Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.04 released

2006-08-08 Thread Nicolas Grilly
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
 A quick test looks fine to me. What precisely is wrong?

My test file to reproduce the problem is at the end of this message.
When executing this test file, you should see numbers in table 2 are
not correctly aligned.

When you comment \starttableau and \stoptableau, columns are correctly aligned.

It seems the problem exists only when table 1 and table 2 have not the
same number of columns.

Thanks for your help,

Nicolas Grilly


%testfile

\setuppapersize [A4, landscape] [A4, landscape]

\definestartstop[tableau][
before={\blank[2*big]},
commands={\switchtobodyfont[10pt]},
after={\blank[big]}
]

\setupTABLE[column][each][align=middle, aligncharacter=yes,
alignmentcharacter={,}]

\starttext

\subject{Table 1 - Numbers in this table are correctly aligned}

\starttableau
\bTABLE
\bTR
\bTH Nombre de trucs \eTH
\bTH Evolution des trucs \eTH
\bTH Revenu des trucs \eTH
\bTH Evolution des trucs \eTH
\eTR
\bTR
\bTD 38 229 \eTD
\bTD +8,3\% \eTD
\bTD 387 930 k\$ \eTD
\bTD +8,3\% \eTD
\eTR
\bTR
\bTD 29 616 \eTD
\bTD +7,0\% \eTD
\bTD 272 241 k\$ \eTD
\bTD +0,7\% \eTD
\eTR
\eTABLE
\stoptableau

\subject{Table 2 - Numbers in these tables are not aligned}

\starttableau
\bTABLE
\bTR
\bTH Nombre de trucs \eTH
\bTH Part des trucs \eTH
\bTH Evolution des trucs \eTH
\bTH Revenu des trucs \eTH
\bTH Part des trucs \eTH
\bTH Evolution des trucs \eTH
\eTR
\bTR
\bTD 27 269 \eTD
\bTD 92,1\% \eTD
\bTD +7,3\% \eTD
\bTD 127 110 k\$ \eTD
\bTD 46,7\% \eTD
\bTD -2,0\% \eTD
\eTR
\bTR
\bTD 20 084 \eTD
\bTD 67,8\% \eTD
\bTD +1,6\% \eTD
\bTD 65 770 k\$ \eTD
\bTD 24,2\% \eTD
\bTD +2,7\% \eTD
\eTR
\eTABLE
\stoptableau

\stoptext
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Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.04 released

2006-08-07 Thread Nicolas Grilly
Hello Taco,

Thanks for this new release. But it seems the fix for the bug column
alignment in natural tables doesn't work.

I installed and tried this new release with the examples Peter and I
posted some days ago on this list and the columns of last table are
still mis-aligned.

Or I have a problem with my ConTeXt installation, or there is an issue
with the bug fix. Any advice?

Nicolas


On 8/7/06, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hello all,

 I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen
 can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its
 mirrors.

http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip
http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip
http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip

 The current release has version 2006.08.04

 A very short list of changes is given below. As usual, there is an
 html page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see:

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes

 New features since  2006.07.28:

 * \framed (and -text) now support an [indenting=] key
 * support for russian hyphenation
 * new version of the bib module
 * \[lL]commaaccent character definitions

 Bugfixes:
 * column alignment in natural tables
 * image inclusion:
* bounding box discovery using rli files fixed
* fix for Aleph in global TRT documents
* some still-needed definitions from former supp-pdf re-instated
 * disappearing subtextblocks
 * unicode table 002 fix
 * some identation problems removed

 Happy TeXing,

 Taco Hoekwater

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Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.04 released

