] \setuphead[ChapterB][command=\Cmd,textstyle=\FontA,numberstyle=\FontA] \def\Cmd#1#2{% \hbox{% {\framed[frame=on,offset=none,strut=1cm]{#1}} {\framed[frame=on,offset=none,strut=1cm]{#2}} } } \starttext \ChapterA{Test} \Cmd{\FontA 1}{\FontA Test} \hbox{% {\framed[frame=on,offset=none,strut=1cm]{\FontA 1}} {\framed[frame=on,offset=none,strut=1cm]{\FontA Test}} } \ChapterB{Test} \Cmd{\FontA 1}{\FontA Test} \hbox{% {\framed[frame=on,offset=none,strut=1cm]{\FontA 1}} {\framed[frame=on,offset=none,strut=1cm]{\FontA Test}} } \stoptext %---snip--snip--snip--- The code defines 2 chapter headings (ChapterA, ChapterB) and my assumption is, that the effect of setting "style=..." and "fontstyle=..., numberstyle=..." should be the same. As an additional test I included the usage of \Cmd and a manual copy of \Cmd in the normal text. If you run this through ConTeXt MkIV you will see: 1 The frames in the chapter both headings are much bigger than in the normal text. 2 The gap between the chapter number and the chapter name is different for chapter 1 (on page 1) and chapter 2 (on page 2). The word "test" is not aligned 3 The value of "strut" has no effect at all. I am trying to mimic a chapter style in a book of mine, but with the result above I am not sure about the tools to use. Best Regards from Germany, Michael Ewe

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Re: [NTG-context] the grid (MkIV)
by Hans Hagen 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

On 27-4-2010 7:14, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > I was reading spac-ver.mkiv on gridsnapping values ... but didn't find the "local" switch. > > What's it about? using local interlinespace vs bodyfont related ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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the grid (MkIV)
by Steffen Wolfrum 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Hi, how can I exclude a section head from grid? Just compare setuplayout with grid=yes/no. Is there a solution? \showgrid \starttext \setuplayout[grid=yes]% [grid=no] \setuphead[chapter][grid=none] \chapter{one} \page \chapter{one\\line} \page \chapter{one\\line\\line} \stoptext Thanks, Steffen

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ConTeXt name/branding
by Scott Steele 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Sidenote: If anyone has ever considered changing the name of the ConTeXt project, I'd like to support that. Name consistency is important, but there are two unnecessary problems that the current name creates. The first is that the unusual capitalization and pronunciation are a barrier to new users. I've used macro packages in the TeX family for about four years now (though it seems much longer! I can't believe for how long I was putting out such ugly papers!), but I'm now consciously trying to remember to pronounce them as tecks, latecks, zeetecks, conteckst, etc, and to type them as Tex, Latex, Xetex, and Context (outside of this message/forum). The odd capitalization doen't win fans among people who appreciate typographic tradition, and the pronunciation requires that, instead of explaining first how powerful and useful these systems are, one explain the Greek chi and Donald Knuth. It doesn't give a good impression when one's first exposure to TeX involves being told one is wrong in how one pronounces a word that is less than 40 years old (The same goes for many open source projects). Further, if the name is brought up in conversation and piques the interest of a potential user, they will have a difficult time later searching for it when they type in contekt or conteckt. The second problem with the ConTeXt name is its shared spelling with context. When I google context and font, I get so many pages imploring me to consider the context of my document when choosing between Arial, Times New Roman, and Comic Sans. Many of the things I'll be searching for while using ConTeXt yield thousands of irrelevant pages because of how context can pop up in so many topics that share major keywords with the typesetting process. Of course, I myself am in no position to advocate a name change, and if the two issues I listed are the price for having a cutting-edge typesetting system, then I'm still a pretty happy camper. But if any of the people who have actually worked really hard to put this together have ever thought about bringing up a branding change, here's my two pence. Scott ----- This is a work of ﬁction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the writer's imagination or are used ﬁctitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coïncidental.

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Re: [NTG-context] Unicode bibliography
by Michael Saunders 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Mojca Miklavec: > What still makes me wonder is tha fact that there are problems with > Unicode. I don't remember any, though I admit that I'm not sure if I > ever cited any non-English item. Well, using Taco's trick of surrounding every sting with braces, the record won't print out. If I surround only the non-ascii characters in braces, the record will print out, out of order and on top of other records.

