Re: [NTG-context] Multiple pleas for help (long)
Am 07.06.10 02:03, schrieb Scott Steele: In Latex, \fancybreak was part of a package called, I believe, fancyheader or fancypage. It produced a break frequently seen in published prose (I'm currently reading {\em Bluebeard} where Kurt Vonnegut uses it liberally) with significant vertical space between two paragraphs and, centered both in that vertical space as well as horizontally, a number of well-spaced marks. There are usually 3 marks, and they are frequently asterisks or traditional dingbats/fleurons. This sort of break is generally used when the author wishes to indicate a break more significant than a change in paragraph but short of an outright new chapter. \unprotect [...] \protect \starttext \input knuth \fancybreak{$* * *$} \input ward \stoptext Wolfgang Thanks a lot for all of that! I'm having trouble getting it to run, though. I tried copy/pasting it into the Context Live site but get I wrote now a module for this, you can download it from here: http://bitbucket.org/wolfs/fancybreak Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Multiple pleas for help (long)
Am 07.06.10 02:03, schrieb Scott Steele: Thanks a lot for all of that! I'm having trouble getting it to run, though. I tried copy/pasting it into the Context Live site but get [...] The mail client messed up my code, here is a slightly modified version: \unprotect \def\v!fancybreak{fancybreak} \def\fb{fb} \getparameters [\fb] [\c!spacebefore=, \c!spaceafter=, \c!align=\v!middle, \c!indentnext=\v!yes] \def\fancybreakparameter #1{\csname\dofancybreakparameter{\fb\currentfancybreak}#1\endcsname} \def\dofancybreakparameter #1#2{\ifcsname#1#2\endcsname#1#2\else\expandafter\dodofancybreakparameter\csname#1\s!parent\endcsname#2\fi} \def\dodofancybreakparameter#1#2{\ifx#1\relax\s!empty\else\dofancybreakparameter#1#2\fi} \unexpanded\def\setupfancybreak {\dodoubleempty\dosetupfancybreak} \def\dosetupfancybreak[#1][#2]% {\ifsecondargument \getparameters[\fb#1][#2]% \else \getparameters[\fb][#1]% \fi} \unexpanded\def\definefancybreak {\dodoubleempty\dodefinefancybreak} \def\dodefinefancybreak[#1][#2]% {\getparameters[\fb#1][\s!parent=\fb,#2]% \setvalue{#1}{\dofancybreak{#1}}} \unexpanded\def\dofancybreak#1% {\begingroup \edef\currentfancybreak{#1}% \everyvbox{\setupalign[\fancybreakparameter\c!align]}% \dowithnextbox {\blank[\fancybreakparameter\c!spacebefore]% \flushnextbox \blank[\fancybreakparameter\c!spaceafter]% \checknextindentation[\fancybreakparameter\c!indentnext] \dorechecknextindentation \endgroup} \normalvbox} \definefancybreak[\v!fancybreak] \protect \starttext \input knuth \fancybreak{$* * *$} \input ward \page \setupindenting[yes,medium] \input knuth \fancybreak{$* * *$} \input ward \stoptext Wolfgang fancybreak.tex Description: TeX document ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Multiple pleas for help (long)
Am 01.06.10 00:29, schrieb Scott Steele: If anyone has any insight on how to keep the footnotes from having their numbers in the margin and from having line-breaks after each one, that is the only issue from the original email that is still unsolved, I think. ——— In Latex, \fancybreak was part of a package called, I believe, fancyheader or fancypage. It produced a break frequently seen in published prose (I'm currently reading {\em Bluebeard} where Kurt Vonnegut uses it liberally) with significant vertical space between two paragraphs and, centered both in that vertical space as well as horizontally, a number of well-spaced marks. There are usually 3 marks, and they are frequently asterisks or traditional dingbats/fleurons. This sort of break is generally used when the author wishes to indicate a break more significant than a change in paragraph but short of an outright new chapter. \def\FancyBreak{\par\blank\hfill* * *\hfill\hfill\par\blank} \starttext \input tufte \FancyBreak \input tufte \stoptext I don't understand why I need the two consecutive \hfill's at the end for the marks to be centered, but the definition works well for me. \unprotect \def\fb{fb} \getparameters [\fb] [\c!spacebefore=, \c!spaceafter=] \def\fancybreakparameter#1% {\csname\fb\ifcsname\fb\currentfancybreak#1\endcsname\currentfancybreak\fi#1\endcsname} \def\setupfancybreak {\dodoubleempty\dosetupfancybreak} \def\dosetupfancybreak[#1][#2]% {\ifsecondargument \getparameters[\fb#1][#2]% \else \getparameters[\fb][#1]% \fi} \def\definefancybreak {\dodoubleempty\dodefinefancybreak} \def\dodefinefancybreak[#1][#2]% {\ifsecondargument \getparameters[\fb#1][#2]% \fi \setvalue{#1}{\dofancybreak{#1}}} \def\dofancybreak#1% {\begingroup \edef\currentfancybreak{#1}% \everyvbox{\raggedcenter}% \dowithnextbox {\blank[\fancybreakparameter\c!spacebefore]% \flushnextbox \blank[\fancybreakparameter\c!spaceafter]% \endgroup} \normalvbox} \definefancybreak[fancybreak] \protect \starttext \input knuth \fancybreak{$* * *$} \input ward \stoptext Wolfgang ___ Thanks a lot for all of that! I'm having trouble getting it to run, though. I tried copy/pasting it into the Context Live site but get ! Argument of \fancybreakparameter has an extra }. inserted text \par to be read again } \edefconvertedargument #1#2-\edef #1{#2} \edef #1{\detokenize \...@ea {#1}} \docomplexdoblank ...convertedargument \ascii {#1} \ifcsname \??bo \??bo \asc... \dodowithnextbox ...reakparameter \c!spacebefore ] \flushnextbox \blank [\fan... l.52 \fancybreak{$* * *$} ? ! Emergency stop. inserted text \par to be read again } \edefconvertedargument #1#2-\edef #1{#2} \edef #1{\detokenize \...@ea {#1}} \docomplexdoblank ...convertedargument \ascii {#1} \ifcsname \??bo \??bo \asc... \dodowithnextbox ...reakparameter \c!spacebefore ] \flushnextbox \blank [\fan... l.52 \fancybreak{$* * *$} Thanks, Scott - This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the writer's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coïncidental. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Multiple pleas for help (long)
Am 01.06.10 00:29, schrieb Scott Steele: If anyone has any insight on how to keep the footnotes from having their numbers in the margin and from having line-breaks after each one, that is the only issue from the original email that is still unsolved, I think. ——— In Latex, \fancybreak was part of a package called, I believe, fancyheader or fancypage. It produced a break frequently seen in published prose (I'm currently reading {\em Bluebeard} where Kurt Vonnegut uses it liberally) with significant vertical space between two paragraphs and, centered both in that vertical space as well as horizontally, a number of well-spaced marks. There are usually 3 marks, and they are frequently asterisks or traditional dingbats/fleurons. This sort of break is generally used when the author wishes to indicate a break more significant than a change in paragraph but short of an outright new chapter. \def\FancyBreak{\par\blank\hfill* * *\hfill\hfill\par\blank} \starttext \input tufte \FancyBreak \input tufte \stoptext I don't understand why I need the two consecutive \hfill's at the end for the marks to be centered, but the definition works well for me. \unprotect \def\fb{fb} \getparameters [\fb] [\c!spacebefore=, \c!spaceafter=] \def\fancybreakparameter#1% {\csname\fb\ifcsname\fb\currentfancybreak#1\endcsname\currentfancybreak\fi#1\endcsname} \def\setupfancybreak {\dodoubleempty\dosetupfancybreak} \def\dosetupfancybreak[#1][#2]% {\ifsecondargument \getparameters[\fb#1][#2]% \else \getparameters[\fb][#1]% \fi} \def\definefancybreak {\dodoubleempty\dodefinefancybreak} \def\dodefinefancybreak[#1][#2]% {\ifsecondargument \getparameters[\fb#1][#2]% \fi \setvalue{#1}{\dofancybreak{#1}}} \def\dofancybreak#1% {\begingroup \edef\currentfancybreak{#1}% \everyvbox{\raggedcenter}% \dowithnextbox {\blank[\fancybreakparameter\c!spacebefore]% \flushnextbox \blank[\fancybreakparameter\c!spaceafter]% \endgroup} \normalvbox} \definefancybreak[fancybreak] \protect \starttext \input knuth \fancybreak{$* * *$} \input ward \stoptext Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Multiple pleas for help (long)
Am 01.06.10 00:29, schrieb Scott Steele: If anyone has any insight on how to keep the footnotes from having their numbers in the margin and from having line-breaks after each one, that is the only issue from the original email that is still unsolved, I think. ——— In Latex, \fancybreak was part of a package called, I believe, fancyheader or fancypage. It produced a break frequently seen in published prose (I'm currently reading {\em Bluebeard} where Kurt Vonnegut uses it liberally) with significant vertical space between two paragraphs and, centered both in that vertical space as well as horizontally, a number of well-spaced marks. There are usually 3 marks, and they are frequently asterisks or traditional dingbats/fleurons. This sort of break is generally used when the author wishes to indicate a break more significant than a change in paragraph but short of an outright new chapter. \def\FancyBreak{\par\blank\hfill* * *\hfill\hfill\par\blank} \define\FancyBreak {\blank \midaligned{* * *} \blank} Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Multiple pleas for help (long)