2006-08-07 Thread Nicolas Grilly
/context/user/cont-sys.tex)
korps   : 12pt rm wordt geladen
taal: patronen en-ec:ec-1-2:2 uk-ec:ec-2-2:2 de-texnansi:tex
nansi-3-2:2 de-ec:ec-4-2:2 fr-texnansi:texnansi-5-2:2 fr-ec:ec-6-2:2
 es-ec:ec-7-2:2 nl-texnansi:texnansi-8-2:2 nl-ec:ec-9-2:2 it-texnansi
:texnansi-10-2:2 it-ec:ec-11-2:2 geladen
specials: tex,postscript,rokicki geladen
systeem : texexec.top geladen
(./texexec.top
specials: definitiefile tpd wordt geladen
(c:/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex
specials: definitiefile fdf wordt geladen
(c:/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex)
specials: fdf geladen
)
specials: fdf,tpd geladen
)
systems : system commands are enabled
(c:/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/sort-def.tex)
(c:/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/sort-lan.tex)
systems : begin file texexec at line 1
fonts   : resetting map file list
{c:/tex/texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-empty.map}
fonts   : using map file: texnansi-public-lm
{c:/tex/texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/texnansi-public-lm.map}
fonts   : using map file: original-base
{c:/tex/texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-base.map}
fonts   : using map file: ec-public-lm
{c:/tex/texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/ec-public-lm.map}
fonts   : using map file: ec-base
{c:/tex/texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/ec-base.map}
fonts   : using map file: original-ams-base
{c:/tex/texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-base.map}
fonts   : using map file: original-ams-euler
{c:/tex/texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-euler.map}
fonts   : using map file: original-public-lm
{c:/tex/texmf-local/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-public-lm.map}
(c:/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/pdfr-ec.tex) [1.1]
systems : end file texexec at line 3
 ){c:/tex/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/lm-ec.enc}c:/tex/texmf/fonts/type1/public/l
m/lmr12.pfb
Output written on texexec.pdf (1 page, 23276 bytes).
Transcript written on texexec.log.
TeXExec | runtime: 0.328
TeXExec | end of analysis
TeXExec |
TeXExec | TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD
TeXExec | TeXUtil   | version 9.1.0 - 1997-2005 - PRAGMA ADE/POD
TeXExec | CtxTools | version 1.3.3 - 2004/2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD
TeXExec |
TeXExec | testing interface en
TeXExec | pdfTeX Version 3.141592-1.40.0-beta-20060213 (Web2c 7.5.5)
TeXExec | ConTeXt ver: 2006.08.04 22:23 fmt: 2006.8.7 int: english mes: english
TeXExec |
TeXExec | testing interface nl
TeXExec | pdfTeX Version 3.141592-1.40.0-beta-20060213 (Web2c 7.5.5)
TeXExec | ConTeXt ver: 2006.08.04 22:23 fmt: 2006.8.7 int: dutch mes: dutch


On 8/7/06, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Nicolas Grilly wrote:
  Hello Taco,
 
  Thanks for this new release. But it seems the fix for the bug column
  alignment in natural tables doesn't work.
 
  I installed and tried this new release with the examples Peter and I
  posted some days ago on this list and the columns of last table are
  still mis-aligned.
 
  Or I have a problem with my ConTeXt installation, or there is an issue
  with the bug fix. Any advice?

 Works for me. what does   texexec --check   have to say?

 Taco
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Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.04 released

2006-08-07 Thread Nicolas Grilly

I completely reinstalled ConTeXt and tried one more time with the
attached file, and I confirm it doesn't work correctly on my computer.

I attached another test file, simpler than the previous one.

Thanks,

Nicolas

On 8/7/06, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Nicolas Grilly wrote:
 Hereunder is the output of texexec --check on my computer. Everything
 seems okay. Can you send me your test file in order I launch it on my
 computer?

Your own file (attached). Can someone else try this, please?

Taco


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Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.04 released

2006-08-07 Thread Nicolas Grilly
Taco Hoekwater wrote:

 This should do it:

\def\popTBL
  {\ifnum\TBLlevel\plusone
 \globalpopmacro\rowTBL
 \globalpopmacro\colTBL
   \else
 \global\intablefalse
   \fi
   \resetcharacteralign % Do this here !!
   \doglobal\decrement\TBLlevel\relax}

Yes, it works! :-)

But what do you think about a simpler solution:

- In \def\popTBL, don't add line \resetcharacteralign
- In \def\dobTABLE, move \resetcharacteralign just before \bgroup

On my computer, it fixes the bug without adding something to
\def\popTBL. Is it correct?

Thanks,

Nicolas
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Re: [NTG-context] Context 2006.08.04 released

2006-08-07 Thread Nicolas Grilly
I'm sorry to come with another problem related to character alignment...

