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+1 ConTeXt noobie/user
by Matija Šuklje 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

OK, so far I've been reluctant, but from what I saw so far, I think you can call me a new ConTeXt user or more accurately a noobie. I think I figured out how to tweak Kile into being usable (not perfect yet though) as a ConTeXt editor ...kudos to the devs who put so many options to tweak into Kile and to Michael Krauss for the Kate highlighting to make this possible. Now all I have to do is wait for TeX Live to become stable on amd64 in Gentoo's portage tree and I'll finish the switch. :) I still have a lot of questions and as of yet didn't manage to write a document in ConTeXt, but I'll try not to bug the list too often and plan to search the wiki et al. before I feel I am able to question anything really. best regards and thanks for ConTeXt, Matija Šuklje -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 e-mail: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net www: http://matija.suklje.name aim: hookofsilver icq: 110183360 jabber/g-talk: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org msn: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net yahoo: matija_suklje

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Which ConTeXt editor do you use?
by Matija Šuklje 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hullo, I've just learnt enough LaTeX to start writing when Mojca convinced me to try out ConTeXt. So far, I think I like it, but have a few beginner's problems with it. The first one being, which editor to use? So far I've been using Kile for LaTeX and KBib for BibTeX, but Kile doesn't support (yet) ConTeXt syntax, which is a bit different from the LaTeX one. Could anyone suggest a good ConTeXt-aware editor for Linux? Ideally, I would like to see Kile (and Kate) support ConTeXt, but untill I manage to bug their devs into it, I would still need an editor. regards, Matija Šuklje p.s. this is my first post here, I hope I'm not going against any localy established netiquette p.p.s. Mojca bugged me to join it ;) -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 e-mail: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net www: http://matija.suklje.name aim: hookofsilver icq: 110183360 jabber/g-talk: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org msn: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net yahoo: matija_suklje

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Kate ConTeXt highlighting
by Matija Šuklje 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Sweet, I didn't exactly find a full editor with an environment, but at least a syntax highliting in Kate (a nice advanced text editor for KDE (so far still Linux-only)). Also a Kate dev (he also pointed me to the file) asked if someone could test this syntax highliting and send a short evaluation to kwrite-devel(a)kde.org for the devs to decide if it sounds good enough to be included in the Kate package itself to be available to all without searching the net. I would/will do it myself, but I'm affraid it will take me too much time to even learn enough ConTeXt to evaluate it properly and will thus miss the next release. If anyone happens to use Kate or KDE it would be great if (s)he could review this. links: http://kde-files.org/content/show.php/ConTeXt+-+Syntax+Highlighting?content… http://www.mvkrauss.de/tex.html cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 e-mail: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net www: http://matija.suklje.name aim: hookofsilver icq: 110183360 jabber/g-talk: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org msn: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net yahoo: matija_suklje

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Re: [NTG-context] Multiple pages in \startstandardmakeup..\endstandardmakeup
by Ángel Luis García Fernández 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

> On 11/2/07, ?ngel Luis Garc?a Fern?ndez wrote: > > Hi, > > > > how can I have multiple pages in the standardmakeup section?. I have > > tried > > > > \startstandardmakeup > > \input xxxx > > \page[odd] > > \input xxxxxx > > \stopstandardmakeup > > > > but all the text appears in just one page. I have tried other arguments > > for the \page command (blank, empty...) but nothing works > > Perhaps this? > > \startstandardmakeup > \input xxxx > \stopstandardmakeup > \startstandardmakeup > \input xxxxxx > \stopstandardmakeup > > Mojca Thanks a lot :-) Angel-Luis

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Multiple pages in \startstandardmakeup..\endstandardmakeup
by Ángel Luis García Fernández 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi, how can I have multiple pages in the standardmakeup section?. I have tried \startstandardmakeup \input xxxx \page[odd] \input xxxxxx \stopstandardmakeup but all the text appears in just one page. I have tried other arguments for the \page command (blank, empty...) but nothing works Thanks in advance Angel-Luis

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upright sans math
by Henning Hraban Ramm 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Ahoi! I need to typeset some formulae in upright Helvetica (TeX Gyre Heros, URW Nimbus or similar). Is this already pre-made in the ConTeXt distribution? I couldn't find it. Greetlings, Hraban

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Problem with nested \quotation and \quote
by Thomas A. Schmitz 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi all, the attached test file shows a problem with nested \quotation and \quote commands: ConTeXt breaks the line after the first closing quote. There shouldn't be a line break there. Thanks! Thomas \definepapersize[test][width=7cm,height=3cm] \setuppapersize[test][test] \mainlanguage[en] \starttext \quotation{He said, \quote{this demonstrates the problem with nested quotes.}} \stoptext

