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FAQ format
by Jens-Uwe Morawski 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

Hi, please find below a proposal for a XML-FAQ format. I hope it covers all suggestions Hans and Henning have made in the last discussions. More suggestions are welcome. notes: - the label= in <contextfaq> can be used for cross-references - the id= in <author> is a reference to the author database as requested by Henning - the modified= in <revision> should be used to highlight updated FAQs in a new ConTeXt-FAQ issue - there is only one key for sectioning, since IMO the "application" should know where this section (specified by id=) is in the document tree. This should allow easy reordering of the FAQ - and a question: what is the better solution for different types of parenthesis in TeX code; the 1st or the 2nd <texcode> block? Tschö Jens. <contextfaq label="jum-0001"> <head> <author id="jum"/> <revision published="2002-10-27" modified="2002-10-27"/> <keywords> <entry key="clipping">clipping</entry> <entry key="clip"> <tex>clip</tex> </entry> <entry key="externalfigure"> <tex>externalfigure</tex> </entry> <entry key="figure">figure</entry> </keywords> <section id="graphics-manipulation"/> </head> <body> <question> Is it possible to show only a part of an external figure? </question> <answer> The command <tex>clip</tex> allows to show only a part of a figure. You can either split the figure in rows and columns in order to show one of the resulting segments or you can specify a viewport directly. The following code tiles the figure in 3 columns and 2 rows and shows the segment in row 1 and column 2: <texcode> <macro>clip</macro> <sqbracket>nx=3,ny=2,x=2,y=1</sqbracket> <braces> <macro>externalfigure</macro> <sqbracket>yourfigure</sqbracket> </braces> </texcode> In order to specify the visible part directly you can use: <texcode> <macro>clip</macro> [hoffset=3cm,voffset=2cm,width=4cm,height=3cm] {<macro>externalfigure</macro>[yourfigure]} </texcode> </answer> </body> </contextfaq>

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combinations
by Hans Hagen 04 Nov '02

04 Nov '02

Hi, The next release will provide more control over combinations: \setupcombinations[align=right,location={top,left}] i.e. location (top,bottom,middle,left,right) concerns the top thing, the alignment (left,right,middle with right being raggedright) the caption also new: \placefloat[leftmargin]{}{} and \placefloat[leftmargin,2*-line]{}{} (there is more new, but that's experimental) 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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Widow control
by Michał Morawski 03 Nov '02

03 Nov '02

Hi, In my (two column) document I have discovered many problems with ophran/widow paragraphs. The line: \clubpenalty=9000 has removed the problem with ophran paragraphs, but similar \widowpenalty=9999 does not remove widow paragraphs at all. Could you give me any advice? And more After command \clubpenalty=xxxx the columns have different height (columns are "ragged"). What command can make wider the interparagraphs gaps to adjust column heights? Thank you Michal ############################################ ## Michał Morawski ## 95-200 Pabianice, Sempołowskiej 5 m 13 ## tel/fax ++48 42 2262228 ############################################ ab ovo <od jaja> - od początku.

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new mail program
by Hans Hagen 02 Nov '02

02 Nov '02

Hi, The ntg changed to mailman mail programs. There may be some hickups while doing so, sorry for this inconvenience. 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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Strange error...
by Willi Egger 02 Nov '02

02 Nov '02

Hi Hans, while busy to develop more FLOWcharts, I get the following error, which does not lead to fatal exit. The resulting pdf-file is according to my oppinion o.k. Do you have an idea what is wrong? ... systems : end file cenj at line 244 ! pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{page:15}) h as been already used, duplicate ignored <recently read> fit <to be read again> \egroup \fakePDFpagedestination ...e:\realfolio }}\egroup \fi \fi \fi \actualshipout ...chbox \hbox {\the \everyshipout \ifnum \realpageno =\lastp... \myshipout ...pout {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} \fi \gotonextrealpage \nap... \dofinaloutput ...pagebody #1#2\setpagecounters }} \fi \the \everyaftershipou... ... l.244 \stoptext [16.15] ) Groet Willi

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I have solved my problem
by Michał Morawski 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

I have reported the problem with generating format I have uncommented the wrong line in the cont-usr file. Sorry ############################################ ## Michał Morawski ## 95-200 Pabianice, Sempołowskiej 5 m 13 ## tel/fax ++48 42 2262228 ############################################ crede, quod habes, et habes - wierz, że masz, a będziesz miał.

