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French spacing with pdfTeX-1.40 and ConTeXt-beta
by Peter Münster 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hello, 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? 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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Some questions about lua && context
by Aleksandar Lazic 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

Hi, today I have looked into luatex and read the FAQ http://www.luatex.org/faq.html Just for my curiosity, have you looked into neko?! http://www.nekovm.org/ I don't know when you have decide to go to lua and if then neko was out. Thanks to satisfied my curiosity ;- ) Regards Aleks

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Some questions about luatex
by luigi scarso 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

hi some questions about luatex (www.luatex.org) 1) will be possible some code like \luatry{% ...tex code} \luaexcept{ ..tex code} 2) will be possible to embedding some other language ie Python (of course, reading the C source) ? Thanks in advance luigi

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character redefinition environment
by Enzo Cordes 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

Hi list, I want to assign Metapost graphics to single letters (in a newly defined evironment, that take care of these assignments). The purpose is being able to rapidly build huge tables containing lots of these symbols. Everything works fine if I assign these graphics to non-letters, e.g. "|", but somehow it doesn't work with normal letters. Here is what I tried (with a simple Foo instead of Metapost graphics): \definesymbol[foosymbol][{\tt Foo}] \def\startmychars{% \bgroup\catcode`\|=\active\def|{\symbol[foosymbol]}} \def\stopmychars{\egroup} This works with | as reassigned character without any problems. But, we want to have normal characters in the table, no punctuation marks, etc. Does anyone know what to do to reassign a special definition for a letter e.g. like uppercase B or else? I got this error: (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/pdfr-ec.tex) ! Undefined control sequence. \startmychars ...up \catcode `\B=\active \defB {\symbol[foosymbol]} l.24 \startmychars which seems to indicate that B is not recognized as active character in the "\defB"? Any hints very welcome, Enzo.

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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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