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splitting a rotated tabulate...
by Marko Schuetz 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

I have a long table with many columns which I'd like to rotate and then have it split across as many pages as necessary. I have experimented with tabulates and tables, splitfloat and rotate but did not find a working combination. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. Marko

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news / bold math
by Hans Hagen 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

News: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0005.pdf bold math and mixed bold math; only defined for lucida (dunno other bold math fonts yet) I also uploaded new versions. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl 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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TaBle example fails
by Christopher G D Tipper 01 Apr '04

01 Apr '04

I am learning the TaBle package and I get the following from a verbatim example from the manual. \handleTABLEerror ...LE {columnspan too large}\SR \or \fillTABLEcolumns \ttt... l.54 " " \use2 control " " \\ ? ! Emergency stop. The \use#1 function always returns an error code. With following input (exercise 5, p.61) \BeginTable \BeginFormat | r | c | c | r | \EndFormat " " \use2 control " " \\ " " alive " dead " " \\+02 " & \use2 \= & " \\0 " low risk | 5 | ~3 | 8 " \\ " & \use3 \= & \\0 " high risk | 4 | 26 | 30 " \\ " & \use3 \= & \\0 " " 9 | 29 | 39 " \\ \EndTable Is there a way around this snafu? Christopher --------------------------------o00o-------------------------------- "Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak" - Steve Wright

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starting on an even page
by Alan Bowen 30 Mar '04

30 Mar '04

This is undoubtedly a simple-minded question. So, with apologies, let me say that I wish to produce a chapter in doublesided mode that begins on an even (left hand) page, say page 54. What I currently produce is a blank page 54 (with correct header) followed by the chapter itself starting on page 55 and looking exactly it should if page 55 were the first page. In effect, ConTeXt is inserting a blank page so that the first page of the chapter proper is odd. How do I stop it from doing this? (There is no blank page if the first page number is in fact odd.) Any suggestions or even pointers to some manual would be much appreciated. Alan

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ReReRe: something new
by Steffen Wolfrum 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

> in case of doubt: open the show-exa.pdf in an editor and search for > fifteen.pdf -) > > Hans Interesting tip, thank you. ... btw. talking about Mac/Win: Is there a command to switch of the Windows-Mouse-Weel for flipping the pages? And is this also possible "afterwards" (by opening an existing PDF in an editor and changing a line? Steffen

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Help a newbie with the Context/tex.iso setup
by Vivek Sharma 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Hans wrote.... http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/tex.iso.bz2 ISO which runs context + everything from cd, for the mom... perl/ruby I tried the above download and extracted the iso files into a folder on a win xp machine. running cscite.bat opens the scite editor and running ctrl-F12 opens adobe acrobat but then stops. I append the output in exampler window and the buffer below. How can I get it running? Have anyof you guys got the ISO image working on a CD in winXP professional? Please help this newbie start on using context. regards Vivek Output of exampler %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% exampler + program exampler exampler + version 1.0 exampler + author PRAGMA POD exampler + commandline "--continue" exampler + using environment setuppath c:/cygwin/contextiso/usr/local/context/ tex/texmf-local/context/ruby exampler + loading c:/cygwin/contextiso/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local/cont ext/ruby/../examplap/scripts/example.exa exampler - sub environment file machine.exa not found exampler + !! presetting texroot to the root of current texmf tree !! exampler + !! checking if texroot is set to a valid path !! exampler + !! setting texmf variables based on texroot !! exampler - sub environment file paths.exa not found exampler - sub environment file local.exa not found exampler + gone to jobpath C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\texmf-var/exampl ap/jobs exampler + jobpath C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\texmf-var/examplap/jobs exampler + resultpath C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\texmf-var/examplap/re sults exampler + server started on 127.0.0.1:8061 exampler + listening at 127.0.0.1:8061 in loop mode %%%%%%%%%%%%%% Output of the scite buffer %%%%%%%%%% texexec --autopdf --pdf readme.tex TeXExec 4.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : readme output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 pdfetex: unrecognized option `--alias=context' Try `pdfetex --help' for more information. return code : 256 run time : 0 seconds total run time : 3 seconds Exit code: 1 %%%%%%%%%%%

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fake
by pragma＠pi.net 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

greetings

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information
by pragma＠pi.net 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

you earn money

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Metapost 3D [Fwd: m3D]
by Tobias Burnus 29 Mar '04

29 Mar '04

Hello, this is a nice extension to use MetaPost for 3D graphics. I don't know how well it works since I haven't tested it. Tobias -------- Original Message -------- Subject: m3D Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:34:44 +0200 From: Rolf Niepraschk <Rolf.Niepraschk.at.ptb.de> To: TeX-Stammtisch <tex-stammtisch.at.user.in-berlin.de> ==> http://www-math.univ-poitiers.fr/~phan/m3Dplain.html ..Rolf -- || Rolf Niepraschk c/o Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt || || Abbestr. 2-12; D-10587 Berlin, Germany || || Tel/Fax: ++49-30-3481-316/490, email: Rolf.Niepraschk.at.ptb.de || -- Abmeldung: Mail mit Body unsubscribe an tex-stammtisch-request.at.user.in-berlin.de

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Re: Re: something new
by Steffen Wolfrum 28 Mar '04

