[NTG-context] contextgarden down
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Re: [NTG-context] Compilation problem with latest beta
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
On 21-2-2011 1:16, Michael Goerz wrote:
It seems that the \Lower macro is no longer available. Is there a
suitable replacement?
it's not coming back as it was part of the TaBlE package and not part of
context core code
it look like you want {\blank{\bf ...}} behaviour
Great, compilation now works with the latest beta.
Thanks so much!
Michael
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[NTG-context] Switchting between betas
Hi everyone, I've been using ConTeXt (MKIV) through TeXLive 2010 until now, but wanted to try to use the Minimals installation. The installation went fine, but the latest beta version was not able to compile my document (I'll be posting about that separately). What I'm confused about is this: Does only the beta-version have MkIV/LuaTeX support? It seems that I cannot make the MKIV format if I install one of the dated versions: goerz@ophelia:~/context ./first-setup.sh --context=2010.07.30 [ ... ] goerz@ophelia:~/context mtxrun --selfupdate MTXrun | forcing cache reload MTXrun | resolvers: loading configuration file '/Users/goerz/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' MTXrun | resolvers MTXrun | resolvers MTXrun | resolvers MTXrun | the resolver databases are not present or outdated MTXrun | resolvers: to be replaced old script /Users/goerz/context/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua' MTXrun | resolvers: unable to locate new script Is there a way of getting a version of minimals that has MKIV and is equivalent to the TeXLive 2010 installation, so that I can compile my document? More generally, is there a way to switch to the beta version of a specific date? Considering that new betas might break the compilation of existing documents, there would have to be a way for me to tell people compile this document with version -- even if it's just a specific revision number. Otherwise, there wouldn't be any reproducible way of compiling documents. Thanks, Michael Goerz ___ 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] Compilation problem with latest beta
Hi everyone,
I was compiling a document with the version of ConTeXt that comes with
TeXLive 2010, and now tried to compile it the latest beta of the
Minimals installation. The compilations fails with the following error:
[...]
pagesflushing realpage 6, userpage 1
pagesflushing realpage 7, userpage 1
)
system end file vol_vii_3/frontmatter at line 14
pagesflushing realpage 8, userpage 1
! Missing control sequence inserted.
system tex error on line 11 in file
vol_vii_3/vol_vii_3.tex: Missing control sequence inserted ...
1 %\overfullrule5\points % show overfull boxes
2 \startproduct vol_vii_3/vol_vii_3
3 \project project
4
5 \enablemode[doublesided]
6
7 %\showframe % show the layout boxes on each page
8
9 \startfrontmatter
10 \setupheadertexts[{}][{}][{}][{}]
11
12 \setuppagenumbering[state=stop]
13
14 \component vol_vii_3/frontmatter
15
16 \page[yes, odd]
17
18 { % ToC
19 \IJDEvol{Summer 2011}{Volume VII.3}
20 \FMTitle{Contents}
21 \blank[big]
inserted text
\inaccessible
to be read again
{
\currentconvertfont ...tchtobodyfont [14pt]\edef {
smallcaps}\attribute \zero...
\dosetfontattribute ...me #1#2\@EA \endcsname \fi
\empty
\dosetlistattributes ...bute \fontattributehash #1
\fi \ifx
\colorattributeha...
argument ...setlistattributes \c!style \c!color
\!!widthb \hsize
\doifelse...
...
l.23 \page
[left]
?
I have absolutely no clue what the error message is trying to tell me,
or how to go about making the document compile. Does anyone have any
suggestions?
Thanks,
Michael Goerz
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Re: [NTG-context] Compilation problem with latest beta
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 20.02.2011 um 21:44 schrieb Michael Goerz:
Hi everyone,
I was compiling a document with the version of ConTeXt that comes with
TeXLive 2010, and now tried to compile it the latest beta of the
Minimals installation. The compilations fails with the following error:
The problem should be somewhere here:
18 { % ToC
19 \IJDEvol{Summer 2011}{Volume VII.3}
20 \FMTitle{Contents}
21 \blank[big]
I have absolutely no clue what the error message is trying to tell me,
or how to go about making the document compile. Does anyone have any
suggestions?
Can you comment the part where you insert the table of contents
in your document, something fails here but it’s not able to tell
what from your example.
