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Overlapping margin figures
by Marco Patzer 21 Oct '12

21 Oct '12

Hi, I have narrow margin floats and wide floats that protrude into the margin. Currently they overlap with the narrow figures. How to avoid this? \useMPlibrary [dum] \definefloat [marginfigure] [marginfigures] [figure] \setupfloat [marginfigure] [default=margin] \definefloat [widefigure] [widefigures] [figure] \setupfloat [widefigure] [location=left] \starttext \dorecurse{5}{%% \startplacemarginfigure \externalfigure [dum] [width=\rightmarginwidth, height=2cm] \stopplacemarginfigure} \startplacewidefigure \externalfigure [dum] [width=\dimexpr\textwidth+\rightmargintotal\relax, height=3cm] \stopplacewidefigure \stoptext Marco

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Re: [NTG-context] Help with Long Titles
by Malte Stien 21 Oct '12

21 Oct '12

Wolfgang, Thank you. That is very close. > Replace the line above with this block: > > \startframed[frame=off,align=normal,offset=none,foregroundstyle=\tfc,foregroundcolor=darkgray] > \getvariable{titlepage}{title} > \stopframed That left-aligns it; I need to right align it. Already tried align=right and align=flushright, none of which worked. I am just guessing here as there does not seem to be any documentation available on \startframed. How can I right-align this? Thank you. Malte. Am 19.10.2012 um 02:29 schrieb Malte Stien <malte(a)stien.de>: > Hello, > > I am using a the startsetups mechanism that defines a title page in my environment file. That way anyone creating a document in my organisation can create a new document and get a consistent look of the title page. There is one problem with this: On occasions I get very long document titles and then the title extends over the left-hand edge of the page. I would like to incorporate a new line into the document title; I'd even be happy to do that manually, ie. it does not have to be automatic. > > There are two problems here: > 1. I had not had any success with putting a newline into the title; it will need to be not where the titlepage is defined but where it is used (see below). I have tried \par and \\ and none of them work. > 2. Assuming I found a way to do this, I would need to also find a way of reducing the \blank[170mm] by the amount that the second line of the title takes up to render the information down the bottom in roughly the same place. If push comes to shove, I could create a second titlepage setup for two-line titles, but I much rather not. Is there a solution to that? Is there maybe a way to position the information down the bottom absolute? > > Here is minimal example (or something very close to that): > > % The title page > \startsetups titlepage > \startstandardmakeup[style=sans] > \blank[50mm] > \rightaligned{\bfd\getvariable{titlepage}{project}} > \textrule > \rightaligned{\tfc\color[darkgray]{\getvariable{titlepage}{title}}} Replace the line above with this block: \startframed[frame=off,align=normal,offset=none,foregroundstyle=\tfc,foregroundcolor=darkgray] \getvariable{titlepage}{title} \stopframed Wolfgang

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way setting does not work in \setupcaptions
by Marco Patzer 20 Oct '12

20 Oct '12

Hi, the `way` setting cannot be applied globally to all floats using `\setupcaptions`. For the `prefix` value it works. Can this be fixed? \setupblackrules [width=4cm, height=1cm] %% prefix is applied, way is not %% \setupcaptions %% [prefix=no, %% way=bytext] %% prefix and way is applied \setupcaption [figure, table] [prefix=no, way=bytext] \starttext \dorecurse{2}{% \startchapter [title=Chapter] \dorecurse{2}{% \startplacefigure \blackrule \stopplacefigure \startplacetable \blackrule \stopplacetable} \stopchapter} \stoptext Marco

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\startfootnote\stopfootnote bug
by Alan BRASLAU 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Minimal example: \starttext \input tufte \startfootnote \input ward \stopfootnote \stoptext (works OK if one replaces \startfootnote \stopfootnote with \footnote{ }) Alan Runaway argument? \input ward \stopfootnote \stoptext ! File ended while scanning use of \strc_pickup_nop. system > tex > error on line 4 in file /usr/local/context/beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-yes.mkiv: File ended while scanning use of \strc_pickup_nop ... 1 %D \module 2 %D [ file=cont-yes, 3 %D version=2012.06.01, 4 >> %D title=\CONTEXT\ Miscellaneous Macros, 5 %D subtitle=Startup Stub, 6 %D author=Hans Hagen, 7 %D date=\currentdate, 8 %D copyright={PRAGMA ADE \& \CONTEXT\ Development Team}] 9 %C 10 %C This module is part of the \CONTEXT\ macro||package and is 11 %C therefore copyrighted by \PRAGMA. See mreadme.pdf for 12 %C details. 13 14 % At some point I will reconsider the \starttext .. \stoptext <inserted text> \par l.4 } } context.finishjob() \luat_start_lua_code_indeed ...ua \zerocount {#1}} l.78 \stopluacode Is this a scoop? Will we really eventually do away with \starttext \stoptext? I can't admit the number of times where I mistakenly write \startext \stoptext and of course generate an error! Alan

