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How to process a project residing in another directory
by Helge Blischke 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

I try to process a ConTeXt project residing in a directory different from the current directory (where context is called), imagine e.g. a NFS mounted directory on a different host. I tried to point context to the project directory by specifying it by the command line option --path=absolute_path_to_the_directory but that did not work. Helge

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Re: [NTG-context] doublesided PDF - first and last page singlesided
by Jan Heinen 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

Hello, some were guessing, what I want to achieve. I made a screenshot for you: http://www.imagebanana.com/view/shoayek5/onlinebook.jpg It ist the online-version of a printed book. For printing it was ok to have one bookpage on one sheet of paper. For the online-version I want to have two bookpages on one sheet of paper but the coverpage should be alone on one sheet of paper. The online-version is a PDF ... no html. "sheet of paper" is of course only virtualy meant ... it is online The difficulty is that there a bunch of (hyperlinked) cross-references in the book ... so people can use the pdf interactively. Without this I could put the pages manualy together. Hope that now you know what I want to do. And I am hoping very much for a solution ... Regards Jannis -- Better organization and integration of all ConTeXT-information: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:ConTeXt ............ All information arround ConTeXt http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:Commands ........ Commands !!! new: "One-Click" from every command in the wiki to the rich resources of the ConTeXt-mailinglist

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Chinese hyphenation / line splitting
by John Devereux 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

Hi All, We are having a go at typesetting one of our manuals in Chinese (gulp). Is there some trick to getting hyphenation working? (Or perhaps "line-splitting" is a better term, I don't even know if hyphens are used in Chinese). What I see in the PDF are unbroken lines running off the edge of the page. If I manually insert spaces, then the lines do break but seem to go slightly past the right-hand edge of the paper (so parts of the characters are lost). Sample text is from what I think is the Chinese section of Wikipedia, hopefully is not offensive... ====================================================================== \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[Adobe Heiti Std] %\setmainfont[Arial Unicode MS] \starttext \mainlanguage[zh] 阿梅莉亚·埃尔哈特（1897年－1937年）是一位著名的美國女性飛行員和女权运动者。埃爾哈特是第一位获得飞行优异十字勋章、第一位独自飞越大西洋的女飞行员。她还创了许多其他纪录，将自身的飞行经历編寫成非常畅销的書籍，並協助建立了一个女飞行员组织。1937年，當她嘗試全球首次環球飛行時，在飛越太平洋期間神秘失蹤。至今为止她的生活、生涯和消失一直使人神往。阿梅莉亚·埃尔哈特在她生前就已经是一名国际名人了。她腼腆感人的外貌、独立性、持久性、在压力下保持安静、勇气、有目标的生涯以及年轻时就失踪使得她在流行文化中成为一个持久的名人。关于她的生平出版过数百文章和许多书，这些书往往作为尤其是对女孩子的勉励的读物。 \stoptext ====================================================================== Thanks, John -- John Devereux

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ConTeXt User Meeting / EuroTeX 2012?
by Mari Voipio 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

Hello! I know I shouldn't be asking until after BachoTeX, but unfortunately my calendar for autumn is starting to fill up and there are things that should be settled pretty soon. (And I can't go to BachoTeX to sort things out there.) The page http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2012/ says that 6CM will be held in The Netherlands in connection with EuroTeX on October 8-12. The page also says that the arrangers can be contacted at <eurotex(a)ntg.nl>, but that address bounces so I had to resort to the list. Are the dates and the place correct and so settled that I can rely on them while planning the autumn program (both work and otherwise)? And whom should I contact about the conference program and such things? I've got a few suggestions for them... <nitpicking> The page title for <http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2012/> is "ConTeXt User Meeting 2009". This is mildly annoying as that is the text that Firefox shows as tab name and I always go "oops, wrong page" even though it isn't. Could somebody change that year to 2012, please? </nitpicking> Thanks, Mari

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Re: [NTG-context] doublesided PDF - first and last page singlesided
by Jan Heinen 16 Apr '12

16 Apr '12

I was lucky to get a fast answer - but with your code I don't get the right result: -- start your code \startmode[booklet] \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] \setuparranging[2SIDE] \stopmode \starttext First page \startmode[booklet] \null \page \stopmode etc. \stoptext Thomas -- stop With your code I get: 1 2 first page of the pdf 3 4 second 5 6 third 7 8 fourth But I want to get: 1 first page of the pdf (coverpage) 2 3 second 4 5 third 6 7 fourth 8 fifth (coverpage) I know how to use with modes - but the answer must be an other. Maybe I have to explain it more clearly: on the first PDF-Page (A5) there should be only the cover-page (page 1) \setuppapersize[A5][A5] \setuparranging[1SIDE]%<- I don't know how to write it - nothing was working On the second PDF-Page there should be page 2 and page 3 \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape] \setuparranging[2SIDE] It must be a problem lot's of people have when they make a book with ConTeXt and want to make a second PDF-version for the Internet. Regards Jannis -- Better organization and integration of all ConTeXT-information: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:ConTeXt ............ All information arround ConTeXt http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:Commands ........ Commands !!! new: "One-Click" from every command in the wiki to the rich resources of the ConTeXt-mailinglist

