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Minimum distance between text and footnotes
by Hannes Riebl 22 May '15

22 May '15

Dear list, is there a way to set a minimum distance between the text and the footnotes? I have done some research but could not find anything helpful. Best regards Hannes Riebl -- Hannes Riebl Abteilung Forschung & Entwicklung Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen D-37070 Göttingen Papendiek 14 (Historisches Gebäude, Raum 2.409) hriebl(a)sub.uni-goettingen.de http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de http://www.rdd.sub.uni-goettingen.de http://dhd-blog.org

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Bug in first-setup.bat
by Christoph Reller 22 May '15

22 May '15

Hi, Currently, the setup script for Windows does not support installation in a directory whose path contains spaces. Please change line 41 of first-setup.bat from mtxrun --script ./bin/mtx-update.lua --update --force --make --engine=all --context=beta --texroot=%OWNPATH%tex %* to mtxrun --script ./bin/mtx-update.lua --update --force --make --engine=all --context=beta --texroot="%OWNPATH%tex" %* Then everything should be fine. Thanks, Christoph

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Splitting a combination of figures (also a philosophical question)
by Mojca Miklavec 22 May '15

22 May '15

Hello, This is not strictly a ConTeXt question. I have two almost identical figures which I want to display one after the other. Ideally that would be on the same page with the combination of both having a single figure number (and possibly the two individual figures having labels (a) and (b), but that's not strictly required). However if the page breaks are not favourable, it would be OK to split the two figures, so that one ends up on the bottom of the previous page and the second one on the top of the new page. I could use two separate figure numbers, but then I would need to change the text that references the figures (and when the layout changes, so that I would figure out that both figures would eventually fit on a single page, I would have to change the text again). Is there any reasonable (and acceptable) solution to that? One option would be to have "Figure 1.5a: description" on the first page and "Figure 1.5b: description" on the second page while a reference to the figure would still show "Figure 1.5", but I'm not sure if this is doable. I would like to hear if anyone had a similar "challenge" and what solution you used. Mojca

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Preventing double title pages for nested content
by Kate F 22 May '15

22 May '15

Hello! I'm collating some UNIX-like manpages into a PDF. I'm structuring the content like so: \setupcolors[state=start] \definehead[Volume] [part] % red colour: man(1) section \definehead[Library][part] % blue colour: library within section 3 \definehead[Manpage][chapter] \setuphead[Volume,Library,Manpage][page=yes,number=no,placehead=yes] \setuphead[Volume][color=red] \setuphead[Library][color=blue] \starttext \placecontent[list={Volume,Library,Manpage}] \startVolume[title=Section 1: Programs] \dorecurse{3}{\startManpage[title=progxyz(1)] \input lorem \stopManpage} \stopVolume \startVolume[title=Section 2: Syscalls] \dorecurse{3}{\startManpage[title=syscallxyz(1)] \input lorem \stopManpage} \stopVolume \startVolume[title=Section 3: Libraries] \startLibrary[title=libjpeg] \dorecurse{3}{\startManpage[title=jpegapi_a(3)] \input lorem \stopManpage} \stopLibrary \startLibrary[title=libpng] \dorecurse{3}{\startManpage[title=pngapi_a(3)] \input lorem \stopManpage} \stopLibrary \startLibrary[title=libbmp] \dorecurse{3}{\startManpage[title=bmpapi_a(3)] \input lorem \stopManpage} \stopLibrary \stopVolume \startVolume[title=Section 4: Drivers] \dorecurse{3}{\startManpage[title=drvxyz(1)] \input lorem \stopManpage} \stopVolume \startVolume[title=Section 7mk: Makefiles] \dorecurse{3}{\startManpage[title=xyz.mk(1)] \input lorem \stopManpage} \stopVolume \stoptext There I have grouped Volume 3 manpages into libraries. This grouping only applies to Volume 3. I'd like a single "title" page for each Volume (which I show in red), except for section 3, where I'd like a title page for each Library (which I show in blue). So the pagination should look like: toc S1 ... S2 ... libjpeg ... libpng ... libbmp ... S4 ... Where S* there is a red title page, S3 is absent, and lib* are blue title pages. I'm trying to work out how best to do this. Would you recommend I hide Volume 3's title page? I think that must be the simplest way, but I don't know how to do it using a setup. My data is coming from XML, and I'd like to avoid having a special \startVolume for Volume 3, if I can. Although perhaps that could help. Are there any other ways which might be more sensible? I wondered about using \setuphead[something][continue=yes] to fold the first blue title pages onto the red title pages, but even if I can do that, I think it would make things more difficult for getting the text right on those pages. Sorry for the long question! Thank you, -- Kate

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Re: [NTG-context] simplefonts vs typescripts
by david.boerschlein＠juno.com 21 May '15

