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Different os, different output (and other)
by Diego Depaoli 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hi all, compiling these instructions \defineenumeration[parte][location=left,text=Titolo,headstyle=bold,stopper=.,width=broad,number=yes,conversion=Romannumerals] \defineenumeration[articolo][location=left,text=Articolo,stopper=.,width=broad,number=yes] \defineenumeration[subarticolo][after={\blank[small]},before={\blank[small]},text=,location=inleft,width=broad] \defineenumeration[altec][location=left,text=Allegato,headstyle=bold,stopper=.t,width=broad,conversion=Characters] \defineenumeration[subaltec][after={\blank[small]},before={\blank[small]},text=,location=inleft,width=broad] only under ubuntu the result is as expected: I,1,1,A,1 while under opensuse and freebsd i get 1,1,1,1,1 Why this? Another little question If in defineenumeration[anenumeration] I specify text={\bfc Title} and \startanenumeration{\bfc The History}\stopanenumeration Title and The History are not properly aligned (The History is in higher position). What's wrong? Thanks in advance -- Diego Depaoli (very newbie)

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Pagenumbering in header-margin with outer-align
by Peter Schorsch 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hi, I am trying to put the pagenumber in the margin of the header. But I also want it outer-aligned - not inner-aligned, which seems to be the standart alignment of margin. But the inner-align of the body-margin should still be inner-aligned. So I tried following: \setuppagenumbering[conversion=Romannumerals,alternative=doublesided, location={header,margin},style={\setupalign[outer]}] but Context dont like this.. it stops converting. Does anyone know a working solution for this problem? Thanks, P.

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New Member Introductory Rant
by Corin Royal Drummond 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hello ConTeXt Users, I have become obsessed with ConTeXt since I found out about it while browsing through the TeX related software on my Ubuntu Linux box. I've been teaching myself web development in XHTML/CSS over the last couple years, and developed a passion for structured documents that separate presentation as much as possible. I'm starting to setup Drupal CMS installations for some friends in preparation for doing web publishing work for clients. It's been fun to learn, but so frustrating and difficult for my poor mind. I've long been curious about TeX but it seemed too ossified, fragmented, inflexible, and hard to learn. Later I discovered LyX and understood implicitly the style based markup idea, and it's power. I've always hated things like word, open office, and DTP programs. I'm fine doing the GUI for PhotoShop, but somehow I feel I should be able to just type text, and have it come out all pretty. ConTeXt seems to share that philosophy, so I'm giddy about it. I suppose I should learn InDesign too, but I don't really want to. I use a text editor for my web coding rather than dragging boxes around in DreamWeaver. I like that I can just cut & paste other people's code and learn what they did. GUI programs are harder to learn in that way since someone has to write a whole step-by-step tutorial rather than just show you their commented code. I've been working my way through the documentation, ConTeXt Garden, and whatever I can find on Google searches. I've worked my way up to making a letter head with my address, a graphic logo, and couple of font switches, and some hanging punctuation. I made another version for my journal with two columns under each section heading. I'm using Scite as my editor, but I haven't set it up anyway special. Kile didn't seem to like ConTeXt much, and it's command completion facility kept spitting out LaTeX code as I typed. I like Scite as it starts fast, has nice colors, and is easy to get around. TexFont doesn't work on Ubuntu. It craps out saying it can't find it's TeX root. Even when I set the FontRoot with the command line switch, it fails to find it's map files. I filed a bug with Ubuntu about it as it seems like some files like the font maps got put in /var/lib. So I'm completely frustrated by the font situation. Don't understand why I can't just point TexFont at my directory of OTF, TTF, and PFB fonts and have it suck up every last glyph and variant like Scribus, InkScape, and InDesign do. It should configure a reasonable set of typescripts, and tell me what's available. All the other TeX fonts should just work out of the box. Why do I have to wrestle so vainly just to get the damn fonts to be available. Also, I can't for the life of me figure out how to change typefaces in headers and footers. I can change to italics, or sizes with style=\it\x but have no clue how to switch a header to say the Zaph Chancery caligraphic. I can switch the body font to it, so I'm part way there. I'm pretty pissed off about the state of the documentation for ConTeXt. Out of date docs, that were never finished, and full of holes. Small set of MyWay articles, old dead links on the wiki, no roadmap, no bug database. It's 2008, there's things like SourceForge, and LaunchPad for these sort of things. I don't understand why Pragma can't sell support for ConTeXt like other open source projects. That way Hans can afford a staff to handle people's questions, he can focus on building what he likes (and we all love), new users can be brought in, and a virtuous cycle of new contributors, new features, and new users. TexShow is missing tons of commands I've read about in the manual, and doesn't bother to explain what any command or option does. Nor do I understand how options are chained or structured into more than simple switches. Where are the screencasts of gurus showing off how to do cool things? Where are the tutorials? Where are the contributed templates, so I can read other people's code to learn from? You'd think that people who make structured document typesetting systems would spend some more time on their documentation. I'd be glad to help, but first I'd need to learn the system. Since the docs are so incomplete, I'm not sure how I'd do that. Catch 22. I've gotten as far as letter writing, and I'm pretty happy with that. My goal is to typeset my housemate's pirate novel that she's writing. I'm going to stick it out and see how far I can get. I hope I don't have to go running back to LyX and the memoir class. I'm home sick with Hepatitis and Diabetes so I've got some quality time with my six year old Ubuntu laptop. If there are any Bay Area ConTeXt users around, I'd love to meet you. And if any one wants help setting up a better community website, I could help with that, knowing Drupal. Hope to speak with some of you soon. Regards, Corin Royal Drummond San Francisco, California corin(a)studiochango.com

