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reverse order sorting
by Vit Zyka 01 Feb '04

01 Feb '04

Hallo ConTeXt debaters, is possible to change sorting order (e.g. sort in reverse order) in the mechanismn: ----- \definesorting[address][addressbook] \setupsorting[address][criterium=all] \address{A} \address{B} \placelistofaddressbook ----- Thanks Vit Zyka

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differences of table modes
by Henning Hraban Ramm 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

Ahoi! I just reviewed my german ConTeXt tutorial and tried to tell the truth about all the table modes. Please correct me if I'm wrong: * tabulate - can break over several pages - [start|stop]tabulate[head|tail] should define a repeated head/tail, but it doesn't work - documented in the manual (cont-en[i|p]) * table - cannot break - based on Wichura's TaBlE (others not) - can be used as float (others not?) - documentation commercial at pctex.com (39 $), partly docs in "ConTeXt - an excursion" (m[s|p]-cb-en) * tables - same as table, but can break over several pages - [start|stop]table[head|tail] works - nowhere documented? * TABLE - didn't try page breaks yet; should it work? - [b|e]TABLE works; should [start|stop]TABLE also? - docs: up-to-date 8 (no link on HP!), enattab * new table mode? I remember Hans wrote about a new enhanced table mode, but can't find the mail. Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

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Windows xp user wants to begin with context
by Wilfried Van Hirtum 31 Jan '04

31 Jan '04

Hi I'm a complete ms word user who wants to convert to context to make his mathematical textbooks. I have windows xp on my computer, but nothing (really nothing like perl, editor's or distribution) else. What exactly have i to do make my pc work with context? By the way, don't say to me to read the how to install context manual which are not meant to read by absolute beginners. I've spent hours on looking around on internet, on the pragma-website, reading manuals, but i don't find something clear and simple what tells me exactly to do and in which order to let me begin working with context. There seems to be so many pre-knowledge about perl, command line commands, and so on.. But can anybody out there please tell me how i can start from the very beginning. I would appreciate your advise very much. To set it clear: i'm not a linux or unix-user, i use windowx xp. I really want to begin with context, but there seems to be so many obstacles to overwin. Many thanks in advance. Wilfried Van Hirtum --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!

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\textcelsius and Latin Modern
by Peter Münster 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hello, as you can see in doc/fonts/lm/testlm-ts1.dvi, there is a \textcelsius available in Latin Modern font with LaTeX. How could I use this symbol in ConTeXt? TIA for any hint, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ------------------------------------ Film Search site: http://f-s.sf.net/

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texexec --pdfselection with selection range
by Tobias Burnus 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hello, how I can use TeXExec --pdfselection with a selection range? If I try --selection=3-50,52-90 I get an error. It works if I write --selection=3,4,5,6,7,... but this is quite labourous and one needs to make sure that one has not forgot a single number. (I try to cut out the colour pages to save some paper (60 sheets) while printing to the b/w printer.) Tobias

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JPEG file couldn't be read
by Johannes Hüsing 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Hi all, this is most probably a pdfetex question, but I don't feel like subscribing to a new list to have it answered. I get the error message: Error: pdfetex (file ./rimg0016.jpg): reading JPEG image failed on a \useexternalfigure definition and \externalfigure call. Typing "file rimg0016.jpg" gets me "rimg0016.jpg: JPEG image data, EXIF standard 0.77, 42 x 0" and the file is shown as expected by "display rimg0016.jpg". This all happens under a TeXLive 7 distribution on a Debian Woody Linux box. Any ideas how I have to convert the files to please pdfetex? Greetings Johannes -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets hannes(a)ruhrau.de such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain

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spaces in bibliographic list
by Maurice Diamantini 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Bonjour à tous, I have not enought spaces between bibliographic elements (but too much spaces between two lines inside every bibliographic element) Is there any way for ajusting these spaces? Thank you very much in avance! I have the following configuration for my biblio \usemodule[bib] \setuppublications[ refcommand=num, numbering=yes, numbercommand=\myNumberCommand ] \def\myNumberCommand#1{[#1]} ... \starttext ... \section{Bibliographie} \placepublications ... \stoptext Maurice Diamantini http://www.ensta.fr/~diam

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Pagebreak in columns
by Michal Kvasnicka 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

Good evening. I typeset a document in two columns on a grid. Sometimes a page is one row longer than it should be. How can I make it not to do it? (I don't care for widows and things like that, I can correct them manually). I know this was disscussed before but I can find the text of the thread in any archive, just the link. Any hint? Many thanks for any hint. Your sincerely Michal Kvasnicka I set it approximately like this (just major setting mentioned): \setuplayout [topspace=1cm, height=19cm, lines=43, backspace=1cm, width=128mm, header=0pt, headerdistance=0pt, footer=2\baselineskip, footerdistance=0pt, grid=yes] \setupcolumns [n=2, tolerance=tolerant, distance=1em] \widowpenalty=0\relax \clubpenalty=0\relax \brokenpenalty=0\relax \normalbottom \starttext \startcolumns ... \stopcolumns \stoptext

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\fillinrules with backgroundcolor
by Berend de Boer 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, Does anyone know if it is possible to have fillinrules with a background color? It would be even better if I didn't have the rule, just a gray background for example. This is the effect I like to see: Name: [ ] Address: [ ] [ ] Where [...] is a colored back ground. Example: \starttext \fillinrules[n=1,width=broad]{Name} \fillinrules[n=2,width=broad]{Address} \stoptext - -- 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/> iD8DBQFAFMwlIyuuaiRyjTYRAnH0AJ4uBjSCK9V49sTzleVICgfKsvhqzACfQBj4 WDqfzuSOEpgi7R9f8wS2bJI= =NMfg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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\stopfiguretext problem
by Johannes Hüsing 28 Jan '04

28 Jan '04

Dear ConTeXtuals, on the following minimal example I get the following error message: \setupoutput[pdftex] \useexternalfigure [Nils][image0023-N23] \starttext \startfiguretext[left]{2003/04/23 21:11:57}{\externalfigure [Nils]} \stopfiguretext \stoptext This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) (format=cont-en 2003.5.25) 28 JAN 2004 21:24 [...] ! Undefined control sequence. \stopfiguretext ->\dostoptextfloat l.8 \stopfiguretext ? What is wrong here? Greetings Johannes -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets hannes(a)ruhrau.de such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain

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