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

25 Jul '05

Dear All: I amhaving my own private warfare with the \setuphead command, and I wonder whether anyone can give me a hint. I have three problems, which I describe in detail below. They are: (1) how to setup run-in text after a subhead, (2) how to align the section, subsection, ... headers left or right (I am not talking of the running heads here) (3) vertical whitespace before a section header when it falls at the beginning of a new page What is *not* wanted :-) ==================== If the solution is use command=\mycommand, fine, I can do that. just please tell me that that's the only solution. I really am not asking about how to write a "Plain" or "LaTeX" command. Rather, what I'd like to know is if there is a ConTeXt-ish way to do these things, and by that I mean [something=something]. Description of my problems ========================== (1) At the Indiana Univ. Math. J. we use three levels of headings, let's call them \section, \subsection, and \subsubsection. The last two use run-in text. In Plain, the corresponding command might be something like this: \def\mysubsection#1{\vskip14pt\indent{\tenbfsl#1}.~} The outcome is this: My cat Inca. Inca is a beautiful black cat though she is now approaching her "golden" years. I could not come up with a [...=...] way to do run-in text after a heading. The only thing I did not try is something that occurred to me while walking to work - would this work? \setuphead[subsection][ after={\blank[none]} ] (2) Horizontal alignment. This problem is almost funny. Consider these two setups: \setuphead[section][ align=middle ] \setuphead[subsection][ align=left, ] The section will appear just fine, centered between the left and the right margins. The subsection head will appear flush RIGHT! If, instead, you write \setuphead[subsection][ align=right, ] the subsection head will appear flush LEFT. Hmmm... Hans, are you dyslexic? :-) (just in case, here comes another one :-)) I was able to obtain a subsection header as I wanted it by writing \setuphead[subsection][ align=left, command=\doglobal ] The problem is that, even though it works, I do not want to learn ConTeXt the wrong way. I do not want to "hack" it if there are set, orthodox ways to do what I want to do. (3) Plain TeX had some setup commands (have to re-acquaint myself with The TeXBook - have not done Plain in years) such that you could insert vertical whitespace before a section (subsection...) header, as wanted, but if in the course of writing that section header happened to fall at the top of a new page, then the vertical whitespace before it would be gobbled up. The reason is very simple: you do not want to have a "ragged top". My question is this: Is there any built-in thing like that in ConTeXt? Is there a command to "gobble up" vertical whitespace when a page break sends a heading to the top of the next page? Many thanks for any and all help. Best, elena (I wore thin the LiveContext interface this weekend - what a great thing to have!)

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

25 Jul '05

Dear all: I just conducted some follow up experiments on my previous questions, and found out that... (1) In re producing run-in text following a subsection header: neither [after={\blank[none]},] nor [after=\nowhitespace,] have any impact: I still get the subsection header on one line, and the text on the next line. (2) In re horizontal alignment, I guess there is some sort of inheritance going on here? In the setup below, I had hoped to obtain the section header in the middle, and the subsection header flush left, since "subsection" had not be re-defined at all. However, once I define section to be [align=middle,], the remaining headers follow suit, even when no \setuphead command is written for them: \setuphead[section][ align=middle, ] \starttext \section{Will this work?}Hello world! So here comes a subsection that, not having been defined, would ideally display at the default location, which is flush left. \subsection{Is this flush left?}No, it isn't. \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] bug / feature portal
by Steffen Wolfrum 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Still not accessable - though the site learnt English meanwhile (see below). Steffen Site error This site encountered an error trying to fulfill your request. The errors were: Error Type AttributeError Error Value portal_transforms Request made at 2005/07/25 06:38:24.765 GMT-4 Steffen Wolfrum <context(a)st.estfiles.de> wrote: > Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > > > in addition to the wiki there is now a portal for tracking bugs and > > feature requests > > > > http://context.literatesolutions.com/ > > > > I tried to place a request there: > http://context.literatesolutions.com/forums/context/forum_add_topic_form > > but was rejected by a (German?) error message: > > > > Site Fehler > > Es ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. Die Fehlermeldung lautet: > > Fehlertyp > AttributeError > Fehlerwert > portal_transforms > Anfrage erfolgt um > 2005/07/24 10:57:37.342 GMT-4 > > > > > Something wrong at the server side? > > Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] aquamints symbols
by Henning Hraban Ramm 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

> can some native >english sea wolf check the symbol names >Especially I not sure with appropriateness of fattree, seaegg, and geoarrow. I'm no native either, but... fattree is some palm. tortle -> turtle seaegg is a sea urchin shell (I guess) geoarrow is a wind rose (compass card, compass rose) sadmaur: I'd call this a mask Hraban

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