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Columns (text alignment)
by Fabio Mancinelli 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

Hi everybody. I am experimenting with ConTeXt and columns. I am creating a simple style and I setup 3 columns and redefined some heading (section, subsection, subsubsections). Now the problem is that the text at the end of the columns is not aligned (i.e., the columns end at different heights). I thought that this was due to the \blank commands that I specified as before and after parameters in the heading definitions, but even by using the flexible modifier doesn't change that behavior. I don't know where the problem is. The tex file is attached. Thank you, Fabio P.S.: By using the attached file, I cannot specify the position parameter for \placefigure. If I write \placefigure{Name}{\externalfigure[...} it works. \placefigure[btlr]{name}{\externalfigure[...} does not. Weird. P.P.S.: I was reading the columns.pdf "tutorial". I saw that a \definecolumnsethsize command is used but I haven't found any documentation about that command anywhere. I use width=2\textwidth which seems to produce the same effects (2 columns span).

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image command in Metapost
by David Arnold 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

All, In: def hlingrid (expr Min, Max, Step, Length, Width) text t = image ( for i=Min step Step until Max+grid_eps : draw (origin--(Width,0)) shifted (0,i*(Length/Max)) t ; endfor ; ) ; enddef ; What does the image command do? Where is it documented?

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spanish symbols for interrogation and exclamation
by Ciro Soto 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Hi team: How do I write the spanish interrogation symbol that is up-side down? also How do I write the spanish exclamation symbol that is also up-side down? thank you ciro

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Table of content
by Willi Egger 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

Dear ConTeXters, At the moment I am bit at a loss. I should prepare a document, wherein there will be a difference between one chapter title and the respective row in the table of contents. What it should become looks as follows: \chapter{This is the title of the chapter} In the table of contents it should show up as: Epilog: This is the title of the chapter So the question is, how to get the word Epilog into the table of contents in front of the chapter title, neatly aligned with the rest of the table of contents. Cheers Willi

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Metapost -- What am I doing wrong
by David Arnold 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

All, Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here? %Ouput=pdf \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[gridlines][s=0.7] \startMPinclusions color gridlines; gridlines=\MPcolor{gridlines} \stopMPinclusions \startMPgraphic{create function path f 5-by-5} %define clipping path path cpath; cpath:=(-5,-5)--(5,-5)--(5,5)--(-5,5)--cycle; %create function path path p; p:=(-5,f(-5)); for x=-5 step .1 until 5: p:=p--(x,f(x)); endfor; p:=p--(5,f(5)); %clip function path to clipping path p:=p cutbefore cpath; p:=reverse p; p:=p cutbefore cpath; \stopMPgraphic \startMPgraphic{scale and draw f 5-by-5} %scale function path p:=p scaled u; %draw function path drawdblarrow p withcolor blue; \stopMPgraphic \startMPgraphic{draw axis 5-by-5} %draw the grid for k=-5u step 1u until 5u: draw (k,-5u)--(k,5u) withcolor gridlines; draw (-5u,k)--(5u,k) withcolor gridlines; endfor; %draw axes drawdblarrow (-5.2u,0)--(5.2u,0); drawdblarrow (0,-5.2u)--(0,5.2u); %label axes label.rt(btex $x$ etex, (5.2u,0)); label.top(btex $y$ etex, (0,5.2u)); label.bot(btex $5$ etex, (5u,0)); label.lft(btex $5$ etex, (0,5u)); \stopMPgraphic \starttext \startMPpage %define function vardef f(expr x)= x*x enddef; \useMPgraphic{create function path f 5-by-5} %initialize scale numeric u; 10u=2in; \useMPgraphic{draw axis 5-by-5} \useMPgraphic{scale and draw f 5-by-5} %draw plotted points for x=-2 step 1 until 2: drawdot ((x,f(x)) scaled u) withpen pencircle scaled 4pt withcolor blue; endfor; \stopMPpage \stoptext %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: conTeXt-en %%% End:

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Character names (was: Context 2005.12.19 released)
by Mojca Miklavec 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