If anyone has any insight on how to keep the footnotes from having their numbers in the margin and from having line-breaks after each one, that is the only issue from the original email that is still unsolved, I think. ——— In Latex, \fancybreak was part of a package called, I believe, fancyheader or fancypage. It produced a break frequently seen in published prose (I'm currently reading {\em Bluebeard} where Kurt Vonnegut uses it liberally) with significant vertical space between two paragraphs and, centered both in that vertical space as well as horizontally, a number of well-spaced marks. There are usually 3 marks, and they are frequently asterisks or traditional dingbats/fleurons. This sort of break is generally used when the author wishes to indicate a break more significant than a change in paragraph but short of an outright new chapter. \def\FancyBreak{\par\blank\hfill* * *\hfill\hfill\par\blank} \starttext \input tufte \FancyBreak \input tufte \stoptext I don't understand why I need the two consecutive \hfill's at the end for the marks to be centered, but the definition works well for me. ——— Thanks, Wolfgang, for your help with the emoticons—they work now. \useexternalfigure[frowny][Frowny][factor=8,type=pdf] \def\Frowny{\dontleavehmode\smash[h]{\externalfigure[frowny]}} Also, thanks for the \simplealignedbox, which works very well in my table of contents (although I have to put a \par at the end of it or it stays on one line and goes off the page). I don't understand why, but Tex didn't like having a \par inside the type of definition you used, but it allowed the following: \def\SectionListEntry#1#2#3% { \noindent \simplealignedbox{left}{2cm}{#2}% \simplealignedbox{middle}{5mm}{·}% \simplealignedbox{right}{3cm}{#3}% \par } (I have a few issues with my table of contents, but these are now less specific to \placelist, so I'm including them in a different posting.) Thanks again for all the help, Scott - This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the writer's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coïncidental. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Multiple pleas for help (long)
Am 10.05.10 02:28, schrieb Scott Steele: Thanks so much for the help! Pleas 1, 2, 5, and 6 are completely solved. (In particular, Mojca, the fix for accents is fantastic!) I wasn't able to get \Frowny to work any better with the advice provided, but I found that when I scaled it down, it stopped knocking the text off the grid, and I have a hard time telling the difference in size between the old and new. % New (works) : \useexternalfigure[frowny][Frowny][factor=7,type=pdf] \def\Frowny{\hbox{\externalfigure[frowny]}} \useexternalfigure[smiley][Smiley][factor=7,type=pdf] \def\Smiley{\hbox{\externalfigure[smiley]}} \useexternalfigure[slashy][Slashy][factor=7,type=pdf] \def\Slashy{\hbox{\externalfigure[slashy]}} \def\Slashy{\dontleavehmode\smash[h]{\externalfigure[slashy]}} the height of the picture is now ignored I'm currently working on the Table of Contents formatting. I'm trying to format it as follows: \define[3]\SectionListEntry {\noindent \simplealignedbox{left} {2cm}{#2}% \simplealignedbox{middle}{5mm}{·}% \simplealignedbox{right} {3cm}{#3}} \setuplist [section] [alternative=command, command=\SectionListEntry] Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Multiple pleas for help (long)
Thanks so much for the help! Pleas 1, 2, 5, and 6 are completely solved. (In particular, Mojca, the fix for accents is fantastic!) I wasn't able to get \Frowny to work any better with the advice provided, but I found that when I scaled it down, it stopped knocking the text off the grid, and I have a hard time telling the difference in size between the old and new. % New (works) : \useexternalfigure[frowny][Frowny][factor=7,type=pdf] \def\Frowny{\hbox{\externalfigure[frowny]}} \useexternalfigure[smiley][Smiley][factor=7,type=pdf] \def\Smiley{\hbox{\externalfigure[smiley]}} \useexternalfigure[slashy][Slashy][factor=7,type=pdf] \def\Slashy{\hbox{\externalfigure[slashy]}} I'm currently working on the Table of Contents formatting. I'm trying to format