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by Johan Sandblom 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

For a small manual-type document I am trying to include a phone directory. I would like it to be sorted. The following produces no output other than "test". Shouldn't it? Johan Sandblom \starttext test \definesorting[telefon][telefoner] \setupsorting[telefon][criterium=all] \telefon{Milad El Segaie, 0746231022} \telefon{Carina C, 33050} \placelistoftelefoner \definesynonyms[Phone][Phones][\PhoneName][\PhoneNumber] \setupsynonyms[Phone][criterium=all] \Phone{Milad El Segaie}{0746231022} \Phone{Carina C}{33050} \placelistofPhones \stoptext -- Johan Sandblom, MD PhD m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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Simplified input for natural tables
by Wolfgang Schuster 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hi Hans, natural tables are perfect to create tables with a fixed size for the cells but the syntax requires sometimes a lot of typing for small content and takes to many lines of code in the document. I wrote a while ago a simple wrapper to use a table/tabulate like syntax for the input, what I don't like is to load a extra module for just a few lines of code and I think they can be integrated in the core-ntb code. Wolfgang %D \module %D [ file=wolf-tab, %D version=2007.01.26, %D title=\CONTEXT\ User Module, %D subtitle=New Tables, %D author=Wolfgang Schuster, %D date=\currentdate, %D copyright=Wolfgang Schuster] \writestatus{loading}{Context User Module / New Tables} \unprotect %D This module provides an easy way to use natural in a similiar %D way as the older table module (based on the \TABLE\ macros) and %D the newer tabulate module. %D %D You can see the advantage in the following table, once created %D with the new macros and once with the normal macros provided %D with the natural table module. %D %D Let us start with the original macros: %D %D \starttyping %D \bTABLE %D \bTR %D \bTD Text 1 \eTD %D \bTD Text 2 \eTD %D \eTR %D \bTR %D \bTD Text 3 \eTD %D \bTD Text 4 \eTD %D \eTR %D \eTABLE %D \stoptyping %D %D and now with my new macros: %D %D \starttyping %D \startTABLE %D \NC Text 1 \NC Text 2 \NC\NR %D \NC Text 3 \NC Text 4 \NC\NR %D \stopTABLE %D \stoptyping \def\startTABLE {\dosingleempty\dostartTABLE} \def\dostartTABLE[#1]% {\bgroup \def\NC{\parseNC} \bTABLE[#1]} \def\stopTABLE {\eTABLE \egroup} \def\parseNC#1\NR {\bTR \processNC#1\stopNC\NC} \def\stopNC{\stopNC} \def\processNC#1\NC% {\def\temp{#1}% \ifx\temp\stopNC \eTR \else \bTD#1\eTD% \expandafter\processNC \fi} % shorter but did not work when external files are loaded in the table, % e.g. \bTD \input knuth \eTD. % %\def\parseNC#1\NC\NR % {\bTR % \processseparatedlist[#1][\NC]\processNC % \eTR} % %\def\processNC#1% % {\bTD#1\eTD} %D I used the same mechanism as in \type{core-ntb.tex} to allow different %D headers on the first and the following pages. The only changes ist that %D I renamed the commands from \tex{bTABLE...} to \tex{startTABLE...} and %D from \tex{eTABLE...} to \tex{stopTABLE...} to match the start and stop %D pair at begin and end of the table. \long\def\startTABLEhead{\dosingleempty\dostartTABLEhead} \long\def\startTABLEnext{\dosingleempty\dostartTABLEnext} \long\def\startTABLEbody{\dosingleempty\dostartTABLEbody} \long\def\startTABLEfoot{\dosingleempty\dostartTABLEfoot} \long\def\dostartTABLEhead[#1]#2\stopTABLEhead{\appendtoks \doTABLEsection[#1]{#2}\to\TBLhead} \long\def\dostartTABLEnext[#1]#2\stopTABLEnext{\appendtoks \doTABLEsection[#1]{#2}\to\TBLnext} \long\def\dostartTABLEbody[#1]#2\stopTABLEbody{\appendtoks \doTABLEsection[#1]{#2}\to\TBLbody} \long\def\dostartTABLEfoot[#1]#2\stopTABLEfoot{\appendtoks \doTABLEsection[#1]{#2}\to\TBLfoot} %D \startbuffer %D \startTABLE %D \NC Text 1 \NC Text 2 \NC\NR %D \NC Text 3 \NC Text 4 \NC\NR %D \stopTABLE %D \stopbuffer %D %D My example from the begin of this module %D %D \typebuffer %D %D looks like this: %D %D \startlinecorrection %D \getbuffer %D \stoplinecorrection \protect \endinput

