February 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Umlaute etc.
by Raimund.Kohl＠freenet.de 23 Feb '03

23 Feb '03

Hello there, I am absolutely new to this ConTeXt typesetting system. So I think my problems are boring to most of you ... anyway, they are bothering me :-( I've found in the manual how to produce ä, ö etc ... the german Umlaute. but I wasn't succesfull with the sharp s (ß) ... can anyone help? Second ... I am also using gvim as an editor; is there a package supporting ConTeXt with gvim? Thanks in advance, Raimund

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more beginner's problems
by Raimund.Kohl＠freenet.de 23 Feb '03

23 Feb '03

Hi, ok, here some more problems which I couldn't find a solution in the manual. First the space between two paragraphs. For example \enableregime[il1] \starttext paragraph 1\par paragraph 2\par \stoptext Should come out like two lines with one empty line in between. but it comes out like two lines with no empty line in between. I tried \paragraph, I tried \par and even nothing but an empty line, processing the file with texexec always "glues" the two paragraphs together like paragraph 1 paragraph 2 What is my fault here? Next problem are the high commatas "blah". In german language the first one has to come on the bottom of the line ... but this way the are typesetted like in english ... above. I tried "`blah"', but this doesn't work either. Also adding \language[de] at the beginning doesn't change that behaviour. Can anybody help? Thank you in advance Raimund PS: I use a Linux machine with SuSE 8.0

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Chinese text failed to flow around pictures
by Guo Yang 22 Feb '03

22 Feb '03

when I tried: \placefigure [right] {Some picture} {\externalfigure[temp][type=jpg,width=5cm]} Blah blah ... % These should be pure Chinese characters. In the generated Chinese PDF file, the paragraph right after the figure just runs over the picture like it were not there. But if I append some English words before Chinese, everything would be fine. And \startfiguretext[left] works as expected. Any ideas? Guo

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Re: [pdftex] mathpple-a-like for ConTeXt?
by Hans Hagen 21 Feb '03

21 Feb '03

At 06:07 PM 2/21/2003 +1100, you wrote: >Hans > >> >>>\usetypescript[berry][ec] >>>\usetypescript[palatino][ec] >>>\setupbodyfont[palatino] >> >>I guess I'm just too green with ConTeXt, but I can't get this to >>work... Must i call \usetypescriptfile[somethingorother] first? >>(Actually, I get "undefined control sequence"...) > >This doesn't work for me either. (Though I don't get the "undefined >control sequence" error) > >I would like to be able to use my installed postscript fonts, that I use >with latex, in context. Could you point me in the direction of a manual. > >(Sorry to trouble you but my old URLs for ConText no longer work.) palatino and times math should work ok with the installed fonts so there is no real need to write typescripts yourself. Do you get an error message? What can happen is: - undefined control sequence : old context - cannot find tfm file: (context filename mapping problem or font not installed) - cannot find pfb file: (probably map file problem of font not installed) - missing glyphs (in log): wrong encoding vector Hans

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Switching form portrait to landscape and back to portrait
by Willi Egger 20 Feb '03

20 Feb '03

Dear list, I am struggling with a document, where from time to time a landscape page is inserted. \chapter{One} running tex A4 \chapter{Two} landscape table A4 \chapter{Three} running text A4 It sounds maybe stupid, but I tried different variations and I do not get what I need ... How do I setup a correct switching? Thanks for advice! Willi

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Re: hyphenation with accented caharacters
by Hans Hagen 20 Feb '03

20 Feb '03

At 09:18 AM 2/17/2003 +0100, Patrick Gundlach wrote: >Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> writes: > >Hello, > > > couple of dots) [the new latin modern will have real umlauts] > >what is this latin modern? a new cmr based font family, non virtual, with some 450 characters/glyphs, to be presented at teh next dante meeting by jacko cum suis (the polish font guys) who made this font in a project funded by dante/gutenberg/ntg This font can replace plr/csr/aer and a few more so that we have a full featured fall back font. Hans

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footnote control
by Idris S Hamid 19 Feb '03