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Multiple pleas for help (long)
by Scott Steele 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Hullo, all. I've been trying for 3 months now to get my last 2 years' worth of journal entries satisfactorily typeset for printing on lulu.com. This is my first major project using Context (with the Xetex engine—the current procedures required by Pdftex to set up and manage fonts are too intimidating for me (I {\em did} try it.)) as I'm no longer in school and had typeset the preceding year's worth of entries in Latex. I started to use (xe)Latex again this time but gave up in frustration with all of the predefined formatting, which I've moved away from as I've read more of Robert Bringhurst. Anyway, I have a number of problems. I apologize for putting them all into one message and for failing to find solutions elsewhere on the site. I've looked around a great deal, but am hampered in doing so by my limiting of my internet time with an {\sc ems} PowerCop (otherwise, I'd be on Wikipedia until they decided to lock me away). (I do my writing, editing, and typesetting on a little internet-crippled netbook with CrunchBang and Vim.) I'll include my current preämble information at the end of this message in case it is useful in addressing any of my issues. If they're addressed elsewhere, I'd be thrilled with links. If they're not, I'd greatly appreciate any help. I've found solutions to a number of previous problems, but here are all that I believe are in the way of my finishing this project: 1 How do I make bulleted lists not have lines between items in the list? 2 Is it possible to push the bullets for bulleted lists into the margin (and then have the text of each item start at the same level of indentation as normal text)? Also, given my target printing medium, this would require alteration of the space between the bullet mark and its text—how do I alter this and the glyph used as the bullet mark? 3 Is it possible to alter the way footnotes are displayed? I might want to have new footnotes follow previous ones with a 3-em space rather than starting a new line in the footer. And if I go that route, I'd need a way to pull the footer number in from the margin. 4 How can I adjust the formatting settings for the frontmatter (title page, table of contents) and backmatter (colophon, appendices, index). In general, I need to be able to set whether page numbers are used and what kind and positioning of the text on the page. In particular, how do I change the formatting for items in the table of contents (and what glyph/spacing go between the item's title and corresponding page number as well as how all of those elements are positioned)? 5 How can I have either unnumbered sections, or subjects that appear in the table of contents? 6 Does Xetex or Context have a facility for positioning accents over letters when those particular combinations are not in the font? (Or should I just go ahead and do this manually in Fontforge?) 7 Is there a built-in equivalent of the \fancybreak function from Latex? I think I know now how to put something like it together manually but don't want go the amateur route if there's something more polished available. 8 Since this is just a journal, I have used simple emoticons (don't laugh!). I tweaked a vector smiley from Wikimedia to get a frowny and slashy, and they work well except for when they end up on the first (printed) text line of a page. I have one page that has a subject title on the grid but that is followed by a (logical) line with a smiley that ends up on its first printed line. This printed line and all of the rest of the text on the page (including another subject title) sit several points (approx) lower than where they should (so that the grid lines bisect the bowls of all the lower-case a's). There is another page that does not start with a subject title but directly with a printed line containing an emoticon, and it has exactly the same problem as the first page, with the text sitting just low enough that the grid lines bisect the bowls of the lower-case a's. Pages with emoticons on them do not exhibit this problem when the emoticon is not on the first printed line, and all lines remain correctly positioned on the grid. You can see below how I'm putting in the emoticons. Many apologies for those answers that I failed to find, and thanks reading the whole message, Scott See my current preämble below: \version[final] \definepapersize[pocket][width=4.25in, height=6.875in] \setuppapersize[pocket][pocket] \setuplayout[location=middle, width=0.815\paperwidth, rightmargindistance=0in, leftmargindistance=0in, height=middle, margin=0.08\paperwidth, backspace=0.115\paperwidth, marking=off, grid=yes, topspace=0.018889\paperheight, header=0.044444\paperheight, footer=0.044444\paperheight, bottomspace=0.038889\paperheight] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, location={footer}] \setupinterlinespace[top=0.0] % `top=0.0' gets rid of unoccupied vertical white space at the top of the first line \setupwhitespace[big] % Turns on blank line between ¶’s \definetypeface[jenson][rm][Xserif][Adobe Jenson Pro] \setupbodyfont[jenson, 12pt] % Emoticons %—————————— \useexternalfigure[frowny][Frowny][factor=8,type=pdf] \def\Frowny{\hbox{\externalfigure[frowny]}} \useexternalfigure[smiley][Smiley][factor=8,type=pdf] \def\Smiley{\hbox{\externalfigure[smiley]}} \useexternalfigure[slashy][Slashy][factor=8,type=pdf] \def\Slashy{\hbox{\externalfigure[slashy]}} \setuptolerance[verytolerant] % Allows TeX to break lines even when doing so would be 'ugly' \showgrid \startfrontmatter \completecontent \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \subject{2/25/08} ... ----- This is a work of ﬁction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the writer's imagination or are used ﬁctitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coïncidental.

