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Re: [NTG-context] Typing in Polytonic Greek
by esther+steffen 20 Aug '04

20 Aug '04

Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban(a)fiee.net> wrote: > Am 19.08.2004 um 23:39 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: > > What should I write in my tex document so that ConTeXt understands the > > UTF-8 glyphs > > that I am typing with Polytonic Greek? > > Did you try > \enableregime[utf8] > > > > Grüßlis vom Hraban! Sure, but it doesn't have any effect on my file: \def\typescriptfiles{type-athenian.tex} \usetypescript[AthenianGreek] \setupencoding[default=8r] \mainlanguage[de] \setupbodyfont[AthenianGreek,20pt] \enableregime[utf8] \starttext ± [greek text in UTF-8 characters] \stoptext Maybe Hans can help? Steffen P.S. The font used here is "athenian" from http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pinax/greekkeys/Atheniandownload.html

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Re: [NTG-context] How to use PostScript font
by skhilji＠tampabay.rr.com 20 Aug '04

20 Aug '04

None of the commands that I was told worked. I donT think its my installation. To my surprise, the following does not work at live.contextgarden.net. If you see the log file, it says that the TFM file not found. Even the server at contextgarden is missing the package that I am missing from my system \usetypescript[berry][ec] % or [8r] \setupbodyfont[pos] \starttext The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. \stoptext

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Typing in Polytonic Greek
by Steffen Wolfrum 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Hi, I have a font for Polytonic Greek ("athenian") installed in my ConTeXt-set and save my tex-files with utf-8 encoding (in TeXShop). Now I want to typeset a text (latin characters) with quotes in Polytonic Greek. Work is much easier for me if I will type these qoutes directly in Polytonic Greek (therefore I have a special keyboard layout from "GreekKeys"). What should I write in my tex document so that ConTeXt understands the UTF-8 glyphs that I am typing with Polytonic Greek? Steffen Wolfrum

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Is there a bug during pagination of external figures?
by Stefan Wachter 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Hi all! Processing a large document containing the following lines: >>>>>>>>>>start \externalfigure[/home/swachter/projekte/infotakt/vdp/export/bu/bu.ilboo/ziffer8.ilboo/bu8-3_refkom.ilboo/graphics.ilfdr/bu8-3_241-242_1.png] \externalfigure[/home/swachter/projekte/infotakt/vdp/export/bu/bu.ilboo/ziffer8.ilboo/bu8-3_refkom.ilboo/graphics.ilfdr/bu8-3_241-242_2.png] \externalfigure[/home/swachter/projekte/infotakt/vdp/export/bu/bu.ilboo/ziffer8.ilboo/bu8-3_refkom.ilboo/graphics.ilfdr/bu8-3_241-242_3.png] \externalfigure[/home/swachter/projekte/infotakt/vdp/export/bu/bu.ilboo/ziffer8.ilboo/bu8-3_refkom.ilboo/graphics.ilfdr/bu8-3_241-242_4.png] <<<<<<<<<<<stop I encounter the following error: ! Missing $ inserted. <inserted text> $ <to be read again> _ \_...fmmode \mathunderscore \else \textunderscore \fi <argument> {\tfc 8}{\tfb -3\_ refkom}{}{}{} \firstoftwoarguments #1#2->#1 \doattributes ...sname #1#2\@EA \endcsname \fi {#4 }\dostopattributes ... l.2691 Line 2691 is the line after the fourth image. If I insert a page break before the fourth image >>>>>>>>>>start \externalfigure[/home/swachter/projekte/infotakt/vdp/export/bu/bu.ilboo/ziffer8.ilboo/bu8-3_refkom.ilboo/graphics.ilfdr/bu8-3_241-242_1.png] \externalfigure[/home/swachter/projekte/infotakt/vdp/export/bu/bu.ilboo/ziffer8.ilboo/bu8-3_refkom.ilboo/graphics.ilfdr/bu8-3_241-242_2.png] \externalfigure[/home/swachter/projekte/infotakt/vdp/export/bu/bu.ilboo/ziffer8.ilboo/bu8-3_refkom.ilboo/graphics.ilfdr/bu8-3_241-242_3.png] \page \externalfigure[/home/swachter/projekte/infotakt/vdp/export/bu/bu.ilboo/ziffer8.ilboo/bu8-3_refkom.ilboo/graphics.ilfdr/bu8-3_241-242_4.png] <<<<<<<<<<<stop then the error disappears. It seems that Context tries to output the filename of the external figure somewhere during pagination. Yet, the filename is not ment to appear inside the document! Does someone know how to work around this problem? Thanks for your attention, --Stefan

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et~al. in m-bib
by Peter Münster 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Dear Taco, a kind of feature request for the next release: "et al." is not language dependant, but nevertheless it would be nice (at least for the thesis of my brother), if this string wouldn't be hard-coded (just a macro as \bibetalname or similar). Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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Context in Portuguese
by Miguel Queiros 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Hi ! I've been a Latex user for some time and I'm now trying to use Context to typeset some documents in portuguese using portuguese accentuated characters but I can't seem to get it working. Every time I use an accentuated character it simply doesn't shows up in the document. I'v read the docs but haven't found a solution to the problem. Can someone provide me a simple example on how to do it, or the problem I'm facing has to do with some kind of configuration that has to be done in Context ? I'v been trying to use Context using the tex iso available at pragma's website. Thank you, Miguel Queirós

