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\startalignment etc. require text immediately after
by Ville Voipio 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

One phenomenon I have repeatedly come accross but not quite understood... If I have \startalignment, \startnarrower, etc., then there has to be text immediately after the start command. As small example: \startalignment[center] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD something \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stopalignment This should create a single-cell table in the middle of the page. It does not, the text is in the left. If I add something small (a strut), then everything works fine: \startalignment[center] \strut \bTABLE \bTR \bTD something \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stopalignment Any text has the same effect as the strut. If the text is added to the end, it does not have any effect, i.e. the start has no effect. After some quick experimenting it seems evident that there has to be text after the start command. A figure or a table won't do. Why? And does this occur with any start-stop pair (sounds odd) or just with a few? And what is the kosher way of solving this problem? This must be a FAQ, but I could not find the search terms to find an answer. TIA, - Ville

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math
by Hans Hagen 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Hi, Attached is a new version of math-ext - multiple columns - alignment per column See examples in source (mixed &|cr and NC|NR is no longer supported). That's all the math for this week. Hans

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Math Cases
by Aditya Mahajan 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Is it possible to number each part of the cases environment. I want \startformula a = \cases{ b, & \text{ if something} \cr c, & \text{ if something else} \cr} \stopformula to come out as { b if something (1) a = { { c if something else (2) Also, is it possible to have subnumbered equations, that is can I get (1a) and (1b) instead of (1) and (2). Thanks, Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008

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AutoDroppedCaps and indenting
by Joshua Ellis 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

This may be a silly question, but it appears the use of \AutoDroppedCaps (or \DroppedCaps) causes indenting settings to do away. For example: ======================== \AutoDroppedCaps \setupwhitespace[none] \setupinterlinespace[small] \setupindenting[medium] \indenting[yes] \starttext Para 1 blah blah blah para 1 blah blah blah para 1 blah blah blah para 1 blah blah blah para 1 blah blah blah para blah blah blah para 1 blah blah blah para 1 blah blah blah para 1 blah blah blah Para 2 blah blah blah para 2 blah blah blah para 2 blah blah blah para 2 blah blah blah para 2 blah blah blah para 2 blah blah blah para 2 blah blah blah para 2 blah blah blah para 2 blah blah blah para 2 blah blah blah Para 3 blah blah blah para 3 blah blah blah para 3 blah blah blah para 3 blah blah blah para 3 blah blah blah para 3 blah blah blah para 3 blah blah blah para 3 blah blah blah para 3 blah blah blah \stoptext ========================= Without \AutoDroppedCaps each paragraph is indented as expected. With \AutoDroppedCaps, none of the paragraphs are indented. If \AutoDroppedCaps is enabled, if I place \indenting[yes] immediately after the first word of the first paragraph (so it looks like "Para \indenting[yes] 1"), then the 3rd paragraph is indented, but the second one is still flush-left. Any ideas? Thanks, -joshua

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lijgatures in LM
by Mojca Miklavec 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Hello, (the Dutch team), Is it possible to prevent the "IJ" ligature in ec encoding in LM fonts in ConTeXt somehow (except with manual intervention in every word containing IJ)? I checked the behaviour in LaTeX with \usepackage[T1]{inputenc} with the default font (some kind of Type 1 CM, but not LM), but it seems that only LM changes I and J to a ligature (grrr ...). With the font in LaTeX it works OK. "pdftotext" only knows how to convert the LaTeX document properly. With the document prepared by ConTeXt, it fails to recognize the ligature properly (searching in Acrobat works however). Besides the fact that I and J separately (without a ligature) look much better, at least in Slovenian words. Thanks, Mojca If any expert for ligatures is reading this: is it fair that "ccaron" + "k" ("h") have negative kerning, while "c" + "b" has no kerning at all? I guess that "ck" was made because of the Germans, but at the same time I guess that they don't need "čk" at all and I have a feeling that the caron almost "bumps" into the serif. I compared with LaTeX, but that font uses a smaller caron. (Without EC encoding there's no negative kerning after ccaron present anyway.)

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setupheadertexts + kap/uppercase
by Tobias Burnus 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Hello, I think I have a expand problem. I want to have \setupheadertexts[pagenumber][{\getmarking[chapter][current]}][section][pagenumber] with the chapter in \uppercase/\kaps. The problem is that adding a \uppercase or \kap before the {\getmarking} ends up with nothing and all my attemps with expand* ended up with either the same result or with a TeX error message. Using \setupheader[style=kap] (or =cap) does not work - as TeX bails out: ! Undefined control sequence. \p!doifinstringelse ...ifinstringelse #2#1}@@\war Any idea how to solve this? Tobias PS: I just saw that I asked the same question two years ago (15 January 2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg02175.html

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Subtle problem with startformula
by David Arnold 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

All, If you're not aware of this one, consider: \placeformula[-] \startformula [-2,2)=\{x:\, -2\le x < 2\}. \stopformula Won't compile, but try: \placeformula[-] \startformula\relax [-2,2)=\{x:\, -2\le x < 2\}. \stopformula

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Problems installing Gentium TTF
by Kumar Appaiah 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Hello! I am tryingto install the Gentium True type fonts, following the instructions at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installing_a_TrueType_font%2C_step_by_step Everything went of well, and I was also able to get the pages of glyphs from the tests. However, when I try to get the test document provided at the end of that page to work, I get: bodyfont : unknown variant MyGentium from texexec. I have installed the fonts with --en=ec, so that is ruled out. What could the problem be? Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036

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setupthinrules
by Hans van der Meer 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

Doing thinrules one can place a number of them. However the interlinespace seems fixed to whatever has been chosen for "small, medium, big". I looked into the code but could not find a more flexible mechanism, as for example interlinedistance=dimension Trying to get the rules close to one another I tried \setupthinrules[height=2pt,depth=0pt,interlinespace=medium] \thinrule\godown[1pt]\thinrule But the natural height of the lines then interfers. Setting \godown [negative amount] will work, of course, but seems unnatural to me. At least I feel it condems me to trial and error between the rule dimensions and the amount of backspace. I therefore suggest making the interlinespace accessible as a distance settable by the user and being the separation between the bottom of the upper and the top of the lowerline in the case of \thinrules[n=2]. By the way, doesn't that give thinrules then the same option as in setuptextrules[distance=dimension]? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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getcommalistsize
by Hans van der Meer 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

I wanted to do something with the length of a commalist but found that it macro \getcommalistsize does not seem to respond. Here is a small test: \starttext \def\showcommalist#1{commalist=(#1)\crlf (size=\getcommalistsize[#1])\crlf \processcommalist[#1]\showcommalistitem\crlf (commalistsize=\commalistsize)\par} \def\showcommalistitem#1{item = #1 } \showcommalist{a,b,c,d,e} \showcommalist{1,2,3} direct call (size=\getcommalistsize[p,q]) \stoptext result: commalist=(a,b,c,d,e) (size=) item = a item = b item = c item = d item = e (commalistsize=5) commalist=(1,2,3) (size=) item = 1 item = 2 item = 3 (commalistsize=3) direct call (size=) As can be seen the macro \getcommalistsize does not give a value back, \processcommalist works. Am I doing something wrong here or understood it wrong? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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