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Current source directory.
by Andre Caldas 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

Hello! Is there a way to know the directory of the currently being processed source file? Something like dirname(__FILE__) in PHP. Cheers, André Caldas.

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minimals
by Hans Hagen 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

Hi, Is minimals.contextgarden.net offline? 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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Conditionals
by Troy Henderson 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

I have a list of numbers, 2, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 18, 20, 186, 188, 316, 318, 354, 372, 376 that I would like to use as exceptions in a \dostepwiserecurse loop. That is, within the loop if \recurselevel is NOT EQUAL to either of these numbers, then I want to do something -- otherwise, I simply increment \recurselevel. I would appreciate an example of how to do this. Thanks, Troy Henderson

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External Figure inside MPpage
by Troy Henderson 29 Sep '12

29 Sep '12

I was wondering if there is a way to place an external figure (JPG/PDF) inside a MPpage. The following does not work. \startMPpage \externalfigure[spiral/andrew/andrew.jpg][height=4.75in] \stopMPpage Troy Henderson

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Bib module -> master thesis title not displayed in placepublications
by Xan 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Hi, I have this: @mastersthesis{meva-memoria, author = "Bordoy, Xavier", title = "Algunes contribucions a l'estudi del problema de la paraula per a grups", school = "Departament de Ciències Matemàtiques i Informàtica. Universitat de les Illes Balears", year = "2009", address = "Palma de Mallorca", note = "Available in \from[bib:memoria-master] (in catalan)" } and when I put \placepublications[criterium=text] I only recive: "X. Bordoy, Master's thesis, Departament.... Univeritat... Palma de Mallorca (2009). Avaliable in .... (catalan)." but not title? Why? Can I display title in that? Thanks in advance, Xan.

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\define a command with square-bracket arguments
by Sietse Brouwer 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Hi all, As I understand it, \define[2] is preferred over \def#1#2 because it refuses to overwrite existing commands. \define[2]\mycommand{code code code} defines a command to be invoked with \mycommand{...}{...} Can I use \define, or a related command, to define a command that takes square-bracket arguments, like so: \mycommand[...][...] ? When I type \define[1][2]\mycommand{code code code} that doesn't work. Cheers, Sietse

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Referring to multiple elements
by Marco Patzer 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Hi, how can I refer to multiple elements at the same time? \starttext \startplacefigure [title=foo, reference=alpha] \stopplacefigure \startplacefigure [title=bar, reference=beta] \stopplacefigure \startplacefigure [title=bar, reference=gamma] \stopplacefigure \in{figure}[alpha,beta,gamma] \stoptext This outputs “figure 1”. What I'd like to have is “figure 1-3”. Marco

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verbatim text: \type, \tex and co.
by Alan Braslau 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Hello, Can someone indicate how to typeset $L_{α+β}$ as verbatim text? (\arg{} doesn't help here...) Furthermore, I suppose that typesetting Greek characters verbatim depends also upon which \tt font is being used. Alan

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[tabulate] colored background
by Philipp Gesang 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Hi all, the background mechanism of tabulations is quite simplistic: it extends only to the first line of a cell irrespective of its length. Example: ······································································· \starttext \starttabulate[|p|r|] \CM [red] \input knuth \NC was said by The Don \NC \AR \stoptabulate \stoptext ······································································· Is there a way to get the whole cell covered? (Textbackgrounds only color the area where text is, not the entire cell.) Regards Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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Parsing [key=value, key2=value2, ...] with Lua
by Sietse Brouwer 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Hi all, I've found a helper function that does this: utilities.parsers.settings_to_hash('ape=1, note=2, mice=3') --> { ["ape"] = 1, ["note"] = 2, ["mice"] = 3 } This makes me very happy. This function and its friends are stored under utilities.parsers, and defined in util-prs.lua; I've listed them below. Perhaps they'll be useful to somebody else, too. I should probably add this info to http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Commands_with_KeyVal_arguments, but dinner first. Cheers, Sietse First some examples of what the most important functions: utilities.parsers.settings_to_hash('ape=1, note=2, mice=3') --> { ["ape"] = 1, ["note"] = 2, ["mice"] = 3 } -- settings_to_hash takes an option 'strict', -- I assume that has to do with space-trimming. utilities.parsers.settings_to_array('ape, note=2, mice, ape') --> { "ape", "note=2", "mice", "ape" } utilities.parsers.settings_to_array('ape, note=2, mice, ape') --> { ["ape"]=true, ["note=2"]=true, ["mice"]=true,} Complete list of functions (and one table) in utilities.parsers: T.add_settings_to_array T.arguments_to_table T.array_to_string T.getparameters T.hash_to_string T.listitem T.make_settings_to_hash_pattern T.patterns : table: 0x9a67680 T.patterns.settings_to_array : userdata: 0x9a6c904 T.patterns.settings_to_hash_a : userdata: 0x9a6a694 T.patterns.settings_to_hash_b : userdata: 0x9a6ad6c T.patterns.settings_to_hash_c : userdata: 0x9a6b424 T.settings_to_array T.settings_to_hash T.settings_to_hash_strict T.settings_to_hash_tolerant T.settings_to_set T.simple_hash_to_string T.splitthousands

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