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database
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

Hallo! I tried some examples with m-database and Mojca's 'My Way' and had some problems ==========Example-1=============================================== \defineseparatedlist[NaturalTable][separator=comma,%quotechar={"}, before=\bTABLE, after=\eTABLE, first=\bTR, last=\eTR, left=\bTD, right=\eTD] \startseparatedlist[NaturalTable] Of,course ,it is! \stopseparatedlist ================================================================== This example does only work as expected if one explicitly gives quotechar. So what is the default quotechar? Can anybody explain the above behaviour? ==========Example-2=============================================== \def\Whatever#1#2#3{[#1][#2][#3]\endgraf} \defineseparatedlist[CSVX][command=\Whatever, separator={,}, % quotechar={"}, first=\bTR,last=\eTR, left=\bTD,right=\eTD, before=\bTABLE,after=\eTABLE] \startCSVX eins,"und, zwei",drei one,two,three \stopCSVX ================================================================== If I give an command (\Whatever) then the options 'first', 'last', 'left', 'right', 'before' and 'after' are ignored. That's ok, I think! But if I uncomment the quotechar option, then the options 'left' and 'right' are no longer ignored. Commenting them out or settings like 'left=' etc. are not working. What I am doing wrong here? ==========Example-3=============================================== \processquotedlist(){,}{"}\command(a=>b=>c=>d) ================================================================== Does not work for me. Can anybody give an example? '\processseplist' does not work too. There has to be an '%' in front of 'raw'!

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Preventing page break
by Elliot Clifton 24 Jan '07

24 Jan '07

Hi In my double sided layout how can I stop ConTeXt from adding an empty page when a section ends. Thanks, Elliot

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XeTeX questions
by Thomas A. Schmitz 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

I'm trying (once again) to find out if learning something about XeTeX is worth the trouble. So far, I haven't seen any compelling reason, but I'd like to experiment a bit more. Here are two questions I have run into: 1. in the wiki pages "Talk:XeTeX," there's this anonymous piece of wisdom: Referencing fonts by filenames (just a note from the XeTeX mailing list as a reminder for later) in texmf.cnf: OPENTYPEFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/opentype//;c:/Resources/Fonts// Then \setromanfont{[KalligraphiaLTStd.otf]} Is this possible or usable in ConTeXt? I have lots of OpenType fonts in ~/texmf/fonts/opentype, but not installed as system fonts, and would like to see whether they can just be used with XeTeX as with vanilla pdftex. texmf.cnf is set up accordingly, but so far, I haven't had any success. 2. When generating the formats, texexec complained about "unknow control sequence" because of lines 25 and 26 in syst-xtx.tex \setcclcuc 201C 201C 201C \setcclcuc 201D 201D 201D I had to comment out these lines to generate the formats (this is with a texlive2007 snapshot of last week and the latest ConTeXt). Is this a known bug? All best Thomas

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Long and short captions
by Robin Kirkham 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hi again, Is there a way in ConTeXt to have "long" and "short" versions of a figure caption, as one can in LaTeX? The "long" caption is placed with the figure, the short one for the list of figures. Thanks, Robin

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Columns and components
by Jeff Smith 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hi! I'm toying with a complex document environment involving multiple components, both in order to learn in general and to accomplish particular objectives. So I want a 2-column layout for all the document, which is made up of a bunch of components appended one after the other in a continuous fashion. The way I thought to acheive that is, instinctively, to use \startcolumns in my product file, before declaring the various components. However, when I do this, the use of \stopcolumns at the end doesn't work. The document does compile (with columns) when I don't use the stop command, but when I do, there is an error: ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. \stopcolumns ...idecolumnsfalse \endgroup \egroup l.12 \stopcolumns What is the proper way of doing this? The thing is, I need to balance my columns, and balancing doesn't work with no \stopcolumns. Thanks! Jeff

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Default preference for float location
by Robin Kirkham 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hi, I'd like to set up floats (figures, tables, etc) so they float to the bottom of the page, by default (as if you always wrote \placefigure [bottom][...]{}{}). There does not seem to be an option to \setupfloats[] that will do this, or have I missed something? Robin

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Figures protruding into the margin in double-sided document [sovled]
by Tim Eyre ティム 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hello all, I found the solution to this in a 2006 thread entitled "layout question". What I needed was: \definefloat[textmarginfigure][textmarginfigures] \setupfloat[textmarginfigure][location=inner] \placetextmarginfigure{<figure>} Tim

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Index formatting: column leaks over page margin
by cormullion＠mac.com 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

I have a tiny problem with the formatting of an index placed with \completeindex. When there are more than 14 or so page numbers for an entry and the entry is in the right hand column, the numbers leak over the page boundary. I haven't done any special formatting for these index pages - is there a command that says keep the columns for a \completeindex less than x cm wide or something?

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Figures (images) at a special position
by Claudia Lanzl 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hello, I have a question on (absolute) positionning of figures/images. I try to position my images in that way shown in the layout in this attachment (hope I can post images this way?). I try to do it with the following lines: \useexternalfigure[pic01][pic01] \useexternalfigure[pic02][pic02] \useexternalfigure[pic03][pic03] \useexternalfigure[pic04][pic04] \useexternalfigure[pic05][pic05] \placefigure[left][]{none} { \startcombination[2*3] %\startcombination[2*2] %the following 3 lines don´t work! %probably I can not use \placeexternalfigure in the \startcombination !??? {\placeexternalfigure[left] {Caption} {\externalfigure[pic01.jpg]}} {\externalfigure[pic02.jpg]}{} {\externalfigure[pic03.jpg]}{Caption} {\externalfigure[pic04.jpg]}{} {\externalfigure[pic05.jpg]}{} \stopcombination } So if I position the images with {\externalfigure[pic0001.jpg]}{} and so on, I don´t get the layout I want to have. I found floating objects, can I use these to position the pictures in the way I want to? ANY COMMENT IS USEFUL! Thank you very much!

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get XML data and put it in a table
by Claudia Lanzl 23 Jan '07

23 Jan '07

Hello again, yet another problem.... :( I have got the following table: \bTABLE \bTR \bTD {\ss Name } \eTD \bTD FAMILY NAME \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD {\ss Role} \eTD \bTD ROLE \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD {\ss E-Mail} \eTD \bTD E-MAIL \eTD \eTR \eTABLE and want the first coloumn to be always the same. The 3 attributes of the second one (FAMILY NAME, ROLE, E-MAIL) should come from an XML-file. So how do I get the attributs out of the file to the special position in the table? I think this can not be difficult, but it didn´t want to work. Do I have to go step by step through my document, and ignore those tags I don´t want to get? I would like to say: \defineXMLenvironment[user] \defineXMLenvironment[name] \defineXMLignore[display] \defineXMLargument[family] and save this result in a variable. Hm, I simly don´t know... do I have to group it? The XML-file looks s.th. similar to that: <user status="published" type="author" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" <name> <display> Reiner Ittinger </display> <family> Ittinger </family> <given> Reiner </given> </name> <organisation> <role> Student </role> </organisation> <contact> <emails> <email> ittinger(a)fha.de </email> </emails> </contact> </user> Thank you for your help and comments, tired Claudia

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