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Page Numbering Hell
by Bryant Eastham 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

All- A few days ago when I first stumbled on ConTeXt I was very, very excited. I have some 500 pages of technical documentation that could benefit from this, particularly since I need Japanese font support. But it has to be real. I'm sorry if this sounds caustic, but after 12 hours of failed attempts to even get a minimal document formatted I have some serious questions for the list: 1. Is Mark IV real? I am only somewhat joking here - after spending hours searching for reasonable documentation on even the most trivial options, I am left wondering whether this is something I want to use... 2. ConTeXt looks great. But what is current? Seriously, I like the look and the support (particularly Unicode). But going over documentation I cannot make heads or tails of what to do. Mark II? Mark IV? TeTeX? LuaTeX? If I really want to use this, what should I use? 3. Having answered #2, where in the world is a reference manual!!! I mean one that actually *documents the options*. 4. Having answered #3, are there any current examples that actually work? The snippets from the mailing are great, but they are just snippets. That doesn't help me. Now, to resolve my immediate issue, and just because I will not be able to sleep well until I figure this out (yes, I am fixated on this). I want this document structure: Contents 1. Chapter 1-1 1.1 Section 1-2 2. Chapter 2 2-1 2.1 Section 2-2 Table of contents on page "i". Even/odd, each chapter starts on right page. Page number (as in 2-2) in top margin. Mark IV, Lua document. I have tried hundreds of different combinations. If it cannot do this, the I will (with sadness) move on. I'm sure that it would take someone who understands this about 5 minutes to write (if that). -Bryant Panasonic Electric Works Laboratory of America - SLC Lab 4525 So. Wasatch Blvd., Suite 100, 84124 Salt Lake City, UT 84124 T 801.993.7124 F 801.993.7260 beastham(a)pewla.us.pewg.pansonic.com Bryant Eastham Chief Architect ***CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE***: This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is confidential, proprietary, trade secret, privileged or otherwise protected by law. The information is the property of Panasonic Electric Works Laboratory of America, Inc., and is solely intended for the named addressee (or a person responsible or delivering it to the addressee). If you are not the intended recipient of this message, you are not authorized to read, print, retain copy or disseminate this message or any part of it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and the Office of General Counsel at generalcounsel(a)us.pewg.panasonic.com <mailto:generalcounsel@us.pewg.panasonic.com> immediately by return e-mail and delete it from your computer.

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How to learn context?
by Shiv Shankar Dayal 25 Oct '09

25 Oct '09

Hi, I am a C++ programmer by profession. Typesetting is my hobby. I used to use LaTeX and Groff with ms macro package. Then I found ConTeXt and I find pdfs created mostly by Hans Hagen awesome. How to learn ConTeXt so that I can create documents of similar complexity. As a programmer I find most of the information with google when I face problem with LaTeX. But for ConTeXt I find very little information. All I know is wiki.contextgarden.net and manuals written by Hans. -- Best regards, Shiv Shankar Dayal

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footnote-number alignment
by achim＠jander.de 25 Oct '09

25 Oct '09

Hello, after struggling some weeks to get everything to work, i'm now nearly satisfied with typsetting via context. But there is one problem left for that i cant find any solution, even after googling for hours. I am typesetting documents with a large amount of footnotes, and want to have the footnote-number aligned to the correct decimal place. To explain: page one has footnotes 1 to 8, numbers are left-aligned, everything is good ----- 1 footnotetext 2 footnotetext 3 footnottext .... 8 footnotetext page two has footnotes 9 to 12, so I want to have 9 footnotetext 10 footnotetext ... but i only get: 9 footnotetext 10 foootnotextex. I think, there is no easy solution, but maybe someone can give me a push to the direction how i can realize that behaviour (btw same problem is with numbered lists) Any hint is welcome, Thanks a lot Achim Jander

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Re: [NTG-context] Enabling Ukrainian hyphenation
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 25 Oct '09

25 Oct '09

Yeah, thanks a lot, Wolfgang! >> What else should I do except specifying \language[uk]? >> > Use the correct language tag, 'uk' is for british english. > > For ukrainian use 'ua' or 'ukrainian'. > > BTW: A global switch (which includes labeltexts etc.) is done with > \mainlanguage. > Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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Curiosity about math.random in LuaTeX
by Otared Kavian 25 Oct '09