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Success Story - II
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hello Happy to report that Luatex made my life easier once again. :) I've made another test papers for my students, with varying problems, and it was possible only due to Lua emedded code. Examples: Perform logical AND, OR and XOR under the following pair of hexadecimal numbers: \startluacode n = math.random(10,255) m = math.random(10,255) tex.print(string.format("%X, %X", n, m)) \stopluacode Encode your Name and Surname as a \startluacode a = {'null-terminated', 'dollar-terminated', 'Pascal'} tex.print( string.format('%s string.', a[math.random(1,3)]) ); \stopluacode Lucky, the discussion about Lua reference started in the list today, because I need more knowledge of Lua to make even more flexible assignments. Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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ConTeXt Package for Notepad++ v. 4.5
by Idris Samawi Hamid 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

Dear cabal, I have uploaded an updated version of the ConTeXt-support package for Notepad++ (Npp): http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Image:Npp_ConTeXt.zip For details, see the Readme as well as http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20070813.050137.7a5796f0.en.html There are lots of small improvements. One nice feature is that from any text selection (such as a control sequence) you may do a ConTeXt Wiki search from the RUN menu or ALT-F2. In addition there is Google and Wikipedia search. Also, I have included the wonderful Explorer plugin. Most of the Scite ConTeXt commands are included (same shortcuts), in both RUN and script versions (for the console F6). Npp is one of the most powerful and useful text editors around. For windows users (you can also use it under wine) wanting a more modern interface with loads of included features (see especially the TextFX menu), it deserves a close look. I hope that someone will wikify this under the Text-Editor page. Enjoy! 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 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Re: [NTG-context] New build problems
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

Hello Hans, Is some additional info needed from me to fix this issue? -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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project structure and dissertations
by Jesse Alama 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

I'm unsure about an aspect of The ConTeXt Way and its application to my current situation: typesetting a dissertation, namely: how can I take advantage of project sttructure? It seems natural to regard the dissertation as a project and the chapters as products (which sounds strange to my mind, in this case). But then I have no idea what would correspond to components; it seems like excessive, unnecessary structuring to regard sections of chapters as components. And if sections aren't components, I don't know what they would be. Earlier messages on this mailing list suggest that projects aren't supposed to be compiled; only components and products are supposed to be compiled. This suggests that the whole dissertation not be a project; clearly I would want to compile the whole dissertation. Another approach would be to skip projects and stick with just products and components. In this case, the whole dissertation would be a product (which sounds right to me), and chapters would be components. But then, if I follow that route, how would the logical structure interact with the "typographical structure" (what is called "meta-structure" in the ConTeXt manual)? I want to say something like \startfrontmatter \chapter{Preface} \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter{Introduction} \stopbodymatter \startappendices \chapter{Complex Proof that was Skipped} \stopappendices \startbackmatter \chapter{Colofon} \stopbackmatter in dissertation.tex, to indicate the typographical/meta structure. But then where would the \component commands go? Would it look something like this: \startproductproduct dissertation \startfrontmatter \chapter{Preface} \component{Preface} \stopbodymatter ... or would I somehow be able to refer to the whole text of the preface and do something like \startproduct dissertation \component preface \chapter{Preface} \getbuffer{buf:preface} \startfrontmatter ... with the whole text of the preface in a buffer? I would appreciate any advice! Thanks, Jesse -- Jesse Alama (alama(a)stanford.edu)

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LuaTeX/MKIV on OS X 10.5 Leopard
by David Wooten 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

Greetings all, I'm curious whether anyone using MKIV on a Mac has upgraded to 10.5? Any problems after doing so? Regards, David

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[OT] STIX Fonts Released for Beta Test
by luigi scarso 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

After some delay, http://www.stixfonts.org/ -- luigi

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JUstificarion of \inleft
by John Culleton 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

The Context command \inleft is almost comparable to a similar facility in Framemaker with this exception: Framemaker left justifies multiple lines in this situation (called a sidehead) whereas \inleft right justifies them. I know I can force indiviual lines into place by enclosing them in \leftline or whatever but I am hoping there is a more general solution. -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think? http://apps.wexfordpress.net/blog/ And my must-read (free) short list: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

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updating mswincontext
by Joel C. Salomon 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

What is the best way of keeping a mswincontext installation up-to-date? Do I need to download beta releases of the luatex binary and newer versions of the ConTeXt distribution from <http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm>, or is there an automatic updater? On a related note, where should I unzip the cont-xxx.zip packages I'd like to use on my system? In texmf-local, or texmf-extra, or where? --Joel

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Re: [NTG-context] Success Story - II
by luigi scarso 01 Nov '07

01 Nov '07

On 10/31/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <yatskovsky(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello luigi, > > Thanks. > > I see that my 'examples' are not included yet, right? hmm, if you are registered as user you can modify my page too, I believe. I will put a new subject "Luatex examples" , you can put your content under it. > > And, what do you mean by "I was not able to follow them"? Too much busy at home and at work to keep track of your mail about this subject in this mailing list :( . At guit meeting this year http://www.guit.sssup.it/GuITmeeting/2007/2007.en.php/ there was also a talk about TeX/LaTeX at school, see 12:00 - LaTeX nella Scuola Media Superiore: applicazioni didattiche con PSTricks Luciano Battaia, Liceo Scientifico Grigoletti, Pordenone I eventually email Luciano about your luatex examples at school/university -- luigi

