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existence of file
by Hans van der Meer 05 May '10

05 May '10

Is there a ConTeXt macro that can tell me if a certain file exists? If not, may I ask what Lua-call could be made in mkiv? I looked into the wiki but was not able to find the answer, allthough it probably is buried somewhere in it. Thanks beforhand. Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] tooltips and glossary
by Michael Saunders 05 May '10

05 May '10

>> Also, is there no Context method to produce a glossary? It might be >> enough to produce a secondary .bib file with special entries and to >> print this out as a secondary "References" section, but I don't know >> how to do this or how to control the appearance of the printed >> "references". Wolfgang Schuster: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Reference/en/definesynonyms If you read that page, you'll notice it doesn't say what the second and third arguments of \definesynonyms do, what the command \definesynonyms itself does, nor does it hint at what \infull is doing. There is certainly nothing there about using an external database. I don't see any way to use \definesynonyms for a glossary or any practical purpose for \definesynonyms at all, and the abbreviations example is obviously more trouble than it's worth. More to the point, there is nothing about tooltips. Is there a way for Context to produce tooltips in text (with invisible buttons, perhaps)?

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Re: [NTG-context] tooltips and glossary
by Michael Saunders 04 May '10

04 May '10

> (Preliminary remark to M.S.: please, please, configure your MUA to > correctly reply to the current thread!) (What's wrong with my subject line? I'm merely hitting "reply" in gmail.) > No, it's plain English. Unfamiliar phrases are just one consequence of a > language becoming the world standard. Do you want to flame Italians or > French for not adhering to the norms of classical Latin? You don't. > There's no point at all in even mentioning somebody's stylistic > idiosyncrasies on the internets. Just face it: the world won't adopt > English as a global means of communication without interfering with its > norms. If you don't understand something why don't you contact the > author, his email adress is right there on the first page. I don't mind non-native speakers using bad grammar, strange usages, or odd constructions at all. Things like that are usually no problem for native speakers to understand, although the two sentences I quoted were not "plain English" at all---one was completely indecipherable. The biggest problem with the docs is far more basic---it's the most basic mistake a beginning writer can make. I'm sure documents like the ones I was shown on this thread make perfect sense to their authors---who already know what they mean---but they fail to communicate their message to anyone who doesn't already know it. The reader isn't being given enough information to decode the message and what he is given is in no particular order: it's whatever bits and pieces of the story the author thinks of in the order he happens to think of them. You can't tell the author this. It makes sense to him and he can't understand the criticism. He has to put himself in the place of the reader who doesn't already know the message. If he can't do that, he can't communicate. I'm sure that these documents would be just as bad in the native languages of the authors as they are in English. The fault is far deeper than bad translation. Increasingly, I'm wondering whether the problem with Context is just bad docs or bad language design (it's hard to control, it looks bad most of the time). I still don't know. I'm hoping that Idris's book will shed light on this. > I append a snippet that should allow basic glossaries. It doesn't > provide much functionality (capitalization might have to be implemented > …) but you may fit it to your needs. ... > > (As for the code, it's certainly not context style, I'm aware of that > but don't have the time to care.) > > Awaiting your feedback, Thank you. I'm not quite sure what to do with these files (the .lua file in particular). Unfortunately, I won't be able to get to them until tomorrow. > As for the tooltips, unfortunately > I don't know how to create them. The functionality would be nice, > though, as long as no javascript is involved. It's not done with javascript. As I understand it, the usual way is to place an invisible pdf "forms"-style button over the word you want to gloss and then set its "short description" feature. I think context knows how to make such buttons and to set bounding boxes around words, so I think it should be possible, no?

