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beta -> current
by Hans Hagen 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hi, We've gone current with the beta. Next week there will be release notes as well as the formal tex live/collection code freeze. Apart from the usual bug fixes and extensions, the most noticeable change is that from now on there are also mkii files (and mkiv as well as lua files for those testing luatex). Next year, when the TeXGyre project has released all new base fonts, there will be a switch to using these fonts instead of the existing variants, for this release, one has to load type-gyr. There has been some organizational changes to the metapost inclusion (mptopdf uses supp-pdf, while context itself uses an [to be futher] optimized version as a prelude to mkiv conversion). If you want to know to what extend luatex will influence context, keep an eye on the mk.pdf document (or read the coming Maps, TugBoat or other user group magazines) which (will) describe some experiments, history and usage. 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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relative scaling for fonts
by Pablo Rodríguez 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hi there, I'm using XeTeX one of the features that I miss at most from XeLaTeX (from fontspec), is the possibility to set automatically the scaling of fonts so that they match the lowercase or uppercase letters of the roman font. I wonder whether there is something similar for ConTeXt. By the way, the ConTeXt uses in my view, the wrong XeTeX way to set the interlinear space, since it seems that \XeTeXuseglyphmetrics is set to 0. Probably I should be missing something, but if \XeTeXuseglyphmetrics is not set to 1, ConTeXt will set the interlinear space not by itself, but following the glyph metrics and in some fonts the font height. I guess it would be better to use \XeTeXuseglyphmetrics=1. Best, Pablo

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negative indenting
by Pablo Rodríguez 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hi there, I have set \setupindenting[yes,big,first] and I would like to have all paragraphs in a given document with negative indentation. AFAIK, "first" should enable indentation for all paragraphs, but the ones after \section, \subsection or \subsubtsection are not indented. How can I make that the indenting would be negative, that is, that is not the first line the one indented, but the other ones. Thanks, Pablo

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Header number separator
by Jeff Smith 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Hi, Some time ago I had a query on the list about roman numbering in headers. Once I got my answer, I asked something else relatively unrelated but in the same thread. It's probably bad etiquette, so I figure that is why it has remained unheeded. I'd like to submit my second query again. I have a problem with the separator in header numbers. I want to use a different separator between chapter and section numbers (-), than between section and subsection numbers (.). So, assuming I'm using roman numerals for chapters, I'd like numering of sections to be I-1, I-2, I-3, etc., of subsections to be I-1.1, I-1.2, I-2.1, I-2.2, I-2.3, etc. Now when I use \setuphead for section and subsection blocks with different [separator=] attributes: \setuphead[section][separator=-] \setuphead[subsection][separator=.] ... it defines the separator for the _whole_ header level, not the number position within any relevant header. So I get this instead: sections are numbered I-1, I-2, I-3, etc. subsections are numbered I.1.1, 1.1.2, I.2.1, I.2.2, I.2.3, etc. Is there a way to achieve what I want to do? Thanks! Jeff

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How to get a PhD with ConTeXt (+ hard work ;) )
by Renaud AUBIN 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Hi all, Maybe some of yours (from the ConTeXt POV) can be interested by my PhD dissertation and my presentation (both in french)... http://www.nibua-r.org/ConTeXt/PhD/ The slides are made to work under linux with sh script to run mplayer or custom simulations... These scripts will obviously not work without the movies or my simulator binaries... Renaud

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Further questions about linenotes
by Thomas A. Schmitz 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Hi all, further experiments with linenotes have brought up two further questions; one specific, one general. Here comes: 1. Is it possible to have linenumbering automatically reset its numbering to 1 at the top of every page? I have a dim recollection that something along these lines was asked on the list recently, but can't find anything in the archive. 2. General: I had to experiment quite a bit with the before= and after= keys of \setupnote to make them really do what I wanted. Here's what I found: a. before=\blank[1cm] % texexec will fail with an error b. before={\blank[1cm]} % does nothing c. \def\myblank{\blank[1cm] before=\myblank % works I guess it has something to do with TeX's expansion mechanism, but I found it confusing, and I think (hope?) that others will find it a bit confusing too. Is this intentional, can it be made easier for users? All best Thomas

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hanging indentation
by Pablo Rodríguez 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hi there, after some hours trying to figure out how to have hanging indentation for the different requirements of three documents, I'd would like to know how to set hanging indentation for standard paragraphs without having to use \star..\stop routines. I guess that \setupindenting would be the way, but I don't know how to do it. Thanks for your help, Pablo

