>> I am searching since several days now tomorow y need a solution :-(
>>
>> I want to rotate two lines with:
>>
>> \starttext
>>\bTABLE
>> \bTR
>> \bTD{\rotate[rotation=90]{first line\crlf second line}}\eTD
>> \eTR
>>\eTABLE
>> \stoptext
>>
>>
>> but
I am searching since several days now tomorow y need a
solution :-(
I want to rotate two lines with:
\starttext
\bTABLE
\bTR
\bTD{\rotate[rotation=90]{first line\crlf second
line}}\eTD
\eTR
\eTABLE
\stopt
Do you know cellspacing for HTML-Tables?
How to do something simmilar for TABLE in ConTeXt?
\starttext
\bTABLE
\bTR
\bTD{Text 1}\eTD
\bTD{Text 2}\eTD
\eTR
\eTABLE
\stoptext
--
I want to have a rectangle (box) with a word in it (i.g.
"Headline). And all should be rotated 90°.
Below I found a solution I am quite happy with. How can I
get a little bit more padding around the text in the box?
You can copy the example to http://live.contextgarden.net/
- it is running:
Ten years ago I made a book with ConText and some Metapost.
I made a circle and wrote the number into it:
\startuseMPgraphic{Pagenumber}
defaultfont := "pxb";
defaultscale := 1.5;
fill fullcircle scaled 36pt withcolor .75white;
numeric i;
string pagex;
i := PageNumber;
pagenum = decimal i;
label
What’s wrong with the \blank command?
\setuphead
[subject]
[before={\blank[2*big]},
after={\blank[big]},
before={\blank[26pt]},
after={\blank[13pt]}
Nothing wrong - everithing in best order. I didn't know that
it's possible to use sizes with \blank.
I put the information i
It's working. I have put the example into the wiki.
What can be done to say: 26pt before the heading and 13pt
after the heading instead of using \blank ?
\setuphead
[subject]
[before={\blank[2*big]},
after={\blank[big]},
style=bold]
\starttext
\subject{Headline 1}
\stoptext
I want to create a macro for headlines.
- before the headline there should be a big space
- after it a small space
- when the headline is at the beginning of the page there
shouls be no space before the headline.
A workaround could be this - although it's not very comfortable:
\starttext
{b
Hello,
is someone else using the editors kate and kwrite?
Code-highlighting is working.
What I need ist code-folding for ConTeXt. Is this possible?
I have huge makros with lots of \doif ... \else ... \fi
and it is hard to "surf" through the code.
What else would be nice: auto-indentation ...
Ok, I now put the \ctxlua into an other chapter:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Calculating_with_dimension_units
Can you say something to the missing points there? "Wich
meethod?", "\the" and "Expanding
If you don't know how to edit the context-wiki, please write
your information here in the
Thank you all!!
My book from last year (15.000 lines text + context-code and
1.500 lines macro-code now was compiled without no further
problems!
I only had to change all
\define\variable ...
to
\defineexpandable\variable ...
I think, now I understand a little bit more about ConTeXt
Hello,
thanks for the helpfull tipps. Only one wasn't working:
\defineexpandable\ColumnABii {\ctxlua{context([==[\ColumnA
+ \ColumnB]==])}}
ColumnABii: \ColumnABii
The result is: ColumnABii: 30mm+ 40mm
And it should be ColumnABii: 70mm
And in the other cases I get back: 199.16928pt
In a book I produced with ConTeXt last year, I did a lot of
calculation to be able to change the layout dynamicaly.
With the actual version of ConTeXt I can't compile the book.
I have tried a lot of things today ... without success.
I hope my minimal-example helps you to understand, what I
wan
In last year Context this worked:
>> \define\imagepath {/home/janis/images}
>> \externalfigure[\imagepath/test.jpg]
Now this change is necesarry:
> \defineexpandble\imagepath {/home/janis/images}
Where do the change come from: Context, Tex or Luatex? Is
there a genereal change which we have to
The following two commands seem to do the same:
\defineexpandable\...
\def\...
And this two also do the same:
\define\...
\unexpanded\def\...
\def is a low-level-command and shouldn't be used. Right?
