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Vertical alignment of marginal material
by Jonathan Nicholl 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

> Message: 12 > Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:14:38 +0100 > To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > From: Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] alignment of marginal material > Reply-To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > > At 21:40 22/02/2004, Jonathan Nicholl wrote: >> I am trying to write a macro which places a picture in the margin. I >> would >> like the centre of the picture to be aligned vertically with the >> centre of >> the paragraph in which I call the macro. The following works in >> simple cases: >> >> \def\hazard#1{% >> \setbox0=\vbox{#1}% >> \inleft [low] {% >> \framed% >> [height=\ht0,% >> top=\vss,% >> bottom=\vss,% >> frame=off]% >> {\externalfigure [sharp turn sign]}% >> }% >> #1}% >> >> If I type something like >> >> \hazard{…paragraph text…} >> >> this produces what I want. But it breaks down with mathematics. >> >> \hazard{% >> \startformula >> …mathematics… >> \stopformula >> } >> >> produces the picture aligned with the bottom of the mathematics. >> >> A solution to this problem escapes me. Can anyone suggest an improved >> macro? > > Here is my 10 minute solution ... if i'm in the mood i can make an > option of it Maybe other people would like some support for this kind of thing. Certainly I would find it useful if, when I wrote `\inmargin…' somewhere inside a paragraph, I could specify an option to determine the vertical alignment of the marginal material. Suppose `top' aligned the top of the marginal material with the top of the paragraph, `mid' the middle of the marginal material with the midpoint of the paragraph, and `bot' the bottom of the marginal material with the bottom of the paragraph. That would be good. > \newcounter\CurrentFigPar > > \def\StartFigPar#1% > {\doglobal\increment\CurrentFigPar > \placefigure > [leftmargin,line,none]{} > {\setbox\scratchbox\hbox{#1}% > > \ifnum\MPp{figpar:b:\CurrentFigPar}=\MPp{figpar:e: > \CurrentFigPar}\relax > \scratchdimen\MPy{figpar:b:\CurrentFigPar}% > \advance\scratchdimen-\MPy{figpar:e:\CurrentFigPar}% > \advance\scratchdimen-\ht\scratchbox > \advance\scratchdimen\lineheight > \else > \scratchdimen\zeropoint > \fi > \vbox{\vskip.5\scratchdimen\box\scratchbox}}% > \indent\hpos{figpar:b:\CurrentFigPar}{\strut}\ignorespaces} > > \def\StopFigPar > > {\removeunwantedspaces\hpos{figpar:e:\CurrentFigPar}{\strut}\endgraf} > > \starttext > > \input tufte > > \StartFigPar{\externalfigure[cow.pdf][width=1cm]} \input tufte > \StopFigPar > > \input tufte > > \stoptext=20 Thank you very much indeed, Hans. This puts cow.pdf in the right place in the margin. One problem remains. Surrounding a paragraph by \StartFigPar…\StopFigPar often messes up the inter-paragraph vertical spacing. In particular, surrounding \startformula…\stopformula by \StartFigPar…\StopFigPar introduces big spaces above and below the mathematics. Is there a simple way to stop this? It would be good if introducing a few \StartFigPar…\StopFigPar pairs to a document had no effect at all on the main body of the document, and just put figures in the margin. ----------------------- Jonathan Nicholl Department of Philosophy King's College London

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manual on style design
by Hans Hagen 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

Hi, I'm working on a new manual. Some content and a rough outline can be found at: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/style.pdf Just to get an idea (let me know if you miss topics that fit in that approach) 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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(no subject)
by Vit Zyka 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

Hallo, it seems to me that text surrounding is ignored for floats inside columns, see the code below. Am I right? Vit Zyka ---- \starttext \startcolumns[n=2] \placefigure[left,none]{}{\framed[width=1cm,height=3ex]{!}} \input knuth \stopcolumns \stoptext ----

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multi media
by Hans Hagen 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

Hi, If you have acrobat 6 installed, you can try: http://www.pragma-ade.com/itdemos/internal/media/mediashow.pdf This file accesses - a movie - a flash - a smil - a mpeg however, - the smil does not work on a distance (probably bug in acrobat, resources are not picked up) - the smil does not work stand alone on a mac - the shockwave does not work on a mac (which associates the suffix/mime to quicktime) on windows, things seem to work ok in standalone as well as when served on localhost with url's; on macosx, a full screen startup looks rather strange (not centered, funny top bar) you can download http://www.pragma-ade.com/itdemos/internal/media/mediashow.zip to test it locally (8 meg file). If you're on linux or mac, try this on a xp machine. The files has - roll over buttons (not that new, was already present) - navigational layers (also not new, already present as well) - multimedia support The next release will support multimedia (a bit more than shown here). I have a separate demo file for that (still pondering how to distribute it). I'll see if I can write a My Way this week. Beware: multimedia support combined with other features is not always that stable in acrobat (apart from some bugs). Given that you have an xml file describing you media, texexec --use=med-show --pdf thatfile.xml will do the trick (in my version -) This is a first step towards a multimedia server/client based on pdf. So, if an able mac user is willing to write an xslt script for converting those itunes export files into a reslib format ... (now patrick is supposed to say: yes -) 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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alignment of marginal material
by Jonathan Nicholl 23 Feb '04

