Taco said:
Duane Johnson wrote:
1. Is there a way to keep TeX in-memory (i.e. as a server or daemon
process) so that it doesn't have to load and reload fonts and the
environment? Our system makes repeated requests for typeset
documents and we are wondering if there's a way to
Hello all. I hope this is quite a simple question.
I'm using the Chinese module, with the font definitions in font-chi.tex,
to typeset UTF-8 content. I can happily use the default sizes a, b, c, d
and x, xx, xxx - so \bfd produces large bold, and \tfx produces small
normal weight text.
But I
Hans said:
\definefontsize[e]
\setupfontenvironment
[default]
[e=4]
Ah, thanks. Using \setupbodyfontenvironment as the second command did
the trick.
I guess there is no easy way of directly calling a specific font at a
specific size? No worry, this sort of solution will allow me
Hans (07/11/2007 16:09) said:
Btw: Is there any reason for not using XeTeX (or LuaTeX in the future)
for Chinese? (To be honest: I have absolutely no idea whether it works
and how good it works if at all, but I would expect less problems
there.)
i bet that duncan uses it in some
Dear all,
I am confused. Here is a minimal version of my problem:
---
\setupheads[separator=] %-- this can't be right
\setupreferencing[state=start,chapternumber=yes,global=yes]
\setupsection[section-1][conversion=Characters]
\setupsection[section-2][previousnumber=yes]
Taco wrote:
In this case it is easier to make the actual chapter number include
the 'A'. That way, you won't have to worry about separator at all
(which is good, because its use is confusing).
Try this:
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-\setupheads[separator=] %-- this can't be right
Hello.
I am used to using
\setupMMLappearance[mtable][alternative=a|b|c]
to change the way the mathml module treats mtable alignments. I've just
discovered it no longer seems to have any effect.
What I need to set up is an alignment where the first column of an
mtable is right-aligned (ragged
I know everyone is preparing for fun in Bohinj (and I am gutted that I
am missing it this year) but it would be really great if someone had the
chance to work out how to fix this problem:
\starttext
I wish I was going to the ConTeXt\index{ConTeXt} meeting this year to
enjoy all the
No response to this - can I ask, is this a case of a bug in a mkII
feature that is replaced in mkIV so isn't worth fixing? Understandable
if so, just wanted to check...
Duncan
I wrote:
\starttext
I wish I was going to the ConTeXt\index{ConTeXt} meeting this year to
enjoy all the
Hello all (especially Idris :-) )
Using the fantastic resources from Idris' messages on this list, and the
Aleph page on the Wiki, I have managed to start producing Arabic PDF
output directly from UTF-8 sources using Aleph and dvipdfmx. This is
great, thanks so much.
I have just one or two
Idris Samawi Hamid (15/06/2006 17:28) said:
You could edit the cuni2oar otp (and recompile it) so that it
ignores the ligatures you don't like, or you could put a kashidah
between the two letters whose ligature you want to break. Better is to
define an empty kashidah so that you can manually
Am following this up via another route to try to better
understand what to do, but if you really did want a reminder about this
- here it is :-)
Well, I don't know which ligatures the proofreader liked/did not like so...
Sorry, I realise that was a bit stupid of me... Thanks for your
Idris wrote:
I doubt it, but something along these lines should do it:
==
% tex=aleph output=dvipdfmx
\pagedir TRT
\bodydir TRT
\pardir TRT
\textdir TRT
\hoffset=0pt % bug
\starttext
\chapter{Cow}
\section{Dutch Cow}
\placefigure
[middle]
[fig:cow]
{This is an
A trick (?) is to change the separator such that the number
parsing in the otp see separate numbers as well:
\setupcaptions[separator={{.}}]
\setupheads [separator={{.}}]
\setupcaptions[separator={{.}}]
this still gives problems with refering to a graphic but for that we need
more
\setupheads [separator={{.}}]
\setupcaptions[separator={{.}}]
this still gives problems with refering to a graphic but for that we
need more hackery
Also, probably because it uses the same cross-referencing mechanism,
this leaves the section numbers in tables of contents the other way
I'd like to know whether it is possible to control the captions of
tables and figures separately. What I wanna do is to place the
caption above the table but below the figure.
\setupcaption[figure][location=bottom]
\setupcaption[table][location=top]
Duncan
Idris wrote:
Dear gang,
I have redone this. Now there are two filter sequences, one for main text
and one for using the arabic-font digits in math mode.
