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How to make an epigragh?
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Hello! I want to do an epigraph (a small quotation with an identationation of, say, 6 or more cm) the beginning of a chapter: How I can I do it? (sorry but didn't understand it from the manuals. Thanks Armando

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how to NOT reset subsection ONLY ??
by Steffen Wolfrum 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Hi, please have a look a this: \setupsection[section-2][conversion=numbers] \setupsection[section-3][conversion=numbers,previousnumber=no] \setupsection[section-4][conversion=numbers,previousnumber=no] \setupsection[section-5][conversion=numbers,previousnumber=no] \setuphead[section][resetnumber=no] \starttext \chapter{aa} \section{bbb} \subsection{ccc} \section{bbb} \subsection{ccc} \subsubsection{sss} \chapter{aa} \section{bbb} \subsection{(<-should be 3) ccc} \section{bbb} \subsection{(<-should be 4) ccc} \subsubsection{ddd} \stoptext trying to avoid resetting subsection by \setuphead[section] [resetnumber=no] fails: chapter resets everything! but chapter should only reset section and not subsection too!! any idea how to solve this problem (without fiddling with every appearance of subsection individually)?? Thank you, Steffen

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placecontent and arranging
by Andrea Valle 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

(Sorry, always me) I have such a structure \startproduct prd_tSCIRMA \project project_scMaterials \component licence \component prima {\switchtobodyfont[20pt] Sommario}\blank \placecontent \component c_00_introduzione \component c_01_scGrado0 \component c_03_oggetti % etc \stopproduct Everything works perfectly if I arrange one page for sheet, e.g. \setuppapersize[A5][A5] or \setuppapersize[A5][A4, landscape] If have more pages for sheet, \setuppapersize[A5][A4, landscape] \setuparranging[2*2] there's no table of content in the pdf. ? Many thanks Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong) -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " Think of it as seasoning . noise [salt] is boring . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty " (Ken Perlin on noise)

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staticMPfigure
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Hallo, the following example is a cooked down version of something I found on the net. Compiling this %------------------------------------------------ \setupcolors[state=start] \forceMPTEXcheck{LABEL} \startMPinclusions vardef LABEL@\#(expr s, p)= label@\#(textext("% \framed[width=1.5cm]{" & s & "}"),p) enddef ; \stopMPinclusions \startstaticMPfigure{tst} LABEL.llft("Test", (1,1) ) ; \stopstaticMPfigure \starttext \midaligned{\usestaticMPfigure[tst]} \stoptext %------------------------------------------------ I got the following error: %------------------------------------------------ ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \@MPG@@@. <to be read again> ( <argument> vardef LABEL@##( expr s, p)= label@##(textext("\framed [width=1.5c... \dodostartuseMPgraphic ...useMPgraphic {#1}{#2}{#3 }}\elabelgroup \dodostartMPpage ...aphic {@@}#1\stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic {@@}\dostopf... l.14 endfig; \stopMPpage %------------------------------------------------ What is wrong here? Wolfgang

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properties file for gedit
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI! Has anyone a clue how to make gedit texteditor contextable? Best Regards Janneman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH847Z/zRis+sQPvARApInAKCD/ilDNg0QnsdUMnKEGm4PtOmRkQCbBuNb iGN6XFB7VG3hlKiKphK4fGU= =xxt1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ConTeXt meeting moved to October/November
by Mojca Miklavec 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hello, I'm sorry to inform you that due to some other unavoidable obligations at the faculty, I have been forced to move the ConTeXt meeting to 29th October - 3rd November, unless I will be able to find someone else to take over the organisation. More information to come in the following days. I'm really sorry for the incovenience, Mojca

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Converting counters?
by Zhichu Chen 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hi, I'm trying to convert the counter to Chinese character one on one, like 0->a, 1->b, etc., so 10 will be "ba" (I use a, b, c, . . . to denote the Chinese glyphs which makes more sense for you). I used some codes like: ====================================================== \def\ChineseZero {o} \def\ChineseOne {a} \def\ChineseTwo {b} \def\ChineseThree{c} \def\ChineseFour {d} \def\ChineseFive {e} \def\ChineseSix {f} \def\ChineseSeven{g} \def\ChineseEight{h} \def\ChineseNine {i} \unexpanded\def\zhnumber {\bgroup \catcode`\0=\active \uccode`\~=`\0 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseZero}% \catcode`\1=\active \uccode`\~=`\1 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseOne}% \catcode`\2=\active \uccode`\~=`\2 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseTwo}% \catcode`\3=\active \uccode`\~=`\3 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseThree}% \catcode`\4=\active \uccode`\~=`\4 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseFour}% \catcode`\5=\active \uccode`\~=`\5 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseFive}% \catcode`\6=\active \uccode`\~=`\6 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseSix}% \catcode`\7=\active \uccode`\~=`\7 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseSeven}% \catcode`\8=\active \uccode`\~=`\8 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseEight}% \catcode`\9=\active \uccode`\~=`\9 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseNine}% \loggingall \dozhnumber } \def\stripunwantedspaces{} \def\dozhnumber#1% {\expandafter\scantokens\expandafter {\detokenize{#1\stripunwantedspaces}}\egroup} ====================================================== It works fine with \zhnumber{15}, it gives "ae" which is exactly what I want. But it won't work in the following situation: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \newcount\tcpageno \advance\tcpageno15 \zhnumber{\number\tcpageno} ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I know it's not weird, I just don't know how to expand the counter to number. Thank you in advance. -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Different os, different output (and other)
by Diego Depaoli 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hi all, compiling these instructions \defineenumeration[parte][location=left,text=Titolo,headstyle=bold,stopper=.,width=broad,number=yes,conversion=Romannumerals] \defineenumeration[articolo][location=left,text=Articolo,stopper=.,width=broad,number=yes] \defineenumeration[subarticolo][after={\blank[small]},before={\blank[small]},text=,location=inleft,width=broad] \defineenumeration[altec][location=left,text=Allegato,headstyle=bold,stopper=.t,width=broad,conversion=Characters] \defineenumeration[subaltec][after={\blank[small]},before={\blank[small]},text=,location=inleft,width=broad] only under ubuntu the result is as expected: I,1,1,A,1 while under opensuse and freebsd i get 1,1,1,1,1 Why this? Another little question If in defineenumeration[anenumeration] I specify text={\bfc Title} and \startanenumeration{\bfc The History}\stopanenumeration Title and The History are not properly aligned (The History is in higher position). What's wrong? Thanks in advance -- Diego Depaoli (very newbie)

