2008/7/17 David [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
Thanks, David. I tried
\starttext
A. E. Samuel\crlf
A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf
A.~E.~Samuel
\stoptext
and can see no difference (ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKII). The
tilde is not really a good way
Thanks, David.
I had not realized that there was a command \fixedspaces. Is it
documented somewhere?
The sample file
\starttext
\fixedspaces
A. E. Samuel\crlf
A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf
A.~E.~Samuel
\stoptext
still produces the same spacing for “A. E. Samuel” and “A.\ E.\
Samuel”. The spacing
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:01:17 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
2008/7/17 David [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:46:21 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
Thanks, David. I tried
\starttext
A. E. Samuel\crlf
A.\ E.\ Samuel\crlf
A.~E.~Samuel
\stoptext
and can see no difference (ConTeXt
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:13:15 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
Thanks, David.
I had not realized that there was a command \fixedspaces. Is it
documented somewhere?
It's in cont-eni on page 72. However, I have not needed the command
until recently - I have used the tilde to create narrower spaces
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:30:19 -0400, Alan Bowen wrote:
I have the latest ConTeXt and am using mkii.
One used to be able to reduce the spacing after an initial by by
typing “.\space”, but this no longer seems to work. Compare the
inter-word spacing in
\starttext
A. E. Samuel\crlf
I have the latest ConTeXt and am using mkii.
One used to be able to reduce the spacing after an initial by by
typing “.\space”, but this no longer seems to work. Compare the
inter-word spacing in
\starttext
A. E. Samuel\crlf
A.\ E.\ Samuel
\stoptext
If the is a difference here, I am
I have the latest ConTeXt and am using mkii.
One used to be able to reduce the spacing after an initial by by
typing “.\space”, but this no longer seems to work. Compare the
inter-word spacing in
\starttext
A. E. Samuel\crlf
A.\ E.\ Samuel
\stoptext
If the is a difference here, I am
Dear list,
Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned on
contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine and
winetricks.
Piotr
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On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Dear list,
Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned on
contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine and
winetricks.
Piotr
Replying to myself. Before trying on my linux
On Monday 07 July 2008 05:31:19 am Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Dear list,
Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter,
mentioned on contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be
possible using wine and winetricks.
Piotr
I upload a doc file into Open Office Writer, save it as rtf
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Dear list,
Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned on
contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine and
winetricks.
Piotr
Le 07 juillet à 11:31:19 Piotr Kopszak [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment:
| Dear list,
| Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned on
contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine and
winetricks.
| Piotr
I use writer2latex, which has
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Dear list,
Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned on
contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
Has anyone had any success running Word-to-Latex converter, mentioned
on contextgarden, on linux? In theory it should be possible using wine
and winetricks.
I have converted from Word to LaTeX a lot! -- book length
documents
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Gerhard Kugler wrote:
Hi,
how can I turn off the hyphenation for a single word?
If it is a one off thing, \hbox{word}.
Aditya
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Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Gerhard Kugler wrote:
Hi,
how can I turn off the hyphenation for a single word?
If it is a one off thing, \hbox{word}.
If you have to overrule all occurrencess, \hyphenation{word}
at the top of your file
[OT, sorry]
I've implemented it in Python (using DOM and SAX, now that I know
more, I would start with ElementTree from the beginning).
Did you found ElementTree better than standard modules or lxml?
I will gladly share my experiences.
At epen I have talked (informally) with some peoples about
.
However, as former Word teacher and currently IT support and power user
I must say that making a really working converter that would
save a substantial amount of time is very hard.
Why? Because at least 70% of Word users don't seem to know how to make a
clearly structured document. And even if they'd
Hi Luigi,
2007/4/3, luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[OT, sorry]
I've implemented it in Python (using DOM and SAX, now that I know
more, I would start with ElementTree from the beginning).
Did you found ElementTree better than standard modules or lxml?
Definitely better than the standard
Am 2007-04-03 um 09:20 schrieb Mari Voipio:
Note! If your files contain graphics, for ConTeXt you have to ask
people to send them in separately as pdf, png or jpg (instead of
putting
them inline in the Word file). I have found *this* hard to achieve
once
in a while and I still often
Hello,
My faculty receives papers in MS Word format. One poor computer
literate lady is working very hard to typeset a journal of consistent
quality from those papers. All work is performed in MS Word and I
consider to suggest her to move to ConText (she don't have a slightest
idea
-a-
On 2 Apr 2007, at 19:47, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote:
Hello,
My faculty receives papers in MS Word format. One poor computer
literate lady is working very hard to typeset a journal of consistent
quality from those papers. All work is performed in MS Word and I
consider to suggest her to move
). But the basic idea is quite simple:
* preformat the doc in word by applying special paragraph styles to
all paragraphs (which
will be mapped nicely to CSS classes)
* Export the word doc to HTML
* make XML from it with htmltidy
* filter out those huge amounts of unneeded stuff (CSS-Stuff, DIVs
Hi,
There are many Word to LaTeX converters, but no Word to ConTeXt
converters. Some LaTeX converters, however, are highly configurable, and
you can teach them to write {\em instead of \emph{, or \startitemize
instead of \begin{itemize}, and so.
