February 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

tables for invoice-style
by Roef Ragas 07 Feb '03

07 Feb '03

Goodevening all, The examples in the 'natural tables' manual are nice [although I keep wondering why you would {\em ever} need some specimina], but what I'm looking I'm not able to fabricate. What I want is one line with words like invoice: date: etcetera, and the following line will contain the proper data [like in Victor Eijkhouts ntg-letter]. I'm not sure tables (maybe columns?) are the solution, but this is what I've got [a portion of it] sofar. It won't work, that is: somehow I'm not able to adjust the width of the columns? Can anybody see what's wrong here? \starttekst \hbox \bgroup \ignorespaces \bTABLE \setupTABLE[column][1][width=1cm] \setupTABLE[column][2][width=2cm] \setupTABLE[column][3][width=3cm] \setupTABLE[column][4][width=4cm] \setupTABLE[column][5][width=10cm] \bTR \bTD {\ss\bf factuur:} \eTD \bTD {\ss\bf debiteur:} \eTD \bTD {\ss\bf betreft:} \eTD \bTD {\ss\bf de dato:} \eTD \bTD {\ss\bf uw kenmerk:} \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \getvariable{factuur}{factuurnummer} \eTD \bTD \getvariable{factuur}{debiteurnummer} \eTD \bTD \getvariable{factuur}{betreft}\eTD \bTD \getvariable{factuur}{werkdatum}\eTD \bTD \getvariable{factuur}{uwkenmerk}\eTD \eTR \eTABLE \unskip \egroup \stoptekst Furthermore this section of the Invoice-style will be followed by figures ;-], and again my question is: should I use columns or tables here? Thanks in advance, Roef Ragas

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acrobat in netscape / linux
by Hans Hagen 07 Feb '03

07 Feb '03

Hi, I want to test the examplap things on linux. How do i tell netscape to launch acrobat in the browser when a pdf file is clicked? 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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Re: [NTG-context] example math files for testing
by Hans Hagen 06 Feb '03

06 Feb '03

At 10:12 PM 2/5/2003 +0000, you wrote: >I believe Hans Hagen said this around Wed, 5 Feb 2003: > > >i read the first version, and will see if i can patch texfont to solve a > >few of the problems you mention. > >Okay. >Do please let me know how I can contribute. > >BTW, I managed to sort out my terminal so as to *not* attempt to syntax- >color the various warnings that I get. This caused an immediate nine- >times speed increase. Wow. Further to a previous thread on the list, >ConTeXt's speed can definitely vary depending on the output terminal. I >had no idea it could be that dramatic. this also depends on terminals using outlines or bitmaps; just for fun, ty: texexec --silent .... texexec --batch ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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tables
by Roef Ragas 05 Feb '03

05 Feb '03

For an invoice I'd like to spread some figures over the page, but I can't seem to find the argument to make the table use the whole of the page (or: adjust the width). Is there a way to adjust the size of every part of a row? Roef Ragas

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When it rains, it pours;-)
by Idris S Hamid 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

Dear gang: I am typesetting a journal this week, including Arabic, and of course I'm running into problems. I'm separating these into individual mails. Some of the problems are related to the e-TeX extensions, but my present project can't wait for the e-Omega project to be completed (3 cheers to Giuseppe!) so I hope Hans will be willing to help me fix these. Some of you have much more experience typesetting journals; in what follows please feel free to suggest better ways of doing things. Thnx in advance Idris

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Chinese Number Problem
by Guo Yang 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

I am trying to set up ConTeXt to work properly with Chinese. Everything seemed fine until I discovered that there is some problem with the Chinese numbers. I have a TeX file with several chapters. I used texexec and dvipdfmx generated the PDF file without problems. But I found there are two things wrong (which supposed to be working). The first is that the two Chinese charaters before the list of contents (corresponding to the 'Contents' before English text) are missing. The second, all the chinese characters before the chapter titles in the list of contents are missing (corresponding to the English text 1 or 1.1, etc.). I tried to figure out what the problem is. I read file font-chi.tex and found some commands like: \def\chinesedigit#1#2% #2: suffix, here * or \empty {\udigit{\chineseencoding}{\number#1#2}} \def\normalchinesenumber#1% {\expandafter\dochinesenumber\number#1\relax\empty} I tried to use these commands in my file directly. But they didn't produce any output there, even no space left for the numbers inside {}. I am using MikTeX under Windows XP. I used the latest ConTeXt beta to get the dvipdfmx working. Your help will be appreciated greatly! Guo

