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Where is the cow?
by Matthias Weber 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Dear all, maybe a catchy subject line will get attention -:) Indeed, the cow seems to be missing in mk2 and is overly present in mk4 in the sense that my own image cow.jpg within the same directory as the document below gets ignored in favor of the cow that's present in the mk4 minimals. These are minor issues, as it is relatively unlikely that I will need to include images of cows in my documents in the near future. What is bothering me however is my inability to combine figures properly together with text in a controlled manner. I have a bunch ow smallish images (let's call them cows) which I'd like to have surrounded by text. I am happy and actually prefer to do this manually instead of keeping my fingers crossed that some automatic algorithm will do the job, but for that I need to know how which version of ConTeXt is placing the figures. What would work for me: A way to split the text width into chunks that have fixed widths, and fill these chunks individually and vertically with figures or text. This might be possible with tables, but there should be a simpler way. Below are my attempts so far - with very frustrating results, both in mk2 and mk4. Matthias \setupbodyfont[12pt] \setupcolors[state=start] \setuplayout[grid=yes] \showgrid \setupcolor[rgb] \definecolor[defc] [r=.9,g=.9,b=.94] \definetextbackground [defbackground] [backgroundcolor=defc, corner=round, before=\blank, after=\blank, leftoffset=5pt, rightoffset=5pt, topoffset=5pt, bottomoffset=5pt, frame=on, framecolor=darkblue, location=paragraph, color=darkred] \defineenumeration [blurb] [before={\starttextbackground[defbackground]}, after={\stoptextbackground}, text=Blurb, way=bysection, location=hanging, letter=rm] \setupframedtexts[background=color,backgroundcolor=defc, corner=round, before=\blank, after=\blank, leftoffset=5pt, rightoffset=5pt, topoffset=5pt, bottomoffset=5pt, frame=on, framecolor=darkblue, location=paragraph, color=darkred] \starttext \startblurb Why is the topoffset so small? This happens at the top of a page. \stopblurb \placefigure[left]{none}{\externalfigure[cow][width=3cm]} \startblurb This is almost working. The figure is too low. \stopblurb \startfiguretext [left]{none}{\externalfigure[cow][width=2in]} \startblurb Something is very wrong here. \stopblurb \stopfiguretext \page \startframedtext Why is the offset so big? \stopframedtext \placefigure[left]{none}{\externalfigure[cow][width=3cm]} \startframedtext How do I combine this text with the figure? \stopframedtext For some reason, this text is placed correctly. \stoptext

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bib module, inproceedings & mkii/mkiv incompatibility
by Mojca Miklavec 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Hello Taco, the following example (I need to admit that I'm not sure how to properly cite inproceedings) returns a different result in mkii and mkiv. My citation (the fields I use) is probably a bit wrong, but the results should be the same in my opinion. (Only mkii shows the year, in mkiv there's an extra space; the month is not shown anywhere, pubname is only shown in mkii although it's probably not needed anyway since it's already the title (= booktitle in bibtex?) that takes that role. It's also not really clear to me why I need to use author and not artauthor, but well ...) It may be sensible to have some reference about which fields are sensible for what type of publication also among the ConTeXt manuals. >From some unofficial BibTeX reference (http://www.kfunigraz.ac.at/~binder/texhelp/bibtx-14.html) Format: @INPROCEEDINGS{citation_key, required_fields [, optional_fields] } Required fields: author, title, booktitle, year Optional fields: editor, pages, organization, publisher, address, month, note, key \usemodule [bib] \setuppublications [alternative=num, criterium=all, sorttype=cite] \startpublication [k=3Ddosimetry, t=inproceedings, a=Kormoll, s=, u=] \arttitle{3D In-vivo Dosimetry for Photon Radiotherapy Based on Pair Production} \title{IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Medical Imaging Conference Record} \author[]{Thomas}[T.]{}{Kormoll} \author[]{Daniela}[D.]{}{Kunath} \author[]{Wolfgang}[W.]{}{Enghardt} \volume{} \issue{} \city{Orlando, Florida} \pubyear{2009} \pubname{IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record} \month{October} \day{25-31} \pages{2969-2975} \doi{} \abstract{} \stoppublication \starttext \cite[3Ddosimetry] \placepublications \stoptext Thanks, Mojca

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Re: [NTG-context] Where is the cow?
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

> \setupexternalfigures[location={local,global,default}] > local : currentdirectory + .. + ../.. > global : paths set with 'directory=...' > default : tex tree Hi Wolfgang, I want to draw your attention about what Texshow says \setupexternalfigures: global: the whole current project environment local: this 'directory' option default: the global texmf tree none: actual directory directory: local directory for figure files The differences I see are: 1) 'local' without 'directory' searches within current folder 2) it also searches in upper and 2 levels upper folders. Is it new behaviour for mkiv? Vyatcheslav

