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column breaks and TABLE
by Philipp Gesang 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Hi all, with natural tables I can’t seem to get column breaks right. Example: ··8<····························································· \setuppapersize[A5][A5] \definecolumnset[three][n=3] \starttext \startcolumnset[three] \dorecurse{5}{ \subject{Test nr. \recurselevel} Some paragraph.\par \penalty10000 % comment me to get even footer; well, sort of … \bTABLE[split=yes] \bTABLEbody \dorecurse{80}{ \bTR\bTC Nr.\eTC\bTC\recurselevel\eTC\eTR } \eTABLEbody \eTABLE Text after.\par\column } \stopcolumnset \stoptext ··8<····························································· The crude prevention of a column break before the table appears to cause the first column to extend into the footer. However, without the ‘\penalty’ the table will always appear on a new column -- not looking well if there’s not much to typeset besides the table itself. Is there a way to get the best of both worlds: an even footer without a break before the table? I’d be grateful for any hints or suggestions, Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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XSL-FO to PDF?
by Peter Davis 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

Is there some recent information on using XML, and specifically XSL-FO, with ConTeXt? The pages on the contextgarden wiki appear to be 5 years old or more, and even the archive of this list seem pretty sparse on recent information. I'm trying to find the most direct route from XSL-FO to PS or PDF. I'll be generating hundreds or thousands of XSL-FO documents, and would like to process them. Thank you. -pd

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beta
by Hans Hagen 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Hi, I uploaded a new beta (so the minimals will have it in about an hour): - some cleanup at the lua end as side effect of documenting lua interfacing as part of writing the cld manual - a couple of bug fixed in the lua code that crept in during some optimizations - removal of some old lua code (not needed any more or replaced by better code) - a couple of patches (or extensions) to macros (due to reports on the list); for instance, the HideLayer and VideLayer reference actions were never implemented; also, some animation code has been added (for WS) - definitions like \definedfont[file:lbr.pfb] are ok now (remapped onto afm, a few line harmless extension) - a replacement of the existing marking mechanism (as used for running headers and footers): less interference with typesetting as mark nodes are no longer part of the game; more robust synchronization of chained marks (sectioning); more robust handling of marking in columns and columnsets; experimental marking in arbitrary constructs (thomas might like that one); not all is tested but we have: the usual marking: first, last, previous, current; these are strict in the sense that they take sectioning into account some new, less strict marking: firstpage, lastpage, previouspage; these ignore sectioning related resets some experimental methods: next, nextpage; these concern parts of paragraphs that end up on the next page, so limited lookahead (in there is interest we can make that full lookahead i.e. future marks) the usual column related marking: \getmarking[chapter][first]/ \getmarking[chapter][page][first]/ \getmarking[chapter][column:first][first]/ \getmarking[chapter][column:1][first]/ \getmarking[chapter][1][first] even more expermental: \definemarking[boxmark] \setbox0\ruledvbox{ \marking[boxmark]{tufte} \input tufte \par \marking[boxmark]{ward} \input ward \par } \synchronizemarking[zerobox][0] \box0 \getmarking[boxmark][zerobox][first] \getmarking[boxmark][zerobox][last] anyhow, it might be that something is broken, but at least this implementation has more potential - the properties mechanism is obsolete and replaced by three mechanism that used them (originally properties dealt with specific engine/backend functionality); the most important ones are \defineviewerlayer[name][options] \startviewerlayer[name]....\stopviewerlayer \viewerlayer[name]{...} and \defineeffect[name][options] \starteffect[name]....\stopviewerlayer \effect[name]{...} where we have predefined (as with former properties): \defineeffect [inner] [alternative=inner,rulethickness=.25pt] \defineeffect [outer] [alternative=outer,rulethickness=.25pt] \defineeffect [both] [alternative=both, rulethickness=.25pt] \defineeffect [normal] [alternative=normal] \defineeffect [hidden] [alternative=hidden] \defineeffect [stretch] [alternative=stretch,stretch=1] the properties commands are still there but map onto these so older code should work ok (but somewhat less efficient) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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why nil argument
by Hans van der Meer 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

