May 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Metafont and Context
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 18 May '03

18 May '03

Hallo! Has anybody written typescripts for one of the Metafonts available at CTAN and can send me an example or two? Wolfgang

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Calligraphy and Lucida?
by Maarten Sneep 18 May '03

18 May '03

Hi, I'd like to use the calligraphic typeface from the lucida set, but using the following setup, I don't get 'em. \setupbodyfontenvironment[default][em=italic] \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][hanging][pure] \setupalign[hanging] \setupbodyfont[lbr,9pt] \starttext {\cg This should be in the Lucida Calligraphic typeface --- but it isn't} \stoptext Any ideas? I'm running a current ConTeXt. Maarten Don't it ever get lonesome?

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German interface
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 17 May '03

17 May '03

Hallo! I have 'set UserInterface to de' in 'texexec.ini'. Given the following testfile: ------------------test.tex------------- \enableregime[windows] \mainlanguage[de] \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \starttext \chapter{Test} Bla. \stoptext ---------------------------------------- This runs ok! Why? Should'nt use texexec german interface here? Deleting the first three lines, texexec uses german interface and complains about \chapter{}, which should be \kapitel{}. Commenting the first three lines, I could not find any rule, it seems as if texexec uses randomly german or english interface. Is this normal behaviour? How can I use german interface in the above example? Wolfgang

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hyperbolic funtions in MP
by Peter Rolf 17 May '03

17 May '03

I have problems using the hyperbolic functions sinh and cosh (MetaFun manual page 204) in metapost. A simple call of sinh (with valid parameter) ct:= sinh(3) ; gives ---------------------------------------- This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.10b-2.1 (MiKTeX 2.3) ConTeXt ver: 2003.4.29 fmt: 2003.5.8 int: english mes: english ... >> xx-2 ! Unknown relation will be considered false. <to be read again> : **->if(EXPR1)=2: (EXPR0)*(EXPR0)else:takepower(EXPR1)of(EXPR0)fi <to be read again> ) exp->begingroup((mexp256)**(EXPR2)) endgroup <to be read again> ; sinh->begingroup.save.xx;xx=exp.xx; (xx-1/xx)/2endgroup <to be read again> ; l.152 ct:= sinh(3) ; ? ---------------------------------------- Same error for cosh. The functions sin, cos and asinh, acosh work. Please, could somebody test, if this is a general problem... Greetings, Peter

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more on texfont (ttf successes?)
by Adam Lindsay 17 May '03

17 May '03

Folks, I've been doing some testing on texfont, and it seems to *almost* support truetype (.ttf) fonts perfectly fine. Has anyone used it to install ttf files, and had it work perfectly? I think all that needs changing is where the mapfile gets written... the type1 extension ".pfb" is currently hard-coded. I'll experiment with a solution (that hopefully works better with .otf files too). Hans, has texfont.pl received any recent private changes that my OpenType patch has to be synched to? I don't want to create a bigger fork than necessary. Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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framed verbatim text
by Jedrzej Nasiadek 17 May '03

17 May '03

Hi, I'm trying to make a frame around the verbatim text. The approach that first came to my mind: \framed{% \starttyping quite a lot of multiline verbatim stuff \stoptyping} doesn't work. Any ideas how to achieve that (and still have possibility of applying background to that frame)? regards, Jedrzej

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problem with \usemodule[chart]
by schwertner＠t-online.de 17 May '03

17 May '03

Hello, I'd like to draw up a simple chart (\usemodule[chart]), but I get only the "text" (not really a document) and no "shape" on the PDF. I use a current version of Miktex total (Win) and the newest ConTeXt. What can I do? Thanks for any help, greetings, Helmut **********sample**********************************************++ \usemodule[chart] \setupFLOWcharts [nx=3, ny=3, dx=2\bodyfontsize, dy=2\bodyfontsize, width=12\bodyfontsize, height=7\bodyfontsize, maxwidth=\textwidth] \starttext \startFLOWchart[cells] \startFLOWcell \name {first} \location {1,2} \shape {singledocument} \text {not really a document} \stopFLOWcell \stopFLOWchart \FLOWchart[cells] \stoptext ********************************************************* Helmut Schwertner Schülperbaum 4 24103 K i e l phone: 0431 58 78 502 eMail: schwertner(a)t-online.de

