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Re: [NTG-context] overlay page background missing
by Mojca Miklavec 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

On 11/2/06, Paul Jones wrote: > You gave me hope, but it was dashed upon further experimentation. If everything else fails, here's another idea about what you can do in such cases (or better: what I do when I have no better idea how to tell to TeX where exactly to place things): % "draw \sometxt{forever} withcolor red" is broken at the moment, % but used to/should(?) work otherwise \startuniqueMPgraphic{forever} draw \sometxt{\color[red]{forever}} scaled 15 rotated 30 shifted (-1cm,8cm); setbounds currentpicture to unitsquare xyscaled (OverlayWidth,OverlayHeight); \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[overlay forever][{\uniqueMPgraphic{forever}}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=overlay forever] Hope that helps, Mojca

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using pgf/tikz and bib modules together
by M.J. Kallen 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Apropos the bib module, ConTeXt users wishing to use both the pgf/tikz module (v1.10) and the bib module together, will (currently) have to use the CVS version of pgf because both modules clash with the use of the .aux file. The following was posted by the pgf developer Till Tantau on the pgf maillist: "it turns out that, indeed, the .aux writing of the bib module clashes with pgf's usage of the file of the same name. I renamed this stuff to .pgf and it works fine, now. You will need to get the current CVS of pgf since the change is not quite trivial. Alternatively, a quick-and-easy-fix is to find the file pgf/generic/ pgf/utilities/pgfutil-context.def and to delete the three lines having to do with .aux files at the beginning. Then picture remembering will not work (which it does in the CVS), but that may not be a top priority." I'm assuming the new bib module still uses the .aux file for the same purposes as before. Maarten-Jan

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Compiling the magazines
by J. R. Capablanca 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Hello everyone! I'm trying to get started with ConText. I've setup a stand alone install with perl and ruby on windows (last version). I was quite impressed with the "This way" magazine layout... and was trying to compile the example code that comes in the 000 edition. But the result is nothing like the original: all side texts are on wrong places, body text goes through the paper margins: a mess! Maybe some margins or papersize settings that are implicit and I don't have in my environment ? I'd be glad if somebody could give me some tips on this! The code is pasted below. Thanks in advance, JR - - - - - - - \usemodule[mag-01] \setvariables [magazine] [title={Introduction}, author=Hans Hagen, affiliation=PRAGMA ADE, date=Januari 2003, number=0] \startbuffer[abstract] This is the zero issue of a semi periodical. The associated style can be used by \CONTEXT\ users to typeset and publish their own issues. \stopbuffer \starttext \setups [titlepage] \setups [title] \setupheadertexts[welcome] This is the zero issue of a range of \CONTEXT\ related publications, in most cases short introductions to new functionality. The style may be used by users for providing similar documents, but preferably not for other purposes, since it may confuse readers in their expectations. We've chosen a layout which is more functional than beautiful. This layout provides several text areas: headers and footers, margins and edges as well as a main text area. The surrounding (gray) makes the main page (which is slightly smaller than A4) stand out and is suitable for viewing in spread mode. The documents produced at \PRAGMA\ are called {\bf This Way}, user documents gets the title {\bf My Way}. The \PRAGMA\ issues are numbered. We strongly advise you not to use the \type {mag-} prefix for your issues, since this may lead to clashes with files distributed by \PRAGMA. \setups [listing] \setups [lastpage] \stoptext

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Unwanted space before a \HL in tables
by Gerhard Kugler 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Hi, now I have a new conTeXt, but tables remain tricky. A slight variation of the wiki example with horizontal lines gives unwanted vertical space: \starttext \placetable[here][tab:sample]{sample table}{\start \starttablehead \HL \VL command \VL meaning \VL\SR \HL \stoptablehead \starttabletail \HL \stoptabletail \starttables[|l|l|] \VL \tex{NC} \VL next column \VL\FR \VL \tex{HL} \VL horizontal line \VL\MR \VL \tex{VL} \VL vertical line \VL\MR \VL \tex{NR} \VL next row \VL\AR \HL \VL \tex{SR} \VL single row \VL\MR \VL \tex{FR} \VL first row \VL\MR \VL \tex{MR} \VL middle row \VL\MR \VL \tex{LR} \VL last row \VL\LR \stoptables \stop} \stoptext -- Gerhard Kugler Psychotherapeut http://www.psychotherapie-kugler.de

