November 2004 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Tex or Context Editors.
by Dirar BOUGATEF 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

Hi, Am using eclipse as my editor (eTex) but it is really too heavy, anyone knows of an editor that works fine within tex and windows. What about TexWork. Many thanks. Dirar. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.com/

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\reuseMPgraphic error
by David Arnold 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

All, This file: \setupoutput[pdf] \startreusableMPgraphic{layout 1} pickup pencircle scaled 1mm; fill unitsquare xyscaled (7cm,8cm) withcolor 0.85white; fill unitsquare xyscaled (5cm,5cm) shifted (1cm,1.5cm) withcolor 0.625yellow; fill unitsquare xyscaled (5cm,1cm) shifted (1cm,0.5cm) withcolor 0.625red; fill unitsquare xyscaled (5cm,1cm) shifted (1cm,6.5cm) withcolor 0.625red; draw unitsquare xyscaled (5cm,7cm) shifted (1cm,0.5cm) withcolor 0.25white; drawarrow (2cm,8cm)--top (2cm,7.5cm); drawarrow (0cm,7cm)--lft(1cm,7cm); clip currentpicture to unitsquare xyscaled (7cm,8cm); \stopreusableMPgraphic \startreusableMPgraphic{layout 2} \includeMPgraphic{layout 1} clip currentpicture to unitsquare scaled 3cm shifted (0,5cm); currentpicture:=currentpicture scaled 2 shifted (0,-8cm); setbounds currentpicture to unitsquare xyscaled (6cm,8cm); \stopreusableMPgraphic \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. \hbox {\reuseMPgraphic{layout 1}\hskip1cm \reuseMPgraphic{layout 2}} Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. \page Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. \startlinecorrection[blank] \hbox {\reuseMPgraphic{layout 1}\hskip1cm \reuseMPgraphic{layout 2}} \stoplinecorrection Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. \stoptext Produces this error: ERROR: Undefined control sequence. --- TeX said --- \getobject ...->\blabelgroup \let \dohandleobject \dogetobject \csname \r!ob... <argument> \includeMPgraphic {layout 1} clip currentpicture to unitsquare sc... \nonowriteMPgraphicline ... \long \edef \ascii {#1 }\expandafter \flushMPgrap... \shortMPflushN ...nowriteMPgraphicline #1#2\MPend \expandafter \shortMPflush... <argument> ...itsquare scaled 3cm shifted (0,5cm); currentpicture:=currentpi... \writeMPgraphicshortN ... \space \shortMPflushN #1 \empty ;\relax ;\egroup ... l.40 \reuseMPgraphic{layout 2}} --- HELP --- TeX encountered an unknown command name. You probably misspelled the name. If this message occurs when a LaTeX command is being processed, the command is probably in the wrong place---for example, the error can be produced by an \item command that's not inside a list-making environment. The error can also be caused by a missing \documentstyle command. Any ideas?

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Layout
by David Arnold 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

All, This is what is needed, but even in more detail. Try this in Latex: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{layout} \begin{document} \layout \end{document} We need a picture(s) indicating all of the various layout parameters and their location on the page, as shown in the figure generated when you run the Latex code above.

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More on compiling --- texmstart
by Arnold, David 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

All, OK, it seems the times are passing me by. I am running Miktex 2.4. It comes with Context installed and there is a texexec.exe in /texmf/miktex/bin, which is on my path. C:\CONTEXT\PRACTICE>path PATH=C:\Perl\bin\;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WIND OWS\ System32\Wbem;c:\yandy\yandytex;c:\yandy\dviwind After enabling write18 and setting these in my cont-sys.tex, \runMPgraphicstrue \runMPTEXgraphicstrue \useMETAFUNformattrue I could not get Context to build Metapost graphics on the fly (at least in my test file). I have installed Ruby. After reading: http://www.contextgarden.net/Update_Hints I tried the following: texmfstart --make texexec.pl This built a texexec.bat, which I moved to /texmf/miktex/bin, where I also renamed texexec.exe to texexec.exe.bak. As a result, the file below compiled nicely and I had my graphic in the background. However, this killed Context running in Auctex and Emacs, which will no longer compile the file below. I get the error message in the attached log file. Any thoughts on how I can get going in Auctex again? The file junk.tex: \setupoutput[pdf] \setupwhitespace[medium] \startuniqueMPgraphic{concept} draw btex \bf CONCEPT etex rotated 60 withcolor .8white; currentpicture:=currentpicture ysized (\overlayheight-0.5cm); \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[concept][\uniqueMPgraphic{concept}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=concept] \starttext Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. \stoptext

