June 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Printing ConTeXt macro files.
by Pierre VINET 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '03

Hi, ConTeXt's macro files are well documented but not easily readable as is. Is there a way to translate them to TeX for printing ? (as does mftmac with metafont files, ltxdoc class in LaTeX or webmac with web listings, etc.) Thanks, -- pv

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Embedded movies
by Tobias Burnus 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '03

Hi, I somehow completely fail to embed successfully a movie into a pdf. I tried to test-view http://www/pragma-ade.com/general/uptodate/up-003-s.pdf but this failed with: "texwork.mov" cannot be found. Would you like to choose a replacement file? Then I tried \externalfigure[elf-iso.avi][height=\textheight, width=\textheight, preview=no, repeat=yes] The problem I have is that I have neither a working AVI file (the one I created with mencoder doesn't work with Quicktime or Windows Media Player due to the codec used) nor a .mov file. Windows Media player is able to play a MPEG file with the extention .avi, but Acrobat doesn't like it :-( Moreover Acrobat Reader is not able to create useful error message :-( Thus: Is it in principle possible to embed *.mpg files? This would save me a lot of work. (Somehow I failed to do so when modifying core-fig.tex) Otherwise, what is the best way to proceed? Tobias PS: Rdesktop is a nice way to access Windows from Linux :-) but Adobe could support movies in PDFs under Linux :-(

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Re: [NTG-context] Embedded movies
by Hans Hagen 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '03

Hi Tobias, >b) Using ConTeXt ver: 2003.4.29 fmt: 2003.6.17: >systems : begin file test at line 1 >) >! Incomplete \ifx; all text was ignored after line 6. ><inserted text> > \fi ><*> &cont-en test.tex Ah .. \def\presetundefinedfigure#1% {\let\@@eftype #1% \let\@@efextension #1% \let\@@efobject \v!nee \let\@@efpreset \v!nee \ifx\@@efbreedte\empty \def\@@efbreedte{8\lineheight}% 4cm \fi %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ADD THIS ONE IN CORE-FIG.TEX \ifx\@@efhoogte\empty \def\@@efhoogte{6\lineheight}% 3cm \fi} ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Writing Japanese using ConTeXt
by Lei Wang 17 Jun '03

17 Jun '03

I have posted the following to the list. But it seems disappeared. :-) So again. > One other point that may or may not matter is that ... I'm not sure if > this is the correct terminology, but the code points of the Japanese > character sets are arrayed in a sparse matrix (?). Each plane is > 194x194, rather than 256x256. I used to know why. Although the plane only have 194 characters each, many Japanese fonts used by TeX were split by 256 per subfonts as that in Chinese CJK compact mode. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lei Wang" <leiwang(a)swt.edu> To: <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Writing Japanese using ConTeXt > Right. Although there are many Chinese unicode fonts, Both unix and windows > remap them to GBK or GB when used. As for Japanese in ConTeXt, I think > it may be better to support the SJIS or other common used encoding, too. > UTF8 is good, but it is inconvenience since I found few editor can save your file > in UTF8 encoding under Windows. So I have to use convert tools to convert > my files. > > I am not familiar with the Japanese encodings. But I think it can be implement in > ConTeXt as Chinese because many things are in the same way. Remap them > according their encodings (JIS, SJIS,etc.) should work if we can solve the > one problem that Japanese SJIS encoding has some one-byte characters in the range > 0XA1 - 0XDF while Chinese and Korean only have two-byte characters. > Wang

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German Umlaute with US Keyboard
by Raimund Kohl 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

Hello there, how am I to set german Umlaute in ConTeXt if using a US keyboard? With TeX it's \"a for example to produce ä and \ss for the german ß (scharfes s) ... but this ain't gonna work with ConTeXt. Oh, and btw.: Is there an archive of the ConTeXt mailing list to look through? Thank you in advance, ray

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Gridsetting
by Matthias Vogel 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