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Question about language
by Andres Conrado Montoya 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Greetings! I want to contribute to the Spanish translation in the lang-txt.lua<http://gitorious.org/context/context/blobs/origin/tex/context/base/lang-txt…> file. How do I do that? Thanks!

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Help with Long Titles
by Malte Stien 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Hello, I am using a the startsetups mechanism that defines a title page in my environment file. That way anyone creating a document in my organisation can create a new document and get a consistent look of the title page. There is one problem with this: On occasions I get very long document titles and then the title extends over the left-hand edge of the page. I would like to incorporate a new line into the document title; I'd even be happy to do that manually, ie. it does not have to be automatic. There are two problems here: 1. I had not had any success with putting a newline into the title; it will need to be not where the titlepage is defined but where it is used (see below). I have tried \par and \\ and none of them work. 2. Assuming I found a way to do this, I would need to also find a way of reducing the \blank[170mm] by the amount that the second line of the title takes up to render the information down the bottom in roughly the same place. If push comes to shove, I could create a second titlepage setup for two-line titles, but I much rather not. Is there a solution to that? Is there maybe a way to position the information down the bottom absolute? Here is minimal example (or something very close to that): % The title page \startsetups titlepage \startstandardmakeup[style=sans] \blank[50mm] \rightaligned{\bfd\getvariable{titlepage}{project}} \textrule \rightaligned{\tfc\color[darkgray]{\getvariable{titlepage}{title}}} \blank[170mm] \starttabulate[|plf{\tfa}|prf{\tfa}|] \NC\tfa\copyright\thinspace Pearson Pty Ltd \NC \getvariable{titlepage}{author} \NC\NR \TB[small] \NC \color[darkgray]{Commercial in Confidence} \NC \color[darkgray]{\getvariable{titlepage}{version}} \NC\NR \stoptabulate \tfx Uncontrolled copy if printed. \stopstandardmakeup \stopsetups % ...and this is how it is being used \starttext \setvariables [titlepage] [set=\texsetup{titlepage}, project={Pearson}, title={This document title is very long, so I'd like to \par break it into two lines}, author={Tony Mueller}, version={Version 1.0.0}] \stoptext Thank you very much for all the help I have received so far. Regards, Malte.

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Re: [NTG-context] Table Numbering
by Malte Stien 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Thank you, Wolfgang. That works. Regards, Malte. On 19/10/2012, at 4:14, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have just up just upgraded from version 2012.03.30 to the latest beta. Suddenly none of my tables are named chapter.number anymore, eg. Table 1.3 for the third table in Chapter 1, but just 3. That is, the chapter number is no longer prepended. Has something changed there? How can I enable the old behaviour again? > > Add > > \setupcaption[prefix=yes] > > to your document do enable the chapter prefix for a floats or add > > \setupcaption[table][prefix=yes] > > to enable it only for table floats. > > I?ll take a look why the prefix isn?t enabled by default which should be the case (the value is set on the core but ignored). > > Wolfgang

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Table Numbering
by Malte Stien 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Hello, I have just up just upgraded from version 2012.03.30 to the latest beta. Suddenly none of my tables are named chapter.number anymore, eg. Table 1.3 for the third table in Chapter 1, but just 3. That is, the chapter number is no longer prepended. Has something changed there? How can I enable the old behaviour again? Thank you, Malte. PS: The latest stable seems to still be 2011.05.18; any reason why that does not get updated?