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Re: [NTG-context] Sections, cross-references and separators
by Duncan Hothersall 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Taco wrote: > In this case it is easier to make the actual chapter number include > the 'A'. That way, you won't have to worry about "separator" at all > (which is good, because its use is confusing). > > Try this: > > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ > -\setupheads[separator=] %<-- this can't be right > \setupreferencing[state=start,chapternumber=yes,global=yes] > -\setupsection[section-1][conversion=Characters] > -\setupsection[section-2][previousnumber=yes] > +\def\Mychapter#1{\convertnumber{Characters}{\getvalue{@@sesection-1}}#1} > +\defineconversion[MyChapter][\Mychapter] > +\setupsection[section-2][conversion=MyChapter] > Ah, thanks so much Taco, never thought of that approach - works like a charm. (I also thought that macros with @ in their names could only be used in protected mode, so that's two things I have learned for the price of one.) Do you think this is general interest enough to warrant wikifying? Thanks very much. Duncan

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Software manual template request
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hello, Does anyone has a template for software manual? I have vague notion about how it should look like, but, well, I'll know when I see it. ;o) Most modern manuals have common design elements; I wish I had an environment which captures the spirit. Needless to say, untouched LuaTex envinroment gives too much academic look. Can anyone kindly suggest something? Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Sections, cross-references and separators
by Duncan Hothersall 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Dear all, I am confused. Here is a minimal version of my problem: --- \setupheads[separator=] %<-- this can't be right \setupreferencing[state=start,chapternumber=yes,global=yes] \setupsection[section-1][conversion=Characters] \setupsection[section-2][previousnumber=yes] \setuphead[part][placehead=yes,resetnumber=yes,page=no] \setuphead[chapter][page=no] \setuphead[section][number=no] \setuppagenumbering[partnumber=no] \starttext \placelist[part,chapter,section][alternative=b,partnumber=no] \part[ptest]{Ptest} \chapter[ctest]{Ctest} \section[stest]{Stest} See \in{Chapter}[ctest] (should say A1) and \in{Figure}[ftest] (should say A1.1). \placefigure[here][ftest]{Ftest (should be called A1.1)}{} \stoptext --- What I am aiming for is a style where: Parts are labelled A, B, C [done], Chapters are labelled A1, A2, A3 [done, but...], Cross-references to Chapters call them A1, A2, A3 [not done: I'm getting A.1] Figures are labelled A1.1, A1.2 [not done; I'm getting A.11 (eek!)] Cross-references to Figures call them A1.1, A1.2 [not done: I'm getting A.11] It seems to me that the line \setupheads[separator=] can't possibly be right and is almost certainly causing the missing dot in the Figure number, but it was the only way I could find to remove the dot between the A and the 1 in the chapter label. I have toiled a little with the core-ref code and cannot fathom how any of the variety of uses of the word "separator" make sense, or indeed if they really have anything to do with it... :-) I'm testing on the garden, using pdfTeX. I'd be *really* grateful for some help with this one. Thanks, Duncan

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t-bib: URL and '%'; spacing between number
by Michael Green 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

I hit a problem in the same area. Taco's solution then worked for me, though I can't tell if it's the same as your problem. Here's the address of his answer to my question. http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/ 20070705.071416.5171d178.en.html

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Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant
by Corin Royal Drummond 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi Corin, Welcome. I will offer some brief comments, and maybe others will elaborate on things I skip, pass over, or inadequately discuss: Mojca is probably the main point person. Welcome again to ConTeXt and Best wishes Idris Dear Professor Idriss, and the Lovely ConTeXT Community, What a thoughtful and warm response to my late night introductory rant. You've most certainly gained a dedicated new user today. Your restraint and courtesy to my half-considered diatribe is most heartening. Amazingly, you managed to answer alot of questions I wasn't fully aware I was asking. Since I wrote to the list last night, I have continued learning ConTeXt at a frightening clip. Did my first drop caps, indentations, and messed around with setting width and height. I can't remember when my computer has brought me so much fun. I'm beginning to see that there is a fair amount of documentation, but it's sprayed all over and needs some TLC. I think what I'd like to contribute to ConTeXt is some more docs. I'm thinking of doing some web video screencasts (easy on Linux) showing off how to do specific things like Lettrines or multi-line headers, explaining the format of options and parameters, and generally helping people see and appreciate the ConTeXt way. I would seem that ConTeXt has a natural market in web developers who are used to writing structured documents for layout engines. Personally, I'd like to see a Drupal module that will ConTeXtify a person's website as a book or magazine for printing. How great would it be to have an automatically updating e-book for print and screen generated off your website's content based on your tags/taxonomy. Just add "FortheBook" tag to an article, and without one having to do any more, it will appear in the PDF available on the front page of your site. There is a LaTeX module for Drupal, but I haven't tried it. I think such a module would help to whet other web developer's appetite for ConTeXT. I think one of the joys of ConTeXt for me is that web development just sucks for typography. There are only a handful of fonts one can specify in any document unless you embed them in images (which God told me was a sin). By contrast, with ConTeXt, I feel like a kid in a candy store, with so many things I can do to my text. I nearly had a fit when I got hanging punctuation working. Thanks again for your kind counsel Idriss, I hope I can help you guys out by writing some new docs, and being an evangelist for ConTeXt. Never have I found a piece of software that so deserved wider recognition. I will definitely keep an eye out for Mojca and Luigi. Would be so excited to meet a local ConTeXt user. With deep gratitude, Corin Royal Drummond San Francisco

