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by cormullion 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

My last question! :-) I would like to have the various ‘parts’ of a book marked with black rectangles at the right side of each page, visible when the reader flips through the pages. I googled successfully to find ‘fancyhdr’, but that’s a LaTeX package, so I don’t think it will work in ConTeXt. If it’s not too difficult in ConTeXt, can anyone share the secret? thanks!

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Typesetting products and components
by Randall Skelton 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Is it possible to determine if texexec is being run on a product or a component and have optional processing similar to different modes? I have a large project comprising quarterly reports and technical notes. Essentially, I have the following structure: project = MyProject |- product = Reports |- component1 = year2005, chapters 1-n |- component1 = year2006, chapters 1-n ... |- product = TechNotes |- component1 = note1, sections 1-n |- component1 = note2, sections 1-n ... ... I would like to be able to typeset a component differently depending on whether it is passed directly to texexec or whether I am processing the complete product. For instance, in each technical note, I would like a title page, table of contents, list of abreviations, and list of references generated if I typeset the component separately. Conversely, when processing the product TechNotes I want a master table of contents, list of abbreviations and list of references generated for the set of components. Is it appropriate to want to do this or have I misunderstood the role of projects, products and components entirely. Cheers, Randall

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server down ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Hi Hans, I am trying to download http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip but there is no connection to pragma-ade.com or .nl at all. Are you working on the server, when is it up again? BTW: Is there already a more recent (after Dec.2004) version of mswincontext.zip ? Thanks, Steffen

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patterns
by Hans Hagen 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Hi, In order to get rid of the pattern problems (no consistency in internals, funny names, changing locations, changing names, etc) I decided to provide the option to use context 'specific' pattern files, although ... the pattern files have become quite generic and encoding independent. For those willing to test, i uploaded a new alpha version. In order to use the new method you need to generate the pattern files in a path known to tex. ctxtools --patterns all (or a language code instead) texexec --make --all The pattern files use symbolic names instead of encoding specific characters or tex commands. Because pattern files are often encoding specific, loading a pattern file multiple times could be tricky. The generated files can be loaded for any encoding that provides the named glyphs (i.e. maps onto numbers). [As a joke, i also provide the option to let those pattern files be coded in xml.] In principle, the files can be used in e.g. plain tex as well, for more details see the new (preliminary) manual mpattern.pdf Btw, I still have to do the cyrillic languages. if you think that for your language a multiple encodings should be preloaded ... let me know. Also, the manual has room for language specific information, char tables 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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[Fwd: CTAN upload: URW Letter Gothic fonts]
by Tobias Burnus 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Hi, yet another URW++ font - this time a typewriter font. Tobias -------- Original Message -------- CTAN Announcements <ctan-ann(a)dante.de> Send by: ctan-ann-bounces(a)dante.de 11.02.2005 16:47 To: ctan-ann(a)dante.de Subject: CTAN upload: URW Letter Gothic fonts On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Walter Schmidt upoloaded a bundel called lettergothic containing: (1) the PostScript font family Letter Gothic, which URW has made available for free under the Aladdin Free Public License, see <http://www.artifex.com/downloads/> (2) font metrics, macros etc. to use the fonts with LaTeX; this material is released under LPPL Because of the Aladdin license, the bundle has been installed in: nonfree/fonts/urw/lettergothic Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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Why uses Context 8r encoding used instead of the specified ec encoding?
by Stefan Wachter 15 Feb '05

