I want to define 'inside' and 'outside' margins (i.e. left and right pages
are symmetrical, not the same). Reading the document 'co-pagedesign.pdf',
ConTeXt talks about 'left' and 'right' margins (and other measurements). At
first I thought this must be either a 'representative' left or right pag
d
>\ininnermargin{some marginal note}
> Then when you use
>\setuplayout[location=doublesided]
> at the beginning of your file, the above two commands should give you what
> you seem to be wanting.
>
> Best regards: OK
>
> On 9 avr. 2011, at 22:26, James Fisher wro
On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Apr 2011, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>
>
>> Am 2011-04-09 um 22:26 schrieb James Fisher:
>>
>> I want to define 'inside' and 'outside' margins (i.e. left and right
>>> pag
see other commands for *ad hoc* use of other fonts, but I want to
stick with as much semantic markup as possible and apply style elsewhere.
Presumably this is possible! Could someone explain to me how to do this?
Best wishes
James Fisher
(p.s. -- I'm coming from HTML+CSS-ish paradigms he
ed for the above required
margins? Even better, can someone give me the definitive definitions of all
the terms used in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout, algebraically rather
than as ambiguous tables of "Remarks"? This
dth=middle" actually *does*?
And what does "middle" actually *mean* -- the middle of *what*?
James
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 25-2-2010 5:39, James Fisher wrote:
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>>
>> I am trying to understand the term
don't expect answers to all these here, but can someone point me
to somewhere on the 'net that could answer them? The only other
possibilities I can see are buying an expensive copy of the TeXbook, etc.
Thanks all,
James Fisher
:
>
> On Feb 25, 2010, at 9:39 PM, James Fisher wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > After a few days working in "do what the tutorials say" mode, I now want
> to understand TeX from a programmer's mindset. I have not been able just by
> practise to work
This isn't specifically a ConTeXt question, but via it I've run into a
seemingly simple problem in METAPOST that I just can't solve. I'm
trying to draw a parallelogram by specifying: (1) the length of sides
parallel to the x-axis; (2) the total height of the figure; (3) one of
the interior angles.
Aha! That certainly works. I suspected I would have to fall back on
"low-level" trig :). Many thanks!
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Troy Henderson wrote:
> James,
>
> I apologize, but the previous information that I gave you was wrong.
> Try this instead:
>
> z0 = origin;
> z1 = (5,0);
> BL
2010 at 9:42 PM, Nicola wrote:
> In article
> <771da05a1002251718l55669a0co770b5a78bed84...@mail.gmail.com>,
> James Fisher wrote:
>
>> This isn't specifically a ConTeXt question, but via it I've run into a
>> seemingly simple problem in METAPOST that I just
Hi again,
Another METAPOST problem. For the sake of curiosity, I've been looking at
and playing with the superellipse() function in plain METAPOST. This is all
fine and dandy until I try values of 'superness' less than 0.5, in which
case it generates shapes that are seemingly not superellipses.
(45 degrees to the top left, producing a
straight line to create the diamond shape)
For s>0.5, angle = 90 degrees (vector vertically upwards)
Suffice to say that I don't know how to produce that elegantly.
James
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:54 PM, James Fisher wrote:
> Hi again,
>
&
n 1.0; explain why you get weird
> shapes in such cases." The answer is "There are inflection points,
> because there are no bounding triangles for the '...' operations in
> the superellipse macro ... unless 0.5 \leq s \leq 1."
>
> Cheers,
> Rory
>
> On Mon
s referred to in
Wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book#Book_manufacturing_in_the_modern_world>as
the 'fore-edge'.
James
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 25-2-2010 21:17, James Fisher wrote:
>
>> Hi Hans,
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the reply -- and sorry for
e
> isn't really "returned"; it just appears wherever a "call" to myPath
> appears. Then the assignment to aPath is expanded by the interpreter
> as
>
> aPath := begingroup endgroup;
>
> Cheers,
> Rory
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Jam
ception of the superscripted text.
So what solutions are to hand? Is there either (1) super/sub commands in
text mode, or (2) a way of fixing this in math mode?
(Also, would this be a problem with ConTeXt or with XeTeX?)
James Fisher
___
Fairy muff!
James
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 02.03.10 22:33, schrieb James Fisher:
>
> That makes sense.
>>
>> The main thing confusing me on contextgarden is:
>>
>> if cutspace =
\small{\small{x}} == \small{x} ).
Thoughts?
James
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 02.03.10 22:58, schrieb James Fisher:
>
> Hi,
>>
>>
>> A minor problem: I'm trying to place superscripte
ings
of words that are already hyphenated. Is this true? If so, is it
deliberate? And how do I turn it off? (And do other people agree with me
that it's awfully ugly?)
