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\textat (@)
by Mojca Miklavec 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

Hello, I know that people would usually use \type{email(a)address.com}, but I must be missing something. Is there really no \textat (under some other name) defined anywhere in ConTeXt? The following definition in ec (and probably some other encodings) as well as in char-def.lua \definecharacter textat 64 might be handy. Mojca

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Two interline space setup troubles
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

Hello, I have some troubles with interline space setup. 1) I want whole document to have medium interline space. When I put \setupinterlinespace[medium] in the preample (before \starttext), it has no effect at all. I want keep all style definitions in a separate environment module, so how to make this setting 'global'? 2) The inbetween key does not work in the following command: \definestartstop[example][style={\tfx}, before={\blank[small]}, after={\blank[small]}, inbetween={\setupinterlinespace[big]}] I can write before={\blank[small]\setupinterlinespace[big]}, after={\setupinterlinespace[medium]\blank[small]} but in this way I hard-code document interlinespace (i.e., medium) in this definition, and this is not elegant solution at all. Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?
by Robert Blackstone 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote > Hi all, > > ConTeXt has many features but sometimes there is something missing, what > feature or package do you miss which is already available in another TeX > system or unavailable in any TeX system? > > Wolfgang I would be very happy if I could make a Bibliography with several sections. (This wish has been expressed on this list before and I just want to add my vote to it.) Robert Blackstone

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Labelling with textext
by Troy Henderson 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

I'm trying to typeset a numerical label (in math mode) and have space for a - sign (but not actually typeset the -) after the number in the case where the number itself is negative. I am trying this label.bot(textext("$" & decimal(x) & "\hphantom{-}$"),(x*u,ay*u)); which fails. If I remove the \hphantom command, i.e., label.bot(textext("$" & decimal(x) & "$"),(x*u,ay*u)); the command is successful, but the number being labeled is not exactly horizontally centered below the point in question since the - symbol preceding the number pushes it a little to the right. Thoughts on how to achieve my desired \hphantom effect? Thanks, -- Troy Henderson Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics University of Mobile http://www.tlhiv.org

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tracking feature requests and bugs
by Peter Münster 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

Dear ConTeXt developers, Does it make sense, to add the recent feature requests to the tracker at http://tracker.luatex.org/ ? It would be nice for ConTeXt users like me, to see the status of requests, perhaps also target dates, and to get automatic notifications when the status changes. But this is only possible, if you actually use the tracker. Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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windows users: please don't update context yet
by Mojca Miklavec 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Dear windows users, I'm in a hurry now (Carnival), but I have a tiny request: please don't update windows minimals until further notice (tonight in the evening, I suppose) since some libraries are missing. Mojca

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framed text backgrounds in enumerations disappear in figuretexts
by Matthias Weber 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Dear all, I have set up enumerations with framed backgrounds, and when I place these into a figuretext, the frame+background disappear. The problem occurs both in mk2 and mk4. In mk4, you can also see the unexpected indent I mentioned in my previous email. Example below. Thanks, Matthias \setupbodyfont[12pt] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupcolor[rgb] \definecolor[defc] [r=.9,g=.9,b=.94] \definetextbackground [defbackground] [backgroundcolor=defc, corner=round, before=\blank, after=\blank, leftoffset=5pt, rightoffset=5pt, topoffset=5pt, bottomoffset=5pt, frame=on, framecolor=darkred, location=paragraph, color=darkred] \defineenumeration [blurb] [before={\starttextbackground[defbackground]}, after={\stoptextbackground}, text=Blurb, way=bysection, location=hanging, letter=rm] \starttext \startblurb This is working. \stopblurb \startfiguretext [right]{none}{\externalfigure[cow][width=2in]} \startblurb Where is my frame? \stopblurb \stopfiguretext \stoptext