28 Mar '04

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 21:55 27/03/2004, you wrote: > >Sorry Hans, > > > >the show can't be started because "fifteen.pdf" can't be found. > > > >Where is it? > > I clicked the exa file and it works here > > Hans Lucky one ... I tried it four times now, with different browsers, and failed always! The only difference that I can think of is that you use Windows and I use MacOSX. If I enter the URL the download of "show-exa.pdf" starts. And if I open the file, go to the last page, click on it then AcrobatReader6 tells me: "Could not open the file 'fiften.pdf'". And that is understandable because there is no file "fifteen.pdf" on my desktop. And it's not in your list of "Downloadable PDF files ". That's why I asked where is this file ? Thanks for your reply, Steffen

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Re: something new
by Steffen Wolfrum 27 Mar '04

27 Mar '04

Sorry Hans, the show can't be started because "fifteen.pdf" can't be found. Where is it? Steffen Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > The presentation i made for the dante xv festivity can be found at: > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-exa.pdf -> last page -> fifteen.pdf > > demo's what can be done with acrobat 6; (clicking on the dot at the bottom > will start the show) (if you copy the file, putting an 8 minute > stepsound.mp3 file in your path will also give you sound). The basic walker > style will become public later (have to split a few things first). > > There is also a new presentation style > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/collect/present/s-pre-61.tex > > that one uses \usemodule[pre-stepper]; it builds up the page stepwise and > remembers page states and so; the base file is pre-stewise, a module that > can be used with your own styles as well. > > Hans

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mouseover ... (again)
by Steffen Wolfrum 26 Mar '04

26 Mar '04

Hi Hans, Patrick et al. I really would like to learn about mouseover and other PDF related ConTeXt features (probably JavaScript related). In an older email Hans told Patrick that he'll send him a nondocumented example file - so does this mean that there are no other example files available? Please, if some of you could give me some readable read (as .tex files) examples on how how to work with buttons, mouseovers and other interactive PDF elements like this, I would be very happy! Thank you very much, Steffen

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Re: Romanian diacritics
by Dan Seracu 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Hi Not necesarly. But I've spotted that in that pdf, the Romanian diacritics were typesetted correct! I was wonderring if you did something special. The definition I use is: \def\commaaccent#1{\oalign{#1\crcr\hidewidth,\hidewidth}} But I cannot be sure if it is OK. Sincerely, Dan SERACU Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time.

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playground for germans
by Hans Hagen 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Hi, As some of you may have noticed ... the latin modern fonts have umlauts. I added a few files to the context zip, so that those who want to see the difference can play with it. Just (un)comment the first line in: \usetypescript [var] [latin-modern] % supported for texnansi and ec \usetypescript [all] [latin-modern] [\defaultencoding] \usetypescript[modern][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[modern] \starttext \"e\"u\"o\"a \stoptext technically one can also mix things but i leave that for the moment that lm has replaced cm. (first need to sort that out with plr) 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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Romanian diacritics
by Dan Seracu 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Hello again! (after quite some time) I've recently downloaded the special-s.pdf and there is an example in Romanian. Now the question: How did you do the \c{t} and the \c{s} there to use the comma and not the cedilla? Because in the "standard" romanian (old typesetting way) these letter used to have comma and not cedilla (like now when using M$ Word) Greetings from Romania Dan SERACU __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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6 ways to ask for Times-Roman. Are they the same?
by Stefan Wachter 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Hi all. Studying the pdftex.map file I found the following 6 TeX fonts that are used for Times-Roman: ptmr8y, ptmr8r, rptmr, rtxptmr, tir and tmrm108r. In the "no download" version of the map file, all these TeX fonts are mapped into Times-Roman. In the "download" the font utmr8a.pfb is embedded for them. Are they the same? Is there a preferrable one? What role does the encoding play here? Many thanks for your attention, --Stefan PS (Background): I try to write a type script for using the 14 base PDF fonts.

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How to use and not embed the 14 PDF standard 14 fonts?
by Stefan Wachter 23 Mar '04

23 Mar '04

Hi all! 1. Does anyone know how to use the 14 PDF standard fonts (Courier, Helvetica, Times (each in 4 faces), Symbol, and ITC-Zapf) in ConTeXt? 2. Does anyone know how pdfTeX can be instructed not to embed them? Thanks for your attention, --Stefan PS (Background): I am creating lots of small PDF documents where font embedding would create prohibitive large documents.

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Re: page setup
by Vit Zyka 22 Mar '04

22 Mar '04

Hallo Hans, sorry for bringing back two old topics, but they are still unanswered: 1) Willy Egger firstly pointed on empty page with zero on the bottom-left coner of an additional sheet using arranging command. I have tested with pretty new context (ConTeXt ver: 2004.3.16) and this behevior still survived. Run the next test file and see page 2: %-------------- \setuppapersize[A5,landscape][A4] \setuparranging[2TOPSIDE] \starttext \switchtobodyfont[20pt] \dorecurse{2}{Page \recurselevel\page} \stoptext %---------------- 2) It is possible to sort in reverse order? It means the result of next test file was: C B A. % ----- \definesorting[address][addressbook] \setupsorting[address][criterium=all] \address{A} \address{C} \address{B} \placelistofaddressbook %----- Thank you for answers Vit Zyka

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Death of Juliana
by Charles Doherty 20 Mar '04

20 Mar '04

Sympathy to all Dutch colleagues on death of Queen mother Juliana. Charlie Doherty ************** Charles Doherty, Early Irish History, School of History, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 Ireland Telephone +353 1 7168381

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Announcement: texutil.c
by Taco Hoekwater 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

