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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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suppressing hyphenation
by Adam Lindsay 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

Hi all, Sorry if this has been covered before, but does anyone know a ConTeXt-y (i.e., elegant) way of suppressing hyphenation for a block of text? I'm dealing with long chapter headings, and I would rather set them ragged and without hyphenation. I've made tentative experiments with the techniques described here, but to no avail. I tried making a new language [zz] that grabs the zerohyph.tex hyphenation file. TeX complains about seeing a \pattern outside of initex, but it did have the effect of eliminating all hyphenation in my document, which was a bit more than I bargained for. Has anyone done this successfully? No? Should I continue trying the language? Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)1524 594 537 atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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\nomarking without dots?
by fiëé visuëlle 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

A happy new year! Hans, you planned to make \nomarking configurable, that one can use it with our without dots. Is it already in the beta? Actually I need it without dots. Further, I find the dots much too wide spread; the kerning should be about the half of the actual. Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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Re: \startfiguretext
by Hans Hagen 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

At 11:03 AM 1/15/2003 +0000, Charles Doherty wrote: >Dear Hans, > >Thanks again for your recent advice. > >I ran texexec --make --alone en nl and got efmt files in my current >directory. I then used kpsewhich plain.fmt and found >/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/plain.fmt >I used the mv command to place the efmt files in ...../web2c/ > >I ran \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \input tufte \stoptext and the >result is perfect. > >Problem is still with the \startfiguretext you need to update for this (get beta version) >At the risk of boring you to death with this below is my input file and >the readout from the console: I note that there is > >invalid line in config file: `pdf_minorversion 4' this is something new in pdftex, so there is a mismatch between your config (probably newer) and the pdftex version you run 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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Installation-problems
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

Hallo! I wanted to test the examples in 'metafun' from Hans Hagen: The first Example, just metapost ('red circle'), was translated in a PostScript-File. I viewed the output with bmv and got a blue quarter circle at the left lower origin. I viewed it then with gv and got a centered grey circle. The files rgb values are ok: 1,0,0 The second Example, with context, dosn't work. texexec couldn't find texexec.ini. I couldn't neither find texexec.ini nor texexec.rme, so I decided to install a new version of context. I unzipped cont-tmf.zip in /usr/share/texmf/ I missed the afm file for the included type1-font! I renamed texexec.rme to texexec.ini and edited the following two lines: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- set UsedInterfaces to de en nl metafun mptopdf set UserInterface to de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- then I renamed cont-usr.ori and cont-sys.ori to cont-usr.tex resp. cont-sys.tex texexec --make nl en de worked, but cont-de.efmt is copied to web2c cont-en.efmt and cont-nl.efmt is copied to /context/config (don't know if this was ok?) texexec --make metafun doesn't work (couldn't find cont-metafun) There is an other interface in UsedInterfaces in texexec.ini 'mptopdf' Should I make a formatfile for this too? There is an other way to make the formates with texconfig. Is that an alternativ way? I tried the above second example (named tst2.tex) and got: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- TeXExec 2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2000 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : tst2 output : standard interface : en current mode : all TeX run : 1 sh: cont-en: command not found run time : 0 seconds This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-14f-released-20000525-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1) ** ! End of file on the terminal... why? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- What happend? Why is cont-en used. I have selected 'de' as UserInterface in texexec. So I don't know what to do. Is there a fiendly answer to all of my questions? Wolfgang

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