Re: [NTG-context] Context replacement for bibitem

2007-08-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Hi Peter,

2007/8/30, Peter Schorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> > Replace this line with
> >
> > \expanded{\setupitemgroup[bibliography][1][n,
> \currentmoduleparameter{itemspace}*broad]}
>
> Unluckily that is not working :-( I also tried:
>
> \setupitemgroup[bibliography][1][n
> \expanded{\currentmoduleparameter{itemspace}}*broad]
>
> and
>
> \setupitemgroup[bibliography][1][n
> \expandafter\currentmoduleparameter{itemspace}*broad]
>
> In all three tries I didn't got any error-break but the pdf showed directly
> that the lines were not accepted.

I attached my local version from yesterday plus my test documents
and they work for me.

> I posted the right-this-state module into the wiki:
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Bibliography
>
> The mulilingual-interface I will try later.. but right now I am stocked with
> this and the other listed points :-(
>
> I would be more than happy for any further hint :-)

You should better you english names for your macros and not german
ones or write to different versions.

Wolfgang


t-biblist.tex
Description: TeX document


biblist-test-1.tex
Description: TeX document


biblist-test-2.tex
Description: TeX document
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Re: [NTG-context] value-copy - e.g. in \textreference

2007-08-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/8/30, Peter Schorsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> during my first tries of context-programming I bounced a couple of times
> against a problem I am calling myself my value-copy-border.
>
> E.g. number is a register/variable that helps numbering some paragraphs.
> Some of these paragraphs also should be cross-linked. But the pointer gets
> always the value, number has at the point of the pointer - and not at the
> point of the marked paragraph.
>
> How can I get just the value of a variable? - like currentsection in the
> example:
>
>
> \definenumber[number]
>
> \setuphead[chapter,section,subsection,subsubsection
> [after={\resetnumber[number]}]
>
> \def\MyMark[#1]
> {\textreference[#1]{Para. \currentheadnumber / \getnumber[number]}}

\def\MyMark[#1]%
  {\expanded{\textreference[#1]{Para. \currentheadnumber / \getnumber[number]}}}

> \definestartstop[MyPara]
>   [before=
> {\blank[medium]\incrementnumber[number]%
> \inothermargin{\getnumber[number]~}},
>after={\blank[medium]}]
>
> \starttext
>
> \section

\section{...}

> \startMyPara
> blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla
> blabla blabla blabla blabla
> \stopMyPara
>
> \subsection

\subsection{...}

> \startMyPara
> blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla
> blabla blabla blabla blabla
> \stopMyPara
>
> \startMyPara\MyMark[testmark]
> blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla
> blabla blabla blabla blabla
> \stopMyPara
>
> \section
> The Link should be [Abs. 1.1/2] but is \in[testmark]
> %unluckily it is [Abs. 1.1/0]
>
> \stoptext

Wolfgang
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Re: [NTG-context] Problem with \starttable \stoptable and some math

2007-08-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, WN wrote:

>
>> Compiles fine here, using the "old"
>> 
> I know it compiles, that is not the problem. But look closely at the output,
> in the starttable/stoptable the \oiint is ''ignored but in the 
> startformula/stopformula it is shown.
> So the starttable/stoptable is doing something , what I don't know.

I see. I do not have the oiint in the the table, so something is 
wrong. The plain tex alignment works, so must be something that table 
is changing.

\halign{\tabskip 3cm
#&# \cr
$\oiint \vec{E}$ &
${\rm div} \: \vec{E}$ \cr}

\loggingall suggests that math collection is reset to default inside 
tables.

So, a quick workaround: Change the collection from extra to default.


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Re: [NTG-context] Problem with \starttable \stoptable and some math

2007-08-30 Thread WN

> Compiles fine here, using the "old"
>   
I know it compiles, that is not the problem. But look closely at the output,
in the starttable/stoptable the \oiint is ''ignored but in the 
startformula/stopformula it is shown.
So the starttable/stoptable is doing something , what I don't know.

