Setup for appendices: a bunch of questions

Setup for appendices: a bunch of questions

[Mojca Miklavec]

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Hello,

I need a tiny bit of help with properly setting up the appendices.

1.) I would like to include both chapters and titles. Is this the
proper way to go? (It took me a while to figure out how to include the
titles at all.)

    \setuphead
        [title]
        [incrementnumber=list]
    \placelist
        [title,chapter,section]
        [criterium=all,alternative=c]

But why is there less space in front of a \title{...} in TOC than in
front of a \chapter{...}?

2.) How can I define a different width for appendices in TOC (to
reserve enough space for the word "Appendix")?

I use

\setuplist
    [section]
    [width=10mm,numberstyle=\os\bf,pagestyle=\os,label=yes]

but I would like to use "width=27mm" for sections inside
\startappendices ... \stopappendices than for regular sections. Is
there any workaround?

3.) For appendices I want to set

\setuphead
    [chapter]
    [number=no]
\setuphead
    [section]
    [page=yes,sectionsegments=section,conversion=Character,sectionstopper=:]

without affecting regular sections and chapters.

Is it possible to do this on top of the document (or in the layout) as
opposed to changing the settings just before appendices start? I would
like to avoid messing up with such settings in the middle of the
document.

I tried to play with
    \defineconversionset
and
    \setupsectionblock
        [appendix]
        [sectionconversionset=...]
but I'm unable to understand how these commands work exactly.

A minimum working example (yes, in MKIV) is attached. If anything
could/should be improved, please also let me know.

Thank you,
    Mojca

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Re: Setup for appendices: a bunch of questions

[Wolfgang Schuster]

> Am 04.02.2015 um 22:06 schrieb Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I need a tiny bit of help with properly setting up the appendices.
> 
> 1.) I would like to include both chapters and titles. Is this the
> proper way to go? (It took me a while to figure out how to include the
> titles at all.)
> 
>    \setuphead
>        [title]
>        [incrementnumber=list]
>    \placelist
>        [title,chapter,section]
>        [criterium=all,alternative=c]
> 
> But why is there less space in front of a \title{...} in TOC than in
> front of a \chapter{…}?

You can use the “margin” key to indent the title entries but unnumbered chapter are still wrong aligned.

> 2.) How can I define a different width for appendices in TOC (to
> reserve enough space for the word "Appendix")?
> 
> I use
> 
> \setuplist
>    [section]
>    [width=10mm,numberstyle=\os\bf,pagestyle=\os,label=yes]
> 
> but I would like to use "width=27mm" for sections inside
> \startappendices ... \stopappendices than for regular sections. Is
> there any workaround?

Use the “numbercommand” key to measure the width of the number
and apply different widths for narrow and wide entries.

> 3.) For appendices I want to set
> 
> \setuphead
>    [chapter]
>    [number=no]
> \setuphead
>    [section]
>    [page=yes,sectionsegments=section,conversion=Character,sectionstopper=:]
> 
> without affecting regular sections and chapters.
> 
> Is it possible to do this on top of the document (or in the layout) as
> opposed to changing the settings just before appendices start? I would
> like to avoid messing up with such settings in the middle of the
> document.

Use \startsectionblockenvironment to set the setups at the begin of the document.

> I tried to play with
>    \defineconversionset
> and
>    \setupsectionblock
>        [appendix]
>        [sectionconversionset=...]
> but I'm unable to understand how these commands work exactly.

Take a look at the example below how this can be achieved.

