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Document structure - some questions
by Marcin Borkowski 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Hello! I have quite a few questions about ConTeXt (and more coming, I guess!). As a newbie, many things seem difficult for me. For now, the questions are: How does \part exactly work? I could see: messing with pagenumbers; part title not appearing; strange behaviour in eg backmatter... How do exactly front, body, back matter and appendices environments work? How do the system modes (*...-modes) work exactly? I managed to make \startmode[*interaction] ... \stopmode work, but what about the others "starred" modes? What are the possible parameters for the \setupoutput command? Sorry for asking so many things... I hope that when I know the answers I will be able to put some articles on ConTeXt wiki, so that other people do not bother you with the same questions again and again. Greetings -- Marcin Borkowski

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\raggedright?
by Gerben Wierda 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

I tried to get one piece in a justified text to behave as follows: right aligned and with a jagged left edge. But what I tried influenced my entire document. Can someone explain me how to do this? G

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some bib module questions
by Fei He 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Folks, I am new beginner and have some rookie questions about using the bib module. 1. \setupcite[number][left=[, right=]] did not work. the citation still shows up in the text like (author, year) 2. either \completepublications or \placepublications wont show the publication list at the end of the paper without using \setup[pubs][criterium=all]. 3. \setuppublications[numbering=yes] fails to put a number before the publication list at the end of the paper. I got the most updated m-bib.zip from http://texaanhet.net/bib/ and copied those file to my local hard drive at ...\texmf\tex\context\m-bib\. Also I just updated my context to the new released version. By the way, I use pc and WinEdt. I probably made several mistakes. please help. thanks a lot. best, fei

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Is there a LaTeX \parbox equivalent in ConTeXt?
by Gerben Wierda 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

Subject line says it all. Is there? Thanks, G

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Float numbering problem
by SebastianSturm＠t-online.de 12 Mar '05

12 Mar '05

Hi, since my Google search didn't bring up any solutions to this problem, I assume that this has not been reported yet. I'm trying to typeset a poster with more than one column and it occasionally happens that a large float (like a figure) precedes a small float (like a table). If the current column has so little remaining vertical space that only figure 2 would fit in, it includes them in reversed order. Which is not bad in principle, but unfortunately the floats also exchange their number. I included a minimal example with three tables and only one figure. The figure's caption reads "figure 3" while the last table is called "table 1". I am using gwTeX with beta ConTeXt (2005/03/03). All other important information can probably be obtained from the included log files. Best regards, Sebastian Sturm

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what do these values mean?
by Paul Tremblay 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

I've figure out a lot of the values used in \setuplayout, but I can't figure out these: horoffset veroffset nx ny dx dy Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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How do I setup this arrangement?
by Gerben Wierda 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

I want to use \setuparranging, \setuplayout and \setuppapersize to do the following: 1. Page size is somewhere between A5 and A4 (large paperback book) 2. In draft mode: - Output pages are magnified (<1 factor) to a A5 size - Two pages on one A4 landscape - Ordering simple: (0,1),(2,3),(4,5) (2 shrunk-to-A5 pages on one A4 landscape) 3. In final mode - Output pages are centered on an A4 paper with crop marks I have tried to find information, but the orderings of \setuparranging do not include this simple ordering. G

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Re: [NTG-context] Helvetica ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

Adam Lindsay <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> wrote: > Steffen Wolfrum said this at Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:59:30 +0100: > > >> \usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding] > >> \usetypescript [postscript][\defaultencoding] > >> \setupbodyfont[pos,ss,12pt] > > I'm taking a leap with this, because I don't have my gwTeX box at hand, > but try > > \usetypescript [adobekb] [8r] > \usetypescript [postscript] [8r] > \setupbodyfont [pos,ss,12pt] > > gwTeX (IIRC) has a full complement of adobe 8r metrics. Note that > helvetica in the postscript typescript is scaled at 90% so "12pt" > actually means 10.8pt. Then the error log changes. Now we have: ! Font \*12ptsstf*=uhvr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. Steffen

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Renaming spot colours
by Duncan Hothersall 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

More questions! I'm using black plus one spot colour in a document, and I include PDF images generated in an external program (CorelDraw) which use the same spot colour. In the images the color is called 'PANTONE 294 CV', but I can't use that name for my colour in ConTeXT because names can't contain numbers or spaces. So in ConTeXt I define \definecolor[PantoneTwoNineFour][c=1,m=.56,y=0,k=.18] The end result is a file with two spot colour spaces instead of one. Is there a way I can combine them, either by a last-minute renaming, or a mapping, or a pre-process, or something? (I tried the brute force method of search-and-replace on the PDF file but there must be binary-encoded references to the names as well as ASCII ones, because that broke the file.) Any help as ever greatly appreciated. Duncan

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Quote before chapter?
by Gerben Wierda 11 Mar '05

11 Mar '05

I would like to have a right-aligned quote before the chapter header. I use the following snippet in my environment file: ================================== \newcommand{\chquote}[1]{\startalignment% \startnarrower[4*left] {#1} \stopnarrower\stopalignment} ================================== But if I use that *before* the \chapter command it is *followed* and not *preceded* by a page break. So my question is: how do I program this in ConTeXt? Thanks, G

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