That is what I observed

Wim
> ConTeXt  ver: 2007.08.24 14:18 MKII  fmt: 2007.8.24  int: english/english
>
> So maybe something that changed recently. I cannot test with the 
> current version right now (have a hard deadline, do not want to mess 
> with the system...)
>
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Re: [NTG-context] Problem with \starttable \stoptable and some math

2007-08-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, WN wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After recompiling a 1-year old document I stumbled on the following
> (which used to work)
> Some of math symbols in a table environment are ''ignored'' i.e are not
> shown.
> They do work outside the table environment though.
> I think it has to do with some font switching in the table environment, but
> cannot verify this. I also tried the bTABLE/eTABLE but same result.

Compiles fine here, using the "old"

ConTeXt  ver: 2007.08.24 14:18 MKII  fmt: 2007.8.24  int: english/english

So maybe something that changed recently. I cannot test with the 
current version right now (have a hard deadline, do not want to mess 
with the system...)

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[NTG-context] Problem with \starttable \stoptable and some math

2007-08-30 Thread WN
Hi,

After recompiling a 1-year old document I stumbled on the following 
(which used to work)
Some of math symbols in a table environment are ''ignored'' i.e are not 
shown.
They do work outside the table environment though.
I think it has to do with some font switching in the table environment, but
cannot verify this. I also tried the bTABLE/eTABLE but same result.

Any help is welcome.

Wim

Version context
TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 \write18 enabled.
 (c:/Context/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-mswin/web2c/natural.tcx)
entering extended mode
..
ConTeXt  ver: 2007.07.29 22:06 MKII  fmt: 2007.7.31  int: english/english

Minimal test file (also checked on livecontext)

\loadmapfile[original-youngryu-tx.map]
\startmathcollection [extra]
\definemathsymbol [oiint]   [op] [mc] ["08] [mc] ["09]
\definemathsymbol [oiiint]  [op] [mc] ["29] [mc] ["2a]
\definemathsymbol [ointctrclockwise][op] [mc] ["0A] [mc] ["0B]
\definemathsymbol [ointclockwise]   [op] [mc] ["0C] [mc] ["0D]
\definemathsymbol [varointctrclockwise] [op] [mc] ["2B] [mc] ["2C]
\definemathsymbol [varointclockwise][op] [mc] ["2D] [mc] ["2E]
\definemathsymbol [iint][op] [mc] ["21] [mc] ["22]
\definemathsymbol [iiint]   [op] [mc] ["23] [mc] ["24]
\definemathsymbol [nt]  [op] [mc] ["25] [mc] ["26]
\definemathsymbol [idotsint][op] [mc] ["27] [mc] ["28]
\definemathsymbol [oiintctrclockwise]   [op] [mc] ["40] [mc] ["41]
\definemathsymbol [oiintclockwise]  [op] [mc] ["48] [mc] ["49]
\definemathsymbol [varoiintctrclockwise][op] [mc] ["4A] [mc] ["4B]
\definemathsymbol [varoiintclockwise]   [op] [mc] ["42] [mc] ["43]
\definemathsymbol [oiiintctrclockwise]  [op] [mc] ["44] [mc] ["45]
\definemathsymbol [oiiintclockwise] [op] [mc] ["4C] [mc] ["4D]
\definemathsymbol [varoiiintctrclockwise][op] [mc] ["4E] [mc] ["4F]
\definemathsymbol [varoiiintclockwise]  [op] [mc] ["46] [mc] ["47]
% added 10-06-2007
\stopmathcollection

\starttypescript [math] [modern,computer-modern,latin-modern,ams] [size]
\definebodyfont 
[28pt,24pt,18pt,17.3pt,14.4pt,12pt,11pt,10pt,9pt,8pt,7pt,6pt,5pt,4pt] 
[mm] [mc=txexa sa 1]
\stoptypescript
\definetypeface[mainface] [rm]   [serif]  [times] [default]  
[encoding=texnansi]
\definetypeface[mainface] [mm] [math] [modern] [modern] [encoding=texnansi]
\setupbodyfont[mainface,11pt]
\enablemathcollection[extra]

\starttext
\startformula
\oiint \vec{E} \cdot d \vec{S} \
\stopformula
$\oiint \vec{E} \cdot d \vec{S}$

\startitemize[a][stopper=)]
\item De wet van Gauss
\starttable[|lp(0.2\textwidth)|p(0.4\textwidth)|p(0.3\textwidth)|lp(0.3\textwidth)|]
\NC
\NC $\oiint \vec{E} \cdot d \vec{S}$
\NC ${\rm div} \: \vec{E} = etc. $
\NC extra tekst
\NC \NR
\stoptable
\stopitemize
\stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] OT: typo-fun

2007-08-30 Thread Stephan Hennig
frantisek holop schrieb:

> http://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/404-2/book.png

Shouldn't page 404 be a left-hand page?

