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aligning table in middle of page using startalignment
by Mark A. Lilly 07 Apr '03

07 Apr '03

these don't seem to work. any thoughts? \startalignment[middle] \starttabulate[|l|p|] \NC First edition: \NC 3 June 2003 \NC \NR \NC Second impression, with corrections: \NC 2 July 2003 \NC \NR \stoptabulate \stopalignment neither does this: \startalignment[bottom] \midaligned{\tfx IP} \midaligned{\tfx Inkwell Press} \stopalignment \stopstandardmakeup thanks, mark

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delays in mail
by Hans Hagen 07 Apr '03

07 Apr '03

Hi, Last friday (two hours before i had to do a talk) my laptop crashed (win2k), so due to reinstallation there will be some delay in answering mails, 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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Inmargin command.
by John Culleton 06 Apr '03

06 Apr '03

The Context Mamual describes the margin block suite of commands as "under construction" (p. 235.) Have they in fact been improved and if so what additional usage notes if any are applicable? What version of Context has the improvements? John Culleton

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a common interface for pretty printing
by Guy Worthington 05 Apr '03

05 Apr '03

With the xtags-* pretty printing macros, I can't find a common interface for pretty printing. For instance, to typeset my XML code at a small size, and using a grayscale palet, I require three different setups depending on whether I'm using \showXMLbuffer, \typebuffer, or \startXML ... \stopXML. % override xtag-* pretty printing options \definepalet [xtag] [0=grayprettyone, 1=grayprettytwo, 2=grayprettythree, 3=grayprettyfour] \def\ShowXMLBuffer{\bgroup\tfx\showXMLbuffer\egroup} % local override of global verbatim typing \def\TypeXMLBuffer% {\bgroup \setuptyping[option=XML,palet=graypretty,style=\tfx]% \typebuffer \egroup} % global XML pretty printing \setuptyping [XML] [palet=graypretty,style=\tfx,indentnext=no] As you can see, although each is trivial to customize but they don't share a common interface with each other. Am I just missing the context-way of achieving the above pretty printing?

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Mixed page formats
by cohsb＠gmx.de 04 Apr '03

04 Apr '03

Hi all, I'm creating a usual document with the page format A4 portrait. But I have 2 special cases. a) Some tables and figures do not fit on a portrait page, but should be "landscaped" together with their caption. The page header and footer should remain in portrait format. So, we have a "mixed" page. b) Some pages with figures are printed on A3 landscape, the paper is folded afterwards to fit into the binding. Now: Is there a method to handle that with Context directly without manually creating PDFs and insert them in a second stage in the document? I'd really like to avoid that to get the numbering right. Again, many thanks in advance for your advice. Cheers, Chris. -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage!

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ConTeXt and expert fonts (redux)
by Adam Lindsay 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

Hi, all. I'm trying to come to terms with some expert fonts, and to map a strategy for dealing with them. Right now, I'm looking at the limits described by font-ini, and trying to see if I understand them correctly. Small caps are treated as a style of their own, which doesn't interact with \bf boldface the same way \it italic or \sl slanted do. With some of the pro fonts I'm starting to deal with (e.g., Cronos Pro or Minion Pro), there are small caps for each of \bf, \it, and \bi, as well as the normal \tf typeface. <http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/pdfs/1733.pdf> The existing model can be interpreted this way: | shape | weight|norm |slant|ital |caps | ------|-----|-----|-----|-----| norm| tf | sl | it | sc | bold| bf | bs | bi | | I'm not enthusiastic about the slanted shape in general, so I would draw another model, basically as a 2x2x2 cube, but rendered here in 2 slices: (lowercase) (smallcaps) | shape | | shape | weight|norm |ital | weight|norm |ital | ------|-----|-----| ------|-----|-----| norm| tf | it | norm| sc | ic | bold| bf | bi | bold| bc | bt | (who knows what the short name of the last cell should be?) I see this as being typographically more attractive than the dependence on \kap{} and similar commands (since the stroke weight stays much more consistent when you use the pre-defined, non-faked glyphs). So. How would I manage this? I guess I'm wondering if I'm going to get into trouble if I experiment with redefining \slfam, \ttfam, and \bsfam for my own nefarious purposes? Do other people see another way of handling things? Side issues, but related... In August 2002, Hans replied to Bruce D'Arcus: >>Why not in ConTeXt then? If one has a complete expert set of a font >>like Minion, shouldn't what I outlined above be the default behavior of >>a TeX macro system? Once TeX supports OpenType this will become all >>the more relevant... > >you can set up a lot, like fonts and conversions of numbers so it's possible, Am I right in guessing that I would find this in supp-num.tex now? It's interesting, and it definitely seems to be similar in spirit to the font- based switches for tabular (monospaced) vs. proportional figures that are enabled by these pro fonts. I haven't studied this in detail (texexec -- module completely fails on this one), but can it include font switching? Would that be the appropriate approach? Any thoughts? adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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odd behavior (i think) on part in table of contents
by Mark A. Lilly 03 Apr '03