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\in strange behavior
by Andrea Valle 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Dear all, I'm having a strange behavior. I'm using \in to refer to figures, like in the following: %%%% La situazione è schematizzata in \in[structure]. \placefigure[][structure]{Struttura di SC.}{\externalfigure[img/ structure][width=.7\textwidth]} %%%% The code has always worked, but this morning the refs in the text are replaced by ?? (while img is correctly displayed, with correct numbering). Any hints? Thanks Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " Think of it as seasoning . noise [salt] is boring . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty " (Ken Perlin on noise)

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While wiki is down (1): footnotes question
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi all, I am pretty sure tha answer has to be on the wiki... I have this at the beginning of a paper in order to indicate my institution name, email, etc: \setupfootnotes [conversion=set 3] After that: \setupfootnotes [conversion=numbers] But the standard footnotes begin at "3" (there are two starred footnotes before) while I would like to see them beginnig at "1" of course. I searched the manual, honest! -- Jean

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wrong weekday with MKIV
by Peter Münster 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hello, According to MKIV, today is Wednesday: \starttext \doifmodeelse{mkiv}{MKIV}{MKII}: Sunday = \date[d=30,m=3,y=2008][weekday] ? \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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While wiki is down (2): itemize, head
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi all, When using \head within a itemize environment, with \setupitemize[headstyle=bold] in the preamble, I get a big bold point at the beginning of each line of itemization; how can I get rid of it? tia, -- Jean

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Offer of help with ConTeXt Wiki
by Corin Royal Drummond 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi Mojka and Everyone, Seems like the ConTeXT Wiki is down again. Judging from the list it would seem this was a regular problem. I'd really like to give back to the community by helping Context Garden grow into a one-stop shopping site for all ConTeXt seekers. Currently, things are a bit too haphazard for my tastes. I think it makes the learning curve harder than it really should be. I'm a Linux system admin, and web developer, so I could help with troubleshooting, upgrades, hosting (have my own shared server), categorizing content, soliciting articles, fleshing out the FAQ, moving some answers from the list archives to the Wiki, creating screencasts and tutorials, and stuff like that. Now would be a good time for me to work on this, as I've been ill and have lots of free time in bed. It would be wonderful to help ConTeXt's bid for world domination by crafting the best experience possible for new and experienced users to find what they need quickly. Please do contact me and let me know how I might be useful. With warmest regards, Corin Royal Drummond San Francisco

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Server Mirror
by Corin Royal Drummond 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Corin said: >> I'm a Linux system admin, and web developer, so I could help with > > troubleshooting, upgrades, hosting (have my own shared server), Arthur responded: > The problem is really hosting. For some reason, the machine, a > virtual server with approximately 20GB disk space, stops responding I'd certainly be happy to setup a US mirror with some help from you and Patrick. I'm not sure from your message whether the Context Garden itself is 20GB huge for some reason, or if the virtual server has 20GB of stuff from multiple customers clogging it up. I have Site5's Juggernaut plan, which gives me 1,500GB and 15TB of bandwidth a month. Hosting is cheap here. I think I paid a hundred dollars for a year. Can host unlimited websites & domains Since I can't get to the Wiki today, I don't know what software it's running. If you let me know I'll start looking into it's requirements. Cheers, Corin Royal Drummond

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further stubs
by Peter Münster 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hello, I suggest putting 3 further stubs into .../scripts/context/stubs/unix : 1.) luatools: #!/bin/sh texmfstart luatools.lua "$@" 2.) mtxrun: #!/bin/sh texmfstart mtxrun.lua "$@" 3.) context (same file as .../scripts/context/lua/context): #!/bin/sh mtxrun --script context $@ This has 2 advantages: - you can put .../scripts/context/stubs/unix in your PATH - you can type "texexec file" for MKII and "context file" for MKIV (same for MS-Win of course) What do you think? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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patch for m-chemic.tex
by Peter Münster 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hello, What about the integration of this patch from Wolfgang Schuster into the distribution: - Forwarded message from Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> - Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:57:37 +0100 From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] \chemical and MKIV On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Peter Münster <pmlists(a)free.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > The following test-file produces an error: > > % engine=luatex > \usemodule[chemic] > \starttext > \chemical{CO_2} > \stoptext This is tooo long. \usemodule[chemic] is enough to produce the error with mkiv. Replace the following lines in m-chemic \ifx\beginpicture\undefined \let\normalgrid\grid \let\normalaxis\axis \input pictex.tex \relax \let\pictexgrid\grid \let\pictexaxis\axis \let\grid\normalgrid \let\axis\normalaxis \fi with \ifx\beginpicture\undefined \let\beginpicture\relax \fi and the module works. Wolfgang ----- End forwarded message ----- -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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bug in modes
by Hans van der Meer 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

