Hi all,
I have a set of reference manuals that consist of a number of chapters. Those
documents pull in the individual chapters via \input commands.
I have just recently discovered that ConTeXt actually DOES support a
project/product/component structure. So, I have been experimenting with
<http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4.Douglas_Adams>, Dirk Gently's Holistic
Detective Agency <http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1042123>
> On 12 Sep 2016, at 22:29 , Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Malte Stien <mailto:ma...@stien
Hi all,
I am just familiarising myself with projects/products/components. I have a
number of documents that all belong to a large set of Reference Manuals and so
far I have built them all separately and have relied a lot on the simple
\input... statement. I assume with
I
could get access to the resulting intermediate file.
Does that makes sense?
Thank you,
Malte.
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Hi all,
Is there a way I can avoid page breaks after “headings”, i.e. \section,
\subsection, \subject, \subsubject, etc?
Thank you,
Malte.
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recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what
Hi,
I am trying to typeset some strings in {\tt ...}, but they turn out to be
pretty wide. So, I would like to compress those bits of text a little. Any
hints on how I could do that locally, that is without adjusting the entire font.
Thank you,
Malte.
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On 14 Jul 2014, at 23:03 , Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com
wrote:
Am 14.07.2014 um 13:58 schrieb Malte Stien ma...@stien.de:
Hi,
I need to style my references to SOME section/subsection/subsubsection
differently. Here
Hi,
I need to style my references to SOME section/subsection/subsubsection
differently. Here is an example:
\starttext
There are lots of animals such as \about[ducks] and \about[bears].
More about this can be found in Chapter~\about[introduction].
\chapter[introduction]{Introduction}
?
\startitemize[n]
\item bar
\item faz
\stopitemize[n]
\startitemize[n, continue]
\item foo
\item bla
\stopitemize[n]
Thank you,
Malte.
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E: malte.st...@smartward.com.au | W: www.smartward.com.au
P: +61 (0)2 6230 9477 | M: +61 (0)413
Hi all,
I have a rather long document listing a number of items, which I need to be
numbered continuously throughout the entire document. The following approach
appears to work well, except that the numbering restarts at the beginning of
every chapter. Is there a way that can be avoided?
:24 PM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com
wrote:
Am 02.07.2013 um 06:05 schrieb Malte Stien ma...@stien.de:
Wolfgang,
Actually, I just realised this only works if the next page (the right page
following the empty left page) is the first page of a chapter in the
bodymatter
:24 schrieb Malte Stien ma...@stien.de:
Hello,
When you setup your chapters such that a chapter always starts on a right
page, you naturally get the occasional empty left page just before that. I
have my headers setup like this
\setupheadertexts[chapter][section]
I get the chapter
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On 25/06/2013, at 10:38 PM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com
wrote:
Am 25.06.2013 um 07:24 schrieb Malte Stien ma...@stien.de:
Hello,
When you setup your chapters such that a chapter always starts on a right
page
Hello,
I am trying for bold small caps, such like
{\bf This is bold {\sc and bold small caps} and just bold again}
However, out of the box, the inner {\sc ...} part is not typeset in bold. So
after a bit of looking I found this:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bold_small_caps
But it does
Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
On 25/06/2013, at 11:08 PM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com
wrote:
Am 25.06.2013 um 14:59 schrieb Malte Stien ma...@stien.de:
Hello,
I am trying for bold small caps, such like
{\bf This is bold {\sc and bold small caps
Hello,
When you setup your chapters such that a chapter always starts on a right page,
you naturally get the occasional empty left page just before that. I have my
headers setup like this
\setupheadertexts[chapter][section]
I get the chapter and section name of the previous section printed
G'day everyone,
I use introductory sentences to numbered lists all the time, like this (where
\startnlist...\stopnlist is a custom itemised list):
To remove a foo from a pool of foos:
\startnlist
\item Do this...
\item Do that...
\item ...and so on...
\stopnlist
On occasions, I am
Hi all,
Is there are way I can have ConTeXt halt on particular warnings or errors? In
particular, I like it to spit the dummy when it finds an unknown reference.
Otherwise, I end up with the unknown references in the document that I
sometimes don't find until much later.
At the moment I grep
to believe.”
