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Creating a folded meander book - imposition problem
by Mari Voipio 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

I would love to create a folded meander book, but as far as I can see, that means creating a new imposition scheme and that's beyond my skill. What I want is a cross between 2*16 and x=4, y=4 (I think). Here's an explanation and a nice graphic of a 16-page (4x4) meander book: http://stamphenge.wordpress.com/minibooks/meander-accordion-folded-book/ A 9-page version (3x3) would also be nice to have, to make slightly bigger pages when printed on A4. Thank you, Mari (Slowly brewing: an article on using ConTeXt and MetaPost in papercrafts.)

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Footnotes numbering
by Willi Egger 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

Hi all, Is among you somebody who has used text with footnotes, where the footnotes would be numbered according to the line number where the reference resides? In other words how to use line numbers for the numbering of the footnotes? Any hint would be great! Kind regards Willi

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PDF Bookmarks
by Troy Henderson 27 Jan '13

27 Jan '13

I would like to create PDF bookmarks in my ConTeXt document, but I do not want my document arranged in "normal" chapter/sections. I know that I can do \setupinteraction[state=start] \placebookmarks[chapter,section,subsection][chapter,section] \setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark] and then in my document I can do \chapter{Foo} In this case, my PDF bookmark appears as "1 Foo". Furthermore, in the document itself, the chapter heading shows as "1 Foo". I would like the bookmark to just appear as "Foo" and I do not want ANY chapter/section headings when I issue the \chapter{Foo} or \section{Bar} commands. That is, in the document, I would like those commands to basically JUST create the bookmarks and have the bookmarks omit the chapter/section number. Troy

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Cut-Space
by "H. Özoguz" 26 Jan '13

26 Jan '13

Hi there, I am usually using Din A5 with \definepapersize[MyBook][A5] \setuppapersize[MyBook][A5] How to add 3mm cut space (extra space) on all four edges? Thank you. Huseyin

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Some questions
by Alain Delmotte 26 Jan '13

26 Jan '13

Hi, Now some questions to solve the problems I have when I try to follow the "tutorial" "ConTeXt an excursion". I think it is for mkII and I use mkIV and that there has been many changes in between. - The example at the bottom of page 11 and page 12 gives me an error: ! Argument of \head has an extra }. system > tex > error on line 52 in file travail.tex: Argument of ... 42 Hasselt lies in the province of Overijssel and there are a number of customs that are typical of this province. 43 \startitemize 44 \head kraamschudden \hfill (child welcoming) 45 When a child is born the neighbours come to visit the new parents. The women come to admire the baby and the men come to judge the baby (if it is a boy) if he will become a strong man. 46 The neighbours will bring a {\em krentenwegge} along. A krentenwegge is a loaf of currant bread of about 1 \Meter\ long. Of course the birth is celebrated with {\em jenever}. 47 \head nabuurschap (naberschop) \hfill (neighbourship) 48 Smaller communities used to be very dependent on the cooperation among the members for their well being. Members of the {\em nabuurschap} helped each other in difficult times during harvest times, funerals or any hardship that fell upon the community. 49 \head Abraham \& Sarah \hfill (identical) 50 When people turn 50 in Hasselt it is said that they see Abraham or Sarah. The custom is to give these people a {\em speculaas} Abraham or a Sarah. Speculaas is a kind of hard spiced biscuit. 51 \stopitemize 52 >> - The tables pages 30-31-32-35 are not at the right position on the page, mostly they are to the right and not centered. - The chemical formulae give an error (pages 37-38), but I'll come back to that later on, but what is the manual about it? - The boxes on page 45, second example are not at the right position, particularly the second is on the same line as the first. \leftaligned {\inframed[width=fit]{People in Hasselt}} \midaligned {\inframed[height=1.5cm,frame=off]{have a}} \rightaligned {\inframed[background=screen]{historic background}} What are the up todate manuals for MkIV? OK It's enough bothering you for the moment. Thanks in advance, Alain Delmotte

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setuphead command "! Argument of \xxx has an extra }."
by Jean-Philippe Rey 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

