January 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Installation-problems
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

Hallo! I wanted to test the examples in 'metafun' from Hans Hagen: The first Example, just metapost ('red circle'), was translated in a PostScript-File. I viewed the output with bmv and got a blue quarter circle at the left lower origin. I viewed it then with gv and got a centered grey circle. The files rgb values are ok: 1,0,0 The second Example, with context, dosn't work. texexec couldn't find texexec.ini. I couldn't neither find texexec.ini nor texexec.rme, so I decided to install a new version of context. I unzipped cont-tmf.zip in /usr/share/texmf/ I missed the afm file for the included type1-font! I renamed texexec.rme to texexec.ini and edited the following two lines: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- set UsedInterfaces to de en nl metafun mptopdf set UserInterface to de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- then I renamed cont-usr.ori and cont-sys.ori to cont-usr.tex resp. cont-sys.tex texexec --make nl en de worked, but cont-de.efmt is copied to web2c cont-en.efmt and cont-nl.efmt is copied to /context/config (don't know if this was ok?) texexec --make metafun doesn't work (couldn't find cont-metafun) There is an other interface in UsedInterfaces in texexec.ini 'mptopdf' Should I make a formatfile for this too? There is an other way to make the formates with texconfig. Is that an alternativ way? I tried the above second example (named tst2.tex) and got: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- TeXExec 2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2000 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : tst2 output : standard interface : en current mode : all TeX run : 1 sh: cont-en: command not found run time : 0 seconds This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-14f-released-20000525-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1) ** ! End of file on the terminal... why? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- What happend? Why is cont-en used. I have selected 'de' as UserInterface in texexec. So I don't know what to do. Is there a fiendly answer to all of my questions? Wolfgang

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Typesetting Russian
by Pavel Stupin 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

Hello, Is it possible to typeset Russian texts in ConTeXt? I guess, the answer is 'yes', but I just don't know how to do that. Please advise me. Thank you in advance. Best wishes, Pavel.

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Xindy interfaced to Context
by John Culleton 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

I have completed my project to demonstrate the use of Xindy in conjunction with Context. The results are available in the following (identical) collections of files: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/culleton.zip http://wexfordpress.com/tex/culleton.tar.gz I look forward to a more elegant implementation by a more elegant programmer. But mine works for now. :-) Anyone who needs to index a non-English document in Context (or pdfetex or whatever) need only create an alphabet file and proceed onward. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters Rowse Reviews Culleton Editorial Services http://wexfordpress.com

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Installation Problem: "sh: cont-en: command not found"
by Pavel Stupin 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

Hello, I've downloaded the latest beta and tried to install ConTeXt following the steps described in minstall.pdf. So the format file was generated; however, 'texexec filename.tex' results in 'sh: cont-en: command not found' error message. What should I do to solve this problem? Thanks in advance. Best wishes, Pavel.

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Placeformula environment
by BOEDE 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

Hi Hans, At this moment I am dealing with some chemical formulae. I ought to place them always in such a way that the may use the width of the textarea independent of the fact that the \placeformula may occur within an itemisation. - How to do this? Some of the formulae are broader than the paper-width. So I tried to place the formulae in buffers, which are put into place with \placefigure[left][fig:DEZ1]{none}{\externalfigure[DEZ1][type=buffer,width=\ textwidth]}. There arise two questions: 1. It looks like that the sizing mechanism does not quite what I expect, because the formulae still stick out into the margin? 2. Independently from the way the \placefigure mechanisme is used, there is a problem with the following paragraph? Could you please have a look into this matter. See attached file Groet Willi

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Re: Fwd: Re: [NTG-context] sharps and flats and Euler (was Re: typo in math-tex)
by Adam Lindsay 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

>>\def\Flat{\symbol[Flat]} >>\def\Natural{\symbol[Natural]} >>\def\Sharp{\symbol[Sharp]} >> >>Are there any better ways of doing this? > >maybe create a symbol set (did you look in symb-*.tex ?) I think some >standardization in naming is needed here I got started by looking at symb-eur.tex. I'll look further for a better approach. >in order to get that working the basic math text font should be euler as >well; Sorry. I don't know what exactly you mean by that. Do you mean manually setting the math roman(?) font to eurm10? > also, you need to code all you numbers in the source as math, so >"about 25 years ago" becomes "about $25$ years ago"; Is this a necessity? I'd prefer my text font's numerals in text, and the math numerals in formulae. > euler was made by >hermann zapf and used in "concrete math" (nice book by knuth cum suis) >combined with concrete romman (afaik no type 1 available) It's a nice font. I found it matched with Charter really well, and after that, found that other people on the net seem to agree with me. I had followed up this email with the attached minimal test. It doesn't give the glyphs I expect. I've tried all sorts of combinations to try to trigger the math symbols in math-eul, but I don't get any closer than this. Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)1524 594 537 atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Long section headings in footertexts
by Adam Lindsay 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