The following works mirabile dictu: \enablemode[b,c] \startallmodes[b,c] \type{\startallmodes[b,c]} done \stopallmodes \startnotallmodes[c] \type{\startallmodes[b,c]} not done \stopallmodes % <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< But the following gives an error: \enablemode[b,c] \startallmodes[b,c] \type{\startallmodes[b,c]} done \stopallmodes \startnotallmodes[c] \type{\startallmodes[b,c]} not done \stopnotallmodes % <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Runaway argument? \type {\startallmodes [b,c]} not done \stopnotallmodes \blank \par \stoptext ! File ended while scanning use of \dostopallmodes. <inserted text> \par <*> testmodes.tex \emergencyend I guess the pairing of \startnotallmodes with \stopnotallmodes is at fault. In core-var.tex 234-235 I see: \long\def\dostartnotallmodes[#1]% {\docheckforallmodes\dostopallmodes\donothing{#1}} should be: \long\def\dostartnotallmodes[#1]% {\docheckforallmodes\dostopnotallmodes\donothing{#1}} I checked this patch: ConTeXt ver: 2008.03.24 23:24 MKII fmt: 2008.3.29 int: english/english Hans van der Meer

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Wiki
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hi all, Is the contextgarden down? I only get a blank page today. My firefox has been upgraded yesterday but works as usual for other sites. -- Jean

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setuparranging issue
by Andrea Valle 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

Hi to all, I have an A5 paper size to be printed on an A4. Substantially, I'd like to have 2 pages on a paper sheet. Now, I can use \setuparranging[2*2]. Works fine if I want to print, cut and bind. 4 1 2 3 But I'd like also to have another option, simply a sequence of pages (for screen reading, printing and binding without cutting) This: 1 2 3 4 Sorry, I guess it's really easy, but cannot figure out... Thanks Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " Think of it as seasoning . noise [salt] is boring . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty " (Ken Perlin on noise)

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Minor error in code, core-tab.tex
by David 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

Hi I was reading core-tab.tex on http://source.contextgarden.net/core-tab.tex (trying to learn a little...) Sorry I have no line numbers, but about two-thirds of the way down that file, by chance I think I found an error: \bgroup \catcode`\|=\@@other \gdef\@@otherbar {|} \catcode`\"=\@@other \gdef\@@otherquite {"} \catcode`\|=\@@active \gdef\@@useotherbar {\let|\@@otherbar} \catcode`\"=\@@active \gdef\@@useotherquote{\let"\@@otherquote} \egroup The second \catcode line contains \gdef\@@otherquite, which I'm almost positive should be \gdef\@@otherquote . I hope this helps. David

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chapter heads not in bold
by Andrea Valle 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Hi to all, Sorry if it's stupid. In a large environment file I have this: \definetypeface[tSCIRMA][rm][Xserif][Palatino] \definetypeface[tSCIRMA][tt][Xmono][LM Typewriter Regular] \definetypeface[tSCIRMA][ss][Xsans][Lucida Grande] \setupbodyfont[tSCIRMA, 11pt] \setuphead[chapter] [before={\startframedtext[width=local, foregroundcolor=cirmaBlue, background=color, backgroundcolor=bgGrey, framecolor=cirmaOrange,offset=.25cm, rulethickness=0.05cm ]},after={\stopframedtext\blank[.25\textheight]\rm}, style=\ss\tfd ] Chapter heads results in bold, but I don't want it. What should I set? Many thanks -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " Think of it as seasoning . noise [salt] is boring . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty " (Ken Perlin on noise)

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Applelaserwriter 360 - Any suggestion for good replacement?
by Giulio Bertellini 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Dear Context List users: in the old days the AppleLaserwriter 360 was an exceptional printer with very good Postscript support for the Basic postscript fonts. I am now at a loss in deciding which Laser printer to purchase in a reasonable price range with postscript support, a reasonable amount of ram and network support. I would welcome hints from List users as to their recommendations and suggestions, also from the TeX and Context point of view. Color support is not the most important factor, while graphics is. Giulio Bertellini

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description fails on \if
by Hans van der Meer 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

