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float/figure and wrapping text
by Randolph Bertin 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

I am typesetting books, primarily text and images. My original background is Quark/InDesign, but quite recently, I decided to look into TeX/LaTeX (LaTeX because that is just what most of the TeX references refer to). I first spent some time trying to learn LaTeX and although I was able to accomplish a number of my desired goals, I began to run into some problems related to maintaining text on a baseline grid. When searching for solutions, I came across a reference to ConTeXt. My first impressions are that ConTeXt looks great, and would handle most of what I would like to accomplish with a nice uniform approach. I haven't explored many of the features I will need to use, but am trying to read the manuals and listserv archives and basically trying things out to see how things function. So, I am sure I will have a number of questions that will later turn out to seem obvious (often the case, I guess for the uninitiated). Eventually, I might even be able to answer a couple of questions.... But, to begin, one thing I would like to do for a project I am working on is to wrap continuous text around an image (placed on one side of the main text body), and I am encountering a little difficulty. The basic situation in my document is that the figure can float, to be inserted at the next available spot, placed at the left or right margin, with text above (if there is space), to the side, and below (if there is space). First, it appears that TeX, LaTeX and ConTeXt can only place a figure next to text at the beginning of a paragraph. Is this correct? Second, using ConText, when I use \placefigure, if there is enough space on a page, it appears to place it, and wrap text around the side. Everything looks fine. But, if there is not enough space remaining on the page, the remainder of the page is left blank, and then the figure is placed at the beginning of the next page, with text wrapped around it. (That is both what I observed, and also I read in the "Details" document as the expected behavior). If I use \placefloat, if there is not enough space remaining on the page, the text will continue printing on the page and the float will be placed on the next page, BUT without any text to the side of it. What I would like is to be able to combine these two behaviors when placing a floating figure: If there is enough space on the page, it would place the figure there and wrap text around it (as it currently does for \placefigure). If there is not enough space, it will 'float' the figure and continue with the text on the current page (as it does with \placefloat, but not with \placefigure) and insert the figure on a subsequent page when there is space, wrapping the text around the figure at that point (again as it does with \placefigure, but does not seem to do with \placefloat). Is it possible to do this using a current set of ConTeXt control sequences and maybe I am just missing something? If not, is this something that can be implemented? (I don't have any experience with lower level TeX macro programming). All of what I am looking for is already there, but not all in one control sequence. Thank you very much for any help, Randolph

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headers of multiple pages toc
by Renaud AUBIN 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Hi all, I have multiple pages toc, lof and lot and I want to write headers on pages after the first... I have succeeded in writting headers (chapter or section titles) in other parts of my product but I dunno how to manage this in special part (i.e. in \placecompletecontent). Cheers,

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page references (varioref)
by Peter Münster 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Hello, I tried to implement something like the LaTeX varioref package, but without success. In detail: I would like to create a command like \at[], say \VarioAt[], that outputs a text in function of the page-number, for example: * if page is the same as the current page: "on the current page" * if page is next page: "on the following page" * if page is previous page: "on the preceding page" * else "on page XX" (XX is page-number) I tried with something like \doifelse{\expanded{\at[myRef]}}{\expanded{\currentpage}}% {same page}{different pages} But it seems, that this does not work... :( Could you help please? Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] float/figure and wrapping text
by Randolph Bertin 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

David Arnold wrote: > Have you seen this document? > > http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/details.pdf > > Look in the section "Fine Tuning Graphics" and see if there is > anything there that will help. > > Yes, I had looked through that document, which is where I found the statement (on p. 25): When the figure does not fit on the page, a page break is issued. This, as I mentioned, is a result of \placefigure I would like to get around (and, in fact, \placefloat DOES seem to get around, but with the drawback of not having text wrapped to the side). While I don't understand all the "details" of that manual, (which I am sure will be very helpful for me in fine tuning the placement of a graphic relative to the surrounding text, if I can overcome my current placement difficulty), the remaining "details" do not appear to address the matter. I feel like I am missing something pretty basic, here, but just can't seem to come up with the right combination. Any other thoughts? Regards, Randolph

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BBEdit and Context
by David Arnold 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

All, Has anyone designed any macros or glossaries to work with Context in BBEdit?