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig

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Re: [NTG-context] how to get a commalist out of {}-brackets

2007-08-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Peter Schorsch wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to forward an embedded commalist to an subfunction. The problem: how
> can I get rid of the {}-brackets to access the embedded commalist?
>
> The functions looks like:
>
> \def\function#1[#2]
> {\getparameters[label][a=,b=,embedded=,#2]
> subfunction[\labelembedded]

\expanded{\subfunction[\labelembedded]}

> ...}
>
> \def\subfunction#1[#2]
> {\getparamters[label][a,c,#1]
> \labela% will answer with emptyness
> #2 % returns {a=,c=} ... but I need for the getparamteres a=,c=
> ...}
>
> to call the function:
>
> \function[a=etwas,b=ddd,embedded={a=nochWas,c=hope}]

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[NTG-context] how to get a commalist out of {}-brackets

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Schorsch
Hi,

I need to forward an embedded commalist to an subfunction. The problem: how
can I get rid of the {}-brackets to access the embedded commalist?

The functions looks like:

\def\function#1[#2]
{\getparameters[label][a=,b=,embedded=,#2]
 subfunction[\labelembedded]
...}

\def\subfunction#1[#2]
{\getparamters[label][a,c,#1]
 \labela% will answer with emptyness
 #2 % returns {a=,c=} ... but I need for the getparamteres a=,c=
...}

to call the function:

\function[a=etwas,b=ddd,embedded={a=nochWas,c=hope}]

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[NTG-context] value-copy - e.g. in \textreference

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Schorsch
Hi,

during my first tries of context-programming I bounced a couple of times
against a problem I am calling myself my value-copy-border.

E.g. number is a register/variable that helps numbering some paragraphs.
Some of these paragraphs also should be cross-linked. But the pointer gets
always the value, number has at the point of the pointer - and not at the
point of the marked paragraph.

How can I get just the value of a variable? - like currentsection in the
example:


\definenumber[number]

\setuphead[chapter,section,subsection,subsubsection
[after={\resetnumber[number]}]

\def\MyMark[#1]
{\textreference[#1]{Para. \currentheadnumber / \getnumber[number]}}

\definestartstop[MyPara]
  [before=
{\blank[medium]\incrementnumber[number]%
\inothermargin{\getnumber[number]~}},
   after={\blank[medium]}]

\starttext

\section
\startMyPara
blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla
blabla blabla blabla blabla 
\stopMyPara

\subsection
\startMyPara
blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla
blabla blabla blabla blabla 
\stopMyPara

\startMyPara\MyMark[testmark]
blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla blabla
blabla blabla blabla blabla 
\stopMyPara

\section
The Link should be [Abs. 1.1/2] but is \in[testmark] 
%unluckily it is [Abs. 1.1/0]

\stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] color expansion (not colo-new related)

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Rolf
Hans Hagen schrieb:
> Peter Rolf wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I tried to seperate some style specific code to external variables. Most
>> things work so far, but the expansion of color causes me problems. I
>> must emphasize that this is no colo-new problem, as my code fails with
>> the old colo-ini too.
>>
>> I have tried several things, but still no luck. What (expansion) magic
>> is missing in my code? Any help is welcome.
> 
> \def\GetFGcolor#1#2#3#4#5{%
>\ifconditional\CondA
>  \ifconditional\CondC#4%
>  \else#5\fi
>\else
>  \ifconditional\CondB#1%
>  \else
>\ifconditional\CondC#2%
>\else#3\fi
>  \fi
>\fi}
> 
> you introduce spaces
>
yes, stupid me :)

> btw, often its easier to remap colors
> 
> 
> 
> \def\test{\color[whatever]{some color}}
> 
> \definecolor[whatever][green] test
> \definecolor[whatever][red] test
> 
> or to use palets or ...
> 
I will think about it.

