ConTeXt resembles LaTeX in being a system of TeX macro packages and helper scripts. ConTeXt has a fairly centralised development model, when compared to LaTeX's bazaar model, with much popular functionality provided by user-contributed packages. ConTeXt targets small publishers, aiming to provide ...
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How to add an APA-style citation with no author in ConTeXt?
I need to cite some articles which were created by some professional organizations, so no authors or editors are listed:
@Article{noname2012,
author = {},
title = {This is the title},
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Preventing page break in register between reference and page number (ConTeXt)
Problem: The page number of an reference in the register is set to th next page - pake breaking between the reference and the page number.
I do not know how to produce a smaller Example:
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How to renumber and redisplay additional references to a previous footnote if the previous appearance was several pages prior in ConTeXt?
I am using \setnotetext[footnote][0001]{This is a footnote.} to set a footnote's text and \note[footnote][0001] to create multiple references to it. When the footnote's first appearance, and later ...
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What is the equivalent of Biblatex in Context?
How do I do bibliography in Context, that is more than just bibtex? In the manual there is no explanation of this. Source code doesn't tell me much either...
Are there any "packages" that provide ...
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Placing text in the margin next to a figure using ConTeXt
What is a good way to place a short paragraph in the margin next to a figure in ConTeXt?
I've been trying the following code, but it places the \inmargin text at the base of the figure which only ...
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How to embed videos in pdf with ConTeXt?
I've heard that one can emped with ConTeXt videos in texfiles and in the resulting pdf-file. Hans Hagen wrote very briefly about videos in his manual, but there is no Minexample. I could not find ...
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Parallel text in Context
I need to type parallel text on facing pages (original text on right page and translation on left one) in Contex. I've used ledpar in Latex but wasn't satisfied with the results (text is aligned on a ...
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(ConTeXt MkIV) Text in PiechartMP
So I need to include some pie charts in my document. As I'm using Metapost for all graphics I tried using the PiechartMP Metapost package. But for some strange reason no text shows up, just a very ...
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\placeongrid and \moveongrid not working in ConTeXt
I am trying to use the grid features in ConTeXt, but some of the commands are somehow not recognized by the compiler.
Whenever I try to use the commands
\placeongrid or \moveongrid, the compiler ...
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Why is a page break added at the end of a column set in ConTeXt?
I have a document containing some 1-column and 2-column passages, mixed, e.g.:
This sentence has no column-
s.
This part of are balanced
the document such that t-
has two col- he lines are
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Set layout for the first page of Chapters in ConTeXt
When designing some documents, I hope I can set a global layout and another layout for the first page of all chapters. I have defined two layouts as follows:
\setuppagenumbering
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How do I get italic texts figures in ConTeXt?
Inside an italic section I want to place text figures (which should be italic as well). How do I achieve this? (The document is in ConTeXt MKII.)
Both of the following examples produces non italic ...
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PDF links generated by \cite do not work when using project component files
When using the project files shown below, links generated by \cite[…] are displayed as links, but when I click on them nothing happens.
But when \completepublications[…] is directly written in ...
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Providing Arguments to a Start-Stop
Mostly for the sake of doing so, I am writing a presentation in ConTeXt. I thought that defining a start-stop would be a good way to split up slides. So I have something like:
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Adjusting letterspacing in ConTeXt
I need to adjust the letterspacing of the font I'm using. I'm currently using the font like this:
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\definefontfeature[default][default][protrusion=quality,expansion=quality]
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Problems with multiple \starthanging \stophanging in ConTeXT
I'm trying to place multiple figures with additional side text using ConTeXT one after the other.
When there are two figures in a row they overlap. How should they be separated?
The following ...
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ConTeXt under cygwin
Since I couldn't use the first-setup.bat script behind my authentication based, HTTP only, corporate proxy, I went for cygwin.
I installed the version 20120628-1 of a package named ...
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How do I get ConTeXt to produce pdf files in one directory, the aux files in a second, and take the .tex files from a third?
I want to be able to cleanly use my letterhead template with many different input files.
I have created a shell scrip that invokes:
context --silent --purgeall --path=./img content/$1
But have ...
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No gridding for a single paragraph (ConTeXt)?
Is there a possibility to deactive grid=yes in the text for a single paragraph only? It should be something like \nogrid{ paragraph.... }. There is \placeongrid{} - but this does not allow ...
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ConTeXt: How to adjust the space before and after a section with respect to gridset
I use
grid=yes
in my setuplayout. With \showgrid I can see, that the space before and after a section is the same as before and after a subsection (3 lines before, and 2 lines after). But it would ...
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Get confused about the `command` option in some ConTeX \setup*
Since I switched to ConTeXt from plain TeX, I always get confused about macros in it. Now it is the command option in \setup* of ConTeXt.
In ConTeXt, some macros, like \setuphead, \setuplist, have ...
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Flushleft and flushright in the same line (ConTeXt)
I have the following macro
\mainlanguage [de]
\definepapersize[MyBook][A5]
\setuppapersize[MyBook][A5]
\definestartstop[Test][commands=\setups{Test}]
\def\Test{\doTest}
\def\Test[#1]{
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How to float/wrap figures in ConTeXt?
I have a simple two column document in ConTeXt. I tried to float/wrap the figures within text with `placefigure`, but it inserts the figures exactly where they are. This will leave a empty space in ...
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How to display an encyclopedia-like range of topics per chapter or per page in ConTeXt?
At the top of the page in many reference books or encyclopedias, there is always a range stating which topics are covered within a given area, e.g.:
A volume of encyclopedias will say "A-B" to ...