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Happy prime.next.square :)
by Mojca Miklavec 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

Mojca PS: explanation comes with a delay :)

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rsync problems
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

Hello, I use rsync -rvzctl rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/minimals/windows tex but get the error message. Previously, the same command worked successfully for me. Is something broken on the server? G:\rsync>rsync -rvzctl rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/minimals/windows tex receiving file list ... rsync: link_stat "/minimals/windows" (in minimals) faile d: No such file or directory (2) done sent 4 bytes received 9 bytes 8.67 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1385) [rece iver=2.6.9] Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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natural table splitting problems
by Santy, Michael 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

> The same as in my first reply. Look at the first page with the text > only. There isn't a space behind the sentence(s) and TeX can't break the > paragraph (text expands it's lower border). This also breaks the > splitting of the table, as it is (partly) on the same page. Peter, all of the information that you've sent me has been very educational, but I think you may be focusing too much on the approach that I've used to illustrate the errant table splitting behavior. The example below also illustrates this behavior and does not extend the text below its lower border as did the previous example. This is of course a contrived example -- I unfortunately cannot post a real example. You can slightly change the layout and the problem will going away (for this particular document). The problem is that my ConTeXt rendering layer has to process arbitrary XML input and this very same behavior pops up in documents regardless of the layout. Making adjustments to the layout, font size, etc will just change where the problem manifests itself. It is still possible that I'm doing something wrong, but my gut tells me that it is a bug in the context natural table splitting code. \setuppapersize[letter][letter] \setuplayout[textwidth=6.5in, width=middle, height=middle, footer=3\bodyfontsize, footerdistance=\bodyfontsize, header=0pt, headerdistance=0pt, top=\bodyfontsize, topdistance=\bodyfontsize, topspace=0.8in, bottom=\bodyfontsize, bottomdistance=0.5\bodyfontsize, bottomspace=0.8in, location=middle] \showframe \usetypescript[times][ec] \setupbodyfont[times,13pt] \setupwhitespace[big] \starttext Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. \placetable[split]{Broken Split Table}{% \bTABLE[split=repeat] \bTABLEhead \bTR \bTH Header A \eTH \bTH Header B \eTH \eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \bTR \bTC A \eTC \bTC B \eTC \eTR \eTABLEbody \eTABLE } \stoptext

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linebreak NOT in section title BUT in content
by Steffen Wolfrum 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

Hi, \chapter{First line\\second line} gives a linebreak in the chapter's title but not in the corresponding toc entry. I need it the other way round: a line break at a specific point of the toc entry *and not* in the chapters title. Is this possible? Steffen

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"beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex"
by Joel C. Salomon 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

Testing a new installation of mswincontext, I got this message when texexecing the first example from the wiki: (c:/Users/chesky/Programs/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex Is this normal? (My setup is mswincontex.zip/isoimage/usr/local/context extracted to c:\users\chesky\programs\context, and the following environment variables set: OSFONTDIR=C:\Windows\Fonts Path=…;C:\Users\chesky\Programs\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin;… TEXPATH=C:\Users\chesky\Programs\context\tex TEXMFCNF=C:\Users\chesky\Programs\context\tex\texmf{-local,}\web2c TEXMFEXTRA=C:\Users\chesky\Programs\context\tex\texmf-extra TEXMFFONTS=C:\Users\chesky\Programs\context\tex\texmf-fonts TEXMFLOCAL=C:\Users\chesky\Programs\context\tex\texmf-local TEXMFMAIN=C:\Users\chesky\Programs\context\tex\texmf TEXMFOS=C:\Users\chesky\Programs\context\tex\texmf-mswin TEXMFPROJECT=C:\Users\chesky\Programs\context\tex\texmf-project TEXMF={$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN} as per the discussion if a few weeks back.) --Joel

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Re: [NTG-context] natural table splitting problems
by Santy, Michael 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

Hagen, Hans wrote: > it's always a problem to determine what's left on a page > > \def\blah{The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy stupid dog.} > \dorecurse{62}{\blah} \synchronizeoutput > > this will force the otr but is not always fails safe (i.e. vertical > spacing may be messed) > > ... one of the reasons why we work on luatex -) > > Hans Hans, The "\synchronizeoutput" seemed to fix this trivial example, but it doesn't seem to fix other illustrations of this behavior. Is the "\synchronizeoutput" something that I should place at the end of every block of content (paras, sections, lists, figures, equations, etc.) in order to ensure that tables split properly. If not, is there a general workaround for this table issue that I can apply in the meantime while LuaTeX is still in development? I'm generating ConTeXt from XSL, so its very easy to make a system wide change of how the content is generated. By the way, the LuaTeX on live.contextgarden.net seems to be broken ("FatalError: Your format does not match the base files!") Cheers, Mike