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TeX terminology
by Mojca Miklavec 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hello, Sorry for a questioin that is a bit off-topic. I'm a bit confused about the TeX terminology. I know what is what, but I don't know how all these programs/packages/macros are officially called in English. How would you explain those in an encyclopedy with no more than one sentence? * plain TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt are ... ? TeX formats ? (but ConTeXt is not just that) * TeX, eTeX, pdf(e)TeX, Aleph, Omega, XeTeX are ... ? TeX engines/extensions, an extended version of TeX ? * pdflatex is ... ? * texexec is ... ? * texutil, texfont are ... ? scripts/utilities for [whateverthetask] * MikTeX, TeX Live, teTeX are ... TeX distributions * PPCHTeX, XymTeX, MusicTeX are ... ConTeXt module(s) / LaTeX package(s) * PicTeX is ? TeX drawing environment * BibTeX is ... ? * TeXCeH is ... TeX user group Thanks a lot, Mojca

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Big Manual
by David Arnold 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hans, Taco, Any news on releasing source for the "big manuals?"

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Title page of french phd thesis
by Renaud AUBIN 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi all, I want to obtain something like this on my title page : Composition du jury : Président : M. Prénom NOM Rapporteurs : M. Truc BIDULE de paris Mme Machin CHOUETTE blabla Examinateurs : M. Ano NYME I would have macro to do this (inspired from thloria LaTeX package) like : \President = {M. Prénom NOM} \Rapporteurs = {M. Truc BIDULE&de Paris\\ Mme Machin CHOUETTE&blabla } \Examinateurs = {M. Ano NYME} I have some ideas on how to do this but I need advices to know what's the best way to manage this issue. Cheers,

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serial definition
by Henning Hraban Ramm 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi ho! This is a part of Holger Schöner's letter style (see http:// wiki.contextgarden.net/Letter_style) \def\lettersenderkeyone{} \def\lettersendervalone{} \def\lettersenderkeytwo{} \def\lettersendervaltwo{} % etc. \def\lettersenderkeynine{} \def\lettersendervalnine{} \def\senderone#1#2{\def\lettersenderkeyone{#1}\def\lettersendervalone {#2}} \def\sendertwo#1#2{\def\lettersenderkeytwo{#1}\def\lettersendervaltwo {#2}} % etc. \def\sendernine#1#2{\def\lettersenderkeynine{#1}\def \lettersendervalnine{#2}} \startsetups sendertablesetup \bTABLE \setupTABLE[frame=off] \setupTABLE[x][1][width=\senderkeywidth, align=left, style= {\keystyle\strut}] \setupTABLE[x][2][width=\sendervalwidth, align=right, style= {\valstyle\strut}] \bTR\bTD\doiftextelse{\lettersenderkeyone} {\lettersenderkeyone:}{}\eTD\bTD\lettersendervalone\eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD\doiftextelse{\lettersenderkeytwo} {\lettersenderkeytwo:}{}\eTD\bTD\lettersendervaltwo\eTD\eTR % etc. \bTR\bTD\doiftextelse{\lettersenderkeynine} {\lettersenderkeynine:}{}\eTD\bTD\lettersendervalnine \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stopsetups Is there a more programmatical way for such? (Does TeX know something like arrays or dicts?) Sorry, I still can't program in TeX... Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Bib Module: bibl-ssa
by David Wooten 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Greetings all, Taco, I've just run across a small bug in the bibl-ssa style for the bib- module. The (wonderful) mechanism for deleting subsequent identical names goes a little too far if the first item in the bibliography is an edited book---that is, editor(s) only, and no author(s). "A little too far" meaning the first item is printed without the editor's name. Current set-up: \usemodule[bib] \setuppublications[alternative=ssa,refcommand=authoryears] \setuppublications[sorttype=bbl,criterium=all] \setupbibtex[sort=author] \sortbycitefalse Kind regards, David Wooten

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