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placefloat
by Hans van der Meer 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

(1) My intention was to place some material into the left margin on the page, but did not succeed. Using \startmarginblock ... \stopmarginblock resulted in placement in the margin to the right, could not get it to the left. The I experimented with the placeffloat mechanism and didn't succeed either. Tested with the following example: \starttext \definefloat[sidenote][sidenotes] This is the text before in the body of the document. \placesidenote[inleft]{abc}{margintext} This is the text after in the body of the document. \page on page two. \stoptext Summary of the results for the [position] parameter with the values given in the ConTeXt manual Table 12.1. (a) in most cases the caption just appears in the middle of the page, not below the float. (b) some values seem to work ok, these are here, top, bottom, page, opposite (appears 2 pages later), always, force. (c) some values do not work or even give a TeX error: -- left margintext appears on the right side of the page (same as leftaligned?) -- right idem on the left side -- inleft the margintext and the caption seem to disappear completely -- inright the caption is not seen, margintext appears on the right side -- inmargin gives error undefined \doinmarginnormal -- margin gives error too many }'s (2) Second question. Is there a mechanism whereby one can force the float to at least the next page when there is no room for it below the current point on the page? This is useful for example when a figure belongs to the text of which only a few lines are on the current page. The figure is then better placed on the next page then somewhere on the current one. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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\setupindenting & \chapter indention
by Tobias Burnus 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

Hello, I want to have: aaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbb bbbbbbbbb That is: The second paragraph being indented. I tried: --------------<cut>--------------- \setupindenting[next,yes,big] \starttext fajkhfkldjglfd FJHDLKSGJLKDS \stoptext --------------<knip>-------------- but both paragraphs as not indented. * * * In addition, I have the problem that -------------- \chapter{foo} bar -------------- is printed as | 1 foo |bar i.e. the "1 foo" starts too far at the right * * * The first problem I also see using http://live.contextgarden.net/, the other not. (My ConTeXt is newer though, 2006.01.16 18:35). Tobias

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palatino fonts
by Hans Hagen 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

Hi, In a previous post, sjoerd mentioned fonts from the "tower of babel project" (russia). http://newstar.rinet.ru/downl.php?lan=en#dict There you can also download fonts, like some palatino and a cjk font. To me it looks quite illegal: the palatino variant has indeed over 2500 glyphs but also contains copyright notices (heidelberg/linotype as well as microsoft). When fonts lack glyphs one normally may make companions, but that;s not the case here: same name, probably same glyphs as in the original. i wonder why they were not yet taken off line. Stealing fonts happens, but here they didn't even bother to disguise the original name and author. Ok, I may be wrong and it may be a donation to the project, but even then it should be mentioned in the copyryright. (Somehow I'm pretty sure that the designer of the Palatino (Hermann Zapf) is not aware or this rip-off.) LInotype now ships the Palatino Nova, but that does not mean that the old one is obsolete and free. Technically you can configure the context unicode handler to take chars from multiple fonts, so my advise is to use another font or a combination of fonts. Maybe it's worth investigating which free fonts contain the glyphs you need. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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last natural table column longer
by Vit Zyka 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

Hello Wizards, my multi page (and multicolumn) table exceeds the last page by 2 rows. Is there a way to make last column a bit longer? Here is a minimal example: ------------------------------------------ \startbuffer[table] \bTABLE[split=yes] \dorecurse{138}{\bTR\bTD cell #1\eTD\eTR} \eTABLE \stopbuffer \starttext \startcolumns \getbuffer[table] \stopcolumns \stoptext ------------------------------------------ Thanks Vit

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Referencing an align environment
by David Arnold 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

All, I tried: \placeformula[eq:twosolve] \startformula \startalign[m=3] 3-2x&>-1 &&\qor& 3-2x&<1\\ -2x&>-4 &&& -2x&<-2\\ x&<2 &&& x&>1 \stopalign \stopformula As we see in (\in[eq;twosolve]), ... But that didn't work. Suggestions?