Regards
Janis
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An example which was working with ConText (version beginning
2012) - and now I get an error:
\define\imagepath {/home/janis/images}
\starttext
\externalfigure[\imagepath/test.jpg]
\stoptext
LuaTeX error [string "\directlua "]:1: invalid escape
sequence near '\i'
Without my parameter \imag
>>Is it possible to instal and runl ConText on webspace?
>> Which requirements and limitations are needed?
> define webspace
I have webspace hosted at the german provider (1und1) where
my homepage is running.
It contains php, perl, python, mysqld.
I have access via
- ssh
- ftp
It's NO
Does anyone here uses Kile for ConTeXt? On
contextgarden-wiki I read "has native ConTeXt support as
well". I installed Kile and as the only thing concerning
ConTeXt II found
Build -> Compile -> ConTeXt
But no highlighting or autocompletion. Google gave no answer.
Do I have to install an addit
Is it possible to instal and runl ConText on webspace?
Which requirements and limitations are needed?
Have a nice weekend ... in Germany sun is shining :-)
Regards
Janis
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>> I have installed ConTeXt Standalone (Minimal?)
>>
>> My versions are:
>>
>> Contextversion: 2011.11.04 14:15
>> Contextversion -Number: 20004 14:15 MKIV
>> Textengine LuaTeX
>> Textengine-Number: 0.70.1
> old
The release notes here seem to be old:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_No
Hello,
I did my last Context-Project 15 months ago - a small book.
Now I want to write the next book. Do you suggest to update
my Context-installation?
I have installed ConTeXt Standalone (Minimal?)
My versions are:
Contextversion: 2011.11.04 14:15
Contextversion -Number: 20004 14:15 MK
Hello,
someone, who understood what I want to achieve?
http://www.imagebanana.com/view/shoayek5/onlinebook.jpg
Or more questions?
Regards
Janis
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Re: [NTG-context] doublesided PDF - first and last page
singlesided
Jan Heinen
Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:29:20 -0700
Hello,
some
Hello,
some were guessing, what I want to achieve.
I made a screenshot for you:
http://www.imagebanana.com/view/shoayek5/onlinebook.jpg
It ist the online-version of a printed book. For printing it
was ok to have one bookpage on one sheet of paper.
For the online-version I want to have two bo
I was lucky to get a fast answer - but with your code I
don't get the right result:
-- start your code
\startmode[booklet]
\setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape]
\setuparranging[2SIDE]
\stopmode
\starttext
First page
\startmode[booklet]
\null \page
\stopmode
etc.
\stoptext
Thomas
-- stop
With y
Hello, someone here on a sunday?
I want to have a PDF-screen-version of my booklet:
The book has 8 pages including the coverpages.
The result should look like this: (first and last page NOT
doublesided)
1 first page of the pdf (coverpage)
2 3 second
4 5 third
6 7 fourth
Hello Mari,
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 15:33, Jan Heinen
wrote:
> > It's not perfekt jet - but it helps to get more
information to each command
> > and to integrate the wiki and the mailinglist.
> > What do you think about this and could it be improved?
>
> I r
Hello,
in the wiki I have built links for every command to the
archiv of the ConTeXt-Mailinglist: e.G.
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/pagereference
See at the bottom.
It's not perfekt jet - but it helps to get more information
to each command and to integrate the wiki and the mailingl
> Jan Heinen did some heaving wiki editing in order to
achieve better
> categorization of different topics on the wiki.
> One particular part where your help would be welcome is a
big number
> of different commands listed here:
>http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:Comm
Hello
how to change the tooltipps from english "First page" to
german "Erste Seite"?
\setupinteraction[state=start]
\starttext
\button {\scale[height=2em] {\symbol[navigation
1][nextpage]}} [NextPage]
\page
\button {\scale[height=2em] {\symbol[navigation
1][previouspage]}} [PreviousPage]
Hello Wolfgang,
I like your solution and will take it.
For everyone who engages with this issue here is my own less
elegant solution:
\definelayer [Kontaktdaten]
[state=start]%
\setupbackgrounds [page]
[ background=Kontaktdaten,
state=start]%
\setupinteraction[state=start]
\define\na
Good morning :-)
I am still not able to rotate the buttons without loosing
the hyperlinks; see code at the bottom.
