Hello,
I have some problems with the way to put clipped images in ConTeXt
documents; for what I can see the correct way to do it is via
something like:
\clip
[width=6.3cm,height=10.5cm,hoffset=0.5cm,voffset=1cm]
{\externalfigure[ciccione_03.pdf]}
Now suppose that I wanted to put the above
Tuesday, March 25, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH At 10:07 PM 3/24/2003 -0500, Gary Pajer wrote:
I've tried to resist, but I have to ask. Why not write a simple batch file
that runs MetaPost *and* changes the extension? That's what I do. ... Are
you processing several MP scripts in one file ??
HH
Tuesday, March 25, 2003 Gary Pajer wrote:
Ok, but in the mean time how is one supposed to include MetaPost
output without having to rename the files?
GP I've tried to resist, but I have to ask. Why not write a simple batch file
GP that runs MetaPost *and* changes the extension? That's what I
Tuesday, March 25, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH the search for graphics is kind of fuzzy and dates from the time that we
HH were still using dvi (different backends)
HH - without suffix: try the best quality (depends on spec driver support)
HH - with suffix: try that first, else locate alternative
Tuesday, March 25, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH At 11:38 AM 3/25/2003 +0100, you wrote:
The third point is too severe in its behaviour: it's a good thing that
circular
loading is prevented, but this shouldn't prevent inclusion of
other files with different extensions! After the removal of the
Tuesday, March 25, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
The problem is still that I cannot separate the behaviour at the
end of the background from the behaviour at a split. What I'm
looking for is something like this:
HH guess what, this time your demands for features are fulfilled on forehand!
HH there is
Tuesday, March 25, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
Almost perfect! Only a few things need refining:
(1) top is also used when there is no split; it should be
possible to detect the no-split situation (multilocs=0?)
HH (hm, would not be upward compatible)
Then add a issplit boolean.
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Monday, March 24, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
Doesn't work either. Fails with the same errors. Again, it works
correctly by changing the extension.
A possible reason for the error is that the name of the tex file
is the same as the name of the figure file (test), because ConTeXt
*does* check for this,
Monday, March 24, 2003 Guy Worthington wrote:
GW Giuseppe Bilotta wrote
Emil Hedevang Lohse wrote:
[an algorithm for finding the intersection points of two paths]
[a metapost implementation]
GW Thanks Emil and Giuseppe, a nice example that was well worth the read.
You may want to have
Hello,
I would like to discuss a few points about backgrounds
(\startbackground ... \stopbackground).
First of all, it would be nice to have background classes, so
that I can have different backgrounds for different things without
having to reset it each time. (Think
Monday, March 24, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH At 03:37 PM 3/24/2003 +0100, you (GB) wrote:
Hello,
I would like to discuss a few points about backgrounds
(\startbackground ... \stopbackground).
HH Got you! Did you read details.pdf? It's all in there, you can hook in your
HH own graphics, it works
Monday, March 24, 2003 Simon Pepping wrote:
but it seems like it can't find the file test (no extension); I
tried adding options [type=mps] or [method=mps] or both, but each
fails with a different error: either it looks for test.mps or it
looks for test.unknown ...
SP The macro
Sunday, March 23, 2003 Emil Hedevang Lohse wrote:
EHL I implemented it by finding some intersectiontime and the recursively
EHL finding the intersectionstimes of the two subpaths (each with some
EHL neighbourhood of the first intersection point cut off). For the time
EHL being I cannot find my
Sunday, March 23, 2003 Idris S Hamid wrote:
ISH 1. For the def. of \ALAVIband, the key,
ISH backgroundcolor=darkyellow, does not work; I still get grey.
You need to specify both background=color and
backgroundcolor=darkyellow, AFAIK.
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Sunday, March 23, 2003 Idris S Hamid wrote:
You need to specify both background=color and
backgroundcolor=darkyellow, AFAIK.
