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Table of Contents spacing.
by John Culleton 27 Apr '04

27 Apr '04

I want the Table of Contenst entries at normal (single) spacing but they are occurring with white space between the lines. Here is my code to date: \setuplist[chapter][alternative=a,style=bold] \definecombinedlist[content][chapter,section] [level=chapter,criterium=all,before=,after=\null] \setupcombinedlist[content][alternative=a] Probably I have one statement too many, or one parameter too many. Often with Context I get lost in the variations and cannot see the simple solution. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Superimposing two flowcharts
by Sytse Knypstra 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

Hi all, I would like to make a flowchart in which one shape (FLOWcell) is essentially bigger than the other shapes (in fact it should occupy the space for two ordinary shapes). Now I made two flowcharts; one consists of the one bigger shape, while the other consists of the remaining shapes (of which two are invisible because their shape is defined as `node'). My idea is to put one flowchart on top of the other. Is this possible? And if it is, how should I do this? B.t.w. using `offset=overlay' in \setupFLOWcharts gives a syntax error. Sytse Knypstra

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Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
by viveksharma 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

Dear all Has anyone used context to produce articles conforming to Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (http://www.icmje.org/) If so could you share the setup/layout? I am a newbie who has just begun with the manual and the excellent tex.iso uploaded recently by Hans (Thanks, this version works beautifully!). The latex elsart.cls does something similar but I was wondering with the better capabilities of Context someone had used it for submitting to a biomedical journal. kind regards Vivek

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Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals
by Vivek Sharma 21 Apr '04

21 Apr '04

Dear all Has anyone used context to produce articles conforming to Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals (http://www.icmje.org/) If so could you share the setup/layout? I am a newbie who has just begun with the manual and the excellent tex.iso uploaded recently by Hans (Thanks, this version works beautifully!). The latex elsart.cls does something similar but I was wondering with the better capabilities of Context someone had used it for submitting to a biomedical journal. kind regards Vivek

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ConTeXt in auctex
by Berend de Boer 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, I've recently moved most of my context.el macro's to the existing ConTeXt support in AUCTEX: http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ And added new goodies such as selecting an environment from the menu or a setup command. Makes writing ConTeXt even easier for beginners. This is beta quality, it won't destroy your documents, but it might not work perfect either. You need to check out the CVS AUCTEX to give it a try. I'm looking for feedback from users, so comments please. I'm also looking for good suggestions how to specify parameters for ConTeXt macro's within Emacs. We have complete access to a macro's parameter list including allowed values, but I struggle a bit how to make that available in Emacs. Perhaps people here now other packages that solve these problems? It's quite a generic easy: show parameters for a routine and permitted values. - -- Live long and prosper, Berend de Boer (PGP public key: http://www.pobox.com/~berend/berend-public-key.txt) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFAgHCZIyuuaiRyjTYRAqFwAJ9FQLrCPFjMsuUTBrymt3eA5ub8bACgzaCM Rq5RxmuUdm0dKUNAhZaAKGs= =2i0R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Possible bug in texexec
by Morten Høgholm 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

Dan Luecking has reported the following problem on c.t.t.: When mptopdf is used on a .mp file it preprocesses the file and the result (on my system it seems always to be named mptrace.tmp) is run through mpost. This mptrace.tmp has new-lines after every semicolon (;). This causes an error when the semicolon is part of a literal string, because mpost syntax requires such strings to be entirely on one line. I mentioned also texexec, because mptopdf seems to call texexec for some purposes. I know too little perl to even know what to look for, much less propose a patch. This behavior has been confirmed under WinXP (fptex = TeXLive8) and Mac OS X (tetex). This particular problem can affect the latest mfpic (0.7, which I maintain) if a user processes mfpic's .mp output file with mptopdf. Users can work around the bug by modifying their copy of mfpic.tex, changing the line GBmsg "Bad mfpic installation; mfpic and grafbase % to something like GBmsg "Bad mfpic installation: mfpic and grafbase % This change will be provided as patch to mfpic shortly. -- Morten Høgholm

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numbers as dropped caps
by Tobias Hilbricht 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

Dear readers of this list, I would like to use big numbers at the beginning of paragraphs just like droppedcaps. However, if I use the DroppedCaps-macro with numbers, it does not work. See the example below - a letter works, a number not. How can I use numbers like droppedcaps? Thanks for helpful hints in advance Yours sincerely Tobias Hilbricht ------------------------------------ \def\MyDroppedCaps% {\DroppedCaps {} {uplr8t} {2\baselineskip} {3pt} {\baselineskip} {2}} \language[de] \starttext \MyDroppedCaps H allo ich bin das H und bin am Anfang des Abschnitts sehr gro"s geraten. Aber ich kann mich auch klein machen und sehe dann so aus: h! \MyDroppedCaps 1 2 3 im Sauseschritt bringen wir die Liebe mit. \stoptext -------------------------------------

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\index + \definedescription
by Pavel Stupin 17 Apr '04

17 Apr '04

Hello, In my document, I have a description defined in this way: \definedescription[DictEntry][headstyle=bold,location=serried,width=broad] I use the DictEntry description like this: ***************************************************************** \startDictEntry{Walters, Barbara (1931- )} a US television journalist known especially for her series Barbara Walters Special... \stopDictEntry \startDictEntry{Waterhouse, Keith (1929- )} an English journalist and writer of novels and plays... \stopDictEntry \startDictEntry{West, Rebecca (1892-1983)} an English writer and journalist. She wrote many novels... \stopDictEntry ... etc. ***************************************************************** What I would like to do is to automatically create an \index{} for every DictEntry so that every entry then appear in the register. Probably, I should use 'between' parameter when defining my DictEntry description, but I'm confused with what should be the proper argument in 'between=\index{???}. I would appreciate any help. Thank you in advance. Best, Pavel.

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ConTeXt and the blind
by Alan Bowen 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

I have very recently launched a new journal which has been designed on the assumption that it will exist in both electronic form and in print—hence, it is produced using ConTeXt and exists natively in PDF files. This morning I was asked by a colleague who is totally blind whether it would be possible to for him have ASCII or .txt files that he could use easily with his screen reading software. (My sense is that he may be able to use PDF files with this software, but that it is not easy.) So, does anyone on the list have ideas about how to produce such files from the files I currently have in hand or any experience with this sort of problem? Is there, for instance, a way to strip away all the formatting commands from a ConTeXt source file automatically so as to leave an unencoded .txt file that I could send him? I gather that he can use .htm files, but so far as I can tell there is no path from a ConTeXt source file to an HTML file—at least, a specific query about this made recently on this list by someone else seems to have gone unanswered. Cheers, Alan

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vim syntax file for ConTeXt
by Gour 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

By lookin' at mailing lists' archive I saw several posts regarding Scite as editor of choice for ConTeXt. Since I'm using vim, I'd like to stay with it, so does someone have some vim syntax file tailored for ConTeXt? Any ConTeXt vim user? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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