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\currenttime ?
by lohmannt 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Hello all, I'm looking for a mechanism to insert the current time -- time of processing with texexec. Is there a similar command like \currentdate? Greetings Thomas Lohmann

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Re: footnote marker
by Steffen Wolfrum 07 Dec '03

07 Dec '03

Hi, now I have got a quite good working solution with all individual settings... \setupbodyfont[4pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=55pt] \defineconversion[HowAboutIt][\ss] \setupfootnotes[style=italic,conversion=HowAboutIt,numbercommand=] \def\setfootnotebodyfont {\let\setfootnotebodyfont\relax \restoreglobalbodyfont \switchtobodyfont[8.5pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=12pt]} \starttext \input tufte \input tufte \footnote{\input knuth } test {\bf bold test} {\it italic test}\footnote{normal footnote {\rm roman footnote} {\it italic footnote} {\bf bold footnote} normal footnote {\rm roman footnote} {\it italic footnote} {\bf bold footnote} normal footnote {\rm roman footnote} {\it italic footnote} {\bf bold footnote}} \stoptext ... BUT really annoying is this -- endless error messages; bodyfont : bodyfont xxxpt is defined (can be better done global) bodyfont : bodyfont xxxpt is defined (can be better done global) bodyfont : bodyfont xxxpt is defined (can be better done global) bodyfont : bodyfont xxxpt is defined (can be better done global) bodyfont : bodyfont xxxpt is defined (can be better done global) ... In documents with more than 1 page this is really horrible (thousands of error messages!!) How to avoid it?? Thank you, Steffen

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Re: footnote marker
by Steffen Wolfrum 07 Dec '03

07 Dec '03

Hi Hans, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 00:09 07/12/2003, you wrote: > >Hi, > > > >while desperately working on footnote markers I found this email from 9 > >months ago. > >Is there in the meanwhile some news for a kind of "\setupfootnotemarker"? > > what exactly do you want to achieve? one can influence footnote markers > using the conversion key > > \setupfootnotes[conversion=set 2] > > and alike; one can create his/her own set if needed > > Hans For example I would like to have footnote marker SansSerif. If I would do it with the conversion key like this... \setupbodyfont[4pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=45pt] \definefont [FNfont][Sans at 10.5pt]\def\setfootnotebodyfont{\FNfont\setupinterlinespace[line=13pt]} \definefont [FNXfont][Serif at 10.5pt]\setupfootnotedefinition[style=\FNXfont] \defineconversion[HowAboutIt][\ss] \setupfootnotes[conversion=HowAboutIt,numbercommand=] \starttext \input tufte \footnote{\input knuth } \input tufte \footnote{\input knuth } \stoptext ... then suddenly the number in front of the footnote text becomes 4pt. If I do it without conversion... \setupfootnotes[numbercommand=] ... then the number in front of the footnote text is 19.5 -- as defined in FNfont. That's why I felt the conversion key is not so reliable in this case. Steffen

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Avoiding ligatures by "| crashes TOC
by Steffen Wolfrum 07 Dec '03

07 Dec '03

Hi, I want to avoid wrong ligatures by using "| at the specific points. But this doesn't work with headings, resp.with the table of contents (see error log below). Using \/ instead of "| is no alternativ as it looks too close to ligatures. Does anybody know a workaround for this problem? Thank you, Steffen LOG: ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \bookmarktext \doPDFbookmark ... count \ifcase #5-\fi #2 \fi {#3 } \doPDFinsertbookmark ... \scratchcounter } open #5 \egroup <argument> \flushbookmark \dodoputbookmarkelement {EbeneDrei}{6}{2.1}{Auftr\... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 l.129 ...nenarchitektur}{1::0:I:2:1:0:0:0::14}{14} ?

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footnote marker
by Steffen Wolfrum 07 Dec '03

07 Dec '03

Hi, while desperately working on footnote markers I found this email from 9 months ago. Is there in the meanwhile some news for a kind of "\setupfootnotemarker"? Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 04:12 PM 2/14/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > >Hmm...maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me these commands have no effect on > >the in-text footnote marker; that they only apply to the footnote per se. > > > >OK, I found two private messages from Hans from awhile back on this, > >before I got back to dealing with this. The relevant parts are this: > > > >>>And to use your example of Frutiger, what font selection command do you > >>>use to get Frutiger Ultra Black in a chapter title? I still don't know > >>>how to use a medium small cap font in a document! > >> > >>\definefont[ChapterTitleFont][Frutiger-Ultra-Black] > >> > >>\setuphead[chapter][style=ChapterTitleFont] > >> > >>so, that's not for typescripts but for styles > > > >And this: > > > >>I'm not sure about hwo to deal with the footnote font; probably composing > >>a dedicate typeface is the best; of if it's only used for symbols, it > >>should be just a def and mapped onto a symbol (symb-*.tex) > > > >So, if there was a command to set the footnote marker, I'd need to do a > >\definefont for a special "FootnoteFont." > > > >However, there is no such command; right? Seems like it might be useful. > > > >I don't really understand the above comment, or how I operationalize > >it. Can someone (Hans?) explain? > > busy .... > > if you want, you can use the new footnote module (that i made for idris) > which gives you footnote classes that are configurable; i can more easily > add new features to that one, so let me know if you want to volunteer .. > > Hans Thank you, Steffen

