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Re: [NTG-context] arab (omega)
by Duncan Hothersall 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hans, in Friday's beta, core-sec.tex line 767 has \edef\levelstring{=\flistsectionseparator\@@filternumberpart[#1]\sectionseparator}% which fails not knowing what \flistsectionseparator is. Reverting to \edef\levelstring{=\sectionseparator\@@filternumberpart[#1]\sectionseparator}% works but may not be the intended effect. Duncan

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INstall minimal context system.
by John R. Culleton 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

I downloaded the justtex.zip and the context-linux.zip files into a work directory /usr/local/cont and unzipped them. Then I cd to the tex directory under that work directory. I made the the setuptex file executable and executed it with no apparent effect. Then I changed the path to point to /usr/local/cont/tex/texmf-linux/bin and ran mktexlsr. It followed the new path. I ran texexec --make --alone and it seemed to be successful. Ran mktexlsr again. Then I ran a test program in another directory. It could not find cont-en.fmt. In fact this file or anything similar to this file does not exist in this tree, although it existed in my previous tetex tree and exists in my texlive tree. How do I create and/or download this file? -- John Culleton

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continuous numbering of subsection
by Ulf Martin 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Dear ConTeXt Experts I am still sometimes confused about how to set up simple things... I want to have a subsection level head type ("topic") with a numbering that runs undependently from the section numbering, like so: 1. First Topic ... I. Section One ... 2. Second Topic ... 3. Third Topic ... 4. Fourth Topic ... II. Section Two 5. Fifth Topic ... 6. Sixth Topic ... III. Section Three ... And so on. ConTeXtgarden, the manual, etc. show in great detail how to set up the /appearence/ of head parts (incl. numbercommand), but I cannot find an explanation of the handling of the LaTeX equivalent to counters (their definition, incrementing, resetting, etc.). The explanation of \setupheadnumber in the manual (p. 172) is quite obscure to me -- how do I specify that I do not want higher levels of head to reset my numbering? Thank you! Ulf Martin

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Hiding subanswers
by David Arnold 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

All, We are currently using this as one of our environment files: \definehead[unnumberedsubsection][subsection] \setuphead[unnumberedsubsection][number=no,incrementnumber=no] \defineenumeration[questions][location=serried,text=\blank] \setupenumerations[questions][before={\page[yes]\unnumberedsubsection {Exercises}\startcolumns[n=2]},after=\stopcolumns,number=no] \defineenumeration[answers][location=serried,text=\blank] \setupenumerations[answers][before={\unnumberedsubsection{Answers} \startcolumns[n=2]},after=\stopcolumns,number=no] \def\placeanswers{\startanswers\doifmodeelse{short}{\selectblocks [shortanswer][criterium=section]}{\selectblocks[longanswer] [criterium=section]}\stopanswers} \defineenumeration[question][location=inleft,text={\color[heavygreen] \bgroup}] \setupenumerations [question] [location=inleft, text={\color[heavygreen]\bgroup}, stopper={.\egroup}, way=bysection, sectionnumber=no] \defineenumeration[subquestion][location=hanging,text={\color [heavygreen]\bgroup},conversion=characters] \setupenumerations[subquestion][stopper={.\egroup}] \defineenumeration[answer][location=inleft,text={\color[heavygreen] \bgroup}] \setupenumerations [answer] [location=inleft, text={\color[heavygreen]\bgroup}, stopper={.\egroup}, way=bysection, sectionnumber=no] \defineenumeration[subanswer][location=hanging,text={\color [heavygreen]\bgroup},conversion=characters] \setupenumerations[subanswer][stopper={.\egroup}] \defineblock[question,shortanswer,longanswer] \hideblocks[shortanswer,longanswer] Then we do something like: \beginquestion \starquestion Yada, yada, yada. \startsubquestion one part \stopsubquestion \startsubquestion part a \stopsubquestion \startsubquestion part b \stopsubquestion \stopquestion \endquestion Then we have some answers. \beginlonganswer \startanswer \startsubanswer part a \stopsubanswer \startsubanswer part b \stopsubanswer \stopanswer \endlonganswer I'd like to set it up so we could "hide" some subanswers. Any suggestions?