My natural tables are enclosed in a \starttableau \stoptableau pair
that breaks character alignment:

\starttableau
\bTABLE
...
\eTABLE
\stoptableau

These command is defined this way:

\definestartstop[tableau][
before={\blank[2*big]},
commands={\switchtobodyfont[10pt]},
after={\blank[big]}
]

Why does it break column alignment? Is it normal?

Thanks...

Nicolas
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Re: [NTG-context] A bug in character alignment?

2006-08-03 Thread Nicolas Grilly
Peter: Thanks for your help in clarifying my example.

Taco: Thanks for fixing this bug! When will the next release be delivered?

On 8/2/06, Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Peter Münster wrote:
  On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nicolas Grilly wrote:
 
 
 Sorry, I can't see it. The column are right-aligned, which is normal, since
 there is no alignment-character.
 
 No, it is not normal. ConTeXt Wiki says if there's no
 alignmentcharacter in the cell, the content will be aligned in the
 following way depending on the value of \characteralignmentmode.
 
 By default, characteralignmentmode=4. Therefore, according to the
 wiki, cell content should be aligned on the last character of each
 cell.
 
 
  Ok, by right-aligned I wanted to say: aligned at the right-most
  character.
 
  Now I see your problem: the values are still aligned at the right-most
  character, but the whole column is pushed a bit to the right.

 It was definately a bug. We found it and it will be fixed in the next
 ConTeXt release.

 Taco

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Re: [NTG-context] Charts, Graphs, Tufte, and ConTeXt

2006-07-27 Thread Nicolas Grilly
Karl Ove Hufthammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Yes! R (especially using the new grid and lattice framework) produces
 excellent charts and graphs, with very sensible default options (much
 of it based on Cleveland's research).

What is Cleveland's research? Can you provide references on the web?

Thank you,

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[NTG-context] How to increase left and right padding of cells in a natural table?

2006-06-22 Thread Nicolas Grilly



Hello,

I'm using natural tables 
(\bTABLE ... \eTABLE) andI want to increase the space between the 
cells borders and the text inside the cells (CSS calls that left-padding and 
right-padding).

I didn't use parameter 
"offset" because I want to increase only left and right padding. I don't want to 
increase top and bottom padding.

How can I do 
that?

Thanks for your 
ideas,

Nicolas


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Re: [NTG-context] How to increase left and right padding of cells in a natural table?

2006-06-22 Thread Nicolas Grilly


Vit,

I just tried your solution, but it doesn't work: it adds space to the four
side of table cells. But I want to add space ONLY TO LEFT AND RIGHT, not to
top and bottom, like in the following illustration:

-
|My text|
-

 --offset--   --offset--


 Nicolas Grilly wrote:
  Hello,
   
  I'm using natural tables (\bTABLE ... \eTABLE) and/ /I want to 
  increase the space between the cells borders and the text 
 inside the 
  cells (CSS calls that left-padding and right-padding).
   
  I didn't use parameter offset because I want to increase 
 only left 
  and right padding. I don't want to increase top and bottom padding.
 
 Let try
 offset=2pt,% hor+vert each cell
 distance=\zeropoint,   % individual column
 columndistance=\zeropoint, % each column (whole table)
 leftmargindistance=\zeropoint, % whole table
 rightmargindistance=\zeropoint,% whole table
 
 Vit


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Re: [NTG-context] How to increase left and right padding of cells in a natural table?

2006-06-22 Thread Nicolas Grilly


Hans,

Thanks for your help, but I don't know where to put your code.

I tried the following code (and other similar solutions) but it doesn't
work:

\bTABLE
\bTR
\bTH My Title \eTH
\bTH Your title \eTH
\eTR
\bTR
\bTD First try \eTD
\bTD Second try \eTD
\eTR
\bTR
\bTD First movie \eTD
\bTD \leftskip1cm \leftskip\rightskip Second movie \eTD
\eTR
\eTABLE


Moreover, I want to set this not for one table cell but for EVERY table
cells.

Do you have any advice?

Nicolas


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  Vit,
 
  I just tried your solution, but it doesn't work: it adds 
 space to the 
  four side of table cells. But I want to add space ONLY TO LEFT AND 
  RIGHT, not to top and bottom, like in the following illustration:
 
  -
  |My text|
  -

 inside the cell 
 
 \leftskip1em \rightskip\leftskip 
 
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Re: [NTG-context] How to increase left and right padding of cells in a natural table?