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\startenvironment \currentfile
by Peter Münster 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

Hello, isn't it redundant: \startenvironment filename \startproject filename \startproduct filename \startcomponent filename ?? Is this argument really needed? "\startenvironment xxx" seems to works too. Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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Re: typescript checking
by Hans Hagen 19 Aug '04

19 Aug '04

dr. Hans van der Meer wrote: > Hi Hans, > > On my "travels" through ConTeXt's fonthandling I got the following > result on typescript matching: > enter[xyz][][] and check[xyz][pqr][] > does match. > > If I read the definition of \dochecktypescript#1#2#3 well, this is > because an empty argument #1 at once leads to a \donetrue. That makes > the checking of an empty argument equivalent to the checking with an > [all] key (but for the additional fact that [all] matches on both the > entered and the checked key). Then > > (enter[xyz][][] --- check[xyz][pqr][]) is equivalent with > (enter[xyz][all][] --- check[xyz][pqr][]) > > Isn't this counterintuitive? I would have expected empty matching > nothing at all, or at most matching another empty argument. The point > is, I wanted to do a nice structured setup, something like: > > \starttypescript [A] \usetypescript[A][AA] > \usetypescript[A][AB]\stoptypescript > \starttypescript [A][AA] ... > \starttypescript [A][AB] ... > etc. > > Now [A] matches[A][AA] (i.e. [A][][] matching [A][AA][]) and this > doesn't work. > It has the addtional problem that for example typescript [pos] in > type-pre.tex (by calling \setupbodyfont[pos]) has a sub-typescript > [all][times,helvetica,courier][texnansi] that now will match > typescript [A][][]. That was not meant to be the case! At least not by > me when I wrote the typesciprt. But if the file containing [A][][] is > in the searchpath it will be processed in each round. In some cases it > even can lead to an infinite recursion of typescripts. > > Setting up things from "back to front" ([AA}[A] etc.) alleviates some > of the problems, but does not stop the unwanted occasions where [A] > matches [all][other_things]. > > Do I have it all wrong? > Thanks to those who will take the trouble to look into this matter. > Hans van der Meer Ok, the next release will have: \usetypescriptexact where empty defaults to a false match, so that you can play a bit with that alternative. I'll send you the file. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NTG-context] rectangle-words (like in details.pdf)
by Steffen Wolfrum 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

...it is not that I am inpatient - it's curiosity: Does really nobody knows the answer to my question, or is it just that it's too trivial to answer?! Sorry for re-posting Steffen Steffen Wolfrum <context(a)st.estfiles.de> wrote: > Hi, > > maybe it's a trivial question: > > How do I get these black rectangle-words as they are used in Hans' "details.pdf" for example (see page 16 or 25)? > > Is this a special font - or is there a certain context command used? > > Thank you, > > Steffen

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Using ConTeXt through MikTeX
by Shailesh Ashok Shirali 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Hello, friends, I posted this message some days back to the MikTeX mailing list, but would like to repeat it here. I use MikTeX with the text editor TechnicCenter. I generally work with PDFLaTeX. I have been reading about ConTeXt, which among other things enables the use of Metapost from within the package. (I wish to use Metapost as I need to draw lots of diagrams for Euclidean geometry.) It seems that one can configure MikTeX for ConTeXt. Could any user of ConTeXt suggest how to do the configuring? I am not able to act on the tips given. I have located in "MikTeX Options" the option "cont-uk" (in the Formats tab) and have selected it; but am not sure of the next step. I would be grateful for some advice on this matter. Thanks. Sincerely, Shailesh Shirali

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Footnotes in margin?
by Steffen Wolfrum 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Hi, does ConTeXt provide a way to place footnote (not margin notes!) per page - but not below the body text? A suitable place could be the margin. But there is no "\setupfootnotes[location=inmargin]" and somthing like "\inmargin{\footnote{}The footnote's text.}" doesn't flow. Does anybody know a working solution? Thank you, Steffen Wolfrum

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How to use PostScript font
by skhilji＠tampabay.rr.com 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

I'd like to use the paladino font from urw as my body font (Its the one used in the MetaFUN manual). I tried setting: \setupbodyfont[pos,12pt] but it does not work. What is the name that I should use?

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ConTeXt differences
by Taco Hoekwater 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Hi, The past week has seen two major updates of the context distribution on the pragma-ade web site. As I have done in the past, I have created a fairly detailed list of the changes between these and the previous (2004.06.30) version. Short summary: Context 2004.8.15 --------------------- uploaded on August 18, 2004. * texexec is now version 4.4, which adds "-engine" support for the upcoming texlive changes, and adds direct support for dvipdfm and dvipdfmx * the 'visual' module is now included in the distro * multitone color support * the LaTex .sty files now are true packages, including a version date (2004/07/30) * various DIN papersizes adjusted and a few new ones added * many many more minor changes Context 2004.7.12 -------------------- uploaded on August 16, 2004. * The low-level marking and page numbering macro names are converted to english. * The are a number of preliminary changes for XSL-FO support * \framed now supports the "orientation" keyword. The detailed stuff is available from the wiki page: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes -- groeten, Taco

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Page break after a section :-(
by skhilji＠tampabay.rr.com 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