%%%% begin example

\def\sc{\addff{smallcaps}}
\def\os{\addff{oldstyle}}

\setuplabeltext
	[appendix=Appendix~]

\setuphead
	[title]
	[incrementnumber=list,page=yes]

\setuphead
	[chapter]
	[page=no,numberstyle=\os]

\setuphead
	[section]
	[style=\bfb,numberstyle=\os,appendixlabel=appendix]

\setuplist
	[title,chapter]
	[width=10mm,textstyle=\sc\bfb,numberstyle=\os\bfb,pagestyle=\os,aligntitle=no]

\setuplist
	[title]
	[margin=10mm]

\define[1]\SectionlistNumber
  {\dowithnextbox
     {\ifdim\nextboxwd<10mm
        \simplealignedbox{10mm}{flushleft}{\flushnextbox}%
      \else
        \simplealignedbox{27mm}{flushleft}{\flushnextbox}%
      \fi}
     \hbox{#1}}

\setuplist
	[section]
	[width=0pt,numberstyle=\os\bf,pagestyle=\os,label=yes,numbercommand=\SectionlistNumber]

% The \defineconversionset command allows you to define
% different conversion for each sectionblock in your
% document by adding the name of the sectionblock in
% front of the name of the conversion set.

\defineconversionset [bodypart:sectioncounter] [n,n,n] [n]
\defineconversionset [appendix:sectioncounter] [n,n,A] [n]

\setuphead[chapter,section][sectionconversionset=sectioncounter]

% With the sectionblock environment you can list setups
% which are applied at the begin of the specified block
% in your document, e.g. the following setups are used
% after \startappendices:

\startsectionblockenvironment[appendix]

	\setuphead
		[chapter]
		[number=no]

		\setuphead
		[section]
		[page=yes,
		 sectionsegments=section,
		 sectionstopper=:]

\stopsectionblockenvironment

\setupbodyfont[palatino]

\starttext

\startfrontmatter

\title{Contents}
\placelist[title,chapter,section][criterium=all,alternative=c]

Why is there less space in front of a title in TOC than in front of a chapter?

How to define a different width for appendices (to reserve enough space for the word "Appendix")?

\stopfrontmatter

\startbodymatter

\chapter{First Chapter}
\section{First Section}
\chapter{Second Chapter}
\section{Second Section}

\stopbodymatter

\startappendices

\chapter{Appendices}

\section{First Appendix}
\input tufte

\section{Second Appendix}
\input zapf

\title{Why is there less space in toc?}

\stopappendices

\stoptext

%%%% end example

Wolfgang
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Re: Setup for appendices: a bunch of questions

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> Am 04.02.2015 um 22:06 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I need a tiny bit of help with properly setting up the appendices.
>>
>> 1.) I would like to include both chapters and titles. Is this the
>> proper way to go? (It took me a while to figure out how to include the
>> titles at all.)
>>
>>    \setuphead
>>        [title]
>>        [incrementnumber=list]
>>    \placelist
>>        [title,chapter,section]
>>        [criterium=all,alternative=c]
>>
>> But why is there less space in front of a \title{...} in TOC than in
>> front of a \chapter{…}?
>
> You can use the “margin” key to indent the title entries but unnumbered chapter are still wrong aligned.

I'm sorry, that was a misunderstanding. I was referring to the
vertical alignment, not to the horizontal one. It's perfectly OK if
the title is aligned "flushleft", but there's less vertical space in
front of it.

>> 2.) How can I define a different width for appendices in TOC (to
>> reserve enough space for the word "Appendix")?
>>
>> I use
>>
>> \setuplist
>>    [section]
>>    [width=10mm,numberstyle=\os\bf,pagestyle=\os,label=yes]
>>
>> but I would like to use "width=27mm" for sections inside
>> \startappendices ... \stopappendices than for regular sections. Is
>> there any workaround?
>
> Use the “numbercommand” key to measure the width of the number
> and apply different widths for narrow and wide entries.

Perfect, thank you.

(Well, my computer hoplessly crashed when I first tried it, but I hope
it's not your code to be blamed ;)

>> 3.) For appendices I want to set
>>
>> \setuphead
>>    [chapter]
>>    [number=no]
>> \setuphead
>>    [section]
>>    [page=yes,sectionsegments=section,conversion=Character,sectionstopper=:]
>>
>> without affecting regular sections and chapters.
>>
>> Is it possible to do this on top of the document (or in the layout) as
>> opposed to changing the settings just before appendices start? I would
>> like to avoid messing up with such settings in the middle of the
>> document.
>
> Use \startsectionblockenvironment to set the setups at the begin of the document.

