September 2003 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Hot to calculate width=\textwidth - \bodyfontsize
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Hello, just an easy question now: As I can calculate width=0.5\textwidth how is the syntax for adding or subtraction, like width=\textwidth - 12pt ? Steffen

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Status update on e-Omega/Aleph
by Giuseppe Bilotta 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Hello people, I'd like to inform you on the current status and short-term forecast for e-Omega. The current official release is versioned 3.14159--1.15--2.1 (RC1) and is based on Omega 1.15 and e-TeX 2.1; even though it is just considered a Release Candidate, it's stable enough for production use. In fact, it has already been successfully used to publish in mixed-direction context. There will likely be at least one more release candidate, to solve a couple of direction-related bug, and probably two (the second featuring probably mostly a code clean-up). The e-Omega task force has decided for a name change for the project. From the first stable release onwards, the project (and the resulting program) will be called Aleph ($\Aleph$ in TeX notation). For those who missed the previous announcements, e-Omega (soon Aleph) is a user initiative, effectively started in November 2002, to merge two of the most important TeX extensions (Omega and e-TeX) to ensure that the wonderful enhancements in each would be readily available to users that need both of them. In its present state it was presented at the TUG2003 conference in Hawai`i this july. The focus of Aleph development is and will be: * providing a stable and reasonably fast extension to TeX containing most of the Omega enhancements (support for large fonts, multiple directions and character coding manipulations (OTPs/OCPs); the only unavailable feature is the support for SGML/XML) and many of the e-TeX enhancements (except for the bidirectional ones, surpassed by the more powerful multidirectional capabilities of Omega); * providing a development environment for middle-level users which would not grow obsolete in the short term, henceforth ensuring continued support for already-developed OTPs and similar companion tools; * providing a development environment for modern format developers (ConTeXt, and hopefully in the near future a new LaTeX as well) to support multidirectional typesetting in an easier-to-handle and more powerful programming environment. Both in the right-to-left world and in the CJK world work is already in progress to make sure these points are fully exploited. Thanks also to the excellent (independently developed) dvipdfmx DVI-to-PDF converter, support for the extended features of Omega and e-Omega/Aleph will not come at the cost of losing the option of easy PDF production (yes, we all would like to have PDF production directly integrated like in pdf-TeX, but don't expect that any time soon.) A note about the new name. Among the many reasons for the choice of the name there are: * the origins and purpose of the project: whereas Omega seeks to eventually offer the definitive answer to virtually all the problems of multilingual typesetting, Aleph has a more modest goal: to provide an immediately available and usable step in that direction. Since Aleph is the first letter of both the Arabic and the Hebrew alphabet (both of which need the multidirectional features offered by e-Omega), and as the project was started thanks to the initiative of Idris S. Hamid and Alan Hoenig (who are working on Arabic and Hebrew), choosing such a common name which connotes both "immediate" and "multilingual" was considered an appropriate choice. * also, Aleph is used in mathematics to denote transfinite numbers. This will allow "perverted" autoreferential tricks, like having a countable first stable release of Aleph ($\Aleph_0$); following major releases will be subsequent transfinite numbers ($\Aleph_1$, $\Aleph_2$, etc) and minor improvements/bugfixes will be cardinals ($\Aleph_0+1$, $\Aleph_0+2$, etc) A mailing list, graciously hosted by NTG, the Dutch TeX User Group, is available; its address is aleph at ntg dot nl. Since it is moderated, please subscribe before sending emails to it. Instructions on how to subscribe to the list are available at http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/aleph On behalf of the e-Omega/Aleph task force, I would like to thank Donald Ervin Knuth for giving us TeX; John Plaice, Yannis Haralambous and the rest of the Omega folks for their amazing achievements which gave us such a powerful base on which to build; Peter Breitenlohner and the NTS team for giving us the excellent e-TeX; all the distributions' maintainers for providing easy, integrated, interoperable and up-to-date systems; and everybody in the TeX community, for making it the wonderful environment that it is. My very personal thanks also go to Hans Hagen, Idris Hamid and Alan Hoenig, for convincing me to put my hands in the project, and to the distributions' maintainers, in particular Christian Schenk and Fabrice Popineau, for their essential help and neverending patience in bearing with a 'programmer' victim of his background as a mathematician which takes him to submit patches without testing them "because in theory they should work", and Olaf Weber and Thomas Esser, for making e-Omega/Aleph available under Linux as well. [Copies of this message have been posted to the comp.text.tex newsgroup and the ConTeXt and Omega mailing lists] -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Question on \setupencoding[default=ec]
