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Letter module
by Mo Abrahams 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

Hello, Is there any updated documentation for the letter/correspondence module? All I can find is version 2010.08.27 and I can see from this list that things have changed, I just don't know where to find out what. Also, can anyone tell me how to remove the label above the date, how to add a pdf containing my letterheading as the page background, and how to add a horizontal line between the backaddress and the toaddress? For the page background I currently have: \setupletter[ backgroundimage={letterhead} ] but it doesn't seem to do anything. I've tried adding the file extension. Thanks, Mo.

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Bug with naturaltables and letter module
by Mo Abrahams 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

Table splitting across pages interferes with the footer. Using ConTeXt ver: 2014.06.22 19:58 MKIV beta Example: \usemodule[letter] \setupletterlayer[foot][alternative=gbrief] \setupTABLE[split=yes] \startletter \bTABLE \dorecurse{40}{\bTR \bTD Test \eTD \eTR} \eTABLE \stopletter

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Re: [NTG-context] win2k and context
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 28 Jun '14

28 Jun '14

> https://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/?group_id=10 This is LuaTeX only, not the whole distribution. > http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/bin/win32/luatex.dll?view=log Sorry! Can not finde there any older context distribution. Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] Conditional keep-with-next rules
by Hans Hagen 28 Jun '14

28 Jun '14

On 6/28/2014 8:19 AM, Jan Tosovsky wrote: > On 2014-06-27 Jan Tosovsky wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> in my index I can see disturbing page breaks. >> >> primary-01 >> primary-02 >> secondary-01 >> ------- ( next page ) ----- >> secondary-02 >> primary-03 >> >> instead of >> >> primary-01 >> ------- ( next page ) ----- >> primary-02 >> secondary-01 >> secondary-02 >> primary-03 >> >> Is it possible to somehow define conditional keep-with-next rules? >> >> I'd like to express: >> (1) keep always the primary with the first secondary (this seems to be >> implemented) >> (2) keep always the first secondary with the next secondary >> (3) keep always the last secondary with the previous secondary >> >> And similarly for tertiary. Deep down we have (spac-ver) this: \definevspacing[preference][penalty:-500] % goodbreak \definevspacing[samepage] [penalty:10000] % nobreak \definevspacing[max] [category:1] \definevspacing[force] [category:2] \definevspacing[disable] [category:5] \definevspacing[nowhite] [category:6] \definevspacing[back] [category:7] % together [category:8] \definevspacing[overlay] [category:9] \definevspacing[always] [category:0] \definevspacing[weak] [order:0] \definevspacing[strong] [order:100] so we can have weights and so. However, in practice the problem is that when combining different mechanisms their spacing settings might not be tuned to each other. I will extend this mechanism when we have a bit more control over some of the lists involved. It's no big deal to set up something for an index, but it needs thinking about how to deal with worst case scenarios and these will happen for sure and you don't want to end up with a sequence of entries two pages height running of a page, certainly not in a fully automated workflow. It is on the to-be-loked-into-list, but as all things, it has to fit into my agenda (read: to be done in what's left of my free time). I also have to make sure then it does not mess up existing files. For the moment playing with the before/after keys is the way to go. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Exporting auto-generated Index/Registers as ConTeXt source
by Jan Tosovsky 28 Jun '14

28 Jun '14

Dear All, I'd like to tweak the auto-generated Index. Is there any possibility to export it as the ConTeXt source, modify it and then include instead of auto-generated Index? Thanks, Jan

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Re: [NTG-context] Conditional keep-with-next rules
by Jan Tosovsky 28 Jun '14

