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Footnotes in Linecorrection/ Placeongrid
by "H. Özoguz" 26 Nov '12

26 Nov '12

Hi there, because I use gridsetting and mixed arabic and latin words together, I have to use \placeongrid{} or \startlinecorrection\stoplinecorrection to achieve gridsetting. Now this probelm arised: In these environments footnotes disappear, they are simply not printed, but the footnotenumber itself is printed. \setuplayout[grid=yes] \starttext \startlinecorrection This is a test-text.\footnote{This footnote disappears...Why?} \stoplinecorrection \stoptext How to correct that? Thanks. Huseyin

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Problem with \product
by Bernd Kosubek 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Hallo, I use: ConTeXt ver: 2012.11.23 17:35 MKIV fmt: 2012.11.25 int: english/english Problem: \product do not work: Main-file "a.tex": \startproject a \environment e 1 \product b 3 \stopproject Environment-file "e.tex" \startenvironment e \setupbodyfont[sans,12pt] \stopenvironment Sub-file "b" \startproduct b \project a 2 \stopproduct gives as a ressult: 1 3 The environment-file works fine, but the sub-file seems to be ignored. What is the matter? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Bernd Kosubek ------ DATENSCHUTZ geht alle an! eMails sind wie Postkarten! JEDER kann sie LESEN und ÄNDERN, daher: Nur GPG-(PGP-)signierte eMails stammen von uns! Unsere öffentlichen Schlüssel können von den üblichen Schlüsselservern geladen werden. Bitte teilen Sie uns mit, ob auch Sie einen öffentlichen Schlüssel bereitstellen. Nachrichten können dann verschlüsselt werden. Besuchen Sie www.bsi.bund.de -- es lohnt sich!

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A problem with units
by Marcin Borkowski 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Hi all, being quite happy with things like \unit{10 km/h}, once I did \unit{45 min}, only to get "45 m" in the resulting file. I suspect that \unit does not know about minutes; is there any way to teach it;)? Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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disable expansion for one single component
by Thomas A. Schmitz 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Hi all, for a book I'm typesetting, I use adobe minion and have enabled protrusion=pure,expansion=quality in the typescript and then \setupalign[hanging,hz] in the main environment. Now it turns out that in one of the components/chapters of the book, this messes up the spacing of some characters. Is there a way to disable expansion (but not of course protrusion) for one single chapter? Thanks, and all best Thomas

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\unit problem with powers of ten.
by Romain Diss 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Hi all, I got some problems to express powers of ten in the \unit command. See the strange behaviour with these two minimal examples. \starttext \unit{10^2 meter}\\ \unit{10^{-12} second} \stoptext However, there is no problem with this one: \unit{1e-4 kilogram}. Is this a bug or are these expressions not supported? Thanks. -- Romain Diss <romain.diss(a)yahoo.fr>