by Steffen Wolfrum 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Hallo, I have re-read the mailings in the archive concerning proper hyphenation and I saw that it is a known problem to have hyphenation in words containing cedilla, accent or umlaut. As it is solved in LaTeX with the [T1]{fontenc} package some people wrote that in ConTeXt the equivalent should be: \setupencoding[default=ec] But that's not true (at least for german Umlaute). A ConTeXt example: \language[de] \mainlanguage[de] \enableregime[mac] \setupencoding[default=ec] \starttext \showhyphens{alter} \showhyphens{früher} \stoptext doesn't recognize früher (frü-her): Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 8--8 [] /cmr10/al-ter Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 10--10 [] /cmr10/fr^^?uher (the whole log see below) While a LaTeX example \documentclass{book} \usepackage{german} \usepackage[applemac]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \begin{document} \showhyphens{alter} \showhyphens{früher} \end{document} brings the right hyphenation (frü-her) Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 8--8 [] /ecrm1000/al-ter Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 10--10 [] /ecrm1000/fr¸-her (the whole log see below) Don't ConTeXt and LaTeX use both the same hyphenation patterns? So what must be done in ConTeXt that it also works? Thanks for any reply, Steffen ********************************************* p.s. context and latex log files: ********************************************* TeXExec 3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : hypcontext output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extended mode (./hypcontext.tex{/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.8.21 fmt: 2003.9.6 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-2 3:2-uk-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2 7:2-it-2 8:2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : hypcontext.top loaded (./hypcontext.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 1907] \ifcsname <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map systems : begin file hypcontext at line 6 Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 8--8 [] /cmr10/al-ter Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 10--10 [] /cmr10/fr^^?uher systems : end file hypcontext at line 12 ) (see the transcript file for additional information) No pages of output. Transcript written on hypcontext.log. return code : 0 run time : 2 seconds sorting and checking : running texutil TeXUtil 7.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2003 action : processing commands, lists and registers option : sorting IJ under Y option : converting high ASCII values input file : hypcontext.tui output file : hypcontext.tuo passed commands : 8 remapped keys : 0 register entries : 0 -> 0 entries 0 references synonym entries : 0 -> 0 entries embedded files : 1 utility file analysis : another run needed TeX run : 2 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extended mode (./hypcontext.tex{/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.8.21 fmt: 2003.9.6 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-2 3:2-uk-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2 7:2-it-2 8:2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : hypcontext.top loaded (./hypcontext.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 1907] \ifcsname <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) systems : begin file hypcontext at line 6 Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 8--8 [] /cmr10/al-ter Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 10--10 [] /cmr10/fr^^?uher systems : end file hypcontext at line 12 ) (see the transcript file for additional information) No pages of output. Transcript written on hypcontext.log. return code : 0 run time : 1 seconds sorting and checking : running texutil TeXUtil 7.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2003 action : processing commands, lists and registers option : sorting IJ under Y option : converting high ASCII values input file : hypcontext.tui output file : hypcontext.tuo passed commands : 8 remapped keys : 0 register entries : 0 -> 0 entries 0 references synonym entries : 0 -> 0 entries embedded files : 1 total run time : 5 seconds ********************************** This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./hyplatex.tex{/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} LaTeX2e <2001/06/01> Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, c zech, dutch, greek, italian, latin, magyar, russian, spanish, nohyphenation, lo aded. (/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/tex/latex/base/book.cls Document Class: book 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class (/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo)) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/generic/german/german.sty v2.5e 1998-07-08) (/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty (/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/tex/latex/base/applemac.def)) (/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (./hyplatex.aux) Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 8--8 [] /ecrm1000/al-ter Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 10--10 [] /ecrm1000/fr¸-her (./hyplatex.aux) ) (see the transcript file for additional information) No pages of output. Transcript written on hyplatex.log.