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French spacing and pdfTeX-1.40
by Peter Münster 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hello, (it's a repost, in case my previous email got lost...) my attempt to get correct French spacing before punctuation does no more work with the latest ConTeXt-beta. Is there now a new method with pdfTeX-1.40 to get automatically the good spacing (as announced some months ago)? Today I try it like this (without success): %%% module t-french.tex %%% \def\activateSomeCharacters{% \defineactivecharacter « {\leftguillemot\,}% % does not work \defineactivecharacter » {\,\rightguillemot}% % with utf-encoding % % \defineactivecharacter ; {\,\lettersemicolon}% % does not work % \defineactivecharacter ? {\,\letterquestionmark}% % does not work with \defineactivecharacter : {\,\lettercolon}% % project/product \defineactivecharacter ! {\,\letterexclamationmark}}% structure \startlanguagespecifics[fr] \activateSomeCharacters \setupitemize[symbol=2] \lccode`\'=`\' \stoplanguagespecifics \mainlanguage[fr] \appendtoks\activateSomeCharacters\to\everystarttext Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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beta: bug with transparent colors in fields
by Peter Rolf 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hi Hans, the support of transparent colors in fields seems to be broken (beta 03.11.06). The attached example works with a non transparent backgroundcolor, but breaks with a transparent one. Same behaviour on ConTeXt Live. \definecolor [notebackgroundcolor] % [s=.85] [s=1,a=1,t=.9] There is another problem with field activation (not in this example). When the doc opens, the fields (region in/out) are kind of inactive. Normally a tooltip note is shown/hidden, if the area is entered/left. Only after "activating" the fields by pressing "R" and "H" in Acrobat, they become alive. After that they work as expected. I am still working on a minimal example for this case. Greetings, Peter \setupoutput[pdf] \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \startJSpreamble {Notes} used now var lastNote = "" ; function Show_Note ( Name ) { if (Name != lastNote) { Hide_Note () ; var v = this.getField(Name) ; if (v) { console.println("Show Note: " + Name) ; v.display = display.visible ; v.readonly = false ; % v.richText = true ; % v.multiline = true ; % v.lineWidth = 3 ; % v.rect = [0, 0, 200, 150] ; this.dirty = false ; lastNote = Name } } else {Hide_Note () ;} } function Hide_Note ( ) { if (lastNote != "") { var v = this.getField(lastNote) ; if (v) { console.println("Hide Note: " + lastNote) ; v.display = display.hidden ; v.readonly = true ; this.dirty = false } } lastNote = "" } function Set_Tooltip ( Name ) { if (Name != "") { var v= this.getField(Name) ; if (v) { v.userName="This may help..." ; } } } \stopJSpreamble \newcounter\AnotherNote \def\SomeNote#1#2% {\hbox {\doglobal\increment\AnotherNote \definesymbol[note:\AnotherNote:on][\WhatANote{#2}]% % \setupfield[notes][offset=overlay,frame=off,option={readonly,hidden}] % this confuses acrobat, probably some interference bug, I spent too much time on that \setupfield[notes][offset=overlay,frame=off,option={readonly,hidden},% % regionin=JS(Hide_Note), regionout=JS(Hide_Note), username={Test!}, % clickin=JS(Hide_Note), % clickout=JS(Hide_Note), ] \definefield[note:\AnotherNote][check][notes][note:\AnotherNote:on,note:\AnotherNote:on][note:\AnotherNote:on]% \doifreferencefoundelse{note:\AnotherNote} {\setlayer[notes][page=\currentrealreference]{\fitfield[note:\AnotherNote]}} {\setlayer[notes]{\fitfield[note:\AnotherNote]}}% \pagereference[note:\AnotherNote]\goto{#1}[JS(Show_Note{note:\AnotherNote})]}} \setupinteraction [state=start, openpageaction=JS(Hide_Note), closepageaction=JS(Hide_Note)] \definereference[CloseNote][JS(Hide_Note)] \setupfootertexts[{\goto{Close Note}[CloseNote]}][] \setupcolors [state=start] \definecolor [notebackgroundcolor] % [s=.85] [s=1,a=1,t=.9] \defineframedtext [WhatANote] [bodyfont=9pt, background=color, backgroundcolor=notebackgroundcolor, width=.4\textwidth, height=fit, align=normal] \definelayer [notes] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight, preset=rightbottom, offset=1cm] \setupbackgrounds [page] [background={notes,foreground}] \starttext \startbuffer \input ward \SomeNote{[[ward]]} {\input ward \relax} \input ward \blank \input knuth \SomeNote{[[knuth]]} {\input knuth \relax} \input knuth \blank \input tufte \SomeNote{[[tufte]]} {\input tufte \relax} \input tufte \blank \input bryson \SomeNote{[[bryson]]}{\input bryson\relax} \input bryson \blank \stopbuffer \dorecurse{10}{\getbuffer} \stoptext

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\definetype breaks down ---
by Aditya Mahajan 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hi Hans, I just noticed a bug with the type mechanism. It breaks down the kerning for ---. Minimal example: \definetype[typeTEX][option=tex] \starttext \typeTEX|\example|. this---breaks---down. \stoptext Any workarounds? Aditya

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