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ConTeXt Standalone/Suite in Windows
by Pablo Rodríguez 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Hi everybody, I would like to be able to use a ConTeXt Standalone on a computer with WinXP Pro and no internet connection and no administrative rights. Isn't it possible to install on a different computer (let's say c:\context) and then move that to the same directory on the other computer? I'm really interested in knowing whether this works, since I must first ask to a friend to be able to install ConTeXt on her computer to be able to use it on the computer I want. I'm on Linux myself. Many thanks in advance, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Re: [NTG-context] Images in MultiMarkdown -> context -> PDF
by Guy Stalnaker 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Well, that lead to an interesting experiment. I used convert to -resample a set of images to 300dpi and redid the compile. They are all now too bod, many off the right side of the page. Then did the same but set to 72. They are still too big. Odd, from too small to too big. I will try and be a bit more precise and craft a text doc to play with this and report the results. Thanks for your help! Guy On 11/21/2012 10:51 AM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Guy Stalnaker <jstalnak(a)wisc.edu> wrote: >> Thanks - see my first post for a link to a web folder where you can find the .tex file, the .pdf context produces, two screenshots of the differing image treatment and two of the image files shown in the screenshots. > > Gah --- missed that. Thanks! > > The resolution of the image is is either not correctly set, or not > correctly read by ConTeXt --- so ConTeXt assumes 300dpi instead of 72. > I've attached a self-made image of 547px wide, and run the following > file: > > \starttext > \externalfigure[CMSLogin.jpg] \crlf > \figurenaturalwidth\ -- \figurexresolution\ -- \figurexsize > > \externalfigure[cross.jpg] \crlf > \figurenaturalwidth\ -- \figurexresolution\ -- \figurexsize > \stoptext > > This prints the following dimensions for your figure and the Gimp-made > one, respectively: > > 8635829sp – 0 – 547 > 35982623sp – 72 – 547 > > Can't remember how to convert scaled points to inches, so here's some > fraction juggling instead. > The naturalwidth of the cross is 4.2 times larger: > 35982623 / 8635829 > = 4.166667 > > So the login jpg will have 4.16666666 times as many dpi. > 72 * 4.166667 > = 300 dpi > > Which corresponds to this observation by you: > >> But note that I attempted to test the dpi theory by >> selecting an image and using GIMP to set its >> dpi to 300 yet that resulted in no visible change. > > What if you use the GIMP to set its dpi to 72? > > --Sietse > -- "There is only love, and then oblivion. Love is all we have to set against hatred." (paraphrased) Ian McEwan Guy Stalnaker, I^2@DOIT, 1210 West Dayton Street, Room 3209 CSS, Madison WI 53719-1220, jstalnak(a)wisc.edu, work 608.263.8035, cell 608.235.4718, fax 608.265.6681,

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ConTeXt: Page numbering in words for spanish
by Acidrums4 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Hello there and thanks for finally let me into this mailing list! So I tried to hack the macro given in the ConTeXt wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Page_numbering_in_words) to write pagenumbering in words in spanish, my native language. Things were great until I had to reach the 100th page. ConTeXt claims when compiling, but I don't know how to fix the macro so it can write hundred-numbers. 'Cien' is 100 for spanish. 'Ciento uno' for 101, 'ciento dos' for 102 and so (You can see a more detailed example in http://spanish.about.com/cs/forbeginners/a/cardinalnum_beg.htm) So basically I need to prepend the word 'cien' for each word number from 1 to 99 to write the one-hundreds, 'doscientos' for the two-hundreds... Here is my dirty hacked version of the macro (you may save it as 'numstr.tex' for compiling), and a minimal example as follows: \input numstr \defineconversion[numstring][\numstr] \setupuserpagenumber[numberconversion=numstring] \starttext \dorecurse{100}{\recurselevel\page} \stoptext I'm such a noob with TeX and I cannot figure out how to do this, and I need this for this friday!. However, Aditya in the TeX section of StackExchange (http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82722/context-page-numbering-in-word… for-spanish#comment178155_82722) told me that I could do this witk Lua (editing the file core-con.lua, as seen in http://repo.or.cz/w/context.git/blob/HEAD:/tex/context/base/core-con.lua ), 'cause I'm using MkIV for doing this. But I don't know anything about Lua (seems pretty easy, but I don't know how to test the code Aditya gave me) and If I knew how to do that, I don't know how to make it work in my document... All I could do is translate the 'words' array to spanish, but I couldn't do more... Could you guys give me a hand on this? Thank you so much!

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"Hiding" columns in m-database & TABLE
by Marcin Borkowski 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi all, I'd like to process a csv file (with the database module) in order to typeset a (nice) TABLE. However, I have a few columns I'd like to omit. I can (of course) hand-edit the csv file; but is there a way to do it automatically? Something like \setupTABLE[column][3,4,5][kill] I did [empty=yes,width=0pt] in place of [kill], and it worked, but it seems like a hack (and I don't know whether it does actually process the cells I'm omitting - which in my case wouldn't bother me, but might be an additional layer of inelegance;)). And better ideas? Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with ConTeXt
by "H. Özoguz" 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Am 23.11.2012 15:17, schrieb ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl: > The table*is* the workaround ;P As long as you don?t mind being > limited to columns on one page, the tabulate syntax and the > restrictions on the input order, you?ll definitely be fine. > > The additional code was supposed to show how to handle an issue > that is very likely to manifest itself with what you are doing: > translations of this kind are usually accompanied by some special > pagination. Using plain counters for that can have undesirable > side-effects. > > Regards > Philipp Ok, thanks, so I misunderstood :) But now a different issue arises, it could be that for my purpose of the dual-languaged book, it is better to divide every page NOT into left and right, but into up and down. Of course now the tabluate does not work, is there a workaround for this? Huseyin

