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Iwona font
by David Arnold 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

All, Found this link. Helpful reading. http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~hartke/latex/survey/survey.html I downloaded: ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/fonts/iwona.zip Unzipped and put only the afm's and the pfb's in ~/tmp/iwona. Ran: iwona $ sudo texfont --ve=public --co=iwona --ma --in That seemed to go well and I compiled: iwona $ texexec --pdf texnansi-public-iwona.tex That went well. Got a nice pdf. Acrobat Professional reports that I have a slew of Iwona fonts in the document. Now, this little test file: iwona $ cat junk.tex %output=pdf \definetypeface[iwona][ss][sans][iwona][default][encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface[iwona][mm][math][iwona][default][encoding=texnansi] \setupbodyfont[iwona][texnansi] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext Stops with: (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) kpathsea: Running mktextfm rm-iwonar /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map typeface abbreviation -i for rm-iwonar. /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/ local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/map/fontname/special.map? mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input rm-iwonar This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.5) kpathsea: Running mktexmf rm-iwonar ! I can't find file `rm-iwonar'. <*> ...jfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input rm-iwonar Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...jfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input rm-iwonar Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: rm-iwonar.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input rm-iwonar' failed to make rm-iwonar.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \*iwona7ptmmmr*:=rm-iwonar at 7.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \dodosetmathfamilyB ...amily \fontsize \endcsname \else \ifcsname \fontclass... \dosetmathfamily ...athfamily \scriptscriptfont #1 \let \fontbody #3 \dodosetm... <inserted text> ...ptscriptface \c!mr \mrfallback \dosetmathfamily \mifam \t... \synchronizemath ...athfonts \the \mathstrategies \fi ... l.6 \setupbodyfont[iwona] [texnansi] ? I wish I could get a better handle on what is going on. I feel like I am spinning my wheels. There's gotta be a typescript file for this iwona somewhere in the distribution. Can someone tell me where it is? David

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Arithmetic Macros
by David Arnold 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

All, Does anyone have any macros for typesetting common arithmetic explanations, such as +, -, x, and /? Like: 123 +456 _____ 579 Or: 21 ________ 25) 527 50 __ 27 25 ___ 2 David

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svn manuals
by David Arnold 27 Nov '05

27 Nov '05

Hans, Taco, et al, I think it would be a good idea (possibly saving you a lot of list answering time) if you put a README file in each manual directory. This could contain instructions such as: 1. Which is the main file to compile. 2. Some font handling instructions. Maybe a reminder of what to do with texfont and type-tfm.dat on different systems. User would be handy in getting this right. 3. Or, as font setups head to an environment file, maybe alternate environment files could be provided to get a plain vanilla no other fonts other than what is supplied with cont-fnt.zip. Hopefully, other on this list can come up with other suggestions for the README. I've just named a few that I know will help me. David

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Disappearing characters in \typefile
by John R. Culleton 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

For my current e-book project I use \typefile to import some TeX files as examples. The syntax is color coded which is very useful. Unfortunately on my screen at least the % character is in yellow so faint as to be unreadable. So I dug into the source code and discovered that the name for this color is colorprettyfour. I changed it thus: \definecolor [colorprettyfour][r=..8, g=.4,b=.2] This gives a light brown which is not pretty but at least is readable on my monitor and hopefully on others. John Culleton

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Referencing in Project Structure
by David Arnold 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

All, I have: project book in book.tex environment bookenv book.env.tex product chapter1 in chapter1.tex component section1 in section1.tex component section1 in section2.tex component section1 in section3.tex In each section, I would like numbering of theorems, definitions, examples, equations, etc, to be consecutive and include the section number as a prefix. For example, if a theorem happens to appear first, then number it 1.1, the next three equations (1.2), (1.3), and (1.4), the next two examples 1.5 and 1.6, the next two equations (1.7) and (1.8), the next definition 1.9, the next theorem 1.10, the next three equations (1.11), (1.12), and (1.13), the next example 1.14, etc. Then this numbering scheme is reset in the next section. So, if the first thing to appear is a theorem, then it is numbered 2.1, the next definition 2.2, the next three equations (2.3), (2.4), and (2.5), and so on. How do I set this up in bookenv? David

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Showing the page layout
by David Arnold 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