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arab (omega)
by Hans Hagen 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Hi otp lovers, i managed to get this number stuff running (i.e. bypass the otp messing up numbers): i'm uploading a beta beware, there is no need to setup separators, and no need to reverse numbers! \def\ArabicUTF {\ArabicDirGlobal \usefiltersequence[UTFArabic]% \switchtobodyfont[omarb]% \isolateseparators} % will handle separators of course you should not expect proper kerning when isolation is used with latin things like this actually need some advanced control (special otp's for difference situations, depending on what one's dealing with, then to be hooked into the code at the right place, which is tricky since it may get lost later one etc etc) still messed up: math display formulas, strange number reversion and swapping l/r [since omega has bugs with math i'm not sure what is the reason] maybe duncan/idris/taco have an idea 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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Iwona Heavy and Math
by Aditya Mahajan 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Hi, I am simply trying out different math fonts available, and found iwona-heavy to be "strange". Look at the output of \usetypescript [iwona-heavy][ec] \setupbodyfont[iwona-heavy,ss,11pt] \starttext This is some test \startformula \Pr(A = B) = \frac 12 \stopformula \stoptext The math is much bolder than the text. Is this by design? Aditya

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Calligraphic Font with palatino and euler
by Aditya Mahajan 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Hi, When I use palatino and euler, I do not get calligraphic font. How can I define a typescript to use the calligraphic font from lm. This is my setup \definetypeface [pal] [rm] [serif] [palatino] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface [pal] [tt] [mono] [modern] [default] [encoding=texnansi,rscale=1.1] \definetypeface [pal] [ss] [sans] [modern] [default] [encoding=texnansi,rscale=1.1] \definetypeface [pal] [mm] [math] [euler] [euler] [rscale=1.03] \setupbodyfont[pal,10pt] \starttext ${\cal A}A {\cal B}B$ \stoptext Thanks Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008

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Preventing page breaks (needspace)
by Joshua Ellis 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

While using \obeylines for some poetry there would sometimes be page breaks in the middle of stanzas, even if there was very stretchy space on either side. So I borrowed some code from needspace.sty, basically to tell TeX I'd be much happier w/ a ragged bottom than a break between lines: \def\needspace#1{% \begingroup \vskip#1\lineheight\penalty -100\vskip-#1\lineheight \vskip#1\lineheight\penalty 9999\vskip-#1\lineheight \endgroup} So if there is a stanza of four lines that *really* shouldn't be split across pages, it looks like this: \needspace{4} Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 4 However, I suspect I'm not the first person to run into this. So my question is if there is a more ConTeXt-y way to do this? Or does ConTeXt already have something to do this?

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bib module beta test
by Taco Hoekwater 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

Hi, Some of you may have missed this, but I have posted a beta of the bibliographic module on http://modules.contextgarden.net/bib I would appreciate it if people that have documents with large bibliographies would download it and run their files. Some mayor stuff has changed, and I really need confirmation that I have not broken backward compatibility. TIA, Taco

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\hexstringtonumber{..}
by Peter Münster 24 Jun '06

24 Jun '06

Hello Hans, what is the purpose of \hexstringtonumber{..}? I would expect something like: \unprotect \setvalue{@@uc@@a}{10} \setvalue{@@uc@@A}{10} \setvalue{@@uc@@b}{11} \setvalue{@@uc@@B}{11} \setvalue{@@uc@@c}{12} \setvalue{@@uc@@C}{12} \setvalue{@@uc@@d}{13} \setvalue{@@uc@@D}{13} \setvalue{@@uc@@e}{14} \setvalue{@@uc@@E}{14} \setvalue{@@uc@@f}{15} \setvalue{@@uc@@F}{15} \def\dohexstringtonumber#1#2% FF {\the\numexpr\csname @@uc@@#1\endcsname * 16 + \csname @@uc@@#2\endcsname\relax} \protect \starttext \hexstringtonumber{1E} \hexstringtonumber{f5} \stoptext But your version just adds a " to the string... Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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