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mbib installation
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Hello all, I am new on this list, trying these days to learn about context and considering switching from laTex to context. I have downloaded and unzipped the mbib package but not found *any* installation instructions, only some files plus a very brief README. So can anyone tell me what should I do with those. my TeX installation is teTeX TIA, -- Jean Magnan de Bornier 3 Cours Victor Hugo, 13980 Alleins France Tel: 04 90 59 33 94 Port: 06 09 17 35 87 mèl: jm.bornier*at*free.fr

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wrong patch
by Hans Hagen 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Hi, The previous post was wrong; I was playing with write tests recently and send an old fragment; the right one is: sub RunFiles { my $currentpath = cwd() ; # test if current path is writable if (! -w "$currentpath") { print " current path readonly : $currentpath\n"; if ($ENV["TEMP"] && -e $ENV["TEMP"]) { $RunPath = $ENV["TEMP"] ; } elsif ($ENV["TMP"] && -e $ENV["TMP"]) { $RunPath = $ENV["TMP"] ; } } # test if we need to change paths if (($RunPath ne "") && (-w "$RunPath")) { print " changing to path : $RunPath\n"; $InpPath = $currentpath ; chdir ($RunPath) ; } # start working if ($PdfArrange) { Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Custom Numbering Problem
by Salman Khilji 12 Aug '04

12 Aug '04

Two problems: 1) With the following: \setuphead[section][ownnumber=yes] \setupbodyfont[cmr,12pt] \starttext \completecontent \section{1a0101}{Objective} There is no objective at this moment. \stoptext There is no spacing between the text "1a0101" and "Objective" in the table of contents---this looks really ugly. However, what I really want is the ownnumber to apply to \title, not a \section. So if I do this: \setuphead[title][ownnumber=yes] \setupbodyfont[cmr,12pt] \starttext \completecontent \title{1a0101}{Minimum Radius Turn} \section{Objective} There is no objective at this moment. \stoptext Then the number 1a0101 does not appear right next to a title. (I only see "Minimum Radius Turn" as opposed to the expected "1a0101 Minimum Radius Turn". Also my \section{Objective} has numbering. I thought numbering was turned off by default on \title \section \subsection etc.

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figure placement and flushbottom
by Peter Münster 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Hello, in general, the suggested method to get LaTeX \flushbottom behaviour, shown on http://contextgarden.net/Flush_bottom, works quite well. But here I have a situation, where I do not understand, why the first page is not filled: \setupwhitespace[0pt plus 1fill] \defineblank[aroundfloat][0.8\lineheight plus 3fill minus 0.2\lineheight] \setupfloats[spacebefore=aroundfloat,spaceafter=aroundfloat] \let\stoptextO=\stoptext \def\stoptext{\vfilll\stoptextO} %\setupfloats[default={top,bottom,page}]% same as \def\fps@figure{tbp} in LaTeX? \starttext bla \section{bla}% strange: if there is no table, then the figure placement is ok. \starttable[|c|] \NC bla\NC\AR \stoptable bla \placefigure{bla}{\framed[height=10cm]{bla}} \dorecurse{30}{\dorecurse{30}{bla }\par} \stoptext TIA for any hint, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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howto overlayers on section head
by Eros Albertazzi 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

I would like to start to experiment some metafun "decoration around(over)" section head and/or page number. Something similar, just for example but I do not want to copy the style, to the one used to produce the metafun manual. From the (small "scale") drawing primitives to the (large "scale") \setuphead I miss an howto that combine the two (specifically I was thinking at a (non-existent) background keyword in \setup to pass an overlay...but likely I am far off) I don't want to be lazy, maybe it is already written in the manuals, but I still miss a certain kick.... so to say... Regards.

