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Spelling out chapter numbers for novels.
by john Culleton 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

It is now fashionable in the U.S. (and maybe elsewhere) to use a spelled-out chapter number in novels. Not finding a function to convert from a number register to a text string I created a brute force file that looks like this: ------------------------------ \def\chapstring{\ifcase\currentheadnumber\or One\or Two\or Three\or Four\or Five\or Six\or Seven\or Eight\or Nine\or Ten\or ... Ninety-eight\or Ninety-nine\else One hundred\fi} -------------------------------- This file enables authors to rearrange chapters without worrying about renumbering the chapters since it depends on \currentheadnumber. I wonder if there is a function in Context or elsewhere that does this for me? If not, anyone who wants the complete file can write me for a copy. It might save you ten minutes or so :<) -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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[***SPAM***] Layout question
by hwitloc＠gmail.com 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

I found I could achieve the desired layout by directly setting the width variable. Thank you. I first tried seting the markupwidth but it can't be set, but the width layout variable does work. Thanks Re: \setuplayout[leftedge=0mm, leftedgedistance=0mm, leftmargin=0mm, leftmargindistance=0mm, backspace=3mm, rightedge=0mm,rightedgedistance=0mm,rightmargin=0mm,rightmargindistance=0mm, topspace=3mm, top=0mm, topdistance=0mm, header=0mm, headerdistance=0mm, footerdistance=0mm, footer=0mm,bottomdistance=0mm, bottom=0mm, width=85mm ]

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\DL misfunctioning
by hwitloc＠gmail.com 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

I'm having some problems. Here is a minimum example showing the problem: Table #1 In the first case \DL[1] does not work and no line is displayed, but the columns line up nicesly. Table #2 In this table I accidentally got \DL[1] to work by added a \NC to th last row. BUT, the last row is not misaligned by about 1 character position. How could I get Example #2 below to align properly and why is \DL not working in example #1? Regards --------------- \starttext \starttable[|r|] \NC Table Header Here \AR \DL[1] \DR \NC misc item 1 \AR \NC misc item 2 \AR \stoptable \starttable[|r|] \NC Table Header Here \AR \DL[1] \DR \NC misc item 1 \AR \NC misc item 2 \NC \AR \stoptable \stoptext

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startitemize [intext]
by Alan BRASLAU 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Can someone explain how the "intext" keyword should be used in an item list? I would expect the following minimal example to produce a. first b. second c. third \starttext \startitemize [a,intext] \startitem first \stopitem \startitem second \stopitem \startitem third \stopitem \stopitemize \stoptext Alan

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Math in current beta
by Alan BRASLAU 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Math seems terribly broken in current beta. Minimal example: anything... :) Alan

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hyphenate urls in a non hyphenated text
by Stéphanie Vilayphiou 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Hello, I'm making a flushleft document with no hyphenation. However, URLs are then not hyphenated either and end up in the margin. \hyphenateurl{} works only when setupalign[] is set to hyphenated. Is there a way to hyphenate only URLs? Thanks, Stéphanie -- ---- Stéphanie Vilayphiou <stdin> http://stdin.fr/ +32 (0)4 89 00 88 59

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stretch framed text to width
by Pablo Rodriguez 09 Oct '13

09 Oct '13

Dear list, I have a very simple request, but I wasn’t able to find information on the wiki or the ConTeXt manual. Here is the sample: \starttext \framed[width=40mm]{word} \stoptext How can I get the word stretched to the frame width? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

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Repeat second-level registers within index
by Thangalin 08 Oct '13

08 Oct '13

Hi, How do you prevent ConTeXt from hiding (collapsing?) duplicate level 2 index items? For example: \startitem 5 array \index{hedgehog+SECTION A}hedgehog \stopitem \startitem 7 army \index{herring+SECTION A}herring \stopitem \startitem 100 bloat \index{hippopotamuses+SECTION A}hippopotamuses \stopitem The text "SECTION A" will only appear once in the index, right after hedgehog. I would like it to appear once per index term, always. Such as: *H* hedgehog SECTION A 2 herring SECTION A 2 hippopotamuses SECTION A 2 For more details, see: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/134952/force-second-level-index-to-b… Kindest regards.

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Conditional float references
by Marco Patzer 08 Oct '13

08 Oct '13

Hi, a couple of times the question came up¹²³ how to create more intelligent referencing. There are already mechanisms in the core, namely \somewhere and \atpage but they both have drawbacks. \somewhere happily prints its text if the figure is placed on the same double page. In fact, no text at all should be printed if the figure is visible. Furthermore it's a little verbose to use unless hidden in a custom macro. \atpage on the other hand doesn't hesitate to print “see figure 1.2 at page 42” while you're on page 42. I'm aware that automatic generation of reference text is problematic since the text depends on the placement of floats which in turn depends on the text which might result in oscillation. I'm not sure how likely this is to occur in practice. I don't know if there's interest in integrating such functionality into the core. I attached some code, a new macro \smartref, which takes the same arguments as \in. \smartref{figure}[fig:somefigure] - it prints the reference if it is on the same page (e.g. Figure 1.2) - it prints the reference and a customizable text if the reference is on the next/previous page (e.g. Figure 1.2 on the previous page) - it prints the reference and the page if the reference is further away than one page (e.g. Figure 1.2 on page 42) - it adapts to single-sided and double-sided layouts Marco ¹ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/65295 ² http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/59455 ³ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/76001

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Mathdesign GD with simplefonts
by Magnus J 08 Oct '13

08 Oct '13

Hello list, Long term (silent) on-and-off user with two issues that require some support: 1. How can I use the Mathdesign GD math font in ConTeXt? I use simplefonts to load Adobe Garamond Pro, but mathdesigngd (name as reported by mtxrun fonts script) is somehow not found. At this time I fallback to ugly solutions with \text in math mode. And yes, I know about type-imp-mathdesign.mkiv, but obviously I'm not qualified enough to get it right. Minimal (not) working example: \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[Adobe Garamond Pro] \setmathfont[mathdesigngd] \starttext I want \m{x^2+y^2=z^2} in my text, and $\alpha\beta\gamma$ too. \stoptext 2. I would like to use the \followtokens macro from within metapost. How can this be achieved? Specifically, I trying to draw a rainbow-like figure with text "between" the colors. Regards, Magnus

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