03 Apr '03

hi Again, Thanks in advance for the help here. I have the following: \setuphead[part] [incrementnumber=yes] \setuplist [part] [alternative=f, aligntitle=no, width=0em, margin=0em, before=\blank, after=\blank, style=bold] \definecombinedlist [contentList] [part,chapter,section,subsection,subsubsection] [level=subsection, criterium=local] \setupcombinedlist [contentList] [partnumber=no] When i place this list (the table of contents), i get the Part to show up in the ToC, but it's weird looking. First, it is resetting the Chapter numbering at each new Part. If i set incrementnumber=no, then the Part doesn't show up at all in the ToC. Also, when the Part shows up in the ToC [when i set incrementnumber=no], each subsequent Part is indented the margin of the previous one (plus resetting the chapter numbering). Any thoughts? Thanks, mark

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header/footer suppression
by Guy Worthington 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

I can't get both a blank page inserted whenever a chapter finishes on an odd page and also suppress my header on the first page of a chapter. Here's my minimal example: ----- % output=pdftex \starttext \setuphead [chapter] [before={\page\ifodd\realpageno\else\page[empty]\fi\page[right]}, header=empty] \setupheadertexts [chapter] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, option=doublesided] \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {test} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \stoptext -----

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Re: [OS X TeX] Context texfont disaster with i-Installer 2.15.0
by Hans Hagen 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

Hi Gerben, strange. let's see if there is a mac user on the context list who knows why ... Hans >On Monday, Mar 24, 2003, at 21:40 Europe/Amsterdam, Hans Hagen wrote: > >>At 02:26 AM 3/20/2003 +0100, Gerben Wierda wrote: >>>On Thursday, Mar 20, 2003, at 00:54 Europe/Amsterdam, Nigel King wrote: >>> >>>>Gerben, >>>>It would be really nice to run the commands >>>>texfont --encoding=texnansi --batch type-tmf.dat >>>>texfont --encoding=8r --batch type-tmf.dat >>>>texfont --encoding=ec --batch type-tmf.dat >>>>As part of the installation if context is being enabled since this is >>>>rather >>>>an important precursor to use. >> >>when done, >> >> kpsewhich texnansi-uplr8a >> >>should report a path > >The commands above fail: > >>[dumbledore:~/tmp] root# texfont --encoding=texnansi --batch type-tmf.dat >> >> TeXFont 1.6 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2002 >> >> trying to locate : type-tmf.dat >> processing aborted : unknown batch file >> >> --help : show some more info > >Any reason? The file is available: > >/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/context/data/type-tmf.dat > >G > >================================================================ >Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd >op virussen. >Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst >waar op wordt gecontroleerd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Euler math again (virtually)
by Adam Lindsay 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

Hi all. I was wondering if anyone else was interested in the Euler math font. I was a bit frustrated in its incomplete coverage of certain symbols (e.g. delimiters, radicals), but then I discovered the Virtual Euler Math fonts/eulervm for LaTeX. It yields a set of virtual fonts (zeu*.vf) that make the glyph set look a lot like the default computer-modern math fonts. <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ eulervm.html?action=/tex-archive/fonts/> I've come up with a math collection (math-zeu) and a combined typescript file (type-zeu) that seem to give good enough results. Does anyone do enough math typesetting to want to test "zeuler" out? I've gotten good enough results this evening, but I don't have a lot of sophisticated formulae lying around to do a full test. Does anyone have some semi- demanding (non-AMS-territory) math for me to try? Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)1524 594 537 atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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floats
by kopszak＠mnw.art.pl 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hello, I am having problems with defining my own textfloats. Would anyone be so kind and post a working example how one can change floats characteristics, e.g. width or height? Thanks Piotr -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -----------------------------> http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/

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Re: bugs (remailed)
by Hans Hagen 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