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question about linenotes
by Thomas A. Schmitz 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

I'm playing with (and happy about) linenotes; I'm just running into one small (?) problem. Here's a testfile: \starttext % \setuplinenumbering[location=intext,step=2] \startlinenumbering Long and boring text that has \linenote{note one} no other sense than demonstrating a problem with the linenote command in ConTeXt. \stoplinenumbering \stoptext Run it, then comment out the \setuplinenumbering command. Is there a way of having linenotes displayed correctly even when the numbers are not displayed because of the step= setting? Thanks Thomas

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bib and bibltx problems
by Matthias Wächter 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

Hi Taco, I ran into the following problems: 1. see attached files. Three bib entries with different authors, but the resulting references are the same for two of them (!). Appearantly, without sorting the bib entries, the extra label numbering does not work correctly. Changing \setupbibtex to "sort=short" fixes the issue (appending "a" and "b") as well does changing "ITERATE {presort.none}" to "ITERATE {presort.clabel}" in cont-no.bst. But is this a once-and-for-all fix? 2. see attached files. In \setuppublications, numbering is given as "short", but the resulting list of references is only as good as "yes" - I only get the numbers, not the short references in the list. Hmmm, what's the cause for this? Any ideas? Or is it My Fault(TM)? 3. In general: If I'd use bib handwriting \{start,stop}publication without bibltx, would I have to care about the uniqueness of the "short" document names (the "s=" option to \startpublication)? Really? Considering hundreds of possible bibliography entries, this would double the effort: Not only the key (the "k=" option) but also the short name must be unique for correct references. 4. Sometimes, the build process ("texexec --pdf test") breaks after changing some text in the bibliography. Appearantly, sometimes the .bbl file is not updated. removing the .bbl file fixes the build. No recipy available, sorry. Thanks, - Matthias \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex[database=mybibs,sort=no] \setuppublications[refcommand=short,numbering=short] \starttext For all times, \cite[TRUE] is right and \cite[FALSE] is wrong. \completepublications \stoptext @techreport{TRUE, Title = "True Values", Author = "True Author", Year = "2005", } @techreport{GNUS, Title = "Gnus in the Wild", Author = "Another Doctor", Year = "2005", } @techreport{FALSE, Title = "False values", Author = "False Author", Year = "2005", }

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bookmarks using linebreaks in chapter titles
by Sanjoy Mahajan 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

I was trying out line breaks for long titles (at least, long when set in 36 or 48pt text), as well as have pdf bookmarks, so I defined a \1 shorthand local to the chapter heading: ====================================================================== \setupinteraction[state=start] \placebookmarks[chapter] \setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark] \setuphead[chapter][before={\bgroup\def\1{\hfil\break}}, after={\egroup}] \starttext \chapter{Long\1 title} hello \stoptext ====================================================================== If I inline the \1, as in \chapter{Long\hfil\break title}, then it's mostly fine except that the bookmark has "hfil penalty ..." Is there's another way to avoid that problem? Perhaps a magic option that says what the bookmark should be, the way one can tell \index what to typeset in the index when it is different from the inline text. One solution is to forbid hyphens during the \chapter (with before= and after= definitions) and also shrink the \hsize enough so that tex line breaks where I want, but that method requires unintuitive, fontsize-dependent dimension guessing for each chapter. Putting in line breaks by hand is not too bad. Plus one might want to break the lines according to meaning, which does not always produce the same results as where breaks would go according to line length. But meanwhile trying the hack method above, I get this error (./q.tuo) (./q.tuo) ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> Long\1 title \sanitizePDFdocencoding ...docencoding \edef #2{#1 } \doPDFinsertbookmark ...oding #3\to \bookmarktext \stripstring \bookmarktext.. \doplacebookmarks ...okmarkelement \flushbookmark \egroup \else \expanded {\.. <to be read again> \setupinteractionscreen l.3 \setupinteractionscreen [option=bookmark] It's from this line in q.tuo \listentry{chapter}{1}{1}{Long\1 title}{2--0-1-0-0-0-0-0--1}{1} and the \1 is not defined during \listentry, only during the \chapter. I didn't have a problem when the same code was part of a product (each component being chapter in a book, with the \setuphead in an environment file) -- only had it when I compiled one component, which is how I got to the test case above. [All with ConTeXt ver: 2006.10.24 13:47 MK II fmt: 2006.10.24] -Sanjoy

