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Fwd: Chinese support of ConTeXt
by Hans Hagen 13 May '04

13 May '04

For chinese experts: >Hello, I'm a new Chinese user (would-be at least) of ConTeXt. In your >site, you have a PDF about Chinese support in ConTeXt. The information >within that PDF utilizes some of the seemingly outdated tools. I'm not >very experienced with teTeX (on my Debian system) administration, so I got >nearly completed lost. Can you help me setup Chinese for ConTeXt? I'd like >to summarize my experience into a Chinese document if I can get it up and >run. I will contribute the document back to the community to pay back help >I would get from you. Anyway, here's my questions: > >1. Can I use tools from the freetype1-tools package of Debian to generate >all the Chinese fonts stuff from my truetype fonts from my Windows system? > >The current document about Chinese in ConTeXt in your site concentrate on >(seemingly outdated) Turbolinux information. > >2. How can I install the fonts stuff generated to local texmf without >being a teTeX administrator? In your current document, there is no >information about this. As reading various TeX command logs, I suppose it >should have something to do with running mktexlsr etc.? > >Thank you very much for your time and the many charming PDFs out there >which makes ConTeXt really desirable! > >ZHAO Wei > >================================================================ >Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd >op virussen. >Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst >waar op wordt gecontroleerd. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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page selection with context magnifies
by karl＠freefriends.org 13 May '04

13 May '04

(I believe this is the same bug I reported on December 6, with additional information.) I'm using context (from TL 2003) to select pages. It's apparently actually changing the content, that is, enlarging it! Consider page 2 of the attached covers.pdf. I try to extract it with: texexec --mode=letter --pdfselect --selection=2 --result=bad2.pdf covers.pdf The result is the attached bad2.pdf. If you view at, say, 100% ("fit to page" will eradicate the difference) and compare to the original page 2, the fonts appear larger and everything is moved to the right a bit, as if the page was magnified by some small proportion. The same thing happens with page 4 and with other files I have tried. I tried removing the --mode=letter, it made no difference. Any help appreciated. Although gs can extract pages correctly, it loses the searchable text, while context preserves it, so I'd rather use the latter. :). Thanks, k

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reuse of LaTeX code
by Viktor Tron 12 May '04

12 May '04

Dear List users, I just heard about ConTeXt on the lingtex list. I am a rather old and experienced Latex user, and, although rather unsatisfied, I have tons of latex sources for constant reuse. My first questions are Is there any hope that I can painlessly reuse my Latex code in Context? Is there any hope that I can ever use Latex styles (some more complicated macro defs) in Context? Thanks for help. Viktor +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Viktor Tron v.tron(a)ed.ac.uk| |3fl Rm8 2 Buccleuch Pl EH8 9LW Edinburgh Tel +44 131 650 4414| |European Postgraduate College www.coli.uni-sb.de/egk| |School of Informatics www.informatics.ed.ac.uk| |Theoretical and Applied Linguistics www.ling.ed.ac.uk| | @ University of Edinburgh, UK www.ed.ac.uk| |Dept of Computational Linguistics www.coli.uni-sb.de| | @ Saarland University (Saarbruecken, Germany) www.uni-saarland.de| |use LINUX and FREE Software www.linux.org| +------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Images
by techw＠siritech.com 12 May '04

12 May '04

Hello all! Thanks for all your suggestions. I am capturing screenshots and saving them as .eps images using Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8. I then convert the eps images to PDF using "convertall2pdf"(on the command line) which is the batch file that Ghostscript uses. When I then use context tags \placefigure {test} {\externalfigure[Image1-4][type=pdf,preset=yes]} \blank I still get blank gray boxes in the output. Why does this happen? How do I solve this problem? Does it have anything to do with the bounding box? How do I fix the bounding box? Thanks and regards, -priya

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Images
by techw＠siritech.com 12 May '04

