Re: [NTG-context] Italicized text trailing space too small
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Kip Warner wrote: > >> Text that I {\it have italicized} trails too tight with the first >> non-italicized word that is typeset next. I'm sure there is some ConTeXt >> command that adjusts this that I am unfamiliar with. > > > \italiccorrection or \/ Or use \em which (as I understand it) automatically adds italic correction? Although the hybrid-italics feature looks great (so many hidden nuggets out there :). c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] redefining paragraph breaks
I know I could do it manually, but that makes the source ugly, so is there a way to redefine paragraph breaks so that instead of actual breaks in the output they are kept as running text separate by a paragraph symbol, e.g.: This is paragraph 1. This is paragraph 2. Becomes in the typeset document: This is paragraph 1. ¶ This is paragraph 2. ? c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] most recent manual
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > \setupfootnote == \setupnote[footnote] > > The second form is the recommended way and commands like \setupfootnote > are there for backward compatibility but for new functions it’s always > \setupXXX[]. Thanks. Perhaps the backward compatibility was eventually removed for setupfootnote! At any rate, what appears to be a bug reported in my other message stands since I am pretty sure I am using the latest syntax. c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] most recent manual
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Chris Lott wrote: > I'm working my way through the ConTeXt manual/reference. I discovered > the draft of a new manual at: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/manual_being_revised -- is this the > latest available anywhere? I'm finding a lot of things that are out of > date in the new draft (for instance, using \setupnote[footnote] > instead of \setupfootnotes) which generally means doing it wrong, > searching google and the wiki for information, and finding out that > things have changed :) Is this the best way? A clarification because a backchannel note made me suspect this question might be taken the wrong way: it isn't intended to imply a criticism... I'm just making sure I'm using the most recent resources! c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] setupnote[footnote] adding extra pages
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Chris Lott wrote: > Why does this document create three pages, with the footnote on the > second and a third that is blank? > > \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] > \setupnote[footnote][numberconversion=Romannumerals] > \starttext > This is a sample letter. \footnote{foo} > \stoptext A bit more for troubleshooting: the above code works fine with an earlier version of ConTeXt (2011.05.18 18:04). The problem above occurs when using version 2011.12.31 18:06 using "context file.tex" ... however using "texexec --pdf file.tex" works properly, so I guess this is an MKIV problem. c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] setupnote[footnote] adding extra pages
Why does this document create three pages, with the footnote on the second and a third that is blank? \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \setupnote[footnote][numberconversion=Romannumerals] \starttext This is a sample letter. \footnote{foo} \stoptext If I remove the \setupnote line, then everything is on one page, as it should be. c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] most recent manual
I'm working my way through the ConTeXt manual/reference. I discovered the draft of a new manual at: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/manual_being_revised -- is this the latest available anywhere? I'm finding a lot of things that are out of date in the new draft (for instance, using \setupnote[footnote] instead of \setupfootnotes) which generally means doing it wrong, searching google and the wiki for information, and finding out that things have changed :) Is this the best way? c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Citation "Error 2" using BibTeX db
I was testing citation capability with a BibTeX db based on the Context Garden bibliography page: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography The example code using the xampl.bib from my distribution didn't work at all. So I've tried to make a very small example, which results in an in-text citation that says [[error 2]] and no citations listed in the References section: CONTEXT --VERSION mtx-context | main context file: /Users/chrislott/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2011.12.18 15:57 CTXBIBTEST.TEX (I've tried with and without the bibltx module, which isn't found on my system) \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex[database=bibtest] \starttext "Oh No," he said \cite[lott]. \completepublications \stoptext BIBTEST.BIB @book{lott, author = "Chris Lott", title = "FUBARed", publisher = "NonExistent Press", year= "2011", address = "Timbuktu" } CTXBIBTEST.BBL (generated by ConTeXt): \setuppublicationlist[samplesize={Lot11},totalnumber=1] \startpublication[k=lott,t=book, a={{Lott}},y=2011, n=1,s=Lot11] \author[]{Chris}[C.]{}{Lott} \pubyear{2011} \title{FUBARed} \city{Timbuktu} \pubname{NonExistent Press} \stoppublication CTXBIBTEST.AUX (generated by ConTeXt) c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] (exuberant) ctags and ConTeXt
Does anyone have a current working configuration for exuberant-ctags (I'm using it in vim) to work with ConTeXt? The ctags FAQ shows how to do it for LaTeX with regexes in a configuration file... http://vim-taglist.sourceforge.net/extend.html I can hack away at those, but in case anyone has done this already I wouldn't have to reinvent that particular wheel. c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] optical centering...
