April 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

MikTeX hash size limit ?
by Sebastian Rooks 13 Apr '03

13 Apr '03

Hello ConTeXters, First of all I would like to thank you Hans for ConTeXt. It is a great pleasure to use it to write my PhD thesis. I have just upgraded to the lastest versions of ConTeXt and MikTeX and my draft doesn't compile any more: pdfeTeX complains that it runs out of "multiletter control sequences" (see part of the log file below). I did not found what it is nor how to increase it. Maybe someone on this list can give me some advice ? Yours, Seb. This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.10b-2.1 (MiKTeX 2.2) (preloaded format=cont-en 2003.3.31) 1 APR 2003 01:01 entering extended mode **these.tex (these.tex{pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.3.11 fmt: 2003.3.31 int: english mes: english [...] ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=35000]. [...] Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 6285 strings out of 67835 96036 string characters out of 755177 566094 words of memory out of 1205208 35000 multiletter control sequences out of 35000 68410 words of font info for 185 fonts, out of 500000 for 1000 56 hyphenation exceptions out of 607 61i,21n,101p,2577b,1356s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,200000b,32768s 1215 PDF objects out of 65536 223 named destinations out of 20000 673 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536 ! ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!

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Figure-database
by Willi Egger 13 Apr '03

13 Apr '03

Hi all, i prepared today a figure database. Within the comment fields there are words containeng accented letters. <figure> <file></file> <label>Beispiel</label> <copyright>WE</copyright> <comment>Oberfläche</comment> </figure> When saying <\figurelibrary language="en"> at the beginning I get the given example word as Oberfl""ache The same is valid for the language="nl". If i use the <\figurelibrary language="de"> then I get the example word as Oberfl"äche. I am puzzled ... What am I doing wrong? For testing in your environment I attach a minimal file. Thanks Willi

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pdf printing
by Idris S Hamid 13 Apr '03

13 Apr '03

Dear gang, Ok; this is a post-context problem but I desperately need your help. I created a book cover using ConTeXt/Gamma/eomega in three parts; front, back, and spine. ps2pdf got the colors wrong so I had to use distiller to convert each part to pdf. Per my instructions, in Acrobat, a colleague overlaid the three components and created a final single cover pdf. She sent it to the printer and everything came out fine except the fonts "came out all pixilated and blurry". The fonts are all Type1 and dvips is definitely getting the Type1's I think The printer suggested that Distiller was screen-optimized, not print-optimized. I'll check that when I get home but before I get there I need your advice and wisdom: What things in ConTeXt/dvips/distiller should I optimize to make sure the printer is able to print this thing properly? Are there any questions I can ask the printer? As I get more info I'll try to make things more precise. Aside: Maybe there is way to make a single cover in ConTeXt instead of combining three pdfs in Acrobat (which is a pain). I'd be happy to learn:-) Best wishes Idris

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clipping a MetaPost graphic
by Severin Obertuefer 13 Apr '03

13 Apr '03

hi all I made a MetaPost graphic and I want to use this graphic for a background. The graphic is too large and I want to clip it to the size of 84mm width and 54mm height. With "clip currentpicture to unitsquare xyscaled (86mm,54mm)" I get the size I wanted but the clipped field should be placed in the center of the currenpicture. I tried: "clip currentpicture to unitsquare xyscaled (86mm,54mm) shifted center boundingbox currentpicture" but that became not the effect I wanted.How can I shift the clipping area to the center of the currenpicture? thx for help severin

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PPCHTEX Mailing List
by Paulo Ney de Souza 13 Apr '03

13 Apr '03

Does any one here knows what is going on with the PPCHTEX Mailing List ? I have sent request to subscribe, reports of errors in documentation, etc ... there and never got a reply back! Nothing has even gone into the archieves since Dec last year. Letters to the owners of the list have also gone unanwered. Does any one here know what is goin on? Paulo Ney de Souza

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Nath, and problems smashing
by Giuseppe Bilotta 13 Apr '03

13 Apr '03

Hello, as I might have mentioned before, I'm working on a ConTeXt module that would give part of the functionality available in the LaTeX package Nath; as I'm not really an expert in either of the topics involved, I'm going at it slowly, starting with the simple things; the first thing I implemented was a natural way to write extensible arrows. It came up pretty fine and works quite good, but there seems to be a sizing problem. First of all, please find attached t-nath.tex (the module) and nathtest.tex (a test file). As you may notice if you compile the nathtest document, sub and superscripts to the single-line arrows are much to high or low; browsing about I noticed that in AMS-LaTeX the minus that extends the single-line arrows is "smashed", to prevent this problem; I did try to smash it (replacing \mathop- with \mathop{\smash-}), but it didn't seem to help. What do the experts here think? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Metapost error with flowchart module
by Henning Hraban Ramm 13 Apr '03

13 Apr '03

Hello together! With at least the last few betas my flowcharts don't run anymore, I get always the following metapost error: > >> local_multi_par_area > >> false > ! Equation cannot be performed (numeric=boolean). > <to be read again> > ; > l.99 local_multi_par_area:=false; Is it a bug or my mistake? (But I didn't change anything, and it worked with older versions) Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/

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Re: metafun id
by Hans Hagen 11 Apr '03

11 Apr '03

At 10:37 11/04/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> writes: > >Hello Hans, > > >>It would be great if metapost could be verbose of format version and > >>date created. Hans? > > > > the metapost pool files has an 'everyjob" entry but i dunno how to use > > that so i hooked it into end > >Your new metafun.mp just writes out the date where the format is >created (or the job is run?); it would be much more helpful to >identify the metafun version as in context: > >ConTeXt ver: 2003.3.17 fmt: 2003.3.18 int: english mes: english > >metafun ver: ..... fmt: .... > >So it would be much easier to solve problems like John had: up to >date format but generated with old metafun-files. that's for later, since i first need to patch some script for that also, mp needs to be fixed for the date/time (not current today) 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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Floating error
by Nagy Bence 11 Apr '03

11 Apr '03

I have a small problem with ConTeXt's floating meachnism. There are two wide pictures and other narrow pictures in columns, ConTeXt breaks the first page after the first wide picture. \midaligned{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[p1_7.pdf][factor=fit]}} \midaligned{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[p2_1.pdf][factor=fit]}} \startcolumns[n=3,distance=4mm,balance=no] \midaligned{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[p2_2.pdf]}} \midaligned{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[p2_3.pdf]}} \midaligned{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[p2_4.pdf]}} \stopcolumns In this situation the first wide picture goes to the first page, the second to the second page and the rest to the third page (th second picture is just 2cm tall, the columns 10cm on an A4 page). When I inserted the \page command after the first picture, the second picture and the columns are placed well on the second page. If I use the \placefigure[here,force,none] statement, the second picture goes to the third page. It seems to be a ConTeXt-error(?) Greetings Bence

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Q: indenting a table of contents
by Marko Schuetz 10 Apr '03

10 Apr '03

I would like a table of contents to be indented as: 1.1 First Section 1.1.1 First Subsection of First Section 1.1.1.2 .... 1.1.2 hjfhkdsf For a first approximation I used \setuplist [section] [width=2em,distance=1em] \setuplist [subsection] [margin=3em,width=3em,distance=1em] \setuplist [subsubsection] [margin=7em,width=3em,distance=1em] This is not satisfactory, since the distance between the numbers and the title varies for different levels. If I use width=fit, can I access the computed width for the previous level to set up a list? Or is there already an option to achieve this? Thanks in advance Marko

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