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Re: colors
by Magnus Lie Hetland 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

Patrick Gundlach <pg(a)levana.de>: > > > Hello, > > for the colors, use \setupcolors[state=start] (plural). Ah -- right, thanks. It works now. There is a typo in the beginner's manual (the "excursion") on page 59 -- it says \setupcolor[state=start]. (On the previous page, the general form is mentioned as \setupcolors[...], but I simply copied the statement to my code.) > If you need, I can send you a small test document. No problem. I was simply mislead by the documentation ;) > Pat -- Magnus Lie Hetland "Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist." http://hetland.org -- Indiana Jones

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reusing metapost graphics
by Matthew Huggett 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

Hi: I'm designing a year's worth of English lessons for some Japanese kids, and I'm using Metapost and ConTeXt to generate flashcards for vocabulary training. I have a few questions: (1) I want to keep my Metapost figures defined in a ConTeXt environment file so that I can recall them as I need in future lessons. Is there anything wrong with this approach? (2) How do I make a Metapost figure defined in a ConTeXt file reusable? Do I need to wrap the definition of the figure in a macro so that the figure is recreated everytime I need it? (3) With \useMPgraphic, is there any mechanism to scale the image as with \useexternalfigure? If this is all in the documentation, I apologize. (I would appreciate a pointer to the documentation though :-) )

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Umlaute, texnansi
by Raimund Kohl 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Hello there, I accidently switched from SuSE to Debian (via Knoppix) and all of a sudden ran into problems. With: ----------------------------------------------- % interface=en tex=pdfetex output=pdftex \setupwhitespace[big] \mainlanguage[de] \enableregime[utf8] % \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \starttext Und jetzt auch gleich mal die Umlaute testen, sowie vielleicht Ähnlichkeit der Öffentlichkeit die auch mal beißen kann \stoptext ----------------------------------------------- the document will be processed ... without the german Umlaute (Ä, Ö etc). And if I uncomment \setupencoding[default=texnansi] texexec stops with the message: ! Undefined control sequence. l.5 \setupencoding [default=texnansi] ? (./Context_text.tuo) (./Context_text.tuo) systems : begin file Context_text at line 6 Missing character: There is no Ä in font cmr12! Missing character: There is no Ö in font cmr12! Missing character: There is no ß in font cmr12! [1.1{/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map}] systems : end file Context_text at line 11 ) -------------------------------------- What did I do wrong? ray

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Footnotes at the end of sentences
by Nigel King 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Style gurus, I am sure there are some experts here. At the end of a sentence I think it is normal for a footnote to be after the full stop. When this is done the spacing to the next sentence is not very large, it certainly doesn't look very good to my eye. ... End of sentence with footnote.\footnote{This is the footnote.} The next sentence..... What is the recognized way of sourcing this. TIA -- Nigel

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columnsets
by Patrick Gundlach 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Hello, I have a question regarding columnsets: ================================================== \definecolumnset[two][n=2] %\setupcolumnset[two][1][width=4cm] %\setupcolumnset[two][2][width=8cm] \starttext \startcolumnset[two] \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset \stoptext ================================================== a) I keep getting a blank page after the columnset. How do I get rid of it? b) the setupcolumnset has some effect (making columns smaller) but they are both the same width. Why? Patrick

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\framed and \starttabulate
by Matthew Huggett 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Hi: I wanted to use \framed {\starttabulate ... \stoptabulate } but when I tried it, TeX complained about groupings and missing parentheses. Is there a way to make this work? I switched to \bTABLE, and that worked, but \starttabulate is more convenient sometimes. Thanks Matt

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table and MPpositiongraphic
by Patrick Gundlach 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Hello, while browsing thru the source and trying some examples, I can't sensible output of the following code. (No MP stuff is visible) %output=pdf \setupcolors[state=start] \def\cw#1{\color[green]{#1}} \def\TableShade#1#2% {\startMPpositiongraphic initialize_area(\MPpos{b:#1},\MPpos{e:#1}) ; show pxy; linear_shade(pxy,0,.4#2,.9#2) ; anchor_area(\MPanchor{b:#1}) ; \stopMPpositiongraphic} \dosetpositionaction{b:x}{\TableShade{x}{red}} \dosetpositionaction{b:y}{\TableShade{y}{green}} \dosetpositionaction{b:z}{\TableShade{z}{blue}} \starttext \starttable[|c|c|c|] \GFC[b:z] \cw{this is a small} \NC \cw{table} \NC in which we \NC \FR \NC \cw{will demonstrate} \GFC[c:y] \cw{that this} \GTC[c] \cw{positioning} \NC \MR \GSC[a:x] \cw{mechanism also} \GTC[b] \cw{works quite well} \NC in tables \NC \LR \stoptable \stoptext Any ideas how to get the MPpositiongraphic working? Patrick

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index term in term of a definition list
by Simon Pepping 18 Mar '03

18 Mar '03

Hi, It appears that Context cannot deal with an \index command in the term of a definition list: \startvariable{sarge\index{sarge}} De groene soldaat \stopvariable In XML documents this may occur: <varlistentry> <term>sarge <indexterm significance="normal"> <primary>sarge</primary> </indexterm> </term> <listitem> <para>De groene soldaat</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> Is it a fundamental problem to enable this in Context? If so I must find other solutions. Does Context have something for stacks? Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping(a)scaprea.hobby.nl

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linewidth/rulethickness/linethickness
by Patrick Gundlach 18 Mar '03

18 Mar '03

Hello, looking at the newest beta (esp. plus-rul.tex), I wondered about the english translation of lijndikte. In mult-com.tex it is linewidth and(!) linethickness, in mult-con.tex it is rulethickness. Is it possible to agree on one name? Patrick

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dashed horizontal line
by Matthew Huggett 18 Mar '03

18 Mar '03

Hi all: I would like to draw a short horizontal line, somewhat like \hl[5] but dashed instead of solid. Is there a command for this? Thanks Matt

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