Indeed, it has something to do with the Table of Contents. The
\placecontent is already enough to produce the error, but only in
combination with the definitions in my env.tex file. If I don't place
the TOC, or don't load my env settings, the documents compiles.
Can you make a minimal example or send me the files off list.
I've attached the files for a minimal example:
.
|-- env.tex
|-- project.tex
`-- vol_vii_3
`-- vol_vii_3.tex
Thanks,
Michael
env.tex
Description: TeX document
project.tex
Description: TeX document
vol_vii_3.tex
Description: TeX document
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Re: [NTG-context] Compilation problem with latest beta
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 20.02.2011 um 22:52 schrieb Michael Goerz:
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
Can you comment the part where you insert the table of contents
in your document, something fails here but it’s not able to tell
what from your example.
Indeed, it has something to do with the Table of Contents. The
\placecontent is already enough to produce the error, but only in
combination with the definitions in my env.tex file. If I don't place
the TOC, or don't load my env settings, the documents compiles.
Change these defintions from \def to \unexpanded\def
% Font Features Macros
\def\orn{\setfontfeature{ornaments}}
\def\itsw{\setfontfeature{swash}\it}
\def\sw{\setfontfeature{swash}}
\def\smcp{\setfontfeature{smallcaps}}
\def\lnfigures{\setfontfeature{lining}}
\def\tabfigures{\addfontfeaturetofont{tabular}}
\def\lntabfigures{\setfontfeature{tabular}}
Indeed, that works perfectly.
However, there's another problem now, going beyond my minimal example.
The following macro that I have in env.tex no longer works in the
latest beta:
\def\TocAuthors#1{\writebetweenlist[chapter]{\Lower(1cm){\bf #1}}{}}
It seems that the \Lower macro is no longer available. Is there a
suitable replacement?
To reproduce this in the minimal example, I've added a file
vol_vii_3/articles with the following content:
\startcomponent bla
\product vol_vii_3/vol_vii_3
\project project
\TocAuthors{Me}
\chapter{Some Title}
bla
and added it in vol_vii_3.tex:
[...]
\startbodymatter
\part{bla}
\component vol_vii_3/articles/bla
[...]
Thanks,
Michael Goerz
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Re: [NTG-context] linebreak in part title
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 09.11.2010 um 00:30 schrieb Michael Goerz:
I want part titles to appear on the own (empty) page, centered
horizontally and vertically, and in small caps. To this end, I've set
up the \part command as [...]
\definefont[PartStyle][Caps sa 1]
\setuphead
[part]
[placehead=yes,
number=no,
before={\startstandardmakeup[align={middle,lohi}]},
after=\stopstandardmakeup,
style=PartStyle,
%align=middle,
%page={yes,header,footer,right},
%header=high,
%footer=high,
prefix=no]
Works great! I ended up with
\definefont[PartStyle][Caps sa 1]
\definepagebreak
[mychapterpagebreak]
[yes,header,right]
\setuphead[part]
[placehead=yes,
page=mychapterpagebreak,
number=no,
before={\startstandardmakeup[align={middle,lohi}]\switchtobodyfont[18pt]},
after=\stopstandardmakeup,
style=PartStyle,
align=middle,
prefix=no]
The only things I had to add were the mychapterpagebreak, which makes
sure the (left) page before the part title is empty, and the fontsize.
Thanks!
Michael
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[NTG-context] linebreak in part title
Hi everyone,
I want part titles to appear on the own (empty) page, centered
horizontally and vertically, and in small caps. To this end, I've set
up the \part command as
\def\Partcommand#1#2{\centerline{\smcp #2}}
\setuphead[part][
placehead=yes,
number=no,
page=mychapterpagebreak,
header=high,
footer=high,
before={\hbox{}\vfill},
command=\Partcommand,
after={\vfill},
prefix=no,
]
However, this does not seem to allow line breaks in a part title,
which is a problem with very long titles, e.g.
\part{Perspectives on Decision Ethics from the USA, Russian
Federation, Egypt, and the Czech Republic}
Is there any way to get a line break on the part page?
I should note that in the TOC, the part title is broken properly, and
also observes \crlf.
Thanks,
Michael
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Re: [NTG-context] linebreak in part title
Hi Michael!
Thanks for your answer!
