Two more questions

Two more questions

[Marc van Dongen]

Hello again,

I have some questions and was hoping somebody would have
an answer to them.

 1) I have used pdftex before and have created a number
    of macros for handling forms, hyperlinks and the like.
    When I tried to use them in combination with \CONTEXT
    it turned out they didn't work (I haven't started
    using things depending on forms yet.).

    E.g. I compared two pdf files, one created using
    \CONTEXT and one without. The pdf for a hyperlink
   seems identical. The hyperlinks generated with the
   \CONTEX macros (i.e. not with my own) do work.
   Any suggestions as to what I am overseeing?
2) Is there a ``fancyverb'' like thing which would allow
   mo to carry out commands in a ``verbatim'' environment?

Thanks in advance.

Marc van Dongen
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Re: Two more questions

[Tobias Burnus]

Hallo Marc,

>  1) I have used pdftex before and have created a number
>     of macros for handling forms, hyperlinks and the like.
>     When I tried to use them in combination with \CONTEXT
>     it turned out they didn't work (I haven't started
>     using things depending on forms yet.).
(then there shouldn't be a problem simply switching to the context ons, this
makes is more likely that your hyperlinks work when using a different path, e.g.
dvips->distiller/ghostscript->[pdf])

>     E.g. I compared two pdf files, one created using
>     \CONTEXT and one without. The pdf for a hyperlink
>    seems identical. The hyperlinks generated with the
>    \CONTEX macros (i.e. not with my own) do work.
>    Any suggestions as to what I am overseeing?
I think this is almost impossible to answer this -- at least without seeing an
example and/or your macros. (If you really need them, you can make an example
else simply use the ConTeXt commands.) Apropos PDFTeX, there exists a mailing
list concerning pdf (and mainly pdftex) at pdftex@tug.org, subscribe pdftex,
majordomo@tug.org, where you can ask questions concerning plain TeX (which is
basicly what you are trying to achive; the list is also about pdfLaTeX, hyperref
and "pdf-ConTeXt".)

> 2) Is there a ``fancyverb'' like thing which would allow
>    mo to carry out commands in a ``verbatim'' environment?
Even after scanning the fancyvrb.ps file, I'm not totally sure what is ment by
'carry out commands', but I think I got an idea of the features. The features of
ConTeXt are not always the same but also advanced.

Have a look at the source documentation in the files:

verb-ini.tex -- this gives a nice overview about the verbatim possibilities.

verb-*.tex contain the basics used for syntacs highlighting of PERL,
Java/JavaScript, TeX, MetaPost and SQL. (This file is a must, if you want to add
a language, else better skip it, it isn't that well (cp. to verb-ini commented
and contains fewer examples.)

You probably already know \typefile, \type, \starttyping ... \stoptyping.
But do you know:
\type<<a <<slanted>> word>>
\type<<with <</bf boldfaced>> text>>
(from verb-ini.tex a very nice reference!)

If you have special needs, drop a note to this list.

Tobias

PS: From TeXShow (texshow setuptyping en):
------------------------------------------------
\setuptyping[...][..,..=..,..]

\setuptyping
[file, typing, name]
[space=on|off,
 page=yes|no,
 option=slanted|normal|commands|color|none,
 before=command,
 after=command,
 margin=dimension|standard,
 evenmargin=dimension,
 oddmargin=dimension,
 blank=dimension|small|medium|big|standard|halfline|line,
 escape=,
 indentnext=yes|no,
 palet=name]
------------------------------------------------
\setuptype[..=..]

\setuptype
[space=on|off,
 option=slanted|normal|none]
------------------------------------------------
Using before/after you can also use \startlinenumbering, \startframed etc.

Re: Two more questions

[Hans Hagen]

At 10:34 AM 11/11/99 +0000, Marc van Dongen wrote:

>    E.g. I compared two pdf files, one created using
>    \CONTEXT and one without. The pdf for a hyperlink
>   seems identical. The hyperlinks generated with the
>   \CONTEX macros (i.e. not with my own) do work.
>   Any suggestions as to what I am overseeing?

In addition to tobias' reply:

you must have pretty strong reasons to use low level pdftex primitives, since context supports quite some hyperstuff -) You can for instance use chained hyperlinks using \goto, \button, etc. One needs quite some housekeeping to implement it low level. 

you can (when in pdftex) use \pdfannot... and alike, but using for instance \pdfpageattr cum suis, will fail, since context sets these at page building time

Hans  

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Re: Two more questions

[Tobias Burnus]

Hi Marc,

> I just started using ConTeXt and still know not everything about
> it. But one thing I *do* know is that I don't like tha way that
> hyperlinks are typeset in bold face.

Try \setupinteraction[style=normal,color=black].

If you have PERL and TCL, texshow is your friend:
-------------------------------------------------
\setupinteraction[..,..=..,..]

\setupinteraction
[state=start|stop,
 menu=on|off,
 page=yes|no,
 openaction=reference,
 closeaction=reference,
 strut=yes|no,
 width=dimension,
 height=dimension,
 depth=dimension,
 style=normal|bold|slanted|boldslanted|type|cap|small...*command,
 color=name,
 contrastcolor=name,
 symbolset=name,
 title=text,
 subtitle=text,
 author=text,
 date=text]
-------------------------------------------------

Tobias