November 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

RE: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
by Pearson, Mark (Capita Symonds) 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi All, I'm currently working in a team which is building a system for the automatic production of office stationery (business cards, letterheads and compliment slips) with ConTeXt at its heart. The system provides a web-application front end for selected users to create stationery orders. These orders are then processed to produce .tex files, which are processed by ConTeXt to produce press-ready PDFs. The PDFs are sent with order details straight to our in-house printing department. I was tasked with creating the PDF engine and chose ConTeXt because (a) I have a lot of experience with LaTeX and hence a great deal of respect for TeX's capabilities but (b) knew that controlling the layouts in LaTeX would be a pain. The following features of ConTeXt are used in this project: * Native support for OpenType fonts * Support for creation of high quality press-ready PDFs * Fine control over document layout, page design etc. * Support for embedding JPG, TIFF, PNG amd PDF images * Support for the use of named (PANTONE) spot colours The choice of ConTeXt was not an easy one having never used it before but my gut feeling was that it is a very powerful and flexible piece of software. It has met all my requirements so far but not without a fight, as the documentation can be very sparse! I will certainly contribute what documentation I can when I have more time. Mark ********************************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may be subject to legal privilege, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error or think you may have done so, you may not peruse, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message. Please notify the sender immediately and delete the original e-mail from your system. Computer viruses can be transmitted by e-mail. Recipients should check this e-mail for the presence of viruses. The Capita Group and its subsidiaries accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. ***********************************************************************************

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font-switching oddities
by Thomas A. Schmitz 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi all, I'm having some trouble with bodyfont switching. It involves two fonts that I adapted myself, so it's difficult to make a minimal example. Both fonts are defined in typescripts (these are just examples, it works the same for every typescript I tried). First one is Adobe Caslon: \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] \starttypescript [serif] [caslon] [texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Roman] [texnansi-KERN-LIGA- DLIG-ONUM-ACaslonPro-Regularnoct] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Bold] [texnansi-KERN-LIGA- DLIG-ONUM-ACaslonPro-Boldnoct] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Italic] [texnansi-KERN-LIGA- DLIG-ONUM-ACaslonPro-Italicnoct] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Bold-Italic] [texnansi-KERN-LIGA- DLIG-ONUM-ACaslonPro-BoldItalicnoct] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Roman-SmallCaps][texnansi-KERN-SMCP- LNUM-ACaslonPro-Regular] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Roman-OSF] [texnansi-KERN-SMCP- LNUM-ACaslonPro-Regular] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [caslon] [name] \usetypescript[serif][fallback] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Caslon-Roman] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Caslon-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Caslon-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Caslon-Bold-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [Caslon-Roman-SmallCaps] \definefontsynonym [OldStyle] [Caslon-Roman-OSF] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [Caslon] \definetypeface [MyCaslon] [rm] [serif] [caslon] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript Second one is one of my Greek fonts (doesn't matter which one): \starttypescript [serif] [greekgentium] [agr] \definefontsynonym [Greekgentium-Roman] [genagr-GentiumAlt] [encoding=agr] \definefontsynonym [Greekgentium-Italic][genagr-GentiumAItI] [encoding=agr] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [greekgentium] [name] \usetypescript[serif][fallback] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Greekgentium-Roman] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Greekgentium-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Serif] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Serif] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[GreekGentium] \definetypeface [MyGreekGentium] [rm] [serif] [greekgentium] [default] [rscale=\getvariable{Greek}{scale},encoding=agr] \stoptypescript The fonts are used thus: \setupbodyfont[MyCaslon,12pt] \switchtobodyfont[MyGreekGentium] Switching works when I set the bodyfont size to 9,10,11,12pt, but not if it is set to any other value. In that case, I get these messages in the log file Missing character: There is no a in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no > in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no u in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no t in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no o in font nullfont! etc. I must be missing something obvious about typefiles, but can't see what? Any help will be appreciated. All best Thomas