23 Feb '04

I am trying to write a macro which places a picture in the margin. I would like the centre of the picture to be aligned vertically with the centre of the paragraph in which I call the macro. The following works in simple cases: \def\hazard#1{% The argument is the text of the paragraph \setbox0=\vbox{#1}% I do this to work out the height of the paragraph \inleft [low] {% \framed% [height=\ht0,% This makes the height of the frame equal to the height of the paragraph top=\vss,% bottom=\vss,% These two lines centre the picture in the frame frame=off]% {\externalfigure [sharp turn sign]}% }% #1}% It goes wrong if you replace #1 with \box0 If I type something like \hazard{…paragraph text…} this produces what I want. But it breaks down with mathematics. \hazard{% \startformula …mathematics… \stopformula } produces the picture aligned with the bottom of the mathematics. A solution to this problem escapes me. Can anyone suggest an improved macro? Best wishes, Jonathan ----------------------- Jonathan Nicholl Department of Philosophy King's College London

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boldsymbol workaround
by David Munger 22 Feb '04

22 Feb '04

Hi all, I've just found a little workaround for using boldsymbols. It works even with the nath module. It's probably not the best way of doing it, but since it does the trick for me, I guess it might useful to other ConTeXters. Here it is: \define[1]\boldsymbol{{\hbox{\formula{\bfm #1}}}} I also have to: \definebodyfont [17.3pt,14.4pt,12pt,11pt,10pt,9pt,8pt,7pt,6pt,5pt,4pt] [mm] [mrbf=cmbx10 sa 1, exbf=cmex10 sa 1, mibf=cmmib10 sa 1, sybf=cmbsy10 sa 1, mabf=msam10 sa 1] \setupformulae[method=bold] Then, I may define very handy commands like \define\grad{\boldsymbol{\nabla}} \define[1]\vec{\boldsymbol{#1}} \define[1]\unitvec{\hat{\vec{#1}}} and formulas like this typeset perfectly: \[ \grad h = a \unitvec{n} \]

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XY arrangement
by Willi Egger 22 Feb '04

22 Feb '04

Hi Hans, I should print on a sheet of etiquettes made by Avery. The topspace as the bottomspace is 15 mm the left and right non printable area is 7 mm. On the rest of the printing area there are 21 etiquettes with a horizontal distance of 3mm. There is no vertical gap in the columns of etiquettes. I setup the XY arrangement. The etiquettes look o.k. The problem is, that Context ignores the topspace and backspace as setup in \setuppaper. For your reference I add a minimal example. Could you please have a look why the mentioned parameters are ignored? Thanks, kind regards Willi \setupoutput[pdftex] \usetypescript[modern][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[modern,ss,10pt] \setupcolors[state=start] %Avery etiket 38.1 x 63.5 mm topspace 15 mm, % bottomspace = 15 mm, margin 7 mm both sides, % 21 etikettes per sheet \definepapersize[Etiket][height=38.1mm,width=63.5mm] \setuppapersize [Etiket][A4,portrait] \setuppaper [topspace=15mm, backspace=7mm, % cutspace=7mm, dx=3mm, dy=0mm, nx=3, ny=7, margin=7mm, width=196mm, height=267mm] \setuplayout [topspace=4mm, backspace=4mm, margin=0mm, width=55.5mm, height=30mm, header=0mm, footer=0mm] \setuparranging[XY] \definelayer[Etiket][width=\textwidth, height=\textheight] \setupframedtexts[frame=off,width=\textwidth,align=middle] \startbuffer[Logoinhalt] Place of logo \stopbuffer \showframe \starttext \dorecurse{21}{% \setlayer [Etiket] [preset=righttop,location={left,bottom}] {\bfb Productname} \setlayer [Etiket] [preset=leftbottom,location={right,top}] {\switchtobodyfont[7pt]\getbuffer[Logoinhalt]} \placelayer[Etiket]} \stoptext

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Two questions about \subject vs \section
by Duncan Hothersall 22 Feb '04

22 Feb '04

Hello all. I have a series of documents which use \section to create a numbered heading and \subject to create an unnumbered one. I would like the unnumbered headings (the \subjects) to do put the titles in the running heads and in the tables of contents, like the \sections do. I have experimented with \setuphead but can't see how this can be done? A related question which might help me answer the first - where would I find the default settings for things like \chapter and \subject, so that I can see how they are originally set up and therefore how to make them behave differently? The tex/context/base/*.tex files don't seem to contain \definehead commands for these, so I assume they must be done in a different way internally? Thanks for any help. Duncan dh(a)capdm.com

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unwanted pagebreak
by R. Ermers 22 Feb '04

22 Feb '04

Dear Contex'ers, Does anyone know how I can prevent the occurrence of a pagebreak after: \section, \subsection, ... (followed by \startitemize) \head (in an itemization) I do not want to have to check all the section headings and put \page[no] before the heading. Kind regards, Robert Ermers

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Re: [NTG-context] floats in column sets [was: (no subject)]
by Christopher G D Tipper 20 Feb '04

20 Feb '04

>> yes; see columns.pdf for the many figure options in column sets >> >> Hans > I find myself with a similar problem with floats not working. Could I have a link to > 'columns.pdf'. I have searched the website, but no joy. I reply to my own message because I have found columns.pdf in tex/sources/user, but this is meaningless to me. Are there some undocumented \placefigure switches I need to know about? Christopher

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