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Aleph_Guide#Installing
has been updated, get the new uni2cuni.zip. I'll update m-gamma soon so
this
Hans, in Friday's beta, core-sec.tex line 767 has
\edef\levelstring{=\flistsectionseparator\@@filternumberpart[#1]\sectionseparator}%
which fails not knowing what \flistsectionseparator is. Reverting to
\edef\levelstring{=\sectionseparator\@@filternumberpart[#1]\sectionseparator}%
works but
I've had a last-minute impossible request for a typesetting style, and
having already told the person it can't be done in the time available,
wondered whether it can actually be done at all.
The request is for a subsection heading to have a continuous horizontal
rule under both its number and
Wow, very cool. Will adapt and wikify. Thanks - it's even better to say
no and then do it anyway. :)
Thanks again.
Duncan
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Jason wrote:
When using startregister/stopregister commands, if the range is only one
one page, then while both a [f] and a [t] are written to the tui file,
only one \registerfrom command is put in the tuo file. If there is only
one range, it seems like the software deals with it nicely.
I have been fighting with this one for ages, and have now narrowed down
the culprit, but I do not understand why it happens.
Latest (non-beta) ConTeXt, also tested in the live garden (same result):
\setupcaption[figure][align=right,location=bottom]
Duncan Hothersall wrote:
I have been fighting with this one for ages, and have now narrowed down
the culprit, but I do not understand why it happens.
Latest (non-beta) ConTeXt, also tested in the live garden (same result):
and the beta?
Just downloaded and tried beta 'ver 2006.09.25 23
Just downloaded and tried beta 'ver 2006.09.25 23:38 MK II' - same
result I'm afraid.
then i need a better test file + explanation
(or maybe i have some local patch)
Hans
You are not seeing the effect?
I have put some files up on the web, generated with the latest beta.
The (bad)
Quick question - how do I alter the width of the hanging indent of a
register entry which is too long to fit on one line?
I want to differentiate sub-entries, which each have an indent of 1em
more than the previous level, from the indentation of longer entries,
which by default is also set to
How can it be that context sets a new page immediately after a
(subsubsection-)header?
Is it necessary to inhibit it after every header explicitely?
Default settings of headers inhibit a break immediately afterwards but
it is very easy to stop this working by either changing the set-up of
Is it possible to have float references (i.e. Table 1.1) alongside page
numbers in a register?
I've never come across it before, but I've just been asked to produce an
index which has entries like:
coverage measurement tools 176-177, Table 6.5
I have looked through core-reg without much
I have a book with parts and chapters; figures in the chapters are
numbered 1.1, 2.1 etc. but sometimes a part has a figure in it as well,
before the chapters start. The desired numbering for such figures is to
follow the Part numbers, and be in capitalised roman numerals (in other
words, Figure
I said:
Where did I go wrong? I'm sure there is an easy way to do this.
And yes there is! The easy way is to use the new beta, which works.
Sorry for the noise.
Duncan
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Very simple question which has suddenly stumped me:
\starttext
\startitemize[n,broad]
\item Hello world!
\bTABLE\bTR\bTD Little\eTD \bTD table\eTD\eTR\eTABLE
First item continues.
\item Second item.
\stopitemize
\stoptext
How to get the TABLE inside the first item to align with the item
content,
I said:
\starttext
\startitemize[n,broad]
\item Hello world!
\bTABLE\bTR\bTD Little\eTD \bTD table\eTD\eTR\eTABLE
First item continues.
\item Second item.
\stopitemize
\stoptext
What I *meant* (sorry!) was
\starttext
\startitemize[n,broad]
\item Hello world!
\bTABLE[split=yes]\bTR\bTD
\let\beforeTABLEsplitbox\relax
\let\afterTABLEsplitbox \relax
\let\beforeTABLEbox \relax
\let\afterTABLEbox \relax
you can play with these macros since they are the formal hooks
Hans,
I played with
\let\beforeTABLEsplitbox\dontleavehmode
I define a floating block called Exhibit
\definefloat[Exhibit][table]
which just contains paragraphs of text. I'd like to be able to split it
using the \splitfloat mechanism but that only seems to work if the
content of the float is a table, not paragraphs.
