February 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

FLOWcharts: stray arrows in clipped regions
by "Hüsing, Johannes" 12 Mar '03

12 Mar '03

Dear all, when I process the file attached, I get arrows where they don't belong. Could somebody guide me to what I am doing wrong here? Groetjes Johannes

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naming relative paths within a project
by Guy Worthington 12 Mar '03

12 Mar '03

I've got a very short question, but coupled to a very long explanation, my question is: when referencing a component file from within a product file (and given that the component file is stored in the same directory as the product file, which is in a sub-directory below my project file) must I include the relative path of the component file from my project directory, through my sub-directories to my component file, or can I just refer to the component's filename. Now here is the actual example. I've done a little bit of ASCII artwork below showing the directory structure that I'm following. My artwork isn't the best, so I've also include some explanation. Project | ---- EnviromentPageLayout.tex (global environment file) | ---- Project.tex (project file) | |----| | FrontMatter (directory) | | | ---- EnvironmentFrontMatter.tex (local environment file) | | | ---- ProductFrontMatter.tex (product file) | | | ---- TitlePage.tex (component file) | | | ---- Contents.tex (component file) | | | ---- Preface (component file) | |----| | BodyMatter (directory) | | | ---- EnvironmentBodyMatter.tex (local environment file) | | | ---- ProductBodyMatter.tex (product file) | | | ---- Chapter01.tex (component file) | | | ---- Chapter02.tex (component file) | | |----| BackMatter (directory) | ---- EnvironmentBackMatter.tex (local environment file) | ---- ProductBackMatter.tex (product file) | ---- Appendix01.tex (component file) | ---- Index.tex (component file) In my Project directory I have two files: 1) EnvironmentPageLayout.tex If you are interested in an environment, the one I've based mine on is the one posted by David Arnold http://ml-archives.mini.pw.edu.pl/ntg-context/msg02853.html 2) Project.tex ---- %project file \startproject Project \environment EnvironmentPageLayout \product FrontMatter/ProductFrontMatter \product BodyMatter/ProductBodyMatter \product BackMatter/ProductBackMatter \stopproject ---

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MetaFun questions
by Jens-Uwe Morawski 07 Mar '03

07 Mar '03

Hi, i would like to know - if i can draw a gradient/shading with two RGBA colors, for example, a gradient starting with red=1 and alpha=0.5 and ending with green=1 and alpha=0.7 - if it is possible to add some capabilities to texutil, or where else it is needed, so that externalfigure "somefile" scaled 2 ; has the original figure-size scaled 2 and not unitsquare scaled 2 Best, Jens

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Index questions
by Miller Maley 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

I have some questions about the index (register) facility in ConTeXt. 1) I like that ConTeXt automatically breaks the index into portions by first letter, but how do I change the style of the subhead that says 'a', 'b', or whatever? Among other things, I would like these little subheads to be uppercase. 2) Sometimes a topic is referenced at two nearby places in the text. If these places fall on separate pages, I would like the index to mention both of them. If they fall on the same page, however, the index entry is duplicated. I expected texutil to remove duplicate index entries when sorting. Is it supposed to? (This is not a major problem; I can work around it.) 3) Likewise (this is a suggestion rather than a question) it would be nice if ConTeXt automatically transformed a sequence of 3 or more consecutive index entries (such as 10, 11, 12) into a page range (10-12). I realize there is a facility (\startindex...\stopindex) to get these page ranges manually, so again this is not a major issue. 4) If I have the command \seeindex{foo}{bar} and also \index{foo} on page 17, it would be nice if the index could say foo 17 see also bar rather than just "see bar". Is there a way to get this behavior? -- Miller Maley

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context + omega + tetex 2.0 : success story
by zamri 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

hello all, after on-and-off effort, I finally get context + omega working. The result is impressive. hat off to hans and idris samawi for their effort. omega is a tex version that support utf-8 input. it can be used to typeset arabic. here are some of the things I discovers that might be useful to others; my system: context 2003.1.31 omega 1.23.2.1 tetex 2.0 1. using the command texexec --make --alone --tex=omega en fail. you need to recompile omega. get tetex-src-2.0.tar.gz. I am not a programmer, but know enough to hack bit and pieces. also, I cannot assure whether it safe or not. but, it works. do the usual ./configure and make stuff. After finish, make changes to omegad.h; #define infmaxstrings ( 800000L ) #define supmaxstrings ( 900000L ) #define infmainmemory ( 8000000L ) recompile omega. this is the tricky part. the command I use; (the proper way to make changes is in the .ch files, but I have no idea what to change) gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -g -O2 -c omegaini.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -g -O2 -c omega0.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -g -O2 -c omega1.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -g -O2 -c omega2.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -g -O2 -c omegaextra.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -g -O2 -c omega.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -g -O2 -c omegabis.c gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -g -O2 -c omega3.c ./../klibtool link gcc -o omega omegaini.o omega0.o omega1.o omega2.o omegaextra.o omega.o omegabis.o omega3.o lib/lib.a ../kpathsea/libkpathsea.la -lm gcc -o omega omegaini.o omega0.o omega1.o omega2.o omegaextra.o omega.o omegabis.o omega3.o lib/lib.a ../kpathsea/STATIC/libkpathsea.a -lm 2. cp this 'omega' to 'bigomega' or whatever you like. 3. do texexec --make --alone --tex=bigomega en 4. you will get cont-en.oft. cp 'cont-en.oft' to 'bigomega.oft' 5. move the .oft format to the usual place. run 'texhash' 6. test. bigomega omtest.tex (* omtest.tex is from gamma.zip from idris ) or this simple file ====== test.tex======= \usemodule[gamma] \starttext \startarab A b t \section{\arab{A b t }} \stoparab \stoptext 6. you get test.dvi, do this to get pdf. odvisp -V -o test.ps test.dvi ps2pdf test.ps I am sure some of the steps can be simplified or corrected by the experts. I think you need to rename the new omega to avoid clash with the original omega. again, thanks to hans and idris. zamri

