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TeXExec patch
by Tobias Burnus 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Hi, I played a bit around with --pdfarrange and found out that I couldn't do: texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5*a4,landscape --print='2UP,doublesided' file.pdf Since: paper becomes [A5][A4,LANDSCAPE] and /.*2UP.*/ becomes [2UP,doublesided,rotated] and I don't want to have it rotated. The attached patch makes TeXExec a bit more flexiable. Hans, please apply. Tobias

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Re: Labeling of axes
by Christopher Creutzig 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

Hans Hagen wrote: > beginfig(1) ; > > numeric u ; u = 1.0cm ; > > for i=-10 upto 10 : > if not (i=0) : > draw textext.lft("$" & decimal i & "$") shifted (i*u,0) ; > fi ; > endfor; > > endfig ; > > end > > given that you have configured texexec well: > > texexec --mptex thisfile.mp > mptopdf thisfile.1 With ConTeXt 2003.8.15, I get (\000) in thisfile.1, which mptopdf does not handle: ! Undefined control sequence. l.14 (\0 00) cmsy10 11.95514 fshow These seem to be the minus signs. Regards, Christopher Creutzig

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combined list and spacing
by Alexander Klink 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

Hi, I've defined a combined list as my table of contents as follows: \setuplist[artikel][alternative=c] \definecombinedlist[content][chapter,artikel] \placecontent Now that my document nears 75 pages, the list is too full to go on one page. So I thought I might get rid of the spacing between the next chapter and make the chapters bold instead. Could anyone be so kind and explain to me how I would do this? I've seen \setuplist in the manual but I couldn't figure out where the spacing part was. TIA, Alex

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LaTeXDB equivalent for ConTeXt ?
by Jules Colding 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

Hi, Is there anything like LaTeXDB: <http://privat.hgesser.com/software/latexdb/> in ConTeXt? The short story is that LaTeXDB makes it possible to include SQL queries in a LaTeX document. Best regards, jules

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Changing word spacing of \tt
by Mari Voipio 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

I'm using the standard POS fonts and I'm otherwise happy with whatever I get (TexLive7), but the word spacing is far too big when I use teletype font (in relation to \ss and \rm fonts). Tight spaces are not an option here, nor do I want to use the \setupspacing switch. Is there any way I can tell ConTeXt to use tighter spacing with \tt and defaul spacing otherwise? Greetings, Mari

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How do I use entities in DocBook in ConTeXt
by Guy Worthington 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

Although I use emacs as a text editor, I'm not confident in using utf-8 encodings. So if I can I'd prefer to use entities for the characters not defined in ASCII. How can I define entities such as "“" (for the left double quotation character) and "”" (for the right double quotation character) so as the context-processor can process them.

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\underbar not allowing line-breaking
by Duncan Hothersall 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

A quick question: \underbar is demonstrated in the manual as allowing lines to break normally (page 204). In my texts line breaks won't happen in an underlined phrase, meaning that they stick out into the right hand margin. Is this a known problem, or does it work for other people? Thanks Duncan dh(a)capdm.com

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a line under the header
by Helmut Schwertner 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

Hello, I would like to put a line (not [underbared]) under the header and above the footer. The line shouldn't be to thin (not so thin as \hairline) and it would be nice, if I could have a coloured line (grey, red, whatever). A small example, so something like this (best view with non proportional font): header pagenumber ------------------------------------------- text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text ----------------------------------------- footer footer Thanks for any help, best wishes, Helmut

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Font problem...
by Gilles Pérez-Lambert 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

Hello, I have some problems with using fonts. In the ConTeX test file at the end, `charter' only works (a little) if I use the commented line `\definetypeface[charter][rm][serif][charter][default][encoding=ec]'... But, doing this, small-caps don't work anymore and, strangely, \tt neither! How does one use a font already described in the type-*.tex files? I tried with Utopia too but no luck. I read mfonts.pdf but I have not seen what I need. Thanks, Gilles. PS: TeXExec 3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) ConTeXt ver: 2003.8.15 fmt: 2003.8.19 int: english mes: english %%%%%%%%%%% BEGIN TEST FILE HERE \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setupencoding[default=ec] \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] \usetypescript[charter][ec] %\definetypeface[charter][rm][serif][charter][default][encoding=ec] \setupbodyfont[charter,10pt] \startbuffer[tufte] \input tufte \stopbuffer \starttext \getbuffer[tufte] \blank {\it\getbuffer[tufte]} \blank {\bf\getbuffer[tufte]} \blank {\sc\getbuffer[tufte]} \blank {\tt\getbuffer[tufte]} \stoptext

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Floats that extend into the margin?
by Erik George Hetzner 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

Hello all, I am wondering if anybody has had any luck with making floats that extend into the margin? It's a pretty common effect and looks like: xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx PPPPPP xxxxxxxx PPPPPP xxxxxxxxxxxx Where x is the text and P is a picture. I am halfway there by specifying a negative "margin" in \setupfloats and using a "right" or "left" float. This gets the text in the proper position. What I need to do is to move the float a certain amount to the right or left. I have tried making a "top" specification of "\vbox\bgroup\hskip Xpc\bgroup\vbox\bgroup" in my \setupfloat definition (and a "bottom" definition to close the groups). Is this what "top" and "bottom" are for? I must admit that I am not familiar with ConTeXt's float mechanism. I hope that this is clear to people. Any help is welcome. Regards, Erik Hetzner

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