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On 29/04/2013, at 9:04 PM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com
wrote:
Am 29.04.2013 um 09:33 schrieb Malte Stien ma...@stien.de:
Hi,
I need to associate a bit of text with a figure in a book. The text
Hello Everyone,
I have been using ConTeXt for over a year now and worked out how to do most
things I need to do. Every now and then, though, I need to do something that I
cannot find any information about and in most cases I post a question here on
the forum. I have received great help here
Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
On 29/04/2013, at 9:04 PM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@gmail.com
wrote:
Am 29.04.2013 um 09:33 schrieb Malte Stien ma...@stien.de:
Hi,
I need to associate a bit of text with a figure in a book. The text is
not---and cannot be---the figure
Hi,
I need to associate a bit of text with a figure in a book. The text is
not---and cannot be---the figure caption (it's providing some explanation with
respect to some labels in the figure). I have tried the following based on some
other post on the mailing list:
Hello everyone,
I have defined my own set of heads with \setuphead like so, such that I can
supply my own numbers:
\definehead[foosection][section]
\setuphead[foosection][number=yes, ownnumber=yes, sectionsegments=section]
However, I need them to show up in the table of content. What's
Hello,
I have a table in which I have to group a number of rows together. Let's say I
have a table with two columns, the first is an item ID and the second a
multi-line description for that item. Say I have ten items in the table and I
need to group Item 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6 and so on.
Hello,
This is a bit old now, but I would like to come back to it. First of all,
Marco, thank you for your response. I did try it and it does work. However, I
seem to be loosing other things like adjusting the table width; things that
\placetable provides.
\placetable also has the advantage
Aditya,
Thank you; you are right, too. I can't believe I did not try that.
Regards,
Malte.
On 11/02/2013, at 12:28 PM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013, Malte Stien wrote:
Hello,
This is a bit old now, but I would like to come back to it. First of all
Hello,
I just looked up how to enable repeated headers in \starttabulate…
\stoptabulate tables. It's explained here:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Tabulate#Headers
…but I am unable to make the minimal example work:
\starttext
\placetable[split,here][tab:ref]{Sometable}
\NC \AR
\NC l \NC left aligned \NC \AR
\NC r \NC right aligned \NC \AR}
\stoptabulate
\stoptext
My apologies.
Malte.
On 11/02/2013, at 4:09 PM, Malte Stien ma...@stien.de wrote:
Hello,
I just looked up how to enable repeated headers in \starttabulate…
\stoptabulate tables
Hello everyone,
I have been trying the lettrine module and have come across some unexpected
behaviour. I have been following the documentation found here
http://modules.contextgarden.net/dl/t-lettrine/doc/context/third/lettrine/lettrine-doc.pdf
and have proceeded to make a minimal example:
Thank you, Sietse,
That works a treat. And thank you for your idea of looking at the source code.
I should do that more often to ease myself into understanding TeX a bit better.
At the moment I still look at myself as a user.
Regards,
Malte.
On 14/01/2013, at 7:00 PM,
Hi,
I have a rather wide, 41mm, outer margin in a manual and I am trying to put the
page number into the margin like so:
\setuppagenumbering[
alternative=doublesided,
location={header, margin},
style=bold,
]
The trouble is that the page number is only a few
:
1. Re: Layer vs. overlay (Hans Hagen)
2. Page Numbers on Outer Edge of Outer Margin (Malte Stien)
3. Re: Page Numbers on Outer Edge of Outer Margin (Wolfgang Schuster)
4. Re: Page Numbers on Outer Edge of Outer Margin (Marco Patzer)
5. Re: Page Numbers on Outer Edge of Outer Margin
Hi,
I have just changed one of my documents from single-page to double-page to be
printed as a book. I have some margin remarks, that used to be on the left
which I am now trying to move to the outer margin on odd and even pages (that
is, left on even, right on odd pages). In doing so, I had
Hi all,
I can easily \setupitemgroup to achieve the following:
1. ...
a. ...
1. ...
b. ...
1. ...
2. ...
2. ...
a. ...
1. ...
…but I need the numbers/letters to cumulate as follows:
1. ...
1a. ...
1a1. ...
1b. ...
1b1. ...
Hi,
Thank you again for all the great help, I have received here in recent weeks;
it is much appreciated.
I have page numbering setup in my layout.tex environment file, which I use for
all of our documents.
% Show the page number in the middle of the footer
\setuppagenumbering[
tried align=right and
align=flushright, none of which worked. I am just guessing here as there does
not seem to be any documentation available on \startframed. How can I
right-align this?
Thank you.
Malte.
Am 19.10.2012 um 02:29 schrieb Malte Stien ma...@stien.de:
Hello,
I am using
Hello,
I have just up just upgraded from version 2012.03.30 to the latest beta.
Suddenly none of my tables are named chapter.number anymore, eg. Table 1.3 for
the third table in Chapter 1, but just 3. That is, the chapter number is no
longer prepended. Has something changed there? How can I
Thank you, Wolfgang. That works.
Regards,
Malte.