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Centered text based on the longest line is simple but when it’s > better to make this a feature of the lines environment. Yeah, but it *isn't* based on the longest line, but on an average of line length. I guess that's why it is call...well, except for the first example in the doc provided, which is what I think your code does. Though the code you provided is very useful, so thanks! c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] optical centering...
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: >>>> I've seen some discussion about creating a verse environment in ConTeXt >>>> that handles the alignment of long (broken) lines of text. But I can't find >>>> anything about optical centering as can be done in LaTeX using the gmverse >>>> package: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/gmverse >>>> >>>> Is there something like this available for ConTeXt? >>> >>> >>> Can you make a PDF where we can see what do you want? > > > That's just a bunch of macro code ... what Wolfgang meant was output that > you want to see. Writing from scratch fo rwhat you need is easier that > deciphering macro code. My apologies, this is what I meant to link to, a TUGboat article which has both the formulae for calculating the center and visual illustrations of the resulting centering: www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb29-1/tb91murzynowski-text.pdf The package provides three things, in descending order of importance for me: * optical centering, which is a calculation of the center point for the alignment of the box of text that is based on based on an average of the line lengths of the work being set. gmverse provides four different possible centering methods based on different formulae (if it matters, method 3 and 2 are most useful. * Alignment of broken lines, right-aligned to the length of the line above the break * An environment that needs no use of \\ to break lines, but does so based on the length of the line and automatically wraps long lines (as defined by a dimension) and uses the alignment above. I have no idea if the way the package is written is overly complicated for what it does... I don't really understand the code nearly well enough, I just know that it works! Thanks for any input. I can keep using LaTeX for this work, but when I switch technologies, I tend to learn it by trying to move everything to it (having recently switched from emacs to vim comes to mind :) c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] optical centering...
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 16.12.2011 um 02:31 schrieb Chris Lott: > >> I've seen some discussion about creating a verse environment in ConTeXt that >> handles the alignment of long (broken) lines of text. But I can't find >> anything about optical centering as can be done in LaTeX using the gmverse >> package: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/gmverse >> >> Is there something like this available for ConTeXt? > > Can you make a PDF where we can see what do you want? The documentation for the gmverse package probably explains it better than I can. Here's a direct link: http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/gmverse/gmverse.pdf Thanks! c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] optical centering...
I've seen some discussion about creating a verse environment in ConTeXt that handles the alignment of long (broken) lines of text. But I can't find anything about optical centering as can be done in LaTeX using the gmverse package: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/gmverse Is there something like this available for ConTeXt? c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Minion Pro - em and slant?
I found a bunch of code that sets up Minion Pro (and Myriad) typefaces that seems to work (once I modified MinionPro-Italic and the rest to be MinionPro-It as it is on my system: http://pastebin.com/muSg4dZN However, neither \em nor \slanted make any change to the text. Since I'm basically blindly copying and pasting the typeface setup (is there a better way to use different fonts? The documentation is bewildering), I'm not sure what I need to do to get \em and \slanted working, though I really only care about the former... c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Hagmann Jörg wrote: > > Another possibility is to use org-mode in Emacs, export to Latex and >from there to ConTeXt. In my case, the last step is accomplished by a >home-brewed ruby script which covers the most common layout commands >(and I'm mentioning that here in the hope that somebody who is more >competent will eventually write something useful; or maybe pandoc does >that, too?). > > This setup allows me to have everything belonging to a project in one >textfile, e.g.: [***] That's quite interesting. Are you willing to share your Ruby script? I have used org-mode a fair amount... c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Roger Mason wrote: > >> 4) How about X/HTML? this is my lowest level need but, again, it would be >> nice. > > One option would be to use markdown with pandoc. > [...] > I mostly write in > ConTeXt, but if I know I must share with users of word processors then > markdown + pandoc is a good option. This is, in fact, what I do now, with the occasional export to--and massage in--LaTeX. And even when trying ConTeXt lately, I often start with that route because I much prefer composing raw text in Markdown where I can. That said, the RTF export by Pandoc, while not perfect, is a useful step. I hear Mojca's point about the difficulty of re-integrating RTF or Word/etc revisions; I share that philosophy. But many of my colleagues don't. I try to use PDF as the interchange format but many don't like dealing with them. None of that is insurmountable, or any knock on ConTeXt, it is just a consideration to--well--consider. I still have many uses for something TeX based! Thanks for the info... c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?
