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Notes for Scite
by David Arnold 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

All, I already have a few colleagues who have set up perl, ghostscript, gsview, miktex, context, and windedt on their XP machines. Does someone have instructions for setting up Scite and configuring it for Context on top of these existing installations?

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Figure libraries
by David Arnold 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

All, After you run: figures $ texexec --pdf --use=fig-make --mode=letter figlibSection3.xml are the figures embedded in figlibSection3.pdf? That is, could you now remove the files used to create figlibSection3.pdf?

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Alignments side by side
by David Arnold 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

All, I am wondering how I can put two alignment environments side-by-side? For test purposes, it's OK to use this twice. \placeformula[-] \startformula \eqalign{ f(x)&=x^2-2x-3\cr f(x)&=x^02x+1-1-3\cr f(x)&=(x-1)^2-4} \stopformula I'd like to get two of these side-by-side, or something that will typeset a similar result side-by-side. Thanks.

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layer question
by Henning Hraban Ramm 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

Consider this example: \definelayer[extras] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight] \setlayer [extras] [x=2cm, y=5cm] {something} \setupbackgrounds[page][background=extras] This is ok, the placement is relative to the upper left edge of the paper. But following the Details manual, I should be able to use \placelayer[extras] instead of the background stuff. But then the placement is relative to the upper left edge of the text area. Is this intended? Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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postponed processing
by Henning Hraban Ramm 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

Me again... I'd like to define an address layer in my environment: --- start env -- \definelayer[senderlayer] [x=0mm, y=0mm, width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight] \def\Sender#1#2#3{\setvalue{SenderKey#1}{#2}\setvalue{SenderVal#1}{#3}} \def\GetSenderLine#1{\bTR\bTD\doiftextelse{\getvalue{SenderKey#1}}% {\getvalue{SenderKey#1}:}{}\eTD\bTD\getvalue{SenderVal#1}\eTD\eTR} \setlayerframed[senderlayer] [%corner={right}, location={left,bottom}, x=\dimexpr(\getvalue{LogoHOffset}-\bleed), %\getvalue{LogoHOffset}, y=\getvalue{LogoHeight}] % \dimexpr(\getvalue{LogoHeight}+\topspace) [height=46mm, width=\dimexpr(\getvalue{SenderKeyWidth}+\getvalue {SenderValueWidth}), frame=off, offset=none, align={left,top}]{% \setupTABLE[frame=off] \setupTABLE[x][1][width=\getvalue{SenderKeyWidth}, align=left, style= {\keystyle\strut}] \setupTABLE[x][2][width=\getvalue{SenderValueWidth}, align=right, style={\valstyle\strut}] \bTABLE \dostepwiserecurse{1}{9}{1}{% count from 1 to 9, step 1 \expanded{\GetSenderLine{\recurselevel}} } \eTABLE } \def\EnableSender{\setupbackgrounds[rightpage][page] [background={\currentvalue, senderlayer}]} --- stop env --- and use that later in a product/component: --- start text --- \Sender{1}{Name}{Hraban} \Sender{2}{Web}{www.fiee.net} \EnableSender --- stop text --- Of course it doesn't work, because the Sender values aren't set via typesetting the address in the environment, and \currentvalue in \EnableSender hasn't the right value either. Holger solves this in his letter style (wiki) via setups. Is that the best approach? How else could I postpone the senderlayer processing? (I guess it would work with some expansion magic, but I'd like to stay at ConTeXt's surface as much as possible.) Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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multiple backgrounds
by Henning Hraban Ramm 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

I'm playing around with layers and try to rewrite the letter style in a cleaner way. How can I use several layers as page backgrounds and switch them on and off independently from each other? With \setupbackgrounds[rightpage][page][state=start, background=logolayer] \setupbackgrounds[rightpage][page][state=start, background=senderlayer] the second background overwrites the first, but I can't define them together, because there could be several combinations of 5-7 layers. Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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spurious space in cite
by Hans van der Meer 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

I was typesetting bibliography references with the command \cite[data][ref] and then found that a spce preceded the author name; surrounding the space with X and Y, it gives "X Yauthor" instead of "XYauthor I was able to trace it down to the macro invertedshortauthor in thise case, but I suspect the others (invertedauthor, normalauthor, normalshortauthor) will exhibit the same phenomenon. The macro is: \def\invertedshortauthor#1#2#3#4#5% {\bibdoif{#2}{#2\bibalternative\c!vonsep}% #3\bibalternative\c!surnamesep \bibdoif{#5}{#5\bibalternative\c!juniorsep}% \bibdoif{#4}{#4\unskip}} tracingmacros shows an empty #2-argument takes the \c!vonsep, in bibl- apa.tex defined as a space. I first wondered if the \bibdoif's shouldn't be replaced by a \bibdoifnot. Anyway, that makes the spurious spaces go away. But it seems not right, so I investigated the bibdoif's and found the following behaviour when calling with empty and nonempty arguments. bibdoif:\crlf empty = \bibdoif{}{empty}\crlf notempty = \bibdoif{x}{notempty}\par bibdoifnot:\crlf empty = \bibdoifnot{}{empty}\crlf notempty = \bibdoifnot{x}{notempty}\par bibdoifelse:\crlf empty = \bibdoifelse{}{first}{second}\crlf notempty = \bibdoifelse{x}{first}{second}\par Typesetting gives as a result: bibdoif: empty = empty notempty = notempty bibdoifnot: empty = notempty = bibdoifelse: empty = first notempty = first So I have my doubts about the doif's. Finally another observation on the typesetting by \cite[data][ref]. When typesetting a reference ending on a period, for example "Publ. Co. Inc.", the result has a double period "Publ. Co. Inc.." That looks somewhat silly. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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MPinclusions
by Hans van der Meer 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

I thought to incrementally add to MPinclusions by successive blocks \startMPinclusions ...... \stopMPinclusions \startMPinclusions ...... \stopMPinclusions etc. But according to the generated mp-file it seems to incorporate the last one only. Is this correct and if so, is it an option to allow appending in the above manner? Or will that be too difficult to build. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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strange stretching with \blank[...]
by Peter Münster 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

Hello, please consider the following example file: \setupalign[line] \starttext \input knuth \blank[big] \input knuth \blank[2*big] % 2*big is much smaller than simple big ! \input knuth \placetable{bla}{\vbox to 18cm{bla}} \stoptext But \blank[big,big] is working right. It seems, that we should replace all "2*big" by "big,big" in core-sec.tex Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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mode dependend character handling
by Henning Hraban Ramm 15 Jan '06

15 Jan '06

(This mail was rejected as spam in my first try, and the reject message was catched by my spam filter...) A happy new year! I'd like to typeset a text in both German and Swiss German orthography, i.e. I'd like to expand "s (or the like) to ß in German and ss in Swiss German mode, or even better, automagically change ß to ss in Swiss mode. This is what I have: \startmode[swiss] \def\S#1{ss\relax} \stopmode \startnotmode[swiss] \def\S#1{\sz\relax} \stopnotmode That forces me to use \S{} in the middle of words, very ugly. I know this is possible in a more sophisticated way! Please? (My favorite solution would be to make ß expand to ss in Swiss mode.) Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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