Re: Multiple pleas for help (long)

Re: Multiple pleas for help (long)

[Scott Steele]

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If anyone has any insight on how to keep the footnotes from having their
numbers in the margin and from having line-breaks after each one, that is
the only issue from the original email that is still unsolved, I think.

———

In Latex, \fancybreak was part of a package called, I believe, fancyheader
or fancypage. It produced a break frequently seen in published prose (I'm
currently reading {\em Bluebeard} where Kurt Vonnegut uses it liberally)
with significant vertical space between two paragraphs and, centered both in
that vertical space as well as horizontally, a number of well-spaced marks.
There are usually 3 marks, and they are frequently asterisks or traditional
dingbats/fleurons. This sort of break is generally used when the author
wishes to indicate a break more significant than a change in paragraph but
short of an outright new chapter.

\def\FancyBreak{\par\blank\hfill* * *\hfill\hfill\par\blank}
\starttext
\input tufte
\FancyBreak
\input tufte
\stoptext

I don't understand why I need the two consecutive \hfill's at the end for
the marks to be centered, but the definition works well for me.

———

Thanks, Wolfgang, for your help with the emoticons—they work now.
\useexternalfigure[frowny][Frowny][factor=8,type=pdf]
\def\Frowny{\dontleavehmode\smash[h]{\externalfigure[frowny]}}

Also, thanks for the \simplealignedbox, which works very well in my table of
contents (although I have to put a \par at the end of it or it stays on one
line and goes off the page). I don't understand why, but Tex didn't like
having a \par inside the type of definition you used, but it allowed the
following:
\def\SectionListEntry#1#2#3%
{
\noindent
\simplealignedbox{left}{2cm}{#2}%
\simplealignedbox{middle}{5mm}{·}%
\simplealignedbox{right}{3cm}{#3}%
\par
}

(I have a few issues with my table of contents, but these are now less
specific to \placelist, so I'm including them in a different posting.)



Thanks again for all the help,

Scott

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Re: Multiple pleas for help (long)

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 01.06.10 00:29, schrieb Scott Steele:
> If anyone has any insight on how to keep the footnotes from having 
> their numbers in the margin and from having line-breaks after each 
> one, that is the only issue from the original email that is still 
> unsolved, I think.
>
> ———
>
> In Latex, \fancybreak was part of a package called, I believe, 
> fancyheader or fancypage. It produced a break frequently seen in 
> published prose (I'm currently reading {\em Bluebeard} where Kurt 
> Vonnegut uses it liberally) with significant vertical space between 
> two paragraphs and, centered both in that vertical space as well as 
> horizontally, a number of well-spaced marks. There are usually 3 
> marks, and they are frequently asterisks or traditional 
> dingbats/fleurons. This sort of break is generally used when the 
> author wishes to indicate a break more significant than a change in 
> paragraph but short of an outright new chapter.
>
> \def\FancyBreak{\par\blank\hfill* * *\hfill\hfill\par\blank}

\define\FancyBreak
   {\blank
    \midaligned{* * *}
    \blank}

Wolfgang

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Re: Multiple pleas for help (long)

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 01.06.10 00:29, schrieb Scott Steele:
> If anyone has any insight on how to keep the footnotes from having 
> their numbers in the margin and from having line-breaks after each 
> one, that is the only issue from the original email that is still 
> unsolved, I think.
>
> ———
>
> In Latex, \fancybreak was part of a package called, I believe, 
> fancyheader or fancypage. It produced a break frequently seen in 
> published prose (I'm currently reading {\em Bluebeard} where Kurt 
> Vonnegut uses it liberally) with significant vertical space between 
> two paragraphs and, centered both in that vertical space as well as 
> horizontally, a number of well-spaced marks. There are usually 3 
> marks, and they are frequently asterisks or traditional 
> dingbats/fleurons. This sort of break is generally used when the 
> author wishes to indicate a break more significant than a change in 
> paragraph but short of an outright new chapter.
>
> \def\FancyBreak{\par\blank\hfill* * *\hfill\hfill\par\blank}
> \starttext
> \input tufte
> \FancyBreak
> \input tufte
> \stoptext
>
> I don't understand why I need the two consecutive \hfill's at the end 
> for the marks to be centered, but the definition works well for me.

