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Entering text into layers
by Keith McKay 20 May '14

20 May '14

Colleagues I have been designing a simple document which comprises of 4 areas (3 for text, 1 for images) on an A4 page. I thought that the best way to do this would be using Layers and so far I come up with the code below after scanning the wiki. As you can see it is not very sophisticated, but I'm not a regular user of Context. The question I have is what would be the best way to add text to the various layers? Some would have quite a lot of text and I was wondering if would be better to define the text for the different layers in some way rather than enter into the braces of \setlayerframed. The code would look messy this way. Finally, can layers be positioned within layers or would it be better to use overlays? I'm thinking about adding three columns to the Footer layer. Thanks for your help Best Wishes Keith McKay \setuplayout [backspace=0cm, cutspace=0cm, width=fit, topspace=0cm, bottomspace=0cm, header=0cm, footer=0cm, height=fit] \setupexternalfigures[location={local,global}] \definelayer[Logo] \definelayer[Picture] \definelayer[Text] \definelayer[Footer] \starttext \strut \setlayerframed[Logo][x=1cm,y=1cm] [width=19cm,height=3cm,background=color,backgroundcolor=lightgrey] {Some text in here} \setlayerframed[Picture][x=1cm,y=5cm] [width=6cm,height=19.7cm,background=color,backgroundcolor=lightgrey]{\externalfigure[picture.jpg][background={foreground,figure},maxwidth=6cm]} \setlayerframed[Text][x=8cm,y=5cm] [width=12cm,height=19.7cm,background=color,backgroundcolor=lightgrey]{Text goes here} \setlayerframed[Footer][x=1cm,y=25.7cm] [width=19cm,height=3cm,background=color,backgroundcolor=lightgrey] {Footer goes here} \setupbackgrounds[text][background={Logo,Picture,Text,Footer}] \stoptext

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Interactive U3D in .pdf via ConTeXt?
by Lukáš Procházka 20 May '14

20 May '14

Hello, is there way to include U3D (or X3D after conversion) into a .pdf via ConTeXt? - An example of such an embed object and its capabilities at http://www.behaviometrix.com/public_html/brain.pdf LaTeX offers this via movie15 package; is it possible to produce such document with ConTeXt? Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 241 096 751 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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Using the margin for two purposes
by Matthias Weber 19 May '14

19 May '14

Dear All, I would like to use the margin for two different purposes: For brief notes, using \inmargin, and to mark entire paragraphs sections of the text with vertical lines. So, I’d like to be able to something like this \starttext \startsquigglyline \inmargin{read \\ this \\ first} \input{knuth} \stopsquigglyline \startthinline \inmargin{read \\ this \\ next} \input{tufte} \stopthinline \stoptext I know I could use frames to accomplish the vertical features within in the text area, but I’d prefer to use the margin so that framing paragraphs doesn’t indent the paragraphs compared to the unframed portions. But I also want to have the \inmargin notes to be lined up properly. So it looks like I would need to divide the margin into two horizontally separate regions. On left pages, the left region would be used for the \inmargin notes, and the (very thin) right region would be used for the vertical features (squigglyline and thinline). For right pages the other way around. Of course I’d also like the vertical features to extend across pages, if needed. Like so: Left Page Right Page read ( Knuth Tufte | read this ) Knuth Tufte | this first ( Knuth Tufte | next ) Knuth Tufte | ( Knuth Tufte | Is there a mechanism in place for that? Thanks for any hints! Matthias

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mathml <mtext> behaviour
by H. van der Meer 18 May '14

18 May '14

Sorry if this question reaches you twice, but the first time I used an email address not registered with this newsgroup. The short example below typeset with \usemodule[mathml] \starttext \typebuffer \blank \processxmlbuffer \stoptext and "ConTeXt ver: 2014.04.04 00:08 MKIV beta" shows that the <mtext> element does not honour the tags within. This severely restricts the presentation. Can this be remedied? Hans van der Meer Hans van der Meer

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extending \setuparranging[2*4*2]
by Pablo Rodriguez 18 May '14

18 May '14

Willi, following the advice from Hans, I’m asking whether you would be interested in extending \setuparranging. As already explained in previous messages, I think it would be useful to have \setuparranging[2*4*2] for any given number of pages. Having 16 pages to impose isn’t always an option. I read page-imp.mkiv again and I have no idea about how to achieve this. (I found three typos that I attach to this message.) Could you extend \setuparranging[2*4*2] to accept any given number of pages? Many thanks in advance, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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scientific notation in PDF file
by Michail Vidiassov 18 May '14

18 May '14

Dear Developers and All, when I create a PDF dictionary with a small number local mydict = lpdf.dictionary { TT = 0.000000000000000001 } lpdf.flushobject(mydict) I get in PDF << /TT 1e-18 >> that confuses the Adobe Reader (if dictionary is used). As far as I can investigate, lpdf.flushobject(mydict) calls pdf.immediateobj(tostring(mydict)) and tostring does the actual damage by introducing scientific notation. What is the correct way to deal with the problem? Converting the dictionary to string with my own code looks like a possible workaround, not a solution. Michail PS. Minimal example (it produces unused dictionary, so viewer does not complain) \nopdfcompression \starttext \startluacode local mydict = lpdf.dictionary { TT = 0.000000000000000001 } lpdf.flushobject(mydict) -- or, to the same result -- pdf.immediateobj(tostring(mydict)) logs.reporter("","")("mydict %s",tostring(mydict)) \stopluacode Test. \stoptext Context is current version: 2014.05.13 00:04

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comment inside mathml
by Hans van der Meer 18 May '14

18 May '14

Sorry if this question reaches you twice, but the first time I used an email address not registered with this newsgroup. Shouldn't mathml ignore the xml comment in the second example below? Hans van der Meer

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annotation?
by H. van der Meer 18 May '14

18 May '14

Sorry if this question reaches you twice, but the first time I used an email address not registered with this newsgroup. The following mathml code typesets "x+1" twice. How can I select between either the mathml code or the annotation form? Thus avoiding having them typeset both. Hans van der Meer \startbuffer[example-1] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE math PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD MathML 2.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Math/DTD/mathml2/mathml2.dtd"> <math mode="display" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mrow><mi> x </mi> <mo> + </mo> <mn> 1 </mn> </mrow> <annotation encoding="TeX"> x + 1 </annotation> </math>

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annotation?
by Hans van der Meer 18 May '14

18 May '14

The following mathml code typesets "x+1" twice. How can I select between either the mathml code or the annotation form? Thus avoiding having them typeset both. Hans van der Meer \startbuffer[example-1] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE math PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD MathML 2.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Math/DTD/mathml2/mathml2.dtd"> <math mode="display" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mrow><mi> x </mi> <mo> + </mo> <mn> 1 </mn> </mrow> <annotation encoding="TeX"> x + 1 </annotation> </math>

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mathml and xml-comment
by Hans van der Meer 18 May '14

18 May '14

Shouldn't mathml ignore the xml comment in the second example below? Hans van der Meer

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