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resolution
by Severin Obertuefer 10 Nov '03

10 Nov '03

Hi I made a context-file that contains a lot of *.jpg pictures. The file is very big now, because the pictures are in good quality. I'll use the document for the web and I think there you can see no more then 72dpi (I'm not shure with that) Is there a command to set down the resolution of the whole document (including the pictures) ?? or do I have to reduce the resolution of each jpg graphic with a graphic-program. severin -- NEU FÜR ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - für Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gruß, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden unter http://www.gmx.net +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++

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Simple problem using texexec to combine pdfs
by Martin Buchmann 10 Nov '03

10 Nov '03

Hello, i am rather new to ConTeXt but i had to try it after i met Hans in a little workshop about his system in Darmstadt this year. Thanks again for the insights Hans :-) Now i found out that texexec is also a pretty nice tool for combining single pdf files into one. So i tried: texexec --pdfcombine --combination=1*1 --result=felix.pdf *.pdf to combine all pdfs in the wd to felix.pdf. That's working fine besides the fact that a footnote is added to each page containing the file name and the date. That's maybe pretty handy sometimes but not for me at the moment. I checked the texexec manpages and the manual but i did not find the right command/switch to do it. May be i'm just missing some rooky stuff. Could someone help me out here? BTW: I'm using the latest TeXlive installation on RedHat. Best regards Martin P.S.: I know that i could change the temporary texexec.tex by hand and rerun that file. But that's a bit to clumsy for such a sophisticated system, isn't it?

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backgrounds
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 10 Nov '03

10 Nov '03

Hi all! Could You give me some hint how to setup different backgrounds for even and odd pages? Lets say I would like to have something like \setupbackgrounds[footer][rightmargin][background=screen] % for even pages and \setupbackgrounds[footer][leftmargin][background=screen] % for odd pages Thanks in advance, Pawel

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margintext drifting down the page
by Duncan Hothersall 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Hello all. I have an odd behaviour which I think I just about understand but can't fix. I use \margintext{Note that ...} to place little notes into the margin next to things in the running text. It has worked beautifully for all my content up till now, but I now find myself wanting to put a note next to a \bTABLE...\eTABLE and the margin text now drifts down so that it is beside the content that follows the table, rather than next to the table itself. So, \margintext{This works well} Normal running text takes a margintext without problems... but \margintext{This drifts down below the table} \bTABLE \bTR ... ... \eTABLE The margintext appears next to this normal running text... I'm using the latest stable release. I'd be happy with a workaround that enables me to have this appearance. I have tried putting a \strut in front of the table but this only shifts the margintext up a little bit. Is there something else I can do? (I tried wrapping the table in a \vtop, and in an \hbox, and in an invisible \frame, but no luck.) Thanks for any help. Duncan

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Czech patterns in TeXlive2003
by David Antos 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Hello, Petr Olsak has changed slightly Czech pattern file czhyph.tex for TeXlive2003, it's a bit `Babelized' now. It produces \errmessage for Babel's \addlanguage being \undefined. It also contains several ugly hacks to make both plain and LaTeX read \v and \' syntax for Czech accents, and finally it reads czhyphen.tex containing real patterns. The result is that generating ConTeXt format ends with the \errmessage. Simple workaround is to change alias in cont-usr.tex to pattern files from czhyph.tex to czhyphen.tex. My discussion with Petr Olsak suggests to make a more systematic correction: to add a test into czhyph.tex and make it directly read czhyphen.tex if ConTeXt is detected. This needs two things to make sure: 1. Is it OK to read patterns with \v and \' syntax into ConTeXt? 2. Is there a way to detect ConTeXt in order to put into czhyph.tex something like: \ifx\<something-typical-to-detect-ConTeXt>\undefined \else % for ConTeXt \input czhyphen.tex \endinput \fi Is there a more systematic/clean solution? Or shall I ask Petr Olsak to change this in the czhyph.tex file? Thanks, D.A. -- Science is what happens when preconception meets verification.