On 19/10/2012, at 4:14, ntg-context-requ...@ntg.nl wrote:
Hello,
I have just up just upgraded from version 2012.03.30 to the latest beta.
Suddenly none of my tables are named chapter.number anymore, eg. Table 1.3
for the third table in
Hello,
I am using a the startsetups mechanism that defines a title page in my
environment file. That way anyone creating a document in my organisation can
create a new document and get a consistent look of the title page. There is one
problem with this: On occasions I get very long document
Thank you. Yes, that helps.
Regards,
Malte.
On 16/10/2012, at 20:21, Malte Stien wrote:
Any pointers anyone? I need to get this working and am running out of ideas.
Thank you,
Malte.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Malte Stien ma...@stien.de
Date: 15 October 2012 17:03:42
To: ntg
Any pointers anyone? I need to get this working and am running out of ideas.
Thank you,
Malte.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Malte Stien ma...@stien.de
Date: 15 October 2012 17:03:42
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Need help with \definetabulate
Marco
Marco,
\definetabulate [alpha] [|l|l|l|]
\setuptabulate [alpha] [bodyfont=small]
This does not work for me quite the way I need it to. I am really just after
defining the font-size, but I would like to leave the column setup to the user
(I am building an environment and that I would like
Dear all,
I have a number of tables defined like this:
\placetable[here][tab:some-table]{Some Table}
\starttabulate[|w(.30\textwidth)p|w(.70\textwidth)p|]
\HL
\NC {\bf Animal} \NC {\bf Comment} \NC\FR
\HL
\NC Cat\NC Pretty cool \NC\MR
\NC Bear \NC Kind of lazy
Hello,
I have been playing with the creation of PDF bookmarks and found this page here:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/PDF_Bookmarks_and_Headers
So I have tried this (and a few variations of it):
% Enable PDF bookmarks
\setupinteraction[state=start]
% Make chapter, section bookmarks
Hi,
How do I force a line break in a tabulate table cell? I have tried \par, \\ and
\crlf none of which seem to do the trick.
Thank you,
Malte.
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Hi,
I'm trying to create a table with the following formatting:
1. The top left cell is divided in two by a diagonal line with separate text
into each triangle
2. Another cell in the table body has a bulleted list
I've had no success with the first. With the second I've tried using the
Hi all,
Is there a way I can get ConTeXt to produce PDFs that are not-printable? Just
as a background to my question: This is not about copyright. Rather, I am using
ConTeXt to produce quality process documents. The quality management system
requires that all quality process documents be
Hi everyone,
I am experiencing a problem with \inmargin{some text} in \itemized lists. I am
using them a lot in my documents, and it is kind of annoying. It appears that
if one uses the \inmargin macro just prior to the \item macro, the in-margin
text is typeset against the previous line, not
Hi all,
I have a chapter with a bunch of definitions. I defined myself a description
for that purpose, as in:
\definedescription[definition][alternative=hanging, headstyle=bold,
align=flushleft, style=normal, width=fit, margin=1cm]
My definitions obviously come out in the order I defined
Hi Wolfgang,
Thank you so much for that. It did work. And yes, I was wondering whether there
was a more elegant way of doing this. This way of setting and using variables
does not seem to be all that well documented; it's not in the ConTeXt Manual,
presumably because it is new, right?
I think
\color[darkgray]\blank[small]
from the \titlepage macro all works, which I find somewhat unexpected.
Could you please have a look at this?
Thank you.
Malte.
On 31/03/2012, at 1:17, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 30-3-2012 11:47, Malte Stien wrote:
Hans,
No, everything works in the (by now ancient
Hi again,
After I had some issues with \externalfigure, Hans suggested to me that I use a
newer version of ConTeXt. So, rather than using the latest current (which seems
to be from May 2011)
ConTeXt ver: 2011.05.18 18:04 MKIV fmt: 2011.12.6 int: english/english
I am not using the latest
Hans,
No, everything works in the (by now ancient) current but is broken in the
beta. I am trying to switch to the beta as you suggested, but am being held up
by some errors, the first one of which is this
Regards,
Malte.
On 30/03/2012, at 20:44, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 30-3-2012 11:35, Malte
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Rotating externalfigure
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
Am 29.03.2012 um 01:07 schrieb Malte Stien:
Hi all,
I am trying to rotate a figure on a page. I believe it should work
Hi all,
I am trying to rotate a figure on a page. I believe it should work as follows:
\placefigure[left]{Some figure
caption}{\externalfigure[some-figure-caption][orientation=90]}
...and the figure does indeed get rotated, but the bounding box appears to be
incorrect. The figure ends up
Wolfgang,
Thank you for that info. That is unfortunate. Is there any way I can achieve
what I need? That is
1. Foo
+ Some bullet item 1,
+ Some bullet item 2,
+ Some bullet item 3.
