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Help! ConTeXt crashed! (was: 2 basic questions on placefigure options)
by Steffen Wolfrum 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > --=====================_34256828==_ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > At 13:31 14/09/2003 +0200, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > >did you find something into it? > > hm, you are persistent -) > > \starttext > > \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[left] {}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par} > \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[right]{}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par} > > \stoptext > > i have to think about some way to feed such things into \place... directly, > no time now > > Hans > > PS. unzip the new.zip file in .../base and regenerate the format > PS. quite untested on special cases, so only use it in controlled situations Hans, thank you - but now ConTeXt doesn't work anymore (see log below)! What I did: Unzipped it in unzip the new.zip file in /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base and /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base for I don't know which one to use (I have Gerben's tetex distr. in stalled) Then I run sudo mktexlsr and sudo fmtutil --all That's all. Now ConTeXt does not do anything anymore. Help! Steffen TeXExec 3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : agaramond output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./agaramond.tex{/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.8.21 fmt: 2003.9.14 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/cont-loc.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ! Undefined control sequence. l.434 \long\@EA\def\csname\e!start\e!instellingen \endcsname#1 % ?

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\type doen't type -- with latin-modern fonts.
by Daniel Flipo 14 Sep '03

14 Sep '03

Hi all, See the following test file %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %interface=en output=pdftex %\definetypeface [myface] [tt][mono] % [computer-modern][default][encoding=ec] \definetypeface [myface] [tt] [mono] [latin-modern] [default][encoding=ec] \setupbodyfont[myface,sans,14.4pt] \starttext \starttyping TEXEDIT = emacsclient --no-wait +%d %s \stoptyping \type{TEXEDIT = emacsclient --no-wait +%d %s} \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \starttyping ... \stoptyping works fine, but \type{} typsets a "single dash" instead of two dashes. The "single dash" is also different (lower and shorter) than the two dashes. The same is true with the AEfonts (Computer-modern with EC ecoding), but not with the default fonts (true CM). Any fix for this? Daniel Flipo

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XML & ConTeXt -- handling many conventions
by Pawel Jackowski na WP 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

Hi! There is a lot of ways to build ConTeXt macro which can handle something like i.e: <chapter title="First Chapter"> ... or <chapter> <title>First Chapter</title> ... But is there any way to handle both conventions in one defnition? Regards, Paweł

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texexec doesn't finish
by Boris Tschirschwitz 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

Hi. I am writing a short note in the hope that someone else ran into the same problem and can tell me what to do before I have to start thinking: I am using ConTeXt for a few weeks now without major problems. Today I felt like updating to the latest version (Aug 21?). Now when I try to generate even the simplest document (like 'texexec --pdf test.tex), texexec never finishes and spawns huge numbers of perl jobs. Any hint what I did wrong?

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Re: file mlabels.pdf
by Hans Hagen 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

At 12:45 10/09/2003 +0100, you wrote: >Hello, > > I followed a link from your page to a file >/general/manuals/mlabels.pdf, but apparently the link it's broken. > >Can you help me? this is work in progress ... (i need th elink in my version of the docu environment) 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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double-lined Z for meaning "integers"
by Ed L Cashin 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

Hi. I am having trouble finding the right incantation for summoning the correct Z. There are some doubly-lined versions of N, Z, Q, and R, that are used often to signify the sets of natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, and reals, respectively. Does anyone know how to get those? Here's a pic of the Z and Q. Note that there's white between the lines -- not fill. ----- ------------------- -/ \- / / / | \ / / / | \ / / / | \ | / | | | / | / | \ / / | | | / / | | | / / | | | / / \ | / / / | | | | | \ | / / / \ \ / / / \ |\- / / -\ /- \ ------------------- ----- \ -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin(a)uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/

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Side floats starting in mid-paragraph
by Erik Hetzner 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