ISH I just tried this, now I lose the (formerly grey) background band
ISH completey; and there is no effect in the overlay:
ISH ==
ISH
Monday, March 24, 2003 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
GB Sunday, March 23, 2003 Idris S Hamid wrote:
You need to specify both background=color and
backgroundcolor=darkyellow, AFAIK.
ISH I just tried this, now I lose the (formerly grey) background band
ISH completey; and there is no effect
Hello,
I would like to know if it is possible in MetaPost (in particular
MetaFun) to get all the possible intersection points of the paths,
with some kind of simple command, with a syntax like, say:
A[] := path1 intersections path2
(where the resulting list could be either a list of points or a
Saturday, March 22, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
I would like to know if it is possible in MetaPost (in particular
MetaFun) to get all the possible intersection points of the paths,
[snip]
Anything like this?
HH not that i know, but assuming that those path have some distance, i can
HH imagine
Wednesday, March 19, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH you cannot change the width mid-paragraph btw
Can't something like this be implemented via appropriate
parshapes?
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Hello,
just got 2003.03.17 and found a small bug: the auto keyword is
put among constants, while it should go among variables ...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH At 04:29 PM 3/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:
I don't know, it's the last version unmodified on Windows
but here is the log of texexec 3.1
HH looks like a miktex problem (if you make a minimal faling file i'm sure
HH that one of the miktex context users
Wednesday, March 12, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
That's a good thing, even if I wonder how you could distinguish
between a vertical middle and a horizontal middle ... maybe we
need values hcenter and vcenter?
HH vertical middle is now: lohi (lowhigh) ]for instance in \framed and
HH friends:
Wednesday, March 12, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH At 12:47 PM 3/11/2003 +0100, you wrote:
=== BEGIN PATCH ===
\startvariables all
auto: auto
\stopvariables
HH ok, added, does not hurt to have that key (althougj in this case 'display'
HH i smore adequate
I don't think so. The material is
Friday, March 14, 2003 Gregory Vanuxem wrote:
GV I rebuild all possible format, mem...
Your test file runs perfectly fine here (absolutely latest
MiKTeX).
Did you generate the .mem file via texexec --make metafun? Please
observe that this puts the .mem file in the wrong directory, you
must move
Friday, March 14, 2003 Gregory Vanuxem wrote:
GV Strange thing !!!
GV Yes, generate the .mem file via texexec --make metafun
GV Oops, it was in fmt dir !!!
GV EXCELLENT THING : All work now
GV Thanks a lot!!
Good to know :) Maybe you
I seem to recall from various discussions that ConTeXt has some
features that would come useful to typeset newspaper and similar
stuff (columnsets being one of them, IIRC). Are there example of
their usage, and possibly some kind of manual?
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Tuesday, March 11, 2003 K.H. Wesseling wrote:
KHW Karel W here and no need to worry, let's on occasion both buy Hans as
KHW much beer as he cares to drink. Cordially...Karel.
I sometimes wish we could do more than just that to thank him for all
his work :)
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Monday, March 10, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH However, it seems that you want something:
HH \starttext
HH \startbuffer
HH \startcombination
HH{\externalfigure[cow][frame=on, width=3cm]}
HH {\placefloatcaption[figure]{x}}
HH{\externalfigure[cow][frame=on, width=3cm]}
HH
Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
BTW, AFAICS there is no way to make a reference (à la \infigure)
to a single element in a /combination/ ... can this be done?
HH there is a trick for that, but i cannot find it right now; however, the
HH floatcaption command accepts a second optional arg
Hello list,
I wish to bring the discussion again on displayed material.
Display material is material that conceptually belongs to a
paragraphs but typographically breaks it. After the display, the
paragraph can continue or not. In ConTeXt, there are many things
which should be considered
Wednesday, March 5, 2003 Patrick Gundlach wrote:
PG 463,467c462,465
PG loading: Context Page Macros / Backgrounds
PG ) (/opt/context/--/texmf/tex/context/base/page-app.tex
PG loading: Context Page Macros / Applications
PG ) (/opt/context/--/texmf/tex/context/base/core-job.tex
Tuesday, March 4, 2003 Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Anyway, my log (different pdf-e-TeX version, could be the culprit?