\definefloat[Exhibit][table]
Apologies to those for whom this message is geographically irrelevant:
My company is looking to employ someone with ConTeXt experience, and
preferably a good understanding of XML. The position is based in
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK and is permanent full-time. If anyone is
interested, or knows anyone
Hello.
I'm trying to implement part of a change-tracking system using colour to
highlight changed areas in a document. I use MathML for maths, and I
need to be able to apply colour to individual elements in an equation. I
thought I could do just simply
mi color=greenx/mi
but evidently not. It
Hi Pepe,
If you want your content to remain maintainable and manageable for a
long period (e.g. decades), if you can afford it, and if you have a
sufficiently large amount of content, then I strongly recommend
investing the time and effort in an XML-based solution.
My experience is in large
A long long time ago, Hans said:
At 01:55 PM 10/31/2002 +0100, Matthias Heidbrink wrote:/
Hi,
possibly a trivial question, but can't find it anywhere:
How do I get the term C++ into an index? Unfortunately ConTeXT
interprets the + as a separator for indexed terms and I did not find a
way
Hi folks,
This is probably a simple problem but I can't find an answer.
I have a book with a list of figures and have been asked not to include
in the list a figure which does not have a caption, even though it has a
number. So the numbering needs to be sequential, but one of the figures
Hi Duncan,
place the figure with the normal \placefigure command, process to whole
document, delete the unwanted figurelist entry in the tuo-file and
process
the document another time, you can add the --once option in the last run.
Wolfgang
Aah, nice workaround, thanks. That has got me
I use \startitemize[continue] quite a lot to create itemised lists which
continue on from the last number of the previous list. I've only just
noticed that the 'continue' keyword seems to mean that parameters in the
second [...=...] list of a \startitemize are ignored.
Example (tested on live
Hi Peter
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:21:26 +0200
From: Peter Schorsch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [NTG-context] currentheadnumber / doif.. problem
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Hi,
I tried to get the full present heading-number. If I am using currentnumber
I am getting back only the last part of
Hello all.
I'm processing some Spanish from Unicode and some of it is in MathML,
for which I use ConTeXt's native processing. There seems to be a problem
with accents. When I run this on Live:
--
\mainlanguage[es]\enableregime[utf]\useencoding[uc]
\useXMLfilter[utf]\usemodule[mathml]
\starttext
I'm processing some Spanish from Unicode and some of it is in MathML,
for which I use ConTeXt's native processing. There seems to be a problem
with accents. When I run this on Live:
--
\mainlanguage[es]\enableregime[utf]\useencoding[uc]
\useXMLfilter[utf]\usemodule[mathml]
\starttext
Maths with
I said:
Interestingly, if I forget about unicode and use eacute; instead of é,
then no matter what I put in the preamble I get the e with a guillemot
superimposed. So whatever is mapping é incorrectly seems also to be
mapping eacute; incorrectly.
Further testing suggests that my problem is
Randall wrote:
I'm bumping my last question here... As Duncan suggested,
\setupsection[section-3][previousnumber=no]
supresses the chapter section numbers in my section headings. Is
there an easy way to do likewise for the figure and equation numbers
such that the numbering does not
I'm still having trouble with UTF contents in mtext tags in MathML
content.
It's difficult to send a sample because UTF isn't preserved well either
by email or when sending files to the ConTeXt Live server, but I'd
really appreciate it if somebody could help. When I replace 'HERE' in
the
Hans wrote:
I attached a small test file. Some trickery is needed to get utf working in
mathml
- the map patch goes into xtag-map.tex
- the other one into xtag-mmp
part of the problem is that the current font must provide the characters
Hans, thank you very much. I've ben banging my head
Hello all.
I have set up page numbering for the bodymatter and appendices of my
document with:
\setuppagenumbering[way=bychapter,chapternumber=yes,numberseparator={/}]
so that \completepagenumber in my footer lines shows, e.g. 1/3 for
chapter 1 page 3. This works well for the actual page
My guess would be (untested):
\setuplist [part][separator={/}]
\setuplist [chapter] [separator={/}]
\setuplist [section] [separator={/}]
\setuplist [subsection] [separator={/}]
\setuplist [subsubsection] [separator={/}]
I have three issues where page number formatting in the table of
contents is wrong compared to the pages themselves:
1. The separator character in the actual pagenumbers is /. In the ToC
it displays as a -.
