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[OT] Record men
by luigi scarso 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

AFAIK , me and Nino are the only two who,in the same day, were able to see face-to-face 0) Arthur (~Statelessnes) 1) Taco in The Nederlands 2) Wolfgang in Germany 3) Mojca in Slovenia ie, four "columns" in their rispective countries Also, AFAIK me and Nino are the only two who have seen Mojca's thesis, and this count double. PS x Idris I doubt that you will be able to find an offtopic like this... -- luigi

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Re: [NTG-context] Digest, Roman Page numbers
by Robert Blackstone 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM,Wolfgang Schuster wrote > Am 06.09.2009 um 10:31 schrieb Robert Blackstone: > > > This is odd. > > On my system (both MacTeX 2008 and ConTeXt minimals) this does not > > work properly. > > > What ConTeXt version do you use? > > I updated the minimals today and indeed your setup works perfectly now. Thank you. Regards, Robert Blackstone

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Re: [NTG-context] Roman Page numbers
by Robert Blackstone 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote > > The code is for MkIV only and the ConTeXt in TeXLive is too old for > the new code. > > > The Roman numbers appear in the TOC but not on the textpages > > themselves. Furthermore, after the frontmatter the page numbers > > should start again with 1 (at least that is what I think) but they > > just continue (i.c. with 3). > > What ConTeXt version do you use? > > MTXrun | current version: 2009.06.14 21:01 June this year. Too old already? If so, what would be a good frequency of updating the minimals? Kind Regards, Robert Blackstone

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Re: [NTG-context] Roman Page numbers
by Robert Blackstone 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Derek CORDEIRO <derekcordeiro(a)gmail.com> wrote > > > Thanks a lot, it works as required. I added a note to the wiki > "Table_of_Contents" page. > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Wolfgang Schuster < > schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > Am 04.09.2009 um 11:03 schrieb Derek CORDEIRO: > > > > I do get romannumerals on each page now, but this is not reflected in > the > >> TOC as it does in MkII. Below is the minimal example. > >> > > > > The new code is more complicated than i thought, here is solution to the > > problem. > > > > As Hans suggested we should collect such setups on the wiki. > > > > \definestructureconversionset[frontpart:pagenumber][][romannumerals] > > \definestructureconversionset[bodypart:pagenumber] [][numbers] > > > > \setuplist[chapter][pageconversionset=pagenumber] > > > > \startstructureblockenvironment[frontpart] > > > > \setupuserpagenumber[numberconversion=romannumerals] > > \setuppagenumber[number=1] > > > > \stopstructureblockenvironment > > > > \startstructureblockenvironment[bodypart] > > > > \setuppagenumber[number=1] > > > > \stopstructureblockenvironment > > > > \starttext > > > > \startfrontmatter > > > > \completecontent[criterium=all] > > > > \chapter{Intro} > > > > \input tufte > > > > \stopfrontmatter > > > > \startbodymatter > > > > \chapter{knuth} > > > > \input knuth > > > > \stopbodymatter > > > > \stoptext > > > > Wolfgang > > > This is odd. On my system (both MacTeX 2008 and ConTeXt minimals) this does not work properly. The Roman numbers appear in the TOC but not on the textpages themselves. Furthermore, after the frontmatter the page numbers should start again with 1 (at least that is what I think) but they just continue (i.c. with 3). The previous TeX-file, in ntg-context Digest, Vol 63, Issue 6, message 6, showed almost the reverse, i.e. Roman numbers on the pages but not in the TOC but the body matter starting correctly on page 1. So if the present setup works correctly for Derek, why would it be it different on my system and what can I do about it? Sorry for intruding but this topic is important for me. Regards, Robert Blackstone

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 63, Issue 7
by rene hassel 06 Sep '09

06 Sep '09

Hello Everybody, this "innerproduct" goes well: # begin: \define[2]\innerprod{\langle#1,#2\rangle} \starttext \innerprod{\,x}{y} + z \stoptext # end. best regards, Rene' > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:10:29 -0700 > From: "Guilherme P. de Freitas" <guilherme(a)gpfreitas.com> > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Subject: [NTG-context] Problems with inner products > Message-ID: > <a193bbb50909041710v274ba490odbe40413cf851def(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hi everybody, > > I am trying to define a command for inner products. I would like to > type $\innerprod{x, y}$ and obtain in the output <x, y>. Now, I > defined > > \define[2]\innerprod > {\langle #1, #2 \rangle} > > but then, when I used the command, I got some weird behavior: the next > character after "y" would "jump in" the inner product. For example, > when writing > > $\innerprod{x, y} + z$ > > I was hoping to obtain as an output > > <x, y> + z > > But I got as an output > > <x, y +> z > > I am using the ConTeXt that came with MacTeX 2008 (I downloaded it a > few days ago). > > Best, > > Guilherme > > -- > Guilherme P. de Freitas > http://www.gpfreitas.com > > > ------------------------------ > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > > End of ntg-context Digest, Vol 63, Issue 7 > ****************************************** >

