Re: [NTG-context] Using *fleurons*
Francisco Gracia 11. November 2013 22:40 Thanks for your contributions.You are right in your remark about the path to images, Wolfgang. I was not using any\setupexternalfigure[location=default] instruction. With your formulations the figure is recovered without problem.Unfortunately the results of your rewrite of the macro are not so satisfactory. Surely it is more *ConTeXt*ual than mine but it fails to fulfill the main purpose of the exercice: it happily prints fleurons in blank pages, as running your tests with 6 lines demonstrates. In such a circumstance it should produce just two pages with six lines each, whereas it outputs 4 pages, the two additional ones containing only ornaments. I haven’t spent much time to check my code but its main point wa to show you a way how to write your own code in a more compact and efficient way. 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 ___
[NTG-context] Using *fleurons*
Thanks for your contributions. You are right in your remark about the path to images, Wolfgang. I was not using any \setupexternalfigure[location=default] instruction. With your formulations the figure is recovered without problem. Unfortunately the results of your rewrite of the macro are not so satisfactory. Surely it is more *ConTeXt*ual than mine but it fails to fulfill the main purpose of the exercice: it happily prints fleurons in blank pages, as running your tests with 6 lines demonstrates. In such a circumstance it should produce just two pages with six lines each, whereas it outputs 4 pages, the two additional ones containing only ornaments. Your suggestion, Bill, of using special decorative fonts will be a good source of artistic material for the construction of alphabetically based motives by artistically inclined future users of the code, as the elaboration of the motives rests completely in their hands. The ones provided are mere demonstration samples. Regards Fancisco ___ 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] Using *fleurons*
Bill Meahan
11. November 2013
18:51
The following has worked quite well for me. I hate using a centered
"* *
*" for a thematic break so I use a fleuron. I write fiction, not
math-filled academic-journal articles or textbooks so this may not be
applicable in your case.
First, I use one of many available "dingbat" fonts to provide the
fleuron. I am partial to the curly-ques in Nymphette (a
readily-available free font) but there are many others.
In my preamble I define:
\definefont[FleuronFont] [nymphette sa 1.5]
Then where I want to place a fleuron I can do something like this.
\midaligned{{\MedBlue \FleuronFont g}}
In this case, the text letter 'g' corresponds to the particular
little
symbol I want.
YMMV
Take a look at the fancybreak module:
http://modules.contextgarden.net/dl/t-fancybreak/doc/context/third/fancybreak/fancybreak-doc.pdf
Wolfgang
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Re: [NTG-context] Using *fleurons*
On 11/10/2013 10:12 AM, Francisco Gracia wrote:
*Fleurons* are small decorative pieces that were often used in the
past for filling big blank spaces in books. They are seldom used
nowdays. As besides they will not appear more than a few times in any
book (mainly at the end of chapters), the easiest thing to do if one
insists in using them (for instance for simulating an old edition of
some past work) is to arrange its presence manually in the source
document in the way one would do for any other figure or piece of text.
The following has worked quite well for me. I hate using a centered "* *
*" for a thematic break so I use a fleuron. I write fiction, not
math-filled academic-journal articles or textbooks so this may not be
applicable in your case.
First, I use one of many available "dingbat" fonts to provide the
fleuron. I am partial to the curly-ques in Nymphette (a
readily-available free font) but there are many others.
In my preamble I define:
\definefont[FleuronFont] [nymphette sa 1.5]
Then where I want to place a fleuron I can do something like this.
\midaligned{{\MedBlue \FleuronFont g}}
In this case, the text letter 'g' corresponds to the particular little
symbol I want.
YMMV
--
Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan
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commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”
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Re: [NTG-context] Using *fleurons*
Francisco Gracia
10. November 2013
16:12
*Fleurons* are small decorative pieces that were often used in
the past for filling big blank spaces in books. They are seldom used
nowdays. As besides they will not appear more than a few times in any
book (mainly at the end of chapters), the easiest thing to do if one
insists in using them (for instance for simulating an old edition of
some past work) is to arrange its presence manually in the source
document in the way one would do for any other figure or piece of text.
I subscribe to this, which is without doubt the way to proceed if
the original document will allways be typesett in the same way. But if
it were an extensive work and one foresees different layouts for its
appearence as different *products*, then one would have one more source
of worries after every run of the work through *Context*, as you can bet
that sooner than later one page will have been included somewhere whose
only content will be the damned *fleuron*, something that obviously
should not happen.
