December 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Tex drawing tool
by Boris Pedrofiets 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Hi guys, I run into a drawing tool, capable of generating metapost. It's on http://tpx.sourceforge.net/ . It looks great to me, soo I like to share this with you all! Has anyone got any experiance with it? B. _________________________________________________________________ Een audiogesprek? Pak Messenger, niet de telefoon http://www1.imagine-msn.com/Messenger/Video.aspx

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Some localizations
by Richard Gabriel 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Hello Hans, quite incidentally I've found out that some of the localization files (lang-*.tex) are incomplete. I've filled in missing phrases in lang-ger.tex and lang-sla.tex for the languages I speak, i.e. English, German, Czech and Slovak. Please look at the attached files and if you consider them OK (they really should be! :-) ), please add them to the distribution. Thank you! Richard

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Re: [NTG-context] Index entries messing up page breaks
by Duncan Hothersall 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Hans wrote: > can you try (test extensively): > > \def\dodoregister[#1]#2#3% > {\dogotopar{\dontleavehmode\doprocesspageregister[#1]{#2}{#3}}} Well, it has some problems, introducing vertical space in certain circumstances. Will try to work up a minimal, but two observations: 1. The extra vertical space tends to happen immediately before headings, which is probably immediately after a \par, suggesting that if we're already in vertical mode there is something creating a horizontal mode object here. 2. If I use \dontleavehmode\index{blah} in material that immediately follows a heading, and just \index{blah} everywhere else, everything appears to work well with no white-space issues and no headings at the bottom of the page. (I can only do 2. easily because I'm generating my code from XML, not writing directly in ConTeXt, so it's easy to put in a rule that makes the <index> tag behave differently in different contexts. It's probably not a solution for anyone else.) Duncan

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Index entries messing up page breaks
by Duncan Hothersall 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

The manual suggests that you can put index calls between a \section heading and its first paragraph without worry, but for me it breaks the page-breaking mechanism, allowing the section title to end up at the bottom of a page like this: \starttext \section{Tufte} \dorecurse{4}{\input tufte \par} \section{Knuth} \index{Knuth} \input knuth \par \stoptext Is there any workaround/fix? Thanks very much, Duncan

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Re: [NTG-context] Index entries messing up page breaks
by Duncan Hothersall 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

I said: > Is there any workaround/fix? I find that the addition of \dontleavehmode fixes it. Is this safe to use in general? \starttext \section{Tufte} \dorecurse{4}{\input tufte \par} \section{Knuth} \dontleavehmode\index{knuth} \input knuth \par \stoptext Thanks, Duncan

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typescript problem (hw variants)
by Henning Hraban Ramm 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Hi wizards! I'm reworking my setup of Apostrophe's huge "Republika" font clan and reckognized that handwriting (hw) doesn't accept style switches; the following doesn't work: \starttypescript [handwriting] [republika1-cond] [name] \definefontsynonym [Handwriting] [RepublikaCnd-Sketch] \definefontsynonym [HandwritingItalic] [RepublikaCnd- Sktech-Italic] \definefontsynonym [HandwritingBold] [RepublikaCnd-Haze] \definefontsynonym [HandwritingBoldItalic] [RepublikaCnd- Haze-Italic] \definefontsynonym [HandwritingRegularBlack][RepublikaCnd- Shatter] \definefontsynonym [HandwritingItalicBlack] [RepublikaCnd- Shatter-Italic] \definefontvariant [Handwriting] [black] [Black] \definefontsynonym [HandwritingSlanted] [HandwritingItalic] \definefontsynonym [HandwritingBoldSlanted] [HandwritingBoldItalic] \stoptypescript I always get only the "plain" font (Handwriting). I need rm, ss and tt for other purposes. Could the font mechanism get enhanced? Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Re: Chinese
by Duncan Hothersall 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Hans wrote: > chinese is not yet defined in utf so if you want that, we need to do it ... > assuming this, how about making a set of tfm,enc,map files that match > the unicode positions (volunteers ...) I'm very willing to help, especially if there is some drudge work involved in constructing the files. I don't know enough (yet) about the logic of it all to help with setting up the system, but if someone can supply skeleton files and/or a method for constructing the necessary files, I'm happy to do any leg-work. Duncan

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linux installations
by Thomas A. Schmitz 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear all (and especially the linux heads...), I have been playing with my linux partition lately and looking at the linux installation section in the wiki. I see there are two approaches: - take the minimal linux distribution that Hans prepares, - start from TexLive I see why these approaches have their advantages. Nevertheless, I would want to add a further point: shouldn't we provide some hints for those who have a working TeX installation on linux and want to keep it because they are not (yet) exclusive ConTeXt users and want to be able to upgrade with their distribution's system? I have played around with several distros and think some general points could go into the wiki: 1. look at texmf.cnf; find out where TEXMFLOCAL is on your system. In most distros, the directory doesn't exist yet, create it. 2. In the definitions of texmf.cnf, make sure that TEXMFLOCAL comes before the other TEXMF trees. 3. unzip cont-tmf.zip into this directory, run mktexlsr or texhash 4. run texexec --make --al This last step gave and still gives me some headaches (my last attempt was with Opensuse 10.1 alpha 4), and that's where I ask for some elucidation: texexec does not rely on kpsewhich to locate the directory where it dumps the formats. So what I've seen happening is that I have brandnew formats in one place, yet texexec --version will still display the old versions (or say somehting like "cont-en.fmt unknown"). I have often just found out where kpsewhich searches for the formats and then replaced these old formats with symlinks to the new ones, but I'm not quite sure if this is a good approach. Does anyone have more insights on this? What's with this proliferation of TEXMF-trees in recent versions of teTeX: which ones do we actually need? Which ones can be deleted safely? Thanks Thomas

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bold \tt and pdf-output
by Peter Münster 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Hello, with bold typewriter font I have more success, but one problem remains: pdf-output. There is the same problem as with bold small caps: kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+14/72 --dpi 86 cmbtt10 mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfzzz and resolution 72; ignoring mode. mktexpk: Can't guess mode for 72 dpi devices. mktexpk: Use a config file, or update me. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. This is my test-file: \definebodyfont [12pt] [tt] [bf=cmbtt10 at 12pt] \definebodyfont [11pt] [tt] [bf=cmbtt10 at 11pt] \definebodyfont [10pt] [tt] [bf=cmbtt10] \definebodyfont [9pt] [tt] [bf=cmbtt9] \definebodyfont [8pt] [tt] [bf=cmbtt8] \starttext {\tt Normal and \bf bold Typewriter.} \stoptext Could there be support for bold typewriter in the distribution? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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focus=minwidth,minheight
by Peter Münster 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Hello, this does not work: \setupoutput[pdf] \setupinteraction[state=start,focus=minwidth] \starttext bla \stoptext Solution seems to be in mult-con.tex in a \startvariables section: minwidth: minbreedte minwidth minbreite minsirka ampiezzamin latimeminima % TB TH minheight: minhoogte minheight minhoehe minvyska altezzamin inaltimeminima Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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