19 Feb '03

Dear Cabinet, A couple of footnote questions: 1. Is there an option for choosing one's own reference mark for any given footnote, like in Plain? 2. Is there a conversion option for the famous nine reference mark sequence (\fnsymbol in LaTeX): star, dagger, double dagger, section, inverted `P', parallel, star-star, dagger-dagger, double dagger-double dagger ? I did not see it in the manual. 3. Is there a way to control the distance between the footnote rule and the firstline of the footnote? 4. ConTeXt places the footnote reference mark just on the outside of the margin. Can I place it inside? Can I indent the first paragraph of the footnote with the reference mark (like in LaTeX)? Unrelated: Can I make an entire document default to oldstyle numbers? (Probably not, since Knuth mapped these glyphs in a strange way). That's the end of the rain shower for now, but I'll be back with more I'm sure;-) Idris

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Testing a sample in details.pdf
by Cho, Jin-Hwan 19 Feb '03

19 Feb '03

While I'm testing some examples in details.pdf (http://www.pragma-ade.com/temp/details.pdf) a curious thing happened. Let me assume that I have the following test file (test.tex) which was extracted from details.pdf (p.13) I generated two PDF files, test-1.pdf and test-2.pdf, by the following ways, respectively. 1. The first way Just ran "texexec --pdf test", and got the attached PDF file, test-1.pdf. (Please see the attached file test-1.log too.) 2. The second way (step by step) (a) "texexec --pdf --once test" (b) "texutil --references test" (c) "texexec --pdf --once test" (d) "mpost mpgraph" (e) "texexec --pdf --once test" The curious thing was that the two PDF files were different, especially the embedded MetaPost graphics were different. In my opinion, test-2.pdf seemed to be the right result. === BEGIN test.tex === \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[infogray][darkgray] \definecolor[textgray][lightgray] \definetextbackground[intro] [backgroundcolor=infogray, backgroundoffset=.25cm, offset=.5cm, frame=off, location=paragraph, color=white] \definetextbackground[subintro] [backgroundcolor=textgray, backgroundoffset=0pt, offset=0pt, frame=off, location=text, color=blue] \starttext \starttextbackground[intro] A rather common way to draw attention to a passage, is to add a background. In this chapter we will therefore discuss how to enhance your document with \starttextbackground [subintro] colorful areas that either or not follow the shape of your paragraph. \stoptextbackground\ Be warned: this chapter has so many backgrounds that you should consider wearing sunglasses. \stoptextbackground \stoptext === END test.tex === Best, ChoF. -- *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** ^ ^ | ChoF := Jin-Hwan Cho | *^ ^* o | chofchof(a)ktug.or.kr | * o * *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** *^ ^* | Project Manager of | ^ ^ * O * | DVIPDFMx and MiKTeX-KTUG | O ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Research Fellow, School of Mathematics | | Korea Institute for Advanced Study | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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new line in \writetolist ?
by Henning Hraban Ramm 19 Feb '03

19 Feb '03

Same question again, perhaps a bit more clear... (And, please, I need an answer until Sunday! Thanks.) How can I make a line break in an \writetolist entry? e.g. \writetolist[chapter]{This is a very long chapter name\\that doesn't fit in one line} Neither \\ nor \crlf does anything. Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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Expansion problem in natural table
by Simon Pepping 18 Feb '03

