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\placelist summary alternative solution
by Felix Ingram 14 Dec '11

14 Dec '11

I've ended up delving into the dark art that is Lua for this solution: \define[0]\SummaryTable{% \placetable[force, none]{}{% \setupTABLE[frame=off] \bTABLE \bTABLEhead \bTR\bTH Reference\eTH\bTH Title\eTH\bTH Page\eTH\eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \startluacode for k, v in ipairs(structures.lists.collected) do if v.metadata.kind == "section" and v.metadata.name == "section" then context.bTR() context.bTD() context("REFREF") context.eTD() context.bTD() context(v.titledata.title) context.eTD() context.bTD() context(v.references.realpage) context.eTD() context.eTR() end end \stopluacode% \eTABLEbody \eTABLE }% }% \starttext \section{Test} \input{knuth} \section{Test} \input{knuth} \section{Test} \input{knuth} \section{Test} \input{knuth} \section{Test} \input{knuth} \section{Test} \input{knuth} \section{Test} \input{knuth} \SummaryTable \stoptext This works to some degree though I have the following questions about it: 1. Is there a way to access a document global variable from Lua? I will use this to replace the REFREF text. 2. v.references.realpage isn't the actual page of the title. How can I access the page number that would have appeared in the ToC? (I've restarted the page numbering in my master doc, the above example works fine) 3. Is there a way to store some metadata along with my title? I'd like something similar to this: \myheader[author=me, date=2011-12-14]{This is my header with meta-data} and then be able to access it from Lua again. Thanks for any help you can give with this. Felix

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Mailing list archive (archive.contextgarden.net) will be down or at least not updated
by Mojca Miklavec 14 Dec '11

14 Dec '11

Hello, We are moving the mail server from Germany to Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana and would like to let you know that mailing list archive won't be updated when that happens. So: copy of mailing list archive (archive.contextgarden.net) won't be updated for at least some time, but there is also a chance that it will be completely replaced by a different solution. Not that it would be technically impossible to continue updating it, but I think that setting up mailing lists has a much higher priority at the moment than old archives (which are much better at gmane.org anyway). We will get new mailing lists on the new server soon (some of them for members of ConTeXt Group, http://group.contextgarden.net, some of them for distribution etc.) If anyone has any thoughts about this, you may write me off-list (I will post a summary to the mailing list later on). The list ntg-context at ntg.nl won't be moved due to longstanding tradition at ntg.nl, but we will move some mailing lists from obscure locations such as launchpad (where we had a mailing list for binary builders). Mojca (There is no reason to take lurker down at this moment, but we are somehow afraid that people would rely on it returning the latest mails.)

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Preserving Output Files
by Kip Warner 14 Dec '11

14 Dec '11

Hey list, I've searched the list, but couldn't seem to dig up anything that I thought was relevant. How do I get ConTeXt to preserve all files necessary to run the same invocation of LuaTeX it executed when it was run. As an example, when I run the following... $ context Source/Handbook.tex --result=Handbook.pdf ...it says that it ran the following... luatex --fmt="/home/kip/.texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/e570cb3e0e3ab0118ca08dd148bbec7d/formats/cont-en" --lua="/home/kip/.texmf-var/luatex-cache/context/e570cb3e0e3ab0118ca08dd148bbec7d/formats/cont-en.lui" --backend="pdf" "Handbook.tex" If I run the same luatex command on its own, it cannot find the temporary working files passed to it in its parameters. I tried running ConTeXt with the --keep argument, but those temporary files were still not preserved. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

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How to create horizontal line for signature?
by Paul Menzel 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