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Slovenian alphabetic itemize broken in MKIV
by Mojca Miklavec 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Hello, I guess again that the following example only breaks on my computer (this time it's probably true by definition). Any ideas about circumventing the problem are most welcome (PS: "Translate your text to English" is not considered a valid answer :). \mainlanguage[sl] \starttext \startitemize[a] \item something \item something \item something \item something \stopitemize \stoptext ! LuaTeX error ...min3/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/core-con.lua:173: attempt to index global 'code' (a nil value) stack traceback: ...min3/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/core-con.lua:173: in function 'chr' ...min3/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/core-con.lua:155: in function 'do_alphabetic' ...min3/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/core-con.lua:178: in function 'alphabetic' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. \sloveniancharacters ...phabetic(\number #1,"sl")} l.1 \convertnumber{a}{1} \doconvertedstructurecounter ...!criterium ", } )} \endgroup <to be read again> \fi \doactualitemnumber ...rrentitemgroupcounter ]\fi \dohandleitemreference \en... \actualitemnumber ...fi \else \doactualitemnumber \fi ... l.4 \item s omething ? Thanks, Mojca (who is going to try the latest version now, but I doubt that it makes any difference)

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Roman Page numbers
by Derek CORDEIRO 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

The following minimal example is not working under MkIV. However it works under MkII \setuppagenumbering[conversion=romannumerals] \starttext \input knuth \stoptex What am I doing wrong? LuaTeX, Version beta-0.43.0-2009081914 Regards, Derek

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Thanks
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Thanks to everybody who organized and attended EuroTeX and ConTeXt meeting! I'm now at home, wishing I could spend more time in a such a good company and a such a good place. Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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Helvetica Neue and Snow Leopard
by Brian R. Landy 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Hi, I've run into a problem using Helvetica Neue on a Mac under Snow Leopard. The font is provided by Apple and was a dfont package on 10.5, now it is a ttc. I am getting garbled and funny text using it. An example is -- \usetypescriptfile[type-mac] \usetypescript[helvetica-neue] \setupbodyfont[helvetica-neue,sans,10pt] \starttext {\bf Hello World, 1234567890\par} {Hello World, 1234567890\par} \stoptext I am attaching pdfs that show the correct (from Leopard) and incorrect output. Both systems are running ConTeXt 2009.08.19 (actually I just updated to 2009.08.30 with no help, this is using minimals) and LuaTeX beta-0.43.0-2009081811. The bold font gets the letters correct but it looks terrible; normal sans text is completely garbled. I have reloaded my font database but it didn't help. Thanks, Brian

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Offtopic: a gift for Luigi
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Dear gang, Here is a gift for our favorite off-topic expert: "Typography Fans Say Ikea Should Stick to Furniture" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/05/arts/design/05ikea.html?hp Hans, you have to replace all your IKEA furniture now... Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Intro to Luatex
by John Culleton 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Luatex has a lot of features that Context doesn't. Where is the best place to start learning about it? -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters

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Problems with inner products
by Guilherme P. de Freitas 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Hi everybody, I am trying to define a command for inner products. I would like to type $\innerprod{x, y}$ and obtain in the output <x, y>. Now, I defined \define[2]\innerprod {\langle #1, #2 \rangle} but then, when I used the command, I got some weird behavior: the next character after "y" would "jump in" the inner product. For example, when writing $\innerprod{x, y} + z$ I was hoping to obtain as an output <x, y> + z But I got as an output <x, y +> z I am using the ConTeXt that came with MacTeX 2008 (I downloaded it a few days ago). Best, Guilherme -- Guilherme P. de Freitas http://www.gpfreitas.com

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Re: [NTG-context] long quotation without quotation marks
by Robert Blackstone 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009, Aditya Mahajan wrote > > On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Robert Blackstone wrote: > > > Hi all, > > In a text with some fairly long quotations I want to have these > quotations > > without their quotation marks, not indented and set in small type. > > > To make context ignore indenting of a signle paragraph, use > \noindentation. > > delimited text does not offer control of indentation inside the > environment, but offers sufficient hooks to enable manipulation of > indentations. > > If you want paragraphs inside the quotation to be indented use the > following (if not, replace noindentation with noindenting) > > \definedelimitedtext[LongQuote] > [style={\switchtobodyfont[9pt]}, > spacebefore=medium, > before=\noindentation, % also \noindenting, > ] > > \setupindenting[big,yes] > > \starttext > > \input ward > > \startLongQuote > \input knuth \par > \stopLongQuote > > \input ward > > \stoptext > > > Aditya > > Thank you Aditya, it helped. It was: before=\noindenting that did what I wanted. Surprisingly for me, in the example you gave, before=\noindentation resulted in no indentation for the first paragraph but the two others were indented. With before=\noindenting all three paragrapghs were unindented. I really couldn’t have guessed this. With some slight changes your example did almost exactly what I had in mind. (Almost, since in a text like this I would prefer some space between the paragraphs and I understand that it cannot be adjusted locally.) Just for the sake of completeness I add it here: \definedelimitedtext[LongQuote] [style={\switchtobodyfont[9pt]}, spacebefore=medium, before=\noindenting ] \setupindenting[big,yes] \starttext \input ward \startnarrower \startLongQuote \input knuth \par \stopLongQuote \stopnarrower \input ward \stoptext I have two related questions for the list: a. Would it be useful to add this information to the ConTeXt wiki page on Quotes? b. Is there a complete and up to date list of commands for ConTeXt, and what they are supposed to do, to be found somewhere? (I find things like the existence of \noindent, \noindenting and \noindentation, all apparently giving slightly different results, nice for the variety it offers but, for a beginner, quite confusing as well.) Kind regards, Robert Blackstone

