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A couple of questions on heads.
by Elliot Clifton 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi, I'm still a relative newbie. I enjoy using ConTeXt and have achieved some great results with it, but some issues still trip me up. I'm typesetting a journal. I use \chapter to divide it into articles. I've defined my own heads, and I need to redefine \appendix, however despite reading the manual I cant get them behave as I want. Problems: 1. Each article may have appendices. I've tried defining my own 'appendix' head to replace the default one, but I can't decide which to use, should I derive from chapter or section? The problem with using section as the base, is that the count from my previous sections is inherited. I don't want numbers of the form 1.1, 1.2, etc, either. I want to number my appendices independently, starting from 1 without the chapter number. Also, I would like to use roman numerals. 2. I derived \Author from \section with expectation that \setupheadertexts[Papertitle][Author] would yield a header containing the author's name and the paper's title, however I get the title of the most recent section instead of the author. What can I do about this? thanks, Elliot

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Manual (English) Update soon?
by Douglas Philips 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hello again, I've just recently tried to "get up to speed" on ConTeXt by reading what I could find on the web, including cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). Recent activity on this list, discussing the Debian packaging, says (and I commented on this a few days ago in another thread): "ConTeXt is developed rapidly, often in response to requests from the friendly user community." And so I am wondering if ConTeXt is still too fresh... and if I'll have any chance of figuring out what/how to use it without having been on this list for the past 4+ years... (IIRC, Hans is also a core team member of LuaTeX, so perhaps I should just suck it up with LaTeX until LuaTeX is viable?) Advice, comments, etc. appreciated... --Doug

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cdwincontext
by David Arnold 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

All, Has anyone modified the batch file in cdwincontext so that it will run on Windows98? If so, can I get a copy of the batch file?

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2007
by Hans Hagen 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi, For those who haven't seen it yet ... http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-gra.pdf#page=23 Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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ConTeXt upgrade blues
by Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

OK, so the ConTeXt that comes with the TeX distribution I use (until eariler today, MacPorts, and as from later today, fink) is ancient. now, with good old LaTeX that's not much of a problem - just put the most recent release in the few relevant places in texmf-local, rebuild the formats, and off you go. with ConTeXt, that's, er, not so simple. the first attempt I made was to pull dowm the most recent version of the base files and then run sudo texmfstart ctxtools --update which seemingly worked, pulled the updates to texmf-local, and complied with no error messages. however, the new ConTeXt failed to compile documents, giving lots of error messages about undefined commands. texexec test.tex (which used to work) gives mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr12' failed to make ec-lmr12.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \*12ptrmtfrm*=ec-lmr12 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. ruby `kpsewhich --format=texmfscripts texmfstart.rb` texexec test (which is in essence what the recommended shell script does) gives ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2006.12.30 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/sw/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex ! Undefined control sequence. l.16 \newcontextversion {2006.12.27 11:34} now, according to several web pages, ec-lmr12 can be found on pragma's web, but it's not there. any suggestions? -- Rolf Lindgren roffe(a)extern.uio.no

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Re: [NTG-context] Page numbering
by Elliot Clifton 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Hi Peter, Thanks. Ooops... I should read the syntax spec more carefully! :) Elliot Peter Rolf wrote: >you need the keyword 'number' to pass your page number.

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Page numbering
by Elliot Clifton 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Hi, I need to set the start number for the pages in my journal so that the numbering continues from the previous issue in the volume. After reading p77 of the manual I understand that I can use \setuppagenumber[number] to set the start number. Unfortunately, nothing happens and numbering starts from 1 as usual. What am I doing wrong? thanks, Elliot

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Where is ifforwardreference defined?
by Mike Bird 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

\somewhere sometimes prints the wrong text. To track down the problem I tried to find the definition for \ifforwardreference. I can see where \iffowardreference is declared to be a \newif but I can't find where the algorithm is defined: $ grep -r ifforwardreference . ./tex/context/base/core-ref.tex:\newif\ifforwardreference ./tex/context/base/core-ref.tex:\def\doifforwardreferenceelse#1#2% ./tex/context/base/core-ref.tex: {\ifforwardreference#1\else#2\fi} ./tex/context/base/core-ref.tex: {\ifforwardreference ./tex/context/base/core-ref.tex: \ifforwardreference Binary file ./web2c/pdfetex/cont-de.fmt matches Binary file ./web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt matches Binary file ./web2c/pdfetex/cont-it.fmt matches $ Does anyone know where \ifforwardreference is defined? Thanks, --Mike Bird

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Making a verbatim file for another language
by cormullion＠mac.com 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

I'm going to try to make a 'verbatim- module' (don't know what the right word is) for another language. I've found: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/verb-pl.tex and can probably have a go at making a version of this. Some questions occur: 1: where should i put my file? 2: do I have to do anything else to get Context to recognise and use it? cheers

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texfont doesn't refresh MiKTeX database
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hello, I use MikTeX. When I run texfont script, it always fails to do FNDB refresh at the end, saying generating : ls-r databases initexmf: This utility does not accept non-option arguments. It seems like a bug in the script. -- Best regards Vyatcheslav

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