Hi all, Not sure if any of you consider this useful, but: I have created a C port of the perl script texutil from the ConTeXt distribution. The Makefile supports two different targets: with and without direct linking to the kpathsea path search library (default is standalone). License: GPL version 2 (for the kpathsea version), or the ConTeXt license as defined in mreadme.pdf (for the standalone version) Index key remapping and perl module plugins are not supported (both features are actually unused in the current distribution of ConTeXt). All other differences from the 'standard' texutil are bugs, and even though I give no warranty whatsoever, I would still like to know about those so that I can fix the source. (17 mar 2004, based on texutil.pl 8.2) Downloal is available from http://tex.aanhet.net/context/texutil/texutil.htm Greetings, Taco

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Re: [NTG-context] something new
by Steffen Wolfrum 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

"Not Found The requested URL /collect/present/s-pre-61.tex was not found on this server." (There is only the s-pre-61.pdf) Steffen Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > The presentation i made for the dante xv festivity can be found at: > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-exa.pdf -> last page -> fifteen.pdf > > demo's what can be done with acrobat 6; (clicking on the dot at the bottom > will start the show) (if you copy the file, putting an 8 minute > stepsound.mp3 file in your path will also give you sound). The basic walker > style will become public later (have to split a few things first). > > There is also a new presentation style > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/collect/present/s-pre-61.tex > > that one uses \usemodule[pre-stepper]; it builds up the page stepwise and > remembers page states and so; the base file is pre-stewise, a module that > can be used with your own styles as well. > > Hans > > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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mouseover and other advanced knowledge
by Steffen Wolfrum 19 Mar '04

19 Mar '04

Hi Hans, I'm trying to learn more about mouseover and other PDF related ConTeXt features. In an older email you recommended to look at your tug2001 demo (pre-2001.pdf). Is there also the .tex code to be read or is this your companies secret? If so, do you have some other examples to be read (as .tex files)? Thank you, Steffen

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fonts in context (general question)
by Severin Obertufer 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

hello i have a general question to the use of fonts in context. is that true that i always need a *.tfm and *.pfb file of a font to use it in context?? if i generate some *.tfm (from afm files) with "texfont" context complains about not finding the *.pfb files. when I use texfont *.tfm and *.vf are generated. what are the *.vf files good for?? thanks for an answer. greets severin

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TeXutil image processing patch
by Taco Hoekwater 15 Mar '04

15 Mar '04

Hi all, Attached is a patch that fixes the image file scanners in texutil 8.1 Changes: - Version = 8.1f - Fix "--verbose" offset reporting - Fix TIF Author/Title/Creator discovery - Fix PNG Author/Title/Creator discovery - Support TIF Unit type "1 to 1" (uses 72dpi) - Fix JPG images with broken resolutions (uses 72dpi) -- groeten, Taco

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Re: Re: [NTG-context] Installing 3rd-party metapost macros
by SebastianSturm＠t-online.de 13 Mar '04

13 Mar '04

> maybe adding > > \forceMPTEXgraphictrue > > helps > > Hans No, unfortunately this doesn't work. It still displays "! Unable to make mpx file. l.39 def Eplus_ = btex $+$etex enddef;". Anyway, thanks for your help. Best regards, Sebastian

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A bug in location=hanging ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 12 Mar '04

12 Mar '04

Hi, Please have a look at the example below. "\setuphanging[distance=0cm]" does not seem to have an effect at all. If I set "margin=-0.0001cm" it is almost zero, but if I set "margin=0cm" it jumps an undefined step to the right. Why can't it be zero? Did I forget a "%" at the end of some line? Thank you, Steffen ******* Example: \definelist[MyNoteList] \setuphanging[distance=0cm] \definedescription [WhatANote] [style=bold,margin=-0.0001cm,width=5cm,before=,after={\blank[5pt]},location=hanging] \def\MyNoteList#1#2#3{\startWhatANote{#1}#2\stopWhatANote} \setuplist [MyNoteList] [criterium=text, alternative=command, command=\MyNoteList] \newcounter\MyNotes \long\def\MyNote#1% {\ifhmode\unskip\fi \doglobal\increment\MyNotes\relax \high{\MyNotes}% \expanded{\writetolist[MyNoteList]{\MyNotes}}{#1}} \starttext Text \dorecurse{2}{test \MyNote{Whow, {\it another} note \input tufte }\endgraf} \page Text \placelist[MyNoteList][criterium=text] Text \stoptext

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[Q]�(newbie) typesetting to grid in layer with widgets
by Rolf Marvin B e Lindgren 12 Mar '04

12 Mar '04

[firt message still waits for moderator approval, here's a new and improved version] I'm giving ConTeXt a first go in typesetting a diploma. I've figured out that I'd like to try to typeset to a five-column grid. Most of the stuff should be centered against the third column, while some stuff should be centered to the second and fourth column. This makes for a very boring diploma, but that's beside the point at this stage. I want 1-inch borders throughout, so before \starttext, I have \setuplayout[paperheight=29.97cm,paperwidth=21cm,leftmargin=1cm,rightmargin=1cm,header=1cm,footer=1cm,textwidth=19cm,textheight=27.97cm] (I pretend that marginpars don't exist. I'm sure they'll come back and haunt me). Furthermore, before \starttext, I set up the layers I think I need with \setuplayout[grid=yes,columndistance=12pt,columns=5]\showgrid \definelayer [text] \setupbackgrounds [text] [background=text] (The showgrid is there because I like to see what I'm doing). Then I have, say, \setlayer[text][column=3,line=7,x=0.5\layoutcolumnwidth,location=c]{% Diploma awarded to} now, _is_ this the smartest way to do this? furthermore, I'd like to allow for input into fields from Acrobat. I have this: \definefield[CertID][text][CertIDSetup][] \setupfield[CertIDSetup][% readonly=no,printable=yes,width=4em,% frame=on,height=8mm,offset=5ex] \myCenter{3}{11}{Sertifikat Nr. DNV-2004-OSL-PERS-\field[CertID]} trouble is, the _field_ is aligned to the baseline, whereas I'd like the text _of_ the field to be thus aligned. any suggestiosn? (as a matter of fact, the problem with this approach is that text cannot ever be centered becaue TeX need to know the dimensions at typesetting time - which isn't known until the user has interacted. is there, say, JavaScript magic that could be done in order to have text centered after it has been input? and on a sitenote, I'd like to have a frame around the entire page. Preferably, I'd like to be able to place it using numerical coordinates (absolute or relative, set to a layer or not). Is this, or something close to it, possible? thank you, -- Rolf Lindgren http://www.roffe.com/ roffe(a)tag.uio.no

