July 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Duplicaat vraag
by Gerben Wierda 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

Deze vraag is direct aan Hans gesteld, maar ik post hem hier ook maar omdat ik nog maar zo weinig tijd heb als ik dit nog in de distributie voor TUG2003 wil zetten. Begin forwarded message: [snip] > Ik heb wel een vraag aan jou: ik heb vandaag toch maar eens besloten > om ConTeXt te gaan gebruiken. De reden dat ik dat nog niet gedaan had > was learning curve (tijdgebrek) en de geachte dat er voor LaTeX meer > extensies zijn. Maar die laatste heb ik laten vallen. Immers, met die > reden kan ik ook beter Windows gaan gebruiken. > > Dus ben ik vandaag maar eens begonnen met ConTeXt. Eerste stukje. Toen > wilde ik eens een PS font gebruiken. Bij LaTeX doe je dan > \usepackage{chancery} en alles is klaar. Bij ConTeXt lag het wat > ingewikkelder. Niet alleen wat betreft het zetten van het font voor > het document, maar vooral wat er na komt, de map files. Ik heb de font > documentatie van jouw site bekeken maar ik ben er niet helemaal uit. > Ik zou dat eigenlijk nog snel willen begrijpen, zodat ik de release > van mijn distributie voor TUG2003 kan voorzien van een volledig > werkende ConTeXt naast een volledig werkende LaTeX. > > Vraagjes:: > > 1. is dat mogelijk? Een *volledig* werkende ConTeXt en een volledig > werkende LaTeX die elkaar niet in de weg zitten? > 2. Moeten die ConTeXt map files in het updmap systeem of in pdftex.cfg? G -- "To be or not to be, that is the question" -- Parmenides

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variables
by Peter Rolf 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

I want to test, if a given variable is empty or not. I tried the following, but the test is always false. Is this a bug or a feature ;) Any help is welcome. \starttext \setvariables[test] [first=, second=something,] \def\TestVAR#1{\getvariable{test}{#1}} \if\TestVAR{first}\empty % The variable test:first is empty.\else The variable test:first contains \TestVAR{first}.\fi \if\TestVAR{second}\empty % The variable test:second is empty.\else The variable test:second contains \TestVAR{second}.\fi \stoptext Regards, Peter

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switching to pfb-font of font
by R. Ermers 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

Dear Contex'ers, Do you by any chance know how to change to the postscript version of a given font? To be more specific: I am working with Arabtex, whose author K. Lagally, advises using the postscript fonts, made by Taco Hoekwater, but does not describe how. It should be easy, though. I have installed everything, ArabTex works perfect, the regular font is fine and works allright for modest purposes, but I need to produce high-quality output soon. Thanks for any help in advance. Kind regards, Robert Ermers

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symbols in CONTEXT
by Gonçalo Morais 15 Jul '03

15 Jul '03

I used to use in LaTeX the symbol with the code \mathbb{R} for representing the set of real numbers. I would like to know how can I do it when I am using CONTEXT. Thanks Gonçalo -------------------------------------------- IPLNet WebMail http://www.mail.ipl.pt -------------------------------------------- "Campus Virtual" do IPL - Aguarda aprovação! http://www.net.ipl.pt/index.html#WIRELESS --------------------------------------------

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samples with bibliography needed
by Gour 14 Jul '03

14 Jul '03

Hi! In order to try to provide *.bib support in dbcontext package, we need some good samples of ConTeXt files with biliography entries to see how the transformation from Docbook to ConTeXt via XSLT should look like. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Gour ps. Of course, submitted material will be used for development purposes only. -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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Re: [NTG-context] bib module/cite (Context bug)
by Hans Hagen 14 Jul '03

