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natural tables: when I say nc=2, I really mean it
by Zed Lopez 04 Sep '09

04 Sep '09

Hi folks, When I compile this table: \starttext \setupTABLE[c][1][width=12pt,rightframe=off] \setupTABLE[c][2][width=108pt,leftframe=off] \setupTABLE[c][each][width=60pt] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD x \eTD \bTD y \eTD \bTD z \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD[nc=2] thisisaverylongwordishthing \eTD \bTD word \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \endtext I get the 2 rows I expect: the first with 1 narrow column, 1 wide column, and 1 medium column; the second with 1 even wider column and 1 medium column. When I do the same thing, but with the first row omitted: \starttext \setupTABLE[c][1][width=12pt] \setupTABLE[c][2][width=108pt] \setupTABLE[c][each][width=60pt] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD[nc=2] thisisaverylongwordishthing \eTD \bTD word \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \endtext it's as if the nc=2 is ignored -- it tries to squeeze "thisisaverylongwordishthing" into 1 12pt column instead of a combined 120pt column. How can I convince it to do what I mean with nc=2 despite having only one row with only 2 cells? thanks. (Long time subscriber, first time poster, love the macro package.)

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long quotation without quotation marks
by Robert Blackstone 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

Hi all, In a text with some fairly long quotations I want to have these quotations without their quotation marks, not indented and set in small type. Thanks to the ConTeXt wiki I found I could fulfill two of the three requirements by using \setupdelimitedtext[blockquote][style={\setupbodyfont[9pt]}, and \startblockquote (text of the quotation) \blank \stopblockquote, but I still get the unwanted indenting. In the main text I want indenting of the first lines of most new paragraphs, so I have \setupindenting[20pt,yes] in the preamble, but I do not want it in the quotations. Placing \noindent at the beginning of the quotation does not do anything. As a hack I commented out \setupindenting[20pt,yes] and started every paragraph I want to indent with ~~~~~. That works. But somehow I feel there must be a more elegant solution, only I can’t find it. Is there somebody who could help me out? Thanks in advance. Robert Blackstone

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Re: [NTG-context] How can I start wiith 2 in itemize?
by Xan 03 Sep '09

03 Sep '09

>>> >>> >> xan@rulot:~$ textools --findfile strc-itm.mkii >> TeXTools | locating file in texmf tree >> TeXTools | >> TeXTools | no file found >> > > A clear sign that your ConTeXt isn't setup correctly. Are you using > the 'ConTeXt minimals'? > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals > > I once followed the installation instructions on Mandriva64 Linux and > it worked like a charm. > * > "NOTE:* The officially recommened way of installing ConTeXt on all > platforms is using ConTeXt Minimals > <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals>" > > There are also some instructions for using ConTeXt under TeXLive > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installation I have that installed but it does not serve me because I use tkiz (read above). So I _must_ use MKII. I use ubuntu 8.04. How can I do for fix the installation? Any ideas? Xan.

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mathalign with \{ ?
by Xan 02 Sep '09

02 Sep '09

Hi, I have \placeformula[-] \startformula F(n) = \startdisplaycases \NC F(0) + 2 \ln n!! - \frac{n}{2} \ln 2 \MC \text{si } n \text{ parell} \NR \NC F(1) + 2 \ln n!! - \frac{n+1}{2} \ln 2 \MC \text{si } n \text{ senar} \NR \stopdisplaycases \stopformula and I want to put \placeformula[-] \{ \startformula F(n) = \startdisplaycases \NC F(0) + 2 \ln n!! - \frac{n}{2} \ln 2 \MC \text{si } n \text{ parell} \NR \NC F(1) + 2 \ln n!! - \frac{n+1}{2} \ln 2 \MC \text{si } n \text{ senar} \NR \stopdisplaycases \stopformula But I received error. I have MKII. How can I put braces and do that enumeration formula is at middle possition (not in first or last line, just in the middle). I use Aditya manual but I did not see it. Xan.

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publications and custom author separator
by Črt Gorup 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

Hi I am trying to replace ('in' instead of 'and') a separator between the last two authors for every article, but I am facing a semi success. My approach was to set the variable finalnamesep in \setuppublicationlist. At the moment it is working only when there are three or more authors per entry. This example with 5 authors is ok, there is 'in' between last two authors. Rong-En Fan, Kai-Wei Chang, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Xiang-Rui Wang in Chih-Jen Lin, LIBLINEAR: A library for large linear classiﬁcation v Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2008. This example has only 2 authors, there should be 'in' instead of 'and'. T. M. J. Fruchterman and E. M. Reingold, Graph drawing by force-directed placement v Software: Practice and Experience, št. 11, zv. 21, str. 1129-1164, 1991. Does anybody have any idea? Thanks, Crt

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MkIV issue with normal italics text in math mode
by Brian R. Landy 31 Aug '09

31 Aug '09

Hi, I've run across what I believe to be a bug in MkIV -- I am unable to access non-math italics from within math mode. A simple example is -- \starttext \math{\text{\it Hello, World}} \stoptext This works in MkII. Or perhaps there some other way I'm supposed to code this? Thanks, Brian

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LuaTex choking on \definesynonyms?
by Roland 30 Aug '09