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Re: [NTG-context] Installing 3rd-party metapost macros
by Hans Hagen 12 Mar '04

12 Mar '04

At 20:26 05/03/2004, you wrote: >Hello all, > >I'm still new to ConTeXt, so this might seem trivial to you... > >As I would like to create circuit diagrams without leaving TeXShop, I >downloaded and installed the mpcirc Metapost macro package. When trying >to compile, however (using \startMPinclusions input mpcirc; >\stopMPinclusions), ConTeXt fails with an error message saying >" TeXExec 4.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 maybe adding \forceMPTEXgraphictrue helps Hans

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color in hairlines
by pawcoo 11 Mar '04

11 Mar '04

Hello All, please, consider the following simple example of pdftex code: \pdfliteral{0 1 0 0 k} % Magenta (ugly) \hrule height 1pt \hrule height 1.1pt \end The upper hairline remains black. What should I do to colorize thin lines also? Thanks, Pawe/l

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linecorrection and paragraph spacing
by Nigel King 10 Mar '04

10 Mar '04

Some time ago Hans recommended the use of \startlinecorrection...\stoplinecorrection surrounding a figure. Typically I write a paragraph and then have a double carriagereturn and then a floating figure and then a double carriagereturn. The normal paragraph space does not always appear so I surround the figure by linecorrection and then find that the paragraph spacing is slightly larger than usual. Are there any rules for this. If necessary I will try to produce a minimal example although I tend to notice the problem once a document has become fairly long. TIA -- Nigel

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[Q] (newbie) typesetting layer to column
by Rolf Marvin B e Lindgren 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

I'm giving ConTeXt a first go in typesetting a diploma. I've figured out that I'd like to try to typeset to a five-column grid. Most of the stuff should be centered against the third column, while some stuff should be centered to the second and fourth column. This makes for a very boring diploma, but that's beside the point at this stage. I want 1-inch borders throughout, so before \starttext, I have \setuplayout[paperheight=29.97cm,paperwidth=21cm,leftmargin=1cm,rightmargin=1cm,header=1cm,footer=1cm,textwidth=19cm,textheight=27.97cm] (I pretend that marginpars don't exist. I'm sure they'll come back and haunt me). Furthermore, before \starttext, I set up the layers I think I need with \setuplayout[grid=yes,columndistance=12pt,columns=5]\showgrid \definelayer [text] \setupbackgrounds [text] [background=text] (The showgrid is there because I like to see what I'm doing). Then I have, say, \setlayer[text][column=3,line=7]{Diploma awarded to} what do I say in order to have the text centered relative to the column? and on a sitenote, I'd like to have a frame around the entire page. Preferably, I'd like to be able to place it using numerical coordinates (absolute or relative, set to a layer or not). Is this, or something close to it, possible? thank you, -- Rolf Lindgren http://www.roffe.com/ roffe(a)tag.uio.no

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(no subject)
by Adam Tee 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

Hi all, Is it possible to place some text in two columns into either the table or figure environments without the columns getting ignored. I have some data which I do not want to put in table form but require it in two columns with either a figure ot table label at the bottom. For example a c b d Table x: foo Will this have to be done manually ?? Also, I'm having some problems with using columns, what is happening is that whenever the columns finish the text afterwards runs off the end of the page. I'm using \startcolumns[n=2, tolerance=verytolerant] Thanks Adam

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Re: multi media once more
by Hans Hagen 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

At 11:25 08/03/2004, you wrote: >Hi, > > > Sorry if this is getting to be too much, but the scripts could definitely > > use some testing. > >I have tried your itunes2rl script with saxon. I get a pretty decent >xml file! Great. > >But I can't make med-show to work: > >texexec --use=med-show itunes.xml > > >ConTeXt ver: 2004.2.23 fmt: 2004.2.25 int: english mes: english > >[...] > >[MP to PDF] (./itunes-mpgraph.1) >references : unknown object [PDLN datalayer=>PDLN/datalayer] >! Undefined control sequence. >\next ->\ignorespaces \rob > [StartRendering{mediaclip-\MediaClip }] Start > \\... > >\executeamboxcommands ...cationcommand }\fi \next > \unskip \getvalue > {\??am #... > > >so am I doing something wrong? A private Hans' macro? (I've got the >same error in an old file from Hans but was unable to look into it yet.) ah .. the roll over buttons stuff is in my local cont-loc file ... i'll move it to cont-new and upload a new version Hans

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Help Wanted: Apple Preview.app and Metafun Manual
by Wendy McKay 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

