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Re: Conference Fee Sponsorship
by Hans Hagen 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

At 06:14 PM 1/20/2003 -0800, you wrote: >the money pays for the facilities. They don't make money on these >classes. hm, 20 * 400 = quite some money for a room that tug got for free -) >hm... this is the kind of p... news I don't know much about. >Everyone wants to make a fast buck/euro it seems. >Why they are so greedy is beyond me. Shall I write to the Lithuanian >group and ask them to make a donation? waste of energy, better go for the publishers who sell books; since so many tex users use / combine tex with things like perl and so ... do you know someone inside O'Reilly ? > > no, it's in the intermediate hands (mac millan and so; don't know them > that > > good, but they seem to be real large) > > really.... can't we get a website up to name names of >those able to donate? don't over estimate me, i have no contacts over there, (small company, few customers), you need people from the beginning of tex and/or publishing houses (they know where they go to) [maybe nelson know, since he knows everything related to tex] >The western and indian clocks don't seem to synchronize very well. ha, a few month ago i saw something on television: indian companies acting for usa companies, things like phoning people who don't pay their bills, they are masters in pretending to phone from texas (they also showed how they got classes in english, local history, texan accent, etc); so: they can sync -) serve the community better. I just can't seem to get anyone interested >in doing the sponsorhsip and website work. :-( Patricia promissed to do it, didn't she? Actually, the office should do it. 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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IRC ConTeXt Channel
by Lazycode 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

Greetings! Is there an IRC (Internatl Relay Channel) for ConTeXt? If so, which server and channel name? If not, is one allowed to form an unofficial one? Thanks, --tk

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Re: Typeface Dolly installed on Linux system, but...
by Roef Ragas 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

Hi Patrick, Thanks for your help, although I'm sorry to say it's still not working. When I run texexec --pdf on your file, I'm getting the next error messages, using your type-dolly.tex. On the other hand: texnansi-uw-dolly.tex still turns out every nice letter of my Dolly font. --- kpathsea: Running mktextfm Dolly-Roman /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation D for Dolly-Roman. /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/share/texmf/fontname/special.map? mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Dolly-Roman This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.1) kpathsea: Running mktexmf Dolly-Roman ! I can't find file `Dolly-Roman'. <*> ...our; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Dolly-Roman --- Op zo 19-01-2003, om 23:31 schreef Patrick Gundlach: > Hi, > > this is 'dolly.tex' - the testfile > > \setupcolors[state=start] > \usetypescriptfile[type-dolly] > \mainlanguage[de] > \definetypeface [Dolly][rm][serif][dolly][default] [encoding=ec] > \definetypeface [Dolly][ss][sans][helvetica][default] [rscale=.9, encoding=ec] > \definetypeface [Dolly][tt][mono][computer-modern][computer-modern][rscale=1.1,encoding=ec] > \starttext > \setupbodyfont[Dolly] > %\showcharacters > %\showbodyfont > > some text > > \stoptext > > > > Attached is my type-dolly.tex. You need to change the filenames and > the encoding. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > Patrick -- Roef Ragas <info(a)roefragas.com> theJAYWALKCentre

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interactive content in header
by Patrick Gundlach 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

Dear ConTeXt users, I'd like to have an interactive table of content in the header (at least somewhere at the top of the page). It should have the current section highlighted. First I have defined an overlay and used it with \setupbackgrounds: \defineoverlay[toc][{\coloredcontent}] \setupbackgrounds[header][text][background=toc,frame=on,state=repeat] But the \coloredcontent behaves weired. \def\coloredcontent{A\par BB} gets typeset as ABB, \currentheadnumber always displays the same number (even with \determineheadnumber[section] before \getcurrentheadnumber) and \placecontent is completely ignored. It should look like this: -------------- section1 | section 2 | section 3 section 4 ------------- ---------------------------- the current page holds some paragraphs of section 2. Now you click on "section 4" and the display changes to: ------------- section1 section 2 section 3 | section 4 | ---------------------------------------- -- I hope it is clear what I'd like to get. How could this be done? Patrick

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What DTD for a thesis
by Tobias Burnus 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

Hi, I'm considering of writing a thesis using XML (instead of plain ConTeXt). What DTD is best suited? The main point is good output, but I want to be able to convert this document to e.g. HTML without too much hessle. I thought about using ContML + MathML, but I'd like to know whether you have a better suggestion. Tobias

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\setupitemize has no effect (beta)
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 19 Jan '03

19 Jan '03

I just noticed that \setupitemize seems to have no effect in the current beta (I haven't tried other versions): \starttext \startitemize[n,packed][stopper=)] \item this \item works \stopitemize \setupitemize[each][packed][stopper=)] \startitemize[n] \item no \item effect \stopitemize \stoptext Or is it used differently? -- Eckhart

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Re: [NTG-context] Underlining URLs
by Henning Hraban Ramm 19 Jan '03

19 Jan '03

Am Samstag, 18.01.03, um 23:53 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Patrick Gundlach: > I'd like to underline a hyperlink to an url (with \goto), so that it > is visible while reading with the acrobat reader but not visible when > printed. The default appearance is boldface. There are a lot of \startnotmode[handout] \setupinteraction [color=blue, style={\tf\underbars}] \setupunderbar [alternative=a, rulecolor=green] \stopnotmode \startmode[handout] \setupinteraction [color=black, style={\em}] \stopmode That implicites that you'll make two different PDFs; one for screen and one for print (--mode=handout). If you're looking for hoover links I can't help you. Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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ConTeXt and SQL
by Pavel Stupin 17 Jan '03

17 Jan '03

Hello, In the roadmap file (http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf) on page 6 ('How things relate' section) there's a figure showing that ConTeXt could exchange data with sql databases. I would like to know the details (e.g. I'm interested in importing data from MySQL databases), but didn't find anything relevant in manuals (cont-eni.pdf and ms-cb-en.pdf). Are there any manuals on that topic? Best wishes, Pavel.

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XML entities and PDF bookmarks
by varheit＠gmx.de 17 Jan '03

17 Jan '03

Hi, as it seems, XML intities do not get expanded correctly (see document below). In the example, the bookmark created displays as "About the getXMLentity{lt}chaptergetXMLentity{gt} tag". Am I missing something? Thanks Vik \defineXMLcommand[chapter][id=empty,title=empty] {\expanded{\chapter[\XMLpar{chapter}{id}{}]{\XMLpar{chapter}{title}{}}}} \defineXMLentity[lt] {$<$} \defineXMLentity[gt] {$>$} \setupinteraction[state=start] \placebookmarks[chapter] \starttext \completecontent \enableXML <chapter id="refid" title="About the <chapter> tag"> <?context-command \stoptext ?> -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen!

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\place figuretext
by Willi Egger 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

Hi Hans, thanks, after downloading the beta this works again perfectly. Groet Willi

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