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natural tables: when I say nc=2, I really mean it
by Zed Lopez 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

Hi folks, When I compile this table: \starttext \setupTABLE[c][1][width=12pt,rightframe=off] \setupTABLE[c][2][width=108pt,leftframe=off] \setupTABLE[c][each][width=60pt] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD x \eTD \bTD y \eTD \bTD z \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD[nc=2] thisisaverylongwordishthing \eTD \bTD word \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \endtext I get the 2 rows I expect: the first with 1 narrow column, 1 wide column, and 1 medium column; the second with 1 even wider column and 1 medium column. When I do the same thing, but with the first row omitted: \starttext \setupTABLE[c][1][width=12pt] \setupTABLE[c][2][width=108pt] \setupTABLE[c][each][width=60pt] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD[nc=2] thisisaverylongwordishthing \eTD \bTD word \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \endtext it's as if the nc=2 is ignored -- it tries to squeeze "thisisaverylongwordishthing" into 1 12pt column instead of a combined 120pt column. How can I convince it to do what I mean with nc=2 despite having only one row with only 2 cells? thanks. (Long time subscriber, first time poster, love the macro package.)

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long quotation without quotation marks
by Robert Blackstone 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Hi all, In a text with some fairly long quotations I want to have these quotations without their quotation marks, not indented and set in small type. Thanks to the ConTeXt wiki I found I could fulfill two of the three requirements by using \setupdelimitedtext[blockquote][style={\setupbodyfont[9pt]}, and \startblockquote (text of the quotation) \blank \stopblockquote, but I still get the unwanted indenting. In the main text I want indenting of the first lines of most new paragraphs, so I have \setupindenting[20pt,yes] in the preamble, but I do not want it in the quotations. Placing \noindent at the beginning of the quotation does not do anything. As a hack I commented out \setupindenting[20pt,yes] and started every paragraph I want to indent with ~~~~~. That works. But somehow I feel there must be a more elegant solution, only I can’t find it. Is there somebody who could help me out? Thanks in advance. Robert Blackstone

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Re: [NTG-context] How can I start wiith 2 in itemize?
by Xan 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

>>> >>> >> xan@rulot:~$ textools --findfile strc-itm.mkii >> TeXTools | locating file in texmf tree >> TeXTools | >> TeXTools | no file found >> > > A clear sign that your ConTeXt isn't setup correctly. Are you using > the 'ConTeXt minimals'? > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals > > I once followed the installation instructions on Mandriva64 Linux and > it worked like a charm. > * > "NOTE:* The officially recommened way of installing ConTeXt on all > platforms is using ConTeXt Minimals > <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals>" > > There are also some instructions for using ConTeXt under TeXLive > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installation I have that installed but it does not serve me because I use tkiz (read above). So I _must_ use MKII. I use ubuntu 8.04. How can I do for fix the installation? Any ideas? Xan.

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mathalign with \{ ?
by Xan 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hi, I have \placeformula[-] \startformula F(n) = \startdisplaycases \NC F(0) + 2 \ln n!! - \frac{n}{2} \ln 2 \MC \text{si } n \text{ parell} \NR \NC F(1) + 2 \ln n!! - \frac{n+1}{2} \ln 2 \MC \text{si } n \text{ senar} \NR \stopdisplaycases \stopformula and I want to put \placeformula[-] \{ \startformula F(n) = \startdisplaycases \NC F(0) + 2 \ln n!! - \frac{n}{2} \ln 2 \MC \text{si } n \text{ parell} \NR \NC F(1) + 2 \ln n!! - \frac{n+1}{2} \ln 2 \MC \text{si } n \text{ senar} \NR \stopdisplaycases \stopformula But I received error. I have MKII. How can I put braces and do that enumeration formula is at middle possition (not in first or last line, just in the middle). I use Aditya manual but I did not see it. Xan.

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publications and custom author separator
by Črt Gorup 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

Hi I am trying to replace ('in' instead of 'and') a separator between the last two authors for every article, but I am facing a semi success. My approach was to set the variable finalnamesep in \setuppublicationlist. At the moment it is working only when there are three or more authors per entry. This example with 5 authors is ok, there is 'in' between last two authors. Rong-En Fan, Kai-Wei Chang, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Xiang-Rui Wang in Chih-Jen Lin, LIBLINEAR: A library for large linear classiﬁcation v Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2008. This example has only 2 authors, there should be 'in' instead of 'and'. T. M. J. Fruchterman and E. M. Reingold, Graph drawing by force-directed placement v Software: Practice and Experience, št. 11, zv. 21, str. 1129-1164, 1991. Does anybody have any idea? Thanks, Crt

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MkIV issue with normal italics text in math mode
by Brian R. Landy 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

