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Problem with \product
by Bernd Kosubek 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Hallo, I use: ConTeXt ver: 2012.11.23 17:35 MKIV fmt: 2012.11.25 int: english/english Problem: \product do not work: Main-file "a.tex": \startproject a \environment e 1 \product b 3 \stopproject Environment-file "e.tex" \startenvironment e \setupbodyfont[sans,12pt] \stopenvironment Sub-file "b" \startproduct b \project a 2 \stopproduct gives as a ressult: 1 3 The environment-file works fine, but the sub-file seems to be ignored. What is the matter? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Bernd Kosubek ------ DATENSCHUTZ geht alle an! eMails sind wie Postkarten! JEDER kann sie LESEN und ÄNDERN, daher: Nur GPG-(PGP-)signierte eMails stammen von uns! Unsere öffentlichen Schlüssel können von den üblichen Schlüsselservern geladen werden. Bitte teilen Sie uns mit, ob auch Sie einen öffentlichen Schlüssel bereitstellen. Nachrichten können dann verschlüsselt werden. Besuchen Sie www.bsi.bund.de -- es lohnt sich!

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A problem with units
by Marcin Borkowski 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Hi all, being quite happy with things like \unit{10 km/h}, once I did \unit{45 min}, only to get "45 m" in the resulting file. I suspect that \unit does not know about minutes; is there any way to teach it;)? Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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disable expansion for one single component
by Thomas A. Schmitz 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Hi all, for a book I'm typesetting, I use adobe minion and have enabled protrusion=pure,expansion=quality in the typescript and then \setupalign[hanging,hz] in the main environment. Now it turns out that in one of the components/chapters of the book, this messes up the spacing of some characters. Is there a way to disable expansion (but not of course protrusion) for one single chapter? Thanks, and all best Thomas

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\unit problem with powers of ten.
by Romain Diss 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Hi all, I got some problems to express powers of ten in the \unit command. See the strange behaviour with these two minimal examples. \starttext \unit{10^2 meter}\\ \unit{10^{-12} second} \stoptext However, there is no problem with this one: \unit{1e-4 kilogram}. Is this a bug or are these expressions not supported? Thanks. -- Romain Diss <romain.diss(a)yahoo.fr>

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ConTeXt Standalone/Suite in Windows
by Pablo Rodríguez 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Hi everybody, I would like to be able to use a ConTeXt Standalone on a computer with WinXP Pro and no internet connection and no administrative rights. Isn't it possible to install on a different computer (let's say c:\context) and then move that to the same directory on the other computer? I'm really interested in knowing whether this works, since I must first ask to a friend to be able to install ConTeXt on her computer to be able to use it on the computer I want. I'm on Linux myself. Many thanks in advance, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Re: [NTG-context] Images in MultiMarkdown -> context -> PDF
by Guy Stalnaker 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Well, that lead to an interesting experiment. I used convert to -resample a set of images to 300dpi and redid the compile. They are all now too bod, many off the right side of the page. Then did the same but set to 72. They are still too big. Odd, from too small to too big. I will try and be a bit more precise and craft a text doc to play with this and report the results. Thanks for your help! Guy On 11/21/2012 10:51 AM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Guy Stalnaker <jstalnak(a)wisc.edu> wrote: >> Thanks - see my first post for a link to a web folder where you can find the .tex file, the .pdf context produces, two screenshots of the differing image treatment and two of the image files shown in the screenshots. > > Gah --- missed that. Thanks! > > The resolution of the image is is either not correctly set, or not > correctly read by ConTeXt --- so ConTeXt assumes 300dpi instead of 72. > I've attached a self-made image of 547px wide, and run the following > file: > > \starttext > \externalfigure[CMSLogin.jpg] \crlf > \figurenaturalwidth\ -- \figurexresolution\ -- \figurexsize > > \externalfigure[cross.jpg] \crlf > \figurenaturalwidth\ -- \figurexresolution\ -- \figurexsize > \stoptext > > This prints the following dimensions for your figure and the Gimp-made > one, respectively: > > 8635829sp – 0 – 547 > 35982623sp – 72 – 547 > > Can't remember how to convert scaled points to inches, so here's some > fraction juggling instead. > The naturalwidth of the cross is 4.2 times larger: > 35982623 / 8635829 > = 4.166667 > > So the login jpg will have 4.16666666 times as many dpi. > 72 * 4.166667 > = 300 dpi > > Which corresponds to this observation by you: > >> But note that I attempted to test the dpi theory by >> selecting an image and using GIMP to set its >> dpi to 300 yet that resulted in no visible change. > > What if you use the GIMP to set its dpi to 72? > > --Sietse > -- "There is only love, and then oblivion. Love is all we have to set against hatred." (paraphrased) Ian McEwan Guy Stalnaker, I^2@DOIT, 1210 West Dayton Street, Room 3209 CSS, Madison WI 53719-1220, jstalnak(a)wisc.edu, work 608.263.8035, cell 608.235.4718, fax 608.265.6681,

