November 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: ntg-context Digest, Vol 16, Issue 60
by olivier Turlier 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

> 1. Re: learning path (Mojca Miklavec) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:31:33 +0200 > From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] learning path > To: ntg <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Message-ID: <6faad9f00510281531u4c9884ees(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > olivier Turlier wrote: > >>>>Hi everybody, >>>> >>>>I wish to set up kind of a "learning path" (= "pedagogic" progression >>>>bar, like in http://www.dokeos.com/scorm_compliant_course_content.php) > > > /.../ > > >>Sorry for not being clear enough. >> >>"learning path" is an acronym I've found while using Dokeos elearning >>platform, as an equivalent to a course i guess. For creating a >>course/learning path you assemble differents documents in a l.p.. When >>the alumni/trainee reads this course, he will be able what he have to >>read next after the fisrt doc, and so on. I've made a graphic capture of >>the webpage for showing what elements are making a learning path in the >>Dokeos vision : list of doc allready readen, docs to read, progression >>bar, plus the breadcrumb trail; > > > for lists of already learnt documents: you can make a list of > chapters/sections/subsections somewhere on the page if you have enough > place. If you would like to get the chapter/section/subsection name, > you can get them with something like > \getmarking[chapter] $>$ \getmarking[section] $>$ \getmarking[subsection] > Perhaps some "if"s are missing to check if a section/subsection is > defined, but someone else has to help you with it. > > >>i don't want to put so much stuff in the pdfs made wit Context(apart >>putting an A4 text on an A3 page!) because i keep a printable A4 format >>for my courses, even i there interaction in it, for screen usage. > > > I'm not sure if I understood it properly, but if you need two > different versions of your documents with the same content, but > different layout, you can use modes > (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modes) > > >>So i wish to have only vertical progression bars + percentage in the >>inner margin. s-pre-01 "original" style show a bottom interaction bar >>filled with pagenumbers drawn as little rectangles. Maybe it's possible >>to draw a continuous bar with metapost, but for percentage ? >> >>Ideally, i wish to have 2 progression bars : one for project progression >>and second for product prog. > > > How would you calculate the project progression? The example below > calculates the percentage out of the number of pages in the current > document. > > Here's an example how to make an extremely simple and ugly progression > bar at the bottom of the page. Take a look into the .mp file produced. > You'll find many other variables thay you may use to position your > progression bar properly. > > \defineoverlay > [ProgressBar A] > [\useMPgraphic{ProgressBarA}] > \setupbackgrounds > [text] > [background={ProgressBar A}] > > \startuseMPgraphic{ProgressBarA} > barW = 5cm; > barH = .7cm; > > StartPage; > fill unitsquare xyscaled(barW*(PageNumber/NOfPages),barH) > withcolor .625red; > draw unitsquare xyscaled(barW,barH); > label.rt(textext("$" & decimal(round(100*PageNumber/NOfPages)) & > "\,\%$"), (barW,.5barH)); > currentpicture := currentpicture shifted > (LeftMarginWidth+LeftMarginDistance,2cm); > StopPage; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \starttext > > first page\page > second page\page > third page > > \stoptext > > > I would suggest you to get familiar with metapost/metafun ("learning > metapost by doing", "the metapost manual", "metafun manual", ...) if > you aren't yet. It's a simple and great programming/drawing language > and you can do amazing things with it. > > Mojca > > > PS: just a note. Trying to execute the code written above under MikTeX > (on the "old" ;) ConTeXt version, 2005.08.31) leads to distrous > results and nothing worked as expected. It claims > \loadfontfileoncetrue to be undefined command, it complains about file > endings (it doesn't create .mpx files, so the label(textext ...) > doesn't work) ... and so on. It may be that something is wrongly > configured here, but I'm glad that I'm able to use the minimal ConTeXt > distr. as an alternative when something fails under MikTeX. Hi Mojca, Thanks a lot for your mp code, I got what i want but rightnow, I don't know how to use it exactly, maybe as follows attached (try to display a general progression thru advancement of each courses, and show on the same "pane" (inner margin)), list of each chapters. I'll try to cook a minimal but working example, as I got -- in a messy way -- almost everything for bring this new layout to life. -- Olivier TURLIER