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enumeration and countproblem
by Bernd Militzer 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Hi all, Writing examinations I want to tell my students the points of each question and the max points they can reach. I wrote a macro which prints the points at the right side of the question and count the points. % % % ad the points of each question \def\getPunkte[#1]{\advance\summeP by \number#1} % % show the points on the right side \def\showP[#1]{\inright{\hfill(#1 P.)}} % % handle the points \def\pkt[#1]% {% \ifnum\ZeigeP=1 \showP[#1]% \ifnum\addP=1 \getPunkte[#1] \fi \fi% } % Using this macro in normal text like TestQuestion \pkt[5] it works without problems! But when I use this macro in combination with enumeration I run in a problem example: % \defineenumeration[question][location=inmargin,text=,width=fit] % \question\pkt[5] TestQuestion\par nothing ist count in this case! How can I fix this problem? Thanks in advance. Bernd

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"bug" in OC support
by Peter Rolf 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Hello all, just a small fix for the Optional content (OC) support. The keywords for the default state (visible or not) must be changed to uppercase letters. spec-fdf.tex: def\flushPDFtextlayers {\ifx\PDFtextlayers\empty \else ... \doPDFaddtocatalog {/OCProperties << % display in menu /D << /Order \!!stringa /On \!!stringb > ^^ > /ON \!!stringb /Off \!!stringc >> > ^^ > /OFF \!!stringc >> % used properties /OCGs \!!stringa >>}% Thanks to Hans for implementing it. It works perfect and I love it... Greetings, Peter

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Yet another itemize question
by Thomas A. Schmitz 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Is this a bug or a feature? Please compare these two setups: \setupitemize[1][n,inmargin][margin=2em,alignment=left,stopper=)] This does what I want: I get a numbered list with numbers aligned raggedleft. \setupitemize[n,inmargin][margin=2em,alignment=left,stopper=)] According to the manual, this should do exactly the same. But I get a list with bullets. My problem is that I want two different kind of lists in my document, and when I use definition # 1, all the lists seem to be numbered, even if I specify \startitemize[2,packed,joinedup] later on. Any hints will be welcome! Best Thomas

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Dithering (off-topic)
by Michal Kvasnicka 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Good evening. I apologize to ask a little off-topic question, but I don't know where to ask (and it is closely related to TeX and PDF). I typeset a church bulleting. It is printed on a laserjet printer (600 dpi), and then copied on a copy machine. As for letters, all is right. But figures (photos) are this way spoiled. I guess it would help either to force PDF to print the figures in some very low resolution (150 dpi), or (probably better) to dither the figures and include them in PNG (instead of ordinary JPEG). Can some of you tell me how to do it? I tried ImageMagick's convert to dither the photos, but outcomes were really poor. Is there some good free software for this (in the best case in Linux)? Or can I do it some way in PDF? Many thanks for any hint. Michal Kvasnicka

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Slides and notes
by Fabrice Popineau 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

I'm wondering if anybody has already tackled the problem of printing slides together with notes. Is there any generic mechanism that could be applied to presentation styles in ConTeXt to achieve this ? -- Fabrice

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inmargin text problems remain
by Willi Egger 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Dear gang, Thanks Bill for your reply on my previous mail concerning struggles with the inmargin texts. As you can see I explicitely set the width of the margins. In order to make things easier to see I attach a minimal test file. Does anybody see the clue, how to tell Context to use the full marginwidth? Cheers Willi

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Integrating Metapost
by Lutz Haseloff 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Hallo all, Running texexec on a ConTeXt-file with integrated METAPOST-Graphics METAPOST complains about: --------------------------- >>>> local_multi_par_area >>>> false ! Equation cannot be performed (numeric=boolean). <to be read again> ; l.218 local_multi_par_area:=false; ? --------------------------- and stops. There are no duplicate ConTeXt mp-files on this machine. The same file works on another Computer. What can the error be? Greetings Lutz

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Kerning pairs for Optima-Italic
by Steffen Wolfrum 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

Hi, after I converted MacOSX's Optima.dfont for usage with TeX I experienced that this Adobe Optima (Regular, Italic, Bold, BoldItalic, ExtraBold) doesn't have extra kerning pairs. (And I don't have any idea how to create these on my own.) So I had a look at WalterSchmidt's page (home.vr-web.de/was/fonts.html), and fortunately he provides files for Regular and Bold - which work fine - but not Italic or BoldItalic fonts. So now I just have to find metric files (including kering pairs) for Adobe Optima-Italic and Optima-BoldItalic. Does anybody can help me with that? Thank you, Steffen.