This is the problem that I tackled, because I did not find any
previous reference or solution to it. My reasoning, my explanations and
the working code are all contained in the rest of this message.It
is conceived as being composed of two parts, but it can also be saved
and dealt as one piece. If one saves it as two independent files (as
should be done if one intends to use it for any other thing that running
the tests samples) the content of the first file will be the one
delimited as *Fleuron.tex* and that of the second (*Fleuron_test.tex*)
would be the rest of the message. The line of this second file
% \input {Fleuron}should be uncommented if one intends
to run it as such. The one file version runs as it is.The script
creates the new command *\Fleuron{\}*, which is the
one to include at the place intended in the source document for the
*fleuron* to appear (of course after having incorporated the contents of
*Fleuron.tex* in its preamble with *\input{Fleuron}*). The argument
** allows the selection of a specific motive among
the several of them that could be available; the user can create and
organize all this according to his wishes. For instance
*\Fleuron{\MotiveFive}* would use the example labelled *\MotiveFive* in
the group of examples provided. The comments in *Fleuron.tex* explain
how to handle all this.
Enjoy and critiziceFrancisco%
Fleuron.tex% Script that explains and implements in *ConTeXt* Mk-IV
the kind of small ornaments% traditionally used by printers for
filling big blank spaces in books and printed works.
%*Fleuron*: subst. masc. 2b) Élément décoratif de fantaisie ornant
le titre ou les blancs des principales divisions d'un ouvrage [livre]
(Trésor de la langue française informatisé).
% Creation of the ornament as an entity (in the form of a box)%
Typesetting true *fleurons* requires the use of *TeX*'s special *box
registers* as arguments;% here box register number *0* has been
arbitrarily selected for the proceedings.
% The essential steps in the construction are:% - (typo)graphical
composition of the motive (as for instance *\midaligned{Finis}* in the
first example)% or designation of the source file of an
image,
% - enclosure of it in a vertical box (*\vbox{\midaligned{Finis}}*)
and% - finally association of the boxed motive with boxregister
*0* (*\setbox0= ...*), all of which happens% in reverse
order, from right to left, in the code.
% Here are several examples of this:%\setbox0=\vbox{\midaligned{Finis}}%\setbox0=\vbox{\midaligned{Finis\\coronat\\opus}}%\setbox0=\vbox{\midaligned{*}
\Inter \midaligned{***} \Inter \midaligned{*}}
% In order to get in *TeX* something remotely similar to a normal
variable,% called *Motivo*, the following machinery has to be
implemented \def\Motivo{\copy0} % get a copy of register's
*0* content
% the graphic parts of several (typographical) test motives follow:\def\MotOne{{\midaligned{\em
Finis}}}\def\MotTwo{{\midaligned{\em Finis\\\em coronat\\\em
opus}}}\def\MotThree{{\midaligned{*} \Inter \midaligned{***}
\Inter \midaligned{*}}}
\def\MotFour{{\midaligned{___}}}\def\MotFive{{\bf
\midaligned{\hl[1]} \Inter \midaligned{\hl[5]} \Inter
\midaligned{\hl[1]}}}%%% THINGS
THAT DO NOT WORK%%\setbox0=\vbox{\midaligned{\switchtobodyfont[20pt]*}}
% executing these corrupt the whole script
%\setbox0=\vbox{\switchtobodyfont[20pt] \midaligned{*\\***\\*}}%\def\Grande{\midaligned{\switchtobodyfont[50pt]*}}
% in any form it is tried%\setbox0=\vbox{\Grande}%%
%%% USING FIGURES AS MOTIVES%%
Most *fleurons* will be based on figures (usually images of schematic
line drawings)% rather than on elements of the alphabetical
character set.
% So it is important to insure that also this alternative
[NTG-context] Using *fleurons*
*Fleurons* are small decorative pieces that were often used in the past for
filling big blank spaces in books. They are seldom used nowdays. As besides
they will not appear more than a few times in any book (mainly at the end
of chapters), the easiest thing to do if one insists in using them (for
instance for simulating an old edition of some past work) is to arrange its
presence manually in the source document in the way one would do for any
other figure or piece of text.