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Disappearing headers
by Matt Gushee 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Hello, all-- I am trying to format a book such that the book title appears in the header of each left-hand page, and the chapter title appears in the header of each right-hand page. I think (though I haven't decided for sure) that I want each chapter to start on a right-hand page. It seems that, when chapters are forced to begin on right-hand pages, the book title fails to appear on the first blank page inserted to move the chapter start, and on all subsequent pages. Here are the commands I am using related to headers: \setuphead [title] [align=left,textstyle={\switchtobodyfont[BernhardModern]\bf}] \setuphead [chapter] [page=right,head=nomarking,after=\blank] \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided,location=margin] \setupheader [style=\it] \setupheadertexts [] [chapter] [title] [] % reverse order, as mentioned in my earlier post With all these commands enabled, I get the effect I want: chapters begin on righthand pages, the title and chapter title appear, respectively, in the left and right page headers (adjacent to the page numbers, with the page numbers toward the outside edge of the page). But, as I said, the book title stops appearing as soon as a blank page is inserted to move the chapter start to the right. If I comment out *both* the \setuphead [chapter] command and the \setuppagenumbering command, the title continues to be displayed throughout the text. If I enable either of the two, the title disappears again. By the way, it appears that this \setuppagenumbering command has a side-effect of forcing chapters to begin on the right. Is that really a good idea? It's certainly surprising to me. So, am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug? -- Matt Gushee When a nation follows the Way, Englewood, Colorado, USA Horses bear manure through mgushee(a)havenrock.com its fields; http://www.havenrock.com/ When a nation ignores the Way, Horses bear soldiers through its streets. --Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, trans.)

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Re: [NTG-context] The last line
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Aug '04

11 Aug '04

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > >\placefigure{top,left} > > > >or > > > >\placefigure{bottom,outer} > > > >could be another ConTeXt4 feature? -) > > > > > >Steffen > > > >(how still is waiting for a reliable way of placing many figures in large documents) > > > > > hm, graphic placement is and will always be tricky > > btw, \placefigure[outer]{}{} does work (see details.pdf) > > as long as top/left i snot something with text aroun dit, it's doable -) > > Hans that means \placefigure{top,left}, WITH text around it, won't be doable in ConTeXt? not even in your idea of ConTeXt4? Steffen

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\type-|- within tabulate?
by Marko Schütz 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Using \type-|- in a \starttabulate ... \stoptabulate environment I get: [..] Runaway argument? - \NC $\Pattern _{m1}\ldots \Pattern _{mn_m}$ \term {->} $\Expr _m$ \NC \ETC. ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning use of \next. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> \endtemplate <template> ...atehss \egroup \egroup \endtemplate \processtabulate ...cr \fulltabulatecontent \crcr }}\ifnum \nofautotabulate ... l.366 \stoptabulate ? whereas when I use it outside, it gives me just what was intended. Any ideas and hints are welcome Marko

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\CAP command does not work
by Salman Khilji 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

Why don't I see capitals in the following example? \setupbodyfont [cmr,12pt] \starttext \startbuffer[test] The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. \stopbuffer \getbuffer[test] \CAP{\getbuffer[test]} \stoptext

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Blank figure hack: is there a better way?
by Brooks Moses 10 Aug '04

10 Aug '04

I'm doing a document which has a large logo in the upper right corner of the page. The logo (which is on a background layer) intrudes into the text area by a small amount, and so it would be nice to have the text wrap around it rather than having to do the wrapping by manual spacers and line-breaks. The "obvious" solution that I came up with for this is to put a blank right-aligned float at the top of each page (it's a presentation where all the page breaks are hand-coded, so that's easy to do), of about the size of the part of the logo that intrudes into the text. I defined a class of floats just for this: \definefloat[logospacer][logospacer] (Using the same name for the singular and plural was a hack to get around the fact that the manual doesn't indicate which of the two the \setupfloat command uses. Which is it?) So far, so good. Except that it's exceptionally hard to _get_ a blank float in ConTeXt, particularly one of a specified size. If I do this (and specify the size in a \setupfloat command): \placelogospacer[right, force]{none}{} I get a nice float exactly the size I want, but with a frame around it and the word "undefined" in the middle. If I put something in the float -- say, a letter, or a non-breaking space: \placelogospacer[right, force]{none}{~} The float suddenly becomes \textwidth wide, which is of course all wrong, but at least I have a blank float that's not undefined. If I put an \hbox in the float, with a fixed width, it stops stretching to fill the pagewidth, but unless I put something that actually makes a mark on the page, it still comes up with "undefined". (The "~" that worked earlier doesn't work if it's in an \hbox.) I tried a number of tricks -- hiding the nothing in a macro, using a zero-height rule, and so forth -- and ConTeXt was sufficiently clever to see through them all. There's also the annoyance that I have to specify the size of the float by the size of the \hbox, rather than in a convenient [width=...,height=...] fashion. Eventually, what I came up with was putting the mark somewhere off the page, with the following command: \placelogospacer[right, force]{none}{\hbox to 1cm{\hskip 5cm x}} This of course gives "overfull \hbox" errors, and is a really ugly hack, but the results are acceptable -- a float of size 1cm by 1 x-height, which doesn't put marks on the physical page. How can I do this better? Better yet, how can I do this properly? Thanks, - Brooks

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