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Design for Translation
by John Devereux 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hi, I am wondering how best to go about creating an evolving document that will need translation. This is a manual that will probably need to be produced - and maintained - in around 6 languages. For what it is worth, I have come up with two approaches, which follow. But I would really appreciate any insights anyone may have. ... 1) Just translate the file -------------------------- - Obey formatting rules in document tex file so as to most easily visually separate commands from text. - Distribute the files for translation with instructions. This will work until we need to modify the file, then how to communicate the modifications? An english diff? I think this may be the best solution, but there is also 2) Using blocks --------------- The "excursion" manual briefly describes an alternative (which I think may be too cumbersome). The idea would be to totally separate the text from any tex commands (except for a single type of begin/end sequence). Conceptually :- manual-env.tex: \defineblock[EN,de,it] \setupblock[EN][file=EN] \setupblock[DE][file=DE] \setupblock[IT][file=IT] \doifmode[EN]{\def\lang{EN}} \doifmode[DE]{\def\lang{DE}} \doifmode[IT]{\def\lang{IT}} manual.tex: \environment manual-env.tex \useblocks[\lang][installation-1] \useblocks[\lang][installation-2] EN.tex: \beginEN[installation-1] This is how to install the product type 1 \endEN \beginEN[installation-2] This is how to install the product type 2 \endEN DE.tex: \beginDE[installation-1] (german text here) \endDE \beginDE[installation-2] (german text here) \endDE IT.tex: \beginIT[installation-1] (italian text here) \endIT \beginIT[installation-2] (italian text here) \endIT -- John Devereux

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matrices with horizontal and vertical delimeters
by Jiří Cigler 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hello, I have problems with typesetting of matrices with delimiters. I need the same functionality like in the following LaTeX example: \begin{displaymath} \left(\begin{array}{c|c} 1 & 2 \\ \hline 3 & 4 \end{array}\right) \end{displaymath} but in ConTeXt I can't find method how to do that. My best result is \startformula \startmathmatrix[left={\left(\,},right={\,\right)}] \NC 1 \NC \vl \NC 2 \NR \NC \hl \NC \vl \NC \hl \NR \NC 3 \NC \vl \NC 4 \NR \stopmathmatrix \stopformula But the result is not ok. In addition, I would prefer dashed lines. Thanks, Jiri Cigler

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pdftex error
by Fengnan 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

When I updated my context minimal earlier today, at the end of the update process, the cmd window pops up a error message box which says "Unable to find kpathsea357-dev.dll, so this program cannot be started" ( I translate from Chinese). Just pure guess, did Mojca forget to put the file in the right place? Fengnan Gao <fnsteed(a)hotmail.com