I subscribe to this, which is without doubt the way to proceed if the
original document will allways be typesett in the same way. But if it were
an extensive work and one foresees different layouts for its appearence as
different *products*, then one would have one more source of worries after
every run of the work through *Context*, as you can bet that sooner than
later one page will have been included somewhere whose only content will be
the damned *fleuron*, something that obviously should not happen.
This is the problem that I tackled, because I did not find any previous
reference or solution to it. My reasoning, my explanations and the working
code are all contained in the rest of this message.
It is conceived as being composed of two parts, but it can also be saved
and dealt as one piece. If one saves it as two independent files (as should
be done if one intends to use it for any other thing that running the tests
samples) the content of the first file will be the one delimited as
*Fleuron.tex* and that of the second (*Fleuron_test.tex*) would be the rest
of the message. The line of this second file
% \input {Fleuron}
should be uncommented if one intends to run it as such. The one file
version runs as it is.
The script creates the new command *\Fleuron{\}*, which is the
one to include at the place intended in the source document for the
*fleuron* to appear (of course after having incorporated the contents of
*Fleuron.tex* in its preamble with *\input{Fleuron}*). The argument
** allows the selection of a specific motive among the several
of them that could be available; the user can create and organize all this
according to his wishes. For instance *\Fleuron{\MotiveFive}* would use the
example labelled *\MotiveFive* in the group of examples provided. The
comments in *Fleuron.tex* explain how to handle all this.
Enjoy and critizice
Francisco
%%%
%
% Fleuron.tex
% Script that explains and implements in *ConTeXt* Mk-IV the kind of small
ornaments
% traditionally used by printers for filling big blank spaces in books and
printed works.
%*Fleuron*: subst. masc. 2b) Élément décoratif de fantaisie ornant le titre
ou les blancs des principales divisions d'un ouvrage [livre] (Trésor de la
langue française informatisé).
%
%%%
% Creation of the ornament as an entity (in the form of a box)
% Typesetting true *fleurons* requires the use of *TeX*'s special *box
registers* as arguments;
% here box register number *0* has been arbitrarily selected for the
proceedings.
% The essential steps in the construction are:
%- (typo)graphical composition of the motive (as for instance
*\midaligned{Finis}* in the first example)
%or designation of the source file of an image,
%- enclosure of it in a vertical box (*\vbox{\midaligned{Finis}}*) and
% - finally association of the boxed motive with boxregister *0*
(*\setbox0= ...*), all of which happens
% in reverse order, from right to left, in the code.
% Here are several examples of this:
%\setbox0=\vbox{\midaligned{Finis}}
%\setbox0=\vbox{\midaligned{Finis\\coronat\\opus}}
%\setbox0=\vbox{\midaligned{*} \Inter \midaligned{***} \Inter
\midaligned{*}}
% In order to get in *TeX* something remotely similar to a normal variable,
% called *Motivo*, the following machinery has to be implemented
\def\Motivo{\copy0}% get a copy of register's *0* content
% the graphic parts of several (typographical) test motives follow:
\def\MotOne{{\midaligned{\em Finis}}}
\def\MotTwo{{\midaligned{\em Finis\\\em coronat\\\em opus}}}
\def\MotThree{{\midaligned{*} \Inter \midaligned{***} \Inter
\midaligned{*}}}
\def\MotFour{{\midaligned{___}}}
\def\MotFive{{\bf \midaligned{\hl[1]} \Inter \midaligned{\hl[5]} \Inter
\midaligned{\hl[1]}}}
%
%
% THINGS THAT DO NOT WORK
%
%\setbox0=\vbox{\midaligned{\switchtobodyfont[20pt]*}}% executing these
corrupt the whole script
%\setbox0=\vbox{\switchtobodyfont[20pt] \midaligned{*\\***\\*}}
%\def\Grande{\midaligned{\switchtobodyfont[50pt]*}}% in any form it
is tried
%\setbox0=\vbox{\Grande}
%
%
%
%
% USING FIGURES AS MOTIVES
%
% Most *fleurons* will be based on figures (usually images of schematic
line drawings)
% rather than on elements of the alphabetical character set.
% So it is important to insure that also this alternative works as it
should.
% *Contextref* says that just giving the name of the f
