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\combinepages with negative distance
by Tobias Burnus 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

Hi, I have a A5 document (as PDF file) which should be nx=2,ny=1 placed on a landscape A4 paper. The problem is that I want to have more whitespace on the left side for stapleing/punching which can easiest be done by letting the included pages overlap. I tried distance=-4cm but it didn't work as expected. Desired result: +---+-------------+------------+ | | first a5 . | second a5 | | | . | | | | . | | | | . | | +---+-------------+------------+ | ^^^ - included pages overlap | extra wide margin I tried: \setuppapersize[a5,landscape][a4,landscape] \combinepages[main.pdf][nx=2,ny=1,frame=on,distance=-4cm] Tobias

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Re: How to nicely print XHTML to PDF
by Thomas Schrader 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

Thank you for helping Janko, >> ... really simple to make XHTML from HTML? > ... practically it can be a huge effort. THAT effort does not put me off at all ... >> How to style output? > A tool can decide with the help of the css > definitions in the tags which layout macros > it should use. That layout macros you're talking about: are they capable to separate content from layout in ConTeXt, too? By it's own means? So, IS it actually possible to directly transform CSS into ConTeXt layout macros and let the XHTML untouched? I agree, that XHTML might be too complex, but with some pre-print tidy up complexity can be reduced very well. Unfortunately I've no idea yet what to do with all that scripting stuff in pages. Anyway, there's also be the problem to establish a page model within XHTML. > ... I do not think, that this approach is the > equivilant to the print function of the modern > browsers. After all, I dare say you're right (sigh). It's an illusion to introduce real typesetting here, is it? Best regards, Thomas Schrader -- mailto laborator at web de

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Installing Garamond
by John Culleton 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

I tried to install my newly purchased Adobe AGaramond following the example in Bill McCLain's _Beginner's Guide_. I keep getting warning messages like: Warning: pdfetex (file texnansi-raw-LT50567): Font texnansi-raw-LT50567 at 600 not found Warning: pdfetex (file texnansi-raw-LT50566): Font texnansi-raw-LT50566 at 600 not found </u/usr/TeX/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr6.pfb> Warning: pdfetex (file texnansi-raw-gdsc): Font texnansi-raw-gdsc at 600 not found the only change I made ot the fonts was to change the suffixes from AFM to afm and PFB to pfb (I run LInux.) then I ran texfont with the following statement: texfont.pl \ --fontroot=/u/usr/TeX/texmf-local \ --sourcepath=/tmp/fonts \ --vendor=adobe \ --collection=agaramond \ --makepath --install I put a reference to the generated map file in pdftex.cfg and linked that mapfile to the same directory as pdftex.map. The tfm, vf etc files all exist. Any hints? any debugging tricks? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Problems with superscripts and macros
by Frank 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Hello I am having some big problems with superscripts. When I type: -20$^\circ$C I get the expected 20 degrees Celcius (-20oC) However if I put the same sequence in a macro \def\celcius{$^\circ$C} -20\celsius\ Dewpoint -20\celsius Dewpoint I get as result: -20 oCDewpoint -20DoCewpoint Where o symbolizes the degree symbol. What is going on, and more importantly how to solve it. Best Regards, Frank

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Re: page backgrounds
by Thomas A. Schmitz 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Patrick, Otared, Adam, thanks for looking into this. Adam's solutions works, wonderful!! Now I'll be able to have lots of "annoying texts" as watermarks. But those were a lot of changes to config files. Though I feel confident on the command line, I must admit I never bothered to look into minstall.pdf; I figured I had a working installation. Adam, you're definitely right: it would be nice if we could have gwtex's standards set to something more useful! Thanks everybody, another satisfied customer! Thomas

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reset \use[sub]path
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Hi all! Lets consider the following situation. There are 3 catalogs; ./lofo1, ./lofo2, ./lofo3, each of them contains files 'aqq.xml' and 'cow.png' for example. Filenames are the same, but they may have different content. I need to include all these files into one PDF document WITHOUT giving absolute paths in TeX code. I tried something like \usepath[lofo1] \processXMLfilegrouped{aqq.xml} \usepath[lofo2] \processXMLfilegrouped{aqq.xml} \usepath[lofo3] \processXMLfilegrouped{aqq.xml} but in this example the same file (./lofo1/aqq.xml) will be processed 3 times and that is not what I need. Actually the situation is even more complicated; I have quite big XML tree with hunderts of files and images, with dozens of catalogs. I wrote a perl script which change current directory for each process and run texexec in changed one. And it works OK since I want to have separate PDF document from each `lofo?' catalog. But how to make one PDF document in such situation using \use[sub]path texnique? In other words, how to reset settings from \usepath and \usesubpath commands? And how to do the same for externalfigures? Thanks in advance, Pawe/l

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hide navigation menu in pdf presentations
by Patrick Gundlach 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

Hello out there. I'd like to have a navigation menu in a presentation (Acrobat Reader). But I want to make it visible only when I move the mouse to the area of the menu. So something like "onMouseOver do showThisMenu". What approach should I take? Patrick -- You are your own rainbow!

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How to nicely print XHTML to PDF
by Thomas Schrader 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Hi everybody, would you please put this right, if I'm mistaken. Isn't ConTeXt capable to typeset XML? And isn't it really simple to make XHTML from HTML? So, is there any obstacle against using ConTeXt as customizable quality-typesetting backend for (readjusted/simplyfied) (X)HTML pages? What about power/complexity? How to style output? I tried Gecko but it's not what I call user-friendly. What is your opinion? Kind regards Thomas Schrader -- mailto laborator at web de

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Re: REQ: ConTEXt - Using external figure
by Hans Hagen 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

At 16:19 13/11/2003, you wrote: >Dear Sir or Madam, > >REQ: ConTEXt - Using external figure > >I would be grateful if you could help me. >I want to use an external figure in my logo. The figure exists in >several types. >The best quality I get with the type eps, the worst with png. ConTEXt >is choosing png and I can not force it to choose instead eps. these things depend on the driver; it looks like you don't use pdfetex (which is currently the best choice); in that case, you can convert the eps to pdf and include that. Otherwise, try: \useexternalfigure [fig-logo-geoport] [logo3-geoport.eps] [scale=500] Hans

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Indenting all lines in a paragraph, first line excluded
by Tim 't Hart 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

Hello, I'm busy writing a paper using ConTeXt that includes a bibliography. I'm designing the layout of this bibliography and I need a special paragraph style. I want the first line of the paragraph to appear normally, and the second and all consecutive lines to be indented. So basically you can also say that I want an 'inverted' paragraph; instead of an indented first line, I want all the other lines to be indented instead. Is there a simple way to achieve this? I've read the manual looking for clues but so far I haven't been successful. Any hints on where to look? My best, Tim

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