November 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

RE: [NTG-context] Font Introduction --- Or more of a reintroduction
by Idris Samawi Hamid 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Hi David, >===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >It's been some time since I've tried anything other than the computer >modern fonts. I am aware of the manuals for font instruction in >Context, but if I want to pick up the topic again, what links and/or >manuals should I read, and in what order, to get up-to-date >instruction on handling fonts in context? Here is a good place 2 start: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts For a quick trial install, try http://wiki.contextgarden.net/URW_Garamond and Hans' MyWay on Verdana Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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diacritics in Utopia/Fourier
by Alan Bowen 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

I am running the latest version of ConTeXt and ran into a problem with some diacritical marks using %Fourier/Utopia Expert \usetypescript[type-syn] \usetypescript[fourier][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[fourier,10.5pt] While \={\i} and \=a, for example, work as expected when the font is “italic” or bold, I get garbage when it is just roman. Is this a problem with the font encoding or is there something / different new that I must do to put macrons and so forth over letters in the roman typeface? Best, Alan PS A sample line— `Ibn Rushd: Critique d'Ibn S\={\i}n\={a} ou le retour \`a Aristote'.

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type-pre.tex
by Hans van der Meer 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Addition to my previous message re this subject: In the top of file type-pre.tex it can be read: %D This file is obsolete. We now have latin modern and proper %D typescripts. Forget about this file. However, tracing execution of \startformula[bold] shows it is still read then, whereas on \startformula (without the bold) it is not. Isn't this an anomaly? Just curious (I hope curiosity is permitted in this group). One more observation. The trace shows an underfull hbox inserted at the start of this file \readfilename ->type-pre (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-pre.tex Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 21--13 \hbox(0.0+0.0)x426.78743 .\glue(\rightskip) 0.0 ) disappearing when a put \endinput right at the start of the file. I hope this hbox doesn't play havoc with formatting? Hans van der Meer

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missing fontsynonym?
by Hans van der Meer 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

In file type-enc.tex I came across the fontsynonym \definefontsynonym [ComputerModernSans-Italic] [LMSans- Italic] However there is no further definition for LMSans-Italic. In contrast to for example LMRoman-Italic. Could this be a typo or a missing definition? Fontdefinitions like \definetypeface [mainface] [ss] [sans] [modern] [default] [ec] fail because of this. Hans van der Meer

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(no subject)
by Hans van der Meer 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

In the top of file type-pre.tex it can be read: %D This file is obsolete. We now have latin modern and proper %D typescripts. Forget about this file. However, tracing execution of \startformula[bold] shows it is still read then, whereas on \startformula (without the bold) it is not. Isn't this an anomaly? Just curious (I hope curiosity is permitted in this group). Hans van der Meer

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new feature / manual
by Hans Hagen 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hi, There is a new feature + manual, for those who love obscure mechanisms. http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xmanipulate.pdf Even if you dislike manipulations ... the manual mixes iwona and the new condensed latin modern monospace font. The preprocess feature is only supported by newtexexec. If you want to automatically run newtexexec instead of texexec, you need to set the environment variable TEXMFSTART_MODE to 'experimental' assuming that you use texmfstart as stub; for those who are not familiar with that: windows: texexec.bat @echo off texmfstart texexec.pl %* unix: texexec (shell script) #!/bin/sh texmfstart texexec.pl $@ (using texmfstart is a guarantee against changes in the policies of distributions with regards to scripts) Anyhow, the new feature concerns - preprocessing of files (e.g. recode for tex files or xslt-ing for xml files) - graphic manipulations (downsampling and beyond) 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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Table problem with ConTeXT 2005.11.16
by The Wizard 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

All - Just downloaded and installed 2005.11.16, and now a document which built fine under the 2005.10.27 version breaks. The code which fails is a simple table \starttext \placetable[here]{none} \starttable[|l|l|l|p(7.0cm)|] \HL \VL \bf Revision \VL \bf Date \VL \bf Author \VL \bf Description \VL \AR \HL \VL 0.9 \VL 11/04/2005 \VL Mark Almeida \VL Initial draft, for review and comment \VL \AR \HL \stoptable \stoptext The errors I get from texexec look like this floatblocks : 1 placed ! Undefined control sequence. \OTRONEsomeherefloat ...\dorechecknextindentation <argument> ... \placesomeherefloat [\v!here ,here] \else \dosavefloat \fi \fi \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \dogetfloatbox ... \floatmethod \floatmethod }[#1] \fi \docompletefloat ...egroup \dofloat {#4}{}{#6}{#1} \else \doglobal \convertar... <argument> ...}{table}{here}{table}{none}\nextbox \else \docompletefloat {ta... ... l.9 \stoptable ? Anyone got any ideas? -- Mark Almeida mark.almeida(a)sun.com Solutions Architect (707)398-9524/x81132 Sun Client Solutions (707)429-0341 Home Office (707)480-5038 Cell Powered by Solaris 10_x86/Evolution 1.4.6

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manuals
by Hans Hagen 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hi, The following manual source trees are now available: allkind (some) columns (whole manual) details (whole manual) lua (experimental) magazines (all) metafun (whole manual) some of them use independent pdf files (as image) which need to be processed using the provides ruby 'runtools' script [runtools is my way of making it platform independent] some manuals may use commercial fonts when run here some manuals assume that you have texnansi metrics around [use texfont] don't redistribute manuals that you compiled yourself (i'd hate to run into manuals with the wrong fonts or errors dur to misconfigurations) we still need to figure out a way to deal with comments, additions, corrections, etc Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] Debian Install
by Jessica Holle 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hi, in the evening I want to install ConTeXt on my home system. It's Debian testing. It,s easy to install in debian I see. With apt-get it works. But now my question. In you documentation in the wiki is written that ConTeXt should be installed in ~/texmf But the structure is another as when I do it to /usr/local/teTeX . Must I do softlinks to this path to get context to work? Or do I only install teTeX like in the documentation and then install ConTeXt to /home/$USER/texmf and it works? Greetings Jessica

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Context 2005.11.16 Released
by Taco Hoekwater 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip If you have not updated your Latin Modern fonts in the past month, then you will need to fetch the latest redistribution of the LM fonts as well: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-lmt.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-lmt.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-lmt.zip The current release has version 2005.11.16. As usual, there is a page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2005.11.16 New features compared to the 2005.11.15 version: * As of this version, ConTeXt has a new zip archive: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-ext.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-ext.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-ext.zip This zip contains a selected set of the third-party stuff from the http://modules.contextgarden.net site. (currently, it contains only the 'ConTeXt Lettrines' module) Bugs fixed compared to the 2005.11.15 version: * some ongoing bugfixes to the new ruby scripts * \sqrt can now again be used in ToCs and captions (etc.) * \type can again be used in subcaptions of \startcombination * Some visualization macros no longer causes an eternal loop Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater PS Today's Motto: A release a day keeps the bit-rot at bay ;-)

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