February 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

problem with tables
by Martin Kolařík 14 Feb '03

14 Feb '03

Hi Hans, I've found the following problem after I instaled last beta. With my previous version (9,10/2002?) it worked fine. I can debug it on my side, but probably you find the cause and the solution more quickly: <...many lines of log...> ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \localwidth \ExpandBothAfter ...anded {\noexpand #1{#2 }{#3}}\@@expanded \inTBLcell ...width {\v!passend ,\v!ruim } {} {\scratchdimen \gettbla... \handleTBLcell ...CELL \inTBLcell {#1}{#2} }}\scratchdimen \gettblwid ... <inserted text> ...ttblcol \makeTBL {4}{3} \nexttblcol \makeTBL {4}{4}... \endTBL ...ltypesettingtrue \the \tbltoks }\ifautoTBLspread \checktbl... ... l.409 } ? ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> ...L \relax \ifdim \localwidth >\scratchdimen \settblaut \... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \handleTBLcell ...CELL \inTBLcell {#1}{#2} }}\scratchdimen \gettblwid ... <inserted text> ...ttblcol \makeTBL {4}{3} \nexttblcol \makeTBL {4}{4}... \endTBL ...ltypesettingtrue \the \tbltoks }\ifautoTBLspread \checktbl... \eTABLE ...{\row }{\col }}}\eTBL }\endTBL \egroup \egroup \popTBL ... l.409 } ? ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> > <argument> ... \relax \ifdim \localwidth > \scratchdimen \settblaut \c... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \handleTBLcell ...CELL \inTBLcell {#1}{#2} }}\scratchdimen \gettblwid ... <inserted text> ...ttblcol \makeTBL {4}{3} \nexttblcol \makeTBL {4}{4}... \endTBL ...ltypesettingtrue \the \tbltoks }\ifautoTBLspread \checktbl... ... l.409 } ? ! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted). <to be read again> > <argument> ... \relax \ifdim \localwidth > \scratchdimen \settblaut \c... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \handleTBLcell ...CELL \inTBLcell {#1}{#2} }}\scratchdimen \gettblwid ... <inserted text> ...ttblcol \makeTBL {4}{3} \nexttblcol \makeTBL {4}{4}... \endTBL ...ltypesettingtrue \the \tbltoks }\ifautoTBLspread \checktbl... ... l.409 } ? ! Missing \cr inserted. <inserted text> \cr <to be read again> } \handleTBLcell ...LL \inTBLcell {#1}{#2}}} \scratchdimen \gettblwid \c... <inserted text> ...ttblcol \makeTBL {4}{3} \nexttblcol \makeTBL {4}{4}... \endTBL ...ltypesettingtrue \the \tbltoks }\ifautoTBLspread \checktbl... \eTABLE ...{\row }{\col }}}\eTBL }\endTBL \egroup \egroup \popTBL ... l.409 } ? ! Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } <to be read again> \cr <to be read again> } \handleTBLcell ...LL \inTBLcell {#1}{#2}}} \scratchdimen \gettblwid \c... <inserted text> ...ttblcol \makeTBL {4}{3} \nexttblcol \makeTBL {4}{4}... \endTBL ...ltypesettingtrue \the \tbltoks }\ifautoTBLspread \checktbl... ... l.409 } ? ! Missing \cr inserted. <inserted text> \cr <to be read again> } <to be read again> \cr <to be read again> } \handleTBLcell ...LL \inTBLcell {#1}{#2}}} \scratchdimen \gettblwid \c... <inserted text> ...ttblcol \makeTBL {4}{3} \nexttblcol \makeTBL {4}{4}... ... l.409 } -------- Martin Kolarik Moravske Pristroje, a.s., Masarykova 1148, Zlin 76302 tel. +420 603 498 498, fax +420 577 107 171 web: http://www.mii.cz -------- e-mail: kolarik(a)mii.cz e-mail: kolarik(a)click.cz tel. +420 603 535 593

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interlinespacing
by Idris S Hamid 14 Feb '03