12 May '04

Hello all! Thanks for all your suggestions. I am capturing screenshots and saving them as .eps images using Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8. I then convert the eps images to PDF using "convertall2pdf"(on the command line) which is the batch file that Ghostscript uses. I am sending through the script of "Convertall2pdf". @echo off PATH=%PATH%;c:\gs\gs8.13\lib;c:\gs\gs8.13\bin; for /F %%i in ('dir /b *.eps') do ps2pdf %%i %%i.pdf When I then use context tags \placefigure {test} {\externalfigure[Image1-4][type=pdf,preset=yes]} \blank I still get blank gray boxes in the output. Why does this happen? How do I solve this problem? Does it have anything to do with the bounding box? How do I fix the bounding box? Thanks and regards, -priya

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[very OT] test, don't read
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 May '04

11 May '04

Sorry. Just a test (account dead?). Steffen

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eps to pdf images
by techw＠siritech.com 11 May '04

11 May '04

Hello all! I had not set the path for the Ghost script correctly. Now that I have set it, the conversion to pdf works like magic! Thanks a lot for the help, special thanks to Mr.Burnus and Mr.Hagen and Mr.Egger for their replies. I use Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 to convert jpg images to eps. But the images are not very good when converted to pdf. How can I improve the quality of the images? Suggestions please! Thanks and regards, -priya.

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how r u?
by Aleida Stephani 10 May '04

10 May '04

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bold math
by Adam Lindsay 09 May '04

09 May '04

Hi all. I've revisited the euler support scripts with an eye towards bold math. I think I have it right now. I tried applying the same techniques to computer-modern math in order to get bold math going for the TeX default font, and it seems not to switch back to the right font after a grouped \bfm font switch. The minimum case for this is $x{\bfm x}x$, which gives an italic x, a bold x, and then a roman x. Hans (others with full Lucida math?), what does the test case look like? If you want to try the attached typescript, the following should work well: \definetypeface[mainface][mm][math][euler][euler] \definetypeface[mainface][mm][bfmath][euler][euler] \definetypeface [boldmath][mm][boldmath][euler][euler] \definetypeface [boldmath][mm][bfmath][euler][euler] The following fails on cases like the one I described, but is reasonable otherwise: \definetypeface[mainface][mm][math][computer-modern][computer-modern] \definetypeface[mainface][mm][bfmath][computer-modern][computer-modern] \definetypeface [boldmath][mm][boldmath][computer-modern][computer-modern] \definetypeface [boldmath][mm][bfmath][computer-modern][computer-modern] -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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\definestartstop and \starttabulate
by Peter Münster 07 May '04

07 May '04

Hello, how could I create a new start-stop-pair that uses \starttabulate ? The following example does not seem to work... \definestartstop[Tab][before={\starttabulate[|c|]}, after={\stoptabulate}] \starttext \startTab \NC test \NC\AR \stopTab \stoptext TIA for any help, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ________________________________________________________________ FilmSearch engine with a lot of new features: http://f-s.sf.net/

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Fwd: *TeX* and linguistic
by Hans Hagen 07 May '04

07 May '04

>X-Original-To: hagen-mail(a)localhost.pragma-net.nl >Delivered-To: hagen-mail(a)localhost.pragma-net.nl >Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 01:55:21 +0200 >From: Marek Trofimiuk <M.Trofimiuk(a)prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> >Subject: *TeX* and linguistic >To: pragma(a)wxs.nl >User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i >X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS (prioris) >Original-recipient: rfc822;pragma(a)wxs.nl >X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.8 required=7.5 > tests=BAYES_10,DEAR_SOMETHING,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,USER_AGENT_MUTT > autolearn=ham version=2.55 >X-Spam-Level: >X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) > >Dear Sirs, > >I am writing to you because while browsing web I found ConTEXt system >you provide very interesting. A friend of mine is wrinting her master >thesis at the Warsaw University about the usage of the TeX-like system >in preparing linguistic texts. As we have not got known much about >ConTEXt yet we are wondering if you system can support creating specific >linguistic text ( some of them include complicated drawing, trees, >graphs, etc.). Maybe you have some expirience in this area, are are >particularly interested in advantages of ConTEXt over other system, >problems solved, total effort which is necessary to learn and create >first ConTEXt documents, etc. >We would be glad for any help. > >Best Regards, >Marek Trofimiuk > >================================================================ >Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd >op virussen. >Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst >waar op wordt gecontroleerd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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eps to pdf images
by techw＠siritech.com 07 May '04

