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mathvariant bold NOT bold-italic
by Steffen Wolfrum 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

Hi, as far as I have understood MathML, elements tagged with mathvariant=bold should be set upright bold, not bold-italic. Could this be corrected, please? Thank you very much! Steffen ------- \usemodule[mathml] \starttext \placeformula\startformula[9pt] \setbuffer <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <msup xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mrow> <mi mathvariant="bold">p</mi> </mrow> <mrow> <mi mathvariant="bold">T</mi> </mrow> </msup> </mml:math>\endbuffer{\processxmlbuffer} \stopformula

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Learning ConTeXt from the Ground Up
by Malte Stien 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

Hello Everyone, I have been using ConTeXt for over a year now and worked out how to do most things I need to do. Every now and then, though, I need to do something that I cannot find any information about and in most cases I post a question here on the forum. I have received great help here over the months and like to thank everyone who took the time to answer my questions. The other day, however, I had a problem, posted a message here, got an answer and the answer did not quite work; I went back to the forum, got more help... In the process I realised that I should have been able to work this out myself; I was not even able to tweak the first answer and make it work. I am an IT engineer myself, but with little time (I guess I am not unique here) and even less experience in TeX. I guess what I am saying is, that I would like to gain a much deeper understanding of ConTeXt which will allow me to "program" in ConTeXt rather than just using the documented command. To gather information about ConTeXt I have - read the ConTeXt Reference Manual (http://pmrb.free.fr/contextref.pdf) - bought a couple of the published books by Hans Hagen - started reading the "TeX book" by Donald Knuth I have even briefly flirted with the idea of switching to LaTeX mainly because it would mean having a lot more literature and a broader community at my disposal. However, I just prefer the command structure and output of ConTeXt. Can anyone relate to my problem? Am I on the right track? What else should I be doing or reading to really break into ConTeXt? Regards, Malte. PS: Just to be clear; I don't mean for the above to be conceived as shortcomings of ConTeXt, rather I think of them as shortcomings of myself. The developers of ConTeXt have done a fantastic job and I really enjoy writing in ConTeXt and looking at the output. -- “The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.” ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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Alignment of inmframed
by Aditya Mahajan 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

\inmframed (and by extension \definemathframed[...][location=low,...]) does not get the right vertical space. For example, \starttext \startformula \ln (1+x) = \inmframed{x - {\frac {x^2}{2}}} + \frac{x^3}{3}-\cdots. \stopformula \stoptext Note that the two fractions do not align at the horizontal bar. Is it possible for all expressions to be aligned at the math axis? Aditya

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[***SPAM***] Float placement
by Tethys 15 Jun '13

15 Jun '13

I'm trying to typeset a book. It has two columns, and some floating diagrams. My problem is that the floats aren't going where I want them to and I can't work out how to fix it. My input source looks something like: \startcolumnset[foo] \subject{Blah} aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa \placefigure[here]{First diagram} {\externalfigure[diagram1.jpg][width=2.3in]} bbbb bbbb bbbb bbbb bbbb bbbb bbbb \placefigure[here]{Second diagram} {\externalfigure[diagram2.jpg][width=2.3in]} cccc cccc cccc cccc cccc cccc cccc \placefigure[here]{Third diagram} {\externalfigure[diagram3.jpg][width=2.3in]} dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd dddd What I expect to get out is a page something like this (excuse the ASCII graphics): +-----------------------------------------+ | | | Blah cccc cccc cccc | | ---- cccc cccc cccc | | cccc cccc | | aaaa aaaa aaaa | | aaaa aaaa aaaa +--------------+ | | aaaa | ############ | | | | ############ | | | +--------------+ | ############ | | | | ############ | | ############ | | | | ############ | | ############ | | | | ############ | | ############ | | | +--------------+ | ############ | | | First diagram | ############ | | | +--------------+ | | bbbb bbbb bbbb Third diagram | | bbbb bbbb bbbb | | bbbb bbbb dddd dddd dddd | | dddd dddd dddd | | +--------------+ dddd dddd dddd | | | ############ | dddd dddd dddd | | | ############ | dddd dddd dddd | | | ############ | dddd dddd dddd | | +--------------+ dddd dddd | | Second diagram | | | | cccc cccc cccc | | cccc cccc cccc | | | +-----------------------------------------+ What I'm actually getting out is this: +-----------------------------------------+ | | | Blah +--------------+ | | ---- | ############ | | | | ############ | | | aaaa aaaa aaaa | ############ | | | aaaa aaaa aaaa +--------------+ | | aaaa Second diagram | | | | +--------------+ +--------------+ | | | ############ | | ############ | | | | ############ | | ############ | | | | ############ | | ############ | | | +--------------+ | ############ | | | First diagram | ############ | | | | ############ | | | bbbb bbbb bbbb | ############ | | | bbbb bbbb bbbb | ############ | | | bbbb bbbb +--------------+ | | Third diagram | | cccc cccc cccc | | cccc cccc cccc dddd dddd dddd | | cccc cccc cccc dddd dddd dddd | | cccc cccc cccc dddd dddd dddd | | cccc cccc dddd dddd | | | | dddd dddd dddd | | dddd dddd dddd | | dddd dddd dddd | | | +-----------------------------------------+ Even though there is sufficient space in the first column, the second float is always being moved up to the top of the second column. I've tried pretty much every combination of here, force and always as the location keyword for the \placefloat, but it doesn't make any difference. Any idea what I can do to get the placement I want? The deadline for going to press is rapidly approaching and I'm getting a little concerned! Thanks, Tet

