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Re: How to make empty pages by default empty?
by Steffen Wolfrum 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

> Try this: > > \definepagebreak > [chapter] > [yes,header,right] > > > \setuphead > [chapter] > [page=chapter, > ] > > \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] > \starttext > \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } > \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } > \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } > \stoptext > > > Sorry for this probably silly question, > > but I truely might be happy for an answer. > > \definepagebreak is an undocumented feature. This definitely no silly > question. > > HTH, > > Patrick Hi Patrick, your example looks good. Unfortunately I use the project structure and have made each chapter a component: \startproduct Kueppers_Buch \project KPPRS_0 \startfrontmatter \completecontent \stopfrontmatter \component Einleitung \startbodymatter \component Kap_1 \component Kap_2 \stopbodymatter \stopproduct Now the left empty page after the TOC has a pagenumber and also the empty last left page of "Einleitung" befor "Kap_1" begins etc. Is \definepagebreak also extendable for this case?

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How to make empty pages by default empty?
by Steffen Wolfrum 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hi, I guess this is very likely a FAQuestion but nevertheless I couldn't find the answer: When a new sectionblock or a chapter (page=right) is starting and ConTeXt is forced to add before that a left empty page then this empty page has naked pagenumber. So what is the code to make empty pages by default empty (no header, no pagenumber)? Sorry for this probably silly question, but I truely might be happy for an answer. Thanks, Steffen.

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Re: [NTG-context] new version
by Steffen Wolfrum 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 14:25 17/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: > > > What is needed is a kind of extension to placefigure[top] where figures > are *still* placed top/bottom but *also* are surrounded by text (right or > left). > > this is kind of impossible in tex since it works per paragraph and during > that it has no concept of crossing a page boundary; i presume that i can > cook up something for a controlled situation but it's far from trivial > > Hans That would be great Hans! I'm curious what dish you will serve .-) Steffen

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new version
by Steffen Wolfrum 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > The last hour I fixed a couple of things that came up during the recent > dante/gutenberg tex conferences as well as added the table thingies > discussed here. (for the split lovers: there was a small bug in the patch i > sent earlier; actually the patch broke some of my existing files -) > > the main as well as the beta files have been upgraded > > Hans Hi Hans, that's good news. I almost don't dare to ask, but... do you think that you might have now a little time to look at the placefigure[top,left] topic? The solution that you proposed some days ago unfortunately doesn't help much: \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[left] {}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par} What is needed is a kind of extension to placefigure[top] where figures are *still* placed top/bottom but *also* are surrounded by text (right or left). I am really sorry for being persistent, but the main reason for me to switch from LaTeX to ConTeXt was that I thought that some has much more possibilities in placing figures in ConTeXt than in LaTeX. And I was honestly surprised that this is not implemented yet, as it is such a frequently used feature - at least in the books of humanities, art history etc. it is very, very common. You said that it should not be too difficult - and it really would be a great feature for ConTeXt!! What do you think? Steffen P.S. Sorry, hope I don't annoy you too much... >>2. Isn't it possible to make a kind of combination between the placefigure >>options top and left (for example), so that a small picture can have text >>floating around it but it is placed at the top of the page (like big >>landscape formats would be with the top option)? >> ... > >2. should not be too difficult, i'll look into it > >Hans > >--

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error \handlecompoundcharacter ...
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hi experts! Consider this simple code: \defineXMLcommand [de] {\language[de]} \defineXMLcommand [end] {\disableXML} \starttext \enableXML <de/> <anytag anyattrib="Aqq"/> Ich liebe ConTeXt! <end/> \stoptext It cause en ERROR! It happens ONLY for \language[de] neither pl nor en, nl... Error message is: systems : begin file x at line 8 ! Undefined control sequence. \handlecompoundcharacter ...ndlecompoundcharacter {\dohandlecompoundcharacte... \dodoparseXMLarguments #1->\if #1 >\let \dodoparseXMLarguments \empty \else \... <argument> anyatrib=" Aqq"/ \parseXMLelement ...XMLarguments \rawXMLelement #3 >\fi \or \or \the \everyXM... l.11 <anytag anyatrib="Aqq"/> ? ! Emergency stop. \handlecompoundcharacter ...ndlecompoundcharacter {\dohandlecompoundcharacte... \dodoparseXMLarguments #1->\if #1 >\let \dodoparseXMLarguments \empty \else \... <argument> anyatrib=" Aqq"/ \parseXMLelement ...XMLarguments \rawXMLelement #3 >\fi \or \or \the \everyXM... l.11 <anytag anyatrib="Aqq"/> End of file on the terminal! Any hints? Regards, Pawe/l