Thanks Hans!

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Re: [NTG-context] Using context with cweave

2007-08-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, John Luciani wrote:

> On 8/28/07, luigi scarso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 for screen 
>>>
>>> ???
>> This is a new topicct for me; to compile, I have had a quick look
>> inside m-cweb but
>> nothing more.
>> Actually I have no idea if one can have a screen version with some macro
>> like \activateCWEB, I'm sorry.
>
> I appreciate your help. Thanks.
>
> The screen version example that I like is at
> http://www.pragma-ade.com/itdemos/internal/cweb/cweb-scr.pdf

Did you try:

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/CWEB

(the page says cweb is broken, but you got partial success, so worth a 
try)

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Re: [NTG-context] Too small { in the fourier font

2007-08-30 Thread Mikael Persson
On 8/30/07, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> George N. White III wrote:
> > On 8/30/07, Mikael Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Update:
> >>
> >> This seems to be a problem that is introduced after 20070403. I am
> >> running that version at work (minimal installation on linux there
> >> aswell), and there it looks OK with the fourier fonts.
> >
> > There have been some major changes in font handling.   It turned out that
> > the lm fonts didn't define a design size but apparently it didn't matter 
> > until
> > quite recently, and then more recently a workaround was added.  I wouldn't
> > be surprised to see the problem in other fonts either because they use lm
> > for some glyphs or because they were created using the same toolchain.
>
> indeed, the tex gyre fonts etc also suffer from this but in many cases
> they default to 10
>
> the lm/gyre authors are notified and will sort it out
>
> Hans
>

Thanks for your replies. The lm/gyre authors does not take care of the
fourier fonts, right? What does this mean if one wants to use the
fourier fonts?

/Micke P
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Re: [NTG-context] Too small { in the fourier font

2007-08-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Mikael Persson wrote:

> Thanks, but if I try that, I dont get the fourier fonts at all, but
> the lm ones (both home and at live.contextgarden.net).

Sorry, did not notice that using texnansi encoding with fourier 
switches to lm. Probably the result of a fallback.

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Re: [NTG-context] color expansion (not colo-new related)

2007-08-30 Thread Hans Hagen
Peter Rolf wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I tried to seperate some style specific code to external variables. Most
> things work so far, but the expansion of color causes me problems. I
> must emphasize that this is no colo-new problem, as my code fails with
> the old colo-ini too.
> 
> I have tried several things, but still no luck. What (expansion) magic
> is missing in my code? Any help is welcome.

\def\GetFGcolor#1#2#3#4#5{%
   \ifconditional\CondA
 \ifconditional\CondC#4%
 \else#5\fi
   \else
 \ifconditional\CondB#1%
 \else
   \ifconditional\CondC#2%
   \else#3\fi
 \fi
   \fi}

you introduce spaces

btw, often its easier to remap colors



\def\test{\color[whatever]{some color}}

\definecolor[whatever][green] test
\definecolor[whatever][red] test

or to use palets or ...


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Re: [NTG-context] Too small { in the fourier font

2007-08-30 Thread Hans Hagen
George N. White III wrote:
> On 8/30/07, Mikael Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Update:
>>
>> This seems to be a problem that is introduced after 20070403. I am
>> running that version at work (minimal installation on linux there
>> aswell), and there it looks OK with the fourier fonts.
> 
> There have been some major changes in font handling.   It turned out that
> the lm fonts didn't define a design size but apparently it didn't matter until
> quite recently, and then more recently a workaround was added.  I wouldn't
> be surprised to see the problem in other fonts either because they use lm
> for some glyphs or because they were created using the same toolchain.

indeed, the tex gyre fonts etc also suffer from this but in many cases 
they default to 10

the lm/gyre authors are notified and will sort it out

Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] Too small { in the fourier font

2007-08-30 Thread George N. White III
On 8/30/07, Mikael Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Update:
>
> This seems to be a problem that is introduced after 20070403. I am
> running that version at work (minimal installation on linux there
> aswell), and there it looks OK with the fourier fonts.

There have been some major changes in font handling.   It turned out that
the lm fonts didn't define a design size but apparently it didn't matter until
quite recently, and then more recently a workaround was added.  I wouldn't
be surprised to see the problem in other fonts either because they use lm
for some glyphs or because they were created using the same toolchain.