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Align a compound inequality
by David Arnold 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

All, I have: \placeformula[-] \startformula \startalign[m=2] 3-2x&<-1 & 3-2x&>1\\ -2x&<-4 & -2x&>-2\\ x&>2 & x&<1 \stopalign \stopformula And it works. However, I want to sqeeze the word "or" between the inequalities on the first row so that it reads: 3 - 2x < -1 or 3 - 2x > 1 How can I do this? I am not sure what m and n are meant to do with this code. Hans said n=n_of_columns and m=n_of_pairs, but I am not sure what these mean as relates to my problem above. Ideas?

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Venn diagram
by David Arnold 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

All, I have: \startMPpage %figure library name: intersection %initialize scale numeric u; 10u=3in; %ellipses path A, B; A:=fullcircle xyscaled (4u,3u); B:=A shifted (2u,0); draw A withcolor red; label.ulft(btex $A$ etex, point 3 of A) withcolor red; draw B withcolor blue; label.urt(btex $B$ etex, point 1 of B) withcolor blue; %bounding box draw bbox currentpicture enlarged (0.5u,0.5u); \stopMPpage I need an easy way of shading these areas: 1. A intersect B 2. A union B 3. A intersect (complement of B) 4. (complement of A) intersect B Thanks

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[Fwd: after=\page in natural tables]
by Vit Zyka 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Hello, this example from core-ntb.tex ------------------------------------------------ \startbuffer[table3] \bTABLE[split=yes] \bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR \bTR[after=\page] \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR \bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stopbuffer \starttext \getbuffer[table3] \stoptext ----------------------------------------------- does not work. Here is a log from live-wiki: (./texweb-table3.tmp ! Use of \dododecrement doesn't match its definition. \doifnextcharelse ...token =#1\def \!!stringa {#2} \def \!!stringb {#3}\futur... \popTBL ...\intablefalse \fi \doglobal \decrement \TBLlevel \relax l.5 \eTABLE ? ! Emergency stop. Vit

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xml and buffers
by Junod Antoine 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Hello gurus, I'm a bit into trouble wih buffers and xml parsing. Here is my problem: I've got a .xhtml with the following lines: [...] <meta name="course_name" content="Génie Logiciel" /> <meta name="date" content="23 décembre 2005" /> [...] <title>Auction: document d'analyse</title> [...] I'm trying to store the content of the meta tag in a buffer, one per meta tag, (ie "Génie Logiciel" in buffer course_name, "23 décembre 2005" in buffer date) to use these buffers when I meet the title tag: \XMLifequalelse{meta}{name}{course_name} {\startbuffer[course_name]\XMLpar{meta}{content}{}\stopbuffer}{} \XMLifequalelse{meta}{name}{date} {\startbuffer[date]\XMLpar{meta}{content}{}\stopbuffer}{} \defineXMLenvironment [title] {\startstandardmakeup \getbuffer[course_name] \getbuffer[date]}{\stopstandardmakeup} But it does not print anything else than the title. Any idea? Thanks a lot for you help! -AJ

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Units -- a few things
by Ville Voipio 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

There seems to be a small glitch in m-units.tex. The unit \Bit typesets "Bit". This is wrong, as bits are always in lowercase first letter: a single bit: bit a byte: B It is also possible to use b (for bit) and Byte (for B). However, bits are always small and Bytes large. The best practice seems to be to spell bits out (bit) and use abbreviation for Bytes (B). This minimizes confusion. I fixed this problem in my ConTeXt installation by tweaking rows 664 and 666. For more discussion, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte It might be worth it to implement the octet (o), as well. It is a good unit (more precise and descriptive than byte) but the abbreviation is horrible. --- Another related thing is whether ConTeXt should implement IEC 60027-2 binary prefices (Ki, Mi, Gi, Ti). More info on this: http://www.iec.ch/zone/si/si_bytes.htm --- Well, then to a more practical thing... This is a very trivial question, but still. When writing a number and the unit, it would be nice to have automatic formatting. What I mean is that when I have a million two hundred thousand kilograms, I would like it to be typeset: 1(small space)200(small space)000(small space)kg Everything on a single row despite where it is. Now I write: 1\,200\,000\,\Kilo\Gram It would be more legible, if I could just write: \unit{1200000}{\Kilo\Gram} Taking care of all the fancy small spaces should be computer's problem. not mine... (Or does this mechanism already exist?) - Ville

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