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modife the style of taspresent
by Bill Long 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Dear All, anybody can help me on this problem? As most of the ppt file's background are graphics, but I don't know how to do it by modify the sytelefile. for example bellow style: --------------------------------------------- %D \module %D [ file=t-horizontalblue, %D version=2007.07.17, %D title=\CONTEXT\ Style File, %D subtitle=Presentation Module horizontalblue, %D author=Thomas A. Schmitz, %D date=\currentdate, %D copyright={Thomas A. Schmitz}] %C %C Copyright 2007 Thomas A. Schmitz. %C This file may be distributed under the GNU General Public License v. 2.0. %D This file provides the \quotation{horizontalblue} style for the presentation %D module. It is loaded at runtime. The look of this style was inspired by the %D \quotation{Copenhagen} theme of the \LaTeX\ {\tt beamer} package. \writestatus{loading}{module newstyle} \startmodule[newstyle] \unprotect %D The taspresentation module provides a skeleton into which different styles %D can be hooked. It uses a number of variables and macros which have to be set %D beforehand. Some parts are optional. We begin with the necessary definitions: %D We start colors: \setupcolors[state=start] %D These macros are used for placing figures/pictures: \define\NormalHeight{.97\textheight} \define\NormalWidth{.476\textwidth} \define\PictureFrameHeight{.97\textheight} \define\PictureFrameWidth{.476\textwidth} %D The page layout: \setuplayout [width=fit, margin=0cm, height=14.7cm, header=1.75cm, footer=1.2cm, topspace=1cm, backspace=1cm, location=singlesided] %D The macro for typesetting the Slidetitle; this is adapted from a sample %D document that Brooks Moses published on the wiki: \definelayer[slidetitle] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight, x=10mm] \define[1]\Slidetitle{\page\setlayer[slidetitle]% {\framed[frame=off,width=\textwidth,height=2.2cm,offset=0pt,top=\vss,bottom=\vss]{\switchtobodyfont[\Titlesize]\color[c]{#1}}}} %D The macro \tex{Maketitle} produces a default title page with the author, the %D title of the presentation, and the date. Using it is not mandatory. \define\Maketitle{% \titback \null \vfill \framed[frame=off,width=\textwidth,height=.75\textheight,top=\vss,bottom=\vss,align=middle]{\switchtobodyfont[\Titlesize]\color[c]{\bf \getvariable{taspresent}{title}}\switchtobodyfont[\Normalsize]\blank[line]\getvariable{taspresent}{author}\blank[2*line]\currentdate} \vfill \null} %D The following parts are optional; if you don't use backgrounds and are %D content with CONTEXT's default itemization, you don't have to set these %D macros. %D We define our colors: \definecolor [a] [s=.95] \definecolor [b] [r=.58,g=.58,b=.82] \definecolor [c] [r=.2,g=.2,b=.73] \definecolor [Item] [r=.2,g=.2,b=.73] %D We let Metapost calculate the background: \startuniqueMPgraphic{vertical} StartPage ; pair zd[] ; path pb[] ; fill Page withcolor \MPcolor{a} ; z.d1 = ulcorner Page shifted (0,-5pt) ; z.d2 = urcorner Page shifted (0,-5pt) ; pb[1] = ulcorner Page -- z.d1 -- z.d2 -- urcorner Page -- cycle ; z.d3 = llcorner Page shifted (0,5pt) ; z.d4 = lrcorner Page shifted (0,5pt) ; pb[3] = llcorner Page -- z.d3 -- z.d4 -- lrcorner Page -- cycle ; pb[4] = pb[3] shifted (0,.75cm) ; fill pb[1] withcolor \MPcolor{b} ; fill pb[3] withcolor \MPcolor{b} ; fill pb[4] withcolor \MPcolor{b} ; StopPage ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \startuniqueMPgraphic{horizontal} StartPage ; pair zd[] ; path pb[] ; z.d1 = ulcorner Page shifted (0,-5pt) ; z.d2 = urcorner Page shifted (0,-5pt) ; pb[1] = ulcorner Page -- z.d1 -- z.d2 -- urcorner Page -- cycle ; pb[2] = pb[1] shifted (0,-2cm) ; fill pb[2] withcolor \MPcolor{b} ; StopPage ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic %D We define these backgrounds as overlays: \defineoverlay [lecbackground] [\useMPgraphic{horizontal}] \defineoverlay [picbackground] [\useMPgraphic{vertical}] %D We define the footer \setupfooter[color=c,style={\switchtobodyfont[10pt]},strut=yes] \setupfootertexts[{\framed[frame=off,height=.45cm,width=\textwidth]{\getvariable{taspresent}{title}\hfill \pagenumber \ of \lastpage}}] %D These are shortcuts to switch backgrounds: \define\lecback{\setuplayout[header=1.75cm]\setupfooter[state=start]\setupbackgrounds[page][background={picbackground,lecbackground,slidetitle}]} \define\titback{\setuplayout[header=1.75cm]\setupfooter[state=stop]\setupbackgrounds[page][background={picbackground,lecbackground}]} \define\picback{\setuplayout[header=0cm]\setupfooter[state=start]\setupbackgrounds[page][background={picbackground}]} \define\noback{\setupbackgrounds[page][background=nobackground]} %D We use combinations for placing vertical pictures and text side by side, and %D we want a distance of 1.1 cm between both. \setupcombinations[distance=1.1cm] %D The symbol for the first level of itemizations. \definesymbol[1][\useMPgraphic{ItSquare}] \setupitemize[1][color=c] \protect \stopmodule \endinput ----------------------------------------------------------- I try to modify \defineoverlay [lecbackground] [\useMPgraphic{horizontal}] to something like \defineoverlay [lecbackground] [\externalfigure[figure]] but it doesn't work. any idea? I need for example a.png on right top. and b.png bottom. -- 卷548_80 【送沈单作尉江都（一作许浑诗）】薛逢炀帝都城春水边，笙歌夜上木兰船。三千宫女自涂地，十万人家如洞天。焰焰花枝官舍晚，重重云影寺墙连。少年作尉须矜慎，莫向楼前坠马鞭。