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Warning Trojan.Agent.EZ in texmfstart
by Willi Egger 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Hi, I know this has been asked before, only that I did not experience the problem ... Since months I use Bitdefender antivirus software. I never experienced any problem running texmfstart. However since three days Bitdefender thinks, that the executable texmfstart from 27-07- 2005 contains a Trojan. I checked the size of texmfstart.exe. I got an older version which is 580kB the one which gives problems has 596kB. Copying the older version into the tex-tree works fine and Bitdefender does not complain. First question is: which is the actual version and size of texmfstart.exe? Provided that there is nothing wrong with texmfstart.exe with the size of 596kB should I contact the Bitdefender developpers? Kind regards Willi

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new feature
by Hans Hagen 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Hi, A next release will support the setupalign options in align keys (as in \framed): hanging nothanging hz nohz spacing nospacing hyphenated nothyphenated tolerant verytolerant stretch \framed[width=5cm,align={normal,stretch,verytolerant}]{\input tufte } this also fulfils a request in the collectors with regards to a tolerance key Hans

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manuals under svn
by Hans Hagen 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Hi, I'm (stepwise) going to put manuals under svn with read access for users. svn export svn://ctx.pragma-ade.nl/manuals consider it experimental (could be off line occasionally because it's an internal machine) Hans

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New PracTeX Journal issue
by Steve Peter 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

A new issue of the PracTeX Journal is now live, featuring two ConTeXt topics: 1. Michael Guravage uses ConTeXt to typeset a brochure 2. I explore a bit of MetaPost in my \starttext column http://tug.org/pracjourn/ Comments welcome. Steve

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first page puzzle
by Alan Bowen 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

The following code \setuphead[chapter][page=yes] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \setuppagenumbering[location={header, middle},state=nomarking] \installpagebreakhandler{last}{} \definehead[Item][title] \setupsectionblock[Item][number=no,page=right] \setuphead[Item][after={\blank[2*big]},alternative=middle,style={\tfa \rm}] \setuphead[Item][header=high,footer={}] \setupheadertexts[text] [{\sc\ItemTitle}] [\pagenumber] [\pagenumber] [{\it xxxxx}] produces no header or footer on the first page, just as I want, in a multi-page document. What I am not seeing is why the same code produces a header (“ItemTitle....pagenumber”) when the document is only one page in length. I realize that I can insert \setupheader[state=high] in the source file of my single-page documents to get what I want, but that would still leave me puzzled. Any suggestions/explanations would be much appreciated. Alan

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RE: [NTG-context] Context 2005.11.11 Released
by Idris Samawi Hamid 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Hi Taco, Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl>: >New features compared to the 2005.10.27 version: > > * Additional dvips map files for Latin Modern > * context-base.map removed > * support for Waldi's Symbols added > * support for intercolumn spaces in natural tables > * support for extension of definitions inside assignments > >Bugs fixed since the 2005.10.27: Once again: Have the ctxtools for dvipdfmx been fixed yet? :-)) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Context 2005.11.11 Released
by Taco Hoekwater 11 Nov '05

11 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://www.pragma-ade.com/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://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-lmt.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-lmt.zip In the course of the following days, both files will also become available from the regular CTAN nodes. New features compared to the 2005.10.27 version: * Additional dvips map files for Latin Modern * context-base.map removed * support for Waldi's Symbols added * support for intercolumn spaces in natural tables * support for extension of definitions inside assignments Bugs fixed since the 2005.10.27: * mptopdf sometimes had trouble starting the pdfetex executable * sometimes externalimage-s in metafun disappeared * EC encoded text in math mode should now be ok (\ccaron c.s.) * lots of small register (index) fixes to newtexutil * a bug in \type that prevented the compilation of the pdftex manual. * some other (minor) bugs The current release has version 2005.11.11. As usual, there is a page with much more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2005.11.11 Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater

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Bug in footnote mechanism when compiling per chapter?
by Gerben Wierda 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

I had in my project file \definenote[endnote][location=none] \setupfootnotes[conversion=set 2,way=bypage] which I moved to my environment file. But wherever I have it, when I compile per chapter, the footnote mechanism fails because it runs out of symbols to use. When I compile the entire book. no such problem occurs. Is this a ConTeXt bug? G

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accents inside text mode inside math
by Mojca Miklavec 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Hello, thera were some problems concerning accented characters in math (mathml) a while ago (as far as I remember they were solved). But some tiny bugs apparently remained there. Minimal example: $\cases{&\ccaron}$ Mojca

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