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Michael Murphy
michael.mur...@uni-ulm.de wrote:
On 09/11/2010 00:30, Michael Goerz wrote:
Hi everyone,
I want part titles to appear on the own (empty) page, centered
horizontally and vertically, and in small caps. To this end, I've set
up the \part command as
\def\Partcommand#1#2{\centerline{\smcp #2}}
\setuphead[part][
placehead=yes,
number=no,
page=mychapterpagebreak,
header=high,
footer=high,
before={\hbox{}\vfill},
command=\Partcommand,
after={\vfill},
prefix=no,
]
The problem is that \centerline puts things in a hbox, which won't break
across lines.
That's probably right... just removing centerline doesn't lead to
linebreaks, however
The solution below might not be the most ConTeXt-y way, but is
perhaps the TeX way:
\def\raggedcenter{%
\hyphenpenalty=1 % no hyphenation
\parindent=0pt \rightskip0pt plus1em % add stretchy glue to left
\leftskip0pt plus1em % and right
\spaceskip.em \xspaceskip.5em \parfillskip=0pt % reg. word spacing
\hbadness=1 % Last line will usually be underfull, so turn off
% badness reporting.
}
\def\Partcommand#1#2{{\raggedcenter\smcp #2}}
\setuphead[part][
placehead=yes,
number=no,
page=mychapterpagebreak,
header=high,
footer=high,
before={\hbox{}\vfill},
command=\Partcommand,
after={\vfill},
prefix=no,
]
Hmm... that doesn't seem to do linebreaks. It shifts the part title a
bit horizontally. It also does weird things to some my *chapter* titles
(add a large space after the first word), which is configured as
\setuphead[chapter][
page=mychapterpagebreak,
number=no,
alternative=c,
align={center, nothyphenated, verytolerant},
style={\switchtobodyfont[16pt]},
header=high,
footer=chapterpage,
]
WTF? Very very strange!
Michael
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[NTG-context] fitting page around content
Hi Everyone!
is there a way to tell ConTeXt to fit the page tightly around the
content? In LaTeX, I can do this with
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
The purpose is to create a standalone tikz figure of potentially
unknown size.
Thanks,
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Re: [NTG-context] fitting page around content
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz
thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote:
On Oct 4, 2010, at 7:57 PM, Michael Goerz wrote:
is there a way to tell ConTeXt to fit the page tightly around the
content? In LaTeX, I can do this with
\usepackage[active,tightpage]{preview}
The purpose is to create a standalone tikz figure of potentially
unknown size.
I have no idea what the LaTeX code does, but from your description,
this sounds like what you're looking for:
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20100307.022718.c28f4594.en.html
Yes! Perfect! Thanks!
Michael
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[NTG-context] hoffset and voffset have no effect
Hi everyone, I cannot see any effect when using voffset and hoffset as a parameter for \startstandardmakeup. For example: \startstandardmakeup[headerstate=none, footerstate=none, hoffset=1in, hoffset=1in, width=4in, height=7.0in] ... \stopstandardmakeup I'd expect them to shift the page content up and to the right, respectively. This is guessing from their name: I actually cannot find any documentation on these parameters. Am I missing something? Thanks, Michael ___ 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] varying headers, footers, page numbers
Hi,
I'm trying to create a book where the front matter has no
headers/footers, except roman numeral page numbers at the top outside of the
page. The main matter should have Arabic numeral page numbers
(restarting with '1') at the top outside of each page, plus the name of
the book in the header of each even page and the name of the chapter in
the header of each odd page, with no footer. However, on the pages
where a new chapter starts (which is set to always be an odd page),
there should be no header, and the page number should appear centered
at the bottom of the page.
I'm quite confused about how to achieve this in ConTeXt.
An excerpt from the project structure is
./env.tex
./project.tex
./book/book.tex
./book/chapters/chapter1.tex
The following is a shortened excerpt from book.tex:
\startfrontmatter
\setuppagenumbering[state=stop] % nothing for now, should be roman page
% numbers later
\component book/frontmatter
% ToC ...
\stopfrontmatter
\startbodymatter
\setuppagenumber[number=1]
\setupheadertexts
[{Name of Chapter}] [{}]
[{}] [{Name of Book}]
\setuppagenumbering[
alternative=doublesided, % mirrored even/odd pages
location={header,margin},
style=small]
\component vol04_1/articles/azimov
\stopbodymatter
This leads to my first question: I generally try to keep all formatting
definitions in env.tex. However, it seems to me that since I want to have
different settings in the frontmatter compared to the mainmatter, I need to put
the \setuppagenumbering and \setupheadertexts in book.tex, which slightly
bothers me. The way I intuitively feel it should work is that I would define
various headertexts and pagenumberings under some label in env.tex, and then
activate the different configurations in book.tex via that label. Is there
anything in ConTeXt that I may have overlooked that makes something like that
(centrally defining several alternative header/footer/pagenumber
configurations) possible?
