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Aligning things within tables
by drymartini＠gmx.de 22 Nov '02

22 Nov '02

I am trying to typeset tables using natural tables and XML. In the head of the table I want the text typeset flush left, but in the table itself I want the figures aligned on the commas. Can this be done? I see I can set the alignment for each column, but can I have different alignments for each row? -- WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT STELLA ARTOIS HERE.. This is a chemical wheapon against the working class ....

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tbook?
by Bruce D'Arcus 21 Nov '02

21 Nov '02

Just wondering if anyone has taken a look at tbook. http://tbookdtd.sourceforge.net/ It's a DTD, along with a collection of XSLT files and shell scripts designed for output to LaTeX, DocBook, and XHTML (complete with support for MathML, as well as xindy). My thought is that it might be an interesting XML authoring tool in conjunction for ConTeXt, though the current LaTeX XSLT files would have to be tweaked obviously. Don't know how much work is involved in that, but at some point I'll take a look. Something like this would be all the more useful, I assume, once we see m-bib v2 (sometime soon Taco?)... Bruce

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vanishing leftarrow
by Hans van der Meer 20 Nov '02

20 Nov '02

I did encounter something strange with leftarrow in metapost math: In normal text: All three arrows appear with $l\leftarrow r\rightarrow lr\leftrightarrow$. In metapost: The leftarrow does not appear, the others do in: \placefigure{}{\startMPgraphic u = 180mm; v = 40mm; label.bot(textext("$l\leftarrow r\rightarrow lr\leftrightarrow$"),(u/2,v)); \stopMPgraphic\loadcurrentMPgraphic{}\placeMPgraphic} How is that possible and how can it be repaired? Hans van der Meer

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suppressing external graphics
by Bill McClain 19 Nov '02

19 Nov '02

I have a book-length document with many hi-res graphics. I would like to omit those graphics in order to make a smaller file to submit to some proof-readers. I have tried both: "\setupexternalfigures[option=empty]" and "texexex --fast". Both give the same result: the graphics are replaced by black rectangles, but the size of the pdf file is the same as the original version which included the graphics. (Very large). Oddly enough, the pdfimages utility will not extract any images from the "black rectangles" version, leading me to think the graphics are not really in the pdf file, but I don't know what would be taking up the same amount of space. Using: ConTeXt ver: 2002.7.26 pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20011114-ojmw-2.1 -Bill -- Sattre Press Pagan Papers http://sattre-press.com/ by Kenneth Grahame info(a)sattre-press.com http://pp.sattre-press.com/

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Minipages
by drymartini＠gmx.de 18 Nov '02

18 Nov '02

Hi there, is there something similar to the LaTeX minipage environment? I have a box which contains text, tables and footnotes, and the whole thing is supposed to become a float with a frame and/or a colour background. Can I just use a block or is there a more sophisticated mechanism? Can a float be inside another float? At present my tables are floats within the text but I can rework this if necessary. -- /Users/robbie 153% ping real-life ping: unknown host real-life

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A Semetic Aporia
by Idris S Hamid 18 Nov '02

18 Nov '02

Dear Hans, I have a serious problem: In Classical Arabic numerals are pronounced from single digits to tens to hundreds, etc., e.g. 1234== four, thirty, two hundred, and a thousand. This makes transcribing Arabic numerals easy: they run the same as in roman languages. So in my otp's (Omega-Gamma) there is a command to transcribe any left-to-right L-R string numeral into an L-R string in Arabic (so I don't have to type the numeral backwards in the L-R transcription; i.e., typing 1234 in L-R comes out the same in R-L). But there is a complicated scenario: For purposes of sectioning, we get (as in a TOC) for e.g. Section 3.12 in roman it should be (L-R): 3.12-------------------------------------------<page no.> in Arabic it should be (R-L): <page no.>-------------------------------------------12.3 Now my Gamma configuration is such that everything is flipped R-L except for numerals, so I _actually_ get <page no.>-------------------------------------------3.12 in my Arabic sections and TOC. Is there any way to reverse the order of subsections so that subsection 3.12 comes out as 12.3? I assume there is some code that commands ConTeXt to print the section number, followed by the subsection number. Can that be hacked to reverse the sequence for Semetic documents (Arabic and Hebrew)? So we could have an option say, [style=semetic]. I did something similar in EDMAC once for Arabic critical editions. I am finishing up a treatise in Arabic to be submitted later this week so I'm desparate. I guess I could replace all the numerals using the manual mechanism but there must be a better way! Best wishes Idris -- Dr. Idris S Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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PDF zoom
by Zeljko Vrba 18 Nov '02

18 Nov '02

I have bookmarks and cross-references in my document. When clicking to any of them, the acrobat reader moves me to the right place. However, it changes current zoom to fit to page. How do I make it retain the zoom I manually set up myself?

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where has PI gone?
by Hans van der Meer 18 Nov '02

18 Nov '02

Since the last ConTeXt beta the typesetting of the greek capital letter PI doesn't work anymore in lucida (lbr). Small pi works though. Anyone knows why? And where to find it back? Hans van der Meer

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Re: Re: [NTG context] Swedish Keyboard
by Stefan Karlsson 17 Nov '02

17 Nov '02

Thanks Jens, \enableregime[il1] did the trick!

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itemize headstyle SC?
by Bruce D'Arcus 16 Nov '02

16 Nov '02

I want an itemized list set in smallcaps. Shouldn't this work? \startitemize[n][headstyle=cap] with a \setupcapitals[sc=yes,title=yes] in the module I'm using? I've run into this problem before with section headings, and not figured it out... Also, what command do I use to invoke a character encoding regime? \usemodule doesn't seem to work... Bruce

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