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unwanted extra space in type definition
by Pablo Rodriguez 26 May '14

26 May '14

Dear list, I have the following sample: \definetype[TeXcode][option=TEX] \def\arg#1{\TeXcode{{#1}}} \starttext \arg{\em\de Textsatzsystem} \TeXcode{{\em\de Textsatzsystem}} \stoptext I don’t know what is wrong defined in \arg that inserts an extra space after \em? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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bug in latest beta?
by Pablo Rodriguez 26 May '14

26 May '14

Dear list, I’m afraid there is a bug (I think it was) introduced in beta from 2014.05.21 22:04: \showframe \setuppapersize[A6] \starttext \dorecurse{23}{This is only a random sentence. } \section{Section} \input zapf \stoptext Page break is wrong if \section is enabled (or I am missing something extremely basic). I guess it might be worth fixing it also for ConTeXt in TeX Live 2014. Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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upright lowercase Greek letters in math formulas
by Mojca Miklavec 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi, How could I get upright lowercase Greek letters in math formulas (provided that such a symbol exists, of course)? Here's a minimal example: \setupbodyfont[times] \starttext $15{\rm\frac{μm}{μs}}$ 15 μs \stoptext Thank you, Mojca

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Split in specific row in natural tables?
by Xan 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi, Is there a possibility of split a natural table in specific row? I want to split in row third or something like that. Thanks, Xan.

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Re: [NTG-context] Experience with DITA XML or XSL/FO
by Mica Semrick 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi Jan, Thanks for the pointer towards dbcontext. I had previoiusly used dblatex for some tech docs a while back, but never realized there was a ConTeXt version. Best, Mica

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Testing TeX Live 2014: last call
by Mojca Miklavec 26 May '14

26 May '14

Hi everyone, I would like to invite you to try to install TL 2014 pretest to make sure that ConTeXt (and jit in particular) works as expected. https://www.tug.org/texlive/pretest.html You are invited to play with your installation and different settings and to test some of your documents. Theoretically we are already past the freeze date, but if any major problems show up, there might be still time for a fix. The version of ConTeXt that will end up in TL is 2014.05.21 22:04. Mojca

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Problem with \framed align and orientation on landscape pages
by Rik Kabel 25 May '14

25 May '14

For the /\framed/ command, any value for the key /align /other than a null value pushes the frame beyond the bottom margin on a landscape page for many values of /orientation/. The following MWE demonstrates this: \setuppapersize [A4,landscape] \starttext \framed[orientation=90,align=no]{\externalfigure[dummy]} \stoptext It also seems that the default value of /align/// is not /no/ as the wiki suggests, since there is a very different result when no align key is provided and when it is provided as above with /no/, if by a default value one means that, when a given key is not explicitly provided, processing will occur as if it had been provided with that particular value. -- Rik Kabel

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Re: [NTG-context] Experience with DITA XML or XSL/FO
by Mica Semrick 25 May '14

25 May '14

Hi Jan, >What is your real use case? A typical XML based workflow involves XSL-FO -> >PDF route using FO processor (Antenna House, XEP, FOP etc). I'm looking to use DITA to publish a literary journal. The journal will contain contributions from multiple authors. I also want to publish works by single authors. I won't make enough (or any) money to justify the very expensive license for Antenna House or XEP, thus they are not really an option. I find FOP to be really sub par. My basic work flow would have to be DITA XML > DITA OpenToolkit (build process) > ??? > ConTeXt > PDF, where ??? could be some Toolkit XML output, XHTML, HTML5, FO. >Anyway, there are several ways. If you are not locked to DITA yet, I would >strongly recommend switching to DocBook instead :-) The DocBook vocabulary does not fit my needs. TEI is much closer to what I want, but I'm already familiar with DITA. >This XSLT way is most natural for XML processing, but I understand that >writing XSLT transformation is discouraging for many people. Yes, I'm generally OK with working with XSLT. DITA has a build system, called the DITA OpenToolkit that is build with Ant, a bit of java, and XSLT. You can see the toolkit here: http://dita-ot.github.io/ The Toolkit already supports PDF output via FOP, but as I said, FOP leaves quite a bit to be desired. Best, Mica

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startbackground with footnotes cause problems
by Xan 25 May '14

25 May '14

Hi, I observe that if startbackground stopbackground has footnotes inside, then page breaks are placed before and after footnotes with blank pages... Anyone does know anything about that? Thanks

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\starttextbackground and \startbackground equivalent options
by Xan 25 May '14

25 May '14

Hi folks, Just a question: I have this textbackground environment: \definestartstop [teoria] [ before={\startbackground[background=color, backgroundcolor=mteoria, frame=on, width=broad, after={\bigskip}, before={\blank[big]\testpage[2]}, backgroundcorner=round, backgroundradius=5ex, backgroundoffset=5pt, framecorner=round, radius=5ex, frameoffset=5pt]}, after=\stopbackground ] and I want an equivalent one with starttextbackground. I try this: \definetextbackground[provateoria] [background=color, backgroundcolor=mteoria, location=paragraph, frame=on, width=broad, after={\bigskip}, before={\blank[big]\testpage[2]}, backgroundcorner=round, backgroundradius=5ex, backgroundoffset=5pt, framecorner=round, radius=5ex, frameoffset=5pt ] \definestartstop [teoria] [ before={\starttextbackground[provateoria]}, after=\stoptextbackground ] But I get: * The corners are not rounded * Can I achieve to "unbackground" footnotes inside \startteoria \stopteoria? Thanks in advance, Xan

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