At 10:33 AM 3/31/2003 +0200, you wrote: >This was originally posted to ntg-context. I'm attaching the >C++ pretty typing environment and an example of bugs. > >I'm typesetting an algorithms course in C++ and I came around to few bugs >and personal wishes :) > >1. I've "written" a verb-cpp.tex which knows C++ keywords. However, as you'll > see from the attached example, it needs a few fixes: > - the missing word if it ends with & (the bar& x argument) > - & coloured in green alongside y (it should be grey since it's an > operator) > - &, +=, -=, *=, /=, %=, >>=, <<=, ->*, .* should be coloured like > operators > and must be considered as single tokens > - I'd like the whole comment in a single color (not red start/end and > black text). dark green would be ideal :) > >Since I know nothing about verbatim mechanism (I just took java environment >and stuffed it with C++ keywords) how hard would it be to make those changes? >I put '\input verb-cpp' into verb-ini.tex to make it work in my local >installation. \installprettytype [CPP] [CPP] \definetyping [CPP][option=CPP] >2. As you can see from the example, I want to typeset text next to code. > However, the footnotes within are not working. (context ver. 2002.10.23) > >3. Multi-column paragraphs are not automatically broken across pages. If > the paragraph doesn't fit on the current page, it will be moved to the > next page leaving an ugly empty box at the bottom of the previous page. > How can I achieve an effect similar to the attached example, but that will > automatically break across pages not leaving empty boxes at the bottom? \appendtoks\optimizeverbatimfalse\to\everytabulate \definetabulate [CodeExample] [|p|p|] \definebuffer[Snippet] \startSnippet \startCPP void f(bar& x, bar &y, struct foo *z) { x += z->y; x.*ptr(); z->*ptr(); /* comment */ y = 3; y += x; } \stopCPP \stopSnippet \startCodeExample \NC This is an example\footnote{of non-working} footnote. \NC \typebuffer[Snippet] \NC \NR \stopCodeExample >4. Some time ago I reported \pseudoencodedDJ macros not working in itemize > environment and you posted a fix to the list. Did you integrate the > fix in the latest release? think so, but probably changed a bit; this is what i have now \def\pseudoencodeddj % like in babel, but safer {\leavevmode\hbox\bgroup \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{d}% \scratchdimen\ht\scratchbox \advance\scratchdimen 1ex \scratchdimen.45\scratchdimen \dimen2\expandafter\withoutpt\the\fontdimen1\font\dimen0 \advance\dimen2 .5ex \hbox to \wd\scratchbox {\box\scratchbox\hss \raise\scratchdimen\hbox{\kern\dimen2\vbox{\hrule\!!height0.1ex\!!width0.3em}}}% \egroup} \def\pseudoencodedDJ % like in babel, but safer {\leavevmode \hbox\bgroup \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{D}% \scratchdimen.55\ht\scratchbox \dimen2\expandafter\withoutpt\the\fontdimen1\font\scratchdimen \advance\dimen2 .15ex \advance\dimen2 -.15\fontdimen7\font \hbox to \wd\scratchbox {\box\scratchbox\hss \raise\scratchdimen\hbox{\kern\dimen2\vbox{\hrule\!!height0.1ex\!!width0.3em}}}% \egroup} 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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Strange \placeformula
by Michal Kvasnicka 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Good morning! I' have probably made a strange bug in my document layout. In adfadfasdfasdf \placeformula[eq:one] $$a=b,$$\noindentation adfasdfadsf the \placeformula macro doesn't produce a formula number -- the formula has no number and \in{equation}[eq:one] doesn't work as well. Sometimes there is also no space before the formula and after it. Extremely strange is that asdfasdfasdf \placeformula[eq:one] \startformula a=b \stopformula\noindentation adsfasdfasdf works well. The bug is definitely in my macros for document layout since another document works well. Can some of you hint where to find the bug? I'm nearly desperate. Well, I didn't redefined $ nor changed its catcode (at least not voluntaryly). Many thanks for any hint. With many greetings Michal Kvasnicka

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Arranging problem / texexec--arrange
by Willi Egger 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi Hans, While trying the possibilities to arrange pages I detected, that using the predefined European standardsizes of the pagesize and the sheets arranging works well. However if I try to use a custom size paper on a standard sized sheet, then I see, that the different pages do not seem to be positioned correctly. When using the option --arrange with texexec, Context halts after loading the basics. You can show this problem with the testfile I attach to this mail. Would you be so kind to have a look at this. I need to prepare a booklet, where I have to use a custom size pagesize. For the demonstration of the problems I attach a test file. Kind regards Willi

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funny letters in (type)buffer
by Patrick Gundlach 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Good evening, \enableregime [il1] \starttext \startbuffer funny letters: Ä ü ß \stopbuffer \typebuffer \stoptext gives me in test-test.tmp buffer: funny letters: ^^c4 ^^fc ^^df and this is also typeset like above. Is it possible to get the real letters back without manually editing the written buffer? Patrick

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puzzled
by Marko Schuetz 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

I'm trying to put a right brace to the right of a framed box and thought I could do this: \starttext $\left. \framed[width=7cm,align=right,height=fit]{ something here \hairline \vphantom{something here} \hairline \vphantom{something here} } \right\} \text{entries for something}$ \stoptext but the brace is almost exactly twice as tall as the framed box. All help is appreciated! Thanks Marko

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Texfont on i-Installer for Mac OSX
by Nigel King 29 Mar '03

29 Mar '03

Guys, Gerben Wierda has done an excellent job producing i-Installer for the Mac OSX which works with LaTeX etc very well. It is clear that many people are being introduced to TeX on the Mac now using this installer. Unfortunately there appears to be one problem with ConTeXt which is texfont. The tetex structure that Gerben has chosen is for the main fonts to be in /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts Texfont will not recognise this location and the fonts in it and I suspect it is because of the full stop in texmf.tetex Evidence for this is in the following Running the single command texfont --en=8r --ve=urw --co=courier --so=auto Should work but returns processing aborted : unknown tex root /sw/share/texmf/ Clearly texroot is set incorrectly so forcing that texfont --en=8r --ve=urw --co=courier --so=auto --fontroot=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/ Should work but returns processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/courier And yet /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/afm/urw/courier/ucrb8a.afm Exists Are there any other possible reasons for this problem I have had some success now with fonts using adobekb.tex but the situation is not wholly satisfactory and I think I would really like texfont to work. -- Nigel

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Two line head
by Nagy Bence 29 Mar '03

29 Mar '03

Hi all, I want to make a twoline header in a framed box: \setupheads[sectionnumber=no] \define[1]\Sectioncommand{\framed[frame=off,bottomframe=on]{#1}} \definehead[Section][section] \setuphead[Section][textcommand=\Sectioncommand] \Section{first line\crlf second line} I want to get something of the kind first line second line ------------- but my result is first linesecond line ----------------------- The contents seems to be good, the two lines appear. Greetings Bence

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hyphenation in \type{....}?
by Patrick Gundlach 28 Mar '03