07 May '04

Hello all! Thank you all so much for your guidelines in the conversion of eps images to pdf! I will try and answer the queries of Mr.Tobias Burnus: -Please check, whether DataVisualization.pdf exists. Can you open it in acroread/gv? The DataVisualization.pdf does exist, but is blank. Even when I open it in acrobat reader or gv it is totally blank If it doesn't exist, does ghostscript show DataVisualization.eps flawlessly? -What is shown in the TeX-produced PDF file? An empty frame, ...? When I use \placefigure[here,force] {Project Hierarchy Window} {\externalfigure[DataVisualization][type=pdf,height=11cm,width=13cm,preset=yes]} there is a blank space with no frame at all,only the caption is there at the bottom. The original eps image is about 893KB and the PDF shows only 1KB size, so obviously the conversion is not happening, I guess.Any other pointers? Thanks and regards, -priya

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Notes and questions on 432 page book.
by John Culleton 06 May '04

06 May '04

My latest project is almost finished. I have a few comments and questions. The book consists of one part with five unnumbered chapters followed by a second part of 101 numbered chapters, and some endmatter. I was unable to make the Context version of the TOC to single space these 110 or so chapter entries which made the whole TOC longer (more pages) than desired. So I threw Eplain into the mix and typeset the TOC only using the Eplain macros. If there is a way to single space the TOC using the regular Context macros I will be happy to eliminate the Eplain, which may solve some of the other problems. The last six pages consist of an order form, a page of text, and another order form, all backed up by blank pages for six pages total. The order form is created with some \framedtext and \starttable trickery. It compiles fine by itself but gives errors in the \starttable etc. when combined with the main body of the book. It will also coexist with the front matter, so eplain is probably not the culprit. In any case at the moment I have two correct pdfs which I will try to knit together with psmerge or something similar. I used a conventional construction of the job, with a main file which calls subordinate files. In this mode I ended up with two unwanted blank pages after the index. If however I put the \stoptext statement at the end of the main subordinate file the unwanted blank pages disappear. Here is the construction of the main file: ------------------------------ \input fonts.tex \input macros.tex \input part.tex \starttext \startfrontmatter \input half.tex \input title.tex {\tfx \input copy.tex } \noheaderandfooterlines \leftline{\tfb\bf\ss Table of Contents} \blank[big] \readtocfile\rm \page[yes] \noheaderandfooterlines \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \setupwhitespace[medium] \noheaderandfooterlines \input body.tex %\input order.tex %the last six pages start here %\input flyer.tex %\input order.tex \stopbodymatter \stoptext ----------------------------- If I insert a \stoptext statement at the end of the body.tex file then I lose the unwanted blank pages. Are they a byproduct of the \stopbodymatter statement? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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eps to pdf images
by techw＠siritech.com 06 May '04

06 May '04

Hi all! Thanks a lot for the prompt reply, specially to Mr.Hans Hagen and Mr.Tobias Burnus. I don't know anything about Ruby, so I tried using texutil - -epstopdf, but when the ghostscript window comes up it is blank and nothing happens after that. What do I need to do? I am attaching the commands that I gave to generate the pdf files .(See attached file: epstopdf.txt) Thanks in advance! Regards, -priya.

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Internal documentation of Context modules.
by John Culleton 06 May '04

06 May '04

I have figured out that there is a way to print out the internal documentation of the various Context modules in a manner that makes some sense. I first use grep to extract all the %D lines of a module into a separate file e.g., foo.tex. Then I eliminate the %D tag from all lines using Vim. I add \starttext and \stoptext statements. Then I run texexec --pdf foo.tex. The result is imperfect but more or less intelligible. It seems to me that there might be a script buried somewhare in the system that does this better. If so, what is it called? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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eps images
by techw＠siritech.com 05 May '04

05 May '04

Hello all! I have been using Context only recently. I need to import eps images into the documents(a lot of them). Despite running texutil and setting the path for Ghost Script, I am getting only blank eps images or gray boxes in the pdf. Is there a driver that I need to do the conversion from eps to pdf ? I am able to import jpg images. Do I have to convert the eps images to pdf externally and then import them using context tags? I have been stuck on this problem for amonth now.Help please! Thanks and regards, -priya.