30 Aug '09

Hi all, LuaTex doesn't seem to like the \definesynonyms command. The following works fine in PDFtex: 1 \definesynonyms[abbreviation][abbreviations][\infull] 2 3 \starttext 4 \abbreviation{VVV}{Bureau of Tourist Information} 5 The Dutch \VVV\ (\infull{VVV}) can provide you with the tourist 6 information on Hasselt. 7 8 \stoptext ...but when compiling with Luatex, I get the errors as below. On Mac OS X with an updated ConTeXt/Luatex minimals installation. The abbreviations aren't essential in my current document but I guess somebody might want to look into this? Thanks Roland 1 This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.42.0-2009071723 2 \write18 enabled. 3 (/Users/rs/Desktop/Dropbox/C/ConTeXt_sandbox/sandbox.tex 4 5 ConTeXt ver: 2009.07.23 20:11 MKIV fmt: 2009.8.2 int: english/english 6 7 system : cont-new loaded 8 (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex 9 systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex 10 (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv)) 11 system : cont-fil loaded 12 (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex 13 loading : ConTeXt File Synonyms 14 ) 15 system : cont-sys.rme loaded 16 (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.mkiv)) (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv)) (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv))) 17 system : sandbox.top loaded 18 (sandbox.top) 19 fonts : preloading latin modern fonts 20 bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded 21 language : language en is active 22 ! Use of \doassignsometextprefixnop doesn't match its definition. 23 \doassignsometextprefix ...sometextprefixyes \fi { 24 #1} 25 \dododosetupsometextprefix ...nsometextprefix {#1} 26 [#2,,] 27 \next1 #1,->\dodosetupsometextprefix {#1} 28 \doprocesscommaitem 29 \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1, 30 ]\relax \global \advance \... 31 \dosetupsometextprefix ...dodosetupsometextprefix 32 \fi 33 <to be read again> 34 \setvalue 35 ... 36 l.2 37 38 39 ? ! Too many }'s. 40 \doassignsometextprefix ...etextprefixyes \fi {#1} 41 42 \dododosetupsometextprefix ...nsometextprefix {#1} 43 [#2,,] 44 \next1 #1,->\dodosetupsometextprefix {#1} 45 \doprocesscommaitem 46 \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1, 47 ]\relax \global \advance \... 48 \dosetupsometextprefix ...dodosetupsometextprefix 49 \fi 50 <to be read again> 51 \setvalue 52 ... 53 l.2 54 55 56 ? systems : begin file sandbox at line 3 57 ! Missing } inserted. 58 <inserted text> 59 } 60 <to be read again> 61 \endgroup 62 l.5 The Dutch \VVV\ (\infull{VVV} 63 ) can provide you with the tourist 64 ? 65 ! Emergency stop. 66 <inserted text> 67 } 68 <to be read again> 69 \endgroup 70 l.5 The Dutch \VVV\ (\infull{VVV} 71 ) can provide you with the tourist 72 ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!MTXrun | run 1: luatex --fmt="/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/3fc847143b06f084e10e73c8fbdf4ae2/formats/cont-en" --lua="/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/3fc847143b06f084e10e73c8fbdf4ae2/formats/cont-en.lui" --backend=pdf "/Users/rs/Desktop/Dropbox/C/ConTeXt_sandbox/sandbox.tex" 73 MTXrun | fatal error, return code: 1

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Fwd: [XeTeX] List of free Unicode fonts
by Wolfgang Schuster 29 Aug '09

29 Aug '09

Hi all, something interesting from the XeTeX mailing list. > Dear all, > > I've noticed that there a lot of decent, free Unicode fonts available, > some of which have interesting OpenType features to play with with > XeTeX. I've put together the following PDF as a general guide and > would > like any suggestions or comments from the list. The PDF can be > downloaded from: > > http://www.garzo.co.uk/documents/freefonts.pdf > > Thanks, > > Gareth. > > - -- > Gareth Hughes > > Department of Eastern Christianity > Oriental Institute > Pusey Lane > Oxford > OX1 2LE

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Re: [NTG-context] MKIV and externaligure inside metafun
by Mojca Miklavec 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 16:22, Hans Hagen wrote: > > pdftex and luatex process your file ok OK, so it's again "my computer only" problem :) :) :) Well, never mind then. If it works for you then it probably works on at least a few more machines, or will start working with the next major release at least. Thanks a lot for looking into it. (I used the "thought-it-was-working" installation this time, not with the old and broken one.) > color viewing is somewhat different, maybe because of some resource > initialization I remember similar problem a while ago due to some transparency being used on the same page (but at that time you said it was a bug in adobe reader). Thank you, Mojca

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Using \startalign outside of math mode?
by Matthijs Kooijman 28 Aug '09

28 Aug '09

Hi, I'm using a custom pretty printer to apply some formatting to a buffer. However, I'm not using a monospaced font, but some sans serif font to display the result. In the original text, I have some lines that are nicely aligned using leading spaces. For example: foo = bar | baz Obviously, when using a non monospaced font for this, the alignment is lost. When in math mode, I can use \startalign to force alignment, like: \startalign foo \NC= bar \NC| baz \stopalgin However, I haven't manage to switch to math mode inside pretty printed text. Also, even if I would, I would get my text rendered in math mode, which probably won't work. So, I'm wondering if there is anything like \startalign to use outside of math mode? I've been looking at the implementation of \startalign, but couldn't find it... Some way to insert spacing until some fixed point (e.g. tab-stop like) would probably work, if I can define the tabstop on a case by case basis? Gr. Matthijs

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