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[annonce] Groupe francophone d'utilisateurs de ConTeXt
by Sébastien Mengin 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Bonjour, (english follows) Un nouveau groupe francophone d'utilisateurs de ConTeXt se met sur pied. Le but de ce groupe est, d'une part, d'améliorer la composition de documents en français avec ConTeXt et, d'autre part, de traduire et d'écrire de la documentation pour les utilisateurs francophones. Une liste de discussion a été ouverte à ce sujet : context-fr-subscribe(a)edilibre.net. Toute participation à ce nouveau groupe est bienvenue ! Pour s'abonner à la liste, envoyer un email à context-fr-subscribe(a)edilibre.net. Cordialement, -- Sébastien [english] Hi, A new french group of ConTeXt users has been created. The purpose of this group is: - improve french typography with ConTeXt - translate and write docs for french users. A mailing list has been created: context-fr(a)edilibre.net Every contribution to this group is very welcome! To subscribe to the mailing list, send a mail to: context-fr-subscribe(a)edilibre.net Sincerely, -- Sébastien

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Undesired indent in enumerations (mk4)
by Matthias Weber 13 Feb '10

13 Feb '10

Dear all, when I have an enumeration with empty text (i.e. text={},), mk4 produces undesired indenting. mk2 works ok. Here a minimal example: \setupbodyfont [10pt] \defineenumeration [exercise] [before=\blank, after=\blank, way=bysection, text={}, start=1, location=hanging, letter=rm] \starttext \section{Addition} \startexercise $1+1=?$ \stopexercise \stoptext

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Example markup
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Hello, There are examples (usually one paragraph long) in my lecture text, and I want them to be typeset in smaller font (\tfx). An excerpt: The entities in question fall into two broad categories: {\em endogenous} (intrinsic to the SUI itself) and {\em exogenous} (belonging to a system's environment). \example{All processes that take place inside Earth (and other planets) are considered endogenous. These processes make the continents migrate, push the mountains up, trigger earthquakes and volcanism, and are driven by the warmth that is produced in the core of Earth.} More text... I hesitate about how to define \example. I know about \definedescription and \defineenumeration, but they seem not much logically suitable to me. What could you advise? Regards, Vyatcheslav

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bib: authornum
by Thomas A. Schmitz 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Hi, sorry if this is yet another bib question: the "authornum" cite style is a recent addition. It doesn't accept all the setup functions that other styles (such as "authornum") do. The one thing I miss most ATM is the "andtext" option between a publication with several authors. It takes the form Author1,Author2 (just a comma, no space; this can be configured in authornum). I tried adapting the code in bibl-tra.mkiv l. 1506-1515, but failed miserably. Would it be possible to add the configurable andtext to authornum? Thanks, and best Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] tabs in Lilypond
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Thank you, Hraban. I've already solved my problems with Lilypond guitar tab notation. ) And you are right, it's easy to include LilyPond's PDFs as externalfigure. Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] some math symbols not working
by Warrence 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> In addition: \ncong is not aligned with = and \cong > > I am not sure what \ncong should map to: 0x2246 or 0x2247? There is > inconsistency between the mappings in char-def and math-vfu which can be fixed > easily once I figure out what is the correct mapping. My opinion is, that it should be 0x2247 (the whole glyph scored out), because that would be the clear negation of the sign (similar to what \not\cong should do). Maybe provide another command for 0x2246? \congneq or \simneq for example. And many thanks for fixing this. Stefan

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[bib] getting full author(s)'s name(s)
by Philipp Gesang 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Good evening, how do I retrieve an author's (or editor's) full name in the correct order (little endian: first name(s) -- surname) from a bib entry? I can do stuff like \getcitedata[author1] but that does leave me with only one of many. I'm convinced the answer lies somewhere hidden in bibl-tra.mkiv inside \complexbibdef and particularly \specialbibinsert but I can't grasp the relevant part (getting the list) of it. Thanks very much, Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[translation] Context, an excursion
by Sebastien Mengin 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Hi, More than a year ago, I started to participate to the translation project of the context for the beginers guide: ConTeXt, an excursion. For some reasons, I had to stop this. Now, I'd like to try again. Is this doc still accurate? I mean, does it worth to work on its translation or should I wait for another version? Thanks, -- Sébastien Mengin Édition et logiciels libres < Mise en page avec LaTeX > http://edilibre.net

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some math symbols not working
by Warrence 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