25 Oct '09

Hi all, This is a curiosity question about the function math.random coming from Lua and used in mkiv: if I typeset the following test file in mkiv, no matter when nor how many times, the sequence of numbers which are output are the same… %%% begin test-random.tex \starttext \dorecurse{25}{% \ctxlua{tex.print(math.random(110,150))} \qquad \ctxlua{tex.print(math.random(math.random(110,120),math.random (140,150)))} \par} \stoptext %%% end test-random.tex Indeed I guess that this is due to the random seed used by LuaTeX: is it possible to force a new random seed upon each typesetting? Thanks for your attention: OK

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Enabling Ukrainian hyphenation
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 25 Oct '09

25 Oct '09

Hell0o, I'm starting an ambitious project using mkiv, and the first thing I need badly is Ukrainian hyphenation. I remember Mojca gave me some advices, but it was long time ago and things could change. What else should I do except specifying \language[uk]? Regards, Vyatcheslav

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line numbering
by Andreas Harder 25 Oct '09

25 Oct '09

Good morning everyone! I've discovered some strange behavior from line numbering (attachment). The size of the line numbers changes after a page break. Furthermore some settings for line numbers do not work. I tried some of the examples from strc-lnt.mkiv (at the bottom) … I want the numbers on the right side and would assume \setuplinenumbering [location=right, align=left]. Please have a look. Perhaps I did something wrong. Greetings Andreas

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Whitespace around float
by Elliot Clifton 25 Oct '09

25 Oct '09

Hi, How do I set the whitespace around a float? I've read the manual and searched the mailing list archive and wiki but couldn't find what I was looking for. For example, how do you set the white space around a float to 1cm? Is it possible to specify different amounts for each side and top and bottom? TIA, Elliot

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Macro Definitions
by Wolfgang Schuster 25 Oct '09

25 Oct '09

Hi Hans, the MkIV version of the x-set-11 module did not work with multiple definition files, in the example below only t-letter.xml is loaded and \setupframed is not shown in the output. \usemodule[set-11] \loadsetups[cont-en.xml] \loadsetups[t-letter.xml] \starttext \setup[setupframed] \setup[letter] \stoptext Wolfgang

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How do you position/move a MPgraphic?
by Daniel Bundzik 25 Oct '09

25 Oct '09

Hi! How do you position/move a MPgraphic? Let us us say that you have the MPgraphics "somebackground" and "somecolorcircle" (See example below). These MPgraphics are both framed and used as a background, upon which "sometext" is written on. How can you freely move or position "somecolorcircle"? ( I want to move "somecolorcircle" below "sometext") Naturally, I have read Metafun and tried "shifted (x,y)", \definelayer, \setlayer, register, \setMPlayer, \getMPlayer... In general, if you have defined two or more MPgraphics how do you position them (In my case "somebackground" is fixed while "somecolorcircle" could be anywhere on "somebackground")? How would you solve this? Regards, Daniel \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \setuplayout [width=fit, rightmargin=0cm, leftmargin=0cm, leftmargindistance=0pt, rightmargindistance=0pt, height=fit, topspace=0cm, header=0pt, footer=0cm, bottomspace=0cm, backspace=0cm, location=singlesided] \definecolor[Orange][r=1.,g=.47,b=.0] % dark orange \setupinteractionscreen[option=max] \startbuffer[sometext] \switchtobodyfont[sansserif,1.0cm] \midaligned{\white \bf This is the text} \stopbuffer \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{somebackground} fill fullsquare scaled 10cm withcolor .625red ; fill fullsquare scaled 10cm shifted (10cm,0) withcolor black ; fill fullsquare scaled 10cm shifted (20cm,0) withcolor \MPcolor{Orange} ; currentpicture := currentpicture xysized(OverlayWidth+.5pt,OverlayHeight+.5pt) ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{somecolorcircle} % How do you move "somecolorcircle". I want this to be below "sometext" colorcircle(2cm,white,.625red,\MPcolor{Orange}) ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startTEXpage \defineoverlay[somebackground][\useMPgraphic{somebackground}] \defineoverlay[somecolorcircle][\useMPgraphic{somecolorcircle}] \framed [background={somebackground,somecolorcircle},height=12cm,frame=off] {\getbuffer[sometext] } \stopTEXpage \stoptext

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