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ConTeXt and DocBook - beginner's questions
by Radoslaw Moszczynski 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Hello everyone, I am new to ConTeXt (I've been tempted to try it out because of a message by Sebastian Rahtz, posted on TEI-L). I admit that so far I have been able to get through only the main manual, but I am very curious about some things and therefore I would really appreciate it if you could answer my questions: 1. I am interested in authoring in XML and than typesetting in ConTeXt. Are there any preferences towards using some particular markup language for typesetting in ConTeXt? Is e.g. using DocBook more preferable that using TEI--from the point of view of typesetting in ConTeXt, of course. 2. Are there any generic tools available (stylesheets etc.) for typesetting DocBook/TEI or does one have to come up with his own stylesheets? I assume that the latter is necessary if one wants to get exactly the layout he wants, but maybe there are some basic stylesheets that one can use as a base for his own ones? 3. Also, I have a more general question -- for some (short) period of time I have been reading both TEI-L and NTG-CONTEXT, all the issues related to typesetting documents marked up in XML are very confusing. Do you know any good manual/tutorial concerned with these issues that I could use a starting point for my studies on the subject? Thank you in advance- -Radek Moszczynski

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Problem with \placefigure before \startcolumns
by Michael Gährken 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Hi, I have a problem, when I place a graphic on a page, start columns, and use a \chapter in that column. The following code demonstrates it. I get the space needed for the graphic in the column, but the graphic is already placed above the \startcolumns. Without the \chapter the space vanishs. \starttext \placefigure[left]{}{\framed[height=2cm]{graphic}} \input tufte \par \startcolumns[n=2] \chapter{} \dorecurse{4}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumns \stoptext I use ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2005.2.7 from TeTeX 3.0. Michael

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m-letter stationary]
by Rob Ermers 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Hans, Thanks again for the new code. I tried it in my document with my stationary, but it did not work. When I create a new test document with the code you suggested, all pages have VERY ODD in the upper left corner. Kind regards, Robert h h extern wrote: > \definelayer[test][doublesided=yes,state=repeat] > > \setupbackgrounds[page][background=test] > > \setlayer[test][left] []{VERY ODD} > \setlayer[test][right][]{VERY EVEN} > > \starttext > > test \page test \page > test \page test \page > test \page test \page > > \stoptext > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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languages
by Hans Hagen 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

Hi, Attached is an xml file that describes the hyphenation pattern files. I'd appreciate checking (some records are incomplete). I'd also like to add (for each language) a couple of tricky hyphenatable words [for testing]. Preferable in utf-8 encoding. There is room for more comments as well, like: prefered input and font encodings etc. 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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Correction to previous e-mail
by Mats Broberg 26 Feb '05

26 Feb '05

Listmembers, OK, the two chunks of text I mentioned were obviously due to the kind of ASCII text editor I use. I downloaded a different editor one and now the .rme and the .ini files look better. Sorry for taking up bandwidth about that specific issue. Best regards, Mats Broberg

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pdf-mode
by Peter Münster 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

Hello Hans, I've just read your mmodes.pdf. Very helpful, thanks! Could you also add a pdf-mode? For now, I'm doing it like this: \input ifpdf.sty \ifpdf \enablemode[pdf] \fi Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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XML and context
by Paul Tremblay 25 Feb '05

25 Feb '05

I've been looking over some articles published on context and XML, nameely http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-mag-9.htm. According to this article, there is a Relax schema for an XML version of context. The namespace is 'http://www.pragma-ade.com/rlg/foxet.rng'. This implies that the Relax schema can only be used if using FO, or? I was wondering if could directly convert to the XML at the namespace above and then process the resulting document with context. This would be easier than using the mapping method. Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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encoding problem
by h h extern 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Was this problem solved? If not, the problem may be in not loading a map file; typescripts take care of this. btw, one you see the light, typescripts are not that hard, see examples in wiki, Bill M's font page and Adam L's myways. Hans >>>>>> Hello, I'm working on some XSL stylesheets for translating XML documents into Context. Although I've read the document "Fonts in Context" and understood that one could use typescripts for managing fonts, in the context of my stylesheets I'd rather like to stick to the \definebodyfont command, because so far it works and I'm a bit confused about all those indirections one has to use when defining typescripts. The only thing which doesn't seem to work are font encodings. Please, take a look at the following document: %-------------------------------------------- \enableregime[il1] \mainlanguage[de] \language[de] \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[NewCenturySchoolbook][pncr8r][encoding=texnansi] \definebodyfont[4pt,5pt,6pt,7pt,8pt,9pt,10pt,11pt,12pt,14.4pt,17.3pt][rm] [tf=NewCenturySchoolbook sa 1] \definefont[nctr][NewCenturySchoolbook at 10pt] \setupbodyfont[10pt] \starttext {\nctr \showcharacters} {\showcharacters} \stoptext %-------------------------------------------- Defining the font "directly" with \definefont leads to a texnansi-encoded table of characters, so that I could use the special German umlaut characters (which is my intention, of course). The definition of the font with \definebodyfont produces a default-encoded table with characters, which are *not* texnansi-encoded, because all the umlaut characters are missing. At least using Windows XP, TexLive 2004 distribution (MikTeX). I don't understand why this happens for two reasons: 1. Both commands (\definebodyfont and \definefont) use the same synonym for the font, with an explicitely defined texnansi-encoding. 2. The default encoding of the whole document was set to texnansi. It is getting even more disturbing when I'm setting the body font size to 12pt. (Using the command \setupbodyfont[12pt]). Then both tables are showing a texnansi-encoded font. What has font size to do with encodings? Since I don't want to use a body font size of 12pt in all of my documents, only to be able to use German umlaut characters, any hints to what I'm doing wrong here would be appreciated very much. Thanks in advance, Stefan Ohletz _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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texfont problem on windows
by Duncan Hothersall 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

I'm using the minimal windows installation of ConTeXt, texsync'ed today. The vptovf.exe program as used by the texfont script seems to have a version mismatch. It throws an error saying that it can't find tl80kpse.dll. In fact the version in the minimal tree is tl90kpse.dll. This means that texfont can't install new fonts, since no virtual font files are created. I'm sure I can work around this either by updating my local vptovf.exe or finding the relevant dll on the web somewhere, but it should probably be fixed in the tree if possible. Thanks! Duncan

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m-letter stationary
by Rob Ermers 24 Feb '05

24 Feb '05

Dear Contexers, I have succeeded in creating letters on my pdf stationary-1. Beautiful. Now I want to print the second and following pages on paper with on a slightly different stationary (stationary-2), as is costumary. Does anyone how to set this up? (The example on the wiki is too complicated for me. I sticked to sample files from Hans Hagen, which makes it possible to use an xml address database.) The present set up for the background is given below. Kind regards, Robert Ermers \useexternalfigure[achtergrond][stationary-1.pdf][] \definelayer[achtergrond] \setupbackgrounds[page][state=repeat,background={achtergrond}] \setlayer[achtergrond][x=0in,y=0in]{\externalfigure[stationary-1.pdf]}

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