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Room for comment on the backside of form
by Cecil Westerhof 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

I am still trying to make a useful environment for paper feedback forms. One thing I am trying to do now, is to but lines on the back for when someone needs more space to give the feedback. For this I made the following macro: \def\PageWithComment[#1]{ \page #1 \crlf\crlf \thinrules[n=35,inbetween=\vskip1.5ex] \page } There are several needed optimisations. For starters the number of lines is hard coded. Is there a way to calculate them? At the moment it is always called with: \PageWithComment[Room for extra comments] What is the best way to set a default? Because most of the time it will all the time be the same value. With this setup the pagination has to be done completely manually. Not very handy. Is there a way that when a new page is generated, the comment page is inserted before the new page? And also after the last? An example: http://decebal.nl/ConTeXt/sources/feedback-form and the pdf: http://decebal.nl/ConTeXt/sources/feedback-form.pdf -- Cecil Westerhof M CLDWesterhof(a)gmail.com O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/

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layer problem
by Andrea Valle 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hi to all, I'm using this code to insert a page from pdf into a layer: \enableregime[utf8] \mainlanguage[it] \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Colors %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %\definepapersize [flyer][width=99mm, height=210mm] \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout [width=fit, rightmargin=0cm, leftmargin=0cm, leftmargindistance=0pt, rightmargindistance=0pt, height=fit, header=0cm, footer=0cm, topspace=0cm, backspace=0cm, % cutspace=1cm, bottomspace=0cm, location=singlesided] \starttext \definelayer[layer0] \setlayer [layer0] [x=0,y=20cm] {\rotate[90]{\externalfigure[prog.pdf][page=3]}} \setupbackgrounds[page][page][background=layer0, state=repeat] \strut \stoptext Now, the only problem is that the y=20 parameters doesn't affect the output. But I have a 20cm printed into the pdf. It's exactly the structure I'm using for many other projects. Where it works fine. Any ideas? Thanks a lot -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanderaalle/ --> http://www.youtube.com/user/vanderaalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " This is a very complicated case, Maude. You know, a lotta ins, a lotta outs, a lotta what-have-yous." (Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski)

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XeLaTeX logo
by Mojca Miklavec 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Dear Hans, may I request the addition of XeLaTeX logo to ConTeXt core? I'm not sure if there's an official version of it, but I would simply define it the same way as XeTeX logo, only replacing \kern-.15em \TeX} with \kern0em \LaTeX} at the end of definition. (The original XeLaTeX logo definition is extra-complicated, so I'm not sure how it's done. I suspect that they use -0.125 kerning between mirrored E and L, but that makes the two letters clash too much. It's in tex/latex/metalogo/metalogo.sty) Thanks a lot, Mojca

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Macros for paper feedback form
by Cecil Westerhof 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

I am trying to make a set of macros for a paper feedback form. The first part is: \setuplayout [backspace=20mm,footer=5mm,header=5mm,height=middle,margin=1cm,topspace=0mm,width=middle] \setupindenting[yes,none] \enableregime[utf-8] \mainlanguage[nl] \setupbodyfont[roman, 12pt] \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \setupoutput[pdf] \def\CheckBoxes[#1,#2]% {\blank #1\par \processcommalist[#2]\doCheckBoxes \blank \crlf } \def\doCheckBoxes#1% {\hskip2.5em[\hskip1em] #1\par } \def\GetComment[#1]{ \blank #1\par \thinrules[n=4] \blank \crlf } \def\Title[#1]{ \par \startalignment[center] {\switchtobodyfont[18pt]\bf\em#1} \stopalignment \blank } But I would like to have also a macro for the following: {\bf Contact gegevens:} \setupfillinrules[width=3cm] \fillinrules{Bedrijf:} \fillinrules{Naam:} \fillinrules{Adres:} \fillinrules{PC Woonplaats:} \fillinrules{E-mail} \fillinrules{Telefoon:} \fillinrules{GSM:} \blank \crlf The biggest problem is that the width is dependent on the longest text that is given here. In this case PC Woonplaats. Is there a smart way to calculate the right value? Another problem is that the distance between lines with fillinrules is about twice as big as with normal lines. How can I get the distance the same as with normal lines? -- Cecil Westerhof M CLDWesterhof(a)gmail.com O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/

