December 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Small Chinese translation
by Richard Gabriel 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello Xiao, could you please translate these few words into Chinese so they could be added into the Chinese ConTeXt module? Graphics Intermezzo (singular) Intermezzos (plural) Illustration Line (singular) Lines (plural) Many thanks, Richard

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\reset deprecated?
by David Arnold 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

All, I can't get \reset to work as in the manual. Is it deprecated? Replaced with something? %output=pdf \defineenumeration[question][location=serried,text=Question] \defineenumeration[answer][location=serried,text=Answer] \defineblock[question,answer] \hideblocks[answer] \starttext \chapter{First Chapter} \input tufte \beginquestion \startquestion What is the square root of 4? \stopquestion \endquestion \beginanswer \startanswer 2 \stopanswer \endanswer \section{Answers} \reset[answer] \selectblocks[answer][criterium=chapter] \chapter{Second Chapter} \input tufte \beginquestion \startquestion What is the square root of 4? \stopquestion \endquestion \beginanswer \startanswer 2 \stopanswer \endanswer \stoptext

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Offtopic: TeX in MetaPost?
by Michal Kvasnička 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Good evening. I apologize that I dare to post here such offtopic, but I feel this is the right place to get an answer. I try to write some general-purpose MetaPost macros for me with ConTeXt-like interface. For instance, I'd like something like this: label(point, "label=$A$, xlabel=$x_A$, ylabel=$y_A$, ylabelshift=left, lines=no, dotstyle=bigdot, ..."); I've done a lot of work and it almost works, but ... I failed to notice that TeX sequences are in normal cases included between btex ... etex and are preprocessed. In other words, they cannot be typeset as a string. I could use TEX macro, but it slows the process down in a horrible way. I think the best way is this: In the first run of MetaPost to flush out all TeX codes, then process it with TeX (texexec), and then to include it in the second MetaPost run. But I don't know how to do it? Can you help me or at least hint where I could find an answer? And BTW, is this a good idea at all? Isn't there a better/faster way? Many thanks for you kind help. Michal Kvasnicka

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CSRoman again
by Michal Kvasnička 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Good evening. I've spent some time experimenting with LatinModern font. After all I was able to use it, but I found I hate it. 1) The have accents positioned in a ugly way (or at least, in a way not common in the Czech typesetting) 2) Some accents do no work, for instance \"o (at least this doesn't work: \loadmapfile[psclean.map] \enableregime[il2] ... B\"ohm-Bawerk Is there some way to get privately back to CS-Modern fonts? It seems these fonts are redefined to Latin Modern, so I can't use them. Please help. Your thankful Michal Kvasnicka

