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Re: [NTG-context] Feature request
by Steffen Wolfrum 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > it would be great if the \placefigure macro could be extended to > > combinations like > > > > \placefigure{top,left} > > > > or > > > > \placefigure{bottom,outer} > > > > > > The reason for this request is that we use ConTeXt a lot for > > typesetting books from "arts and humanities". > > > > There we often have to place a lot of (more then 100) figures at > > "fixed" positions like top-outer and bottom-inner, wrapped by text. > > > > I guess it's not a trivial feature to be implemented in TeX's > > paragraph processing, but I know it might be worth the effort: > > ConTeXt's way to deal with fonts and text is so superior that it > > should be also accessible for disciplines that besides text also rely > > on images - as the arts and humanities do. > > not trivial indeed, although it is more or less doable when you >accept some limitations, e.g. if you have only text and graphics, >use a grid, and have no other tricky stuff that can interfere >(display math or so) > > > ok, agreed! > > > > But figure labels are needed (do they interfere?) > > > figure labels are part of the float > > Hans so, if it's more or less doable ... there is at least hope that we can expect this feature in the next time, right? Steffen

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Figure / table caption format
by Stefano 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hi, I've been looking into the various ConTeXt resources to figure out how to place a colon between the figure number and the caption text within the document, as follows: Figure 1: This is a figure caption Unfortunately I have not yet found it and am wondering if anyone can provide a clue as to how this is accomplished. Also, how can I left justify the caption text within the document as follows: Figure 1: This is a figure caption that is too long to fit on a single line of text Any help is appreciated ... Sincerely, Stefano

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Ligature handling for PDF searching.
by Brooks Moses 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

(This came up on comp.text.tex in a question about LaTeX, but it also applies to ConTeXt, and the proposed solution for LaTeX doesn't apply.) Consider the following document: \starttext Some ligature tests: ff, fi, ffi, fl, ffl. \stoptext If I process that with texexex -pdf, load it into Acrobat 5, and then copy-and-paste the text from the PDF into a text editor, the fi and fl ligatures are correctly treated as two letters, but the ff, ffi, and ffl ligatures are treated as single (unknown) characters. Similarly, searching for "f" within the document only finds the fi and fl ligatures; it doesn't find the others. Searching for "ff" finds nothing. This is a fairly significant problem in the on-screen usability of ConTeXt-created documents. In LaTeX, there is apparently a solution in the cmap.sty package (though it currently only works for T1 encoding): http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cmap/ Is there a similar solution for ConTeXt? (Has this perhaps been solved with a later version of ConTeXt than I have on my computer?) Thanks, - Brooks

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Antwort: Re: [NTG-context] Update to the newest ConTeXt version
by Jessica Holle 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

I think I'm a little bit stupid this week I've done everythink like on this site : http://contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation I've only a softlink to texhash in /usr/sbin looks like: texhash -> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/texhash and a softlink to texmfstart texmfstart -> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb and a softliink to mktexlsr -> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/mktexlsr because when I'm doing fmtutil-sys --edit like in the doku explained, this was expected. The scripts in the folders /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/scripts/context/perl are executable Because of this output I've thought mktextfm must have an sl to /usr/sbin Now I've canceled all softlinks in /usr/sbin except the sl's I've said up in my mail and the kpse* rzvlabwks:/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf # texmfstart texexec.pl --version TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr12 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr7 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr9 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx7 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx9 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx12 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro9 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro12 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri9 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri12 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: No such file or directory tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2005.07.21 cont-en : ver: 2005.07.21 fmt: 2005.7.27 mes: english kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr12 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr7 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr9 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx7 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx9 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx12 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro9 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro12 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri9 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri12 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: No such file or directory cont-nl : ver: 2005.07.21 fmt: 2005.7.27 mes: dutch total run time : 2 seconds

