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Columnsets problems
by Gilles Pérez-Lambert 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Hello, Following Hans's presentation on ConTeXt in EuroTeX 2005, I started to use columnsets. I'm really really impressed. Columnsets are easy to set up and wonderfully powerful. Nevertheless, I have some problems with columnsets... On the page: http://typo.free.fr/context/ you'll find the source file (Bogues.tex) and the output (Bogues.pdf) or a zip file of them. Some info on my config: texexec : TeXExec 5.2.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2005.03.16 cont-en : ver: 2005.03.16 fmt: 2005.3.19 mes: english cont-nl : ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2005.3.19 mes: dutch Pages on the Bogues.pdf Description ---------- -------------------------------- 1 When a title (here: \Article{Le titre}) is inside a columnsetspan, header=empty doesn't work. 6 The right column continues in the footer. 10 Same problem. 17 a line from the left column is reported on the right column even if there is room for it on the left column. By the way, always in a columnsets context, is there a way to completely forbid floats on certain pages? I didn't find a way to tell placefigure not to allow figures to be renumbered during the placement. In other words, is there a possibility the follow the order in which I declare the figure, even if a page is less optimal like this... Thanks for your time! Gilles.

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\normalsize
by Peter Münster 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Hello, is there a command, that switches to the normal font size (body-font)? I tried \tf, but it affects only the shape, not the size. TIA for any hint, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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bib: potential range of bibliography styles?
by dw＠trichotomic.net 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Greetings all, I'm leaning towards experimenting with the bib module to see if I can arrive at a usable "Semiotics Society of America" reference section, which is a historically layered style, along the lines of: --- PEIRCE, Charles S. 1859. "An Essay on the Limits of Religious Thought Written to Prove That We Can Reason Upon the Nature of God", MS 53, in W1:37-40 1982. Writings of Charles S. Peirce: a Chronological Edition, ed. Max Fisch, Peirce Edition Project. Five volumes. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982-98). TEILHARD de Chardin, Pr. P. 1961. (posthumously). Hymn of the Universe (New York: Harper & Row Torchbooks, English Edition, 1965). 1957. (posthumously). The Divine Milieu (New York: Harper & Row Colophon Books Edition, 1968). --- Aside from all the niggling details (which I'm sure could be worked out), is this kind of layout in general possible—all citations going by year underneath a single instance of the author? …or am I doomed to forever make these by hand? ;) Regards, David

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\showlayout curiosity.
by John R. Culleton 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

The following code should, by my calculations, generate two pages. However it generates five, one for \ShowLayout and four for \showlayout. Remove the t-layout module and the \ShowLayout statement and it still generates four. This is an inconvenience and not a deal breaker but I am curious about why the extra pages are created. ------------------------------------------- \setupoutput[pdftex] \definepapersize[bok][width=5.5in,height=8.5in] \setuppapersize[bok][letter] \setuplayout[width=middle,location=middle] \usemodule[t-layout] % \starttext \ShowLayout[units=in] \showlayout \stoptex ------------------------------------------ John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

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Are there any ready-to-use book layouts in ConTEXt?
by R S Ananda Murthy 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Hello, Are there any ready-to-use book layouts available in ConTEXt like Komascript-Book Class in LaTeX? Thanks for your help, Anand

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Headers and footers in backmatter
by Duncan Hothersall 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Dear all, I have noticed that when I set my index as a \chapter within the \startbackmatter...\stopbackmatter structure of a document, my headers and footers, including page numbers, disappear. Even the backgrounds disappear. The only commands I can find which seem to influnce the sectionblock behaviour are \setupsectionblock and \setupsection, but neither of these has a setting for page numbering or headers/footers. Looking through the sources hasn't helped me either. Can anyone shed any light on the mechanism for adjusting this behaviour? Thanks Duncan