There is the following problem on code that did work around july 2007, but no longer under the current context version (2008-03-11). Define a description, I did: \definedescription[answerblock][% \c!margin=\v!no,\c!location=\v!left,% \c!headstyle=\@@exmintrostyle,\c!style=\@@exmstyle,% \c!before=,\c!inbetween=,\c!after=,% \c!hang=\@@exmhang,\c!width=\questionblockwidth,% \c!text=\placeanswerstart] Typeset with this description inside the following macro: \def\shortanswer#1\par{% \par % be sure to end paragraph here \answerblock{}% % {} needed here in description call \ifanswers #1\else\dotfill\strut\fi % <<<<<< crashing on this if \par % final \par of description ... \par } The above code crashes with: ! Incomplete \ifx; all text was ignored after ... After some detective work in which Wolfgang Schuster had a large share and has found the most elegant workaround, the addition of a \relax just after the description call prevents the error: \def\shortanswer#1\par{% \par % be sure to end paragraph here \answerblock{}% % {} needed here in description call \relax % <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< \relax prevents crash on if \ifanswers #1\else\dotfill\strut\fi \par % final \par of description ... \par } The way \relax stops the error reminds me of the \relax that one places after a number in order to separate that from the code following. I did compare core-des.tex, both the last version and the archived from 2007-04-17. But I must admit, I did not succeed finding a clue among the differences about what could have happened. The code is a bit too intricate to just jump in and pinpoint the culprit -- at least for me. Allthough Wolfgang's workaround saves the day, I feel this problem deserves solving inside ConTeXt, not outside it. Someday somewhere another person will stumble on the same problem -- a situation that can and should be avoided, in my view. Therefore I explain the problem here as fully as possible hoping someone knowledgeable with descriptions <<we might need to fall back to Taco or Hans>> will find the best remedy. Hans van der Meer

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MKIV/LuaTeX roadmap
by Santy, Michael 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

I've been following the MKIV developments on the list, but don't have a good feeling for the overall stability/robustness/completeness of the new code. Can someone who has the high-level insight (Hans, Taco?) please add a page to the wiki that gives the community a general roadmap for new features and an eventual MKIV/LuaTeX stable release? Thanks, Mike

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textbar in mkiv
by Thomas A. Schmitz 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hi Hans, I just saw that textbar is not defined in char-def.lua (0x007C is defined as "bar," a math character). Is it possible to add this character, or can every unicode character be present only once? Would be nice to have it as a text character. Best Thomas

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(no subject)
by Horacio Suarez 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hello all, I have a stupid cuestion: I´m making a long 12 pages table. I´m using \setupfootertexts for the pagenumber. I don´t want page numbers in the header at all. header=hight or header=empty in the \title setup is not enough, I still have a page number centered in the header. How can I supress the page number or the header totally in the whole document? Thankyou in advance. -------------------- Horacio Suarez Editorial Antropofagia www.eantropofagia.com.ar _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE

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setupexternalfigures broken ?
by luigi scarso 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

setupexternalfigures seems broken on ConTeXt ver: 2008.03.11 23:55 MKIV fmt: 2008.3.18 int: english/english This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.0-2008031821 I'm only able to include images from current dir. -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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UTF-8 characters and gnuplot module
by Morgan Brassel 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hi everyone, I'm currently learning how to use the gnuplot module (thank you Mojca, and all the others, for this great tool!). I stick for now with the metapost terminal, as I'm not sure I'd be able to recompile gnuplot in order to add the context terminal. It seems that accents are not supported in gnuplot scripts. In the example below, both the methods to typeset accents fail. Is there a solution to this? Maybe there is something wrong with my settings... Best regards, Morgan \usemodule[gnuplot] \setupGNUPLOT[terminal=mp] \startGNUPLOTscript[sin] set xlabel "héllo h\'ello" plot sin(x) \stopGNUPLOTscript \starttext \useGNUPLOTgraphic[sin] \stoptext

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margins
by Peter I. Hansen 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hi I'm typesetting a document to be printed in book format. For this purpose I need the left margin of an odd numbered page to be larger than the right margin, and the right margin of an even numbered page to be larger than the left margin. However, the standard behaviour seems to be the opposite. Can any of you give me an example of how to reverse this? Thanks, Peter

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MKIV Chinese and English typesetting
by Yanrui Li 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Dear Hans and other friends: I am a Chinese user of ConTeXt. Recently, I tried ConTeXt MkIV and test its Chinese typesetting. I am very glad to see MkIV can access my linux OS TTF&OTF fonts and give a good face of my article about lines breaking. But on the bilingual typesetting, such as Chinese sentences and English words appearance in a article at the same time , I found there are no good methods to solve the problem of setting fonts for them respectively. Now I had to handle it in this way: %%%% \definefontfeature[chinese] [mode=node,script=hang,lang=zhs] \definefontsynonym[songti] [name:simsun] [features=chinese] \definefontsynonym[Serif][songti] \definetypeface[song][rm][serif][songti] \setupbodyfont[song,12pt,rm] \font\enfont=name:msyh \def\en#1{% \,\bgroup\enfont #1\egroup\,% } \starttext 我用英文进行\en{Hello World}测试。 \stoptext %%%%%%%% I am eager to see full support for chinese and other Asian languages in ConTeXt MkIV. I am grateful to the developers. Thank you for your time and effort for continuous contributions!

