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[OT] Lua sponsors
by luigi scarso 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

" We are pleased to announce that Adobe has joined our corporate sponsorship program." http://www.lua.org/sponsors.html -- luigi

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using `` '' the output is wrong.
by views63 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Hi all, I'm using `` complex analysis'' the output is wrong. but using \ quotation (... ...) can output the correct quotation marks The example: \starttext `` complex analysis'' \quotation{complex analysis} \stoptext -- Best Regards

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Differences in smart quotes MKII -> MKIV
by James Fisher 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Hi, (Forgetting our documentation philosophy session for a minute,) I'm experiencing issues in MKIV with smart quotes. Specifically, opening quotes. Compare the output of `texexec dash-test' and `context quote-test' on the following: \starttext `Yes, but --- ' `--- this is an interruption! Get down on the floor!' The interjection was quite {\em unexpected} --- indeed, `shocking'. \stoptext And the following with double quotes: \starttext ``Yes, but --- '' ``--- this is an interruption! Get down on the floor!'' The interjection was quite {\em unexpected} --- indeed, ``shocking''. \stoptext In both cases, MKIV treats the opening grave character (is that the name? backtick?) literally rather than as an opening smart quote. James

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suggestions for context documentation
by Peter Münster 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Hello, These suggestions are a bit a reply to the thoughts of James Fisher. It would be nice, to have once in the future at least 2 up to date context documentations: - a context user manual For me, it's the merge of all scattered articles and manuals. Each chapter treats a particular subject, such as "columns" or "footnotes". It seems, that Taco is working on such a manual. - a context command reference manual This is just the xml-database used by texshow. Each command should be described in detail with every possible options. On the one hand, texshow uses this database, on the other hand a well structured command reference can be generated as pdf-file. Filling in all the details in both projects is a lot of work, so perhaps it would be a good idea, to set up a system, that makes it easy for users to contribute to these projects (patches) and easy for Taco and Hans to acknowledge or reject those patches. This "system" would be nothing else as some vcs (git or svn for example) with some commit-hooks, that manage the acknowledgement by Hans and Taco (and perhaps others). The tex-files of the user-manual are already under version control, and the xml-database is only the cont-en.xml file, that would need to be put under version control too. So, perhaps with not too much effort, users can be easily invited to contribute to the documentation projects and the quality can be assured through the acknowledgements of the developers. Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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bookmarks point to page, not to section start
by Mojca Miklavec 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Hello Hans, I suspect that bookmarks to sections point to pages only, not to the exact position where the sections start. I have another document generated with Word and when I click to it, the viewer (Preview.app) goes straight to section start, while when I generate the document with ConTeXt, it only goes to the page, not to exact section start. The behaviour seems to be the same in both MKII and MKIV (MKII only doesn't respect the accented characters; but I understand the pain of recoding). I'm using the following code to place the bookmarks: \setupinteraction [state=start] \setupinteractionscreen [option=bookmark] \placebookmarks [section,subsection,subsubsection] [section,subsection] \starttext \dorecurse{20}{\section{title} \input tufte} \stoptext Mojca PS: I can send a sample word-generated document off-list for comparison if needed.

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Something is wrong with backgrounds
by Andreas Harder 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Hi all, if I compile the following example with the actual beta, the circle is set in foreground … even if the background is not set. \startuseMPgraphic{test} fill fullcircle scaled 5cm withcolor red; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[test]{\useMPgraphic{test}} % \setupbackgrounds[page][background=test] \starttext test \stoptext Can someone confirm this or have I overseen something? Greetings, Andreas

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Re: [NTG-context] setbreakpoints
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Hi Wolfgang, To be serious, what \setbreakpoints[] do? I want to wikify this command. Vyatcheslav

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Occasional words sticking out from flush-right
by James Fisher 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

Hi, I'm experiencing an issue where, when the width of a block of text is small, the occasional word sticks out from the otherwise flush right. I've previously seen an example of this in an image on the contextgarden wiki, but now can't find it. To reproduce what I mean, compile this with Mark IV: \mainlanguage[en] \usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino,11pt] \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuphead[title][header=empty] \starttext \title{Personal statement} \startcolumns[n=2] This heavily-hyphenated jauntily-formatted flush-left flush-right justified-text paragraph set in a two-column layout and subtly-quirky-but-never-offensive Palatino shouldn't produce out-of-flush sticking-out-like-a-sore-thumb words from the flush-right. \stopcolumns \stoptext In this example, the string 'sticking-out-like-a-sore-thumb' sticks out to approx 3mm from the right edge of the paper. In this situation, I would much prefer that that string is hyphenated, using one of the hyphens already in the string. Based on one other test (in which my text was far less hyphenated than the above), it seems that the hyphenation algorithm refuses to hyphenate strings of words that are already hyphenated. Is this true? If so, is it deliberate? And how do I turn it off? (And do other people agree with me that it's awfully ugly?) Best James Fisher

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Using XeTeX results in: ! Undefined control sequence. \PDFversion ->1.\the \pdfminorversion
by James Fisher 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

Somewhere in my twists and turns to get Mark IV working today, it appears XeTeX has been broken. Running `texexec --xtx' on any ConTeXt file results in: ! Undefined control sequence. \PDFversion ->1.\the \pdfminorversion All I've been able to find out is that these macros are something to do with PDFTeX. I really don't know where to turn now. I'm running: XeTeX 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (Web2C 7.5.6) TeXExec | version 6.2.1 - 1997-2009 - PRAGMA ADE/POD MTXrun | current version: 2010.03.02 12:34

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no protrusion for hyphen ??
by Steffen Wolfrum 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

Hi, I have read there were troubles with |-| in MkIV last year. I found another one: the hyphen set by |-| doesn't get protruded. See example below, please: \startluacode fonts.protrusions.vectors['stpure'] = { [0x002D] = { 0, 0.50 }, -- hyphen } fonts.protrusions.classes['stwpure'] = { vector = 'stpure', factor = 1 } \stopluacode \definefontfeature[default][default] [mode=node,protrusion=stwpure,script=latn]% extend=2,slant=.2, \usetypescript[postscript] \definetypeface[postscript][rm][serif][times][default] \setupbodyfont[postscript,18pt] \setupalign[line,block,hanging] \showframe \starttext \dorecurse{13}{test } test|-|text test \dorecurse{13}{test } test- text test \stoptext Steffen

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