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Some BibTeX questions
by Jeff Smith 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hi! A couple of questions regarding BibTeX and ConTeXt. :-) 1) For various reasons I want to make my own .bbl file. Do I understand correctly that I therefore don't need to use \setupbibtex in my document? I wouldn't see the point in linking to my original .bib file if I don't want the system to generate the .bbl in the first place. However, is this the command which generates the .aux file? What purpose does this one have? 2) In an automatically generated .bbl file, the \setuppublicationlist command seems to have as a value for the samplesize parameter the very first s-key of the list, .i.e that of the first publication in the database. These labels are clearly generated from the first three characters of the first Author data, and the last two character of the Year data. For example, in my database, the author being Achinstein and the year being 1975 for the first entry, the generated s-key is Ach75. This is the value \setuppublicationlist[samplesize] as well. What is the purpose of 'samplesize' exactly? And what is the use of the s-key in the first place? Is it mandatory? The answer to this is unclear to me. Hic et nunc, I wouldn't even know where to use them; not in the way I cite references in my document. I would use a and y exclusively. 3) All the a-keys with author lastnames in my generated bbl file contain the names in brackets {}, excluding the normal delimiting brackets of the key itself. For example, for my first publication, you read a={{Achinstein}}. With more than one authors, I have for example a={{Bromberger},{Halle}}. However, in Taco's documentation (bibmod-doc), there are no such brackets in the sample entry: a=Hoekwater. Are the brackets absolutely necessary? With more than one name, perhaps? Many thanks in advance for your answers! As always I'm ever grateful for the great help this list provides. Jeff Smith

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figure libraries (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hi Hans, Looks like I'm the only one using resource libs. I have tried to solve the problem with figure inclusion, but my lua is still too bad (coroutines). At least I have found the place where things go wrong. function figures.bases.find(basename,askedlabel) [..] if base[2] and base[3] then for e, d, k in xml.elements(base[3],"/(rlx:library|figurelibrary)/*:figure/*:label") do page = page + 1 if xml.content(d[k]) == askedlabel then t = { base = file.replacesuffix(base[2],"pdf"), format = "pdf", name = xml.filters.text(e,"*:file"), -- always empty page = page, -- wrong pagenumber (far too high) } -- tex.sprint(table.serialize(t)) figures.bases.found[askedlabel] = t break end end end [..] And what is the correct namespace for resource libraries? You use rlx for the <library> element, and a joker for <subelements>. The example in x-res-04.tex should be updated then (uses rl for all). For testing I have changed the prefix to rl (as my test databases use rl). I can send you a small 7z with my test files. Peter

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no file 'cont-sys.tex' + You can't use `\end' in internal vertical mode
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hello! I am trying ConTeXt with XeTeX and after processing the file I got this message: TeXExec | processing document 'eduardo-nunes-conteste.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file eduardo-nunes-conteste.top TeXExec | using randomseed 51 TeXExec | tex engine: xetex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) (WARNING: translate-file "natural.tcx" ignored) entering extended mode (./eduardo-nunes-conteste.tex systems : end file eduardo-nunes-conteste at line 276 system : cont-err loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-err.tex systems : no file 'cont-sys.tex', using 'cont-sys.rme' instead ) ! You can't use `\end' in internal vertical mode. <recently read> \normalend l.276 \stoptext No PDF was produced. I read in the mail list a message about this warning (! You can't use `\end' in internal vertical mode.) but I couldn't understand. Could you please tell me what is the problem with my file or my installation of context? Thanks! armando

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Updating LuaTeX
by Willi Egger 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Hi, I just tried to update context with ctxtools --updatecontext. I receive though the following error while preparing the format-files (cont-en.fmt) (/Applications/luatex/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/core-inc.mkiv ! LuaTeX error ...luatex/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/core- inc.lua:85: attempt to index global 'img' (a nil value). \ctxluabytecode ...ode " .. "#1" .. str) end end } \registerctxluafile ...{\the \luabytecodecounter } \fi l.21 \registerctxluafile{core-inc}{1.001} Hm, what to do? Kind regards Willi

