November 2004 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

precompiling inline mp to pdf?
by Christopher Creutzig 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Salvete, for my latest project (almost done, so I don't need the answer for this one, but possibly in the future) I have compilation times which were dominated by Metapost until I switched to using --nomp most of the time and --automp --runs=2 whenever I changed something that results in changes to the Metapost stuff. (I needed the --automp anyway, since to work around size limits in MetaPost I had to split the background into separate images, yet they had to influence one another via global variables -- increasing the memory limit to 80 MB made Metapost predictably freeze at unpredictable places in the run.) Now, my compile times are dominated by the mp to pdf conversion. Since pdf inclusion is fast (as expected), I'd like to use mptopdf once on each generated file and have ConTeXt include that. Should I redefine \insertMPfile to first look for the pdf or is there a more clever way? (Note that I do want the automatic inclusion, since I'm passing the dimensions of external figures etc. to metapost and use the result in a background layer and/or as frame backgrounds.) regards, Christopher Creutzig PS: I didn't have time to analyze this when I came across it, but it seems that "texexec --automp file" consistently performs one TeX run too little. In any case, the last thing it does is a metapost run, which doesn't seem sensible to me.

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Failing on Mac OS X
by Shivkumar Chandrasekaran 02 Nov '04

02 Nov '04

Hi, I updated my tetex installation from G. Wierda's i-Installer (to the latest version) and ever since my context files refuse to compile. The earliest error indication I get is: ConTeXt ver: 2004.10.07 fmt: 2004.11.1 int: english mes: english systems : pdfTeX version 111 -> please update systems : eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs) But I do seem to have the latest pdfTeX and eTeX versions: gimli:~ shiv$ pdftex -v pdfTeX (Web2C 7.5.2) 3.141592-1.11a kpathsea version 3.5.2 gimli:~ shiv$ etex -v e-TeX (Web2C 7.5.2) 3.141592-2.1 kpathsea version 3.5.2 Any idea where my problem could be? Thanks, --shiv--

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Wrap that URL
by David Arnold 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

All, I have: \page \subject{Student Projects} \setupurl [style=bold] \useURL[craig][http://online.redwoods.cc.ca.us/instruct/darnold/CalcProj/Fal l98/CraigA/project3.htm] \from[craig] But even with \setuppapersize[S6][S6] this URL goes off the page. I'd like to split it onto two lines. Any suggestions?

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I Lose frame lines in Table
by David Arnold 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

All, Still haven't got an answer for this one: \setupTABLE[background=screen,screen=0.8,color=darkred,frame=off] \setupTABLE[column][first][rightframe=on] \setupTABLE[row][first][bottomframe=on] \placetable[none]{}{% \bTABLE[align={middle,lohi},width=3em] \bTR \bTD $x$ \eTD \bTD $y$ \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD $x_1$ \eTD \bTD $y_1$ \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD $x_2$ \eTD \bTD $y_2$ \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD $\vdots$ \eTD \bTD $\vdots$ \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD $x_n$ \eTD \bTD $y_n$ \eTD \eTR \eTABLE} Why do my frame lines (rightframe=-n, bottomframe=on) disappear?

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Re: subsubsubsection
by Steffen Wolfrum 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hallo Patrick, Patrick Gundlach <patrick(a)gundla.ch> wrote: > Hello Steffen, > > > [...] > > > Hah, it was just an forgotten entry in the darkest corner of my > > environment setup: > > Good news that you've got it. If you had posted a complete but minimal > example, you might have gotten your answer earlier. > > Patrick Actually that's how I found the answer - while writing a minimal example! Minimal examples always invite to get a fresh look again, don't they? Steffen

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fontdimen trickery
by Adam Lindsay 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hans, Taco, all, Parallel to Taco's mathfontdump, this morning I ran into a problem trying to reassign a fontdimen of a font invoked using ConTeXt's typescript system. If I try it before a \setupbodyfont, it doesn't recognise the font identifier, and if I try it afterwards, I run into a \reactivatefont mess. The key line in the attached file appears commented out twice: \fontdimen7\csname*new12ptmmmi*\endcsname=0pt (I'm trying to work on some better math support for some other fonts, and trying it this way first, before hacking into a tfm.) The prime question is, is there something higher-level and "obvious" that I'm missing, or does it mean tearing into font-ini? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Re: [dev-context] Re: [NTG-context] Bug in math accents (analyzed)
by Hans Hagen 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Taco has found the reason why \mathaccents may get dislocated in slanted or italic fonts > The problem is that your code does not set \skewchar for the \scriptfont > and \scriptscriptfont of the relevant math families. You need to make sure > you set all three of \textfont X, \scriptfont X and \scriptscriptfont X. > > This requires some minor rewriting of a few macros in font-ini.tex. > I could do that for you, but my coding style is not even remotely > similar to yours so I wager you'd rather do it yourself. ;-) > font-ini needs the following patch \appendtoks \dosetmathfamily\mrfam\textface\scriptface\scriptscriptface\c!mr\mrfallback \dosetmathfamily\mifam\textface\scriptface\scriptscriptface\c!mi\empty \dosetmathfamily\syfam\textface\scriptface\scriptscriptface\c!sy\empty \dosetmathfamily\exfam\textface\textface \textface \c!ex\empty \dosetmathfamily\mafam\textface\scriptface\scriptscriptface\c!ma\empty \dosetmathfamily\mbfam\textface\scriptface\scriptscriptface\c!mb\empty \dosetmathfamily\mcfam\textface\scriptface\scriptscriptface\c!mc\empty \dosetmathfamily\nnfam\textface\scriptface\scriptscriptface\c!nn\empty \to \mathstrategies \appendtoks \dosetskewchar\mifam\defaultskewcharmi % implemented later on \dosetskewchar\syfam\defaultskewcharsy % implemented later on \to \mathstrategies \def\dosetskewchar#1#2% {\ifx\@@fontskewchar\empty \skewchar\textfont #1#2% \skewchar\scriptfont #1#2% \skewchar\scriptscriptfont#1#2% \else \skewchar\textfont #1\@@fontskewchar \skewchar\scriptfont #1\@@fontskewchar \skewchar\scriptscriptfont#1\@@fontskewchar \fi} i'll patch the distribution Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: subsubsubsection
by Steffen Wolfrum 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Patrick Gundlach <patrick(a)gundla.ch> wrote: > Hello Steffen, > > > ... sure I have seen that subsubsubsection is already defined in core-sec.tex. > > Then the numbering/charactering works fine ... BUT why does a heading that's mapped to it > > just not appear in the TOC? > > > Sorry, but I don't get it. Could you please try to make a small > example file that shows us what you want to achieve? > > > Patrick Hah, it was just an forgotten entry in the darkest corner of my environment setup: \definecombinedlist[content][... lots of entries ...][level=subsubsection] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I didn't remember this last option being set at the end of that unwrapped line. Sorry for the trouble, Steffen

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minimal ConTeXt tree
by Steffen Wolfrum 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

Hi all, I wanted to give my TeX a fresh start, deleted the complete tetex folder and downloaded Hans' "macosxtex.zip". Could someone please share his/her experience what to do now - in order to get the files in this zip work? I am working on MacOSX and - by now - I am not so firm on the path topic that's probably necessary now... so I need probably a *very easy explanation* :o/ Any help welcome! Steffen

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