2. I used left=A on the pagenumbering command in the appendices
because appendices are
\start
\setuppagenumbering[numberseparator=/]
\placecombinedlist[Xontents]
\stop
Ah, I see, \placecombinedlist uses the value of numberseparator active
at the time it is called! Thanks.
indeed, since left/right is cosmetics an dit's easier to add that than
to remov eit when you dont wan
Hans said:
wikiable:
And I said:
Will do; would be great to fix (or at least understand) the alignment
before I do though, for completeness. :-)
I've added this to the wiki now, since having tested it out I don't
think my alignment problems were anything to do with the issue at hand.
To fix
Bug or feature?
In a register (such as the index), a command like
\index[key]{entry}
creates an index entry sorted as 'key', and there exists also
\startregister[key]{entry} ... \stopregister[key]
which creates a page range. As far as I can tell, the [key] here plays
two roles - the ID of the
Hi.
\getmarking[chapter][current] should give you the title of the current
chapter. Similarly \getmarking[section][current], etc.
In order to rid yourself of the default pagenumber in the middle of the
top header, use \setuppagenumbering[location=], or add location= to
your existing
Another question on registers (just getting into indexing!).
I have a book which numbers its pages by chapter, and so page numbers
are 1/1, 1/2 ... for the pages of chapter 1, and then 2/1, 2/2 ... for
the pages of chapter 2.
I have page ranges in my index, such as 1/1-1/3, or 2/24-2/26.
I
I said:
Followup: I would be willing to help to code this if it doesn't exist
(I have some experience with such systems) if someone can point me at
the right bit of code to look at (things seem to be changing around
texutils, newtexexec etc. so I don't want to start at the wrong
place).
To
Hello all.
I have a file test-fonts.tex which just combines Palatino and Helvetica
into one typescript:
\loadmapfile[context-base]
\usetypescriptfile[type-buy]
\starttypescript [TESTfonts]
\definetypeface [TESTCombo] [rm] [serif] [palatino] [default]
[encoding=texnansi]
\definetypeface
I said:
\starttypescript [TESTfonts]
\definetypeface [TESTCombo] [rm] [serif] [palatino] [default]
[encoding=texnansi]
\definetypeface [TESTCombo] [ss] [sans] [helvetica] [default]
[encoding=texnansi]
\stoptypescript
I realise that by adding
\definetypeface [TESTCombo] [tt]
- xml in not an input format but (a well structured) interchange
format.
XML is a very good master format from which to derive all outputs. For
example, I receive wordprocessor files from academics and convert them
to XML by a combination of automated processes and hand-tagging. The XML
is
Slightly OT, sorry:
OpenOffice.org does allow you to attach an XSLT stylesheet to an export
process which therefore allows you to do a (limited) transformation from
the visual markup which is its native format to a more structured one
Why „limited“?
Well, XSLT seems to have been designed,
No need for rtf. That would loose lots of information anyway, wouldn't it?
RTF can capture everything that .doc can (MS update it every time they
rev the .doc format), and it has the advantage that it is defined in a
spec with a grammar, which means that importing routines (like the one
in
Hi.
I'm trying to include some PDF files generated by Acrobat 7, which means
they are PDF v1.6. ConTeXt (recent distribution, on linux) complains
that PDF version 1.6: Xpdf only supports 1.5. I thought that maybe I
could switch to using Ghostscript instead of Xpdf-tools to process the
files, in
On 31 Aug I wrote:
I have page ranges in my index, such as 1/1-1/3, or 2/24-2/26.
I would like these ranges to be elided - in other words, the first one
would read 1/1-3 (remove repeated chapter number), and the second would
read 2/24-6 (remove repeated chapter number and also the repeated
just ignore the message; a new version of pdftex will support the
latest pdf, and in most cases new features are just more entri4e sin
dictionaries; i can imagine that it affects pdftops but not pdf
inclusion because that's mostly copying and object reference
tracking.
Do you get faulty files?
Hi all.
I have ConTeXt set up to output Chinese using usemodule[chinese], all
fonts, encodings and maps are installed and the sample file works well.
Now I have a whole load of Chinese text in utf-8 encoding. Can ConTeXt
process this, or do I have to convert it to another encoding? I tried
Hans wrote:
that's tricky. the utf handler assumes named glyphs and noone named
the 5000 chinese ones so far
...
some variant on:
...