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height and width of a figure
by Severin Obertuefer 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

hi all i included an external figure in a document with \useexernalfigure[fig] how can i get the width and the height of this picture so that i can make a frame that has exactly the same size as the externalfigure[fig]. thanks a lot for help greetings severin -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++ Getestet von Stiftung Warentest: GMX FreeMail (GUT), GMX ProMail (GUT) (Heft 9/03 - 23 e-mail-Tarife: 6 gut, 12 befriedigend, 5 ausreichend) Jetzt selbst kostenlos testen: http://www.gmx.net

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tables within tabulate environment
by Frank 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hi, I am working on some documents which are based on a table which is part of the text flow and may break between pages. So I use the tabulate environment. However now I need to include a table inside a tabulate cell, but this does not seem to work. How can I get around this? Best regards Frank

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Re: [OS X TeX] Alternate/Swash Font in LaTeX, how?
by Steffen Wolfrum 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

William Adams <wadams(a)atlis.com> wrote: > Steffen asked about Adobe Garamond Swash Italic. > > Yeah, it's a non-standard encoding. You can either manually add it to a > .vf, or follow the instructions in Alan Hoenig's wonderful book, _TeX > Unbound_ > > I've samples of it up on my web site at > http://members.aol.com/willadams - check the portfolio section, and if > you go to the fonts page you should be able to follow the links to a > .vf which may or may not work for you. > > William Thanks William, but although I tried nearly every links on your address I couldn't find any link related to .vf. Couldn't you maybe pass me the URL directly? Thanks again Steffen

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new version
by Hans Hagen 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hi, The last hour I fixed a couple of things that came up during the recent dante/gutenberg tex conferences as well as added the table thingies discussed here. (for the split lovers: there was a small bug in the patch i sent earlier; actually the patch broke some of my existing files -) the main as well as the beta files have been upgraded Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NTG-context] [NTG-context]
by ^Nitram^ 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hi, > layers, see details.pdf Thanks, but I tried examples from there and only \hskip\layoutcolumnoffset{2}{\red Text positioned in column 2!} works fine... Other examples does nothing - there is no errors on \setlayer but I didn't see any effect - no text is visible ;( PS. Sorry for empty subject of first post. -- Best regards Martin

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Re: [NTG-context] problems with embedded spaces in file paths (Win32)
by Hans Hagen 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

At 13:08 15/09/2003 -0300, you wrote: >I don't normally use Win32, but I want to convert our 4AllTeX addicts to >TeX Live 2003. In testing release candidates, I encountered a few >problems with context and texexec. The most recent tests were with the >Sept. 5 release candidate (using the "install" CD). > >1. on Win32, kpsewhich often fails to find texexec.ini. I created a >texexec.ini in texmf-var/context/config and verified that it is listed in >the ls-R. My conjecture is that this failure occurs if and only if the >final component of the nme of the current working directory contains an >embedded space, e.g., "C:\My Documents". Texexec takes a very long time >to run (searching the texmf trees on an unloved and unwanted PIII 300mhz), >so I haven't done a lot of testing/debugging. I haven't encountered any >other kpathsea failures. I can work around this by tweaking texexec.pl, >but it would be comforting to have an explanation. > >2. ConTeXt texexec uses $ENV{"HOME"} to set a value in filename.tmp, >e.g., on unix: > >$ cat try.tex >\starttext >\input story >\stoptext >$ texexec try >$ cat try.tmp >% try.top >\unprotect >\setupsystem[\c!gebied={/user/gwhite/}] %---- set from $ENV{"HOME"} >\setupsystem[\c!n=1] >\setupsystem[inputfile=try.tex] >\protect > >If, e.g. HOME="/x y", the formatted document gets an extra page containing >"y//cont-err". > >On Win32, it seems common to have spaces in "%HOME%". In particular, for >WinXP, a value appears to be constructed by the texexec.ini binary >(created using irun) if %HOME% is not set. I can work around this by >asking users to explicitly set HOME to something safe. can you check what happens when you add "" around the path? If i'm right, (i'll upload new binaries when some patch is done) the win binaries now accept \input "some path" (not sure if \input "some path"/somefile also works; can you test that?) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Newbie wants to make long tables
by Thomas Schrader 16 Sep '03