Hi all, We need your help in tracking down a possible bug with the Apple Preview.app when printing the Metafun manual (pdf) <http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf> from page 37 onward. We (and Apple) would appreciate it very much if some of you would do tests on different printers and submit a report on the survey form posted at <http://latex.yauh.de/survey/survey.php?SURVEY_ID=14> Josh Carter made the original discovery and did tests on the following: ----------- HP Color LaserJet 4600dn - Printing page 1-100ish (my original print job), A4 paper scaled to letter: fuzzy pages from page 37 (physical 41) on. - Page 37 only (scaled): fuzzy. - Page 37 only (A4 cropped to letter): fuzzy. HP LaserJet 4050n: - Page 37 only (scaled): fuzzy. - Page 37 only (cropped): fuzzy. Epson Stylus Photo 2000P (note: NOT a PostScript printer): - Page 37 only (cropped): fuzzy. All were printed from my PowerBook G4/550; 512MB/30GB; MacOS X 10.3.2; latest available drivers for Color LaserJet 4600 and Epson 2000P, built-in system driver for LaserJet 4050. I also verified that Acrobat 6 prints correctly on the 4050, but I didn't try the other printers. ----------- Our thanks to Stephan Hochhaus for setting up the MacTeX survey page. -- wendy for the TUG MacTeX Technical Working Group <http://www.tug.org/twg/mactex/>

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Update problems: TOC
by Mari Voipio 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Hello, all ConTeXters! I finally got around to trying TeXLive2003 and the ConTeXt there. The good news is that it installs into Windows2000 like a charm and all the old font woes are now past worries, the fonts worked the first try. After installing TeXLive I downloaded the newest ConTeXt from Pragma's pages and it seems to be a working installation, too. However, I have a problem to which I didn't find a solution in the mailing list archives: The Table of Contents doesn't work and that hangs the whole thing. If I get rid of the command \placecontent, everything works perfectly, but once I try to compile the file(s) with a TOC, this is what I get: myContents : - Table of contents (./pr-03.tuo ! Undefined control sequence. \exitloop ->\let \endofloop \nodoloop <argument> ...>\zeropoint \unskip \else \exitloop \fi \doloop ...@@arecurse \recursedepth \endcsname {#1 }\global \@EA \let \csname... \removeunwantedspaces ...kip \else \exitloop \fi } \fi \endstrut ...trut \fi \else \removeunwantedspaces \normalpenalty \@M \normal... <argument> ...tentry {\v!hoofdstuk }{Introduction} } ... l.7 ...1}{1}{Introduction}{2::0:1:0:0:0:0:0::1}{5} ? --- Below you'll find a simplified version of my setups etc, maybe that will help to pinpoint the problem. I hope somebody has a solution as I won't be able to upgrade to any newer ConTeXt's until this is fixed. Thanks for any help, Mari % ------ % File starts here % ------ %output=pdftex \definepapersize[a4short][width=210mm,height=11in] \setuppapersize[a4short][a4] \enableregime[il1] \usetypescript[berry][ec] \setupbodyfont[pos,10pt] % This sets the look of the first level headings \setuphead [chapter] [style=\sstfc, prefix=+] % This sets the look of the second level headings \setuphead [section] [style=\sstfb] % Third level headings \setuphead [subsection] [style=\ssbf] % Fourth level headings \setuphead [subsubsection] [style=\ssit] % ------------------------------------------------------------- % Settings concerning the Table of contents (TOC) % ------------------------------------------------------------- % The combination below sets the look of the title of the TOC \definehead [myContents] [title] \setuphead [myContents] [alternative=left, style=\sstfb] % These settings are for the first level (chapter) entries % in the TOC \setuplist [chapter] [criterium=chapter, alternative=c, aligntitle=yes, textstyle={\tfa\cap}] \setuplist [section] [criterium=section, alternative=c, margin=0.7cm, textstyle=bold] \setuplist [subsection] [criterium=subsection, alternative=c, margin=0.9cm] % This sets the fourth level (subsubsection) entries in the TOC \setuplist [subsubsection] [criterium=subsubsection, alternative=c, margin=1.2cm, textstyle=italic] %----------------------------------------------------------------- % TOC settings end here \starttext \startfrontmatter \myContents{Table of contents} \placecontent \stopfrontmatter % --------------------------------------------------------------- % Each chapter is a file of its own, the files are collected % into one document here \input pr-03_ch01/ch01.tex % first chapter (Introduction) \input pr-03_ch02/ch02.tex % second chapter (Sensor) \input pr-03_ch03/ch03.tex % third chapter (IT-R) \input pr-03_ch04/ch04.tex % fourth chapter (Accessory units) \input pr-03_ch05/ch05.tex % fifth chapter (Startup and configuration) \input pr-03_ch06/ch06.tex % sixth chapter (Regular maintenance) \input pr-03_ch07/ch07.tex % seventh chapter (Troubleshooting) \input pr-03_ch08/parts_tables.tex % tables for chapter 8 are loaded first \input pr-03_ch08/ch08.tex % eighth chapter (Sensor % specifications and parts lists) \input pr-03_ch09/ch09.tex % ninth chapter (IT-R specifications % and parts lists) %This part gets alphabets (A, B...) \startappendices \input glossary.tex \input dds.tex % Information on the Delivary Data Sheet \input calibration_data_report.tex % The Calibration data report sheet \input verification.tex % How to do ISO 9000 Verification \stopappendices \startbackmatter % ---------------------- % Index settings % ---------------------- \chapter[index]{Index} \placeindex % --- End of Index ----- \stopbackmatter % Here's where the document ends, nothing comes below this command \stoptext