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Antwort: Re: [NTG-context] Update to the newest ConTeXt version
by Jessica Holle 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hi, I've done everything you told me and like its written in the howto. But look at the output. I think its a fontproblem so I tried to make this command: texmfstart texfont.pl type-tmf.dat --en=texnansi --fontroot=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf --install --makepath But this doesn't help, I get always an error. Has anybody an advise for me? Greetings Jessica rzvlabwks:/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf # texmfstart texexec.pl --version TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr12 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr12 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmr12.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr12' failed to make ec-lmr12.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr7 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr7 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmr7.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr7' failed to make ec-lmr7.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr9 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr9 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmr9.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr9' failed to make ec-lmr9.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx7 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx7 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbx7.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx7' failed to make ec-lmbx7.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx9 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx9 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbx9.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx9' failed to make ec-lmbx9.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx12 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx12 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbx12.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx12' failed to make ec-lmbx12.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmro10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro10' failed to make ec-lmro10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro9 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro9 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmro9.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro9' failed to make ec-lmro9.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro12 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro12 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmro12.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro12' failed to make ec-lmro12.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmri10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri10' failed to make ec-lmri10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri9 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri9 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmri9.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri9' failed to make ec-lmri9.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri12 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri12 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmri12.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri12' failed to make ec-lmri12.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxo10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10' failed to make ec-lmbxo10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxo10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10' failed to make ec-lmbxo10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxo10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10' failed to make ec-lmbxo10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxi10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10' failed to make ec-lmbxi10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxi10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10' failed to make ec-lmbxi10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxi10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10' failed to make ec-lmbxi10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmcsc10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10' failed to make ec-lmcsc10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmcsc10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10' failed to make ec-lmcsc10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmcsc10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10' failed to make ec-lmcsc10.tfm. tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2005.07.21 cont-en : ver: 2005.07.21 fmt: 2005.7.27 mes: english kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr12 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr12 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmr12.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr12' failed to make ec-lmr12.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr7 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr7 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmr7.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr7' failed to make ec-lmr7.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr9 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr9 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmr9.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr9' failed to make ec-lmr9.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx7 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx7 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbx7.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx7' failed to make ec-lmbx7.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx9 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx9 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbx9.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx9' failed to make ec-lmbx9.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx12 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx12 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbx12.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx12' failed to make ec-lmbx12.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmro10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro10' failed to make ec-lmro10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro9 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro9 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmro9.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro9' failed to make ec-lmro9.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro12 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro12 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmro12.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro12' failed to make ec-lmro12.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmri10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri10' failed to make ec-lmri10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri9 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri9 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmri9.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri9' failed to make ec-lmri9.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri12 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri12 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmri12.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri12' failed to make ec-lmri12.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxo10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; 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mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10' failed to make ec-lmcsc10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmcsc10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10' failed to make ec-lmcsc10.tfm. cont-de : ver: 2005.07.21 fmt: 2005.7.27 mes: german total run time : 64 seconds

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Position margin text block near previous paragraph
by Eugene Toporov 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hello! This time I have a task like this: I have margin text blocks (like Note, Tip) that follow some paragraph in my document flow. In the produced document I get them in margin, but vertically they are just below the paragraph (as in text flow) I really need then to start exactly where the previous paragraph starts (vertically). I.e. I need to move them several (unknown number) lines higher. My realization: \setupinmargin[style=\sl\tx\setupinterlinespace,location=left,align=right] \def\Note#1{ \strut \inmargin{ \em{#1} } \strut} \starttext This is the para with unknown length that can be any number of lines high. And I have a note below it that should be located to the left of this paragraph and not just below it. That's the case. \par \Note{ And here is the note that should be in margin.} \stoptext The easiest would to put it above the target paragraph, but that's not the solution for me as the same text is rendered to HTML where no margins exist. Can I do it plainly in tex code? Thanks a lot. I appreciate your help -- Regards. Eugene Toporov

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"Very dirty" localisation request for a rainy evening
by Mojca Miklavec 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hello Hans, Today I saw a webpage of someone, who is very active in the field of translation and localisation of free software into Slovenian. It astonished me the way he numered the items on his webpage: (a) approximation ... (b) Gauss ... (c) numerical solutions ... (č) solving parabolic ... % [\ccaron] (d) ... This should actually be the only proper way to number items in Slovenian, but you can imagine that nobody is able to use that since the beginning of computer era. (Another example is the usage of quotation marks: most people use the American quotation marks instead of the German ones just because MS Word defaults to that.) However, those people who really care, use the Slovenian alphabet when enumerating (manually, of course). I'm proud, for example, that I was in the class "1.Č" in the high school. Not right away, but any time in the future when unicode, fonts and similar will be updated/reimplemented/fully supported and when it will be raining cats and dogs and nothing interesting will be on TV: can you think on this this tiny request to switch to local enumeration if \mainlanguage[sl] (or any other language with a similar request) is selected? In a similar way as the sorting rules are applied in this kind of documents. (I'll take the response for "backward compatibility" issues (documents that now use enumeration a, b, c, d would use another enumeration afterwards) - if anyone would complain, he would have to talk to me first!!!) I don't know if there is any special agreement in case there are more than 26 items in the list, but sometimes a, b, ... x, y, z, aa, ab, ac, ... zz, aaa, aab, aac, ... is used. I never needed that many items until now, but the issue could theoretically be interesting for the others. Trying to use more than 26 items results in an arror at the moment. Thanks, Mojca