> Another problem is given by $\hat f$. In the older one it looks OK,
> but in the newer the hat is placed wrongly. New minimal example that
> shows both these problems:
>
> 
> \usetypescript[fourier][ec]
> \setupbodyfont[fourier,10pt]
>
> \starttext
> \startformula
> \hat f(x)=
> \startcases
> \NC 1 \MC x>0\NR
> \NC 0 \MC x<0\NR
> \stopcases
> \stopformula
> \stoptext
> 
>
> Any ideas? I don't want to switch back to ver 20070407 if it is not 
> necessary...

I'd try the latest version first.  Normally I have my systems
configured with a separate
texmf-cont tree that I link to cont-tmf- so I can very quickly
switch versions.


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[NTG-context] color expansion (not colo-new related)

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi all,

I tried to seperate some style specific code to external variables. Most
things work so far, but the expansion of color causes me problems. I
must emphasize that this is no colo-new problem, as my code fails with
the old colo-ini too.

I have tried several things, but still no luck. What (expansion) magic
is missing in my code? Any help is welcome.

Peter
\setupcolors[state=start]

\newconditional\CondA
\newconditional\CondB
\newconditional\CondC

% state dependend color
\def\GetFGcolor#1#2#3#4#5{%
  \ifconditional\CondA
\ifconditional\CondC#4
\else#5\fi
  \else
\ifconditional\CondB#1
\else
  \ifconditional\CondC#2
  \else#3\fi
\fi
  \fi}%


\starttext

%\settrue\CondA
%\settrue\CondB
\settrue\CondC

\setvariables[FOO][foregroundcolor=\GetFGcolor{red}{green}{blue}{lightgray}{darkgray}]

\color[red]{color} is working.

\edef\FGcolor{\getvariable{FOO}{foregroundcolor}}
%\edef\FGcolor{\GetFGcolor{red}{green}{blue}{lightgray}{darkgray}}
FGcolor=\FGcolor


foregroundcolor= \color[\FGcolor]{\getvariable{FOO}{foregroundcolor}}% no color 
here

\stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] Context replacement for bibitem

2007-08-30 Thread Peter Schorsch
Hi Wolfgang,

> Replace this line with
> 
> \expanded{\setupitemgroup[bibliography][1][n,
\currentmoduleparameter{itemspace}*broad]}

Unluckily that is not working :-( I also tried:

\setupitemgroup[bibliography][1][n
\expanded{\currentmoduleparameter{itemspace}}*broad]

and

\setupitemgroup[bibliography][1][n
\expandafter\currentmoduleparameter{itemspace}*broad]

In all three tries I didn't got any error-break but the pdf showed directly
that the lines were not accepted. 

I posted the right-this-state module into the wiki:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simple_Bibliography

The mulilingual-interface I will try later.. but right now I am stocked with
this and the other listed points :-(

I would be more than happy for any further hint :-)

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Re: [NTG-context] Too small { in the fourier font

2007-08-30 Thread Mikael Persson
Update:

This seems to be a problem that is introduced after 20070403. I am
running that version at work (minimal installation on linux there
aswell), and there it looks OK with the fourier fonts.

Another problem is given by $\hat f$. In the older one it looks OK,
but in the newer the hat is placed wrongly. New minimal example that
shows both these problems:


\usetypescript[fourier][ec]
\setupbodyfont[fourier,10pt]

\starttext
\startformula
\hat f(x)=
\startcases
\NC 1 \MC x>0\NR
\NC 0 \MC x<0\NR
\stopcases
\stopformula
\stoptext


Any ideas? I don't want to switch back to ver 20070407 if it is not necessary...