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Floats in Columnsets
by Reimer Behrends 07 Dec '03

07 Dec '03

It appears as though \placefigure doesn't work very well with columnsets if the size of the floats isn't an exact multiple of the underlying grid. More precisely, \placefigure and friends, when used with any of the *tb and tb* options (tblr, tbrl, lrtb, rltb, fxtb) snap the bottom of the figure to the grid rather than the top. Of course, that means that most of the time figures will not be aligned at the top. (See below for an example.) Does anybody know of a fix or workaround for this problem? Reimer Behrends \showframe \showgrid \setuplayout[ backspace=0.75in,topspace=0.75in, width=7.0in,height=9.5in, header=0.0in,footer=0.35in] \setuppapersize[letter][letter] \definecolumnset[two][n=2,distance=12pt] \def\myfig#1{\placefigure[tblr]{none}{ \framed[offset=6pt,width=broad,align=right]{ \switchtobodyfont[10pt] #1 }}} \setupbodyfont[12pt] \starttext \startcolumnset[two] \myfig{\input knuth} \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth}\myfig{\input tufte} \stopcolumnset \stoptext

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Re: [pdftex] TeX output as Java graphic
by Hans Hagen 06 Dec '03

06 Dec '03

At 03:33 05/12/2003, Todd O'Bryan wrote: >How hard would it be to pull out the code from TeX that typesets small >snippets of text (the primitives, I guess it would be) so that I could >pass a string like "$x^2+y^2=25$" (or its MathML equivalent) and a >starting point and have that small image be typeset correctly at that >point. Is anyone aware of anybody doing something like this or leaning in >that direction? http://www.pragma-pod.com/ -> mathml processing (couple of years old but it still runs; not the latest version of context btw) In the context distribution is a more advance demo but that's too much off topic for this list. In context (roughly): \setupoutput[pdftex] \usemodule[mathml] % \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino] % \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[times] % \usetypescript[fourier] [ec] \setupbodyfont[fourier] \starttext \startTEXpage \startXMLdata <math> <apply> <eq/> <apply> <plus/> <ci> x </ci> <apply> <power/> <apply> <sin/> <ci> x </ci> </apply> <cn> 2 </cn> </apply> <ci> y </ci> </apply> <ci> y </ci> </apply> </math> \stopXMLdata \stopTEXpage \stoptext Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] news / bold math
by Hans Hagen 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

At 20:47 27/11/2003, you wrote: >this looks fine. I have used Wolfram's Mathematica fonts for a while, and >they have, among others, bold math. I give a link to two pdfs with some >examples. One can download the fonts from Wolframs site. can you give a pointer to those fonts? Hans

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spanish
by Zunbeltz Izaola 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

Hi to all! I am new to ConTeXt and list and i want to stay for log! I have been rading lang-ita.tex and I see some error. I have post in comp.text.tex and Giuseppe Bilotta has sugest to send a patch to this list. I don't know how can i send the patch (a diff output is enough). What is an intermezzo for? I don't know if the traslation is ok. I'm also interested in adding basque language. Basque is not a romance language, but the typesetting is very similar to spanish. Some differences: 1) Instead of Chpater 1 -- in basque ---> 1 Kapitulua (Chapter) 2) When hypenating a compound word in the hypen, in the next line a hypen is also necesary anai-arrebak is hypendated anai- -arrebak 2) What files have i to change to add support for basque? Thanks in advance Zunbeltz

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spanish
by Zunbeltz Izaola 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

HI I have been reading lang-ita.tex to see how a language is defined. There are some errors. I have compare the translation with those done by Javier Bezos in spanish for babel ( he has studied spanish typesetting to build the style) line 149 \setupheadtext [\s!es] [\v!tabellen=Tablas] instead of Tablas --> Cuadros line 156 \setupheadtext [\s!es] [\v!figuren=Ilustraci\'ons] ^^^ (liustraciones instead of Ilustraciones --> Figuras line 170 \setupheadtext [\s!es] [\v!intermezzos=intermedios] I don't know what is the propuouse of "intermezzos." Can you explain for what are used? (i can't find it in the manual) line 184 \setupheadtext [\s!es] [\v!afkortingen=Abreviaci\'ons] ^^^Abreviaciones line 198 \setupheadtext [\s!es] [\v!eenheden=Unidads] ^^ Unidades line 205 \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!tabel=Tablas ] Here i think is the singular for Tabla, but Javier recomended Cuadro instead of Tablas --> Cuadro line 212 \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!figuur=Ilustraci\'on ] instead of Ilustraci\'on --> Figura line 219 \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!intermezzo=intermedio ] intermezzo???? line 308 \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!january=jenero] jenero --> enero line 316 \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!september=septimbre] septimbre --> septiembre line 319 \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!december=deciembre] deciembre --> diciembre This is all (for the moment :-), i've to read what are the meaning of the other things, for quotes and so on.) thanks in advance Zunbeltz

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