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Selectively dropping page numbers
by Tom 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition, states that page numbers are normally omitted on pages containing only illustrations or tables, except in long sequences of figures or tables. Is it practical within ConTeXt to omit page numbers from a single page within a chapter? Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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MAPS - free PDF version
by Michail Vidiassov 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Dear All, what is the current policy of NTG regarding Subj.? The links to 2008 issues of MAPS (36 and 37) result in "The PDF version of this document will be available one year after the paper version." In 2010 that message is somewhat confusing. Sincerely, Michail

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letter module not working
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hallo, I have problems compiling this with ConTeXt ver: 2010.03.20 22:59 MKIV ------------------------------------------ % coding: utf-8 \usemodule[letter][style=dina] \mainlanguage[deo] \enableregime[utf-8] \setupletter [ fromname={\tfa Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini}, subject={Blub}] \starttext \startletter bla \stopletter \stoptext ----------------------------------------- error message: system : module letter loaded systems : begin file brief2.tex at line 10 ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \relax l.6 } \dovspacingyes ...ument #1\else \s!default \fi ")} \fi \dosetcorrespondencesection ... {#2}{#3}\c!after } \endgraf \endgroup \@@su:letter:place:content ...ection [\v!content ] \executeifdefined {\v!lett... \next1 #1,->\doflushlettersection {#1} \doprocesscommaitem ... l.13 \stopletter ? Wolfgang

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Incorrect font size in captions
by Tom 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Captions for individual figures display in the proper (9 pt) font but those for combinations do not. See example: \definepapersize[6X9][width=6.14in, height=9.21in] \setuppapersize[6X9][6X9] \setuplayout[ width=middle, height=middle, backspace=.75 in, topspace=.5 in, header=.25 in, footer=0 in, headerdistance=.25 in, footerdistance=0 in, bottomspace=0.9 in, cutspace=.875 in, ] \setupcaptions[style={\switchtobodyfont[9pt]}, location=bottom,number=no,align=raggedcenter] \starttext \placefigure [here]{none} \startcombination[2*1] {\externalfigure[s033-1b][width=.481\textwidth]} {Martin Wheelock\\{\it Cumberland County Historical Society}\\ {\it Carlisle, PA}} {\externalfigure[041-1b][width=.459\textwidth]} {Antonio Lubo\\{\it U. S. Army Military History Institute}} \stopcombination Some text for comparison of font size with captions. \stoptext Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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Bibtex change short key
by Hubertus 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Dear Mailinglist, I use the excellent BibTex module with this setup: \setupbibtex[database=biblio,sort=author] \setuppublications[alternative=apa,refcommand=short,sorttype=bbl,criterium=cited] So if I have something like this @ARTICLE{Akimoto2005, author = {R. Akimoto and B. S. Li and K. Akita and T. Hasama}, ... } in my *.bib file, the \cite[Akimoto2005] results in [ALAH05]. Is there a way to get only the first author with three letters and the year ([Aki05]) in the citation? Help would be much appreciated. Thanks Hubertus

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incorrect size of the font bounding box with MkIV
by Yanrui Li 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hi Hans, I tried to get the boundry of Chinese punctuation in the scrp-cjk.lua file. Such as the bounding box information of Chinese comma in the AdobeSongStd-Light.otf font: bbox[1] = 36, bbox[2] = -78, bbox[3] = 963, bbox[4] = 833 However I got the following result with luatex + plain bbox[1] = 171, bbox[2] = -58, bbox[3] = 370, bbox[4] = 240 The latter is right. What's the reason for it? -- Best regards, Li Yanrui

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xml and catcode switching
by Philipp Gesang 24 Mar '10

24 Mar '10

Hi, I'm formatting lots of urls and as some of them have ampersands in them I switch & to letter wherever they are placed. This works fine unless combined with XML which seems to impose its own catcodes on things. How could I fix things in the following example? Thanks for any suggestions, Philipp ···8<·········································································· \useURL [testurl] [http://elibrary.karelia.ru/book.shtml?levelID=004002&id=2570&cType=2] [] [http://elibrary.karelia.ru/book.shtml?levelID=004002&id=2570&cType=2] % these ampersands cause it \startxmlsetups urltest \xmlsetsetup{urltest}{main|url}{xml:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{urltest} \startxmlsetups xml:main \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:url \begingroup \catcode`\&=11 \from[testurl] \endgroup \stopxmlsetups \startbuffer[urltestbuf] <main> <url/> </main> \stopbuffer \starttext Test {\catcode`\&=11 \from[testurl]} % this one works: no xml \xmlprocessbuffer{urltest}{urltestbuf}{} Test \stoptext ···8<·········································································· -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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code with reserved words
by R. Bastian 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hello, is there a way to get Python code with reserved words highlighted ? Not colored as in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Verbatim_with_LuaTeX but {\bf ...} I use context 2010.01.26 Mk IV or texexec Thanks -- René Bastian www.pythoneon.org www.musiques-rb.org http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/

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overlays not working
by ARCOR 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

Hello context gurus, while learning about page design, I used Hans Hagen's sample file named "Simple Cover Page" from the wiki as a starting point. But it does not work. The overlay will not show up. The text itself is typeset properly. What I found out: Source: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Cover_Page saved as "test.tex". Procedure: 1 using TeX Live 2009 texexec --xtx test.tex No overlay, text ok 2 using TeX Live 2009 texexec --pdf test.tex No overlay, text ok 3 using online engine on live.contextgarden.net (pdfTeX) No overlay, text ok 4 using online engine on live.contextgarden.net (XeTeX) No overlay, text ok 5 using ConTeXt minimals context test.tex All working just fine System: ubuntu 9.10 (karmic koala) amd64, TeX Live 2009 without any modifications The only successful procedure was (5) with the most current ConTeXt-minimals distribution and therefore using the Mk IV version. Is the file not suitable for Mk II? Is something wrong with Mk II in TeX Live 2009? What am I doing wrong here? Best regards, Michael Ewe, Germany

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framedtext
by Hans van der Meer 23 Mar '10

23 Mar '10

I experience the following behaviour of framedtext in relation to inright and inleft. With \startframedtext[offset=value] the positioning of left and right margin inserts shifts with the size of 'value'. The next example shows the shift to the right of L2 and R2 (both mkii and mkiv). Change the offset to see the margin notes L2/R2 shift. \starttext \showframe[text,margin,edge] ABC \inright{\framed[width=10mm,height=5mm]{R1}} \inleft{\framed[width=10mm,height=5mm]{L1}} \startframedtext[offset=2cm] XYZ \inright{\framed[width=10mm,height=5mm]{R2}} \inleft{\framed[width=10mm,height=5mm]{L2}} \stopframedtext \stoptext Pictured: ..L1.|...................|.R1 .....|.L2................|.....R2 .....|...................| .....^...................^ ^ = frame lines of showpage I wonder if this is correct behaviour. The margins are imho fixed areas, defined as the areas on the left/right of the textframe. One would expect the margin texts put just there, not influenced by something that happens to be placed in the text. Or am I amiss? Hans van der Meer

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