Next, the problem of having a different header/footer/pagenumber on pages where
a new chapter starts. In env.tex, I have
\setuphead[chapter][
page=mychapterpagebreak,
number=no,
alternative=c,
align={center, nothyphenated, verytolerant},
style={\switchtobodyfont[16pt]},
header=high,
footer=none,
]
This causes the chapter pages to have no header/footer/pagenumber at all, which
is halfway what I want. But actually, I don't really understands why that works
either. My understanding is that header=high means there should be no header
on the first page and the normal header on all subsequent pages. The way I've
set it up though, the page number is not really part of the header (it's
separately set up through \setuppagenumbering). So why does the page number
disappear as well? And, of course, the main question: How do I get the page
number centered in the bottom of that page? Again, I feel if there was some way
to define different configurations for the header/footer/pagenumbers under
different labels, e.g. a label 'chapterfooter', it would then make sense to do
something like 'footer=chapterfooter', instead of 'footer=none'. But I guess
that's not the way it works -- so how *does* it work?
Thanks,
Michael
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Re: [NTG-context] varying headers, footers, page numbers
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Michael Goerz
go...@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote:
I'm trying to create a book where the front matter has no
headers/footers, except roman numeral page numbers at the top outside of the
page. The main matter should have Arabic numeral page numbers
(restarting with '1') at the top outside of each page, plus the name of
the book in the header of each even page and the name of the chapter in
the header of each odd page, with no footer. However, on the pages
where a new chapter starts (which is set to always be an odd page),
there should be no header, and the page number should appear centered
at the bottom of the page.
I'm quite confused about how to achieve this in ConTeXt.
An excerpt from the project structure is
./env.tex
./project.tex
./book/book.tex
./book/chapters/chapter1.tex
The following is a shortened excerpt from book.tex:
\startfrontmatter
\setuppagenumbering[state=stop] % nothing for now, should be roman page
% numbers later
\component book/frontmatter
% ToC ...
\stopfrontmatter
\startbodymatter
\setuppagenumber[number=1]
\setupheadertexts
[{Name of Chapter}] [{}]
[{}] [{Name of Book}]
\setuppagenumbering[
alternative=doublesided, % mirrored even/odd pages
location={header,margin},
style=small]
\component vol04_1/articles/azimov
\stopbodymatter
This leads to my first question: I generally try to keep all formatting
definitions in env.tex. However, it seems to me that since I want to have
different settings in the frontmatter compared to the mainmatter, I need to
put
the \setuppagenumbering and \setupheadertexts in book.tex, which slightly
bothers me. The way I intuitively feel it should work is that I would define
various headertexts and pagenumberings under some label in env.tex, and then
activate the different configurations in book.tex via that label. Is there
anything in ConTeXt that I may have overlooked that makes something like that
(centrally defining several alternative header/footer/pagenumber
configurations) possible?
Next, the problem of having a different header/footer/pagenumber on pages
where
a new chapter starts. In env.tex, I have
\setuphead[chapter][
page=mychapterpagebreak,
number=no,
alternative=c,
align={center, nothyphenated, verytolerant},
style={\switchtobodyfont[16pt]},
header=high,
footer=none,
]
This causes the chapter pages to have no header/footer/pagenumber at all,
which
is halfway what I want. But actually, I don't really understands why that
works
either. My understanding is that header=high means there should be no header
on the first page and the normal header on all subsequent pages. The way I've
set it up though, the page number is not really part of the header (it's
separately set up through \setuppagenumbering). So why does the page number
disappear as well? And, of course, the main question: How do I get the page
number centered in the bottom of that page? Again, I feel if there was some
way
to define different configurations for the header/footer/pagenumbers under
different labels, e.g. a label 'chapterfooter', it would then make sense to do
something like 'footer=chapterfooter', instead of 'footer=none'. But I guess
that's not the way it works -- so how *does* it work?
