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Re: request for help with suffix arrays
by Jonathan Nicholl 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

> Message: 11 > From: "vinuth madinur" <vinlin(a)linuxmail.org> > To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:40:27 +0800 > Subject: [NTG-context] Re: help required w.r.t " vardef " > Reply-To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > > Thanks Hans! > That wolud help me a lot.Also thanks for the reference u > mentioned.I'll try it. > > Now one last thing : > > Is there a way of having variable arrays whose contents can be used > as "suffixes"? > > something like , > > a[0]:= "A" ; > a[1]:= "B" ; > a[2]:= "C" ; %a variable array "a[]" > > > there are other three "pair" variables : T.A,T.B,T.C; > > so now I want to have , > > i := 0; > T.a[i] = blahblah(); > > so here I want to use the contents of "a[]" as suffix of variable " T > " . > > I don't know what kind of data type to use for "a[]". > I tried a[] as string type and used it with > > forsuffixes $=a[0],a[1],a[2]: > ..... > endfor; > but this does not work. > > So, can u please help me out here? > thanx in advance. > > Vinuth. > -- > ______________________________________________ > Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org > This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. > > > Powered by Outblaze You could use 'scantokens': string a[]; a 1 := "A"; a 2 := "B"; a 3 := "C"; T A := 11; T B := 12; T C := 13; for i = 1 upto 3: show (T scantokens a [i]); endfor; end This produces the output >>11 >>12 >>13 The idea is to store the suffixes as strings, and then use 'scantokens' to extract them. Best wishes, Jonathan ----------------------- Jonathan Nicholl Department of Philosophy King's College London

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Generalized \installcompoundcharacter
by Matija Pretnar 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

With the advent of UTF-8, there comes a great possibility to improve readability of the TeX code. For example: instead of \int_a^b, you could write S_a^b, where S is the character for integral. Or greek letters and any other math symbol imaginable. I tried using \installcompoundcharacter S {\int} and similar commands and all the characters show up nicely, but the spacing is all wrong, because they are interpreted as variables instead of operations, relations, ... I think this replacement would be easy to implement (if it isn't already implemented), because with math symbols, you don't have to worry about hyphenation. You could simply replace the characters with corresponding command before sending it to TeX. I already made some kind of python script that does that, but for each file separately. And with many files, you have to preprocess each one individually, which sums up to another shell script and many temporary files. Cheers, Matija

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Re: help required w.r.t " vardef "
by vinuth madinur 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

I'm sorry that I hadn't read the mail by Jonathan Nicholl. Yeah, that was very clear and precise . thank u all. But I still can't figure out how I can have the contents of variables or the expansion of "def" as suffixes.I now think it's not possible with "def". I'll try out somethings now. Thanks again. Vinuth. -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Re: help required w.r.t " vardef "
by vinuth madinur 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

Thanks Hans! That wolud help me a lot.Also thanks for the reference u mentioned.I'll try it. Now one last thing : Is there a way of having variable arrays whose contents can be used as "suffixes"? something like , a[0]:= "A" ; a[1]:= "B" ; a[2]:= "C" ; %a variable array "a[]" there are other three "pair" variables : T.A,T.B,T.C; so now I want to have , i := 0; T.a[i] = blahblah(); so here I want to use the contents of "a[]" as suffix of variable " T " . I don't know what kind of data type to use for "a[]". I tried a[] as string type and used it with forsuffixes $=a[0],a[1],a[2]: ..... endfor; but this does not work. So, can u please help me out here? thanx in advance. Vinuth. -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Pragma-ade site down?
by John Culleton 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

I can no longer access the www.pragma-ade.nl site. What has happened? I recommended it to others and they were blocked also. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Moving chapternumber in the margin ...
by Willi Egger 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Hi everybody, Studying the details manual I thought to have found a way to print the chapter number on the margin. Each increase of the chapternumber would move the figure a predefined distance downwards. Now when using a \def{\dimexpr(\realpageno\rightmarginwidth)} my chapternumber moves down. Replacing the \realpageno with \currentheadnumber the chapternumber is not moving or only after a couple of pages ... Is there someone who could hint me how to approach this? Please refer to the attached sample file "bleedingchapternumber.tex" Thanks and regards Willi % pagenumbers in the margin at half makeupheight % % Context file % filename: bleedingchapternumber.tex % W. Egger % 12.04.2004 \setupoutput[pdftex] \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,12pt] \setuppapersize[A4][A3,portrait] \setuplayout[location=middle] \setupcolors[state=start] \def\shifted{% \dimexpr(\realpageno\rightmarginwidth)} % \def\shifted{% % \dimexpr(\currentheadnumber\rightmarginwidth)} \setuppagenumbering[state=start,location={footer,marginedge}] \startreusableMPgraphic{Pagenumberbackground} path p; p := fullcircle scaled 50pt ; fill p withcolor blue; p := unitsquare xyscaled 50pt shifted (0,-25pt); fill p withcolor blue; setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox currentpicture leftenlarged 50pt ; % draw bbox currentpicture withcolor red ; \stopreusableMPgraphic \defineoverlay[Pagenumberbackground] [\useMPgraphic{Pagenumberbackground}] \definelayer [Pagenumber] [width=\rightmarginwidth, height=\makeupheight] \startsetups Pagenumber \setups[Pagenumber:Number] \setups[Pagenumber:Finish] \stopsetups \startsetups Pagenumber:Number \setlayerframed [Pagenumber] [x=1mm, y=\shifted, location={right,top}] [width=\dimexpr(\cutspace-\rightmargindistance), height=\dimexpr(\cutspace-\rightmargindistance), foregroundcolor=yellow, background=Pagenumberbackground, frame=on, offset=none] {\framed[frame=on, width=.8\rightmarginwidth, align={left,lohi}, offset=8pt] {\placeheadnumber[chapter]}}% \stopsetups \startsetups Pagenumber:Finish \framed [width=\rightmarginwidth, height=\makeupheight, background=Pagenumber, frame=off] {} \stopsetups \setuptexttexts[margin] [] [\setups{Pagenumber}] \starttext \showframe \chapter{This is chapter no \headnumber[chapter]} \chapter{This is chapter no \headnumber[chapter]} \chapter{This is chapter no \headnumber[chapter]} \chapter{This is chapter no \headnumber[chapter]} \chapter{This is chapter no \headnumber[chapter]} \stoptext

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Two lines in header
by John Culleton 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

A current book has a title that is too long to fit in the textwidth when set with expanded spacing. I want to set up the even page header like this: 101 Home Based Businesses for Pet Lovers \break doesn't work. Two backslashes don't work. Suggestions? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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syntax on bbl files
by a 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Hello, new user ...having troubles with m-bib ... I did a test file worked fine the file was smiall... Is there a way besides the log to track down errors in your bbl file for bibtex ?? kv

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Re: help required w.r.t " vardef "
by vinuth madinur 13 Apr '04

13 Apr '04

Thankx Hans, But why does this work with "def" and not with "vardef" . "list" is just a macro name i've used. And "A,B,C,A" is just the replacement text I want when I call the macro "list". Is there any other way of doing this? Vinuth. -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze

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Page number in outer margin?
by John Culleton 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

I want to place the page number vertically centered in the outer margin, with some prettyprinting. Does one do this with the \setpagenumber command, the \inmargin command, or some combination thereof? I can figure out how to do it in plain TeX but I hate to revert to plain just for this feature. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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