Dear list, modifying http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/hrule#Example, I added an "\hrule height .25in". I’m afraid that this command make all rules vanish in the final document. The same source compiles fine with latest beta (2016.05.22 15:18) on my laptop. Is there anything that I’m missing or have i hit a bug? Many thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk
The version on the wiki is the stable version from mid 2015.
On May 29, 2016 12:36 PM, "Pablo Rodriguez"
Dear list,
modifying http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/hrule#Example, I added an "\hrule height .25in".
I’m afraid that this command make all rules vanish in the final document.
The same source compiles fine with latest beta (2016.05.22 15:18) on my laptop.
Is there anything that I’m missing or have i hit a bug?
Many thanks for your help,
Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk
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I'm still trying to understand some ConTeXt ways of doing things, being a kind of LaTeX native myself. I bought the context-fonts manual, but still can't figure out how to implement a macro that does the simple(?) following, especially item 3: 1. Make #1 uppercase [OK, in simple situations I could just type the uppercase letters] 2. change #1's color to xxx [not a problem] 3. apply an amount of letterspacing to the capitalized #1 that I can specify myself. Maybe I'm only using the wrong search term, maybe the letterspace feature is well hidden in the documentation, maybe it doesn't exist: I simply don't know and don't see a way to find out. \stretched is not an answer. Any hints appreciated. Cheers -- Thomas
On 5/29/2016 6:36 PM, Thomas Fehige wrote:
I'm still trying to understand some ConTeXt ways of doing things, being a kind of LaTeX native myself. I bought the context-fonts manual, but still can't figure out how to implement a macro that does the simple(?) following, especially item 3:
1. Make #1 uppercase [OK, in simple situations I could just type the uppercase letters] 2. change #1's color to xxx [not a problem] 3. apply an amount of letterspacing to the capitalized #1 that I can specify myself.
Maybe I'm only using the wrong search term, maybe the letterspace feature is well hidden in the documentation, maybe it doesn't exist: I simply don't know and don't see a way to find out. \stretched is not an answer.
\starttext some words \WORD{some words} \definecharacterkerning[mine][factor=0.5] \definecharacterkerning[less][factor=0.05] \definecharacterkerning[more][factor=0.1] \WORD{\setcharacterkerning[mine]some words} {\setcharactercasing[WORD]\setcharacterkerning[mine]some words} {\setcharactercasing[Words]\setcharacterkerning[less]some words} {\setcharactercasing[Words]\setcharacterkerning[more]some words} \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On 05/29/2016 05:31 PM, Mohammad Hossein Bateni wrote:
The version on the wiki is the stable version from mid 2015.
Hi Mohammad, the stable version (from 2015.05.18 12:26) compiles the document fine. All rules are there. There must be something problematic besides ConTeXt itself (something related to the generation of the .png image?). Many thanks for your help, Pablo
On May 29, 2016 12:36 PM, "Pablo Rodriguez" wrote:
Dear list,
modifying http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/hrule#Example, I added an "\hrule height .25in".
I’m afraid that this command make all rules vanish in the final document.
The same source compiles fine with latest beta (2016.05.22 15:18) on my laptop.
Is there anything that I’m missing or have i hit a bug?
Many thanks for your help,
Pablo
I'm trying to put a piece of text in a partial frame that's meant to look like square brackets aligned with the left and right edges of the textblock. I tried to use two \framed constructions inside each other, the outer one with width=textwidth and negative toffset and boffset, the inner one with a smaller width, a fat rulethickness and the color of the background, expecting it to erase the outer frame where it's not needed: \color[zier]{% \framed[% align=middle, width=\textwidth, toffset=-4mm, boffset=-4mm, strut=no, ]{% \color[paper]{\framed[% align=middle, width=222mm, % i.e. \textwidth-4mm toffset=6mm, boffset=5mm, rulethickness=5mm ]{% \color[zier]{\tfd \strut Here's the text that is menat to look important; its length/number of lines is undetermined.\strut} }}% }% }% ... but it doesn't work. Apparently the inner frame is drawn before the outer one. Putting the wider frame inside the narrower results in alignment problems -- due to the overfull hbox, I presume. Is there a simple solution in ConTeXt that I haven't found yet, or will I have to try some plain TeX box magic myself? Thanks -- Thomas
Thomas Fehige mailto:thomas@fehige.de 6. Juni 2016 um 10:11 I'm trying to put a piece of text in a partial frame that's meant to look like square brackets aligned with the left and right edges of the textblock.
