March 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Are there any ready-to-use book layouts in ConTEXt?
by R S Ananda Murthy 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Hello, Are there any ready-to-use book layouts available in ConTEXt like Komascript-Book Class in LaTeX? Thanks for your help, Anand

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Headers and footers in backmatter
by Duncan Hothersall 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Dear all, I have noticed that when I set my index as a \chapter within the \startbackmatter...\stopbackmatter structure of a document, my headers and footers, including page numbers, disappear. Even the backgrounds disappear. The only commands I can find which seem to influnce the sectionblock behaviour are \setupsectionblock and \setupsection, but neither of these has a setting for page numbering or headers/footers. Looking through the sources hasn't helped me either. Can anyone shed any light on the mechanism for adjusting this behaviour? Thanks Duncan

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spilling endnotes
by ishamid 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Dear syndicate, Just a reminder: Even with the latest patch, the endnotes spill over the page (I double-checked that core-not was replaced and the format regenerated): =========================== % output=pdftex interface=en \starttext \dorecurse{100}{test \footnote{test} \endnote{eee}\endgraf} \page \placenotes[endnote] \stoptext =========================== Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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2 questions about texexec.ini
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Dear musketeers, 1. I just noted that texexec.ini for mswincontext.zip defaults to tetex, not fptex. Is that intentional? 2. Can I configure texexec.ini so that texexec --make generates the aleph format in addition to the pdfetex formats? (Of course this assume we can solve the search-paths-for-formats problem.) Thought: Knowing absolutely nothing about texexec's internals, I was thinking that one possible solution to the aleph format subdirectory problem is make another executable, say TeXExecutable2 and then set TeXExecutable2 to aleph A related possiblility is renaming the formats, say: co-al-en.fmt for aleph co-tx-en.fmt for tex etc. Just a stab in the dark from someone who know virtually nothing; never know when you might hit something... Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Path searches (good news!)
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Dear cartel, I've been trying to control the search paths with C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-local\web2c\texmf.cnf, but I just realized that setuptex.bat overrides texmf.cnf. The way I found out is interesting: Upon running mktexlsr I get the line mktexlsr: c:/CONTEXT/tex/texmf-project is not a directory. Skipping... But in \texmf-local\web2c texmf.cnf has, not `texmf-project', but rather `texmf-projects' (with plural). And setuptex.bat is the only file that mentions `texmf-project';-) So now I have configured setuptex.bat to search TeXLive. The only hassle is that I must remember to back up my copy the next time ConTeXt updates. In case anyone else needs to do this (until Hans provides a better way;->) =========================== set TEXMFMAIN=%TEXPATH%texmf set TEXMFLOCAL=%TEXPATH%texmf-local set TEXMFFONTS=%TEXPATH%texmf-fonts set TEXMFEXTRA=%TEXPATH%texmf-extra REM set TEXMFPROJECT=%TEXPATH%texmf-project set TEXMFOS=%TEXPATH%texmf-mswin set VARTEXMF=%TMP%\texmf-var set HOMETEXMF=c:/TEXLIVE/texmf set HOMETEXMFVAR=c:/TEXLIVE/texmf-var <snip> REM set TEXMF={$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN ,$HOMETEXMF} set TEXMF={$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFEXTRA,$TEXMFMAIN,$HOMETEXMFVAR,$ HOMETEXMF} =========================== If I'm missing something or if there is a better/saner way please let me know. Now on to those other 3 problems in my previous email;-> Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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dvipdfmx/dvips and a summary
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Dear folks, The dvips/dvipdfmx problem is not limited to aleph in the latest ConTeXt: ===========test-3========== \setupoutput[dvi] \starttext abc \stoptext =========================== gives =========================== $>dvipdfmx test3 test3.dvi -> test3.pdf [1** Fatal error: Could not locate a virtual or a physical font file for 'ec-lmr 12'. ** ERROR ** $>dvips test3 This is dvips(k) 5.94b Copyright 2004 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) dvips: ! Couldn't find header file tex.pro =========================== I suppose that the transition to lmr is at the root of this. Anyway, I think my own problems have been reduced to the following 4: 1. supp-dir needs to be modified or made into an optional module (e.g. m-xetex) (so I don't have to modify it every time I update ConTeXt); 2. aleph needs to be taught;-) to look for its format in its own subdirectory (related: an aleph.ini should be included so that the plain aleph.fmt can be compiled. I also think the minimal context should support plain.fmt, which helps in testing etc. right now manfnt is missing); 3. dvips/dvipdfmx need to be taught how to find lmr (and perhaps other fonts? a complete font torture test before every release and for users to do their own testing is desperately needed I think. ); 4. In order to use Gamma, either i. the basic omega files (with aleph replacing omega.exe) should be included in mswincontext.zip; or ii. I need to know how to get the \ConTeXt tree to properly search the \TeXLive tree for the omega files (and for other fonts like cmr, etc). Strangely, I was able to get \TeXLive\...\texmf.cnf configured to read the \ConTeXt tree, but I was not able to get \ConTeXt\...\texmf.cnf to be able to read the \TeXLive tree. Any idea why? Many many thnx to Hans for all his hard work; I look forward to a reliable ConTeXt:-))) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeXt (confirmed)
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >ishamid wrote: > >> lines all over the place in my work that compiled fine with the old ConTeX, >> and I suspect that XeTeX may be responsible. Is there a way to completely >> isolate the new stuff because I'm going to lose a lot of time trying to track >> down every situation where my previously well-behaved stuff now gives errors >> because of this. > >just put \endinput atthe topmost lin eof supp-dir.tex and remake the format Those problems I told you about in a private email are still being caused by supp-dir, even after \endinput. I played around with supp-dir and thise following works;-) ========================================================== \unprotect \chardef\inlinedirection\zerocount % 0==notset 1==LR 2==RL \beginETEX \beginL % \def\pardir#1#2#3% messages end up in a higher level command % {\global\TeXXeTstate\plusone % \if#2L\chardef\inlinedirection\plusone\else % \if#2R\chardef\inlinedirection\plustwo\fi\fi % \checkinlinedirection} % needed / added %\appendtoks \checkinlinedirection \to \everypar % see core-ini.tex \def\checkinlinedirection {\ifcase\inlinedirection\or\beginL\or\beginR\fi} \endETEX \protect \endinput ========================================================== It seems that the \checkinlinedirection is still needed or I get other errors. I hope that you and Adam can up with something that won't kill me next time:-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (macron)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> wrote: > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > BTW: > > > > Is there also a command to translate TFM (and VF) files to AFM or > > another human readable format and back again? > > There exist the Knuthian programs tftopl (for tfm only) and > vftovp (for virtual fonts) that convert to 'property list' > format. The format is an ASCCI representation, but Whether or > not you think this is human readable depends on what kind of > human you are ;-) > > Anyway, the commands should be part of your installation already. > > Taco The idea was to translate TFM (and VF?) in a readable format, and back again, in order to be able of making little kerning adjustments: When the font is already Tex-installed and in use, but finally there is one kerning pair that doesn't look good enough, I wanted to be able to make this particular adjustment in the kerning table without starting from AFM and going the whole conversion and installation way again. Steffen