I doubt it):
PG There must be some difference somewhere?!?
PG Is this the logfile or the output of the texexec run that you have
PG posted?
Logfile.
PG First, there is the
Tuesday, March 4, 2003 Patrick Gundlach wrote:
PG Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PG Hello again,
PG one other strange test file:
PG See the different spacing between the first A items and the last
PG A,columns ones. So the columns has an effect but not the desired
PG one.
The
Hello,
following up to a recent post on comp.text.tex I'd like to bring
forth an enhancement request for itemgroups: in the current
implementation it is not possible to set up itemgroups to use the
non key=value pairs settings. IOW, one cannot say
\defineitemgroup[myitems]
\setupmyitems[each][A]
Thursday, February 6, 2003 Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
JUM Hmm, PSTricks consists of two parts:
JUM a) a TeX-part that provides a user-interface and writes the
JUMPS-specials in the dvi-output
JUM b) a set of PS-macros that provides a varity of interesting
JUMfeatures
[snip]
JUM So, what
Thursday, February 6, 2003 Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
JUM as you know, PSTricks is a huge package, so where to start?
JUM - what features are needed
JUM - who can write the TeX interface
JUM - i could help with some MP code
Ok, the precise set of features I need is the one used by the
excellent
Friday, February 7, 2003 Denis Roegel wrote:
DR I suppose you have already had a look at metaobj?
DR ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/metaobj/
DR It implements many of pstricks' features (see pages 93 and following
DR in the manual). If you develop something
Hello,
I was wondering if anybody (say, for example, Hans ;) has ever
thought about developing a (Con)TeX(t)+Meta(Post|Fun) counterpart of
PSTricks? PSTricks is widely used, but has the disadvantage of not
being usable for direct PDF creation; a purely texmfish way to
handle the stuff would be
Sunday, January 26, 2003 Willi Egger wrote:
WE Hi all,
WE I thought that \startbuffer and stopbuffer would cause grouping within the
WE buffer. e.g.
WE \startbuffer[mybuffer]
WE \switchtobodyfont[small]
WEa bunch of text
WE \stopbuffer
WE \starttext
WE \section{First}
WE
Sunday, January 26, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
after a couple of hours of debugging I found out why I couldn't
anymore set my PDF to maintain the zoom level; apparently, the
command \dosetuppageview{standard} command was ignored/overruled.
I finally traced it down to \setupinteraction: this command
Hello,
I just noticed that the 2003.1.10 version of context doesn't read
environments anymore, when they are in the previous directory; I
have to put them in the same directory as the processed file, it
seems. I tried adding a \usepath[..], but it still doesn't work.
Any ideas?
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Hello,
after a couple of hours of debugging I found out why I couldn't
anymore set my PDF to maintain the zoom level; apparently, the
command \dosetuppageview{standard} command was ignored/overruled.
I finally traced it down to \setupinteraction: this command seems
to reset the pageview to fit.
Friday, January 24, 2003 John Culleton wrote:
JC I receive many MSWord documents which I then convert to plain text or
JC LaTeX etc. Typically all the characters in a paragraph are crowded
JC onto one line. This makes editing a bore.