Thank you.

>> I tried to play with
>>    \defineconversionset
>> and
>>    \setupsectionblock
>>        [appendix]
>>        [sectionconversionset=...]
>> but I'm unable to understand how these commands work exactly.
>
> Take a look at the example below how this can be achieved.

Thank you.

Now a couple of follow-up questions. The tables are now numbered in a
very weird way. It's now "Table 1.VI" instead of "Table E.1" for the
first table in Appendix E. Which keys control numbering of tables? (Or
better yet: what's the reference for MKIV to find that out, if any?)

If I use "sectionstopper=:" and then try to reference it with
\in[appendix:label-for-this-appendix], I get the colon there as well
which is not desired, so I probably need to use another trick to get
the colon. Should I change the numbercommand in \setuphead and
\setuplist or is there a different trick?

Thanks again,
    Mojca
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Re: Setup for appendices: a bunch of questions

[luigi scarso]

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On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Mojca Miklavec <
mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> (Well, my computer hoplessly crashed when I first tried it, but I hope
> it's not your code to be blamed ;)
>
> A crash (ie a seg. fault, or an infinite loop)
with context ?



-- 
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Re: Setup for appendices: a bunch of questions

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:09 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Mojca Miklavecwrote:
>>
>> (Well, my computer hoplessly crashed when I first tried it, but I hope
>> it's not your code to be blamed ;)
>>
> A crash (ie a seg. fault, or an infinite loop)
> with context ?

It's way too off-topic, but first my pdf viewer crashed while context
was still compiling the document, luatex was stuck in the middle of
compiling. I used Ctrl+C to break the compilation, but there was a
ghost process still there. I tried to remove the new code, then start
context again. It was stuck again, I had to use Ctrl+C to stop
compilation and there was again a new ghost luatex process in the
background. I tried "kill -9 <pid>", but it didn't help. I tried to
force kill it in the GUI, no success either. Then I tried "rm
filename.pdf" and the "rm" process was stuck as well, forever. Finally
I tried to reboot the machine, but it refused to reboot, so I had to
shut it down the hard way (press the switch-off button for a long
time, an equivalent of removing the battery).

I don't think that any of that had anything to do with ConTeXt or
luatex. It sounds like a hardware issue to me (despite my first
thought that I ended up in an infinite loop).

----------

Back on topic. If I move a figure to Appendices, the figure now gets
numbered as "1.V" (I would want to see "B.1" if it's the first figure
in Appendix B). But when I reference that figure in main text, it
becomes "Figure 1.5" which is indistinguishable from another figure
"1.5" in the first chapter.

Mojca
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Re: Setup for appendices: a bunch of questions

[luigi scarso]

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On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Mojca Miklavec <
mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:09 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Mojca Miklavecwrote:
> >>
> >> (Well, my computer hoplessly crashed when I first tried it, but I hope
> >> it's not your code to be blamed ;)
> >>
> > A crash (ie a seg. fault, or an infinite loop)
> > with context ?
>
> It's way too off-topic, but first my pdf viewer crashed while context
> was still compiling the document, luatex was stuck in the middle of
> compiling. I used Ctrl+C to break the compilation, but there was a
> ghost process still there. I tried to remove the new code, then start
> context again. It was stuck again, I had to use Ctrl+C to stop
> compilation and there was again a new ghost luatex process in the
> background. I tried "kill -9 <pid>", but it didn't help. I tried to
> force kill it in the GUI, no success either. Then I tried "rm
> filename.pdf" and the "rm" process was stuck as well, forever. Finally
> I tried to reboot the machine, but it refused to reboot, so I had to
> shut it down the hard way (press the switch-off button for a long
> time, an equivalent of removing the battery).
>
> I don't think that any of that had anything to do with ConTeXt or
> luatex. It sounds like a hardware issue to me (despite my first
> thought that I ended up in an infinite loop).
>
> to me it sounds as  mtxrun/luatex problem instead. I will try to reproduce
it.