28 Jun '14

On 2014-06-27 Jan Tosovsky wrote: > Dear All, > > in my index I can see disturbing page breaks. > > primary-01 > primary-02 > secondary-01 > ------- ( next page ) ----- > secondary-02 > primary-03 > > instead of > > primary-01 > ------- ( next page ) ----- > primary-02 > secondary-01 > secondary-02 > primary-03 > > Is it possible to somehow define conditional keep-with-next rules? > > I'd like to express: > (1) keep always the primary with the first secondary (this seems to be > implemented) > (2) keep always the first secondary with the next secondary > (3) keep always the last secondary with the previous secondary > > And similarly for tertiary. In XSL-FO all these can be set quite easily using keep-with-next/previous rules placed on first and last items. The complexity behind is left to XSL-FO processors. primary-01 % keep-with-previous & keep-with-next (rules 1 & 2) primary-02 secondary-01 % keep-with-previous & keep-with-next (rules 1 & 2) secondary-02 secondary-03 secondary-04 % keep-with-previous (rule 3) primary-03 % keep-with-previous (rule 3) The only natural break is between secondaries: primary-01 primary-02 secondary-01 secondary-02 -------- ( break ) ------- secondary-03 secondary-04 primary-03 In case of three secondaries all is kept together and moved to the next page as a whole: primary-01 primary-02 secondary-01 secondary-03 secondary-04 primary-03 Only if a large block doesn't fit the page, it is somehow broken. I've investigated several TeX resources but I still cannot find any convenient solution. I've found related thread at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/185059/preventing-page-break-after-th e-first-or-before-the-last-list-item That solution with \pagecheck looks promising, but it has to be implemented on ConTeXt/Lua side. It requires adding 'checking' commands to proper places. Only ConTeXt knows the item tree, it can count number of item in every level and then decide where placing the command is appropriate. The \testpage or \testcolumn are not IMHO sufficient here. They cannot prevent breaking after the first primary. The optional value [2] should somehow be cummulated. Moreover, testing the number of lines is weak as index entries can be long or with many page references requiring more lines than one. \testpage[2] % keep first two together (generalized rule 2) primary-01 \testpage[2] % (rule 1) primary-02 secondary-01 secondary-02 \testpage[2] % (rule 3) secondary-03 secondary-04 primary-03 % how to set rule 3 here? Maybe some kind of 'samepage' would be better here. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/64363/context-equivalent-of-latex-sam epage \startsamepage primary-01 primary-02 secondary-01 secondary-02 % placing soft page-break % http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nopagebrk \pagebreak[0] secondary-03 secondary-04 primary-03 \stopsamepage Unfortunately, all this would have to be implemented on engine side during rendering index entries. Or are there any ways already? Thanks, Jan

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testcolumn error
by Jan Tosovsky 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

Dear All, the following MWE works fine, but when that 'First line' is uncommented, I am getting 'Undefined control sequence' error in the console (ConTeXt - 2014.06.22). \starttext \startcolumns[n=2] %First Line \testcolumn[2]\input{tufte} \stopcolumns \stoptext Any idea what is wrong here? Thanks, Jan

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Re: [NTG-context] win2k and context
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

> http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2013/071049.html > > Taco keeps an archive of windows binaries on > > http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/luatex/frs/ not found > > (click on package name to get the list of older releases) > > but they were compiled on a different compiler, so you need to > > check yourself whether they work for you or not. > > > > In case not, my best bet for downloading it would be fetching > > luatex.dll from an arbitrary commit from > > http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/bin/win32/ not clear to me how to extract a certain older version! > > Most probably the latest binary is still 0.72.0 in which case you > > can also fetch it from > > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive The version is not obvious to me! Seems more or less current. No older archives! > > http://mirrors.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/luatex.win32.tar.xz No older versions!

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Conditional keep-with-next rules
by Jan Tosovsky 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

Dear All, in my index I can see disturbing page breaks. primary-01 primary-02 secondary-01 ------- ( next page ) ----- secondary-02 primary-03 instead of primary-01 ------- ( next page ) ----- primary-02 secondary-01 secondary-02 primary-03 Is it possible to somehow define conditional keep-with-next rules? I'd like to express: (1) keep always the primary with the first secondary (this seems to be implemented) (2) keep always the first secondary with the next secondary (3) keep always the last secondary with the previous secondary And similarly for tertiary. As the Index is generated, I can't see an easy way to accomplish something like this. I hope I am wrong :-) Thanks, Jan

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latest beta, problem with natural tables and alignment character
by Brian Landy 27 Jun '14

27 Jun '14

Hi, I was testing the latest beta (2014.06.15) and noticed I am getting incorrect output using natural tables with alignment characters. I produced a small example that demonstrates the problem, and attached output created with the version I'm testing (bad.pdf) and my prior version (good.pdf, ConTeXt 2013.06.10). You can see in the bad file that ConTeXt doesn't properly align on the "-" and it introduces spurious spaces. Best regards, Brian

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