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Degree sign
by Marcin Borkowski 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi all, is there a "canonical" way to obtain a degree sign? I'd best like it to work in both text and math mode, and not use UTF-8 but some TeX-y \command (like \degree or so). Best -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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beta
by Hans Hagen 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi, As Mojca is moving the distribution to another server we have a few days of potential instability which gives us the change to experiment a bit. I've changed the defaults for the math fonts so that now we use the 'real thing'. However, as there can be issues, one can still say at the top of a document (of in cont-syst.tex): \enablemode[txmath] \enablemode[pxmath] \enablemode[lmmath] The design sized latin modern text font is still the default but one could already change that by \setupbodyfont[modern] There is currently some renaming going on for those math fonts but that should not affect us as context can handle older names too. 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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mtxrun server help broken
by Thomas A. Schmitz 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi all, with current minimals, the help server appears to be broken. Running mtxrun --script server --start --auto the server starts up, but when I click on "help," I get a page with the helpful hint ConTeXt Help Information no definition some error There is no error message on the terminal. Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with ConTeXt
by "H. Özoguz" 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Am 21.11.2012 23:41, schrieb ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl: > What you are looking for is text streams. They are not yet fully > functional in mkiv. But as long as you need the streams to appear > as columns on the same page, as seems to be the case, there is a > cheap workaround using the*tabulate* environment (see below). > > The great thing about \{start,stop}tabulate is that it allows for > page breaks inside paragraphs of arbitrary length. > > Regards > Philipp > > > ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? > > \newcount\progresscounter \progresscounter0 > \def\placeprogresscounter{% > %% caution when using dynamic content: check > %% for first pass to avoid multiple executions > \iftrialtypesetting42\else > \advance\progresscounter\plusone > \the\progresscounter > \fi > } > > \starttext > > \starttabulate[|r|p|p|] > \NC \placeprogresscounter > \NC \language[deo] Hallo, Welt! > \NC \language[en] \input knuth > \NC\NR > \HL % ????????????????????????% > \NC \placeprogresscounter > \NC \language[deo] N?chster Abschnitt! > \NC \language[en] \input ward > \NC\NR > \stoptabulate > > \stoptext Thank you. Why not simply a table without any workaround? \starttabulate[|p|p|] \NC \language[deo] Hallo, Welt! \NC \language[en] \input knuth \NC\NR \NC \language[deo] Nächster Abschnitt! \NC \language[en] \input ward \NC\NR \stoptabulate Huseyin

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\startitemize[columns] once again...
by Marcin Borkowski 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