it as follows: \starttable[|r|c|l|] subjectName · pageNumber\MR subjectName · pageNumber\MR ...etc... \stoptable % Of course, where I don't actually input it subject by subject like this. Ideally, I'd like to be able to position the table on the page by deciding where the center line of single dots is (eg a setup where the dots are in the very center of the page layout or another setup where they are two-thirds of the textblock/pagelayout size (I'm not sure what the correct term is here) to the right). I've tried a number of different ways to set this up. This is the only thing close to what I want that I can get to work, but of course, it doesn't have the dots aligned: \def\ListCommand#1#2#3% { \starttabulate[|r|c|l|] \NC #2\NC ·\NC #3 \stoptabulate } \def\TableOfContents { \placelist[section] [criterium={chapter,subject}, alternative=command, command=\ListCommand] } Here's an example of what I tried to do but which doesn't work: \def\ListCommandOne#1#2#3% {#2\NC} \def\ListCommandTwo#1#2#3% {·\NC} \def\ListCommandThree#1#2#3% {#3\NC} \def\TableOfContents { \starttabulate[|l|l|l|] \NC \placelist[section] [criterium={chapter,subject}, alternative=command, command=\ListCommandOne] \NC \placelist[section] [criterium={chapter,subject}, alternative=command, command=\ListCommandTwo] \NC \placelist[section] [criterium={chapter,subject}, alternative=command, command=\ListCommandThree] \stoptabulate } Obviously that attempt—aside from not working—is incredibly un-elegant and could quickly screw things up with misaligned names and page numbers. Here is another attempt: \def\ListCommand#1#2#3{#2 · #3\MR} \def\TableOfContents { \starttable[|r|c|l|] \placelist[section] [criterium={chapter,subject}, alternative=command, command=\ListCommand] \stoptable } I think part of my problem is that I really don't understand what placelist {\em is} or what it is doing. Is this something that would be clearer only if I knew more about plain Tex? Note: I'm putting \TableOfContents in the frontmatter. Scott - This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the writer's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coïncidental. ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Multiple pleas for help (long)
Am 27.04.10 00:44, schrieb Scott Steele: Hullo, all. I've been trying for 3 months now to get my last 2 years' worth of journal entries satisfactorily typeset for printing on lulu.com http://lulu.com. This is my first major project using Context (with the Xetex engine—the current procedures required by Pdftex to set up and manage fonts are too intimidating for me (I {\em did} try it.)) as I'm no longer in school and had typeset the preceding year's worth of entries in Latex. I started to use (xe)Latex again this time but gave up in frustration with all of the predefined formatting, which I've moved away from as I've read more of Robert Bringhurst. Anyway, I have a number of problems. I apologize for putting them all into one message and for failing to find solutions elsewhere on the site. I've looked around a great deal, but am hampered in doing so by my limiting of my internet time with an {\sc ems} PowerCop (otherwise, I'd be on Wikipedia until they decided to lock me away). (I do my writing, editing, and typesetting on a little internet-crippled netbook with CrunchBang and Vim.) I'll include my current preämble information at the end of this message in case it is useful in addressing any of my issues. If they're addressed elsewhere, I'd be thrilled with links. If they're not, I'd greatly appreciate any help. I've found solutions to a number of previous problems, but here are all that I believe are in the way of my finishing this project: 1 How do I make bulleted lists not have lines between items in the list? \startitemize[packed] 2 Is it possible to push the bullets for bulleted lists into the margin (and then have the text of each item start at the same level of indentation as normal text)? Also, given my target printing medium, this would require alteration of the space between the bullet mark and its text—how do I alter this and the glyph used as the bullet mark? \startitemize[margin] 3 Is it possible to alter the way footnotes are displayed? I might want to have new footnotes follow previous ones with a 3-em space rather than starting a new line in the footer. And if I go that route, I'd need a way to pull the footer number in from the margin. 