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\dots again
by Hraban 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

Ahoi Hans! While checking a book after installing the latest beta I recognized again that \dots{} does the wrong. The stops are taken from the *math* font, and that looks very ugly if there's no fitting math font for some text where I don't need any maths. (My text ist in ITC Berkeley, that has very tiny punctuations; CM or TX have rather fat dots.) I'd suggest to take the stops simply from the active text font -- or use the ellipsis character if the font has one. On the subject of spacing: The dots are too wide spread; Acrobat shows 1000 units, I'd suggest about 750 -- and about 500 before the first dot. Or did I misunderstand the whole thing, that I should use some other command for an ellipsis in text mode? Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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ConTeXt FAQ -- next generation?
by Hraban 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

Ahoi eXperts! I'd like to start another attempt for a ConTeXt-FAQ-o-matic. I'm too busy and too less able to do the whole work myself, so I'd be glad if the appropriate experts would take their part. We need... 1. a definition (Schema?) for the XML source 2. conversion patterns for ConTeXt (environment) and XHTML (XSLT?) 3. a web surface (with search engine, web edit form etc.) 4. last not least lots of entries I'd try to coordinate the whole project, will host the site, could care for 3 and help with the other, but first someone must take responsibility for 1 and 2. Any volunteers? Some requirements of the definition (1): - one XML file can contain all entries - an other file will contain redundant information like authors - each entry may contain several languages (I'd like to keep the door open for partly translations; I imagine that a web user sees his favourite language if available) - entry IDs must be in some way, that user contributions (files with several entries or corrections) can join in. - markup possibilities like WikiWeb (emphasis, enumeration, easy table, link) - proper code markup (e.g. for TeX, ConTeXt, shell, perl code) - additional (normally invisible) keywords for search engine (web) or index (TeX) - some flexible subject/subsubject structure - some versioning (also like WikiWeb: each user may change every entry, but an admin must be able to undo it) - someone suggested to use a DocBook subset; don't know if that's possible Requirement of the conversion (2): - easily adaptable to a new layout (web or print) - additional software must be open source and run on Debian Linux (SPARC) (web server) and MacOS X (my machine) Is anything of the above impossible? I suppose (1) will result in something like cookbook soups recipe id=hr-1 language lang=en original=yes title /title keywords /keywords ingredients item /item item /item /ingredients preparation much text with markup and code snippets /preparation /language language lang=de original=no title /title /language /recipe /soups desserts /desserts /cookbook Greets hoping for feedback and helping hands: Hraban. -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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Link dest in same document
by Patrick Gundlach 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Hello out there, how do I let the destination of a hyperlink do not affect the zoom level? (I.E. not /Fit but /XYZ in destination) Patrick -- Mehr Buchstaben - mehr Spass

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Underlining URLs
by Patrick Gundlach 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Hello ConTeXt users out there, I'd like to underline a hyperlink to an url (with \goto), so that it is visible while reading with the acrobat reader but not visible when printed. The default appearance is boldface. There are a lot of examples of these kind of hyperlinks out there. For example the xml spec (iirc the url is http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006.pdf) Does anybody know how to accomplish this? Patrick

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frame madness
by Hans van der Meer 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Hi Hans, I got a strange result with framing, where changing the framecolor changes the alignment of the framed block on the line. Isn't this a strange effect? Here is the code: % USING THE GREEN PRESENTATION STYLE \Subject{test} % THIS ONE IS TYPESET CENTERED ON THE LINE \startframedtext[middle]ABC\stopframedtext % THIS ONE IS TYPESET TO THE LEFT WITH RED FRAME \startframedtext[middle,framecolor=red]ABC\stopframedtext \stoptext Hans van der Meer

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Re: \startfiguretext problem
by Hans Hagen 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