-- 
luigi

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Re: Setup for appendices: a bunch of questions

[Alan BRASLAU]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 09:20:41 +0100
Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

>  luatex was stuck in the middle of
> compiling. I used Ctrl+C to break the compilation, but there was a
> ghost process still there.

I noticed that Taco always uses SIGQUIT (ctrl+\) rather than SIGINT
(ctrl+c) with luatex. SIGQUIT usually results in a core dump but does
not leave a ghost process.

Perhaps Luigi (or Taco) can explain why luatex does not handle SIGINT
as we might expect?

Alan
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Re: Setup for appendices: a bunch of questions

[Hans Hagen]

On 2/6/2015 9:37 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 09:20:41 +0100
> Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>   luatex was stuck in the middle of
>> compiling. I used Ctrl+C to break the compilation, but there was a
>> ghost process still there.
>
> I noticed that Taco always uses SIGQUIT (ctrl+\) rather than SIGINT
> (ctrl+c) with luatex. SIGQUIT usually results in a core dump but does
> not leave a ghost process.
>
> Perhaps Luigi (or Taco) can explain why luatex does not handle SIGINT
> as we might expect?

on windows one can also end up with an aborted ghost process but not 
always so it probably has to to do with the place where luatex is 
aborted or crashes (if one aborts a tex loop it's often ok, but in 
something lua it can be worse)

Hans

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Re: Setup for appendices: a bunch of questions

[Hans Hagen]

On 2/6/2015 9:20 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:09 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Mojca Miklavecwrote:
>>>
>>> (Well, my computer hoplessly crashed when I first tried it, but I hope
>>> it's not your code to be blamed ;)
>>>
>> A crash (ie a seg. fault, or an infinite loop)
>> with context ?
>
> It's way too off-topic, but first my pdf viewer crashed while context
> was still compiling the document, luatex was stuck in the middle of
> compiling. I used Ctrl+C to break the compilation, but there was a
> ghost process still there. I tried to remove the new code, then start
> context again. It was stuck again, I had to use Ctrl+C to stop
> compilation and there was again a new ghost luatex process in the
> background. I tried "kill -9 <pid>", but it didn't help. I tried to
> force kill it in the GUI, no success either. Then I tried "rm
> filename.pdf" and the "rm" process was stuck as well, forever. Finally
> I tried to reboot the machine, but it refused to reboot, so I had to
> shut it down the hard way (press the switch-off button for a long
> time, an equivalent of removing the battery).
>
> I don't think that any of that had anything to do with ConTeXt or
> luatex. It sounds like a hardware issue to me (despite my first
> thought that I ended up in an infinite loop).
>
> ----------
>
> Back on topic. If I move a figure to Appendices, the figure now gets
> numbered as "1.V" (I would want to see "B.1" if it's the first figure
> in Appendix B). But when I reference that figure in main text, it
> becomes "Figure 1.5" which is indistinguishable from another figure
> "1.5" in the first chapter.

weird indeed as it should default to numbers at that that level cf.

\defineconversionset
   [appendix:default]
   [Romannumerals,Characters]
   [numbers]

so for the moment use

\defineconversionset
   [appendix:default]
   [Numbers,Characters]
   [numbers]

(as the first level, part is not used by you anyway)

Hans

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Re: Setup for appendices: a bunch of questions