28 Mar '03

Dear ConTeXt hackers, I am a bit confused: as stated in the manual, \type{...} does not hyphenate (in contrast to \typ{...}), but in the following example, it does: \enableregime [il1] \starttext ist zwar nur einem ist zwar nur einem \type{averylongword averylongword averylongword averylongword} \stoptext How do I get garanteed-non-hypenated-typing? Patrick

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Fwd: Re[4]: [NTG-context] MetaPost/Fun question
by Hans Hagen 28 Mar '03

28 Mar '03

Hi, Here is some comment on GB's intersection problem/solution from the polish mp expert Boguslaw Jackowski (those who will be in bremen next week can meet this personality). Hans > >EHL> I implemented it by finding some intersectiontime and the recursively > >EHL> finding the intersectionstimes of the two subpaths (each with some > >EHL> neighbourhood of the first intersection point cut off). For the time > >EHL> being I cannot find my code, but here it is in pseude code. > > > >EHL> When done this way, the intersection times will be sorted according to > >EHL> the first path. > >Frankly speaking, such a procedure should belong to plain from the very >beginning... Obviously, we added it in our plain_ex that we use for >generating fonts (even more -- we find also common outlines). > >Attached you'll find the relevant excerpt plus examples. > >Incidentally, recursion seem still banned from the MF/MP realm. I complained >about it some time ago, but it seems that nobody but me is hurted by this >annoyin situation. Attached you'll find an example: 31-element series >(in a reversed order) break down w2c mpost... > >And finally, let me quote the post from Larry Siebenmann (from 30 Jun 2000): > > > I believe that value (-1,-1) for "intersectiontimes" is a > > 100% ironclad guarantee that its two path arguments are > > disjoint. > > > > Is the converse true? That is, if "intersectiontimes" > > yields positive times, do the two paths necessarily > > intersect? NO! In writing the last post, I confirmed to my > > satisfaction that MP and MF report positive intersection > > times for paths that only come near. Start by looking > > at the following -- in which one of the paths is constant. > > > > path c; > > pair v,w; > > c:=fullcircle scaled 2; > > v:=(1+19epsilon,0) rotated 33.1234567; > > w:=(1-15epsilon,0) rotated 33.1234567; > > show (v intersectiontimes c); > > show (w intersectiontimes c); > > v:=(1+20epsilon,0) rotated 33.1234567; > > w:=(1-16epsilon,0) rotated 33.1234567; > > show (v intersectiontimes c); > > show (w intersectiontimes c); > > > > end > > > > The log: > > > > This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 > > **&Plain filetest.mp > > (filetest.mp > > >> (0.47754,0.73682) > > >> (0.96869,0.7373) > > >> (-1,-1) > > >> (-1,-1) ) > > > > Thus "intersectionpoint" may return a point when the paths > > are disjoint. It is guaranteed only to return a point of > > close approach. Close approach algorithms are complicated > > when efficient. But they are trivial in principle and enjoy > > incredible generality:- indeed, since we have explicit > > bounds modulus of continuity, it suffices to measure image > > distances on a finite but fine net of points in source. > > > > Question: Is there an *if-and-only-if* test for b'ezier > > curve intersection? > > > > The answer is yes for linear segments, though in some, but > > not all, cases one needs exact rational arithmetic. So > > think of working in C. > >I think you have now more comments than enough ;-) > >Cheers -- Jacko > >-- >BOP s. c. >ul. Bora-Komorowskiego 24, 80-377 Gdansk, Poland >tel. (+48 58) 553 46 59, fax (+48 58) 511 03 81 >bop(a)bop.com.pl, http://www.bop.com.pl > >================================================================ >Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd >op virussen. >Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst >waar op wordt gecontroleerd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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color band
by Idris S Hamid 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

Dear syndicate, For a book cover I want a green-colored rectangular band, centered, at the very top of the page, with text in some other color (to be determined) overlapping the band. The band is small, just, say, 2cm high and 12 cm wide. Since it's at the top it is surrounded by white on only three sides. I'm not even sure where to get started here (I don't think the LaTeX Graphics Companion will be much help:->) Here is part of my present layout. I'll have to put this band in the topspace and increase it, I presume: \definepapersize[journal][width=5.5in, height=8.5in] \setuppapersize[journal][letter] \setuplayout[width=middle, | height=19cm, | footer=0cm, | header=0cm, | topspace=28pt, | location={middle,doublesided}, | marking=on] I hope the solution is Plain-compatible since I may have to use Gamma for some Arabic insertions. Otherwise I'll have to eps those insertions. Thnx in advance Idris

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Paragraph setup
by kopszak＠mnw.art.pl 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

Hello, I was trying, without convincing results, to define a float containing a text block which would be typeset in the top right corner of a page and would have specified width. Also if there would happen another float like this on the page it should be typeset below the first one and the text should flow around both of them. Is there any simple way to do that? Thanks in advance. Piotr -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -----------------------------> http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/

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textbackgrounds
by Patrick Gundlach 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

Dear ConTeXt users, i have a question about textbackgrounds. Is there a) something like \setuptextbackground[all][frame=on,...] that sets frame=on for all the textbackgrounds out there? Or better: b) is there any way to inherit parameters? \definetextbackground[A][frame=off] \definetextbackground[B][A] so that B also has frame=off set? Patrick

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textbackground again...
by Patrick Gundlach 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