This minimal example behaves in a strange way: \starttext Some text \startitemize[columns,two,joinedup] \item abc% $\frac{x^2-x+3}{x^2+x-3}$; \item xyz% $\frac{x^5-3}{x^3+x-2}$. \stopitemize \stoptext If we remove the percentage signs in the items, an additional vertical skip appears. Is it a feature or a bug? (Also, I encountered a *very* weird error where in some cases a whole page disappears in the pdf; I could not distil it into a minimal example, but I'll try and I'll post it here. I have a very vague suspicion that \startitemize[columns] is again the culprit.) TIA, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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Dash equivalent of $BASH_SOURCE (for setuptex)
by Mojca Miklavec 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Hi everyone, Hans wrote me the following, but I'm unable to figure it out myself. The script "setuptex" (which is in fact not urgently needed as one can just as well export the right path, but it comes in handy) can be used in two ways: (a) . /path/to/context/tex/setuptex (b) . /path/to/context/tex/setuptex /path/to/context/tex The first approach only works if the shell interpreting setuptex knows where the sourced script is located. Currently the script uses the following code and works in Bash, KSH (and maybe some other shells as well, but I'm not sure which ones). if [ z"$BASH_SOURCE" != z ]; then SCRIPTPATH="$BASH_SOURCE" elif [ z"$KSH_VERSION" != z ]; then SCRIPTPATH="${.sh.file}" else SCRIPTPATH="$0" fi Hans had problems with Dash, however, I have no clue how to enable (a) in Dash. The (b) approach always works though, so in the worst case the answer to Hans would be "provide the path to your tex root, or write your own script with hardcoded path ;)", but if anyone has any clue if finding path to the executed script is possible in Dash or in any other POSIX-compatible way, please let me know. Mojca On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > Hi Mojca, > > One of the things you need to look into is the first-setup and setup tex > scripts (just look at the dash issues thread) .. i have the impression that > the setuptex script doesn't find its root (own) under dash because it has > different $0 handling (dash is the debian variant of bash, so we're talking > of debian installations) > > Hans

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rsync
by Hans Hagen 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Hi, rsync rsync://10.100.1.2/all -r work's here (internal ip) .. do you use more than -r ? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: [NTG-context] Indented footnotes in ConTeXt
by Adam Khan 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

Thank you for your solutions, Huseyin, Wolfgang, but this still does not fix my problem with passing \setupnotation. Why does Mark IV keep throwing the error “undefined control sequence”? I have reinstalled ConTeXt and run both luatools --generate and mtxrun --generate. Sincerely yours, Adam Khan

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Re: [NTG-context] Section alone on the page
by "H. Özoguz" 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Am 20.11.2012 12:00, schrieb ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl: > It?s a problem with \blank which ignore the ?samepage? keyword in grid mode. > > When you process this example in normal mode ?line 40? is moved to the second page but in grid mode it stays on the first page. Is theat easy to fix or a long-term-todo? (Layouting books, I need gridding, indeed, at first that was my reason to start with context) Huseyin

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Arabic with ConTeXt
by "H. Özoguz" 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hello, many books I layout have arabic words or complete paragraphs in it - where the main language is german. For example there is a book, which is completely in arabic with german translation. My present method to write in Arabic is, for sure, not the best, f.e. I have problems with arabic numbers (which are printed mirrored), problems with brackets and so on. I have two questions, hopefully there is an expert for questions concerning Arabic or similar quests: First: How to divide the page into a left part and a right part, two wright german on the left side and arabic on the right. Is \paragraph the best way for it? Second: Which is your recommended way to type arabic with ConTeXt? I add mine in this Mail, please give me advises to improve it. Thank you. Huseyin P.S.: If gridsetting with arabic is possible, then I would prefer that. But if not (see my non-gridsetting solution with \placeongrid), it's ok for me. Here an example of Arabic on the right, with german left under it (should be side-by-side, did not implemend the paragraph yet) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++\setuplayout[grid=yes]\setuplayout[grid=yes] \definefont[Sheh][name:Scheherazade*arabic at 17pt] % or file:amiri-regular.ttf*... file:alq.ttf \def\Arab[#1][#2]{ \placeongrid[top]{ \blank[0.2cm] \setupalign[r2l]\Sheh #1 \blank[0.3cm] } {\sl #2} \blank[big] } \starttext \Arab[فَبِأَيِّ آلَاءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ][Welche der Wohltaten eures Herrn wollt ihr beide verleugnen?] \stoptext ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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pgfplots error
by Thomas Weißschuh 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hi, while trying to use the module pgfplots from latest ConTeXt minimals I encountered the following error: [..] )) (/home/t-8ch/Projekte/context/minimals/tex/texmf-modules/tex/generic/pgfplots/libs/pgfplotslibrary.code.tex) (/home/t-8ch/Projekte/context/minimals/tex/texmf-modules/tex/generic/pgfplots/oldpgfcompatib/pgfplotsoldpgfsupp_loader.code.tex (/home/t-8ch/Projekte/context/minimals/tex/texmf-modules/tex/generic/pgf/libraries/pgflibraryfpu.code.tex)) (/home/t-8ch/Projekte/context/minimals/tex/texmf-modules/tex/generic/pgfplots/util/pgfplotsutil.codetex ! LuaTeX error <\directlua >:1: module 'pgfplots.lua' not found: no field package.preload['pgfplots.lua'] no file './pgfplots/lua.so' no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/pgfplots/lua.so' no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so' no file './pgfplots.so' no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/pgfplots.so' no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so' stack traceback: [C]: in function 'require' <\directlua >:1: in main chunk. ConTeXt version: 2012.11.16 23:51 This could be fixed by removing the suffix '.lua' from the argument to `require(pgfplots.lua)` in line 1979 of the file tex/texmf-modules/tex/generic/pgfplots/util/pgfplotsutil.code.tex diff --git a/tex/texmf-modules/tex/generic/pgfplots/util/pgfplotsutil.code.tex.old b/tex/texmf-modules/tex/generic/pgfplots/util/pgfplotsutil.code.tex index 0ef2cb0..6d504a7 100644 --- a/tex/texmf-modules/tex/generic/pgfplots/util/pgfplotsutil.code.tex.old +++ b/tex/texmf-modules/tex/generic/pgfplots/util/pgfplotsutil.code.tex @@ -1976,7 +1976,7 @@ \catcode`\%=12 \gdef\pgfplotsPERCENT{%}} \pgfutil@IfUndefined{directlua}{}{% - \directlua{require(\pgfplotsDQ pgfplots.lua\pgfplotsDQ)}% + \directlua{require(\pgfplotsDQ pgfplots\pgfplotsDQ)}% }% % swaps the content of two macros Is this report sufficient or should I also contact pgfplots upstream? Regards, Thomas

