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How to preserve a TeX token list across passes (the ConTeXt way)?
by Jyrki Ruuskanen 11 May '06

11 May '06

I made a plain TeX module for simple abbreviation and bibliography handling. The problem is it currently uses a temporary file to keep track of used bibs / abbreviations. Essentially it writes \addToList [\usedAbbreviations]{<abbr>} and \addToList[\usedReferences]{<cite>} commands to it, and this file is input on the second pass. After finding out that ConTeXt *really is* well thought of and robust I changed the functionality to use TeXutil with \writeutilitycommand. Everything seems to work, the commands appear in .tui/.tuo files and are executed, but the token lists are empty when execution reaches the document. I couldn't figure out how to fix it as I don't yet know enough about the anatomy of a ConTeXt run and the system. Jyrki Ruuskanen

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components and figure search paths
by Sanjoy Mahajan 11 May '06

11 May '06

Using components (e.g. book chapters), with each component in its own directory, say I have \startproduct onebook \project manybooks \component 1/chap \component 2/chap \stopproduct with this 1/chap.tex: \startcomponent 1/chap \product onebook \project manybooks \title{One} An essential chapter. \useexternalfigure[ff][abc.1] \placefigure[here][ff]{Some caption}{\externalfigure[ff]} \stopcomponent I'd like to keep the figures and source for a chapter together, e.g. abc.mp and abc.1 in 1/chap/ since each chapter has many figures, and I edit and test one chapter at a time. That arrangement works fine if I build the component: cd 1 && texexec chap.tex but not if I build the product: texexec book.tex (it doesn't find abc.1 since it's not in the same dir as book.tex) The details.pdf manual says that figures are searched for in the local path (current directory) and the global one, with the global one set by the directory keyword: \setupexternalfigures[directory={c:/fig/eps,c:/fig/pdf}] Is there a way to specify "current directory relative to this component", or a way to add that setting to the default 'local' path (even before '.')? I could add it manually in the preamble of the 1/chap.tex but it would mean hardwiring the pathname into it, which seems hacky. E.g. it fails if I export the whole source tree to /tmp/tmp.2773ab/ to test rebuilding all the pdf's from scratch. -Sanjoy

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Bib bug in using months
by Aditya Mahajan 11 May '06

11 May '06

Hi Taco, In my bib file, I have month enteries like month=jan, month=feb, and so on. While I was learning latex, I read somewhere that this is better than writing explicit names for the month as the bst file can then choose whether to use long names or short names. It is also possible to choose the month names according to the language of the main document. I followed that advice and now I have HUGE bib file with such enteries. However, the bib module does not support this naming scheme. I get \month{1} \month{2} etc in my bbl file. Can this be corrected? This is not urgent at all, as I can correct everything in my editor, changing \month{1} to \month{Jan.} or \month{January} depending on what citation style I want. It will be nice if the context bst style did this by default. Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008

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Wiki verbatim updated
by nico 10 May '06

10 May '06

Hello, I should have written this a long time ago when Hans improved drastically this feature. For those who may be interested in: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Verbatim_text#Line_numbering Regards, BG

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treat framed and externalfigure as characters
by Peter Münster 10 May '06

10 May '06

Hello Taco and Hans, in http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector/89 you write "Both Hans and me have documents that depend on \framed staying in vertical mode." Could you give me an example please? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Problem with a french document
by Renaud AUBIN 10 May '06

10 May '06

Hi all, I use a "complex" structure for my document (project, product, environment and components). The project is allmost empty except for the environment and the product declarations. The environment contains all my \usemodule, \setupstuff and fonts settings (I use texnansi because I can't have correct horizontal spaces in MetaUML with the EC encoding... and don't want bitmap fonts :) ). The product obviously contains the project declaration, the \start-\stoptext and my components. My question is: What's the best place to put french settings ? For the moment, I have: \useregime[il9] \enableencoding[ffr] \mainlanguage[fr] in my product but I have some VERY STRANGE problems with accentuated characters (I have tried before and after \startproduct...): 1.I have a custom title page defined in a t-title.tex module -> a ô results in 'ô while è and é are right (maybe a problem with texnansi but I don't think so) 2. \setupheadertexts[][{\sl \getmarking[chapter]}] \startfrontmatter \setuppagenumbering[conversion=romannumerals] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \chapter{Table des matières} \placecontent[alternative=c,criterium=all,interaction=all,partnumber=no] \stopfrontmatter results in: Tables des Mati'ères in the header, the toc element and the chapter title... while other toc elements is ok (with accentuated characters) 3. same problems with \chapter within backmatter start/stop pair... I must precise that I have the following error: TeXUtil | fatal error in plugin processor MySynonyms (wrong argument type nil (expected Regexp)) I'm going nuts... :-! Cheers, Renaud

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List of Formulas
by nico 10 May '06

10 May '06

Hello, Is it possible to display a list of the numbered formulas (done with \placeformula)? I tried \placelist[formula] without success. Regards, BG

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Yet Another French Punctuation Problem ;)
by Renaud AUBIN 10 May '06

10 May '06

Hi Hans, With the latest release the following example doesn't give correct punctuation spaces... (at least here) \setupoutput[pdftex] \mainlanguage[fr] % Fonts settings for ConTeXt \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] \loadmapfile[texnansi-bh-lucida.map] \usetypescript[lucida][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[lucida,10pt] \starttext \placecontent[criterium=all] \section{Caractères accentués} éèiöô \section{Caractères spéciaux} \oe \euro \section{Ponctuation} Un test: Un autre test pour la ponctuation! Un autre test pour la ponctuation? \stoptext Cheers, Renaud

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Global and per product TOC
by nico 09 May '06

09 May '06

Hello, I would like to be able to have a set of books in a single document, and think the project/product model could be used. In the big manual it is said that one can have a completecontent per product. I would like a global TOC, and for each product a TOC per product (in this case per book). Currently each book have the whole project TOC. How to achieve this? Thanks for any hint. The structure I've tried: \startproject proj % global TOC \completecontent \product book1 \product book2 \stopproject -------------- \startproduct book1 \project proj % well, to put in an environment file... \startsectionblockenvironment[frontpart] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \setuppagenumbering[conversion=romannumerals] \stopsectionblockenvironment \startsectionblockenvironment[bodypart] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \stopsectionblockenvironment \starttext \startfrontmatter % Local book TOC? \completecontent[criterium=local] \chapter{A} a \chapter{B} a \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter{A} a \chapter{B} a \stopbodymatter \startappendices \chapter{A} a \chapter{B} a \stopappendices \stoptext \stopproduct ------------- (The same for book2) Regards, BG

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\quad in pdf author
by Aditya Mahajan 09 May '06

09 May '06

Hi, \setupinteraction [ author={Author 1 \quad Author 2}, ] gives me "Author 1 hskip 1em" in pdf info. Is there some way to ensure that \quad is ignored when used in \setupinteraction[...]. I use variables and setups to create a title page and use doctitle and author information in pdf document properties. I need quad in the titlepage but not in pdf properties. Thanks, Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008

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