I have some text that looks like: \section{Flight Controls Model} \startitemize[1] \item The Flight Controls model.... ... ... \stopitemize ConTeXt has decided to put a page break right after the \section, so my itemized list begins on the next page. I thought \sections were supposed to be setup with infinite penalty between the section title and the first line of the section text itself. I don't want to put a directive in there myself to avoid a page break

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a footnote bug?
by Steffen Wolfrum 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Hi, when setting the \setupfootnotedefinition with location=margin, or location=inleft there is always a little distance between footnote number and footnote text. Neither width nor distance can affect it. Does this distance cannot be adjusted? Thank you, Steffen Wolfrum

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a footnote bug?
by esther+steffen 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Hi, when setting the \setupfootnotedefinition with location=margin, or location=inleft there is always a little distance between footnote number and footnote text. Neither width nor distance can affect it. Does this distance cannot be adjusted? Thank you, Steffen Wolfrum

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defining a frame with embedded typing
by Floris van Manen 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

how would i define a frame with the typing environment embedded. the way i thought to solve it does *not* work (of course) \def\startTTinput% {\startframedtext[width=\makeupwidth,background=screen,backgroundscreen=.8] \starttyping } \def\stopTTinput% {\stoptyping\stopframedtext} or do i have to look for a solution in a different direction? thanks! % f

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Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt and Aleph
by Steffen Wolfrum 18 Aug '04

18 Aug '04

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > >ever so often I read mails by Giuseppe or Idris on Aleph. > >Now I also saw that there is a context-manual on aleph. > >Does this mean I can use the examples mentions there under ConTeXt? > > > >Running an alephtest.tex file ... > >\start \textdir TLT\relax \setups[ward] > >\start \textdir BLB\relax \red \setups[ward] > >\stop \setups[ward] > >\stop > >... tells me that "\textdir" is an "Undefined control sequence" > > > > > >What is missing? > > > > > probably aleph -) > > texexec --make --alone --tex=aleph > > texexec yourfile --tex=aleph --output=dpx > > (or first line of file: % tex=aleph output=dvipdfmx) > > > Hans So I execute sudo texexec --make --alone --tex=aleph and try % tex=aleph output=dvipdfmx \start \textdir TLT\relax \setups[ward] \start \textdir BLB\relax \red \setups[ward] \stop \setups[ward] \stop But that gives me only: TeXExec 4.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 executable : aleph format : cont-en inputfile : aleph output : dvipdfmx interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 sh: aleph: command not found return code : 32512 run time : 0 seconds total run time : 1 seconds What else is missing? Steffen

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Cannot TeX this
by Salman Khilji 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

Why can't I process the following from the manual? \def\HeadTitle#1#2% {\hbox to hsize {\hfill % \framed[height=1cm,width=2cm,align=left]{#1}% \framed[height=1cm,width=4cm,align=right]{#2}}} \setuphead[subsection][command=\HeadTitle] \starttext \subsection{Test}{Test} This is a test \stoptext

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ConTeXt and Aleph
by Steffen Wolfrum 17 Aug '04

17 Aug '04

Hi, ever so often I read mails by Giuseppe or Idris on Aleph. Now I also saw that there is a context-manual on aleph. Does this mean I can use the examples mentions there under ConTeXt? Running an alephtest.tex file ... \start \textdir TLT\relax \setups[ward] \start \textdir BLB\relax \red \setups[ward] \stop \setups[ward] \stop ... tells me that "\textdir" is an "Undefined control sequence" What is missing? When I installed ConTeXt I executed the following command lines: mv /Users/steffen/Desktop/cont-tmf.zip /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local rm tex/context/base/* rm metapost/context/base/* unzip -a -L -o cont-tmf.zip cp /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/context/config/texexec.rme /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/context/config/texexec.ini cp /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex sudo mktexlsr sudo fmtutil --all sudo texhash Do I have to add/change something in order to use ConTeXt and aleph? As you see I don't know where to start. Apologies if even my question are wrong! Thank you, Steffen Wolfrum (I am running the latest contextbeta under MacOS X)

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Re: .tex sources for ConTeXt's documentation
by Hans Hagen 14 Aug '04

14 Aug '04

Flavio Ribeiro wrote: > Hello, > > Do you distribute .tex sources for ConTeXt's documentation? I'd like > to learn from them, but I can only find PDFs on your web site. we only distribute documented source code and styles; also, it's not that simple to cook up a file structure that has all that stuff and be able to work in it comfortable as well (the documentation directory structure is different from the documentation source structure, and often there are additional resources like graphics and such, so putting things in a distribution is a tough job; maybe some time ... for the moment, take a look at the pdftex manual (sources available) and the s-* and x-* styles there's also the wiki where users share things ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net texshow-web: http://texshow.contextgarden.net Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Some problems with framing typed text.
by Brooks Moses 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

