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margintext drifting down the page
by Duncan Hothersall 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Hello all. I have an odd behaviour which I think I just about understand but can't fix. I use \margintext{Note that ...} to place little notes into the margin next to things in the running text. It has worked beautifully for all my content up till now, but I now find myself wanting to put a note next to a \bTABLE...\eTABLE and the margin text now drifts down so that it is beside the content that follows the table, rather than next to the table itself. So, \margintext{This works well} Normal running text takes a margintext without problems... but \margintext{This drifts down below the table} \bTABLE \bTR ... ... \eTABLE The margintext appears next to this normal running text... I'm using the latest stable release. I'd be happy with a workaround that enables me to have this appearance. I have tried putting a \strut in front of the table but this only shifts the margintext up a little bit. Is there something else I can do? (I tried wrapping the table in a \vtop, and in an \hbox, and in an invisible \frame, but no luck.) Thanks for any help. Duncan

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Czech patterns in TeXlive2003
by David Antos 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Hello, Petr Olsak has changed slightly Czech pattern file czhyph.tex for TeXlive2003, it's a bit `Babelized' now. It produces \errmessage for Babel's \addlanguage being \undefined. It also contains several ugly hacks to make both plain and LaTeX read \v and \' syntax for Czech accents, and finally it reads czhyphen.tex containing real patterns. The result is that generating ConTeXt format ends with the \errmessage. Simple workaround is to change alias in cont-usr.tex to pattern files from czhyph.tex to czhyphen.tex. My discussion with Petr Olsak suggests to make a more systematic correction: to add a test into czhyph.tex and make it directly read czhyphen.tex if ConTeXt is detected. This needs two things to make sure: 1. Is it OK to read patterns with \v and \' syntax into ConTeXt? 2. Is there a way to detect ConTeXt in order to put into czhyph.tex something like: \ifx\<something-typical-to-detect-ConTeXt>\undefined \else % for ConTeXt \input czhyphen.tex \endinput \fi Is there a more systematic/clean solution? Or shall I ask Petr Olsak to change this in the czhyph.tex file? Thanks, D.A. -- Science is what happens when preconception meets verification.

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enumeration and countproblem
by Bernd Militzer 05 Nov '03

05 Nov '03

Hi all, Writing examinations I want to tell my students the points of each question and the max points they can reach. I wrote a macro which prints the points at the right side of the question and count the points. % % % ad the points of each question \def\getPunkte[#1]{\advance\summeP by \number#1} % % show the points on the right side \def\showP[#1]{\inright{\hfill(#1 P.)}} % % handle the points \def\pkt[#1]% {% \ifnum\ZeigeP=1 \showP[#1]% \ifnum\addP=1 \getPunkte[#1] \fi \fi% } % Using this macro in normal text like TestQuestion \pkt[5] it works without problems! But when I use this macro in combination with enumeration I run in a problem example: % \defineenumeration[question][location=inmargin,text=,width=fit] % \question\pkt[5] TestQuestion\par nothing ist count in this case! How can I fix this problem? Thanks in advance. Bernd

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"bug" in OC support
by Peter Rolf 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Hello all, just a small fix for the Optional content (OC) support. The keywords for the default state (visible or not) must be changed to uppercase letters. spec-fdf.tex: def\flushPDFtextlayers {\ifx\PDFtextlayers\empty \else ... \doPDFaddtocatalog {/OCProperties << % display in menu /D << /Order \!!stringa /On \!!stringb > ^^ > /ON \!!stringb /Off \!!stringc >> > ^^ > /OFF \!!stringc >> % used properties /OCGs \!!stringa >>}% Thanks to Hans for implementing it. It works perfect and I love it... Greetings, Peter

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Yet another itemize question
by Thomas A. Schmitz 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Is this a bug or a feature? Please compare these two setups: \setupitemize[1][n,inmargin][margin=2em,alignment=left,stopper=)] This does what I want: I get a numbered list with numbers aligned raggedleft. \setupitemize[n,inmargin][margin=2em,alignment=left,stopper=)] According to the manual, this should do exactly the same. But I get a list with bullets. My problem is that I want two different kind of lists in my document, and when I use definition # 1, all the lists seem to be numbered, even if I specify \startitemize[2,packed,joinedup] later on. Any hints will be welcome! Best Thomas

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Dithering (off-topic)
by Michal Kvasnicka 04 Nov '03

04 Nov '03

Good evening. I apologize to ask a little off-topic question, but I don't know where to ask (and it is closely related to TeX and PDF). I typeset a church bulleting. It is printed on a laserjet printer (600 dpi), and then copied on a copy machine. As for letters, all is right. But figures (photos) are this way spoiled. I guess it would help either to force PDF to print the figures in some very low resolution (150 dpi), or (probably better) to dither the figures and include them in PNG (instead of ordinary JPEG). Can some of you tell me how to do it? I tried ImageMagick's convert to dither the photos, but outcomes were really poor. Is there some good free software for this (in the best case in Linux)? Or can I do it some way in PDF? Many thanks for any hint. Michal Kvasnicka

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Slides and notes
by Fabrice Popineau 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

I'm wondering if anybody has already tackled the problem of printing slides together with notes. Is there any generic mechanism that could be applied to presentation styles in ConTeXt to achieve this ? -- Fabrice

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inmargin text problems remain
by Willi Egger 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Dear gang, Thanks Bill for your reply on my previous mail concerning struggles with the inmargin texts. As you can see I explicitely set the width of the margins. In order to make things easier to see I attach a minimal test file. Does anybody see the clue, how to tell Context to use the full marginwidth? Cheers Willi

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Integrating Metapost
by Lutz Haseloff 31 Oct '03

31 Oct '03

Hallo all, Running texexec on a ConTeXt-file with integrated METAPOST-Graphics METAPOST complains about: --------------------------- >>>> local_multi_par_area >>>> false ! Equation cannot be performed (numeric=boolean). <to be read again> ; l.218 local_multi_par_area:=false; ? --------------------------- and stops. There are no duplicate ConTeXt mp-files on this machine. The same file works on another Computer. What can the error be? Greetings Lutz

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Kerning pairs for Optima-Italic
by Steffen Wolfrum 30 Oct '03

30 Oct '03

Hi, after I converted MacOSX's Optima.dfont for usage with TeX I experienced that this Adobe Optima (Regular, Italic, Bold, BoldItalic, ExtraBold) doesn't have extra kerning pairs. (And I don't have any idea how to create these on my own.) So I had a look at WalterSchmidt's page (home.vr-web.de/was/fonts.html), and fortunately he provides files for Regular and Bold - which work fine - but not Italic or BoldItalic fonts. So now I just have to find metric files (including kering pairs) for Adobe Optima-Italic and Optima-BoldItalic. Does anybody can help me with that? Thank you, Steffen.

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