\unprotect

\def\????fb{@@@@fb}

\getparameters
   [\????fb]
   [\c!spacebefore=,
     \c!spaceafter=]

\def\fancybreakparameter#1%
   
{\csname\????fb\ifcsname\????fb\currentfancybreak#1\endcsname\currentfancybreak\fi#1\endcsname}

\def\setupfancybreak
   {\dodoubleempty\dosetupfancybreak}

\def\dosetupfancybreak[#1][#2]%
   {\ifsecondargument
      \getparameters[\????fb#1][#2]%
    \else
      \getparameters[\????fb][#1]%
    \fi}

\def\definefancybreak
   {\dodoubleempty\dodefinefancybreak}

\def\dodefinefancybreak[#1][#2]%
   {\ifsecondargument
      \getparameters[\????fb#1][#2]%
    \fi
    \setvalue{#1}{\dofancybreak{#1}}}

\def\dofancybreak#1%
   {\begingroup
    \edef\currentfancybreak{#1}%
    \everyvbox{\raggedcenter}%
    \dowithnextbox
      {\blank[\fancybreakparameter\c!spacebefore]%
       \flushnextbox
       \blank[\fancybreakparameter\c!spaceafter]%
       \endgroup}
      \normalvbox}

\definefancybreak[fancybreak]

\protect

\starttext
\input knuth
\fancybreak{$* * *$}
\input ward
\stoptext

Wolfgang

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Re: Multiple pleas for help (long)

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 07.06.10 02:03, schrieb Scott Steele:
>
>      > In Latex, \fancybreak was part of a package called, I believe,
>      > fancyheader or fancypage. It produced a break frequently seen in
>      > published prose (I'm currently reading {\em Bluebeard} where Kurt
>      > Vonnegut uses it liberally) with significant vertical space between
>      > two paragraphs and, centered both in that vertical space as well as
>      > horizontally, a number of well-spaced marks. There are usually 3
>      > marks, and they are frequently asterisks or traditional
>      > dingbats/fleurons. This sort of break is generally used when the
>      > author wishes to indicate a break more significant than a change in
>      > paragraph but short of an outright new chapter.
>
>
>     \unprotect
>     [...]
>     \protect
>
>     \starttext
>     \input knuth
>     \fancybreak{$* * *$}
>     \input ward
>     \stoptext
>
>     Wolfgang
>
>
> Thanks a lot for all of that! I'm having trouble getting it to run,
> though. I tried copy/pasting it into the Context Live site but get

I wrote now a module for this, you can download it from here: 
http://bitbucket.org/wolfs/fancybreak

Wolfgang
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Re: Multiple pleas for help (long)

[Wolfgang Schuster]

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Am 07.06.10 02:03, schrieb Scott Steele:

> Thanks a lot for all of that! I'm having trouble getting it to run,
> though. I tried copy/pasting it into the Context Live site but get  [...]

The mail client messed up my code, here is a slightly modified version:

\unprotect

\def\v!fancybreak{fancybreak}

\def\????fb{@@@@fb}

\getparameters
   [\????fb]
   [\c!spacebefore=,
     \c!spaceafter=,
          \c!align=\v!middle,
     \c!indentnext=\v!yes]

\def\fancybreakparameter 
#1{\csname\dofancybreakparameter{\????fb\currentfancybreak}#1\endcsname}
\def\dofancybreakparameter 
#1#2{\ifcsname#1#2\endcsname#1#2\else\expandafter\dodofancybreakparameter\csname#1\s!parent\endcsname#2\fi}
\def\dodofancybreakparameter#1#2{\ifx#1\relax\s!empty\else\dofancybreakparameter#1#2\fi}