Hi, I've run across what I believe to be a bug in MkIV -- I am unable to access non-math italics from within math mode. A simple example is -- \starttext \math{\text{\it Hello, World}} \stoptext This works in MkII. Or perhaps there some other way I'm supposed to code this? Thanks, Brian

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LuaTex choking on \definesynonyms?
by Roland 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

Hi all, LuaTex doesn't seem to like the \definesynonyms command. The following works fine in PDFtex: 1 \definesynonyms[abbreviation][abbreviations][\infull] 2 3 \starttext 4 \abbreviation{VVV}{Bureau of Tourist Information} 5 The Dutch \VVV\ (\infull{VVV}) can provide you with the tourist 6 information on Hasselt. 7 8 \stoptext ...but when compiling with Luatex, I get the errors as below. On Mac OS X with an updated ConTeXt/Luatex minimals installation. The abbreviations aren't essential in my current document but I guess somebody might want to look into this? Thanks Roland 1 This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.42.0-2009071723 2 \write18 enabled. 3 (/Users/rs/Desktop/Dropbox/C/ConTeXt_sandbox/sandbox.tex 4 5 ConTeXt ver: 2009.07.23 20:11 MKIV fmt: 2009.8.2 int: english/english 6 7 system : cont-new loaded 8 (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex 9 systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex 10 (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv)) 11 system : cont-fil loaded 12 (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex 13 loading : ConTeXt File Synonyms 14 ) 15 system : cont-sys.rme loaded 16 (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.mkiv)) (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv)) (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv))) 17 system : sandbox.top loaded 18 (sandbox.top) 19 fonts : preloading latin modern fonts 20 bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded 21 language : language en is active 22 ! Use of \doassignsometextprefixnop doesn't match its definition. 23 \doassignsometextprefix ...sometextprefixyes \fi { 24 #1} 25 \dododosetupsometextprefix ...nsometextprefix {#1} 26 [#2,,] 27 \next1 #1,->\dodosetupsometextprefix {#1} 28 \doprocesscommaitem 29 \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1, 30 ]\relax \global \advance \... 31 \dosetupsometextprefix ...dodosetupsometextprefix 32 \fi 33 <to be read again> 34 \setvalue 35 ... 36 l.2 37 38 39 ? ! Too many }'s. 40 \doassignsometextprefix ...etextprefixyes \fi {#1} 41 42 \dododosetupsometextprefix ...nsometextprefix {#1} 43 [#2,,] 44 \next1 #1,->\dodosetupsometextprefix {#1} 45 \doprocesscommaitem 46 \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1, 47 ]\relax \global \advance \... 48 \dosetupsometextprefix ...dodosetupsometextprefix 49 \fi 50 <to be read again> 51 \setvalue 52 ... 53 l.2 54 55 56 ? systems : begin file sandbox at line 3 57 ! Missing } inserted. 58 <inserted text> 59 } 60 <to be read again> 61 \endgroup 62 l.5 The Dutch \VVV\ (\infull{VVV} 63 ) can provide you with the tourist 64 ? 65 ! Emergency stop. 66 <inserted text> 67 } 68 <to be read again> 69 \endgroup 70 l.5 The Dutch \VVV\ (\infull{VVV} 71 ) can provide you with the tourist 72 ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!MTXrun | run 1: luatex --fmt="/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/3fc847143b06f084e10e73c8fbdf4ae2/formats/cont-en" --lua="/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/3fc847143b06f084e10e73c8fbdf4ae2/formats/cont-en.lui" --backend=pdf "/Users/rs/Desktop/Dropbox/C/ConTeXt_sandbox/sandbox.tex" 73 MTXrun | fatal error, return code: 1

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Fwd: [XeTeX] List of free Unicode fonts
by Wolfgang Schuster 29 Aug '09

29 Aug '09

Hi all, something interesting from the XeTeX mailing list. > Dear all, > > I've noticed that there a lot of decent, free Unicode fonts available, > some of which have interesting OpenType features to play with with > XeTeX. I've put together the following PDF as a general guide and > would > like any suggestions or comments from the list. The PDF can be > downloaded from: > > http://www.garzo.co.uk/documents/freefonts.pdf > > Thanks, > > Gareth. > > - -- > Gareth Hughes > > Department of Eastern Christianity > Oriental Institute > Pusey Lane > Oxford > OX1 2LE

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Re: [NTG-context] MKIV and externaligure inside metafun
by Mojca Miklavec 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 16:22, Hans Hagen wrote: > > pdftex and luatex process your file ok OK, so it's again "my computer only" problem :) :) :) Well, never mind then. If it works for you then it probably works on at least a few more machines, or will start working with the next major release at least. Thanks a lot for looking into it. (I used the "thought-it-was-working" installation this time, not with the old and broken one.) > color viewing is somewhat different, maybe because of some resource > initialization I remember similar problem a while ago due to some transparency being used on the same page (but at that time you said it was a bug in adobe reader). Thank you, Mojca

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Using \startalign outside of math mode?
by Matthijs Kooijman 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