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lua EOL in xmlsetups
by Jano Kula 15 Apr '12

15 Apr '12

Hello to everybody, why end of line is not accepted by \startluacode ... \stopluacode construct in xmlsetups? Is there a better way? This works: \startluacode for i=10,1,-1 do tex.print(i) end \stopluacode This doesn't work: \startluacode for i=10,1,-1 do tex.print(i) end \stopluacode Thanks, Jano book.xml source file: --------------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <book> </book> book.tex file to test: ---------------------- \startxmlsetups xml:base \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{*}{-} \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{book}% {xml:*}% default \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{xml:base} \startxmlsetups xml:book \startluacode for i=10,1,-1 do tex.print(i) end \stopluacode \stopxmlsetups \starttext \xmlprocessfile{main}{book.xml}{} \stoptext

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doublesided PDF - first and last page singlesided
by Jan Heinen 15 Apr '12

15 Apr '12

Hello, someone here on a sunday? I want to have a PDF-screen-version of my booklet: The book has 8 pages including the coverpages. The result should look like this: (first and last page NOT doublesided) 1 first page of the pdf (coverpage) 2 3 second 4 5 third 6 7 fourth 8 fifth (coverpage) With the following commands I get the wrong result: \setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape]% A5 wird auf A4 gedruckt \setuparranging[2SIDE] 1 2 first page of the pdf 3 4 second 5 6 third 7 8 fourth Have a nice weekend Jannis -- Better organization and integration of all ConTeXT-information: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:ConTeXt ............ All information arround ConTeXt http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:Commands ........ Commands !!! new: "One-Click" from every command in the wiki to the rich resources of the ConTeXt-mailinglist

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Cross-referencing Challenge
by Aaron W. Hsu 15 Apr '12

15 Apr '12

Hey All: I am very new to ConTeXt, but I am trying to use it to achieve a format similar to what you can get from WEB systems. Right now I am working on the definitions of chunks and their cross references. I have three main macros: \defchunk Definining a new chunk \chunk Referencing a chunk by name \stopchunk Ending a chunk definition Here is an example: \defchunk{This is a name} Some text /BTEX\chunk{Other stuff}/ETEX goes here. And here. \stopchunk \defchunk{Other stuff} Something else \stopchunk \defchunk{This is a name} Some other stuff. \stopchunk Now, at the end, let's say that each of these appears in sections 1, 2, and 3, respectively. The output I am looking for, in Unicode, might look like this: ⟨This is a name 1⟩≡ Some text ⟨Other stuff 2⟩ goes here. And here. ── See also section 3. ⟨Other stuff 2⟩≡ Something else ── This code is used in section 1. ⟨This is a name 1⟩≡ Some other stuff. ── So here, there are really three things that I want to achieve. I need to be able to get a list of all of the sections wherein a given chunk is referenced using \chunk, a list of all the sections where a section of the same name is defined, and finally, be able to tell in which section the first occurrence of a chunk is defined. How can I accomplish this? -- Aaron W. Hsu | arcfide(a)sacrideo.us | http://www.sacrideo.us Programming is just another word for the lost art of thinking.

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Index setup
by Jeff Smith 14 Apr '12

14 Apr '12

Hi all! Better late than never, you'll say, because I've just started using MkIV... :-) I have some troubles setupping an index and the options I try using from the (old) ConTeXt manual don't help or seem to have no effect. So basically, I have this: \starttext \chapter{Ch1} \index{abc}abc \index{bcd}bcd \index{def}def \chapter{Ch2} \index{wxy}wxy \index{xyz}xyz \index{zzz}zzz \page \setupregister[index][indicator=no] \placeindex \stoptext That works. But I'm trying to do two things here and I'll be damned if the info can be found somewhere. I've tried my best to find it, but to no avail... So: 1) I'd like a single list with no blank lines in between letters (I've already removed the indicator, but I'm stuck there). 2) I'm trying to align the pagenumber on the right side of the column. Should be easy, but...?! I'm truly sorry if these questions are easy to answer, but I'm clueless here, alas! And hey, I've recently completed a thesis that was wholly done with MKII. I do know I'm way behind the times! :-) Thanks in advance, JFS

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Break links into items in the itemize list
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 13 Apr '12

13 Apr '12

Hello all Once again I return to this issue. Lukas confirmed me that really links do not work. Where is error when links into items in the itemize list are not working. Links are active but not working... It is interesting that the chapter on the links when hovering tooltip will appear with the page number where the link leads, not the case for the line item. Here is Lukas example (my example is bottom ) \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext Go to \in[sec:1] -- \about[sec:1] or \in[it:a] -- \about[it:a]. \page \section[sec:1]{Sec} \startitemize[n] \item[it:a] Item A \stopitemize \stoptext Thanx for advices Jaroslav Hajtmar Here is my old example: \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \in{First link}[bibl:7] and \in{second link}[bibl:1] \page \startitemize[n] \item [bibl:7] Item 7 \item [bibl:4] Item 4 \item [bibl:8] Item 8 \item [bibl:10] Item 10 \item [bibl:1] Item 1 \item [bibl:20] Item 20 \stopitemize \stoptext

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