March 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

reusing metapost graphics
by Matthew Huggett 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

Hi: I'm designing a year's worth of English lessons for some Japanese kids, and I'm using Metapost and ConTeXt to generate flashcards for vocabulary training. I have a few questions: (1) I want to keep my Metapost figures defined in a ConTeXt environment file so that I can recall them as I need in future lessons. Is there anything wrong with this approach? (2) How do I make a Metapost figure defined in a ConTeXt file reusable? Do I need to wrap the definition of the figure in a macro so that the figure is recreated everytime I need it? (3) With \useMPgraphic, is there any mechanism to scale the image as with \useexternalfigure? If this is all in the documentation, I apologize. (I would appreciate a pointer to the documentation though :-) )

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Umlaute, texnansi
by Raimund Kohl 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Hello there, I accidently switched from SuSE to Debian (via Knoppix) and all of a sudden ran into problems. With: ----------------------------------------------- % interface=en tex=pdfetex output=pdftex \setupwhitespace[big] \mainlanguage[de] \enableregime[utf8] % \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \starttext Und jetzt auch gleich mal die Umlaute testen, sowie vielleicht Ähnlichkeit der Öffentlichkeit die auch mal beißen kann \stoptext ----------------------------------------------- the document will be processed ... without the german Umlaute (Ä, Ö etc). And if I uncomment \setupencoding[default=texnansi] texexec stops with the message: ! Undefined control sequence. l.5 \setupencoding [default=texnansi] ? (./Context_text.tuo) (./Context_text.tuo) systems : begin file Context_text at line 6 Missing character: There is no Ä in font cmr12! Missing character: There is no Ö in font cmr12! Missing character: There is no ß in font cmr12! [1.1{/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map}] systems : end file Context_text at line 11 ) -------------------------------------- What did I do wrong? ray

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Footnotes at the end of sentences
by Nigel King 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Style gurus, I am sure there are some experts here. At the end of a sentence I think it is normal for a footnote to be after the full stop. When this is done the spacing to the next sentence is not very large, it certainly doesn't look very good to my eye. ... End of sentence with footnote.\footnote{This is the footnote.} The next sentence..... What is the recognized way of sourcing this. TIA -- Nigel

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columnsets
by Patrick Gundlach 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Hello, I have a question regarding columnsets: ================================================== \definecolumnset[two][n=2] %\setupcolumnset[two][1][width=4cm] %\setupcolumnset[two][2][width=8cm] \starttext \startcolumnset[two] \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par} \stopcolumnset \stoptext ================================================== a) I keep getting a blank page after the columnset. How do I get rid of it? b) the setupcolumnset has some effect (making columns smaller) but they are both the same width. Why? Patrick

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\framed and \starttabulate
by Matthew Huggett 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Hi: I wanted to use \framed {\starttabulate ... \stoptabulate } but when I tried it, TeX complained about groupings and missing parentheses. Is there a way to make this work? I switched to \bTABLE, and that worked, but \starttabulate is more convenient sometimes. Thanks Matt

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table and MPpositiongraphic
by Patrick Gundlach 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Hello, while browsing thru the source and trying some examples, I can't sensible output of the following code. (No MP stuff is visible) %output=pdf \setupcolors[state=start] \def\cw#1{\color[green]{#1}} \def\TableShade#1#2% {\startMPpositiongraphic initialize_area(\MPpos{b:#1},\MPpos{e:#1}) ; show pxy; linear_shade(pxy,0,.4#2,.9#2) ; anchor_area(\MPanchor{b:#1}) ; \stopMPpositiongraphic} \dosetpositionaction{b:x}{\TableShade{x}{red}} \dosetpositionaction{b:y}{\TableShade{y}{green}} \dosetpositionaction{b:z}{\TableShade{z}{blue}} \starttext \starttable[|c|c|c|] \GFC[b:z] \cw{this is a small} \NC \cw{table} \NC in which we \NC \FR \NC \cw{will demonstrate} \GFC[c:y] \cw{that this} \GTC[c] \cw{positioning} \NC \MR \GSC[a:x] \cw{mechanism also} \GTC[b] \cw{works quite well} \NC in tables \NC \LR \stoptable \stoptext Any ideas how to get the MPpositiongraphic working? Patrick