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Columns in itemizations
by Giuseppe Bilotta 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

Hello, following up to a recent post on comp.text.tex I'd like to bring forth an enhancement request for itemgroups: in the current implementation it is not possible to set up itemgroups to use the non key=value pairs settings. IOW, one cannot say \defineitemgroup[myitems] \setupmyitems[each][A] and have the items come up numbered with capital letters. Some keywords (like: joinedup) work, some others (the numbering type ones, for example, or "columns") don't work. For what I can see by looking at the code, this depends on these settings being looked for *not* when setting up the itemizations, but in the actual moment when the \start<itemgroup> is issued (this is for example the case for "columns"). Enhancement request: allow all keywords to work. I think the most straightforward way to implement this is to simply store the keywords and put them as default values when \start<itemgroup> is called (this would even, I suspect, simplify the handling of the itemgroup setups ...) -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Indenting in description
by Mikael Persson 05 Mar '03

05 Mar '03

Hello! I have a problem with indent in the description environment (I use the latest beta of ConTeXt). When I have descriptions that are longer than one paragraph I want the next paragraphs indented in the same way as the other parts of the document. Here is a small example showing the problem. ================ start file ================== \setupindenting[medium] \indenting[yes] \definedescription[testdesc][% width=broad, location=serried, headstyle=bold, way=bychapter, text={Testdescription: }] \starttext \section{Some indenting tests} This is just a test paragraph. I want to se if the next paragraph is indented or not. So, sooner or later we will know. \par Is this indented? Yes. \starttestdesc{A nonlucky one} This is just a test paragraph. I want to se if the next paragraph is indented or not. So, sooner or later we will know. \par Is this indented? No, but I want it to be. \stoptestdesc This is just a test paragraph. I want to se if the next paragraph is indented or not. So, sooner or later we will know. \par Is this indented? Yes. \stoptext ================ stop file ================== I also have another question. How can one install Math fonts (lucida)? When I run texfont as with other fonts texfont reports that it is math fonts and the installation fail. Should I add another switch? (I tried with the same switches as I successfully use for other fonts, that is --in and --ma (besides the --ve and --co)) Best regards, Micke P

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help! how to get a part title?
by Bruce D'Arcus 28 Feb '03

28 Feb '03

What I get from the manual is that part titles are not there by default. How do I get them?? I just want a page with the part title centered more-or-less on the page. Bruce

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presentation failure
by Maarten Sneep 26 Feb '03

26 Feb '03

Hi, I tried to begin a presentation, and tried to learn from the best (Hans Hagen in this case ;-) However, I get a failure with the minimal test case below. Some (I think relevant) fragments of the logs are included (sorry for the long mail). I'm using TeXLive with a recent version of context (see dates in the log). Is this a symptom of updating only part of the setup? If so: what parts should I update to get things to work? Some of you may recall that I had trouble with the pos fonts on teTeX a while ago. I switched to TeXLive and there it works. Will try to find out if the problem is related to Mac OS X or teTeX. Kind regards, Maarten Sneep %% With file \setupencoding[default=ec] \useencoding[ec] \usetypescript[berry][ec] \setupcolors[status=start] \setupbodyfont[pos] \usemodule[pre-04] \starttext \StartTitlePage Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy on Atmospheric Species \StopTitlePage \Topic{Introduction: Atmospheric Measurements} \Subject{Sciamachy, OMI, GOME} \stoptext %% I get a few errors, the metapost/metafun graphics do not compile %% (see error at the end of the following log) Some relevant pieces of the log (total log is rather long). TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : talk output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) entering extended mode (./talk.tex{/usr/local/teTeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2003.2.25 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! [lots of lines deleted] TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 metapost : mpgraph format : metafun This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.7x) (mpgraph.mp >> spotcolors >> true ! Equation cannot be performed (numeric=boolean). <to be read again> ; l.23 spotcolors := true ; ? [I type x, because I do not know what to do] TeXUtil 7.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2002 action : processing commands, lists and registers option : sorting IJ under Y option : converting high ASCII values input file : talk.tui output file : talk.tuo passed commands : 24 remapped keys : 0 register entries : 0 -> 0 entries 0 references synonym entries : 0 -> 0 entries embedded files : 1 utility file analysis : another run needed TeX run : 2

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Background color
by "Hüsing, Johannes" 24 Feb '03

24 Feb '03

In the example I've just sent, I couldn't yet figure out why different regions do not have different bg colors. But that's a minor optica problem. Greetings Johannes

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