On 2007-01-04, at 07:53, Hans Hagen wrote:
So perhaps I should rephrase my question: how can I keep the
vertical
' that I type into typing sections without it getting converted to a
curvy quote ’...?
non-trivial (we must make the ' always active then) ; in luatex we can
preprocess
On 2007-03-26, at 17:39.0, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is it possible to adjust options so as to get page numbering done in
words? Eg
one two . eighty-nine ... three hundred and sixty seven ?
I can't see how to do this in ConText. I can see that the first task
- converting an integer to a
Thanks, Wolfgang and Zhichu. I've managed to get it working. The only
problem now is to work out how to modify the original macros.
Numbering is OK up to 20. Then we get onetwenty, twotwenty,
threetwenty (I did find out how to remove the 'und'). So that's
another project!
thanks again
On 2007-03-28, at 16:49.0, Zhichu Chen wrote:
I modified Wolfgang's macro as the attached file. But I'm really
not a native American, so there must be some special rules that
I've ignored. Wish you good luck.
Yes - this works great now. Thank you for sorting out the TeX code,
which is
is it possible to adjust options so as to get page numbering done in
words? Eg
one two . eighty-nine ... three hundred and sixty seven ?
Or does this require some more work/code?
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On 2007-03-26, at 19:16.0, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:39:38 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is it possible to adjust options so as to get page numbering done in
words?
I don't think there is something like this in ConTeXt.
You can try to make somthing by yourself and
On 2007-03-26, at 19:40.0, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:39:38 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
is it possible to adjust options so as to get page numbering done in
words? Eg
one two . eighty-nine ... three hundred and sixty seven ?
Or does this require some more
On 2007-02-15, at 18:16.0, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
1) How can I integrate ruby/perl scripts into a .tex document? (I
want to create a CD cataloguing tool and gonna use script for
reading CD file list).
By coincidence I've just written something about this too. Not for
ruby/perl,
On 2007-02-17, at 18:45.0, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
Interesting. Just a couple of points. Do not use the prefix m- for
your modules. m- is reserved for modules in the core distribution. You
can use t- (third party) if you want to distribute your module, or p-
(personal) if you do not want to
On 2007-01-22, at 21:56.0, luigi scarso wrote:
On 1/15/07, luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hmm line map 17, 33, 52, 69, 70, 70, 70, 71, 71, is too much right?
I've played with index settings some time ago: I will refresh my
memories.
luigi
Ok, I hope these can help you.
Wow -
On 2007-01-17, at 16:34.0, Willi Egger wrote:
The bigpreference will not insert a pagebreak unless the added penalty
makes tex to insert a pagebreak!
You're right - I've been misreading the manual:
when possible, force page break
I read that as being force a page break if you can - which
On 2007-01-16, at 18:56.0, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 2007-01-14 um 15:00 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Insert a \page[bigpreference] before the mentioned subsection
command
thanks Willi, that's useful to know. It would fix a single
occurrence, but wouldn't be applicable to all section
On 2007-01-13, at 17:59.0, luigi scarso wrote:
On 1/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a tiny problem
Can you post an example ?
Hi luigi - there's a draft at http://newlisp.org/downloads/
development/introduction-to-newlisp-9.1.pdf and there's an example
of the
On 2007-01-14, at 11:46.0, Oliver Buerschaper wrote:
I'm struggling to typeset the math symbol identity ... it looks
like a 1 but with double vertical lines. Hints very welcome ;-)
What if we put together an extensive table of all math symbols
available in ConTeXt at some point?
no answers,
On 2007-01-13, at 16:29.0, Willi Egger wrote:
Insert a \page[bigpreference] before the mentioned subsection command
thanks Willi, that's useful to know. It would fix a single
occurrence, but wouldn't be applicable to all section and subsection
headings...
Still, it's useful to have a
I have a tiny problem with the formatting of an index placed with
\completeindex. When there are more than 14 or so page numbers for an
entry and the entry is in the right hand column, the numbers leak
over the page boundary. I haven't done any special formatting for
these index pages - is
The other minor problem I had is that in one place i got a subsection
heading at the bottom of one page and the text that follows it on the
top of the next page. Is there some setting I can make which stops
this happening?
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On 2007-01-04, at 23:10.0, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
Perhaps the R module is easiest to understand. That method will
work for
most cases where you simply want to capture part of tex source and
write
it verbatim to a file, and then read the output back into tex.
