February 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

texsync
by Matthew Huggett 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi, A question about the texsync script: running ruby -S texsync.rb --force --list gives me TeXSync | TeXSync | fetching list of trees from 'www.pragma-ade.com' rsync: failed to connect to www.pragma-ade.com: Connection refused (111) rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.3/clientserver.c(94) TeXSync | available trees: TeXSync | TeXSync | I've read the texsync manual but I'm not sure what else I have to do with rsync to get a connection to Pragma-ade. I'm running rsync under Cygwin on WinXP. I'd be grateful for any pointers. regards, Matt

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consequences of recent update
by mickle＠panix.com 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

I recently upgraded my ConTeXt, which is calling for an updated pdftex as well: % texexec test-4.tex Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec line 344. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec line 348. Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/people/pm/bin/texexec line 348. TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : test-4 output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extended mode (./test-4.tex{/usr/freeware/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.26 fmt: 2005.1.30 int: english mes: english systems : pdfTeX version 110 -> please update systems : eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs) I downloaded pdftex 1.20b and tried to build from source, but no matter what syntax I try, whether as root or as an ordinary user, I fail to get pdftex to recognize the main texmf tree: I'm doing % ./Build --datadir=/usr/freeware/share and I get configure: warning: The main texmf tree was not found at /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf. ***************************************************************** * Error: The main texmf tree was not found. * * Use the --datadir option to specify its parent directory. * * If you do not have the files, you should be able to them from * * the same place you got these sources from, or from one of the * * CTAN hosts. * ***************************************************************** Winging it by pretending /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf is correct. so pdftex is configured --without-[pretty much everything] I posted to the pdftex ml a few days ago, but, I guess, not being a subscriber, messages are not posted to the list, so I thought to ask here. My ConTeXt is in my ~/texmf tree, and if it's possible not to install an entirely new tex system, that would be preferable. Also, the are the "Use of unitialized string value..." messages related to this problem?. I had difficulties when trying to update ConTeXt about a month ago because of the old perl that was on my system, so I've recently updated to 5.8. Thanks very much for any suggestions, Peter --

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Context 2005.01.31 & Vietnamese UTF-8: lossing characters
by VnPenguin 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hi Hans & all, Just update to 2005.01.31 for my tetex-2.99.11. I do step by step following minstall.pdf. A simple test with vietnamese utf-8 encoding shows me that a lot of characters were missing: \ahook \abrevehook \acircumflexhook \ocircumflexhook .... See the comparing page : http://nguyendai.org/pub/compare.html Pdflatex + Unicode package give me all characters correctly. The sources, PDF are available at http://nguyendai.org/pub/ I don't know if I'm wrong some things when updating context ? Thank you, Quy NGUYEN DAI

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Displayed math--vertical space
by David Antos 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hello, I started to typeset real math in ConTeXt :-) and the following issue occurred in vertical positioning. I know about start/stopformula, nevertheless I suppose that good old $$ should work, too. \starttext A short line followed by a formula $$\bigcup_{1\le n}$$ a text follows in the same paragraph. The big cup is too close to the text. If a displayed formula has enough text above $$\bigcup_{1\le n}$$ the problem does not appear at all. The vertical space around the formula is very nice here. The only difference is whether the line above the formula goes more to the right than the beginning the formula. \stoptext Thanks, D.A. -- Jim Hacker: "Would you be surprised, for instance, if a British aircraft carrier turned up in the Central African Republic?" Sir Humphrey: "Well, I for one, Minister, would be very surprised; it's a 1,000 miles inland." -- Yes, Minister (The Whisky Priest)

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ConTeXt 31 jan 2005
by Taco Hoekwater 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hi, There are (new (new (new))) context release note pages at the wiki, For this: Context 2005.01.31: * Unicode support for Cyrillic and Greek updates * Hebrew support * a few bugfixes Context 2005.01.26 * lots of extra functionality added to CtxTools (v 1.2.0 now): --purgefiles, --documentation, --filterpages (all from texutil originally); and better commandline help * a few bugfixes Context 2005.01.24 * TeXExec version 5.2.4 supports --pdftrim * Per-description setting of variables * Switch to latin modern fonts instead of cmr + various local versions * Support for the qx encoding * The base35 postscript fonts are now avialable by default * An extension for symbols that allows fetching one symbol in a collection directly. * A hook in the list setups to make use of that change * bugfixes Further details at the wiki: http://contextgarden.net/Release_Notes Greetings, Taco

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texshow problem after update
by Peter Münster 01 Feb '05

01 Feb '05

Hello, texshow is no more working on my system after update. Here is the output: TeXShow-XML 0.2 beta / Taco Hoekwater 2004 interface : cont-en status : searching for setup files error : setup files not found error : no setup files found Versions of the other programs: TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 texexec : TeXExec 5.2.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.20c-beta-20050121-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2005.01.13 cont-en : ver: 2005.01.13 fmt: 2005.1.25 mes: english TIA for any help! Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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