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Splitting a float that isn't a table
by Duncan Hothersall 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

I define a floating block called Exhibit \definefloat[Exhibit][table] which just contains paragraphs of text. I'd like to be able to split it using the \splitfloat mechanism but that only seems to work if the content of the float is a table, not paragraphs. ---- \definefloat[Exhibit][table] \starttext \input tufte\par \splitfloat[lines=auto]{\placeExhibit{Knuth}} {\dorecurse{4}{\input knuth \par}} \input tufte\page[yes] \stoptext ---- This outputs "there is nothing to split" in the resultant PDF. Is there any way to achieve the equivalent of ---- \definefloat[Exhibit][table] \starttext \input tufte\par \splitfloat[lines=auto]{\placeExhibit{Knuth}} {\bTABLE[frame=off]\dorecurse{4}{\bTR\bTD\input knuth \eTD\eTR} \eTABLE} \input tufte\page[yes] \stoptext ---- without having to make every paragraph a table cell? Thanks in advance. Duncan

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overlay page background missing
by Paul Jones 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Hello all, I am trying to put together a wedding book. I would like a nice watermark behind the text on each page. Left page containing the word 'together', and right page containing the word 'forever'. I can get this done with an overlay, but it is always centered in the page. So after reading some threads about layers in overlays I thought this might work. Putting a layer into an overlay does give me the ability to positiong the words, but I can no longer get them to show up on all of the pages. Am I doing this in a resonable way? Why did the setupbackgrounds stop working when I put the layer into the overlay? Much thanks, Paul %output=pdf \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbackgrounds[page][background={WatermarkOverlay}] \startsetups WatermarkSetup \doifoddpageelse {\framed[frame=off,foregroundcolor=gray] {\scale[sx=12,sy=12] {\rotate[rotation=20.0]{forever}}}} {\framed[frame=off,foregroundcolor=gray] {\scale[sx=12,sy=12] {\rotate[rotation=20.0]{together}}}} \stopsetups \definelayer[WatermarkLayer] \setlayer[WatermarkLayer][hoffset=-4cm,voffset=12cm]{\setups{WatermarkSetup}} \defineoverlay[WatermarkOverlay][{\placelayer[WatermarkLayer]}] \starttext \framed[height=\textheight, width=\textwidth, background={WatermarkOverlay}, frame=on]{overlay frame} \chapter{first} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter{second} \dorecurse{10}{\input davis } \chapter{third} \dorecurse{10}{\input zapf } \stoptext

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feedback on the wiki Linux_User_Installation article
by Antoine Junod 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Hello list, I'm trying to make a fresh minimal install following the wiki article 'Linux User Installation'. All goes fine till the 'texexec --make --alone' command. It says me 'the file 'texexec.rb' is not found'. I can copy it in the texmf-linux/bin directory but it trigs other errors. I can correct that error by recursively copying all the files of the texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/ directory into the texmf-linux/bin/ one. Should I update the wiki with that information or is it a problem tied to my system, or maybe a problem of the minimal context distribution/binaries files? Thanks for your replies. -AJ

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