I tried to use two \framed constructions inside each other, the outer one with width=textwidth and negative toffset and boffset, the inner one with a smaller width, a fat rulethickness and the color of the background, expecting it to erase the outer frame where it's not needed:
\color[zier]{%
\framed[%
align=middle,
width=\textwidth,
toffset=-4mm,
boffset=-4mm,
strut=no,
]{%
\color[paper]{\framed[%
align=middle,
width=222mm, % i.e. \textwidth-4mm
toffset=6mm,
boffset=5mm,
rulethickness=5mm
]{%
\color[zier]{\tfd \strut Here's the text that is menat to look important; its length/number of lines is undetermined.\strut}
}}%
}%
}%
... but it doesn't work. Apparently the inner frame is drawn before the outer one. Putting the wider frame inside the narrower results in alignment problems -- due to the overfull hbox, I presume. Your example is of not much use because it can’t be converted to a PDF (missing \starttext and empty lines). Is there a simple solution in ConTeXt that I haven't found yet, or will I have to try some plain TeX box magic myself? You can use MetaPost to draw the frame/lines for the left and right borders.
\startuseMPgraphic{leftbracket} z[0] = (EmWidth,OverlayHeight) ; z[1] = (0,OverlayHeight) ; z[2] = (0,0) ; z[3] = (EmWidth,0) ; draw z[0]--z[1]--z[2]--z[3] withcolor \MPcolor{\overlaylinecolor} ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{rightbracket} z[0] = (-EmWidth,OverlayHeight) ; z[1] = (0,OverlayHeight) ; z[2] = (0,0) ; z[3] = (-EmWidth,0) ; draw z[0]--z[1]--z[2]--z[3] withcolor \MPcolor{\overlaylinecolor} ; \stopuseMPgraphic \installleftframerenderer {bracket}{\useMPgraphic {leftbracket}} \installrightframerenderer{bracket}{\useMPgraphic{rightbracket}} \defineframed [bracketframed] [frame=off, offset=1ex, leftframe=bracket, rightframe=bracket, framecolor=red, foregroundstyle=\ssx, foregroundcolor=darkgray, align=normal, width=max] \starttext \bracketframed{\input knuth } \stoptext Wolfgang
Thank you Wolfgang, that is exactly what I was looking for. I apologize for the incomplete example. I have no idea, however, how all the empty lines got in there. They weren't there when I clicked "send", only when I saw it in the list. Thomas Am 06.06.2016 um 12:32 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
\startuseMPgraphic{leftbracket} z[0] = (EmWidth,OverlayHeight) ; z[1] = (0,OverlayHeight) ; z[2] = (0,0) ; z[3] = (EmWidth,0) ; draw z[0]--z[1]--z[2]--z[3] withcolor \MPcolor{\overlaylinecolor} ; \stopuseMPgraphic
\startuseMPgraphic{rightbracket} z[0] = (-EmWidth,OverlayHeight) ; z[1] = (0,OverlayHeight) ; z[2] = (0,0) ; z[3] = (-EmWidth,0) ; draw z[0]--z[1]--z[2]--z[3] withcolor \MPcolor{\overlaylinecolor} ; \stopuseMPgraphic
\installleftframerenderer {bracket}{\useMPgraphic {leftbracket}} \installrightframerenderer{bracket}{\useMPgraphic{rightbracket}}
\defineframed [bracketframed] [frame=off, offset=1ex, leftframe=bracket, rightframe=bracket, framecolor=red, foregroundstyle=\ssx, foregroundcolor=darkgray, align=normal, width=max]
\starttext \bracketframed{\input knuth } \stoptext
In the fonts book I found the \definebodyfont command, but it does not to do what I expected. What I need (for a poster) is a set of absolute font sizes. I tried the code below. I put some quirks in, like the huge value for "a", to see if it works, but it doesn't. It just uses the preset proportions relative to the preceding fontsize command (in the example, \tfx is bigger than \tf). \definebodyfontenvironment[palatino][24pt][ text = 24pt, small = 22pt, x=22pt, scriptscript = 16pt, xx = 16pt, big=28pt, a = 80pt, % 28pt b = 40pt, c = 50pt, d = 50pt, interlinespace = 3ex, em = italic ] \setupbodyfont[palatino,24pt] \starttext \tf tf\\ \tfa tfa\\ \tfb tfb\\ \tfx tfx\\ \tfx tfx \stoptext