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Images in MultiMarkdown -> context -> PDF
by Guy Stalnaker 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hello, Thanks to Aditya I have discovered ConTeXt which, thus far, seems to give me much more control over the images than LaTex does. Yay! Before we get the reason for this post, I should note that my workflow is MultiMarkdown file, pandoc output of standalone context file, then context on that pandoc output. I have edited the context file to include a /defineexternalfigure directive to put a frame around all images. The images I have are all screenshots of application usage steps. The crucial output is html that goes into our online Knowledge base. Secondary output is PDF that will be used for our classroom training. The screen shots are mostly jpg with a scattering of png, and are all different sizes. The pandoc html output looks very much as we want it as we can use a css file to customize padding, etc. I get a very good pdf document, but there is one bewildering issue -- the images in the ConTeXt output pdf document are scaled very small. All of them, that is, but two which are more correctly sized in the pdf document. Almost all of them are jpg images created on a MacOS VM using an application called Skitch. I have looked the images over and besides some differing exif data all of them have the expected xy dimension attributes and I can see no difference between the two that are 'right' in the pdf document and the rest that are too small. I've tried playing with scale=1000 and factor=<max,fit,broad> in the /defineexternalfigure directive and none help; scale=1000 changes nothing at all for the small images and scale values above 1000, while modifying the smaller images also make the correctly sized images too large. The factor values make all images scale to fit the textwidth without exception (that is, I can see no difference whatever in the three options), making smaller images far to large and pixelated. I took one image and used GIMP to modify its DPI to 300 thinking perhaps that might be a factor, but the 72dpi and 300dpi images look identically sized in the PDF document. The texexex output only says this about the images: <quote> <./images/group54/26378/CMSLogin_300dpi.jpg> figures : dimensions of images/group54/26378/CMSLogin_300dpi.jpg loaded from figurefile itself ... <./images/group54/26378/CMSSelectProjectDropDown.jpg> figures : dimensions of images/group54/26378/CMSSelectProjectDropDown.j pg loaded from figurefile itself </quote> That output is for both a 300dpi and a 72dpi image. Though is looks like dimensions are being read, both are too small in the pdf output. I quoted texexec because it showed output related to the images. Using 'context <fname>' does not produce a similar console output, but the pdf doc created is the same with the same image size issues. Also of note is that pdflatex output on a pandoc->latex file does almost exactly the opposite of what context does--all images are scaled to fit text width by default (like using factor=max in context). But that is just as unwanted as having the images too small. The html output when viewed in a browser shows the same images as expected. None of these images are the same size and using any width=X value cannot work. Some screen shots may be 1024 pixels wide while others only 150 pixels wide (a shot of a button or tab, for example). I looked through 1.5 years of posts to the comp.tex.context news group looking for anything might be similar, but no luck. I have put several of the files involved on a publicly accessible web server. There are two screen shots of the pdf output showing incorrect image sizing and correct image sizing and the actual image files themselves. There is the markdown, context, html, and pdf documents. https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/jstalnak/web/context/ I know that is a lot. I appreciate any help anyone can provide. Best regards, GuyS -- "There is only love, and then oblivion. Love is all we have to set against hatred." (paraphrased) Ian McEwan Guy Stalnaker, I^2@DOIT, 1210 West Dayton Street, Room 3209 CSS, Madison WI 53719-1220, jstalnak(a)wisc.edu, work 608.263.8035, cell 608.235.4718, fax 608.265.6681, page page-guy(a)watchdog.doit.wisc.edu