\startunicodevector chinese_unicode_page_number_1
getglyph\endcsname{ChineseFont1}{#1}\gobbleoneargument
\stopunicodevector
so, then you only need to
Salvete,
I just started to think about using ConTeXt on XML input files, so I've
got a question which should be easy to answer: My MathML source
generates presentation code which includes mo#x02061;/mo between a
function symbol and its arguments. I get a black rectangle for that;
I'd
(beware, the font-chi modules talk about unicode while actually it's
about dedicated mapings resembling a unicode approach; this
\defineucharmapping stuff)
Yes indeed, that had me going... :-) Oh well.
Thanks for the insight, I'll feedback further.
I have to say I'm unable to make any sense
Lutz Haseloff said:
i prepared a small perl script to convert chinese utf-8 encoded
tex-files to gbk coded tex-files.
Thanks so much, I look forward to trying it out next week when I get
back to work, and will let you know how I get on. Thanks for taking the
time.
Duncan
What do you do with ConTeXT?
I have a repository of learning materials which are marked up in
(DocBook-based) XML. They are in a few different languages (majority
English, with Spanish, Dutch and recently Chinese) and belong to several
different universities/training organisations on whose
Hans, many thanks for the recent fixes on index sorting in the new ruby
scripts. Can I offer another test file in which some errors still show
up, in the hope that these too can be ironed out?
The following shows two problems, culled from a much bigger project. It
should be clear from the output
Hans wrote:
yes, you can use the old binaries, no problem;
hm, a copy of previous binaries ... i can make a zip of an old tree
That would be great, thanks!
Thanks Taco for the suggestions, I was exploring both of those in
parallel to hoping that someone had kept a copy of the old ones..
Tobias Burnus asks:
What would be needed to get UTF-8 input running with Chinese?
If there is a recipe, I would like to help cook it. Getting UTF-8 input
running with Chinese would be a godsend to me too.
Duncan
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Hans wrote:
chinese is not yet defined in utf so if you want that, we need to do it
...
assuming this, how about making a set of tfm,enc,map files that match
the unicode positions (volunteers ...)
I'm very willing to help, especially if there is some drudge work
involved in constructing the
The manual suggests that you can put index calls between a \section
heading and its first paragraph without worry, but for me it breaks the
page-breaking mechanism, allowing the section title to end up at the
bottom of a page like this:
\starttext
\section{Tufte}
\dorecurse{4}{\input tufte \par}
I said:
Is there any workaround/fix?
I find that the addition of \dontleavehmode fixes it. Is this safe to
use in general?
\starttext
\section{Tufte}
\dorecurse{4}{\input tufte \par}
\section{Knuth}
\dontleavehmode\index{knuth}
\input knuth \par
\stoptext
Thanks,
Duncan
Hans wrote:
can you try (test extensively):
\def\dodoregister[#1]#2#3%
{\dogotopar{\dontleavehmode\doprocesspageregister[#1]{#2}{#3}}}
Well, it has some problems, introducing vertical space in certain
circumstances. Will try to work up a minimal, but two observations:
1. The extra
I'm trying to solve a problem with a TABLE in a large-ish (600 page)
book. The table occurs in an appendix, and the contents of one column
are spilling out into the next column on the right.
The weird thing is that when I process just that bit of the book, the
effect is much smaller, and when I
\startregister[index]{Menippean}
\stopregister[index]
and it works. However, when I try to replace [index] with my own key
(because I have overlapping ranges)
\startregister[satire]{Menippean}
\stopregister[satire]
I get errors: ...
Hi Thomas.
The first [...] in the \startregister
Hello all.
I have adapted a bit of MP code from Aditya from a mailing list message
dated 2006-05-19
(http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060519.214124.9174ac0e.en.html)
to ensure that when a page break occurs in a textbackground there is a
forced vertical space inside the box at the
Thank you to both Aditya and Wolfgang; I think I need to get a better
grounding in the basic principles of MetaFun before trying to dabble
again...
Duncan
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Just hit a strange feature using \about to give me the title of a
referenced section. When the title is long, there seems to be an
automatic cut-off, as if some form of \nomarking had been used on the
last words of the title. So with a section somewhere in the text like
\setupreferencing[width=]
Thanks Wolfgang, much appreciated, did the trick.
Duncan
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Hello all.
[Using Mk II.]