16 Sep '03

Hi everybody, I'm wondering how to break up long tables over several pages, automatically placing continuing headers and footers. Thanks much for any help Thomas -- mailto laborator at web de

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Does Bill McClain's TOC work?
by Steffen Wolfrum 16 Sep '03

16 Sep '03

Working on my first TOC I was looking at Bill McClain's "ConTeXt and pdfTeX Beginners Help Page", and its example on TOCs with different entries. I copied and pasted his example, but what should be like this: > Contents > > Introduction to the Annotated Edition * 5 > > Preface * 12 > > 1 * The Windows of Absolute Night * 15 is in fact: > Contents > > Introduction to the Annotated Edition * 5 > > Preface * 12 > > 3 * The Windows of Absolute Night * 15 <- "3" ! (the unnumbered headings *are* numbered) So I tried something different: \definehead[LevelOneEmpty][chapter] \setuphead[LevelOneEmpty][number=no] \definehead[LevelOne[chapter] \setuphead[LevelOne][number=yes] \definehead[LevelTwo][section] \definehead[LevelThree][subsection] \starttext \definecombinedlist [content] [LevelOneEmpty,LevelOne,LevelTwo, LevelThree] \setupcombinedlist [content][alternative=b,aligntitle=no,width=2.5em] \completecontent[way=bytext] \LevelOneEmpty{Introduction} ... \LevelOne{First real Chapter} But the result is the same: > Contents > > Introduction... > > 2 First real Chapter A last try with the following changed: \definehead[LevelOneEmpty][title] was even worse: "Introduction" doesn't appear at all in the TOC. So what is the right way? I'd be happy for any hint. Steffen

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parsetrees
by Matthew Huggett 16 Sep '03

16 Sep '03

//Ed Cashin wrote: >> I'm making some notes on English grammar for some students and I want >> to analyze a few sentences using parse trees. Is there a way to do >> trees in ConTeXt? I guess I'd need to use Metapost. Any pointers >> would be appreciated. >Please let us know if you find anything. I was in a linguistics class >and would have tackled this myself if there had been more time. >I don't think it would be too bad in MetaPost. I haven't quite gotten >the hang of ConTeXt's MetaPost integration to the degree where I'd >know how to make use of both their features in a practical way. I found the following manual but haven't had a chance to try anything out. www.cis.upenn.edu/~dchiang/software/trees-manual.pdf Matt

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[NTG-context]
by ^Nitram^ 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Hi, I would like create some kind of template of first page - I try put a few text blocks in \startstandardmakeup - \stopstandardmakeup area but I spent a few hours but I did nothing. I can only do something like that: \framed[align=middle,width=broad]{some text} \blank[10*big] \framed[align=middle,width=broad]{some text} etc... but I think it is better solutions to put blocks there where I want ;). Could anybody give me any advice? -- Best regards Martin

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Table with metapost framing and colors
by Michal Kvasnicka 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Dear Mr. Hagen. I apologize that I bother you once more, but I really need your help (deadline for my document is quite soon). :-( I have to follow a rather complex document design. According to it tables must be framed with two different lines: The outer frame must be thick and the inner thin. Moreover, a part of the header (the first row) must be black. I didn't know how to do it, so I used Metapost in a company with the overlay mechanism provided with the ConTeXt. It works well, but: 1) When a cell has black background, it turns its frame from black to white. It's awfull. How can I switch this behavior off? 2) The frame of the first and last row doesn't fit precisely to frames of the rest rows. What's wrong? Are those cell of a different sizes? How can I improve it? Many thanks for your kind help. Your sincerely Michal Kvasnicka P.S. I include a minimal (but not a small, I apologize) example.