Best
James Fisher
___
If your question is of
That's better. Also, for the record, I've been working with Mark IV today,
and LuaTeX doesn't seem to have XeTeX's problem with \small.
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 03.03.10 13:04, schrieb J
il.com> wrote:
> Am 03.03.10 20:19, schrieb James Fisher:
>
> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I'm experiencing an issue where, when the width of a block of text is
>> small, the occasional word sticks out from the otherwise flush right. I've
>> previously seen an
Somewhere in my twists and turns to get Mark IV working today, it appears
XeTeX has been broken. Running `texexec --xtx' on any ConTeXt file results
in:
! Undefined control sequence.
\PDFversion ->1.\the \pdfminorversion
All I've been able to find out is that these macros are something to do wit
nything obvious in
any case -- about 100 instances any of which could be a lead.
I'm getting the impression that there's no real-world distinction between
ConTeXt users and ConTeXt developers.
James
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:44 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:41 PM,
Well, it's reassuring that people can at least admit this is a closed
community. (But aren't churches meant to evangelize?)
"For using ConTEXt, no TEX-- programming skills and no technical background
are needed." (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/What_is_ConTeXt)
"So why don't you grep in base/
12:08 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote:
>
> Also, re "there is only one ConTeXt developer --- Hans Hagen":
>> I'd suggest a few reasons for this are:
>> (1) in order to develop on a project, you first need a the high-l
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:10 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:35 AM, James Fisher
> wrote:
>
> > - In my humble opinion, TeXies need to get out of the habit of
> > 'self-documenting' TeX using TeX itself. TeX is not some replacement for
>
Hi Aditya,
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote:
>
> Right, to show I'm not just empty words, I've just spent ~90 minutes
>> preparing the beginnings of some decent documentation. Presenting
>> htt
*tumbleweed*
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <
yatskov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> To be serious, what \setbreakpoints[] do? I want to wikify this command.
>
> Vyatcheslav
>
> ___
this is done, a VCS is
necessary. (I'm plugging git as my favourite, but it's just the principle
I'm arguing for here.)
James
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Peter Münster wrote:
> Hello,
>
> These suggestions are a bit a reply to the thoughts of James Fisher.
&g
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote:
>>>
>>> (2) converted it all to reStructured
Hi,
(Forgetting our documentation philosophy session for a minute,)
I'm experiencing issues in MKIV with smart quotes. Specifically, opening
quotes. Compare the output of `texexec dash-test' and `context quote-test'
on the following:
\starttext
`Yes, but --- '
`--- this is an interruption! G
I confirm the above -- with the exception that mkiv does show the year, just
after the authors.
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Mojca Miklavec <
mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Taco,
>
> the following example (I need to admit that I'm not sure how to
> properly cite inproceedings)
Apologies, that must have slipped through my shoddy search.
Upon consideration I prefer the \quote and \quotation method. Trusty old
semantic markup. :)
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Mojca Miklavec <
mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 18:58, James Fis
Hi Luigi,
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:42 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:25 PM, James Fisher
> wrote:
> > lol; I thought this might come up. I have a couple of replies to that:
> >
> > (1) First and most important: I'm not suggesting that we use Te
A bit of a diversion here, but two questions about the plethora of PDF docs:
* Where are the TeX sources of all these manuals kept?
* What are the licenses on all these various things? In particular the
Pragma documents. Would I be *allowed*, if I so wanted, to embark on a
collated version of al
There was a thread about columns and whitespace ~ 2 weeks ago, but I wasn't
a subscriber then. I've just come across it independently myself. I'm not
sure what conclusion was come to. From a few tests, I'd characterize the
problem code in \startcolumns as: "if whitespace has been set to more tha
Good news on both counts, then. (Is there a reason that the source and
license of the documents aren't included in the docs themselves?)
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote:
>
> A bit of a diversion here, but two quest
ves are more ugly?
James
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:47 PM, luigi scarso wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:44 PM, James Fisher
> wrote:
> >ConTeXt was not created to produce documentation for ConTeXt.
> This is not the point.
> The point is that code documentation of ConTeXt c
Perfecto.
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote:
>
> I'd like to go back to the very first post about problems with flush
>> right.
>> The \setbreakpoints command works to an extent, but I'm still exper
"...the book about Hasselt". That actually made me laugh out loud. What a
loser I am.
Ok, goodnight now. :)
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Michael Saunders wrote:
> > You mean like the beginner's manual
> >
> > http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/ms-cb-en.pdf
> >
> > and the user manual
Just to clarify, I pretty much agree with everything you say.
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:22 AM, James Fisher wrote:
> "...the book about Hasselt". That actually made me laugh out loud. What a
> loser I am.
>
> Ok, goodnight now. :)
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at
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