In the fonts book I found the \definebodyfont command, but it does not to do what I expected. What I need (for a poster) is a set of absolute font sizes. I tried the code below. I put some quirks in, like the huge value for "a", to see if it works, but it doesn't. It just uses the preset proportions relative to the preceding fontsize command (in the example, \tfx is bigger than \tf). \definebodyfontenvironment[palatino][24pt][ text = 24pt, small = 22pt, x=22pt, scriptscript = 16pt, xx = 16pt, big=28pt, a = 80pt, % 28pt b = 40pt, c = 50pt, d = 50pt, interlinespace = 3ex, em = italic ] \setupbodyfont[palatino,24pt] \starttext \tf tf\\ \tfa tfa\\ \tfb tfb\\ \tfx tfx\\ \tfx tfx \stoptext
edit: Sorry, I meant the command \definebodyfontenvironment, of course, like in the code sample. Am 06.06.2016 um 16:05 schrieb Thomas Fehige:
In the fonts book I found the \definebodyfont command, but it does not to do what I expected. What I need (for a poster) is a set of absolute font sizes. I tried the code below. I put some quirks in, like the huge value for "a", to see if it works, but it doesn't. It just uses the preset proportions relative to the preceding fontsize command (in the example, \tfx is bigger than \tf).
\definebodyfontenvironment[palatino][24pt][
text = 24pt,
small = 22pt,
x=22pt,
scriptscript = 16pt,
xx = 16pt,
big=28pt,
a = 80pt, % 28pt
b = 40pt,
c = 50pt,
d = 50pt,
interlinespace = 3ex,
em = italic
]
\setupbodyfont[palatino,24pt]
\starttext
\tf tf\\
\tfa tfa\\
\tfb tfb\\
\tfx tfx\\
\tfx tfx
\stoptext
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Hi Thomas, please the following article when you have your next question: http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/netiquette/email/start-new-th...
Thomas Fehige mailto:thomas@fehige.de 6. Juni 2016 um 16:05
In the fonts book I found the \definebodyfont command, but it does not to do what I expected. What I need (for a poster) is a set of absolute font sizes. I tried the code below. I put some quirks in, like the huge value for "a", to see if it works, but it doesn't. It just uses the preset proportions relative to the preceding fontsize command (in the example, \tfx is bigger than \tf).
\definebodyfontenvironment[palatino][24pt][
text = 24pt,
small = 22pt,
x=22pt,
scriptscript = 16pt,
xx = 16pt,
big=28pt,
a = 80pt, % 28pt
b = 40pt,
c = 50pt,
d = 50pt,
interlinespace = 3ex,
em = italic
]
\setupbodyfont[palatino,24pt]
\starttext
\tf tf\\
\tfa tfa\\
\tfb tfb\\
\tfx tfx\\
\tfx tfx
\stoptext
When you have only a small amount of text the use of \definebodyfontenvironment is overkill because you can use the \definedfont command to set a certain font size. \starttext \start \definedfont[Serif at 20pt] \input ward \stop \startfont[SansBoldItalic at 18pt] \input ward \stopfont \stoptext Wolfgang
Am 06.06.2016 um 22:48 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
Hi Thomas,
[Thanks for the hint re starting a new thread, I didn't know that, sorry.]
Thomas Fehige mailto:thomas@fehige.de 6. Juni 2016 um 16:05
In the fonts book I found the \definebodyfont command, but it does not to do what I expected. What I need (for a poster) is a set of absolute font sizes. I tried the code below. I put some quirks in, like the huge value for "a", to see if it works, but it doesn't. It just uses the preset proportions relative to the preceding fontsize command (in the example, \tfx is bigger than \tf).