Hi, I was trying some math symbols and stumbled over the following commands, that do not work in my context documents (the comments say what's not working exactly). The pasted document works at http://live.contextgarden.net/ . I'm using the latest context-minimals as provided on the website. Is this a MkIV issue? In addition: \ncong is not aligned with = and \cong Thanks in advance! Stefan \starttext \startformula % the following give "Undefined control sequence": \gneq % \lneq works \lhd \rhd \unlhd \unrhd \Diamond % the following produce no symbol: \mapsto \hookleftarrow \longleftarrow \Longleftarrow \longrightarrow \Longrightarrow \longleftrightarrow \Longleftrightarrow \longmapsto \hookrightarrow \Join \blacksquare \bowtie \models \ncong % \cong produces the wrong symbol: it shows a dot on top of a plus, but there should be a ~ on top of = \cong \stopformula \stoptext

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indent lost after \placefigure
by Tom 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

When I place a figure at the bottom of a page, everything is fine if it splits a paragraph, but if it falls between paragraphs, indentation of at least one of the paragraphs, generally the one coming after the figure, is lost. It appears that this has been a problem for some people over the years. Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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tabs in Lilypond
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Hello, Maybe it's wrong place to ask, but does anybody know how to typeset guitar tabulatures in Lilypond? And is ConTeXt Lilypond module is up to date? Vyatcheslav

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zotero
by Salil Sayed 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Hi, Today I checked zotero plugin for openoffice and was very impressed with its functionality and ease of use. Currently I have to export my bibliographies to bibtex format from zotero and then use it through the bibtex module in context. I think this is a awkward way. Can there be a closer connection? a zotero plugin or context module? Or will it be an editor function? Forgive me if i am ignorant of any development. I searched. Best, Salil

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YABQ - yet another bib question
by Thomas A. Schmitz 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Hi all, it was quite heartwarming to see how many of us rallied for better bibliographical support when Wolfgang asked what we missed most in ConTeXt... And it's wonderful to see that a new structure for the entire bibliographical stuff is on its way. Hans's xml-based approach will make things much easier than the obsolete bibtex stuff, I'm sure. In the meantime, I'm still struggling with our old bib stuff and have one question. I would like to have two different reference mechanisms for the cite commands and within the publication list. For "normal" cite commands, I would like authornum Author [1], whereas in the publicationlist itself only the num [1]. AFAICS, \setuppublications[refcommand=authornum] will influence both types. Is there a setup option for this, or is a hack needed? All best Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?
by Peter Münster 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

On Tue, Feb 09 2010, Sebastien Mengin wrote: > Thanks for the link, I failed to use it, as I have a ConTeXt/luaTeX > versions distributed by ubuntu/jaunty, which seems to be too old. I > should update and give it a try -- later. Hello Sebastien, Anyway, it was not the latest version. In the current version of MKIV, there is no support for language-specifics, so there is actually no support for switching back from French to another language. > Did you have a look at the doc I posted yesterday? Yes. I attach a recent t-french.tex file, that supports most of frenchb. In detail: > 1. the 1. paragraph of each section is indented (LATEX only); Done. > 2. the default items in itemize environment Done. > 3. vertical spacing in general LATEX lists is shortened; Done in itemize list. > 4. footnotes are displayed "à la française". What is this? > 1. French hyphenation patterns are made active; Done. > 2. `double punctuation' (: ; ! ?) is made active Done. > 3. \today prints the date in French; The command is "\date". > 4. the caption names are translated into French (LATEX only); Done. > 5. the space after \dots is removed in French. There is no space. > 1. French quotation marks \quotation{...} > 2. A command \up is provided M\high{me} > provided for ordinals: \ier, \iere, \iers, \ieres, \ieme, \iemes Done. > the macro \bsc (boxed small caps) does this, e.g., Leslie~\bsc{Lamport} \Bsc{...} > 4. Commands \primo, \secundo, \tertio and \quarto print 1o, 2o, 3o, 4o. > \FrenchEnumerate{6} prints 6o. No. > obtained via the commands \No, \Nos, \no, \nos. No. > 6. Two commands are provided to typeset the symbol for \degre No. > the TEXbook p. 134). The command \DecimalMathComma makes the comma \enablemathpunctuation \disablemathpunctuation > 8. A command \nombre was provided in 1.x versions to easily format numbers \dorecurse6{ \setdigitmode \recurselevel\relax \recurselevel: \digits{12.345,90} \digits{12.345.000} \digits{1,23}\par} > 9. frenchb has been designed to take advantage of the xspace package No. Here a test file: \usemodule[french] \starttext \section{test} \Bsc{Test} \Bsc{Test} \startitemize \item 1\ier\ item \item «bla» \item bla \stopitemize \quotation{bla} hello: hello; hello? hello! \date \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] indent lost after \placefigure
by Tom Benjey 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Is there something else I should do? I still have 2 instances of the paragraph immediately after a figure not indented. Both of these are on the tops of their respective pages. And I have one paragraph just before a figure that is not indented. I tried \indenting[yes] for the paragraphs in question to no avail. Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey Am 11.02.10 02:14, schrieb Tom: > When I place a figure at the bottom of a page, everything is fine if > it splits a paragraph, but if it falls between paragraphs, indentation > of at least one of the paragraphs, generally the one coming after the > figure, is lost. It appears that this has been a problem for some > people over the years. > \setupfloats[indentnext=yes] Wolfgang