Dear ConTeXt folks, sometimes you need to insert a line for signature. I could not find anything usefull especially `\underbar{\hspace[10*\big]}` [2] did not work. I ended up abusing `\framed` [3]. \starttext \startstandardmakeup[align=right] Alles rechtens. Everything is fine and nobody cheated. \blank[medium] London, den 28.\,June 2011 \blank[3*big] \framed[width=5cm, frame=off, topframe=on]{\small John Doe} \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext The down side is, that its widths is not perfectly aligned with the location and date. I guess there is something simpler to do it. I looked at Wolfgang’s letter module but could not figure out how it is done there. Something like the examples posted for LaTeX on Stack Exchange [3] for ConTeXt would be nice. Thanks, Paul [1] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/FAQ#How_can_I_get_a_horizontal_space_with_a_d… [2] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Framed [3] http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/35942/how-to-create-a-signature-date…

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gnuplot module: `option=monochrome` does not work.
by Paul Menzel 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

Dear ConTeXt folks, I want to create monochrome plots, but `option=monochrome` is ignored. \usemodule[gnuplot] \setupGNUPLOT[terminal=context,option=monochrome] \startGNUPLOTscript[pi] plot pi t '$π = \ctxlua{context(math.pi)}$' \stopGNUPLOTscript \starttext \useGNUPLOTgraphic[pi] \blank \CONTEXT\ \contextmark\ \contextversion \stoptext Is that the correct way to enable monochrome output? Looking at the Wiki page [1] it should be something like the above. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Paul [1] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gnuplot

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Initials / DroppedCaps
by Henning Hraban Ramm 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

For a book of fairy tales, I used (working!): \def\Initial{\DroppedCaps% {\color[red]} {Serif} {2.5\baselineskip} {3pt} {2\baselineskip} {3}} \starttext \Initial Once upon a time... \input tufte \stoptext But that gives now: <to be read again> \unskip \\->\ifhmode \unskip \prewordbreak \crlfplaceholder \ifcase \raggedstatus \h... \somefontsize ->2.5\\ baselineskip \lowleveldefinefont ...aledfontsize \somefontsize \or \scaledfontsize \local... \dododefinefont ...inefont {#2}\rawfontidentifier \csname \rawfontidentifier... \dodefinedfont ...nedfont][#1]\fi \thedefinedfont \the \everydefinedfont ... l.7 \Initial O nce upon a time... \input tufte It works, if I use absolute values for font size and vertical offset, like \def\Initial{\DroppedCaps% {\color[red]} {Serif} {36pt} {3pt} {28pt} {3}} I also tried \setupinitial / \placeinitial like below; I got my defined font, but only ever in base font size. %\definefontsynonym[Initial][WieynkInitialen] \setupinitial[font=WieynkInitialen,n=3,state=start,command=\Initial] % I also tried \NiceDroppedCaps and \LineDroppedCaps that I found in the sources, but didn’t get further. So, what’s the preferred way to get dropped capitals / initials? I’d like to wikify that, since it seems nowhere documented. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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KOMA-srcartcl Type Area: How to count header and footer to text area?
by Paul Menzel 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

Dear ConTeXt folks, having heard nice things about the KOMA script type area I wanted to use it too and tried out the example in the Wiki [1]. % Set binding correction value (mode=BCOR turns it on). \doifmodeelse{BCOR}{\def\bindingcorr{3mm}}{\def\bindingcorr{0pt}} % Set visible page width. \newdimen\PageWidth \PageWidth=\dimexpr(\paperwidth-\bindingcorr) % Determine the paper aspect ratio. \edef\Ratio{\withoutpt{\the\dimexpr(2\paperheight/(\PageWidth/32768))}} % Set the textarea width to 2.6 alphabets. \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{\dorecurse{26}{\character\recurselevel}} \newdimen\Width \Width=\dimexpr(2.6\wd\scratchbox) % Set the textarea height proportional to the width. \newdimen\Height \Height=\dimexpr(\Ratio\Width) % Set the margin/gutter widths to be equal on a full spread. \newdimen\Back \doifmodeelse{oneside} {\Back=\dimexpr(((\PageWidth - \Width) / 2) + \bindingcorr)} {\Back=\dimexpr(((\PageWidth - \Width) / 3) + \bindingcorr)} % Set the top and bottom margins in a 1:2 ratio, ignoring headers. \edef\Top{\the\dimexpr((\paperheight - \Height) / 3 - 3\lineheight)} % Redefine \Height to include header and footer space. \Height=\dimexpr(\Height + 8\lineheight) % Set up the page layout using the calculated parameters. \setuplayout[ backspace=\the\Back, height=\the\Height, width=\the\Width, header=2\lineheight, headerdistance=\lineheight, footer=2\lineheight, footerdistance=3\lineheight, topspace=\Top] \starttext \framed[width=\textwidth,height=\textheight]{} \stoptext I only want to add a page number to the footer [3] and I do not want to use any header [2, and ConTeXt manual]. Therefore I set \setupheader[][state=none] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, location={footer}] \enablemode[BCOR] According to the KOMA-Script manual [4] having just a page number in the footer it should be counted as belonging to the margin. The only way I found out to achieve that was setting `\footdistance=0`. Is that the “correct” way to comply with the KOMA-Script type area recommendation? Please find the adapted example attached. Thanks, Paul [1] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/KOMA-scrartcl_Type_Area [2] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout [3] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Reference/en/setuppagenumbering [4] ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/macros/latex/.../koma-script/scrguide.pdf

