From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15075 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Notes and questions on 432 page book. Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 06:40:02 -1000 Organization: Wexford Press Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <200405050640.02510.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083754009 2215 80.91.224.253 (5 May 2004 10:46:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 10:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Wed May 05 12:46:24 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLJux-0004Yn-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2004 12:46:23 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7B610B52; Wed, 5 May 2004 12:42:15 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mta9.adelphia.net (mta9.adelphia.net [68.168.78.199]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F8410AFC for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 12:40:13 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from md-wmnsmd-cuda2-c3d-74.chvlva.adelphia.net ([67.20.162.74]) by mta9.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.08 201-253-122-130-108-20031117) with ESMTP id <20040505104414.YFHL26615.mta9.adelphia.net@md-wmnsmd-cuda2-c3d-74.chvlva.adelphia.net> for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 06:44:14 -0400 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Content-Disposition: inline Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15075 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15075 My latest project is almost finished. I have a few comments and questions. The book consists of one part with five unnumbered chapters followed by a second part of 101 numbered chapters, and some endmatter. I was unable to make the Context version of the TOC to single space these 110 or so chapter entries which made the whole TOC longer (more pages) than desired. So I threw Eplain into the mix and typeset the TOC only using the Eplain macros. If there is a way to single space the TOC using the regular Context macros I will be happy to eliminate the Eplain, which may solve some of the other problems. The last six pages consist of an order form, a page of text, and another order form, all backed up by blank pages for six pages total. The order form is created with some \framedtext and \starttable trickery. It compiles fine by itself but gives errors in the \starttable etc. when combined with the main body of the book. It will also coexist with the front matter, so eplain is probably not the culprit. In any case at the moment I have two correct pdfs which I will try to knit together with psmerge or something similar. I used a conventional construction of the job, with a main file which calls subordinate files. In this mode I ended up with two unwanted blank pages after the index. If however I put the \stoptext statement at the end of the main subordinate file the unwanted blank pages disappear. Here is the construction of the main file: ------------------------------ \input fonts.tex \input macros.tex \input part.tex \starttext \startfrontmatter \input half.tex \input title.tex {\tfx \input copy.tex } \noheaderandfooterlines \leftline{\tfb\bf\ss Table of Contents} \blank[big] \readtocfile\rm \page[yes] \noheaderandfooterlines \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \setupwhitespace[medium] \noheaderandfooterlines \input body.tex %\input order.tex %the last six pages start here %\input flyer.tex %\input order.tex \stopbodymatter \stoptext ----------------------------- If I insert a \stoptext statement at the end of the body.tex file then I lose the unwanted blank pages. Are they a byproduct of the \stopbodymatter statement? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com