14 Feb '03

Dear Board, It's going to take some work to come up with a test file for this problem (since the font is not publically available), but let me describe it anyway: Arabic visually requires larger font sizes than roman, as well as wider interline spacing, so Arabic insertions in Latin can create lines of mixed interline spacing. Very strangely, this problem is more apparent in itemize environments and the like than in regular text. Question: is there a way to turn off interline spacing completely for my insertions when necessary. Insertions are defined in terms of \startarabictext \stoparabictext environments: \definestartstop [arabictext] [commands=% {\osetarabdirtext % switches to RL mode \arabictextfont % switches to Arabic \vocalizeinsertdefault} % calls default otp list for vocalization ] Idris

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disappearing headers
by Idris S Hamid 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

Dear crew, Another e-TeX culprit? Try this in plain tex mode: the heading corresponding to \title disappears, but works in pdfetex: =========== \starttext \setupheadertexts% [][title][\Author][]% \setupheader[style=\sc,state=high] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, location={footer,marginedge}] \title{Test Chapter1} \def\Author{Author 1} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \input knuth \par} \title{Test Chapter2} \def\Author{Author 1} \stoptext =========== A related problem: I tried doing each article manually, e.g., \setupheadertexts% [][An Article][\Author][]% but the headings start 2 pages earlier than needed. So the last few pages of Article~1 contain the headings for Article~2! Aside from fixing the original problem I'd like to be understand how to handle this manually as well. Idris

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\placefigure[here,force]
by Jaroslav Snajdr 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

Hello! I write a step-by-step style document with altering text and figures: Do something like on this figure: [FIGURE1] Then continue according to this figure: [FIGURE2] ... I want the figures to be placed exactly at the place where it is in the source, even if it should cause an empty space on the page and a page break. How to do this? \placefigure[here,force] doesn't work here. J. Snajdr

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Using the free PS Fonts with ConTeXt
by Maarten Sneep 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

Hi Contexters, ``Welcome to typeface hell'', describes my feelings correctly. I'm trying to use the free postscript fonts that come with teTeX (urw palatino, times, helvetica, courier and various others, you know the list) in ec encoding. I thinks I followed the instructions correctly, but still no luck. I'm using teTeX 2.0 with the TeXLive binaries (the ``Gerben Wierda'' distribution) on Mac OS X 10.2.3 (Jaguar). The frustrating bit is that in LaTeX everything comes preconfigured, but for ConTeXt I have to do it myself. I also use this as a testcase before buying the lucida typefaces (I want to be very sure I can install my fonts before shelling out the money). Here's a summary of what I've tried and noticed: 1 - I've used texfont on the type-ftm.dat file in the default installation of the distribution. This fails, because the ec.enc file isn't found. This seems correct, as it is named EC.enc (note that this is on hfs, a case insensitive system). I renamed the file to ec.enc and tried again. 2 - This time the encoding vector is found, and some files are generated. However I get a nice bunch of rectangles, I assume mean that some glyphs are missing. In fact I think the only glyphs that showed up are `borrowed' from Computer Modern. Help! My direct questions: a - Did anyone succeed in using the free postscript fonts on Mac OS X, using a distribution that I use (i.e. the most recent version) b - What were the exact commands that you used? Can you send me a simple test file? c - Did you experience the same EC.enc vs ec.enc naming problem? d - Do other platforms have the same problems with teTeX 2.0 (Hans: What version of teTeX are you using on your linux system, since at your place it obviously works ;-) Thanks in advance for any help, Maarten Sneep >>>-------------------------------------------------- 2 + 2 = 5 (George Orwell, 1984)

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MetaTricks?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

Hello, I was wondering if anybody (say, for example, Hans ;>) has ever thought about developing a (Con)TeX(t)+Meta(Post|Fun) counterpart of PSTricks? PSTricks is widely used, but has the disadvantage of not being usable for direct PDF creation; a purely "texmf"ish way to handle the stuff would be rather nice. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Announce: Auctex and ConTeXt
by Patrick Gundlach 13 Feb '03

13 Feb '03

Hello ConTeXt hackers and emacs users, the current cvs version of auctex is now ConTeXt aware. There is no support for *any* fancy feature yet, but at least you are able to distinguish the LaTeX and the ConTeXt commands/modes. It is aimed at people that already use auctex and think that it is annoying to have LaTeX commands in your ConTeXt buffer. I am currently adding some new features. They will make it into the cvs in the next few days and weeks. If you want real ConTeXt support for emacs, you might want to use Berend's context.el. Please contact me if you have any further questions. Patrick