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Shutting down Acrobat Reader.
by John Culleton 29 Oct '03

29 Oct '03

I am creating an e-book following the example program d-en-all.tex as found on the Context site. I have a question about the "exit" button. This button shuts down the current document but leaves Acrobat Reader still up and running. If the user is in full screen mode he has to do an <alt><esc> to get back to normal mode (from fullscreen) and then exit the Acrobat Reader using a menu. I am looking for a technique that would exit everythig when the user pushes the "exit" button. Here are some pertinent snippets from my file: --------------------------------- \setupinteractionmenu [right] [background=color, backgroundcolor=LightGray, frame=off, state=start] \startinteractionmenu[right] \but [content] contents \\ \but [NextPage] next \\ \but [PreviousPage] previous \\ \but [sample] sample \\ \but [PreviousJump] back \\ \but [CloseDocument] exit \\ \vfill \stopinteractionmenu ---------------------------------- And another question: Some of the pdf examples on the Context site automatically open in full screen mode. How is this accomplished? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Interrupted framebox around text.
by John Culleton 28 Oct '03

28 Oct '03

I want to set up several framed text passages in my document, where the title of the passage actually interrupts the top line of the box thus: -----My title------------------------------------------- | | | | | Blah blah. | |_________________________________ | I have seen such a configuration in books prepared using other software. Can it be done easily in Context (without involving Metapost etc.)? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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configuration (texutil?) problem
by Onet 28 Oct '03

28 Oct '03

Hi all! I had to change an operating system temporarly; now I use win98, but I haven't change ConTeXt installation and configuration at all. I'm not sure if win version causes the problem, but I can't see any other reasons... Anyway, the problem is that I can't build a list of contents. A sample zzz.tex file looks like this: \starttext \completecontent \chapter{Some chapter} \section{One section} \section{Another section} \chapter{And one more chapter} \section{And one more section} \stoptext After running such a code with command 'texexec --pdf zzz.tex'. At the end of job texexec says: run time : 4 seconds sorting and checking : running texutil total run time : 4 seconds There is no another run, the file is processed only ones. There is no 'zzz.tuo' in output. So I tried to test texutil running it directly with command 'texutil --references zzz.tui' (not sure if it is correct...). But the strangest thing is that texutil says: action : processing commands, lists and registers error : empty input file zzz.tui Of course zzz.tui is NOT empty. Does anybody know what may be responsible for that? TeXexec version: 2.8 TeXutil version: 7.3 THanks in advance, Pawe/l

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firstpageheader -- lastpagefooter
by Bernd Militzer 28 Oct '03

28 Oct '03

I need a special headertext for the first page and a special footertext for the last page. With \firstpage and \lastpage I found no solution. How can I manage my problem? thanks Bernd % \def\sj{2003/04} % Schuljahr \def\art{Klassenarbeit} \def\lfd{1} \def\fach{WVK} \def\thema{Verkaufsformen} \def\kla{E23} % Klasse \defineenumeration[question][location=inmargin,text=] \def\my1Header% {\framed[width=\hsize,align=right,frame=off] {\art\ Nr. \lfd\hfill\fach \hfill \sj\inright{\hfill\pagenumber~/~\lastpage~}\\ Klasse: \kla\\ Thema: \thema} } % \def\myHeader% {\framed[width=\hsize,align=right,frame=off] {\kla\ % \art\ % Nr. \lfd % \hfill\fach% \inright{\hfill\pagenumber~/~\lastpage~}% \hairline} } % \setupheadertexts[\if{\firstpage}\my1Header\else\my1Header\fi] % \setupfootertexts[\txx \cap{\jobname} \date]% [\if{\lastpage}Ende \else \dots \fi] \starttext \question \dorecurse{20}{testquestion } \par \question \dorecurse{20}{testquestion } \par \page \question \dorecurse{20}{testquestion } \par \stoptext

