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Frames (collection of)
by Giuseppe Bilotta 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

Hello, I'm working on an extension of tooltips (see attached file) whose primary goal is for use "instead of" footnotes in interactive documents. While I managed to write the core of the stuff in a rather short time, I need some changes in the core to make sure they work fully as designed. In particular, I need two things: (1) a way to disable counter increments during trial typesetting (2) a way to define "classes" of frames, with specific options to be set (once and for all, but configurable by the user) independently of the frame settings. (Just like for itemgroups). Could these be implemented in the ConTeXt core? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta P.S. A short notice on how I use them: \usemodule[xtips] \long\def\footnote#1{% \long\def\fncontent{% \tf\switchtobodyfont[xx]\setupinterlinespace#1\par}% \xtooltip{\blue\high{*}}{\fncontent}% } Suggestions for improvements are more than welcome

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DocbookInContext: new version uploaded
by Simon Pepping 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

I have uploaded a new version of DocbookInContext. This version features improved support for tables. It handles align, colsep and rowsep attributes, multiple tgroups and tfoot elements. While writing this mapping for tables required some careful programming, the task was relatively easy due to Context's natural tables. They provide an excellent basis because they are powerful and flexible, and their design is close to that of the CALS table model. You can find DocbookInContext at http://www.hobby.nl/~scaprea/context/. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping(a)scaprea.hobby.nl

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itemize indent
by Bruce D'Arcus 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

This might be a dumb question, but I can't figure it out from the manual: How do I do a \setupitemize so that they -- the items, as well as the bullet that precedes it -- are indented? Bruce

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No fraktur?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

Hello, I tried using \fraktur, but it doesn't change font ... any ideas? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Table of content questions
by Rob van Swol 21 Oct '02

21 Oct '02

Hi, I have used \setuplabeltext[en][appendix={Appendix~}] to create a header like 'Appendix A blabla' above my appendix. However, in the table of content I get 'A blabla'. Using \setuplist[appendix][label=yes] does not work and \setuplist[chapter][label=yes] works only in combination with \setuplabeltext[en][chapter={Chapter~}]. How to solve this for appendices? Regards, Rob -- _____________________________________________________________ Rob W. van Swol National Aerospace Laboratory NLR Tel. +31 527 248252 P.O. Box 153 Fax +31 527 248210 8300 AD Emmeloord E-Mail vanswol(a)nlr.nl The Netherlands http://www.neonet.nl/

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Miktex-Context Installation
by David Arnold 20 Oct '02

20 Oct '02

All, I just installed Miktex 2.2 and got this error message when trying to build Context format. Anyone else get this? What is the workaround? Creating cont-en.efmt... pdfetex.exe --ini --interaction=nonstopmode --halt-on-error --alias cont-en *F:/miktex/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex \dump ! You have to increase POOLSIZE. INITEXMF: pdfetex.exe failed on cont-en.tex I checked miktex.ini and found: ;; Maximum number of characters in strings, including all ;; error messages and help texts, and the names of all fonts and ;; control sequences; must exceed string_vacancies by the total ;; length of TeX's own strings, which is currently about 23000. pool_size=500000 Is this what I should increase? Or is there some other sinister thing that needs taking care of?

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Re: How to add your own modules?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 20 Oct '02

20 Oct '02

Friday, October 18, 2002 Matt Gushee wrote: MG> I have browsed through several manuals trying to find out how to do MG> this, but haven't found any answers. Is there some documentation that MG> explains how to customize the system? User modules go to <path-to-context>/user and should be called t-<name>.tex where name is the name of the module (t- stands for "third party"). You may want to consider using "environments", though, rather than modules, if all you want to do is "tweak" a pre-exisiting module. (I don't know where environment files go, though; I keep them in the root of my ConTeXt document tree, since ConTeXt looks up to two levels up to find environments.) -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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advice for a beginner
by Matthew Huggett 20 Oct '02

20 Oct '02

Hi Everyone: I'm a real beginner with TeX and ConTeXt. I have had some success with English documents, but what I really want to do is create Chinese and Japanese docs. What do I need to understand about TeX and ConTeXt in general in order to do this? There seem to be so many things to learn, I'm not sure where to start. One big question for me is whether or not I need to look at using Omega. I'm not asking for a tutorial on how to do asian languages in TeX, just for advice on what areas of the system I need to know about. Thanks Matthew

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A math question
by Giuseppe Bilotta 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

Hello, does ConTeXt provide extensible arrows with super and subscript? An extensible arrow is something like \leftarrow, \rightarrow, \Leftarrow, \Rightarrow, except that it accepts super/subscripts which gets typeset over or under the arrow body, which extends to accomdate the length of the super and subscripts (with a minimum guaranteed legth). -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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New ConTeXt website mirror
by Taco Hoekwater 18 Oct '02

18 Oct '02

Hi all, I just created a new mirror of www.pragma-ade.com. It is part of my brand new website on ConTeXt. The mirror is updated every night at 3am CET. URL: http://tex.aanhet.net/context -- groeten, Taco

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