Hi there, why is frame=on and the offset ignored? (Why do I need ... enlarged in MPgrahic?) \mainlanguage[de] \setupcolors[state=start] \startuseMPgraphic{mpos:par:columnset:shade} for i := 1 upto nofmultipars : linear_shade(multipars[i] enlarged 5pt cornered 20pt,1, \MPcolor{middlegreen},\MPcolor{lightgreen}); endfor ; \stopuseMPgraphic \definetextbackground[info] [backgroundoffset=5pt, location=paragraph, frame=on, mp=mpos:par:columnset:shade, ] \starttext \starttextbackground[info] Stolz auf diesen Sieg flog die M\"ucke davon, um ihn aller Welt auszuposaunen, \"ubersah aber das Gewebe einer Spinne und verfing sich in demselben. Gierig umarmte die Spinne sie und sog ihr das Heldenblut aus. Sterbend empfand die M\"ucke ihre Nichtigkeit, indem sie, die Besiegerin des L\"owen, einem so ver\"achtlichen Tiere, einer Spinne, erliegen mu\SS te. \stoptextbackground \stoptext Patrick

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A change in textext Metafun maco?
by Michal Kvasnicka 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

Good noon. I have updated to the new ConTeXt and some of my documents failed to work. I use the FunnyFrame example from the Metafun manual. With the old ConTeXt all worked well. Now I can see in the title of a frame just "unknown". I played a little with the mpgraph.mp and I suspect the macro textext not to work well. Or in the same way as before. Where can be a bug? (Well, I updated only TeX, Metapost, and Perl part of ConTeXt and generated formats -- I didn't updated the ConTeXt stuff for plain or for LaTeX). Can you help me? Many thanks. Michal Kvasnicka

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suppressing header on first page of chapter
by Mark A. Lilly 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

greetings, i have setup a head for my chapters, and i would like to suppress the Chapter and Section text from being printed on the first page of each chapter. I have setup the header text like so. \setupheadertexts [text] [chapter] [section] is there a command to add to the \setuphead to make the chapter and section titles not print on the first page of the chapter (head)? thanks, mark

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Context, MacOS, accents
by Jean-Pierre Le Narzul 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Hi, I'm using ConTeXt on my iMac (teTeX distribution through I-installer program) Everything seems OK except for inputing accentuated characters ... If I type \'a I got the correct character (accentuated a) but if I type directly the accentuated character from the keyboard, I got no result .... I start my document with \useregime[mac] (or \enableregime[mac]) but it does not change anything .... Any idea ? (sorry if it's a Faq but I didn't find any solution in reading the mailing list archive ....) thanks in advance jp

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Re: modules again
by Hans Hagen 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

At 10:44 AM 3/26/2003 +0100, you wrote: >Hello Hans, > >is it right that the modules filenames are limited to 8+3 chars? So > >12345678 >t-cdcover.tex > >is not found but > >12345678 >t-cdcove.tex > >is? indeed, but you can map longerones (see cont-fil.tex) 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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local environments
by Matthew Huggett 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Hi: I have a project with a few different types of documents, so I want to set up a few local environments in the same global environment file. Is the following a legitimate environment file? \startenvironment Layout ... some global settings ... \startlocalenvironment[Alternative] ... some local settings ... \stoplocalenvironment \stopenvironment If it is legitimate, how do I specify that a document use the global settings with specific settings from the local environment. I tried \environment Layout \localenvironment Alternative but any macros defined in the local environment are reported as undefined. Thanks, Matt

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Problem with letter landscape
by Erik George Hetzner 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

Hello, I have been trying to typeset on landscape oriented 8.5x11 size paper. However, pdftex keeps giving me the wrong size paper (11 x 11.69, according to Acrobat). If I run regular TeX, then dvips, then ps2pdf, I get the right size. I apologize if this is strictly a problem with pdftex, but I believe that somewhere it is perhaps a problem with Context. Here is a sample input: \setuppapersize[letter,landscape] \starttext \input zapf \stoptext Thanks for any help anybody can provide. -Erik Hetzner Here is one log: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) (format=cont-en 2003.3.1) 25 MAR 2003 11:03 entering extended mode **&cont-en test.tex (./test.tex{/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cf g} ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2003.3.1 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! system (E-TEX) : [line 726] \ifcsname ) system : cont-old loaded (/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-2 3:2-uk-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2 7:2-it-2 8:2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded \openout2 = `test.tui'. system : test.top loaded (./test.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 1815] \ifcsname <unprotect 5> <protect 5> <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mprun.mp'. \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mprun.mp'. pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) systems : begin file test at line 2 (/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/tex/context/sample/zapf.tex) [1.1{/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map}] systems : end file test at line 4 ) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 742 strings out of 68091 11373 string characters out of 742447 4404762 words of memory out of 5520649 30475 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 10284 words of font info for 34 fonts, out of 500000 for 1000 62 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000 44i,16n,47p,200b,246s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,200000b,5000s 7 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 131072 0 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536 {/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/dvips/tetex/f7b6d320.enc}</opt/l ocal/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr12.pfb> Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 10514 bytes). ---and here is another log from the beta Context: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20011114-ojmw-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7) (format=cont-en 2003.3.19) 25 MAR 2003 11:22 entering extended mode **&cont-en test.tex (./test.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.3.17 fmt: 2003.3.19 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-2 3:2-uk-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 7:2-it-2 8:2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded \openout2 = `test.tui'. system : test.top loaded (./test.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 1815] \ifcsname <unprotect 5> <protect 5> <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mprun.mp'. \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mprun.mp'. pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) systems : begin file test at line 2 (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/sample/zapf.tex) [1.1{/usr/share/texmf/dvip s/config/pdftex.map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/maps/aachen.map}{/usr/local/s hare/texmf/dvips/maps/freestyle-script.map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/maps/r evue.map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/maps/university.map}{/usr/local/share/te xmf/dvips/maps/adobe-caslon.map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/maps/adobe-garamo nd.map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/maps/adobe-jenson-mm.map}{/usr/local/share /texmf/dvips/maps/adobe-wood-type.map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/maps/aldus. map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/maps/americana.map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dv ips/maps/amigo.map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/maps/andreas.map ... Cut out a bunch of errors because I have bad map fils ... systems : end file test at line 4 ) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 1183 strings out of 22865 17555 string characters out of 248340 408430 words of memory out of 1500001 30686 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+40000 10284 words of font info for 34 fonts, out of 400000 for 1000 62 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000 45i,16n,49p,200b,246s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,1500p,50000b,5000s </usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr12.pfb> Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 9944 bytes).

