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Referencing problem (correction)
by Robert Blackstone 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Sorry for the mistake: I wrote one \ too many so that I unwittingly created an absurd link. The message was supposed to be this: Hi all, To include in a text several graphics that for some reason must have the same figure number (with suffixes .a, .b etc.), I use \startplacefigure[location=here,reference=,title={},group=,groupsuffix=] {\externalfigure[]} \stopplacefigure an experimental solution that Hans gave me in april (Ref. ntg-context Digest, Vol 106, Issue 4, Date:14 April 2013) and which works perfectly. My problem is: how can I refer in my text to this set of figures (instead of to the separate figures). I have tried to use "group" as the label for referencing, as it is the only argument that all figures have in common, but my trials failed and I have no idea how to accomplish this. (The wiki is too vague for me on this point.) Thanks in advance for any help. Regards, Robert Blackstone

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Referencing problem
by Robert Blackstone 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Hi all, To include in a text several graphics that for some reason must have the same figure number (with suffixes .a, .b etc.), I use \\startplacefigure[location=here,reference=,title={},group=,groupsuffix=] {\externalfigure[]} \stopplacefigure an experimental solution that Hans gave me in april (Ref. ntg-context Digest, Vol 106, Issue 4, Date:14 April 2013) and which works perfectly. My problem is: how can I refer in my text to this set of figures (instead of to the separate figures). I have tried to use "group" as the label for referencing, as it is the only argument that all figures have in common, but my trials failed and I have no idea how to accomplish this. (The wiki is too vague for me on this point.) Thanks in advance for any help. Regards, Robert Blackstone

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Orphans and Windows
by Malte Stien 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

G'day everyone, I use introductory sentences to numbered lists all the time, like this (where \startnlist...\stopnlist is a custom itemised list): To remove a foo from a pool of foos: \startnlist \item Do this... \item Do that... \item ...and so on... \stopnlist On occasions, I am getting that introductory sentence as an orphaned line at the end of a page and my numbered list as the first thing on the next page. How can I avoid that? There is not much about orphans and widows on the Wiki or in the reference manual. Thank you, Malte. -- “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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[***SPAM***] Scaling large (annotated) MetaFun drawing
by Pavneet Arora 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

[Sorry about the previous null message.] Background: Typically I use MetaPost to create small figures, which I then can scale as needed in larger documents. These figures contain no text so I can simply use the .eps output of mpost as an inclusion. Recently, I have embarked on a large illustration replete with lots of text labels. It is a "distilled" architectural drawing intended for diagnostic and maintenance purposes. In it plumbing details are overlaid over a layout. For simplicity, I standardized on unit size of 1cm so that co-ordinates can easily map from physical dimensions with the unusual hybrid scale of 1cm=1ft ;).. Status: With this set unit size, my drawing has grown very large. My intent is to get it printed on one of the (U.S.) based architectural paper sizes, or if it can be made legible on U.S. Tabloid size paper (17" x 11").. My first successful approach (and where I stand right now) is to simply use \startMPpage and \stopMPpage to scale to the page. Thera are a couple of issues, though, with this approach. First, I want to add additional information to the page, other than what would be handled by MetaPost, e.g., some tables, etc. Even without this additional information, having the drawing scale to page size does not give adequate margin buffering and if there are some labels right at the edge, I have seen some clipping of the text. Objective: I would like to create a scalable drawing with all of its text labels so that I can scale appropriately to different page sizes, and also incorporate the illustration with other document elements. >From what I have read at: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/MetaPost_in_ConTeXt I think what I need is something akin to \startuseMPgraphic with a scaling option if I want to include the code inline. Otherwise, the drawing is clipped on the page. Or perhaps I simply try to convert the existing PDF output to PS, and then include it? What I am hoping is to get a best practises workflow from the list so that I can simply adopt it. advTHANKSance. Sample: A MWE is found below: \setuppapersize[tabloid,landscape][tabloid,landscape] \starttext \setupMPinstance [metafun] [extensions=yes, initializations=yes, textstyle=bold] \startMPpage u:=1cm; pickup pencircle scaled 1pt; draw (5u,0u) {dir 90}..(0u,5u) {dir 180}; draw (0u,5u) .. (-1.5u,10.5u) {dir 90} .. (0u,16u); draw (0u,16u) {dir 0} .. (5u,21u) {dir 90}; draw (5u,21u) -- (39u,21u); draw (39u,21u) {dir 270} .. (42u,18u) {dir 0}; draw (42u,18u) .. (43.5u,10.5u) {dir 270} .. (42u,3u); draw (42u,3u) {dir 180} .. (39u,0u) {dir 270}; draw (39u,0u) -- (35u,0u); draw (35u,0u) .. (22u,3u) {dir 180} .. (9u,0u); draw (9u,0u) -- (5u,0u); label(btex AN ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENT etex, (22u,10.5u)); \stopMPpage \stoptext -- ---- Pavneet Arora m: 647.406.6843 Waroc Informatik t: 416.937.9276

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NTG-context] How to hack the lua files
by Lance Larsen 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