/Micke P

On 8/30/07, Mikael Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> when using the fourier font I get the wrong size of the opening { in
> the \startcases \stopcases environment. The following small example
> shows the problem and it fails both at my place and at
> http://live.contextgarden.net/
>
> 
> \usetypescript[fourier][ec]
> \setupbodyfont[fourier,10pt]
>
> \starttext
> \startformula
> f(x)=
> \startcases
> \NC 1 \MC x>0\NR
> \NC 0 \MC x<0\NR
> \stopcases
> \stopformula
> \stoptext
> 
>
> I run the minimal ConTeXt, from 8th of august:
> ConTeXt  ver: 2007.08.08 14:35 MKII  fmt: 2007.8.26  int: english/english
>
> Moreover, if I comment the first lines out above, the opening { is
> "stretched" correctly (in latin modern).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Best regards, Micke P
>
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Re: [NTG-context] page breaks and itemization

2007-08-30 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2007-08-30 um 11:30 schrieb Jörg Hagmann:

> Itemizations occur very often in my manuscript (typically
> [packed,joinedup]). I would like page breaking to occur when the  
> page is
> full, regardless of the number of lines left over on the next page (or
> the number of lines at the bottom of a page). At present, the gaps  
> left
> at the bottom of a page look ugly, especially when there is a footnote
> with its line above.
> \adaptlayout doesn't do anything
>
> Is there a way to setup this behaviour (without affecting pagebreaking
> outsitde itemizations)?

Normally yoou influence pagebreaking with \setuptolerance, or plain  
TeX style with setting the appropriate penalties.
I don't know if it would work to set club and widow penalty to a very  
low value inside of the itemization (setup "before" or the like). (Is  
this setting always global or does it work locally?)

\setuptolerance [{horizontal, verytolerant},{vertical, verystrict}]
%\clubpenalty=8000  % no clubs / keine Schusterjungen
%\widowpenalty=8000 % no widows / keine Hurenkinder
%\tolerance=1750% line breaking tolerance (ca. 500--3000)
%\emergencystretch=10 pt% additional stretching space per line


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Re: [NTG-context] Too small { in the fourier font

2007-08-30 Thread George N. White III
On 8/30/07, Mikael Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> when using the fourier font I get the wrong size of the opening { in
> the \startcases \stopcases environment. The following small example
> shows the problem and it fails both at my place and at
> http://live.contextgarden.net/

I wonder if this is the missing design size in lm fonts problem.   Using
ConTeXt ver: 2007.08.23 the sizes look OK for me.

>
> 
> \usetypescript[fourier][ec]
> \setupbodyfont[fourier,10pt]
>
> \starttext
> \startformula
> f(x)=
> \startcases
> \NC 1 \MC x>0\NR
> \NC 0 \MC x<0\NR
> \stopcases
> \stopformula
> \stoptext
> 
>
> I run the minimal ConTeXt, from 8th of august:
> ConTeXt  ver: 2007.08.08 14:35 MKII  fmt: 2007.8.26  int: english/english
>
> Moreover, if I comment the first lines out above, the opening { is
> "stretched" correctly (in latin modern).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Best regards, Micke P
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Re: [NTG-context] Too small { in the fourier font

2007-08-30 Thread Mikael Persson
Thanks, but if I try that, I dont get the fourier fonts at all, but
the lm ones (both home and at live.contextgarden.net).

Best regards, Micke P

On 8/30/07, Aditya Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Mikael Persson wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > when using the fourier font I get the wrong size of the opening { in
> > the \startcases \stopcases environment. The following small example
> > shows the problem and it fails both at my place and at
> > http://live.contextgarden.net/
>
> An easy workaround, use texnasi encoding :-)
>
> \usetypescript[fourier][texnansi]
>
> Maybe a bug somewhere, but math fonts are like a black box to me.
>
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Re: [NTG-context] Too small { in the fourier font

2007-08-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Mikael Persson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> when using the fourier font I get the wrong size of the opening { in
> the \startcases \stopcases environment. The following small example
> shows the problem and it fails both at my place and at
> http://live.contextgarden.net/

An easy workaround, use texnasi encoding :-)

\usetypescript[fourier][texnansi]

Maybe a bug somewhere, but math fonts are like a black box to me.

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[NTG-context] Too small { in the fourier font

2007-08-30 Thread Mikael Persson
Hi all,

when using the fourier font I get the wrong size of the opening { in
the \startcases \stopcases environment. The following small example
shows the problem and it fails both at my place and at
http://live.contextgarden.net/


\usetypescript[fourier][ec]
\setupbodyfont[fourier,10pt]

\starttext
\startformula
f(x)=
\startcases
\NC 1 \MC x>0\NR
\NC 0 \MC x<0\NR
\stopcases
\stopformula
\stoptext


I run the minimal ConTeXt, from 8th of august:
ConTeXt  ver: 2007.08.08 14:35 MKII  fmt: 2007.8.26  int: english/english

Moreover, if I comment the first lines out above, the opening { is
"stretched" correctly (in latin modern).