Hi, I'm new to this list and have quite a lot of questions. (Questions of course I can not answer after reading the contributions to the list.) I'll start with three of them in individual threads. Its funny that the ability to set gridfitting text, is often characterized as something that belongs in the domain of wordprocessors or DTP programs. For me it is an essential feature of typesetting since my publisher demands it---for good reasons: When printing on thin paper (paperback) one would see the lines of the backside of the paper inbetween the lines of its frontside---destroying a good contrast of the text. Beside of its general structure the announced ability to set to grid (dt.: Registerhaltig) is one of reasons for me to get into Context. But after a while of testing I'm not sure whether Context does what I want it to do. Here are my expectations. If you got something like this: normaltext text text text text text text text text texttext text text texttext texttext texttext texttext texttext text ---in 9dd, line: 10dd text text text texttext texttext texttext texttext text text texttext texttext texttext texttext texttext text \startcitation smalltext text text texttext texttext texttext texttext text text text text texttext texttext texttext texttext text ---text in 8dd, line: 9dd text texttext texttext texttext texttext texttext text \stopcitation normaltext text text texttext texttext texttext texttext text text texttext texttext texttext texttext texttext text ---in 9dd line 10dd text texttext texttext texttext texttext texttext text... we are loosing the grid because of the smaller lineskip in citation. I would like to modify the definition of citation (and other stuff, that causes deviations from the grid (headings)) in a way that the following text will adjust to the grit again. Is that possible? As far as I can see "\moveongrid" does not work in cases like the given example. Thanks in advance Matthias Vogel

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Deutsche Umlaute
by Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

Hello there, how am I to set german Umlaute in ConTeXt if using a US keyboard? With TeX it's \"a for example to produce ä and \ss for the german ß (scharfes s) ... but this ain't gonna work with ConTeXt. Oh, and btw.: Is there an archive of the ConTeXt mailing list to look through? Thank you in advance, ray

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Re: [NTG-context] (body)text colour; presentations (slides): step-wise buildup
by Hans Hagen 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

At 18:31 16/06/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Hi, > >First: Is there a nice way to setup the fontcolour? Currently I >encapsulate the whole document with a startcolor/stopcolor block. \setupcolors[textcolor=green] >Second: I want to build up a slide in steps: > | first | | first | | first | > | | ==[click]=> | second | =[click]=> | second | > | | | | | third | > >If I recall correctly I've seen one implementation for this (in ConTeXt) >using JavaScript (and field stacks), but I cannot find anything regarding >this. The other possibility (used by all LaTeX packages I'm aware of) is >to produce multiple pages: one per step. >Does anyone know by heart where the JS method is burried in ConTeXt? s-pre-50 provides a nice way, your extensive context knowledge will help you further -) texexec --pdf --mode=demo s-pre-50 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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(body)text colour; presentations (slides): step-wise buildup
by Tobias Burnus 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

Hi, First: Is there a nice way to setup the fontcolour? Currently I encapsulate the whole document with a startcolor/stopcolor block. Second: I want to build up a slide in steps: | first | | first | | first | | | ==[click]=> | second | =[click]=> | second | | | | | | third | If I recall correctly I've seen one implementation for this (in ConTeXt) using JavaScript (and field stacks), but I cannot find anything regarding this. The other possibility (used by all LaTeX packages I'm aware of) is to produce multiple pages: one per step. Does anyone know by heart where the JS method is burried in ConTeXt? Tobias

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Fwd: Re: [NTG-context] Double bar means hyphen?
by Hans Hagen 16 Jun '03

16 Jun '03

>Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:08:47 +0100 >From: "Adam T. Lindsay" <atl(a)mac.com> >Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Double bar means hyphen? >To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> >X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail 4.1.3 Carbon <http://www.ctmdev.com> > >[this is going to bounce, because I'm posting from my travel account. >forward only if you feel it necessary] > >Hans Hagen said this at Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:57:13 +0200: > > >>\setuphyphenmark[sign=-] > >> > >>(This relates to an issue I mentioned earlier: anyone notice how these > >>compound word marks *don't* interact well with font handling/hanging?) > > > >yes, sometimes they are boxed thingies and they don't hang; for this the > >_Sometimes_? Is there any way of choosing a compound word mark that isn't >a box (along the lines of the above)? > > >concept of hanging should be extended (something \hangme {left} {right} > >{material}); i discussed this long ago with thanh but it didn't (yet) end > >up in pdftex -) > >Okay, thanks for the explanation! >adam > >================================================================ >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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