July 2004 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

makempy - graphictext failing?
by Awkster＠aol.com 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

I've recently installed context after seeing it for the first time at Practical Tex2004 Installation seems to have worked but some metapost code is failing to produce output. Code is provided below: Platform(s)/OS: SuSE 8.1 linux with TeXLive Windows 2000 with TeXLive command line: texexec testMP Is there a problem with the source code or might it be with my installation? Thanks. D. Claudio %%%Code Follows%%%%%%%%%% % interface=english output=pdftex % Filename: testMP.tex \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startMPgraphic graphictext "MP" scaled 8 withdrawcolor .7blue withfillcolor .7white dashed evenly withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; \stopMPgraphic \loadcurrentMPgraphic \placeMPgraphic \stoptext

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[Fwd: ocplist interactions [please forward]]
by Hans Hagen 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

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more footnotes:-)
by ishamid 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Dear partners in crime, I have come across a situation where, in a left-to-right document, I need to make the footnotes operate right to left: that is, the footnote numeral and rule should be on the right side of the page. Now when using the global direction changes that eomega/Gamma offers, this is trivial for a global right-to-left document (\pagedir TRT and \bodydir TRT are the global settings), but in a globally left-to-right document I have not been able to get this to work locally. To explain: \textdir TRT and \pardir TRT locally switch the text and paragraph directions respectively, but not the footnote markers and rule. This is correct behavior of course. But I have an article that includes a long right-to-left extract with footnotes, and those footnotes need to be RL in the sense described above (numeral + rule). Is there any way to add a parameter option to \setupfoonotes which, between---say, a \start-\stop---that can locally switch the location of the numeral and marker to RL? Please help: I'm supposed to send this thing to the printer next week:-)) Best Idris PS \pagedir TRT and \bodydir TRT don't seem to help this proble when applied in a local context.

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more footnotes:-)
by Idris Samawi Hamid 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Dear partners in crime, I have come across a situation where, in a left-to-right document, I need to make the footnotes operate right to left: that is, the footnote numeral and rule should be on the right side of the page. Now when using the global direction changes that eomega/Gamma offers, this is trivial for a global right-to-left document (\pagedir TRT and \bodydir TRT are the global settings), but in a globally left-to-right document I have not been able to get this to work locally. To explain: \textdir TRT and \pardir TRT locally switch the text and paragraph directions respectively, but not the footnote markers and rule. This is correct behavior of course. But I have an article that includes a long right-to-left extract with footnotes, and those footnotes need to be RL in the sense described above (numeral + rule). Is there any way to add a parameter option to \setupfoonotes which, between---say, a \start-\stop---that can locally switch the location of the numeral and marker to RL? Please help: I'm supposed to send this thing to the printer next week:-)) Best Idris PS \pagedir TRT and \bodydir TRT don't seem to help this proble when applied in a local context. -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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itemize, adobekb
by Thomas A.Schmitz 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

These are two very basic questions, but I couldn't find basic answers. Am quite willing to RTFM, but would be grateful for pointing to specific sections. So here comes: 1) Is it possible to have something in front of the number in numbered itemize-groups? Like LatTeX-style [1] etc. All I could find was the "stopper= " setup, but nothing for "starters." 2) The adobekb typescript is now part of the context macro package, right? (tex/context/base/type-akb.tex). But whenever I have this in my documents: \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[pos,12pt] everything works well, my document is typeset in times, but I get this error: bodyfont : unknown variant pos What gives? Has "pos" been replaced by a new magic formula? All best Thomas

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accents in "funny frame"
by olivier Turlier 28 Jul '04

28 Jul '04

Hello Contexers, I play with the "funny frame" code given by Hans et al. How put accentuation (french) in the frame title ? I use latest context .iso image (ConTeXt ver. 2004.6.21 fmt: 2004.6.21 int: english mes: english) Below is the source (compiled with : texmfstart texexec.pl --autopdf --pdf funny-french-frame.tex): ---------------------------------------- %funny-french-frame.tex \enableregime[il1] \useencoding[ffr] \mainlanguage[fr] \enableregime[windows] \setupindenting[medium] \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,12pt] \setupcolors[state=start] %---------------------------------------------------- funny frame \startMPenvironment \enableregime[il1] % \useencoding[ffr] % \mainlanguage[fr] % not working \enableregime[windows] % \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,14pt] \stopMPenvironment % \startuseMPgraphic{FunnyFrame} %--------- white background, blue square frame % picture p; numeric w, h, o; % p:=textext.rt(\MPstring{FunnyFrame}); % w:=OverlayWidth; h:=OverlayHeight; o:=BodyFontSize; % p:=p shifted (2o,h-ypart center p); draw p; % drawoptions (withpen pencircle scaled 1pt withcolor .625blue); % draw (2o,h)--(0,h)--(0,0)--(w,0)--(w,h)--(xpart urcorner p, h) ; % draw boundingbox p; % setbounds currentpicture to unitsquare xyscaled (w,h); % \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{FunnyFrame} %---------- grey background, red randomized frame picture p ; numeric o ; path a, b ; pair c ; p := textext.rt(\MPstring{FunnyFrame}) ; a := unitsquare xyscaled(OverlayWidth,OverlayHeight) ; o := BodyFontSize ; p := p shifted (2o,OverlayHeight+ypart center p) ; drawoptions (withpen pencircle scaled 1.5pt withcolor .625red) ; b := a randomized (o/2) ; fill b withcolor .95white ; draw b ; %---- color of main text c := center p ; c := b intersectionpoint (c shifted (0,-o)--c shifted(0,o)) ; p := p shifted (c-center p) ; b := (boundingbox p) randomized (o/4) ; fill b withcolor .90white ; draw b ; %----- color of title draw p withcolor blue ; setbounds currentpicture to a ; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[FunnyFrame][\useMPgraphic{FunnyFrame}] \defineframedtext[FunnyText][frame=off,background=FunnyFrame] \def\StartFrame{\startFunnyText} \def\StopFrame{\stopFunnyText} \def\FrameTitle#1% {\setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{\hbox spread 3em {\ss\bf\hss\strut#1\hss}}} \setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{} %------------------------------------------------------- \setupheadertexts[\currentpage~/~\lastpage] \starttext \FrameTitle{Introduction } \StartFrame On présente tout ce qui a un rapport avec {\it l'origine} du stage \StopFrame \page \FrameTitle{Développement} %---------------------- accent not working \StartFrame On présente tout le {\it déroulement} du stage, par groupe de tâches \StopFrame \page \FrameTitle{Conclusion} \StartFrame \startlines On {\it analyse} le stage point par point -- négatif et positif -- on {\it synthétise} l'ensemble des apports, et on entrevoit le {\it futur} professionnel {\it concrètement} \stoplines \StopFrame \page \stoptext --------------------- Thanks for your answer(s) -- olivier TURLIER