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Drop capital
by Charles Doherty 08 Mar '04

08 Mar '04

Dear all, I am preparing a newsletter for our group on the history of settlement in Ireland. I would like to use a drop capital at the start of articles. I think I remember a file explaining how to do this in Context but I can't find it now. Can anyone tell me the code to use or give me the url of the file (if I am not just imagining this). Thanks, Charlie Doherty ************** Charles Doherty, Early Irish History, School of History, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 Ireland Telephone +353 1 7168381

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reverse order sorting
by Vit Zyka 06 Mar '04

06 Mar '04

Dear Hans and ConTeXters, I go back to this question since it was not answered: > is possible to change sorting order (e.g. sort in reverse order: not A, B, C but C, B, A) in the > mechanism: > > ----- > \definesorting[address][addressbook] > \setupsorting[address][criterium=all] > \address{A} > \address{C} > \address{B} > \placelistofaddressbook > ----- I was looking for something like 'reverse=yes' in \setupsorting definition and texexec perl sort function calling, but it seemed to me, it has not been implemented yet. Am I right? I still do not have insign to setup option passing and parsing mechanism in ConTeXt macros, but who knows, the implementation might be very easy. I would need it for sorting simple scoring points. Using external (Perl or XSLT) engine ia like a hammer to mosquitos. I can solve to problem by forward sorting and TeX macro language but Perl solution is more effective. Thank you Vit Zyka

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Installing 3rd-party metapost macros
by SebastianSturm＠t-online.de 05 Mar '04

05 Mar '04

Hello all, I'm still new to ConTeXt, so this might seem trivial to you... As I would like to create circuit diagrams without leaving TeXShop, I downloaded and installed the mpcirc Metapost macro package. When trying to compile, however (using \startMPinclusions input mpcirc; \stopMPinclusions), ConTeXt fails with an error message saying " TeXExec 4.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 metapost : mpgraph format : metafun This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.5.2) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/web2c/cp8bit.tcx) (mpgraph.mp (mpcirc.mp (ttex.mp) (circlib.mp >> circlib.mp >> circlib.mpx ! Unable to make mpx file. l.39 def Eplus_ = btex $+$etex enddef; Transcript written on mpgraph.log. error in metapost run : mpgraph.mp:39" Enabling \write18 and changing the MPXcommand to texexec --mptex didn't help. I would be very grateful if someone could tell me how to get mpcirc (and maybe even featpost) up and running. I'd also like to know how to enable margin kerning (I tried \setupalign[hanging], didn't work). BTW, I'm running the latest i-installer version of teTeX (including the ConTeXt updater, stable version) on OS X 10.3.2. Best regards, Sebastian

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another question about itemize
by R. Ermers 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

Hi Contex'ers, As we are considering itemize, does anyone by any chance know how to tackle this problem? Kind regards, Robert Ermers As you know, the itemize blok can be stopped and resumed by means of [continue]: \startitemize[n] \item abc \item def \stopitemize bla bla \startitemize[continue] \item ghijk \item klmnop \stopitemize I wonder if it is possible to have an itemize block resumed, and have the numbers continue, if another set of items precedes the continuation. Like this: \starttext \section{Personalia} \startitemize[n,packed,joinedup] \item name \item surname \item place of birth \stopitemize \section{Fruits} \startitemize[A] \item appel / apple \item peer / pear \item mango \item kersen / cherries \stopitemize \section{Personalia cont.} \startitemize[n,packed,joinedup] \item Sofi-nummer / social sec. number \item Huwelijksdatum /date of marriage \item Meisjesnaam moeder / maiden name mother \stopitemize \stoptext

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Problem with \startitemize
by Nikolai Weibull 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

I'm having a problem with \startitemize. My code is \startitemize[n,columns,four] \item $ S \rightarrow ACaB$ \item $Ca \rightarrow aaC$ \item $CB \rightarrow DB$ \item $CB \rightarrow E$ \item $aD \rightarrow Da$ \item $AD \rightarrow AC$ \item $aE \rightarrow Ea$ \item $AE \rightarrow \epsilon$ \stopitemize and for some reason the rest of the section and the next section continues of the page that the above list is rendered upon. It syncs up on the following section, but it's kind of unacceptable as you may have figured. I have not tried to find a small example that reproduces this as I figured I'd ask if this has happend anyone else before delving into a debugging session (I really don't have the time necessary), nikolai P.S. My first guess was that the math was messing it up somhow, but it fails for simple A, B, C replacements for the above \item's. D.S. -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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m-math
by Nikolai Weibull 04 Mar '04

04 Mar '04

does the m-math module still exist? has core-math changed too much for m-math to catch up, or does a version exist somewhere that works with the latest release of CONTEXT? nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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something for you
by pragma＠pi.net 03 Mar '04

03 Mar '04

your name is wrong

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TaBlE Issues
by Nikolai Weibull 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

Where can I find a comprehensive specification of the TaBlE module? My problem is that I want a paragraph environment in a column, but that doesn't seem to exist/work. In tabulate you can use 'p' in the template, and table doesn't complain when you use it but doesn't obide by it either. Am I missing something, for \starttable[|l|l|] \NC Something \NC Long description ... \NC\AR \stoptable makes for a very wide table (that goes off the paper). nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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A (not so good) solution for presentations by steps
by Otared Kavian 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