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Figure reuse
by Nigel King 27 Oct '03

27 Oct '03

Dear Contexnicians, I believe that pdfs can make multiple use of pictures (and other objects). I have a fairly large picture which I want to include a number of times, once as the full picture and several other times concentrating on a portion of it. Are there any commands for cropping other than going through metapost? TIA -- Nigel

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things I do when I get bored...
by Patrick Gundlach 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

Hello out there, ... are not what I am going to announce here. But, you can -- if you are brave -- try out the new-on-the-www port of texshow, the ConTeXt command browser. As a bonus, comments can be added to the commands (as in etexshow), but since you are not alone on the www, you can share and enjoy! One day I will add a section for examples. You can then share your favorite examples with all the other ConTeXt users out there. Here is the url: http://members.ping.de:8061/ at http://levana.de/context/texshow-web.html you get forwarded to the whatever is the current location of texshow-web. The current location will move some day to a place yet unknown. Patrick -- I am happy for any suggestions/comments/...

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Visual creators for ConTeXt
by ^Nitram^ 25 Oct '03

25 Oct '03

Hi, I promised link to creators for ConTeXt ;) http://www.im.ps.pl/context/?en (and http://www.im.ps.pl/context/ for polish users) But - please note - there is early pre-beta version ;) I will work to increase functionality and performance of this. It works in IE6 (tested) and Gecko engine browsers (but there are some errors in display). Tables: left mouse button - select, right menu. Flowcharts: left button - inside object - choice type and changing text, 'o' is a connect point... There will be more helps at the site (in the future) :) For now, just try by clicking ;) If anybody has some advices or wishes please contact - I hope I will implement much more than now. PS. I think I will re-implement whole code (now it is awful ;) ) - if somebody want translate to other languages please contact - it will be possible ;) -- Best greetings, Martin

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font distribution for Bitstream Vera
by Henning Hraban Ramm 24 Oct '03

24 Oct '03

Ahoi! There's now a ConTeXt distribution of Bitstream Vera freeware font at my site: http://www.ramm.ch/fiee/texnique/?menu=0-1-4&lang=en (Source of the font is gnome.org, redistribution is allowed, so I packed it.) Vera is similar to Verdana and Lucida; it contains Sans (4), Serif (2) and Mono (4). Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

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Typestting all ConTeXt modules
by kopszak＠mnw.art.pl 24 Oct '03

24 Oct '03

Hello, I know it sounds a bit weird, but I would like to print out the whole ConTeXt source as one book. So, before I try on my own... Are there any clever commands which could be helpful? Also, would it be possible to index commands in all modules? Piotr -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -----------------------------> http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/

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columns and alignment at the bottom
by Alexander Klink 23 Oct '03

23 Oct '03

Hi, I am trying to typeset a text which should look roughly like that: |-----| |-----| |------| |text | |text | |text | | | |-----| | | |-----| | | |-----| | | |-----| |text | | | |text | |-----| |------| | | | | |-----| |------| | | |text | |text | |-----| |-----| |------| So I have a frames with some text (actually, addresses - Hans, maybe you remember the address booklet I showed you here in Darmstadt) in three columns. So I tried something like: \startcolumns[n=3] \framed{first address...} \vskip 0.5cm plus 1fill \framed{second address...} \vskip 0.5cm plus 1fill \framed{third address...} . . . \stopcolumns Which (obviously because I use TeX code inside ConTeXt - shame on me) fails, the frames are not aligned at the bottom. So I'm looking for a way to typeset them with a distance of at least 0.5cm and align at the bottom - the remaining space should be spread equally... I hope the question is understandable and I hope someone has already done something like this... Greetings, ALeX P.S.: Hans, thanks again for the tutorial in Darmstadt - now I know about the layer and overlay stuff, I use it extensively :-) -- ... Alexander Klink ... undergraduate in Mathematics with Computer Science ... alech(a)alech.de ... at Darmstadt University of Technology ... alech(a)3komma141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974.de

