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positioning of backgrounds
by Thomas A. Schmitz 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hi all, I may have missed something here: I'm aware that processing backgrounds has changed. The following example places the background layer completely different in the current beta and when processed with a version from November: \definelayer[test][x=1mm,y=1mm,width=\paperwidth,height=22mm] \setlayer[test][x=104mm,y=11mm]{\externalfigure[cow][width=56mm]} \setupbackgrounds[page][background=test] \starttext Hello \stoptext Is that to be expected (i.e. should I adapt my letter template which positions a university logo on the page), or is that a temporary glitch and has to be fixed eventually? All best Thomas

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\setuppagenumber problem
by Alan Bowen 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

The following code, \startcomponent \setuphead[title][page=yes] \setuppagenumber[numberconversion=romannumerals] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \setuppagenumbering[location=,] \setupheader[state=high] \definehead[FMTitle][title] \setuphead[FMTitle][header=high,alternative=middle,style={\tfb\rm},footer={}] \setupheadertexts[text] [\cap{A.\ U.\ Thor}] [\pagenumber] [\pagenumber] [\em{Journal}] \FMTitle[Preface]{Preface} \dorecurse{6}{\input knuth} \blank[big] And here I should like to recall what was said earlier in this \goto{Preface}[Preface] by \dots \stopcomponent fails on two counts: the page numbers are given in arabic numerals not roman numerals, and the cross-reference is ignored. The failure in the cross-reference may be due to a bug involving \startcomponent, if I understand Wolfgang correctly, and was wondering if the same might be true for \setuppagenumber[...]. If it is not, how may I fix the pagination? I am running the latest ConTeXT standalone (MKIV). Alan

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Text Indentation and Space Around Headers
by Emmanuel Asante 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hi All, I want to indent all text in a document except the chapter header text by a given amount. I have used the following to achieve it: \setupnarrower[left=3cm] and \startnarrower[left] \stopnarrower But I have the feeling that there has to be a better way of doing it. Secondly, how do I control the space around headers? I would like to reduce the big between the chapter header and the first paragraph. Any help will be very much appreciated. Regards, Emmanuel

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Combination: no gap between cells?
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hello, I'd like to print several frames of a precise size, one after other, e.g. 2 per row, 2 rows. I'm trying to use combination for this purpose - but I'd need to suppress any horizontal and vertical gap between cells. Is there any option which would cause this? My code so far: ---- t-Prn.mkiv \starttext \startcombination[2*2] {\framed[width=5cm,height=4cm,align=flushleft,offset=0.5cm]{AAA\par Bb\par c}} {\framed[width=5cm,height=4cm,align=flushleft,offset=0.5cm]{AAA\par Bb\par c}} {\framed[width=5cm,height=4cm,align=flushleft,offset=0.5cm]{AAA\par Bb\par c}} {\framed[width=5cm,height=4cm,align=flushleft,offset=0.5cm]{AAA\par Bb\par c}} \stopcombination \stoptext ---- Something like "\startcombination[space=none][2*2]"... I've overlooked wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Combinations) but no such an option... 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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Hooking \stoptext
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hello, I'd need to to hook \stoptext by Lua - I'd need to write something right before the end of the text. See the simple example: ---- t-Hook.mkiv \startluacode local stoptext_p = context.stoptext context.stoptext = function(...) context("END") stoptext_p(...) end \stopluacode \starttext \input knuth \stoptext % To be hooked by Lua ---- This code should write "END" right before the end of the document, but it doesn't. How to achieve that? - I'd rather Lua to TeX do the job as I need Lua to do more complicated things (the example above is very simplified). 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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Style file for iPad?
by Alasdair McAndrew 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

If this has been asked before, my apologies. Is there a style file for formatting PDFs from ConTeXt for reading on an iPad? So far I've just used \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout[backspace=20mm, width=160mm, topspace=20mm, top=0mm, header=0mm, footer=10mm, bottomspace=20mm,bottom=0mm, textheight=250mm] which works fine - for printing - but isn't optimized for the iPad. If anybody has any suggestions or examples, I'd be very grateful of them! Thanks, Alasdair -- Blog: http://amca01.wordpress.com Web: http://sites.google.com/site/amca01/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/alasdair.mcandrew

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Page Header Text with Two Lines
by Emmanuel Asante 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Hi All, I tried to setup a page header with two lines using a command like this: \setupheadertexts[Left Text][Right Text 1. \crlf Right Text 2] but the \crlf command gets ignored. How do I achieve this? Best regards, Emmanuel

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Re: [NTG-context] \definedescription usage
by Kip Warner 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 00:40 +0100, Marco wrote: > Looks like this bug: > > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context.devel/1974 > > Marco I don't know why, but I always seem to be the one to step on every ConTeXt landmine. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

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\definedescription usage
by Kip Warner 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Hey list, I'd like the contents of my \startdefinition \stopdefinition pairs to have their title above them on a line of their own, but am having problems with the usage: \definedescription[definition] [location=top, hang=20, headcolor=colour_head, headstyle=boldslanted, command=\hskip-1cm, margin=1cm] According to what I understand here, http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Description#ConTeXt_3 , this should work? -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

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Footnotes gone
by Kip Warner 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

Hey list, For the first time in several months, today's nightly build actually managed to digest my book without crashing or bailing. I'm using 2012.03.05. There is one thing I noticed though and that is all of my footnotes are now invisible. The number next to them is visible, but the text itself is black on black (my page colour is black). I am preparing my footnotes as such: \definecolor[colour_page][r=0,g=0,b=0] \definecolor[colour_text][r=0.754,g=0.516,b=0.324] \definecolor[colour_footnote_background][colour_page] \definecolor[colour_footnote_text][colour_text] \setupfootnotes [color=colour_footnote_text, backgroundcolor=colour_footnote_background] This was working in previous builds, but it could be someone changed the method to alter the footnote text's colour. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

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