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Numbering in margin
by Thomas A. Schmitz 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Hi all, I want some numbers to appear in the paragraph. It's for a commentary, so the numbering isn't continuous, but pretty arbitrary. The problem is, I need two sets of numbers (for sections and subsections), and I want both in the margin, like so: 1 1 Some text 3 More text 4 Even more 3 1 And more 2 and so on 5 Sometimes, there are sections without subsections So far, I have succeeded in doing this with some low-level trickery by defining two commands, LEVELONE and LEVELTWO: \def\LEVELONE#1 {\dontleavehmode\llap{#1\kern1.8em \null}} \def\LEVELTWO#1 {\dontleavehmode\llap{\tfx #1\kern1em \null}} (I need to gobble the space after the command, that's why I included it in the \def). However, I'm wondering if there's a more ConTeXt-like way of doing this, since my next project will be to do this for xml files. I had tried with \inmargin[1] and \inmargin[2], but that didn't quite do what I expected. Any thoughts on this? All best Thomas

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processing xml in mkiv
by Thomas A. Schmitz 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Hi all, xml processing is about the last part of my ConTeXt stuff where I haven't been able to switch to mkiv; I just can't get my head around it... 2 questions: 1. When I try to process a xml-file with my old (mkii) environments, the output looks OK, but I always get a first page with the xml version declaration <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> Is this a bug or a feature? Is there anything I can do to prevent it? 2. I'm really lost with the new xml mechanism. My first problem: In a message from September last year, Hans explained that the command to process xml files is: > The regular definitions still work but processing a file is done > differently: > > \xmlprocess{id}{filename}{optional initialization setup} I used to have environments with which to typeset a bunch of files. How can this be ported to the new mechanism, which appears to expect a filename? Sorry if these are very basic problems, but I'm probably a bit obtuse here. All best Thomas

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newlines after keywords
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Hello, I would like to separate multiple keywords with newline-chars. The following doesn't work: \setupinteraction[keyword={first\r\n,second\r\n,third},state=start] How can this be done? Gruß, Wolfgang

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Incompatibility bib num style / reference prefix option
by Morgan Brassel 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

Hi, I think I discovered a bug in the 'num' alternative of the bib module. It seems to be incompatible with the prefix=+ option of referencing. The following example gives an unknow reference: % tex file \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database=biblio] \setuppublications[alternative=num] \setuphead[chapter][prefix=+] % <<<< OK if commented \starttext \chapter[chap:one]{One} % <<<< OK if commented Text \cite[test] text. \completepublications \stoptext % bib file biblio.bib @BOOK{test, title = {T}, publisher = {P}, year = {Y}, author = {A} } By the way, the 'num' alternative also gives an unknow reference when \completepublications is not present, while the default alternative is OK. Is there a particular reason for this? Thanks. Greetings, Morgan

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Google SOC - many thanks to Karl & others :)
by Mojca Miklavec 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

Hello, Karl will probably write a longer mail, but just to let you all know - TeX User Group has been accepted as a mentoring organisation for Google Summer of Code http://code.google.com/soc/2008/tex/about.html Huraaaaaaay! Karl (and all others, esp. Hans, Taco, Norbert, and others that I do not know personally ...) - thank you *very, very much*. If anyone would like to work on TeX-related projects during the summer, and you have some idea (and a mentor if possible), write a mail to Karl. Mojca

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A new feature for \digits: \digits{e-1}
by Morgan Brassel 16 Mar '08

16 Mar '08

Hi everyone, In LaTeX, the numprint package provides the \numprint command, and is pretty useful when typing numbers. It is quite similar to the \digits ConTeXt command. However, the two commands differ when it comes to this example: \numprint{e-1} \digits e-1 In this case, the \numprint command ommits the \cdot in front of the 1O^-1, whereas \digits does not. My question is: is it a deliberate choice? If not, would it be possible to modify the \digits command in order to reproduce the behavior of \numprint? Best wishes, Morgan

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