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dorecurse in table
by Cecil Westerhof 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

The following code does what I want: \blank \SetTableToWidth{\textwidth} \starttable[|lp(0.90\textwidth)|] Some text \SR \SR \HL \SR \HL \SR \HL \SR \HL \stoptable \blank I would think that the following code is equivalent: \blank \SetTableToWidth{\textwidth} \starttable[|lp(0.90\textwidth)|] Some text \SR \dorecurse{4}{ \SR \HL } \stoptable \blank But it is not. I get: Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in alignment at lines 39--49 [][][][][] ! Misplaced \noalign. \TABLEnoalign ->\noalign \bgroup \let \noalign \relax \let \next = \insertTABLEtail ->\TABLEnoalign {\global \settrue \preventTABLEbreak \globa... \stoptable ->\chuckTABLEautorow \insertTABLEtail \TABLEnoalign {\globalletem... l.60 \stoptable and h gives: I expect to see \noalign only after the \cr of an alignment. Proceed, and I'll ignore this case. What am I doing wrong? -- Cecil Westerhof M CLDWesterhof(a)gmail.com O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/

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vim syntax highlighting in MKIV
by Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hi Hans, Mojca, Aditya and List, just tried to use the vim Syntax Highlighting module in ConTeXt MKIV, but if running the documents complains it searches a file called filename-vimsyntax.tmp-vimsyntax.tmp sure that file not exists but there is a file called filename-vimsyntax.tmp is there a way to do a workaround so that the vim Syntaxhighlighting module would work in MKIV or does it need to be rewriten completedly? Greetings -- --- Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz Auf dem Sattler 4 34516 Ederbringhausen Phone: +49 6454 799623 mobile: +49 176 63301749 Fax: +49 6454 e-Mail: scholz.m82(a)googlemail.com Think sideways! -- Ed De Bono

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breaking a line
by Hannes Baur 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Dear all I should break a line to correct for an "Overfull \hbox ..." error. How can I achieve this, so that the line before the manual line break remains justified. Example: Original text "Abb. 1. Männchen von Megarhyssa rixator, einer charakteristischen Schlupf- wespe von im Holz lebenden Pflanzenwespen. R. Burri. Während der " The word "Schlupf" cannot be hyphenated any further and therefore "Schlupfwespe" should be put on the next line. However, the above line above becomes raggedright with standard commands, e.g. \crlf. So, how can I force the word "Schlupfwespe" to the next line so that the the entire paragraph remains justified? The command should be the equivalent to LaTeX's \linebreak command. Any suggestions welcome. Regards Hannes

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impostion
by Jan Pohanka 06 Sep '10

06 Sep '10

Hello, is it possible to create following impostion, please? \setuppapersize[A5,landscape][A4] \setuparranging[???] -------------------- | 2nd page | | bottom up | | | | | -------------------- | 1 st page | | normal | | | | | -------------------- -------------------- | 4th page | | bottom up | | | | | -------------------- | 3rd page | | normal | | | | | -------------------- regards Jan -- Tato zpráva byla vytvořena převratným poštovním klientem Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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subpagenumbering
by Wolfgang Schuster 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Hi, mkiv gives a wrong value (x+1) for the total number of subpages \setupheadertexts[\subpagenumber\ – \nofsubpages] \setupsubpagenumber[way=bytext,state=start] \starttext \dorecurse{3} {\dorecurse{10}{\input knuth\par} \page\resetsubpagenumber} \stoptext Wolfgang

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linking to equations with leqalignno?
by Pau 05 Sep '10

05 Sep '10

Hello, I am a bit lost. I am using this format for an equation: ----------------------------------------------------------------- \placeformula[nohair] \startformula \leqalignno{ - M^{}_{\bullet}a^{2}_{\bullet} = & M^{}_{2} = - \frac{J^{2}_{1}}{M^{}_{0}} \,, \cr - M^{}_{\bullet}a^{3}_{\bullet} = & J^{}_{3} = \frac{M^{}_{2}J^{}_{1}}{M^{}_{0}}\,. \cr } \stopformula ----------------------------------------------------------------- but then,using \in[nohair] to link to the equation in the text of the document does not work. I get a [??] I think this is related to leqalignno, because \in[] works fine without it. What should I do in this case? thanks, Pau

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