November 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Halfway between itemizations and descriptions
by Giuseppe Bilotta 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hello, does ConTeXt have something which is halfway between itemizations and descriptions? I have a small set of properties that should be enumerated together. Right now I'm doing it by defining a \description and then doing \desc{something} stuff \par \desc{something else} other stuff \par etc However, this is an overall cumbersome syntax, especially for the result I would like to obtain. using \startitemize ...\stopitemize with \sym{something} \sym{something else} comes *very* close to what I would like but I can't seem to find a way to prevent the \sym text to wade into the actualt text of the description. Suggestions? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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marking in columnset
by Vit Zyka 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Dear ConTeXters, several kind of marking variants (first, last, both, ...) works perfectly in standard one-column layout: ---------------------------------------------------- \definemarking[M] \startsetups S default=(\getmarking[M])~ first=(\getmarking[M][first])~ last=(\getmarking[M][last])~ previous=(\getmarking[M][previous])~ both=(\getmarking[M][both])~ all=(\getmarking[M][all])~ current=(\getmarking[M][current]) \stopsetups \setupheadertexts[text] [\setups{S}][] [\setups{S}][] \setuppagenumbering[location=footer] \starttext \startbuffer \section{Knuth} \marking[M]{k1}\marking[M]{k2} \input knuth \section{Zapf} \marking[M]{z} \input zapf \stopbuffer \dorecurse{10}{\getbuffer} \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------- If I try the same example in columnset layout, only last variant works as expected: ------------------------------------------------------- \definemarking[M] \startsetups S default=(\getmarking[M])~ first=(\getmarking[M][first])~ last=(\getmarking[M][last])~ previous=(\getmarking[M][previous])~ both=(\getmarking[M][both])~ all=(\getmarking[M][all])~ current=(\getmarking[M][current]) \stopsetups \setupheadertexts[text] [\setups{S}][] [\setups{S}][] \setuppagenumbering[location=none] \definecolumnset[C][n=3] \starttext \startbuffer \section{Knuth} \marking[M]{k1}\marking[M]{k2} \input knuth \section{Zapf} \marking[M]{z} \input zapf \stopbuffer \startcolumnset[C] \dorecurse{10}{\getbuffer} \stopcolumnset \stoptext --------------------------------------------------------------- (Focus on page 1 and 4) Is there any idea how to fix this? Vit

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Re: Getting texfont to do batch installs on gwTeX (was Re: [NTG-context] Palatino)
by Adam Lindsay 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hans Hagen said this at Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:39:55 +0100: >> batch line : --en=texnansi --ve=public --co=antp -- >> so=auto --ro=TEXMFMAIN > >are you sure that you replaced it? It's weird. Looking through the rest of David's log, it replaced some of them, but not all. I never claimed to be a sed wizard. To David, I'd say open in a text editor and do a global find/replace. Anyway, back to an earlier suggestion by Hans, --ro=TEXMFMAIN,TEXMFTE seems to work for me, except in the case of Adobe Utopia. In that case, --ro=TEXMFMAIN,TEXMFGW should work. Actually, I see the Utopia lines replicated for tl2003+. Should it not be: --ro=TEXMFMAIN,TEXMFGW,TEXMFEXTRA ? [That said, I'm getting perplexing results on a texfont --en=ec type- tmf.dat install: there's an insistence on creating bitmaps for these fonts!] -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Moving close to Lucida but still not there
by David Arnold 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hans, Taco, Adam et al, I dropped all of my lucida pfb and afm fonts into a temporary directory, ~/tmp/lucida. Change to that directory and entered: texfont --ve=yandy --co=lucida --ma --in Log file is attached. I was able to compile the resulting texnansi- yandy-lucida.tex. Progress. However, when you look at the log file you will see some "skipping" of the math fonts, certainly not what I want, being a mathematics teacher. For example, font identifier : LucidaNewMath-Arrows -> math -> skipping use supplied tfm : lbma font identifier : LucidaNewMath-Arrows-Demi -> math -> skipping use supplied tfm : lbmad I looked in type-buy.dat and found: # bh lucida --en=? --ve=bh --co=lucida --re --en=? --ve=bh --co=lucida --so=bh/lucida --ma --in --expert Is the fact that I didn't use that --expert switch my problem? How can I get texfont to not "skip" the math fonts? David

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interline space?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

How do I get a double-spaced document? \setupinterlinespace[big] seems to do nothing ...

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Context 2005.11.24 Released
by Taco Hoekwater 24 Nov '05

24 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 2005.11.24. As usual, there is a page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2005.11.24 New features compared to the 2005.11.16 version: * As of this version, ConTeXt has a new zip archive: cont-fnt.zip. This zip will contain font support files. Currently included are texfont-generated metric and map files for these font families (with their typescript names in braces): - Adobe Utopia (utopia) - Bitstream Charter (charter) - Antykwa Poltawskiego (antykwa-poltawskiego) - URW Bookman (bookman) - URW Nimbus Mono (courier) - URW Nimbus Sans (helvetica) - URW Century Schoolbook (schoolbook) - URW Palladio (palatino) - URW Nimbus Roman No9 (times) - URW Chancery (chancery) * \txt is a new command to be used like \item, \head and \sym inside itemgroups (e.g. '\startitemize ... \stopitemize') * texmfstart can be used to generate the stub commands like 'texfont' now Bugs fixed compared to the 2005.11.16 version: * the new texexec (in ruby) has gained some backward compatibility switches, like pdfarrange. * The incorrect LMSans-Italic font mapping has been fixed * The command \usetypescript[adobekb][ec] works properly now Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater

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Can texexec enable write18 at runtime
by David Arnold 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

All, In GWTeX, I could turn on write18 here: % Enable \write18 (run shell processes from within TeX job) % Set to t if needed % (I think this might have security implications, especially if you % run tex jobs as administrator, so I keep it turned off by default shell_escape = f But, because of security, I am wondering if I can leave this as is and use texexec to enable write18 at runtime. Is there a switch for this? I know you can do it with pdflatex with: pdflatex --shell-escape David

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No page number in appendix
by Giuseppe Bilotta 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hello, I just noticed that the appendix number suppresses page numbering. Is there a reason for that? Shouldn't this be configurable? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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utf8 editor problems
by Wolfgang Zillig 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

hello, I have a problem which is not directly related to context. When I create document in utf-8 I sometimes get "ïz£" (I hope this is displayed correctly in the mail clients, (a screen snapshot is attached also)) printed on a single page (in the pdf). These letters are not displayed in my standard text editors (scite and notepad++). Only when I open the file in amaya (a xhtml editor) I see these the following letters "ï»¿" and I can delete them. Does anybody know something about this? Thanks Wolfgang

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Bug / feature request tracking
by Taco Hoekwater 24 Nov '05

24 Nov '05

Hi all, Some of you may be aware of the fact that there is a bug / feature request tracker for ConTeXt. The URL is: http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector I have to do a call-to-arms for the people that have made feature requests and / or found bugs in the past few months, especially if the extension /solution has not been included in the latest distribution (2005.10.27). Will you all please have a look at the current list, and see if I have added your item(s) already? I have a rather large archive of context-related email (because I let it slip for a while), and I fear that may have missed some extant bugs. This is quite important, because if it is not in the list, it is much less likely to get fixed. Greetings, Taco

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