Hi, I'm using a custom pretty printer to apply some formatting to a buffer. However, I'm not using a monospaced font, but some sans serif font to display the result. In the original text, I have some lines that are nicely aligned using leading spaces. For example: foo = bar | baz Obviously, when using a non monospaced font for this, the alignment is lost. When in math mode, I can use \startalign to force alignment, like: \startalign foo \NC= bar \NC| baz \stopalgin However, I haven't manage to switch to math mode inside pretty printed text. Also, even if I would, I would get my text rendered in math mode, which probably won't work. So, I'm wondering if there is anything like \startalign to use outside of math mode? I've been looking at the implementation of \startalign, but couldn't find it... Some way to insert spacing until some fixed point (e.g. tab-stop like) would probably work, if I can define the tabstop on a case by case basis? Gr. Matthijs

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Document info an pdfboxes (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

Hi, currently the accuracy of the trimbox and cropbox breaks preflighting. While the mediabox is rounded to four numbers after the point, the other boxes have 11 numbers. Without the same rounding these boxes can be greater than the mediabox, which is not valid. /MediaBox [0 0 612.2835 858.8976] /TrimBox [ 0 0 612.28345061002 858.89763362975 ] /CropBox [ 0 0 612.28345061002 858.89763362975 ] 858.8976 < 858.89763362975 There is also a small bug in the document info code. \def\synchronizebackendidentity {\ctxlua{backends.codeinjections.setupidentity{ title = \!!bs\@@iatitle\!!es, subtitle = \!!bs\@@iasubtitle\!!es, ^^^^ should be 'subject' here (or change it later in the lua part) author = \!!bs\@@iaauthor\!!es, creator = \!!bs ConTeXt - \contextversion\!!es, date = \!!bs\@@iadate\!!es, keywords = \!!bs\@@iakeyword\!!es, }}} Best wishes, Peter

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MKIV and externaligure inside metafun
by Mojca Miklavec 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

Hello Hans, nothing urgent (I'm still on MKII), but it seems that MKIV (maybe only on my machine?) has problems with externalfigure("filename.png") Mojca

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Command version of \em
by Matthijs Kooijman 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

Hi all, is there any "command version" of \em, like there is for \bold and friends? I can write either \bold{foo} of {\bold foo}, but only {\em foo} and not \em{foo}. Is there any way to do this already, or should I just define \emph myself or something like that? Gr. Matthijs

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Re: [NTG-context] texexec with 2 processors?
by Xan 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

En/na Mojca Miklavec ha escrit: > > > You cannot start processing page 500 before you know where page 499 > wil end. TeX is not really a kind of application where you would gain > a lot by parallelization. And honestly, I don't remember seing many > applications using both cores. (Plus: I'm happy if other applications > continue to run smoothly instead of being blocked by TeX using 95% of > both processors.) > I did not say to process page 500 before the page 499. I just say use all power of the multiple processors. > >> It could be useful for offering typesetting services. I'm thinking about >> having a computation service like alpha.wolfram but with ConTeXt. Like >> ConTeXt online but benefit from multiple processors.... >> > > If you would offer a service, you would get multiple requests at the > same time anyway, so there's no real need for that in this case > (you'll face many more serious problems when offering typesetting > service). > > You are right here. >> Joking, perhaps you could fix it in Mark VII ;-) >> > > You can try XeTeX if you want to put load on both processors. It does > offer a parallel process as far as I heard, Is it true? > but then you'll probably > want support for quad-core once you get a better computer :) > > Mojca > Xan.

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texexec with 2 processors?
by Xan 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

Hi, I have Intel Core Duo and when I run texexec the CPU resource in gnome is marked about 50%. Is it mean that texexec only use one processor? If it's, can you think to improve it for scalability? Just a curious question. Xan. PS: Please, CCme.

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PDF x1a:2001 and Context
by John Culleton 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

PDF X/1a:2001 is an old pdf standard still required by some important American printers. Han The Thanh et al. has created a package for pdfLatex. I wonder if there is a route to this output using Context? -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters

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A problem with \useURL or \from
by eythanweg＠gmail.com 27 Aug '09

27 Aug '09

Hi, With current context and luatex revision 3038 I use this sample: \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupurl[color=blue] \starttext \useURL[here][http://google.com] \from[here] \stoptext It compiles with the link shown correctly but in greenish color. Pressing on it, the browser tries to visit http://here/ . I am not sure where the source of the problem is, context or luatex. Thank you, Eythan

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lang-ita.tex is broken for spanish
by Enrique Jiménez Gallego 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