Any ideas?

Best regards, Micke P
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Re: [NTG-context] OT: typo-fun

2007-08-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, frantisek holop wrote:

> hmm, on Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:37:02PM +0200, Hans Hagen said that
>> frantisek holop wrote:
>>> hi there,
>>>
>>> is it possible to achieve this somehow?:
>>> http://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/404-2/book.png
>
> i am sorry, i wasn't specific enough.
>
> what i meant was, to have a book in context, any book,
> check if we are on page 404, output the joke, continue
> normally.

Wolfgang's solution does exactly that. \startpostponing[404] will put 
the material on page 404.

Aditya

>> \starttext
>>
>> \dorecurse{100}{\input tufte \par}
>>
>> \startpostponing
>> \vbox to \vsize \bgroup \vfill
>>  \definedfont[Serif at 40pt] \setupinterlinespace
>>  \raggedleft Who Took \endgraf This Page? \par
>> \vfill \egroup
>> \stoppostponing
>>
>> \dorecurse{100}{\input linden \par}
>>
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Re: [NTG-context] A sometxt bug (rather misfeature)

2007-08-30 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Hans Hagen wrote:

> picture p ; p := label(\sometxt{True}, origin) ;
> if test then
>   draw p ;
> fi ;
> label(\sometxt{False}, (10,10)) ;

Much cleaner. Thanks.

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Re: [NTG-context] OT: typo-fun

2007-08-30 Thread frantisek holop
hmm, on Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:37:02PM +0200, Hans Hagen said that
> frantisek holop wrote:
> > hi there,
> > 
> > is it possible to achieve this somehow?:
> > http://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/404-2/book.png

i am sorry, i wasn't specific enough.

what i meant was, to have a book in context, any book,
check if we are on page 404, output the joke, continue
normally.

> \starttext
> 
> \dorecurse{100}{\input tufte \par}
> 
> \startpostponing
> \vbox to \vsize \bgroup \vfill
>  \definedfont[Serif at 40pt] \setupinterlinespace
>  \raggedleft Who Took \endgraf This Page? \par
> \vfill \egroup
> \stoppostponing
> 
> \dorecurse{100}{\input linden \par}
> 
> \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] OT: typo-fun

2007-08-30 Thread Hans Hagen
frantisek holop wrote:
> hi there,
> 
> is it possible to achieve this somehow?:
> http://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/404-2/book.png
> 
> :)

\starttext

\dorecurse{100}{\input tufte \par}

\startpostponing
\vbox to \vsize \bgroup \vfill
 \definedfont[Serif at 40pt] \setupinterlinespace
 \raggedleft Who Took \endgraf This Page? \par
\vfill \egroup
\stoppostponing

\dorecurse{100}{\input linden \par}

\stoptext


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Re: [NTG-context] OT: typo-fun

2007-08-30 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
2007/8/30, frantisek holop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> hi there,
>
> is it possible to achieve this somehow?:
> http://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/404-2/book.png

\starttext

\startpostponing[404]
\startstandardmakeup[align=left]
The page\crlf
cannot be found
\stopstandardmakeup
\stoppostponing

\dorecurse{420}{\dontleavehmode\page}

\stoptext

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[NTG-context] OT: typo-fun

2007-08-30 Thread frantisek holop
hi there,

is it possible to achieve this somehow?:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/404-2/book.png

:)

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[NTG-context] balancing columns (solved)/ page breaks and itemization (new)

2007-08-30 Thread Jörg Hagmann
Balancing columns: Since the problem occurred twice only, I adopted 
Wolfgangs solution. Thanks Hraban and Wolfgang!

Another problem:
Itemizations occur very often in my manuscript (typically 
[packed,joinedup]). I would like page breaking to occur when the page is 
full, regardless of the number of lines left over on the next page (or 
the number of lines at the bottom of a page). At present, the gaps left 
at the bottom of a page look ugly, especially when there is a footnote 
with its line above.
\adaptlayout doesn't do anything

Is there a way to setup this behaviour (without affecting pagebreaking 
outsitde itemizations)?