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Expert version: How to make empty pages by default empty?
by Steffen Wolfrum 23 Oct '03

23 Oct '03

Hi Hans (probably the only relevant recipient), while Patrick Gundlach could provide me a solution for all chapters in one file there still is no idea how to do it within the project structure. See for example the following: The generated empty pages after the TOC (page 2), and after the last chapter (14 and 15) all have pagenumbers. Quite ugly. How to get rid of them? How to make empty pages by default empty? Steffen Minimal Example: \definepagebreak [chapter] [yes,header,right] \setuphead [chapter] [page=chapter, ] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \setupsectionblock[frontmatter][page=chapter] % doesn't work \starttext \startfrontmatter \completecontent \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \stopbodymatter \stoptext

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pagenumbers in oldstyle
by gmorais 22 Oct '03

22 Oct '03

Hello All: I would like to know how I can change the default pagenumbers to oldstyle ones (in my case their location is on footer). Thanks in advance Gonçalo

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conteni style
by V. Sharma 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

I am a newbie to context. I have a management protocol for transplantation patients which would be great if presented in a format similar to the conteni document. Is the setup for the same available or is this proprietary and not available? Are any other setups of similar functionality available as source files? I intend to use pdfscreen and lyx if this is not possible, however the layout and searchability of the conteni are far superior and would help the doctors on the ward if this can be achieved without me having to spend more than a weekend on this.context is a longterm goal of course but any help now will be greatly appreciated and acknowledged in the protocol. regards vivek

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Centering lines of poetry.
by John Culleton 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

Here is a deceptively simple requirement: An author writes poetry where lines are ended by a carriage retrun and stanzas are ended by a blank line. Problem: How to enclose those lines somehow so that all lines are centered yet font changes are allowed. Of course \centerline{} works but this requires tagging each line. Any thoughts, anyone? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Pagebreak after section followed itemize
by Michal Kvasnicka 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

Good morning. How can I suppress the page break between section and itemize, i.e. in a following case: \section{Summary} \startitemize \item bum \item bac \stopitemize Many thanks for your help. Michal Kvasnicka

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page arranging
by Alex Berger 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

Hi, I'd like to place 2 A5 pages on a A4 landscape page. I tried with \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] \setuparranging[doublesided] and some other options. But the best result I got were A4 pages with 2 *identical* A5 pages (was this the "duplex" option?) Now I have no idea how to get my wanted result---and even less idea why ConTeXt arranged the pages the way it did... ;) Thanks, aberThanks, aber. -- Alex Berger <alex.berger(a)gmx.at> jabber:alb@jabber.at icq:65271130

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greek
by Hans Hagen 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

Hi, What are the preferred encodings for cyrillic and greek? 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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Decreasing size of fonts in formulas
by ^Nitram^ 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

Hi, How I can decrease (locally - only one formula) font size in math mode ? -- Best regards Martin

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Suppressing word-breaking in margin-texts?
by Michal Kvasnicka 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

Good morning. I'm sorry to ask such a stupid question, but: Is there some ConTeXt way to suppress word-breaking (hyphenating) text in margins (\inmargin)? Many thanks, Michal Kvasnicka

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Expert fonts
by Thomas A.Schmitz 19 Oct '03

19 Oct '03

Expert fonts have been mentioned on this list several times, but I'd like to know if anybody could point me to e tutorial/example how to make them work in Context. The background of my question: on my Mac, I have a nice-looking truetype font "HoeflerText" which has most glyphs of an expert font (oldstyle numbers, small caps, additional ligatures etc.), and I wonder if it would be possible to split it up into several type 1 fonts (via pfaedit) and make them work like an expert family. Any suggestions about this? Thanks! Thomas

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Natural Tables (all options)
by ml-context＠Dr-Kopp.com 19 Oct '03