Hans Hagen wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > > >>New features since 2005.12.18: > >> > >>* Support for the latin-9 regime (latin-1 + euro) > >> > > > >There are some more (automatically generated) regime definitions at > >http://pub.mojca.org/tex/enco/contextbase/ > >(only from the glyph names that I was able to extract from the > >existing files, so it's only OK for some of the regimes mentioned > >there). > > > >If possible, I would like to ask for core support for windows-1250 > >(perhaps other users may find some other regimes useful as well). > > > > > just send me the files you feel confident with (I'll send the good files soon.) Except Celtic, Thai, Arabic and Hebrew (although the letter names for Hebrew are almost completely defined) almost all the windows and ISO regimes are OK, just some glyphs are missing (which are, or at least were, missing in Unicode vectors as well). If anyone has suggestions for names for the following characters, 6 additional regimes can be fully supported: windows-1251 and iso-8859-5 2116 NUMERO SIGN windows-1253 0385 GREEK DIALYTIKA TONOS 2015 HORIZONTAL BAR 0384 GREEK TONOS windows-1258 0300 COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT 0309 COMBINING HOOK ABOVE 0303 COMBINING TILDE 0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT 0323 COMBINING DOT BELOW 20AB DONG SIGN iso-8859-7 20AF DRACHMA SIGN 037A GREEK YPOGEGRAMMENI 2015 HORIZONTAL BAR 0384 GREEK TONOS 0385 GREEK DIALYTIKA TONOS iso-8859-10 2015 HORIZONTAL BAR Mojca

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typing blocks & undesired blank
by VnPenguin 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

Hi all, I have a document with many block \starttyping ... \stoptyping. I see some time undesired blank after headers (chaper, section,... see the shot http://people.vnoss.org/~vnpenguin/pub/context/test/test.png) How I can avoid this bad layout ? Source test file : http://people.vnoss.org/~vnpenguin/pub/context/test/test.tex PDF: http://people.vnoss.org/~vnpenguin/pub/context/test/test.pdf Thank you in advance, -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community

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colors in metafont
by Hans van der Meer 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

Normally metapost/metafun starts out drawing in black. Is it possible to change this globally, so that "withcolor xyz" is not needed everytime another color is wanted? Also is it possible to "get/save/restore" the current drawing color (a la savepen) in metapost/metafun? I searched through various manuals but I might have missed the reference. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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developing large numbers of MP files for inclusion in source
by David Arnold 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

Hans, Taco, et al, Our intermediate algebra text will require a large number of figures. I have two thoughts. 1. It's really inefficient to compile the entire context source file just to see what will happen to one figure. So, it seems that we should probably have a library of graphs for later inclusion in the main document. One would want to be able to compile all at once or individually if one were just working on one file. 2. The code for many individual figures is quite long and tends to obscure the flow of thought when included in the source. Again, if they were coming from an external document, that would be better. I am not looking to include the files one at a time after development. I know how to do that. Rather, I am looking for a way to gather all the source for figures in a file, compile all of the file, or just one figure from the file, then somehow call that source code into the main .tex doc during compile time. I am open to any suggestions on how to most efficiently develop and include figures (in Metapost, of course) in our main document. Thanks.

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Re: [NTG-context] developing large numbers of MP files for inclusion in source
by David Arnold 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Mojca, You pretty much describe the way I've always worked in the past. I am currently working on a technique where all my graphics for section1 of chapter 3 are inside a file named sectionfigs.tex. I am using MPpage and friends to make these. The file currently contains about 14 graphics and files .1 through .14 are produced when I run the file with texexec. Next, I have a file section1figs.xml that is working as per the directions in xfigures-s.pdf from Pragma. It produces a nice listing of all of the figures for section 1 and their new labels (names). I am now in my main document section1.tex including these figures as per directions in xfigures-s.pdf. I'd be happy to send what I've done when I've finished. Let me know. On Dec 24, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> Do you have one metapost file with many figures in it? Is it possible >> to just compile for the figurein that file that you want? Is there >> a command that will compile then show the result? > > (sorry for not writing to the list) > > If you have an .mp file, it compiles "faster than you can switch from > command line back to the editor". No really, if you work with .mp, you > don't need to wait for hours as you do have to wait if you have > metafun graphics inside text. > > You get figures filename.1, filename.2, ... out of it, so you only > need to have GhostView with "filename.5" (or your desired figure) open > and it also changes instantly. If you need to have a text inside it, > it's an exception since it won't work until you convert the graphic > into PDF (mptopdf), which takes slightly longer, but may still be > acceptable. > > I alway create mp files first and then (eventually) copy the content > into the document if needed since it much faster. > > If you need metafun macros inside .mp files, you can load them with > input mp-tool; > input mp-spec; > (I guess.) > > Metapost files can't give you the flexibility to combine extremely > fancy stuff (typesetting text on paths created by metafun or vice > versa), but I guess you don't need that. > > Ask on the list again if you can inctruct mptopdf to convert into PDF > one figure only. > > Mojca

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