If you use a MS operating system, with Word
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
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This must be a beginner's question, but I can't find the answer to it
in the manuals...
:) Read below.
Take this ConTeXt source:
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{\ss\sc ACME}}
Welcome from \Acme. \Acme make fine products.
When this is made into
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 16:45:15 +
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
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When this is made
After \def\Example{example} \Word{\Example} gives exampleSo I need \expanded{\Word{\Example}} to get Examplebut \WORD{\Example}} does give EXAMPLEI did not expect that. Is this the intended behaviour?Hans van der Meer ___
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Sorry for going a bit off-topic, but does anyone here know of good tools
for doing a word count directly on existing PDFs?
cheers,
adam
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Hi Adam,
Sorry for going a bit off-topic, but does anyone here know of good tools
for doing a word count directly on existing PDFs?
what about pdftotext from xpdf?:
/opt/xpdf/current/bin/pdftotext lettrine.pdf - | wc -w
1672
It's not that accurate, but perhaps it is sufficient
Patrick Gundlach said this at Wed, 2 Nov 2005 18:15:10 +0100:
what about pdftotext from xpdf?:
Perfect. That's certainly sufficient for my needs. I had never looked at
xpdf before because of the general level of PDF support on MacOSX, but
those associated tools look quite handy. The tools alone
Hello,
If I use the latin2 encoding (il2), \WORD works OK if I simply type
accented characters. Under UTF-8, uppercasing \zcaron also works OK, but
fails if I simply type 'ž'. I saw the \definemapping[il2] and I can
write a mapping for windows-1250 regime as well, but how exactly
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello,
If I use the latin2 encoding (il2), \WORD works OK if I simply type
accented characters. Under UTF-8, uppercasing \zcaron also works OK, but
It fails because \zcaron expands prematurely. Perhaps this is an option:
\def\definecharacter#1 #2
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello,
If I use the latin2 encoding (il2), \WORD works OK if I simply type
accented characters. Under UTF-8, uppercasing \zcaron also works OK, but
It fails because \zcaron expands prematurely. Perhaps this is an option:
\def
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hello,
If I use the latin2 encoding (il2), \WORD works OK if I simply type
accented characters. Under UTF-8, uppercasing \zcaron also works OK,
but fails if I simply type 'ž'. I saw the \definemapping[il2] and I
can write a mapping for windows-1250 regime as well
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
This works (but it is a bit ugly)
\def\WORD#1{%
\bgroup
\the \everyuppercase
\let \smallcapped \firstofoneargument
\let \WORD \firstofoneargument
\pushmacro \dohandleaccent
\pushmacro \dohandlecommand
\pushmacro \dohandlecharacter
I know that ConTeXt does a good job kearning and determing spaces
between words. However, is there a way to actually specify different
kearning and word spacing than the default?
Thanks
Paul
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I came across the command \WORD{} in the manual (nice place to look, eh?). This does all capitals (it can be more than one word) and doesn't have the issue with diacritics that \uppercased was having for me.
Thanks,
David
On Mar 25, 2005, at 5:30 PM, David Wooten wrote:
Greetings all,
Taco
Jack M. Lyon wrote:
I figured out how to specify a minimum number of letters on a word break
(hyphenation). For example, I don't want ConTeXt to break hard-ly. The
solution is in the manual; I just couldn't find it for a while. Here it is:
\installlanguage[en][lefthyphenmin=3,righthyphenmin=3
Peter Münster wrote:
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Adam Lindsay wrote:
I *think* it's a multiple of \openlineheight by which the interline space
can vary +/-. So the factor cited above seems like it can cause a
variance of up to 16% in line spacing. (And I can imagine Hans is biting
his tongue on this
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Hans Hagen wrote:
\setupalign[line]
It seems, that this command does just the same as the LaTeX \flushbottom,
very fine, thank you!
% \setupalign[bottom]
What's the meaning of this one?
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Münster wrote:
% \setupalign[bottom]
has to do with depth but does not always work
Hans
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Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:45:15 +0100:
\setuplayout[height=10cm] \setuptolerance[vertical,verytolerant]
\setupalign[line]
Okay, that's the command I *should* have found, right? :) Sigh, and it's
right there in the manual.