\unexpanded\def\setupfancybreak
   {\dodoubleempty\dosetupfancybreak}

\def\dosetupfancybreak[#1][#2]%
   {\ifsecondargument
      \getparameters[\????fb#1][#2]%
    \else
      \getparameters[\????fb][#1]%
    \fi}

\unexpanded\def\definefancybreak
   {\dodoubleempty\dodefinefancybreak}

\def\dodefinefancybreak[#1][#2]%
   {\getparameters[\????fb#1][\s!parent=\????fb,#2]%
    \setvalue{#1}{\dofancybreak{#1}}}

\unexpanded\def\dofancybreak#1%
   {\begingroup
    \edef\currentfancybreak{#1}%
    \everyvbox{\setupalign[\fancybreakparameter\c!align]}%
    \dowithnextbox
      {\blank[\fancybreakparameter\c!spacebefore]%
       \flushnextbox
       \blank[\fancybreakparameter\c!spaceafter]%
       \checknextindentation[\fancybreakparameter\c!indentnext]
       \dorechecknextindentation
       \endgroup}
      \normalvbox}

\definefancybreak[\v!fancybreak]

\protect

\starttext

\input knuth
\fancybreak{$* * *$}
\input ward

\page

\setupindenting[yes,medium]

\input knuth
\fancybreak{$* * *$}
\input ward

\stoptext

Wolfgang


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Re: Multiple pleas for help (long)

[Scott Steele]

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>
> Am 01.06.10 00:29, schrieb Scott Steele:

> If anyone has any insight on how to keep the footnotes from having

> their numbers in the margin and from having line-breaks after each

> one, that is the only issue from the original email that is still

> unsolved, I think.

>

> ———

>

> In Latex, \fancybreak was part of a package called, I believe,

> fancyheader or fancypage. It produced a break frequently seen in

> published prose (I'm currently reading {\em Bluebeard} where Kurt

> Vonnegut uses it liberally) with significant vertical space between

> two paragraphs and, centered both in that vertical space as well as

> horizontally, a number of well-spaced marks. There are usually 3

> marks, and they are frequently asterisks or traditional

> dingbats/fleurons. This sort of break is generally used when the

> author wishes to indicate a break more significant than a change in

> paragraph but short of an outright new chapter.

>

> \def\FancyBreak{\par\blank\hfill* * *\hfill\hfill\par\blank}

> \starttext

> \input tufte

> \FancyBreak

> \input tufte

> \stoptext

>

> I don't understand why I need the two consecutive \hfill's at the end

> for the marks to be centered, but the definition works well for me.


> \unprotect


> \def\????fb{@@@@fb}


> \getparameters

[\????fb]

[\c!spacebefore=,

\c!spaceafter=]


> \def\fancybreakparameter#1%


>
> {\csname\????fb\ifcsname\????fb\currentfancybreak#1\endcsname\currentfancybreak\fi#1\endcsname}


> \def\setupfancybreak

{\dodoubleempty\dosetupfancybreak}


> \def\dosetupfancybreak[#1][#2]%

{\ifsecondargument

\getparameters[\????fb#1][#2]%

\else

\getparameters[\????fb][#1]%

\fi}


> \def\definefancybreak

{\dodoubleempty\dodefinefancybreak}


> \def\dodefinefancybreak[#1][#2]%

{\ifsecondargument

\getparameters[\????fb#1][#2]%

\fi

\setvalue{#1}{\dofancybreak{#1}}}


> \def\dofancybreak#1%

{\begingroup

\edef\currentfancybreak{#1}%

\everyvbox{\raggedcenter}%

\dowithnextbox

{\blank[\fancybreakparameter\c!spacebefore]%

\flushnextbox

\blank[\fancybreakparameter\c!spaceafter]%

\endgroup}

\normalvbox}


> \definefancybreak[fancybreak]


> \protect


> \starttext

\input knuth

\fancybreak{$* * *$}

\input ward

\stoptext


> Wolfgang


>
> ___________________________________________________________________________________




Thanks a lot for all of that! I'm having trouble getting it to run, though.
I tried copy/pasting it into the Context Live site but get

! Argument of \fancybreakparameter has an extra }.
<inserted text>
                \par
<to be read again>
                   }
\edefconvertedargument #1#2->\edef #1{#2}
                                         \edef #1{\detokenize \@EA {#1}}
\docomplexdoblank ...convertedargument \ascii {#1}
                                                  \ifcsname \??bo \??bo \asc...