And I have an extra question:
How can I make a linebreak after each button. I have tried
\crlf and \par before every \button
... it's not working :-(
Best wishes, Janis
--
Hello,
I built an interactive PDF with some buttons. Without
rotation everithing works.
But with rotation the hyperlinks are gone:
\definelayer [Kontaktdaten]
[state=start]%
\setupbackgrounds [page]
[ background=Kontaktdaten,
state=start]%
\setupinteraction[state=start]
\define\nav
Nearly half of the work is done now.
I 've grouped lots of the ConTeXt-commands into categories
(subcategories):
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:Commands
There you also find commands which are not grouped in
subcategories yet.
Do you have ideas for more subcategories?
If you don't kn
At step 5 (see below) please delete
[[category:Commands]]
But only when you write a new category.
And I just got the proof for my book ... it looks great!
Regards
Jannis
- Copy -
Hello,
with the help of ConTeXt and the ConTeXt-Mailinglist I
successfully have generated a book
Hello,
with the help of ConTeXt and the ConTeXt-Mailinglist I
successfully have generated a book which will be printed
next week :-)
Thankl you - everyone!
And now I would like to give something back to ConTeXt :-)
There is a lot of information around ConTeXt: Material of
Hans Hagen, this v
I have tried every combination of Luigis solution and get
"Black text do not overprint" (german: schwarzer Text wird
nicht überdruckt) for every page of the example for the
following code in the Preflight of Acrobat:
Here is an online version of the Preflight:
http://www.gronenberg.de/werkzeuge
My book is ready and I want to print it next week.
1. The printer told me to set up my PDF with the following
values:
PDF/X-1a:2003,
ISO Coated v2 (ECI)
2. And I did:
\setupbackend
[format=PDF/X-1a:2003,
intent={ISO Coated v2 (ECI)}]
3. Then I send a test-PDF to my printer and got the
fo
Texte, welche auf Kasten 2 stehen, sind innerhalb
Ihrer erzeugten Datei zwar alle überdruckend eingestellt,
visuell allerdings aussparend."
My translation:
The text on box 2 is formated as overprinted but visualy
spared out.
What the hell is going on?
Regards
Jannis
>On Wed, Fe
I again must come to this point. At the end of this week I
want to give my book (pdf) to the printer to print.
But he says: Your texts are not overprinted over colored areas.
What do I have to do?
The company who prints my books says that my text
is not overprinted over the framed boxes.
They
Hi,
no answer to my question?
To easy or to difficult? Please see above.
Isn't it possible to define individual layouts when using
the default layouts like odd and even?
Regards
Jannis
= Copy
I first want to use layouts for "odd" and "even" pages
and then I want to use a "newLayout"
but
I first want to use layouts for "odd" and "even" pages
and then I want to use a "newLayout"
but it does not work:
\setuppapersize[A5][A4]
\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, location=inleft]
\setuplayout [marking=on, location=middle]
\showframe
\definelayout [odd][topspace=5cm,backspa
Hello I have put an A5-page on A4-paper.
And then I put a cow on to the page ... but it should be on
the top/left-corner of the A5-page instead of the A4-page:
I know, one posibility would be to use x=... and y=... in
\definelayer.
Isn't there an easier way to refer to the A5 instead to the
A
I was reading another 200 emails and found the solution myself:
=> \setupalign[nothyphenated,right,broad]
This example is working:
\language[de]
\starttext
Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft
Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft
Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft
Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellsc
Hello,
I read 300 messages in the mailinglist but didn't find the
solution:
How to stop hyphenation and have "normal" linebreaks?
\language[de]
\starttext
Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft
Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft
Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaft
Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesells
Hello,
I want to get bold text - without "simplefonts" it is
working - with "simplefonts" it does not work.
What is wrong and what do I have to do?
My example:
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\setmainfont[Allerlight]
\starttext
This is not bold! {\bf Is this bold?} This is not bold!
\stoptext
Regar
Here the results of my question:
I asked my print-service, if the pdf I generated with the
code (look at the end of this email), is ok.
The text in the second frame should be overprinted.
The answer of the printer:
in the preflight he can see the overprinting,
in the print-preview he can't.
