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counting the words in a TeX document
by Mojca Miklavec 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hello, I would like to ask how difficult it would be to count the number of words in a TeX/ConTeXt document. If it's too complex, please ignore the rest of the message. Most recipes for LaTeX say that it's best to do something like "pdftotext" and then issue "wc" to count the words in the resulting text file, but windows users don't have "wc" and sometimes you only need to know the length of the abstract or so ... Some time ago Hans mentioned that he counts the number of appearance of single charactres, but I don't know how difficult it would be to extend it to count the number of words. The problem is not that well defined (how to handle equations, some would probably want to exclude headers, footers, buttons, ...), but it only needs to be an approximation and "backward compatibility" (in the sense that counter would have to result in the same number after some years) is not needed at all since algorithms might improve with time and the resulting document doesn't really depend on that number, it would only be written to the log file. My idea for the interface would be something like \startwordcount[abstract] \startframedtext Bla bla. \stopframedtext \stopwordcount which would write something like "abstract: 2 words" to the log file or \startstatistics[abstract][words] \startframedtext Bla bla. \stopframedtext \stopstatistics But this is really a low priority. I'm currently using Acrobat to copy the text, then I paste it into Office and take a look at statistics there when I need to obey some limitations. So, if there's a simple solution, I would be glad to use it, but if it takes too much time to implement it, it's probably not worth the effort. Thanks a lot, Mojca

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custom itemize
by Renaud AUBIN 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Hi all, Some times ago, Taco helps me to define a custom itemize: \setbox0=\hbox{--~} \def\indenteddash#1{\hskip\parindent--~} \definesymbol[indentdash][\indenteddash] \setupitemize[each][indentdash,packed,joinedup,intext][indentnext=yes,width=\dimexpr \parindent + \wd0 \relax] The result of, for example: \startitemize \item first paragraph ... with a lot of text (multiline), \item second paragraph ... with a lot of text (multiline). \stopitemize is: -- first paragraph .. .... with a lot of text (multiline), -- second paragraph .. .... with a lot of text (multiline). Now, I would a new custom itemize with numbered items: 1. first paragraph .. .... with a lot of text (multiline), 2. second paragraph .. .... with a lot of text (multiline). How to do that ? TIA Renaud

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indenting after section headings with before, after keyvals
by Sanjoy Mahajan 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

The text after section headings is normally not indented, even if \setupindenting[yes] is given -- which looks good and was a pain to get right in my plain TeX days. But the "don't indent that" code seems to get confused if before= and after= values are given in the heading setup. Below is a minimal example (using context 2006.07.24 10:49) showing that the 'before' hairline is indented, and the "Indented?" text after the 'after' hairline is indented. All is fine without the \setupindenting or the \setuphead line. Is there an easy fix that I missed? I tried throwing in \noindent into the before or after keys but no luck. \setuphead[section][before={\hairline\blank},after={\nowhitespace\hairline}] \setupindenting[medium,yes] \starttext \section{First} Indented? \stoptext

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adding an icon (flushed left) in a displayed formula with equation number
by David Arnold 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

All, We have: \placeformula[eq:commonb] \startformula (1)^2+(\sqrt{4x+13})^2=(2x)^2, \stopformula This gives us a centered equation with an number pushed to the right edge of the page (I probably should say text area). What we'd like to do, just in this one example (not globally), is add a little "smiley face" icon on the same line as the displayed equation and equation number, but pushed to the left edge of the page (I probably should say text area). Possible?

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visualising evolution from one version to another
by Peter Münster 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Hello, if you know a bit MS-Word, then you have seen perhaps the feature, that permits visualising differences between 2 versions of a document: added text in red, and deleted text stroke out. I would like to make something similar with ConTeXt: making a pdf-file from doc-versionX.tex and doc-versionY.tex with added text in some colour and deleted text displayed with \overstrikes{}. Do you have some ideas, how to do that? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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metafun & \sometxt: should black be "black" or "textcolor"?
by Mojca Miklavec 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Hello, Does anyone have any idea about what's going on here? I get blue text, but a black square, although both are supposed to come out black (I wouldn't mind so much, but the problem is that some text is blue and some is black - I have some other testcases where this happens, but I have to create a minimal example first). \setupcolors [state=start,textcolor=blue] \starttext \startMPcode draw \sometxt{abc} withcolor black; % come out blue draw \sometxt{def} shifted (3cm,0) withcolor red; draw unitsquare xyscaled (3cm,2cm) withcolor black; \stopMPcode \stoptext Thanks, Mojca

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Black and White
by David Arnold 06 Aug '06

06 Aug '06

Hans et al, Is there switch to throw to texmfstart texexec so that interactive green links go a nice dark color when printed to black and white?

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Re: [NTG-context] index (again)
by Hans Hagen 06 Aug '06

06 Aug '06

Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > It's not waterproof. > > See the result in the attached PDF: > > For example GOBReg > ... 230, 230, 230�233 ... > ... 273�277, 277� 279 ... > > And something else needs to be improved (that's why I send the PDF): > See the register is not typeset in columns properly?! i cannot reproduce that, so what exactly is the index definitions then? (can you make a test file ?) 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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Extra pages
by David Arnold 06 Aug '06

06 Aug '06

All, Can anyone explain why the output of this source has two blank pages at the end? \setupwhitespace[medium] \setupindenting[medium,yes] \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppagenumbering [state=start, alternative=doublesided, location=, way=bytext] \definetext[chapter][footer][pagenumber] \setuphead [chapter] [alternative=inmargin, header=high, footer=chapter, page=right] \setuphead [section] [style=\tfc, page=right, continue=no, alternative=inmargin] \setuphead [subsection] [style=\tfb\sl, number=no] \definehead [TocHead] [section] \setuphead [TocHead] [number=no, incrementnumber=no, page=no] \definehead [IndexHead] [section] \setuphead [IndexHead] [number=no, incrementnumber=no, page=yes] \def\Tindex#1{\index{#1}#1} \def\OddPageHeader{\bold{\pagenumber}\hskip 1em Chapter \headnumber [chapter] \getmarking[chapter][current]} \def\headermarkleft{\bold{\pagenumber}\headerskip{\sc\headerskip Chapter \headnumber[chapter]\headerskip\getmarking[chapter][current]}} \def\headermarkright{{\sc{}Section \headnumber[section]\headerskip \getmarking[section][current]}\headerskip\bold{\pagenumber}} \def\headerskip{\hskip 1em} \setupheadertexts [][\headermarkright] %odd page on right [\headermarkleft][] %even page on left \setuplist [section] [style=bold, color=red, alternative=c] \setuplist [subsection] [alternative=b] \starttext \startbodymatter \chapter{A Practice Chapter} \input knuth \TocHead{Table of Contents} \placecontent \section{First Section} Now is the \Tindex{time} for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. \subsection{First Subsection} \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth \par} \section{Second Section} \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth \par} \subsection{Second Subection} \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth \par} \section{Third Section} \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth \par} \subsection{Third Subection} \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth \par} \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter \completeindex \stopbackmatter \stoptext

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times bolditalic in chapter
by Steffen Wolfrum 06 Aug '06

06 Aug '06

Hi, probably very basic question. I need the chapter set in bold (and if necessary - see below - in bolditalic). How can this be done when using Times via \usetypescript[postscript] [\defaultencoding] ? \starttext \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \def\Textit{\groupedcommand\it\/} \def\ChapterStyle{% \switchtobodyfont[rm,20pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=30pt] } \setuphead[chapter] [alternative=paragraph,style=\ChapterStyle] text \chapter{bold heading \Textit{bold italic} bold heading} text \stoptext

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