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Re: [NTG-context] letter module: different first page for multiple letters in one file
by Michael Green 10 Oct '09

10 Oct '09

On Oct 10, 2009, at 3:00 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 10.10.2009 um 01:48 schrieb Michael Green: > >> I have one file containing several letters that I process using >> Wolfgang's letter module. >> >> I have a special background for the first page of a letter. I define >> and set three layers: PCLogo, PCDept, and PCAddress. Here is a >> representative example: >> \definelayer >> [PCLogo] >> [width=\paperwidth, >> height=\paperheight, >> preset=lefttop, >> y=20pt, >> state=start] >> >> Then I make these layers backgrounds like so: >> >> \setupletterstyle[lettermain][background={PCLogo,PCDept,PCAddress}] >> >> The result I *get* is that the first letter in the file gets the >> background on its first page as normal. But the subsequent letters >> do not. Their first pages are plain. >> >> The result I *want* is for each letter to have the background on its >> first page, like the first letter in the file gets. >> >> How can I achieve that? > > Are your graphics for stationary or logos and headers etc. > > Wolfgang > > I'm trying to emulate my college's stationery. The layers I made include one graphic and two boxes of text. We use the graphic and two text boxes on the first page of a letter. The other pages use plain sheets of paper. You also showed me how to get the effect I want in a separate message. This solution worked perfectly. Thank you very much! The solution: > \usemodule[letter] > > \definelayer[PC][width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight] > > \startsetups PC > > \setlayer[PC][y=20pt]{...} > > \setlayer[PC][x=..,y=..]{...} > > \stopsetups > > \setupletterstyle[lettermain][setups=PC,background=PC] > > ... % more settings > > \starttext > > \startletter > ... > \stopletter > > ... % more letters > > \stoptext As I understand it, \setupletterstyle[lettermain][setups=PC,…] means that those setups are repeated with every letter. Hence, the desired effect. Thanks again! Michael

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letter module: different first page for multiple letters in one file
by Michael Green 10 Oct '09

10 Oct '09

I have one file containing several letters that I process using Wolfgang's letter module. I have a special background for the first page of a letter. I define and set three layers: PCLogo, PCDept, and PCAddress. Here is a representative example: \definelayer [PCLogo] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight, preset=lefttop, y=20pt, state=start] Then I make these layers backgrounds like so: \setupletterstyle[lettermain][background={PCLogo,PCDept,PCAddress}] The result I *get* is that the first letter in the file gets the background on its first page as normal. But the subsequent letters do not. Their first pages are plain. The result I *want* is for each letter to have the background on its first page, like the first letter in the file gets. How can I achieve that? Thank you! Michael

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Re: [NTG-context] Installing minimals
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hello, \syntex=1 gives and error \synctex=1 compiles but gives nothing (no additional files, not SyncTeX recognizible data for TeXWorks viewer) What's wrong with it? Vyatcheslav

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Installing minimals
by Alain Delmotte 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi! On the 16th of September I mentioned that I had problems to install the minimals. Further, on my portable, the one I used during EuroTeX I could not connect to INTERNET anymore even after changing the connection parameters!! I then decide to un-install the firewall program I use (COMODO -- which I disabled when I tried to install the minimals, but with no result) and... everything is now OK: I could reconnect and more important install the minimals. Still a problem using TeXworks: the synctex system is not working: neither adding -synctex=1 in Preferences or \synctex=1 at the start of the tex source. Synctex appeared only in MikTeX 2.7 by a special (?) instruction in the pdftex (?) program. Is synctex taken into account in context? Alain

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\setupquotation affecting \quote
by Matthijs Kooijman 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi, I've been trying to use \setupquotation, but it seems it doesn't just affect \quotation, but also \quote. In particular, setting style to tfb enlarges the font used by \quote and somehow removes the quotes from around it. Seeing that there is also a \setupquote, and from looking at the code, I think this is not supposed to happen. This happens with MkII as well as MkIV, it seems. The following example shows the problem: \starttext \quote{Foo} \setupquotation[style=tfb] \quote{Bar} \stoptext Gr. Matthijs

