August 2004 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

utility file analysis : another run needed
by jean-pierre le narzul 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

Hi, When I launch texexec --pdf ....., it runs several times (6 or 7) before ending with the following message .... : "utility file analysis : another run needed" The pdf seems to be correct but it takes long to be generated ..... Any idea of the problem ? jean-pierre

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Re: Footnotes in margin? (HELP!)
by Steffen Wolfrum 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

Maybe the wrong height is calculated? When we have the normal situation footnote per page, the space available is spilt for text and footnotes. In our margin construction now it seems to be still the same. When we would use the footnotes as endnotes, TeX would calculated the text per page for the entire height. So is it possible to define the space that is available per page (for text + footnote) as a combination of the normal height plus the space in the margin? I don't have an idea how to code this in plain TeX (or whatever language is used for ConTeXt), but maybe someone else knows? Steffen >Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:59:17 +0200 >To: ConTeXt >From: Steffen Wolfrum <context(a)st.estfiles.de> >Subject: Re: Footnotes in margin? (HELP!) >Cc: >Bcc: >X-Attachments: > >Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban(a)fiee.net> wrote: > >> Am 25.08.2004 um 22:40 schrieb Steffen Wolfrum: >> >> > that's also what I experienced: the code works with very small >> > footnotes. >> > I am working now on a thesis with kind of normal equipment: >> > Some hundred pages, about 900 footnotes with lots of them quite long >> > (seems to be normal nowadays for art-historians). >> > So what to do? >> >> How do you imagine to fit that large footnotes into the margin? >> Is your margin wider than your text area? > > > >That's not the problem. >Don't forget that I just posted a minimal example to show the generel effect as also seen by Willi. >In my documents the figures are different of course: the footnote size is smaller, the margin space higher etc. > >So it's not the problem that the footnotes don't fit. >It's more that they are *still below* the text as before - now as empty space. > >(You can easily make the test: Take a regular document with footnotes per page below the text. Then use the code to get the footnotes in the margin. You will see that the body text doesn't change at all. It's just the notes moving and leaving empty space behind) > > >Steffen >

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\setupinteractionscreen and translation failure
by Mojca Miklavec 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

Since my last MikTeX update (pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.20a-rc7.1-2.1, ConTeXt 2004.8.15) the line \setupinteractionscreen[option=max] doesn't have any effect any more (the same .tex document as before produces diffrent output - I can't get the whole-screen output any more). *** *** *** *** *** The second question concerns the translations of ConTeXt support for some other languages. I've added Slovenian translations to 'lang-sla.tex' and added a couple of lines to 'cont-usr.tex'. However: I don't know how to enable it. I tried with texexec --make --alone --all, but it complains: > Undefined control sequence. > <argument> \??la \s!sl \c!status > ... > l.108 \c!status=\v!stop] Did I miss any other files, did I make any mistake in my translations, is there any other command to be executed first? Or maybe just any of my local files or settings corrupted? I also don't know what exactly to do to fully support the three special letters (and their uppercase equvalent) č,š,ž,Č,Š,Ž (\v{c},\v{s},\v{z}, ...). In 'cont-usr.tex' I simply copied \installlanguage [\s!sl] [\s!mapping={il2,ec},\s!encoding={il2,ec}] although I have no idea if it is correct or not. In LaTeX I use \usepackage[cp1250]{inputenc} (or latin2 or utf8, depending on the operating system and editor), but \useencoding and/or translate=cp1250cz in ConTeXt seem to have no effect (they do work for German äöü, but not for our strange signs). Thanks a lot, Mojca Miklavec

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Bold math
by Nikolai Weibull 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

Is there a "simple" way to get bold (, |, *, and ) in math? 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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Re: [NTG-context] metafun manual
by Hans Hagen 31 Aug '04

31 Aug '04

ishamid wrote: >Stupid question;-) > >Can Metafun work with e-tex/aleph--dvipdfmx? As you know I am contemplating >actually learning meta for the Arabic project... > > it will work when some bug in dvipdfmx is solved (some interference between direct code and cm matrices); i mailed about it with Chof cum suis, and it's on the todo list . >As far as topics are concerned, anything relavant to using MetaPost for a >MetaType1 project would be most useful; maybe you should ask jacko this >question? > > that's quite a different topic; trikcy too since the metatype docu is not finished >PS. Hans, can u make sure this address escapes your spam filter? > > i have no spam filter on my machine (only at the provider and some probably outdated one on the linux mail server) 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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mptopdf.pl --raw warning
by Hartmut Henkel 29 Aug '04