All, I am aware of \showlayout and Patrick's \ShowLayout. In the case of the former, I have this in my environment file: \showlayout \definelayout[myCustomLayout][ header=30mm, footer=20mm, headerdistance=10mm, footerdistance=10mm, topspace=30mm, bottomspace=25mm, height=middle, leftmargin=25mm, rightmargin=30mm, leftmargindistance=10mm, rightmargindistance=10mm, backspace=50mm, width=middle, ] \setuplayout[myCustomLayout] But when I compile, the first page reveals these measurements: header=1.99962 cm %way off footer 1.99962 cm %acceptable headerdistance=0.0 cm %huh? footer distance=0.0 cm %huh? And the list goes on. These don't seem correct at all. Am I misusing this tool? I've been following the discussion on the beginner's manual with interest, biding my time to make my suggestions, thinking about it. One thing that really comes to mind is the huge amount of time I spent as a beginner trying to figure out what settings in the layout, like those above, actually do. And I found the tools for analyzing changes to these layout settings did not help very much. Something that could help the beginniner's manual very much would be a macro that layed the page out accurately with borders around the various areas (as in \showframe) that include all parts of the layout, even if they wander from the printed page. This would accelerate the learning curve for layout dramatically, if it were available. David

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Re: [NTG-context] How is it possible to include DraTex codein Context?
by Fabrice Larribe 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

Hans Hagen wrote: > Fabrice Larribe wrote: > > > Hans Hagen wrote: > > Re: [NTG-context] How is it possible to include DraTex codein Context? > > > > it looks like it is not loading the module i sent you but the dratex > files directly (which is fallback bahaviour) > > (did you run mktexlsr?) > > can you try it with m-dratex.tex in your current path > Hans > It's my fault. I not followed your instructions... This works great ! Thanks so much ! It's a real pleasure to work with Context. Fabrice. [thread finished: Hans had the right answer (again!)]

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Re: [NTG-context] How is it possible to include DraTex codein Context?
by Fabrice Larribe 26 Nov '05

26 Nov '05

Hans Hagen wrote: Re: [NTG-context] How is it possible to include DraTex codein Context? > > \usemodule[dratex] > > \usemodule[Aldratex] > > remove the second line \usemodule > > anyhow, your example works ok here > > Hans > Thanks (again !). But this does not work, at least on my system. [I have updated my distribution]. If I remove the second line, as you suggest, then the system does not the command "CircleNode()" which is defined in the AlDraTex module. And if I keep the line, same problem as before... I wait if Eitan Gurari can do something... Fabrice.

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Re: [NTG-context] How is it possible to include DraTex codein Context?
by Fabrice Larribe 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

Hans Hagen wrote: > Fabrice Larribe wrote > > >> > > Thanks for your help. I have put the two files in context/base, and > > use \usemodule. In the log, > > the system inform that the two modules are loaded. But I have the same > > error, "No room for a new \dimen". > > So this is not working. Unless you have others ideas, I guess I have > > to do my figures in plain tex to obtain > > pdf, and then use the pdf in Context. Of course, a better solution is > > to learn metafun....!! > > Thanks for your help. > > > can you make a small test file that shows the problem? > I'm not sure if I can atatch a file to mailing-list, so I paste here a piece of code, which works with Tex: (between \Draw and \EndDraw of course). \usemodule[dratex] \usemodule[Aldratex] \starttext \Draw \Ragged(1) \MoveTo(0,0)\CircleNode(e0)(--0--)\MarkLoc(e0) \MoveTo(120,0)\CircleNode(e1)(--1--)\MarkLoc(e1) \MoveTo(60,80)\CircleNode(e2)(--2--)\MarkLoc(e2) \ArrowHeads(1) \MoveToLoc(e1)\Rotate(20)\CycleEdgeSpec(40,30)\CycleEdge(e1)\EdgeLabel(--$1-p$--) \CurvedEdgeSpec(15,0.2,345,0.2) \CurvedEdge(e0,e2)\EdgeLabel(--$1$--) \CurvedEdge(e1,e2)\EdgeLabel(--$p$--) \CurvedEdge(e2,e0)\EdgeLabel(--$1-p$--) \CurvedEdge(e2,e1)\EdgeLabel(--$p$--) \EndDraw \stoptext > (when we have it working i'll ask Eitan to fix this, i.e. adapt dratex > to etex usage) > Hans > This would be wonderfull. Dratex is simple and powerfull, and portable between plain tex, latex and perhaps one day context ! Thanks for the help. This is much appreciated. Fabrice.

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Empty page at the end of the document
by Giuseppe Bilotta 25 Nov '05

25 Nov '05

I'm having a totally blank page at the end of the document. The document has a page number, but nothing is on it. I remember this being a known bug when front/body/backmatter was used ... is there a known fix? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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