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Pagenumbering in header-margin with outer-align
by Peter Schorsch 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hi, I am trying to put the pagenumber in the margin of the header. But I also want it outer-aligned - not inner-aligned, which seems to be the standart alignment of margin. But the inner-align of the body-margin should still be inner-aligned. So I tried following: \setuppagenumbering[conversion=Romannumerals,alternative=doublesided, location={header,margin},style={\setupalign[outer]}] but Context dont like this.. it stops converting. Does anyone know a working solution for this problem? Thanks, P.

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New Member Introductory Rant
by Corin Royal Drummond 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hello ConTeXt Users, I have become obsessed with ConTeXt since I found out about it while browsing through the TeX related software on my Ubuntu Linux box. I've been teaching myself web development in XHTML/CSS over the last couple years, and developed a passion for structured documents that separate presentation as much as possible. I'm starting to setup Drupal CMS installations for some friends in preparation for doing web publishing work for clients. It's been fun to learn, but so frustrating and difficult for my poor mind. I've long been curious about TeX but it seemed too ossified, fragmented, inflexible, and hard to learn. Later I discovered LyX and understood implicitly the style based markup idea, and it's power. I've always hated things like word, open office, and DTP programs. I'm fine doing the GUI for PhotoShop, but somehow I feel I should be able to just type text, and have it come out all pretty. ConTeXt seems to share that philosophy, so I'm giddy about it. I suppose I should learn InDesign too, but I don't really want to. I use a text editor for my web coding rather than dragging boxes around in DreamWeaver. I like that I can just cut & paste other people's code and learn what they did. GUI programs are harder to learn in that way since someone has to write a whole step-by-step tutorial rather than just show you their commented code. I've been working my way through the documentation, ConTeXt Garden, and whatever I can find on Google searches. I've worked my way up to making a letter head with my address, a graphic logo, and couple of font switches, and some hanging punctuation. I made another version for my journal with two columns under each section heading. I'm using Scite as my editor, but I haven't set it up anyway special. Kile didn't seem to like ConTeXt much, and it's command completion facility kept spitting out LaTeX code as I typed. I like Scite as it starts fast, has nice colors, and is easy to get around. TexFont doesn't work on Ubuntu. It craps out saying it can't find it's TeX root. Even when I set the FontRoot with the command line switch, it fails to find it's map files. I filed a bug with Ubuntu about it as it seems like some files like the font maps got put in /var/lib. So I'm completely frustrated by the font situation. Don't understand why I can't just point TexFont at my directory of OTF, TTF, and PFB fonts and have it suck up every last glyph and variant like Scribus, InkScape, and InDesign do. It should configure a reasonable set of typescripts, and tell me what's available. All the other TeX fonts should just work out of the box. Why do I have to wrestle so vainly just to get the damn fonts to be available. Also, I can't for the life of me figure out how to change typefaces in headers and footers. I can change to italics, or sizes with style=\it\x but have no clue how to switch a header to say the Zaph Chancery caligraphic. I can switch the body font to it, so I'm part way there. I'm pretty pissed off about the state of the documentation for ConTeXt. Out of date docs, that were never finished, and full of holes. Small set of MyWay articles, old dead links on the wiki, no roadmap, no bug database. It's 2008, there's things like SourceForge, and LaunchPad for these sort of things. I don't understand why Pragma can't sell support for ConTeXt like other open source projects. That way Hans can afford a staff to handle people's questions, he can focus on building what he likes (and we all love), new users can be brought in, and a virtuous cycle of new contributors, new features, and new users. TexShow is missing tons of commands I've read about in the manual, and doesn't bother to explain what any command or option does. Nor do I understand how options are chained or structured into more than simple switches. Where are the screencasts of gurus showing off how to do cool things? Where are the tutorials? Where are the contributed templates, so I can read other people's code to learn from? You'd think that people who make structured document typesetting systems would spend some more time on their documentation. I'd be glad to help, but first I'd need to learn the system. Since the docs are so incomplete, I'm not sure how I'd do that. Catch 22. I've gotten as far as letter writing, and I'm pretty happy with that. My goal is to typeset my housemate's pirate novel that she's writing. I'm going to stick it out and see how far I can get. I hope I don't have to go running back to LyX and the memoir class. I'm home sick with Hepatitis and Diabetes so I've got some quality time with my six year old Ubuntu laptop. If there are any Bay Area ConTeXt users around, I'd love to meet you. And if any one wants help setting up a better community website, I could help with that, knowing Drupal. Hope to speak with some of you soon. Regards, Corin Royal Drummond San Francisco, California corin(a)studiochango.com

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