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ConTeXt: Page numbering in words for spanish
by Acidrums4 24 Nov '12

24 Nov '12

Hello there and thanks for finally let me into this mailing list! So I tried to hack the macro given in the ConTeXt wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Page_numbering_in_words) to write pagenumbering in words in spanish, my native language. Things were great until I had to reach the 100th page. ConTeXt claims when compiling, but I don't know how to fix the macro so it can write hundred-numbers. 'Cien' is 100 for spanish. 'Ciento uno' for 101, 'ciento dos' for 102 and so (You can see a more detailed example in http://spanish.about.com/cs/forbeginners/a/cardinalnum_beg.htm) So basically I need to prepend the word 'cien' for each word number from 1 to 99 to write the one-hundreds, 'doscientos' for the two-hundreds... Here is my dirty hacked version of the macro (you may save it as 'numstr.tex' for compiling), and a minimal example as follows: \input numstr \defineconversion[numstring][\numstr] \setupuserpagenumber[numberconversion=numstring] \starttext \dorecurse{100}{\recurselevel\page} \stoptext I'm such a noob with TeX and I cannot figure out how to do this, and I need this for this friday!. However, Aditya in the TeX section of StackExchange (http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82722/context-page-numbering-in-word… for-spanish#comment178155_82722) told me that I could do this witk Lua (editing the file core-con.lua, as seen in http://repo.or.cz/w/context.git/blob/HEAD:/tex/context/base/core-con.lua ), 'cause I'm using MkIV for doing this. But I don't know anything about Lua (seems pretty easy, but I don't know how to test the code Aditya gave me) and If I knew how to do that, I don't know how to make it work in my document... All I could do is translate the 'words' array to spanish, but I couldn't do more... Could you guys give me a hand on this? Thank you so much!

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"Hiding" columns in m-database & TABLE
by Marcin Borkowski 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi all, I'd like to process a csv file (with the database module) in order to typeset a (nice) TABLE. However, I have a few columns I'd like to omit. I can (of course) hand-edit the csv file; but is there a way to do it automatically? Something like \setupTABLE[column][3,4,5][kill] I did [empty=yes,width=0pt] in place of [kill], and it worked, but it seems like a hack (and I don't know whether it does actually process the cells I'm omitting - which in my case wouldn't bother me, but might be an additional layer of inelegance;)). And better ideas? Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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Re: [NTG-context] Arabic with ConTeXt
by "H. Özoguz" 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Am 23.11.2012 15:17, schrieb ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl: > The table*is* the workaround ;P As long as you don?t mind being > limited to columns on one page, the tabulate syntax and the > restrictions on the input order, you?ll definitely be fine. > > The additional code was supposed to show how to handle an issue > that is very likely to manifest itself with what you are doing: > translations of this kind are usually accompanied by some special > pagination. Using plain counters for that can have undesirable > side-effects. > > Regards > Philipp Ok, thanks, so I misunderstood :) But now a different issue arises, it could be that for my purpose of the dual-languaged book, it is better to divide every page NOT into left and right, but into up and down. Of course now the tabluate does not work, is there a workaround for this? Huseyin

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Degree sign
by Marcin Borkowski 23 Nov '12

23 Nov '12

Hi all, is there a "canonical" way to obtain a degree sign? I'd best like it to work in both text and math mode, and not use UTF-8 but some TeX-y \command (like \degree or so). Best -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University

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