Many years ago I used LaTeX quite a bit for academic work, including a fair amount of Memoir class. Back then ConTeXt was quite new, so I didn't mess with it much. Now I'm back and sick of Word/etc for the documents I need to produce as print/pdf and for interaction with colleagues. What I can't figure out is if ConTeXt makes the most sense... and if it does, I have a few questions... 1) My work is primarily in the humanities and end-user technologies, with small amounts of coding. So mathematics isn't an issue. I do a fair amount of highly academic writing (aka: many sections, citations [handling this in a sensible way is really important], footnotes) with the occasional need for charts, graphs, and photos. In other words, I'm not doing the kind of layout one might associate with InDesign or the like. I also write many paper letters (personal), poetry, fiction, essays, and the like. 2) That said, I (obviously) have a keen interest in typography, and that includes wanting to use some particular typefaces... I've paid good money for many of them, so why not? 3) PDF is my primary medium of exchange, though I would like to efficiently exchange docs with colleagues, which might mean getting them into something they can open with their beloved Microsoft Word... is there an RTF output for ConTeXt? this isn't super-high on my list, but it would be nice. 4) How about X/HTML? this is my lowest level need but, again, it would be nice. 5) I generally use a Mac for everything, but I am pretty comfortable in the shell. I've done a bit of programming in PHP. I don't mind monkeying around, and I am interested in creating layouts that suit my needs, but digging into internals is not for me. I used Emacs extensively for years, now using mostly Vim (MacVim) and a variety of GUI editors depending on what I had for breakfast that day. So, do you think ConTeXt makes more sense than LaTeX? And *what* is the deal with xetex? It seems to be the easiest way for accessing all my fonts, but it also hasn't been updated for years and, since it is tied to an old version of ConTeXt (as far as I can tell) it doesn't seem like much of a winner. Finally, if ConTeXt is the way to go, are there any fairly comprehensive materials in one place for learning to use it? What I find on the wiki seems to go from basic to advanced without a lot of in between, and what I find on the web seems a bit fragmented. but at this point my head is in a whirl, so I might just be missing some obvious material. Thanks in advance... c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Formatting footnote numbers (in text)
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 01.12.2011 um 22:02 schrieb Chris Lott: > >> I'm new to ConTeXt, but I have searched for this myself... I'm trying >> to format the footnote numbers that appear in the text of my >> documents. I've used this to change them from being blue (there may be >> a better way-- I am generating PDFs for print, so don't need the >> hyperlinks) using the following: >> \setupinteraction[state=start,color=black,contrastcolor=black] > > Why do you enable hyperlinks etc. when you don’t need them? Because I don't (yet) know how to disable them. I decided to switch from LaTeX and needed to do so quickly as it appears it will-- in the long term-- meet my needs more effective. But my workflow at the moment is Markdown ->Pandoc ->ConTeXt via context xxx.tex, which spits out a PDF with blue, hyperlinked bookmarks (which don't work very well with footnotes on screen anyway) to footnotes. Thanks for the formatting example, which takes care of the immediate need. c ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Formatting footnote numbers (in text)
I'm new to ConTeXt, but I have searched for this myself... I'm trying to format the footnote numbers that appear in the text of my documents. I've used this to change them from being blue (there may be a better way-- I am generating PDFs for print, so don't need the hyperlinks) using the following: \setupinteraction[state=start,color=black,contrastcolor=black] Is this where I would control other formatting (size, face, format)? Can anyone provide or point to an example of formatting footnote numbers in text area of a doc? c -- Chris Lott ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___