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MetaPost filesize
by Troy Henderson 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

I am writing because there appears to be a very large (i.e., approximately a factor of 10) difference in filesizes of the same MetaPost graphic generated in the following 2 ways (1) Including a common MetaPost source "common.mp" into a minimal MKIV document and compiling with `context surface.tex` (2) Including the same "common.mp" into a minimal MetaPost source file and compiling with `mpost surface.mp` followed by a `epstopdf surface.mps`. In case (1), the resulting PDF is about 445kB whereas in case (2) the resulting PDF is about 45kB. I've attached the "surface.tex", "surface.mp", and "common.mp" for those that wish to test this and help determine why ConTeXt's output is so much larger than MetaPost+epstopdf. Thanks in advance for the help. Troy Henderson

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Re: [NTG-context] Using XeTeX results in: ! Undefined control sequence. \PDFversion ->1.\the \pdfminorversion
by Nicola Vitacolonna 07 Mar '10

07 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 Hi, wondering whether this has a fix or is an open issue... I have exactly the same problem with the current ConTeXt Minimals. Nicola

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Crop Output
by Troy Henderson 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Is it possible to get ConTeXt (MKIV) to automatically crop out the whitespace from its PDF output? I know that I can use the external utility `pdfcrop`, but I was wondering if this is possible with ConTeXt itself. This would be useful when generating MetaPost graphics where the graphic is the only thing in the ConTeXt output. Thanks, Troy Henderson

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Embedding fonts
by Tom 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Printers that I deal with want the PDFs to have the fonts embedded. The PDFs that Texlive produces don't appear to have their fonts embedded and I can't find what option I must set or routine that must be run to embed the fonts. Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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Table of contents disappears when \setuparranging is used
by berend＠pobox.com 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Hi People, I have a very weird problem. As soon as I star tot use \setuparranging the table of contents and other registers disappear. How to fix that? An example file: -------------------------------------------------- \setuppapersize [A5][A4] \setuparranging [2SIDE,rotated] \starttext \subject{Table of contents} \placecontent[1] \chapter{Hello} World. \stoptext -------------------------------------------------- There will be no text under "table of contents". Comment out \setuparranging and then the table of contents appears. When \setuparranging is enabled, this appears in the log file: system : part,chapter,section,subsection,subsubsection,subsubsubsectio n,subsubsubsubsection not found/processed -- All the best, Berend de Boer

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Breaking textframes across pages
by Matthias Weber 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Dear all, if I understand correctly, framed texts (\startframedtext ... startframedtext) are not broken across pages. In contrast, when I set up an emumeration to to be framed, it is broken, but in such a way that the bottom margin of the first part and the top margin of the second part are inconsistent with any values I imposed. Below is a minimal example. I can see that this might be on purpose, but when I have $e^{e^x}$ and the like in the first line on the new page, it gets too close to the default margin. Is there an option that sets the broken margins? Thanks, Matthias \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbodyfont[10pt] \definetextbackground [defbackground] [ before=\blank, after=\blank, leftoffset=5pt, rightoffset=5pt, topoffset=25pt, % I exaggerate here of course bottomoffset=25pt, frame=on, framecolor=black, location=paragraph] \defineenumeration [myframe] [text=Note, before={\starttextbackground[defbackground]}, after={\stoptextbackground}, way=bysection, location=hanging, letter=rm] \starttext \startmyframe \input tufte \stopmyframe \input knuth \input knuth \input knuth % make sure the next frame breaks \startmyframe \input tufte \stopmyframe \input knuth \stoptext

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suggestions for context documentation
by Michael Saunders 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

> You mean like the beginner's manual > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/ms-cb-en.pdf > > and the user manual > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf > ... > > amongst 46 others by Pragma No, not like those. I mean like a real manual. I read the book about Hasselt---a few examples without explanations. I've looked at most of the fifty or so documents over which this virtual manual is supposed to be spread. They are about as informative. Most of these documents seem to be 5--12 years old. The wiki is even more patchy. The idea that a computer manual is something that exists implicitly in the discussions of a mailing list is a new idea to me. You can't be serious about "mk.pdf" being a manual. Even it admits, "This document is not so much a users manual as a history of the development." Little after that point is intelligible. Compared with the clear, abundant documentation of the LaTeX world, Context seems like a secret that a small club is trying to keep. It's not even clear from the manuals that development is ongoing, much less that there is some advantage in using it. So, will there ever be a manual to MK IV? In how many years?

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