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Howto float text around an image on layer (in a frame, inside standardmakeup)?
by Uwe Koloska 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

Hello, hopefully this is the last dumb question, cause the CD is nearing it's end an will be prepared for printing soon ;-) How can I float text around a picture if I place them on a layer? What I want to achieve is something like this: ppp........ ppp........ ........... but typeset onto a layer to position it at my will ... But I can't get the text flow around the graphic. Here is a minimal example: ------------------------------------------------------------- \definelayer[test] \startbuffer[text] \placefigure[left,none]{}{\framed[height=1cm]{graphic}} \input tufte \stopbuffer \setlayerframed[test] [x=.5\paperwidth,y=2em,location=bottom] [width=0.8\textwidth,height=0.3\textheight,align=normal] {\getbuffer[text]} \setupbackgrounds[page][background=test] \starttext \startstandardmakeup \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------- and the result can be seen in the attached PDF. The same happens inside a standardmakeup ------------------------------------------------------------- \startbuffer[text] \placefigure[left,none]{}{\framed[height=1cm]{graphic}} \input tufte \stopbuffer \starttext \startstandardmakeup \getbuffer[text] \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------- and inside a framedtext ------------------------------------------------------------- \startbuffer[text] \placefigure[left,none]{}{\framed[height=1cm]{graphic}} \input tufte \stopbuffer \starttext \startframedtext[width=0.8\textwidth] \getbuffer[text] \stopframedtext \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------- Neither the mailinglist, nor the wiki or the documentation have given me any clue, what to change or where to look further ... Is there another way to flow text around an image? The image has a fixed position (top left corner of the text) so it don't has to be a float at all. Thank you for all your help Uwe

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Booklet hint
by Diego Depaoli 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

I'm trying to produce my first booklet (two A5 on A4 paper) and first results look fine (but how much effort). What kind and size of font you suggest to maximize readability saving paper? Thanks -- Diego Depaoli P.S. Why Scite's interface doesn't contain a direct call to 'context'?

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context minimals installation
by Alan Stone 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

- Ubuntu 8.04 According to http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals I installed the context minimals in /opt/context then ( after some research about its definition and use ) created a .bash_profile file (using gedit) to which were added the following instructions #!/bin/bash source /opt/context/tex/setuptex /opt/context/tex saved it in /home/alan then logged in again and... bash doesn't seem to execute ~/.bash_profile because when launching texexec on a test file, I'm still receiving as output ConTeXt ver: 2007.09.28 16:52 MKII fmt: 2008.6.18 int: english/english which, as far as I remember, corresponds to the ubuntu context installation. What's missing ? Alan

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Problem with miktex
by TeXWorld 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hi, Context doesn't work with miktex for several days. Could you please tell me what happened and when texexec/context will work again. Thank you. Jack

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error: Attempt to node.insert_before() a non-existing node
by Khaled Hosny 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

I get this error when I attempt to generate this file with \setcharactermirroring[1], and text directionality gets broken. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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lang-ara.tex (beta)
by Peter Rolf 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

hi, just tested the latest beta. [..] ) (r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lang-ura.tex loading : Uralic Languages ) (r:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lang-vn.tex loading : Vietnamese Language ) ! I can't find file `lang-ara.tex'. <to be read again> \relax l.330 \loadcorefile{lang-ara.tex} (Press Enter to retry, or Control-Z to exit) Please type another input file name: best wishes, peter

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pdfobj runtime question
by Peter Rolf 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

hi, i'm currently struggling with some basic runtime problems in luatex. are there any rules for directly writing a pdf object? in context this is only done in the tex part. especially what pitfalls are there, if you do it in the lua part of the code ( tex.sprint(tex.ctxcatcodes,"\\immediate\\pdfobj{}")) ) and use "\the\pdflastobj" (tex or lua) to reference that object? and what must be done to make sure that things are done immediatly (in lua), so that one ore more switches between lua<-->tex always uses the right obj number? i already noticed that you have to use separated lua code for 'creation' and 'reference' (different chunks). any help welcome. regards, peter

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placing image on layer is sketchy
by Uwe Koloska 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hello, still working on the CD booklet ;-) While trying to include the pictures I have some problems with placing a picture onto a layer: The following code should place the picture into the lower right corner of the upper part and then goes to the left. The part that goes over the page border is for the bleeding. But the result (as seen in the attached pdf) is a sketchy position of the right, bottom corner it looks like the same offset in x and -y direction. Two more observations: - with the "offset=-1mm" in the layerframe configuration there is only an offset in -y direction left (offset=0mm is not enough) - without the frame it works as expected (and so my problem is solved) \setuppapersize[CD][CD,oversized] \setuppagenumbering[location=,state=stop] \setuplayout [location=middle] \showframe[edge] \useexternalfigure[page12][dummy] \definelayer [p12] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight] \setlayerframed [p12] [x=\paperwidth,y=74mm, location={left,top}] [width=124mm,height=77mm, %offset=-1mm, frame=on] {\externalfigure[page12][width=126mm,height=77mm]} %\setlayer [p12] % [x=\paperwidth,y=74mm, % location={left,top}] % {\externalfigure[page12][width=124mm,height=77mm]} \starttext \setupbackgrounds[page][background=p12] \startstandardmakeup \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext

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Translaing ConTeXt interface to Arabic
by Khaled Hosny 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

How do I translate things like "Contents, Index, List of tables, etc.." to Arabic. If this is documented somewhere, please tell me since I failed to find such documentation. Regards, -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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Unicode PDF bookmarks and headers
by Khaled Hosny 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

I can't get Unicode (Arabic) PDF bookmarks or headers (see the attached file), even after including "\input spec-tst" after the wiki page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF_Bookmarks_and_Headers But I get miss-encoded text instead, am I missing some thing? Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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