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How to use layers or other methods for precise positioning of items
by Kári Hreinsson 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hello, I have been trying to use ConTeXt for setting up a book with a list of students in my school, with pictures of them, phone numbers, emails and such. I thought I could use ConTeXt for the job since LaTeX gave me much trouble in trying to alter the layout and look of the page. I found the "layer" feature in ConTeXt which I found very interesting and thought I could use it to position items (such as text info, images and the layout) within these layers since they offer very precise positioning with a x-y grid like system. When I was trying to use this feature for multipage document it cut of all of the pages except the first. I found out that the layers weren't thought to be part of the content of the file but more like a background and I can't figure out how to use them on many pages without placing something like a dot on every page. Is there any way to do this? I discovered that the layers were "inserted" into the document via "\setupbackgrounds[page]" so I understand why it acts like this but I am asking if there is some way of getting layers working like I want? Maybe I am going in completely wrong way? Is there any other good way to do this, that is positioning items with x-y coordinates or something totally different that I am missing? Another thing I was wondering about is how to make items like images bleed (that is to go over the edge of the paper, to avoid white lines at the margin). Can I use negative values for positioning to achive that? All help is greatly appreciated since I am not understanding this and I haven't found much help on the internet regarding this subject (contextgarden had only one example page that had layers). I hope you understand my question, it's a bit complicated to explain. :/ Thanks in advance, Kári Hreinsson

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currentvalue
by Hans Hagen 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi, The \currentvalue module functionality written by Taco will be included in the kernel. However, instead of expanding (always) all assignments, Taco and I opt for using the less destructive \expanded: %D \startbuffer %D \getparameters[a][b=d] %D \expanded{\getparameters[a][b=c\currentvalue]} %D \framed{\ab} %D \stopbuffer %D \typebuffer %D %D Gives: \getbuffer Hans

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hoffset and voffset in \setupTABLE
by Peter Münster 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hello, here comes another feature request: independant horizontal and vertical offsets in TABLE-cells. Or even topoffset, bottomoffset, leftoffset and rightoffset. Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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extra page in presentation styles
by Hans van der Meer 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Context presentation style problem: I didn't use the (green-)presentation style for quite some time. Now I suddenly get an EXTRA PAGE before the first \TitlePage. See below for a minimal example and the output produced. Does somebody happen to what is wrong or where I am wrong? By the way, the upgrade of 27-10-2005 context did not change this. I do not include the pdf-output, because it makes this posting too big to post without special moderator approval. But in my system it gives a blank first page and then the TitlePage as sheet numbered 2. Thanks. Hans van der Meer % =============================================================== % % This example shows an extra blank page before the first real one. \usemodule[pre-green] % =============================================================== % \starttext % =============================================================== % \TitlePage{\vfill\vfill\bf Titlepage\blank \color[red]{Is SECOND instead of\crlf FIRST page!}\blank \tfxx\tfx This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.0-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) \blank ConTeXt ver: 2005.08.31 fmt: 2005.10.19 \vfill\vfill\vfill\bfxx \color[blue]{\currentdate}\hfill\null} % =============================================================== % \Subject{First subject} \vfill This is the first subject page. \vfill % =============================================================== % \stoptext % =============================================================== %

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xml, context and hyphenation
by Wolfgang Zillig 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hello, I have problems with hyphenation when german öäü are in these words. I'm processing xml files which are in unicode. The font encoding for the pdf is EC (as I was told there are problems with OT1 encoded fonts). Any suggestions? Wolfgang