Hi, I am trying to use a homemade command to display chapter heads but I systematically get the following error: ! Argument of \ChapterHead has an extra }. Here is my minimal example \def\ChapterHead#1#2{#1 --- #2} \setuphead[chapter][command=\ChapterHead] \starttext \chapter{Hello} Some text \stoptext This example works fine with MKII and with the texlive 2012 version of MKIV (ConTeXt ver: 2012.05.30 11:26). It fails with the last beta (2013.01.24 16:47 MKIV) and also with 2012.11.22 14:55 MKIV. I tried \setuphead[chapter][alternative=command,command=\ChapterHead] and \startchapter ... \stopchapter but still get the same error. You will find below the content of the log file produced by my minimal example. Thanks for your help. (/Users/jprey/ConTeXt-2013.01.24/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-yes.mkiv ConTeXt ver: 2013.01.24 16:47 MKIV fmt: 2013.1.25 int: english/english system > cont-new.mkiv loaded (/Users/jprey/ConTeXt-2013.01.24/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv system > beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv ) system > files > jobname: test-setuphead, input: test-setuphead, result: test-setuphead fonts > latin modern fonts are not preloaded languages > language en is active (test-setuphead.tex{/Users/jprey/ConTeXt-2013.01.24/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map} fonts > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage) fonts > typescripts > unknown: library 'loc' {/Users/jprey/ConTeXt-2013.01.24/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{/Users/jprey/ConTeXt-2013.01.24/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map} fonts > fallback modern rm 12pt is loaded % begin of command line arguments % % noarrange = true % input = ./test-setuphead.tex % fulljobname = ./test-setuphead.tex % currentrun = 1 % no-parse-first-line = true % arrange = true % script = true % synctex = true % kindofrun = 1 % % end of command line arguments % begin of command line files % % 1 ./test-setuphead.tex % % end of command line files structure > sectioning > chapter @ level 2: 0.1 -> Hello ! Argument of \ChapterHead has an extra }. system > tex > error on line 4 in file test-setuphead.tex: Argument of ... 1 \def\ChapterHead#1#2{#1 --- #2} 2 \setuphead[chapter][command=\ChapterHead] 3 \starttext 4 >> \chapter{Hello} 5 Some text 6 \stoptext 7 <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \strc_rendering_inject_number_and_text ...ommand } \ifx \p_command \empty \di... \strc_rendering_place_head_number_and_text ...ext }\fi \strc_rendering_stop_... \strc_sectioning_handle ...e_head_number_and_text \else \strc_rendering_plac... l.4 \chapter{Hello} ? ! Emergency stop. system > tex > error on line 4 in file test-setuphead.tex: Emergency stop ... 1 \def\ChapterHead#1#2{#1 --- #2} 2 \setuphead[chapter][command=\ChapterHead] 3 \starttext 4 >> \chapter{Hello} 5 Some text 6 \stoptext 7 <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \strc_rendering_inject_number_and_text ...ommand } \ifx \p_command \empty \di... \strc_rendering_place_head_number_and_text ...ext }\fi \strc_rendering_stop_... \strc_sectioning_handle ...e_head_number_and_text \else \strc_rendering_plac... l.4 \chapter{Hello} End of file on the terminal! ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! -- Jean-Philippe Rey Professeur - École Centrale Paris jean-philippe.rey(a)ecp.fr 92295 Châtenay-Malabry Cedex - France Empreinte PGP : 807A 5B2C 69E4 D4B5 783A 428A 1B5E E83E 261B BF51

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\processcommalist with any separator
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Hello ConTeXist. I use the \processcommalist command and at this point I would like to see if there is any possibility of using a similar command but with the custom separator. Not to me to use a comma as a separator, because I need to have a comma as a character in the processed item list. Thanks Jaroslav Hajtmar Here is my inspirative minimal example: \def\setmyownparameter#1#2{% \global\def\myparameter{#2}#1% }%% \def\processmylist[#1]#2% {\processcommalist[#1]{\setmyownparameter{#2}}} \startbuffer[mybuffer] Here I use my parameter \myparameter.\par \stopbuffer \starttext \processmylist[firstparameter, secondparameter, thirdparameter]{ \getbuffer[mybuffer] } % I would like use for example * as list separator (best option to choose any character). %\processmylist[Hello, He said.*Here is comma, used too.* And here is comma, too.]{ %\getbuffer[mybuffer] %} \stoptext