JC I can use:
JC gqap
JC to change an individual paragraph
Wednesday, January 22, 2003 Patrick Gundlach wrote:
PG Hello out there,
PG how do I let the destination of a hyperlink do not affect the zoom
PG level? (I.E. not /Fit but /XYZ in destination)
\dosetuppageview{standard}
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Tuesday, January 21, 2003 Gilles Pérez-Lambert wrote:
GPL Hello,
GPL I have a problem with footnotes: the references and the footnotes do
GPL not fall on the same page as soon as there is numerous footnotes on a
GPL page (something that happens frequently in my work). You'll find a
GPL source
Tuesday, January 21, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH At 10:59 PM 1/21/2003 +0800, you wrote:
Dear all,
I am using ConTeXt under MikTeX 2.2 , but when I used texexec --make
to make format file, I got the following error message. Could anyone give
me some advice to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
HH Looks
Monday, January 13, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH ghostscript/view is ok, but slower as well; it does not support the
HH interactive features other than simple hyperlinks (i wonder why this is not
HH implemented)
I asked about it to the GSView programmer some time ago. /pdfmark
support for standard
Monday, December 9, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH hm, must think this over, esp since tex has no way (except measuring) to
HH determine if a slot is really taken
e-TeX can, IIRC. And since UTF support requires e-TeX anyway ...
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Sunday, December 8, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH At 07:24 PM 12/7/2002 +0100, you wrote:
def\startalign{%
\startformula
\let\\\cr
\grabuntil{stopalign}\doeqalign
}
\def\doeqalign#1{\eqalign{#1\cr}\stopformula}
HH ^^ better make that \crcr in order to
Hello,
I just downloaded the latest beta --and it seems it won't generate
cross refs anymore.
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Hello,
I just wanted to report the conclusions I reached after the
hoop-jumping I had to go through to be able to use Fraktur in
ConTeXt, especially in math environments: it seems that the \frak,
\goth, \cal font switches are ignored in math mode (which is
somewhat ridiculous, considering that
Wednesday, December 4, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH Hi,
HH I'm uploading a new beta. This one has utf8 as a regime:
HH\enableregime[utf]
Uhm. The name can get confusing in case ConTeXt will support
UTF-16 or UTF-32 in the future ...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2002 Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
This is where we differ. After all, the empty line is the
*standard* TeX (and ConTeXt) way to denote new paragraph. While
should it be different for displayed items? It's inconsistent.
BDA For what it's worth, I agree with Giuseppe here. It's
Tuesday, December 3, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH At 01:37 AM 12/3/2002 +0100, you wrote:
This is where we differ. After all, the empty line is the
*standard* TeX (and ConTeXt) way to denote new paragraph. While
should it be different for displayed items? It's inconsistent.
HH it's because in my
Tuesday, December 3, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH well, if before=\blank, that will not change;
of course
HH actually, quotations are hooked into narrower, which
HH start/ends new pars;
Narrower, too, shouldn't start new pars IMO. It counts as
displayed material.
HH a more generic switch can be
Tuesday, December 3, 2002 Eduardo Cassiraga wrote:
EC Hi:
EC I am trying to install ConTexT system on my PC. My TeX system is MikTeX and
EC I use Windows 2000. However it's imposible to me generate the formats. When
EC I type the command for that the system answer to me as follow:
EC
Hello,
I'm going to bring the discussion back to a sore point that really
needs to be cleared.
When dealing with displayed material (equations, itemizations,
quotations etc) the following four cases are (or rather should be)
different:
==
Case 1:
some text before
Sunday, December 1, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH Hi,
HH I uploaded a new beta.
Can't seem to find it ...
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Thursday, November 28, 2002 Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
BDA On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 02:47 PM, Simon Pepping wrote:
Is there a higher level Context construct that
would be appropriate here?
BDA And shouldn't we have an epigraph environment Hans? ;-)
You can use the xdesc module I
Thursday, November 28, 2002 Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
BDA On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 02:47 PM, Simon Pepping wrote:
Is there a higher level Context construct that
would be appropriate here?
BDA And shouldn't we have an epigraph environment Hans? ;-)
You can use the xdesc module I
Friday, November 29, 2002 Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
You can use the xdesc module I developed to define a very
flexible epigraph environment (i.e. one which also allows you to
have a list of epigraphs etc).
BDA You in this context is me, as an individual?
Yes.
BDA The issue I have here
BDA
Friday, November 29, 2002 Simon Pepping wrote:
On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 06:30 AM, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
You can use the xdesc module I developed to define a very
flexible epigraph environment (i.e. one which also allows you to
have a list of epigraphs etc).