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\showmathcharacters problems with TeXlive 2009 on Win 7 64bit
by commb07＠googlemail.com 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

hi i'm on Win 7 64bit and have installed TeXlive 2009 today via the net-installer. i can process context-files, but have some problems: i get "pdftex warning: pdftex.exe: no glyphtounicode entry has been inserted yet" if i use the command \showmathcharacters, and the table in the pdf is empty. in a more complex file i get "! Dimension too large. .."-error additionally on \showmathcharacters, table is empty as well. tried to get a recent version of context by directing texlive manger to "http://minimals.contextgarden.net/texlive/beta", but no matter what i try to update/install (by the way what should i do there?) , i get "00texlive.installation not found, cannot read option available_architectures. TLPDB::setting: no available_architectures, returning empty list ... Fertig. Executing action install 00texlive.config [1/1, ??:??/??:??] install: 00texlive.config [1k] Downloading http://minimals.contextgarden.net/texlive/beta/archive/00texlive.config.tar… did not succeed, please retry." i noticed that archives have the extension ".tar.lzma" on the server but texlivemanager is looking for ".tar.xz", can i do anything about that? if somebody had some hints what i could/should try/avoid, that would help a lot..

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Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

+1 for this, but they are type1 fonts (legacy) does they support Cyrillic? > I would like support for more fonts out of the box (in the minimals). > For example it would be really nice to be able to use > utopia+fourier (http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/fourier-GUT/ ) > charter+mathdesign ( > http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=mathdesign ) > > Mikael > Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] thesis
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Hello, > http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ > -- > luigi If so, I want to share a draft of my paper for the ConTeXt 2010 meeting: http://apps.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scicache/108/scimakelatex.88005.Vyatcheslav+Ya… )))) Vyatcheslav

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Where did page numbers go?
by Mojca Miklavec 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Hello Hans, \currentpage (as already reported by Peter Münster) doesn't work in MKIV (always returns 1) and \setnumber[page]{0} has zero effect (in MKII; in MKIV I cannot test it anyway). Thanks, Mojca

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\insertcrossref
by Philipp Gesang 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Hi all, is there any way to get \insertcrossref to get the title or the short title of the crossref'd publication, too? Right now it only retrieves author/editor name and the year but that doesn't suffice for some bibliography specifications. Thanks, Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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showlayoutcomponents: amazing!
by Otared Kavian 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

On 9 févr. 2010, at 13:47, Hans Hagen wrote: > […] > > now you know this trick ... try \showlayoutcomponents in a regular document (also quite old mechnaism already) another nice feature, which was unknown to me until now! (I assume that one has to view the PDF in Acrobat Reader). Thanks: OK

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xml entities and trailing space
by Thomas A. Schmitz 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Hi all, Hans, this is something I had mentioned a few weeks ago, but wanted to complain about it again: when you define xml entities as TeX commands, those used to preserve trailing spaces. This hasn't been the case since a number of version. I would like to recommend havin the old behavior back (since adding spaces isn't as easy in xml as it is in TeX). The example below demonstrates the problem. All best Thomas \startbuffer[xmltest] <p>A &textbar; B</p> \stopbuffer \startxmlsetups xml:mysetups \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{p}{xml:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{xml:mysetups} \startxmlsetups xml:p \xmlflush{#1} \par \stopxmlsetups \xmlsetentity{textbar}{\textbar} \starttext \xmlprocessbuffer{main}{xmltest}{} \stoptext