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\enableregime [utf] or [utf-8]?
by Matija Šuklje 31 Oct '07

31 Oct '07

I've been reading a bit the docs and it seems they're a bit ambigious when it (at least wiki) comes to regimes — is it \enableregime[utf] or \enableregime[utf-8] ...both? All three?? cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 e-mail: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net www: http://matija.suklje.name aim: hookofsilver icq: 110183360 jabber/g-talk: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org msn: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net yahoo: matija_suklje

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Re: [NTG-context] itemize and math
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

> > > I have a problem with > > > > > > > > \startitemize[columns,a] > > > > \item $a_n=2+\frac{1}{n+1}$ > > > > \item $a_n=\frac{(-1)^n}{\sqrt{n}}-3$ > > > > \stopitemize > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > this did not wotk because the second formula is than the first > and > > -------------------------------------------------^ (what?) > > > > > the multicolumn OTR tries to put half or less of the text into > the > > > second column, you can now force a second column with the > \column > > > command after the first line or you switch both > > > formulas and the OTR can make two columns. > > > > > > \starttext > > > > > > \startitemize[columns,a] > > > \item $a_n=\frac{(-1)^n}{\sqrt{n}}-3$ > > > \item $a_n=2+\frac{1}{n+1}$ > > > \stopitemize > > > > Why is this working? Here the first column is as big as the > second > > above (same formula), so the same problem should arise with the > first > > column as above with the second? > > > No, they are not, the first row (column) is 1 points taller than the > second > one, you can test this with TeX. > > \starttext > > \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{$a_n=\frac{(-1)^n}{\sqrt{n}}-3$} > > Formula 1: \copy\scratchbox > > Height of formula 1: \the\ht\scratchbox > > \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{$a_n=2+\frac{1}{n+1}$} > > Formula 2: \copy\scratchbox > > Height of formula 2: \the\ht\scratchbox Ahhh! The HEIGHT (not the width) ist the problem!? So: \startcolumns \dontleavehmode \vphantom{$a_n=\frac{(-1)^n}{\sqrt{n}}-3$}$a_n=2+\frac{1}{n+1}$% $a_n=\frac{(-1)^n}{\sqrt{n}}-3$ \stopcolumns works too. Is there something like an \mathstrut macro? (I know, that there exists a macro with this name, but that uses ')' as height.) > I hope my examples helped you a little bit to understand the > problems in your example and why my methods worked. > > Wolfgang Hope, I have it! Thank you, Wolfgang

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ordering (combined) lists
by Henning Hraban Ramm 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

Ahoi! In my songbook, I'd like to order the table of contents alphabetically. Is that possible or must I abuse the index features? This is my setup: \definecombinedlist [inhalt] [Titel, TitelKlein, TitelNoPage] [level=Titel, placehead=yes, criterium=all, alternative=b, offset=none] \setupcombinedlist [inhalt] [partnumber=no] 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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Re: [NTG-context] natural table splitting problems
by Santy, Michael 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

Thanks Peter for the pointer to the multipage table in the wiki. I don't know how I overlooked that example. However, I was still able to duplicate the problem with this sample table by including a page full of text before the table (see below). If the dorecurse is set to 62 or 63, the contents slightly overflow the first page text area and only the first row of the table is rendered on the second page. If dorecurse on blah is performed 61 or 64 times, the table is rendered properly. Any thoughts? Cheers, Mike \starttext \setupcolors[state=start] \showframe \def\blah{The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy stupid dog.} \dorecurse{62}{\blah} % setup for all cells \setupTABLE[r][each][style=\tfx\it, align=center] % setup table head \setupTABLE[r][first] [background=color, backgroundcolor=yellow] % setup table footer \setupTABLE[r][last] [style=bold, background=color, backgroundcolor=green] \bTABLE[split=repeat,option=stretch]% head on every page, stretch columns % % IMPORTANT: use \bTH ... \eTH to enclose the head|next cells \bTABLEhead \bTR \bTH head1 \eTH \bTH head2 \eTH \bTH head3 \eTH \eTR \eTABLEhead % \bTABLEnext % setup for next table head \bTR [background=color,backgroundcolor=cyan] \bTH next1 \eTH \bTH next2 \eTH \bTH next3 \eTH \eTR \eTABLEnext % % the table body (main part) % \bTABLEbody % \dorecurse{100}{% 100 rows \bTR \bTC body body body body body \eTC \bTC body body body body body \eTC \bTC body body body body body \eTC \eTR }% % \eTABLEbody % % the table foot % \bTABLEfoot \bTR \bTC foot1 \eTC \bTC foot2 \eTC \bTC foot3 \eTC \eTR \eTABLEfoot % \eTABLE \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] itemize and math
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 30 Oct '07

