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Toward an errata sheet.
by John R. Culleton 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

I mentioned on comp.text.tex that my copy of _Context The Mamual_ was a) tattered from use b) annotated here and there with corrections based on posts from this list. Another party wanted to borrow my manual! I sent him my two marginal annotations and redirected his attention to pragma-ade but his request gave me an idea. Perhaps we all should exchange annotations where there is a typo or other error we have uncovered. It would be a kind of group errata sheet. To start the ball rolling here are my two annotations: ------------------------------------------------------------ p 148:change "head=nomarking" to "header=nomarking" p 242: Modify example by adding opening brace prior to \startcombination and closing brace after \stopombination: ... {\startcombination ... \stopcombination} ------------------------------------------------------------ Obviously there are features that are covered elsewhere or covered better elsewhere. That is not my immediate concern. If we can just pool our marginal corrections it would be of mutual benefit. I use the English language manual in letter size format. -- 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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A document without justifying text and without hyphenated words
by Jilani Khaldi 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Hi All, what are the setting to perform to get a document without justifying text and without hyphenated words? Thanks! jk -- // Jilani KHALDI http://www.archsf.org

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Re: Elided page numbers in registers
by Duncan Hothersall 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

I said: > 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). To add a further dimension: I'm seeing some other strange behaviours in a large (15 page) index to a substantial (650 page) book which would be difficult to reproduce in a test package - to do with ordering of multiple page references within individual entries, etc. I would be keen to work on the code if that was possible, rather than just list problems and hope for others to fix them :-). But I'd need a point in the right direction. Thanks, Duncan

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Relative font scaling
by Olivier 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Hi, I'm experiencing issues with rscale. When using: \starttypescript [MyFnt] \definetypeface [MyFnt] [rm] [serif] [rfont] [default] [encoding=ec] \definetypeface [MyFnt] [mm] [math] [mfont] [default] [rscale=0.99,encoding=default] \definetypeface [MyFnt] [tt] [mono] [tfont] [default] [rscale=0.1,encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript everything works as expected (text font is indeed rfont, math font is indeed mfont, tt font is indeed tfont, and moreover the math font is correctly rscaled) but the tt font isn't rscaled at all. Any idea where the issue might come from? Thanks, Olivier

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bug with active :!;?
by Olivier 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hi, Seems like the following crashes conTeXt: \useencoding [ffr] \mainlanguage[fr] \setupheadertexts[text][][][\setups{run:left}][] \startsetups run:left nothing \stopsetups \starttext Nothing special here \stoptext Of course one can live with this by renaming the tag. However, the bug will also occur in the \cite[Bob:A,Bob:B] commands from the bib module, and I assume in anything that deals with csnameS containing active colons... Strangely enough, the bug doesn't seem to occur in \placeformula[eq:A] Many thanks for hinting a fix, Olivier