H
I am working with Linux and it seems to be a littlebit
difficult to test if a resulting PDF from Context is cmyk (I
don't have Adobe).
With the frontend "display" from Imagemagick I get the
following information about the pdf:
Type=PaplatteMatte
Colorspace=RGB
Debth=16/8-bit
Hasn't the PDF t
The company who prints my books says that my text
is not overprinted over the framed boxes.
They do a preflight with Adobe.
I think, I made no mistake - what do you think?
I hope it is not a missing \par?
\setupcolors[state=start,rgb=no,cmyk=yes]
\definecolor[myc] [c=.40, m=.10, y=.50, k=0]
\s
Hello,
when I turn off the compression [extend=0.8] -> [extend=1]
the problems are gone :-) ... the compression unfourtunately
also :-(
What do I have to configure to get the compression without
spaces? :-)
Regards
Jannis
= copy
Hello,
if I compress a font, there are suddenly hidden
Hello,
if I compress a font, there are suddenly hidden spaces
between words.
You can't see the spaces in the PDF, but when you copy the
text from the PDF to an editor you can see the spaces.
And when you search for a word (with hidden spaces) in the
PDF, the word can't be found.
This is the
Though I searched a lot for the question in the bottom,
- I could not find a parameter for \at which solves my problem
- I could not find any other command which helps me
Is this a limitation of ConText? I can't imagin that I am
the only one and first who wants to reference to more than
one pag
Happy New Year!
I want to reference to more than one page. In the exampe
above only page 2 is referenced - how to get 2,4 ?
\starttext
You can find red vehicles on \at{page:}[red]
Here I want to see: "You can find red vehicles on page 2,4"
(only page 2 is wrong)
\page
\pagereference[red]H
Dear luigi,
> You have missed a '}'...
I didn't forget the brace. In the eMail I sent to the
mailinglist there was a
leftbrace tilde rightbrace rightbrace
"tilde rightbrace" were eaten by the internet :-(
Thanxs for the solution with hss and vss
Jannis
_
Hello
I want to center (horizontal and vertical) an image in a frame.
1. What Do I have to add?
\setlayerframed [Kontaktdaten]
[
width=120mm,
height=120mm,
hoffset=50mm,
voffset=50mm
]
[strut=no,offset=overlay,frame=on]
{\externalfigure[cow][width=100m
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Wiki!
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webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex
Hello two questions for \startitemize
(1) Start ... Stop for interlinespacing
How can I declare some spacing only for an itemization:
\setupinterlinespace [0.4em]{ ... } does not work:
\starttext
\setupinterlinespace [0.4em]{
\startitemize
\item aaa aaa a
I found another way to compress PDFs: The ConText-command
\pdfcompresslevel=9
qpdf and ghostwriter also helped.
Thanx
Jannis
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Wiki!
/ pdf -> pdftops ->ps ->ghostscript ->pdf
/>/ seems to be more robust and gives better results
/>/ --
/>/ luigi
/
I will give it a try:
Can you tell me the commands with all the parameters I need ?
I have tried the following:
#!/bin/sh
suffix="_opt.pdf"
pdftops -paper match -level3
pdf -> pdftops ->ps ->ghostscript ->pdf
seems to be more robust and gives better results
--
luigi
I will give it a try:
Can you tell me the commands with all the parameters I need ?
Regards
Jannis
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If your
Hello,
lots of my images are huge 200x250mm. I reduce their size with:
\externalfigure[cow][width=20mm, heigth=25mm]
After generating the PDF, the pdf is very huge.
1. Can't Context put the reduced image into the PDF?
2. How can I generate one PDF version for printing (300dpi)
and one for the
I solved the problem myself:
First I used \showstruts to se struts - and only before and
after the first line there were struts.
Then I added the following argument into the \setlayerframed:
strut=no
\setlayerframed [Kontaktdaten]
[
width=80mm,
height=180mm,
hoffset=50mm,
Hello,
I am struggling with interlinespace and layers. With the
help of this mailinglist I managed to use layers and to
format the text in the layers. There is only one error I
can't get rid of:
before and after the first line of my text in a layer there
ist a bigger space. In all the other l
> When “file:allerlt” doesn’t work your fonts have a
different filename than mine.
