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Not possible to redefine inbetween in \definedescription
by Radhelorn 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Hello All! I think that I've found a bug in descriptions. It seems that it is impossible to redefine inbetween option -- it always produces a \blank. Try this: \definedescription[desc][before=before,after=after,inbetween=inbetween,location=top] \desc{test} test I've fixed it this way: --- core-des.tex.orig 2005-06-14 06:56:00.000000000 +0400 +++ core-des.tex 2005-07-14 15:26:20.000000000 +0400 @@ -372,7 +372,8 @@ \c!indenting,\c!indentnext,\c!align,\c!text,\c!distance,\c!command]% \getparameters[\??dd#1] [\s!do\c!state=\v!stop,\s!do\c!command=\normal@@descriptionhandler,\c!level=,#2]% - \doifvalue{\??dd#1\c!location}\v!top{\doassign[\??dd#1][\c!inbetween=\blank]}% + \doifvalue{\??dd#1\c!location}\v!top{% + \doifnotvalue{\??dd#1\c!inbetween}{\doassign[\??dd#1][\c!inbetween=\blank]}}% \setvalue {#1}{\dodoubleempty\@@description[#1]}% \setvalue{\e!start#1}{\dodoubleempty\@@startdescription[#1]}% \setvalue{\e!stop #1}{\@@stopdescription{#1}}}% And when using commands with brackets in argumets like: \definedescription[desc][before=\blank[small]] ConTeXt will give many errors, so arguments needs to be grouped (before={\blank[small]}). Is this intentional? Thanks for your time. -- Radhelorn <radhelorn(a)mail.ru>

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context-doc inclusion in miktex
by piskala upendran 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

hi all, The miktex under windows XP does not include the context-doc.cab files. It is not listed in the package manager also. Is it TDS problem? can you help? cheers, upendran __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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footnote within \startlines \stoplines
by Charles Doherty 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Dear Hans, Example 1 below causes TeX to hang and I have to abort the TeX run whereas Example 2 works when I omit \startlines / \stoplines and use \crlf. I have included the console readout for Example 1 below. I can get by with Example 2 but I thought I should let you know. Thanks again, Charlie Doherty \starttext Example 1 And here is the sentence before \startnarrower[2*left,2*right] \startlines A Somonour was ther with us in that place, That hadde a fyr-reed cherubynnes face, For saucefleem he was, with eyen narwe. As hoot he was and lecherous as a sparwe, With scalled browes blake and piled berd. Of his visage children were aferd.% \footnote{Burgess, A., \slanted{The Riverside Chaucer}, p.\ 33 (623--628). From this point on, any further references to \slanted {The Canterbury Tales}, will be made from this edition and line numbers only will be provided.} \stoplines \stopnarrower And here is the one after Example 2 And here is the sentence before \startnarrower[2*left,2*right] A Somonour was ther with us in that place, \crlf That hadde a fyr-reed cherubynnes face, \crlf For saucefleem he was, with eyen narwe. \crlf As hoot he was and lecherous as a sparwe, \crlf With scalled browes blake and piled berd. \crlf Of his visage children were aferd.% \footnote{Burgess, A., \slanted{The Riverside Chaucer}, p.\ 33 (623--628). From this point on, any further references to \slanted {The Canterbury Tales}, will be made from this edition and line numbers only will be provided.} \stopnarrower And here is the one after \stoptext TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : linetest output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./linetest.tex ConTeXt ver: 2005.06.27 fmt: 2005.7.14 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! color : palette rollover is available ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-dis.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns en->ec:ec->1->2:2 uk->ec:ec->2->2:2 de- >texnansi:tex nansi->3->2:2 de->ec:ec->4->2:2 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:2 fr- >ec:ec->6->2:2 es->ec:ec->7->2:2 pt->texnansi:texnansi->8->2:2 pt->ec:ec->9->2:2 it- >texnansi :texnansi->10->2:2 it->ec:ec->11->2:2 nl->texnansi:texnansi->12->2:2 nl->ec:ec- >13->2:2 cz->il2:il2->14->2:2 cz->ec:ec->15->2:2 sk->il2:il2->16- >2:2 sk->ec:ec ->17->2:2 pl->pl0:pl0->18->2:2 pl->ec:ec->19->2:2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : linetest.top loaded (./linetest.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) (./linetest.tuo) (./linetest.tuo) (./linetest.tuo) (./linetest.tuo) (./linetest.tuo) (./linetest.tuo) (./linetest.tuo) (./linetest.tuo) (./linetest.tuo) (./linetest.tuo) (./linetest.tuo) (./linetest.tuo) (./linetest.tuo) Process aborted ******************* Charles Doherty, Early Irish History, School of History, John Henry Newman Building, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 Tel: +353 1 716 8381

