May 2004 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

%%BoundingBox: (atend)
by Peter Münster 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Hello, ConTeXt does not find the EPS-BoundingBox in EPS files generated by xmgrace. Such a file begins like this: %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 %%BoundingBox: (atend) and it ends like this: %%Trailer %%BoundingBox: 64 72 709 527 %%DocumentNeededResources: font Times-Roman %%EOF When using \externalfigure, one gets the following error: ERROR: Missing number, treated as zero. --- TeX said --- <to be read again> ( \EPSllx ->( atend) \dogetEPSboundingbox ...m \EPSfound >0 #2=\EPSllx bp#4=\EPSurx bp#3=\EPSlly ... Would it be possible, to enable ConTeXt to read such a file? If not, I'm going to write a script, that converts the file. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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\=i
by Idris Samawi Hamid 03 Jun '04

03 Jun '04

Dear partners in crime, I mentioned this some time ago, can't find the answer right now... I need a \=i where the bar over the <i> is the width of the box. In computer modern the bar over the <i> is much too large and looks ugly and buts into other letters when used frequently. In good quality typesetting the bar in the \=i is always smaller than for, say, \=a and \=u. (Of course, ConTeXt already incorporates the \i in its def. of \=i and I don't want to lose that feature;->) Also, Hoenig helped me make a complete old style computer modern virtual font. Where can I upload this package (with all Context-related typescripts) for people to look at and maybe improve? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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new windows iso versions
by Hans Hagen 02 Jun '04

02 Jun '04

Hi, I uploaded new bzips, these are my minimal context trees: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/linuxtex.zip.bz2 http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/macosxtex.zip.bz2 http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/mswintex.zip.bz2 and this is for windows users, i.e. a subset of fptex: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/tex.iso.bz2 http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/tex.tar.bz2 These two are some 144 Meg. There is also the texsyncable tree. A few remarks: (1) the cd has an autorun file (2) and also start.bat and demo.bat files (3) whatever you choose, it will also start the example framework (4) which means that you have some goodies (recently added: font tester; interface is accessible from tools menu) (5) the demo files at least can prove that tex/metapost/xml work (6) afaik it works all right on spacy install paths (7) as well as (when running from cdrom) on the local (often spacy) user temp path (8) more example interfaced stuff will follow and the interface macros itself will be documented later i'll try to get this working for linux as well (alas, ruby is not yet standard on unix and i need to get rid of hard coded scite paths) as well as macosx (dunno how to make a texshop-using-small-context-tree-run-from-cd version yet; no scite on mac yet) I can add support for more editors later; the idea is that this provides a kind of standard. The example framework is now multi-threaded. The more extended client-server alternative will follow later. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS 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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Getting { in the input.
by Nikolai Weibull 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

Again I'm having some problems generating my ASCII table, this time it's { and } that are the culprits. I'm currently using $\{$ and $\}$ for them, but it would be great if there was a way to get them rendered like the other characters that have \type{...} surrounding them. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to do this...is there perhaps a hard one? nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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Overwritten metapost files
by Nikolai Weibull 01 Jun '04

01 Jun '04

How was it one avoided getting metapost overwritten? I have two metapost graphics in a .tex file defined by \startreusableMPgraphic and the first one gets overwritten by the second when running texexec --path=.. masters-project.tex Thanks, nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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flushbottom
by Peter Münster 31 May '04

31 May '04

Hello, how could I get stretchable space between paragraphs, tables and figures, so that the last line of a page flushes always to the bottom? \setupwhitespace[0pt plus 1pt] does not seem to work... Here is my test-file: \def\Par{bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla} \setuplayout[height=24cm] \setupwhitespace[0pt plus 1pt] % value of parskip in LaTeX \starttext \dorecurse{20}{\section{Section}\Par\par\Par\par\Par\par\Par\par} \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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Grid, section, grid=top
by Patrick Gundlach 28 May '04

28 May '04

Dear ConTeXt hackers, on a new project I'd like to use grid snapping. One section level should have grid=top to get some distance between the text preceding the section heading and the heading itself. This works fine. But when the section starts at a new page I don't want any extra line inserted at the top. Patrick excerpt: \setuphead [Abschnitt] [head=nomarking,style=\tfa, alternative=inmargin, distance=1em, grid=top, % <----- works fine but unwanted on page start. ]

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amsl: startcases/stopcases
by David Munger 28 May '04

28 May '04

Hello Giuseppe, I'm having a little trouble with the cases in amsl. Compiling this: \[ f(x) = \startcases 0 & \text{if $x < -\epsilon$} \\ \frac12 & \text{if $x > \epsilon$} \stopcases \] results in an error around the \frac. Changing it to \dfrac makes the input compile ok, but typesets the cases in an ugly manner with really narrow spacing. Is there some way of telling startcases/stopcases to behave in display mode? Thanks in advance, David

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miktex searching
by Hans Hagen 28 May '04

28 May '04

Hi, Because i frequently use texmfstart to locate/launch/etc binaries, scripts and other things in the textree, i need to make sure that it also works with miktex. Do miktex users have kpsewhich on their system (or is this an option), or should i use a miktex specific search tool? Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS 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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Underscore in tables
by Nikolai Weibull 27 May '04

27 May '04

How do I get underscores (_) into a table? I'm producing an ASCII chart, and as character 95 is _ I would like it to show up as such. Right now I get a high dot. I'm using \starttable. nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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