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Problem with \startcombination
by John R. Culleton 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Here is a code fragment: \section{Gallery} \useexternalfigure[B008][B008.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[B009][B009.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[B010][B010.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[B013][B013.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[picnic.jpg] \placefigure{} \startcombination[2] {\externalfigure[B008]}{} {\externalfigure[B009]}{} \stopcombination --------------------------------------- ---and here is the error message: )) (./gallery.tex section : - Gallery ! Missing { inserted. <to be read again> \let \noshowargumenterror ->\let \expectedarguments \noexpectedarguments \dodoubleempty #1->\noshowargumenterror \doifnextcharelse [{\dodoubletestemp... l.9 \startcombination [2] ? ------------------------------------------------------ I am using TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 on a Slack Linux system. 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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Help with \setuplayout[grid=yes]
by Randall Skelton 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hi all, Attached is an example showing my misunderstanding about grid alignment. The attached works as expected when \setuplayout[grid=no] is used or the 'Author table' is commented out. The inclusion of the little table in the text is really just to convince myself that I can have a table with the grid enabled. Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated. Cheers, Randall ---- \showframe %\showmakeup %\showgrid %%% Dimensions \newdimen\PaperWidth \PaperWidth=8.5in \newdimen\PaperHeight \PaperHeight=11.0in \newdimen\TextWidth \TextWidth=5.5in \newdimen\TextHeight \TextHeight=10.0in \setuppapersize[letter][letter] % paper size \definepapersize[width=\PaperWidth,height=\PaperHeight] \setuplayout [location=doublesided, % double-sided printing grid=yes, %%%% WHY DOES THIS CAUSE AN ERROR? topspace=0.50in, % the space at the very top of the page backspace=1.5in, % the space in the gutter header=0.75in, % the space for headers footer=0.50in, % the space for footers leftmargin=1in, % the space for margin notes rightmargin=1in, % the space for right margin notes width=\TextWidth, % the width of the body text height=\TextHeight] % the height of the body text %%% Authors and Approvals \def\AuthorsTitle{\midaligned{\sc{Authors and Approvals}}} \def\startAuthors{% \blank[2*big]\AuthorsTitle\\\blank[2*big]% \hbox to \hsize\bgroup\hss\SetTableToWidth{6.5in}% \starttable[|c|c|c|c|c|] \HL \VL \VL Function\VL Name\VL Signature\VL Date\VL\SR\HL} \def\stopAuthors{\stoptable\hss\egroup} def\Author[#1]{% \getgparameters[Author][#1]% \doifundefined{AuthorRole}{\gdef\AuthorRole{Prepared by:}}% \doifundefined{AuthorFunction}{\gdef\AuthorFunction{-}}% \doifundefined{AuthorName}{\gdef\AuthorName{-}}% \doifundefined{AuthorSignature}{\gdef\AuthorSignature{}}% \doifundefined{AuthorDate}{\gdef\AuthorDate{-}}% \VL\AuthorRole \VL\AuthorFunction% \VL\AuthorName \VL\AuthorSignature% \VL\AuthorDate% \VL\SR\HL% \gdef\AuthorFunction{ }\gdef\AuthorName{ }% \gdef\AuthorSignature{ }\gdef\AuthorDate{ }% } \starttext %%% Start: Front \startfrontmatter \startAuthors \Author [Role={Prepared by:}, Function={Scientist}, Name={John Smith}, Date={2005-08-24}] \Author [Role={Checked by}:, Date={2005-08-24}] \Author [Role={Approved by:}, Date={2005-08-24}] \stopAuthors %%% Stop: Front \stopfrontmatter %%% Start: Body \startbodymatter \section{One} \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth} \starttable[|c|c|] \HL \VL One \VL Two \VL\FR \VL Three \VL Four \VL\LR \HL \stoptable \section{Two} \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth} %%% Stop: Body part \stopbodymatter \stoptext

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Re: Setting header texts (second)
by Duncan Hothersall 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hi. "\getmarking[chapter][current]" should give you the title of the current chapter. Similarly "\getmarking[section][current]", etc. In order to rid yourself of the default pagenumber in the middle of the top header, use "\setuppagenumbering[location=]", or add "location=" to your existing \setuppagenumbering command. Hope that helps. Duncan

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Elided page numbers in registers
by Duncan Hothersall 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Another question on registers (just getting into indexing!). I have a book which numbers its pages by chapter, and so page numbers are 1/1, 1/2 ... for the pages of chapter 1, and then 2/1, 2/2 ... for the pages of chapter 2. 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). Thanks... Duncan

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Re: [NTG-context] Problem installing ConTeXt jedit syntax
by Elliot Clifton 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hans, Sorry about taking a long time to get back to you. I checked the syntax of the ConTeXt mode files. They seem to be consistent with the syntax in modes that are known to work. The delegate syntax doesn't seem to have changed. I don't recieve XML validation errors for any other parts of the code. Just the delegation. I can't see why the XML is invalid. For the record, I'm using jEdit 4.2final Elliot Elliot Clifton wrote: >Hi, > >I've added the context jedit mode files to the modes directory inside >my jedit settings directory, and appended the mode to the catalogue. I >get XML validation errors that state the various DELEGATEs are >invalid. The external files (*-en, *-de, etc...) do not import. Why? >What am I doing wrong? > > is there a more detailed report? can you figure otu if the delegates syntax has changed? Hans

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