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Re: [NTG-context] Unicode bibliography
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

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Re: [NTG-context] Unicode bibliography
by Michael Saunders 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Mojca Miklavec: > Long ago (when I was still using JabRef) I was thinking about creating > support for export into ConTeXt-specific format. What do you use now? Is there something better?

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Re: [NTG-context] ! Undefined control sequence
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

> > What is the following command for: > > > > > \setvariables[tst][set={\setupTst[1][n,\getvariable{tst}{broad}*broa > d] > > }] > > > > This is enough, or are there any problems? > > > > \setupTst[1][n,\getvariable{tst}{broad}*broad] > > > To explain it with simpler macros > > \setvariables[tst][set={...}] is similar to > > \def\tstset{\setupTst[1][n,\tstbroad*broad]} > > and > > \setvariables[tst][broad=5] is similar to > > \def\tstbroad{5} > > but the special thing is now that \setvariables calls \tstset (or to > be concrete the value of the 'set' key in \setvariables after the) value was > assigned to broad. > > In a complete and simple example this is what happens: > > \defineitemgroup[Tst] > > \def\tstset{\setupTst[1][\tstbroad*broad]} > > \starttext > > \startTst > \item text > \stopTst > > \def\tstbroad{5}\tstset > > \startTst > \item text > \stopTst > > \stoptext > > Wolfgang > Hi Wolfgang, my question was: Why is this \setvariables[tst][set=... necessary at all. The following example worked without that. \defineitemgroup[Tst] \setupTst[1][n,\getvariable{tst}{broad}*broad] \starttext \startTst \item text \stopTst \setvariables[tst][broad=5] \startTst \item text \stopTst \setvariables[tst][broad=9] \startTst \item text \stopTst % \showvariable{tst}{broad} \stoptext Wolfgang

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definition in mkiv
by Tomáš Pustelník 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Hi, During my work on bachelor thesis I was running throught source codes and I would like to ask about equivalent of file syst-gen.mkii in MkIV. And if there isn't one. Where I can found definitions of macros define in this file (like \dosingleargument and so on). Also I have another question. In file page-lay.mkii there is definition: \def\addpagecutmarks % #1 {\executeifdefined{\??ly:n:\c!marking:\@@lymarking}\gobbleoneargument} I don't understand this part: {\??ly:n:\c!marking:\@@lymarking}, especially I don't know what ":n:" does or means. Can someone briefly explain it to me? Thanks for your help. Tomas Pustelnik

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Unicode bibliography
by Michael Saunders 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

I'm using JabRef to generate a .bib file in utf8. I'd like to use this with Context to typeset a bibliography. I'm running into a lot of problems with Bibtex's Unicode incompatibility. What is currently the best way to do this? Googling, I came across this tantalizing suggestion from Idris (in 2008): "Can you port your database to bbl format -- \start-stoppublication -- and just use the bib module without bibtex?" That sounds good, but how can I do it?

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Strings [[...]] inside \startluacode \stopluacode
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Hello. I am experimenting with courious things in LuaTeX (combining TeX and Lua codes) and I have a problem with lua strings containing TeX definitions. When string (containing definition of TeX macro with \directlua call-in) is creating in the separate lua file (reading by command dofile) then script does work OK, but when string is inside \startluacode \stopluacode environment, then does work only when i use text string inside ' ' for example: luastring='\\def\\texmacro\#1\{\\directlua\{luafunction(\#1)\}\}' Script does not work when i use text inside [[ ... ]]! (message undefined control sequence) for example: luastring=[[ \def\texmacro#1{ \directlua{luafunction(#1)} } ]] Where is a problem? Is there any solutions with [[ ... ]] Thanx Jaroslav ============================================ Here are all functioning scripts: 1) all in one file: \startluacode function luafunction(num) if num==nil then num = 1 end for i=1,num do tex.sprint(i..') Hello\\par ') end end luastring='\\def\\texmacro\#1\{\\directlua\{luafunction(\#1)\}\}' tex.sprint(luastring) \stopluacode \def\texmacrotwo#1{ \directlua{luafunction(#1)} \par } \starttext \texmacro{7} \texmacrotwo{10} \stoptext ===================================================== 2) Script in two separates files: %this is file ulet.tex : \directlua{dofile("ulet.lua")} \def\texmacrotwo#1{ \directlua{luafunction(#1)} \par } \starttext \texmacro{7} \texmacrotwo{10} \stoptext And here is content of external file ulet.lua: function luafunction(num) for i=1,num do tex.sprint(i..[[) Hello\par]]) end end luastring=[[ \def\texmacro#1{ \directlua{luafunction(#1)} } ]] tex.sprint(luastring)