Hi, I updated context-minimals today and \mainlanguage[es] is broken. Example: \mainlanguage[es] \starttext \chapter[]{Cap1} Hello World. \stoptext $ texexec --pdf example.tex ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \itulo The problem is lang-ita.tex : *** lang-ita.tex.old 2009-08-21 16:16:03.000000000 +0200 --- lang-ita.tex 2009-08-26 18:15:38.200286872 +0200 *************** *** 266,273 **** \setuplabeltext [\s!ro] [\v!graphic=Graficul ] \setuplabeltext [\s!fr] [\v!chapter=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!chapter=Cap\'\itulo] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!ca] [\v!chapter=Cap\'\itol] \setuplabeltext [\s!it] [\v!chapter=] \setuplabeltext [\s!la] [\v!chapter=] \setuplabeltext [\s!pt] [\v!chapter=] --- 266,273 ---- \setuplabeltext [\s!ro] [\v!graphic=Graficul ] \setuplabeltext [\s!fr] [\v!chapter=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!chapter=Cap\'itulo] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!ca] [\v!chapter=Cap\'itol] \setuplabeltext [\s!it] [\v!chapter=] \setuplabeltext [\s!la] [\v!chapter=] \setuplabeltext [\s!pt] [\v!chapter=] Or better: *** lang-ita.tex.old 2009-08-21 16:16:03.000000000 +0200 --- lang-ita.tex 2009-08-26 18:20:17.881411912 +0200 *************** *** 265,305 **** \setuplabeltext [\s!pt] [\v!graphic=Gr\'afico ] \setuplabeltext [\s!ro] [\v!graphic=Graficul ] \setuplabeltext [\s!fr] [\v!chapter=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!chapter=Cap\'\itulo] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!ca] [\v!chapter=Cap\'\itol] \setuplabeltext [\s!it] [\v!chapter=] \setuplabeltext [\s!la] [\v!chapter=] \setuplabeltext [\s!pt] [\v!chapter=] \setuplabeltext [\s!ro] [\v!chapter=] \setuplabeltext [\s!fr] [\v!section=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!section=Secci\'on] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!ca] [\v!section=Secci\'o] \setuplabeltext [\s!it] [\v!section=] \setuplabeltext [\s!la] [\v!section=] \setuplabeltext [\s!pt] [\v!section=] \setuplabeltext [\s!ro] [\v!section=] \setuplabeltext [\s!fr] [\v!subsection=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!subsection=Subsecci\'on] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!ca] [\v!subsection=Subsecci\'o] \setuplabeltext [\s!it] [\v!subsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!la] [\v!subsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!pt] [\v!subsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!ro] [\v!subsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!fr] [\v!subsubsection=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!subsubsection=Subsubsecci\'on] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!ca] [\v!subsubsection=Subsubsecci\'o] \setuplabeltext [\s!it] [\v!subsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!la] [\v!subsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!pt] [\v!subsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!ro] [\v!subsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!fr] [\v!subsubsubsection=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!subsubsubsection=Subsubsubsecci\'on] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!ca] [\v!subsubsubsection=Subsubsubsecci\'o] \setuplabeltext [\s!it] [\v!subsubsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!la] [\v!subsubsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!pt] [\v!subsubsubsection=] --- 265,307 ---- \setuplabeltext [\s!pt] [\v!graphic=Gr\'afico ] \setuplabeltext [\s!ro] [\v!graphic=Graficul ] + %D We don't set these here. One can do that in a style. + \setuplabeltext [\s!fr] [\v!chapter=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!chapter=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!ca] [\v!chapter=] \setuplabeltext [\s!it] [\v!chapter=] \setuplabeltext [\s!la] [\v!chapter=] \setuplabeltext [\s!pt] [\v!chapter=] \setuplabeltext [\s!ro] [\v!chapter=] \setuplabeltext [\s!fr] [\v!section=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!section=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!ca] [\v!section=] \setuplabeltext [\s!it] [\v!section=] \setuplabeltext [\s!la] [\v!section=] \setuplabeltext [\s!pt] [\v!section=] \setuplabeltext [\s!ro] [\v!section=] \setuplabeltext [\s!fr] [\v!subsection=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!subsection=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!ca] [\v!subsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!it] [\v!subsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!la] [\v!subsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!pt] [\v!subsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!ro] [\v!subsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!fr] [\v!subsubsection=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!subsubsection=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!ca] [\v!subsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!it] [\v!subsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!la] [\v!subsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!pt] [\v!subsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!ro] [\v!subsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!fr] [\v!subsubsubsection=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!subsubsubsection=] ! \setuplabeltext [\s!ca] [\v!subsubsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!it] [\v!subsubsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!la] [\v!subsubsubsection=] \setuplabeltext [\s!pt] [\v!subsubsubsection=]

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Footnotes and body text
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

Hello, Looks like my previous message was overlooked. Let me cry again. In my document footnotes' upper line clashes with body text. In result, last line of body text looks underlined. Please, take a look at the attachment. Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Why are pretty printer names uppercased?
by Matthijs Kooijman 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

Hi all, according to the wiki, and the current code, the arguments to \installprettytype should be uppercased. E.g.: \installprettytype [PHP] [PHP] Referring to them should be uppercased as well: \definetyping[PHP] [option=PHP] \setuptyping[option=PHP] However, the filename should be lowercase, e.g. pret-php.lua and the pretty printer should register itself in lowercase as well: buffers.newvisualizer("lua"). The first thing that happens to the arguments of installprettytype is to lowercase them, and every option= argument that points to a pretty printer is lowercased by setvisualizer in lua before being used. If everything is lowercased, why do we still recommend the arguments to \installprettytype and option= to be uppercase? IMHO this makes things confusing when trying to understand which PHP refers to which php or PHP in the greater picture of things. Why not recommend people to use lowercase identifiers instead, since we're changing everything into lowercase anyway? Or perhaps go a bit further and remove the lowercasing code alltogether, since I don't see any real gain. If the strings / filenames should just match exactly, things will get a lot more predictable? Gr. Matthijs

