From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/46552 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Devereux Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: specific document layout with ConTeXt Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:04:54 +0000 Message-ID: <87abag5dex.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> References: <4956D817.5050806@mos6581.org> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230491269 19984 80.91.229.12 (28 Dec 2008 19:07:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:07:49 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Dec 28 20:08:55 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LH10P-0001wS-8C for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:08:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2981FC21; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:07:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18172-05-2; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:06:13 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D4C21FBC5; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:06:13 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE961FBA8 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:06:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18252-01-12 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:05:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from cordelia.devereux.me.uk (cordelia.devereux.me.uk [217.169.15.178]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C088E1FC20 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:04:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [217.169.15.178] (helo=cordelia.devereux.me.uk ident=jd) by cordelia.devereux.me.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LH0wZ-0006ON-HD for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:04:55 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Aditya Mahajan's message of "Sun\, 28 Dec 2008 10\:56\:01 -0500 \(EST\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:46552 Archived-At: Aditya Mahajan writes: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Brecht Machiels wrote: > >> Looking at the countless documents that show off ConTeXt, it is >> obvious that it is very much possible of creating custom >> layouts. However, I wonder, how much TeX hacking is required? > > I have submitted around 3-4 IEEE conference documents using ConTeXt. I > am attaching my private t-IEEE.tex module, which takes care of > formatting things in IEEE format. I also have a bbl file for > formatting in IEEE style, which is used by the above module. > > Unfortunately, I do not have any documentation (this was meant to be a > private module). It also has a lot of private macros which are not > layout specific, but I use them in almost all my documents. I haven't > used this style in almost 6 months, so they may not conform to the > latest spec. (IEEE keeps on changing specs with time and with > conferences, which is a bit frustating). > > If others are interested, I can also release it on ConTeXt garden and > provide some documentation. > > Aditya Hi Aditya, In general I find other peoples "templates" very educational. > PS: In your environment file you have > > \setuplayout[ > header = 0pt, > footer = 0pt, > headerdistance = 0pt, > footerdistance = 0pt, > top = 1.125in, > topdistance = 0pt, > bottom = 1.125in, > bottomdistance = 0pt, > leftedge = 0.85in, > rightedge = 0.85in, > height = fit] > > ConTeXt will silently ignore all of this. You must not have space > between keywords and options. Write this as I've been using context, on and off, for 5 years and I did not know that! Does anyone know if there is a way to get context to stop when it sees an unknown option, instead of silently ignoring it? 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