I'm really grateful for your
Thanks - with all your help I can now do this. For the record:
\starttext
To insert the symbol for the planet Jupiter.
using Martin Vogels Symbole font:
\usesymbols[mvs]
\setupsymbolset[astronomic]
\symbol[Jupiter]
using Roland Waldi Symbole font:
\usesymbols[was]
\setupsymbolset [wasy
On 2007-01-03, at 22:08.0, Hans Hagen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is puzzling me. If i type this in a text editor:
\starttext
These are 'quotes'.
\starttyping
let a = 'quoted string'
\stoptyping
\stoptext
I'm using dumb quotes (hex 27). ConText renders this as this:
These are
On 2007-01-04, at 15:53.0, Hans Hagen wrote:
non-trivial (we must make the ' always active then) ; in luatex we can
preprocess verbatim lines, and/or remap characters so remind me in
half
a year
Thanks Hans - I'm happy for it to be considered a problem - that's
the first step towards
On 2007-01-04, at 19:42.0, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 1/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The following example is not very ConTeXt-ish, but it should work
(if
you got the unicode glyph right):
\font\astro='name of your font with astro symbols or unicode font'
\def\neptune{{\astro ♆}}
I think there's something in ConTeXt called \externalcommand. Can
this be used to hand over a section of source text for processing by
an external program during the ConTeXt-ing of a document? How does it
work, exactly?
thanks again for help...
On 2007-01-02, at 22:00.0, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 2006-12-31 um 15:59 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I need to insert a few Unicode symbols...(Just the symbols for the
solar system planets)... Is this going to be easy - doable inside
ConTeXt with a few preparatory mystic runes, or will it
This is puzzling me. If i type this in a text editor:
\starttext
These are 'quotes'.
\starttyping
let a = 'quoted string'
\stoptyping
\stoptext
I'm using dumb quotes (hex 27). ConText renders this as this:
These are ’quotes’.
let a = ’quoted string’
ie the quotes have been educated - although
On 2007-01-03, at 20:01.0, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
The symbol set reference was great - the planet symbols are
accessible in:
\usesymbols[mvs]
\showsymbolset[astronomic]
so I may not have to go to a unicode-font at all.
The symbol set was (Roland Waldi's symbols AKA wasysym) contains
On 2006-12-30, at 21:24.0, Jarimatti Valkonen wrote:
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb
Unfortunately, I don't have a scripts directory here... Obviously my
system is not correctly installed.
What is the recommended way to install the latest Context version
I need to insert a few Unicode symbols...(Just the symbols for the
solar system planets)... Is this going to be easy - doable inside
ConTeXt with a few preparatory mystic runes, or will it require
running scripts, moving files around, etc...?
The wiki suggests:
Use \enableregime[utf] in
On 2006-12-31, at 13:40.0, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 12/31/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the recommended way to install the latest Context version
(MacOS X)?
You have to install at least the following two packages:
- gwTeX based on TeX Live (texlive.ii2)
- gwTeX Support: ConTeXt
On 2006-12-30, at 09:22.0, Jarimatti Valkonen wrote:
Aditya Mahajan kirjoitti 28.12.2006 kello 19.09:
[About ConTeXt and Vim module for syntax highlighting.]
Let us know if you come across any problems.
Works fine here. System: Mac OS 10.4.8, using default Vim (6.2:
yikes, thats old!).
OK, I think vim works OK here, so this is what I tried:
...
\setupcolors[state=start]
\usemodule[vimsyntax]
\definetypeVIMfile [typeRUBY] [syntax=ruby]
\typeRUBY[typeRUBY]{fibo.rb}
\defineVIMtyping[RUBY][syntax=ruby]
\startRUBY
# This is a ruby program
puts Hello World
\stopRUBY
...
Error
On 2006-12-29, at 15:59.0, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
This is the perl version of texexec
I do everything from TeXShop (http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop)
and BBEdit so I have no idea where anything TeX-y is... I spent half
an hour finding out how to 'enable write 18'... ;-)
Poking around
On 2006-12-29, at 13:09.0, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Which version of TeX/ConTeXt are you using? (Perhaps Hans has changed
something in the meantime, to make that work again.) Are you using
Gerben's i-Installer? In that case and if you have a chance, can you
please test the new TeXLive-based
I'm really struggling to get this working... I've got some keywords
which i want to mark in the text with a special style:
--
\starttext
\usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[pos,9pt]
\setupcolors[state=start]
\define[1]\Keyword{%
On 2006-12-28, at 13:15.0, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On 12/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This works great. But then I've got the following keywords:
# ! | \ @ ^ + - * / %
Just copied from Aditya's code :)
\letterhash, \#
\letterexclamationmark
\letterbar
\letterbackslash
\letterat
How does it find the .vim language syntax file for - say - Ruby?
