August 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

How do I use entities in DocBook in ConTeXt
by Guy Worthington 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

Although I use emacs as a text editor, I'm not confident in using utf-8 encodings. So if I can I'd prefer to use entities for the characters not defined in ASCII. How can I define entities such as "“" (for the left double quotation character) and "”" (for the right double quotation character) so as the context-processor can process them.

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\underbar not allowing line-breaking
by Duncan Hothersall 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

A quick question: \underbar is demonstrated in the manual as allowing lines to break normally (page 204). In my texts line breaks won't happen in an underlined phrase, meaning that they stick out into the right hand margin. Is this a known problem, or does it work for other people? Thanks Duncan dh(a)capdm.com

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a line under the header
by Helmut Schwertner 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

Hello, I would like to put a line (not [underbared]) under the header and above the footer. The line shouldn't be to thin (not so thin as \hairline) and it would be nice, if I could have a coloured line (grey, red, whatever). A small example, so something like this (best view with non proportional font): header pagenumber ------------------------------------------- text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text ----------------------------------------- footer footer Thanks for any help, best wishes, Helmut

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Font problem...
by Gilles Pérez-Lambert 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

Hello, I have some problems with using fonts. In the ConTeX test file at the end, `charter' only works (a little) if I use the commented line `\definetypeface[charter][rm][serif][charter][default][encoding=ec]'... But, doing this, small-caps don't work anymore and, strangely, \tt neither! How does one use a font already described in the type-*.tex files? I tried with Utopia too but no luck. I read mfonts.pdf but I have not seen what I need. Thanks, Gilles. PS: TeXExec 3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) ConTeXt ver: 2003.8.15 fmt: 2003.8.19 int: english mes: english %%%%%%%%%%% BEGIN TEST FILE HERE \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setupencoding[default=ec] \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] \usetypescript[charter][ec] %\definetypeface[charter][rm][serif][charter][default][encoding=ec] \setupbodyfont[charter,10pt] \startbuffer[tufte] \input tufte \stopbuffer \starttext \getbuffer[tufte] \blank {\it\getbuffer[tufte]} \blank {\bf\getbuffer[tufte]} \blank {\sc\getbuffer[tufte]} \blank {\tt\getbuffer[tufte]} \stoptext

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Floats that extend into the margin?
by Erik George Hetzner 21 Aug '03

21 Aug '03

Hello all, I am wondering if anybody has had any luck with making floats that extend into the margin? It's a pretty common effect and looks like: xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx PPPPPP xxxxxxxx PPPPPP xxxxxxxxxxxx Where x is the text and P is a picture. I am halfway there by specifying a negative "margin" in \setupfloats and using a "right" or "left" float. This gets the text in the proper position. What I need to do is to move the float a certain amount to the right or left. I have tried making a "top" specification of "\vbox\bgroup\hskip Xpc\bgroup\vbox\bgroup" in my \setupfloat definition (and a "bottom" definition to close the groups). Is this what "top" and "bottom" are for? I must admit that I am not familiar with ConTeXt's float mechanism. I hope that this is clear to people. Any help is welcome. Regards, Erik Hetzner

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texfont and font mechanism
by Henning Hraban Ramm 19 Aug '03

19 Aug '03

Digging deep... ;-) While playing with some freeware fonts by apostrophic labs, shy fonts et al., I recognized some limitations of ConTeXt's (or TeX's?) font mechanism. I know this was discussed earlier, but I can't remember/find and answer. I've an overcomplete font family like: \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Covington] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Covington-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifSlanted] [Covington-Rev-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [CovingtonSC] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Covington-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Covington-BoldItalic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldSlanted] [Covington-Rev-BoldItalic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldCaps] [CovingtonSC-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalicCaps] [CovingtonSC-BoldItalic] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalicCaps] [CovingtonSC-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldSlantedCaps] [CovingtonSC-Rev-BoldItalic] \definefontsynonym [SerifSlantedCaps] [CovingtonSC-Rev-Italic] You can see, there's SC for every normal font (okay, they're no real small caps, but the like). But I can't access them. There's not even a possibility to access bold caps, is it? Further, why there's only [OldStyle] instead [SerifOldStyle], [SerifBoldOldStyle] etc.? And why don't work these family options (Italics, Bold etc.) with handwriting style? (Some hand fonts have more than one style!) Next question: What does texfont's --expert switch do? Is there already any docs how to write VFs to use expert fonts? (Even for LaTeX, maybe I'd understand it anyway?) If I'd like to setup CE, Greek or Cyrillic fonts, what must I provide? Only an encoding? Is it possible with texfont? Regarding OpenType I'll first read Adam's MyWay. (More questions are in the queue...) Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

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Newbie wants to make long tables
by Thomas Schrader 19 Aug '03

19 Aug '03

Hi everybody, I'm wondering how to break up long tables over several pages, automatically placing continuing headers and footers. Thanks much for any help Thomas Schrader -- mailto laborator at web de

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TeXLive 8 and Context
by John Culleton 19 Aug '03

19 Aug '03

I downloaded the latest (well yesterday's) version of the install iso for TeXlive 8. It is still beta. Unlike TeXlive 7 Context did not work after install. The missing piece was the little script: /usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux/texexec So I copied that piece of code over from TeXlive 7 and waved my apprentice's wand over the system a few times, per the instructions in texexec.rme: cp ../texexec.rme texexec.ini texexec --verbose texexec --make fmtutil --all texhash (The last two just for a security blanket) ...and I now have Context up and presumably running correctly. So perhaps before TeXlive 8 becomes final final, someone should insert that little script where it belongs in the distro. To find the address for the beta google (groups ) under John Culleton and TeXlive. Someone was kind enough to give it to me. Unfortunately my internet connection is almost kaput thanks to that stupid Microsoft virus. I am connected but when I ping three packets I only get back one. This message may get there someday. Or maybe not. John Culleton John Culleton

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Hyphenate long URLs
by Tobias Burnus 18 Aug '03

18 Aug '03

Hi, I want to hyphenate an long URL, I currentlty use: \def\gotoURL#1{\useURL[foo][#1]\goto{\url[foo]}[url(foo)]} For one URL there is unfortunally no '.' or '/' near by, and I get: | | http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CylindricalCoordinates | .html | | margin starts --->| page border ->| What I would like to see: | | http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Cylin | | dricalCoordinates.html | margin starts --->| page border ->| Note that there should _no_ hyphen be shown. How can I do so? Tobias

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Presentations
by Eduardo Cassiraga 18 Aug '03

18 Aug '03

%your log says: % % MP prueba-mpgraph.1] (./prueba.tuo) % system(mpost --alias=mpost --undump=metafun prueba-mpgraph)...disabled. % %which means that you should enable write18 in your local texmf.cnf file %(kpsewhich texmf.cnf will tell you where this file resides) % %Hans Hi; Thanks Hans. Unfortunately my system have not a file called texmf.cnf. Is this a MikTeX file or a ConTeXt file? Could I download it from some place? In which directory I must copy the file? Thank you very much. Eduardo F. Cassiraga Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente Universidad Politécnica de Valencia C/. Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia - SPAIN Tel: +34 963 879 613 Fax: +34 963 877 618 E-mail: efc(a)dihma.upv.es

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