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index term in term of a definition list
by Simon Pepping 18 Mar '03

18 Mar '03

Hi, It appears that Context cannot deal with an \index command in the term of a definition list: \startvariable{sarge\index{sarge}} De groene soldaat \stopvariable In XML documents this may occur: <varlistentry> <term>sarge <indexterm significance="normal"> <primary>sarge</primary> </indexterm> </term> <listitem> <para>De groene soldaat</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> Is it a fundamental problem to enable this in Context? If so I must find other solutions. Does Context have something for stacks? Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping(a)scaprea.hobby.nl

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linewidth/rulethickness/linethickness
by Patrick Gundlach 18 Mar '03

18 Mar '03

Hello, looking at the newest beta (esp. plus-rul.tex), I wondered about the english translation of lijndikte. In mult-com.tex it is linewidth and(!) linethickness, in mult-con.tex it is rulethickness. Is it possible to agree on one name? Patrick

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dashed horizontal line
by Matthew Huggett 18 Mar '03

18 Mar '03

Hi all: I would like to draw a short horizontal line, somewhat like \hl[5] but dashed instead of solid. Is there a command for this? Thanks Matt

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Re: ConTeXt beta installation issue
by Gerben Wierda 18 Mar '03

18 Mar '03

On Monday, Mar 17, 2003, at 00:45 Europe/Amsterdam, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > I've been using Simon's installer script successfully of late to > install betas, but just ran into the following error (see below). Any > ideas or suggestions? > > The command I used was: > > sudo perl install_context.pl --textree /Users/darcusb/Library/texmf > /Applications/Installers/ConTeXt/cont-tmf.zip > > I do note that the pdfetex.pool it says it can't open is in this > directory: > > /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/ It is pdfetex that fails because it cannot find the pool file. Whatever install_context.pl does, it seems to override PATH (another pdfetex on your system is found, not likely) or KPSE settings from /usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf in such a way that TeX stops working. Probably it tries to do some guessing itself instead of relying on existing settings. What might influence this is that my setup separates the texmf part that is related to binaries (like pool files that change when binary versions change) and the stuff that is the fondation (like ConTeXt, LATeX, etc). /usr/local/teTeX/texmf.cnf starts with: > % Our directory setup as explained in > $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/README.gwtex > % TEXMFMAIN contains the TEXMF tree installed by make install of the > programs > TEXMFMAIN = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf > % TEXMFTE contains the main TEXMF tree from teTeX > TEXMFTE = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf.tetex > % TEXMFGW contains GW specific defaults and additions > TEXMFGW = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf.gwtex > % TEXMFLOCAL contains any local system TeXadmin overrides > TEXMFLOCAL = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf.local > % $VARTEXMF is where texconfig writes its local settings > VARTEXMF = $TEXMFLOCAL > % User texmf trees can be catered for like this... > HOMETEXMF = $HOME/Library/texmf > > % Our complete search path, the last three are searched through > % ls-R exclusively, which means that you have to run texhash > % after you have added, moved or deleted files in the tree > TEXMF={$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFGW,!!$TEXMFTE,!!$TEXMFMAIN} In this case, there is a valid TeX setup, though uncommon because the separation of texmf into texmf and texmf.tetex. I need this separation to be able to update programs and foundation separately. A new foundation (texmf.tetex + texmf.gwtex) does not touch anything related to the binaries (like pool files) in texmf. If you send me the script I can have a quick look at it. G Here is what which and kpsewhich should tell you in a standard setup % which pdfetex /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/pdfetex % kpsewhich pdfetex.pool /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/pdfetex.pool % kpsewhich cont-en.tex /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex

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