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Looking for old ConTeXt stuff
by Taco Hoekwater 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi, Some of you may know that we are working on a project whose goal is to have all releases of the ConTeXt distribution in an on-line source repository. For that project, we are looking for old versions of the ConTeXt distribution. Hans Hagen, Patrick Gundlach and me had quite a few of them among us, but we are still missing a number of releases (we only have a complete set for 2004 and 2005). At the end of this message is a list of all the distributions before the year 2004 that we could find on our harddisks and on old tex-live and 4TeX disks. So, I have a question to all of you who have ever upgraded or downloaded your ConTeXt distribution from the Pragma website. Could you please have a look if there is still a zip on your harddisk or backup somewhere? A bit of search help: really old context-s used the filename "context.zip" and contained a directory of MS-Dos files with uppercase names, newer ones (since 1999) are named "cont-tmf.zip" and contain an embedded texmf structure with lowercase names. I'll wait until after christmas before I start filling the repository, so there is some time yet. Don't forget: if you can help out and want to me send files, then e-mail me directly, do not reply to this message on the list(s)! Thanks in advance, Taco ---------------------------------------------------------------- Distributions we have: (For 1999-2003, the filename refers to the date used by \contextversion in context.tex. For 1997 and 1998, there was no \contextversion yet, so the modification date of the newest file in the distribution is used instead) 1997: total 648 -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 662581 Dec 20 12:18 cont-tmf-19971028.zip 1998: total 1320 -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 673171 Dec 20 12:27 cont-tmf-19980327.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 674836 Dec 19 15:23 cont-tmf-19980415.zip 1999: total 2804 -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1030228 Dec 20 12:28 cont-tmf-19990217.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 744357 Dec 20 12:28 cont-tmf-19990331.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1089733 Dec 20 14:25 cont-tmf-19991230.zip 2000: total 2048 -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 873111 Dec 20 13:36 cont-tmf-20000518.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1220484 Dec 20 14:26 cont-tmf-20001022.zip 2001: total 6952 -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1313450 Dec 20 14:26 cont-tmf-20010409.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1361637 Dec 20 11:54 cont-tmf-20010423.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1367195 Dec 20 14:27 cont-tmf-20010430.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1515384 Dec 20 11:55 cont-tmf-20010704.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1554823 Dec 20 11:37 cont-tmf-20010711.zip 2002: total 8548 -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1713611 Dec 20 11:38 cont-tmf-20020124.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1730030 Dec 20 11:38 cont-tmf-20020304.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1715671 Dec 20 13:15 cont-tmf-20020417.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1741888 Dec 20 13:16 cont-tmf-20020515.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1841991 Dec 20 13:18 cont-tmf-20021220.zip 2003: total 28484 -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1857813 Dec 20 13:19 cont-tmf-20030110.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1882161 Dec 20 13:20 cont-tmf-20030128.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1882471 Dec 20 13:21 cont-tmf-20030131.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1889112 Dec 20 13:21 cont-tmf-20030211.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1896212 Dec 20 13:22 cont-tmf-20030303.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1900056 Dec 20 13:23 cont-tmf-20030304.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1905791 Dec 20 13:23 cont-tmf-20030309.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1913789 Dec 20 13:25 cont-tmf-20030317.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1984791 Dec 20 13:25 cont-tmf-20030422.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1985317 Dec 20 13:26 cont-tmf-20030429.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 1998077 Dec 20 13:27 cont-tmf-20030721.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 2006682 Dec 20 13:27 cont-tmf-20030808.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 2012646 Dec 20 13:28 cont-tmf-20030821.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 2015217 Dec 20 11:48 cont-tmf-20030925.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 context tex 2013910 Dec 20 11:49 cont-tmf-20030926.zip

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Request for some sample technical document layouts.
by R S Ananda Murthy 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello, I am required to typeset a technical book having several chapters with lot of figures, equations etc. I have set this type of document using Komascript-book class earlier. Now I want to try ConTeXt. I am new to ConTeXt. Can I get some sample document layouts suitable for technical books? This will be very helpful for me to learn ConTeXt. Thanks for your help, Anand

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Enumerated list numbering across
by David Arnold 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

All, How do I get: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Instead of: 1. 4. 2. 5. 3. 6. With: \startitemized \item ... \stopitemized

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Context 2005.12.19 released
by Taco Hoekwater 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '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 The current release has version 2005.12.19. As usual, there is a page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2005.12.19 This version will be uploaded to CTAN shortly New features since 2005.12.18: * Support for the latin-9 regime (latin-1 + euro) Bug fixes: * loading of pdf font resources is more robust now. * the 2005.121.8 version broke unicode character support Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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betex -etex block parsing bug
by Willi Egger 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hi, It seems that there is a problem with parsing betex - etex blocks in the following situation: I can not say with which version this has been introduced. (I messed up my old TeX, so I have only new ones) I tested this with the version of 19-12-2005 an 30-11-2005. \setMPtext{1}{CENTER} \startuseMPgraphic{TEST} picture Text; Text := \MPbetex{1}; draw Text; \stopuseMPgraphic the betex-etex block will look like 'tex CENTERetex' of course the etex should be separated by a space. For testing I attach the minimal file. Willi % TEST betex etex block: BUG parsing ... % Context file % filename test.tex % Willi Egger % 20-12-2005 \setupoutput[pdftex] \usemodule[txt] \setMPtext{1}{CENTER} % remove the space before the right brace, erase the temporary files % then compile and the run will fale! \startuseMPgraphic{TEST} picture Text; Text := \MPbetex{1}; draw Text ; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext \startTEXpage \useMPgraphic{TEST} \stopTEXpage \stoptext

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About \defineshortcut
by Radhelorn 21 Dec '05

21 Dec '05

Hello All! There is intresting macros in cont-new -- shortcuts. It works pretty well, but I have one question: how to undefine them back? For example after command: \defineshortcut [//] [] [style=\em] I can get slash only by \textslash (which is expected) and it breaks things like: \typefile {some/dir/file} So how to revert to previous meaning of '/'? It is possible to do it only temporarily? -- Radhelorn <radhelorn(a)mail.ru>

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