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 2/6/2015 9:20 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>> Back on topic. If I move a figure to Appendices, the figure now gets
>> numbered as "1.V" (I would want to see "B.1" if it's the first figure
>> in Appendix B). But when I reference that figure in main text, it
>> becomes "Figure 1.5" which is indistinguishable from another figure
>> "1.5" in the first chapter.
>
>
> weird indeed as it should default to numbers at that that level cf.
>
> \defineconversionset
>   [appendix:default]
>   [Romannumerals,Characters]
>   [numbers]
>
> so for the moment use
>
> \defineconversionset
>   [appendix:default]
>   [Numbers,Characters]
>   [numbers]
>
> (as the first level, part is not used by you anyway)

I get "Figure 1.5" now which is way better than "Figure 1.V", but I
would like to get "Figure B.2" when in "Chapter 1", "Section B" (=
Appendix B). So I would need to convince the counter to use the
section number rather than the chapter number. Is that possible?

(I can also switch and make each appendix a chapter rather than a
section, but then I wouldn't want every appendix to stand out in TOC
in the same way as a chapter does.)

Mojca
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Re: Setup for appendices: a bunch of questions

[Hans Hagen]

On 2/6/2015 9:20 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> Back on topic. If I move a figure to Appendices, the figure now gets
> numbered as "1.V" (I would want to see "B.1" if it's the first figure
> in Appendix B). But when I reference that figure in main text, it
> becomes "Figure 1.5" which is indistinguishable from another figure
> "1.5" in the first chapter.

Interesting is that this got unnoticed (here it's no surprise as in 
nearly most docs we produce for others have unnumbered figures).

The problem, is that numbered items use the 'default' conversionset and 
that one has an appendices setting.

So, what is needed is this:

\defineconversionset [number] [] [numbers]

\setupcounters
   [numberconversionset=number]

(math for instance already has its own conversionset)

Hans

ps. Each counter can have a dedicated conversion set and these travel 
around the system so that when referred they are also used - but they 
can also be overloaded then - which makes it possible to render numbers 
(prefix+number+suffix) independently. (In mkii we'd have to disassemble 
these 1.2.3.4 numbers in order to mess with separators in different 
colors in different places etc., not that i ran into a project that 
demanded this recently.)


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Re: Setup for appendices: a bunch of questions

[Wolfgang Schuster]

> Am 06.02.2015 um 08:59 schrieb Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>> Am 04.02.2015 um 22:06 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I need a tiny bit of help with properly setting up the appendices.
>>> 
>>> 1.) I would like to include both chapters and titles. Is this the
>>> proper way to go? (It took me a while to figure out how to include the
>>> titles at all.)
>>> 
>>>   \setuphead
>>>       [title]
>>>       [incrementnumber=list]
>>>   \placelist
>>>       [title,chapter,section]
>>>       [criterium=all,alternative=c]
>>> 
>>> But why is there less space in front of a \title{...} in TOC than in
>>> front of a \chapter{…}?
>> 
>> You can use the “margin” key to indent the title entries but unnumbered chapter are still wrong aligned.
> 
> I'm sorry, that was a misunderstanding. I was referring to the
> vertical alignment, not to the horizontal one. It's perfectly OK if
> the title is aligned "flushleft", but there's less vertical space in
> front of it.

Because title uses the global values for the space before the entries
unlike chapters which use a customised value, you can change this
by adding \setuplist[title][before={\blank[preference,big]}] to your document.

> Now a couple of follow-up questions. The tables are now numbered in a
> very weird way. It's now "Table 1.VI" instead of "Table E.1" for the
> first table in Appendix E. Which keys control numbering of tables? (Or
> better yet: what's the reference for MKIV to find that out, if any?)

You can change the counter and prefix conversion of floats with the
prefiixconverionset and numberconversionset key for \setupcaption.

> If I use "sectionstopper=:" and then try to reference it with
> \in[appendix:label-for-this-appendix], I get the colon there as well
> which is not desired, so I probably need to use another trick to get
> the colon. Should I change the numbercommand in \setuphead and
> \setuplist or is there a different trick?

Use

    \setuphead[section][numbercommand=\groupedcommand{}{:}]

instead of

    \setuphead[section][sectionstopper=:]

Wolfgang
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