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A bug in character alignment?
by Nicolas Grilly 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Hello, I use ConTeXt natural tables to produce reports, and I use character alignment to align numbers in these tables. For example: \setupTABLE[column][each][align={middle,lohi}, aligncharacter=yes, alignmentcharacter={.}] But I have a little issue with character alignment. I have several tables following each other. First and second tables are well aligned. But following tables have some columns mis-aligned. You can see the result in the attached file report_with_bug.pdf (look at column 4 of tables 3, 4, 5 and 6). If I comment table 2, then the problem disappears. You can see the result in the attached file report_without_bug.pdf. If I uncomment table 2, but move it to end of file, then the problem disappears too. It seems there is some side effect in code managing character alignment: perhaps a global variable is not reset each time a new table starts? The attached file character_alignment_bug.tex contains the code producing the first example, where the bug is visible. I looked through core-ntb.tex and supp-ali.tex but was unable to understand where is the problem. We have lot of tables like this in our production, and some are horribles because of this character alignment issue... Thanks for your help! Nicolas Grilly

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couple of metafun questions
by Thomas A. Schmitz 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Hi all, I'm experimenting with some metafun code and positional graphics to produce a nice illustration for an article. There's some basic questions I haven't been able to solve (and I remember that I couldn't solve them before but found workarounds, but this time it looks like I'm stuck): 1. Is it possible to have a MPpositiongraphics anchored to more than two positions? Like draw position1 -- position2 .. position3 ? 2. Related to 1.: Is it right that you can't anchor more than 1 MPpositiongraphic to one anchor? If I have: drawsomething position1 -- position2 I can't then say drawsomething position1 .. position3 but must work around by reversing drawsomething position3 .. position1 3. Is it possible to get a line/arrow dashed in two different colors, like red and blue? Sorry if these are silly questions, but I just dabble into metafun! Thanks, and best Thomas

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column overflow at times --- any thoughts?
by David Arnold 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Hans et al, Any thoughts on this? We are using: \setupcolumns [tolerance=stretch, balance=yes, blank=flexible, rule=off, distance=2.5em] However, once in a while we get column overflow. See page 55 on: http://msenux.redwoods.edu/IntAlgText/chapter0/chapter0.pdf Are we doing this correctly? Any suggestions?

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Re: [NTG-context] fullpage graphic
by wwl＠musensturm.de 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

Hallo! > Can you try to create a minimal file to play with? > > Inventing test documents from scratch takes a lot of time, time > that is often not available (like today). Having a small but > full document will greatly improve your chances of getting a > quick response. > > Cheers, > Taco > Sorry Taco, here comes a small testfile which hopefully resamples the situation: --------------------------------------------------------------------- \setuppapersize[a4][a4] \setupfloat[figure][none,fit,here,always,top,bottom,force,page] \setupcaption[figure][number=no] \setuplayout[grid=yes]% Problem doesn't exist with grid=no \starttext \input tufte \placefigure{}{\framed[offset=none]{% \externalfigure[float.png][width=\makeupwidth,height=\textheight]}} \dorecurse{10}{\par\input tufte} \stoptext --------------------------------------------------------------------- I can not find a solution for the following problem: I would like to place a floating, framed graphic at the next page following the \placefigure[]{}{\framed[]{...}} command. Problem: The graphicdimensions are (\makeupwidth,\textheight). Neither the options page, here, force or always help. If the graphic is a little smaller, so that at least one line of text fit on the page, than the graphic gets placed at the right page, else the graphic is placed behind the end of the chapter. Second question: How can I place a fullpage graphic (\paperheight+epsilon,\paperwidth+epsilon) as above at the next page, and how can I count, but don't display pagenumbers for such graphic pages? Wolfgang

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cdwincontext
by David Arnold 03 Aug '06

03 Aug '06

All, Does anyone know if cdwincontext works with Windows98?

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texmfstart texexec --make all on the Mac
by David Arnold 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

All, Looks like: texmfstart texexec --make all Put the format files in: ~/Library/texmf/web2c/pdfetex/ I'll have to remember to delete these when I update using Gerben's Context updater.

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units: \spacedimensionstrue fails when using unit powers
by Sanjoy Mahajan 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

I'm considering switching from my units macros to the units module. In doing that I'm trying \spaceddimensionstrue (found in the m-units.tex source), which is the most common convention in physics tables and books, rather than using \Times to separate quantities with a dot. But it seems not to take account of the exponent in the first unit when putting space between the first and second units. Here's a minimal example: \usemodule[units] \spaceddimensionstrue \starttext % this looks fine \startformula \Meter\Second \stopformula % this needs a thinspace after the superscripted 2 \startformula \Square\Meter\Second \stopformula \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext
by wwl＠musensturm.de 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

> Does anyone know if cdwincontext works with Windows98? You have to adapt some batch-files (cmd.exe --> command.com) Wolfgang

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Rebuild formats in Gerben's context distro
by David Arnold 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

All, Has anyone ever rebuilt the formats in Gerben's context distro for the Mac? Usually, I just wait for and update and use the Context updater, but I have need to know how to rebuild the formats today. If anyone knows how on the Mac, please advise. Thanks.

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Indentation bug ?
by Renaud AUBIN 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Hi all, Considering the following example: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setupindenting[medium,yes] \setupformulas[indentnext=yes] \setupheads[indentnext=yes] \setupfloats[indentnext=yes] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{mympgraph} numeric u; u:=2cm; draw (-u,-u)--(u,u); draw ((-u,-u)--(u,u)) rotated 90; \stopuseMPgraphic \section{A section} La liaison inter-modulaire conçue par TDA pour le prototype est une liaison pivot d'axe vertical. En effet, même si elle dispose de possibilités de débattements angulaires, ces débattements admissibles sont relativement faibles. De plus, seul la rotation suivant l'axe de la liaison pivot peut être actionné et, en l'état, les débattements ne peuvent en aucun cas être pilotés. Néanmoins, le problème posé par cette articulation ne se pose pas si l'on se restreint à des déplacements sur des surfaces planes ou régulières relativement aux grandeurs du robot. Nous ne présenterons pas ici la conception mécanique de cette liaison. \placefigure[bottom]{none}{\useMPgraphic{mymmpgraph}} La liaison inter-modulaire conçue par TDA pour le prototype est une liaison pivot d'axe vertical. En effet, même si elle dispose de possibilités de débattements angulaires, ces débattements admissibles sont relativement faibles. De plus, seul la rotation suivant l'axe de la liaison pivot peut être actionné et, en l'état, les débattements ne peuvent en aucun cas être pilotés. Néanmoins, le problème posé par cette articulation ne se pose pas si l'on se restreint à des déplacements sur des surfaces planes ou régulières relativement aux grandeurs du robot. Nous ne présenterons pas ici la conception mécanique de cette liaison. \page \section{A second section} \input knuth \placefigure[bottom]{none}{\useMPgraphic{mymmpgraph}} \input knuth \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Paragraphs next to \placefigure calls are not indented when [bottom] is used. They are indented correctly when one use [top] or [here]. Strange... ;) Cheers, Renaud PS to Hans: U3D ?

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