Thanks, Jörg

Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 2007/8/29, Henning Hraban Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>   
>> Am 2007-08-29 um 15:53 schrieb Jörg Hagmann:
>>
>> 
>>> In the following minimal example, the left column contains 5, the
>>> right
>>> one 3 lines. I tried \column to get 4 + 4, but it didn't work
>>>   
>> The columns features are broken for a long time now, esp. with stuff
>> like \startlines, \starttabulate etc.
>>
>> Maybe you could try column sets. I resolved to tables for my lead
>> sheets (ugly code, like old HTML).
>>
>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Columns
>>
>> Greetlings from Lake Constance!
>> Hraban
>> 
>
> Hi,
>
> if he has this problem only at one place and has no time he could
> use TeX's halign primitive because this did still work.
>
> It is also easy to write a simple wrapper around this this emulate
> ConTeXt's table syntax.
>
> \starttext
>
> \startcolumns[rule=on]
> \halign{\strut#\quad&\hfil#\cr
> one: & text \cr
> two: & text \cr
> three: & text \cr
> four: & text \cr
> five: & text \cr
> six: & text \cr
> seven: & text \cr
> eight: & text \cr}
> \stopcolumns
>
> \stoptext
>
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Re: [NTG-context] itemize start=2

2007-08-30 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 8/29/07, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
> > > how can I start an itemization with 2
> > >
> > > I have tried snippets like
> > >
> > > \setupitemgroup[[itemize][start=2]
> > > \startitemize[n]
> > > \item zwei
> > > \item drei
> > > \stopitemize
> > >
> > > but could'nt found a solution.

It looks like a misfeature (ie. bug) to me.

> But two questions remain:
>
> 1) I am wondering, how you find such answers. What is your strategie
> searching the sources?
> 2) What is that existing option 'start' for? Take this as an example
> for question 1).

As far as I can see, 'start' currently serves no purpose since it gets
overridden in line 447 in
\expanded{\setitemparameter{\itemlevel}{\c!start}{1}}%
in core-itm.tex anyway. Try to comment out that line.

The next problem lies a few lines below:

 \doifelsenothing{\getitemparameter\itemlevel\c!start}
   {\def\currentitemoffset{1}}
   {\def\currentitemoffset{\getitemparameter\itemlevel\c!start}%
\letitemparameter\itemlevel\c!start\empty}%

You need to say \edef instead of \def, otherwise the empty value will
be used for calculating \currentitemoffset.

How to search? It's difficult to tell, but in this particular case,
you take a look into core-itm.tex (assuming you know where
itemizations are. If you don't, you can execute "grep \setupitem *" in
tex/context/base/.) Then, you search for \c!start and try to figure
out where it is used. You find \setitemlevel. OK, great. What does it
do there? It's supposed to change \currentitemoffset. If you want to
check \currentitemoffset, you simply place
(my debug: \currentitemoffset)
at the end of \setitemlevel. Now, you either need to copy that
definition on the top of your document (which will override the global
one), or remake the formats with "texexec --make en" before running
texexec on your document again. You will get some extra info on top of
your itemization. It doesn't belong there, but you will remove it
afterwards. (Did I forget to say that it might be wise to make a bacup
of the original file?) Now when you remade the formats (or placed the
definition on top of your file or to cont-new.tex) and compiled the
document again, take a look at the result.

Oh, well, you only get (my debug: ). \currentitemoffset seems to be
empty. Then try to put
 (I wanted to have: \getitemparameter\itemlevel\c!start)
somewhere at the beginning of \setitemlevel, somewhere inbetween
(after \expandex{...}) and somewhere at the end. It works at the
beginning, then it gets reset to 1, and then it gets deleted.
 And they you try to figure out why.

Btw: the two modifications mentioned above don't solve the problem
yet, since you now have a problem with offset +1 (I remember a bug
report from not so long ago, when itemizations started with 0, so that
might be related). But I would better leave that for Hans.
Itemizations are so complex that I don't dare to touch anything there.

Mojca
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