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Can Tikz external library be used in Context?
by Devendra Ghate 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Hi, Following MWE produces the error given below. I have been able to include other tikz libraries (arrows, decorations) successfully. *MWE* \usemodule[tikz] \usetikzlibrary{external} \starttext A \stoptext *Error* --------------------------------------------- ! Missing number, treated as zero. system > tex > error on line 1290 in file /home/deven/context/tex/texmf-modules/tex/generic/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz/libraries/tikzexternalshared.code.tex: Missing number, treated as zero ... 1280 \gdef\tikzexternal@activate@normal@dq{\let"=\tikzexternal@normal@dq} 1281 \gdef\tikzexternal@activate@normal@sq{\let'=\tikzexternal@normal@sq} 1282 \gdef\tikzexternal@activate@normal@semic{\let;=\tikzexternal@normal@semic} 1283 \gdef\tikzexternal@activate@normal@and{\let&=\tikzexternal@normal@and} 1284 \gdef\tikzexternal@activate@normal@dash{\let-=\tikzexternal@normal@dash} 1285 \catcode`\|=0 1286 \catcode`\\=12 1287 |xdef|tikzexternal@normal@backslash{\}% 1288 } 1289 { 1290 >> \catcode`\^^I=12 1291 \catcode`\$=12 1292 \catcode`\%=12 1293 \catcode`\#=12 1294 \gdef\tikzexternal@HASHchar{#} 1295 \gdef\tikzexternal@TABchar{^^I}\gdef\tikzexternal@PERCENTchar{%}\xdef\tikzexternal@DOLLARchar{$}} 1296 1297 % Creates the '/tikz/external/system call' command as string and 1298 % returns it into the (global!) macro #2. 1299 % #1: the image file name (as returned by 1300 % \tikzexternalgetnextfilename) <to be read again> ^ l.1290 \catcode`\^^ I=12

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\thinrule in \margintext doesn't work
by Devendra Ghate 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

If \thinrule is used in \margintext, context gives error. \hairline works fine. *Details:* ConTeXt ver: 2013.01.10 01:04 MKIV fmt: 2013.1.13 *Error Message:* ! Undefined control sequence. system > tex > error on line 2 in file a.tex: Undefined control sequence ... 1 \starttext 2 >> \margintext{\thinrule A margintext with thinrule.} 3 %\margintext{\hairline A margintext with hairline.} 4 \stoptext 5 \thinrule ->\strut \bgroup \edef \p_height {\directthinrulesparameter \c!hei... <argument> \thinrule A margintext with thinrule. \doifelsenothing #1->\edef \m_syst_string_one {#1 }\ifx \m_syst_string_one \e... \typo_margins_data_yes_indeed ...felsenothing {#3} \donefalse \donetrue \ifdo... l.2 ...text{\thinrule A margintext with thinrule.} **MWE** \starttext %\margintext{\thinrule A margintext with thinrule.} \margintext{\hairline A margintext with hairline.} \stoptext

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Layers, overlays
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Hello, I'd like to ask two questions which appeared on topic "Layer vs. overlay". Q1: What does \tightlayer[...] exactly do? (No item on wiki.) Q2: Why some layer properties are specified on \definelayer (beforetext: width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight) and some during overlay setups (beforetext: preset=righttop)? - Related code given before: ---- \starttext \definelayer [beforetext][width=\overlaywidth,height=\overlayheight] \defineoverlay[beforetext][{\setups[beforetext]\tightlayer[beforetext]}] \startsetups[beforetext] \setlayer[beforetext][preset=righttop] {\framed[width=2in]{foo}} \stopsetups bar \stoptext ---- TIA. Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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