14 Jul '03

At 15:01 11/07/2003 +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >Hi Martin, Hans, rest of the group, > >It took me a while to track down this bug. It is actually a bug in >the definition of \sortcommacommand in newer ConTeXt-es. > >Minimal example: > >\def\mylist{1,2,3} >\sortcommacommand[\mylist]\donumericcompare >\message{\sortedcommalist} % reports 1,2 !! Two patches are needed in syst-ext.tex: (1) change last line in: \def\docompareitems#1% {\doifnotempty{#1} {\@EA\comparecommand\@EA{\!!tempa}{#1}\relax \ifnum\comparedresult<2 \ifnum\scratchcounter=\commalistsize \@EA\@EA\@EA\def\@EA\@EA\@EA\sortedcommalist \@EA\@EA\@EA{\@EA\sortedcommalist\@EA,\!!tempa}% \fi \else % old element larger \@EA\def\@EA\newcommalistelement\@EA{\!!tempa,#1}% \replaceincommalist\sortedcommalist\scratchcounter \expandafter\quitcommalist \fi}% \advance\scratchcounter \plusone} % ! ! ! (2) handle n=1 case in: \def\sortcommalist[#1]#2% {\getcommalistsize[#1]% \ifnum\commalistsize>1 \let\sortedcommalist\empty \let\comparecommand#2% \processcommalist[#1]\dosortcommacommand \else \def\sortedcommalist{#1}% \fi} 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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Newbie screwed up his installation
by Thomas A.Schmitz 14 Jul '03

14 Jul '03

Hi, I must have completely screwed up my Context installation--files that typeset OK yesterday now won't compile anymore, even for three-liners, I get this error: ! Undefined control sequence. \ejectinsert ...group \noftopfloats \plusthousand \nofbotfloats \zerocount \... \@@pe:last ->\ejectinsert \gotonextpageX \relax \doifbothsidesoverruled \naa... \next1 #1,->\executepagebreakhandler {#1} \doprocesscommaitem \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1, ]\relax \global \advance \... <argument> ...ecutepagebreakhandlers {\v!laatste } \egroup \firstofoneargument #1->#1 ... l.9 \stoptext I'm not aware of having installed or modified anything in my installation. Sorry, this is probably a stupid question, I must be missing someting obvious, but could anyone help? Thanks Thomas

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new trickery / acrobat 6
by Hans Hagen 12 Jul '03

12 Jul '03

Hi, Here are some new thingies for pdf freaks: \setupinteraction[state=start] \useattachment[whatever][test.tex] % \setupattachments[\c!symbool={symbol-normal,symbol-down}] \starttext \attachment[whatever] \stoptext This will embed a file and works ok in acrobat <=6. If you have acrobat 6, there is now some rudimentary support for pdf-layering. http://www.pragma-ade.com/temp/pre-dtp.pdf http://www.pragma-ade.com/temp/layers.pdf In acrobat 6, there is a layers tab on the left end of the screen. The pre-dtp file only has layers enabled on the page that talks about layers (fyi, this is the presentation i used for eurotex). Not to be redistributed! ... and of course a new beta, take your most complex document, process it with \showlayoutcomponents, and you'll get access to all text/graphic layers that are in there. Nice for debugging. 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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Runtime graphics
by Pierre VINET 11 Jul '03

11 Jul '03

Hi, I run this simple test file test.tex : %&cont-en \setupoutput[pdftex] \runMPgraphicstrue \starttext \startMPrun input graphserieA \stopMPrun \externalfigure[mprun.1] \externalfigure[mprun.2] % \startMPrun input graphserieB \stopMPrun \externalfigure[mprun.1] \externalfigure[mprun.2] \stoptext \end . In the logfile, I got the messages : figures : figureobject test-mprun.1 is reused figures : figureobject test-mprun.2 is reused and twice the figures of graphserieA.mp on test.pdf. Is there a way to avoid the re-use of test-mprun.1 and test-mprun.2, I mean a way to overwrite the files test-mprun.1 and test-mprun.2 ? Or a way to get different names for each metapost output as, for example, graphserieA-mprun.1, graphserieA-mprun.2 and graphserieB-mprun.1, graphserieB-mprun.2 ? I could also give a different number to each of the figures in all of the *.mp files, but this solution is not pacticable since I have plenty of metapost files to process, each of it containing a lot of figures already numbered with almost the same numbers. Moreover, those numbers can not be modified because the figures are elsewhere referenced by their number and by the name of the metapost file. Thanks, --pv

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Different behaviour Windows vs. Linux
by Willi Egger 10 Jul '03

10 Jul '03

Hello everybody, When I compile a MyWay (uses s-mag-*.tex) under Windows everything runs smoothly. When I compile the same file under Linux, where I got also a texlive7 tree installed, the \setupencoding[texnansi] is not read from the cont-sys.ini, though the file contains this statement. - As a consequence Context fails because it is looking for ec-uplr8a instead of texnansi-uplr8a. For the time being I edited the s-mag-00.tex and replaced the \usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding] by \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi], which solves the hick. Is this a specific Linux issue? Cheers Willi

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