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Re: [NTG-context] 3D annotations
by gummybears 04 May '10

04 May '10

On Sun, 2 May 2010, gummybears wrote: I read your email (17 april 2010) on the mailing list and applied the two patches to my Context minimal distro (the very latest version). When I run your test.tex through context the preview image test.png is not shown. >did you recreate formats after patch >("context -make" if memory serves me right)? >I will test with current minimals today. Probably not (my mistake), but now I did make the formats and with the current minimals I got the following error (when running your test.tex file) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : language en is active systems : begin file test.tex at line 3 floatblocks : 1 placed ! LuaTeX error ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lpdf-mis.lua:163: attempt to call field 'timestamp' (a nil value) stack traceback: ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lpdf-mis.lua:163: in function 'setupidentity' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. \synchronizebackendidentity ...akeyword \!!es , }} \actualshipout ...lio \or \the \everyfirstshipout \global \everyfirstshipout... \myshipout ...\@@ppmethod }\gobbleoneargument {#1} \setnextrealpageno \afters... \dofinaloutput ...hbox {\vbox {\dopagebody #1#2}}} \the \everyaftershipout \a... \finaloutput ...EAEAEA \dofinaloutput \fi \fi #1#2 \resetselectiepagina \incr... \sidefloatoutput ...e \else \finalsidefloatoutput \global \sidefloatvsize \n... ... l.23 \stopTEXpage

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get tex-value in lua
by Peter Münster 04 May '10

04 May '10

Hello, How can I get the value of a variable or a mode in the lua part? Example: context --arguments=MyVar=true test And in test.tex: \starttext \startluacode local my_var = loadstring("return " .. get_value_of("MyVar")) if my_var then tex.print("TRUE") else tex.print("FALSE") end \stopluacode \stoptext TIA for any help! Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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tooltips and glossary
by Michael Saunders 03 May '10

03 May '10

Does Context have a mechanism for placing tooltips on text? I think the usual PDF way is to put an invisible button over the test and set its "short description". Does anyone know how to do this? Also, is there no Context method to produce a glossary? It might be enough to produce a secondary .bib file with special entries and to print this out as a secondary "References" section, but I don't know how to do this or how to control the appearance of the printed "references".

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Footnote numbers and leftmargin setup [mkIV]
by Thomas Floeren 03 May '10

03 May '10

Hello, in mkII I use to set my left margins to 0pt. When I do this now in mkIV, I get misplaced footnote numbers (at the bottom). Example: \setuplayout [leftmargin=\zeropoint] \starttext just text\footnote{foot text} \stoptext To get correctly placed numbers I have to either set the leftmargin to >= 5pt, or leave out the leftmargin key in setuplayout. Is this a bug or just the mkIV way? Thomas ConTeXt ver: 2010.04.29 22:30 MKIV fmt: 2010.4.30 int: english/english

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Re: [NTG-context] 3D annotations
by gummybears 02 May '10

02 May '10

Hi Michail, I read your email (17 april 2010) on the mailing list and applied the two patches to my Context minimal distro (the very latest version). When I run your test.tex through context the preview image test.png is not shown. Which version of ConText should I use to make it work Thanks in advance

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tt, bold
by R. Bastian 02 May '10

02 May '10

Hello, for printing python scripts, i wish that the code to be \tt and the reserved word \bold. They are but so lightly that the difference is quasi not visible. The normal text is [sansserif, 10 pt]. Is there a solution? Thanks, rb -- René Bastian www.pythoneon.org www.musiques-rb.org http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/

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Small bug in Italian hyphenation
by Giovanni Salmeri 02 May '10

02 May '10

I'm using ConTeXt Mk IV and I've found a small problem with the Italian hyphenation. Sequences like "dell'impossibile" are hyphenated "dell'im-pos-si-bi-le" instead of the correct "del-l'im-pos-si-bi-le" (i.e. the first hyphen is omitted, which is sometimes annoying). In the list it.comp.software.tex I was told to add \lccode`\'=`\' in my text: in fact, it works perfectly, but I suppose there is something to be corrected in the ConTeXt files. Could someone tell me which file and how? Thank you very much in advance. -- Giovanni Salmeri http://mondodomani.org/pers/salmeri/

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