Hello, I'm just putting the finishing touches on this pamphlet, and I was wondering if it was possible now to start side floats midparagraph. \movesidefloat[+2*line] (is that syntax correct?) will push down the side float just right, except that the text at the beginning of the paragraph will not flow around the picture correctly. That is, xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx PPPP xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx rather than as desired: xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx PPPP xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx Any sort of hacky solution would be welcome! Unfortunately, my best shots have not worked. I tried \hangafter and \hangindent, but they do not seem to work in Context. Thanks for all the help. Regards, Erik Hetzner

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: clubpenalty/widowpenalty ignored - a bug?
by Steffen Wolfrum 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

Jesus Christ! Now it works!! (Even without \brokenpenalty=0 ) Isn't that strange? TeX settings not in the preamble? But hey, this gives us the very useful advantage (compared to LaTeX) that we now can switch to different clubpenalty/widowpenalty values right in the text. And that's amazing - for in LaTeX you'd need to construct an environment for changing the clubpenalty/widowpenalty values that are set in the preamble! Wonderful. Somebody should write this in a ConTeXt manual. Steffen Thomas A. Schmitz <thomas.schmitz(a)uni-bonn.de> wrote: > I may be wide off the mark--but I tried the reverse (allowing clubs and > widows), and it didn't work until I inserted it AFTER /starttext. Maybe > you can try that! > Best > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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My first week with ConTeXt
by Andreas Gschwendtner 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

Hello everyone, I have been using ConTeXt and reading this list silently for a week now. I am quite impressed by the features and the flexibility ConTeXt has to offer -- yet, I am still a little bit anxious to give up all the things I have got used to in LaTeX. What I am trying to do at the moment, is convert some LaTeX documents to ConTeXt. Some things have indeed been easier than expected, while others seem to be a lot of work and can be quite troublesome... I am sorry if anything I am about to ask has already been covered here or if the answer is in the manuals -- at the beginning it is sometimes quite hard to look in the right places. -- At first, a general request rather than a question: Learning ConTeXt would be _much_ easier if there were more example files around. At some points the manuals are hard to understand and some things are not even covered. I learned a lot in LaTeX, too, by taking some example file and modifying it to suit my needs. A read somewhere (although I can't remember where) that the sources to all documents available from pragma-ade.com "are or will be made public". This would be great! In the meantime I would appreciate any links to examples. How do other ConTeXt users realize Styles for their index and their bibliography? How do they set up headers, footers, chapter and section headings, pagestyles, etc... -- \placefigure (caption) question #1: For some of my figures I want to have captions _below_ the figure, but the caption should be wider than the figure itself (if the figure is 0.5\textwidth and centered, I want the caption to be 0.9\textwidth or even \textwidth). How do I do that? -- \placefigure (caption) question #2: Some of my figures are quite tall (= \textheight), so the caption cannot be below or above, but has to be _beside_ the figure. I want those figures to appear *left* on *odd* pages and *right* on *even* pages, and the captions vice versa. I don't want to have the caption in the outer margin, but rather the width of the figure plus the width of the caption should be equal to \textwidth. Thanks for any hints! Andreas

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Crop marks and Lightning Source
by John Culleton 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

A popular POD printer in the USA called LIghtning Source wants the finished page to be centered on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper in the pdf file submitted to them. This can be done with \definepapersze and \setuppapersize. However this technique shows cropmarks and Lighting Source specifies "no crop marks." Question 1: How do I eliminate cropmarks yet still have the smaller page centered on the larger page? Second, my customer pointed out to me that on my finished pdf the cropmarks do not exactly delineate the specific size (in this case 5.5 x 8.5 inches.) On my laser printer they define a space about 1/32 inch shorter than the nominal dimension in both vertical and horizontal directions. This is about 2 or 3 points. Question 2. Why are the cropmarks apparently imprecise? All hints appreciated, as always. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com ____________________________________________________________ Free 20MB Web Site Hosting and Personalized E-mail Service! Get It Now At Doteasy.com http://www.doteasy.com/et/

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