2. Baz
Thank you.
Malte.
On 25/03/2012, at 3:54, ntg-context-requ...@ntg.nl wrote:
ConTeXt uses
Hi all,
Is it possible to format indexed words in a particular style within the text
more or less automatically. For example, if I write
There are some \index[ducks] in the zoo.
...I would like the term ducks to appear in small-capitals to indicate the
that term can be found in the index.
Hi,
I got a few responses for this. Thank you to all of you. I ended up using the
code below. Works a treat. And yes, apologies. The square brackets were a typo;
of course they should have been curly.
Thank you again.
Malte.
On 24/03/2012, at 0:01, ntg-context-requ...@ntg.nl wrote:
One way
I have the following two definitions for bullet point lists...
% Setup bullet point lists
\defineitemgroup[blist][before={\blank[1ex]}]
\setupitemgroup[blist][1][packed][symbol=1]
\setupitemgroup[blist][2][packed][symbol=2]
... and numbered lists
% Setup numbered lists
.
Regards,
Malte.
On 24/03/2012, at 15:25, Malte Stien wrote:
I have the following two definitions for bullet point lists...
% Setup bullet point lists
\defineitemgroup[blist][before={\blank[1ex]}]
\setupitemgroup[blist][1][packed][symbol=1]
\setupitemgroup[blist][2][packed][symbol=2
Hi,
Thank you for all your help so far. I do have another question, though. I would
like to define different styles for different types of itemized lists. I have
defined:
% Setup itemised lists
\setupitemize[1][packed][symbol=1]
\setupitemize[2][packed][symbol=2]
for one type and I
Hi all,
Is there a way to define your own itemize symbols? I would like a solid square,
as in symbol 8 (referring to Table 10.1 in the Context Manual, but solid/filled
whereas 8 is hollow.
I tried to declare my own bullet point, as in:
\def\squarebullet{\vrule height .9ex width .8ex depth
Hi all,
I am designing a document suite consisting of two dozen or so documents that
are all interrelated. I was wondering whether there is a way that I can define
a reference point for an entire document within a project and then refer to
that from another document, like
Hi all,
I am using some darkgray in my documents, as in
\color[darkgray] foo...
which was working out well as long as I was processing my documents with the
'context' command. I recently started using 'texexec' instead, as in
texexec --pdf definitions-acronyms-and-abbreviations.tex
Hi Wolfgang,
Use also the broad keyword for align which makes ConTeXt more tolerant to
break the line with ragged text.
That did the trick. Thank you so much.
Regards,
Malte.
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Mojca, Wolfgang,
Thank you for explaining that. I had read about the two different versions MkII
and MkIV, but did not realise that 'texexec' is the former while 'context' is
the latter.
How old was the manual that you were reading?
I got that from the Context Manual (Context Manual
Hi all,
I seem to have a problem with line wrapping/hyphenation in chapter/section
headings. I have a chapter heading Technical Definitions, Acronyms and
Abbreviations. When I setup my chapter headings as follows
\setuphead[chapter][style=\tfc\ss\bf, alternative=inmargin]
the heading is
/Section Headings
(Malte Stien)
2. Re: Line Wrapping/Hyphenation in Chapter/Section Headings
(Wolfgang Schuster)
3. Integration of all the information around ConTeXt (Jan Heinen)
4. more indenting (Alan Braslau)
5. Footnotes in combinations don't work?
(Proch?zka Luk
/Section Headings
(Malte Stien)
2. Re: Line Wrapping/Hyphenation in Chapter/Section Headings
(Wolfgang Schuster)
3. Integration of all the information around ConTeXt (Jan Heinen)
4. more indenting (Alan Braslau)
5. Footnotes in combinations don't work?
(Proch?zka Luk?? Ing
Hello,
I am new to all of this. First of all, thank you to everyone involved for such
an awesome software package. I have been looking for something like this for a
while for technical documentation for software projects and had no idea this
even existed until... well, yesterday. So, I spent
Thank you. Either of those solutions work fine.
Malte.
On 07/12/2011, at 21:31, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On 12/07/2011 11:16 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
Better group the arguments of the “style” key as a whole:
·
Hi everyone,
How do I get a copyright symbol in ConTeXt, you know the circle with the 'C' in
the centre? I expected it to be \textcopyright as in LaTeX, but that does not
seem to work. Rather than just telling me the answer, where would I look that
up? Sooner or later I will need other
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