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old cont-tmf.zip
by Hans van der Meer 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

I am looking for a few cont-tmf.zip versions dating before july 7, 2007. I tried to find the archive on the contextgarden and the pragma site but was unable to spot their location. Can someone give me the address? Thanks in advance. Hans van der Meer

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typesetting documentation
by Hans van der Meer 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

I kept this answer to my question in 2002 on typesetting the documentation: > these files are now in theregular distribution, so > > texexec --modu --pdf somedoc.tex > > should work > > Hans [Hagen] Trying it today (through texmfstart or directly texexec) I get: No pages of output. Searching for "typeset documentation" in the ConTeXtWiki gives no clues. The texexec documentation there lists --module as the option to use: so I am baffled. How to typeset ConTeXt documentation today? Hans van der Meer

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Fwd: Chaos TV #122 «Typesetting»
by Henning Hraban Ramm 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

If you're interested in historical typesetting, here's a documentary about line-o-type typesetters from the 1960s. (Italian production in English, see last link) Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > Von: Martin Wilhelm Leidig > Datum: 24. März 2008 17:58:13 GMT+01:00 > An: TEX-D-L(a)LISTSERV.DFN.DE > Betreff: FYI: Chaosradio Express #80 «Geschichte der Typ ographie», > Chaos TV #122 «Typesetting» > > Chaosradio Express beschäftigt sich in der Ausgabe CRE080 mit der > Geschichte der Typographie, Untertitel «Die technische Entwicklung > des Buchdrucks von Gutenberg bis heute» -> <http:// > chaosradio.ccc.de/cre080.html> bzw. <http://chaosradio.ccc.de/ > archive/chaosradio_express_080.mp3> (121,4 MByte). > > Dazu passend gibt’s im Chaos TV einen Lehrfilm aus dem Jahr 1960 > über den Aufbau einer Linotype-Bleisatzmaschine -> <http:// > chaosradio.ccc.de/ctv122.html> bzw. <http://chaosradio.ccc.de/ > media/video/typesetting.mp4> (MPEG-4 H.264 Video 320x240, 169,5 > MByte). Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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proper filereading
by Hans van der Meer 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

What is the proper way in ConTeXt to include a file? Just "\input filename" ignores the \enableregime[] setting and thus mistreats accented characters. \usemodule[] shows the same behaviour. Hans van der Meer

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Command \NN in table?
by Morgan Brassel 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

Hi, I'm currently trying to typeset tables of digits. I read in This Way #3 that the tabulate environment has digits support with \NN. Would it be possible to had the same feature in the table environment? By the way, I'd like to congratulate Hans for the \digits command: it really saved me so much time! It don't need to retype numbers from my numerical outputs anymore. And I can switch very easily from english to french number format. It's great! Best wishes, Morgan

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Clash in itemize options?
by Morgan Brassel 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

Hi everyone, I am wondering about the effects of the 'margin=yes' option in itemize environments. It seems to be incompatible with the 'packed' option. In the following example, the third itemize doesn't get packed, even if the 'packed' option is present. Is it a feature? In this case, how can I modify the margin without introducing vertical spaces? Best regards, Morgan \starttext One \startitemize[packed] \item text \item text \stopitemize Two \startitemize[margin=yes] \item text \item text \stopitemize Three \startitemize[margin=yes, packed] \item text \item text \stopitemize \stoptext

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getbuffer now fails
by Hans van der Meer 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

I had this code working (it was in an article I submitted for NTG-MAPS a while ago, july 2007). Now this same code gives an error on getbuffer. What happened to getbuffer? Is it possible a \fi has disappeared in the getbuffer code between now and last july? Is there a quick patch because now I get stuck on work that has to be finished. The error message from TeX: ! Incomplete \ifx; all text was ignored after line 6. <inserted text> \fi <to be read again> \relax \dodoreadfile ...d \relax \fi \dodoreadfileindeed \relax \the \everyafterrea... \mkdobuffer #1->\beginrestorecatcodes #1 \endrestorecatcodes \dodobuffer ...dcsname \else #2\fi }\mkdobuffer #1 \popmacro \currentbuffer \dodogetbuffer ...}\dobuffer {16}{#2}\mkgetbuffer \getvalue {\??bu #1\c!after } ... l.111 \question[number=1][buffer]{\getbuffer} The relevant part of the code, not working is the call to \@exmbuffer: ... \doifelse{#2}{\v!buffer}% {\def\filename{buffer}\def\thefile{#3}\let\@@exminput\@exmbuffer}% {.....}% \@@exminput\thefile \endgroup} % reading the file better outside the doif \def\@exminput#1{\input#1\relax} \def\@exmbuffer#1{#1} Help is appreciated. Hans van der Meer

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texexec s-pre-04.tex
by Pau Amaro-Seoane 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

