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Export from Excel/Openoffice Calc to ConTeXt natural tables ??
by Michael Fuchs 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hi! Does anybody have an idea how I can get a Openoffice Calc table in such a way exported, that I can directly use it in ConTeXt? Does anybody had a similar problem earlier? Thanks for your help in advance Michael

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Re: [NTG-context] Temporarily turning off hyphenation?
by Duncan Hothersall 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Gerben Wierda wrote: > \def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} > \ClearChapterQuote > \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{\starttext% > \startalignment[left]% > \startnarrower[4*left] \noindent{\nohyphens\em #1}% > \stopnarrower\stopalignment\stoptext\blank} > \setuphead[chapter] > [page=left, > before={\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% > \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, > after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% > \noheaderandfooterlines] You should definitely not have the \starttext / \stoptext pair in there. There should only be one of those in an entire run - they come at the start of your content and the end. The following, tested on Live, produces something which looks like it might be what you're after: -- \def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} \ClearChapterQuote \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{% \startalignment[{left,nothyphenated}]% \startnarrower[4*left]\em #1% \stopnarrower\stopalignment\blank} \setuphead[chapter] [page=left, before={\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% \noheaderandfooterlines] \starttext \def\ChapterQuote{Something quite long so that we can tell whether or not hyphenation has occurred, hopefully this will do.} \chapter{test} Some text \stoptext -- Duncan

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RE: [NTG-context] how to use Times Roman font
by ishamid 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Matthias Weber <matweber(a)indiana.edu> ===== >The following should work with the stable ConTeXt from January: > >\usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding] >\setupbodyfont[pos] > >\usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] >\setupbodyfont[times,12pt] > >\starttext >\input knuth >\bigskip > >\stoptext On my system, using the above, the following happens (why??): ============================================ This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) (format=cont-en 2005.3.18) 20 MAR 2005 16:52 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. (c:\CONTEXT\texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) **&pdfetex/cont-en times.tex (./times.tex <snip> (c:\CONTEXT\texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)) ! Font \*12ptrmtf*=ptmr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \ifskipfontchar... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.4 \setupbodyfont[pos] ? ============================================ But if I comment the first two lines, it works: ============================================ %\usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] %\setupbodyfont[pos] \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext ============================================ Another way: ============================================ \definetypeface [times] [rm] [serif] [times] [default] [encoding=ec] \switchtotypeface [times] [12pt,rm] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext =========================================== BTW, what are the lines \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[pos] for? Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Temporarily turning off hyphenation?
by Gerben Wierda 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I haven't been able to find information about temporarily turning off hyphenation. Can it be done? (This is for a non-justified quote at the start of a chapter) G

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RE: [NTG-context] how to use Times Roman font
by ishamid 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > >Unfortunately, error again: Yes, an error here as well. Did you try the two other ways I mentioned in my other reply: ============================================ %\usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] %\setupbodyfont[pos] % note the comments \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext ============================================ Another way: ============================================ \definetypeface [times] [rm] [serif] [times] [default] [encoding=ec] \switchtotypeface [times] [12pt,rm] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext =========================================== If neither of these two work then something is really wrong... Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Repost: Two problems with my chapter quote setup (Modified by Gerben Wierda)
by Gerben Wierda 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I forgot one part at the end. Here it is again. I've got this in my environment file: \def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} \ClearChapterQuote \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{\starttext% \startalignment[left]% \startnarrower[4*left] \noindent{\hyphenpenalty 10000\em #1}% \stopnarrower\stopalignment\stoptext\blank} \setuphead[chapter] [page=left, before={\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% \noheaderandfooterlines] I've got two problems with this setup: First, even with the \hyphenpenalty I get this line breaking: For what can a man accomplish that has not been done a million times before? What can he say that he will not find in Lao-Tse or the Bhagavad-gita or the Prophet Isa- iah? John Steinbeck — Sweet Thursday (Interestingly, when I copy/paste this from Apple's Preview.app I get For what can a man accomplish that has not been done a million times before? What can he say that he will not find in Lao-Tse or the Bhagavad-gita or the Prophet Isaiah? John Steinbeck — Sweet Thursday) no -, no line break, etc. Anyway: this line breaking is really ugly. I can fix this by hand, but I'd rather have this working automatically. My second problem is that I get two empty numbered pages between chapters. As in page 13: last text of chapter 1 page 14: empty page with page number page 15: empty page with page number page 16: page with quote and no page number page 17: first page of chapter 2 no page number I'd like to get rid of pages 14 and 15. I think I need to only do a page=left when I am on a right page at that time (page=even has the same result) I even tried: \setuphead[chapter] [page=disable, before={\page[even]\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% \noheaderandfooterlines] Thanks, G

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Getting a barred l for all the wrong reasons
by dw＠trichotomic.net 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Greetings, hopefully this is a real quickie. I'm using XeConTeXt, regime UTF, language en, hoefler encoding uc & receiving a barred l for any instance of this: l/ Which makes it tough to have pairs like centripetal/centrifugal. :) Any clues? Kind regards, David

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Two problems with my chapter quote setup
by Gerben Wierda 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I've got this in my environment file: \def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} \ClearChapterQuote \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{\starttext% \startalignment[left]% \startnarrower[4*left] \noindent{\hyphenpenalty 10000\em #1}% \stopnarrower\stopalignment\stoptext\blank} \setuphead[chapter] [page=left, before={\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% \noheaderandfooterlines] I've got two problems with this setup: First, even with the \hyphenpenalty I get this line breaking: For what can a man accomplish that has not been done a million times before? What can he say that he will not find in Lao-Tse or the Bhagavad-gita or the Prophet Isa- iah? John Steinbeck — Sweet Thursday (Interestingly, when I copy/paste this from Apple's Preview.app I get For what can a man accomplish that has not been done a million times before? What can he say that he will not find in Lao-Tse or the Bhagavad-gita or the Prophet Isaiah? John Steinbeck — Sweet Thursday) no -, no line break, etc. Anyway: this line breaking is really ugly. I can fix this by hand, but I'd rather have this working automatically. My second problem is that I get two empty numbered pages between chapters. As in page 13: last text of chapter 1 page 14: empty page with page number page 15: empty page with page number page 16: page with quote and no page number page 17: first page of chapter 2 no page number I'd like to get rid of pages 14 and 15. I think I need to only do a page=left when I am on a right page at that time (page=even has the same result) Thanks, G

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RE: [NTG-context] how to use Times Roman font
by ishamid 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Don't know if this is related but >===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Hi Matthias! > >Unfortunately, error again: >------------------------------------------------------- > > TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 Your TeXecec is very old; I'm using TeXExec 5.2.4 >ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2005.3.19 int: english mes: english We are apparently using the same version of ConTeXt, minus TeXexec. Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Title-page overlay
by Nikolai Weibull 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I would like to put a rather large and complicated regular expression into the title-page of a document I'm writing. So far, I haven't had much luck defining an overlay that uses \starttyping ... \stoptyping. Basically, what I figured I should do was to write \defineoverlay [TitleGraphic] [{ \starttyping ... \stoptyping }] and then \setupbackgrounds[page][background=TitleGraphic] But that doesn't work: ! Argument of \copyverbatimline has an extra }. Have any suggestions on what I might try? Basically, what I want is a background with some arbitrary text, more or less like the pdfTeX user manual document does it [1], nikolai [1] http://www.pragma-ade.com/pdftex/pdftex-a.pdf -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: minimalistic.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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