In the document I'm working on, I'd like to put some typed code bits in frames, to get an appearance sort of like the code excerpts on the ConTeXtWiki. However, I've found myself needing to do a couple of rather ugly hacks to get that to work right, and I'm hoping for some suggestions on how to avoid that. Here's what I have so far: \def\typebufferframed[#1]{% \vskip\parskip \framed[background=color, backgroundcolor=gray, frame=on, strut=yes, offset=2mm, width=broad, framecolor=black, align=right]% {\vskip -11mm\typebuffer[#1]\vskip -5mm}} \starttext Plain text before the code. \startbuffer[ex1] This is an example. \stopbuffer \typebufferframed[ex1] Plain text after the code. \stoptext The hacks that I'd like to get rid of: It would be nice not to have to put the code in a buffer before typing it, since in general I only use these once. However, if I put \starttyping and \stoptyping inside a framed command (even if I don't encapsulate it in another function) it breaks, and putting \startframedtext in the before= command and \stopframedtext in the after= command of \setuptyping also doesn't work. The spacing, when I do things the way that I'm doing them, is all wrong. The \vskip\parskip at the top is reasonably ok (although a bit annoying), but I'd really like to figure out how to get rid of the large negative \vskip's inside the frame. Thanks! - Brooks

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vertically centred
by Peter Münster 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

Hello, how could I centre vertically a table or a vbox? In other words, how to do the same as the following LaTeX code in ConTeXt? \documentclass{article} \begin{document} a box with a table: \fbox{\begin{tabular}[c]{l}1\\2\\3\end{tabular}}\par a mid-aligned parbox: \parbox[c]{1em}{1 2 3} \end{document} I tried with \vbox to 0pt{\vss ... \vss}, but then the vertical dimension gets lost... A related question: where are the differences between \framed[align=low,high,lohi]{...} ? TIA for any help, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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Re: [NTG-context] no graph after compilation
by Duncan Hothersall 13 Aug '04

13 Aug '04

Eros Albertazzi wrote: >Patrick Gundlach wrote: >> >> But unzipping it on top of the texlive was not the very best idea I'd >> guess. > >I agree... but be aware that in >http://contextgarden.net/Linux_Installation this is just what is >suggested As the author of that page I should respond! First of all, as the name suggests, it's about a Linux installation, and this is a Windows installation. I have no experience at all of Windows installs, and nothing on that page should be applied to Windows unless you know that it works there too. I don't. Second, the reason I make that recommendation is that in my set up, that is what works best. (Essentially that page is a copy of my own readme file which reminds me how to set up my server again after it crashes...) Replacing the files removes any doubt about versions of files being used, and forces one to review and understand the file structure and changes between versions. I always diff the complete fileset first to see what's changed. Perhaps a Windows_Installation page will be the result of the process you are going through. :-) Duncan

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automatic page sizes?
by Christopher Creutzig 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Dear everyone, I do know that this question has been answered here before, but I've not been able to find it in the archive (and my personal copy got lost when the harddrive of my previous laptop went berserk). How do I make ConTeXt emit a pdf file where each page is just as long as necessary for the text on it, up to say 1 meter? Page breaks would usually, but not always, be initiated by some macro or other; footers are not used (yet?). Regards, Christopher Creutzig

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mbib installation
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Hello all, I am new on this list, trying these days to learn about context and considering switching from laTex to context. I have downloaded and unzipped the mbib package but not found *any* installation instructions, only some files plus a very brief README. So can anyone tell me what should I do with those. my TeX installation is teTeX TIA, -- Jean Magnan de Bornier 3 Cours Victor Hugo, 13980 Alleins France Tel: 04 90 59 33 94 Port: 06 09 17 35 87 mèl: jm.bornier*at*free.fr

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wrong patch
by Hans Hagen 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Hi, The previous post was wrong; I was playing with write tests recently and send an old fragment; the right one is: sub RunFiles { my $currentpath = cwd() ; # test if current path is writable if (! -w "$currentpath") { print " current path readonly : $currentpath\n"; if ($ENV["TEMP"] && -e $ENV["TEMP"]) { $RunPath = $ENV["TEMP"] ; } elsif ($ENV["TMP"] && -e $ENV["TMP"]) { $RunPath = $ENV["TMP"] ; } } # test if we need to change paths if (($RunPath ne "") && (-w "$RunPath")) { print " changing to path : $RunPath\n"; $InpPath = $currentpath ; chdir ($RunPath) ; } # start working if ($PdfArrange) { Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Custom Numbering Problem
by Salman Khilji 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Two problems: 1) With the following: \setuphead[section][ownnumber=yes] \setupbodyfont[cmr,12pt] \starttext \completecontent \section{1a0101}{Objective} There is no objective at this moment. \stoptext There is no spacing between the text "1a0101" and "Objective" in the table of contents---this looks really ugly. However, what I really want is the ownnumber to apply to \title, not a \section. So if I do this: \setuphead[title][ownnumber=yes] \setupbodyfont[cmr,12pt] \starttext \completecontent \title{1a0101}{Minimum Radius Turn} \section{Objective} There is no objective at this moment. \stoptext Then the number 1a0101 does not appear right next to a title. (I only see "Minimum Radius Turn" as opposed to the expected "1a0101 Minimum Radius Turn". Also my \section{Objective} has numbering. I thought numbering was turned off by default on \title \section \subsection etc.