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cont 2005.10.27 & t5-lmtt10 font problem
by VnPenguin 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi all, Just updated cont-2005.10.27 on teTeX 3.0 (build from tarball). I updated package "cont-lmt.zip" from http://www.pragma-ade.com. I follow step by step at page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation. Now I have: $ texexec --version TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) context : ver: 2005.10.27 cont-en : ver: 2005.10.27 fmt: 2005.11.1 mes: english total run time : 1 seconds I do a small test with vietnamese utf-8: ----------- begin test ---------------------------------- \language[vn] \mainlanguage[vn] \setuptyping [style={\switchtobodyfont[10pt]\tt}] \enableregime[utf] \setupencoding[default=t5] \setupbodyfont[reset] \usetypescript[berry][t5] \usetypescript[palatino][t5] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] \starttext Giả sử bạn có một loạt khá nhiều \setuptyping[option=PERL] \starttyping use OpenOffice::OODoc; # Giả sử bạn có một loạt khá nhiều if ((@ARGV <1) or (@ARGV > 2)){ print << "EOF"; Usage: blahblah EOF \stoptyping \stoptext ------------- end of test ------------------------------ On screen I see: ... systems : begin file test at line 18 (/work/apps/tetex/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/verb-pl.tex loading : Context Support Macros / Pretty PERL Verbatim ) (/work/apps/tetex/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/pdfr-ec.tex) fonts : needs map file: original-base fonts : needs map file: ec-public-lm fonts : needs map file: ec-base fonts : needs map file: t5-base fonts : needs map file: t5-urw-palatino fonts : needs map file: original-youngryu-px fonts : needs map file: t5-public-lm [1.1{/home/quy/.texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] systems : end file test at line 32 kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+5/72 --dpi 77 t5-lmtt10 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for t5-lmtt10. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ) Warning: pdfetex (file t5-lmtt10): Font t5-lmtt10 at 77 not found kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+5/72 --dpi 77 t5-lmtto10 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for t5-lmtto10. Warning: pdfetex (file t5-lmtto10): Font t5-lmtto10 at 77 not found {/work/apps/tetex/share/texmf-local/fonts/enc/dvips/vntex/t5.enc}</work/apps/te tex/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/urwvn/uplr8v.pfb> Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 17698 bytes). Transcript written on test.log. ... PDF output is very strange: all font in typing mode are lossed ! (see screenshot: http://people.vnoss.org/~vnpenguin/pub/shots/cont-font-problem.png) PDF of the test is : http://people.vnoss.org/~vnpenguin/pub/test.pdf I missed some thing when updating ? Thank you in advance, Quy NGUYEN-DAI -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community

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RE: [NTG-context] placing headings (solution on wiki)
by Idris Samawi Hamid 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi gang, Ok, I figured out a solution and have posted it here (bottom of page): http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Headers_and_Footers I have never edited the wiki before so I hope the maintainer will check to make sure I did not do something wrong-) If there is a way to improve my solution please let me know! I think this is a nice sample file... Best Idris ================================================ Dear gang, I am having difficulties with heading placement. Consider the following sample file: =================headings.tex================== % output=pdf interface=en \setuppapersize [A5][A4] \setuplayout[width=middle, height=middle, footer=3\bodyfontsize, header=0pt, headerdistance=\bodyfontsize, bottom=3\bodyfontsize, location={middle,doublesided}, marking=on] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, location={footer,middle}] \setupbottomtexts[pagenumber] \setupbottom[style=\tf,state=high] \setupfootertexts% [][section][chapter][] \setupfooter[style=\tf, state=high] \setuptexttexts% [margin][][section][chapter][] \setuptext[style=\tf, state=high] \setupinmargin[align=inner, style=\tfx\setupinterlinespace] \showframe \starttext \chapter{Ch. Knuth Knuth} \section{Sec. Knuth Knuth} \dorecurse{20}{\input knuth\par\ } \stoptext =============================================== This file should compile fine. Problem 1: I would like the headings in the footer to be flush with the top of the footer space instead of at the bottom; Problem 2: After making the footer headings flush with the top of the footer space, I would now like to mid-align the headings so each is just above the page number in the footer space (I thought this would be trivial but it's apparently not); Problem 3: I would like to have marginal headings: how do I i) keep the headings boxed within the margin width; ii) raise (or lower) the box containing the margin headings? Thnx in advance for helping me solve these problems! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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conTeXt distros on MACOSX
by andrea valle 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

(This derives form the thread about metafun.mem) As I have used till now only texshop, I was going to try the distro form pragma-ade. I downloaded it but I do not know what to do. As they are binaries I supposed I have not to compile anything. Should I simply put the folder in the right place? The Readme is quite vague. I put it in usr/local, tried to run from terminal the texexec bin but obtained: apples-Computer:/ apple$ /usr/local/tex/texmf-macosx/bin/texexec --h /usr/local/tex/texmf-macosx/bin/texexec: line 2: texmfstart: command not found What have I to do to use the most recent distro from pragma? More, I really cannot understand what's going on when I invoke "typeset context" form inside TeXShop. Luckily, something happens and I have my nice pdfs. This is default engine as stated by TeXShop. /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current If I go there, I find many binaries, and there's a texexec. If I invoke it directly form terminal I obtain: apples-Computer:/ apple$ /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin6.8/texexec -h `texexec.pl' not found. If I invoke texexec from terminal, default is located in sw/bin. It's 3.1 version: apples-Computer:/ apple$ which texexec /sw/bin/texexec apples-Computer:/ apple$ texexec -h TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 (I know virtually nothing of bash, I grabbed some commands here and there) I'm getting a bit depressed... -a-

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