Hi all, Sometime ago a few of us (including me) bothered Hans in order to obtain from him a step by step presentation command. He cooked up very quickly the macros contained in "s-pre-50.tex", and that was enough for most of the things. However when one uses more sophisticated styles, the overlays in "s-pre-50.tex" do not work quite good. I wrote a few macros in plain TeX and used them in ConTeXt in order to have step by step presentations with the styles "s-pre-xx.tex". (For those who know the "Prosper" macro packages for LaTeX, I got actually my inspiration from "prosper"). I admit that someone can write better and more elegant macros using the hidden power of ConTeXt, but at this point I am unable to do this... So could anyone try the following macros and tell if the steps are satisfactory for them? Thanks: Otared K. %%%% Beginning of the macros %%K s-pre-steps.tex %%K %%K Here we use the plain \TeX\ command \phantom{} in order to have %%K some material appear step by step. %%K The structure is quite simple, but since I am not very %%K familiar with ConTeXt, I cannot write elegant code as does %%K Hans Hagen... %%K %%K An advantage is that the code can be used also in %%K plain TeX, in LaTeX and other macro-packages. %%K %%K Otared Kavian <otared.kavian(a)wanadoo.fr> %%K last modified March 1, 2004 %%K \newif\ifSteppingSlide \SteppingSlidetrue %%K this is when you want a step by step presentation %\SteppingSlidefalse %%K this is when you want to print the slides % \newcount\StepsCounter \StepsCounter=0 % \newcount\NumberOfSteps \NumberOfSteps=10 % \newcount\BeforeStepNumber \BeforeStepNumber=0 % %%K StepBetween[number1,number2]{material} will make "material" %%K appear between steps "number1" and "number2" \def\StepBetween[#1,#2]#3{% \ifSteppingSlide \ifnum#1>\StepsCounter \phantom{#3} \else \ifnum#2<\StepsCounter \phantom{#3} \else \relax #3 \fi \fi \else {#3} \fi} % %%K Step{number}{material} will make "material" %%K appear beginning with step "number" until "NumberOfSteps" \def\Step#1#2{\StepBetween[#1,\NumberOfSteps]{#2}} % %%K OnlyStep{number}{material} will make "material" %%K appear only on step "number" \def\OnlyStep#1#2{\StepBetween[#1,#1]{#2}} % %%K StepBefore{number}{material} will make "material" %%K appear only on all steps before "number" \def\StepBefore#1#2{ \global\BeforeStepNumber=#1\global\advance\BeforeStepNumber by -1 \StepBetween[0,\BeforeStepNumber]{#2}} % \long\def\SlideWithSteps#1#2{ \ifSteppingSlide \global\StepsCounter=0 \global\NumberOfSteps=#1 \MakeSteps{#2} \else #2 \fi} % \long\def\MakeSteps#1{\loop #1 \ifnum\StepsCounter<\NumberOfSteps \global\advance\StepsCounter by 1\vfill\eject \repeat \vfill\eject} % %%K This is the end of the macros %%K End of the macros "s-pre-steps.tex" %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%K Here is an example to test the above macros % \input s-pre-steps.tex \usemodule[pre-general] %%K I tried the macros for step by step presentation %%K with the following styles: \input s-pre-04.tex %\input s-pre-09.tex %\input s-pre-16.tex %\input s-pre-19.tex %\setupbodyfont[ss, 14.4pt] %% because I can't use other fonts %% due to a local problem on my Mac OS X, I guess \starttext \TitlePage {A simple presentation} \Topics {Today's talk} \Topic {First item} \input knuth \Topic {Second item} \input tufte \Subject {A subitem} \input knuth \Subject {Another subitem} \input tufte \Subject {Here are some steps} In the next slide we show some material appearing step by step. The macros can also be used in other packages, particularly in plain \TeX. \page \SlideWithSteps{7}{ \startitemize \item Consider the following nonlinear equation: $$\Step{7}{{\partial u \over \partial t}} \Step{1}{-\Delta u + |u|^{p-1}u} \Step{2}{=} \Step{3}{f} \Step{4}{+{\rm div}(g)} \Step{5}{+|\nabla u|{\Step{6}{^2}}}$$ \StepBefore{6}{\item This line appears only before step 6.} \OnlyStep{6}{\item The term in $|\nabla u|$ may be quadratic.} \StepBetween[3,5]{\item This line appears only between steps 3 and 5} \Step{7}{\item The equation may be parabolic.} \OnlyStep{4}{\item Watch out\dots{} this line appears only at step 4.} \stopitemize % \vfill (Here you see step number \the\StepsCounter, %% if you uncomment the line above } % end of \SlideWithSteps \stoptext

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warning
by pragma＠pi.net 01 Mar '04

01 Mar '04

I have your password!