18 Feb '03

I have an expansion problem in natural tables. I need to have this: \bTD\XMLDBcontinuepartrue\ignorespaces\XMLflush{revremark}\eTD but \XMLflush{revremark} must be expanded. When I do that using \expanded, \expanded{\bTD\noexpand\XMLDBcontinuepartrue\ignorespaces\XMLflush{#1}}\eTD I get errors when I have compound characters: \XMLDBcontinuepartrue\ignorespaces Kleine \dobuildtextaccent\char 127 A{}nderung It should be \dobuildtextaccent{\char 127} A for it to be valid. Or it should be \buildtextaccent\textdiaeresis A In other words, \XMLflush{#1} should be expanded, but not all the way down. How do I get that? This is my hack, but it is awful because it relies on an exact number of expansions: \expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\def \expandafter\expandafter\expandafter\!!stringa \expandafter\expandafter\expandafter{\csname XML:dat:#1\endcsname} \@EA\bTD\@EA\XMLDBcontinuepartrue\@EA\ignorespaces\!!stringa\eTD} Error log: \XMLDBshowElementTD #1->\expanded {\bTD \noexpand \XMLDBcontinuepartrue \ignore spaces \XMLflush {#1}}\eTD #1<-revremark \expanded #1->\long \edef \@@expanded {\noexpand #1}\@@expanded #1<-\bTD \noexpand \XMLDBcontinuepartrue \ignorespaces \XMLflush {revremark} {\long} {\noexpand} {\noexpand} \XMLflush #1->\csname \@@XMLdata :#1\endcsname #1<-revremark {\csname} \@@XMLdata ->\@@XML dat \@@XML ->XML: \XML:dat:revremark ->Kleine Änderung Ä->\Adiaeresis {} \Adiaeresis ->\dohandlecharacter {Adiaeresis} \dohandlecharacter #1->\csname \ifcsname \characterencoding #1\endcsname \chara cterencoding \else \nocharacterencoding \fi #1\endcsname #1<-Adiaeresis {\csname} {\ifcsname} \characterencoding ->@default@ {true} \characterencoding ->@default@ {\else} \@default@Adiaeresis ->\buildtextaccent \textdiaeresis A \buildtextaccent ->\ifignoreaccent \expandafter \nobuildtextaccent \else \expan dafter \dobuildtextaccent \fi {\iffalse} {false} {\expandafter} {\fi} \textdiaeresis ->\dohandlecharacter {textdiaeresis} \dohandlecharacter #1->\csname \ifcsname \characterencoding #1\endcsname \chara cterencoding \else \nocharacterencoding \fi #1\endcsname #1<-textdiaeresis {\csname} {\ifcsname} \characterencoding ->@default@ {true} \characterencoding ->@default@ {\else} \@default@textdiaeresis ->\char 127 \@@expanded ->\bTD \XMLDBcontinuepartrue \ignorespaces Kleine \dobuildtextaccen t \char 127 A{}nderung \bTD ->\dodoubleempty \parseTD ... snip ... \parseTD [#1][#2]#3\eTD ->\getparameters [\@@tbl ][\c!ny =\tblnr ,\c!nx =\tblnc ,nc=1,nr=1,#1]\doloop {\increment \currentcol \doifnottbltag \maximumrow \curr entcol \exitloop }\let \row \maximumrow \let \col \currentcol \dorecurse {\tbln y } {\let \col \currentcol \settblcol \row \col \tblnx \ifnum \tblnx >\maximumr owspan \relax \let \maximumrowspan \tblnx \fi \dorecurse {\tblnx } {\settbltag \row \col \tblnone \increment \col }\increment \row }\decrement \col \ifnum \co l >\maximumcol \relax \let \maximumcol \col \fi \settbltag \maximumrow \current col \tblcell \settblcol \maximumrow \currentcol \tblnx \settblrow \maximumrow \ currentcol \tblny \edef \celltag {{\maximumrow }{\currentcol }}\@EA \settbltxt \@EA \maximumrow \@EA \currentcol \@EA {\@EA \handleTBLcell \celltag [#1]{#3}} #1<- #2<- #3<-\XMLDBcontinuepartrue \ignorespaces Kleine \dobuildtextaccent \char 127 A{} nderung ... snip ... \dobuildtextaccent #1#2->{\let \char \normalaccent #1\let \char \normalchar #2} #1<-\char #2<-1 {begin-group character {} {\let} {\accent} ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \let \dobuildtextaccent ... \char \normalaccent #1\let \char \normalchar #2} <argument> ...es Kleine \dobuildtextaccent \char 1 27 A{}nderung -- Simon Pepping email: spepping(a)scaprea.hobby.nl

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