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ConTeXt unofficial test suite stub
by Marco Pessotto 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Hello there! TL;DR: https://github.com/melmothx/context-unofficial-test-suite A week ago I had a conversation with mpfusion and another user over IRC about the ConTeXt test suite. mpfusion had a tarball with some test and an elaborate machinery to see if the testfiles compile. He kindly provided the tarball, and I took the liberty to do it my way (I didn't hear back from him, I assume he's working on his solution), using the testfiles and rewriting the code. My solution is quite simple, is written in perl (300 lines all included) and probably is not portable to non-unix machines. It uses imagemagick and pdftoppm to raster the PDF, and it's resonably fast (with a trick to speed up the difference parsing). It produces an ascii table like this: ./run-test.pl --run Using /usr/local/bin/context mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.52 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2012.05.30 11:26 ................. | File name | Success | Differs Avg | Worst value | Pages | Time | | arrows-001 | OK | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 1 | 2 | | catcodes-001 | OK | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 1 | 2 | | columnsets-001 | OK | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 10 | 4 | | date-002 | OK | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 1 | 2 | | dates-001 | OK | 0.605634 | 0.605634 | 1 | 2 | | dates-002 | OK | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 1 | 3 | | hsv-001 | OK | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 8 | 5 | | inclusion | OK | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 1 | 2 | | metapost-001 | OK | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 1 | 2 | | metapost-002 | OK | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 1 | 2 | | mixed-001 | OK | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 2 | 2 | | narrower-bidi-001 | OK | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 4 | 2 | | ppchtex-001 | OK | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 1 | 2 | | ppchtex-005 | OK | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 1 | 2 | | ppchtex-006 | OK | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 1 | 2 | | spot-001 | OK | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 1 | 3 | | tables-001 | OK | 0.000000 | 0.000000 | 1 | 1 | It leaves the visual diffs as png images under diffs/ I'd like to know if there is some interest in this thing, as (obviously) the test suit is not really populated to have any kind of value. There is also room for improvement (like custom arguments to the compilation). Happy euroTeXt to the lucky partecipants. Enjoy! Best wishes -- Marco

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[co-pagedesign.tex] grid=yes not mentioned
by Philipp Gesang 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Hi all, in the page design manual the section “grid” does not mention that the grid needs to be enabled by \setuplayout[grid=yes]. Although the “grid” parameter is briefly discussed alongside the other parameters of \setuplayout, there is no hint at the available snapping methods. Philipp --- co-pagedesign.tex.orig 2012-10-18 12:06:19.391924262 +0200 +++ co-pagedesign.tex 2012-10-18 12:33:38.226379268 +0200 @@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ \NC columns \NC number \NC \NC\NR % Geen effect nog in MKII nog in MKIV \NC columndistance \NC dimension \NC \NC\NR % Geen effect nog in MKII nog in MKIV \NC grid \NC yes no -\NC Typsetting on the grid is activated with grid=on. \NC\NR +\NC Typesetting on the grid is activated with grid=yes. \NC\NR \NC bottomspace \NC dimension \NC \type{Bottomspace} increases the white space at the bottom of the page without altering the page-layout. \NC\NR \NC cutspace \NC dimension @@ -767,6 +767,19 @@ the last footnote!} \stopcolumns +Grid typesetting is part of the page layout. +To enable it globally, the parameter \type{grid} needs to be +set to \type{yes} (or \type{normal}), which starts snapping +with the default behavior. If this does not lead to the +desired results, the value \type{strict} will adjust the +grid more rigidly and \type{tolerant} more loosely. + +\startexample +\starttyping +\setuplayout[grid=yes] +\stoptyping +\stopexample + During typesetting on a grid the heads, figures, formulas and the running text are set on a fixed line spacing. If a typographical component for any reason is not placed on the

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Re: [NTG-context] making tables with lua
by Jeong Dal 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

Dear Wolfgang and Proch?zka Luk?? Ing, Thank you for the solution. It works nicely. It is so convenient to write many matrices. Best regards, Dalyoung

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font features in beta
by Philipp Gesang 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Hi all, this works in TL but not minimals: ································································· \definefontfeature[textfigures] [onum=yes] \definefontfeature[texligatures] [tlig=yes] \starttext \addff{textfigures} 1234567890 \addff{texligatures} foo---bar \stoptext ································································· With Context as of today and Luatex from minimals, I get lining figures and a triple dash. Did I miss something? Philipp