Hi, I am a total newbie to ConTeXt; I have been "playing" with it since yesterday. I am trying to modify a bit s-pre-04.tex but I have realised that I cannot even compile it! http://source.contextgarden.net/s-pre-04.tex texexec s-pre-04.tex will yield -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (.....) (/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)) color : mpcmyk color space is supported color : mpspot color space is supported color : system rgb is global activated interaction : active system : mark Topic defined [chapter] system : mark Topicnumber defined [chapternumber] system : mark Nopic defined [title] system : mark Nopicnumber defined [titlenumber] system : mark Subject defined [section] system : mark Subjectnumber defined [sectionnumber] ) *^Cx ! Interruption. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why is that? Thanks, Pau

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ConTeXt Float Positioning (Figures and Tables) After Paragraph
by Dietrich Rordorf / MDPI 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

Dear ConTeXt Collegaues, Float Positioning (Figures and Tables): Explained at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Floating_Objects place[here] will preferably place the float "here" (usually the ConTeXt code for the figure/table is placed at the end of a paragraph which refers to this figure/table). However, if it does not fit onto the page, it will be moved to the top of the next page. This is not always wonderful, as it splits paragraphs into two parts (the paragraph starts on page n-1, then the float is placed on top of page n, and the same paragraph continues on page n, after the float). This is very annoying to read, as you expect the paragraph text to continue when you turn, or in the digital, pdf-world, move to the next page. Is there any possibility to automatically place floats after/before a paragraph without splitting a paragraph into two parts? Instead of moving the float to the top of page n, ConTeXt should first try to place it on the top of the paragraph which refers to it, if the float still does not fit, ConTeXt should try to place it after the next paragraph, but not in the middle of a paragraph. We have been using ConTeXt on an experimental workflow to produce scientific journal articles. A sample PDF produced with ConTeXt can be found at the http://www.mdpi.org/marinedrugs/papers/md6010025.pdf link. Please note the figure/table placement. These floats have been placed manually. Looking forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Dietrich -- Mr. Dietrich Rordorf MDPI Center Matthaeusstrasse 11 CH-4057 Basel Switzerland E-mail: rordorf(a)mdpi.org Skype: d.rordorf Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office) Tel. +41 76 561 41 83 (mobile) Fax +41 61 302 89 18

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On compiling latest luatex
by luigi scarso 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

ctangle is needed to compile latest luatex . It's not a problem, but justtex.zip and linuxtex.zip from pragma don't have ctangle (maybe in minimals ?) , so they are a bit incomplete. -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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Compiling error \subpagenumber
by Willi Egger 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Hi, I got a series of files, which are organized in a project-structure. With the following versions I get the desired output: ConTeXt ver: 2007.12.18 19:11 MKII fmt: 2008.3.19 int: english/english ConTeXt ver: 2008.01.11 12:09 MKIV fmt: 2008.1.11 int: english/english Since the update lately the project does not compile anymore: ConTeXt ver: 2008.03.11 23:55 MKII fmt: 2008.3.15 int: english/ english Undefined controlsequence <write> ...ubpage }{\newnofsubpages }{\oldsubpage} <inserted text> }\endwrite \actualshipout ... \box \postponedcontent \box 0}} \else \message {[\ifarrang... \myshipout ... \fi {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} \gotonextrealpage \aftersh... \dofinaloutput ...agebody #1#2\setpagecounters }}} \fi \the \everyaftershipou... \finaloutput ...EAEAEA \dofinaloutput \fi \fi #1#2 \resetselectiepagina \incr... ... l.84 \stopfrontmatter Hans, could you have a look into this? Kind regards Willi

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MKIV: context.tex not found
by Peter Münster 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hello, Any news about this one? Am I the only one having this problem? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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externalfigure sizing problem
by Santy, Michael 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hello, I've noticed that the images included with externalfigure appear at about 95% of their specified size on a printed page. The example below can be compiled on contextgarden to replicate the behavior. This problem is nothing new and has existed for at least a couple of months. Is there something that I'm not specifying correctly, or it this a bug? Thanks, Mike \starttext \placefigure{6.0in x 3.0in}{ \externalfigure[blah.jpg][width=6.0in, height=3.0in] % Comes out 5.6in x 2.8in } \placefigure{15.0cm x 9cm}{ \externalfigure[blah.jpg][width=15.0cm, height=9cm] % Comes out 14.1cm x 8.45cm } \stoptext

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Some BibTeX questions
by Jeff Smith 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hi! A couple of questions regarding BibTeX and ConTeXt. :-) 1) For various reasons I want to make my own .bbl file. Do I understand correctly that I therefore don't need to use \setupbibtex in my document? I wouldn't see the point in linking to my original .bib file if I don't want the system to generate the .bbl in the first place. However, is this the command which generates the .aux file? What purpose does this one have? 2) In an automatically generated .bbl file, the \setuppublicationlist command seems to have as a value for the samplesize parameter the very first s-key of the list, .i.e that of the first publication in the database. These labels are clearly generated from the first three characters of the first Author data, and the last two character of the Year data. For example, in my database, the author being Achinstein and the year being 1975 for the first entry, the generated s-key is Ach75. This is the value \setuppublicationlist[samplesize] as well. What is the purpose of 'samplesize' exactly? And what is the use of the s-key in the first place? Is it mandatory? The answer to this is unclear to me. Hic et nunc, I wouldn't even know where to use them; not in the way I cite references in my document. I would use a and y exclusively. 3) All the a-keys with author lastnames in my generated bbl file contain the names in brackets {}, excluding the normal delimiting brackets of the key itself. For example, for my first publication, you read a={{Achinstein}}. With more than one authors, I have for example a={{Bromberger},{Halle}}. However, in Taco's documentation (bibmod-doc), there are no such brackets in the sample entry: a=Hoekwater. Are the brackets absolutely necessary? With more than one name, perhaps? Many thanks in advance for your answers! As always I'm ever grateful for the great help this list provides. Jeff Smith