30 Oct '07

Sorry, I don't understand what the problem is! > > I have a problem with > > > > \startitemize[columns,a] > > \item $a_n=2+\frac{1}{n+1}$ > > \item $a_n=\frac{(-1)^n}{\sqrt{n}}-3$ > > \stopitemize > > > Hi, > > this did not wotk because the second formula is than the first and -------------------------------------------------^ (what?) > the multicolumn OTR tries to put half or less of the text into the > second column, you can now force a second column with the \column > command after the first line or you switch both > formulas and the OTR can make two columns. > > \starttext > > \startitemize[columns,a] > \item $a_n=\frac{(-1)^n}{\sqrt{n}}-3$ > \item $a_n=2+\frac{1}{n+1}$ > \stopitemize Why is this working? Here the first column is as big as the second above (same formula), so the same problem should arise with the first column as above with the second? > \startitemize[columns,a] > \item $a_n=2+\frac{1}{n+1}$ \column > \item $a_n=\frac{(-1)^n}{\sqrt{n}}-3$ > \stopitemize Why does the \column help with the first formula? No, I don't understand this at all. Wolfgang

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Roman numerals
by Maurício 29 Oct '07

29 Oct '07

Hi, Is there an automatic way of typesetting roman numerals? I imagine something like a \roman{7} that would result in a nice VII. Thanks, Maurício

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[Fwd: natural table splitting problems]
by Hans Hagen 29 Oct '07

29 Oct '07

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natural table splitting problems
by Santy, Michael 29 Oct '07

29 Oct '07

In our XML->ConTeXt->PDF workflow, we've encountered a few intermittent problems when using split natural tables. I'm not able to post the original documents in which the problems are manifesting, but below is a document that reproduces one of the problems. The first page of the document is full of text, pushing a split natural table with five rows and a header to the top of the second page. However, only the first row appears on the second page, and the rest of the table is continued on the third page. I'm using a stock ConTeXt 9/28 distribution, but this problem can also be reproduced on live.contextgarden.net. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong or help me debug this problem? These natural table bugs are the only thing stopping us from deploying our ConTeXt workflow. Cheers, Mike Santy \setuppapersize[letter][letter] \showframe \starttext \def\blah{ Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their % country. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. } \dorecurse{28}{\blah} \placetable[split]{Broken Split Table}{ \setupTABLE[split=repeat] \bTABLE \bTABLEhead \bTR[style=\bf] \bTD Header A \eTD \bTD Header B \eTD \eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \dorecurse{5}{ \bTR \bTD A \eTD \bTD B \eTD \eTR } \eTABLEbody \eTABLE } \stoptext

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The easiest way to get jpeg output?
by context＠fr.pl 29 Oct '07

29 Oct '07

Hello, I need transform some presentation into series of jpeg files. Is it possible directly from ConTeXt or I have to use some external tools for conversion? What is the easiest way in any case? -- best regards ml.

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itemize and math
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 29 Oct '07

29 Oct '07

Hallo, I have a problem with \startitemize[columns,a] \item $a_n=2+\frac{1}{n+1}$ \item $a_n=\frac{(-1)^n}{\sqrt{n}}-3$ \stopitemize which is NOT in columns. \startitemize[columns,a] \item one \item two \stopitemize works! How can I solve this? Wolfgang

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Semi-transparent banners for a cover.
by John Culleton 28 Oct '07

28 Oct '07

A project specifies that for the cover of a brochure there be a photograph as the background (doable in Context), and semi-transparent rectangles across the page highlighting the various strings of text. The rectangles darken but do not completely block out the underlying illustration. It is a layer cake, a photo, with semi-transparent rectangles laid across it, and type within the rectangles. This is a job more easily done in Gimp etc. but my question is, can it be done in Context at all? How do I create the semi-transparent elements? -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think? http://apps.wexfordpress.net/blog/ And my must-read (free) short list: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

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Pandoc and ConTeXt: Suggestions
by Idris Samawi Hamid 28 Oct '07