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Re: [NTG-context] Section labels in appendices (appendixlabel=)
by Wolfgang Schuster 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

Am 26.08.2009 um 10:33 schrieb Mojca Miklavec: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:08, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >> >> \setuphead >> [\v!section] >> [\v!appendix\c!label=\v!section, >> \v!bodypart\c!label=\v!section] % bijlageconversie= >> \Character > > I'm sorry, but I'm blind ... :( :( :( > Doesn't it also say appendixlabel= here? I just don't see it how it's > used. Maybe I should use something else but "section"? Enable the label with \setuphead, not \setupsection. Wolfgang

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Section labels in appendices (appendixlabel=)
by Mojca Miklavec 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

Hello, I have some problems interpreting the ConTeXt manual. If I want to have the appendices labeled as Appendix A: My first appendix Appendix B: My second appendix ... what is wrong with the following approach? \setupsection [section] [appendixconversion=Character, appendixlabel=appendix] \setuplabeltext [sl] [appendix=Priloga~] \mainlanguage[sl] \starttext \startappendices \section{My first appendix} \stopappendices \stoptext I know that I can use something like \setuplabeltext [sl] [section=Priloga~] and will probably do that at the end (by defining my own header type), I'm just wondering what I'm missing in the approach above. Also, I suspect that conversion to Character doesn't work in MKIV (but I don't need it at the moment). Thanks, Mojca

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Arabic OpenType kerning
by Khaled Hosny 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Kerning doesn't seem to work with TRT direction, in the attached axample (using the attached font), enabling kerning with TRT direction inserts positive kern between first kern pair and nothing between the rest (it should be negative kern). With TLT direction kerning seem to be fine. Using \kern primitive seems to work fine too. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

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"Overlays" with metapost
by Erik Margraf 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Hello, is it possible to achieve an overlay effect with metapost like in the attached picture (a photo and a pin in the upper left corner)? I could load both images but I can't control the position where the pin is inserted. Is this possible by other means? thank you! Regards Erik

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Current beta says it needs luatex 0.42, but really needs 0.43
by Matthijs Kooijman 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Hi, I just upgraded to the latest beta, and got an error saying I need luatex 0.42. I have 0.42, but a quick glance at context.mkiv shows that it really wants luatex 0.43 (so the error message is wrong). Gr. Matthijs

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\sl in \index
by Xan 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Hi, If I put \index{{\sl something}} it appears in the first position of index. How can I solve that putting it alphabetically? Thanks in advance, Xan.

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[PATCH] Add begin_of_buffer and end_of_buffer hooks for lua pretty printers
by Matthijs Kooijman 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Hi all, while working on a custom pretty printer, I was having the need to keep some state variables for the duration of one buffer, and reset them again for the next buffer. With the current hooks a pretty printer has available, this is not possible, since you never know what the first and last lines are. The attached patch adds two new hooks, begin_of_buffer and end_of_buffer, which will be called when typing a buffer or a file (e.g. \typebuffer or \typefile). They are not called for typing a phrase (e.g. \type). Is this patch acceptable for inclusion? Gr. Matthijs

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Re: [NTG-context] two absolutely newbie questions
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Thank you! After some corrections, I have working commands as follows: \filename{c:\\Program Files} and \setuphead [section] [number=no] Vyatcheslav

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Non breaking hyphen
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Hello, Does anyone know how to make Non Breaking Hyphen in Context (and TeX in general)? Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Footnotes conflict with bodytext
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

Hello In my document footnotes' upper line clashes with body text (looks like underlined text). Don't have any idea how to fix it. Please, take a look at the attachment. Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] setupstructureblock
by Aditya Mahajan 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: > > \setupstructureblock [bodypart] [bodymatter] [number=no] > > does not work also Sorry. You can use (this time tested) \setuphead [section] [number=no] Aditya

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standard focus with interaction is not working
by Khaled Hosny 25 Aug '09

25 Aug '09

\setupinteraction[focus=standard] has no effect, I get the usual "fit page" mode instead. Works fine with MkII. Example: \setupinteraction[state=start,focus=standard] \starttext \goto{Knuth}[knuth] \page \input knuth \textreference[knuth]{} \stoptext A side note, I'm just wondering why "standard" isn't the default mode, "fit page" is very annoying and distracts me while reading and I wonder why anyone would need that in regular documents? Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

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two absolutely newbie questions
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

Sorry for two absolutely newbie questions, but 1) how to get '\' symbol? (I need it in a file path) 2) how to get rid of section numbers? Vyatcheslav

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Possible Bug(s) in bibl-ams.tex (mkii)
by Xan 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