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FunnyText
by David Arnold 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

All, I've come across this in the Metafun manual: \setupframedtexts [FunnyText] [backgroundcolor=lightgray, framecolor=darkred, rulethickness=2pt, offset=\bodyfontsize, before={\blank[big,medium]}, after={\blank[big]}, width=\textwidth] But I am wondering how to use it to set up a big "Copyright" in the background?

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Compiling questions
by David Arnold 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

All, This test file: \starttext \setupcolors[state=start] \startMPpage colorcircle(10cm,red,green,blue) ; \stopMPpage \stoptext If I follow this procedure: f:/context/texutil --purgeall f:/context/texexec --pdf test Then I get a nice document when opened in Acrobat Reader. However, with the document below, this same procedure doesn't produce the "Concept" background. Indeed, I need to do this to get the "Concept" background: f:/context/texutil --purgeall f:/context/texexec --pdf junk2 f:/context/mpost mpgraph f:/context/texexec --pdf junk2 Then, I get a nice document with the "Concept" background. Suggestions? The file junk2.tex: \setupoutput[pdf] \setupwhitespace[medium] \startuniqueMPgraphic{concept} draw btex \bf CONCEPT etex rotated 60 withcolor .8white; currentpicture:=currentpicture ysized (\overlayheight-0.5cm); \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[concept][\uniqueMPgraphic{concept}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=concept] \starttext Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. \stoptext

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Fit in Window
by David Arnold 07 Nov '04

07 Nov '04

All, What commands do I use in Context to have my slide come up in Acrobat Reader's "Fit In Window?"

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lrmoved
by David Arnold 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

All, In this definition from mp-tool, primarydef p lrmoved d = ((lrcorner p) shifted (+xpart paired(d),-ypart paired(d))) enddef ; I am not certain of its use. Does it adjust the corner of the path p, or does it return the corner of the path p, or what?

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RE: [NTG-context] Re: \setuplayout --- what do parameters mean?
by Arnold, David 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Patrick, Found it. Excellent source. I am working away at it as we speak. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Gundlach [mailto:patrick@gundla.ch] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:08 PM To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Subject: [NTG-context] Re: \setuplayout --- what do parameters mean? Hi David, [...] > I have a hard time working out what it means. I know I can do > \showframe, but that doesn't indicate everything I need to see. Does > anyone have a macro that shows ALL of these parameters in a visual > way, similar to that on page 182 of the Latex User Guide, 2nd ed., > Lamport? Well, I don't own a Lamport, and probably not many ConTeXt users own one, so your description could be more verbose. Nevertheless you might want to have a look at http://levana.de/context/ there is somewhere a module that should do something like this. But there is still a bug in there when the margins are too small. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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Override starttyping environment
by Arnold, David 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Hans et al, I have in my preamble: \definetyping[matlab] \setuptyping[matlab] [before={\startframedtext[width=\makeupwidth, background=screen, backgroundscreen=0.9]}, after={\stopframedtext}, color=darkred] Later in my document, I tried to center one of these environments: \startalignment[middle] \switchtobodyfont[big] \startmatlab y = x.^2 -2*x - 3 \stopmatlab \stopalignment But it comes out left justified, not centered. Any ideas how I can center one of these environments, one time only?

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