Hi all, I have a user who likes to have long \chapter titles, like {This is my title: with a whole lot of specific clarification}. When we set footertexts to be [chapter], it collides into the opposite footer (date, in this case). What I'd like to do is have some way of picking up the first part of the chapter title ("This is my title") and put only that into the footer text. I would call this a "subtitle" in a way. It's related to the second half of this complaint Bruce made back in August: Bruce D'Arcus said this at Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:55:16 -0400: >Subtitles. Aside from the fact that one often wants to format >subtitles differently than titles, generally speaking headers that >include titles should not also include subtitles (and there is what I >consider a bug with long titles such that they run into the header on >the other side, rather than breaking into two lines) My temporary solution is to define an \AltFooter macro in the current environment where the user can manually switch to a short version of the chapter heading. As it is, however, I need a matching \ResetFooter macro for the end of the chapter. Anyone have any hints? Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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More in lang-ger.tex and a MetaPost problem
by Mikael Persson 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

Hi, I added som changes in lang-ger.tex some week ago. As I mentioned I forgot one headtext in lang-ger.tex. \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!inhoud=Inneh\aring l] should have one more l, that is: \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!inhoud=Inneh\aring ll] I also read in lang-ger.tex that there are some \definesortkey's for the norwegian language. I don't know why they are commented out (obsolete?). I tried to uncomment them and make a register that contains these additional letters (\aa,\ae,\o) but they still end up before A in the index. If they are correct for the norwegian language, then the swedish counterparts should look like this: %% SWEDISH % % These three letters (in this order) are the % last in the swedish alphabet (and hence should % come after z in the latin alphabet). % I'm not sure about the syntax for % \definesortkey so I left some of it open ... % % \startlanguagespecifics[\s!sv] % % \definesortkey {\aring}{z}{b}{\aring} % \definesortkey {\Aring}{z}{b}{\Aring} % \definesortkey {\aumlaut}{z}{c}{\aumlaut} % \definesortkey {\Aumlaut}{z}{c}{\Aumlaut} % \definesortkey {\oumlaut}{z}{d}{\oumlaut} % \definesortkey {\Oumlaut}{z}{d}{\Oumlaut} % % \stoplanguagespecifics I also saw this with activecharacters... The swedish counterpart should here be: % \startencoding[texnansi] % \startlanguagespecifics[\s!sv]% % \defineactivecharacter å {\aring{}} % \defineactivecharacter Å {\Aring{}} % \defineactivecharacter ä {\aumlaut{}} % \defineactivecharacter Ä {\Aumlaut{}} % \defineactivecharacter ö {\oumlaut{}} % \defineactivecharacter Ö {\Oumlaut{}} % \stoplanguagespecifics % \stopencoding At last, some questions: 1) How should I do to get Å,Ä,Ö last in the index? 2) I can't make the example on page 236 of the MetaFun manual (the one with a framed text with the Zapf (1) label). I use the following code: \startuseMPgraphic{FunnyFrame} picture p; numeric w, h, o; p:=textext.rt(\MPstring{FunnyFrame}) ; w:=OverlayWidth; h:=OverlayHeight; o:=BodyFontSize; p:=p shifted (2o,h-ypart center p); draw p; drawoptions (widhpen pencircle scaled 1pt); draw (2o,h)--(0,h)--(0,0)--(w,0)--(w,h)--(xpart urcorner p,h); draw boundingbox p; setbounds currentpicture to unitsquare xyscaled(w,h); \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[FunnyFrame][\useMPgraphic{FunnyFrame}] \defineframedtext[FunnyText][frame=off,background=FunnyFrame,width=fit] \def\StartFrame{\startFunnyText} \def\StopFrame{\stopFunnyText} \def\FrameTitle#1% {\setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{\hbox spread 1em{\hss\strut#1\hss}}} \setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{}% Initiate. Instead of the text in the label box I get the text "unknown". I type \FrameTitle{Test} \StartFrame This is just a test. \StopFrame Regards, Micke P

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XML typesetting -- a bug?
by AlterEgo Qasars 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

Good morning. Some time ago I've uploaded and installed new ConTeXt (ConTeXt ver: 2002.10.23 fmt: 2002.12.4 int: english mes: english). With it my XHTML documents cannot be processed (it worked with some older version). Now I obtain this very error message: ! Missing \endcsname inserted. <to be read again> \def \parseXMLelement #1#2 #3>->\def \currentXMLarguments {#3}\if #1/\chardef \ki... l.2 <HTML> What's wrong? Is it my stupidness or a bug in a new version of ConTeXt? I include a minimal example file. Many thanks and greetings to you all. Michal Kvasnicka

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pdf viewers
by Matthew Huggett 13 Jan '03

13 Jan '03

Hi: Does anyone know of an alternative to Xpdf or Acrobat for Linux? Xpdf seems really slow and the fonts look bad, and Acrobat under Linux is just not as good as it is under Windows. Best wishes, Matt

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