March 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Fwd: Re[4]: [NTG-context] MetaPost/Fun question
by Hans Hagen 28 Mar '03

28 Mar '03

Hi, Here is some comment on GB's intersection problem/solution from the polish mp expert Boguslaw Jackowski (those who will be in bremen next week can meet this personality). Hans > >EHL> I implemented it by finding some intersectiontime and the recursively > >EHL> finding the intersectionstimes of the two subpaths (each with some > >EHL> neighbourhood of the first intersection point cut off). For the time > >EHL> being I cannot find my code, but here it is in pseude code. > > > >EHL> When done this way, the intersection times will be sorted according to > >EHL> the first path. > >Frankly speaking, such a procedure should belong to plain from the very >beginning... Obviously, we added it in our plain_ex that we use for >generating fonts (even more -- we find also common outlines). > >Attached you'll find the relevant excerpt plus examples. > >Incidentally, recursion seem still banned from the MF/MP realm. I complained >about it some time ago, but it seems that nobody but me is hurted by this >annoyin situation. Attached you'll find an example: 31-element series >(in a reversed order) break down w2c mpost... > >And finally, let me quote the post from Larry Siebenmann (from 30 Jun 2000): > > > I believe that value (-1,-1) for "intersectiontimes" is a > > 100% ironclad guarantee that its two path arguments are > > disjoint. > > > > Is the converse true? That is, if "intersectiontimes" > > yields positive times, do the two paths necessarily > > intersect? NO! In writing the last post, I confirmed to my > > satisfaction that MP and MF report positive intersection > > times for paths that only come near. Start by looking > > at the following -- in which one of the paths is constant. > > > > path c; > > pair v,w; > > c:=fullcircle scaled 2; > > v:=(1+19epsilon,0) rotated 33.1234567; > > w:=(1-15epsilon,0) rotated 33.1234567; > > show (v intersectiontimes c); > > show (w intersectiontimes c); > > v:=(1+20epsilon,0) rotated 33.1234567; > > w:=(1-16epsilon,0) rotated 33.1234567; > > show (v intersectiontimes c); > > show (w intersectiontimes c); > > > > end > > > > The log: > > > > This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 > > **&Plain filetest.mp > > (filetest.mp > > >> (0.47754,0.73682) > > >> (0.96869,0.7373) > > >> (-1,-1) > > >> (-1,-1) ) > > > > Thus "intersectionpoint" may return a point when the paths > > are disjoint. It is guaranteed only to return a point of > > close approach. Close approach algorithms are complicated > > when efficient. But they are trivial in principle and enjoy > > incredible generality:- indeed, since we have explicit > > bounds modulus of continuity, it suffices to measure image > > distances on a finite but fine net of points in source. > > > > Question: Is there an *if-and-only-if* test for b'ezier > > curve intersection? > > > > The answer is yes for linear segments, though in some, but > > not all, cases one needs exact rational arithmetic. So > > think of working in C. > >I think you have now more comments than enough ;-) > >Cheers -- Jacko > >-- >BOP s. c. >ul. Bora-Komorowskiego 24, 80-377 Gdansk, Poland >tel. (+48 58) 553 46 59, fax (+48 58) 511 03 81 >bop(a)bop.com.pl, http://www.bop.com.pl > >================================================================ >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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color band
by Idris S Hamid 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

Dear syndicate, For a book cover I want a green-colored rectangular band, centered, at the very top of the page, with text in some other color (to be determined) overlapping the band. The band is small, just, say, 2cm high and 12 cm wide. Since it's at the top it is surrounded by white on only three sides. I'm not even sure where to get started here (I don't think the LaTeX Graphics Companion will be much help:->) Here is part of my present layout. I'll have to put this band in the topspace and increase it, I presume: \definepapersize[journal][width=5.5in, height=8.5in] \setuppapersize[journal][letter] \setuplayout[width=middle, | height=19cm, | footer=0cm, | header=0cm, | topspace=28pt, | location={middle,doublesided}, | marking=on] I hope the solution is Plain-compatible since I may have to use Gamma for some Arabic insertions. Otherwise I'll have to eps those insertions. Thnx in advance Idris

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Paragraph setup
by kopszak＠mnw.art.pl 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