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I've just discovered the command \showcharacters. It's not in the
manuals, but useful for showing some of the characters available.
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After looking at these files a bit more closely, I decided I didn't
have a week to spare. Too much to learn and too few instructions. For
now I'm sticking with plain old black verbatim code listings.
Sometimes one has to set one's sights a little lower...! :-)
But thanks again.
Is there a list of special characters anywhere (eg \percent,
\upperleftsingle6quote, etc) ? I'm trying to insert a |, at the
moment, but I can't find a list...
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I'm going to try to make a 'verbatim- module' (don't know what the
right word is) for another language. I've found:
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/verb-pl.tex
and can probably have a go at making a version of this. Some
questions occur:
1: where should i put my file?
2:
On 2006-12-25, at 10:38.0, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm going to try to make a 'verbatim- module' (don't know what the
right word is) for another language. I've found:
Good luck, Taco
Thanks - I'll need it, I think. ;-) Your very helpful reply is most
appreciated.
This must be a beginner's question, but I can't find the answer to it
in the manuals...
Take this ConTeXt source:
--
\def\Acme{%
{\ss\sc ACME}}
Welcome from \Acme. \Acme make fine products.
--
When this is made into a PDF, it looks like this:
--
Welcome from ACME. ACMEmake fine
Willi Egger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 2005-02-16, 20:14 (+0100 GMT):
may be not a very nice solution but ...
\startitemize[none,packed]
\item LONG-UGLY-STRING-LIKE-THIS
\startnarrower[left]
A few sentences, indented somewhat from the left margin, that
relate to the long
This should be simple, but my brain is currently clogged from reading too many
ConTeXt manuals, so please help!
Im trying to make a simple format that Ive used elsewhere. The first part
of each item (a kind of \head) is not indented, but the remaining paragraph(s)
of that item are. For
h h extern [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 2005-02-13, 15:18 (+0100 GMT):
\unprotected \def\rawsectionnumber#1{\countervalue{\??se#1}} % will be in
kernel
[...]
Awesome (and scary) stuff. Works great, too.
you may only read this answer if you also put it in the wiki
OK, Ill have a go.
Thanks
Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 2005-02-13, 11:12 (+0100 GMT):
I guess you should define a part-based logo with an absolute,
calculated position via the layers mechanism.
- part: even if you don't use the part hierarchy for other use, it
would fit to chapter ranges. simply set
VnPenguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 2005-02-13, 1:02 (+0100 GMT):
\setuphead
[chapter]
[number=no]
and use \chapter instead of \title. So I can obtain the TOC. But I
dont why there is no clickable link in the TOC at
My last question! :-) I would like to have the various parts of a book
marked with black rectangles at the right side of each page, visible when the
reader flips through the pages. I googled successfully to find fancyhdr,
but thats a LaTeX package, so I dont think it will work in ConTeXt. If
Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 2005-02-11, 23:43 (+0100 GMT):
Am 11.02.2005 um 23:19 schrieb cormullion:
My last question! :-) I would like to have the various parts of a
book marked with black rectangles at the right side of each page,
visible when the reader flips
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 2005-02-09, 18:03 (+0100 GMT):
In the index I create, the page numbers are active
(marked green as defined in \setupinteraction). In
contents entries, only the chapter numbers are active.
Can I make the page numbers active in contents?
how about
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 2005-02-09, 18:20 (+0100 GMT):
To my untutored eye it looks like the MediaBox is being
used - at least, the graphic takes up an area about
Letter size. Is there some setting Ive missed that
lets me get the bounds of the graphics rather than the
file?
Vit Zyka [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on 2005-02-08, 9:31 (+0100 GMT):
\setuphead
[chapter]
[alternative=inmargin]
Excellent - simple, really! :-)
Thanks
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I cant find a definitive list of the special characters that I need to
escape when used in a ConTeXt document. Im writing a short script that
converts documents, and I need to catch some characters. Some of the TeX ones I
tried didnt work. Couldnt see it in the manuals.
Ive done the obvious
I found a font package called bitstream-vera4context on a website and
downloaded it. Unfortunately I cant work out how to install them on my MacOS
X system. Anyone care to give me the necessary mystic incantation?
thanks
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Hi there. Im a newcomer to ConTeXt, and Im so far really impressed with
the power and flexibility I now have access to. Id be grateful for a few
tips - Ive been reading the documentation over the last few days, and my
heads getting full. Please excuse me if these questions are obvious.
I want
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