On Monday 30 May 2005 05:20 pm, VnPenguin wrote:
On 5/30/05, John R. Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For a particular section I wish to substitute a graphic for the
section header, but have the TOC entry named as usual. Is there
a way to say e.g.,
\section{foo}
and have foo show up
On Monday 30 May 2005 06:58 pm, John R. Culleton wrote:
Using my my Ricoh AP2600 printer I want to feed envelopes with
the narrow side first, which means the the print image must be
rotated 90 degrees. It is not clear how this can be done in
Context. Here is an example file:
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snip
Never
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 11:53 pm, Hans Hagen wrote:
Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:
Why? Anybody is free to make tfm files, as afm files are
always available for _that_ set of urw fonts.
the problem is that there is a bunch of context users out there
who think (are being told, whatever) that
There exist levels of commands:
\definecombinedlist
\setupcombinedlist
They seem to have similar options. Are both required? If I
define the list fully in \definecombinedlist what purpose does
\setupcombined list serve in the ordinary case of a Table of
Contents?
A related question: can I place
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 05:16 pm, Stuart Jansen wrote:
ConTeXt already has the content combinedlist defined. So yes, you can
just use \completecontent[option=value]. \definecombinedlist is
available so that you can define your own type of combinedlist in case
the behavior of content does
On Thursday 09 June 2005 09:05 pm, Willi Egger wrote:
Dear John,
I would suggest, that those beginners would adopt Scite as their editor.
I find it an excellent editor for my purposes. The advantage is, that
this editor is very well integrated with Context. There is normally no
command
I needed to decrease the spacing between paragraphs to fit
everything in to a newsletter with limited page count.
\parskip 3pt %works
\setupwhitespace[3pt] %doesn't
Comments?
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On Tuesday 14 June 2005 12:11 pm, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
John R. Culleton wrote:
I needed to decrease the spacing between paragraphs to fit
everything in to a newsletter with limited page count.
\parskip 3pt %works
\setupwhitespace[3pt] %doesn't
Does using one of the keywords
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 05:24 pm, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
John R. Culleton wrote:
Taco asked for a minimal example. I don't want to make it too
You were missing:
\setupcolumns[blank=3pt]
please don't ask me why columns have their own whitespace settings,
they just do. ;)
Greetings
On Sunday 26 June 2005 09:52 pm, Stuart Jansen wrote:
Below is an exaggerated case I haven't been able to solve. Assuming the
frame can't be enlarged, the URL can't be manually broken, and extending
outside the frame a tiny bit is okay, how can I prevent the line break
inserted between the
I copied the first example in the Charts manual as follows:
---
\setupoutput[pdftex]
\usemodule[chart]
\starttext
\setupFLOWcharts
[option=test,
nx=4,
ny=3,
dx=2\bodyfontsize,
dy=2\bodyfontsize,
width=12\bodyfontsize,
height=7\bodyfontsize,
On Saturday 02 July 2005 08:20 pm, Willi Egger wrote:
Hi John,
Here your code compiles as soon as you change \stopflowchart into
\stopFLOWchart!
Willi
See, I knew it was something simple staring me in the face. Or
perhaps I am the thing that is simple. Anyhow, back to the
(virtual) drawing
On Saturday 09 July 2005 10:51 am, Arun Swarup wrote:
hi,
I see many books typeset with LaTeX, but what about ConTeXt?
I haven't seen any books typset using ConTeXt (excluding ConTeXt
manuals, of courz :P). Have you?
-arun
Only the ones I do. I lay out and typeset books for money. I can
I am trying to set up chapter heads a certain way and my code
keeps getting uglier. Here are the specs:
1. Chapter number centered, with decorations on either side.
2. Chapter title centered below chapter number.
3. Additional decoration centered below chapter title.
4. Both number and text show
On Monday 11 July 2005 09:34 pm, Stuart Jansen wrote:
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 17:12 +, John R. Culleton wrote:
I am trying to set up chapter heads a certain way and my code
keeps getting uglier. Here are the specs:
1. Chapter number centered, with decorations on either side.
2
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 01:15 pm, luigi.scarso wrote:
John R. Culleton wrote:
On Monday 11 July 2005 09:34 pm, Stuart Jansen wrote:
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 17:12 +, John R. Culleton wrote:
I am trying to set up chapter heads a certain way and my code
keeps getting uglier. Here are the specs
n Tuesday 12 July 2005 08:22 am, Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
Am 31.05.2005 um 23:48 schrieb Adam Lindsay:
Yeah, I picked up the Fleurons of Hope recently, and have been
thinking
of interesting ways to use it in ConTeXt.
