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Automatic next indent
by Giuseppe Bilotta 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Hello all, and Hans in particular: Some time ago http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ref.ntg.nl/msg01744.html I had proposed a patch that added the "auto" value to some commmon indentnext options. I would *really* this to be taken into consideration. Rationale: things like formulas, itemgroups and the like (basically, everything that allows indentnext) are "displays". "Displays" are parts of the document that are embedded in a paragraph but are "put in display" by appropriate indenting & other tricks. Now, there are cases in which the paragraph continues after the display, and cases when it doesn't. So for example """ Some text in a paragraph, plus other text, still in the same paragraph and a displayed thing and a continuation of the same paragraph with some more text and other text """ would be different from """ Some text in a paragraph, plus other text, still in the same paragraph and a displayed thing In a separate pragraph, we have some other text """ Note that the two cases should be handled separately: in the first case, I *don't* want any indentation nor any blank line; in the second case, I might want either or both. indentnext=auto would NOT put an indent in cases like this: """ some paragraph \startdisplayedmaterial displayed stuff (formula or itemgroup or anything else) \stopdisplayedmaterial still same paragraph """ but WOULD put an indent here """ some paragraph \startdisplayedmaterial displayed stuff (formula or itemgroup or anything else) \stopdisplayedmaterial Different paragraph """ Hans, can you please consider it for inclusion? The patch is somewhat out of date, given the age, but the principle should be obvious. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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bib module: multiple bibs and alphabetical order
by Idris Samawi Hamid 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

1. Does t-bib now support multiple bibliographies? For past issues of the journal, I had to define a new bib-env file for each article that required a bibliography, otherwise the bibliography of, say, article two would include the bibliography for article one. Is there a general solution for this? 2. Can t-bib extract the references and place them in alphabetical order, or do I have to still organize my bbl files alphabetically by hand (I really hope not->)? Automatic alphabetizing bbl file data in the output has been one of my major wishes for t-bib. If the above two are solved I can use a single master bbl file for the entire journal instead of multiple files, thus streamlinig much of my workflow. Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Bib-module: crossreferences
by Roelof Langman 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Hi Taco, Are crossreferences supposed to work in the new bib module? According to the Latex companion pp. 404ff. a crossreference can be made in an @inbook to a @book provided the @inbook precedes the @book in a .bib-file. If a @book is referenced at least two times by an @inbook, an entry for the @book is included in the reference list. In the new bibtex-module for Context, the crossreferences are resolved properly, I think, but the crossreferenced entry is not yet included in the reference list. I \cite[gould:1979] and \cite[rioch:1979], but lawrence:1979 doesn't appear in the reference list. Cheers, Roelof @inbook{gould:1979, author = "Gould, Laurence J.", crossref = "lawrence:1979", title = "Men and Women at Work: A Group Relations Conference on Person and Role", note = "See also \cite[rioch:1979].", pages = "111--122" } @inbook{rioch:1979, author = "Rioch, Margaret J.", crossref = "lawrence:1979", title = "The A.K. Rice Group Relations Conferences as a Reflection of Society", pages = "53--68" } @book{lawrence:1979, editor = "Lawrence, W. Gordon", title = "Exploring Individual and Organizational Boundaries.", publisher = "John Wiley \& Sons Ltd", year = 1979 }

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bib module: support \noopsort
by Giuseppe Bilotta 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

Hello Taco, would it be possible for your module to support the \noopsort command you can find in some .bib files? Basically, a key like key = {\noopsort{value1}}value2 will print as value2 but be sorted under value1 (details in the bibtex references? For the time being I'm just putting a \let\noopsort\relax in my document. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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getvariable
by Thomas A. Schmitz 07 Oct '05

07 Oct '05

I thought I had understood at least some aspects of macros, but it turns out I'm as lost as always. Here's my problem: I'm writing a module which will have a \setupcommand. The value is given in a [key=pair] list, so I thought I could use \getvariable. What I have is \def\setupcommand{\setvariables[namespace]} % setting up the namespace \setvariables[namespace][key=value,otherkey=value] % initializing the keys % And now I want to wrap my values up in a conditional statement: \doifelse{\getvariable{namespace}{key}}{value} {do something} {do something else} When I put the \doifelse statement into my source files, the test works; the key is assigned the value that is in the setupcommand. But this doesn't work at runtime: either \getvariable{namespace}{key} always has the value I assign in the line \setvariables[namespace] [key=value,otherkey=value], or if I comment out that line, the variable is empty. I can see why this is the case: the setupcommand is read AFTER the module, so at runtime, the variable is not assigned yet. So my approach seems fundamentally flawed. What could I do instead? Thanks for your help Thomas

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Q: footline and more the oneline with pic
by Alexander Lazic 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