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Customizing texutil --purge
by mari.voipio＠iki.fi 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

I know I saw the answer to my question on the list couple of weeks back, but I seem to have lost it and search in the mailing list archives on the word "purge" gives very odd answers... The "Texutil explained" says on page 2 "texutil purge Afterwards, TEXutil reports the number of bytes regained. Optionally, you can pass a file pattern, thereby limiting the cleansing." As I'm a dummy, I don't seem to be able to put this in practice. I would like to get rid of the *.tuo files (and some others as well), so I tried texutil --purge *.tuo texutil --purge .tuo texutil --purge tuo but none of these have any effect whatsoever. So, how do I "pass a file pattern" so that texutil understands that I want to get rid of files called something.tuo? Greetings, Mari from snowy Finland

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Cross referencing not working?
by Otared Kavian 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

In December Giuseppe Bilotta reported that cross referencing had disappeared. Then it came back (at least until two weeks ago...) and again it has somehow disappeared, or it has a weird behavoir (from version: ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2003.2.4 int: english mes: english) Below is an example: if I put the "formula 1" before "formula 2" nothing gets numbered. However the other way around "formula 1" gets numbered but not "formula 2", nor "formula 3". Any comment is welcomed. Cheers: OK %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \starttext Let us try the cross-reference macros in \ConTeXt: the following should be numbered % this is formula 2 \placeformula[equation2] $$ 1 + e^{i \pi} = 0. $$ and % this is formula 1 \startformula[equation1] 1 + e^{i \pi} = 0. \stopformula Equation (\in[equation1]) or (\in[equation2]) establishes an intersting relation between the most important numbers: $1$, $e$, $i := \sqrt{-1}$, $\pi $ and $0$. However for some unknown reason the \ConTeXt\ commands \type{\placeformula[equation2]}, \type{\startformula[equation1]} and \type{\in[reference]} do not work anymore\dots{} And this also should be numbered: % this is formula 3 \startformula[equation3] 1 + e^{i \pi} = 0. \stopformula \bigskip Where is the problem? \stoptext

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more on typescripts (and optical sizes)
by Bruce D'Arcus 04 Feb '03

04 Feb '03

I am slowly making progress on this font installation (well, it works with LaTeX, not yet with ConTeXt). However, could I do something like this with a ConTeXt typescript? \DeclareFontShape{T1}{minion}{m}{n}{ <-6> MinionPro-SemiboldCapt-8t <6-9> MinionPro-Capt-8t <9-12> MinionPro-Regular-8t <12-15> MinionPro-Subh-8t <15-> MinionPro-Disp-8t}{\romanprotruding} This is from the LaTeX fd file, and what is useful is that it automatically switches optical size (caption, regular, subhead, and display) based on the size of the font. Bruce

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Fwd: [fptex] new win32 binaries
by Hans Hagen 03 Feb '03

03 Feb '03

> >I have uploaded a packed set of new binaries for win32 (they might even >hold the current e-Omega if anybody is interested in it). > >They are available at : > >ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/fptex/standalone/binaries-latest-win32.zip > >To use them, rename your current bin/win32 directory to bin/win32-old, >texmf/web2c >to texmf/web2c-old, unzip the archive, rebuild your formats. > >I expect that updmap.exe may be the source of problems (not well tested >for the moment). > >Reports are welcome, > >-- >Fabrice > >_______________________________________________ >fptex mailing list >fptex(a)tug.org >http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/fptex > >================================================================ >Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd >op virussen. >Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst >waar op wordt gecontroleerd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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