December 2002 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

ConTeXt or Omega?
by Matthew Huggett 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

Hi: I know that some people are using ConTeXt with Omega. What's the benefit to using Omega instead of a native ConTeXt module? Is it better to develop ConTeXt's language handling capablilities (as with the Chinese package) or use Omega OTPs? Thanks, Matt

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page breakes in \bTD \eTD / \chapter in \bTD
by Tobias Burnus 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

Hi, I try to HTML->PDF some HTML pages using ConTeXt. Unfortunally, some of them contain tables for layout reasons. Seemingly there is no pagebreak possible within a \bTD. Any ideas what to do in this case? An additional problem is that <td><h2>foo</h2></td> appear. which gets translated as: \defineXMLsingular[h2] \section \defineXMLenvironment[table] \bTABLE \eTABLE \defineXMLnested[tr] \bTR \eTR \defineXMLnested[td] \bTD \eTD \defineXMLnested[th] \bTH \eTH How should I define "h2" in order to get a section (bookmarks, table of contents) within that bTD ... eTD, currently 'foo' is rendered in the normal textsize. Tobias PS: If you want to play with the very premature version: http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~tburnus/html2pdf-2/?url1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.p… -- This above all: To thine own self be true / And it must follow as the night the day / Thou canst not then be false to any man.

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About texmf.cnf
by Eduardo Cassiraga 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Hi: My latex-context installation have not the "texmf.cnf" file so I can´t to enable \write18 in order ti run the presentation's styles correctly. Is this a problem of my system? If the "texmf.cnf" must be on my PC, where could I get it, please? Thank you very much. Eduardo F. Cassiraga Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente Universidad Politécnica de Valencia C/. Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia - SPAIN Tel: +34 963 879 613 Fax: +34 963 877 618 E-mail: efc(a)dihma.upv.es

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MPOST enabled
by Eduardo Cassiraga 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Hi: I am trying to compile the follow file with context: \usemodule[pre-03] \starttext \TitlePage{A simple presentation} \Topics{Hola1} \Topic{Hola2} \Topic{Hola3} \Subject{Hola4} \Subject{Hola5} \stoptext And the results are not good. The *.log file is the attachment. I can read some "error" sentences about a mpost. Could somebody give me an advise, please? Thank you very much. Eduardo F. Cassiraga Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente Universidad Politécnica de Valencia C/. Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia - SPAIN Tel: +34 963 879 613 Fax: +34 963 877 618 E-mail: efc(a)dihma.upv.es

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m-bib: simple references not working
by Rob van Swol 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Hi, I am trying to get my document references right using the m-bib module. All kind of options I played with are doing fine except for the most simple one, which happens to be the one I prefer. Consider de following test document: \setupoutput[pdftex] \usemodule[bib] \startpublication[k=r1] \artauthor[]{Peter}[P.]{}{Peters} \arttitle{Document 1} \stoppublication \startpublication[k=r2] \artauthor[]{Jan}[J.]{de}{Vries} \arttitle{Document 2} \stoppublication \setuppublications[numbering=yes,refcommand=num] \setupcite[num][compress=no] \starttext This is reference two: \cite[r2]. And this is reference one: \cite[r1]. Both references: \cite[num][r1,r2]. \placepublications \stoptext It produces: This is reference two: [2]. And this is reference one: [2]. Both references: [2, 2]. 1 de Vries, J..Document 2. . 2 Peters, P..Document 1. . I always get a reference to document n where n is the number of documents referred to. This is the tui file: c \thisissectionseparator{:} c \thisisutilityversion{1998.12.20} f b {bibtest} c \initializevariable\usedcolorchannels{} c \listentry{pubs}{1}{1}{\typesetapublication {r2}}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::1}{1} c \listentry{pubs}{2}{2}{\typesetapublication {r1}}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::1}{1} c \mainreference{}{r2}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::1}{1}{\bibcounter } c \mainreference{}{r1}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::1}{1}{\bibcounter } f e {bibtest} c \initializevariable\lastpage{1} c \initializevariable\lastpagenumber{1} c \initializevariable\totalnumberofMPgraphics{0} c \initializevariable\totalnofpositions{0} c \initializevariable\totalnofparbackgrounds{0} c \initializevariable\currentstrategypass{1} Do we have a bug here or is it something that I don't understand? Regards, Rob -- _____________________________________________________________ Rob W. van Swol National Aerospace Laboratory NLR Tel. +31 527 248252 P.O. Box 153 Fax +31 527 248210 8300 AD Emmeloord E-Mail vanswol(a)nlr.nl The Netherlands http://www.neonet.nl/