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figure placement and flushbottom
by Peter Münster 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Hello, in general, the suggested method to get LaTeX \flushbottom behaviour, shown on http://contextgarden.net/Flush_bottom, works quite well. But here I have a situation, where I do not understand, why the first page is not filled: \setupwhitespace[0pt plus 1fill] \defineblank[aroundfloat][0.8\lineheight plus 3fill minus 0.2\lineheight] \setupfloats[spacebefore=aroundfloat,spaceafter=aroundfloat] \let\stoptextO=\stoptext \def\stoptext{\vfilll\stoptextO} %\setupfloats[default={top,bottom,page}]% same as \def\fps@figure{tbp} in LaTeX? \starttext bla \section{bla}% strange: if there is no table, then the figure placement is ok. \starttable[|c|] \NC bla\NC\AR \stoptable bla \placefigure{bla}{\framed[height=10cm]{bla}} \dorecurse{30}{\dorecurse{30}{bla }\par} \stoptext TIA for any hint, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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howto overlayers on section head
by Eros Albertazzi 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

I would like to start to experiment some metafun "decoration around(over)" section head and/or page number. Something similar, just for example but I do not want to copy the style, to the one used to produce the metafun manual. From the (small "scale") drawing primitives to the (large "scale") \setuphead I miss an howto that combine the two (specifically I was thinking at a (non-existent) background keyword in \setup to pass an overlay...but likely I am far off) I don't want to be lazy, maybe it is already written in the manuals, but I still miss a certain kick.... so to say... Regards.

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Disappearing headers
by Matt Gushee 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Hello, all-- I am trying to format a book such that the book title appears in the header of each left-hand page, and the chapter title appears in the header of each right-hand page. I think (though I haven't decided for sure) that I want each chapter to start on a right-hand page. It seems that, when chapters are forced to begin on right-hand pages, the book title fails to appear on the first blank page inserted to move the chapter start, and on all subsequent pages. Here are the commands I am using related to headers: \setuphead [title] [align=left,textstyle={\switchtobodyfont[BernhardModern]\bf}] \setuphead [chapter] [page=right,head=nomarking,after=\blank] \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided,location=margin] \setupheader [style=\it] \setupheadertexts [] [chapter] [title] [] % reverse order, as mentioned in my earlier post With all these commands enabled, I get the effect I want: chapters begin on righthand pages, the title and chapter title appear, respectively, in the left and right page headers (adjacent to the page numbers, with the page numbers toward the outside edge of the page). But, as I said, the book title stops appearing as soon as a blank page is inserted to move the chapter start to the right. If I comment out *both* the \setuphead [chapter] command and the \setuppagenumbering command, the title continues to be displayed throughout the text. If I enable either of the two, the title disappears again. By the way, it appears that this \setuppagenumbering command has a side-effect of forcing chapters to begin on the right. Is that really a good idea? It's certainly surprising to me. So, am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug? -- Matt Gushee When a nation follows the Way, Englewood, Colorado, USA Horses bear manure through mgushee(a)havenrock.com its fields; http://www.havenrock.com/ When a nation ignores the Way, Horses bear soldiers through its streets. --Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, trans.)

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Re: [NTG-context] The last line
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > >\placefigure{top,left} > > > >or > > > >\placefigure{bottom,outer} > > > >could be another ConTeXt4 feature? -) > > > > > >Steffen > > > >(how still is waiting for a reliable way of placing many figures in large documents) > > > > > hm, graphic placement is and will always be tricky > > btw, \placefigure[outer]{}{} does work (see details.pdf) > > as long as top/left i snot something with text aroun dit, it's doable -) > > Hans that means \placefigure{top,left}, WITH text around it, won't be doable in ConTeXt? not even in your idea of ConTeXt4? Steffen

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\type-|- within tabulate?
by Marko Schütz 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Using \type-|- in a \starttabulate ... \stoptabulate environment I get: [..] Runaway argument? - \NC $\Pattern _{m1}\ldots \Pattern _{mn_m}$ \term {->} $\Expr _m$ \NC \ETC. ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning use of \next. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> \endtemplate <template> ...atehss \egroup \egroup \endtemplate \processtabulate ...cr \fulltabulatecontent \crcr }}\ifnum \nofautotabulate ... l.366 \stoptabulate ? whereas when I use it outside, it gives me just what was intended. Any ideas and hints are welcome Marko

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\CAP command does not work
by Salman Khilji 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Why don't I see capitals in the following example? \setupbodyfont [cmr,12pt] \starttext \startbuffer[test] The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. \stopbuffer \getbuffer[test] \CAP{\getbuffer[test]} \stoptext

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Blank figure hack: is there a better way?
by Brooks Moses 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

