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Cumulating numbered lists
by Alan Bowen 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

I need a list structure that can be numbered in different ways as the occasion warrants. In this case, I need: 1. text 2. text 2.1. text 2.2. text Text Text A. text B. text The problem seem to be in turning off the cumulation of numbers in the last entries (fourth level). \defineitemgroup[MyList] \setupitemgroup[MyList][1][broad,joinedup,packed,autointro] [itemalign=flushright,left={},right={},stopper={.},margin=3pc] \setupitemgroup[MyList][2][broad,joinedup,packed,autointro] [itemalign=flushright,left={},right={},stopper={.}] \setupitemgroup[MyList][3][broad,joinedup,packed,autointro] [itemalign=flushright,left={},right={},stopper={.}] \setupitemgroup[MyList][4][broad,joinedup,packed,autointro] [itemalign=flushright,left={},right={},stopper={.}] \starttext \startMyList[n,repeat] \item First level text \item First level text \startMyList[n,repeat] \item Second level text \item Second level text \startMyList[symbol={}] \item Third level text \item Third level text \startMyList[A] %<===== % \startMyList[A,prefix=no] %<===== \item Fourth level text \item Fourth level text \stopitemize \stopitemize \stopitemize \stopitemize \stoptext With \startMyList[A], I get 2.2.2.A. Fourth level text 2.2.2.B. Fourth level text With \startMyList[A,prefix=no], I get ▷ Fourth level text on each line. Any suggestions or pointers will be gratefully received. Alan

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Heading in setuplayout from a variable
by Cecil Westerhof 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

It is a long time since I used ConTeXt. I am starting again. I have the following code: \setvariables[meta][type=cecil] \if\getvariable{meta}{type}=cecil \setvariables[meta][ name={Cecil Westerhof}, ] \setvariables[layout][ header=0mm, ] \fi But that does not work. For the conditional I also tried: \ifx\getvariable{meta}{type}\cecil But that does not work either. What is the correct way to define the comparison? -- Cecil Westerhof

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error: terminal: >> NOfTextColumns-1, ! Improper final value has been replaced by 0
by Lars Huttar 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Hello, I'm encountering the following error, under ConTeXt ver: 2012.05.30 11:26 MKIV fmt: 2013.3.11 int: english/english: system > tex > error on line 27 in file data/three-volume-book-book-1.tex: terminal: >> NOfTextColumns-1 ! Improper final value has been replaced by 0. <to be read again> : <*> for i=1 upto NOfTextColumns-1: draw (rightboundary TextColumns[i]) shif... ... 17 \safeinput ./data/statistics-for-area-area-africa.tex 18 \safeinput ./data/statistics-for-area-area-europe.tex 19 20 21 22 \input ./macros/E16pagenohead.tex 23 \ifodd \pageno \else \noheaderandfooterlines \null \page[yes]\fi \noheade randfooterlines 24 25 \startptp{ 26 \pagereference[Languages]\pnum{Part II}\ptitle{Language Listings} 27 >> }\stopptp This error is very odd because: a) The only place I can find code mentioning "NOfTextColumns-1" is in mp-core.mpii, where it's commented out! % \startuseMPgraphic{whatever} % for i=1 upto NOfTextColumns-1 : % draw (rightboundary TextColumns[i]) shifted ... But maybe I just haven't been looking in the right places. b) The place in my .tex document where the error occurs, line 27, is at a \stopptp. Yet there is an essentially identical start/stopptp earlier in the document, where no such error is thrown: \startptp{ \pagereference[Summaries]\pnum{Part I}\ptitle{Statistical Summaries} }\stopptp So I guess there's some content in between the two starts/stop ptp's that's laying the stage for the error to occur. I'll be working on a minimal example, but that's time-consuming; and I thought in the meantime, there may be some clues in the above information that could help clarify the nature of the problem, to someone who understands the inner workings of ConTeXt. Thanks for any help, Lars

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[wiki] fake account spam
by Philipp Gesang 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Hi all, I’d like to draw your attention to the wiki. The spammers appear to know the solution to the current entry barrier “What is usually the last command in a ConTeXt source file (without the backslash)?”, and the number of fake accounts is growing fast: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Special:Log/newusers They don’t, however, seem to vandalize yet, so I guess the postal code of Hasselt is unbreakable with today’s technology ;-) Nevertheless the account spam is messing up the recent changes feed: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=rss Even if it’s not urgent, may I suggest we collect possible replacements for the current question? I can’t image the damage those accounts would do once they figure out how to post links. Best Philipp

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table formatting mystery
by Lance Larsen 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