\dodowithnextbox ...reakparameter \c!spacebefore ]
                                                  \flushnextbox \blank [\fan...
l.52 \fancybreak{$* * *$}

?
! Emergency stop.
<inserted text>
                \par
<to be read again>
                   }
\edefconvertedargument #1#2->\edef #1{#2}
                                         \edef #1{\detokenize \@EA {#1}}
\docomplexdoblank ...convertedargument \ascii {#1}
                                                  \ifcsname \??bo \??bo \asc...

\dodowithnextbox ...reakparameter \c!spacebefore ]
                                                  \flushnextbox \blank [\fan...
l.52 \fancybreak{$* * *$}



Thanks,

Scott
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Re: Multiple pleas for help (long)

[Wolfgang Schuster]

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Am 10.05.10 02:28, schrieb Scott Steele:
> Thanks so much for the help! Pleas 1, 2, 5, and 6 are completely 
> solved. (In particular, Mojca, the fix for accents is fantastic!) I 
> wasn't able to get \Frowny to work any better with the advice 
> provided, but I found that when I scaled it down, it stopped knocking 
> the text off the grid, and I have a hard time telling the difference 
> in size between the old and new.
>
> % New (works) :
> \useexternalfigure[frowny][Frowny][factor=7,type=pdf]
> \def\Frowny{\hbox{\externalfigure[frowny]}}
> \useexternalfigure[smiley][Smiley][factor=7,type=pdf]
> \def\Smiley{\hbox{\externalfigure[smiley]}}
> \useexternalfigure[slashy][Slashy][factor=7,type=pdf]
> \def\Slashy{\hbox{\externalfigure[slashy]}}

\def\Slashy{\dontleavehmode\smash[h]{\externalfigure[slashy]}}

the height of the picture is now ignored

> I'm currently working on the Table of Contents formatting. I'm trying 
> to format it as follows:

\define[3]\SectionListEntry
   {\noindent
    \simplealignedbox{left}  {2cm}{#2}%
    \simplealignedbox{middle}{5mm}{·}%
\simplealignedbox{right} {3cm}{#3}}

\setuplist
   [section]
   [alternative=command,
    command=\SectionListEntry]

Wolfgang


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Re: Multiple pleas for help (long)

[Scott Steele]

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Thanks so much for the help! Pleas 1, 2, 5, and 6 are completely solved. (In
particular, Mojca, the fix for accents is fantastic!) I wasn't able to get
\Frowny to work any better with the advice provided, but I found that when I
scaled it down, it stopped knocking the text off the grid, and I have a hard
time telling the difference in size between the old and new.

% New (works) :
\useexternalfigure[frowny][Frowny][factor=7,type=pdf]
\def\Frowny{\hbox{\externalfigure[frowny]}}
\useexternalfigure[smiley][Smiley][factor=7,type=pdf]
\def\Smiley{\hbox{\externalfigure[smiley]}}
\useexternalfigure[slashy][Slashy][factor=7,type=pdf]
\def\Slashy{\hbox{\externalfigure[slashy]}}



I'm currently working on the Table of Contents formatting. I'm trying to
format it as follows:

\starttable[|r|c|l|]
subjectName · pageNumber\MR
subjectName · pageNumber\MR
...etc...
\stoptable % Of course, where I don't actually input it subject by subject
like this.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to position the table on the page by deciding
where the center line of single dots is (eg a setup where the dots are in
the very center of the page layout or another setup where they are
two-thirds of the textblock/pagelayout size (I'm not sure what the correct
term is here) to the right).