Hello, I was trying, without convincing results, to define a float containing a text block which would be typeset in the top right corner of a page and would have specified width. Also if there would happen another float like this on the page it should be typeset below the first one and the text should flow around both of them. Is there any simple way to do that? Thanks in advance. Piotr -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -----------------------------> http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/

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textbackgrounds
by Patrick Gundlach 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

Dear ConTeXt users, i have a question about textbackgrounds. Is there a) something like \setuptextbackground[all][frame=on,...] that sets frame=on for all the textbackgrounds out there? Or better: b) is there any way to inherit parameters? \definetextbackground[A][frame=off] \definetextbackground[B][A] so that B also has frame=off set? Patrick

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textbackground again...
by Patrick Gundlach 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

Hi there, why is frame=on and the offset ignored? (Why do I need ... enlarged in MPgrahic?) \mainlanguage[de] \setupcolors[state=start] \startuseMPgraphic{mpos:par:columnset:shade} for i := 1 upto nofmultipars : linear_shade(multipars[i] enlarged 5pt cornered 20pt,1, \MPcolor{middlegreen},\MPcolor{lightgreen}); endfor ; \stopuseMPgraphic \definetextbackground[info] [backgroundoffset=5pt, location=paragraph, frame=on, mp=mpos:par:columnset:shade, ] \starttext \starttextbackground[info] Stolz auf diesen Sieg flog die M\"ucke davon, um ihn aller Welt auszuposaunen, \"ubersah aber das Gewebe einer Spinne und verfing sich in demselben. Gierig umarmte die Spinne sie und sog ihr das Heldenblut aus. Sterbend empfand die M\"ucke ihre Nichtigkeit, indem sie, die Besiegerin des L\"owen, einem so ver\"achtlichen Tiere, einer Spinne, erliegen mu\SS te. \stoptextbackground \stoptext Patrick

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A change in textext Metafun maco?
by Michal Kvasnicka 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

Good noon. I have updated to the new ConTeXt and some of my documents failed to work. I use the FunnyFrame example from the Metafun manual. With the old ConTeXt all worked well. Now I can see in the title of a frame just "unknown". I played a little with the mpgraph.mp and I suspect the macro textext not to work well. Or in the same way as before. Where can be a bug? (Well, I updated only TeX, Metapost, and Perl part of ConTeXt and generated formats -- I didn't updated the ConTeXt stuff for plain or for LaTeX). Can you help me? Many thanks. Michal Kvasnicka

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suppressing header on first page of chapter
by Mark A. Lilly 27 Mar '03

27 Mar '03

greetings, i have setup a head for my chapters, and i would like to suppress the Chapter and Section text from being printed on the first page of each chapter. I have setup the header text like so. \setupheadertexts [text] [chapter] [section] is there a command to add to the \setuphead to make the chapter and section titles not print on the first page of the chapter (head)? thanks, mark

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Context, MacOS, accents
by Jean-Pierre Le Narzul 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Hi, I'm using ConTeXt on my iMac (teTeX distribution through I-installer program) Everything seems OK except for inputing accentuated characters ... If I type \'a I got the correct character (accentuated a) but if I type directly the accentuated character from the keyboard, I got no result .... I start my document with \useregime[mac] (or \enableregime[mac]) but it does not change anything .... Any idea ? (sorry if it's a Faq but I didn't find any solution in reading the mailing list archive ....) thanks in advance jp

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Re: modules again
by Hans Hagen 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

At 10:44 AM 3/26/2003 +0100, you wrote: >Hello Hans, > >is it right that the modules filenames are limited to 8+3 chars? So > >12345678 >t-cdcover.tex > >is not found but > >12345678 >t-cdcove.tex > >is? indeed, but you can map longerones (see cont-fil.tex) 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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local environments
by Matthew Huggett 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Hi: I have a project with a few different types of documents, so I want to set up a few local environments in the same global environment file. Is the following a legitimate environment file? \startenvironment Layout ... some global settings ... \startlocalenvironment[Alternative] ... some local settings ... \stoplocalenvironment \stopenvironment If it is legitimate, how do I specify that a document use the global settings with specific settings from the local environment. I tried \environment Layout \localenvironment Alternative but any macros defined in the local environment are reported as undefined. Thanks, Matt

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