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Footnotes in columns causing layout problem
by Andreas Harder 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Hi, I’m trying it again. The problem with footnotes in multicolumn texts is still present. (http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20100201.222309.2f37f55a.en.html) \setupnote[footnote][location=lastcolumn] % <- causes layout problem \definecolumnset[two][n=2] \enablemode[twocolumns] % columnsets|twocolumns \starttext \doifmode{twocolumns}{\startcolumns} \doifmode{columnsets}{\startcolumnset[two]} \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth}\footnote{\input tufte} \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth} \doifmode{twocolumns}{\stopcolumns} \doifmode{columnsets}{\stopcolumnset} \stoptext Thank you in advance Andreas

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Re: [NTG-context] floatrow
by Hans Hagen 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

On 8-2-2010 23:18, Bernhard Rosensteiner wrote: > Am 08.02.2010 um 23:07 schrieb Hans Hagen: > >> On 8-2-2010 22:16, Bernhard Rosensteiner wrote: >>> Am 08.02.2010 um 19:42 schrieb Hans Hagen: >>> >>>> On 8-2-2010 18:52, Bernhard Rosensteiner wrote: >>>> >>>>> thanks for the hint with \defineexternalfigure… - indeed useful. >>>>> The „automatic“ feature of floatrow is nice but not so important that i will ever switch back to LaTeX. >>>> >>>> it's no big deal to make some scaler but the problem is what to take as reference, specify it etc etc. If it's not the first image, then we need multiple passes. too much automatism with graphics is a bit tricky >>> >>> it would be nice to have something like: >>> >>> \startfloatcombination[3*2, width=.8\textwidth] >>> \externalfigure…. >>> \externalfigure…. >>> \externalfigure…. >>> \externalfigure…. >>> \externalfigure…. >>> \externalfigure…. >>> \stopfloatcombination >>> >>> and all graphics fit in the given width with same height in one row. I found this feature in floatrow useful because i had a lot of graphics in different widths and heights so it was easy to „stitch“ them together. On the programming side i have no idea how complicated something would be (i´m only a happy context user). Maybe you consider something to implement in future? >> >> it's not that complex to make something like that (but there's a bit more to it, like distances and so we always end up with a bit more code) >> >> also, this does not really fit into the user interface ... (mixed keywords and key/values) >> >> as it should be a generic feature i.e. not only for images, we more end up with something >> >> \definecombination >> [whatever] >> [width=.8\textwidth, >> height=equal, >> distance=1em] >> >> \startcombination[whatever][3*2] >> {\externalfigure...} {} >> {\externalfigure...} {} >> {\externalfigure...} {} >> ... >> \startcombination >> >> where equal will eventually scale up the heights of the content >> >> looking at combinations, i have to mkiv-ize that code anyway so at that time i could add that feature (i have to take a look at some project styles as we often do combination trickery) > > yes please! and sorry for my clumsy user interface suggestion... in beta \startexternalfigurecollection[name] \useexternalfigure[cow] [cow.pdf] \useexternalfigure[mill][mill.png] \stopexternalfigurecollection \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \bTD \externalfigure[cow] [height=\externalfigurecollectionmaxheight{name}] \eTD \bTD \externalfigure[mill][height=\externalfigurecollectionmaxheight{name}] \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NTG-context] stepper
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

