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Re: [NTG-context] Magazine layout
by Fidel Viegas 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

Hi Aditya, >Vit Zyka posted some notes on an impressive book layout that he did a >while ago. >http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060525.084738.3f1d8e4a.en.html<http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060525.084738.3f1d8e4a.en.html> Thanks for the pointer. That is a good example. >The magazines use s-mag-01.tex for layout. Most magazines of pragma >website have the "source code" at the end of the magazine. The sources >of the magazines and context manuals are available at the svn >repository. You can browse it at >http://context.aanhet.net/svn/manuals<http://context.aanhet.net/svn/manuals> >or download the manuals from svn://ctx.pragma-ade.nl/manuals I din't know of this repository. I tried to search all over the site but couldn't find it. So, once again thanks for the pointer. I think that now I have some good material I can study. All the best, Fidel.

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section versus subject
by Steffen Wolfrum 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Hi, maybe another quite ... basic question: What's wrong about \subject? I assumed that the only difference between \section and \subject is numbering or not. But why does \subject not appear in the TOC (see below)? \starttext \definecombinedlist[content] [section,subject] \completecontent \page \section{section} \subject{subject} \stoptext Thanks, Steffen

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Charts, Graphs, Tufte, and ConTeXt
by David Wooten 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Greetings all, I've been itching to stop using "Illustrator" and other programs to make the charts and graphs I wish to include in my ConTeXt-generated documents, and would like to get some advice on the matter. There is a special (albeit not well furnished) place in my heart for Tufte's /"Visual Display of Quantitative Information/", so I suppose I am always leaning towards that philosophy of chart-making. I came across Jean-luc Doumont's article /"Drawing effective (and beautiful) graphs with TeX*" [1]/, in which he refers to his macro package called JLdraw---and shows some pretty examples. JLdraw was in fact never generally released, although when I contacted him he was happy to send along the macro package. In beginning to tinker with them, I have not had much luck getting them to work within ConTeXt, undoubtedly due to my persistent naiveté. Thus I'm curious as to what others use... is R an efficient method to produce elegant charts? Is straight MetaPost preferable? Many thanks, David [1] http://www.tug.org/TUG99-web/pdf/doumont2.pdf

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setuplabeltext bug ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Hi, the label is killed when changing new (de) german to old (deo) german: \mainlanguage[de]%de=new, deo=old \starttext \setuplabeltext[de][chapter=Chapter] \chapter{Text} \stoptext Right? Steffen

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keepblocks
by David Arnold 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

All, Can anyone explain what this is supposed to do? \keepblocks

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underbar and hyphenation
by Mojca Miklavec 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Hello, is there any way to make hyphenation work when using \underbar? Thanks, Mojca

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centered headertexts ??
by Steffen Wolfrum 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Hi, apologies, I guess this one is a pretty easy question, but after trying (almost) every combination I gave up... How do I get xxx and yyy set in the header's center?? \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided,location= {header,marginedge}] \setupheadertexts[][xxx][yyy][] \starttext \input tufte \input knuth \input tufte \input knuth \input tufte \input knuth \stoptext As always, thank you very much, Steffen

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setupitemize confusion
by Steffen Wolfrum 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Hi, both paragraph should be indented 12 pt. But there are different: \starttext \startitemize[width=12pt] \sym{\endash}\input tufte \stopitemize \setupitemize[width=12pt] \sym{\endash}\input tufte \stoptext How do I make the second the same as the first? Steffen

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core-buf.tex?
by David Arnold 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

All, In looking at core-buf.tex to see if I could find anything about subblocks, I came across at line 518: \def\setblocklevel#1% sign {\global\advance\blocklevel #11 \ifcase\blocklevel\doingblocksfalse\else\doingblockstrue\fi} Is that 11 correct?

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gnuplot in ConTeXt
by Dalyoung Jeong 27 Jul '06

27 Jul '06

Dear all, I have installed gnuplot and others(aqua term, x11). I tested the minimal sample file in ConTeXt Wiki. In the wiki page, there is a command like \startGNUPLOTgraphics{sin} plot sin(x) \stopGNUPLOTgraphics but there is an error message like l.6 \startGNUPLOTgraphics {sin} ? x If I changed \startGNUPLOTgraphics{sin} to \startGNUPLOTgraphic{sin}, then the error is disappeared but the output showed only texts but not graph. Only a grey box is appeared. Would you please show me an example in detail? Thank you for reading. Dalyoung

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