28 Oct '07

Hi John, Enclosed you will find a zip containing test-context.txt (a markdown test file) test-context.tex (output produced by Pandoc) test-context2.txt (a modified file showing more ideal ConTeXt output). In conjuction with odt2txt (which converts to markdown) Pandoc will be extremely useful in converting simple OOo-supported files to ConTeXt for advanced typography and typesetting. In the following comments I identify a few places where Pandoc could do things in a more ConTeXt-ish way. Note also that ConTeXt and LaTeX have very different philosophies: Although one can make ConTeXt imitate LaTeX, that's not generally the most useful way to approach it. Here we run Pandoc without the -s switch, so there is no preamble. In a separate report I will make suggestions on how we can improve the preamble to make it more ConTeXt-ish. I am also cc'ing this to the ConTeXt list in case anyone has any suggestions on improving my comments or other thoughts. I. Headings There are two issues in the way pandoc translates headings into ConTeXt: A. The heading-orders in markdown are not quite in sync with the context headings. In pandoc # => \section ## => \subsection etc. This should be changed to # => \title ## => \subject ### => \subsubject #### => \subsubsubject See also I.B following. B. Don't use \chapter, \section, \subsection, \subsubsection; Use instead \title, \subject, \subsubject, \subsubsubject To explain: Markdown does not support explicit ordered headings: Chapter 1: A Topic Section 1: A Subtopic Section 2: Another Subtopic Chapter 2: Another Topic Section 1: A Subtopic Rather it supports simple headings: A Topic A Subtopic Another Subtopic Another Topic A Subtopic In ConTeXt we use \title, \subject, etc. for unordered headings. II. Quotes A. Inline quotes For eg. “quotation using U201C and U201D” maybe you could translate that to \quotation{...} as well, though I guess “” are not part of markdown syntax so... B. Block Quotes There are three issues: i) When run in fragment mode (no -s switch), all of your defined control sequences, like \start-stopblockquote and \start-\stopltxitem, still need to be placed in the preamble. Note that \start-\stoptext can be nested. So you can place the entire fragment, including your definitions, within in a \start-\stoptext. A -preamble switch would be useful to turn the preamble on and off. ii) There is a \start-stopquotation command in ConTeXt already, but it has the odd feature that it adds doublequotes to the quote block (I'll ask Hans if he can add a setup option to remove them). Your definition is ok; I prefer (and in my own work typically use) something like \definestartstop [blockquote] [before={\startnarrower[2*left,2*right]\blank[big]\noindenting}, after={\stopnarrower\blank[big]}] iii. There is a spurious blank line before \stopblockquote. Indeed, there are spurious spaces before the end of many of your \start-stop constructions, as well as missing blank spaces after those constructions. III. Lists The ConTeXt philosophy of lists calls for a different approach: No need for new, nonstandard constructions (like \startltxitem), no need for \sym; \start-stopitemize is very rich in options. Also, using \start-stopitemize with options [...] is much better because what we want to be able to do is easily edit and configure the results of the pandoc transformation. So if I want to chage bullets to dashes I change \startitemize[1] to \startitemize[2]. For symbols, use the information in Section 10.6, Table 10.1, page 229 of cont-eni.pdf (the ConTeXt manual, available from http://www.pragma-ade.com/) Also note: There should be a blank line after \stopitemize; it will not necessarily create a spurious line in the output. In the preamble the user can define its properties in \setupitemize. By default the following two itemizations will create the same output: ============ Here is some text \startitemize \item Hi! \stopitemize Here is some text Here is some text \startitemize \item Hi! \stopitemize Here is some text ============ It is better to leave the blank space before and after the itemized group. Some specific examples (see my modifictions to pandoc output in test-context-r.tex): A. An unordered list: \startitemize \item One \item Two \item Three \stopitemize B. An ordered list with no paragraphs and no nesting: \startitemize[n] \item One \item Two \item Three \stopitemize C. An ordered list with paragraphs: NOTE THE USE OF \head HERE! \startitemize \head One Here is a paragraph. \head Two And another. \head Three And yet another. \stopitemize Here is a post paragraph sentence (with a blank space after \stopitemize). D. An ordered list with nesting and paragraphs: The output seems buggy; I don't get level-2 paragraphs. Maybe my markdown syntax is wrong? =================================== There's more in test-context-r.tex. Note that nested ordered list are defined for the document in the preamble, for example: \setupitemize[1][symbol=n] [indentnext=no] \setupitemize[2][symbol=A][indentnext=no] \setupitemize[3][symbol=R][indentnext=no,after={\blank[small]}] Level 1 will use Arabic numerals, level 2 will use capital letters, level 3 will use roman numerals. Normally a ConTeXt user wants to be keep the structure as general as possible so as to be able to typographically set the full document consistently. So there is no need to exacly mimic the settings of lists, etc; it's much more important to capture the structure as abstractly as possible. IV. Emphasize and Bold If we want to be really precise and do things the ConTeXt way, then we should define a new control sequence like \STRONG and then \let\STRONG=\bf This will complement \em Mixing the structural tag for emphasis with the formal tag \bf, as in {\bf {\em bold italic}} is strange in the TeX way of thinking. Better to have either {\bf {\it bold italic}} or {\STRONG {\em bold italic}} Bold italic is simply {\bi bold italic} btw. A THOUGHT: Maybe the markdown community may want to consider using multiples of `*' for emphasis and using multiples of `_' for italic and bold. From a TeX/typographic point of view this is a huge distinction. But markdown has its own purpose so maybe the distinction is not so important there... V. Footnotes Pandoc output: ==================== This sentence contains a footnote\footnote{Footnote contents }. This sentence contains no footnote. ==================== That blank space is really awful :-) Ideal output: ==================== This sentence contains a footnote \footnote{Footnote contents}. This sentence contains no footnote. ==================== There is no spurious space after the first line; \footnote gobbles it. I hope this is useful and clear. Let me know what you think! 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 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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Female sign in Context
by Maurício 27 Oct '07