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a typographic discover
by Pablo Rodriguez 17 May '03

17 May '03

Dear ConTeXticians, I had heard of http://www.apostrophiclab.com/, but yesterday I'd visited it and I'd downloaded about 60Mb of truetype fonts (in zip files). As far as I can remember almost all the fonts were also offered in type1 format. I can only recommend the visit. I hope you enjoy it (sorry if you already know it), Pablo

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Re: [NTG-context] problem with \usemodule[chart]
by Helmut Schwertner 17 May '03

17 May '03

Hallo Eckhart, vielen Dank für Deine Antwort. Ich habe mir daraufhin einige Installationshinweise (u.a. von fiee http://www.ramm.ch/fiee/texnique/) angesehen und insbesondere die sogenannten "Aufrufe" von MetaPost angesehen und diese in die entsprechenden Konfigurationsdateien auf enable gestellt bzw. hinzugefügt. Leider gehen die meisten Text nicht von Miktex (Win) aus (was ich ja gut verstehen kann), was aber dazu führt, dass bestimmte, genannte, Dateien so unter Miktex gar existieren. Das erleichtert mir als Sozialwissenschaftler, der noch nicht mal versteht, wie ein Kühlschrank funktioniert, aber dennoch schon jahrelang recht ordentliche Text mit latex bzw. pdflatex produziert, die Sache nicht gerade. Ergo: Trotz \write18 (miktex.ini) auf enable und weiteren Modifikationen leider kein Metapost. Ich erhalte folgende Hinweise beim Aufruf: texexec --pdf flowtest initexmf: don't know how to dump metafun cannot make metafun.mem I can't find the default mem file! Hast Du vielleicht noch eine Idee, der ich nachgehen könnte? Vielen Dank nochmal und herzliche Grüße, helmut > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:32:18PM +0200, schwertner(a)t-online.de wrote: >> I'd like to draw up a simple chart (\usemodule[chart]), but I get only >> the "text" (not really >> a document) and no "shape" on the PDF. I use a current version of Miktex >> total (Win) >> and the newest ConTeXt. What can I do? > Did you enable the \write18 feature? This allows tex to run external > programs, needed for inline metapost graphics like flow shapes. I don't > remember how to do this for miktex, but it is described in the > context installation manual, together with some more hints for a > context friendly setup. > -- > Eckhart

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Installing mf-font
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 16 May '03

16 May '03

Hallo! In order to learn understand fontinstallation, typescripts and so, I tried to install a Font (Metafont-source). Please have a look at the following fragment: ---------------------type-bunt.tex---------------------------- \starttypescript [handwriting] [bunt] [ec] \definefontsynonym [???] [???] [???] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [handwriting] [bunt] [name] \definefontsynonym [???] [???] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [handwriting] [default] [size] \definebodyfont [5pt,6pt,7pt,8pt,9pt,10pt,10.95pt,12pt,14.4pt,17.28pt,20.74pt,24.88pt] [hw] [default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [Bunt] \definetypeface [Bunt] [hw] [handwriting] [bunt] [default] [encoding=\typescripttwo] \stoptypescript ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I have the following questions: 1. What is the differenz between hw and cg resp. handwriting and calligraphy? 2. Is the typescript for [handwriting], defined in 'type-siz.tex', the default, if the above typescript for size would be deletet? 3. Is there a good reason to use typescripts for such a one member family of fonts? 4. What is the 3. parameter in \definebodyfont for? 5. In 'type-siz.tex' the sizes are given with maximal 1/10 pr�zission. In a LaTeX fd-file I have used 1/100 pr�zission (10.95, not 11; 17.28, not 17.3), so I have used the same in the above typescript, just to be konsistent. Is this ok? 6. The namingshema of the source-files is 'bunt0900.mf, bunt1000.mf, bunt1095.mf ... What has to be written in the above [name] typescript to build these names? 7. What should I write for the 6. parameter of \definetypeface? The encoding [ec]? What means \typescripttwo? What with the encoding-typescript? Wolfgang

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