29 Aug '04

There is a warning due to a wrong option given by mptopdf.pl: hahe@hahepc1:~$ mptopdf --raw x.mp mpost: unrecognized option `--format=latex' This goes away by the tiny patch below. Regards, Hartmut --- mptopdf.pl.orig.texlive Sun Aug 29 16:59:39 2004 +++ mptopdf.pl Sun Aug 29 17:06:17 2004 @@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ my $pattern = $ARGV[0] ; my $done = 0 ; my $report = '' ; -my $latexswitch = " --tex=latex --format=latex " ; +my $texlatexswitch = " --tex=latex --format=latex " ; +my $mplatexswitch = " --tex=latex " ; ## $dosish = ($Config{'osname'} =~ /dos|mswin/i) ; my $dosish = ($Config{'osname'} =~ /^(ms)?dos|^os\/2|^(ms|cyg)win/i) ; @@ -67,12 +68,14 @@ { if (/(documentstyle|documentclass|begin\{document\})/io) { $Latex = 1 ; last } } close (INP) } - if ($Latex) - { $rest .= " $latexswitch" } if ($RawMP) - { $mpbin = 'mpost' } + { if ($Latex) + { $rest .= " $mplatexswitch" } + $mpbin = 'mpost' } else - { $mpbin = 'texexec --mptex $PassOn' } + { if ($Latex) + { $rest .= " $texlatexswitch" } + $mpbin = 'texexec --mptex $PassOn' } my $error = system ("$mpbin $rest $pattern") ; if ($error) { print "\n$program : error while processing mp file\n" ; exit }

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bug in mp
by Hans Hagen 29 Aug '04

29 Aug '04

Hi, I'm currently translating all commands in the sources to english; for that i use metafun as test file. In the process I ran into a metapost fuzziness: var_123456 is not handled ok, since mp scans numbers due to the way it implements arrays. This may result in problems with transparency factors. I made a workaround, but will (can) only upload when i think that the english translations went ok. If you run into problems i can post a metafun fix. 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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btex ... etex in .mp
by Nikolai Weibull 27 Aug '04

27 Aug '04

Hi! I remember reading somewhere that you can't use btex ... etex in "input" .mp files, as there is no possibility for them to be processed at that time. I've hit a snag, though, and this would really be a good thing for me to have. Is there any way to get similar behavior? Basically, I want to define some stuff that I want to reuse in several pictures. 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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ConTeXt and XML: entities and attributes
by Michael Guravage 27 Aug '04

27 Aug '04

I have two questions, both concerning typesetting XML with conTeXt. The first questioin is about how ConTeXt handles entity declarations and reference. The following bit of XML declares and references four parameter entities. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE TEI.2 PUBLIC "-//TEI P4//ELEMENTS TEI Lite XML ver. 1//EN" "http://www.tei-c.org/Lite/DTD/teixlite.dtd"[ <!ENTITY % ISOlat1 SYSTEM 'http://www.tei-c.org/Entity_Sets/Unicode/iso-lat1.ent'> %ISOlat1; <!ENTITY % ISOlat2 SYSTEM 'http://www.tei-c.org/Entity_Sets/Unicode/iso-lat2.ent'> %ISOlat2; <!ENTITY % ISOnum SYSTEM 'http://www.tei-c.org/Entity_Sets/Unicode/iso-num.ent'> %ISOnum; <!ENTITY % ISOpub SYSTEM 'http://www.tei-c.org/Entity_Sets/Unicode/iso-pub.ent'> %ISOpub; <!ENTITY moe SYSTEM 'moe.xml'> ]> ConTeXt does not typeset the declarations, but does typeset the references, i.e. the first line in the typeset result is: %ISOlat1;%ISOlat2;%ISOnum;%ISOpub; Has anyone seen this before, and has anyone an opinion how it should be fixed? My second question concerns tag attributes. The following bit of XML code contains two catRef tags, each with two attributes: <profileDesc> <textClass> <catRef scheme="period" target="early"/> <catRef scheme="Stooges" target="Moe Larry Curly"/> </textClass> </profileDesc> Can someone please suggest how I can process these and grab scheme and target attributes so that the final typeset result looks something like this: Period: early Stooges: Moe, Larry, Curly Thanks in advance for your help. Cheers, Michael Guravage guravage(a)operamail.com PS: The attatched file contains an example.

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concatenate PDF files.
by Paulo Ney de Souza 26 Aug '04

26 Aug '04

I am looking for a way to concatenate several PDF files, and found this e-mail from Hans: http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2001-January/000240.html saying that "texexec" can do it in several ways! and to look on the web-site, texexec manual and the mailing list for directions. I went to the manual first and found only ONE: texexec --pdfarrange --noduplex --paper=S6 file-a file-b but that nullified all links I had in my files, and changed the opening from from FitVisible to something else (all files were FitVisible). Next I went to two other sources he mentioned and Googled for: "-ntg-context concatenate pdf" did not yield much beyond that, and neither did Googling http://www.pragma-ade.com/ for the words "concatenate" or "combine". So does anyne know how to use "texexec" to concatenate two PDF files and preseve as much of the file as possible (links, opening format, ...) ? Paulo Ney

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