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spilling endnotes
by ishamid 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Dear syndicate, Just a reminder: Even with the latest patch, the endnotes spill over the page (I double-checked that core-not was replaced and the format regenerated): =========================== % output=pdftex interface=en \starttext \dorecurse{100}{test \footnote{test} \endnote{eee}\endgraf} \page \placenotes[endnote] \stoptext =========================== Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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2 questions about texexec.ini
by ishamid 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Dear musketeers, 1. I just noted that texexec.ini for mswincontext.zip defaults to tetex, not fptex. Is that intentional? 2. Can I configure texexec.ini so that texexec --make generates the aleph format in addition to the pdfetex formats? (Of course this assume we can solve the search-paths-for-formats problem.) Thought: Knowing absolutely nothing about texexec's internals, I was thinking that one possible solution to the aleph format subdirectory problem is make another executable, say TeXExecutable2 and then set TeXExecutable2 to aleph A related possiblility is renaming the formats, say: co-al-en.fmt for aleph co-tx-en.fmt for tex etc. Just a stab in the dark from someone who know virtually nothing; never know when you might hit something... Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Path searches (good news!)
by ishamid 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Dear cartel, I've been trying to control the search paths with C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-local\web2c\texmf.cnf, but I just realized that setuptex.bat overrides texmf.cnf. The way I found out is interesting: Upon running mktexlsr I get the line mktexlsr: c:/CONTEXT/tex/texmf-project is not a directory. Skipping... But in \texmf-local\web2c texmf.cnf has, not `texmf-project', but rather `texmf-projects' (with plural). And setuptex.bat is the only file that mentions `texmf-project';-) So now I have configured setuptex.bat to search TeXLive. The only hassle is that I must remember to back up my copy the next time ConTeXt updates. In case anyone else needs to do this (until Hans provides a better way;->) =========================== set TEXMFMAIN=%TEXPATH%texmf set TEXMFLOCAL=%TEXPATH%texmf-local set TEXMFFONTS=%TEXPATH%texmf-fonts set TEXMFEXTRA=%TEXPATH%texmf-extra REM set TEXMFPROJECT=%TEXPATH%texmf-project set TEXMFOS=%TEXPATH%texmf-mswin set VARTEXMF=%TMP%\texmf-var set HOMETEXMF=c:/TEXLIVE/texmf set HOMETEXMFVAR=c:/TEXLIVE/texmf-var <snip> REM set TEXMF={$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN ,$HOMETEXMF} set TEXMF={$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFEXTRA,$TEXMFMAIN,$HOMETEXMFVAR,$ HOMETEXMF} =========================== If I'm missing something or if there is a better/saner way please let me know. Now on to those other 3 problems in my previous email;-> Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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dvipdfmx/dvips and a summary
by ishamid 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Dear folks, The dvips/dvipdfmx problem is not limited to aleph in the latest ConTeXt: ===========test-3========== \setupoutput[dvi] \starttext abc \stoptext =========================== gives =========================== $>dvipdfmx test3 test3.dvi -> test3.pdf [1** Fatal error: Could not locate a virtual or a physical font file for 'ec-lmr 12'. ** ERROR ** $>dvips test3 This is dvips(k) 5.94b Copyright 2004 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) dvips: ! Couldn't find header file tex.pro =========================== I suppose that the transition to lmr is at the root of this. Anyway, I think my own problems have been reduced to the following 4: 1. supp-dir needs to be modified or made into an optional module (e.g. m-xetex) (so I don't have to modify it every time I update ConTeXt); 2. aleph needs to be taught;-) to look for its format in its own subdirectory (related: an aleph.ini should be included so that the plain aleph.fmt can be compiled. I also think the minimal context should support plain.fmt, which helps in testing etc. right now manfnt is missing); 3. dvips/dvipdfmx need to be taught how to find lmr (and perhaps other fonts? a complete font torture test before every release and for users to do their own testing is desperately needed I think. ); 4. In order to use Gamma, either i. the basic omega files (with aleph replacing omega.exe) should be included in mswincontext.zip; or ii. I need to know how to get the \ConTeXt tree to properly search the \TeXLive tree for the omega files (and for other fonts like cmr, etc). Strangely, I was able to get \TeXLive\...\texmf.cnf configured to read the \ConTeXt tree, but I was not able to get \ConTeXt\...\texmf.cnf to be able to read the \TeXLive tree. Any idea why? Many many thnx to Hans for all his hard work; I look forward to a reliable ConTeXt:-))) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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