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install older beta
by Henning Hraban Ramm 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

While the current issues (footnotes, imposition) are open, I'd like to roll back to a working beta. Unfortately the latest listed at http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/context/ is from 2011; is this really the list of available versions? Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Commands with arguments with MetaPost
by Troy Henderson 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

I would like to be able to do something like this \def\foo#1{ \startMPcode fill (0,0)--(598,0)--(598,50)--(0,50)--cycle withcolor green; label.rt(btex #1 etex),(50,25); \stopMPcode } and then use this in my ConTeXt document by \foo{Some text} However, my syntax seems to be incorrect, and I would appreciate any help in fixing it. Thanks, Troy Henderson

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Scaling in setuplayout does not work with setuparranging
by Steffen Fritzsche 25 Apr '12

25 Apr '12

Hi, I'm using the latest beta and tried to arrange two slides on a single A4 sheet. I've defined my own paper size for the slides the sizes oriented on our corporate layout for presentations. To print two slides on a single A4 I have to scale them but I can't get this to work. Have a look at the attached minified example below. Without \setuparranging set the slides are scaled an one is put on each A4. As soon as I activate the arraging the scaling does not work anymore. Any ideas how to get this work? Am I doing something wrong? Thanks! Steffen \definepapersize[SPP43][width=25.4cm,height=19.05cm] \setuppapersize[SPP43][SPP43] \switchtobodyfont[20pt] \startmode[handout] \setuppapersize[SPP43][A4] \setuplayout[scale=0.5,location=middle] %\setuparranging[2TOP] \stopmode \starttext \startitemize \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \stopitemize \stoptext

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Reducing inter-character spacing?
by Mari Voipio 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

Hello, here comes yet another "I could do this in Word but can't figure it out how ConTeXt does it" font-related question: How can I reduces inter-character spacing in a font? I've found out that the spacing can be temporarily expanded by \stretched{}, but what's the opposite and how to control it? And I want to do it all over one product in my project, but on the other hand I don't need to reset it for any individual words or anything. (I assume that if the overall inter-character spacing is reduced, inter-word spacing will follow, but if not, I need to be able to reduce that, too.) I guess it isn't easily available because I'm not really supposed to be cramping the nicely designed fonts, especially not my nice new shiny Lucida OT - but I'm trying to create something in the style of past centuries when the style and requirements were different from today's. I've decided to use ConTeXt just because it should allow me to produce both the period-looking-but-illegible and nicely-typeset-modern-but-actually-usable versions of the same project. :-) TIA, Mari

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\goto[]…\reference[]{} in component files query
by Alan Bowen 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

I will try again adding more detail in the hope that this will help. The following is not a minimal example but a bare outline of what I have and where the problems with the cross-references arise. This structure works with MKII, so the query is whether something has changed in the command structure or whether the problem with cross-references that Wolfgang mentioned some time ago still persists. If the latter, it would be really good to if there is going to be a fix soon. In either case, I need a solution: the journal lives on online and the cross-references are essential to it. So any suggestions or news will be gratefully received. Alan ******************************************** \startproduct prd_Journal_vol-09 \setupinteraction[state=start,color=blue,% contrastcolor=red,style=rm,display=new] \component c_comp01 \component c_comp02 \stopproduct %c_comp01 \startcomponent c_comp01 \at[abc] %this shows proper page number in blue % and is an active link \stopcomponent %c_comp02 \startcomponent c_comp02 \Title[abc]{xxxxx} pp. \at[abc]--\at[endcomp02] %shows correct page numbers in proper %colors but blue link goes to “page (null)” \goto{the end}[endcomp02] %shows “the end” in blue %but link goes to “page (null)” \reference[endcomp02]{} \stopcomponent ********************************************

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[OT] Average font
by Aditya Mahajan 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

http://iotic.com/averia/ Someone should write a luatex module that does the same thing :) Aditya

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footnotes
by Alan BRASLAU 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

Hello, Footnotes are (still?) undergoing development in mkiv. I have several issues: 1. way=bypage does not seem to work \setupnote[footnote][way=bypage,numberconversion=set 2] \starttext \input{tufte}\footnote{Note.} \page \input{dawkins}\footnote{Another note.} \stoptext (I do not find numberconversion in strc-not.mkvi; nevertheless, numbered footnotes do not get reset on each page.) 2. next=\autoinsertnextspace still does not work \setupnote[footnote][next=\autoinsertnextspace] \starttext Subject% \startfootnote Note. \stopfootnote verb. \stoptext (Note, however, that \starttext Subject\footnote{Note.} verb. \stoptext does not exhibit this problem, as the space does not get eaten!) Alan

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Page Numbering using IncludePicture from simple slides
by Steffen Fritzsche 24 Apr '12

24 Apr '12

Hi, I love the IncludePicture command from simple slides but now I've got a picture which I want to show stepwise. Therefore I created two pictures a simplified version and the full version. I just place them right one after the other. Now it would be perfect if I could force context not to increase the page number counter for the second image because in my handout I will only include the full picture and at the moment the additional slide is messing up my page numbers. Any suggestions? Thanks! Steffen

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Recommendation for including MATLAB-scripts
by Xenia 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

Dear context-folks, I have to write some short protocols including some matlab-code. Do you have a recommendation for an easy way to include '.m'-files and diaries as code? Thanks, Xenia

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\footnote in \startlines[space=on] overflows
by Marco Pessotto 22 Apr '12

22 Apr '12

Dear list, I use \(start|stop)lines[spaces=on] to typeset poetry, which seems the right thing to do to preserve eventual initial whitespace. Anyway, I encounter the following issues: %%%%============= cut here ============= %%%%% \starttext this is normal text. \startlines[space=on] this is a {\em test} with a long long long long line\footnote{this is a test with a long long long long line this is a test with a long long long long line this is a test with a long long long long line this is a test with a long long long long line} \stoplines Normal text again. \stoptext %%%%============= cut here ============= %%%%% First, the {\em test} consumes a whitespace, even if after a command the space is supposed to be eaten. Second, the footnote overflows. (Tested with the latest beta). Thanks in advance. Best regards -- Marco

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