May 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Wrong pagebreak in column environment
by Nagy Bence 20 May '03

20 May '03

Dear all, I'm posting my unsolvable problem, there is a minimal example with a wrong pagebreak between Frame 3 and Frame 4 in the same column environment. I seek a solution without manual intervention (for example without \page[yes,force]). I want to make a script generated layout. Please, let me know, if anybody has an idea. Thanks! Greetings Bence Nagy

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Re: [NTG-context] German interface
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 20 May '03

20 May '03

Hallo! > \enableregime, \mainlanguage, \setupencoding are English > commands; texexec is smart enough to detect this, and therefore > uses the English interface; Obviously this autodetectroutine is checking only the pr�ambel. > if you want to use the German one, > use the German corresponding command: \hauptsprache instead of > \mainlanguage. Or, as the first line of the file put: That means, that the aktual setting in 'texexec.ini' is of no practical use, isn't it? > % interface=de And than texexec forgets its smartness? The whole thing costs me a lot of time. I installed context with 'UserInterface de' without a real idea what it means. I didn't know if it brings me german messages or an german interface. Then I forgot this setting and used english statements. All worked well, until I wrote a little testfile, without pr�ambel, and tex complains about \chapter{}. It was very strange! May be, a warning message would be helpfull, say 'UserInterface doesn't match initial setting!' Wolfgang

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Makempy example rotated
by John Culleton 19 May '03

19 May '03

I copied the "E=mc^2" example from the Makempy manual and had an unusual result. The text is rotated by -90 degrees! I tried reducing the scale factor to 5 but it still comes out that way. Is this a FAQ or have I managed to screw something up? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers

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News for MikTeX hash size limit ?
by Sebastian Rooks 19 May '03

19 May '03

Hi Giuseppe, Do you have any news for the hash-size limit in MikteX ? There were some update recently but it still doesn't compile my files (see previous mails 2003-04-08). I tried to install TeXlive, and the resulting installation was not very "clean". But my files were compiled. As I should finish to write my thesis in roughtly two months from now, do you think I should forget MikTeX and go on with TeXlive ? Thanks a lot, Seb.

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digits
by Hans Hagen 19 May '03

19 May '03

Hi, In response on all this decimal discussions i posted a new magazine (mag-0003) about a feature that is maybe unknown. [btw, it is no problem to make digit handling language dependent, at least the presets; math/physics is another thing and needs more discussion] [i had also planned to upload a new beta but my internet connection is too slow today; adsl in a couple of month] 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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Bug in layer graphics recalculation
by Slawek Zak 19 May '03

19 May '03

It seems that either my ConTeXt installation is bugged or some bug sneaked in some late ConTeXt releases. The background graphics on each page are not recalculated as they should be, but only the first one is taken and set for speciffic layer. Following short example should make it visible: % output=pdftex \usemodule[pre-03] \starttext \TitlePage{How nice} \Topics{This is about ...} \Topic{The first one} \Topic{Another one} \stoptext It's been taken from s-pre-03.tex example code and doesn't work for me with latest beta and release version as well. The darker part of background ellipsis should be moving towards the endpoint on consecutive pages. It doesn't. Any thoughts? /S

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\definecolorgroup with gray values
by Peter Rolf 19 May '03

19 May '03

I want to define a colorgroup of gray values, so I tried the following: \definecolorgroup[test][gray] [.1:.1:.1, .2:.2:.2] The result was: ---------------------------------------- ConTeXt ver: 2003.4.29 fmt: 2003.5.8 int: english mes: english ... ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \v!gray \p!compareprocessaction ...edaction \!!stringb {#1 }\ifx \!!stringa \!!string... \next1 #1,->\p!doprocessaction {#1} \doprocesscommaitem <argument> ...gray =>\edef \currentcolorspace {S}, \v!spot =>\edef \currentc... \processnextcommalist ...dodoprocesscommaitem #4#5 ,]\relax \global \advance ... \dodefinecolorgroup ...def \currentcolorspace {R}] \colorcount \zerocount \de... ---------------------------------------- Maybe there is a shorter way to define the gray values, so I tried \definecolorgroup[test][gray] [.1, .2] No luck. When I use rgb tables, all works fine. Has anyone an answer for that? Regards, Peter

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newbie question: greek in ConTeXt?
by Thomas A. Schmitz 18 May '03

18 May '03

After using LateX for a while, I became interested in ConTeXt and was immediately fascinated by the ease of use and the logical structure of commands. However, for my job, I need to typeset in ancient Greek (politoniko). There are a couple of packages for LaTeX that can do that (Teubner, psgreek e.g.), but can it be done in ConTeXt? I already stumble whenever I try to set the language to Greek; I get a couple of error messages (I use the standard teTex-distribution on a Mac with OS X 10.2). Can anybody point me to helpful documents or discussions? Thanks a lot! -- Thomas A. Schmitz Philologisches Seminar Universitaet Bonn Am Hof 1 e 53113 Bonn Germany

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over normal width tables
by Helmut Schwertner 18 May '03

18 May '03

Hello, sometimes I need over normal width tables. Is there any equivalent to "\sidewaystable" from LaTeX? If there is no way like "\sidewaystable" could somebody recommend an other solution to place width table? Thanks for every tip, kind regards, Helmut

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no problem more with \usemodule[chart] and MikTeX
by Helmut Schwertner 18 May '03

18 May '03

Hello Giuseppe, thank you very much for your advice. I moved the metafun.mem from >>d:\texmf\miktext\fmt<< to >>d:\texmf\miktext\mem<< and it works perfect. best wishes, Helmut > Friday, May 16, 2003 Willi Egger wrote: > WE> Hi Helmut, > WE> Though I a m not using Miktex it seems that you might have to make the > mem > WE> file (format file ) for metafun yourself. > WE> texexec --make metafun > WE> Keep in mind, that the mem-file is dumped into the directory where you > run > WE> the texexec command. > Worse :) In my MiKTeX distribution it's dumped where the TeX > formats are. It has to be moved where the other .mem files are - > Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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