I created the following table, but I am running into a mysterious problem. When I include the text 'Geometry Calulations' in row 2, the table row expands as if this text takes up lines of text. However the text fits well within the cell length, and the text itself remains on one line. If I delete 'Geometry Calculations', the height of row 2 is the height of one line of text. How do I fix this? I have included snapshots of what I am getting with and without 'Geometry Calculations' included. Any help or insight is appreciated. \setupTABLE[c][1][width=0.16\textwidth] \setupTABLE[c][2,3,4][width=0.13\textwidth] \setupTABLE[c][5][width=0.20\textwidth, align=middle] \setupTABLE[c][6][width=0.25\textwidth, align=middle] \bTABLE[width=0.5\textwidth, rulethickness=0.5pt] \bTR \bTD[nc=2] \bf ~\cb Preliminary \cb Final \eTD \bTD[align=middle] \bf Revision \eTD \bTD[align=middle] X \eTD \bTD \bf Document ID \eTD \bTD \DocID \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD[nc=2] \bf ~Document Title: \eTD \bTD[nc=4,align=middle] Geometry Calculations \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD[nc=2] \bf ~Originating Discipline: \eTD \bTD[nc=4,align=middle] \OrigDisc \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD[nc=2] \bf ~Effective Date: \eTD \bTD[nc=3] \tfx ~\cb Approval Date \sp\sp\cb Other: ________ \eTD \bTD Page~\pagenumber~of~\totalnumberofpages \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \bf ~Issued for: \eTD \bTD[nc=5,align=middle] \tfx Phase 1 Design \cb\sp Phase 2 Design \cb\sp Phase 3 Design \cb\sp Input to DCD \cb\sp N/A \cb \eTD \eTR \eTABLE -Lance Larsen

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Lettrine module not working?!
by Verhaag, G.C.H.M. 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Hi ConTeXt User's, I'm currently experiencing problems using the lettrine module! I know from fairly recent (mail-archive!) issues related to this module but can't figure out why my setup isn't working anymore. I use the following: \lettrine[Image=no,Slope=-0.5em,Hang=0.2,Findent=0.7em] {H}{et is ca. half tien} in de... This yields the following error message: <to be read again> \def \doifnextoptionalelse #1#2 -\def \m_syst_action_yes {#1}\def \m_syst_action_... \doLettrineFont ...a \LettrineHeight \definedfont [LettrineFont at \the \!!d... \dolettrine ...trineEPS {#2}\else \doLettrineFont #2\fi \fi }}\setbox \Lettr... l.27 {H}{et is ca. half tien} Maybe something has changed in the arguments of which I'm unaware! Regards, Verhaag, G.C.H.M. P.S.Currently using ConTeXt ver: 2013.04.20 01:15 MKIV current fmt: 2013.4.22 int: english/english

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\setupitezmize[joinedup,nowhite] not working
by Marcin Borkowski 26 Apr '13

26 Apr '13

Hi list, the following MWE shows that I can't get rid of vertical space above subitemizations. What should I do? Best, Marcin \setupitemize[1][n][style=bold] \setupitemize[2][a,joinedup,nowhite][stopper=)] \starttext \startitemize \item First \startitemize \item Subfirst first \item Subfirst second \item Subfirst third \stopitemize \item Second \item Third \startitemize \item Subthird first \item Subthird second \stopitemize \stopitemize \stoptext -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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Basic \def error?
by Verhaag, G.C.H.M. 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Hi ConTeXt User's, Again I'm struggling with MKIV! I get the following error message: ! Argument of \HeadTitle has an extra } My environment file contains the following definition: \def\HeadTitle#1#2% {\hbox to \hsize \bgroup \hfill \lbox to 2cm{\hsize 7cm #2}% \egroup} \setuphead [chapter] [command=\HeadTitle] In the text I use: \chapter[voorwrd]{Voorwoord} I updated to the following version: ConTeXt ver: 2013.04.20 01:15 MKIV current fmt: 2013.4.22 int: english/english, but must admit that I haven't used ConTeXt for quite a while! Probably I've missed something but couldn't find any hint from the mail archive to solve this problem, sorry! Regards, Verhaag,G.C.H.M.