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Re: [NTG-context] Strange behaviour of \bTABLE ... \eTABLE
by Elena Fraboschi 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Dear Mojca: I think I see what the problem is. If, instead of typing >\bTR\bTD > a midaligned parbox: >\eTD\bTD[offset=0pt,width=1em] % 1em wide paragraph > 1 2 3 >\eTD\eTR you type 1\ 2\ 3\ you get what is wanted, namely, 1 2 3 My guess is that there is a built-in bias not to split a line but, rather, give you an overfull \hbox. I "forced" the issue by defining each column to be less than 1em (because "1" is a very narrow char that surely takes less than 1 em), and by adding a typescript space after each number. It might even be possible to eliminate the typescript space and simply define each column to be 0.25em, say, but I did not try it. Best, elena P.S. Let me know if I missed the boat entirely. This is the first issue I attempt to answer. Here is what I ran in LiveContext: \starttext \setupTABLE[frame=on] % only for debugging reasons \setupTABLE[c][each][align=lohi] % to center vertically (any better way?) \bTABLE \bTR\bTD[offset=0pt,width=0.5em] % 1em wide paragraph 1\ 2\ 3\ \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext >Hello, > >On the wiki (http://contextgarden.net/Vertically_centred) a while ago >someone asked how to do the following in ConTeXt: > >%%%%%% > >\documentclass{article} >\begin{document} >a box with a table: >\fbox{\begin{tabular}[c]{l}1\\2\\3\end{tabular}}\par > >a midaligned parbox: \parbox[c]{1em}{1 2 3} >\end{document} > >%%%%%% > >I don't know if this would be the proper solution, but for the second >case (\parbox[c]{1em}{...} which should make a paragraph 1 em wide and >center the paragraph box vertically) I tried the following: > >%%%%%% > >\setupTABLE[frame=on] % only for debugging reasons >\setupTABLE[c][1,2][align=lohi] % to center vertically (any better way?) >\bTABLE >\bTR\bTD > a midaligned parbox: >\eTD\bTD[offset=0pt,width=1em] % 1em wide paragraph > 1 2 3 >\eTD\eTR >\eTABLE > >%%%%%% > >My ConTeXt version is 2005.06.27. >See the vcenter-context-old.png for the result. > >The strange thing is that the number 2 is still in the first line, >although it is too wide. > >Even more strange, I tried the same on live.contextgarden.net. See >vcenter-context-new.png for the result. > >vcenter-latex.tex is what the result should be. > >------------------------------------------------------------------- > >This also results in a mess on the live.contextgarden.net: > >\bTABLE >\bTR\bTD > {\bTABLE > \bTR\bTD whatever \eTD\eTR > \eTABLE} >\eTD\eTR >\eTABLE > >Mojca

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Re: [NTG-context] Position margin text block near previous paragraph
by Elena Fraboschi 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Just a quick comment, since I cannot try anything in LiveContext right at this time: What you want is the equivalent of LaTeX's \marginpar , which is really a \vtop whose beginning coincides with the beginning of the paragraph being \note[d]. I am thinking that this would be a good test case for Brooks Moses' LaTeX-to-ConTeXt set of macros. I will experiment with it tonight unless someone beats me to the punch :-) Best, elena

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PDF output versions?
by Brooks Moses 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

I just noticed that when I compile ConTeXt files with texexec -pdf, my copy of Acrobat 5 complains about "the PDF version of this file is too new for this viewer", but when I compile LaTeX files with pdflatex, I don't get that complaint. Is there some way to set ConTeXt and texexec to create PDF files of the earlier version? (I'll upgrade Acrobat eventually, but I have the full version and use the editing features a fair bit, and I gather that having the full version of Acrobat 5 and the free version of Acrobat 7 on the same machine causes lots of headaches.) - Brooks

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