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DIY toc (or similar list)
by Thomas A. Schmitz 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hi experts, I'm thinking about a new presentation style and need some general advice from the TeXperts. I would like to have a list of topics on some area of the slide (similar to s-pre-19.tex). However, if at all possible, I would like it to be a bit fancier. Let's say I want the list of topics typeset in gray frames in a black font, but the current topic in a blue frame with a white font. Would this be possible with something like \definelist? Is there any notion of "currentlistitem" or "currentmarking" in such lists? Or, even better: would it be possible to have access to the single members of a list and maybe compare them to a current value and then typeset them accordingly? Something like this pseudocode: for member in topiclist do if member == currentvalue <some fancy framing and metapost stuff with member> else <less fancy but still nice-looking metapost stuff> end end Or am I trying to reinvent the wheel here? I would be happy to hear any ideas on that. All best Thomas

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simple usage of \hpos
by Peter Münster 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

Hello, How can I place an element as background at a previously defined position? Here a test-file to show what I'm looking for: \definelayer[graphics][position=yes] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=graphics] \starttext Here is some text. I would like to appear a graphics exactly behind \hpos{XXX}{HERE}. How can I do this, without measuring by hand the x- and y-offsets, and perhaps also without using metapost? Such a command would be fine: \type{\placeatpos[XXX]{my background figure}}, or \type{\setlayer[graphics][location=XXX]{...}}. \setlayer[graphics][dx=128mm, dy=-27mm]{\externalfigure[hacker.jpg][width=1cm]} \stoptext TIA for any help! Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Changing Index Format
by Tom 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

Could someone point me to documentation that describes how to change the format of the index created by \placeindex and \completeindex? In particular, I want to get rid of the entries created for the letters of the alphabet because I find them an unnecessary use of space. Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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Rotated footnotes?
by Steffen Wolfrum 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

Hi, the figure labels of some rotated figures have footnotes. (see faked example please: http://www.werksatz.com/attachments/rotated.pdf) How do I place a rotated footnote?? Thanks, Steffen

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texshow-web (was: colors without \definecolor)
by Mikael Persson 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Dear list and Patrick, from texshow-web page ( http://texshow.contextgarden.net/ ) I read "texshow-web is a web application for all user-commands that can be used in ConTeXt." However, I see that \colored is not inthere. This is also true for some other commands appearing at this list occasionally (usually dug from source by Wolfgang). Is this because 1) the texshow is not updated? 2) these commands are "not meant" for users? 3) any other reason? I think the texshow-web is a very useful source of information. An updated version would be really wonderful! /Mikael ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> Date: Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [NTG-context] colors without \definecolor To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Am 04.02.10 21:41, schrieb Philipp Gesang: > > Hi all, > > > I understand that in order to use a color with \color[somecolor]{colored > text} I first have to \definecolor[somecolor][r=.4,g=0,b=1]. Currently > I'm trying to do automated colorizing with the help of some lua code and > I'd like to make up rgb vectors on the spot without having to > \definecolor them first, e.g. something like \color[r=.4,g=0,b=1] > {colored text}. Is there a way to achieve this in mkiv? (Right now I'm > assigning new rgb values to the same color "name" whenever the function > is called that concatenates the next \color[]{} statement. This seems a > bit verbose and hacky to me.) \colored[r=...,g=...,b=...]{...} or {\colored[r=...,g=...,b=...]...} Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________

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Re: [NTG-context] defining commands
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Hallo, > >> btw, i'm sure that you've seen > >> > >> \starttexdefinition blabla #1 #2 > >> > >> which like setups ignores spaces so one can have readable > macros > > i was the one who requested the parameterless version > > > > \starttexdefinition commandonly I experimented a little with this: ---------------------------------------- \starttexdefinition BIS #1 #2 [#1 \ldots\ #2] \stoptexdefinition \starttext \BIS1 23 \BIS{10}{20}30 \BIS {10}{20}30 \BIS{10} {20}30 \BIS{10}{20} 30 \BIS {10} {20}30 \BIS{10} {20} 30 \BIS {10} {20} 30 \stoptext ---------------------------------------- and get this: ---------------------------------------- [1 ... 2]3 [102030 ... ][102030 ... ][10 ... 20]30 [1020 ... 3]0 [10 ... 20]30 [10 ... 20] 30 [10 ... 20] 30 ---------------------------------------- So it seems, that the first blank between command and #1 is optional. But the second between #1 and #2 is NEEDED. A last blank after #2 is not needed and not eaten. Wolfgang

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context minimals
by Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Hi Hans, hi list, some questions for the minimals, used the texlive version up to now and then found out that the 2k9 version of texlive has problems using context mkii and mkiv. so now I will start to use context from the minimals. so would be nice to have some infos before starting. Is the howto in the contextgarden-wiki still up to date or something needed to be changed in there? Is the repository for the minimals only available via rsync or as git too? And if there is no git version available is it planed to get a git repo, or can one simply add one, as I would write an ebuild for funtoo afterwards it would be easier for me to sync it that way, because it is faster and only updates changes, compared to rsync. If wished I could first make my github-account available for a git repo. Greetings Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz

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context mkiv metafun
by Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Hi list, another problem I encountered while installing and testing context- minimals is that the context command is not willing in my case to autobuild the metafun graphics I included in the document. Would be nice if someone has an advice to me on to fix that, got it working under texexec by creating a cont-sys.tex and linking it to the directory where cont-sys.ori is located. Greetings Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz

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defining commands
by Marius 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hello all, How do I define the \setuptitlepage and \placetitlepage commands in the environment file? These commands are used as shown in the example below. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \environment docenv \setuptitlepage[author=weare, name=thisismyname, draft=yes] \starttext \placetitlepage \chapter{First} kasj dlkasjdfl asdf asdfkjaslfd jalsfd \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Thank you, Marius

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l-file.lua:110: stack overflow again
by Peter Münster 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hello, Here a new example with the stack overflow: \executesystemcommand{touch file.svg} % just to create the file \starttext \externalfigure[file.svg] % \externalfigure[./file.svg] % no problem here \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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