February 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

What's (in) a module?
by Thomas A.Schmitz 16 Mar '05

16 Mar '05

Two maybe related questions: 1. What constitutes a module? I wrote a couple of definitions and put them in a file t-foo.tex. When I write "\input t-foo" in the preamble of my document, everything works fine (so the file is found by TeX). When I say \usemodule[t-foo] or \usemodule[foo], I get "system : no macros found in module foo" and, obviously, "undefined control sequence." So: is there any special form for a module? I'm very curious because I defined a set of similar macros in another module, and everything works fine. 2. Is it possible to use a certain encoding file, enco-bar.tex, for parts of a file only? Could one define a macro (in a module???) that would do something like \switchtoencoding[bar] and switch back to the file's default encoding afterwards? Thanks to all, best Thomas

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critical editions in context
by Thomas A.Schmitz 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Sorry if this is a double post; I sent this message on Friday, and I think it somehow got lost. In March/April 2002, Hans and Idris had an interesting exchange about the topic "critical editions in context" here in ntg-context; the main question was whether the functionality of edmac could be implemented in context. I'd be curious to know whether anything came out of it, I couldn't find any follow-up. Best Thomas

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book on context?
by Paul Tremblay 15 Mar '05

15 Mar '05

Is there actually a hard-copy book for ConTeXt? I am using the PDF, 300+ page manual, and it is rather difficult to continually navigate wtih a PDF viewer. I know I could print out the PDF document, but by the time I figure in toner cost and paper cost and the cost to bind it at a local shop, it would be worth it for me to buy a book. Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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Moving to ConTeXt
by Gerben Wierda 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

I am (again) considering moving to ConTeXt. A few years ago I investigated the move because I have apositive impression of the quality of the ConTeXt project and because I find the standard LaTeX layouts ugly. At that time I decided against it because the first thing I tried (a list within a list) did not work and because I was under the impression that I would have to do alot of layout myself (and I have TeX for that, right?). I am thinking of using LaTeX and the memoir class. Anyway, I am still tempted. So I am investigating again. I would like to know if (and how) I can do the following in ConTeXt. I did read the manual before writing this: - Project structure for a book, chapters to be in separate files. Chapters to be processed individually when required, or better: chapter + index/toc/appendices, etc. How do you do that? I do not understand the manual here entirely and my test from a few years ago failed. - lettrine.sty (I have my own TeX code now, but lettrine is probably better) - Page layout as in a book (no whitespace between pars and indentation). Good readable. - mfpic or another way to program drawings (vectors/functions) - microtype.sty (protrusion,probably no stretching) - Optional paragraph (not line) numbering, suppressable (as in some philosophy books) - 2 output options: - Final: Large paperback size (somewhat larger than pocket) pages centered on A4 portrait paper - Draft: Two of those pages,slightly shrunk on A4 landscape paper. No fancy ordering, just page 0-1, 2-3, 4-5, etc. So, how do I do these things? I would like to try to recode a part ofmy book-project in ConTeXt to see if it works for me. Thanks, G

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Initial Font Installation Question (Mac)
by David Wooten 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Greetings all, I've been having a lot of fun struggling with the installation of a newly purchased font, and wanted to double check a preliminary question before I give in and ask a more thorough question ;) I'm working with Mac OS X, so I bought a font-set with both Mac TTF and Postscript files. The Postscript folders have 2 types of file for each fontname: .afm and another without a suffix. The names also have uppercase letters, such as AndulBooBol (a.k.a. Andulka Book Bold). For the texfont script, it apparently needs the .afm files and .pfb files. Thus: 1) Are these non-suffixed files the .pfb files in question? If so, should I rename (add .pfb to) them before trying to install them? (I could convert the TTF files to .pfb?) 2) Should I take away the UpperCaseLettering as well? Rename them to something more Berry-like? In fact, I've tried these things with no success, but before I spell out the details of my failure I thought I would get this straight. Kind regards, David Wooten

