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Choosing ConTeXt install method on Mac
by David Rogers 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Hello all I'm going to do a clean re-install of my machine (Tiger on PPC) soon, and I'd like guidance on methods of installing ConTeXt. I assume that (a) TeX Live 2008 with its tlmgr utility, or (b) ConTeXt minimals, are the two realistic possibilities - is this correct? What I'd like: - A clear way of keeping ConTeXt mkiv usable and up to date with Hans's latest version - An installation method that will continue to be maintained, and that is expected to be used by the majority of ordinary users of ConTeXt in the future ...So should I go for TeX Live, or the minimals, or something else I don't know about yet? Grateful for any advice... David

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Merging background
by Cecil Westerhof 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

I have a template for a letter in which I use \setupbackgrounds. I also have a tenplate for a watermark which also uses \setupbackgrounds. The background from the last include is used. Is there a way to merge the backgrounds? -- Cecil Westerhof

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gfs neohellenic typescript
by Antoine Junod 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Hello list, Has anyone already written a typescript for the beautiful gfs neohellenic (for mkii)? A+ -AJ

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bug in math mode
by Yue Wang 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Hi, Taco: Last week you invited me to test the trunk version of luatex. Today I compiled LuaTeX trunk version (This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.32.0-2009011719, build unknown) and used first-setup.sh (change --context tag into experimental as Mojca suggested) to download the ConTeXt (MtxRun | current version: 2009.01.17 00:15) distribution. And after compiling one of my thesis, I found there is a bug in mathmode. I am not sure whether it is a bug in luatex itself or a bug in ConTeXt. Yue Wang

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Using defaults and indexes
by Cecil Westerhof 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

In my template I have: \long\def\letterclosing#1#2{ \blank[line]#1, \blank[3*line]#2 } And in the main file I have: \letterclosing{Hoogachtend}{Cecil Westerhof} But I would like to have this as the default, so I could use: \letterclosing Beside that I would like to have the possibility to use: \letterclosing{business} or \letterclosing{family} This would then use defined values. When the first parameter is filled, but not with a recognized value, then the second parameter should be filled. If not, the compilation of the file should generate an error. Is this something that can be done? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Litter in the Garden
by John Devereux 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

There appears to be a spam/hacking attack in progress on the context garden, e.g.: <http://texshow.contextgarden.net/command/special> <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/MetaPost> :( -- John Devereux

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Howto make citations work in aps bibtex
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Hi All! Have an issue getting \cite command working properly. Working on a undergraduate thesis in physics and the bibliography. I have read in bibmod-doc.pdf(Tacos manual) and also on the wiki about how to make this work properly. So I did set this in the preamble of my document. It sees the referenser.bib and a proper *.bbl file is produced. \usemodule [bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex[database=referenser] \setuppublications [alternative=aps,criterium=all] \starttext \cite[ref] does only display [1] as a result. \stoptext I tried \cite[authoryear][ref] but it gets some annoying results. Because i want the result be like this in the output Example: These statements has been declared by [authorlastname,(year)] Please give a code sample how to make this work! Thanks in advance! //Janneman

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setupindenting
by Cecil Westerhof 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

With setupindenting I can define the level of indenting. But I want a different level of indentation for different paragraphs. How can I do this? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Defining a function
by Cecil Westerhof 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

I defined a command as descriped in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Processing_Lists. (\def\IHaveTo#1#2{I have to #1 on #2.\par}) If I define it in the tex-file that is processed it works. But when I put the definition in the template file that is used, it does not work. What do I need to do to define a command in a template file? -- Cecil Westerhof

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2NUP, spreading a table on 2 pages
by Antoine Junod 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Hello List, I'm trying to design a little booklet on the form two A5 pages on a A4 sheet. It's not hard to do as it is well documented. The problem is the following: I would like to add a table (actually a people list with firstname, lastname, mobile, address and so on and so on) that is quite wide. The idea is to put it on a double page (ie, when you open the booklet, the table is on both the left and the right page). The easy way would be to 1) manually cut the table in two tables (a left one and a right one) that fit on a page and 2) to put them each on their own page, beeing sure the left one is on a left page. Here, the difficulty is to align both tables accross the pages. Another way would be to ask context to do that by himself. Is there a way to do that? Thanks for your reply, -AJ

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