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Re: [NTG-context] Using MetaPost graphics in ConTeXt
by Hans Hagen 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

At 08:16 PM 3/24/2003 +0100, you wrote: >The macro \calculateexternalfigure seems to set the extension to empty >if the figure file name is the same as the jobname: > > % redo message, only filename > \doifparentfileelse\@@effilename > {\@EA\removefromcommalist\@EA{\jobsuffix}\figuretypes > \let\@@efextension\empty > \showmessage\m!figures9\@@effilename > \donefalse} > \donothing > >(core-fig.tex) > >Therefore it does not search for your nonstandard extension. the search for graphics is kind of fuzzy and dates from the time that we were still using dvi (different backends) - without suffix: try the best quality (depends on spec driver support) - with suffix: try that first, else locate alternative - same as parent file: try to avoid circular loading (keep in mind that tex code can be a graphic, i.e. buffers can be scaled) - all these are combined with a search over several paths, utilityfile, etc also, most of this is overloaded when using figure databases -) 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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Using MetaPost graphics in ConTeXt
by Giuseppe Bilotta 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

Hello, I'm trying to use some MetaPost-generated graphics with ConTeXt, but I seem to be unable to do so. I have a file test.1 in the same directory as the ConTeXt source, which is as minimal as: \starttext \input tufte \placefigure[left] {Esempio di settore circolare} {\externalfigure[test.1]} \input knuth \stoptext but it seems like it can't find the file test (no extension); I tried adding options [type=mps] or [method=mps] or both, but each fails with a different error: either it looks for test.mps or it looks for test.unknown ... What should I do (apart renaming the figure file)? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Re: Re[3]: [NTG-context] Using MetaPost graphics in ConTeXt
by Hans Hagen 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

At 10:07 PM 3/24/2003 -0500, Gary Pajer wrote: >I've tried to resist, but I have to ask. Why not write a simple batch file >that runs MetaPost *and* changes the extension? That's what I do. ... Are >you processing several MP scripts in one file ?? Remembering that i did look into it long ago, i took a look in the core-fig file; now, if you really want this kind of support, open core-fig.tex and search for: % new, test first uncomment the doifnumberelse lines and you'll have the support needed (a new format needs to be generated) 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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Q:Font ... not found
by Marko Schuetz 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

Running `texexec --pdf Skript.tex` I get a couple of warnings like the one below Warning: pdfetex (file eccc1000): Font eccc1000 at 720 not found and the file uses some replacement fonts that look unbearably ugly. How can I fix this? Thanks for your help. Marko

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context + MacOS + accents
by Jean-Pierre Le Narzul 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

Hi, I'm using ConTeXt on my iMac (teTeX distribution through I-installer program) Everything seems OK except for inputing accentuated characters ... If I type \'a I got the correct character (accentuated a) but if I type directly the accentuated character from the keyboard, I got no result .... I start my document with \useregime[mac] (or \enableregime[mac]) but it does not change anything .... Any idea ? thanks in advance jp

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Backgrounds
by Giuseppe Bilotta 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

Hello, I would like to discuss a few points about backgrounds (\startbackground ... \stopbackground). First of all, it would be nice to have "background classes", so that I can have different backgrounds for different things without having to reset it each time. (Think \definebackground[this][options=values], \setupthis, \startthis ... \stopthis, as usual.) The second point is about the splitting capabilities in backgrounds. This is incredibly nice to have, but needs a little finetuning, IMO: it should be possible to specify whether the various options that concern the "border" of the background (i.e. background corner, frame, frame corner, etc) should act at split time or not; example: assume that I set my background to have a frame (frame=on) If the background gets split across pages, I get two "boxed" text: the first in the first page, the second in the second page. Instead, to show that the block continues on the next page, it should be possible to turn this off. I suggest options like: splitframe, splitframecorner, splitbackgoundcorner analogous to topframe/bottomframe and the like, which defines the behaviour of frames and angles in the "split area". Moreover (now I'm getting picky, but while we're at it ...) it would be nice, even for generic framed text, to be able to specify the behaviour of each single corner separately (say, top left and top right rounded, bottom left and right rectangular). -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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MetaPost/Fun question
by Giuseppe Bilotta 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