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some bib module questions
by Fei He 13 Mar '05

13 Mar '05

Folks, I am new beginner and have some rookie questions about using the bib module. 1. \setupcite[number][left=[, right=]] did not work. the citation still shows up in the text like (author, year) 2. either \completepublications or \placepublications wont show the publication list at the end of the paper without using \setup[pubs][criterium=all]. 3. \setuppublications[numbering=yes] fails to put a number before the publication list at the end of the paper. I got the most updated m-bib.zip from http://texaanhet.net/bib/ and copied those file to my local hard drive at ...\texmf\tex\context\m-bib\. Also I just updated my context to the new released version. By the way, I use pc and WinEdt. I probably made several mistakes. please help. thanks a lot. best, fei

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Bad page breaks!
by G.C.H.M. Verhaag 07 Mar '05

07 Mar '05

Dear ConTeXt-users, I'm trying to typeset a small book using ConTeXt (TeXLive 2004), and use the following setup: \setupbodyfont[rm,12pt] \definepapersize[BOOK][width=140mm,height=210mm] \setuppapersize[BOOK][A4] \setuplayout[ [topspace=24mm, header=8mm, headerdistance=10mm, backspace=19.5mm, leftmargin=15.5mm, rightmargin=23mm, footerdistance=5mm, footer=4mm, height=fit, width=fit, marking=on, location=middle] Page breaks are usually calculated automatically by TeX, but I notice that in my case they turn out to be very bad. A lot of pages are involved, so I wonder how this can be improved? Sometimes even 3 lines could be added without any difficulty to a page by TeX before inserting a page break! I've tried to use \adaptlayout but it doesn't seem to work, no effect! Has it perhaps something to do with the setup I use? Regards, Geert -- Geert C.H.M. Verhaag St. Jorisstraat 29 5954 AN Beesel NETHERLANDS Tel.: (+31)-774742493, E-mail: verhaaggchm(a)ision.nl

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Problem with DocbookInContext
by profile 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

Hello, I tried to compile the file README.tex in DocbookInConteXt and obtain the following message : undefined control sequence : stelsectiein Here are the instructions in xtag-docbook.tex my installation of ConteXt does not understand .......................... \unprotect \stelsectiein [\v!sectionlevel-3] [\v!bijlage\c!conversie=\v!Letter, \c!vorigenummer=\v!nee] \stelkopin [\v!paragraaf] [\v!bijlage\c!label=\v!bijlage, \v!hoofdtekst\c!label=\v!paragraaf] % bijlageconversie=\Character \protect ....................... How can I solve the problem ? Thanks François

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Re: [NTG-context] arabtex support - we broke something
by mohd zamri murah 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

Using test.tex and your new m-arabtex.tex, it fail. log and my solution below. ========= test.tex ==================================== \input m-arabtex \usetypescript[postscript] \switchtotypeface[postscript] \starttext \setarab \novocalize \section{\<mu.hammad>} %short arabic use \< ..> here is some text in english. here in arabic .\<mu.hammad>. we can mix them. hurray. we get both of them together. we can see this is fun and going nowhere. \startarabic % long arabic kAjyn ayn mmr.hAl sAtw prwtwtA'yp awntwq mnjAnkn dwkwmn jAwy dry dwkwmn rwmy . <hei, I am in english> ay mggwnAkn kwnsyp pgatwrcArA'n brAsAskn kwmpwnwn . ay mggwnAkn kwnsyp pgatwrcArA'n brAsAskn kwmpwnwn. \stoparabic \stoptext ================================================ error log; ! Extra \else. \test@space ...\a@@putword \xpa \kill@space \else \xpa \next@command \fi <to be read again> .... my solution; comment these lines; (near line 402 ). probably the support for hebrew broke things. another possibility is that all these 3 files already loaded by m-arabtex.tex and reload them break things. % \ReadFile{hebtex.sty} % \ReadFile{apatch.sty} % \ReadFile{hepatch.sty} and the file compile OK. I don't knew hebrew, however, I will try to understand the hebrew support. the character "|" and "~" still produce "illegal command" in \startarabic...\stoprabic. will try to trace this one. be happy to write the manual later. zamri On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:42:24 +0100, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > I cleaned up the files a bit (first step); can you test these? > > \input m-arabtex % new version of \usemodule will accept long names > > can you also take a loot at hebrew? (if you look in the file you can see the old > hebrew font def with the strange fontdimen settings; > > maybe we should replace \vocalize and such by proper key/val settings (options > or so); do you have a list of meaningful ones? > > we also need a manual then -) > > Hans > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > >

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small caps
by Thomas A.Schmitz 02 Mar '05

02 Mar '05

In the last days, I played around with some truetype fonts, preparing them for use with ConTeXt by creating tfms via the texnansi encoding. Some of these truetypes have expert features embedded into their glyphs. texnansi automatically takes care of integrating the "ff," "ffi" and "ffl" ligatures. In order to extract small caps and old-style numerals, I created a modified texnansi encoding. Here it comes: /TeXnANSISCEncoding [ /.notdef % 0 /Euro % /Uni20AC 1 /.notdef % 2 /.notdef % 3 /fraction % 4 /dotaccent % 5 /hungarumlaut % 6 /ogonek % 7 /fl % 8 /.notdef % /fraction % 9 not used (see 4), backward compatability only /cwm % 10 not used, except boundary char internally maybe /ff % 11 /fi % 12 /.notdef % /fl % 13 not used (see 8), backward compatability only /ffi % 14 /ffl % 15 /dotlessi % 16 /dotlessj % 17 /grave % 18 /acute % 19 /caron % 20 /breve % 21 /macron % 22 /ring % 23 /cedilla % 24 /germandbls % 25 /AEsmall % 26 /OEsmall % 27 /Oslashsmall % 28 /AE % 29 /OE % 30 /Oslash % 31 /space % 32 % /suppress in TeX text /exclam % 33 /quotedbl % 34 % /quotedblright in TeX text /numbersign % 35 /dollar % 36 /percent % 37 /ampersand % 38 /quoteright % 39 % /quotesingle in ANSI /parenleft % 40 /parenright % 41 /asterisk % 42 /plus % 43 /comma % 44 /hyphen % 45 /period % 46 /slash % 47 /zerooldstyle % 48 /oneoldstyle % 49 /twooldstyle % 50 /threeoldstyle % 51 /fouroldstyle % 52 /fiveoldstyle % 53 /sixoldstyle % 54 /sevenoldstyle % 55 /eightoldstyle % 56 /nineoldstyle % 57 /colon % 58 /semicolon % 59 /less % 60 % /exclamdown in Tex text /equal % 61 /greater % 62 % /questiondown in TeX text /question % 63 /at % 64 /A % 65 /B % 66 /C % 67 /D % 68 /E % 69 /F % 70 /G % 71 /H % 72 /I % 73 /J % 74 /K % 75 /L % 76 /M % 77 /N % 78 /O % 79 /P % 80 /Q % 81 /R % 82 /S % 83 /T % 84 /U % 85 /V % 86 /W % 87 /X % 88 /Y % 89 /Z % 90 /bracketleft % 91 /backslash % 92 % /quotedblleft in TeX text /bracketright % 93 /circumflex % 94 % /asciicircum in ASCII /underscore % 95 % /dotaccent in TeX text /quoteleft % 96 % /grave accent in ANSI /Asmall % 97 /Bsmall % 98 /Csmall % 99 /Dsmall % 100 /Esmall % 101 /Fsmall % 102 /Gsmall % 103 /Hsmall % 104 /Ismall % 105 /Jsmall % 106 /Ksmall % 107 /Lsmall % 108 /Msmall % 109 /Nsmall % 110 /Osmall % 111 /Psmall % 112 /Qsmall % 113 /Rsmall % 114 /Ssmall % 115 /Tsmall % 116 /Usmall % 117 /Vsmall % 118 /Wsmall % 119 /Xsmall % 120 /Ysmall % 121 /Zsmall % 122 /braceleft % 123 % /endash in TeX text /bar % 124 % /emdash in TeX test /braceright % 125 % /hungarumlaut in TeX text /tilde % 126 % /asciitilde in ASCII /dieresis % 127 not used (see 168), use higher up instead /Lslash % 128 this position is unfortunate, but now too late to fix /quotesingle % 129 /quotesinglbase % 130 /florin % 131 /quotedblbase % 132 /ellipsis % 133 /dagger % 134 /daggerdbl % 135 /circumflex % 136 /perthousand % 137 /Scaron % 138 /guilsinglleft % 139 /OE % 140 /Zcaron % 141 /asciicircum % 142 /minus % 143 /lslash % 144 /quoteleft % 145 /quoteright % 146 /quotedblleft % 147 /quotedblright % 148 /bullet % 149 /endash % 150 /emdash % 151 /tilde % 152 /trademark % 153 /scaron % 154 /guilsinglright % 155 /oe % 156 /zcaron % 157 /asciitilde % 158 /Ydieresis % 159 /nbspace % 160 % /space (no break space) /exclamdown % 161 /cent % 162 /sterling % 163 /currency % 164 /yen % 165 /brokenbar % 166 /section % 167 /dieresis % 168 /copyright % 169 /ordfeminine % 170 /guillemotleft % 171 /logicalnot % 172 /sfthyphen % 173 % /hyphen (hanging hyphen) /registered % 174 /macron % 175 /degree % 176 /plusminus % 177 /twosuperior % 178 /threesuperior % 179 /acute % 180 /mu % 181 /paragraph % 182 /periodcentered % 183 /cedilla % 184 /onesuperior % 185 /ordmasculine % 186 /guillemotright % 187 /onequarter % 188 /onehalf % 189 /threequarters % 190 /questiondown % 191 /Agrave % 192 /Aacute % 193 /Acircumflex % 194 /Atilde % 195 /Adieresis % 196 /Aring % 197 /AE % 198 /Ccedilla % 199 /Egrave % 200 /Eacute % 201 /Ecircumflex % 202 /Edieresis % 203 /Igrave % 204 /Iacute % 205 /Icircumflex % 206 /Idieresis % 207 /Eth % 208 /Ntilde % 209 /Ograve % 210 /Oacute % 211 /Ocircumflex % 212 /Otilde % 213 /Odieresis % 214 /multiply % 215 % OE in T1 /Oslash % 216 /Ugrave % 217 /Uacute % 218 /Ucircumflex % 219 /Udieresis % 220 /Yacute % 221 /Thorn % 222 /germandbls % 223 /Agravesmall % 224 /Aacutesmall % 225 /Acircumflexsmall % 226 /Atildesmall % 227 /Adieresissmall % 228 /Aringsmall % 229 /AEsmall % 230 /Ccedillasmall % 231 /Egravesmall % 232 /Eacutesmall % 233 /Ecircumflexsmall % 234 /Edieresissmall % 235 /Igravesmall % 236 /Iacutesmall % 237 /Icircumflexsmall % 238 /Idieresissmall % 239 /eth % 240 /Ntildesmall % 241 /Ogravesmall % 242 /Oacutesmall % 243 /Ocircumflexsmall % 244 /Otildesmall % 245 /Odieresissmall % 246 /divide % 247 % oe in T1 /Oslashsmall % 248 /Ugravesmall % 249 /Uacutesmall % 250 /Ucircumflexsmall % 251 /Udieresissmall % 252 /Yacutesmall % 253 /Thornsmall % 254 /Ydieresissmall % 255 % germandbls in T1 ] def With the help of this encoding, I was able to create small-cap fonts with old-style numerals that I could then use in my typescript. So I'm wondering: is this a good idea, or is there a simpler way of doing this? Best Thomas

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