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\placelist and \writetolist
by Marco Pessotto 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

Hello! I can't understand what I'm doing wrong here: %%%%% \setuplist[mylist] [alternative=c, width=0mm, style=\tfx, criterium=all] \starttext \placelist[mylist] \page[yes] \input knuth \writetolist[mylist]{}{Item} \stoptext %%%%% The document compiles fine with version 2011.05.18 22:2, but it fails miserably with the latest (2011.11.29 23:11) ! Missing number, treated as zero. system > tex > error on line 11 in file prova.tex: Missing number, treated as zero ... 1 \setuplist[mylist] 2 [alternative=c, 3 width=0mm, 4 style=\tfx, 5 criterium=all] 6 7 8 \starttext 9 10 \placelist[mylist] 11 >> 12 \page[yes] 13 14 \input knuth 15 16 \writetolist[mylist]{}{Item} 17 18 \stoptext <to be read again> , \doplacestructurelist ...um = "#2", number = "#3", extras = "#4", order = "#... \doplacerawlist ...ras }{\listparameter \c!order } \stoplistreferences \endgr... \doplacelist ...ginoflist \doplacerawlist [#1][#2] \doendoflist \dodoubleemptyonespaced #1#2->#1[{#2}][] <to be read again> \par l.11 ? H A number should have been here; I inserted `0'. (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number, look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.) Thanks in advance. -- Marco

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headers: numberconversion=something or \definestructureconversionset
by Philipp A. 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

hi list, i want to make an exercise sheet style. exercises are already correctly rendered as “*Exercise <1>: <Text>*”, but sub-exercises should simply be like “*<a>)*”. what i tried: \definestructureconversionset[ex][numbers,characters][numbers] \setupheads[numberconversion=ex] and \setuphead[subsection][numberconversion=characters, …] but i have no idea what i’m doing in the first case and even less idea of what i’m doing wrong in the second. documentation would help in both cases, but contextgarden just has some (for me) incomprehensible examples. thanks, philipp ------------------------------ what i’d really love to have is the following commands, but i’ll figure it out once i have above problem solved. “\sheet” reads the current sheet number from the file name and gives “*Sheet <1>*” as title level header. “\exercise[<descr>]” gives “*Exercise <1>*” without and “*Exercise <1>: <descr>*” as section level header. “\subexercise[<descr>]” gives “*<a>)*” without and “*<a>: <descr>)*” with description as subsection level header.

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pdfselect and context command?
by Verhaag, G.C.H.M. 13 Dec '11

13 Dec '11

Hi ConTeXTt User's, I was looking for the --pdfselect option in the context-command, but it doesn't seem to be available. This option is available in texexec to select certain pages from a pdf file. Can it also be done in some way using the context-command? Regards, Gerard Verhaag

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