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tug 2006
by Hans Hagen 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

Hi, for those going to tug 2006 ... there are still slots open in the program 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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showelements in x-contml documentatation
by Aditya Mahajan 20 Jun '06

20 Jun '06

When I try to process contml module's documentation, the system seems to go in an infinite loop. No error is produced, but the process takes 100% memory and does not produce anything for a loong time. If I comment all the strings containing \showelements and \showXDScomponent, documentation is produced. I do not know why this happens. Aditya

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Re: [NTG-context] figure in the middle of the page
by andrea valle 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Thanks for the suggestion. But it's after using \vfill that I decided to write to the list. I had this code, which resembles your one: \vfill {\externalfigure[oggettiSonori/tipologia/spaziotipo][width=\textwidth] } \vfill \page here's the output http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/testFigure.pdf -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea andrea.valle(a)unito.it

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texexec
by Hans Hagen 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hi, I'd like to make the ruby version of texexec the default. Are there any strong objections to this? Also, i'd like the stubs to run texmfstart as launcher. For that purpose i'll add a /scripts/context/stubs/[mswin|unix] path with the default stubs that one can copy to some bin path 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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Metapost: point along path and metaobj
by Aditya Mahajan 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hi, Something goes wrong while using metaobj and point something along somepath. I do not know if point ... along... is a mp core command or something introduced by metafun. Is this metafun's fault, metaobj's fault or simply a metapost issue (and thus I should ask on the metapost list). \setupcolors [state=start] \startMPinclusions input metaobj; \stopMPinclusions % Everything works fine if I comment metaobj. \starttext \startMPpage path p ; p := (0,0)--(1cm,0) ; draw p withpen pencircle scaled 2bp withcolor 0.8white; draw (point .25 along p)--(point .75 along p) withpen pencircle scaled 2bp withcolor red ; \stopMPpage \stoptext gives ! Missing argument to arctime. <to be read again> of along->(arctime((EXPR0)*(arclength(EXPR1)))of (EXPR1))of(EXPR1) <to be read again> ) l.295 draw (point .25 along p) --(point .75 along p) Aditya

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Bibliography: Cite by author with (co)author index and page number
by Tobias Burnus 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hello, I saw the following nice feature in a book, which I also like to use for a longer work. The author uses a cite by author style (Sharma, 1979) and in the citation index: Nobody, N. B. and N. N. Nonomens, J. Improper Sci. 12, 199 (2007). 5 Nonomens, N. N., See Sharma, R. R; Nobody, N. B. Sharma R.R and N. N. Nonomens, Phys. Rev. B19, 2813 (1979). 320, 323, 330 where the last numbers are the pages on which one has cited the item. That way one automatically creates an index of persons, one cites. One could even link the page numbers to the referrering page. Tobias

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figure in the middle of the page
by andrea valle 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hi to all, Sorry if it's obvious. I'm preparing some slides and I'd like to have a figure in the middle of the slide. With \placefigure I place it center-justified horizontally. How can I force to be in the center of the text? Thanks Best -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea andrea.valle(a)unito.it

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Ugly hack for multiple MSWord docs.
by John R. Culleton 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Frequently I find myself in the position of needing to combine several MSWord and/or rtf documents into a single file for either pdftex or Context. I have settled on this strategy. 1. If necessary I convert the documents to rtf with Open Ofice Writer. 2. I convert the resulting rtf documents to LaTeX using rtf2latex2e. 3. I need to rename some of the LaTeX commands to their plain TeX or Context equivalents, and simply ignore others. Instead of editing each and every occurrence, I add the following to my "macros.tex" file which heads up the document: ---------------------------------------------------- \def\documentclass{} \def\newcommand{} \def\usepackage{} \def\tab{} \def\hspace{} \def\begin{} \def\end{} \def\textbf#1{\bf #1} \def\nobreakspace{~} \def\underline{} \def\newpage{} \def\textmd#1{\rm #1} \def\textit#1{\it #1} \def\large{\tfb} \def\reg{\rm\char174\ } \def\textregistered{\reg} ------------------------------------------------------ I create a master file that calls in each of the .tex files and compile the whole goulash. If I missed a latex tag then I add it to my \defs shown above and recompile until I get a clean run. Now I have a readable pdf file and can start correcting the format. The scattered Latex tags give me hints where centering etc. might be needed even though the tags are inoperative in Context, thanks to my nullifying \def statements shown above. Someday there will be an elegant solution to the MSWord to Context problem. For now there is my ugly hack as described here. -- John Culleton

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How to hyperlink pdf?
by Johannes Graumann 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hello, How do I get the entries in TOC/LOF/LOT, t-bib bibliographic references and in-text references to other text parts (paragraphs, figures, tables) hyperlinked so that clicking on the respective references will lead me to the object referred to? Thanks for your help, Joh

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splitting tables
by Hans Hagen 18 Jun '06

18 Jun '06

Hi, I will upload an alpha release with a cleaned up table (float) split mechanism. The splitter works for all three table types, either or not in floats with repeated head (and tail) sections, optionally with automatic (may become default) caption height detection etc. It works ok on some simple test files, but I have no time to test more obscure situations. I'm not that sure if everything is downward compatible, but splitting is always tricky (and demanded some intervention) anyway. So, if you are using this kind of functionality, go ahead, download and test .. \setupTABLE[split=repeat] \input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=11] {\placetable{\dorecurse{10}{test\recurselevel\endgraf}}} {\bTABLE\dorecurse{100}{\bTR \bTD test \eTD \eTR}\eTABLE} \input tufte \page \input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=0] {} {\bTABLE\dorecurse{100}{\bTR \bTD test \eTD \eTR}\eTABLE} \input tufte \endgraf \page \input tufte \endgraf \bTABLE\dorecurse{100}{\bTR \bTD test \eTD \eTR}\eTABLE \input tufte \page \setuptabulate[split=yes] \input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=11] {\placetable{\dorecurse{10}{test\recurselevel\endgraf}}} {\starttabulate\dorecurse{200}{\NC test \NC test \NC \NR}\stoptabulate} \input tufte \page \input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=0] {} {\starttabulate\dorecurse{200}{\NC test \NC test \NC \NR}\stoptabulate} \input tufte \page \input tufte \endgraf \starttabulate\dorecurse{200}{\NC test \NC test \NC \NR}\stoptabulate \input tufte \page \setuptables[split=yes] \newtoks\TestToks \TestToks\emptytoks \appendtoks\starttablehead\to\TestToks \dorecurse{3}{\appendtoks\VL head \VL head \VL \SR\to\TestToks} \appendtoks\stoptablehead\to\TestToks \appendtoks\starttabletail\to\TestToks \dorecurse{3}{\appendtoks\VL tail \VL tail \VL \SR\to\TestToks} \appendtoks\stoptabletail\to\TestToks \appendtoks\starttables[|c|c|]\to\TestToks \dorecurse{100}{\appendtoks\VL test \VL test \VL \SR\to\TestToks} \appendtoks\stoptables\to\TestToks \input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=auto] % [lines=11] {\placetable{\dorecurse{10}{test\recurselevel\endgraf}}} {\the\TestToks} \input tufte \page \input tufte \endgraf \splitfloat[lines=0] {} {\the\TestToks} \input tufte \page \input tufte \endgraf \the\TestToks \input tufte \page Watch the lines=auto option! Mechanisms like this will never be perfect, but I think that the cleanup is not that bad. Especially the \startable bits and pieces needs some more testing, but then, i need to cleanup up that code anyway (write a cleaner version of that whole table mechanism). 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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