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setup: defineinteractionmenu
by Patrick Gundlach 15 Jul '06

15 Jul '06

Hi there, while looking at a "next generation" texshow-web, I came across two defineinteractionmenu definitions in cont-en.xml with variant=1 (one should be 2). Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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[Fwd: [NTG-context] tracingmacros]
by Taco Hoekwater 14 Jul '06

14 Jul '06

Hi, We can't do what Hans asks right now, but it may be worthwhile to add a new if statement in some locations to support this (a similar issue is present for the output routine). If we have \newif\iftracingfonts Then maybe we can do \def\synchronizefont% {\iftracingfonts\else \tracingnone \fi ........ } or something similar is possible. WDYT? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [NTG-context] tracingmacros Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:25:51 +0200 From: Hans van der Meer <hansm(a)science.uva.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> To: NTG ConTeXt <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Usually I employ \tracingmacros=1 in order to find nasty problems in my macros. Font operations then produce a lot of noise in the log. Is it possible to shutdown these selectively? Hans van der Meer

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Re: [dev-context] [NTG-context] sample={99}
by Taco Hoekwater 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

David Arnold wrote: > All, > > Was I surprised to find that my numbering went to multiples of 2 when > I added the option sample={99}. Is this a bug? Yes, a bug. The local logic in core-des.tex (\@@dostartdescription) is not taking into account trial typesetting runs, so the counter is typeset twice and incremented twice: first for the 'sampled' measuring, then for 'real'. Patched version diff in attachment. Cheers, taco

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Re: [dev-context] [NTG-context] Stopcolumns New Page?
by Taco Hoekwater 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

David Arnold wrote: > All, > > Why is it when I stop two column mode I get a page break with the > following? Looks like a bug. Hans, do you want me to track this down? Taco

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Re: [dev-context] [NTG-context] Problems with columnsets and \startbackground \stopbackground
by Taco Hoekwater 02 Jul '06

02 Jul '06

Hi Olaf, Olaf Mersmann wrote: >>It is probably a bug, but it is not likely that it will get fixed >>soon. \startbackground is an 'old' command, columnsets are 'new' >>and the interaction is not always perfect. > > Is this documented in the manuals and I missed it or simply something > one learns with time? If it's not documented, maby it could be posted > on contextgarden? I do not think anything is in the manual, it is one of those situations that grow over time: there are perceived limits in a specific solution (like \startbackgrounds) so Hans writes an alternate subsystem (like \starttextbackgrounds) that slowly becomes powerful enough to take over the original. The documentation is normally not updated until 100% of the old functionality is available in the new subsystem. A page with 'deprecated / outdated' commands on the wiki would certainly be helpful, I agree with that. (CC context dev list) Taco

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another textext distraction
by Mojca Miklavec 26 Jun '06

26 Jun '06

Hello Hans, before I forget: yes, plese remove the semicolon in \def\sometxt in meta-tex.tex if you didn't already. (Unless you see some special reason why it should be left there.) And then: while trying to convince David to drop the usage of "btex ... etex" I tried (something like) this: \startMPinclusions def something = draw textext("abc"); % guess what! draw (btex def etex) shifted (0,5mm); enddef; \stopMPinclusions \starttext \startMPcode something; \stopMPcode \stoptext But it's probably up to you to convince him about that now - I ran out of ideas. I thought that nothing could go wrong any more ;) Mojca

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sometxt vs textext
by Aditya Mahajan 25 Jun '06

25 Jun '06

Hi, How can I replace the following textext code to use sometxt? \startMPpage numeric u ; u := 1cm ; for i = 0 upto 5: dotlabel.bot(textext("$X_{" & decimal(i+1) & "}"), (i*u,0)); endfor ; \stopMPpage Also is sometxt supposed to be a replacement for textext in the long run? Thanks Aditya

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database bug
by Mojca Miklavec 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

On 6/19/06, Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> wrote: > Hans Hagen wrote: > >> Just a side note: I noticed the new database module already in the > >> beta, but the first Hans's fix (before Taco has touched it) introduced > >> a new "tab-bug" which hasn't been quite resolved yet. If > >> "separator=tab", it should trigger catcode change of tab to a "normal > >> letter" and use that one for separating columns. Well, indeed it seems > >> that the catcode is changed, but then I get the letter number 9 in EC > >> font (macron) instead of going to new column. > > > > so what patc is needed > > > --- m-database.tex~ 2006-06-19 16:08:51.282834397 +0200 > +++ m-database.tex 2006-06-19 16:23:12.886574121 +0200 > @@ -178,9 +178,12 @@ > {\executeifdefined > {\??ls::\csname\??ls\currentseparatedlist\c!separator\endcsname}% > {\csname\??ls\currentseparatedlist\c!separator\endcsname}}% > + \doifinstringelse{tab} > + {\getvalue{\??ls\currentseparatedlist\c!separator}} > + {\catcode`\^^I=12 }{}% > \ifx\currentlistseparator\empty\def\currentlistseparator{,}\fi} > > -\setvalue{\??ls::tab}{ } > +{\catcode`\^^I=12 \setgvalue{\??ls::tab}{ }} > \setvalue{\??ls::space}{ } > \setvalue{\??ls::comma}{,} That's slightly better, but can you please also check the following: \defineseparatedlist [CSV] [separator=comma, before=\bTABLE,after=\eTABLE, first=\bTR,last=\eTR, left=\bTD,right=\eTD] % I would expect an empty cell between "a" and "b", but the second cell starts with comma instead - I guess that it worked OK in the first version \startseparatedlist[CSV] a,,b,c d,e,f \stopseparatedlist Thanks, Mojca

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new mp feature
by Hans Hagen 19 Jun '06

19 Jun '06

Hi, In order to make sure that Mojca will not enter stress mode due to her gnuplot commitments, and also to give other textext users a way out, we now have a new feature: texts processed inside the tex run. (yet to be tested in intermediate runs, but in the future we may stick to runtime completely (experiments with persitent mp runs are pretty promissing). Attached is a test file. The interesting thing is that one can now have arbitrary content in a mp textext (different name btw). Beware: the current context is used so one needs to feed specific settings using the mp environment or else. Normally this is no big problem. I may change the name of \sometxt (not sure yet). There is some trickery involved in expanding the \sometxt and it took me a while to figure out a good way to make the text manipuletable by mp in the usual way while still keeping the real thing inside tex. It may learn you a few tricks -) I'm currently uploading the release (beta) that supports this (plus A's static graphics in disguise) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [dev-context] [NTG-context] texmfstart texutil
by Taco Hoekwater 09 Jun '06

09 Jun '06

Hans, maybe you can add something to ctxtools.rb that executes system("chmod +x scripts/context/unix/stubs/*") when the current platform is not a microsoft one? I believe fixing the stubs is a part of the update process. Cheers, Taco Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > Hans van der Meer wrote: > >>For those on UNIX(-like) systems that have only texmfstart.rb enabled >>as executable (chmod a+x texmfstart.rb) this will not work as none >>the ruby scripts in the distribution seem to have their execution >>bits set. > > >>The next seems mandatory if only texmfstart is enabled: texmfstart >>ctxtools --purge > > > There is a whole bunch of shell stubs in the distribution, in > > scripts/context/stubs/unix > > but currently you always have to redo the "chmod +x" after each update > because the execution permission bit is not kept in the zip, so it > gets trashed during the unzip operation. > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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