In transforming dates through a Lua-call I get a nil error I do not understand. The luatex code = \startluacode hvdm = hvdm or {} require "lpeg" -- Transform date in Lua from yyyymmdd to dd-mm-yyyy with checks hvdm.day = lpeg.R("02") * lpeg.R("09") + lpeg.P("30") + lpeg.P("31") - lpeg.P("00") hvdm.month = lpeg.P("0") * lpeg.R("19") + lpeg.P("10") + lpeg.P("11") + lpeg.P("12") hvdm.year = lpeg.R("12") * lpeg.R("09") * lpeg.R("09") * lpeg.R("09") hvdm.date = lpeg.C(hvdm.year) * lpeg.C(hvdm.month) * lpeg.C(hvdm.day) * -1 / "%3-%2-%1" \stopluacode \def\FormatDate#1{\ctxlua{tex.print(tostring(hvdm.date:match(#1)))}} Calling \FormatDate(1) is OK although it returns "nil" (correct would be #1 = 20101114 Calling \FormatDate(A) is not OK with the error: ! LuaTeX error <main ctx instance>:1: bad argument #1 to 'match' (string expected, got nil) stack traceback: [C]: in function 'match' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. It is no problem if the function returns the string "nil" from tostring() but an error like this I would like to avoid. Hans van der Meer

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Commutative Diagrams
by Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Hi List, I'm looking for a good way to set mathmatical commutative Diagrams in ConTeXt, has anybody of you advices what would be a native/good way to do so? Thanks -- Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz Auf dem Sattler 4 34516 Ederbringhausen Germany Phone: +49 6454 799623 mobile: +49 176 63301749 Fax: +49 6454 7990138 e-Mail: scholz.m82(a)googlemail.com Not only Guinness - Linux is good for you, too. -- Banzai on IRC

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Animations (again, but different)
by Erik Margraf 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Dear Contexters! In the last few days I could read a few posts about "animations" in a resulting PDF document. Some statements mentioned java script as possible means to create an animation. Is it possible to do the following (which is rather simple using html and javascript)? -- Have a bunch of thumbnail pictures -- When you click on a thumbnail you see a larger version of the same picture -- With the next mouseclick the picture vanishes (you see the gallery of thumbnails again) if yes, how? Any hints are welcome. kind regards Erik

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Croatian translation of core-mis.mki[iv] and m-units.tex
by Vedran Miletić 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Hi, I translated the strings in core-mis.mki[iv] and m-units.tex to Croatian. Updated files are here: http://www.inf.uniri.hr/~vmiletic/context/core-mis.mkii http://www.inf.uniri.hr/~vmiletic/context/core-mis.mkiv http://www.inf.uniri.hr/~vmiletic/context/m-units.tex There are many more strings in m-units.tex that could (and probably should) be translated, if this code will remain in use (since Hans and Wolfgang talked about new module for units). Regards, -- Vedran Miletić

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Different fontsizes via simplefonts
by Daniel Grycman 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Hi lists, I'm searching for a possibility to create different fontsizes for chapters, section etc. using simplefonts. Any ideas? Daniel

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t-simplefonts.tex
by Herbert Voss 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Why are there two definitions for math? \def\dodefinesimplefonttypeface[#1][#2][#3]% {\getparameters[\????sf#1][\c!style=\v!serif,#3]% \processaction [\namedsimplefontparameter{#1}\c!style] [ \v!serif=>{\simplefonts@definetextfont [#1][#1][#2][#3]}, \v!sans=>{\simplefonts@definetextfont [#1][#1][#2][#3]}, \v!mono=>{\simplefonts@definetextfont [#1][#1][#2][#3]}, \v!math=>{\simplefonts@definemathfont [#1][#1][#2][#3]}, \v!math=>{\simplefonts@definemathfont [#1][#1][#2][#3]}, \v!handwriting=>{\simplefonts@definescriptfont[#1][#1][#2][#3]}, \v!calligraphy=>{\simplefonts@definescriptfont[#1][#1][#2][#3]}, \s!unknown=>{\simplefonts@definetextfont [#1][#1][#2][#3]}]} Herbert

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Lucida New Math and simplefonts
by Herbert Voss 14 Nov '10

14 Nov '10

Everything works fine with using simplefonts and Lucida, except the math fonts, which are taken from LM \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont [Lucida Bright] \setmathfont [Lucida New Math] \starttext roman $x=3$ \stoptext oss@shania:/opt/context> pdffonts 08-03-3.pdf name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- --------- MDATVQ+LucidaBright CID TrueType yes yes yes 18 0 JWSQRN+LMMathItalic10-Regular Type 1 yes yes no 19 0 ESDBJD+LMRoman10-Regular CID Type 0C yes yes yes 20 0 without simplefonts and using the lucida typescript I have MDATVQ+LucidaBright CID TrueType yes yes yes 18 0 KRKRVS+LucidaNewMath-Italic Type 1 yes yes no 19 0 QYKOLB+LucidaNewMath-Symbol Type 1 yes yes no 20 0 ISGJTO+LucidaBright CID Type 0C yes yes yes 21 0 Herbert

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