Hi, i have now find a solution but i don't know how 'good' it is, please can anybody knowing tell me his/her opinion, thanks. My target is in the footer should be the barlines and under that lines there must be a square with the Text 'Seite ' $PAGE. Btw: How can i change the distance between the item-symbol and the item-text, i think with one option from \setupitemize but which one ;-)?! What do you mean, is there a easier solution for that in context?! Greetings al ;-) --- \setuppapersize [A4][A4] \setupcolors[state=start] \definesymbol[12][\useMPgraphic{exhoch}] \def\mypagenumber#1% {\setupTABLE[frame=on] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD \useMPgraphic{bars} \eTD \eTR% \bTR \bTD \viii \startitemize[12,packed] \item Seite #1 \stopitemize \par \eTD \eTR% \eTABLE } \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,right},command=\mypagenumber] \startusableMPgraphic{bar} vardef Bar(expr width,gap,linewidth,barwidth) = image( interim linecap := butt; for i=1 upto 5 : draw((0,0)--(width,0)) shifted (0,(i-1)*gap) withpen pencircle scaled linewidth; endfor;) enddef; \stopusableMPgraphic %% .25white => Dunkelgrau 75% %% .75white => Standardgrau 25% \startreusableMPgraphic{bars} \includeMPgraphic{bar} draw Bar(TextWidth,2mm,1mm,1mm) withcolor .75white; \stopreusableMPgraphic % picture p ; p : \startreusableMPgraphic{filledsquare} vardef redsquare = image ( interim linecap := butt; filldraw unitsquare xyscaled (300,300) withpen pencircle scaled 0 withcolor red ; ) enddef; %draw p xysized (2mm,2mm) shifted (bbwidth(currentpicture)+.5cm,0) ; \stopreusableMPgraphic \startreusableMPgraphic{exhoch} \includeMPgraphic{filledsquare} draw redsquare xysized (ExHeight,ExHeight) shifted (bbwidth(currentpicture)+.1mm,0) ; \stopreusableMPgraphic \starttext \showsetups \showlayout \stoptext ---

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Texfont map file.
by John R. Culleton 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

I always believed that when referring to a file in a \font statement one should use the first name found in the appropriate line in the map file. This is supposedly the name of the tfm file for that particular font. However texfont produces a map file like this: 8r-raw-AGaramond-Italic AGaramond-Italic 4 < AGaramond-Italic.pfb 8r.enc 8r-raw-AGaramond-Regular AGaramond-Regular 4 < AGaramond-Regular.pfb 8r.enc 8r-raw-AGaramond-RegularSC AGaramond-RegularSC 4 < AGaramond-RegularSC.pfb 8r.enc ...and texfont actually produces two tfm files per font. The correct name to use in a \font statement is the second name in the generated map file statement, not the first. Since not all map file statements have the second parameter this can be confusing. Since texfont attempts to provide for both pdftex and Context users this little gotcha should be referenced in the texfont manual. I discovered it by accident. -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf

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Re: [NTG-context] PDF v1.6 inclusion
by Duncan Hothersall 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

> just ignore the message; a new version of pdftex will support the > latest pdf, and in most cases new features are just more entri4e sin > dictionaries; i can imagine that it affects pdftops but not pdf > inclusion because that's mostly copying and object reference > tracking. > > Do you get faulty files? I thought that it was causing texexec to only do one run and/or MP not to run; but that must have been a glitch, because having not changed anything it is completing its runs now. So, sorry for the noise, and thanks Hans for the explanation. Duncan

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PDF v1.6 inclusion
by Duncan Hothersall 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

Hi. I'm trying to include some PDF files generated by Acrobat 7, which means they are PDF v1.6. ConTeXt (recent distribution, on linux) complains that "PDF version 1.6: Xpdf only supports 1.5". I thought that maybe I could switch to using Ghostscript instead of Xpdf-tools to process the files, in the hope that ghostscript would support 1.6, but I'm stymied trying to pass the correct parameter via texexec. Am I on the right track, and if so, what should I type? Many thanks, Duncan

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Re: [NTG-context] Elided page numbers in registers
by Duncan Hothersall 06 Oct '05

06 Oct '05

On 31 Aug I wrote: > I have page ranges in my index, such as 1/1-1/3, or 2/24-2/26. > > I would like these ranges to be elided - in other words, the first one > would read 1/1-3 (remove repeated chapter number), and the second would > read 2/24-6 (remove repeated chapter number and also the repeated 2 in > page number). > > Question: is there an already existing system to do this? I guess no :-) > > Followup: I would be willing to help to code this if it doesn't exist (I > have some experience with such systems) if someone can point me at the > right bit of code to look at (things seem to be changing around > texutils, newtexexec etc. so I don't want to start at the wrong place). Sorry to be a pain, but can anyone help with this? I'm converting a legacy system, in which everything (cross referencing, tables of contents, indices) was hand-coded in plain tex and Perl, across to ConTeXt. The advantage of having hand-coded the indexing stuff was that I could easily add features like eliding, or funny sort orders. I now need to reproduce the same output. I suspect I could apply the same techniques to the ConTeXt code, but I don't want to embark on a fool's errand if (a) it's already done somewhere, or (b) the code I hack is about to be replaced. Thanks, Duncan

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