I need to produce an index which looks like this:
Mainentry
Subentry.3
Slightly longer
subentry..5
See also X
I have the following setup:
[Reposting because I think my last message got mangled.]
Hello all.
I'm using Mk II. When I use the following setup to get dotted leaders
between an index entry and its page number:
\def\MyIndexTextCmd#1{#1\dotfill}
[Now with a proper example!]
Hello all.
I'm using Mk II. I need to set up dotted leaders between an index entry
and its page number as show in this runnable sample:
\def\Icmd#1{#1\dotfill}
\setupregister[index][n=2,textcommand=\Icmd,distance=1em,alternative=A]
\starttext
\index{Example+This
Hello all,
This seems to be a very obvious FAQ but I can't find an answer anywhere.
How can one create a named destination in an output PDF file such that
an HTML link to filename.pdf#nameddest=name will work?
I'm using Mk II in case that is relevant. I kinda assumed that a section
title
Thanks Hans but this doesn't work for me - when I open in Acrobat Pro
no named destinations appear.
Duncan
On 26/04/2011 09:40, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 25-4-2011 5:31, Duncan Hothersall wrote:
\starttext
\chapter[myid]{My chapter}
Blah blah.
\section[myotherid]{My section}
Blah blah.
\stoptext
On 26/04/2011 10:27, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 26-4-2011 11:00, Duncan Hothersall wrote:
Thanks Hans but this doesn't work for me - when I open in Acrobat Pro no
named destinations appear.
not sure what you expect ... you have no hyperlinks (annotations) ..
where do you expect to see
Struggling against a deadline here so apologies for no full sample.
I have a gradient fill defined using
\startuseMPgraphic{mpos:par:mylearnobj}
path p;
for i = 1 upto nofmultipars :
p := multipars[1] topenlarged 8pt bottomenlarged 8pt leftenlarged 3cm ;
color ca ; ca := \MPcolor{greenthirty}
Hagen wrote:
On 17-5-2011 12:24, Duncan Hothersall wrote:
Could someone possibly let me know if it is even possible to define a
gradient using a spot colour, or if I should instead revert to some
alternative solution.
I don't think so. Normally, if you use a specific color (recognizable
I'm setting a document which is made up of lots of questions, and I want to
keep the questions whole on a page, breaking the page before the question if
the whole question isn't going to fit on it.
Since all the questions are done in ConTeXt as enumerations or descriptions,
I have been looking
I have the following test file:
--
\setupoutput[pdftex]\setupcolor[rgb]\starttext
\items[symbol=none,location=top]{{\inframed[frame=on,corner=round,radius=3mm
,offset=1mm]{demand-pull
inflation}},{\inframed[frame=on,corner=round,radius=3mm,offset=1mm]{in
comparison}},capital-intensive}
Hi Willi
You can always define your own commands e.g.
\define[1]\CircleFramed{%
...
Aah! My eyes are opened. Thank you very much. That will be useful in a
number of areas.
Duncan
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A quick question: \underbar is demonstrated in the manual as allowing lines
to break normally (page 204). In my texts line breaks won't happen in an
underlined phrase, meaning that they stick out into the right hand margin.
Is this a known problem, or does it work for other people?
Thanks
Duncan
In answer to my own question, and possibly as a bug report: line breaking
within \underbar{...} is broken when used in conjunction with
\setupalign[{right,nothyphenated}]
Duncan
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I wrote:
When I use \placefigure[left] the top of the figure is aligned
with the second line of the text. I would like it to be aligned
with the first line. If you look at the example on page 243/4 of
the manual you can see it happening there too:
And then immediately afterwards I tried
Bill wrote:
So begin your text with:
\strut {\bf }
or one of the other commands. \strut is a zero-width character.
Excellent, thanks. I had experimented with just {}, and even \,\! but the
problem remained. This solves it, thanks a lot.
Duncan
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I'm having another problem with \placefigure[left] and this time I'm pretty
sure I can't solve it myself.
I'm using ConTeXt ver 2003.7.21 on a TeXlive base with pdfetex
3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7).
The following source overlaps the text on top of the graphic rather than
Hans wrote:
% output=pdftex
\starttext
\definetextbackground
[underbared]
[alternative=1,location=text,
background=,frame=]
\def\underbared
{\groupedcommand
{\starttextbackground[underbared]}
{\stoptextbackground}}
\underbared{\input tufte\relax}
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