From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3606 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: experimenting metafun: problems with funnyframe Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:10:45 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001219121045.00a6a7f0@pop.wxs.nl> References: <00121903022302.01990@bilbo> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394335 18564 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:32:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:32:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "Uwe Koloska" In-Reply-To: <00121903022302.01990@bilbo> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3606 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3606 At 03:02 AM 12/19/00 +0100, Uwe Koloska wrote: >Hello, > >I have just tried to gain a deeper insight into document preparation with >context because in january I want to make a journal with it. > >So I work through the metafun manual (27.10.2000) and have some question >for the FunnyFrames example (4.6 Enhancing the layout): > >1. What is the reason, the framed text does not span the whole line? In >core-rul I found that the width is derived from textwidth advanced >-2\@@localoffset. But where is this offset defined? The width can be set with [width=] and by default is .75\hsize. That's the offset between the text and the frame, some 1em by default >2. The lower space between text and frame is greater than the upper one. >(this is the case in the manual, too) Should I use \startlinecorrection? >And how? (just inside StartFrame, I cannot see a difference) probably a forced depth so that side by side frames look ok, in this particular case, there should be a it more space at the top, mabye [top=\vskip\dp\strutbox] will help >3. There are some funny hyphenations inside the frame (but they are right!) >like "knowl-edge" ... Anyway before I know that this is right, I looked >into the .log from making the format (to find out wether the right >hyphenation patterns are there). And I found a great load of > >language : patterns en for en loaded (n=3) >(/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/ushyph1.tex) >language : no hyphenations en for en (n=3) >language : patterns uk for uk loaded (n=4) >(/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/ukhyphen.tex) >language : no hyphenations uk for uk (n=4) >language : patterns de for de loaded (n=5) > >are this real problems? Not at all. hyphenations are exceptions, and there seem to be none [at least none defined in lang-??.hyp; the patterns are loaded all right. >4. How comes I cannot copy the _formatted_ sources from the pdf? Neither >interactive nor print version worked. I know (but not for sure) I have >copied code with linebreaks from another pdf but don't know what file this >was. you can try pdftotext Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------