Hello, I would like to know if it is possible in MetaPost (in particular MetaFun) to get all the possible intersection points of the paths, with some kind of simple command, with a syntax like, say: A[] := path1 intersections path2 (where the resulting list could be either a list of points or a list of time pairs, like for intersectiontimes). Another possible syntax could be path3 := path1 intersections path2 which would give a path for which times 0, 1, 2, 3, ... give the first, second, third, fourth, ... intersection point. Anything like this? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Alignment of graphs/metafun
by Maarten Sneep 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

Hello Context, I (intend to) use metapost/metafun and m-graph to make my graphs. The graph module of metapost puts the origin at the left-bottom of the graph area, and the tick-marks and axis-labels are at negative positions (i.e. to the left or to the bottom of the zero line). This is nice, and I'd like to use this. I'd like to achieve the following effect: The graph-area is left-aligned with the text (has the width of the text-column), while the tick-marks and vertical axis label stick into the (left) margin. Furthermore (but possibly even harder) I'd like the tick-marks (at least the unrotated ones...) to be aligned with the grid I'm using. I can change the height of the graphs to match the grid nicely, but do you have any clues where to start? The problem I have is that the amount to overlap into the left margin is highly variable. The vertical alignment is possibly even trickier. Kind regards, Maarten Sneep

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: setuphead(s), subject, alternative=inmargin
by Mathias Picker 23 Mar '03

23 Mar '03

Hi Patrick, Zitat von Patrick Gundlach <pg(a)levana.de>: > Mathias.Picker(a)virtual-earth.de writes: > > > Is this supposed to work?? > > It is working. What do you mean by this? It is putting the number of > the head in the margin. :-) Yes, but subject has no number... I want to put the subject (text!) across margin and text. I don't know if that is even possible..... It should look somewhat like the latex refart classes, e.g. margin|text My Subject header here with more and more text And the text here (more and more text) > > > How do I put a subject in the margin, > > [snipped example] > > Probably Hans comes up with some magic, but this might work as well. [snip] Hopefully :-) Thanks, Mathias ----- Ende der weitergeleiteten Nachricht -----

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some bugs and C++ typing
by Zeljko Vrba 23 Mar '03

23 Mar '03

Hi Hans! I'm typesetting an algorithms course in C++ and I came around to few bugs and personal wishes :) 1. I've "written" a verb-cpp.tex which knows C++ keywords. However, as you'll see from the attached example, it needs a few fixes: - the missing word if it ends with & (the bar& x argument) - & coloured in green alongside y (it should be grey since it's an operator) - &, +=, -=, *=, /=, %=, >>=, <<=, ->*, .* should be coloured like operators and must be considered as single tokens - I'd like the whole comment in a single color (not red start/end and black text). dark green would be ideal :) Since I know nothing about verbatim mechanism (I just took java environment and stuffed it with C++ keywords) how hard would it be to make those changes? I put '\input verb-cpp' into verb-ini.tex to make it work in my local installation. 2. As you can see from the example, I want to typeset text next to code. However, the footnotes within are not working. (context ver. 2002.10.23) 3. Multi-column paragraphs are not automatically broken across pages. If the paragraph doesn't fit on the current page, it will be moved to the next page leaving an ugly empty box at the bottom of the previous page. How can I achieve an effect similar to the attached example, but that will automatically break across pages not leaving empty boxes at the bottom? 4. Some time ago I reported \pseudoencodedDJ macros not working in itemize environment and you posted a fix to the list. Did you integrate the fix in the latest release? Thanks for your time!

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references and mis-ordering
by Adam Lindsay 23 Mar '03

23 Mar '03

hi folks. I'm still in the process of debugging this (so details and a minimal example aren't ready yet), but I'm wondering if anyone knows of circumstances that would cause table and figure numbers to be out-of- order and swapped. For example, the numbers from my \placelistoftables run in this order: 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.5 8.9 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.10 *** **** While \placelistoffigures gives 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.5 8.8 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 8.13 *** **** This is disturbing and hard to debug. The person whose thesis this is didn't make it easy, with very long and minimally different identifiers. I've tried purging the directory, including making sure the .tuo file is completely rebuilt. I've tried changing reference names, and it *has* had an effect on the order, but it hasn't fixed it yet. I'm trying to avoid panic, but the doctoral thesis where we're running into this needs to be bound on thursday. :) thanks for any hints, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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db2context package - beta release
by Gour 22 Mar '03

22 Mar '03

Dear ConTeXt users, I'm happy to be able to announce first beta release of db2context package. What is db2context? Db2context package transforms your SGML/XML DocBook documents to DVI, PostScript or PDF by translating them in ConTeXt as a first process using XSLT processor. Unlike DocBookInConteXt package which transform DocBook source document on-the-fly, db2context packages uses XSLT as a transformation language to convert DocBook source document into ConTeXt document which can be further customized using all the available ConTeXt commands. You can download the first beta release from the Sourceforge. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dblatex) The author of the package is Nicolas Marsgui (marsgui(a)users.sourceforge.net) but since he is not subscribed to the ConTeXt mailing list you can also post your feedback and/or wishes to my email address. Eagerly awaiting your feedback in order to improve db2context. Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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table page breaking
by Michael Wiedmann 22 Mar '03