21 May '15

I have the following: \setupbodyfontenvironment[default][em=italic,x=9.0pt,xx=8.0pt,a=12.0pt,b=14.0pt,c=16.0pt,d=18.0pt,e=24.0pt,small=8.0pt] Per: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Font_Switching However ConTeXt has a syntax error. ! Missing \endcsname inserted ! You can't use `\dimexpr' in restricted horizontal mode If I change the above to just: \setupbodyfontenvironment[default][em=italic] then the .tex compiles and runs and generates PDF output, albeit with the wrong point sizes. Please advise! Thanks. David Boerschlein (214) 412-3275 home office land (585) 278-4687 cell www.linkedin.com/in/davidboerschlein ____________________________________________________________ High School Yearbooks View Class Yearbooks Online Free. Reminisce & Buy a Reprint Today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/555e34d459b534d357cbst01duc

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how to set PDF TrimBox ?
by Harald Koenig 21 May '15

21 May '15

Hi, how can I set the /TrimBox values in PDF ? right now I use \setuppapersize[A4][B4] with \setuplayout[marking=color,...] and the print shop asks to set the /TrimBox to A4 (which right now is set to B4 paper format). obviously I can change that with pdftk/qpdf/sed/... in a nice shell-one-liner but I guess there is a more "context way" to achieve this? ;-) thanks, Harald -- "I hope to die ___ _____ before I *have* to use Microsoft Word.", 0--,| /OOOOOOO\ Donald E. Knuth, 02-Oct-2001 in Tuebingen. <_/ / /OOOOOOOOOOO\ \ \/OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO\ \ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO|// \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Harald Koenig // / \\ \ koenig(a)tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de ^^^^^ ^^^^^

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Placing margin notes on the left using Lua
by Hannes Riebl 20 May '15

20 May '15

Dear ConTeXt users, I am typesetting a critical edition with margin notes. To place these, I am using the Lua code below. It is based on the code from the LuaTeX wiki (cf. http://wiki.luatex.org/index.php/Post_linebreak_filter#Margin_notes) and has the restrictions mentioned on this wiki page. For example, placing notes on the left of the text is not possible. Now, my questions are: (1) How can I extend the code to place notes on the left of the text? I tried node.insert_before(line.list, line.list, glyph) but it did not work out. (2) How do I use the callback within the output routine to distinguish odd and even pages? Thank you very much for any hints or help! Best regards Hannes Riebl make_notes = function(head) for line in node.traverse_id(node.id("hlist"), head) do ... local glyph = node.new("glyph") glyph.font = font.current() glyph.lang = tex.language glyph.char = 97 node.insert_after(line.list, node.tail(line.list), glyph) ... end return head end nodes.tasks.appendaction("finalizers", "after", "make_notes") -- Hannes Riebl Abteilung Forschung & Entwicklung Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen D-37070 Göttingen Papendiek 14 (Historisches Gebäude, Raum 2.409) hriebl(a)sub.uni-goettingen.de http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de http://www.rdd.sub.uni-goettingen.de http://dhd-blog.org

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[MkIV] How to get the local size of a column
by Pierre-François Bonnefoi 19 May '15

19 May '15

Hello, Is it possible to get the current width of a column from a paragraph into Lua ? Pierre-François. -- Bonnefoi Pierre-Francois | E-mail : bonnefoi(a)unilim.fr http://libpfb.so/ Universite de Limoges, Laboratoire XLIM | Tel : 06 28 18 03 38 123 av Albert Thomas | Mrs. Peel, we're needed... 87060 Limoges CEDEX - FRANCE | The Avengers.

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Controlling linespacing in a TOC
by Mari Voipio 19 May '15

19 May '15

Hello all! This is probably a stupid question, but how do I control the linespacing in a table of contents? I found that space can be added with e.g. \setuplist[chapter][before={\blank[4*big]}] but how do I make the linespacing smaller than default? I've got \setupwhitespace[medium] does that affect the linespacing in a table of contents? Are there any other settings besides \setuplist and \setupwhitespace that affect the TOC spacing? I've got a fairly complicated file (or, rather, a group of files), so I'm wondering if there's something somewhere else that makes my TOC so airily laid out. (It looks nice, but I'd rather squish it into fewer pages...) Thanks, Mari

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creating multiline paragraph in \tabulate
by John Culleton 19 May '15

19 May '15

Supposedly \tablulate can handle a multiline paragraph in a single cell. It didn't work for me. The text just ran off the right edge of the page. So here is my two column table with a workaround. --------------------------------------------- \starttext {\bf Figure 2.3: Specialty Food Store Classifications} \setupframed[framecorner=rectanglular,background=none] \tfx \placetable[force,none]{} \starttabulate[|lw(.25\textwidth)|lpw(.75\textwidth)|] \HL ... \NC Housewares \NC Gourmet pots and pans and other cookware, with some impulse\NC\NR \NC \null \NC and companion food items \NC\NR ... \HL \stoptabulate \tf \stoptext ------------- In my version the \null command was necessary to skip the left column. Also, I want the title of the table at the top and not the bottom. So I have to add a separate title line at the top and blank out the generated title with a graphic of blank space placed below the table thus: \vskip -0.35in \externalfigure[blanker.pdf] There ought to be an easier way to get rid of the title at the bottom of the table but this is the best I could come up with. The file blanker.pdf was generated in Scribus 1.5.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html

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