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intertext (math): alignment problems
by Andreas Mang 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Dear all, if I set up my formulas with a right alignment that has some indentation to it, I am experiencing problems with "intertext". I would assume the text was flushed left. However, it aligns to the formulas (i.e. it is aligned to the left margin defined in \setupformulas). Minimal example below. If I comment the setupformulas, the equation is aligned to the center and the "intertext" is flushed left. Any suggestions? Cheers, Andreas ConTeXt ver: 2012.11.19 19:04 MKIV fmt: 2012.11.20 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setupformulas[align=right,leftmargin=3.5em] \starttext \startformula \startalign[n=2] \NC b \NC = Ax\NR \startintertext likewise % should be flushed left \stopintertext \NC q \NC = Ay\NR \stopalign \stopformula \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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typefile with absolute path to file
by Erik Margraf 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Dear List, a question about \typefile{}. I tried to use \typefile{ /with/an/absolute/path/to/some_file } and failed Message in the log: Verbatim some_file not found. Also tried with no path at all, assuming it will take the file from the current directory. Same result. Do I miss something? Should this work? Or, if not, how can I achieve this effect (typefile with absolute path to a file. btw. on a Linux system) I'm aware of a similar message thread to this list from May 25th, this year. But I didn't feel that it speaks against my comprehension of \typefile ... Thanks! Erik

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Symbols
by Willi Egger 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hi all, could someone bring light into the way how to use symbols…in MKIV I wanted to extract a symbol from uzdr (Zapfdingbats). In MIII the that worked like this: \definefontsynonym[Dingbats][uzdr] \definesymbol[box][\getglyph{Dingbats}{\char113}] In MKIV this is not the case. I tried to find out with the font-manual, unfortunately it only shows the content of the symb-imp-eur.mkiv. I tried to find the fonts mentioned in that file, but miserably failed. I tried different approaches but get now result, except for the black diamond, but this is defined internally in ConTeXt (\definesymbol[blackdiamond] [\textormathchar{"2666}]. \definefontsynonym[Dingbats][uzdr] \definefontsynonym[MSAM][msam10] \definesymbol[boxA] [\getglyph{Dingbats}{\char113}] %Seems to be changed... \definesymbol[boxB] [\getglyph{Dingbats}{\char"274F}] % U+0274F, 00052, a74 \definesymbol[cuttingscissors] [\getglyph{Dingbats}{\utfchar{"2701}}] \definesymbol[blackdiamond] [\textormathchar{"2666}] \definesymbol[blackdiamondvar][\textormathchar{"25C6}] \definesymbol[diamondfilled] [\getglyph{MSAM}{\utfchar{"F0067}}] \starttext Thanks for support… Willi \symbol{boxA} \symbol{boxB} \symbol{cuttingscissors} \symbol{blackdiamond} \symbol{blackdiamondvar} \symbol{diamondfilled} \stoptext

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