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Project structure and path evaluation
by contact＠thomas-corbiere.name 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Hello, I am experimenting with the project structure feature of ConTeXt and so far it seems that paths used with \project, \product and \component are relative to the current working directory of the context program. What I am doing right now, I use paths relative to my project file "project.tex". project.tex: \startproject proj \product product1/product.tex \product product2/product.tex \stopproject product1/product.tex: \startproduct prod1 \component product1/components/component1.tex % I would like to use "components/component1.tex" % that is a path relative to the current file \stopproduct This is really annoying as it makes it difficult to organize files into directories. I would like the path to be relative to the file containing the command. I tried \usepath[{.}] without success. So, is this possible in ConTeXt? Also, at the end of the PDF on project structure there is an example with \startdocument ... \stopdocument. But I don't understand where I should use these commands. From the source, it looks like \starttex ... \stoptext with the ability to register a before and after command. I am under the impression that I have to choose between using : - the project structure (project, product and component) - the \startdocument and \stopdocument commands - the \starttex and \stoptext commands But that I should not mix them together. Is this right? Regards, Thomas Corbière

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LuaTeX has troubles with contextual kern
by Georg Duffner 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

Hi, in EB Garamond I have some contextual lookups in the kern feature with which LuaTeX in context standalone (updated today in the morning) seems to have problems (the issue is not new, I’ve already reported it in january but perhaps that was a bit too confusing). The test document is: \definefontfeature[default][default][mode=base] \definefontsynonym[ebg][file:EBGaramond12-Regular.otf] \definefontfeature[ss20][ss20=yes] \definefontfeature[iota1][cv81=1] \definefontfeature[iota2][cv81=2] \definefontfeature[altcirc][cv80=1] \define\test{Tì αᾟα\par} \starttext \definedfont[ebg*default at 12pt]\test \addfeature{ss20}\test \addfeature{iota1}\test \addfeature{iota2}\test \addfeature{altcirc}\test \stoptext The font is at http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/fonts/EBGaramond12-Regular.otf The corresponding lookups in the kern.fea roughly contain pos T' 145 i.dotless gravecomb; which increases the right sidebearing of T by 145 before i.dotless followed by gravecomb and pos Eta' <218 0 218 0> uni0345.cap @grk_tlAcc2; pos Eta' <218 0 418 0> uni0345.cap1 @grk_tlAcc2; pos Eta' <218 0 558 0> uni0345.cap2 @grk_tlAcc2; where @grk_tlAcc2 contains the accents attached at the top left of the glyph and which means that Eta is positioned at 218 inside its bounding box and the bounding box is expanded by the third value between <>, on the condition that it’s followed by uni0345.cap* and the said accents. ss20 does a full decomposition of all composed glyphs so I can replace any component by an alternate glyph. Their order corresponds to canonical decomposition. Attached you find the pdf output and a pdf from a parallel xelatex test which shows the desired result: \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{EB Garamond} \newcommand{\test}{Tì αᾟα\par} \begin{document} \test \addfontfeature{RawFeature=+ss20}\test \addfontfeature{CharacterVariant=81:1}\test \addfontfeature{CharacterVariant=81:2}\test \addfontfeature{CharacterVariant=80}\test \end{document} Best regards, Georg

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disabling a header on the first page
by Lance Larsen 25 Apr '13

25 Apr '13

I am building a context document with a title page. I want to disable the header on the title page. This comes before the first \chapter tag. The documentation indicated that you can disable the header on a page with the \page command. I tried several different things as the first command after \starttext, but none of these disabled the header: \page[header=none] \page[header] \page[header=high] Can anybody tell me how I disable the header on the first page? I would really appreciate the help. -Lance Larsen

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Accessing string contents of a macro in Lua.
by Sietse Brouwer 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Hi all, Below are three methods of defining a dimension / dimension string in ConTeXt --- the first two boil down to storing a string in a macro, the last is a proper TeX dimen. I want to access these dimensions from Lua. I can access the dimen via tex.dimen.ColumnC, but how can I access the macro contents? If there is no solution, I can always explicitly pass the value to Lua with \ctxlua{var = '\measure{ColumnA}'} , but I want to know if there is a Lua-only method to get these values. %% MWE \definemeasure[ColumnA][10mm] \def\ColumnB{20mm} \newdimen\ColumnC \ColumnC=30mm \startluacode -- print values to stdout logs.report('====') logs.report('ColumnA', context.measure('ColumnA')) logs.report('ColumnB', context.ColumnB) logs.report('ColumnC', tex.dimen.ColumnC) -- prints in scaled points print('====') \stopluacode Cheers, Sietse

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[luatex-fonts] error with Amiri due to inclusion of font-otp.lua
by Philipp Gesang 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Hi, including font-otp triggers an error with the Amiri font: ! LuaTeX error ./luaotfload-merged.lua:10471: invalid value (nil) at index 1 in table for 'concat'. Which corresponds to line 192 of font-otp.lua. Test code: \font\test={file:amiri-regular.ttf} \test ضرب \bye Or with Context: \mainlanguage[arabic] \definefontsynonym[amiri][file:amiri-regular.ttf] \starttext \definedfont[amiri*arabic at 42pt] \setupalign[r2l] ضرب 0123456789 \stoptext I have tested the Amiri files from TeX Live 2012 and 2013. Can somebody reproduce this, possibly with other fonts? Scheherazade works fine. Thanks for any advice Philipp