27 Oct '07

Hi, How do I type the female sign (ª) in Context? Thanks, Maurício

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luatex
by Thomas A. Schmitz 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Hi, at the risk of sounding rude or impatient: I'd love to know when new releases of luatex and ConTeXt mkiv can be expected. The latest luatex trunk has some problems (no ligatures, hyphenation flaky) and doesn't work with some of my fonts. Latest ConTeXt beta only works with trunk of luatex. Hans mentioned some fundamental changes in luatex, so I was just wondering. Thanks! Thomas

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natural table splitting bug
by Santy, Michael 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

In our XML->ConTeXt->PDF workflow, we've encountered a few intermittent problems when using split natural tables. I'm not able to post the original documents in which the problems are manifesting, but below is a document that reproduces one of the problems. The first page of the document is full of text, pushing a split natural table with five rows and a header to the top of the second page. However, only the first row appears on the second page, and the rest of the table is continued on the third page. I'm using a stock ConTeXt 9/28 distribution, but this problem can also be reproduced on live.contextgarden.net. Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong or help me debug this problem? These natural table bugs are the only thing stopping us from deploying our ConTeXt workflow. Cheers, Mike Santy \setuppapersize[letter][letter] \showframe \starttext \def\blah{ Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their % country. The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. } \dorecurse{28}{\blah} \placetable[split]{Broken Split Table}{ \setupTABLE[split=repeat] \bTABLE \bTABLEhead \bTR[style=\bf] \bTD Header A \eTD \bTD Header B \eTD \eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \dorecurse{5}{ \bTR \bTD A \eTD \bTD B \eTD \eTR } \eTABLEbody \eTABLE } \stoptext

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Error updating context with ctxtools
by WN 26 Oct '07

26 Oct '07

Hi, I thought it might be time to update my standalone Context on Windows (08-08-2007). I am using ctxtools --update but I am getting the following error loading : Context Regime Macros (synonyms) ) (C:/Context/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/lang-ini.tex loading : Context Language Macros / Initialization (C:/Context/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/lang-ini.mkiv ! LuaTeX error ...ontext/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/lang-ini.lua:9: attempt to index global 'lang' (a nil value). \ctxluabytecode ...ode " .. "#1" .. str) end end } \registerctxluafile ...{\the \luabytecodecounter } \fi \fi l.16 \registerctxluafile{lang-ini}{1.001} ? Kind regards Wim Neimeijer

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Fwd: Re: Greetings and ConTeXt
by Idris Samawi Hamid 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

For anyone who's interested: ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "John MacFarlane" <fiddlosopher(a)gmail.com> To: pandoc-discuss(a)googlegroups.com Cc: Subject: Re: Greetings and ConTeXt Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:33:18 -0600 Great! I know comparatively little about ConTeXt, so if you find ways to improve pandoc's ConTeXt output, please let me know (either here or by filing a bug report on pandoc's issue tracker). John +++ ishamid [Oct 25 07 13:26 ]: > > Hi, > > I just learned about pandoc from the ConTeXt list. I am very excited > about the possibilities of this new tool and hope to learn more soon. > I am something of a ConTeXt power user (not a programmer) but would > like to help in any way I can. As the editor of an academic journal > the need to convert other formats to ConTeXt is a laborious task; > maybe this tool will help to streamline that someday. > > 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 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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wikifyable
by Hans Hagen 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

in such cases \dontleavehmode is neede \starttext \placefigure[left]{}{} \startlinecorrection \dontleavehmode \bTABLE \bTR \bTD oeps \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoplinecorrection \placefigure[right]{}{} \startlinecorrection \dontleavehmode \bTABLE \bTR \bTD oeps \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoplinecorrection \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Repeat (*) key in TaBlE
by Aditya Mahajan 25 Oct '07

25 Oct '07

Hi, What is the correct way of using * key with TaBlE? The following does not work \starttext \starttable[|*{2}l|] \HL \NC A \NC B \NC \NR \HL \stoptable \starttable[|l|l|] \HL \NC A \NC B \NC \NR \HL \stoptable \stoptext Thanks, Aditya

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Numbered subitems
by WN 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Hi, I want to make a numbered list as follows *Artikel 1. First artikel *1.1. Text for item 1.1. 1.2. Text for item 1.2 *Artikel 2. Second artikel* 2.1. Text for item 2.1 2.2. Text for item 2.2 etc. I am trying to accomplish this with \setupitemgroup and \defineitemgroup as follows, but the second level start also with Artikel and is indented. I looked at the some of the emails relating to numbered subitems but could not find a working example. Thanks for any help Wim % test code \defineitemgroup[mylist][levels=2] \setupitemgroup[mylist][1][atmargin][n,repeat] \setupitemgroup[mylist][1][width=5em,stopper=.,headstyle=bold,left=Artikel ] \setupitemgroup[mylist][2][atmargin][n,repeat] \setupitemgroup[mylist][2][width=2em,stopper=.,left=] \startext \startmylist \head First artikel \startmylist \item Text for item 1.1. \item Text for item 1.1. \stopmylist \head Second artikel \startmylist \item Text for item 2.1 \item Text for item 2.2 \stopmylist \stopmylist \stoptext

