October 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Foxit pdf tools
by Idris Samawi Hamid 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

Dear gang, FYI: I just came across this alternative to Adobe Reader for Windows. Maybe it has features useful to some of us (e.g., it's very small)... http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php They have some other pdf products too: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/products.htm Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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using 1 layout on several documents
by Boris Pedrofiets 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

Hi, I made a layout that I want to use for several documents. What is the best way to handle this, without placing a copy of the layout description in every file? Thanks for helping! Boris _________________________________________________________________ Vind alles terug op je PC: MSN Search Toolbar http://toolbar.msn.nl/

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Re: [metapost] MPtoPDF problem
by Mojca Miklavec 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

2005/9/30, Mau <mvs1952(a)yahoo.it> wrote: > Hi! > > I have been using MPtoPDF (included in the MikTeX distribution, under > Win2K) to convert mp output to pdf. Everything went smoothly until > the end of July. Now it seems that MPtoPDF cannot produce any output. > I suspect some problems with a newer version installed automatically > from MiKTex distribution (MPtoPDF 1.3?) > > My command line is: > > C:\texmf\miktex\bin\mptopdf.exe %n > > where %n is a parameter for the name of the mp file I am working on. > > Does anyone have the same problem? > > Thanks, > Maurizio Problems confirmed. I used mptopdf in August and it worked at that time. I last updated ConTeXt (the package containing mptopdf) on 5th September (version 2005-07-27). This is the whole output when mptopdf is run for a simple mp file: ------------------------------------------------------- E:\Temp>mptopdf filename -fmt=mptopdf: unknown option MPtoPDF 1.3 : filename.* is converted to filename-1.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- The last statement doesn't hold (no file created at all). "filename.1" is OK and mptopdf also works perfectly with the standalone ConTeXt distribution, but not under MikTeX. The funny part is also this one (from mptopdf.pl): if ($miktex) { $command = "pdfetex -fmt=mptopdf" } -fmt doesn't seem to exist in MikTeX (any more?). I tried pdfetex --help, but didn't find any useful switches to compensate for "-progname=context" except "-alias", but I didn't know how to use it. I'm a bit lost. I noticed that the MikTeX package repository was updated in the last days, so I tried to update the system (for the first time in my life I've chosen to update only the context.cab since I'm working on modem), but now the most crucial parts keep crashing (initexmf, kpsewhich, ...), so I that I can't even work any further and thus can't check yet if the new package brings any changes or not. Mojca

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Foxit pdf tools
by Idris Samawi Hamid 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

Dear gang, FYI: I just came across this alternative to Adobe Reader for Windows. Maybe it has features useful to some of us (e.g., it's very small)... http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php They have some other pdf products too: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/products.htm Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Q: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Thumb_index
by Alexander Lazic 02 Oct '05

02 Oct '05

Hi, please can anybody help me about the following error, sorry i don't know what the error can be :-( I have used the code fro: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Thumb_index --- TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : thumb_index output : pdftex interface : en options : color current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extended mode (./thumb_index.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2005.8.2 int: english mes: english language : language en is active . . layout : calculating backgrounds ! Undefined control sequence. \@@suthumbs ->\definemeasure [thumbheight][\dimexpr \paperheight /\NOfChapte... \executedefinedoverlay ...x {\the \everyoverlay #2 }}\dimen 0\wd \scratchbox ... \dodobackgroundbox ...4}{\dimen 6}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6} }}}\wd \extraframebox \zer... \rawprocesscommaitem ...commalevel \endcsname {#1} \expandafter \rawprocessco... \rawprocesscommalist ... \rawprocesscommaitem #1,] ,\global \advance \commale... \dobackgroundbox ...st [#2]\noexpand \docommando } \box #1\hss }} ... l.45 \chapter{second} \dorecurse{10}{\input davis } ? No pages of output. --- Greetings al ;-)

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Beta bib module release
by Taco Hoekwater 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

Hi, I have prepared a beta release of the bibliography module, and uploaded it as http://tex.aanhet.net/bib/m-bib-beta-20050927.zip Because it is only a beta, I have not fixed the documentation yet. The differences between this version and the one in the ConTeXt distribution are outlined below. I know that the wishlist is quite long, and there are even still bugs I have not looked into, but I have to release *something* otherwise nothing will ever happen. Somehow I never seem to get around to working on the module. :-( Comments (and testfiles) are welcome, and feel free to update the wishlist on the wiki : http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Taco/Bib Happy TeXing, Taco ============================================== Bugfixes: * The extra spaces in the output of authors and editors inside the publication list should be gone. * \newbibfield now works as advertised * It is possible to use context commands with the same name as a bib fieldname inside the arguments of the fields. This now compiles correctly: \startpublication[k=garden,t=misc,a={Wiki people}] \thekey{Wiki people} \title{The \type{\ConTeXt} garden} \note{See also \useurl[pedia]{http://wikipedia.com}\url[pedia]} \url{http://wiki.contextgarden.net} \stoppublication New features: * Two new styles are now part of the distribution: bibl-apa-de.tex and bibl-ssa.tex * \cite now accepts \setupcite arguments in the optional argument, so you can do stuff like \cite[right={, chapter 5)}][key] The commands \cite[alternative=author][key] and \cite[author][key] are equivalent * The bibtex fields URL and LASTCHECKED have been added to the bst files. * Two new \setupcite arguments 'andtext' and 'otherstext' have been added, and the language-dependancy of the bst files has been removed. * There is a new type of \citation: \cite[url][key] It does not do any kind of interaction, if you want that you have to wrap the \cite in another command. Internally, this uses the new 'u=' argument to \startpublication. * Also, \cite[doi][key] now actually does generate the doi in the text (this uses the 'o=' argument to \startpublication) * Finally, you can get selected data bits from a publication by using \getcitedata [url] [garden] to \gardenlink (in this case, \gardenlink will be \def-ed to the value of the \url{..} field in the bib item with label 'garden'). Discontinued: * I have removed t-bibltx.tex. All it did was define the \newcommand command, and you are better off using the new latex emulation module for that. * I dropped support for the INSTITUTE field in bibtex (it was never actually used anyway)

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