I've tried a number of different ways to set this up. This is the only thing
close to what I want that I can get to work, but of course, it doesn't have
the dots aligned:

\def\ListCommand#1#2#3%
{
\starttabulate[|r|c|l|]
\NC #2\NC ·\NC #3
 \stoptabulate
}

\def\TableOfContents
{
\placelist[section]
 [criterium={chapter,subject}, alternative=command,
command=\ListCommand]
}

Here's an example of what I tried to do but which doesn't work:

\def\ListCommandOne#1#2#3%
{#2\NC}
\def\ListCommandTwo#1#2#3%
{·\NC}
\def\ListCommandThree#1#2#3%
{#3\NC}

\def\TableOfContents
{
\starttabulate[|l|l|l|]
\NC
 \placelist[section]
[criterium={chapter,subject}, alternative=command,
command=\ListCommandOne]
 \NC
\placelist[section]
[criterium={chapter,subject}, alternative=command,
 command=\ListCommandTwo]
\NC
\placelist[section]
 [criterium={chapter,subject}, alternative=command,
command=\ListCommandThree]
 \stoptabulate
}

Obviously that attempt—aside from not working—is incredibly un-elegant and
could quickly screw things up with misaligned names and page numbers. Here
is another attempt:

\def\ListCommand#1#2#3{#2 · #3\MR}

\def\TableOfContents
{
\starttable[|r|c|l|]
\placelist[section]
[criterium={chapter,subject}, alternative=command,
 command=\ListCommand]
\stoptable
}

I think part of my problem is that I really don't understand what placelist
{\em is} or what it is doing. Is this something that would be clearer only
if I knew more about plain Tex?

Note: I'm putting \TableOfContents in the frontmatter.



Scott

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Re: Multiple pleas for help (long)

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 00:44, Scott Steele wrote:
>
> 6
> Does Xetex or Context have a facility for positioning accents over letters
> when those particular combinations are not in the font? (Or should I just go
> ahead and do this manually in Fontforge?)

In LuaTeX (ConTeXt MKIV) you can simply say compose=yes when defining
font features (assuming that this still works). If you'll want to use
LuaTeX and need the exact definition, I'll look it up.

Else here's the solution that should work in XeTeX:

\starttext
% this one will be taken from the font
Č
% but you can also define the character to be active
\catcode`Č=\active
% and then use the "ConTeXt" way of composing accents
\defČ{\buildtextaccent\textcaron C}
% and every letter will be composed from that moment on
Č
\stoptext

With pdfTeX you would typically redefine \ccaron instead. (The letter
itself is already active and \defČ might not work there.)

Mojca
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Re: Multiple pleas for help (long)

[R. Bastian]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:44:04 -0400
Scott Steele <scottlsteele@gmail.com> scribit:
[...]
> 1
> How do I make bulleted lists not have lines between items in the list?

Try \startitemize[packed]

[...
>
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Re: Multiple pleas for help (long)

[Wolfgang Schuster]