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special characters and \startuseMPgraphic{FunnyFrame}
by Helmut Schwertner 03 May '04

03 May '04

Hello, the following example does not work if the text in the \FrameTitle{Blockflötenspielen} contains special characters like öäßé etc. Has someone a solution for this problem? Thanks a lot, Helmut *********************************************************** \mainlanguage[de] \language[de] \enableregime[windows] \setuppapersize[a4][a4] \setupoutput[pdftex] \pdfcompresslevel=0 \runMPgraphicstrue \setupcolors[state=start] \startuseMPgraphic{FunnyFrame} picture p; numeric w, h, o; p:=textext.rt(\MPstring{FunnyFrame}); w:=OverlayWidth; h:=OverlayHeight; o:=BodyFontSize; p:=p shifted (2o,h-ypart center p); draw p; drawoptions (withpen pencircle scaled 1pt withcolor .625blue); draw (2o,h)--(0,h)--(0,0)--(w,0)--(w,h)--(xpart urcorner p, h) ; draw boundingbox p; setbounds currentpicture to unitsquare xyscaled (w,h); \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[FunnyFrame][\useMPgraphic{FunnyFrame}] \defineframedtext[FunnyText][frame=off,background=FunnyFrame] \def\StartFrame{\startFunnyText} \def\StopFrame{\stopFunnyText} \def\FrameTitle#1% {\setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{\hbox spread 2em {\hss\strut#1\hss}}} \setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{} \starttext \FrameTitle{Blockflötenspielen} \StartFrame These: Blockflötenspielen macht Spaß! \StopFrame \stoptext

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Re:: \filbreak OK--TOC again--dupes in index.
by John Culleton 01 May '04

01 May '04

Taking the last question first, when I switched over to eplain and makeindex the error of my ways became apparent--- a spurious space in an \index statement which in makeindex sorts that item ahead of the letter "A". The Context reaction to the error was different. But it was clearly user error. Since I have a job to get out the door this week, and tomorrow is Friday, I will continue with makeindex. I will also use the eplain macro for the TOC. An answer to my earlier question in re. spacing in the TOC would be welcomed however for future reference. I will try \filbreak and see if anything breaks. To make the eplain macros coexist with Context requires commenting out one line in eplain.tex: %\def^^L{\par}% What this line does I have no idea. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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\filbreak OK--TOC again--dupes in index.
by John Culleton 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

1. Is it OK to use the plain tex command \filbreak in a Context run? If not OK is there a Context command that has the same effect (preventing a section of text from being split between pages)? 2. Also, I have tried several changes to my TOC code but it still yields a blank line between items. Yet the TOC of some manuals are single spaced. I cannot spot the anomaly. 3. Finally, I notice an anomaly in the indexing capability of Context. For many years I have relied on makeindex, which among other things prevents dupicative entries (the same page number printed twice on the same entry.) However Context seems to allow that. I can of course revert to the eplain indexing macros and makeindex, but it seems to me that Context should not print the same page number twice in the index. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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verbatim problem
by Severin Obertüfer 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

hello i have a little verbatim problem i used the \startEIFFEL \stopEIFFEL verbatim environment in a verry simple way like this: \startEIFFEL class DEQUE [G] inherit DOUBLE_LINKED_LIST[G] rename extend as insertRight, prepend as insertLeft end create make, make_empty feature -- Access -- and so on \stopEIFFEL now i wanted to make this things a bit more useful and flexible. i thougt of something like this \startEIFFEL \input deque \stopEIFFEL but of corse the keyword input is normal text in verbatim mode... :) is there a simple solution for that, for example like this \startEIFFEL \specialcommand{\input deque} \stopEIFFEL ??? by the way : can i give as to the inputcommand a argument like this: \input D:\Files\ETH\Eiffel\deque.e where "deque.e" is a normal eiffel source file.... thanks for an answer mfg severin

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marking, headers and 2 columns
by Tobias Hilbricht 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

