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Problem with usemodule[letter]
by Helmut Schwertner 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

Hello, when I try to use the module "letter" with the following example, I get the only this: : system : module letter loaded (c:/TeXLive2007/texmf-dist/tex/plain/base/letter.tex ! Undefined control sequence. l.13 \nopagenumbers I use texlive2007 (latest beta) under windows xp. What ist wrong, what can I do? Greetings, Helmut example: \usemodule[letter] \starttext \setupletter [fromname={Arthur Thor}, fromaddress={Hidden Street 2\\57895 Mysterytown}, backaddress={Arthur Thor, Hidden Street 2, 57895 Mysterytown}] \setupletter [toname={Mike Willson}, toaddress={Lindenstreet 12\\78569 TeX City}] \startletter [subject={Step by step guide to writing a letter}, opening={Dear Reader,}, closing={Greetings from the Author}] \input knuth \stopletter \stoptext

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Switching compression on breaks start/stopregister
by Steffen Wolfrum 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

Hi, there seems to be confusion with register entries vs. register ranges. Please have a look: \starttext KNUTH ONE entry \index{Knuth} \page \input knuth KNUTH START\startregister[index][knuthrange1]{Knuth} \input knuth KNUTH END\stopregister[index][knuthrange1] \dorecurse{10}{\input zapf } KNUTH START\startregister[index][knuthrange2]{Knuth} \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth } KNUTH END\stopregister[index][knuthrange2] %\placeregister[index]% gives 1,2, 4-6 \placeregister[index][compress=yes]% gives 1-2, 4, 6 \stoptext Switching compression on breaks start/stopregister! Steffen

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Paragraph on the bottom of a page
by 302302 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

Hi, how can I put a paragraph (or whatever else) on the bottom of a page? I mean I want to have a top of the page empty and the text should start somewhere below. If I try to use \vfill it works just in case I have some text in the top. Please can you help me? Thanks Czenek

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Generating a list of items
by David 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

Hi all I'm teaching some classes and want to make a template for lesson planning. One of the things that I'd like to be able to include, if it works easily, is an automatically-created list of the materials I need to remember to bring. I expect this means I would define something like \Materials , and then while typing the main text of my plan be able to type \Materials{Photographs} or \Materials{Sound Recording} and then have ConTeXt generate "Materials: 1. Photographs 2. Sound Recording" near the top of the page. I've tried \placeregister, but it seems to insist on printing page numbers and alphabetical headings. I just want a numbered list of items. Can I tweak the \register commands to do this, or perhaps is there something else I should try? Thanks David

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Couple of questions
by abbg770＠city.ac.uk 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hi, Firstly this is my first post :) (and it's going to be long), i've been using context for about a week or two and it's wonderful i like particularly like the approach of having everything built into the core. Just for reference i'm running fedora 9 64bit with texlive and i'm also new to TeX meaning that i've never bothered to study LaTeX thoroughly (as i was mainly concerned about just getting my content straight) and redefining macros was highly annoying, but things have changed now. Anyhow enough ranting i've got a few questions to ask. 1. CONTEXT, an excursion general/manuals/mp-cb-en.pdfgeneral/manuals/ms-cb-en.pdf The Manual general/manuals/cont-enp.pdfgeneral/manuals/cont-eni.pdf It's in the details general/manuals/details.pdf i) when are the manuals going to be updated? ii) details.pdf looks very interesting, i assume it's not finished right? any status info? 2. CONTEXT MkII & MkIV general/manuals/mk.pdf i've slightly confused as to what LuaTeX is, could someone please explain it. from what i've gathered it seems like it supports the use of OpenType fonts natively like XeTex and it's going to be merged into pdfTeX? 3. Fonts general/manuals/mfonts.pdf and general/manuals/mtexfont.pdf Is is worth reading these manual since LuaTeX---as i've understood---is going to support them natively and i'm never going to have to install fonts again? 4. Typographic Programming general/manuals/style.pdf Any idea when the final release of this document is due, i'd like to make a print out. 5. Is there a book on ConTeXt, that is available for purchase from somewhere like amazon. if not does anyone know of a good (and cheap) printshop in London? I'd like to print out the manuals. 6. I forgot to ask, is there anything written about bibliography support? preferably through BibTeX. Thanks alot and great work

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Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt meeting: Proposal for session
by Matija Šuklje 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Dne ponedeljek 16. junija 2008 je Aditya Mahajan napisal(a): > 1. Do you think that such a talk will be useful and fun? I think it would be nice to see all the editors and how well they integrate ConTeXt. Such a presentation might also bring up new ideas on how to make it work even better in some editors :] > 2. Can you give a short talk about your editor in this session. If so, > please inform me which editor you use. I will try to avoid repetitions, so > that only one person speaks about one editor (unless the setup of the two > is drastically different). If I come, I can have a small presentation on how to "ConTeXtify" Kate and Kile. 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 GPG/PGP fingerprint: FB64 FFAF B8DA 5AB5 B18A 98B8 2B68 0B51 0549 D278

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A \part command for ConTeXt
by TeXWorld 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hello, In latex, there is the \part command. If my memory is good, this command is available only in the book class (and maybe report). Is there an equivalent command in ConTeXt ? Thank you. Jack

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bib, Italian style
by Andrea Valle 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hi to all, I'm using this: \setuppublications[alternative=num] \setuppublicationlist[author=\invertedshortauthor, editor= \invertedshortauthor] All works fine, but terminology is in English, and my next project is in Italian. Is there a way to create an Italian template? In general, I could provide translations 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 -------------------------------------------------- " 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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how to comment several lines at once ?
by Alan Stone 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hi, Guess this is (Plain) TeX stuff - haven't found the answer... How do you comment several lines at once, instead of prefixing each line with the % sign ? Alan

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startregister <-> stopregister
by Steffen Wolfrum 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hi, converting a MSWord Doc file to TEI-XML gives me this kind of index range: <anchor type="bookmark-start" xml:id="Index216"/> <anchor type="bookmark-end" corresp="#Index216"/ ><index><term>Verfassungsvertrag</term></index> Unfortunately in ConTeXt the register entry is required the other way round: \startregister[index][knuthrange1]{Knuth} \stopregister[index][knuthrange1] Could it be possible also to provide something like ... \startregister[index][Index216] \stopregister[index][Index216]{Verfassungsvertrag} ... in mkii, please? Steffen

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