March 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

RE: [NTG-context] how to use Times Roman font
by ishamid 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > >Unfortunately, error again: Yes, an error here as well. Did you try the two other ways I mentioned in my other reply: ============================================ %\usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] %\setupbodyfont[pos] % note the comments \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext ============================================ Another way: ============================================ \definetypeface [times] [rm] [serif] [times] [default] [encoding=ec] \switchtotypeface [times] [12pt,rm] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext =========================================== If neither of these two work then something is really wrong... Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Repost: Two problems with my chapter quote setup (Modified by Gerben Wierda)
by Gerben Wierda 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I forgot one part at the end. Here it is again. I've got this in my environment file: \def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} \ClearChapterQuote \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{\starttext% \startalignment[left]% \startnarrower[4*left] \noindent{\hyphenpenalty 10000\em #1}% \stopnarrower\stopalignment\stoptext\blank} \setuphead[chapter] [page=left, before={\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% \noheaderandfooterlines] I've got two problems with this setup: First, even with the \hyphenpenalty I get this line breaking: For what can a man accomplish that has not been done a million times before? What can he say that he will not find in Lao-Tse or the Bhagavad-gita or the Prophet Isa- iah? John Steinbeck — Sweet Thursday (Interestingly, when I copy/paste this from Apple's Preview.app I get For what can a man accomplish that has not been done a million times before? What can he say that he will not find in Lao-Tse or the Bhagavad-gita or the Prophet Isaiah? John Steinbeck — Sweet Thursday) no -, no line break, etc. Anyway: this line breaking is really ugly. I can fix this by hand, but I'd rather have this working automatically. My second problem is that I get two empty numbered pages between chapters. As in page 13: last text of chapter 1 page 14: empty page with page number page 15: empty page with page number page 16: page with quote and no page number page 17: first page of chapter 2 no page number I'd like to get rid of pages 14 and 15. I think I need to only do a page=left when I am on a right page at that time (page=even has the same result) I even tried: \setuphead[chapter] [page=disable, before={\page[even]\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% \noheaderandfooterlines] Thanks, G

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Getting a barred l for all the wrong reasons
by dw＠trichotomic.net 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Greetings, hopefully this is a real quickie. I'm using XeConTeXt, regime UTF, language en, hoefler encoding uc & receiving a barred l for any instance of this: l/ Which makes it tough to have pairs like centripetal/centrifugal. :) Any clues? Kind regards, David

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Two problems with my chapter quote setup
by Gerben Wierda 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I've got this in my environment file: \def\ClearChapterQuote{\def\ChapterQuote{}} \ClearChapterQuote \def\ChQuoteFormat#1{\starttext% \startalignment[left]% \startnarrower[4*left] \noindent{\hyphenpenalty 10000\em #1}% \stopnarrower\stopalignment\stoptext\blank} \setuphead[chapter] [page=left, before={\ChQuoteFormat{\ChapterQuote}\noheaderandfooterlines% \page[right]\blank[2*big]}, after={\ClearChapterQuote\blank[3*big]}% \noheaderandfooterlines] I've got two problems with this setup: First, even with the \hyphenpenalty I get this line breaking: For what can a man accomplish that has not been done a million times before? What can he say that he will not find in Lao-Tse or the Bhagavad-gita or the Prophet Isa- iah? John Steinbeck — Sweet Thursday (Interestingly, when I copy/paste this from Apple's Preview.app I get For what can a man accomplish that has not been done a million times before? What can he say that he will not find in Lao-Tse or the Bhagavad-gita or the Prophet Isaiah? John Steinbeck — Sweet Thursday) no -, no line break, etc. Anyway: this line breaking is really ugly. I can fix this by hand, but I'd rather have this working automatically. My second problem is that I get two empty numbered pages between chapters. As in page 13: last text of chapter 1 page 14: empty page with page number page 15: empty page with page number page 16: page with quote and no page number page 17: first page of chapter 2 no page number I'd like to get rid of pages 14 and 15. I think I need to only do a page=left when I am on a right page at that time (page=even has the same result) Thanks, G

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RE: [NTG-context] how to use Times Roman font
by ishamid 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Don't know if this is related but >===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Hi Matthias! > >Unfortunately, error again: >------------------------------------------------------- > > TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 Your TeXecec is very old; I'm using TeXExec 5.2.4 >ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2005.3.19 int: english mes: english We are apparently using the same version of ConTeXt, minus TeXexec. Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Title-page overlay
by Nikolai Weibull 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

