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Centering a defined text frame
by Bart C. Wise 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

I'm trying to have a centered text frame. There are two examples in the code below. 1) This one works. It uses a text frame that is in line in the code. 2) This one does not work! It's using a defined text frame and flushes the text frame to the left. How do I fix this? Thanks, Bart \defineframedtext[CenteredText][width=fit] \starttext % This one works! \startalignment[center] \dontleavehmode \framedtext[width=fit]{ \startlines The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. \stoplines } \stopalignment % This one fails! \startalignment[center] \dontleavehmode \startCenteredText \startlines The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. \stoplines \stopCenteredText \stoptext

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[Fwd: PV126: typographic programming course info (fwd)]
by Hans Hagen 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Hi, in two weeks i'll be in brno to give a course; attached is some info; anyone is welcome to attend Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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acroreloadpdf
by luigi scarso 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

I found useful this http://www.mail-archive.com/ctan-ann@dante.de/msg02046.html -- luigi

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javascript tool for presentations
by Thomas A. Schmitz 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Dear all, this website http://www.icsr.agh.edu.pl/~polak/latex.html.var was mentioned in comp.text.tex. It allows dual-screen presentations in LaTeX: if your computer allows extended desktop mode, you can view your notes on your laptop screen and show your slides via the projector. Sounds like a useful tool - would something similar be possible for ConTeXt as well? All best Thomas

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Preprocessing ConTeXt file to convert from UTF-8 to ASCII & ABNT
by João Macaíba 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

Hi. I've used LaTeX for a while and found articles about ConTeXt yesterday and decided give it a try since its different approach. Reading the docs I've found it only works with ASCII. So I've tried to do the convertion UTF-8 => ASCII using iconv, without success: it failed to convert the first 'accented character' it encounters. I'm searching to solve this problem, but would like to know if there's any doc on 'non-ascii' editing of ConTeXt files. If there are other people writing in portuguese, like me, and specially brazilians, is there a way to implement ABNT standard ? Any docs on theses subjects: 'non-ascii' input, 'portuguese/brazilian' and 'ABNT', would be appreciated :) I use 'vim' and 'textmate' as my primary editors for *TeX*, and my platform is MacOSX (Leopard). Thanks in advance. Regards. -- João Macaíba <joao.macaiba(a)gmail.com>

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New wiki
by Bart C. Wise 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

Is the google search going to be moved to the new wiki? I found it to be an invaluable tool. Bart

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Customizing chapter heads
by Alfredo Catalina 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

I am new to ConTeXt. I am trying to define a customized head for chapters but I am finding some problems. The sentences below are based on the chapter Text Elements which may be found in the ConTeXt manual. Prior to setting up the title, a new Head command is defined by \def\HeadTitle#1#2%. It takes two arguments, the chapter number and the chapter title. The Head so defined will show the word "C h a p t e r" in capitals, then the chapter number at 80pt, then a horizontal line, and finally the title. The definition works quite well except that both, the chapter number and the chapter title, are not show at the specified font size. \definebodyfont[10pt,11pt,12pt][rm][tff=Regular at 80pt] \definebodyfont[10pt,11pt,12pt][rm][tfe=Regular at 42pt] \def\HeadTitle#1#2% {\hbox to \hsize \bgroup {\hfill % \setupframed[height=7cm,offset=.5em,frame=off] \framed[width=9cm,align=left] { {\tfc \sc {C~h~a~p~t~e~r}} ~~ {\tff #1}\\ \hairline {\ss \tfe #2} } } \egroup } \starttext \setuphead[chapter] [command=\HeadTitle] \chapter{An Insight\\Into Fred's Design} \stoptext An easy workaround for the chapter number replaces the argument #1 by \currentheadnumber \def\HeadTitle#1#2% {\hbox to \hsize \bgroup {\hfill % \setupframed[height=7cm,offset=.5em,frame=off] \framed[width=9cm,align=left] { {\tfc \sc {C~h~a~p~t~e~r}} ~~ {\tff #1}\\ \hairline {\ss \tfe #2} } } \egroup } Now the chapter number is shown at 80pt as defined. But I have not found the way to solve the problem with the head title, #2. ¿Any ideas? Thanks in advance. Alfredo.

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Something usefull?
by Cecil Westerhof 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

I made something usefull and share it with you. Maybe it is usefull for other people also. Sometimes I switch a lot from tasks. Still I need to keep a good log of time spend on the different tasks. For this I made the first table. When I switch I can now log easily the new task and the time of the switch. And at the end of the day I can easily get a running total pro task. The second task is for writing down short notes. I used a table to get lined A7 paper. I have still some work to do on it. For example the tables are to close to edge and the tables stop to soon. But I think it is good enough to 'publish'. I also have some questions. ;-} At the moment there are the same number of the timesheet and the lined paper printed. That is not always what you want I think. The one time you need more timesheets, the other time you need more lined paper. Is there a way to ask for the number of timesheets, print those, and let the rest be printed as lined? (I can offcourse also switch to two different documents.) At the moment the lined paper starts counting from 9. Is there a way to reset it to 1? -- Cecil Westerhof

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framed typing with linenumbers in mkiv
by Wolfgang Schuster 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

Hi, I want numbered lines in my verbatim code but it did not work in mkiv. \setuptyping[numbering=line] \starttext \startframedtext \starttyping one two three \stoptyping \stopframedtext \stoptext Wolfgang

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een soort multi-\not?
by Liesbeth van der Plas 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

Beste contexers, In math-mode krijg je een streep door een letter met behulp van* \no*t. De streep gaat echter altijd maar door één letter. Ik wil bijvoorbeeld het getal 10 doorstrepen of het getal 100. Hoe kan ik dit het beste doen? Liesbeth van der Plas -- liesbethvanderplas(a)gmail.com www.liesbethvanderplas.nl www.wiskunde-interactief.nl www.bonrekenhulp.nl

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