Has someone looked at the free downloadable Web-O-Mints (both
TrueType
On Tuesday 12 July 2005 04:31 pm, John R. Culleton wrote:
But when time permits I will play with the other approaches
mentioned.
Necessity overtook schedule. So I used the Jensen approach
(thanks) modified as recommended by Kavian (thanks) with a few
minor
Just finished a highly formatted job for a customer. Something
occurred that isn't supposed to happen with Tex. The reference
number for a footnote was on page a and the footnote itself was
on page a+1. As it happened the footnote was placed at the end
of a paragraph and the paragraph ended in a
I am using the flowchart module to create various goodies. What
I don't know how to do is regulate the size of the font for the
text that goes inside the little boxes. Any suggestions?
-
John Culleton
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Here is a code fragment:
\section{Gallery}
\useexternalfigure[B008][B008.jpg][scale=2000]
\useexternalfigure[B009][B009.jpg][scale=2000]
\useexternalfigure[B010][B010.jpg][scale=2000]
\useexternalfigure[B013][B013.jpg][scale=2000]
\useexternalfigure[picnic.jpg]
\placefigure{}
I mentioned on comp.text.tex that my copy of _Context The Mamual_
was
a) tattered from use
b) annotated here and there with corrections based on posts from
this list.
Another party wanted to borrow my manual! I sent him my two
marginal annotations and redirected his attention to pragma-ade
but
On Thursday 01 September 2005 03:28 pm, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
Hi John,
uncovered. It would be a kind of group errata sheet. To start
the ball rolling here are my two annotations:
Please put them on the wiki. This would be an ideal place to collect
these things.
Patrick
In theory, yes.
Ran texfont and things seemed to go well. The test program
worked. But in the map file I find this curious instruction:
-
% Alternatively in your TeX source you can say:
%
% \pdf{+8r-nasa-nasal.map}
%
---
Using
On Monday 03 October 2005 06:05 pm, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
John R. Culleton wrote:
Ran texfont and things seemed to go well. The test program
worked. But in the map file I find this curious instruction:
-
% Alternatively in your TeX source you can say
I always believed that when referring to a file in a \font
statement one should use the first name found in the appropriate
line in the map file. This is supposedly the name of the tfm file
for that particular font. However texfont produces a map file
like this:
8r-raw-AGaramond-Italic
On Thursday 06 October 2005 09:30 pm, Hans Hagen wrote:
John R. Culleton wrote:
I always believed that when referring to a file in a \font
statement one should use the first name found in the appropriate
line in the map file. This is supposedly the name of the tfm file
for that particular
On Monday 03 October 2005 07:45 pm, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
I should explain that I use Context for non-fiction but plain
pdftex for novels etc.
I must ask: Why is that?
-)
Idris
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State
For my current e-book project I use \typefile to import some TeX
files as examples. The syntax is color coded which is very
useful.
Unfortunately on my screen at least the % character is in yellow so faint
as to be unreadable. So I dug into the source code and discovered
that the name for this
A person on the internet needs help using FarsiTeX, a bidirectional
typesetting engine for Farsi and English. It only runs on LaTeX
2.09.
If the same task were approached in Context, what would he need
to do beyond the regular Context stuff? Are there documents he
should read?
This is not a
On Monday 19 December 2005 10:28 am, Michal Kvasni?ka wrote:
Good evening.
I apologize that I dare to post here such offtopic, but I feel this is
the right place to get an answer.
I try to write some general-purpose MetaPost macros for me with
ConTeXt-like interface. For instance, I'd like
I use Context for highly formatted non-fiction, but I am a bit
reluctant to use it for much of my work because of the strange
(to me) font handling arrangements. I see no purpose for the
multiple synonyms of the same font. That just adds layers of
extra work. And I am used to tweaking both the
First I ask the question: is Context the right tool for rtl
typesetting of e.g, Farsi?
Second I would like a reference to the pertinent Context manual
or module for such typesetting.
Finally I would like to know if there is a typescript extant for
Farsi (Persian) wich I believe uses the Arabic
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 10:25 am, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:18:54 -0700, Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John R. Culleton wrote:
First I ask the question: is Context the right tool for rtl
typesetting of e.g, Farsi? Second I would like a reference
I have a TOC for a newsletter created in the usual way. But if I
set it up for printing on my local printer then the TOC
disappears.