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RE: [NTG-context] New List: SemiTeX (*Tex for the Semitic Languages)
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi Fred, This is very interesting and, certainly, I'd like to join (though your email address in hidden in this particular posting->) Also consider merging this with the aleph list, because the aleph list was also intended to discuss most of the same issues, even multilingual TeX issues that do not pertain to aleph directly. I hope that the XeTeX people (Hi Adam!) will post their bidi developments to the aleph list as well, so we can all be in better sync in the future:-) The aleph list is low volume and can certainly easily handle the issues you mention without boring anyone;-) I'm also working on an advanced replacement to ArabTeX, scheduled for release later this year. I can send you some samples (just send me your email address) Eventually I'd like to see the aleph capabilities merged into pdfetex, which will make my ConTeXt life much easier (Hi Hans;->) We live pretty close to one another; I'd be happy to stay in touch, talk, or even meet sometime. Take care Idris >===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Hi, > >(My apologies for cross-postings) > >I would like to announce a new mailing list that I have created called >"SemiTeX." > >This is intended to be a forum for people concerned with typesetting >Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac, Amharic, and any other Semitic and/or >right-to-left languages using the various flavors of *TeX (LaTeX, >XeTeX, ConTeXt, etc). ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeXt (confirmed)
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi Hans, >===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >at the moment the best way of dealing with is is to use texexec's engine handler; > >locate texexec.ini (or rme) and set > >set UseEnginePath to true > >after that pdfetex, aleph, xetex, mpost etc will end up on their own path. I have done that previously and, yes, I do get the subdirectories. But that's not the problem. The problem is that aleph is searching for its format in pdfetex's subdirectory: This is Aleph, Version 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (Web2c 7.5.3) \write18 enabled. Copyright (c) 2002--2004 the Aleph task force ---! c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex How do we make aleph search its own subdirectory? Just to be sure, texexec --verbose gives setting : 'UseEnginePath' to 'true' for 'all' Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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