I'm doing a document which has a large logo in the upper right corner of the page. The logo (which is on a background layer) intrudes into the text area by a small amount, and so it would be nice to have the text wrap around it rather than having to do the wrapping by manual spacers and line-breaks. The "obvious" solution that I came up with for this is to put a blank right-aligned float at the top of each page (it's a presentation where all the page breaks are hand-coded, so that's easy to do), of about the size of the part of the logo that intrudes into the text. I defined a class of floats just for this: \definefloat[logospacer][logospacer] (Using the same name for the singular and plural was a hack to get around the fact that the manual doesn't indicate which of the two the \setupfloat command uses. Which is it?) So far, so good. Except that it's exceptionally hard to _get_ a blank float in ConTeXt, particularly one of a specified size. If I do this (and specify the size in a \setupfloat command): \placelogospacer[right, force]{none}{} I get a nice float exactly the size I want, but with a frame around it and the word "undefined" in the middle. If I put something in the float -- say, a letter, or a non-breaking space: \placelogospacer[right, force]{none}{~} The float suddenly becomes \textwidth wide, which is of course all wrong, but at least I have a blank float that's not undefined. If I put an \hbox in the float, with a fixed width, it stops stretching to fill the pagewidth, but unless I put something that actually makes a mark on the page, it still comes up with "undefined". (The "~" that worked earlier doesn't work if it's in an \hbox.) I tried a number of tricks -- hiding the nothing in a macro, using a zero-height rule, and so forth -- and ConTeXt was sufficiently clever to see through them all. There's also the annoyance that I have to specify the size of the float by the size of the \hbox, rather than in a convenient [width=...,height=...] fashion. Eventually, what I came up with was putting the mark somewhere off the page, with the following command: \placelogospacer[right, force]{none}{\hbox to 1cm{\hskip 5cm x}} This of course gives "overfull \hbox" errors, and is a really ugly hack, but the results are acceptable -- a float of size 1cm by 1 x-height, which doesn't put marks on the physical page. How can I do this better? Better yet, how can I do this properly? Thanks, - Brooks

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Re: [NTG-context] The last line
by Steffen Wolfrum 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: ... > (slowly a lot of internals will be defined this way, along with some fundamental redefinitions of other internals, consider it a kind of ConTeXt4 feature-) > > Hans Maybe something like \placefigure{top,left} or \placefigure{bottom,outer} could be another ConTeXt4 feature? -) Steffen (how still is waiting for a reliable way of placing many figures in large documents)

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\setupdescription
by Peter Münster 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Hello, how could I define a list, that looks like this: titel 1 text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text long titel 2 text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text I tried with parameters distance and width of \setupdescription, but no success. TIA for any hint, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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The last line
by Steffen Wolfrum 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Hi, as far as I know TeX has some internal rules (and penalties) for judging where to hyphenate words or not in order to keep a paragraph not too densed and not too loose. Some rules can be modified by commands like tolerance, spaceskip, emergencystretch et al. Now, I want to have control over the last line. I would like to avoid syllables smaller than (for example) 4 letters being the only element in a paragraphs last line. Like this: xxxx xx xxxxx xxxx xx xxx xxxxxxx xx- xxx. Is there a way to make a kind of global definition for this for the entire document? Thanks for any hints, Steffen

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Input path with spaces
by Giuseppe Bilotta 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Hello, I just found out that I cannot compile ConTeXt documents using TeXexec 4.3 when the input path of the original document contains spaces, at least on MiKTeX 2.4 with pdf-e-TeX 1.20a-rc4. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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updates
by Hans Hagen 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Hi, Later this week i will post an update. Among the things to keep an eye on are: - if you use the new (web2c) beta binaries be aware of the suffixes of formats now all being 'fmt'; conforming to the new tds structure, this should go in sync with a so called $engine subpath under webc, but this wil lnot be supported by tetex (i'm not sure about texlive); this can be rather annoying when you use pdfetex as well as aleph; in that case you may want to try texexec --make --alone --all --engine (i always use --all to get all patterns in the format) - with new binaries you should also be aware of changes in enc and map paths; texfont is already adapted to that and textools can be used to adapt your trees - however, the main reason for writing this mail is that i recently found out that there has been a change in the us hyphenation files; on your system this may be obscured by the fact that sometimes there is an alias file somewhere in the tree mapping old names on new names [fyi: i finally found out that this alias file is also the reason why sometimes fonts like dingbats get messed up]. I have adapted context to look for new and old files; unfortunately important changes like this are not announced and just happen (i wonder how many us-english users are aware of this change); i have been bitten by this (unannounced changes in filenames, and i cross my fingers that the content is the same) too often now; when it happens again, i'll start distributing patterns as in the first versions of context (lang-*.pat/hyp files) - 8 bit in/output: it looks like tex live will not be 8 bit (the last version was 8 bit except chars<32, the previous version was 8 bit) and the next version will be yet another mix; since i want context to be 8 in/8 out the formats will be built with the natural.tcx vector (in a few years, when i can be sure that suers are in sync, i will use the -8bit switch). I will not bore you with teh arguments that are used to let tex not be 8 but by default, but it has to do with unix and terminal output and locales and such. (interestingly this is no real problem for context since the control characters (<32) are mostly used for file io, verbatim, pdf, metapost, javascript, xml etc). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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MikTeX 2.4 and Fonts
by DieterJakob＠t-online.de 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Dear Hans, Silly Questions: I use MikTeX 2.4 and there are some ConTeXt Demos underneath texmf/doc/context/demos. If I try to process the File: "d-en-005.tex" the Statement \setupbodyfont[pos] makes trouble; for PDF-Output. The Fonts in your Documentation looks so nice; I'm looking for a nice Serif Font e.g. Palationo. Unfortunately the documentation about Fonts, I can't put into practice. Can you help me to get the Adobe Fonts for PDF up and running? Best Regards Dieter

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rectangle-words (like in details.pdf)
by Steffen Wolfrum 09 Aug '04

09 Aug '04

Hi, maybe it's a trivial question: How do I get these black rectangle-words as they are used in Hans' "details.pdf" for example (see page 16 or 25)? Is this a special font - or is there a certain context command used? Thank you, Steffen