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figure libraries (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hi Hans, Looks like I'm the only one using resource libs. I have tried to solve the problem with figure inclusion, but my lua is still too bad (coroutines). At least I have found the place where things go wrong. function figures.bases.find(basename,askedlabel) [..] if base[2] and base[3] then for e, d, k in xml.elements(base[3],"/(rlx:library|figurelibrary)/*:figure/*:label") do page = page + 1 if xml.content(d[k]) == askedlabel then t = { base = file.replacesuffix(base[2],"pdf"), format = "pdf", name = xml.filters.text(e,"*:file"), -- always empty page = page, -- wrong pagenumber (far too high) } -- tex.sprint(table.serialize(t)) figures.bases.found[askedlabel] = t break end end end [..] And what is the correct namespace for resource libraries? You use rlx for the <library> element, and a joker for <subelements>. The example in x-res-04.tex should be updated then (uses rl for all). For testing I have changed the prefix to rl (as my test databases use rl). I can send you a small 7z with my test files. Peter

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no file 'cont-sys.tex' + You can't use `\end' in internal vertical mode
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hello! I am trying ConTeXt with XeTeX and after processing the file I got this message: TeXExec | processing document 'eduardo-nunes-conteste.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file eduardo-nunes-conteste.top TeXExec | using randomseed 51 TeXExec | tex engine: xetex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) (WARNING: translate-file "natural.tcx" ignored) entering extended mode (./eduardo-nunes-conteste.tex systems : end file eduardo-nunes-conteste at line 276 system : cont-err loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-err.tex systems : no file 'cont-sys.tex', using 'cont-sys.rme' instead ) ! You can't use `\end' in internal vertical mode. <recently read> \normalend l.276 \stoptext No PDF was produced. I read in the mail list a message about this warning (! You can't use `\end' in internal vertical mode.) but I couldn't understand. Could you please tell me what is the problem with my file or my installation of context? Thanks! armando

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Updating LuaTeX
by Willi Egger 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Hi, I just tried to update context with ctxtools --updatecontext. I receive though the following error while preparing the format-files (cont-en.fmt) (/Applications/luatex/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/core-inc.mkiv ! LuaTeX error ...luatex/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/core- inc.lua:85: attempt to index global 'img' (a nil value). \ctxluabytecode ...ode " .. "#1" .. str) end end } \registerctxluafile ...{\the \luabytecodecounter } \fi l.21 \registerctxluafile{core-inc}{1.001} Hm, what to do? Kind regards Willi

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Numbering in margin
by Thomas A. Schmitz 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Hi all, I want some numbers to appear in the paragraph. It's for a commentary, so the numbering isn't continuous, but pretty arbitrary. The problem is, I need two sets of numbers (for sections and subsections), and I want both in the margin, like so: 1 1 Some text 3 More text 4 Even more 3 1 And more 2 and so on 5 Sometimes, there are sections without subsections So far, I have succeeded in doing this with some low-level trickery by defining two commands, LEVELONE and LEVELTWO: \def\LEVELONE#1 {\dontleavehmode\llap{#1\kern1.8em \null}} \def\LEVELTWO#1 {\dontleavehmode\llap{\tfx #1\kern1em \null}} (I need to gobble the space after the command, that's why I included it in the \def). However, I'm wondering if there's a more ConTeXt-like way of doing this, since my next project will be to do this for xml files. I had tried with \inmargin[1] and \inmargin[2], but that didn't quite do what I expected. Any thoughts on this? All best Thomas

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processing xml in mkiv
by Thomas A. Schmitz 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Hi all, xml processing is about the last part of my ConTeXt stuff where I haven't been able to switch to mkiv; I just can't get my head around it... 2 questions: 1. When I try to process a xml-file with my old (mkii) environments, the output looks OK, but I always get a first page with the xml version declaration <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> Is this a bug or a feature? Is there anything I can do to prevent it? 2. I'm really lost with the new xml mechanism. My first problem: In a message from September last year, Hans explained that the command to process xml files is: > The regular definitions still work but processing a file is done > differently: > > \xmlprocess{id}{filename}{optional initialization setup} I used to have environments with which to typeset a bunch of files. How can this be ported to the new mechanism, which appears to expect a filename? Sorry if these are very basic problems, but I'm probably a bit obtuse here. All best Thomas

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newlines after keywords
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Hello, I would like to separate multiple keywords with newline-chars. The following doesn't work: \setupinteraction[keyword={first\r\n,second\r\n,third},state=start] How can this be done? Gruß, Wolfgang

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