22 Mar '03

Is there support for automati<c page breaking for long tables in current ConTeXt (ver: 2003.3.4)? Simon and I noticed that long tables don't break automatically to the next page but nstead are simply cut at the end of the 'first' page. Michael -- mw(a)miwie.in-berlin.de http://www.miwie.org mw(a)miwie.org

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values relative to \textwidth etc.
by Matthew Huggett 22 Mar '03

22 Mar '03

Hi: Is it possible to specify a value relative to a variable like \textwidth or \pageheight etc. For example, is there a way to get 1/3 of \textwidth? thanks Matthew

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Displayed material, again
by Giuseppe Bilotta 22 Mar '03

22 Mar '03

Hello list, I wish to bring the discussion again on displayed material. Display material is material that conceptually belongs to a paragraphs but typographically breaks it. After the display, the paragraph can continue or not. In ConTeXt, there are many things which should be considered displayed material: formulas, enumerations and other itemgroups, quotations, etc. Every start/stop pair that begins a new paragraph should actually be a displayed area. In ConTeXt, one can achieve such result by using [intentnext=yes] or [indentnext=no] on a case-by-case basis, depending on whether the start/stop pair is supposed to start a new paragraph or not. Of course, this "manual" way to do the thing goes against the general principle that the computer is supposed to do as much of the job as possible, by itself. I therefore wish to urge Hans to implement a new indentnext option, "auto", which should give a behaviour similar to the one shown on this example: === BEGIN displayed.tex === \setupindenting[medium] \definestartstop[display][before=\initdisplay,after=\terminatedisplay,style=italic] \def\initdisplay{\ifvmode\else\endgraf\noindent\fi \bgroup\advance\leftskip2\parindent\advance\rightskip2\parindent\ignorespaces} \def\terminatedisplay{\par\egroup\afterassignment\checkifpar\let\ispar=} \def\checkifpar{\ifx\ispar\par\else\noindent\expandafter\ispar\fi} \starttext The purpouse of this document is to practically show how display material should behave: display material is material that conceptually belongs to a paragraphs but typographically breaks it After the display, the paragraph can continue or not. We now quote Knuth: \startdisplay \input knuth \stopdisplay and continue the paragraph right after. The following quote will instead end the paragraph: \startdisplay \input tufte \stopdisplay This text belongs to a different paragraph: note that it's being indented (differently from the previous snippet). This paragraph has no quotations. Instead, the next paragraph will start with a quotation (display material at the beginning of the paragraph) and have some text after~it. \startdisplay \input knuth \stopdisplay is again a quote from Knuth. Observe that this way the source obeys the \TeX\ convention of empy lines to terminate paragraphs, and that it is not necessary to manually specify the intentnext option for the single cases. \stoptext === END displayed.tex === The paragraph-wise behaviour of \initdisplay and \terminatedisplay+\checkifpar (i.e. excluding the left-/rightskip adaptments, which have only a visual purpouse) should be the behaviour in case indentnext=auto. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Different margins
by Nagy Bence 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

Hi all, is it possible to give a different layout (different margins) for a small part of a page or pages (like a negative narrower)? I should set texts in narrow columns and pictures in wide columns on the same page. Greetings, Bence Nagy

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Re: mathpple-a-like for ConTeXt?
by Patrick Gundlach 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

Magnus Lie Hetland <magnus(a)hetland.org> writes: Hello, > Can the tfm file be generated from these using texfont, or is uplr8t > something completely different from uplr8a (as might seem to be the > case)? In that case, is the uplr8t files (and related files) available > somewhere? you can use an alternative to the berry typescript. Get adobekb.tex from http://levana.de/context and use \setupencoding[default=8r] \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] \usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[palatino] There is no need to install new fonts. HTH, Patrick PS: let us move this discussion to the context mailinglist, since it is not pdftex related

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PDF bookmark
by Guo Yang 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

Hi, all Excuse me if this is well known, but I couldn't find on the manual. I have several questions: 1. How to add an entry to the PDF bookmark? I tried placebookmarks[title,chapter,section] but it doesn't work. 2. How to add an entry in the list of contents if I use subject instead of section, and how to add this in the bookmark. I tried define a new list and changed the content compinedlist but nothing happened . 2. How to add a pair of '[' ']' around the number of footnotes? Thanks, Guo

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setuphead(s), subject, alternative=inmargin
by Mathias.Picker＠virtual-earth.de 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

Is this supposed to work?? I'm using ver: 2003.1.31 and try to do the following, right out of the handbook: \setupheads[alternative=inmargin] \subject{Some Text} and expected the subject to start in the margin. It does not, and I found out that this seems to work only for numbered heads like section et al. How do I put a subject in the margin, possibly while using a command to make it white on black (I can do that, only it's not in the margin....) Thanks for any help Mathias -- virtual earth Mathias Picker Geschäftsführer Gesellschaft für Wissens re/prä sentation mbH Mathias.Picker(a)virtual-earth.de Fon +49 89 / 540 7425-1 Fax +49 89 / 540 7425-9

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alternative setting of comments
by Adam Lindsay 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

I was wondering if anyone who works with the verbatim environments has tried to set comments in a different style. It would be ideal to be able to set comments in \tf text font or some variant. I'm not really interested in colors at the moment. The immediate need is for working with a Pascal-like language, but I've been a bit baffled as to how to grab and process XML comments also (though I haven't look at that recently). Thanks in advance for any hints, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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