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Re: [NTG-context] making tables with lua
by Jeong Dal 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Dear Proch?zka Luk?? Ing and Hans, Thank you for the reply. It works fine. I modify your code to write a matrix and it also works too. \startformula \startluacode local NC, NR = context.NC, context.NR local t = {{1,0,3,4},{0,2,-2,5},{0,0,1,2}} context.startmatrix() --"{left={\left (\,},right={\,\right)}}") for _, r in ipairs(t) do for _, c in ipairs(r) do NC() context(c) end NR() end context.stopmatrix() \stopluacode \stopformula But I couldn't put "( )" before and after matrix. If I use context.startmatrix("{left={\left (\,},right={\,\right)}}") then it wrote "left…" as text before the matrix. How to enclose matrix with ( )? Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung > 4. Re: making tables with lua > (Proch?zka Luk?? Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.) > > > Once you have such functions prepared, you just select to type: > > printTabulate(mytab) -- via 'tabulate' > > or > > printTABLE(mytab) -- via 'TABLE' > > If you insist on 'tabulate' family, you could use the following snippet for your start: > > ---- > \starttext > \startluacode > local tab = {{1,2},{3,4}} > > printTabulate = function(tab) > context.starttabulate{"|" .. string.rep("c|", #tab[1])} > context.HL() > for _, r in ipairs(tab) do > for _, c in ipairs(r) do > context.VL() > context(c) > end > context.VL() > context.NR() > context.HL() > end > context.stoptabulate() > end > > printTabulate(tab) > \stopluacode > \stoptext > ---- > > You can write a similar function(s) to typeset via 'TABLE'. > > Best regards, > > Lukas > > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 03:13:39 +0200, Jeong Dal <haksan(a)me.com> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I used code which generates the table as following: >> >> \startluacode >> local NC, NR, HL, VL = context.NC, context.NR, context.HL, context.VL >> context.starttabulate { "|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|" } >> HL() >> for i=1, 6, 1 do >> for j=1,10 ,1 do >> k= i % 3 >> if k==1 then >> VL() context(10*(i - k)/3+j) >> else >> VL() >> end >> end >> VL() >> NR() >> if k==0 then >> HL() >> end >> end >> context.stoptabulate() >> \stopluacode >> >> But it has a fixed column definition as "|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|" and the number of columns. >> I wonder it is possible to use the variable for "j" to control the number of columns and the column setting. >> Of course, I may put similar codes which are different only in the number of columns and column settings when I need a table. >> But I have many similar tables whose number of columns are different only. >> If such a method is possible, I'd like to put such a code in \startbuffer?\stopbudffer and call it to generate tables of various number of columns given at each time. >> I also don't know whether it is possible to convey a number from ConTeXt to the variable in Lua code. >> >> I write this email because I saw a hope in recent discussion "Re: Fwd: Need help with \definetabulate" which has a method to vary the column setting. >> >> \definetabulate >> [whatever] >> [|l|r|] >> >> \definetabulate >> [whatever][else] >> [|l|c|r|] >> >> >> It may be a lazy man's question with no need for others. >> >> Thank you for reading. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Dalyoung > > > -- > Ing. Luk?? Proch?zka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] > Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] > Bezov? 1658 > 147 14 Praha 4 > > Tel: +420 244 062 238 > Fax: +420 244 461 038 >

