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Re: ConTeXt tool for enabling comments in PDF ?
by Joachim Schlosser 31 May '05

31 May '05

> Vit Zyka wrote (long long ago in January): >> how is that one calculated, imagine that in the %! fields you fill in >> placeholders like hereshouldgosomemagiccode, then one can run a script >> over the pdf, calculate that magic, and replace the string; maybe this >> can be hooked into xpdflib > Yes, I agree, postprocessing is possible. But I did not find any digest > computing alg in the range of C/C++ or Perl. Also do not known links to > xpdflib. > > Vit Zyka One can sign PDFs with iText (http://itextpdf.sourceforge.net/) Perhaps this helps a little bit further. I experimented a little bit, but my knowledge on PDF internas is not yet in a state that allows me to be quite creative here :-) Joachim -- Joachim Schlosser (The e-mail address is fully repliable.) http://schlosser.info

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placing figures left with no wrap
by Paul Tremblay 31 May '05

31 May '05

How can I place a figure to the left of the page *without* having any text wrap around it? If I use: \placefigure[here]{{\bf figure 1.1: }Woolworth store in Lexington}{\externalfigure[WWORIG ref]} I get a graphic that is centered. I want to push the graphic to the left of the page. The only way I know how to achive this right now is with: externalfigure[WWORIG ref] \par {\bf figure 1.1:} Woolworth store in Lexington \par But this method probably won't keep my captions and graphics together. If the graphic is placed at the bottom of the page, my caption will appear on the next page. Do I need to save the graphic as a buffer and then place the buffer? I coudln't find any directions on how to use buffer, though I swear I saw it on the wiki. Thanks Paul ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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Suppreesin section header
by John R. Culleton 30 May '05

30 May '05

For a particular section I wish to substitute a graphic for the section header, but have the TOC entry named as usual. Is there a way to say e.g., \section{foo} and have foo show up in the TOC but not as a section header? -- John Culleton The answers to all your publishing questions are found in the excellent books listed in the word-famous shortlist! http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

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place for feature requests / todo list
by Peter Münster 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hello, is there already some place, where feature requests are collected and/or a todo list? Perhaps something like bugzilla but simpler? If not, what do you think about a page on the wiki? TIA for your opinions, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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List of figures with shorter captions
by Tim 't Hart 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hello all, I'm busy with writing a paper for university and the teachers "ordered" me to include a List of Figures. So now I'm using \completelistoffigures to get the list of figures. However, my captions with the figures are quite long so I was wondering if it's possible to let ConTeXt write a different text to the List of Figures. I thought something similar was possible with the Table of Contents and the \chapter command, but I cannot remember how...maybe I imagined. So is it possible to write a different text to the LoF? I use \placefigure[here]{This is my very long caption} {\externalfigure[myfigure]} to place my figures in the text. I've experimented with using \writetolist[figure]{1}{short caption} to write a text to the LoF, but there are some problems with that method. (the figure can be placed on a different page than the \writetolist, and I'll need a way to stop ConTeXt writing the caption text to the list as well). Any ideas? My best, Tim

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Lettrine in ConTeXt
by Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de Sousa 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hi ConTeXters! I played a little with Taco's implementation of Lettrine and it worked nice, but the capital letter is always in CMR10. The option TextFont works fine, and one can change the font that comes after the dropped cap with commands like \sc (default), \it, \sl or \bf, but the option FontHook, which changes the font of the capital, doesn't seem to work when one uses, for example, \setuplettrine[Lines=3,TextFont=\it,FontHook=\bf,Findent=0pt,Nindent=0pt] . Did I miss something? Marcus Vinicius __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [NTG-context] Lettrine in ConTeXt
by Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de Sousa 30 May '05

30 May '05

Hi Taco! It works perfectly! Thank you. Marcus Vinicius --- Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> wrote: > > The problem is that FontHook has to redefine the > font synonym > 'LettrineFont'. You have to do it like this: > > \unexpanded\def\myfonthook > {\definefontsynonym[LettrineFont][SerifBold]} > > \setuplettrine[Lines=3,TextFont=\it, > FontHook=\myfonthook, > Findent=0pt,Nindent=0pt] > > Greetings, Taco > > (I'll send a new zip with included documentation > to Patrick soon) > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Vanishing footnotes inside \startpagenumbering ... \stoppagenumbering
by Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de Sousa 29 May '05

29 May '05

Hi ConTeXters! If you put a footnote inside \startpagenumbering \stoppagenumbering it will not appear. Any ideas? Minimal example below: ************************************ \setupoutput[pdf] \setuplinenumbering[start=1,step=5,style=\tfx] \starttext \startlinenumbering We to those beasts, that rapid strode along, Drew near, when Chiron took an arrow forth, And with the notch push'd back his shaggy beard To the cheek-bone, then his great mouth to view Exposing, to his fellows thus exclaim'd: ``Are ye aware, that he who comes behind Moves what he touches? The feet of the dead Are not so wont.�� My trusty guide, who now Stood near his breast, where the two natures join, Thus made reply: ``He is indeed alive, And solitary so must needs by me Be shown the gloomy vale, thereto induc'd By strict necessity, not by delight. She left her joyful harpings in the sky, Who this new office to my care consign'd. He is no robber, no dark spirit I. But by that virtue, which empowers my step To treat so wild a path, grant us, I pray, One of thy band, whom we may trust secure, Who to the ford may lead us, and convey Across, him mounted on his back; for he Is not a spirit that may walk the air.�� \footnote{Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto XII, Divina Comedia} \stoplinenumbering \stoptext __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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new release
by Adam Lindsay 29 May '05

29 May '05

Thanks from me, too, to Taco for the change summary... I notice this: >new typescript: optima (uses optima-nova & palatino & lmtt) Which is cool, but there's a free URW Optima clone available ("URW- Classico"), that potentially makes Optima available to everyone. It's slightly "buggy" as a font, but perfectly workable if you're not as demanding as Walter A. Schmidt. (No offense to him--he has to be demanding, given his role!) I can do a release of these fonts, once we figure out a few things: 1) what to call this family (optima? optima-nova? classico?), 2) how to package this up for people, and 3) where to put it. If you want an early play, you can download the fonts from <http:// www.artifex.com/downloads/>, with the urwfonts_t1-1.40 package. The following lines are from a batchfile for texfont. # urw optima --en=? --ve=urw --co=optima --ro=TEXMFLOCAL --pat=o004* --en=? --ve=urw --co=optima --ro=TEXMFLOCAL --pat=o00400[34]t --ca=* -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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dvi paper-size
by Peter Münster 29 May '05

29 May '05

Hello, here comes a feature request: Could ConTeXt add to the dvi-file information about paper-size, so that one does not need the -t option of dvips? This is done in LaTeX (+hyperref) by using something like \special{papersize=...} but I didn't get it working in ConTeXt... TIA for any help! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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