> What output on the command line do you get?
> keima:TeX wolf$ mtxrun --script font --list --all aller*
>
> aller aller /Users/wolf/Library/Fonts/Aller_Rg.ttf
> allerbold allerbold /Users/wolf/Library/Fonts/Aller_
> Regenerate the font database with “mtxrun --script font
--reload” and try it again.
That was not successful.
However, I changed your code a bit and now it seems ok:
When I use:
\definedfont[name:allerlight*default at 36pt]
instead of:
\definedfont[file:allerlt*default at 36pt]
the
>
Where do you got the font files from, I checked the version from fontsquirrel
[1]
and dalton maag [2] and saw that both use different file names and in my
ypescripts I used the names from fontsquirrel.
You are right - my aller und my libertine were from other
website with diferences in
Excuse me Wolfgang ...
your typescript type-aller.mkii and type-aller.mkiv was
already on my computer.
I ran:
first-setup.sh --modules=t-typescripts
And then I compiled your code with: context test.tex
\starttext
\start
\setupalign[right,broad]\definedfont[file:allerlt*default at
36pt]\setu
As a newby I am already able to do lot's of nice things with
ConTeXt -
but I am struggling with some basics: fonts and linespacing.
Ok ... I have to learn more than I thought :-)
1. Where can I find the typescript for aller? Or do I have
to write my own typescripts?
2. As a second font I am
Wolfgang, thanx for your fast response.
The typescript does not find my allerlight. I have tried
"name:allerlight" ... without success.
But I am happy with
\definefont[name:...]
and
\setupinterlinespace
Now I still need a possibility to have a bigger linespacing
after a paragraph
I can't find what I am doing wrong in my tex-file.
1.
I have little problems with the linespacing when I use big
fontsizes.
The text looks uneasy.
Here you can see the problem ... (1) and (2) on the image
http://www.imagebanana.com/view/bipcpje7/Linespacing.png
And why does (3) runs to the rig
At first: I am ConTeXt-newby and know PHP very well.
@Peter Münster/Aditya Mahajan : I think \startasci and
\stopasci is not the solution, when you generate
ConTeXt-code with php full of ConTeXt-macro-calls:
because sometimes the special-characters are
ConTeXt-special-characters and sometimes
Hello,
I am just programming a catalog which should be printed.
I have a lot of data, text and pictures in a MySQL-database
and want to generate a nice catalog with ConTeXt.
To get the data from MySQL to ConTeXt I use PHP as an Interface:
MySQL -> PHP -> ConTeXt
And lot's of ConTeXt-macros w
Hello,
problem solved!
1. I made a new installation of Scite
2. put the lexer from scintillua into the
scite-rootdirectory (including the directoryname /lexer/)
3. and then the lexer from my context-installation
And now highlighting works :-)
Regards
Jannis
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Hello,
I've installed Scite on a Linux-Computer.
I can build the pdf with F5; when I start to write a
context-command the completion is suggested, e.g. \pa -> \page
There is no syntax-highlighting. How to switch it on?
Regards
Jannis
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Hello it was a ConText-night,
and as a newby I learned a lot about ConText :-)
Here is what I wanted to get:
http://www.imagebanana.com/view/f4o3un2c/Entwurffriends.png
And here are my results:
http://www.imagebanana.com/view/8vq30irn/ContextLayers.png
There are only little things which co
With the change to [strut=no,offset=overlay] the result
looks a litlebit better. Though there is still whitespace to
the left and to the right.
\definelayer[Kontaktdaten][x=50mm,y=150mm,width=30mm,height=40mm,state=start]
% size is ignored!
\setupbackgrounds[paper][setups=ALayer,background=Ko
Step by Step I'm going forward.
This shuld be the result, when I am ready:
http://www.imagebanana.com/view/f4o3un2c/Entwurffriends.png
At the moment I try to get the foto into a layer.
Though the layer is definded as 30x40mm and the foto as well
- the foto does not fit into the layer: the lay
Hello,
I hope the answer is easier than the question :-)
I am a ConText-Newby and am struggeling with the huge amount
of ConText-commands.
I want to make a little book with infos and fotos of our
friends - and I am afraid, the nice layout I have in mind is
to complicated or impossible with
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