This works:
\setupoutput[pdftex]
\setuppapersize[letter][letter]
But this kills the TOC:
\setupoutput[pdftex]
\definepapersize[tabloid][width=11in,height=17in]
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 12:15, Willi Egger wrote:
Hi John,
I believe this has to do with the arranging! So run texexec without
arranging first. Check that the TOC is there.
Herafter run texexec again, this time with arranging and run it only once.
I hope this helps!
Willi
Bingo! I am so
On Friday 17 March 2006 08:47, Hans Hagen wrote:
Geert Stappers wrote:
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 05:17:46PM -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, frantisek holop wrote:
i think i have read something about this issue, but i don't remember
where or when :)
You can check out
On Monday 20 March 2006 15:28, Alex Lubberts wrote:
Hi,
Does anybody know if it is possible to place footnotes in the margin? If
so, how?
TIA,
Alex Lubberts
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For \useURL the first parameter identifies the statement, the
second defines the url, the third is usually blank and the fourth
gives the text to appear in the clickable area.
What is that third parameter for?
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On Saturday 25 March 2006 07:35, Hans Hagen wrote:
Nikolai Weibull wrote:
Hi!
Is there a list of builtin TeX commands anywhere on the net? I need
it for a syntax definition of the plain TeX format.
With builtin TeX commands I mean stuff like \def, \global, and such.
A list of
On Sunday 26 March 2006 19:24, Jeffrey Drake wrote:
If you were going to use an editor for context usage (potentially
integrated into a Context suite), what features would you like from
it?
Especially interested in what features in regular editors are quite
useless to have around all the
On Monday 27 March 2006 14:59, Maurice Diamantini wrote:
Le 27 mars 06 à 13:55, Hans Hagen a écrit :
I've removed that one and installed TeXLive 2005! I was afraid
of other
problems, and indeed that's exactly what happened
unfortunately the latest tex live has problems with context and
On Tuesday 28 March 2006 10:05, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
--- On Mar 28, Taco Hoekwater wrote ---
andrea valle wrote:
Dear all,
It's a bit tiring to start many lines always with %.
Is it possibile to have multiple line comments like in C
\*
comments here
*\
\iffalse
comments
First I built a letter-on-tabloid booklet like this:
\definepapersize[tabloid][width=11in,height=17in]
\setuppapersize[letter][tabloid]
\setuparranging[2UP,rotated,doublesided]
\setuplayout[width=7in,location=doublesided,backspace=0.73in,
topspace=.0in,height=10.3in]
This worked pretty well. For
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 04:42, Willi Egger wrote:
Hi John,
Coud it be that you simply forgot the = after width?
Willi
Of course. It was staring at me and I didn't see it. I missed two
of them in fact.
Thanks Willi.
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On Thursday 27 April 2006 18:56, Johannes Graumann wrote:
Hello
I have coded my 'Appendix' like so:
\setuphead
[part]
[
header=empty,
footer=empty,
alternative=middle,
placehead=yes,
resetnumber=no,
number=no,
style={
Until a few minutes ago my Linux Slackware system dd not have a
Ruby interpreter. Yet Context runs fine. I seem to remember
something about some components of Context existing as Ruby
scripts. Am I dreaming or are there such beasties?
--
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Books with answers to marketing and
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 06:22, Richard Gabriel wrote:
Hello Hans,
after an upgrade I noticed thar the index sorting works even worse than
before (tested on Czech, Chinese and Japanese, but probably related to
non-ASCII characters in common).
With TeXExec 5.4.3, all words beginning with
On Monday 08 August 2005 07:59, Hans Hagen wrote:
Vit Zyka wrote:
John R. Culleton wrote:
I am using the flowchart module to create various goodies. What
I don't know how to do is regulate the size of the font for the
text that goes inside the little boxes. Any suggestions?
I do
On Thursday 01 June 2006 13:45, Vit Zyka wrote:
John R. Culleton wrote:
On Monday 08 August 2005 07:59, Hans Hagen wrote:
Vit Zyka wrote:
John R. Culleton wrote:
I am using the flowchart module to create various goodies. What
I don't know how to do is regulate the size of the font
Here is a common situation. I need a doublesided layout so I can
adjust the backspace. I want the header text on evens and odds
centered over the text block. To simplify the issue let's say
I want left on the evens and right on the odds. If I specify
(per the manual)
On Friday 09 June 2006 13:06, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, John R. Culleton wrote:
Here is a common situation. I need a doublesided layout so I can
adjust the backspace. I want the header text on evens and odds
centered over the text
On Friday 09 June 2006 15:33, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
ntg-context@ntg.nl
Very impressive, but surely there is a simpler solution! I just
want one header on the left hand page, a different one on the
right, and both of them centered on their respective pages.