At 11:09 AM 1/22/2003 +0000, you wrote: >Dear Hans, > >Again thanks for all your advice. I am still stuck. I have just sent the >message below to the list to see if someone out there has installed the >beta on a Mac and can offer help. Below is what I sent. the startfigure problem is solved in the next release, it had to do with added grouping in floats (needed for some fancy things); there will be more side float placement options, including half margin-text things, alignment, etc, also, backgrounds behind running text (the definetextbackground thing) will work in normal text as well as floats, tables and alike. 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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installing ConTeXt beta on MacG4
by Charles Doherty 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Dear All, Expecially those who use a Mac G4 OSX 10.2.3 and who have installed teTeX using Gerben's installer. Following a recent upgrade using Gerben's installer the command \startfiguretext no longer worked correctly. The console readout was as follows: TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : Silly output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10a-devel-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.8) entering extended mode (./Silly.tex{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/pdftex/config/pdftex. cfg): invalid line in config file: `pdf_minorversion 4' } ConTeXt ver: 2002.12.20 fmt: 2003.1.4 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-2 3:2-uk-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2 7:2-it-2 8:2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : Silly.top loaded (./Silly.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 1783] \ifcsname <unprotect 5> <protect 5> <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map systems : begin file Silly at line 1 <./DurrowClon.pdf> figures : dimensions of ./DurrowClon.pdf loaded from figurefile itself ! Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } <to be read again> \endgroup l.8 ...lfigure[DurrowClon][width=.5\makeupwidth] } ? I have been in contact with Hans who was very patient and suggested I install the recent beta. I have had no success although I have learned a lot about Terminal in the process. I recently found help on installing ConTeXt on : http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/ I modified his instructions to suit (as I thought) my machine but I have still not been successful. Below is what I used: cd 'Download Folder' sudo mv cont-tmf.zip /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/* sudo unzip -a -L -o cont-tmf.zip # overwrites existing files! # SuSE wants the executables here... # Note: in SuSE 7.2 the files were placed in .../i386- # linux-glibc/ # As of SuSE 8.1, they are in .../i386-linux-libc6/ # # Also in 8.1, the links seemed incorrect to me, so # I have added # a few new steps to try to correct them. # # C.D. I have changed the paths below to follow the # structure on my machine. sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texshow sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texutil sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfont sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfind sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/fdf2tan sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/makempy sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/mptopdf sudo cp context/perltk/texexec.pl /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec sudo cp context/perltk/texshow.pl /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texshow sudo cp context/perltk/texutil.pl /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texutil sudo cp context/perltk/texfont.pl /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfont sudo cp context/perltk/texfind.pl /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfind sudo cp context/perltk/fdf2tan.pl /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/fdf2tan sudo cp context/perltk/makempy.pl /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/makempy sudo cp context/perltk/mptopdf.pl /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/mptopdf sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texshow sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texutil sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfont sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfind sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/fdf2tan sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/makempy sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/mptopdf # Edit texexec.ini afterwards? sudo cp /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/context/config/texexec.rme /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/context/config/texexec.ini # Edit cont-sys.tex afterwards? sudo cp /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex sudo texhash sudo texexec --make --alone en nl # en = english nl = # dutch sudo texhash exit # from "su root" I would be most grateful if someone could send me the instructions or overwrite the above to allow me to install the latest ConTeXt beta. Thank you, Charlie ************** Charles Doherty, Department of Early Irish History, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 Ireland Telephone +353 1 7168381

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no colors in pdf-output
by alkauffm＠rz.uni-potsdam.de 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Hi all, if I put \setupoutput[pdf] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupcolor[rgb] \starttext \color[red]{asdf} \stoptext I get the text in the pdf-file without any color. Here is an extract from the log-file: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2c 7.3.7x) (format=cont-en 2002.12.23) 21 JAN 2003 11:35 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. ... color : system rgb is global activated ... Has anyone a hint? With many thanks in advance Albrecht

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marking and nup
by mickle＠escape.com 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

I am trying to setup a number of small pages (A8 size) to print on one letter size page, and I have been unable to determine how to accomplish my aim of seeing/printing crop marks, but not seeing/printing page numbers. I can't find the answer in the manuals, and I have failed in my attempts to manipulate \setuplayout and \setuppagenumbering successfully. Maybe someone can point the way to the solution... Following is my file: %output=pdftex \setuppapersize[A8,landscape][letter] \setupbodyfont[9pt] \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \setuplayout[topspace=2cm,location=middle,nx=2,ny=4,marking=on] \starttext {\hbox {\setupframed [align=middle,top=\vfill,bottom=\vfill, offset=overlay,frame=off]% \setupinterlinespace[height=.45,depth=.18,top=1.0,bottom=0.4,line=2.4ex] \setupunderbar[bottomoffset=.75ex] \framed {a few lines of text}}} \stoptext What I would like to obtain is something like: | | | | _ _ _ _ text text _ _ _ _ | | | | | | | | _ _ _ _ text text _ _ _ _ | | | | | | | | _ _ _ _ text text _ _ _ _ | | | | etc. What would also work would be: | | | _ _ _ _ text text _ | _ | _ | _ | | | text text _ | _ | _ | _ | | | etc. What I am getting, which doesn't work is: 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 _ _ _ _ text text 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 _ _ _ _ 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 text text etc. I can't get crop marks without numbers, sorry if the answer is obvious, but any help will be appreciated. pm

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Simple? PDF question
by Slawek Zak 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

I wonder if it's possible with PDFTex to obtain effect of document scrolling on every mouse click. I often find such mode in commercial documentation and it's really convenient. When it's enabled in PDF, the cursor changes into a hand with black arrow pointing downwards. I tried the PDFspec as well as the Acrobat JS guide, but cannot find anything similar. Ideas? :) Thanks, /S

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