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Splitting floats
by Giuseppe Bilotta 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Hello, an interesting feature I would like to see in ConTeXt is the ability to split floats. There are at least two ways in which this might be interesting. One of the is that of having "floating" tables that span multiple pages. The other, more general, is that of having (usually textual) floating contents split in different blocks located in different parts of the text. An example of usage of this could be a text block that "flows" from a floating frame to another (IOW a set of linked floating frames containing a single textflow) Are there any chances of having this feature in ConTeXt? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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fonts and footnotes (again)
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Hi ntg! Some days ago I asked a question which looks to have an obvious answer... Unfortunately the answer isn't obvious for ConTeXt chick:-) I have a problem with font of footnote-numbers. I will try to describe some details because they may be important. I've defined some sans-serif font with my own styles and sizes: \definefontsynonym[tfMyFont][file_name1] \definefontsynonym[bfMyFont][file_name2] % I don't need neither italics nor math \definebodyfont[13pt,12pt,...,9pt][ss] [tfs=tfMyFont sa 0.75, % let's test alternative for tfxx tf=tfMyFont sa 1, .... bfs=bfMyFont sa 0.75, bf=bfMyFont sa 1, ....] \setupbodyfont[13pt,ss] Then I set styles for heads (chapters, sections etc.). The same for headers and footers. These setups work OK. I have a problem with footnotes though. I tried \setupfootnotes[style=\tfs] but it doesn't work (why?). With such settings default ss font -- cmss10 or plss10 (which is not my sweet sansserif) is used for footnote texts and numbers. I also tried \setupfootnotes[bodyfont=10pt]; it works good since ten-point font is defined in \definebodyfont. BUT numbers of footnotes still 'use' DEFAULT sansserif font. So I tried something like \setupfootnotes[...,numbercommand=\MyCommand], where \MyCommand set appropriate fontstyle (\tfs) and raise the number as a ^superscript (quite sophisticated way, isn't it?). This works for numbers of footnotes (below main text) Anyway I have still no idea how to setup correct font and style for footnote numbers appearing in text as a reference for footnote. 1. How to setup font-style and -size for footnotes text and/or footnotes numbers without giving the dimension directly? I mean why I have to setup \setupfootnotes[bodyfont=10pt] and I can't set \setupfootnotes[style=\tfxx]? What is do wrong in it? 2. How to setup font-style and -size for BOTH footnote reference (in text) and footnote numbers? Regards, Pawe/l

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Re: [NTG-context] 2 basic questions on placefigure options
by Steffen Wolfrum 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Hi Hans, did you find something into it? Steffen > > At 14:17 03/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: > > >After reading the different manuals two questions still stay unanswered: > > > > > >1. Is it true that a figure with text flowing around it (placefigure > > >option left/right) has always to start with a beginning of a paragraph, so > > >that it is not possible to place it in the middle of a text when it is > > >mentioned there? > > > > > >2. Isn't it possible to make a kind of combination between the placefigure > > >options top and left (for example), so that a small picture can have text > > >floating around it but it is placed at the top of the page (like big > > >landscape formats would be with the top option)? > > > > > >I hope I just missed something... > > > > > > 1. indeed > > > > 2. should not be too difficult, i'll look into it > > > > Hans > Great, thank you. > Then (2) could be a bit of a practical alternative to the missing of (1). > Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] 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: > At 23:05 14/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: > > >Hans, thank you - but now ConTeXt doesn't work anymore (see log below)! > > in that case you need the latest beta version (and on top of that the file > i sent you) OK, now it works. \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[left] {}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par} \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[right]{}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par} As far as I understood I have to count lines, right? My need is, for a huge amount of images, to say somthing like \placefigure[top,left] or \placefigure[bottom,right] regardless how many line befor/after this command may be - just like \placefigure[top]. To make sure the image still is at the top/bottom of a page even iv some changes in the text have to be made. And the only way to simlate this is by \hangsidefloat[x] with x being the lines above the image. There is no faster way, to just say place it left/right at the top or bottom of the textarea? The command \placefigure[top] looks so clear - there is no way to add a sidefloat behaviour for small figures, text floating around them? Steffen

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Interaction color in content
by Michal Kvasnicka 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Good morning. First of all: Many thanks for you last hints -- it solved a lot of my problems. But one more is still present. I want that the ``text'' in the content list to be ``clickable'' (interactive) and of some color. But the color make a problem. Why something like this causes errors? % output=pdf \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start, color=interactioncolor] \definecombinedlist[content] [section, subsection] [criterium=all, level=subsection] \setuplist[section] [interaction=text] \starttext \placecontent \section{First} \input tufte \section{Second} \input tufte \section{Third} \input tufte \stoptext I got this very error message: (./int1.tuo ! Use of \@@lisectioninteractie doesn't match its definition. \doifvalue ...f \!!stringa {\csname #1\endcsname } \edef \!!stringb {#2}\ifx ... \dosomelijstelement ... #1\c!interactie }\v!tekst {\setlistparameter {#1}\c!... \dodolijstelement ...ment {#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6} \global \utilitydonetrue l.8 ...tion}{2}{2}{Second}{2::0:0:2:0:0:0:0::1}{1} With many greetings Michal Kvasnicka

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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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