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Chinese - font utilities
by Duncan Hothersall 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

[While the mailing list archive is down I can't search for previous answers to this, so apologies if this is asked and answered already.] I'd like to use the Chinese setting facility in ConTeXt, and am going through the instructions given in the "Chinese in ConTeXt" manual. I'm finding it very tough to locate the utilites needed to prepare the fonts. In particular, I've been looking for 'chpfb' or 'gbpfb', which will enable me to convert a TrueType font into several Type 1 fonts and corresponding tfms, or the 'gbenc' shellscript which will enable me to create the necessary tfms and encodings to use the ttf directly. Unfortunately they are proving very difficult to track down in the locations pointed to by the manual, which presumably are now out of date. I have access to both Windows and Linux platforms to run these on, so if anyone can point me at a place where I can now get them I'd be very grateful. Even better, if someone actually has a working Chinese set-up, a few pointers as to how you got there would be brilliant! Many thanks. Duncan

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Line break?
by mari.voipio＠iki.fi 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

This is probably "the dumbest question of the year", but I cannot find an answer in the manuals (beginner's and the real big one) and the mailing archives don't want to play with me today [Forbidden. You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/search.cgi on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.]. I badly need a working line break (comparable to the HTML tag ). In a side note in one of the manuals I found that \\ should work as line break, but it doesn't work for me, for example --- Example: To change 4-20 mA = 15 - 25 CONC\% to 4-20 mA = 10 - 30 CONC\%, key in the sequence\\ Calibrate/Parameters/Output signals/Current output\\ and then enter Zero = 10 and Span = 20. --- results in --- Example: To change 4-20 mA = 15 - 25 CONC% to 4-20 mA = 10 - 30 CONC%, key in the sequence Calibrate/Parameters/Output signals/Current output and then enter Zero = 10 and Span = 20. --- and that's not what I want. I'm open to other solutions as well, but I think I'd really prefer to have line breaks there (not least because I want to keep the code simple - other people will need to understand this too). Mari from Finland PS. Any hope with the mailing archive search?

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Re: [NTG-context] Line break?
by Hans Hagen 01 Nov '02

01 Nov '02

At 05:07 PM 10/31/2002 +0200, mari.voipio(a)iki.fi wrote: >On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Matthias Heidbrink wrote: > > > Try "\crlf". This and more is on page 37 in the manual > > "Context - an excursion". > >Nope, on *page* 37 there's some obscure chemistry (says the dummy). But >now that you all have shown me what to look for, I found it in *chapter* >37, Miscellaneous, on _page_90_ (under subsection 37.10 carriage return). > >Which explains why I couldn't find it - I'm almost too young to know what >a "carriage return and line feed" is and so I only used "line break" and >"linebreak" as search words and that doesn't help. And then I looked for >the line break under "paragraph formatting", not miscellaneous. > >Now I only feel somewhat dumb because I didn't find it myself (because >I've tried pretty hard), this was a Windows generation problem. :-) > > >If \break really works, I'll prefer using that because it will be more >transparent to other users, but I thank everybody for speedy replies - at >least the mailing list works even if the archives don't. \crlf also adds a strut and is less sentitive to those underful messages, 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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Polish language
by Michał Morawski 31 Oct '02

31 Oct '02

Hi, As I have read in the file minstall.pdf I have tried to generate polish format by: texexec --make --language=pl,uk --bodyfont=plr en However in the log file I see: language : language en is active ("en" instead of "pl") What do I do wrong? Thanks in advance Michał Morawski ############################################ ## Michał Morawski ## 95-200 Pabianice, Sempołowskiej 5 m 13 ## tel/fax ++48 42 2262228 ############################################ Wszystko, co idzie źle sprawia wrażenie, że idzie dobrze.

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