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several details (maybe bugs)
by Henning Hraban Ramm 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

While typesetting some proceedings, I stumpled upon the following issues: (1) \setupheads seems to do nothing - I must set every option for every head separately. AFAIR this is broken "forever", at least it was the same in 2000. (2) \setuphead[chapter][header=none] should switch off the header only on that page where the chapter starts, shouldn't it? (It disables headers completely.) Or how else would I achieve that? (3) \startitemize[n] Numbered itemizations suddenly(?) start with 0 - as this may be suitable for programmers, but it's, ehm, a bit unusual in every other context. Hm, it works in the garden. (4) Is it possible to include footnotes in tables in the normal footnote numbering and placement? (At the moment I use localfootnotes to enable footnotes in tables at all, but that's unsatisfying.) (5) Is it possible to disable hyphenation in titles? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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scite properties enable utf8 and customizing
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI! I am trying to make Scite work in a context way by copying context.properties and friends, and it does work . The problem seems to be that make scite automatic be in utf8 mode. I have copying following parameters in the file .SciTEUser.properies by inserting following: LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 output.code.page=65001 but it seems not working when the program is restarted. All adjustments seems to be "forgotten" every time I restart. Thanks in advance! Janneman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH9k1m/zRis+sQPvARAp5WAKDtIsNohO0VWNwcuR2H4pj3uaYw8ACgs3gi yLIVTqs7QWh7RaWzhyY+GmQ= =/HKi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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References with or without interaction
by Morgan Brassel 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Hi everyone, I noticed what seems to be a lack of coherence when typesetting references with interaction enabled. Look at the example below: \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext See \in{figure}[fig:a]. {\it See \in{figure}[fig:a].} \placefigure [][fig:a] {A caption.} {HELLO} \stoptext When interaction is enabled, the two references are typeset bold and upshape. When it's not, the first one is upshape, the other is italic. This can lead to overfull hbox when turning on interaction, and this is quite unintuitive. Is there a reason why it is so in ConTeXt? Best regards, Morgan

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First document — problems with bib module and layout
by Matija Šuklje 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Hullo, I'm just making my first real document in ConTeXt and although I'm thinking more and more how this was a great idea. I also decided to simultaneously write an external document/module containing all definitions to fit the But as a newbie, of course, I stumbled upon some beginner's problems: 1. Chapter heading is not like I would expect — I would like to have the line above the chapter as long as the one below it 2. The empty page at the end of the document annoys me and doesn't want to go away. 3. The citations won't show any content, neither does the list of publications — I'm clearly doing something very wrong here. What I want is numbered citation with short references at the bottom and full references in the list of publications in the appendices. 4. If I want to include 'pf_ul.tex' and 'moja_bibliografija.bbl' into my user's local modules in Linux, where should I place the link to them? It's a bit annoying to have to place links to them in each directory where I make a new new file that uses them. And clearly, there will be many yet to come! If anything I just wrote doesn't make much sense, I excuse myself ...I'm tired, tried to learn and hack together this definitions the whole day today and didn't sleep much yesterday either. Cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 e-mail: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net www: http://matija.suklje.name aim: hookofsilver icq: 110183360 jabber/g-talk: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org msn: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net yahoo: matija_suklje

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mpost update in minimal windows
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Hallo, I tried to update my metapost executable in the Windows ConTeXt minimal. In the bin dir I found both mpost.exe (Version 1.000-rc1) and a mpost.dll In the archive 'metapost-1.002-windows.zip' there is mpost.exe (Version 1.002 (Web2C 7.5.5)) and no dll So I downloaded 'mplib-alpha-0.20-win32.zip' but there is an other exe newpost.exe (Version 1.002 (Cweb version 0.20)) and no dll So I wonder where I can find the matching dll and which exe above is the right one. There is an other strange thing: In the aktuell 'cont-win.zip' is a 'texmfstart.exe' dated 2007-08-07 with about 700 KB. But the 'texmfstart.exe' in my bin dir, which is installed 7 or 8 months ago ist dated 2007-08-08 and much bigger (~900KB). The next thing I wanted to do ist to update LuaTeX. Ohjeohje?! Wolfgang Musensturm-Verlag -- Postfach 1249 -- 36126 Gersfeld >>> http://www.musensturm.de

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Footnote in section: Compilation stops on TUO file
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