19 Oct '03

Hello, with a lot of help of Lutz (member of this list) I am now able to produce Context files and compile them to PDF. Now I am reading the documentation and some emails from this list to learn some details. I played a little bit with natural tables (also read the examples in ennatab.pdf) - but I think that is not all what is possible with natural tables. Wehre can I find a documetation with all options for nat. tabs? At the examples there was no table with round corners. But I found a parameter for it -I tried: \\eTABLE[corner=round] with the result: every cell was round. It looks funny but is not the thing I was looking for. I want to have round corners arround the table: left corner top and bottom right corner top and bottom 1. How does it work? 2. Where can I find all parameters/options for natural tables (I googled with no success). Jörg

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Re:conteni style
by V. Sharma 19 Oct '03

19 Oct '03

> I intend to use pdfscreen and lyx > if this is not possible, however the layout and searchability of the > conteni are far superior ..... any help now will be greatly appreciated > and acknowledged in the protocol. regards vivek >>What is meant with "the conteni document"? Do you have an example? >>Hans By conteni document I mean the interactive context manual in english available from your website at pragma general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf regards vivek

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Re: things I do when I get bored...
by ml-context＠dr-kopp.com 19 Oct '03

19 Oct '03

>There are still some bugs in the webserver. Once in a while it just >dies. I keep an eye on it and try to get it stable. Right now it >should work. Yes, it\'s great! It would be nice to have a short description for each command - I know, there is the documentation from Hans - but it would be comfortable to have the description in texshow. Jörg

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Re: things I do when I get bored...
by ml-context＠dr-kopp.com 19 Oct '03

19 Oct '03

Hello Pattrick, good idea! As a beginner I am very interested in examples. No suggestions but a hint: I tried to open http://members.ping.de:8061/ but nothing happend. For some minutes the browser successles tried to load the page. Jörg

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unwanted code in bookmarks
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 18 Oct '03

18 Oct '03

Hi all! Please consider (or compile) the following code: \setupinteraction[state=start] \placebookmarks[chapter,section][chapter] \defineXMLenvironment [chapter] {\defineXMLargument[title]{\chapter}} {\relax} \defineXMLsingular[end]{\end} \enableXML <chapter><title>Whatever with an &entity;</title> <chapter><title>Whatever with a <command/></title> <end/> The problem is that bookmarks in output PDF file contains literal or partially expanded ConTeX-code instead of it's effect. How to force context to expand code entirely before writing bookmarks? Thanks for any hints, Pawe/l

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placebookmarks + hyphenation
by Tobias Burnus 17 Oct '03

17 Oct '03

Hi, I use \placebookmarks[chapter,section,subsection] to get the bookmarks (or outline) shown in Acrobat Reader. Unfortunally, this doesn't seem to work here (acroread 5.08/linux; \def\contextversion{2003.9.26}): There are no bookmarks at all. The other problem I have is: the letter \"a comes out as 'dobuildtextaccent char 127 a' in the 'Document Info' of acrobat which looks kind of ugly and hampers the searchability using htdig. Last but not least, I have a hyphenation problem with URLs: I have e.g. +----------------------------------------------+ | | | [...] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CylindricalCoordinates. | html. | +----------------------------------------------+ I now want to have this instead: +----------------------------------------------+ | | | [...] http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Cylindri | | calCoordinates.html. | +----------------------------------------------+ i.e. a hyphenation not at the / or . characters but within the word (and without a hyphen). Fixing it manually is kind of hard since I use \gotoURL{...} in a BibTeX file and this definition for gotoURL: \def\gotoURL#1{\useURL[foo][#1]\goto{\url[foo]}[url(foo)]} I'm grateful for any hints Tobias

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font scaling
by Thomas A.Schmitz 17 Oct '03

