March 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

footnote placement
by Idris Samawi Hamid 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Dear gang, I think this may have been missed, so I'm sending it again. Best Idris ===================================================== ============Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:24:43 -0700========== Dear syndicate, 1. When I place footnotes as endnotes, they overflow the page, like an oversize \vbox. 2. E.g. \input tufte does not work from inside \footnote{} Here is a test file. Best Idris ==================test-notes=================== \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupfootnotes[location=text] \starttext \dorecurse{14} {\input tufte\footnote{Here is a footnote.\par Here is a footnote.\par Here is a footnote.} \par \input knuth\footnote{Here is a footnote.\par Here is a footnote.\par Here is a footnote.} \par} %\dorecurse{14} % THIS DOES NOT WORK!!! %{\input tufte\footnote{\input tufte} %\par %\input knuth\footnote{\input knuth} %\par} \section{notes} \placefootnotes[location=text,split=tolerant] % the split option does not help:-( \stoptext =============================================== -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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iso latin 2
by Hans Hagen 11 Apr '05

11 Apr '05

I wonder, \definecharacter Aring {\ilencodedrA} \definecharacter Lstroke {\ilencodedL} \definecharacter lstroke {\ilencodedl} where do these come from? is that because csr does not provide those glyphs? (which makes il2 like aer (almoet ec) something almost il2 -) 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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Font encoding: \uppercased
by David Wooten 10 Apr '05

10 Apr '05

Greetings all, Taco mentioned the command \uppercased{to get all uppercase letters}, and it works just fine…until I try to use my self-installed fonts. The quirks come up with diacritics, and this leads me to believe that there is an [encoding] or [regime] issue here, as I had similar issues earlier with the font in general. For example, with \uppercased{Krübel} I receive: KRüBEL. Do I need to "make a statement of my intent" in a typescript file or somewhere else to resolve this? Kind regards, David

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good-looking tables in context
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 10 Apr '05

10 Apr '05

Hi all, I have to present a lot of numerical data in tables. However, I don't know how to achieve aesthetically pleasing results in context. (Ex)-Latex users may know the booktabs package which is a great help in this respect. I would like to achieve the same in context now. I have attached a small example file (source and pdf). Let me draw your attention to the most important points: - There are rules of different thickness for top, bottom, and middle rules. - The spacing between rows before / after / around the rules is nicely adjusted automatically. - Rules not spanning all columns, like the one in the header, can be trimmed at the left and the right so that they do not extend entirely to the start/end oft the first/last column. I think all three features are essential for convenient typesetting of tables with acceptable output. How can I produce this in context? I am aware of the different table mechanisms. As far as I have seen in the available documentation, none of them is currently suited for what I want. Or am I wrong? I hope so, and I am grateful for your hints and comments. Regards, Eckhart

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off topic: acrobat and dde
by Severin Obertuefer 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

hi sorry for the off topic question, but perhaps there is someone here who can help me. i need a html page to bee converted into pdf and then to bee printed out (on a windows machine) without even open the acrobat reader (in the foreground). I think with dde this should be possible (right?). i searched some acrobat dde specifications on the net, but I didn't found anything useful, so is there a location to download them? if possible i plan to implement oll that stuff with python ... thanks for help severin

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run external programs from tex
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

Hi, I wonder what would be the best way to use programs inline like it is possible for metapost. Are there already macros to set this up easily? I would like to use gnuplot, so something like [start|stop]GNUPLOTgraphic would be fine. Has anybody tried this or something similar? -- Eckhart

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scaling symbols
by Janko Hauser 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Hello I followed Adams nice way, to include unicode symbols. Now I want to ask, how these can be scaled, so that they can be used more like small figures. Any hints? TIA, __Janko Hauser

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Antykwa torunska en oldstyle figures
by Willi Egger 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hi, In the latest versions of the Antykwa Torunska fonts there are also oldstyle figures. Though I have no problem to get \os{3} typeset I am not able to have the date tpeset with oldstyle figures. How can I achieve that? \currentdate[dd,{.~},mm,{.~},year] KR Willi

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Re : My ConTeXt cannot use Type1 fonts...
by GEERT＠telefonica.net 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I had exactly the same problem today after updating from an older tetex/context to the latest version of tetex. Problem seems to be some modifications in pdftex. After moving my type1 fonts (that previously worked fine) with their tfm, afm and type1 files to the new $HOME/.texmf-var/fonts folder, putting the map files in $HOME/.texmf-var/fonts/map folder and including those mapfiles with updmap, texexec generated the pdf file with pk bitmap fonts. Although I believed that tex could find all necessary font files and mapfiles, it was only after explicitly adding \loadmapfile[myownfonts.map] in the tex file, that everything suddenly worked fine (this was not necessary in my old tetex/context setup). Don't know if this will work with your chinese fonts, but you could give it a try.... geert

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RE: [NTG-context] My ConTeXt cannot use Type1 fonts...
by Idris Samawi Hamid 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Recently I installed the latest stable version of ConTeXt under MiKTeX >(b20050215). >To use Chinese characters in ConTeXt, I installed some Chinese Type1 fonts >and related map/enc files. >However, I found "texexec --pdf foo.tex" cannot read Type1 Chinese fonts. >In this case, ConTeXt uses pk fonts (generated from ttf fonts), and finally >I got pdf files with very low quality. I use fpTeX, so I may be missing something... Question: Do you have both ttf and pfb versions of the same font? If so, try removing the ttf version (and refresh fndb). I think that it is much better to have separate map files for your add-on fonts, instead of adding them to psfonts.map (of course you will have to edit your dvips and dvipdfm configuration files as well if you do this). Make a dedicated map file for your font and place it in your local \fonts\map\pdftex\context. See, e.g., texnansi-urw-times.map for syntax. Refresh the fndb, and try again. If things still don't work, compile a very simple file that uses that font and send a copy of your log file to the list. Then somebody will be in a better position to determine what's wrong. A final possibility (but I'm not sure if this will work for Chinese or other non-Latin fonts): remove all reference to your font from your ConTeXt system (tfm's, map's, ttf's, pfb's, etc). See if texfont can install your font. Place the pfb's in a temporary directory and run texfont --ma --in --ve=<maker of your font> --co=<your typeface name> This should install the font for you, with proper map files, tfm's, etc. My only worry is that texfont may need some additional encoding information for Chinese. Don't give up! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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