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Re: [NTG-context] Need help with \definetabulate
by Malte Stien 17 Oct '12

17 Oct '12

Marco, > \definetabulate [alpha] [|l|l|l|] > \setuptabulate [alpha] [bodyfont=small] This does not work for me quite the way I need it to. I am really just after defining the font-size, but I would like to leave the column setup to the user (I am building an environment and that I would like everyone in my team to use to ensure a consistent look-and-feel or all documents). So, ideally, I would like to do this: > \definetabulate [alpha] > \setuptabulate [alpha] [bodyfont=small] > \starttext[|l|l|l|] > \startalpha > \NC first \NC second \NC third \NC\NR > \stopalpha > \stoptext ...but that does not seem to work. Any way I can achieve this? > Feel free to add an example. It's a wiki! Sure. Will do, once I have this working. Thank you, Malte. > Hi Malte > >> I am trying to define two tabulate styles as follows: >> >> - \setuptabulate[split=yes, bodyfont=small] >> - \setuptabulate[split=yes] > > \definetabulate [alpha] [|l|l|l|] > \setuptabulate [alpha] [bodyfont=small] > > \definetabulate [beta] [|l|l|] > \setuptabulate [beta] [bodyfont=small, split=yes] > > \starttext > \startalpha > \NC first \NC second \NC third \NC\NR > \stopalpha > > \startbeta > \NC lorem \NC ipsum \NC\NR > \stopbeta > \stoptext > >> ...such that I can just refer to them when I >> \starttabulate...\stoptabulate somewhere. > > To refer to a table, you place it as a float and use the > `reference=tab:alphatable` key. Then in the text you refer to the > table, see \in{table}[tab:alphatable]. > >> I thought, the command \definetabulate would come in handy here, >> but I can't work it out and it appears the documentation on that >> command is pretty scarce. >> >> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/definetabulate > > Feel free to add an example. It's a wiki! > > > Marco

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scale=... and specifying the width and height of a figure
by Aditya Mahajan 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi, If scale option for a figure is set, \externalfigure does not honor the width and the height parameters. For example \externalfigure[cow][width=1cm, height=3cm, scale=750] gives a figure which has the usual aspect ratio. I know that settings scale=... along with width and height does not make sense. But, in one of my project, I set \setupexternalfigures[scale=750] as that makes sense for most of the figures, and if I try to use \externalfigure[cow][width=1cm, height=3cm] then the aspect ratio of the figures does not change. Not sure if this should be classified as a bug, but I am posting it here in case anyone else encounters the same issue and needs to know how to override this behavior: \externalfigure[cow][width=1cm, height=3cm, scale=] Aditya

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Total Number of Pages
by Nicholas Ulle 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi, How would I go about inserting the total number of pages in my document? I assume this would require two passes of texec or context. I've tried Googling and checking ConTeXt garden, but couldn't find anything regarding this. Thanks again, Nick

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Subscript Depth
by Nicholas Ulle 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi, How would I go about getting subscripts to stay at the same depth? An example of the problem I'm having is: \starttext % Notice the b's are not aligned $a_b' a_b$ \stoptext I'm only just learning ConTeXt and TeX, so I'm not sure what I'd need to change to fix this. Thanks, Nick

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New module: pararef
by Zenlima 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hallo, after so many of you helped me, I want to give back. I just made my t-pararef module public for everyone: http://modules.contextgarden.net/pararef http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Paragraph_Referencing Please feel free to send me comments about the coding style and what I could have done in a better way. E.g. the interface file is missing, but I don't know how it should look like. But I hope mainly that it will prove beneficial for some of you. H.

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Vertical positioning of floats within itemize
by Marcin Borkowski 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

It's me again! This doesn't quite work as expected (at least by me, that is;)): \starttext \startitemize \startitem \placefigure[right,high,none]{}{\framed[width=3cm,height=2cm]{!}} \input knuth \stopitem \stopitemize \stoptext (Namely, at the beginning of the \item there is something like a "blank line".) If I move \placefigure before \startitem, it looks better, but this seems to be a nasty hack. Do you have any idea how to achieve this effect in a more elegant way? TIA, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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ConTeXt inputs files from TEXMF/doc
by Mojca Miklavec 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hello, I used \externalfigure[background] in a document (and I forgot to compile the local file background.tex) and ended up with a pleasant surprise: the command included /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/doc/latex/background/background.pdf instead of complaining that the file doesn't exist. Shouldn't ConTeXt prevent inclusion of documents from "doc"? Mojca PS: tested with ConTeXt from TeX Live (as is probably evident from the fact that the file from TL has been found).

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Controlling vertical position of floats
by Marcin Borkowski 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Hi again, \placefigure[right,<option>]{caption}{figure} does different things with option being (a) empty, (b) high, (c) low. Could anyone explain to me the exact meaning of these three alternatives? Also, is it possible to manually fine-tune the vertical position, so that the figure seems optically aligned with the surrounding text? TIA, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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Context halting (or sub processes) and not completing
by Hrothgar Boyce 16 Oct '12

16 Oct '12

Platform: cygwin texlive 2012 (from texlive org) Test TeX file: ---------------------- /stoptext This is a pen /stoptext ---------------------- Result: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ texexec -o pdf test.tex /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/base/switch.rb:21: Use RbConfig instead of obsolete and deprecated Config. /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/base/switch.rb:570:in `locateseries': undefined method `each' for "o":String (NoMethodError) from /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/base/switch.rb:397:in `block in expand' from /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/base/switch.rb:392:in `each' from /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/base/switch.rb:392:in `expand' from /usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/scripts/context/ruby/texexec.rb:789:in `<main>' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I must have some sort of configuration or Ruby compatibility problem, but, I haven't any idea what it is or what to do about it. Can anyone help me out or give me some ideas. Thank you.

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How to get bolder and larger item symbol?
by Marcin Borkowski 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

I'd like to have the number (and dot) in an "itemize" in boldface and larger (say, \bf\tfa). What do I do? \startitemize[n][symstyle=bold] didn't work. Why? TIA -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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