> Add \setupinteraction[state=start,click=off] to your file and open the > PDF with Adobe Reader. Thanks, Wolfgang! It works this way. But I wonder why itemization level is increased every page. Is is intended to be so? Thanks for teaching me usage of steppers. Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] stepper
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Hi Hans, Trying out of curiosity your script, I cannot get two things: 1) What is stepper (it is related somehow to presentations, but what is it specifically?) 2) The script produces 11 pages with titles, but no "bla-bla" is seen on either page. Why? \usemodule[pre-60] % use the stepper \starttext \title {Whatever} \dorecurse{10} { \title{Just a few dummy pages} \StartSteps \startitemize[packed] \startitemize \startitem bla \FlushStep \stopitem \startitem bla bla \FlushStep \stopitem \startitem bla bla bla \FlushStep \stopitem \startitem bla bla bla bla \FlushStep \stopitem \stopitemize \StopSteps } \stoptext I have not-so-recent ConTeXt. Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Adding Items to Bibliography
by Philipp Gesang 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Hi all, yesterday I tried to use some BibTeX bibliography that I made earlier for use with biblatex but I very soon ended up converting a garbled .bbl to proper \[start|stop]publication format. So my first question is, whether this, without BibTeX, is the canonical way to typeset bibliographies in ConTeXt? The wiki is quite unclear about this and bibmod-doc deals with BibTeX, too. Or is everyone working in secret with the MlBibTeX final release and those 8-Bit phenomena from the dark past are already solved? The second question: where would I begin if I wanted to setup (a) an author-title format for \cite[] (I found no "\bibgetvarX" function to query the publication title), and (b) substitution of consecutive identical authornames with dashes (or "idem", if that matters) in the publications list. Thanks in advance for any clarification on this matter, bibliography support is essential for me. Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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disable hyphenation inside \type
by Aditya Mahajan 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Hi, Is is possible to disable hyphenation inside \type? Thanks, Aditya

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svg -> png conversion
by Peter Münster 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Hello, How can I convert svg to png on the fly? I've created a file "test.rlx": <?xml version='1.0 standalone='yes'?> <rl:manipulators> <rl:manipulator name='png' suffix='svg'> <rl:old><rl:value name='path'/>/<rl:value name='file' method='nosuffix'/>.png</rl:old> <rl:new><rl:value name='path'/>/<rl:value name='prefix'/><rl:value name='file' method='nosuffix'/>.png</rl:new> <rl:step> inkscape -d 600 -e <rl:value name='new'/> <rl:value name='old'/> </rl:step> </rl:manipulator> </rl:manipulators> and a file "test.tex": \setupexternalfigures[conversion=png] \starttext \externalfigure[./myfile.svg] \stoptext But when running context on the file, it tries to convert the svg to pdf. What do I need to do? TIA for any hint! Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] What do you miss in ConTeXt?:
by Robert Blackstone 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 09:29 PM, David Rogers) wrote: .... ConTeXt > itself has beautiful support for side-by-side translations. It makes me > happy every time I look at the results. But... it works only on separate > pages. Making it work on columns as well would make my life easier. (May > be impossible, but you asked...) > > |Original Language|First Translation|Second Translation| > |Bla bla bla ... |Blu blu blu ... |Ble ble ble ... | Hi David, For what it is worth, I have done side by side Italian-English texts in columns with the help of paragraphs. I wanted the Italian original slanted. So In the preamble I have \defineparagraphs[mypar] [n=2,distance=1em] \setupparagraphs[mypar][1][style=slanted] \setupparagraphs[mypar][2][style=normal] In the text: \startmypar Some text in language Italian, slanted. \mypar The text translated in English, regular. \stopmypar etc. So your example could be done as follows \defineparagraphs[mypar] [n=3,distance=1em]%or some other distance \setupparagraphs[mypar][1][style=slanted]%or \setupparagraphs[mypar][2][style=normal] \setupparagraphs[mypar][3][style=normal] \starttext This is a side by side translation in columns. \startmypar Original Language \mypar First Translation \mypar Second Translation \stopmypar \startmypar Bla bla bla \dots \mypar Blu blu blu \dots \mypar Ble ble ble \dots \stopmypar \stoptext Maybe you could teach me how to do side by side translations on opposite pages. Regards, Robert Blackstone

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Re: [NTG-context] floatrow
by Hans Hagen 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