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aligment of captions
by Henning Hraban Ramm 12 Feb '03

12 Feb '03

Hello again! I defined my captions as follows: \setupcaptions [number=no, align=right, before={\blank[3pt]}, after={\blank[small]}, style={\ss\tfx}] If the caption is only one line, everything's ok. But from two lines up, it's always centered! Why? (I fixed it temporarily with an \raggedright in these captions, but that's no contexty way...) Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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Hypenation problem again
by Nagy Bence 12 Feb '03

12 Feb '03

Hi all, it's just my problem again with hyphenation and encoding and hungarumlauts. I have installed Adobe Sabon with both texnansi and ec encoding by the way described by Bill McClain. The texnansi installation has all the hungarumlaut characters (ohungarumlaut, Ohungarumlaut, uhungarumlaut, Uhungarumlaut) as composite chars, in the ec installation are these characters missing. I tried to get the correct hungarian hyphenation of the word 'kilométeróraőrzőkészülék' (kilom\'eter\'ora\H orz\H ok\'esz\"ul\'ek), and I became the following results with \showhyphenations (I'm using the il2 regime, the hyphenation pattern has ec encoding): Adobe Sabon ----------- language : hu(code:3) font : texnansi-sar encoding : texnansi mapping : texnansi sample : ki-lo-mé-te-ró-raőrzőkészülék = no hyphenation after ohungarumlaut Computer Modern --------------- language : hu(code:10) font : cmr10 encoding : default mapping : default sample : kilométeróraőrzőkészülék = no hyphenation Computer Modern with il2 encoding --------------------------------- language : hu(code:10) font : csr10 encoding : il2 mapping : il2 sample : kilo-mé-terórarz-kés-z-ülék = wrong hyphenations Computer Modern with ec encoding -------------------------------- language : hu(code:2) font : aer10 encoding : ec mapping : ec sample : ki-lo-mé-te-ró-raőrző-ké-szü-lék = no hyphenation at the ohungarumlauts neighborhood It seems there is none correct result. Any idea? Greetings Bence

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Re: Font size switching problem
by Hans Hagen 12 Feb '03