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code from commandline
by pawcoo 28 Feb '04

28 Feb '04

Hi All, in some cases I need to use execution command such as pdftex \input aqq.tex ... How to do the same using texexec? Regards, Pawe/l

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Problem with the latest Version of context 2004-02-23
by Helmut Schwertner 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

Hello, I get the following error message from the latest version of context 2004-02-23 when I run this "table": %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%example.tex%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \mainlanguage[de] \language[de] \enableregime[windows] \setuppapersize[a4][a4] \setupoutput[pdftex] \pdfcompresslevel=1 \setupcaption[table][location=top] \starttext \startlocalfootnotes[n=0,conversion=characters] \placetable[force][tab:konferenzbewertung]{Bewertungen der Konferenz}\placelegend{ \bTABLE \setupTABLE[frame=off] \setupTABLE[1,2,3,4,5][1][topframe=on,rulethickness=0.8pt] % Linie ueber der Tabelle und in der Mitte vorletzte Zeile \setupTABLE[1,2,3,4,5][2][topframe=on] % Linie unter der ersten Linie \setupTABLE[1,2,3,4,5][9][bottomframe=on,rulethickness=0.8pt] \setupTABLE[column][1][width=7.2cm] \setupTABLE[column][5][width=1.5cm] \setupTABLE[column][2,3,4][align=middle] \setupTABLE[column][5][alignmentcharacter={.},aligncharacter=yes,align=middle] \bTR \bTH Fragethemen \eTH \bTH Häufigkeiten \eTH \bTH Median \eTH \bTH Modalwert \eTH \bTH $\sigma$\footnote{Standardabweichung} \eTH \eTR \bTR \bTD Die Vorträge \eTD \bTD 35 \eTD \bTD 6 \eTD \bTD 6 \eTD \bTD 0,7 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Die Arbeitsgruppen \eTD \bTD 36 \eTD \bTD 5 \eTD \bTD 5 \eTD \bTD 1,8 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Das Expertengespräch \eTD \bTD 24 \eTD \bTD 6 \eTD \bTD 6 \eTD \bTD 1,1 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Informationsstände d. Projekte \eTD \bTD 34 \eTD \bTD 6 \eTD \bTD 7 \eTD \bTD 1,0 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Gelegenheit zum In- \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD formationsaustausch \eTD \bTD 35 \eTD \bTD 6 \eTD \bTD 5 \eTD \bTD 1,1 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Zeitpunkt (Wochenende) \eTD \bTD 37 \eTD \bTD 5 \eTD \bTD 6 \eTD \bTD 1,9 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Konferenzdauer (3 Tage) \eTD \bTD 37 \eTD \bTD 6 \eTD \bTD 6 \eTD \bTD 1,4 \eTD \eTR \eTABLE } {\placelocalfootnotes} \stoplocalfootnotes \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%example.tex%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The error message from context: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% (./testtabelle.tuo) (./testtabelle.tuo) systems : begin file testtabelle at line 48 references : unknown reference [][fnt:t:1] references : unknown reference [][fnt:f:1] ! Argument of \secondoftwoarguments has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \dostartnote ...t:\internalfootreference }{}\fi }} {\rawreference \s!fnt {\s!... <to be read again> { <argument> $\sigma $\footnote { Standardabweichung} \handleTBLcell ...{\bTBLCELL \TBLcharalign {#2}{#4 }\eTBLCELL }\fi } ... l.78 \eTABLE ? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Older Context-Version works ok with this table and other Context-Files (without tables like this) works fine. Thank you for your help and best wishes, and a nice weekend, Helmut

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\doifnextcharelse problem
by Nikolai Weibull 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

It seems that I can't get \definecomplexorsimpleempty to work right. The command I define works fine unless the simple version is called, in which case the first character in the body of the command is checked \doifnextcharelse[... which thus fails but in some manner eats it (even though it is output). The problem with the \doifnextcharelse is that the character it checks against is \catcode'd to \@@active, but it won't work when the character has been checked. Is there any way to fix this? I understand if my problem isn't that clear, so I've attached the module. The idea is to be able to write \startbnfgrammar <exp>: <num>. <num>: "0";"1". \stopbnfgrammar and this is then typeset as a table, but currently you're forced to write \startbnfgrammar[] <exp>: <num>. <num>: "0";"1". \stopbnfgrammar or the first < in <exp> gets eaten by \doifnextcharelse and the \def<{... won't be called causing problems down the line when the > is encountered, which expands into a \egroup which stops tex as there is no matching \bgroup. Now, is there any way to get \doifnextcharelse to properly deal with \catcode'd characters (such as my <) that it encounters when looking for other characters (such as the [ for optional arguments to commands)? I'd really like to resolve this, so any comments or tips are appreciated. Second, is there any good reference to programming TeX? I mean, one can figure out most stuff from reading CONTEXT's source for example, but it would be great to find out the exact implications of builtins such as \relax and so on. nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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Page-breakable framed text
by Mike Aizatsky 27 Feb '04

27 Feb '04

Hi! Is there a way to produce a page-breakable framed text? I've already spent several hours on this and still can't find the solution. Or, may be there's a better way to achieve the effect, shown in the sample? Sample: % interface=en output=pdftex \defineframedtext[procedure][frame=off, leftframe=on, rulethickness=.4mm] \def\StartProcedure{\startnarrower[2*left] \startprocedure \startitemize[n]} \def\StopProcedure{\stopitemize \stopprocedure \stopnarrower} \def\Step{\item} \starttext \dorecurse{20}{Some Text. Some Text. Some Text. } \StartProcedure \dorecurse{10}{ \Step\dorecurse{20}{Some Text.} } \StopProcedure \dorecurse{20}{Some Text. Some Text. Some Text. } \stoptext ===== MA __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

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Can itemize calculate optimal label widths?
by Stefan Wachter 26 Feb '04

26 Feb '04

Hi all! Is there a possiblity to have itemize calculate the optimal label width itself? I have an itemize that has rather different labels, e.g.: \startitemize \sym{1.} An item \sym{2.} Another item \sym{103 a.} An item with a very broad label \stopitemize In this example the label "103 a." flows into the item text. It would be great if itemize would automatically use a label width that fits the broadest label. Thanks for your attention, --Stefan

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