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Re: [NTG-context] Missing number error, related to setupcolumnsetlines
by Lars Huttar 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

On /Fri Apr 19 21:36:41 CEST 2013 /Hans Hagen wrote: > On 4/18/2013 11:13 PM, Lars Huttar wrote: > >/ \definecolumnset [abbcolumn] [n=2,distance=5mm,balancing=yes] > />/ > />/ \setupcolumnsetlines[abbcolumn][1][1][60] > />/ \setupcolumnsetlines[abbcolumn][1][2][60] > / > the 60 exceeds the number of lines Hans, thanks for responding. I don't understand the above statement. What number of lines does 60 exceed? Is there a hard-coded limit? (We didn't seem to have a problem with this code before we migrated from XeTeX / mkii to LuaTeX / mkiv, but I couldn't guarantee what else is different.) Is there a workaround for us now? I could leave out the \setupcolumnsetlines commands for the moment, and hope we don't overflow the page. Actually I'm not sure what will happen if we leave the number of lines at the default (which is apparently zero?). Regards, Lars > > >/ \starttext > />/ \startcolumnset[abbcolumn] > />/ foo > />/ \stopcolumnset > />/ \stoptext > / > i'll add a check > > (i will redo columnsets at some point in a more mkiv-ish way) > > Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] Adobe Garamond Problems with letter combination "fi"
by "H. Özoguz" 24 Apr '13

24 Apr '13

Ok thanks, feature, not a bug, embarassing ... but good to learn :)

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Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit
by Jan Heinen 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Ok, I now put the \ctxlua into an other chapter: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Calculating_with_dimension_units Can you say something to the missing points there? "Wich meethod?", "\the" and "Expanding If you don't know how to edit the context-wiki, please write your information here in the mailinglist - then I will put it into the wiki. Regards Jannis

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A simpler way to make a bibliography
by john Culleton 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

After struggling with all the programming prescribed by Context to set up a bibliography, and examining a few dozen *.bib, *.bst and a *bbl file, I decided to do things the simple way. My concept is, that instead of creating a *bib file I could with the same amount of effort create a plain text file to be imported directly into my Context file. I studied the bibliography of "The Chicago Manual of Style" to determine the order, punctuation and format. My file is called "book.foo." Now if I choose to use some of these entries in another book a simple cut and paste between two editor sessions will do. For ease in editing I put each item in each entry on a separate line. TeX/Context will take care of puttng them together in a paragraph. Of course this lacks the generality of the bibtex approach. But I don't need all that flexibilty. None of the current biblio styles specified for Context incorporate the ISBN field. So I just put it at the end of each entry preceded by a \crlf. Without further ado here is the book.foo file: ------------------------------------------ \chapter{References} %authors. title. city: publisher, year\crlf %isbn Bah, Tavmjong. {\it Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program}. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2011 \crlf ISBN 978-0-13-276414-8 Culleton, John R. Jr. {\it Create Book Covers with Scribus} (pdf e-book). Eldersburg, Maryland: Wexford Press, 2012 \crlf ISBN 978-1-60019-002-5 Drew, Ned and Paul Sternberger. {\it By its Cover: Modern American Book Design}. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005\crlf ISBN 978-1-56898-497-1 Kirsanov, Dimitry. {\it The Book of Inkscape\trademark : The Definitive Guide to the Free Graphics Editor}. San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2009\crlf ISBN 978-159327-181-7 Powers, Alan. {\it Front Cover: Great Book Jacket and Cover Design}. London: Mitchell Beazley, 2006\crlf ISBN 978-1-84533-242-6 ------------------------------------------- If by chance an entry ends up split between two pages a simple \page[yes] command can be inserted. I considered instead putting a \goodbreak between entries but figured it wasn't worth the bother. Since I call this fragment a \chapter it is listed in the TOC. I had to put \whitespace[medium] right after the \startbackmatter command just as I did after \startbodymatter. for my purposes for this task simple is better and much faster. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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localfootnotes and bodyfontsize in a placetable
by Alan BRASLAU 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