17 Oct '03

After doing some work, I think I now have a wonderful working collection of classical Greek fonts. There is one thing I'd love to implement though, but I wonder if it's possible. i guess I have to begin by describing my approach: every Greek font is provided by a .tex file which has the following content (in part, this is Giuseppe Bilotta's work, he got me started on this): \definebodyfont[10pt,11pt,12pt,14pt][rm][Gf=Ibycus] \def\enablegreek{\language[greek]\catcode`~=\other\catcode`|=\other\catc ode`'=\other} \def\startgreek{\par\begingroup\Gf\enablegreek} \let\stopgreek\endgroup \def\localgreek{\groupedcommand{\Gf\enablegreek}{}} Then, the file declares a couple of special symbols like so \define\koppa{\getglyph{Ibycus}{\char37}} The Greek font is declared by using \input Ibycus in the preamble of the document. I have a collection of 6 fonts; when I want to switch between them, I just replace \input Ibycus by \imput someotherfile. All of this works wonderfully for the time being. Now the problem: most of the time, I want to mix Greek and Latin fonts, and in order to do this, some sort of scaling has to be done (because the size of different Latin fonts varies so much). Right now, I do this by editing the input file like so \definebodyfont[10pt,11pt,12pt,14pt][rm][Gf=Ibycus sa 1.05] but I wonder if it would be possible to do this more elegantly: is there a way to make this an argument that will be passed on automatically? What I'm dreaming of is something like this \input Ibycus[sa 1.05] and it would automatically scale at 1.05. Any ideas how this could be achieved? And if anybody is interested: I'd love to share this stuff and find a couple of beta testers to see if it works on other computers, too. Best Thomas

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repeated headers in the TABLE environment
by Lutz Haseloff 17 Oct '03

17 Oct '03

Hi all, how can i get repeated headers for a splitted TABLE? I tried to define \setupTABLE[split=yes] and have \bTH \eTH in my header row. up-008-s.pdf didn't help further. Greetings Lutz

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references over several documents
by gmorais 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

Hello All: At this moment i am producing a set of documents, that ocasionally have refences among them. For eg: document 1 \starttext \placeformula[eq:1.1] \startformula e = m c^2 \stopformula \stoptext document 2 \starttext In here I want to refer to equation 1.1 in document 1 \stoptext How can I do it? Thanks in advance: Gonçalo

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Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 2003 miseries.
by Hans Hagen 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

At 01:11 15/10/2003, you wrote: >1. the perl scripts were confused by the embedded spaces in the default >"c:\Program Files\.." install path. In general, ConTeXt does not play >well for paths that have embedded spaces. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/mswintex (just runsetuptex,bat in the path where it is) http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/linuxtex (run setuptex and generate formats) is the minimum that you need for context. For windows the trick is in using irun in the right way, i.e. either use a full path spec or something relative like ../../whatever (which is what i've done there); i didn't test it for "program files" Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 2003 miseries.
by George N. White III 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, John Culleton wrote: > I installed the latest version of TeXLive 2003 (the so-called demo > version) and did the fmtutil and texhash bit. When I ran a job for a > customer, texexec hung up at the point where a graphic was being > loaded. So I went back to last year's texlive in a terrible hurry. > That worked fine. What platform? I tried to install various rc's on Win98 and ran into numerous problems: 1. the perl scripts were confused by the embedded spaces in the default "c:\Program Files\.." install path. In general, ConTeXt does not play well for paths that have embedded spaces. 2. the perl scripts search the PATH directories and supply a the full pathname of programs (e.g., /texLive/bin/Win32/kpsewhich.exe) to perl's backtick. This failed when running texexec.exe in a command.com window, Replaceing the "/" with "\" helps, but there were too many places to fix in the time available, and meanwhile the disk on the system I was borrowing died (due, I am quite sure, to overextertion caused by the direct searching of the texmf trees for texexec.ini when kpsewhich failed to run). On Mandrake linux 9.0 and SGI Irix 6.5 TeXLive 2003 (full install) works fine (using the current cont-tmf.zip which is a few days newer than the version in TeXLive 2003). The perl scripts have not changed. > Earlier, when TeXLive 2003 was still in beta they left out texexec > altogether. On unix they just forgot to make some symlinks, the perl scripts were there. On Win32, I used Active State perl.exe to run the scripts. > Has anyone else tried Context using graphics on TeXLive 2003? I hate > to report a bug to Tug if my experience is unique. OTOH if the iso > image is defective in some way I do need to let someone know pronto. I'm not sure about the demo image. If you are using Win32, does texexec.exe find texexec.ini using kpsewhich? -- George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca>

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\but command for referring to index.
by John Culleton 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