4 How can I adjust the formatting settings for the frontmatter (title page, table of contents) and backmatter (colophon, appendices, index). In general, I need to be able to set whether page numbers are used and what kind and positioning of the text on the page. In particular, how do I change the formatting for items in the table of contents (and what glyph/spacing go between the item's title and corresponding page number as well as how all of those elements are positioned)? Look for \setuplist[...] in the wiki and manuals. 5 How can I have either unnumbered sections, or subjects that appear in the table of contents? \setuphead[subject][incrementnumber=list] 6 Does Xetex or Context have a facility for positioning accents over letters when those particular combinations are not in the font? (Or should I just go ahead and do this manually in Fontforge?) 7 Is there a built-in equivalent of the \fancybreak function from Latex? I think I know now how to put something like it together manually but don't want go the amateur route if there's something more polished available. What is \fanybreak supposed to do? 8 Since this is just a journal, I have used simple emoticons (don't laugh!). I tweaked a vector smiley from Wikimedia to get a frowny and slashy, and they work well except for when they end up on the first (printed) text line of a page. I have one page that has a subject title on the grid but that is followed by a (logical) line with a smiley that ends up on its first printed line. This printed line and all of the rest of the text on the page (including another subject title) sit several points (approx) lower than where they should (so that the grid lines bisect the bowls of all the lower-case a's). There is another page that does not start with a subject title but directly with a printed line containing an emoticon, and it has exactly the same problem as the first page, with the text sitting just low enough that the grid lines bisect the bowls of the lower-case a's. Pages with emoticons on them do not exhibit this problem when the emoticon is not on the first printed line, and all lines remain correctly positioned on the grid. You can see below how I'm putting in the emoticons. You can write '\dontleavehmode\Frowny' or you include \dontleavehmode in the defintion itself \def\Frowny{\dontleavehmode\externalfigure[frowny]} Wolfgang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive :
Re: [NTG-context] Multiple pleas for help (long)
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:44:04 -0400 Scott Steele scottlste...@gmail.com scribit: [...] 1 How do I make bulleted lists not have lines between items in the list? Try \startitemize[packed] [... -- René Bastian www.pythoneon.org www.musiques-rb.org http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/ ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] Multiple pleas for help (long)
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 00:44, Scott Steele wrote: 6 Does Xetex or Context have a facility for positioning accents over letters when those particular combinations are not in the font? (Or should I just go ahead and do this manually in Fontforge?) In LuaTeX (ConTeXt MKIV) you can simply say compose=yes when defining font features (assuming that this still works). If you'll want to use LuaTeX and need the exact definition, I'll look it up. Else here's the solution that should work in XeTeX: \starttext % this one will be taken from the font Č % but you can also define the character to be active \catcode`Č=\active % and then use the ConTeXt way of composing accents \defČ{\buildtextaccent\textcaron C} % and every letter will be composed from that moment on Č \stoptext With pdfTeX you would typically redefine \ccaron instead. (The letter itself is already active and \defČ might not work there.) Mojca ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
[NTG-context] Multiple pleas for help (long)