SP Where do I find
Tuesday, November 12, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH When mixing fonts, esp with similar names, and esp in an ungrouped way,
HH it's best to use the typeface mechanism, since it provides a namespace,
HH while the less clever mechanism overloads definitions (keep in mind that
HH there are some
Tuesday, November 12, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:
I never managed to get typeface working correctly, other than
defining things similarly to type-pre and using those with
\switchbodyfont. Is there any documentation on how to *use*
typefaces (not *define* them)?
HH define:
HH
Monday, November 11, 2002 Idris S Hamid wrote:
ISH \setupbodyfont[cmr,14pt]
ISH %\setupbodyfont[omlgc, 14.4pt]
Did some testings. The bug is also present with pdfeTeX, using
pos,berry and cmr. Seems to work fine if you remove the size
specifications, though. Hope this helps Hans tracing the
HH first of all, we're not dealing with a bug, it's a feature; so, if some
HH other behavior is wanted, it should be an option of extension to existing
HH mechanisms, nog a replacement.
HH there is one thing we should keep in mind: naive users are not always aware
HH of tex's empty line ==
Personally, I use \dosetuppageview{standard}; it seems to work.
JC Is this command documented somewhere? Is it a Context command or a
JC Pdf(e)tex one?
(Hidden) ConTeXt command. It's quite a struggle to make XYZ work properly
in pdfTeX because it cannot be fully specified properly. Hans, any
Sunday, October 27, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH indeed tex does not like interference [modes, i.e. \doifmode cum suis are
HH more robust]
HH it works better in starttabulate/bTABLE
I need to use them in tables. What can I use?
BTW, while we're talking about it: is there a way to let a table
Friday, October 25, 2002 Olaf Weber wrote:
--job-name in MiKTeX changes \jobname; what does --jobname in
web2c 7.3.9 do?
OW It sets \jobname.
Goodie! Funny thing, MikTeX uses --job-name, while web2c uses
--jobname ... one would wish both used the same :)
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Friday, October 25, 2002 Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
JUM On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:01:42 +0200
JUM Giuseppe Bilotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where's the Natural Tables manual?
JUM http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/enattab.pdf
Thank you very much.
Now, for the real question: has anybody
Tuesday, October 22, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH tex - fmt
HH etec- efmt (already)
HH pdftex - pft
HH pdfetex - epmt
HH omega - oft
HH eomega - eoft
HH nts - nfmt (already)
HH but since pdftex is compatible is less urgent
since it's efmt and nfmt, wouldn't consistency call for
Tuesday, October 22, 2002 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
GB Tuesday, October 22, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH Hi,
HH Is there someone with a complete clean context archive that can be used as
HH an import in Gmane (mine is messed up bu maintainers messages and bounced
HH stuff)?
HH If you have
Tuesday, October 22, 2002 Hans Hagen wrote:
HH At 03:35 PM 10/22/2002 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
Hello,
I just read a post on comp.text.tex asking how to make This page
intentionally left blank in LaTeX. There, it's a matter of
redefining the \cleardoublepage comman; I assumed that ConTeXt
Monday, October 21, 2002 Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
JUM On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:59:31 +0200
JUM Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i come back to the tooltips later
JUM before i forget it, i would like to give here an additional idea
JUM about this topic:
JUM IMO, the whole thing should be
Saturday, October 19, 2002 Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
(1) add frame classes
JUM if you mean something like
JUM \defineframed[name]
JUM \setupframed[name][...]
JUM \name{..text..}
JUM then i think this on the wish list of many ConteXt users.
JUM Commands that currently support framed-parameters
Saturday, October 19, 2002 Patrick Gundlach wrote:
PG Giuseppe Bilotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PG Hello,
PG teTeX:
very easy to do if (recent) fpTeX and teTeX supported the
--job-name option ... is this the case? If so, the patch can be
done very easily. Anybody using fpTeX or teTeX
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