The useful d-en-all.tex example shows buttons used for accessing Acrobat Reader functions and also for jumping to the Contents page. I would like to create a button that would jump to the back-of-book index. The info in the manual is a bit terse and I don't quite follow it. also, I read posts referring to a \button command. How does this differ from the \but command? Thanks for any help! -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Typo in d-en-all.tex
by John Culleton 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

I uncovered an ancient typo. Here is a text fragment from the above document: \ShowSample {001} {A simple document} \ShowSample {002} {Setting up the page} \ShowSample {003} {Using the margin} \ShowSample {004} {Adaptive headers and footers} \ShowSample {004} {Some bookmarks} The 004 file is called twice, and the 005 file is omitted. Sounds like a case for 007 :-) John Culleton

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again inmargin problems
by Willi Egger 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

Dear gang, Thanks Bill for your reply on my previous mail concerning struggles with the inmargin texts. As you can see I explicitely set the width of the margins. In order to make things easier to see I attach a minimal test file. Does anybody see the clue, how to tell Context to use the full marginwidth? Cheers Willi

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Odp: Re: [NTG-context] Visual creators for ConTeXt
by ^Nitram^ 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

Hi, [cut seggestion] Ok - I wait for any comments and I will work for improving functionality - but of course I have limited time for working on it. ;( But after weekend I think there will be much more ;) > Is is it posible that the popu-window for changing the shape and [cut] Hmm... For now the 'window' is calling 'in reference' to changing element - for elements near side of document this menu is hidding and scrolling is needed - I will try do it automatically ;) And also scrolling to actual choiced element type in that long list of types ;) > The table creator looks promising. Nice to read polish helptexts :-) It is a mistake, of course ;) Have someone a little time to writing texts in english ? ;) My knolwedge of English is a little poor, so sometimes I have a problems ;( > Nice overview of the commands. Is there a "copy to clipboard" > intended? Of course ;) > I hope you will further invest into this project. I hope so, too ;) I will try implement also setups for \setupTABLE (especially odd, even columns and rows), so the question is: is somewhere examples how use xml commands instead setupTABLE ? I would like make alternative choice to generating code - for bTABLE-eTABLE environment and <table>-</table> also. -- Best regards Martin

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Re: [NTG-context] Visual creators for ConTeXt
by ^Nitram^ 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

Hi, > (btw, do you use the xml alternative of the command reference?) I'm sorry - could you explain this question?... ;) Parameters for commands I get from manual - I had a short script in php which made a code in javascript - that is a cause of many errors in these 'creators'... But the code is preparing to making help on each parameter and each value, but where can I find so detailed description ;) I'm realy new user in ConTeXt - about 2 months (no experience in any TeX system before) so you must forgive my inexperience ;) -- Best regards Martin

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: texfont and type-tmf.dat
by George N. White III 15 Oct '03

15 Oct '03

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Nigel King wrote: > > Why do you whish to reinstall all the supplied fonts? Or do you just > > want to learn how to use texfont? > I simply wish to use the fonts as most others do (I think) and I am unable > to because of this bug. The normal context fonts do not exist on Gerben's > version. Before Gerben's reorganisation they were made by texfont, this now > does not work because of what I believe to be a simple (I do not understand > Perl otherwise I would have a go at fixing it) bug in texfont. Maybe I am > wrong but I am beginning to find this extremely frustrating (7 months). Once > I realised that somebody was working on texfont 1.8 I had hoped for a fix. On all the systems I use, (linux, SGI Irix, Win32 with texLive) you have to run texfont to generate tfm's, vf's and map files for fonts other than CM. The last time I tried to run texfont (from the final TeX Live 2003 inst iso), it tried to use a lower-cased version of the install path, e.g., /opt/texline instead of /opt/texLive. > If no developer/Perl expert has Gerbens version of tetex perhaps I could > help debug if a version was supplied to me that printed out the full path > that texfont was looking for files in. The --fontroot option or kpsewhich > lookup appears to be at fault but I have no debugging facilities. > > Any suggestions (other than giving up) gratefully received. You will have to learn a tiny bit of perl (which is easier than learning TeX). -- George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca>

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