March 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

combination
by Patrick Gundlach 07 Mar '03

07 Mar '03

Hello, shouldn't this file be OK? =========================================================== \starttext \startcombination[2] {\framed{sometext}} {\framed{somemoretext}} \stopcombination \stoptext =========================================================== This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./simplecomb.tex{/var/tmp/tetex/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.3.4 fmt: 2003.3.5 int: english mes: english [...] Overfull \hbox (25.45807pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 4--4 [][] [] [] ! Missing { inserted. <to be read again> \egroup \stopcombination ->\egroup \egroup l.5 \stopcombination ? systems : end file simplecomb at line 6 ! You can't use `\end' in internal vertical mode. <recently read> \normalend l.6 \stoptext Patrick

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Standard ligatures in ec encoding
by Nagy Bence 07 Mar '03

07 Mar '03

Hi all, I have installed the URW fonts with texfont --batch --encoding=ec type-tmf.dat The \setupbodyfont[pos,10pt] works well, but there is no f-ligatures in the output. The fi and fl are in the character table (in ec-urw-times.tex the \ShowFont shows both), but \showligatures doesn't show these. What is wrong? Greetings Bence Nagy

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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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Docbook In Context, new version
by Simon Pepping 07 Mar '03

07 Mar '03

Hi, I have uploaded a new version of DocbookInContext. This version has a sizable contribution by Richard Rascher-Friesenhausen, with a.o. Metapost graphics for admonitions, a Spanish translation of literal strings by Pablo Rodriguez, and numerous small features. It also introduces backgrounds, a.o. for programlistings, but unfortunately this feature seems to cause spurious page breaks under certain circumstances. In addition the web page has a nice example of how you can customize DocbookInContext by writing your own module, also by Richard Rascher-Friesenhausen. You can find DocbookInContext at http://www.hobby.nl/~scaprea/context/. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping(a)scaprea.hobby.nl

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Problems recompiling LaTeX2ConTeXt.tex
by James J. Ramsey 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

I wanted to recompile LaTeX2ConTeXt.tex mainly to get a PDF file with bookmarks. However, I think I may have smoked out some problems with my ConTeXt installation in the process. I'm running Red Hat 8.0, with teTeX-1.0.7. The output from texexec is as follows: TeXExec 2.6 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2001 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : LaTeX2ConTeXt output : pdftex interface : en current mode : all TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.3.1) entering extended mode (./LaTeX2ConTeXt.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2002.1.28 fmt: 2003.3.3 int: english mes: english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2-en-2 2-uk-2 2-de-2 2-fr-2 2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : LaTeX2ConTeXt.top loaded (./LaTeX2ConTeXt.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-pre.tex typescript : [berry] [ec] [] (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-pre.tex typescript : [serif] [times] [name,default] (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) typescript : [sans] [helvetica] [name,default] (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) typescript : [mono] [courier] [name,default] (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) typescript : [serif,sans,mono] [default] [size] (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) typescript : [map] [default] [] (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex pdftex : needs map file: original-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-ams-euler.map pdftex : needs map file: original-ams-logo.map pdftex : needs map file: original-micropress-informal.map ) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex))kpathsea: Running mktextfm Times-Roman /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation T for Times-Roman. /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/share/texmf/fontname/special.map? mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Times-Roman This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.1) kpathsea: Running mktexmf Times-Roman ! I can't find file `Times-Roman'. <*> ...our; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Times-Roman Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...our; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Times-Roman Transcript written on mfput.log. mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Times-Roman' failed. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \*12ptrmtf*=Times-Roman at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not fo und. \lastfontname ->Times-Roman at \scaledfont \donoparsefontspec ... #1\endcsname \lastfontname \relax \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#2}\newfontidentifier \doresetrelativefontsize \... \fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \ifskipfontchar... ... l.13 \setupbodyfont[ber,pos] ? I wasn't able to read the size data for this font, so I will ignore the font specification. [Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.] You might try inserting a different font spec; e.g., type `I\font<same font id>=<substitute font name>'. ? No pages of output. Transcript written on LaTeX2ConTeXt.log. run time : 52 seconds total run time : 52 seconds What is going on? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/

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figure in 2columns text
by jendacontext＠centrum.cz 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

Hallo, all, I wan't place a little figure right of paragraph in 2columns text. I use columnset. It is something as this: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% ____________________________ %% %% ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %% ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %% ~~~~~~~~ --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %% ~~~~~~~~|fig| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %% ~~~~~~~~ --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %% ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %% ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %% ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ %% ____________________________ %% % I try use \placefigure % \starttext \definecolumnset[twocol][n=2,offset=.5cm] \startcolumnset[twocol] \input tufte \placefigure[right]{none}{\externalfigure[fig][width=2cm]} \input tufte \stopcolumnset \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ... But with no efekt. Do you know someone how can I do this? Thank you. Jenda -------------------- Centrum.cz Auto - Představujeme horké novinky ze ženevského autosalonu! http://auto.centrum.cz/zeneva

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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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Re: [NTG-context] Re: lowerleftdoubleninequote
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

Hallo Patrick! After a short break, I would like to continue learning context. Have you got any answer to your question? > > another solution is to make a specific font handler (like the hanging > > one) for a class of fonts like cmr, in that case you can link such a > > handler to for instance a cmr10 font (see hand-*) > > I have tried that, but with strange results: > > > \startfonthandling[cmrfix] > \definecharacter quotedblbase {,\kern -.1em,} > \stopfonthandling > > %\setupfontsynonym[Serif][handling=cmrfix] > > \setupbodyfont[14pt] > \starttext > \mainlanguage[de] > \startquotation > To \TEX\ or not to \TEX. > \stopquotation > \stoptext > > > The definition of quotedblbase in line two is used without even > activating the cmrfix font-handler. How do I use the handler properly? > > Patrick

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details.pdf
by John Culleton 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

I had a copy of this once but lost it. Where can I find it on the site? John Culleton

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Indented Items
by Larry Staton Jr. 06 Mar '03

06 Mar '03

I'm having trouble indenting items. Here's my markup: \startitemize[n, packed, joinedup][margin=0.5in] \item Item 1 \item Item 2 \stopitemize Here's what I expect: ---------------- This is a list. 1. Item 1 2. Item 2 This is what I get: _______________ This is a list: 1. Item 1 2. Item 2 How can I get the numerals and text to indent? Any thoughts? TIA. -- Larry Staton Jr. E-mail/iChat: statonjr(a)mac.com AIM: lstatonjr http://www.statonlaw.net/weblog/ Brought to you by Mail on Mac OS X Public PGP Key available upon request

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