2006-06-22 Thread Nicolas Grilly


Vit,

Thanks for your quick answer. I tried your quick solution (\bTD \hskip1cm
Second movie \hskip2cm\null\eTD) but it doesn't work when cell contains a
multiline text: the left space is only present on the first line and the
right space is only present on the last line.

Andmy natural table have some cells containing two or three lines of text.
Do you have any idea?

Thanks,

Nicolas


PS: If someone is able to develop an extension to natural tables in order to
have parameters like leftoffset, rightoffset, topoffset and bottomoffset in
bTABLE and setupTABLE, my company is interested to pay some hours/days of
development and release the result to ConTeXt project.


Vit wrote:
  Vit,
 
  I just tried your solution, but it doesn't work: it adds 
 space to the 
  four side of table cells. But I want to add space ONLY TO LEFT AND 
  RIGHT, not to top and bottom, like in the following illustration:
 
  -
  |My text|
  -

  inside the cell
  
  \leftskip1em \rightskip\leftskip
 
 Not to four sides but between columns. Rows distance is not affected. 
 But you are right it does not increase distance between text 
 and cell frame. Since natural tables uses \framed construct 
 in each cell and \framed has no 
 'before'/'after'/'hoffset'/'leftoffset'/'rightoffset' it can 
 not be simply set for whole natural table.
 
 Solution?
 
 a) quick:
   \bTD \hskip1cm Second movie \hskip2cm\null\eTD
 or with macro:
 \newdimen\lOffset \lOffset=1cm
 \newdimen\rOffset \rOffset=2cm
 \def\myNatTabCell#1{\bTD\hskip\lOffset#1\hskip\rOffset\null\eTD}
 ...
 \myNatTabCell{Second movie}
 ...
 
 b) systematic
 create alternative \extframed with 'before', 'after', 
 'hoffset', 'leftoffset', 'rightoffset', 'voffset', 
 'topoffset', 'bottomoffset'
 and add switches:
\bTABLE[alternative=extframed,leftoffset=1cm,rightoffset=2cm]
 
 Vit
 
 Minimal example:
 ---
 \starttext
 \bTABLE[frame=on]
 \bTR
  \bTH My Title \eTH
  \bTH Your title \eTH
 \eTR
 \bTR
  \bTD First try \eTD
  \bTD Second try \eTD
 \eTR
 \bTR
  \bTD First movie \eTD
  \bTD \hskip1cm Second movie \hskip2cm\null\eTD \eTR 
 \eTABLE \stoptext


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RE: [NTG-context] A very little error in texmf.cnf

2005-12-14 Thread Nicolas Grilly


Fine. So, we need to change the following line from texmf.cnf:

  TEXMFPROJECTS = $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-projects

Into:

  TEXMFPROJECT = $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-project

Without that modification, the directory texmf-project is not included in
TeX search path.

Nicolas


Hans wrote:

 Nicolas Grilly wrote:
 
 
 
 The issue is one expression is singular and the other one is 
 plural. We 
 need to have the same convention for each expression. So, yes, it's 
 possible to change the other line to singular to fix this 
 very little 
 bug ;-)
   
 
 singular is what i want it to be (since i use it at all our machines)


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RE: [NTG-context] A very little error in texmf.cnf

2005-12-13 Thread Nicolas Grilly


Hans wrote: 
 
 Taco Hoekwater wrote:
 
  Hans Hagen wrote:
 
  Nicolas Grilly wrote:
 
  There is a very little error in file 
  /tex/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf.
   
  This file is contained in archive justtex.zip downloaded from 
  Pragma web site.
   
  It lacks a S after TEXMFPROJECT in definition of TEXMF :
   
  TEXMF =
  
 {!!$TEXMFPROJECTS,!!$TEXMFFONTS,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMF
  MAIN}
 
 
 
  eh ... why should that be plural?
 
 
  It should agree with this line, surely:
 
TEXMFPROJECTS = $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-projects
 
 ah, then that one should be singular (i always set that one 
 in other setup scripts)
 
 TEXMFPROJECT = $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-project

The issue is one expression is singular and the other one is plural. We need
to have the same convention for each expression. So, yes, it's possible to
change the other line to singular to fix this very little bug ;-)


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[NTG-context] A very little error in texmf.cnf

2005-12-10 Thread Nicolas Grilly



There is a very little 
error in file "/tex/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf".