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type-win.tex beta version
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Hello, Please, take a look at my type-win. All Western fonts shipped with XP are included. (Vista fonts are described by Wolfgang in other file.) Only Palatino Linotype does not work. \definetypescriptprefix [f:palatino] [Palatino Linotype] "Palatino Linotype" seems to be used already. Best, Vyatcheslav

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starttypescriptcollection
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Hello, What is the effect of "starttypescriptcollection"? How and when the name given to the collection is used? (Unspecified on wiki, btw.) Vyatcheslav

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titles question
by Alan Stone 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

With \setuphead[section][number=yes/no] how do you test whether what's being typeset is in a section or not ? Using \determineheadnumber[section] \currentheadnumber is only relevant when number=yes. -- Alan

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t-bib cannot do with Chinese.
by Wei-Wei Guo 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Dear all, My .tex and .bib files are at the end of the email. The commands I run are context bibtry && context bibtry The first `context bibtry` is ok but no .bbl file generated. The second one complains publications : loading database from bibtry.bbl (bibtry.bbl ! Text line contains an invalid utf-8 sequence. l.22 n=2,s= åååå86] Can t-bib do with Chinese bib entry? or is it just a problem of bibtex? I'm using MkIV(current trunk) and t-bib(march 2, 2009). BTW. Is only absolute path can be used in \setupbibtex? Thanks. Best wishes, Wei-Wei Guo ============ bibtry.tex =========== \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database=~/mytry.bib] \starttext English Bibliogrphy \cite[article-full]. 中文文献 \cite[c-article-full] 。 \completepublications \stoptext ================================== ============= mytry.bib ========== @ARTICLE{article-full, author = {L[eslie] A. Aamport and L[eslie] A. Aamport and L[eslie] A. Aamport and L[eslie] A. Aamport}, title = {The Gnats and Gnus Document Preparation System}, journal = {\mbox{G-Animal's} Journal}, year = 1986, volume = 41, number = 7, pages = "73--83", month = jul, note = "This is a full ARTICLE entry", } @ARTICLE{c-article-full, author = {姓名一 and 姓名二 and 姓名三 and 姓名四}, title = {文章题目}, journal = {某某杂志二}, year = 1986, volume = 41, number = 7, pages = "73--82", month = jul, note = "This is a full ARTICLE entry", language = "chinese" } ====================================

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