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old and new
by Steffen Wolfrum 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

Hi, a happy 2012 to all of you!!! Keeping up with the most recent version (2012.01.02) gives to much errors with my environment file... So, as the last version that I installed via rsync was 14th october 2011, I tried to manually install an "in-between" version. For example: cd /Users/steffen/context rsync -ptv rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh . ./first-setup.sh --context=2011.11.29 --extras=all Unfortunately this "context=" flag doesn't work -- it gives 20120102 too. Any ideas how to install a december 2012 version? Steffen --- Mac (10.6.8)

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Makempy ...
by Willi Egger 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

Hi Metafun gurus! I should produce a glyph large as 300 by 150mm. So I thought to use metafun/makempy facilities. However I get no output with ConTeXt MKIV ver: 2012.01.02 21:59 When processing the file with MKII there is a fatal error, which is after stoptext in the attached test-file. Kind regards Willi

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Re: [NTG-context] Overprinting
by Jan Heinen 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

Here the results of my question: I asked my print-service, if the pdf I generated with the code (look at the end of this email), is ok. The text in the second frame should be overprinted. The answer of the printer: in the preflight he can see the overprinting, in the print-preview he can't. He was astonished - because he never had the difference between print-preview and preflight before. He is using Adobe Acrobat 10. Hope this information helps others to be cautious - an maybe someone can tell what's to do. Regards Jannis > \setupcolors[state=start,rgb=no,cmyk=yes] > \definecolor[myc] [c=.40, m=.10, y=.50, k=0] > \starttext > \framed[% > width=80mm,height=50mm, > background=color, > backgroundcolor=myc, > ] > {1 Overprinted or not?} > > \blank[big] > > \framed[% > width=80mm,height=50mm, > background=color, > backgroundcolor=myc, > ] > {\startcolorintent[overprint]2 Overprinted or not?\stopcolorintent} > > \blank[big] > > \framed[% > width=80mm,height=50mm, > background=color, > backgroundcolor=myc, > ] > {\startcolorintent[knockout]3 Overprinted or not?\stopcolorintent} > > \stoptext Regards Jannis

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Centering and splitting a table
by Fulvio 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

Hi, it's me again, with another problem. I want to typeset very simple tables. Each table system is ok, because I need very simple tables, as long as I can split the table in multiple pages and repeat the header in multiple pages, so it should be ok to use Tabulate, Tables, TABLE and Linetable. I can typeset a similar table easily, but I want to center the table horizontally in the page. I can box the table (with an hbox or a vbox) and then center the box, but in this way the box won't split in multiple pages. I think that floatings aren't the solution, too, because I need the table exactly in place (I understand that the "here" placement don't give me that guaranty, but I'm not totally sure). I've at least a solution in my mind, but that requires too much work, so I hope that there is a simple one. Thanks in advance. Fulvio Satta

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problem with coupling (mkiv)
by Rene van Hassel 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

Hello members, a happy new year to everybody. And here the problem I have: \setupinteraction[start=state,color=orange] \setupcombinedlist[content][interaction=all] \defineblock[question] \defineblock[answer] \defineenumeration[questions][location=top,coupling=answers] \defineenumeration[answers][location=top,coupling=questions] \hideblocks[question] \hideblocks[answer] \starttext % Problems with the coupling of questions and answers \beginquestion \startquestions Why ConTeXt doesn't work? \stopquestions \endquestion \useblocks[question] \page \beginanswer \startanswers It always give:\crlf sometimes: LuaTeX error and something with lpegmatch?? \stopanswers \endanswer \useblocks[answer] \stoptext This piece of code is compiled with context of TeXLive2011, which is almost every week updated. The piece of compiled into a .pdf file without any problem, but I see no interaction. In other pieces of code, it gives a LuaTex error and something with lpegmatch, but I have no idea about what is spoken. Sometimes I see orange triangles after the enumerations but I have no interaction, the cursor at the screen does not change of form. This if I look at the pdf-file with the acrobat reader. Who of you has any idea howto get interaction between the questions and the answers? The piece of code in one of the manuals of ConTeXt doesn't work with the context I use. It goes about these hidden blocks. There is also given an example with question and answer. It should be nice if it works, Kind Regards, Rene' van Hassel

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Inline itemize
by Vianney le Clément 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

Hello, If I type Blabla. \startitemize[a,text] \item one \item two \stopitemize Blabla. I get a linebreak before and after the itemize. Is this the intended behaviour? How can I get a fully inline enumeration? Thanks, Vianney

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backgroundscreen
by Wolfgang Schuster 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

Hi, The backgroundscreen for \framed setting doesn’t work in MkIV because the \raster command isn’t defined anymore. \starttext \framed[background=screen]{Gray background?} \stoptext Wolfgang

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CMYK and Linux
by Jan Heinen 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

I am working with Linux and it seems to be a littlebit difficult to test if a resulting PDF from Context is cmyk (I don't have Adobe). With the frontend "display" from Imagemagick I get the following information about the pdf: Type=PaplatteMatte Colorspace=RGB Debth=16/8-bit Hasn't the PDF to be Colorspace=CMYK? Here is what I did: \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[myc] [c=.30, m=.60, y=.60, k=0] \starttext {\color[myc] Only some words} \page \stoptext Ho can I say to ConText: This PDF has to be CMYK? Regards Jannis

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Overprinting
by Jan Heinen 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

The company who prints my books says that my text is not overprinted over the framed boxes. They do a preflight with Adobe. I think, I made no mistake - what do you think? I hope it is not a missing \par? \setupcolors[state=start,rgb=no,cmyk=yes] \definecolor[myc] [c=.40, m=.10, y=.50, k=0] \starttext \framed[% width=80mm,height=50mm, background=color, backgroundcolor=myc, ] {1 Overprinted or not?} \blank[big] \framed[% width=80mm,height=50mm, background=color, backgroundcolor=myc, ] {\startcolorintent[overprint]2 Overprinted or not?\stopcolorintent} \blank[big] \framed[% width=80mm,height=50mm, background=color, backgroundcolor=myc, ] {\startcolorintent[knockout]3 Overprinted or not?\stopcolorintent} \stoptext Regards Jannis

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TeX inside XML
by Hans van der Meer 06 Jan '12

06 Jan '12

I need to do some ConTeXt work inside an XML-proces. In principle this works for most TeX-code through an appropriate xmlsetup that calls \xmlcontext. However some code has problems, and it will be no surprise that it concerns table suff. The error is: Misplaced \omit ... \@tbxmultispans #1->\omit \scratchcounter #1\relax \advance \scratchcounter … As this code runs fine in normal ConTeXt environments, the suspicion is some catcode problem. Can I set inside the \xmlsetup-code something to have \xmlcontext using the correct catcode's, iff that turns out to be the problem of course. Thanks in advance. Hans van der Meer

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