\def\MyHeader{
Is there a guide for installing Open Type fonts for use in
Context?
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On Sunday 11 June 2006 11:17, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
opentype installation context, google hit # 1:
http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2005-2/lindsay/lindsay.pdf
Best
Thomas
On Jun 11, 2006, at 3:26 PM, John R. Culleton wrote:
Is there a guide for installing Open Type fonts for use
Some time back Hans provided a rather elabaorate macro that
put a bevel type frame around a page. Now I am looking for
something much less elaborate for an entire document. I wish to
surround each page with a simple rectangle. perhaps 1 point
thickness. The frame would be inset from the paper edge
I have a multilevel set of itemized lists but I want to reduce
the indentation because it takes up too much room. In other words
instead of
1. foo
a. fubar
* bar
I want spacing like
1. foo
a. fubar
* bar
So I put this at the head of my document:
The following code should, by my calculations, generate two
pages. However it generates five, one for \ShowLayout and four
for \showlayout.
Remove the t-layout module and the \ShowLayout statement and it
still generates four.
This is an inconvenience and not a deal breaker but I am curious
about
--
If one has a long table that splits across several pages, and
the first line of the table is really the headers for the
columns, is there a convenient way to have the headers
automatically inserted on each successive page that contains
part of the table?
I can do it manually of course. But
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 06:18 am, luigi.scarso wrote:
John R. Culleton wrote:
If one has a long table that splits across several pages, and
the first line of the table is really the headers for the
columns, is there a convenient way to have the headers
automatically inserted on each
When I run texexec against a file with lots (101) chapters plus
sections the messages to the console documenting each such
subdivision seem to be slowing down the compilation. Is there a
switch to suppress all the printout?
run --
John Culleton
Able Indexers and Typesetters
I have been playing with the very interesting t-layout module
written by Patrick Gundalach. When looking at the visualization
thus presented I have these questions:
1. Why do the left and right margin areas bleed off the page?
2. Why are the margins offset a little from the main text block?
These
I need to insert some example pages from one document into
another. Both are 8.5 x 11.
I have read the old posts about \startTEXpage etc. and looked at
the source code. But I still have a few questions:
1. Can I select e.g., just page 2 from the external document to
insert in my document? How?
I wanted the title page to have a yellow background so I used:
\setupbackgrounds[page][state=start,background=color,backgroundcolor=yellow]
before \starttext.
After that one page I wanted to go back to no background, but I
am having trouble turning it off. Here is some of my code:
On Thursday 21 April 2005 08:27 am, Hans Hagen wrote:
John R. Culleton wrote:
\setupbackgrounds[page][state=start,background=color,backgroundcolor=yell
ow]
\setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=yellow]
\starttext
\startfrontmatter
\startstandardmakeup
...(title
In the typescript file type-syn.tex the palatino font is defined
four times, twice for math and twice for serif. The headers in
each pair are identical, e.g.:
\starttypescript [serif] [palatino] [name]
Assume I want to use the second serif typescript, the one that uses
the Palladio fonts.
On Sunday 13 March 2005 09:31 pm, h h extern wrote:
VnPenguin wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 20:56:06 +, David Waller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to produce bookmarks in the PDF file produced with context.
I can produce bookmarks but I am unable to get any hierarchy of
Let me try again. How do I bookmark a \title?
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On Saturday 07 May 2005 06:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello !
I tried to install a new version of context, since somebody suggest to
do it (BTW I do not know how know what version of context I have
... running texexec --version gives me the version of texexec, I
presume, not the version
On Sunday 08 May 2005 09:26 pm, Gentile wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for an up-to-date version on the ConTeXt reference manual
(cont-emp.pdf). The one I fond at Pragma's site is dated November 12,
2001. Is it the latest ?
In general HH writes new manuals on specific topics rather than
updating
On Sunday 08 May 2005 08:44 pm, Hans Hagen wrote:
wget www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/linuxtex.zip
unzip linuxtex.zip
cd tex
. setuptex
texexec --make --all
after that, for each shell:
. ~/tex/setuptex ~/tex
(given tat you're in your home path)
Following the above as a cookbook
On Saturday 14 May 2005 12:45 pm, Tobias Wolf wrote:
Dear NTG-context denizens,
today I went to work to make up my mind about whether it would be a
good idea to go ahead and produce my BSc. Thesis with ConTeXt.
It's clear, I'm very much attracted to it's approach, I do like the
syntax and
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