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installing context
by Stuart Jansen 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Okay, I give up. What's the most correct, easiest way to install ConTeXt on Linux? There's so many different instructions floating around I'm not sure what is authoritative. Some make it look like texsync is a good idea, now it looks like it isn't being updated. Grabbing linuxtex.zip seems easy, but it also looks like it isn't kept up-to-date. I've been trying to follow minstall.pdf to install cont-tmf.zip, but that isn't working either. Before I debug it anymore, I'd like to know: how should I be making sure I have the latest version on Linux? -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C.

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Basic question on Unicode and ConTeXt
by Steffen Wolfrum 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Hi, now and then I saw threads on this list dealing with specific problems of using various languages with utf-8 input in ConTeXt (processing with pdftex, NOT xetex). I know there is \enableregime[utf] but what else I needed that the output equals my utf-8 input? Could some maybe give a short and usable How-To on common examples: Greek Russian an East European language and an Asian language? (If the platform makes a difference, I'd be interested in OSX.) Thank you, Steffen

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New ConTeXt and chinese module
by Lutz Haseloff 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Hi Hans, hi all, the latest ConTeXt Version (21.07.05) doesn't automatically process font-chi.tex after "\usemodule[chinese]" i have to add "\input font-chi" to every ConTeXt file. Is this a bug or a feature? Greetings Lutz

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Strange behaviour of \bTABLE ... \eTABLE
by Mojca Miklavec 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

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] \placecontent problems
by Idris Samawi Hamid 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Hi Hans, >===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >by default the list >commands give a local list, so in your appendix you need: > >\placesynopsis[criterium=text] % or all \startbuffer[synopsis] \appendix{Synopsis of Principles} \placesynopsis[criterium=text] \stopbuffer \startappendices \getbuffer[synopsis] \stopappendices As always a lifesaver: THNX!!! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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scite
by Hans Hagen 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Hi, I made a spell checking extension (tex/xml aware), wrapper and some more stuff for scite. Should work with any recent scite version. Of course the challenge is to get it working for all kind of encodings. Is there any interest for this kind of things? 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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Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead command
by Elena Fraboschi 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Wonderful, nikolai, many thanks. I'll test tonight what you says happens automatically (gobbling up whitespace at the top of a new page). I'll use a grid to make sure that that's the case: to the naked eye, it seemed as though there was an awful amount of whitespace at the top of the page, but we'll see: I could be wrong. However, you have solved at least two of my three problems. Thanks a lot, elena

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indentaion
by Hans Hagen 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Hi, In the process of fixing odd/even indentation (handy for verse) i also cleanup the code a bit. I'm wondering if we can make \setupindenting and \indenting equivalent. Is anyone using \indenting[no] to suppress the next indentation? 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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\placecontent problems
by Idris Samawi Hamid 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

[Dear syndicate: I sent this Saturday with no response yet. Sorry 4 being a pest, but I've got to get this (much-delayed) book to the publisher this week; hope someone can help...:-)] Dear gang: I have a \placecontent-type problem. I want to collect all the subsections and subsubsections of the main bodymatter of a book into a list, then place that list into an appendix (conversion=Characters): \definecombinedlist[synopsis][subsection,subsubsection][textstyle=\tf] \setupcombinedlist [synopsis][alternative=c,textstyle=\tf] There are two problems: 1. If I place the content list within a chapter, the list disappears. It works if I place it before the chapter heading. Thus, I need a way to do \placesynopsis beneath a chapter heading; 2. \start-\stopappendices begins a new sectionblock, therefore \placesynopsis does nothing, even if I do not place it within a chapter/appendix. Thus (assuming we can solve problem 1) I need a way to change the conversion to Characters on the fly within the bodymatter sectionblock. I need, e.g. 1. A Chapter 2. Another Chapter A. An Appendix within the same sectionblock. Is this possible? I notice that conversion=Characters appears to be defined for the global sectionblock, but not for local headings. It would be nice if I could do something like \definehead[appendix][chapter] \setuphead[appendix][conversion=Characters] with the first instance of \appendix starting with `A' (i.e., decoupled from the chapter numbers). See the attached file for some experiments. Best Idris ======================================================== \setupoutput[pdftex]% \definecombinedlist[summary][chapter][textstyle=\tf] \setupcombinedlist [summary][alternative=c,textstyle=\tf] \definecombinedlist[synopsis][subsection,subsubsection][textstyle=\tf] \setupcombinedlist [synopsis][alternative=c,textstyle=\tf] \starttext \startbodymatter \placesummary \page \placesynopsis \chapter{This is a test.} \subsection{This is a subtest.} \subsubsection{This is a subsubtest.} \chapter{This is another test.} \subsection{This is another subtest.} \subsubsection{This is another subsubtest.} \chapter{Synopsis} \placesynopsis \stopbodymatter \startappendices \placesynopsis \chapter{Synopsis} \placesynopsis \stopappendices \stoptext ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead command
by Elena Fraboschi 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Hi nikolai, Many thanks for the hint in re right and left. (The next one to ask about this, I'll relieve you from the burden of having to answer and will answer it myself! :-)) So I now have only two questions left unsolved, which are (1) any ConTeXt command to gobble-up unwanted vertical space before a section header, when the section header appears right at the top of a new page? (2) any ConTeXt way to do a \setuphead such that the text following the header will be run-in text? Many thanks. Best, elena P.S. ok ok, I'll try to adopt your way of writing square bracketted expressions...

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