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Splitting floats
by Giuseppe Bilotta 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Hello, an interesting feature I would like to see in ConTeXt is the ability to split floats. There are at least two ways in which this might be interesting. One of the is that of having "floating" tables that span multiple pages. The other, more general, is that of having (usually textual) floating contents split in different blocks located in different parts of the text. An example of usage of this could be a text block that "flows" from a floating frame to another (IOW a set of linked floating frames containing a single textflow) Are there any chances of having this feature in ConTeXt? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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fonts and footnotes (again)
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Hi ntg! Some days ago I asked a question which looks to have an obvious answer... Unfortunately the answer isn't obvious for ConTeXt chick:-) I have a problem with font of footnote-numbers. I will try to describe some details because they may be important. I've defined some sans-serif font with my own styles and sizes: \definefontsynonym[tfMyFont][file_name1] \definefontsynonym[bfMyFont][file_name2] % I don't need neither italics nor math \definebodyfont[13pt,12pt,...,9pt][ss] [tfs=tfMyFont sa 0.75, % let's test alternative for tfxx tf=tfMyFont sa 1, .... bfs=bfMyFont sa 0.75, bf=bfMyFont sa 1, ....] \setupbodyfont[13pt,ss] Then I set styles for heads (chapters, sections etc.). The same for headers and footers. These setups work OK. I have a problem with footnotes though. I tried \setupfootnotes[style=\tfs] but it doesn't work (why?). With such settings default ss font -- cmss10 or plss10 (which is not my sweet sansserif) is used for footnote texts and numbers. I also tried \setupfootnotes[bodyfont=10pt]; it works good since ten-point font is defined in \definebodyfont. BUT numbers of footnotes still 'use' DEFAULT sansserif font. So I tried something like \setupfootnotes[...,numbercommand=\MyCommand], where \MyCommand set appropriate fontstyle (\tfs) and raise the number as a ^superscript (quite sophisticated way, isn't it?). This works for numbers of footnotes (below main text) Anyway I have still no idea how to setup correct font and style for footnote numbers appearing in text as a reference for footnote. 1. How to setup font-style and -size for footnotes text and/or footnotes numbers without giving the dimension directly? I mean why I have to setup \setupfootnotes[bodyfont=10pt] and I can't set \setupfootnotes[style=\tfxx]? What is do wrong in it? 2. How to setup font-style and -size for BOTH footnote reference (in text) and footnote numbers? Regards, Pawe/l

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Re: [NTG-context] 2 basic questions on placefigure options
by Steffen Wolfrum 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Hi Hans, did you find something into it? Steffen > > At 14:17 03/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: > > >After reading the different manuals two questions still stay unanswered: > > > > > >1. Is it true that a figure with text flowing around it (placefigure > > >option left/right) has always to start with a beginning of a paragraph, so > > >that it is not possible to place it in the middle of a text when it is > > >mentioned there? > > > > > >2. Isn't it possible to make a kind of combination between the placefigure > > >options top and left (for example), so that a small picture can have text > > >floating around it but it is placed at the top of the page (like big > > >landscape formats would be with the top option)? > > > > > >I hope I just missed something... > > > > > > 1. indeed > > > > 2. should not be too difficult, i'll look into it > > > > Hans > Great, thank you. > Then (2) could be a bit of a practical alternative to the missing of (1). > Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] Help! ConTeXt crashed! (was: 2 basic questions on placefigure options)
by Steffen Wolfrum 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 23:05 14/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: > > >Hans, thank you - but now ConTeXt doesn't work anymore (see log below)! > > in that case you need the latest beta version (and on top of that the file > i sent you) OK, now it works. \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[left] {}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par} \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[right]{}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par} As far as I understood I have to count lines, right? My need is, for a huge amount of images, to say somthing like \placefigure[top,left] or \placefigure[bottom,right] regardless how many line befor/after this command may be - just like \placefigure[top]. To make sure the image still is at the top/bottom of a page even iv some changes in the text have to be made. And the only way to simlate this is by \hangsidefloat[x] with x being the lines above the image. There is no faster way, to just say place it left/right at the top or bottom of the textarea? The command \placefigure[top] looks so clear - there is no way to add a sidefloat behaviour for small figures, text floating around them? Steffen