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Converting math from LaTeX to ConTeXt
by Brooks Moses 07 Aug '04

07 Aug '04

First, by way of introduction: I've been using LaTeX for about five years now, but am quite new to ConTeXt. I'm a grad student in mechanical engineering, so my primary uses of ConTeXt in the near future are likely to be for my thesis and associated presentations, all of which will likely have lots of complicated equations in them. After looking at what documentation is available for this, I think I have a fair handle on the basics of including math in ConTeXt. However, I do have some questions about things beyond the basics that I use rather frequently, and I haven't been able to find useful answers in the documentation or the list archives. To begin with, I have the following sets of definitions in my standard LaTeX preamble. I know that \newcommand and \renewcommand are LaTeX-specific; what's the appropriate ConTeXt equivalent? Also, do \hat, \vec, and \overline work as I would expect? And is there a direct equivalent to \boldsymbol from the amsmath package? (I need something that will handle both roman and greek letters.) \renewcommand{\vec}[1]{{\boldsymbol{#1}}} \renewcommand{\hatn}{\hat{\vec{n}}} \newcommand{\filter}[1]{\overline{#1}} Also, many of these equations run over multiple lines using the macros from the amsmath package (the "split" environment in particular, but also the "align" environment), and I haven't been able to find much documentation on how to do this in ConTeXt. For an example of the sorts of things I end up doing: \begin{equation} \begin{split} \lefteqn{ \frac{\partial (\rho (\phi u)_j)}{\partial t} + \nabla_k (\rho (\phi u)_k u_j) }\quad\quad \\ = &\; -\nabla_j (\phi p) + \nabla_j (\lambda \nabla_k (\phi u_k)) + \nabla_k \left[\mu \left( \nabla_k (\phi u)_j + (\nabla_j (\phi u)_k) \right) \right] \\&\; {} - \lambda (\nabla_j u_k) \nabla_k \phi - \mu (\nabla_k \phi) \nabla_k u_j - \mu (\nabla_k u_k) \nabla \phi_j - \tau_{\text{surface, $jk$}} \nabla_k \phi \end{split} \end{equation} Looking at that reminds me that I also rather heavily use the \text command from amsmath as well, and rely on its ability to properly size things in subscripts and such. Does this (or an analogue) exist in ConTeXt? Any suggestions? I'd like to be able to simply cut and paste the equations like this one from my LaTeX documents into my ConTeXt documents with as little editing as possible (so that I can maintain consistency between documents in each format), but anything that produces the same output would be good to know about. Thanks much! - Brooks

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Re: [OS X TeX] trim pdf figures
by Nigel King 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

>> (I wish there was a way to command the epstopdf bit from within >> Mathematica to automate the process further.) >> > > I don't know anything about ConTeXt, but does \usepackage{epstopdf} > work? (Or something similar?) You then don't need to worry about > explicitly converting all the eps files, it's automated within the TeX > process. Alan, thanks for this-I didn't know. Unfortunately I don't think ConTeXt includes this feature. But I will cross post to the ConTeXt list to see. Nigel

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How to change the page size for single pages within a document
by Stefan Wachter 06 Aug '04

06 Aug '04

Hi all, is there a possibility to change the page size of single pages in a document. Reason: I have a document that contains some large tables that do not fit on normal pages. Therefore I would like to output such tables on a page of their own having the neccessary size. (Of course the documents are not ment to be printed. They are to be viewed with Acrobat.) Thanks for your attention, --Stefan

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EPS/PDF import and \underbrace in metaplay
by Mojca Miklavec 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

I have two questions cencerning metapost/metaplay: 1.) EPS/PDF import How do I make an existing EPS or PDF image a part of some other meta[post/play] graphic? 2.) \underbrace I wrote the following two macros for drawing braces in graphics: \def\underbracedescription#1#2{$\underbrace{\hbox{\vrule width#1 height 0bp}}_{\hbox{\strut #2}}$} \def\rightbracedescription#1#2{$\displaystyle{\left.\vphantom{\hbox{\vrule width0bp height#1 depth#1}}\right\}\hbox{\strut #2}}$} However, the width has to be given manually - it doesn't care about the actual size of the object it has to be applied to. How is it possible to give the command some more flexibility? (say, to be able to simply use \underbracedescription{pict}{description}, perhaps even without the need of specifying the coordinates explicitly, but) Thanks a lot, Mojca Miklavec

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DIN sizes
by Peter Rolf 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Hallo Hans! As I defined a few envelope formats I realized that some predefined paper sizes differ from my DIN copies. DIN 476, Dez 1976 DIN 476 Part 1, Feb 1991 (A/B variants) DIN 476 Part 2, Feb 1991 (C variants) differ (1mm) B3: 353x500 % width*height B4: 250x353 B5: 176x250 B6: 125x176 B8: 62x88 B9: 44x62 C1: 648x917 C2: 458x648 C3: 324x458 C6: 114x162 C7: 81x114 missing 4 A0: 1682x2378 2 A0: 1189x1682 A10: 26x37 B10: 31x34 C10: 28x40 DIN 678-1, Jan 1998 DIN 680, Jan 1995 switched DL: 110x220 missing C6/C5: 114x229 E4: 280x400 That's all :) If you are interested, I can mail you copies of this boring DIN stuff. Greetings, Peter

