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How to make empty pages by default empty?
by Steffen Wolfrum 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hi, I guess this is very likely a FAQuestion but nevertheless I couldn't find the answer: When a new sectionblock or a chapter (page=right) is starting and ConTeXt is forced to add before that a left empty page then this empty page has naked pagenumber. So what is the code to make empty pages by default empty (no header, no pagenumber)? Sorry for this probably silly question, but I truely might be happy for an answer. Thanks, Steffen.

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Re: [NTG-context] new version
by Steffen Wolfrum 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 14:25 17/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: > > > What is needed is a kind of extension to placefigure[top] where figures > are *still* placed top/bottom but *also* are surrounded by text (right or > left). > > this is kind of impossible in tex since it works per paragraph and during > that it has no concept of crossing a page boundary; i presume that i can > cook up something for a controlled situation but it's far from trivial > > Hans That would be great Hans! I'm curious what dish you will serve .-) Steffen

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new version
by Steffen Wolfrum 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > The last hour I fixed a couple of things that came up during the recent > dante/gutenberg tex conferences as well as added the table thingies > discussed here. (for the split lovers: there was a small bug in the patch i > sent earlier; actually the patch broke some of my existing files -) > > the main as well as the beta files have been upgraded > > Hans Hi Hans, that's good news. I almost don't dare to ask, but... do you think that you might have now a little time to look at the placefigure[top,left] topic? The solution that you proposed some days ago unfortunately doesn't help much: \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[left] {}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par} What is needed is a kind of extension to placefigure[top] where figures are *still* placed top/bottom but *also* are surrounded by text (right or left). I am really sorry for being persistent, but the main reason for me to switch from LaTeX to ConTeXt was that I thought that some has much more possibilities in placing figures in ConTeXt than in LaTeX. And I was honestly surprised that this is not implemented yet, as it is such a frequently used feature - at least in the books of humanities, art history etc. it is very, very common. You said that it should not be too difficult - and it really would be a great feature for ConTeXt!! What do you think? Steffen P.S. Sorry, hope I don't annoy you too much... >>2. Isn't it possible to make a kind of combination between the placefigure >>options top and left (for example), so that a small picture can have text >>floating around it but it is placed at the top of the page (like big >>landscape formats would be with the top option)? >> ... > >2. should not be too difficult, i'll look into it > >Hans > >--

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error \handlecompoundcharacter ...
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hi experts! Consider this simple code: \defineXMLcommand [de] {\language[de]} \defineXMLcommand [end] {\disableXML} \starttext \enableXML <de/> <anytag anyattrib="Aqq"/> Ich liebe ConTeXt! <end/> \stoptext It cause en ERROR! It happens ONLY for \language[de] neither pl nor en, nl... Error message is: systems : begin file x at line 8 ! Undefined control sequence. \handlecompoundcharacter ...ndlecompoundcharacter {\dohandlecompoundcharacte... \dodoparseXMLarguments #1->\if #1 >\let \dodoparseXMLarguments \empty \else \... <argument> anyatrib=" Aqq"/ \parseXMLelement ...XMLarguments \rawXMLelement #3 >\fi \or \or \the \everyXM... l.11 <anytag anyatrib="Aqq"/> ? ! Emergency stop. \handlecompoundcharacter ...ndlecompoundcharacter {\dohandlecompoundcharacte... \dodoparseXMLarguments #1->\if #1 >\let \dodoparseXMLarguments \empty \else \... <argument> anyatrib=" Aqq"/ \parseXMLelement ...XMLarguments \rawXMLelement #3 >\fi \or \or \the \everyXM... l.11 <anytag anyatrib="Aqq"/> End of file on the terminal! Any hints? Regards, Pawe/l