The following attached "minimal" example using local footnotes and a small body font size exhibits two problems: 1. The \placelocalfootnotes are incoherently in the "normal" size, as I would expect them to be proportionally reduced. 2. The width of the first column gets incorrectly set (there is a break between "a" and "cell"). Probably there is a better way of achieving this correctly. Alan\setupbodyfont[10pt] \starttext 10pt \startplacetable [title=A title] \switchtobodyfont [6pt] \startlocalfootnotes \bTABLE \bTR \bTD a cell\startfootnote A footnote\stopfootnote\eTD \bTD another cell\eTD \eTR \eTABLE \placelocalfootnotes \stoplocalfootnotes \stopplacetable \stoptext \setupbodyfont[10pt] \starttext 10pt \startplacetable [title=A title] \switchtobodyfont [6pt] \startlocalfootnotes \bTABLE \bTR \bTD a cell\startfootnote A footnote\stopfootnote\eTD \bTD another cell\eTD \eTR \eTABLE \placelocalfootnotes \stoplocalfootnotes \stopplacetable \stoptext

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Set background color for a single page
by Tim Li 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Sometimes, I only want a single page, say, the titlepage or page 32, with colored background rather that the whole document. Here are some codes: \starttext% titlepage (yellow) \startmakeup[standard] \midaligned{How to make document} \stopmakeup % page1 (gray) Many \CONTEXT\ users $\ldots$ \page % page2 (darkyellow) Many \TEX\ users $\ldots$ \stoptext Of course, it is awful that if I set the titlepage yellow, page1 gray and page2 darkyellow. How can I achieve this? regrads, Tim

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``fallback" in Typescript
by Tim Li 23 Apr '13

23 Apr '13

Hi, In the wiki, fallback often appears in the definition of typescript. I am curious about this ``fallback", is there a place to learn the fallback in detail? I haven't found this place in our wiki. Regards, Tim

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Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit
by Jan Heinen 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Thank you all!!!!!! My book from last year (15.000 lines text + context-code and 1.500 lines macro-code now was compiled without no further problems! I only had to change all \define\variable ... to \defineexpandable\variable ... I think, now I understand a little bit more about ConTeXt and try again to give a little bit back to the community. I have started a new article on the context-wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Calculating_with_dimension_units Hopefully the more sophisticated ConTeXter help a little bit to improve the article. Please have a look what is wrong and what I have forgotten (or don't know). Regards Janis

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Accessing documentation repository
by contact＠thomas-corbiere.name 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Hello, I would like to access ConTeXt documentation repository to download and study how ConTeXt is used to produce the manuals, but it looks like the repositories are down. I tried the following: - Official(?) repository svn://ctx.pragma-ade.nl/manuals - Manual translations http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/contextman/scmsvn/ Can someone point me to the new location for the documentation repository? Regards, Thomas Corbière

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Re: [NTG-context] calculating with dimension unit
by Jan Heinen 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

Hello, thanks for the helpfull tipps. Only one wasn't working: \defineexpandable\ColumnABii {\ctxlua{context([==[\ColumnA + \ColumnB]==])}} ColumnABii: \ColumnABii The result is: ColumnABii: 30mm+ 40mm And it should be ColumnABii: 70mm And in the other cases I get back: 199.16928pt instead of 70mm but this seems to be the same. I think this calculating with dimension is not very well documented in the context-wiki. Thus I would like to write a small article about "Calculating with dimension units" in the wiki.contextgarden.net to help others a bit. Or is there already an article somewhere? Regards Jannis

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calculating with dimension unit
by Jan Heinen 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

In a book I produced with ConTeXt last year, I did a lot of calculation to be able to change the layout dynamicaly. With the actual version of ConTeXt I can't compile the book. I have tried a lot of things today ... without success. I hope my minimal-example helps you to understand, what I want to do - and what I am doing wrong: \starttext \setupexternalfigures[location={local,global,default}] \defineexpandable\ColumnA {30mm} \defineexpandable\ColumnB {40mm} \defineexpandable\ColumnABi {\dimexpr(\ColumnA + \ColumnB)} \defineexpandable\ColumnABii {\ctxlua{context(\ColumnA + \ColumnB)}} \newdimen\ColumnABiii \ColumnABiii = \dimexpr(\ColumnA + \ColumnB) A \ColumnA% ok B \ColumnB% ok % I sadly get only errors when I delete the comments: %ColumnABi: \ColumnABi %ColumnABii: \ColumnABii %ColumnABiii: \ColumnABiii %\externalfigure[cow][width=\ColumnABiii] ~ \page \stoptext

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setuppagenumber--start at page xy
by "H. Özoguz" 22 Apr '13

22 Apr '13

> Minimal example: > > \setuppagenumber[number=3] > \starttext > \input tufte > \stoptext > > I'm using today's context version. > > Thanks, Jörg You could use \setcounter[userpage][2] \starttext \input tufte \stoptext Huseyin

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