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Preventing hyphenation?
by Mari Voipio 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

I know this has been on the list earlier, but I don't seem to be able to parse the old messages enough to implement anything... My current (urgent) project has a bunch of words/codes with a hyphen: K-Patents PR-23-XX etc. These should not get a line break at the hyphen, i.e. not K- Patents but K-Patents or K-Pa-tents. As far as I understand it, the beginner's manual and the full manual only talk about how to tell ConTeXt where the proper hyphenation points are, but not, how to prevent hyphenation altogether. The trick can be awkward to type, as there's a limited number of problem codes, so I can use the synonym mechanism, if necessary. Any ideas? In the end of project frenzy, Mari

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Greek font
by Thomas A.Schmitz 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Please excuse this long post. I was/am fiddling with fonts, "probably the most complicated aspect of TeX," to quote Hans... I feel I'm almost there, but I still need some help and would be very grateful if anybody could give me a hint. Thanks to Giuseppe Bilotta's help, I managed to typeset classical Greek with the CB-Greek fonts. Everything works, the accents are in the right places etc., yet the original CB-Greek doesn't look very good in pdfs. I have a very beautiful Greek font that comes with the LaTeX "psgreek"-package; it works in LaTeX and is, according to the manual, encoded with the same map as CB-Greek (in LaTeX, the encoding is called lgrenc.def, but I couldn't find any useful imformation in that file). I wrote a typescriptfile to use it in ConTeXt. The font works, all the glyphs are there, as I can see with a \showfont, but they're not in the right slots, which means that it doesn't build the correct ligatures for displaying accents etc. I assume I need to write a new encoding file to reassign the glyphs to their new position. I'd be willing to do this by hand (there aren't too many of them, after all), but how do I go about that? What I have got about this font (it's called "GreekOxonia," and in my eyes, it's the most beautiful typeface that's out there for classical Greek): greeoxon.pfb greeoxon.sfd greeoxon.sfd~ greeoxon.afm greeoxon.tfm a map file psgreek.map and a couple of accompanying .vf, .ovf and .ofm-files (all of them containing just a few characters of gibberish when I try to open them). Can anybody give me a hint where I could start? Any help would be most appreciated! Best Thomas

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finding external figures
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Hello! I'm afraid the answer wiil be 'no' but... I've just tested two, let say 'normal', ways of including external figures: -- settings in texmf.cnf (that is obvious) -- relative path in \useexternalfigure (that is obvious only for ConTeXt users :-) Is there any way to use absolute path for external figure in ConTeXt code? Is there any way to use environment variable in ConTeXt code? Regards, Paweł

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Pagenumber & Footnotenumber -> inmargin
by Steffen Wolfrum 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

Hi, ConTeXt seems to have two different interpretations of "inmargin: \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided,location={header,inmargin}] isn't the same as \setupfootnotedefinition[location=inmargin] How can I place the footnote's number into the margin the same way as the pagenumber is? (I mean to place both numbers above/under each other on even pages) Thank you, Steffen

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Footnote's gap
by Steffen Wolfrum 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

Sorry, I've just asked to fast. Today I have found the \definedescription section ;-) Everything works fine now. Steffen After playing with the various options of \setupfootnotes I still wonder how to set up the gap between the footnote's number and the actual footnote text? And: Does the number has to be outside the textwidth? Somebody knows? Thank you Steffen

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open doc action / for john
by Hans Hagen 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

Hi Jonh C wants to know how to open a doc in specific modes: \setupinteraction[openaction={firstpage,FitHeight},state=start] % or FitWidth \starttext \input tufte \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Footnote's gap
by Steffen Wolfrum 08 Sep '03

08 Sep '03

After playing with the various options of \setupfootnotes I still wonder how to set up the gap between the footnote's number and the actual footnote text? And: Does the number has to be outside the textwidth? Somebody knows? Thank you Steffen

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