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14th century music ("Mensuralnotation")
by Steffen Wolfrum 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Hi, I'd like to typeset various symbols (as examples included in normal text lines) from musical notation from the 14th century ("Mensuralnotation"). These symbols can be seen in http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D100.pdf I just have absolutely no idea e.g. which font these symbols support ... Could someone show me a way? Thanks, Steffen

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MKIV: encoding for pdf-strings
by Peter Münster 24 Oct '07

24 Oct '07

Hello, When using luatex, utf encoding is not taken into account in pdf-strings. Minimal example: % engine=luatex \enableregime[utf] \setupinteraction[state=start,author=Peter Münster] \starttext Peter Münster \stoptext Output of pdfinfo: Author: Peter MÃ¼nster Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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metapost question
by Thomas A. Schmitz 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Just because I hope that someone may have done this already: does anyone have metapost code to draw the "Platonic solids" (I hope the attachment comes through). All best Thomas

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Fixed floats and header placement
by Wolfgang Schuster 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

Hi, I have a small document with a few figures and all of them should be placed where I write them in the document. ConTeXt has the 'force' for placefloat to get this but the key has also many sideeffects. Take the following example, the second headers appears at page 4 but the rest of the page is empty and the figures continue at page 5. I tried to use another value \fixedfloatmethod but none of them give a prefect result. - \chardef\fixedfloatmethod=0 put the socnd header an page 2 - \chardef\fixedfloatmethod=1 put the second header at the bottom of the first page - \chardef\fixedfloatmethod=2 put the second header at the bottom of page 3 and the figures continue an page 4 - \chardef\fixedfloatmethod=3 is the default with a empty page 4 except the second header \setupfloat[figure][default=force] \starttext \dorecurse{2} {\section{Section} \dorecurse{6}{\placefigure{none}{\framed[width=12cm,height=8cm]{}}}} \stoptext Wolfgang

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Turn off interaction in some TOC levels?
by John Culleton 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

I want interaction at the subsubsection level but not higher. I have turned off line numbers for section and subsection. However both these levels remain interactive. The whole line is blue. I tried interaction=pagenumber, interaction=sectionnumber, interaction=no, interaction=none, and no interaction parameter at all at these levels. Nevertheless the whole entry remains interactive. some code: \setupcolors[state=start] \setuphead[chapter][head=nomarking,number=no] \setuphead[section][number=no,textcommand=\bf] \setuphead[subsection][number=no] \setuphead[subsubsection][number=no] \setupinteraction[state=start,color=blue] \setuplist[section][alternative=f,style=bold,interaction=sectionnumber] \setuplist[subsection][alternative=f,interaction=no] \setuplist[subsubsection][alternative=a,interaction=all] The good news is that I found a handy way to bookmark just the index in Acrobat Reader. I filched some code from an old Han The Thanh file: \pdfcatalog{/PageMode /UseOutlines} % bookmark window open \newcount\marknumber \marknumber=1 \def\bookmark#1#2{% \pdfdest num \marknumber xyz \pdfoutline goto num \marknumber count #1 {#2} \advance\marknumber by 1} ................. \bookmark{0}{Index} \placecontent ................... The explanation of the format of the \pdfoutline command in the manual wasn't clear to me but the above macro clears it up. -- John Culleton http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

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Compatiblity option in pdf
by John Culleton 23 Oct '07

23 Oct '07

I created a short document http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf using Context and with a clickable TOC and one thumbnail. The thumbnail was created with the Han The Thanh pdftex macro code I mentioned recently. Some users view it fine, others with earlier versions of Acrobat Reader have problems. A friend ftom the InDesign/Distiller world suggests that I recreate the pdf with the compatibility option turned on. Does this suggestion have any meaning in the Context/pdftex world? Can interested readers read the above url OK? -- John Culleton Want to know what I really think? http://apps.wexfordpress.net/blog/ And my must-read (free) short list: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

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Pesky list problem
by john＠wexfordpress.com 22 Oct '07

22 Oct '07

I tried building my own TOC as follows: ... \definelist[subject][alternative=a] \definelist[subsubject][alternative=a] \definelist[subsubsubject][alternative=a] \definecombinedlist[foo] [subject,subsubject,subsubsubject] [level=subsubsubject,criterium=local] \setupcombinedlist[foo] \starttext \title{Annotated Booklist} ... \placelist[foo] \subject{Top Choices} \subsubject{General Publishing} .... This set of commands stops with errors. What stupid thing did I do this time? -- John Culleton -- John Culleton Precision Typesetting Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

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Pstricks and overlays, LuaTeX and Pstricks
by Ioannis Thavoris 20 Oct '07

20 Oct '07

Is it possible to create overlays using ConTeXt with Pstricks ? Any example? Will MarkIV-LuaTeX support Pstricks? Thank you in advance. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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