On 8-2-2010 22:16, Bernhard Rosensteiner wrote: > Am 08.02.2010 um 19:42 schrieb Hans Hagen: > >> On 8-2-2010 18:52, Bernhard Rosensteiner wrote: >> >>> thanks for the hint with \defineexternalfigure… - indeed useful. >>> The „automatic“ feature of floatrow is nice but not so important that i will ever switch back to LaTeX. >> >> it's no big deal to make some scaler but the problem is what to take as reference, specify it etc etc. If it's not the first image, then we need multiple passes. too much automatism with graphics is a bit tricky > > it would be nice to have something like: > > \startfloatcombination[3*2, width=.8\textwidth] > \externalfigure…. > \externalfigure…. > \externalfigure…. > \externalfigure…. > \externalfigure…. > \externalfigure…. > \stopfloatcombination > > and all graphics fit in the given width with same height in one row. I found this feature in floatrow useful because i had a lot of graphics in different widths and heights so it was easy to „stitch“ them together. On the programming side i have no idea how complicated something would be (i´m only a happy context user). Maybe you consider something to implement in future? it's not that complex to make something like that (but there's a bit more to it, like distances and so we always end up with a bit more code) also, this does not really fit into the user interface ... (mixed keywords and key/values) as it should be a generic feature i.e. not only for images, we more end up with something \definecombination [whatever] [width=.8\textwidth, height=equal, distance=1em] \startcombination[whatever][3*2] {\externalfigure...} {} {\externalfigure...} {} {\externalfigure...} {} ... \startcombination where equal will eventually scale up the heights of the content looking at combinations, i have to mkiv-ize that code anyway so at that time i could add that feature (i have to take a look at some project styles as we often do combination trickery) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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level setting has no effect in TOC
by zs 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hello, it seems like the "level" parameter has no effect in mkiv. It works as expected in mkii. Is it a bug or there is different way how to do that in mkiv? Ragards Zdenek example: \starttext \setupcombinedlist[content][level=1,alternative=c] \completecontent \chapter{A} \section{a} \section{b} \subsection{I} \subsection{II} \chapter{B} \section{a} \section{b} \subsection{I} \subsection{II} \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] floatrow
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hi Bernhard, Did you ever try \startcombination? I feel like it could solve your problem, but not sure... > there is a nice LaTeX package called floatrow. Most of the things what it does you can do with ConTeXt much more easily expect (i think) one thing: placing more than one picture in a given width with automatic rescaling of the images so all images in one row have the same height. This feature is really handy for me. Maybe there is something in ConTeXt which does the same and i´m missing something? Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Error using Minimal with TeXworks
by Alain Delmotte 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hi! After a long time without having time to play with ConTeXt, I reinstalled a new Minimals using the manual method with rsync, added TeXworks in the proper folder. Under Texworks, I also pointed to the bin folder of Context. But when compiling a document, I get: MTXrun | fileio: no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) MTXrun | fileio: remembering file 'mtx-context.lua' MTXrun | fileio: remembering file 'mtx-contexts.lua' MTXrun | fileio: remembering file 'mtx-context.lua' MTXrun | fileio: remembering file 'context.lua' MTXrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' Any solution? Also, is it possible to run ConTeXt from MikTeX 2.8? Regards, Alain Delmotte

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xpdf segmentation fault
by Peter Münster 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hello, I don't know, if this is a ConTeXt problem (wrong PDF) or an xpdf problem. Here the test-file, whose pdf-result xpdf cannot read: \setupinteraction[state=start] \placebookmarks[chapter] \starttext \chapter{bla} \stoptext Should I report this to the xpdf-authors? Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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colors without \definecolor
by Philipp Gesang 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hi all, I understand that in order to use a color with \color[somecolor]{colored text} I first have to \definecolor[somecolor][r=.4,g=0,b=1]. Currently I'm trying to do automated colorizing with the help of some lua code and I'd like to make up rgb vectors on the spot without having to \definecolor them first, e.g. something like \color[r=.4,g=0,b=1] {colored text}. Is there a way to achieve this in mkiv? (Right now I'm assigning new rgb values to the same color "name" whenever the function is called that concatenates the next \color[]{} statement. This seems a bit verbose and hacky to me.) Thanks in advance, Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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blanks with glue in mkiv
by Aditya Mahajan 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hi, Blanks with glue do not work with MkIV. For example, \defineblank[test][3pt plus 1pt minus 1pt] \starttext some text \blank[test] some text \stoptext gives ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> p <argument> p lus \addaskedblankskip ...nce \blankskip #1\dimexpr #2 \relax l.11 } \dovspacingyes ...ument #1\else \s!default \fi ")} \fi l.5 \blank[test] Aditya