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pgfplots example compile error
by LeeJason 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Dear all, When I compile the following simple pgfplots example \usemodule[pgfplots] \pgfplotsset{compat=1.3} \starttext Using Con{\TeX}t. \starttikzpicture \startloglogaxis \addplot coordinates { (1,1) (16,16) (32,64) }; \stoploglogaxis \stoptikzpicture \stoptext an error occured: ― 1980 LuaTeX error <\directlua >:1: module 'pgfplots.lua' not found: no field package.preload['pgfplots.lua'] no file '.\pgfplots\lua.dll' no file 'D:\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\lib\lua\pgfplots\lua.dll' no file 'D:\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\lib\lua\loadall.dll' no file '.\pgfplots.dll' no file 'D:\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\lib\lua\pgfplots.dll' no file 'D:\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\lib\lua\loadall.dll' stack traceback: [C]: in function 'require' <\directlua >:1: in main chunk. system > tex > error on line 1980 in file D:/context/tex/texmf-modules/tex/generic/pgfplots/util/pgfplotsutil.code.tex: LuaTeX error ... 1970 \catcode`\"=12 1971 \gdef\pgfplotsDQ{"}% 1972 \catcode`\|=12 1973 \gdef\pgfplotsVERTBAR{|}% 1974 \catcode`\#=12 1975 \gdef\pgfplotsHASH{#}% 1976 \catcode`\%=12 \gdef\pgfplotsPERCENT{%}} 1977 1978 \pgfutil@IfUndefined{directlua}{}{% 1979 \directlua{require(\pgfplotsDQ pgfplots.lua\pgfplotsDQ)}% 1980 >> }% 1981 1982 \input pgfplotsliststructure.code.tex 1983 \input pgfplotsliststructureext.code.tex 1984 \input pgfplotsarray.code.tex 1985 \input pgfplotsmatrix.code.tex 1986 \input pgfplotstableshared.code.tex 1987 \input pgfplotsdeque.code.tex 1988 \input pgfplotsbinary.code.tex 1989 \input pgfplotsutil.verb.code.tex 1990 <argument> ...gfplotsDQ pgfplots.lua\pgfplotsDQ )} \pgfutil@secondoftwo #1#2->#2 l.1980 } % I use the latest beta version of ConTeXt minimals. I don't know if this is a bug. Best regards, Jason Lee

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making tables with lua
by Jeong Dal 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Dear all, I used code which generates the table as following: \startluacode local NC, NR, HL, VL = context.NC, context.NR, context.HL, context.VL context.starttabulate { "|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|" } HL() for i=1, 6, 1 do for j=1,10 ,1 do k= i % 3 if k==1 then VL() context(10*(i - k)/3+j) else VL() end end VL() NR() if k==0 then HL() end end context.stoptabulate() \stopluacode But it has a fixed column definition as "|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|" and the number of columns. I wonder it is possible to use the variable for "j" to control the number of columns and the column setting. Of course, I may put similar codes which are different only in the number of columns and column settings when I need a table. But I have many similar tables whose number of columns are different only. If such a method is possible, I'd like to put such a code in \startbuffer…\stopbudffer and call it to generate tables of various number of columns given at each time. I also don't know whether it is possible to convey a number from ConTeXt to the variable in Lua code. I write this email because I saw a hope in recent discussion "Re: Fwd: Need help with \definetabulate" which has a method to vary the column setting. \definetabulate [whatever] [|l|r|] \definetabulate [whatever][else] [|l|c|r|] It may be a lazy man's question with no need for others. Thank you for reading. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Re: [NTG-context] Need help with \definetabulate
by Malte Stien 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Marco, > \definetabulate [alpha] [|l|l|l|] > \setuptabulate [alpha] [bodyfont=small] This does not work for me quite the way I need it to. I am really just after defining the font-size, but I would like to leave the column setup to the user (I am building an environment and that I would like everyone in my team to use to ensure a consistent look-and-feel or all documents). So, ideally, I would like to do this: > \definetabulate [alpha] > \setuptabulate [alpha] [bodyfont=small] > \starttext[|l|l|l|] > \startalpha > \NC first \NC second \NC third \NC\NR > \stopalpha > \stoptext ...but that does not seem to work. Any way I can achieve this? > Feel free to add an example. It's a wiki! Sure. Will do, once I have this working. Thank you, Malte. > Hi Malte > >> I am trying to define two tabulate styles as follows: >> >> - \setuptabulate[split=yes, bodyfont=small] >> - \setuptabulate[split=yes] > > \definetabulate [alpha] [|l|l|l|] > \setuptabulate [alpha] [bodyfont=small] > > \definetabulate [beta] [|l|l|] > \setuptabulate [beta] [bodyfont=small, split=yes] > > \starttext > \startalpha > \NC first \NC second \NC third \NC\NR > \stopalpha > > \startbeta > \NC lorem \NC ipsum \NC\NR > \stopbeta > \stoptext > >> ...such that I can just refer to them when I >> \starttabulate...\stoptabulate somewhere. > > To refer to a table, you place it as a float and use the > `reference=tab:alphatable` key. Then in the text you refer to the > table, see \in{table}[tab:alphatable]. > >> I thought, the command \definetabulate would come in handy here, >> but I can't work it out and it appears the documentation on that >> command is pretty scarce. >> >> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definetabulate > > Feel free to add an example. It's a wiki! > > > Marco