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Interaction color in content
by Michal Kvasnicka 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Good morning. First of all: Many thanks for you last hints -- it solved a lot of my problems. But one more is still present. I want that the ``text'' in the content list to be ``clickable'' (interactive) and of some color. But the color make a problem. Why something like this causes errors? % output=pdf \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start, color=interactioncolor] \definecombinedlist[content] [section, subsection] [criterium=all, level=subsection] \setuplist[section] [interaction=text] \starttext \placecontent \section{First} \input tufte \section{Second} \input tufte \section{Third} \input tufte \stoptext I got this very error message: (./int1.tuo ! Use of \@@lisectioninteractie doesn't match its definition. \doifvalue ...f \!!stringa {\csname #1\endcsname } \edef \!!stringb {#2}\ifx ... \dosomelijstelement ... #1\c!interactie }\v!tekst {\setlistparameter {#1}\c!... \dodolijstelement ...ment {#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6} \global \utilitydonetrue l.8 ...tion}{2}{2}{Second}{2::0:0:2:0:0:0:0::1}{1} With many greetings Michal Kvasnicka

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Help! ConTeXt crashed! (was: 2 basic questions on placefigure options)
by Steffen Wolfrum 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > --=====================_34256828==_ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > At 13:31 14/09/2003 +0200, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > >did you find something into it? > > hm, you are persistent -) > > \starttext > > \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[left] {}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par} > \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[right]{}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par} > > \stoptext > > i have to think about some way to feed such things into \place... directly, > no time now > > Hans > > PS. unzip the new.zip file in .../base and regenerate the format > PS. quite untested on special cases, so only use it in controlled situations Hans, thank you - but now ConTeXt doesn't work anymore (see log below)! What I did: Unzipped it in unzip the new.zip file in /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base and /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base for I don't know which one to use (I have Gerben's tetex distr. in stalled) Then I run sudo mktexlsr and sudo fmtutil --all That's all. Now ConTeXt does not do anything anymore. Help! Steffen TeXExec 3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : agaramond output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./agaramond.tex{/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.8.21 fmt: 2003.9.14 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/cont-loc.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ! Undefined control sequence. l.434 \long\@EA\def\csname\e!start\e!instellingen \endcsname#1 % ?

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\type doen't type -- with latin-modern fonts.
by Daniel Flipo 14 Sep '03

14 Sep '03

Hi all, See the following test file %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %interface=en output=pdftex %\definetypeface [myface] [tt][mono] % [computer-modern][default][encoding=ec] \definetypeface [myface] [tt] [mono] [latin-modern] [default][encoding=ec] \setupbodyfont[myface,sans,14.4pt] \starttext \starttyping TEXEDIT = emacsclient --no-wait +%d %s \stoptyping \type{TEXEDIT = emacsclient --no-wait +%d %s} \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \starttyping ... \stoptyping works fine, but \type{} typsets a "single dash" instead of two dashes. The "single dash" is also different (lower and shorter) than the two dashes. The same is true with the AEfonts (Computer-modern with EC ecoding), but not with the default fonts (true CM). Any fix for this? Daniel Flipo

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XML & ConTeXt -- handling many conventions
by Pawel Jackowski na WP 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

Hi! There is a lot of ways to build ConTeXt macro which can handle something like i.e: <chapter title="First Chapter"> ... or <chapter> <title>First Chapter</title> ... But is there any way to handle both conventions in one defnition? Regards, Paweł

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texexec doesn't finish
by Boris Tschirschwitz 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

Hi. I am writing a short note in the hope that someone else ran into the same problem and can tell me what to do before I have to start thinking: I am using ConTeXt for a few weeks now without major problems. Today I felt like updating to the latest version (Aug 21?). Now when I try to generate even the simplest document (like 'texexec --pdf test.tex), texexec never finishes and spawns huge numbers of perl jobs. Any hint what I did wrong?

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