\definebodyfontenvironment[palatino][24pt][ text = 24pt, small = 22pt, x = 22pt, scriptscript = 16pt, xx = 16pt, big=28pt, a = 80pt, % 28pt b = 40pt, c = 50pt, d = 50pt, interlinespace = 3ex, em = italic ]
\setupbodyfont[palatino,24pt]
\starttext \tf tf\\ \tfa tfa\\ \tfb tfb\\ \tfx tfx\\ \tfx tfx \stoptext
When you have only a small amount of text the use of \definebodyfontenvironment is overkill because you can use the \definedfont command to set a certain font size.
\starttext
\start \definedfont[Serif at 20pt] \input ward \stop
\startfont[SansBoldItalic at 18pt] \input ward \stopfont
\stoptext
Wolfgang
Nevertheless, I prefer to keep all the font and fontsize definitions and tweaks together in the preamble. This poster is not the only work I'm planning to do in ConTeXt, and I need to learn to swim while already in the water ;) . Meanwhile I found the command \definebodyfontswitch and defined switches like \normalsize, \scriptsize, \large, \Large etc. But this doesn't explain why \definebodyfontenvironment did not do anything in my MNWE. The fonts book is not very clear on its intended use. BTW, I have no idea how all the strange line breaks crept into my code sample again. It seems tabs in a html mail are converted into line breaks somewhere along the line. I'll stick to plain text in the future. Cheers -- Thomas
Thomas Fehige mailto:thomas@fehige.de 8. Juni 2016 um 10:35 Nevertheless, I prefer to keep all the font and fontsize definitions and tweaks together in the preamble. This poster is not the only work I'm planning to do in ConTeXt, and I need to learn to swim while already in the water ;) . For short texts where you want a certain style and size (e.g. a title page or a poster with few words) \definedfont is the recommended method, for larger amounts of the text (e.g. the abstract of a book) you can use \switchtobodyfont to change the size. Meanwhile I found the command \definebodyfontswitch and defined switches like \normalsize, \scriptsize, \large, \Large etc. The \definebodyfontswitch creates only a command which uses \switchtobodyfont with a fixed number of arguments. But this doesn't explain why \definebodyfontenvironment did not do anything in my MNWE. The fonts book is not very clear on its intended use. You put spaces before and after = which aren’t allowed there.
\definebodyfontenvironment [24pt] [ small=22pt, big=28pt, x=22pt, xx=16pt, a=30pt, b=40pt, c=50pt, d=60pt, interlinespace=30pt, em=italic] \setupbodyfont[palatino,24pt] \starttext \startlines \tf tf {\tfa tfa} {\tfb tfb} {\tfc tfc} {\tfd tfd} {\tfx tfx} {\tfxx tfxx} \stoplines \stoptext Wolfgang
Thank you Wolfgang, that solves the mystery. (As the poster is for a philosophical association, "few words" is not applicable here.) Am 08.06.2016 um 11:11 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
Thomas Fehige mailto:thomas@fehige.de 8. Juni 2016 um 10:35 Nevertheless, I prefer to keep all the font and fontsize definitions and tweaks together in the preamble. This poster is not the only work I'm planning to do in ConTeXt, and I need to learn to swim while already in the water ;) . For short texts where you want a certain style and size (e.g. a title page or a poster with few words) \definedfont is the recommended method, for larger amounts of the text (e.g. the abstract of a book) you can use \switchtobodyfont to change the size. Meanwhile I found the command \definebodyfontswitch and defined switches like \normalsize, \scriptsize, \large, \Large etc. The \definebodyfontswitch creates only a command which uses \switchtobodyfont with a fixed number of arguments. But this doesn't explain why \definebodyfontenvironment did not do anything in my MNWE. The fonts book is not very clear on its intended use. You put spaces before and after = which aren’t allowed there.
\definebodyfontenvironment [24pt] [ small=22pt, big=28pt, x=22pt, xx=16pt, a=30pt, b=40pt, c=50pt, d=60pt, interlinespace=30pt, em=italic]
\setupbodyfont[palatino,24pt]
\starttext
\startlines \tf tf {\tfa tfa} {\tfb tfb} {\tfc tfc} {\tfd tfd} {\tfx tfx} {\tfxx tfxx} \stoplines
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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