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RE: [NTG-context] Re: new stuff for brave users
by ishamid 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

Hi Patrick, One suggestion for TeXshow-web:-) The commands are all listed in alphabetical order, which is great. But one good help would be an option ordering them by topic. For example, a while back I needed a rotation command, and the manual does not discuss many of the graphics capabilities of ConTeXt. I finally found \rotate combing through the base files (it's not in cont-eni.pdf). It would be very useful to know all such graphics commands in ConTeXt. The organization of the Reference Manual of Lamport's book on LaTeX, or even the end-of-chapter command summaries of cont-eni.pdf, is a good model for this. So if I am looking for a graphics command I can look purely alphabetically as it is now, as well as topically, which is sometimes more useful. A related point; in ConTeXt the bar <|> is an active character, which is not Plain behavior. A list of these little special characters would be useful as well, especially for macro writers, etc. In any case, this list of commands is a great contribution, and a topical organization would make it greater:=) All the best Idris

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ConTeXt vs. LaTeX
by Mojca Miklavec 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

At the very first moment I saw some manuals I was highly impressed of what ConTeXt was able to do and decided to switch from LaTeX to the new typesetting system. I've put (probably to much) effort to typeset my first presentation and a couple of other documents in ConTeXt after which I realised that it takes me far less time if I continue using LaTeX for some documents (no need to redefine styles for headings, simple tables easier to typeset there, ...). I'm not sure if these are only the problems at the beginning (since I have to look for almost any command I use) and would soon disappear or would the general advice be "don't use ConTeXt if LaTeX suits your needs". What are your opinions about that? I guess I could be missing something. \usemodule[pre-'something'] could be a quick solution for presentations (and I needed quite some time to realise that, but I've made up my own style anyway) - does anything similar exist also for "LaTeX-like" documents? I can write something for myself, but it still doesn't solve the problem if I want to convince someone to start using ConTeXt as a substitute for simple LaTeX documents as long he's unable to achive nice default formatting in one or two lines. Thanks a lot, Mojca Miklavec

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"Animation" in slides (\presentationstep, metafun)
by Mojca Miklavec 05 Aug '04

05 Aug '04

I would first like to apologise for this "flooding" of the mailing list with some questions I can't tackle with alone. It's just a mixture of opinions and questions I came accross in the last month while making first steps into ConTeXt and I wrote them all at once. I'll appreciate any suggestion, hint or solution to any of these problems. *** *** *** *** *** After some failed experimets with \presentationstep (I'm still not sure why it doesn't work) I've browsed through the archives a bit, but still didn't find any satisfying and elegant solution for what I need. 1.) line-after-line ... just as what \presentationstep was intended for. Is there an elegant way to achive this "standard PowerPoint trick" of showing the content of the same page stepwise? I've found a presentation of Patrick Gundlach (Keine Angst vor (runden Klammern)), 22.1.02 with \StartItem ... \StopItem, and it more or less solves the problem, but for some non-expert, not reading the archive and without the need of this pretty, fascinating "shadowed" effect, some easier solution should be (and maybe already is) provided. In http://www.sfu.ca/~cdlinkle/jan23.htm there's an example of a nice ans simple usage in Prosper: \fromSlide{[slideNr]}{...text...} makes the portion of text or graphics available only from a certain slide number on. \onlySlide{[slideNr]}{...text...}) makes the portion of text only on a certain slide and it would be nice to be able to achive the same effect in ConTeXt with the same simplicity of the usage. Maybe it is possible already, but I'm looking for suggestions how (this feature should be a part of the standard distribution since it is often needed). 2.) filling-up a table This is a more complicated example and probably "playing with TeX" may be the only solution, but I'll ask anyway. I need to make something similar as, say, multiplication table or a table for dynamic programming calculation of minimum editing distance. There is a n*m table, whose fields have to be filled step-by-step (sometimes the last entries in bold or in red) on consecutive slides. Copy-pasting and correcting the table ten or twenty times makes no sense. I would be grateful on any suggestion about how to solve this problem. 3.) graphics manipulation Sometimes not only the text alone, but also the graphics should change a bit. itdemos/internal/calculat/calculat.pdf (without the first page) can explain exactly what I mean. http://www.theorie.physik.uni-wuppertal.de/~rainer/talks/sample3.pdf is also an example, although I believe I would stil prefer using PowerPoint (I never did until now) if I was forced to make something similar in the way they did (using the same tools, tricks and complexity). I think I would be able to solve this anyhow, but with way too much effort and without some dirty trick. Can please someone provide me some minimalistic example of how to do this in metaplay? It would also be nice to include it in metafun manual or at least put it into wiki. 4.) Page numbering Suppose I have now "my perfect presentation" :) and I want to number the pages or achieve some visual effects such as in any of the following: general/manuals/example.pdf (dots on the bottom of the page) pre-funny (dark red spot in the frame) pre-colorful (bottom line) Introduction `a ConTeXt, Denis Roegel, 29th May 02 How do I make the pages belonging together also possess the same page number? (for example pages 2-9 of collect/present/pre-ntsd.pdf could theoretically be assigned the same page number, 10-14 the second, 15-17 the third, ...) In the above mentioned example in Prosper this kind of page numbering is solved exactly the way I like. *** *** *** *** *** Thanks a lot, Mojca Miklavec

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