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[Fwd: Re: [NTG-context] unicode editor? [please forward]]
by Hans Hagen Outside 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

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Shading transparency / missing linear_shade variant
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Hi all, experimenting with transparencies, I have obviously come to a limitation: color shading does not work for transparent colors. What I have in mind is a bar filled with a color gradient, starting from a certain (non-transparent) color and ending transparent, i.e. vanishing into the background. However, the transparent color appears just black. Furthermore, the shading variants for linear_shade do not correspond with those listed in the metafun manual, page 180. Variant 2 is missing and behaves like variant 3 should. Example: \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=red] \startMPenvironment[global] \definecolor[HeadLineColor][r=0,g=0,b=1] \definecolor[Transparent][r=1,g=1,b=1,t=0,a=normal] \stopMPenvironment \startreusableMPgraphic{test} numeric u; u=3cm; path p; p := unitsquare xscaled u yscaled u cornered (u/10); for i=0 upto 3 : linear_shade(p shifted(i*u,0),i,\MPcolor{HeadLineColor},\MPcolor{Transparent}); endfor; \stopreusableMPgraphic \starttext \reuseMPgraphic{test} \stoptext -- Eckhart

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metaobj and transparent colors with \MPcolor
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Hi, I try to achieve transparently filled objects using the metaobj package. However, transparency is ignored completely in the output, I just get a normal white. Here is my test file: \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=red] \startMPenvironment[global] \definecolor[Durchsichtig][r=1.0,g=1.0,b=1.0,t=0.0,a=normal] \stopMPenvironment \startreusableMPgraphic{test} input metaobj; setObjectDefaultOption("Box")("fillcolor")(\MPcolor{Durchsichtig}); newBox.test(btex Transparent? etex) "filled(true)"; Obj(test).c=origin; drawObj(test); \stopreusableMPgraphic \starttext \reuseMPgraphic{test} \stoptext If I use the fillcolor as an argument to the object newBox.test(btex Transparent? etex) "filled(true)" "fillcolor(\MPcolor{Durchsichtig})"; I get error messages from the mpost run. So it seems that metaobj and \MPcolor don't like each other. Any ideas how to circumvent this problem? Regards, Eckhart

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Fwd: (Classical) greek in ConTeXt/Gamma [please forward]
by Giuseppe Bilotta 27 Jul '04

27 Jul '04

Idris sent me this asking me to forward it. My reply follows. ===8<==============Original message text=============== Hi Giuseppe, I was digging in the archives and came across this; I don't think I ever saw this message (must have been busy at the time). Did you ever get an answer? I'm sure that editing the otp's will get you the result u wanted quite easily, but in the year since u wrote this u've probably figured that out already:-) Best Idri [NTG-context] (Classical) greek in ConTeXt/Gamma Giuseppe Bilotta ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:40:35 +0200 Hello, I don't know if Idris is following the group (I hope he is), but anyway I have a couple of questions on the support for Greek in ConTeXt, Omega and thus also Gamma. The need is that of typesetting classical greek snippets in a latin (Italian, but could be English) context. I thought that ConTeXt+(e-)Omega would be the best thing in town, so I prepared a small test file: \usemodule[gamma] \mainlanguage[italian] \starttext Possiamo scrivere tranquillamente in italiano; questo non ci priva per\`o della possibilit\`a di scrivere in greco: vediamo subito l'alfabeto minuscolo e maiuscolo (notare come j dia \greek{j} e c dia il sigma di fine parola \greek{c}): \startgreek a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z \stopgreek \`E ovviamente possibile usare segni diacritici come gli accenti (\greek{`a, 'a, =a}) o gli spiriti (\greek{<r, >w}); osserviamo come questi assumano automaticamente la posizione corretta nel caso di lettere maiuscole (\greek{`A, 'A, =A, <A, >A, Ai}) \stoptext While it seems to work pretty well most of the time, there seem to be some problems; I'd like to know where they arise from and if and how they can be fixed. The problems: Combination Doesn't give <r rho with spirit =A capital alpha with circumflex <A capital alpha with spirit Moreover, I don't know how to write the subscribed iota. My system is a MiKTeX 2.2 with (e-)Omega 1.15. Does anybody have an idea? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta ===8<===========End of original message text=========== My reply: Well, I'm pretty sure the bug is in the OTPs that come with Omega (which is pretty funny, considering that Yannis *is* Greek ...). I guess that when the rougher edges in Aleph are fixed we'll start correcting the OCPs :) -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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