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Mk II, textstyle=cap not working
by Michael Ewe 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

Hello ConTeXt gurus, as a newbie I checked the example from "ConTeXt an excursion" page 11 ("Hasselt makes headlines"). The manual says: use "textstyle=cap" to format a chapter's head in capitals. Short story: the manual lies ;-) The sample does not work (at least in Mk II) Longer story: Sample works, when using ConTeXt Mk IV Even longer story: Being curious, I wanted to learn how the page 11 in the manual actually was typeset. I downloaded all the available sources from the pragma web-site. and found out: the source code does not even use "textstyle=cap". Instead it uses "textstyle=bold". Manual and available source apparently do not match. Nothing to learn here... Ok, now for my questions: 1) Is it a Mk IV feature not working in Mk II ? 2) Is it a bug? 3) Is there a way, I can tell (1) and (2) apart? Best Regards, Michael Ewe, Germany

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SVG 2 MetaPost/MetaFun
by Matija Šuklje 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

Is there a SVG to MetaPost/MetaFun converter available? I want to get this quite simple logo to converted from SVG into a ConTeXt- native vector graphic. Cheers, Matija P.S. Too bad SVG is not ConTeXt-native (yet?) -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org

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Multiple side-by-side tables
by Troy Henderson 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

I would like to put several tables side-by-side one another. Nesting \placesidebyside commands seems a bit inconvenient. Suggestions on how to make \starttable ... \stoptable not create a newline (without the \placesidebyside command) would be greatly appreciated. -- Troy Henderson

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temporarily disabling enumeration numbering
by Vianney le Clément 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

Hello again, Section 10.3 of the manual says that one can disable numbering for one item of an enumeration by putting [-]. However, this seems to affect the following item instead of the current one. For example, \defineenumeration[MyEnum][location=left] \starttext \MyEnum First\par \MyEnum[-] Second\par \MyEnum Third\par \MyEnum Fourth\par \stoptext removes the number of the third line, instead of the second one. Vianney

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\framed[location=top] and slanted tex gyre bonum
by Vianney le Clément 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

Hello, Yet another new ConTeXt user here. To briefly introduce myself, I am a computer scientist interested in typography as a hobby. Up to now, I did most things in LaTeX (sometimes resorting to ugly TeX hacking). Recently I gave ConTeXt MkIV a try and am quite happy with it. Now my question: I have some problems with the vertical alignment of \framed and some slanted fonts. Using the latest beta, the test file at the end of this message adds a slight whitespace in the two last blocks (using a slanted font). This does not happen when using the default Latin Modern font. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? Vianney \showstruts \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[Tex Gyre Bonum] \setupframed [frame=none, offset=0pt, location=top] \defineoverlay[bg][] \starttext \strut First line\par \strut Second line\par \strut Third line\par \blank \strut First line\par \framed{\strut Second line}\par \strut Third line\par \blank\sl \strut First line\par \strut Second line\par \strut Third line\par \blank \strut First line\par \framed{\strut Second line}\par \strut Third line\par \blank \strut First line\par \framed[background=bg]{\strut Second line}\par \strut Third line\par \stoptext

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Splitting a page in given ratios
by Matthias Weber 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

Dear all, this is probably even easy in plain TeX, but as I have never learned it properly, I am asking anyway: I would like to have a way to split a part of a page into two columns of different width, so something like \startsplitpage[columns=2,spacing=fill] \startcolumn[1][width=.6 \textwidth] \input{tufte} \stopcolumn[1] \startcolumn[2][width=.3 \textwidth] \placefigure[theBeerBottle] \stopcolumn[2] \stopsplitpage so that the individual columns are treated (if possible) as separate pages with all features (like \framed etc) adapted to the page width of the smaller sub-pages. This could replace (for me) the somehow (for me) disfunctional figuretext construct. Is there a way to do this? Thanks, Matthias

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Need help with the "letter" module
by Matija Šuklje 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

Hullo, I'm trying to write a letter, but it gets all screwy. The first batch of letter settings works OK (opening, closing, signature); but then the from* and to* blocks fail resulting in a PDF that just quotes that code on a separate page. Clearly I'm doing something wrong although I'm looking at the manuals: http://dl.contextgarden.net/modules/t- letter/doc/context/third/letter/correspondence.pdf MkII from TexLive 2008. Any help welcome :] --[snip]-- \mainlanguage[en] \enableregime[utf8] \setuppapersize[a4][a4] \usemodule[letter] \setupletter [opening={Dear FSFE,}, closing={Best regards,}, signature={Matija Šuklje\\Coordinator FSFE Fellowship group Slovenia}] [fromname={Matija Šuklje}, fromaddress={Dvořakova 10\\SI-1000 Ljubljana\\Slovenia}] [toname={Free Software Foundation Europe e.V.}, toaddress={Talstraße 110\\D-40217 Düsseldorf\\Germany}] \starttext \startletter \input knuth \stopletter \stoptext --[snap]-- -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org

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caption on the inner side
by Hubertus 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

Hello all, I was wondering if it possible to do something of this sort: \setupcaptions[location=low] \placefigure[outer][]{ Caption } {\externalfigure[test.jpg][width=0.5\textwidth]} So what I try is to get the caption not on the left side of the image but "inner". From the location pramametar there seems not to be an obvious solution, neither in the mail archive. Cheers, Hubertus

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using xmlsetups
by Hans van der Meer 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

I cannot get multiple separate \xmlsetsetup's working. Obviously I am doing something wrong. My idea was: file included contains: \startxmlsetups xml:commoncontext:commonsetups \xmlsetsetup{}{error|tex|html|nbsp|...|br}{xml:commoncontext:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{xml:commoncontext:commonsetups} \startxmlsetups xml:commoncontext:br \crlf \writestatus{CALLING}{br} % <<< apparently not called! \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:commoncontext:b {\bf\xmlflush{#1}} \stopxmlsetups ...... file that includes contains: \startxmlsetups xml:doccase:doccasesetups \xmlsetsetup{}{*}{xml:commoncontext:*} % {doc}{*}..also does not work \xmlsetsetup{doc}{*}{xml:case:*} % does work for setup 'xml:case' \xmlsetsetup{doc}{error|dvd|titles...|source|stars}{xml:doccase:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{xml:doccase:dvoccasesetups} \startxmlsetups xml:case:text \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups .... etc. Usage: <doc><text>The break not called<br/> and similarly <b>not called</ b><text></doc> Where is the flaw here? Hans van der Meer

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missing \xmlflushsetups?
by Hans van der Meer 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

I thought one can register various setups and then when setting up the processing of the root tag call them into being with: \xmlregisteredsetups (according to the docs "applies all global setups to the current document) But doing this as in: \startxmlsetups xml:doc:roottag xmlregisteredsetups ... I get instead the error: ! Undefined control sequence. \xmlregisteredsetups ...arttiming \xmlflushsetups \xmldefaulttotext \xmldocu... \@@su:xml:dvdcase:dvd #1->\xmlregisteredsetups Hans van der Meer

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