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scale=... and specifying the width and height of a figure
by Aditya Mahajan 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi, If scale option for a figure is set, \externalfigure does not honor the width and the height parameters. For example \externalfigure[cow][width=1cm, height=3cm, scale=750] gives a figure which has the usual aspect ratio. I know that settings scale=... along with width and height does not make sense. But, in one of my project, I set \setupexternalfigures[scale=750] as that makes sense for most of the figures, and if I try to use \externalfigure[cow][width=1cm, height=3cm] then the aspect ratio of the figures does not change. Not sure if this should be classified as a bug, but I am posting it here in case anyone else encounters the same issue and needs to know how to override this behavior: \externalfigure[cow][width=1cm, height=3cm, scale=] Aditya

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Total Number of Pages
by Nicholas Ulle 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi, How would I go about inserting the total number of pages in my document? I assume this would require two passes of texec or context. I've tried Googling and checking ConTeXt garden, but couldn't find anything regarding this. Thanks again, Nick

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Subscript Depth
by Nicholas Ulle 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi, How would I go about getting subscripts to stay at the same depth? An example of the problem I'm having is: \starttext % Notice the b's are not aligned $a_b' a_b$ \stoptext I'm only just learning ConTeXt and TeX, so I'm not sure what I'd need to change to fix this. Thanks, Nick

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New module: pararef
by Zenlima 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hallo, after so many of you helped me, I want to give back. I just made my t-pararef module public for everyone: http://modules.contextgarden.net/pararef http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Paragraph_Referencing Please feel free to send me comments about the coding style and what I could have done in a better way. E.g. the interface file is missing, but I don't know how it should look like. But I hope mainly that it will prove beneficial for some of you. H.

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Vertical positioning of floats within itemize
by Marcin Borkowski 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

It's me again! This doesn't quite work as expected (at least by me, that is;)): \starttext \startitemize \startitem \placefigure[right,high,none]{}{\framed[width=3cm,height=2cm]{!}} \input knuth \stopitem \stopitemize \stoptext (Namely, at the beginning of the \item there is something like a "blank line".) If I move \placefigure before \startitem, it looks better, but this seems to be a nasty hack. Do you have any idea how to achieve this effect in a more elegant way? TIA, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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ConTeXt inputs files from TEXMF/doc
by Mojca Miklavec 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hello, I used \externalfigure[background] in a document (and I forgot to compile the local file background.tex) and ended up with a pleasant surprise: the command included /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/doc/latex/background/background.pdf instead of complaining that the file doesn't exist. Shouldn't ConTeXt prevent inclusion of documents from "doc"? Mojca PS: tested with ConTeXt from TeX Live (as is probably evident from the fact that the file from TL has been found).

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Controlling vertical position of floats
by Marcin Borkowski 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi again, \placefigure[right,<option>]{caption}{figure} does different things with option being (a) empty, (b) high, (c) low. Could anyone explain to me the exact meaning of these three alternatives? Also, is it possible to manually fine-tune the vertical position, so that the figure seems optically aligned with the surrounding text? TIA, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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Context halting (or sub processes) and not completing
by Hrothgar Boyce 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Platform: cygwin texlive 2012 (from texlive org) Test TeX file: ---------------------- /stoptext This is a pen /stoptext ---------------------- Result: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ texexec -o pdf test.tex /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/base/switch.rb:21: Use RbConfig instead of obsolete and deprecated Config. /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/base/switch.rb:570:in `locateseries': undefined method `each' for "o":String (NoMethodError) from /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/base/switch.rb:397:in `block in expand' from /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/base/switch.rb:392:in `each' from /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/base/switch.rb:392:in `expand' from /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:789:in `<main>' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I must have some sort of configuration or Ruby compatibility problem, but, I haven't any idea what it is or what to do about it. Can anyone help me out or give me some ideas. Thank you.

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How to get bolder and larger item symbol?
by Marcin Borkowski 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

I'd like to have the number (and dot) in an "itemize" in boldface and larger (say, \bf\tfa). What do I do? \startitemize[n][symstyle=bold] didn't work. Why? TIA -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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