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Am 27.04.10 00:44, schrieb Scott Steele:
> Hullo, all. I've been trying for 3 months now to get my last 2 years' 
> worth of journal entries satisfactorily typeset for printing on 
> lulu.com <http://lulu.com>. This is my first major project using 
> Context (with the Xetex engine—the current procedures required by 
> Pdftex to set up and manage fonts are too intimidating for me (I {\em 
> did} try it.)) as I'm no longer in school and had typeset the 
> preceding year's worth of entries in Latex. I started to use (xe)Latex 
> again this time but gave up in frustration with all of the predefined 
> formatting, which I've moved away from as I've read more of Robert 
> Bringhurst.
>
> Anyway, I have a number of problems.
>
> I apologize for putting them all into one message and for failing to 
> find solutions elsewhere on the site. I've looked around a great deal, 
> but am hampered in doing so by my limiting of my internet time with an 
> {\sc ems} PowerCop (otherwise, I'd be on Wikipedia until they decided 
> to lock me away). (I do my writing, editing, and typesetting on a 
> little internet-crippled netbook with CrunchBang and Vim.)
>
> I'll include my current preämble information at the end of this 
> message in case it is useful in addressing any of my issues. If 
> they're addressed elsewhere, I'd be thrilled with links. If they're 
> not, I'd greatly appreciate any help.
>
> I've found solutions to a number of previous problems, but here are 
> all that I believe are in the way of my finishing this project:
>
> 1
> How do I make bulleted lists not have lines between items in the list?
\startitemize[packed]
>
> 2
> Is it possible to push the bullets for bulleted lists into the margin 
> (and then have the text of each item start at the same level of 
> indentation as normal text)? Also, given my target printing medium, 
> this would require alteration of the space between the bullet mark and 
> its text—how do I alter this and the glyph used as the bullet mark?
\startitemize[margin]
> 3
> Is it possible to alter the way footnotes are displayed? I might want 
> to have new footnotes follow previous ones with a 3-em space rather 
> than starting a new line in the footer. And if I go that route, I'd 
> need a way to pull the footer number in from the margin.
>
> 4
> How can I adjust the formatting settings for the frontmatter (title 
> page, table of contents) and backmatter (colophon, appendices, index). 
> In general, I need to be able to set whether page numbers are used and 
> what kind and positioning of the text on the page. In particular, how 
> do I change the formatting for items in the table of contents (and 
> what glyph/spacing go between the item's title and corresponding page 
> number as well as how all of those elements are positioned)?
Look for \setuplist[...] in the wiki and manuals.
> 5
> How can I have either unnumbered sections, or subjects that appear in 
> the table of contents?
\setuphead[subject][incrementnumber=list]
> 6
> Does Xetex or Context have a facility for positioning accents over 
> letters when those particular combinations are not in the font? (Or 
> should I just go ahead and do this manually in Fontforge?)
>
> 7
> Is there a built-in equivalent of the \fancybreak function from Latex? 
> I think I know now how to put something like it together manually but 
> don't want go the amateur route if there's something more polished 
> available.
What is \fanybreak supposed to do?
> 8
> Since this is just a journal, I have used simple emoticons (don't 
> laugh!). I tweaked a vector smiley from Wikimedia to get a frowny and 
> slashy, and they work well except for when they end up on the first 
> (printed) text line of a page. I have one page that has a subject 
> title on the grid but that is followed by a (logical) line with a 
> smiley that ends up on its first printed line. This printed line and 
> all of the rest of the text on the page (including another subject 
> title) sit several points (approx) lower than where they should (so 
> that the grid lines bisect the bowls of all the lower-case a's). There 
> is another page that does not start with a subject title but directly 
> with a printed line containing an emoticon, and it has exactly the 
> same problem as the first page, with the text sitting just low enough 
> that the grid lines bisect the bowls of the lower-case a's. Pages with 
> emoticons on them do not exhibit this problem when the emoticon is not 
> on the first printed line, and all lines remain correctly positioned 
> on the grid. You can see below how I'm putting in the emoticons.
You can write '\dontleavehmode\Frowny' or you include \dontleavehmode in 
the defintion itself

\def\Frowny{\dontleavehmode\externalfigure[frowny]}

Wolfgang


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Multiple pleas for help (long)

[Scott Steele]

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Hullo, all. I've been trying for 3 months now to get my last 2 years' worth
of journal entries satisfactorily typeset for printing on lulu.com. This is
my first major project using Context (with the Xetex engine—the current
procedures required by Pdftex to set up and manage fonts are too
intimidating for me (I {\em did} try it.)) as I'm no longer in school and
had typeset the preceding year's worth of entries in Latex. I started to use
(xe)Latex again this time but gave up in frustration with all of the
predefined formatting, which I've moved away from as I've read more of
Robert Bringhurst.

Anyway, I have a number of problems.

I apologize for putting them all into one message and for failing to find
solutions elsewhere on the site. I've looked around a great deal, but am
hampered in doing so by my limiting of my internet time with an {\sc ems}
PowerCop (otherwise, I'd be on Wikipedia until they decided to lock me
away). (I do my writing, editing, and typesetting on a little
internet-crippled netbook with CrunchBang and Vim.)