Dear readers of this list, I would like to typeset a bible-text with ConTeXt. The header should print the first and the last verse on that particular page. I used the commands \marking to mark the verses and \getmarking to setup the headers as shown in the excerpt below. This works correctly with a single column layout, but not in a two column layout. The last verse printed in the headers is not the correct one, the first or the second on the following page is given. Is there a work around for this problem? Many thanks in advance for helpful hints Yours sincerely Tobias Hilbricht ---------------- % Kopie von nova-vulgata_vt_genesis.html % zur Weiterbearbeitung mit ConTeXt \mainlanguage[la] \language[la] \setupencoding[default=ec] \usetypescript[berry][ec] \setupheadertexts[{\getmarking[vers][first]} -- {\getmarking[vers][last]}][1. Mose] \definemarking[vers][] \setupcolumns[2] \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,right}] \setupheadertexts[{\getmarking[vers][first]} -- {\getmarking[vers][last]}][Liber Genesis] \starttext \startcolumns LIBER GENESIS 1 \marking[vers]{1, 1} 1 In principio creavit Deus caelum et terram. \marking[vers]{1, 2} 2 Terra autem erat inanis et vacua, et tenebrae super faciem abyssi, et spiritus Dei ferebatur super aquas. \marking[vers]{1, 3} 3 Dixitque Deus: "Fiat lux". Et facta est lux. . ... many more verses (12 pages) . \stopcolumns \stoptext

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texexec and TEX
by Michal Kvasnicka 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

Good evening. Is there some restriction to Metapost macros when compiled by texexec --mptex? I'd like to compile a file like this: % test input TEX; beginfig(1) z1=(0,1cm); z2=(3cm,1cm); dotlabel.top(btex $z_1$ etex,z1); dotlabel.top(btex $z_2$ etex,z2); draw TEX("$\underbrace{\hbox to "&decimal(xpart(z2)-xpart(z1))&"pt{\hss}}$") shifted z1; endfig; end. But I've got a following error: This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.1) (TEXuse.mp (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/base/TEX.mp) (mptextmp.mp >> mptextmp.mp >> mptextmp.mpx ! Unable to make mpx file. l.1 btex $\underbrace{\hbox to 85.03935pt{\hss}}$ etex Transcript written on TEXuse.log. error in metapost run : TEXuse.mp:1 What's wrong? How can I improve it? Many thanks for any hint. M.K. P.S. I use TeXExec 3.3 with Metapost Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.1) under Linux (teTeX).

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Font/UTF-8 input question
by Tobias Burnus 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

Hello, I'd like to use a Unicode font such as Linux Libertine [1]. Besides things which should happen "automatically" like ligatures, I want to enter all characters directly in the UTF-8 file (including those wierd characters). I remember that there is some UTF-8 support in ConTeXt, but I don't remember the details. Is it possible to simply enter a character such as U+FB02 or do I have first to adapt both the input encoding and the font encoding files? Tobias [1] http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/ I think this is (at least for some documents) a rather nice font. It contains ~412 characters, including those required by MES-1 (Multilinual European Subset <http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/cwa13873.pdf> No. 1 [2]) and is available in normal and italic (unfortunally no bold or small caps, yet). Note that this font still requires some polishing, but the nice thing is that the author reacts rather fast to feature requests (though I probably redeemed all my free vouchers for a few IPA characters ;). [2] http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/cwa13873.pdf

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Table of Contents spacing.
by John Culleton 27 Apr '04

27 Apr '04

I want the Table of Contenst entries at normal (single) spacing but they are occurring with white space between the lines. Here is my code to date: \setuplist[chapter][alternative=a,style=bold] \definecombinedlist[content][chapter,section] [level=chapter,criterium=all,before=,after=\null] \setupcombinedlist[content][alternative=a] Probably I have one statement too many, or one parameter too many. Often with Context I get lost in the variations and cannot see the simple solution. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Superimposing two flowcharts
by Sytse Knypstra 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Hi all, I would like to make a flowchart in which one shape (FLOWcell) is essentially bigger than the other shapes (in fact it should occupy the space for two ordinary shapes). Now I made two flowcharts; one consists of the one bigger shape, while the other consists of the remaining shapes (of which two are invisible because their shape is defined as `node'). My idea is to put one flowchart on top of the other. Is this possible? And if it is, how should I do this? B.t.w. using `offset=overlay' in \setupFLOWcharts gives a syntax error. Sytse Knypstra

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