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a0 split into a4?
by Xan 26 Apr '10

26 Apr '10

Hi, Is it possible to "split" a0 paper into a4? I want to write context document in a0 size but printing into 16 a4. Is it possible. If it's, surely it's with ConTeXt! ;-) Xan.

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float at fixed position
by Peter Rolf 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

Hi, in a multi column layout I want to place a figure at a fixed position. Inserting a floating object at a fixed position doesn't make any sense, but I need the correct caption (number) for the graphic. Sadly \placefigure fails with [..] todo : flush notes todo : enable notes ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \@@mc5@@mcwidth \@@ar@@4 ...ace \OTRSETlocalwidth \scratchcounter \relax \OTRSETcheckwidthga... \redoloop ->\expandrecursecontent \endofloop <to be read again> { <inserted text> 2 \dodoloop ...mexpr \recurselevel +\plusone \relax } ... l.16 \stopcolumnset ? Is this a bug or am I misusing the macro too much? Example code at the end of this mail. Peter %----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8 MTXrun | current version: 2010.04.16 21:08 This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.60.1-2010042015 (rev 3640) %----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8 \usemodule[visual] \definecolumnset[example][n=4] \definecolumnsetarea[one][left][x=1,y=1,nx=6,ny=6,state=start] \setupcolumnsetareatext[one][left][\setup{test}] \startsetups test \placefigure[here][test]{test}{\externalfigure[cow]} \stopsetups \starttext \startcolumnset[example] \dorecurse{25}{\fakewords{50}{100}} \stopcolumnset \stoptext

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Overfull
by Marius 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

Hello, why there is an overfull in the attached example? Overfull \hbox (25.73416pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 15--16 \**ArialFontXVI** NOTXXXXX THIS THAT WORD PHRASES Thanks, Marius

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Installation on Windows fails with "unknown script 'texexec.lua' or 'mtx-texexec.lua'"
by Linus Källberg 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

Hi, I followed the installation instructions for Windows on "ConTeXt Minimals", http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals. Since I have MiKTeX installed, I used the command line method, as suggested. However, when I try to run context according to the "Usage" section, I get the following error message: MTXrun | unknown script 'texexec.lua' or 'mtx-texexec.lua' Any suggestions on what have gone wrong? Thanks. Kind regards, /Linus _________________________________________________________________ Spela spel i Messenger! http://www.windowslive.se/playground/default.asp

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Re: [NTG-context] Fullpage
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Hi, >> > The module is now on the garden, it’s Mojcas job to include it in the >> > minimals. > It's there. I just synchronized with beta minimals, and no fullpage module is included :( -- Best Regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Sorting the content of \startlines
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Hello, Is there a way to sort the content of \startlines envinroment by the alphabet? I have a list of songs in arbitrary order, and what to output it in alphabetical one. ex.: \starttext \subject{My set-list} \startcolumns\startlinenumbering\startlines Fly me to the moon Hit the road jack Sway Libertango Sunny % and more titles \stoplines\stoplinenumbering\stopcolumns \stoptext -- Best Regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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! Undefined control sequence
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Hallo, I have a little problem which I can not solve. The following example works with the definition of \broad in position 1 and it fails in position 2. ------------------------------------- % Position 1 % \def\broad{5*broad} \defineitemgroup[Tst] \setupitemgroup[Tst][1][n,\broad ] % Position 2 \def\broad{5*broad} \starttext \startTst \item Test \stopTst \stoptext ------------------------------------- Why is this? And how can I make it work in position 2? Wolfgang

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