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DIY toc (or similar list)
by Thomas A. Schmitz 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hi experts, I'm thinking about a new presentation style and need some general advice from the TeXperts. I would like to have a list of topics on some area of the slide (similar to s-pre-19.tex). However, if at all possible, I would like it to be a bit fancier. Let's say I want the list of topics typeset in gray frames in a black font, but the current topic in a blue frame with a white font. Would this be possible with something like \definelist? Is there any notion of "currentlistitem" or "currentmarking" in such lists? Or, even better: would it be possible to have access to the single members of a list and maybe compare them to a current value and then typeset them accordingly? Something like this pseudocode: for member in topiclist do if member == currentvalue <some fancy framing and metapost stuff with member> else <less fancy but still nice-looking metapost stuff> end end Or am I trying to reinvent the wheel here? I would be happy to hear any ideas on that. All best Thomas

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simple usage of \hpos
by Peter Münster 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

Hello, How can I place an element as background at a previously defined position? Here a test-file to show what I'm looking for: \definelayer[graphics][position=yes] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=graphics] \starttext Here is some text. I would like to appear a graphics exactly behind \hpos{XXX}{HERE}. How can I do this, without measuring by hand the x- and y-offsets, and perhaps also without using metapost? Such a command would be fine: \type{\placeatpos[XXX]{my background figure}}, or \type{\setlayer[graphics][location=XXX]{...}}. \setlayer[graphics][dx=128mm, dy=-27mm]{\externalfigure[hacker.jpg][width=1cm]} \stoptext TIA for any help! Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Changing Index Format
by Tom 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

Could someone point me to documentation that describes how to change the format of the index created by \placeindex and \completeindex? In particular, I want to get rid of the entries created for the letters of the alphabet because I find them an unnecessary use of space. Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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Rotated footnotes?
by Steffen Wolfrum 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

Hi, the figure labels of some rotated figures have footnotes. (see faked example please: http://www.werksatz.com/attachments/rotated.pdf) How do I place a rotated footnote?? Thanks, Steffen

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texshow-web (was: colors without \definecolor)
by Mikael Persson 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Dear list and Patrick, from texshow-web page ( http://texshow.contextgarden.net/ ) I read "texshow-web is a web application for all user-commands that can be used in ConTeXt." However, I see that \colored is not inthere. This is also true for some other commands appearing at this list occasionally (usually dug from source by Wolfgang). Is this because 1) the texshow is not updated? 2) these commands are "not meant" for users? 3) any other reason? I think the texshow-web is a very useful source of information. An updated version would be really wonderful! /Mikael ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> Date: Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [NTG-context] colors without \definecolor To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Am 04.02.10 21:41, schrieb Philipp Gesang: > > Hi all, > > > I understand that in order to use a color with \color[somecolor]{colored > text} I first have to \definecolor[somecolor][r=.4,g=0,b=1]. Currently > I'm trying to do automated colorizing with the help of some lua code and > I'd like to make up rgb vectors on the spot without having to > \definecolor them first, e.g. something like \color[r=.4,g=0,b=1] > {colored text}. Is there a way to achieve this in mkiv? (Right now I'm > assigning new rgb values to the same color "name" whenever the function > is called that concatenates the next \color[]{} statement. This seems a > bit verbose and hacky to me.) \colored[r=...,g=...,b=...]{...} or {\colored[r=...,g=...,b=...]...} Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________

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Re: [NTG-context] defining commands
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Hallo, > >> btw, i'm sure that you've seen > >> > >> \starttexdefinition blabla #1 #2 > >> > >> which like setups ignores spaces so one can have readable > macros > > i was the one who requested the parameterless version > > > > \starttexdefinition commandonly I experimented a little with this: ---------------------------------------- \starttexdefinition BIS #1 #2 [#1 \ldots\ #2] \stoptexdefinition \starttext \BIS1 23 \BIS{10}{20}30 \BIS {10}{20}30 \BIS{10} {20}30 \BIS{10}{20} 30 \BIS {10} {20}30 \BIS{10} {20} 30 \BIS {10} {20} 30 \stoptext ---------------------------------------- and get this: ---------------------------------------- [1 ... 2]3 [102030 ... ][102030 ... ][10 ... 20]30 [1020 ... 3]0 [10 ... 20]30 [10 ... 20] 30 [10 ... 20] 30 ---------------------------------------- So it seems, that the first blank between command and #1 is optional. But the second between #1 and #2 is NEEDED. A last blank after #2 is not needed and not eaten. Wolfgang

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