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Re: [NTG-context] Urgent index problem
by Duncan Hothersall 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

I wrote: > -- > \starttext > \startregister[index]{this term+in+particular} This term is discussed > from the start of this page.\page[yes] > Some more text about the term, and another page.\page[yes] > And the end of the info about that term. \stopregister[index]{this > term+in+particular}\page[yes] > A page unrelated to that term.\page[yes] > \index{this term+in+particular} And then another page on exactly the > same term.\page[yes] > \placeindex\page[yes] > Disaster! The entry on page 5 has been eaten! > \stoptext > -- I realise that there is a workaround for the sample above, using the literal ASCII string in [] which makes this specific example work. Unfortunately this doesn't make everything work correctly in a larger document. I'm now seeing two other specific behaviours as well: 1. When there is a range and a single entry, the range is sometimes listed first in the index, even if the single entry is many pages before it - i.e. 282-283, 170 2. On other occasions where a range and a single entry exist, I end up having a strange three-way range in the index - like 282-283-349. The last reference should be just a single one on its own. It's really difficult to post a minimal file for these because they only occur when the whole text is processed (several hundred pages). I have just synchronised my tree this morning and no difference is made. Any help, especially today, VERY gratefully received. Duncan

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line wrap marker
by Stuart Jansen 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

We have lines of text that shouldn't be wrapped. If one line must be wrapped onto the next, we'd like to insert a visual mark at the end of the line and (hopefully) indent the next line slightly. Obviously, there's the potential for wrapping over multiple lines. I've dug around TeX, LaTeX and ConTeXt, and none appear to support this yet. So far, ConTeXt has been the most enjoyable to work with, so I'm okay with a ConTeXt only answer. How hard will this be to implement? Where should I start looking to figure out how to do this? I'm hoping for an answer along the lines of "this set of macros will probably be helpful". -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C.

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PDF Forms
by Bob Kerstetter 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Hi, Is there some way to create PDF docs (as forms maybe?) so end users can add their own contact information and logos just by using Adobe Reader, not Acrobat? These are one to four page documents. Right now I can do this by supplying them with Word docs. Thanks.

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OT: metapost question
by Gerben Wierda 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Is it ok in a .mp file to do something like for k=1 step 1 until N: beginfig(k); % some stuff endfig; endfor; Thanks, G

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Using metapost stuff in ConTeXt
by Gerben Wierda 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Suppose I have a .mp file foo.mp, which contains some shared definitions and two images: beginfig(1); % some stuff endfig; beginfig(0); % some other stuff endfig; If I run mptopdf on this file I get foo-0.pdf and foo-1.pdf. And that works fine. But can I somehow interface directly from within ConTeXt to these images without doing the mptopdf myself in a way that the ConTeXt tools maintain the mp->image process, that these images are only recreated when the .mp file has changed and not on every run? Thanks, G

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protruding in the margin
by Steffen Wolfrum 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi, if I have a text with footnotes in the margin - see below. How do I also define those footnotes to use protruding? Steffen P.S. I know we had this already - but I forgot it. Sorry. \usetypescript [adobekb][ec] \usetypescript[serif] [hanging] [normal] \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] \setupalign [hanging] \setupbodyfont[times,10pt] \definenote[mynote][way=bypage,location=text,width=4cm,rule=,before=,factor=1] \setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape] \setuplayout[backspace=6cm,leftmargin=4cm,rightmargin=0cm,margindistance=.5cm,width=middle] \showframe \startbuffer[sometext] \input zapf \stopbuffer[sometext] \startbuffer[moretext] \input ward \stopbuffer[moretext] \setuptexttexts [margin] [\setups{flushmynotes}] [] \startsetups flushmynotes \vbox to \textheight{\placenotes[mynote]\vfill} \stopsetups \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \mynote{\getbuffer[sometext]} \input tufte \mynote{\getbuffer[moretext]}} \stoptext

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Urgent index problem
by Duncan Hothersall 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

I am one night from a deadline and I have just noticed that my index is silently ignoring some entries... Help!! The following demonstrates the problem (tested on live.contextgarden.net) -- \starttext \startregister[index]{this term+in+particular} This term is discussed from the start of this page.\page[yes] Some more text about the term, and another page.\page[yes] And the end of the info about that term. \stopregister[index]{this term+in+particular}\page[yes] A page unrelated to that term.\page[yes] \index{this term+in+particular} And then another page on exactly the same term.\page[yes] \placeindex\page[yes] Disaster! The entry on page 5 has been eaten! \stoptext -- So we have the same terms referenced as a span over pages 1 to 3, and as a single entry on page 5. But only the span appears, not the second entry! The .tuo file contains: \registerentry{index}{t} \registerentrya{index}{this term} \registerentryb{index}{in} \registerentryc{index}{particular} \registerfrom{index}{,}{1}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::1}{1} \registerpage{index}{,}{3}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::5}{5} \registerto{index}{,}{2}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::3}{3} so it looks like the sorting of these by page numbers has broken, and ConTeXt thinks that page 5 is between pages 1 and 3. I hope someone can help... Duncan

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my new page on layout
by Paul Tremblay 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

I've authored a new page on laying out pages in ConText. This page will be just one in a number of pages on using ConTeXt with XML. The new page can be found at http://www.geocities.com/paulhtremblay/context_xml/page2.html I would appreciate any feedback. I hope the page will be useful in helping others overcome some of the difficulty I had in trying to understand layout in ConTeXt. I believe it is very thorough. I hope it is clear (it contains many illustrations) and accurate. I put this page up on yahoo because it had so many graphics, and because trying to cut and paste the entire page to the wiki would have been too difficult. The yahoo location is just temporary. Probably I will create a sourceforge project to host the page. Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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lmr (texnansi vs ec)
by ishamid 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Dear gang, Why does lmr in ConTeXt use the ec instead of the texnansi encoding? I just noticed that all of my macros that use, e.g., \char'25 are now bringing up the wrong symbols. Shouldn't ConTeXt default to the encoding most consistent with cmr (surely I am not the only one who depended on the old TeX encoding->) Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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lmr / latest beta
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi all, since I haven't used it for a long time (in ConTeXt terms), I decided to update my context before starting a major project. As usual, I grabbed the latest beta from pragma and installed it. The first thing I noticed was that context defaults to latin modern now - great. Unfortunately, it complained a lot about missing fonts like "ec-lmr12". The list archive helped to correct this by installing the contents of the cont-lmt zip. However, the fonts still are not found by pdftex. The resulting pdf is very small (1,5k), and acrobat reader complains about missing fonts. I tried adding the contents of ec-public-lm.map to pdftex.map. This resulted in a larger pdf (4,5k), with the font embedded according to acrobat, but showing as a blank page. I am rather confused by now - I always tried to avoid that font stuff whenever possible. What am I missing? Greetings, Eckhart

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