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presentations in ConTeXt
by Thomas A. Schmitz 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

I've decided to bite the bullet and do my presentations in ConTeXt this term. So far, I'm quite satisfied. I've done only very basic stuff so far (if you're interested, you can have a look at http:// www.uni-bonn.de/www/Philologie/Personal/Schmitz/Dateien.html ), but I like the result. The background is just a pdf-image that I created with metapost and reused as a page background (I found this was faster and easier than recalculating it every time...) Things I would like to know: I like the idea of having the small bar showing at which place in the presentations we are (such as in pre-colorful). I'd like it very minimal, though: maybe just grey squares, with the current position being white or yellow. I have a hunch that this could be achieved with \setupinteractionbar, but this command is a bit underdocumented. Hints, anybody? I am still at a loss how to achieve one thing in ConTeXt that was pretty easy in Keynote or (shudder) Powerpoint: When I wanted to highlight something on a map or a picture, I would just draw a red circle around it. What would be the proper way to do this in ConTeXt? Adding a layer with a red circle drawn in Metapost, then positioning it by trial and error? Or can anyone point to a better solution? And lastly: I have never seen transitions working on OS X (both Apple's Preview and Adobe Reader 7.0). Can anybody confirm that they got this working on other systems? Sorry for the long post. I'm hoping for some enlightenment. Best Thomas

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\normalnextrandom+\setupindenting
by Peter Rolf 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

Hi Hans, in both new versions (13.7. and beta 19.7.) I get the error ... ! Undefined control sequence. \nextrandom ->\bgroup \normalnextrandom \gdef \nextrandom {\ifcase \randomse... \getr@nval ->\nextrandom \ranval \randomi \advance \ranval \minusone \divide... \getrandomcount ...\!!countb \!!counta \getr@nval \advance \ranval #2#1\ranval \getrandomnumber ...count \scratchcounter {#2}{#3} \edef #1{\the \scratchcoun... \setMPrandomseed ...\localMPseed \zerocount {4095} \writeMPgraphic {randomsee... \openMPgraphicfile ...iteMPgraph \setMPrandomseed \fi ... ---------------- In the new beta \setupindenting[\bodyfontsize] is broken ... Symbole : Lade Symboldatei uzd ! Missing \endcsname inserted. <to be read again> \bodyfontsize \executeifdefined #1->\ifcsname #1 \endcsname \expandafter \firstoftwoargumen... \docomplexsetupindenting ...eifdefined {\??in :#1} {\edef \currentindentation... \next1 #1,->\docomplexsetupindenting {#1} \doprocesscommaitem \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1, ]\relax \global \advance \... \complexsetupindenting ...docomplexsetupindenting \toggleindentation l.65 \setupindenting[\bodyfontsize] As always I'm not sure, if it's my crude context installation or a bug :) Greetings, Peter

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Paragraph internal graphic/layout inquiry.
by David Wooten 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Greetings all, Mr. Tufte has an interesting example from da Vinci: http:// trichotomic.net/Leonardo.jpg (76k). Is this type of layout currently possible (or perhaps a better question, wieldy) within ConTeXt? Kind regards, David Wooten

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Footnote Follies
by John R. Culleton 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

Just finished a highly formatted job for a customer. Something occurred that isn't supposed to happen with Tex. The reference number for a footnote was on page "a" and the footnote itself was on page "a+1." As it happened the footnote was placed at the end of a paragraph and the paragraph ended in a left parens. So I had: blah blah blah.)\footnote{text of note} Also \goodbreak and \clubpenalty 10000 in combination still do not prevent all orphan (club) lines. Perhaps there is a magic Context incantation that I missed. -- John Culleton

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Re: [NTG-context] indentaion
by Steffen Wolfrum 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

> > Is anyone using \indenting[no] to suppress the next indentation? > > I used to in the very early beginnings. But very quickly i got lazy > and reverted to using \noindent instead. I wouldn't mind having it > go away or changing. > > Taco same for me Steffen

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colorizing item numbers
by Jason Knight 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

I'm new to ConTeXt and puzzling over a text I'm trying to set a text where item numbers (or letters, or symbols for that matter) need to be either color or grayscale. Here's what I'm thinking, though, obviously the code doesn't work: \startitemize[\color[darkred]{n}, packed, inmargin] . . . \stopitemize Any ideas? Thanks! -- Jason Knight Systems-Analyst-at-large "They fix 'em, I break 'em. Thus, analysis."

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keyboard style tilde
by Stuart Jansen 19 Jul '05

19 Jul '05

How do I get a keyboard style tilde? As in: ~sjansen The tilde character is roughly aligned with the middle horizontal part of the s. \~ and \lettertilde produce a tilde that has been raised so that it can be used as an accent. I don't want that. -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C.

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