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extra spacing
by Hans van der Meer 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

With math followed by a \crlf extra spacing is introduced in the math. For example: Test \crlf (1) inverse $b\rightarrow b^{-1}$ \crlf (2) inverse $b\rightarrow b^{-1}$\hfill\null \crlf (3) inverse $b\rightarrow b^{-1}$ In line (1) extra white is introduced around the white arrow. In line (2) the fix is given, allthough not a problem ii is a nuisance. In line (3) one sees it is the \crlf that lets the math expand because here no extra white. Is this a feature or has this phenomenon escaped attention hitherto? Hans van der Meer

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utf 8 / test file
by Hans Hagen 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Hi, I posted http://www.pragma-ade.com/temp/titus.pdf now, one thing with unicode (utf) is that support needs to have an associated font / language switch. Traditionally, tex font mechanisms have been complicated by the fact that there are many shapes per font and math has to be dealt with. If we're dealing with say sanskrit, is it then safe to assume that (1) we can switch to the language (if not yet done) when we encounter a unicode from the associated char/glyph range (2) can we assume that a relatively simple font mechanism is used (normal,bold,slanted) (3) can we assume that only a few (possibly derived from unicode) fonts are used, or at least one main type of font per language (4) can we standardize on utf-8 [and assume some preprocessor if not] [let's try to deal with the practical, so what's the practical usage] Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Presentation that use metafun
by Eduardo Cassiraga 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Hi: I have generated all formats with: texexec --make --alone Now, I am trying to compile the presentation that Hans include in context distribution. The results with original style are perfect but those style that include metafun graphics didn't work. I uncomment the line \runMPgraphicstrue in the cong-sys.tex file (as indicate in the presentation user's guide) but the results are not good. ¿Which is the rigth site of conf-sys.tex file? ¿c:\textmf\context\config\? Thanks a lot. Eduardo F. Cassiraga Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente Universidad Politécnica de Valencia C/. Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia - SPAIN Tel: +34 963 879 613 Fax: +34 963 877 618 E-mail: efc(a)dihma.upv.es

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how to use system fonts?
by Michael Na Li 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

I've read the relevant docs (mfonts.pdf, etc) but still can't figure out how to switch fonts in context. In LaTeX, I just use \usepackage{times} or \usepackage{utopia} to switch fonts (just the basic ones came with tetex). I expect something similar in ConTeXt but that is not the case. This compiles but doesn't have any effect on fonts, (unknown variant times and utopia). \setupbodyfont[times] \starttext This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \switchtobodyfont[utopia] This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \stoptext If I follow the instruction on http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html and I can create some type-x.tex file for the fonts, like \usetypescriptfile[type-charter] \usetypescriptfile[type-utopia] \usetypescript[Charter] \usetypescript[Utopia] \setupbodyfont[MyCharter] \starttext This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \switchtobodyfont[MyUtopia] This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \stoptext But shouldn't those typescripts be already set up? I'm not installing new fonts here. I can see the names 'times', 'helvet', 'palatino' etc in the system type-*.tex file and those files are read during the compilation. How can I use them? I have \usetypescript [map] [default,\defaultencoding] \usetypescript [berry] [\defaultencoding] in my $TEXMF/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex file. Thanks, Michael -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Na Li Email: lina(a)u.washington.edu Department of Biostatistics, Box 357232 University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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texexec
by Matthew Huggett 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

Hi: I just re-installed TeX (fpTeX) and I have a question about running texexec. I've followed the instructions in the texexec manual--i.e., customized and copied texexec.rme to texexec.ini-- but I still get the following error when I run texexec: locating ini file : not found by kpsewhich locating ini file : not found by searching locating ini file : no environment variable set locating ini file : not found in own path warning : texexec.ini not found, did you read 'texexec.rme'? the context/perltk directory is in my path. Any ideas as to what I'm missing? thanks in advance Matt

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