I haven't been using the project structure. From your question, I am inferring that this might help. At present I have treated the files as two separate documents. I didn't take too much time looking at how to set up the project structure because it wasn't clear that I needed it. But I can see how this might impact cross references between documents. -Lance On 6/17/2013 3:25 PM, Lance Larsen wrote: > Hans, > > Thankyou for your suggestion of using the \usereferences tag to reference > formulas in another document. This is a good solution. However the example > below doesn't give usable results because the references to the external > formula output by test2.tex does not include the chapter number: Do you use the project structure? components and such? Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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placing an xtable
by Pablo Rodríguez 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Dear list, I'd like to place a table centered (both horizontally and vertically) on an empty page. Is there no option from the xtable itself to achieve that? I have tried \startxtable[location=lohi], but this doesn't seem to affect to the placement of the table itself. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Does the R-Module work (or how)?
by Erik Margraf 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Dear List, does the R module work? To be more specific "m-r.tex". I tried to run the test named as "Johan's test file" and got the result below -------------------- ! Undefined control sequence. system > tex > error on line 20 in file /home/erik/tmp/Glockner/t.tex: Undefined control sequence ... 10 11 \starttext 12 13 First a test of whether the workspace is persistent: 14 bla 15 16 \startR 17 a <- "bla" 18 b <- "blabla" 19 ls() 20 >> \stopR 21 22 One \R run ends, another begins. 23 24 \startR 25 ls() 26 \stopR 27 28 Now follows a hidden \R run which cleans the R workspace 29 30 \startRhidden \Rfile ^@-\TEXbufferfile {\Rbufferprefix \nofRfiles } <argument> texmfstart --ifchanged=\Rfile \space --direct R CMD BATCH -q --save --restore \ \executesystemcommand #1x-\ctxlua {os.execute([[#1 ]])} \stopR #-\doifmode {*\v!first }\runR \typefile {\Rfile .out} l.20 \stopR ------------------------------ I'm using: OS: Debian 7.0 64Bit context --version: mtx-context | current version: 2013.06.10 22:51 R --version: R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22) -- "Roasted Marshmallows" Copyright (C) 2012 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License versions 2 or 3. For more information about these matters see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/. Any hint, even "doesn't work at the moment", will be welcome Thanks Erik

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Context group and faith
by Jörg Hagmann 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

I got my monthly credit card statement which contains the following lines: 16.05.13 PAYPAL *CONTEXT ..... LUX Religious organisation It's true, I believe in ConTEXt, but still... Cheers, Jörg

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Vertically Aligning inmargin Text to Figure
by Malte Stien 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Hi, I need to associate a bit of text with a figure in a book. The text is not---and cannot be---the figure caption (it's providing some explanation with respect to some labels in the figure). I have tried the following based on some other post on the mailing list: \definepapersize[eightsquare][width=8in, height=8in] \setuppapersize[eightsquare] \setuplayout[ location=doublesided, marking=on, backspace=43mm, leftmargin=18mm, leftmargindistance=4mm, rightmargin=35mm, rightmargindistance=4mm, rightedgewidth=6mm, topspace=12mm, header=15mm, footer=15mm, height=179mm, width=115mm ] \starttext \startplacefigure[location=force, title={First dummy caption}] \inmargin{First margin dummy} \externalfigure[dummy][width=115mm] \stopplacefigure \stoptext However, that results in the text being down the bottom of the figure. I need the text to be vertically aligned with the top of the figure. I have attached the resulting PDF for illustration purposes (is that okay on this mailing list? It's very small). Any hints would be much appreciated. Thank you, Malte. -- “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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(forw) Fraktur fonts
by Rudolf Bahr 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

----- Forwarded message from Rudolf Bahr <quasi(a)quasi.de> ----- From: Rudolf Bahr <quasi(a)quasi.de> Reply-To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Subject: Fraktur fonts Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:28:12 +0200 Message-ID: <20130612092603.GA1090@mini> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Hello list members, an only-a-few-days-fan of Context writes to you for the first time. I'm pleased to have found a program closer to TeX and younger than LaTeX. In the last years I used LaTeX for a bigger family project with good success, but experienced some difficulties in arranging minipages containing changing text and pictures especially in series letters. So I'm trying to do that using Context. Of course I cannot change hundreds of files from LaTeX to Context, but newer tasks I'd like to do in Context. There is a first question I have concerning Fraktur fonts which I'd like to use typesetting a poem: I found a 2-mail-discussion in your 2002-archiv concerning those fonts. But I have to admit that I don't understand what is written there. So, I tried simply \definefont[Gedichtfont][Fraktur] \Gedichtfont{... poem ...} both with "context" and "texexec", but I don't achieve the desired result. "texexec" displays a font somehow similar to Fraktur, but not a very nice one and much to broad; and it seems to have no different "s" (one inner-word and one word-end or syllable-end "s") as needed in Fraktur. And, my "texexec" doesn't know anything about umlauts and sharp s. Whereas my "context" (translating the same program), dosn't know Fraktur, but knows umlauts. So I'm always using both of them, enjoying the partial success of both, though I read somewhere, it should be better using "texexec". Well, a very nice Fraktur font is Yannis Haralambous' "yfrak" in his "yfont" series, the nicest one I've found until now. Could you please help me to formulate the correct commands to use a "nice" Fraktur font, be it "yfrak" or another one? But please remember, Context is still rather confusing to me. So, it should be simple enough. Best regards, Ruhmwolf ----- End forwarded message -----

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