From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/82 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: fg@fgbbs.iaf.nl (Frans Goddijn) Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: First go at book with ConTeXt, questions Date: 29 Jul 98 11:24:05 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <278_9807291140@fgbbs.iaf.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035390960 21151 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:36:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:36:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:82 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:82 Long message with a batch of ordered questions... First this: I have several (MAPS) ConTeXt manuals opened on a chair nearby. I'm also lucky to have an old big printed manual version 960122 at hand. The MAPS manuals are pleasant appatizers but not so handy for looking things up. For instance, in the table of contents in MAPS 19 defining commands is said to be on page 85, but that page is not in that MAPS. The next manual in MAPS has a new page numbering and no table of contents... I couldn't find the ConTeXt syntax replacing my familiar \Large, \Huge etcetera. Taco told me this is {\tfa foobar} for a small word "foobar" and then tfb, tfc etcetera for bigger characters. This \tfa...e command is not in the command list in the big PDF manual though. The old paper manual showed (page 111) that big characters can be printed (I need those for the title page), but it's not shown how that is done. The example "Grote Woorden" is shown as result, but without the macro prividing that result. (In de PDF version of the manual, clicking on the left green marginal marker for page 102 showed the command, though!) So, perseverance helps ;=} said Hans Hagen to me: HH> \setuplayout[rugwit=19mm,breedte=midden,kopwit=8mm,hoogte=midden] Currently I have \stellayoutin[plaats=midden,markering=aan,hoogte=midden, kopwit=2cm, hoofd=0mm, voet=10mm, rugwit=18mm, breedte=110mm ] Does that look o.k. to you as well? Is the order/sequence of these settings of influence on the results? HH> Of course you must also specify HH> [header=,footer=] Is this a "must" from the start or could I wait until I know if I want to have headers and/or footers, and if so, what I want to put in them? HH> Putting the pagenumber in the middle, HH> \stelnummeringin[plaats={voet,midden},letter=\os] I currently have this: \stelnummeringin[plaats={voet,midden},letter=\oldstyle] * are \os and \oldstyle identical? * I understand I must do {\oldstyle 123} to get 23 in oldstyle but I would visually prefer a syntax like \os{123}. Is this easy to accomplish? * What is the ConTeXt equivalent for \thispagestyle{empty}? On some pages I want no pagenumbers. * I want to put an EPS file (the publisher's logo) on the inner title page. If I look at page 106 of MAPS 20, I think I could do \regelmidden{ \externfiguur [c:/ourfiles/eps/lsylogo.eps] % can I specify path here? [breedte=4cm,methode=eps] % I wonder what mps means in the original example... } The old LaTeX command was: \hspace*{35mm}{\includegraphics[width=4cm]{c:/ourfiles/eps/lsylogo.eps}}% Am I right? The other ConTeXt manuals show very advanced tricks, with text around the pictures, figure numbers and text under the pictures and reference info which cloud my view... In the PDF manual an example is given which should show a cow in the text, but the cow is missing... ;=} Furthermore, I am afraid I must convert the eps into pdf in some new way to be able to later generate a PDF file of the book, right? Whjat's the best way to do this? Send the eps to a friendly someone with Adobe's Distiller? PS: I enjoy this process of learning ConTeXt. It's a sort of TeX adventure game for me and as much fun as getting a new PC is. New possibillities! Hidden doors and options to be found! ;=} Met hartelijke groet! Frans Goddijn | bbs: +31 (0)26 3217041 Postbus 30196 | email: fg@fgbbs.iaf.nl 6803 AD Arnhem | tel: +31 (0)26 3219342 The Netherlands | http://www.iaf.nl/Users/Meridian -- You are what you is