What I found today was \alignbottom (and its
justified. Nice!
I'm very grateful for the help from one and all.
Best wishes,
Jack M. Lyon
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I take it back. Here's what really works well:
\setupinterlinespace[stretch=0.08]
\setuptolerance[vertical,stretch]
\setupalign[line]
Thanks again.
Best wishes,
Jack M. Lyon
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Adam Lindsay wrote:
Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:45:15 +0100:
\setuplayout[height=10cm] \setuptolerance[vertical,verytolerant]
\setupalign[line]
Okay, that's the command I *should* have found, right? :) Sigh, and it's
right there in the manual.
What I found today was \alignbottom
Jack M. Lyon wrote:
With lots of help from Adam and some tinkering on my own, here's what seems
to be working best for me:
\setupinterlinespace[stretch=0.08]
\setuptolerance[vertical,stretch]
\setupalign[height]
This produces a flush bottom with very even interline and interparagraph
spacing, all
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Adam Lindsay wrote:
I *think* it's a multiple of \openlineheight by which the interline space
can vary +/-. So the factor cited above seems like it can cause a
variance of up to 16% in line spacing. (And I can imagine Hans is biting
his tongue on this because this big
I figured out how to specify a minimum number of letters on a word break
(hyphenation). For example, I don't want ConTeXt to break hard-ly. The
solution is in the manual; I just couldn't find it for a while. Here it is:
\installlanguage[en][lefthyphenmin=3,righthyphenmin=3]
\setuplanguage[en
Jack M. Lyon said this at Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:43:10 -0700:
I'm curious because it's the flip side of the grid typesetting I was
learning about earlier this week.
I'd be grateful if you could tell me what you learned about this.
Nothing ground-breaking. Mostly that it's set up with:
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Jack M. Lyon wrote:
2. How can I turn on \flushbottom (LaTeX command) to space lines *inside*
paragraphs but not *between* paragraphs?
Not a very beautiful page, but I hope it helps:
http://contextgarden.net/Flush_bottom
Cheers, Peter
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a
parameter that might help. Try these two in combination:
\setupinterlinespace[stretch=0.08] % experimentation needed!
\setuptolerance[vertical,verystrict]
I'm not an expert in this area, so don't take this as the final word!
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Peter Münster said this at Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:08:27 +0100:
\setupinterlinespace[stretch=0.08] % experimentation needed!
I'm also very interested in these kinds of problems (and solutions ;).
I'm curious because it's the flip side of the grid typesetting I was
learning about earlier this
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Hello,
would it be possible to define || for compound words to act as
\discretionary{-}{-}{-}? In Czech, the hyphen for compound words should
be repeated in the following line.
Thanks,
D.A.
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David Antos wrote:
Hello,
would it be possible to define || for compound words to act as
\discretionary{-}{-}{-}? In Czech, the hyphen for compound words should
be repeated in the following line.
you mean something like this:
\unprotect
\def\activedododotextmodediscretionary#1#2%
David Antos wrote:
Hello,
would it be possible to define || for compound words to act as
\discretionary{-}{-}{-}? In Czech, the hyphen for compound words should
be repeated in the following line.
This mechanism is already present in the ConTeXt: use |_| like
bude|_|li. Unfortunately,
David Antos wrote:
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:46:00PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
\en \dorecurse{100}{test||}test \endgraf
\cz \dorecurse{100}{test||}test \endgraf
Wow, that's exactly what we need. I suggest to make this also
default setting for Czech.
ok, i'll built it in; after that you can test
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 04:19:51PM +0100, Vit Zyka wrote:
This mechanism is already present in the ConTeXt: use |_| like
bude|_|li. Unfortunately, AFAIK there are two drawbacks:
Hello,
this ispired an idea: would it be possible to make the characters
configurable? I.e. to have in fact ||
Hans Hagen wrote:
David Antos wrote:
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 03:46:00PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
\en \dorecurse{100}{test||}test \endgraf
\cz \dorecurse{100}{test||}test \endgraf
Wow, that's exactly what we need. I suggest to make this also
default setting for Czech.
ok, i'll built it in; after
Good morning.
I'm sorry to ask such a stupid question, but: Is there some ConTeXt way
to suppress word-breaking (hyphenating) text in margins (\inmargin)?
Many thanks,
Michal Kvasnicka
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I'm using the standard POS fonts and I'm otherwise happy with whatever I
get (TexLive7), but the word spacing is far too big when I use teletype
font (in relation to \ss and \rm fonts). Tight spaces are not an option
here, nor do I want to use the \setupspacing switch.
Is there any way I can
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