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Float captions with hanging indentation
by Jakub Piotr Cłapa 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hello, I am a new ConTeXt user recently switched from LaTeX (with small amounts of raw TeX macrosity) which I used for several years. I was searching the internet, this mailing list and finally the ConTeXt sources to find some information about achieving hanging indentation in captions. The 'hang' option for the 'caption' LaTeX package [1] was my inspiration (you can see an example on the 3 page of the linked manual). The only thing I could find was an old reply from Taco Hoekwater [2] but as he mentions this does not work well. After digging inside the source code of both ConTeXt and caption.sty I managed to hack the \putcompletecaption macro to do what I need. (see below) The changes required are minimal (capture the caption head into a box, remember its width and later set \hangindent and \hangafter while typessing the caption body) so maybe this could go into the main ConTeXt tree? Unfortunately I do not know how to make use of the setup macros so this currently hardcodes the hanging indentation. \unprotect \newdimen\captionhang \def\putcompletecaption#1#2% {\doifsomething{\floatcaptionparameter\c!spacebefore}{\blank[\floatcaptionparameter\c!spacebefore]}% % \floatcaptionparameter\c!before % test for side effects first \noindent \xdef\lastcaptiontag{\strut#1}% \dostartattributes{\??kj\currentfloat}\c!style\c!color\empty \setbox0\hbox{% \ifnofloatnumber \else \hbox{\doattributes{\??kj\currentfloat}\c!headstyle\c!headcolor{\strut#1}}% \ifnofloatcaption \else \ifemptyfloatcaption \else \doifelsenothing{\floatcaptionparameter\c!spaceinbetween} {\scratchskip\floatcaptionparameter\c!distance\relax \dotfskip\scratchskip\emergencystretch.5\scratchskip} {\blank[\floatcaptionparameter\c!spaceinbetween]}% \fi \fi \fi }% \captionhang=\wd0\unhbox0% \ifnofloatcaption \globallet\lastcaptionht\!!zeropoint \globallet\lastcaptiondp\!!zeropoint \else \doattributes{\??kj\currentfloat}\c!textstyle\c!textcolor {\hangindent=\captionhang\hangafter=1% \xdef\lastcaptionht{\strutheight}% \xdef\lastcaptiondp{\strutdepth}% \begstrut#2\endstrut\endgraf}% \fi \dostopattributes % \floatcaptionparameter\c!after % test for side effects first \doifsomething{\floatcaptionparameter\c!spaceafter}{\blank[\floatcaptionparameter\c!spaceafter]}} \protect [1]: http://www.dd.chalmers.se/latex/Docs/PDF/caption.pdf [2]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/21675/focus=21676 -- regards, Jakub Piotr Cłapa

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[OT] Dutch LaTeX Forum founded
by luigi scarso 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

http://www.frankputtemans.org/latexforum/index.php -- luigi

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unsubscribe
by Pierre Huyghebaert 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

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inserting pdf
by Mohamed Bana 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

hi folks, assuming x.pdf has more than 1 page, this only inserts the first. i'd like to insert all the pages. how would i do that? startTEXpage \externalfigure[x.pdf] \stopTEXpage \externalfigure[x.pdf][page=1-2] doesn't work either. I have to do; \startTEXpage \externalfigure[x.pdf][page=1] \stopTEXpage \startTEXpage \externalfigure[x.pdf][page=2] \stopTEXpage I'm using $ pdftex --version pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.9-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.7) and whatever comes with texlive 2008. regards, Mohamed

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OT: Kindle
by Wolfgang Schuster 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Hi all, Amazon sells his Kindle now also outside of the US: http://bit.ly/IGfV9 Wolfgang

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