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fake columns -- ignore the last message
by Matthew Huggett 16 Mar '03

16 Mar '03

Sorry, The fake columns example works fine now. It appears I hadn't copied the example as exactly as I thought I had. Matt

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fake columns
by Matthew Huggett 16 Mar '03

16 Mar '03

Hi: I'm playing with fake columns as described on page 9 of details.pdf . I've copied the example exactly, but the text doesn't show up. \showgrid lets me see the columns, but the text that I want set in the columns is not there. Any ideas? Thanks Matt

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Font and index trouble (was Re: mathpple-a-like for ConTeXt?)
by Magnus Lie Hetland 15 Mar '03

15 Mar '03

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl>: > > At 11:56 PM 2/20/2003 +0100, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote: > > >I guess I'm just too green with ConTeXt, but I can't get this to > >work... Must i call \usetypescriptfile[somethingorother] first? > >(Actually, I get "undefined control sequence"...) > > What version do you run? Well, texexec --version returns 1.9. I'm using the version that comes with Gentoo Linux. I may well be missing something basic here -- I simply slapped your \usetypescript commands at the beginning of my ConTeXt file (before \starttext), and I get the following error messages: ! Undefined control sequence. <recently read> \usetypescript l.1 \usetypescript [berry][ec] ! Undefined control sequence. l.2 \usetypescript [palatino][ec] bodyfont : unknown variant palatino The commands were: \usetypescript[berry][ec] \usetypescript[palatino][ec] \setupbodyfont[palatino] Another thing that surprised me (not font-related) is that the \index command gobbles up the following space, even when I use braces; i.e. Foobar, babar\index{indexentry} krangas is typeset as Foobar, babarkrangas Is this normal behaviour? Must I manually insert a space there? > (let's move this discussion to the context list since it's not > related to pdftex) OK. > Hans -- Magnus Lie Hetland "Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist." http://hetland.org -- Indiana Jones

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m-bib question
by Bruce D'Arcus 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

IIRC, isn't it the case that texexec should take care of the bibtex run needed for mbib? Am finding I need to run bibtex before texexec to get it to work... Bruce

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module: t-layout now available
by Patrick Gundlach 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

Dear ConTeXt hackers, I have just uploaded a first version of my layout module. It displays the layout of the current page as well as some dimensions. Get it at http://levana.de/context/ Or directly at http://levana.de/context/layout/t-layout.tex An example pdf is at http://levana.de/context/layout/testlay.pdf Use it with \usemodule[layout] and show the layout with \layout Have fun and please don't hesitate to send comment. Patrick

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breaking text in mp code
by Patrick Gundlach 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

Hello all, I try to get a label in metafun that is broken into two lines: some text the following \break is silently ignored. Putting the textext inside a vbox did not help. ================================================== % interface=en output=pdf \starttext \startMPcode label (textext("some\break text"),origin); \stopMPcode \stoptext ================================================== How do I get the some text in two lines? Patrick

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Newspaper in ConTeXt?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 14 Mar '03

14 Mar '03

I seem to recall from various discussions that ConTeXt has some features that would come useful to typeset newspaper and similar stuff (columnsets being one of them, IIRC). Are there example of their usage, and possibly some kind of manual? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Interactive TOC bug?
by varheit＠gmx.de 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

Hi, In a larger project, I set up an interactive menu that links to the sections of the current chapter. Running out of screen estate, I changed the layout of the TOC to alternative=d. Now all I got was the error message at the bottom of this mail. The error message can be avoided, if the line ...interaction=all.. is commented. Also, keeping that line and using a different alternative=... works. This may be a bug. I searched the mailing list for this, without success. So I do apologize, if this problem had been discussed earlier. Vik \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupcolors[state=start] \setuplist[chapter][interaction=all] \starttext \placecontent[alternative=d] \chapter{Donald} \input knuth \stoptext ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \makelijstelement \v!paginanummer {\dolistattributes {\v!hoofdstu... \firstofoneargument #1->#1 \dosomelijstelement ...\translatednumber [#5]}}}}} }\donetrue \doifnothing {#... \dodolijstelement ...ment {#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6} \global \utilitydonetrue l.8 ...pter}{1}{1}{Donald}{2::0:1:0:0:0:0:0::2}{2} -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage!

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Problem with references
by Stefan Karlsson 13 Mar '03

13 Mar '03

I can't get references to work -- maybe I'm making some beginner's mistake. Anyway, the output from the following file contains "??" where the page numbers should have been: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \starttext \title [pointer1] {The title} Some text. \subject [pointer2] {A subject} Some more text. Bla, bla \at{page}[pointer1] bla bla bla \at{page}[pointer2]. \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Note: I'm using the latest stable release (March 3, 2003). Best regards Stefan

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typesetting chapter--label for cross references
by Guy Worthington 12 Mar '03

12 Mar '03

I'd like to display a cross reference, using a en-dash to separate the chapter number from the text being cross referenced. In the example below, if you look at label attached to the example caption "A Sample XML file," you'll see that it is typeset as Example~1--1 however if you look at the cross reference to the example, it is typeset as Example~1.1 how do I change the period (.) separator in the cross reference to an en-dash separator (--). ----- \defineenumeration [example] [location=serried, text=Example, before=\blank, after=\blank, way=bychapter, style=italic, separator=--] \starttext \chapter{One} \in{Example}[ex:Simple-doc] has the chapter number separated from the example number by a period, and not an en-dash. \example[ex:Simple-doc] A Sample XML file \startXML <?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="simple-doc.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> \stopXML \stoptext -----

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