January 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

shading in meta[post/play] & PDF
by Mojca Miklavec 22 Jan '05

22 Jan '05

There's a wonderful tutorial on drawing 3D graphics in PostScript on http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/, specifically http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/code/doughnut.eps as an example. And there's a detailed description on shading in PostScript in http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/PLRM.pdf, page 259 (I attached an example and have some more on computer if anyone is interested; I downloaded them from Adobe, but don't know the URL any more) or on shading in PDF in http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/pdf/PDFReference16.pdf, page 272. (They're basically the same.) In metapost, "perfect" spheres can be drawn, like on http://www.gnu.org/software/3dldf/cdsmpls.html. But how can I add colour? Even if it would be too tricky to add colour and proper shading on the sphere - Is there any possibility to use advanced shading techiques described in PLRM inside metapost/metaplay for the most simple cases, say, like in the attached example? Metaplay allows circular and gradient shading and no others. I don't mind if I had to hard-code the shading. PSTricks allows some more advanced shading techniques and even direct PostScript code integration (with \special I think). Is anything similar possible in metapost/play? The spheres drawn directly in PostScript as in the examples above still have straight lines (well, I agree that with some mathematics it would be possible to draw them with proper splines as well). Thanks for all the suggestions, Mojca

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columnsetspan - alternative needed
by Steffen Wolfrum 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

Hi, as far as I've seen columnsets work in a magazine like style: \startcolumnset[twocolumns] aaa ... \startcolumnsetspan[heading] bbb \stopcolumnsetspan ccc ... \stopcolumnset gives results like this: aaa ccc aaa ccc bbbb ccc ccc ccc ccc But how can I structure columnsets so my result will look like this?: aaa aaa aaa aaa bbbb ccc ccc ccc ccc Thank you, Steffen

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where can i find Examples in ConTeXt?
by mlw01 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

I find that the pdf book @ http://www.pragma-ade.com is wonderful beautiful But I cant setup a style like that. How can I get some BIG examples to learn Context? I think example is wonderful when learning something new.

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New ConTeXt cz interface installation problem
by Michal Kvasnicka 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

Dear friends, I apologize that I have recently sent message to this list only when I've got some problems. Nontheless I need to keep this tradition. :-( I tried to install the newest ConTeXt over the TexLive 9/2003. All was perfect except the Czech interface. I've got a strange error. What should I do to improve it? My system is this: * SuSE Linux 9.1 * TeX Live + CTAN 9/2003 * pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2) * ConTeXt ver: 2004.12.06 fmt: 2005.1.11 int: english mes: english * TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 The excerpt from the log file is this: language : patterns for cz not loaded language : patterns for hr not loaded language : patterns for pl not loaded language : patterns for sk not loaded encoding : coding fde is loaded (/usr/TeX/texmf/tex/context/base/enco-fde.tex <unprotect 3> language : language specific options [default-de] seamless appended language : language specific options [default-de] seamless appended language : language specific options [default-de] seamless appended encoding : coding pdfdoc language : language specific options [pdfdoc-de] seamless appended encoding : coding ec language : language specific options [ec-de] seamless appended encoding : coding texnansi language : language specific options [texnansi-de] seamless appended <protect 3>)) language : patterns en for en loaded (n=1) (/usr/TeX/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex) language : no hyphenations en for en (n=1) language : patterns de for de loaded (n=2) (/usr/TeX/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/dehyphn.tex New German Hyphenation Patterns `dehyphn' Rev.31 <2001-05-07> (WaS)) language : no hyphenations de for de (n=2) encoding : coding il2 language : patterns sk for sk loaded (n=3) (/usr/TeX/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/skhyph.tex (/usr/TeX/texmf/tex/csplain/t1code.tex Font encoding set to Cork.) The \^, \`, \', \v, \" and \r expands to characters by Cork. (/usr/TeX/texmf/tex/csplain/skhyphen.tex)) language : no hyphenations sk for sk (n=3) encoding : coding ec language : patterns sk for sk loaded (n=3) (/usr/TeX/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/skhyph.tex (/usr/TeX/texmf/tex/csplain/t1code.tex Font encoding set to Cork.) The \^, \`, \', \v, \" and \r expands to characters by Cork. (/usr/TeX/texmf/tex/csplain/skhyphen.tex ! Duplicate pattern. l.29 a1 I am quite desperate so I will be thankfull for any hint. Your sincerelly Michal Kvasnicka

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french hyphenation after l-apostrophe doesn't work
by Steffen Wolfrum 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

Hi, when, in a french project, the line ends with e.g. l'int\'{e}r^{e}t then context doesn't hyphenate "l'interet" and the line gets stretched. (If I wouldn't have the l-apostroph construction then the word is hyphenated "in-teret", so its hyphenation is know to TeX.) But for I have a lot of this "l-apostroph" constructions at line endings in my document it is impossible to type individually \- at the best breaking points (here after "in-"). I need to have a global option that re-activates the hyphenation even if the word starts with l-apostroph. When I typeset the apostrophe like a slash: l|'|int\'{e}r^{e}t then the line gets broken, but after "l'" and I was told this is wrong in french. So what else could be done to automatically break int\'{e}r^{e}t again but *not* after l' ? Thank you for any help, Steffen

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UTF-8 XML to IL2
by Vit Zyka 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

Dear ConTeXters, please, I have UTF-8 XML file and I want to typeset with IL2 (czech) font. What I have to do? Thank you Vit Zyka P.S. I tried: \useregime[utf] \defineXMLenvironment[doc] \starttext \stoptext \processXMLfile{manaana.xml} But I guess the Unicode -> IL2 mapping is missing.

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ConTeXt tool for enabling comments in PDF ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 20 Jan '05

20 Jan '05

Hi, in the MacOSX-TeX-list (mainly on LaTeX) I just read a discussion on "Comments in PDF" (by AcrobatReader7). Do we have a ConTeXt tool which can enable users of e.g. AdobeReader 7 to add comments to PDF files ? Or is it true that this "comments enabled flag" can only be set for PDFs generated by Acrobat -- and only by the original author? Steffen Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban(a)fiee.net> wrote: > There's a lot of new or enhanced features for us prepress people, e.g. > for Reader Extensions you don't need this expensive server product any > more, that means, if you own Acrobat 7 Professional you can enable the > correction tools in Reader for your document.

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Framed text question
by Brian Kahne 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

Hi, I'm new to Context, so hopefully this isn't a completely obvious question, but I was wondering whether it was possible to have framed text split across a page. In this particular case, I have a code sample that I want to be framed and have a different background color than the rest of the text, so I have it surrounded by \startframedtext and \stopframedtext. Is it possible to use \splitfloat to split this if the code sample is too large to fit on a single page? If so, what would be the syntax? If not, is there another mechanism? Thanks for any help! Brian Kahne

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link
by Hans Hagen 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

New on line tex journal .... http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2005-1/ 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: \bTABLE .. \eTABLE]
by h h extern 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

Willi Egger wrote: > <argument> \@@tblprefix \c!each should be v!each ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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