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height and width of a figure
by Severin Obertuefer 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

hi all i included an external figure in a document with \useexernalfigure[fig] how can i get the width and the height of this picture so that i can make a frame that has exactly the same size as the externalfigure[fig]. thanks a lot for help greetings severin -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++ Getestet von Stiftung Warentest: GMX FreeMail (GUT), GMX ProMail (GUT) (Heft 9/03 - 23 e-mail-Tarife: 6 gut, 12 befriedigend, 5 ausreichend) Jetzt selbst kostenlos testen: http://www.gmx.net

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tables within tabulate environment
by Frank 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hi, I am working on some documents which are based on a table which is part of the text flow and may break between pages. So I use the tabulate environment. However now I need to include a table inside a tabulate cell, but this does not seem to work. How can I get around this? Best regards Frank

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Re: [OS X TeX] Alternate/Swash Font in LaTeX, how?
by Steffen Wolfrum 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

William Adams <wadams(a)atlis.com> wrote: > Steffen asked about Adobe Garamond Swash Italic. > > Yeah, it's a non-standard encoding. You can either manually add it to a > .vf, or follow the instructions in Alan Hoenig's wonderful book, _TeX > Unbound_ > > I've samples of it up on my web site at > http://members.aol.com/willadams - check the portfolio section, and if > you go to the fonts page you should be able to follow the links to a > .vf which may or may not work for you. > > William Thanks William, but although I tried nearly every links on your address I couldn't find any link related to .vf. Couldn't you maybe pass me the URL directly? Thanks again Steffen

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new version
by Hans Hagen 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hi, The last hour I fixed a couple of things that came up during the recent dante/gutenberg tex conferences as well as added the table thingies discussed here. (for the split lovers: there was a small bug in the patch i sent earlier; actually the patch broke some of my existing files -) the main as well as the beta files have been upgraded Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl 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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Re: [NTG-context] [NTG-context]
by ^Nitram^ 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hi, > layers, see details.pdf Thanks, but I tried examples from there and only \hskip\layoutcolumnoffset{2}{\red Text positioned in column 2!} works fine... Other examples does nothing - there is no errors on \setlayer but I didn't see any effect - no text is visible ;( PS. Sorry for empty subject of first post. -- Best regards Martin

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Re: [NTG-context] problems with embedded spaces in file paths (Win32)
by Hans Hagen 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

At 13:08 15/09/2003 -0300, you wrote: >I don't normally use Win32, but I want to convert our 4AllTeX addicts to >TeX Live 2003. In testing release candidates, I encountered a few >problems with context and texexec. The most recent tests were with the >Sept. 5 release candidate (using the "install" CD). > >1. on Win32, kpsewhich often fails to find texexec.ini. I created a >texexec.ini in texmf-var/context/config and verified that it is listed in >the ls-R. My conjecture is that this failure occurs if and only if the >final component of the nme of the current working directory contains an >embedded space, e.g., "C:\My Documents". Texexec takes a very long time >to run (searching the texmf trees on an unloved and unwanted PIII 300mhz), >so I haven't done a lot of testing/debugging. I haven't encountered any >other kpathsea failures. I can work around this by tweaking texexec.pl, >but it would be comforting to have an explanation. > >2. ConTeXt texexec uses $ENV{"HOME"} to set a value in filename.tmp, >e.g., on unix: > >$ cat try.tex >\starttext >\input story >\stoptext >$ texexec try >$ cat try.tmp >% try.top >\unprotect >\setupsystem[\c!gebied={/user/gwhite/}] %---- set from $ENV{"HOME"} >\setupsystem[\c!n=1] >\setupsystem[inputfile=try.tex] >\protect > >If, e.g. HOME="/x y", the formatted document gets an extra page containing >"y//cont-err". > >On Win32, it seems common to have spaces in "%HOME%". In particular, for >WinXP, a value appears to be constructed by the texexec.ini binary >(created using irun) if %HOME% is not set. I can work around this by >asking users to explicitly set HOME to something safe. can you check what happens when you add "" around the path? If i'm right, (i'll upload new binaries when some patch is done) the win binaries now accept \input "some path" (not sure if \input "some path"/somefile also works; can you test that?) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl 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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