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[ntg-context] ppchtex questions and maybe buglets
by Bernhard Rosensteiner 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi all, ppchtex is really nice. after experimenting with it i found some buglets: \starttext \setupchemical[axis=off,frame=on, option=test, size=medium, scale=medium, right=2000, left=3000, height=6000,textsize=medium]%textsize and option=test has no effect - why? \startchemical \chemical[SIX,SB135,DB246,SR6,Z,CRZ6][N,C,N,C,C,C,{\LC{\color[green]{NH}}}]%here color works \color[green]{\chemical[ADJ3,Five,SB235,DB4,Z345,SR3,CRZ3][N,C,H,H]}%color does not work here, manual says it should -why? \bottext{\offset[y=-\baselineskip]{Adenin}} \stopchemical \stoptext maybe someone can also explain how the OFF key works. the behaviour is strange in my opinion. i found nothing precise in the manual. onhttp://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2004/05/ppchtex.html i found following explanation: 18OFF1: do 18 small steps in direction 1 (right) but this don´t work - even with the example on the homepage. best regards Bernhard

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[MkII] Difference in output in minimals versus TeX Live 2009
by Vedran Miletić 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi, is minimals supposed to have the same output using MkII as TeX Live 2009? Or have I missunderstood what does it mean that 'MkII is frozen'? I ask because I get different results on same document. I'm using Palatino font. It seems related to spacing between letters in "il" and "ij" that is larger in current minimals. Any ideas why? -- Vedran Miletić

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verbatim showing line number issue for mkiv
by Joshua Lee 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi All, I would like to show the line number for the verbatim, but it fails in mkiv and works with mkii. Please refer to attached test.tex for the source code and test-mkii.pdf for the mkii output and test-mkiv.pdf for the mkiv output. Thanks in advance for your help. BR/JL

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Dash broken in MKIV
by Andreas Schneider 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi, in MKIV, the "long" dash (--) seems to be broken. Example: \starttext some -- text \stoptext Outputs with literal "--" instead of a longer "-" as it used to do before. It still worked ~2 weeks ago. I tested it with the minimals (beta) under Linux and Windows. Best Regards, Andreas Schneider.

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Re: [NTG-context] table alignment
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Thank you Aditya and Wolfgang, I will try it both: > No page breaks possible: > > \defineframedtext[tablebox][frame=off,width=\hsize,offset=0pt,before > =,after=] > > \starttext > > vorher > > \startnarrower > > text > > \starttablebox > \starttable[s0|l|] > \NC table entry \NC\AR > \stoptable > \stoptablebox > > \stopnarrower > > text > > \startnarrower > > text > > \startlinecorrection \dontleavehmode > \startTABLE[frame=off,offset=0pt,loffset=0.25ex,roffset=0.25ex] > \NC table entry \NC\NR > \stopTABLE > \stoplinecorrection > > \stopnarrower > > text > > \stoptext Wolfgang

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MK-II to MK-IV
by gummybears 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Hi, A couple of years ago, I decided to switch from LaTex to ConText. Now I have compiled a lot of documents (Physics syllabi's) which compiles fine in MK-II. I thought I would try to make a switch to MK-IV, mainly because I want to include 3D PRC figures in my documents. I made some test cases to test MK-IV in order to get a handle on the differences between MK-II and MK-IV Some of my observations are *) Numbered formulas, numbered by section, don't seem to work *) I am getting a lot of warnings of identifiers, apparently used more than once, which they are not LuaTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{km1_chapter1_sec1}) has been already used, duplicate ignored Question Are these observations correct, someone else can confirm them ? Question If so, is there a fix, patch, or change in ConText commands/options I am not aware of ? TIA

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MkIV gray, no MkII black ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Hi, in MkII I set \setupcolors[state=start] to activate defined colors (for text, numbers etc.), and \setupcolors[state=stop] to set these colors to black. Now, in MkIV \setupcolors[state=stop] does set these colors to gray. Not to black. [Log: "color : system gray is global activated"] What is the key to set either "color is color" or "color is black" again? Steffen

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Presentation from document
by Matija Šuklje 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

Hullo, I was wondering the other day: since most people make "slides"/presentations basically by copy-pasting the chapter and subchapter titles into bulleted lists, would it be possible to make slides in ConTeXt by just loading a module in the original document and then when the PDF would be generated it would just take those titles and order them into a neat slide show? I know this is not how presentations should be made, but just sometimes such lazy person's slides would be a life saver. Cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org

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Macro with variable number of arguments
by Otared Kavian 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

Hi all, I would like to write a macro which may have sometimes two, sometimes three arguments. The first and the last one are always present, but not necessarily the middle one. The unsatisfactory solution I have now is something like the example below: \define[2]\myMacroTwo{Name: #1\crlf Email: #2\crlf\thinrule\blank[small]} \define[3]\myMacroThree{Name: #1\crlf Address: #2 \crlf Email: #3\crlf\thinrule\blank[small]} \starttext \myMacroTwo{Hans}{hans(a)hagen.context.nl} \myMacroThree{Wolfgang}{Paradise of TeX, 2010}{wolfgang(a)schuster.context.de} \stoptext I think that (or rather I am certain…) in ConTeXt it is possible to define a unique macro called \myMacro which automatically tests the number of arguments: if there are only two of them the commands in \myMacroTwo are executed, while if three arguments are present, the commands in \myMacroThree are executed. Can anyone give a hint on this matter?

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active chars in xml -- suggestions needed
by Philipp Gesang 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

Dear listmates, I need some suggestions on how to setup non breaking spaces in XML. I tried an empty element <nbsp/> to be processed as follows: \startxmlsetups xml:nbsp ~ \stopxmlsetups which was ignored by context. (I'll need something similar with \discretionary as well, I guess.) Thanks for any suggestions, Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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