I don't understand this error: (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-tst.tex) interaction : active(./prd_05.tuo) (./prd_05.tuo! Improper alphabetic constant.<to be read again> \footnote <argument> \ifnum `\footnote =255 32 \else `\footnote \fi \utfdiv #1->\the \numexpr \ifcase \numexpr #1 \relax 0\else (#1- \utf@g )/\utf... \PDFunicodechar ...bers \@EA {\number \utfdiv {#1} }\@EA \lchexnumbers \@EA {... \nodoPDFuni ...ar {\ifnum `#1=255 32\else `#1 \fi } \doPDFuni \bookmarktext ...-?und?Erziehungsauftrag \footnote {H.?P.,? Humanist?R......l.176 ...ion for Europe}{2--0-7-0-0-0-0-0--49} {50} %? eNo pages of output. It seems to be caused by this line, i.e. by the footnote: \section{Bildungs- und Erziehungsauftrag\footnote{H. P., Humanist Road to European Citizenship, Zitate aus Verfassungen, 15.\,12.\,2007}} And in the TUO file there's: \mainreference{}{fnt:t:5}{2--0-6-5-0-0-0-0--45}{46}{}%\pospxywhd{text: 47}{47}{42.67912pt}{62.59607pt}{327.20668pt}{489.38742pt}{0.0pt}% \listentry{subsection}{76}{}{Baden-Württemberg}{2--0-6-6-16-0-0-0--46} {47}%\listentry{subsection}{77}{}{Bayern}{2--0-6-6-17-0-0-0--46}{47}% \listentry{subsection}{78}{}{Brandenburg}{2--0-6-6-18-0-0-0--46}{47}% \listentry{subsection}{79}{}{Berlin}{2--0-6-6-19-0-0-0--46}{47}% \listentry{subsection}{80}{}{Bremen}{2--0-6-6-20-0-0-0--46}{47}% \listentry{section}{81}{}{Bildungs- und Erziehungsauftrag\footnote {H. P., Humanist Road to European Citizenship, Zitate aus Verfassungen, 15.\,12.\,2007}}{2--0-6-7-0-0-0-0--46}{47}% \mainreference{}{fnt:f:6}{2--0-6-7-0-0-0-0--46}{47}{}%\listentry {subsection}{115}{}{Hessen}{2--0-6-7-34-0-0-0--46}{47}%\listentry {subsection}{116}{}{Mecklenburg-Vorpommern}{2--0-6-7-35-0-0-0--46} {47}%\listentry{subsection}{117}{}{Niedersachsen} {2--0-6-7-36-0-0-0--46}{47}% What's wrong? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Streams in two columns
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

I'm trying to typeset English and German texts in two columns. With the following example every bilingual section goes on a new page. How can I avoid that? (Using only "columns" instead of "columnsets" I get single-section pages with alternating languages.) %% setup \definecolumnset[twocol][n=2] \setuphead[chapter][page=no, number=no, align=right] \usemodule[streams] % example from the streams module % only enhanced by columnset \def\StartCouple{\page\startcolumnset[twocol]\SwitchToNormal} \def\StopCouple {\SwitchToNormal \SynchronizeLeftAndRight \FlushLeftAndRight\stopcolumnset} \def\Original {\SwitchToNormal\SynchronizeLeftAndRight\SwitchToLeft} \def\Translation{\SwitchToRight} %% text snippet \StartCouple \Original\de \chapter{Ein säkulares Europa -- der Weg zur europäischen Staatsbürgerlichkeit} \Translation\en \chapter{A Secular Europe -- the Road to European Citizenship} \Original\de Zum 50. Jahrestag der Unterzeichnung der Römischen Verträge der Europäischen Union hat die European Humanist Federation am 25. März 2007 die Brüsseler Erklärung veröffentlicht. Hierin wird nochmals bekräftigt, dass Europa auf einer Vielzahl von Kulturen und Traditionen beruht, und seine Bürger der Geschichtsklitterung vom christlichen Abendland entgegenwirken müssen. \Translation\en At the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Rome treaties which established the European Union the European Humanist Federation published the Brussels declaration. It affirms once more Europe’s foundation to consist of many cultures and traditions and reminds its citizens to work against the biased historical account of the Christian occident. \StopCouple Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Overlay caption placement
by Dave 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Hi all, I have a few pdf figures that I'm including in a large report that are essentially full page (portrait) diagrams. However, they each have blank space in the lower right corner and I was thinking that it would be nice to put the caption in this spot. Is there a way to overlay a caption on top of a floating figure? Ideally, I'd like to be able to provide an x,y offset location for these captions in cm. Is there something I'm missing in setupcaption? Cheers, Dave

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unknown reference fnt:f:50
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Hi! I have compiled my file but it stopped on page 14 with the log file (bottom of the message) saying "unknown reference" I remarked that hyphenation patterns for portuguese do this hypenation li-gar-am instead of li-ga-ram. How can I correct that? 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Various ConTeXt Questions
by Edd Barrett 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Hi there, I am taking a look at conTeXt as a means of typesetting documents with more advanced page layouts which otherwise would be produced with desktop publishing suites. I am very new to conTeXt, so I know very little about it. The only documentation I have been able to find on the internet is: ConTeXt Garden ConTeXt an excursion ConTeXt : The manual I have been sifting through these for a while, and whilst the documentation is good, I still have questions. I must apologise if I missed the answers in the docs or if the questions are just plain dumb. 1) Is there a way to make ConTeXt stricter? It seem that ConTeXt will not complain if you misspell the names of colours, layers, overlays etc. I would rather it did. 2) Is there a way to overlay many layers/overlays at one place. It seems using background= can only take 1 layer/overlay. Even better if I could offset the layer/overlay from an origin. 3) I have had difficulty pushing the whole layout including the margin to the right about 2cm. I have tried using setuplayout to alter leftedge, leftedgedistance and backspace. Is that not the way to do it? 3a) Similarly I would like to make the textheight longer so that the footer is about 1cm from the bottom of the page. I have had no luck in setting textheight using setuplayout. 4) Is there a module to parse CVS tags, like the RCS package for laTeX? 5) Can I use OpenType and TrueType fonts in ConTeXt? Ideally via fontspec. 6) Is there a book on ConTeXt for beginners aside from what I have already listed above? 7) Can I specify RGB colours in th 0 <= x <= 255 format? So far I have had to write a script to help me convert them. 8) Is anyone proficient with ConTeXt going to the Cork TeX User Group meeting? Thanks. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

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