This file is contained 
in archive "justtex.zip" downloaded from Pragma web site.

It lacks a "S" after 
TEXMFPROJECT in definition of TEXMF :
TEXMF = 
{!!$TEXMFPROJECTS,!!$TEXMFFONTS,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN}

Sincerely,

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RE: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-13 Thread Nicolas Grilly


This mini-survey is an excellent idea!

What I do with ConTeXt:

1. Produce sales and marketing reports for my customers (we are a marketing
and data mining consultancy). We have a very simple templating language
written in Python that connects to an SQL database, generates the ConTeXt
file, launchs ConTeXt and launchs Acrobat Reader to see the PDF file.

2. Produce totally personalized mailings for customers of companies we work
for. Eveything is personalized: text, background, photos, etc. We produce it
with the same templating solution (see previous point).

We think ConTeXt is the perfect solution with regard to our needs (reporting
and mailing). From our point of view, it has only two drawbacks:

- The integration of new True Type fonts is a difficult and error prone
process. One need to choose the appropriate encoding, create a .tfm file and
write a map file. In order to simplify this, a future version of ConTeXt
could natively use Unicode (no more need to choose an encoding) and could
automatically create .tfm file on demand.

- Absolute positionning is difficult. There is too many way to achieve the
same result, difficult to understand, and the resulting code is very
verbose. But I'm a beginner with ConTeXt! ;-)

Thanks for your beautiful work on ConTeXt!

Regards,

Nicolas


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RE: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-13 Thread Nicolas Grilly


I totally agree with the comparison you made of ConTeXt and LaTeX: With
ConTeXt, you can produce something unique. With LaTeX, your document will
look like a traditional research paper!

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Taco Hoekwater wrote:

 What do you do with ConTeXT?

I use ConTeXt for any document that I figure someone will want to print out
on paper some day.  This includes resumes, letters, and articles.  I even
considered typesetting software documentation with ConTeXt, but haven’t yet
decided if PDFs are the right medium for that kind of text.
I also typeset my master’s thesis using ConTeXt and probably spent as much
time hacking ConTeXt as I did on doing “actual work” for the content.  Not
because ConTeXt couldn’t do what I wanted, but because ConTeXt allowed me to
do anything I wanted.  Having a lot of options can be time-consuming, as you
want to try them all before deciding on the one that works best.  This is
both the good and the bad thing about ConTeXt.  You can tweak and tweak and
tweak, whereas with something like LaTeX you have a few boring designs and
you just choose the one that suits the type of document your writing.  And
your document will look like five million other research papers outh there.
I wanted something unique and ConTeXt was just the right tool for it.

nikolai

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RE: [NTG-context] How can I minimize the vertical space taken bya \textrule

2005-10-31 Thread Nicolas Grilly


Hello,

I agree with the idea that documentation of ConTeXt's commands and
parameters is rather incomplete.

I'm wondering if it's possible to have a documentation system like Java's
Javadoc. We can put comments just before commands definitions and use a
little preprocessor written in Perl or Python that parse TeX files in order
to build a ConTeXt documentation like the manual titled ConTeXt commands.

I'm looking forward your opinion about this.

Nicolas

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On Oct 27, 2005, at 21:00, Peter Rolf wrote:

 I already had

 \setuptextrules
 [before=,after=,inbetween=]

 but that does not work. It seems that inside my paragraph 
 environment, the settings made outside it are ignored. I also do not  
 have my \setupinterlinespace[medium] there (see other thread). Looks  
 like a startstopparagraph problem to me.

 I've tested it without an environment, so maybe you are right.
 Have you tried to add some setups (\setuptexrules,..) to

 \setupparagraphs[...][...][before=??? or command=???]

I had tried about everything I could think of. That's the one big problem
with ConTeXt, it's most of the tim ea matter of trial and error and a
difficult process of trial and error even. Documentation often does only
mentions the existence of something without an explanation (arguments to
commands are seldomly adequately explained). I have been fighting with
layout parameters yesterday for a document I needed to keep within one page.

 I'm sure there is a (context-)way (but I have not used this command 
 'til today).

Someone should fund Hans for writing true documentation.

G

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