Digging deeper in the reference manual, it seems that
\definetext[chapter][footer][pagenumber]
together with
\setuphead[chapter][
page=mychapterpagebreak,
number=no,
alternative=c,
align={center, nothyphenated, verytolerant},
style={\switchtobodyfont[16pt]},
header=high,
footer=chapter,
]
is the answer.
Do I understand it correctly that
\definetext[chapter][footer]...
is exactly the same as
\setupfootertext...
but with the extra label chapter? So that would be exactly what my
intuition said should exist.
Can I only use the chapter label inside of \setuphead, like in the
above example, or could I also somehow use \definetext to setup
different headers/footers for the frontmatter/mainmatter, for example?
Thanks,
Michael
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[NTG-context] associating setuptex.bat with cmd shortcut
Hi everyone, at the end of the context essentials installation on Windows, it says When you want to use context, you need to initialize the tree with: C:\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\context\tex You can associate this command with a shortcut to the cmd prompt. What does that mean, and how do I do that (associating the command with a shortcut to cmd)? Sorry, haven't had to do anything serious on Windows for years... Thanks, Michael ___ 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] associating setuptex.bat with cmd shortcut
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Vnpenguin vnpeng...@vnoss.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 19:52, Michael Goerz go...@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote: at the end of the context essentials installation on Windows, it says When you want to use context, you need to initialize the tree with: C:\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\context\tex You can associate this command with a shortcut to the cmd prompt. What does that mean, and how do I do that (associating the command with a shortcut to cmd)? I have a shortcut of cmd.exe on my desktop (WinXP) and I add after cmd.exe like following : C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /K C:\context\tex\setuptex.bat Ah, it's the /K switch that I wasn't aware of. Thanks so much! Michael ___ 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] horizontal alignment
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Michael Murphy
michael.mur...@uni-ulm.de wrote:
On 09/07/10 01:32, Michael Goerz wrote:
I'm trying to do some horizontal alignment, for typesetting poetry.
How would you solve this kind of problem? I've considered defining a
macro \BrokenLine[line1][line2] that does the above. But, there are
also instances where there are two or more lines as a continuation of
one previous line. Maybe there is a possibility to mark a horizontal
position temporarily, and then jump to that position later?
Anyway, this is a crappy solution and you could probably make it better. As
far as I'm aware, there is no way to get the current horizontal position
across the page at any particular moment. The method below essentially just
measures the length of the line that you want to enter, and sets this as the
indent.
\dimendef\indentl=10
\def\savewidth#1{%
\setbox0=\hbox{#1}%
\copy0%
\indentl=\wd0%
}
\def\addtosavewidth#1{%
\setbox0=\hbox{#1}%
\mindent\copy0%
\advance\indentl by \wd0%
}
\def\mindent{\hskip\indentl}
Thanks, Michael, that works great!
Just out of interest: why does \savewidth create a newline
if there's more text on the same line,
(like this:
\savewidth{start of line} and some more text
)
while \addtosavewidth does not? The difference is the \hskip in front
of the \copy0%; if I add \hskip0pt in front of the the \copy in
\savewidth, there's also no newline -- but how does that make sense?
Michael
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[NTG-context] horizontal alignment
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to do some horizontal alignment, for typesetting poetry.
There are lines that are continuations of the previous line, and should
be aligned to the end of that previous line. Currently, I'm doing this
by using \phantom text, which for some reason I also have to wrap into
an \mbox to avoid a line break. As an example:
\startlines
here we now see you ~~ already in grief
as you see ~~ yourselves ~~ as the last of the lasts
we are mirrors of your consciousness
\mbox{\phantom{we are mirrors of your consciousness} as you see the end}
and you see us ~~ deep in the spring of the universe
seeing you deep ~~ in the gravity well of the heat death
we are dying ~~ in the spring as we watch you die
we are grieving in the spring as you begin to grieve for all
we are talking about bone-dry at the bottom of the well of time
we are already parched
\mbox{\phantom{we are already parched} for time is transparent}
and we are all rats in the glassy
\mbox{\phantom{and we are all rats in the glassy} labyrinth of time.
\stoplines
How would you solve this kind of problem? I've considered defining a
macro \BrokenLine[line1][line2] that does the above. But, there are
also instances where there are two or more lines as a continuation of
one previous line. Maybe there is a possibility to mark a horizontal
position temporarily, and then jump to that position later?
Thanks,
Michael
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