12 Feb '03

At 07:25 AM 2/11/2003 +0300, you wrote: >Hello, Hans! > >It seems that font size switching mechanizm in ConTeXt has a bug. > >Here are simple test and its results (as comments): > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >\setupoutput[pdftex] >\setuplayout[middle] \noheaderandfooterlines > >\title{Font sizes test} % Shown using CMR12 font at 20.6 pt > >\rm \subject{Serif font} % Shown using CMR12 font at 14.3 pt >\tfx Serif --- size tfx\par % Shown using CMR10 font at 9.96 pt >\tfxx Serif --- size tfxx\par % Shown using CMR8 font at 7.97 pt >\tfa Serif --- size tfa\par % Shown using CMR8 font at 9.96 pt > % (swithing to CMR 12 is missing?) >\tfb Serif --- size tfb\par % Shown using CMR8 font at 11.4 pt >\tfc Serif --- size tfc\par % Shown using CMR8 font at 13.7 pt >\tfx Serif --- size tfx\par % Shown using CMR10 font at 17.2 pt > % (font scale switch is missing???) >\tfxx Serif --- size tfxx\par % Shown using CMR8 font at 13.7 pt > >\ss \subject{SansSerif font} % Shown using CMSS8 font at 9.56 pt >\tfx SansSerif --- size tfx\par % Shown using CMSS10 font at 17.2 pt >\tfxx SansSerif --- size tfxx\par % Shown using CMSS8 font at 13.7 pt >\tfa SansSerif --- size tfa\par % Shown using CMSS8 font at 9.56 pt >\tfb SansSerif --- size tfb\par % Shown using CMSS8 font at 11.4 pt >\tfc SansSerif --- size tfc\par % Shown using CMSS8 font at 13.7 pt >\tfx SansSerif --- size tfx\par % Shown using CMSS10 font at 17.2 pt >\tfxx SansSerif --- size tfxx\par % Shown using CMSS8 font at 13.7 pt > >\tt \subject{Typewriter font} % Shown using CMTT8 font at 9.56 pt >\tfx Typewriter --- size tfx\par % Shown using CMTT10 font at 17.2 pt >\tfxx Typewriter --- size tfxx\par % Shown using CMTT8 font at 13.7 pt >\tfa Typewriter --- size tfa\par % Shown using CMTT8 font at 9.56 pt >\tfb Typewriter --- size tfb\par % Shown using CMTT8 font at 11.4 pt >\tfc Typewriter --- size tfc\par % Shown using CMTT8 font at 13.7 pt >\tfx Typewriter --- size tfx\par % Shown using CMTT10 font at 17.2 pt >\tfxx Typewriter --- size tfxx\par % Shown using CMTT8 font at 13.7 pt > >\stoptext >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >So it is hard to predict the results of consecutive font size swithing >commands. :-( > >(Yes I know that grouping like {\tf... } cures the problem) Took me a while to figure out what was going on, but the problem with ungrouped usage is that you reach a state where context cannot longer keep track of what the intention is (unless i extend the font handler with some sort of group-insensitive stack which would slow down things quite a lot); think of x inside c inside x inside xx inside d and so on. When used as intended, i.e. grouped, x/xx scaling works ok. I made a couple of test tables to demo this effect. A small patch is possible that at least prevents the funny big scale, but it's still sub optimal. Hans ===================================================== \let\normaltx \tx \let\normaltxx\txx \def\checknestedxfontsize {\ifcase\currentxfontsize\else\ifx\fontsize\empty\else \chardef\currentxfontsize\zeropoint \let\fontsize\empty \let\tx\normaltx \let\txx\normaltxx \fi\fi} \def\setcurrentfontxalternative#1% {\checknestedxfontsize \dosetcurrentfontxxxalternative{#1}1\c!x\scriptstyle \let\tx\txx} \def\setcurrentfontxxalternative#1% {\checknestedxfontsize \dosetcurrentfontxxxalternative{#1}2\c!xx\scriptscriptstyle \let\tx\empty \let\txx\empty} \def\setcurrentfontxstylealternative #1{\csname#1\endcsname\tx} \def\setcurrentfontxxstylealternative#1{\csname#1\endcsname\txx} \setupoutput[pdftex] \setuplayout[middle] \noheaderandfooterlines \def\fontstate{\setstrut\ruledhbox{\strut Hello}} \starttabulate[|||||] \HL \NC \rlap{\quad\bf grouped} \NC \NC \type {\tx} \NC \type {\txx} \NC \NR \HL \NC \type{\tfx} \NC \tfx \fontstate \NC \tfx \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfxx} \NC \tfxx \fontstate \NC \tfxx\tx \fontstate \NC \tfxx\txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tf} \NC \tf \fontstate \NC \tf \tx \fontstate \NC \tf \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfa} \NC \tfa \fontstate \NC \tfa \tx \fontstate \NC \tfa \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfb} \NC \tfb \fontstate \NC \tfb \tx \fontstate \NC \tfb \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfc} \NC \tfc \fontstate \NC \tfc \tx \fontstate \NC \tfc \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfd} \NC \tfd \fontstate \NC \tfd \tx \fontstate \NC \tfd \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfx} \NC \tfx \fontstate \NC \tfx \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfxx} \NC \tfxx \fontstate \NC \tfxx\tx \fontstate \NC \tfxx\txx \fontstate \NC \NR \HL \stoptabulate \blank \starttabulate[|||||] \HL \NC \rlap{\quad\bf stacked} \NC \NC \type {\tx} \NC \type {\txx} \NC \NR \HL \NC \type{\tfx} \NC \tfx \fontstate \NC \tfx \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfxx} \NC \tfx\tfxx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tf} \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfa} \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfb} \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfc} \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfd} \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfd \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfd \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfd \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfx} \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc\tfx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc\tfx \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc\tfx \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \NC \type{\tfxx} \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc\tfx\tfxx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc\tfx\tfxx \tx \fontstate \NC \tfx\tfxx\tf\tfa\tfb\tfc\tfx\tfxx \txx \fontstate \NC \NR \HL \stoptabulate \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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