I'll include my current preämble information at the end of this message in
case it is useful in addressing any of my issues. If they're addressed
elsewhere, I'd be thrilled with links. If they're not, I'd greatly
appreciate any help.

I've found solutions to a number of previous problems, but here are all that
I believe are in the way of my finishing this project:

1
How do I make bulleted lists not have lines between items in the list?

2
Is it possible to push the bullets for bulleted lists into the margin (and
then have the text of each item start at the same level of indentation as
normal text)? Also, given my target printing medium, this would require
alteration of the space between the bullet mark and its text—how do I alter
this and the glyph used as the bullet mark?

3
Is it possible to alter the way footnotes are displayed? I might want to
have new footnotes follow previous ones with a 3-em space rather than
starting a new line in the footer. And if I go that route, I'd need a way to
pull the footer number in from the margin.

4
How can I adjust the formatting settings for the frontmatter (title page,
table of contents) and backmatter (colophon, appendices, index). In general,
I need to be able to set whether page numbers are used and what kind and
positioning of the text on the page. In particular, how do I change the
formatting for items in the table of contents (and what glyph/spacing go
between the item's title and corresponding page number as well as how all of
those elements are positioned)?

5
How can I have either unnumbered sections, or subjects that appear in the
table of contents?

6
Does Xetex or Context have a facility for positioning accents over letters
when those particular combinations are not in the font? (Or should I just go
ahead and do this manually in Fontforge?)

7
Is there a built-in equivalent of the \fancybreak function from Latex? I
think I know now how to put something like it together manually but don't
want go the amateur route if there's something more polished available.

8
Since this is just a journal, I have used simple emoticons (don't laugh!). I
tweaked a vector smiley from Wikimedia to get a frowny and slashy, and they
work well except for when they end up on the first (printed) text line of a
page. I have one page that has a subject title on the grid but that is
followed by a (logical) line with a smiley that ends up on its first printed
line. This printed line and all of the rest of the text on the page
(including another subject title) sit several points (approx) lower than
where they should (so that the grid lines bisect the bowls of all the
lower-case a's). There is another page that does not start with a subject
title but directly with a printed line containing an emoticon, and it has
exactly the same problem as the first page, with the text sitting just low
enough that the grid lines bisect the bowls of the lower-case a's. Pages
with emoticons on them do not exhibit this problem when the emoticon is not
on the first printed line, and all lines remain correctly positioned on the
grid. You can see below how I'm putting in the emoticons.


Many apologies for those answers that I failed to find, and thanks reading
the whole message,

Scott


See my current preämble below:

\version[final]

\definepapersize[pocket][width=4.25in,
height=6.875in]

\setuppapersize[pocket][pocket]

\setuplayout[location=middle,
width=0.815\paperwidth,
rightmargindistance=0in,
 leftmargindistance=0in,
height=middle,
margin=0.08\paperwidth,
 backspace=0.115\paperwidth,
marking=off,
grid=yes,
 topspace=0.018889\paperheight,
header=0.044444\paperheight,
footer=0.044444\paperheight,
 bottomspace=0.038889\paperheight]

\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,
location={footer}]

\setupinterlinespace[top=0.0] % `top=0.0' gets rid of unoccupied vertical
white space at the top of the first line

\setupwhitespace[big] % Turns on blank line between ¶’s

\definetypeface[jenson][rm][Xserif][Adobe Jenson Pro]
\setupbodyfont[jenson, 12pt]

% Emoticons
%——————————
\useexternalfigure[frowny][Frowny][factor=8,type=pdf]
\def\Frowny{\hbox{\externalfigure[frowny]}}

\useexternalfigure[smiley][Smiley][factor=8,type=pdf]
\def\Smiley{\hbox{\externalfigure[smiley]}}

\useexternalfigure[slashy][Slashy][factor=8,type=pdf]
\def\Slashy{\hbox{\externalfigure[slashy]}}


\setuptolerance[verytolerant] % Allows TeX to break lines even when doing so
would be 'ugly'

\showgrid

\startfrontmatter
\completecontent
\stopfrontmatter

\startbodymatter

\subject{2/25/08}
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