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UWIN?
by Bill Meahan 15 Jun '13

15 Jun '13

Out of curiosity, has anyone tried porting ConTeXt to the UWIN environment? UWIN is very much like cygwin in being a "Unix on Windows" environment. However, it is not based on GNU but is Real Unix code from AT&T Bell Labs. Many of the utilities are simply the latest versions of the original Version 7 Unix utilities, others are from BSD, System III and System V. The shell is genuine ksh93, not pdksh or bash/dash. There is a POSIX dll to provide a complete POSIX api. This is AT&T's own, not the "POSIX subsystem" from Microsoft. The cc command is a wrapper for Visual C, gcc or whatever you have. Instead of the usual autoconf..configure..make..make install dance you can use nmake. I can run the usual Windows context with a bit of fiddling but it would be nice to use the regular setuptex shell script et. al. -- Bill Meahan Westland, Michigan

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ContML module?
by Sander Maijers 15 Jun '13

15 Jun '13

I use a very recent version of ConTeXt MKIV, and I was following the instructions on this Wiki page: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mixing_XML_and_ConTeXt . However the "contml" module cannot be found and the hyperlink to it on the Wiki page is invalid.

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Re: [NTG-context] Including a large SVG image
by Sander Maijers 15 Jun '13

15 Jun '13

The inkscape command works okay from the command line. Should I upload the SVG and manual PDF output somewhere? On 03-06-13 18:53, honyk wrote: >> Sander Maijers wrote: >>>> I have a few SVG graphics of multiple megabytes. They contain a lot >>>> of objects (text/shapes). All graphics except for one gets properly >>>> included in my ConTeXt document. >> >> Marco Patzer wrote: >>> Maybe inkscape failed to convert the file. Is a corresponding >>> m_k_i_v_filename.svg.pdf file generated? >> >> It might be informative to try running the Inkscape conversion >> manually. This is the command line ConTeXT uses: >> >> inkscape "%oldname%" --export-dpi=600 -A "%newname%" >> >> (The quotation marks are literal: they are there in case the filename >> has spaces, e.g.) > > If processing in Inkscape fails, you can try another tool: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/tools/rasterizer.html > > It can (despite its name) transcode SVG to vector PDF: > > java -Xmx2G -jar batik-rasterizer.jar -m application/pdf image.svg > > In that case you have to transcode your files first and reference PDF variants in your input. > > Jan > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ >

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Float placement (again)
by Tethys 15 Jun '13

15 Jun '13

I sent a question to the list about float placement, but it was marked as spam (at a guess due to the ASCII art). For those that didn't see it because of that, it's in the archives: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/82995 Tet

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MOving from MkII to MkIV / EPUB
by Gerben Wierda 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

Hello folks, I have a ConTeXt Project for a small and simple book, that has the 'basic example' project structure with .../images, .../chapters, .../products etc. I use a Makefile to comppile the book when in the .../chapters directory, as attached below. I use "texexec --pdf" and probably ConTeXt MkII from the MacTeX 2012 distribution. I'd like to make an EPUB from this book as well. I suspect that means going over to LuaTeX/MkIV and doing extra stuff. I got lost in the ConTeXt documentation (for as much as there is, old and new) and would appreciate an instruction on how to do this that does not suppose I am a ConTeXt wizard who is doing stuff like this daily. Is there such a thing? Gerben OPEN=echo MODE=--mode=standalone ONCE=--once .SUFFIXES: .pdf .tex .open .pdf.open: open $< .tex.pdf: texexec --pdf ${MODE} ${ONCE} $< IMAGEDIR=../images MPDIR=../mp PRODUCTSDIR=../products TEXS=c_loosely.tex c_standard.tex c_problem.tex c_index.tex c_endnotes.tex \ c_better.tex OPENS=c_loosely.open c_standard.open c_problem.open c_better.open PDFS=c_loosely.pdf c_standard.pdf c_problem.pdf c_better.pdf CDISCRETEIMAGES= CLOGICIMAGES= BOOKIMAGES= ${CDISCRETEIMAGES} ${CLOGICIMAGES} #.PHONY: $(OPENS) default: make ONCE="--once" book-open full: make ONCE="" book-open all: $(PDFS) clean: rm %* all-open: $(OPENS) book-open: book open prd_book.pdf book: prd_book.pdf prd_book.pdf: ${PRODUCTSDIR}/prd_book.tex $(TEXS) $(BOOKIMAGES) make MODE="--mode=editor" ONCE="${ONCE}" ${PRODUCTSDIR}/prd_book.pdf

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TEXpage and footnotes
by Pablo Rodríguez 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

Dear list, is there any way to get notes (footnotes and linenotes) within a TEXpage? I thought I'd seen a sample PDF sent to this list, but I can't recall the date or who was the sender. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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