I would like to put a rather large and complicated regular expression into the title-page of a document I'm writing. So far, I haven't had much luck defining an overlay that uses \starttyping ... \stoptyping. Basically, what I figured I should do was to write \defineoverlay [TitleGraphic] [{ \starttyping ... \stoptyping }] and then \setupbackgrounds[page][background=TitleGraphic] But that doesn't work: ! Argument of \copyverbatimline has an extra }. Have any suggestions on what I might try? Basically, what I want is a background with some arbitrary text, more or less like the pdfTeX user manual document does it [1], nikolai [1] http://www.pragma-ade.com/pdftex/pdftex-a.pdf -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: minimalistic.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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Layout stuff
by Adam Lindsay 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

Hi all. I've been trying to get layouts working, and wanted to verify some things (as I haven't really worked much in that space before). Is there any way to "inherit" a layout's parameters, such as: \definelayout [preset-1-1] [mypresettomodify] \setuplayout [mypresettomodify][width=65\averagecharwidth] (I finally figured out how to do what I want another way, but the question is still interesting to me.) Is the only way to activate a doublesided page layout though the page numbering mechanism? Thanks, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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RE: Configuring 2 trees [was RE: [NTG-context] Times New Roman]
by ishamid 21 Mar '05

21 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From h h extern <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 10:31:44 +0100, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: >> >>> i'll upload a new minimal (beware, tex live 2005 binaries), as well as >>> the big windows zip (will take a few hours) >> >> >> Any word on that? I saw something dated 3-16-05; I'm assuming that's not >> it (since your email is dated a day later?) > >i let my machine generate the tree while i was watching a movie the day before > i uploaded the lot -) So does that meant the 3-16 upload is the one or no? Also, how do I install it (could find no instructions...) it looks like a unix tree... Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Configuring 2 trees [was RE: [NTG-context] Times New Roman]
by ishamid 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

Dear cartel, >===== Original Message From "Thomas A.Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz(a)uni-bonn.de> ===== What does > >kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL >produce? 1.I have 2 trees: C:\Context (from mswintex.zip) and C:\TeXLive (from July04). kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL works for the \Context tree: >C:\ConTeXt\texmf-mswin\bin\kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFLOCAL c:/ConTeXt/texmf-local >C:\ConTeXt\texmf-mswin\bin\kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFMAIN c:/ConTeXt/texmf 2. What I would like: how do I properly modify texmf.cnf (presumably C:\ConTeXt\texmf-local\web2c\texmf.cnf is the main one) so that a. C:\ConTeXt is given priority over C:\TeXLive; b. C:\TeXLive\texmf-var\web2c formats are searched after C:\ConTeXt\texmf-local\web2c c. C:\ConTeXt utilities like TeXFont install files to C:\ConTeXt\texmf-local\ instead of to C:\TeXLive\texmf-local (for some reason the C:\ConTeXt tree does recognize C:\TeXLive\texmf-local by default) Of course, I may be missing the big picture here, in which case please enlighten me! Part of my problem is that 1. apparently I can make both pdfetex and aleph formats in the TeXLive tree (efmt and fmt respectively), but only one of them in the ConTeXt tree (both are dumped as cont-en.fmt) 2. I can't just dump cont-tmf.zip into TeXLive\texmf-var, because some utilities (like texfont.exe) do not get updated or replaced. So I would have to manually delete e.g., texfont.exe and replace it with the new texfont.bat, making a mess of my TeXLive system. I really wish that updating/upgrading were not always such a pain... Best Idris Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Imposition of A7,landscape on A4
by Wolfgang Zillig 20 Mar '05

20 Mar '05

Hello, I want to print 8 pages of A7, landscape doublesided on A4. I always get the pages connected on the shorter side of the page, but that is wrong. Has anyone an idea how to solve this? Thanks Wolfgang for explanation, the result looks like this: ------------------------- | | | | | ------------------------- | | | | | ------------------------- my testfile: \enableregime[il1] \mainlanguage[en] \setuppapersize[A7,landscape,rotated][A3,landscape]% \setuparranging [2*8,doublesided] \setuplayout [location=middle] \setuppagenumbering[location=,state=stop] \showframe[edge] \starttext Page1 \page Page1 back \page Page2 \page Page2 back \page Page3 \page Page3 back \page Page4 \page Page4 back \page Page5 \page Page 5 back \page Page 6 \page Page6 back \page Page7 \page Page7 back \page Page8 \page Page8 back \stoptext

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