15 Feb '05

Hi all! Fonts are driving my crazy! I have the following document that clearly states that the font encoding should be "ec". Yet, somewhere behind the scenes the ec-encoded font uhvr8t is mapped into the 8r-encoded font uhvr8r. Can someone reveal this deep secret? Best regards, --Stefan PS: The pdfmapline instruction cause the uhvr8r font not to be embedded. Doing so proves that Context really uses the uhvr8r font and not the uhvr8t font. \enableregime[il1] \setupencoding[default=ec] \setupoutput[pdftex] \usetypescriptfile[pdf-typescript.tex] \usetypescript[pdf] \setupbodyfont[MyHelvetica,sans,20pt] \setupheadertexts[] \pdfoptionpdfminorversion 4 \starttext \pdfmapline{=uhvr8r Helvetica "TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont" <8r.enc} This is a test. \stoptext With the typescriptfile pdf-typescript.tex: \starttypescript [sans] [xhelvetica] [name] \writestatus{x}{y} \definefontsynonym [Sans] [uhvr8t] [encoding=ec] \definefontsynonym [SansBold] [uhvb8t] [encoding=ec] \definefontsynonym [SansItalic] [uhvro8t] [encoding=ec] \definefontsynonym [SansSlanted] [uhvro8t] [encoding=ec] \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [uhvbo8t] [encoding=ec] \definefontsynonym [SansBoldSlanted] [uhvbo8t] [encoding=ec] \definefontsynonym [SansCaps] [uhvr8t] [encoding=ec] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [pdf] \definetypeface [MyHelvetica] [ss] [sans] [xhelvetica] [default] [encoding=ec] \stoptypescript

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Page numbers in margin?
by Matt Gushee 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Hello, all-- I am creating a layout for electronic books in which all the body text is in a single, fairly narrow column, with minimal space at the top and bottom of each page. I would like to place page numbers in the left margin, aligned with the bottom of the text, and the running heads (if any) also in the left margin, aligned with the top of the text. Is there a way to do this in ConTeXt? I can see that the standard page numbering and header commands don't support this kind of placement. I can come very close to the desired effect with the following: * Place the page numbers in the margin area of the footer, e.g.: \setuppagenumbering [...,location=inleft] * Place the header text in the margin area of the header, e.g.: \setupheadertext [margin] [section] [] * Use negative dimensions to cause the header and footer to overlap the text area, e.g.: \setuplayout [...,headerdistance=-0.35in,footerdistance=-0.5in] As I said, this comes very close to the desired effect, but it seems impossible to align the header text and page numbers with the main text. Also, the header texts are mostly too long to fit on a single line in the margin, and I have not found a way to induce line wrapping. Your suggestions are greatly appreciated. -- Matt Gushee Englewood, CO, USA

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\footnotetext
by Peter Münster 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Hello, here a problem with \note and \footnotetext in \starttables. Only one footnote is possible: \starttext \starttables[|p(13em)|p(13em)|] \VL SomeText \VL SomeText\note[n1] \VL \AR \footnotetext[n1]{1. note} \dorecurse{50}{\VL SomeText \VL SomeText \VL \AR} %\VL SomeText \VL SomeText\note[n2] \VL \AR \footnotetext[n2]{2. note} \stoptables This is better than localfootnotes, since the footnote appears on the right page. But unfortunatly it won't work with the second footnote: \starttyping ERROR: Undefined control sequence. --- TeX said --- <argument> \lastnotenumber \stoptyping \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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vertical offset on first page
by Peter Münster 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Hello, here the next problem: \starttext \starttablehead \HL \stoptablehead \starttables[|l|l|] \dorecurse{50}{\VL SomeText \VL SomeText \VL \AR} \stoptables Problem: top margin on first page is bigger. \stoptext Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Blocks in a macro?
by Michal Kvasnicka 14 Feb '05

14 Feb '05

Good evening. How can I include \begin<block> ... \end<block> into a macro? I have defined: \defineblock[question] \defineblock[answer] \defineenumeration[question][location=serried, coupling=answer] \defineenumeration[answer][location=serried, coupling=answer] \hideblocks[answer] I'd like to simplify my code from \beginquestion \startquestion question ... \stopquestion \endquestion \beginanswer \answer answer ... \par \endanswer to \q{question ...}{answer ...} \q begin something like this: \def\q{% \beginquestion \question #1\par \endquestion \beginanswer \answer #2\par \endanswer } But no question/anwer is written into .tub file (only the beginning/end of those blocks). Any hint? Many thanks. Your sincerely Michal Kvasnicka

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