Hi, 1) First of all, I want to say that \setuppublicationlayout[incollection]{% \insertartauthors{}{}{\insertthekey{}{, }{}}% \insertarttitle{, \bgroup }{\egroup}{}% \inserttitle {, in % \bgroup\it}% {\egroup \inserteditors{, edited by }% {}% {} \insertseries {\insertvolume{, number }{~in }{ }}% {}% {}% \insertchap{\unskip, }{ }{ }% \insertpubyear{(% \insertpublisher{}%{, }%{}% }{)\insertEdition{, }{ ed. }{}}{}% \insertpages{\unskip, p.~}{. }{\unskip. }% }% {In \insertcrossref{}{}{}% \insertchap{\unskip, }{ }{ }% \insertpages{\unskip, p.~}{. }{\unskip. }% }% \insertNote{ }{.}{}% } must be: \setuppublicationlayout[incollection]{% \insertartauthors{}{}{\insertthekey{}{, }{}}% \insertarttitle{, \bgroup }{\egroup}{}% \inserttitle {, in % \bgroup\it}% {\egroup \inserteditors{, edited by }% {}% {} \insertseries {\insertvolume{\unskip, number }{~in }{ }}% {}% {}% \insertchap{\unskip, }{ }{ }% \insertpubyear{(% \insertpublisher{}%{, }%{}% }{)\insertEdition{, }{ ed. }{}}{}% \insertpages{\unskip, p.~}{. }{\unskip. }% }% {In \insertcrossref{}{}{}% \insertchap{\unskip, }{ }{ }% \insertpages{\unskip, p.~}{. }{\unskip. }% }% \insertNote{ }{.}{}% } with \unskip before number (in /usr/share/texmf/context/bib/bibl-ams.tex) . Else a white space between coma and precedent text is putting. I used ConTeXt ver 2007.09.28 MKII but I think this error is in more actual versions. 2) For the other hand, if we want to that publisher is inserted, we have to put uncomment lines in publisher: \insertpublisher{}{, }{}% With this change, context puts me the year of publication. Mysteriously with the original, ConTeXt puts me the publisher (is this correct Taco???). For example, in @incollection{millerIIIa2, author = "Charles F. {{Miller III}}", title = "Decision problems for groups: survey and reflections", booktitle = "Algorithms and Classification in Combinatorial Group Theory", year = "1992", publisher = "Springer-Verlag", address = "Berlin", editor = "Gilbert Baumslag and Charles F. {{Miller III}}", pages = "1-59", series = "MSRI Publications", volume = 23 } I get (in the past) C.F M;iller III, Decision problems for groups: survey and reflections, in {\em Algorithms and Classification in Combinatorial Group Theory}, edited by G. Baumslag and C. F. Miller III, number 23 in MSRI Publications (Springer-Verlag, Berlin), p. 1-59. Now I get, C.F M;iller III, Decision problems for groups: survey and reflections, in {\em Algorithms and Classification in Combinatorial Group Theory}, edited by G. Baumslag and C. F. Miller III, number 23 in MSRI Publications (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1992), p. 1-59. For the other hand, in @article, for example in @article{stillwell, title = "The Word Problem and the isomorphism problem for groups", author = "John Stillwell", journal = "Bulletin (New Series) of the American Mathematical Society", volume = 6, number = 1, year = 1982, month = "Jan" } I think it could be a dot after number, but I can't put manually: if we have pages after, we have dot and comma. Actually, I think we need if clause, but I don't know how get it. Taco, you surely do it better ;-). Always the bib entries should be final dot (isn't?). 3) For the other hand, I think we need a dot between pages and note in @article. For example in @article{novikov, author = "P. S. Novikov", title = "On the algorithmic unsolvability of the word problem in group theory", journal = "Proceedings of Steklov Mathematical Institute", year = "1955", volume = "44", pages = "1-145", note = "Traducció anglesa a l'American Mathematical Society Translations (2) 9 (1958), 1-122" } we don't have ". Traducció ...." See the dot. 4) Finally, @inbook, I have dot between title and address and year. For example in @book{grillet, author = "Pierre Antoine Grillet", title = "Abstract Algebra", edition = "second", year = "2007", publishers = "Springer", series = "Graduate Texts in Mathematics", address = "New York" } I get P. A. Grillet, {\em Abstract Algebra}. (New York, 2007), second ed. and it should be: P. A. Grillet, {\em Abstract Algebra} (New York, 2007), second ed. Well I hope you note this. Not of all, Xan.

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Re: [NTG-context] White digit in a black square
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

Thank you! The following works fine for me: \defineframed [WhiteOnBlack] [background=color, backgroundcolor=black, foregroundcolor=white] \setuppagenumbering[command=\WhiteOnBlack,location={footer,margin}] Concerning table of contents label, I will play with it latter. Regards, Vyatcheslav

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An interesting default for recurselevel in xetex
by Aditya Mahajan 23 Aug '09

23 Aug '09

Hi, Guess what happens when you run this with xetex \starttext\recurselevel\stoptext This is a side effect of the definition of \dofastrecurse. After using \dofastrecurse, the default value of recurselevel is \number\fastrecursecounter rather than 0. I don't think that this will have any side effects. Aditya

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White digit in a black square
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 23 Aug '09

23 Aug '09

Hello, How to make page number as white digit in a black square? (And place it on the right of the page) Regards, Vyatcheslav

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