Hullo, all. I've been trying for 3 months now to get my last 2 years' worth of journal entries satisfactorily typeset for printing on lulu.com. This is my first major project using Context (with the Xetex engine—the current procedures required by Pdftex to set up and manage fonts are too intimidating for me (I {\em did} try it.)) as I'm no longer in school and had typeset the preceding year's worth of entries in Latex. I started to use (xe)Latex again this time but gave up in frustration with all of the predefined formatting, which I've moved away from as I've read more of Robert Bringhurst. Anyway, I have a number of problems. I apologize for putting them all into one message and for failing to find solutions elsewhere on the site. I've looked around a great deal, but am hampered in doing so by my limiting of my internet time with an {\sc ems} PowerCop (otherwise, I'd be on Wikipedia until they decided to lock me away). (I do my writing, editing, and typesetting on a little internet-crippled netbook with CrunchBang and Vim.) I'll include my current preämble information at the end of this message in case it is useful in addressing any of my issues. If they're addressed elsewhere, I'd be thrilled with links. If they're not, I'd greatly appreciate any help. I've found solutions to a number of previous problems, but here are all that I believe are in the way of my finishing this project: 1 How do I make bulleted lists not have lines between items in the list? 2 Is it possible to push the bullets for bulleted lists into the margin (and then have the text of each item start at the same level of indentation as normal text)? Also, given my target printing medium, this would require alteration of the space between the bullet mark and its text—how do I alter this and the glyph used as the bullet mark? 3 Is it possible to alter the way footnotes are displayed? I might want to have new footnotes follow previous ones with a 3-em space rather than starting a new line in the footer. And if I go that route, I'd need a way to pull the footer number in from the margin. 4 How can I adjust the formatting settings for the frontmatter (title page, table of contents) and backmatter (colophon, appendices, index). In general, I need to be able to set whether page numbers are used and what kind and positioning of the text on the page. In particular, how do I change the formatting for items in the table of contents (and what glyph/spacing go between the item's title and corresponding page number as well as how all of those elements are positioned)? 5 How can I have either unnumbered sections, or subjects that appear in the table of contents? 6 Does Xetex or Context have a facility for positioning accents over letters when those particular combinations are not in the font? (Or should I just go ahead and do this manually in Fontforge?) 7 Is there a built-in equivalent of the \fancybreak function from Latex? I think I know now how to put something like it together manually but don't want go the amateur route if there's something more polished available. 8 Since this is just a journal, I have used simple emoticons (don't laugh!). I tweaked a vector smiley from Wikimedia to get a frowny and slashy, and they work well except for when they end up on the first (printed) text line of a page. I have one page that has a subject title on the grid but that is followed by a (logical) line with a smiley that ends up on its first printed line. This printed line and all of the rest of the text on the page (including another subject title) sit several points (approx) lower than where they should (so that the grid lines bisect the bowls of all the lower-case a's). There is another page that does not start with a subject title but directly with a printed line containing an emoticon, and it has exactly the same problem as the first page, with the text sitting just low enough that the grid lines bisect the bowls of the lower-case a's. Pages with emoticons on them do not exhibit this problem when the emoticon is not on the first printed line, and all lines remain correctly positioned on the grid. You can see below how I'm putting in the emoticons. Many apologies for those answers that I failed to find, and thanks reading the whole message, Scott See my current preämble below: \version[final] \definepapersize[pocket][width=4.25in, height=6.875in] \setuppapersize[pocket][pocket] \setuplayout[location=middle, width=0.815\paperwidth, rightmargindistance=0in, leftmargindistance=0in, height=middle, margin=0.08\paperwidth, backspace=0.115\paperwidth, marking=off, grid=yes, topspace=0.018889\paperheight, header=0.04\paperheight, footer=0.04\paperheight, bottomspace=0.038889\paperheight] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, location={footer}] \setupinterlinespace[top=0.0] % `top=0.0' gets rid of unoccupied vertical white space at the top of the first line \setupwhitespace[big] % Turns on blank line between ¶’s