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Blank at beginning of page
by Philipp Gesang 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hi, being new to ConTeXt I'd have loads of questions but I'd like to start with what puzzles me most: any \blank[] command that happens to be at the beginning of a page seems to be ignored. For instance in a document as follows \showframe \starttext \blank[5*big] Some text. \stoptext the string "Some text." will be placed on the very top of the text field, regardless of what \blank[]s precede it. I read a good deal of the documentation but couldn't make out the cause nor a workaround. Right now I even consider to put headings inside a float or something like that in order to make their [before=\blank[someblank]] option effective. Thanks in advance for any advice Philipp

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negative kerning
by Horacio Suarez 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

hello all: I need someting like a negative kerning to reduce some paragraphs length. I was reading the mails but I didn´t find it or was too complex for me. thankyou in advance. -------------------- Horacio Suarez _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/so…

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footnotes and naturalTABLES - Bug?
by Bernhard Rosensteiner 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hello all, when i place a footnote in a naturalTABLE the output at the bottom is always multiplied by four per footnotemarker. In normal tables it works normal (see minimal example in attachment). Is this a bug or make i something wrong? best regards Bernhard

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itemize
by Hans Hagen 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi, I uploaded a beta with some mkiv adaptions of itemize, esp the itemalignment \startitemize[n][width=3cm,itemalign=flushright,distance=1em] \dorecurse{12}{\item test} \stopitemize it also works with fit and distance is now also hounoured; a side effect is that broad no longer is driven by distance but by a new parameter step (which default to the old value so hopefully there should be no compatibility issue) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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last chapter number
by Andreas Harder 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi all, is there already an equivalent to \lastpage for the last chapter number in a document. I tried something like \getmarking[chapternumber][last], but the output is still the current chapter number. Thanks in advance Andreas

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Is there the length of article title limited in bibliography with MkIV for Chinese?
by Yanrui Li 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi all, If the .bib file includes a article with Chinese title, I found the article's length should be equal or less than 22 characters. Once the length is over 22 characters, the compile process will hang. The following is an example: %% filename: test.tex, it depends on the AdobeSongStd-Light.otf font. \starttypescript[serif][zhfont] \definefontsynonym[Serif][name:adobesongstd] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic][name:adobesongstd] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[myfonts] \definetypeface[myfonts][rm][serif][zhfont] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[myfonts] \setupbodyfont[myfonts,rm,11pt] \setupbibtex[database=ref] \starttext 测试\cite[测试]。 \placepublications \stoptext %% filename: ref.bib @book{测试, title = {〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二}, author = {一二三}, publisher = {四五六}, year = {2000}, } After compiling the above test.tex, I can get the following test.bbl file: \setuppublicationlist[samplesize={一00},totalnumber=1] \startpublication[k=测试,t=book, a={{一二三}},y=2000, n=1,s=一00] \author[]{}[]{}{一二三} \pubyear{2000} \title{〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二} \pubname{四五六} \stoppublication If I modify the ref.bib file, for example I add one Chinese character in the "title" field: %% filename: ref.bib @book{测试, title = {〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二三}, author = {一二三}, publisher = {四五六}, year = {2000}, } When I compile the test.tex again, the compiling process stops here: publications : loading database from test.bbl (test.bbl ! String contains an invalid utf-8 sequence. l.8 ...�九〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二 ��% ? I'm sure that all texts in my files are encoded with utf-8. -- Best regards, Li Yanrui

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\everyaftershipout isn't "called" for every pagebreak
by Andreas Schneider 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi, I'm using \appendtoks...\to\everyaftershipout to reset a variable on every pagebreak. This doesn't work as I expect(ed) it, since it seems to only trigger after a paragraph. The following example shows the problem. On every new page, the first footnote should be "New", which is not the case here. What would be the way to go for me, to get the result I described? Thanks in advance, Andreas. The example: \define\test{\doifelse{\getvalue{testvar}}{page}{% \footnote{Repeat}% }{% \footnote{New}% \setvalue{testvar}{page}% }} \appendtoks \global\setvalue{testvar}{} \to\everyaftershipout \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\dorecurse{250}{text }\test} \dorecurse{10}{\dorecurse{250}{text }\test} \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] lost in documentation
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

> Can you make a minimal example or should we waste our time to write > one for you? > > Wolfgang Sorry, here it is: \starttext >From texshow-web { \setuphead[section-3][bodypartconversion=Characters] \section{One} } but this does not work. I deleted the 's' from Characters { \setuphead[section-3][bodypartconversion=Character] \section{Two} } but that is not working too. At the garden page 'titles' I found { \setupsection[section-3][bodypartconversion=Character] \section{Three} } that works, but it does not correspont to the syntaxdescription in texshow-web, which is \starttyping \setupsection[...][...][...,...=...,...] [...] name [...] name conversion numbers characters Characters romannumerals Romannumerals previousnumber yes no \stoptyping The second parameter should be a 'name' and bodypartconversion is not a parameter at all. Looking at the description, my problem should be solved by { \setupsection[section-3][][conversion=Characters] \section{four} } and this works. But the version { \setupsection[section-3][conversion=Characters] \section{five} } works too. Why? And what is the difference to the first solution? \stoptext Wolfgang

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itemize-margin->break joinedup
by Hans van der Meer 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

The joinedup parameter in \startitemize is meant to close the gap between the list and the preceding material. The margin parameter is for horizontal movement of the list, is I understand it. However, addition of a margin to the \startitemize disables the joinedup. Is this expected behaviour? Below is a minimal example showing the effect. Hans van der Meer \setupblank[small] \setupitemize[n,packed] \starttext \contextversion\ After \type{\startitemize[joinedup]} joinedup ok: \startitemize[joinedup] \item sub a \startitemize \item sub a1 \item sub a2 \stopitemize \item sub b \stopitemize \contextversion\ After type[joinedup,margin=2cm] joinedup ineffective: \startitemize[joinedup,margin=2cm] \item sub a \startitemize \item sub a1 \item sub a2 \stopitemize \item sub b \stopitemize \stoptext

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Minimals installation problem OS X 10.6.2
by paul morgan 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Hi, On a new Snow Leopard machine, I ran ./first-setup.sh in ~/context. As instructed at the end of the ./first-setup.sh run, I then added /Users/pm/context/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin to my .zshenv, and % echo $PATH shows correct path when I source, logout, restart, etc. I ran: p% texexec example.tex MTXrun | kpse fallback with progname 'context' initialized in 0.001019 seconds I then tried p% luatex sample.tex This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.50.0-2009122423 \write18 enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt luatex.fmt mktexfmt: No such file or directory I can't find the format file `luatex.fmt'! Any suggestions on what I should do? Also, first-setup.sh creates the dir ...tex/texmf-osx-64/bin, but, p% uname -m i386 Thank you very much for any help you can offer.

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