April 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

formatted pagenumbers in registers
by sjoerd siebinga 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

I have noticed a strange irregularity in the formatting of pagenumbers in one of my registers. Somehow not every pagenumber that should be bold has been rendered bold. I have defined this register as follows. <cite> \defineregister[indexri][Dialect of Riustring 1] % \setupregister[indexri][lemma][pagestyle=bold] </cited> Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Sjoerd

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MetaPost 0.893 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 13 Apr '05

13 Apr '05

The MetaPost team is happy to announce the release of a new beta: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 0.893 (beta for 0.9) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a public beta release for the upcoming version 0.9. The sources and a win32 package can be downloaded immediately from http://sarovar.org/projects/metapost/ The source package should compile normally on all systems that are capable of compiling a modern web2c-based TeX distribution. The win32 package is intended for fptex or a similar web2c-based installation, and has been tested only with TeXLive 2003. The executables will *not* work for miktex, sorry. After beta testing, this version will hopefully become the next official release of MetaPost, at the end of April 2005. That is roughly two weeks from today, so test reports are very welcome. Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of this message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests. For those of you who have noted the large gap between 0.641 and 0.9: We have deliberately chosen to step over some minor version numbers, such that the first major release by the current team (this release is planned for the autumn of 2005) can become version 1.0 without causing additional confusion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in version 0.9: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. There is a new internal quantity called mpversion that reports the current metapost version, and the version information is also written to the PostScript file. 2. The LaTeX sources of the mpman, mpintro, and mpgraph manuals have become part of the distribution package. 3. TEX.mp now has TeX format support through a pair of macros called TEXPRE() and TEXPOST(). This llows you to process the contents of the TEX() macro with, for example, LaTeX (instead of plain TeX). An example is given in the manual. 4. metapost now writes a %%HiReSBoundingBox comment 5. The EPS output no longer contains actual spaces within PostScript strings as for example output by label("a space"), but their octal escape (\040) instead. 6. The EPS output now also has a %%BeginProlog DSC comment as well as %%EndProlog 7. The comments in the Web source have been changed to point out that on modern machines, acquiring the random seed has actually become a system-dependant operation (a granularity of whole seconds is not small enough on new machines). 8. The 'newer' command now accepts more than 2 arguments, testing each of the files in turn. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugfixes in version 0.9: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Documentation improvements: all known errata and typos have been removed, better explanations of e.g. dash patterns and dotlabel have been provided, and a number of omissions has been rectified. 2. The BoundingBox was not computed correctly when a filldraw command with a noticeable pen size was used at the edge of the picture. 3. Paths starting with degenerate constructions like (0,0)--(0,0)--(0,0) could overflow memory. 4. The PostScript output could accidentally contain 8-bit characters within PostScript strings in previous versions because a test was shared between terminal printing and PostScript printing. 5. A bug has been found in the assignment of serial numbers to independant variables in metafont 2.71828. This bug affected MP as well, and the same patch has been applied. 6. The turningnumber was sometimes wrong in unexpected ways. The new implementation is still sometimes wrong (when there are strange path segments involved), but in a much more predictable way: the new code always draws straight lines between the actual points, and calculates the turningnumber based on that path instead of the actual path. The effect is that cusps and loops within segments are now completely ignored. A more thorough fix of turningnumber is planned for the next release. 7. There was an 'off by one' error in dvitomp wrt. the interpretation of virtual fonts. 8. mpto uses a new TeX macro for the generation of labels, making it more robust wrt. strange user code within the actual label text. 9. A missing colon in boxes.mp has been added 10. A missing save in mfplain.mp has been added 11. The generisize in boxes.mp has been fixed so that it now accepts [[ as a valid variable name ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal notice / license / bug reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. The MetaPost home page is http://tug.org/metapost. MetaPost and related programs are in the public domain. The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Sarovar, http://www.sarovar.org/projects/metapost; please report bugs and request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you can reach us through the <metapost(a)tug.org> mailing list as well. (Please do not send bug reports or feature requests directly to Dr. Hobby any more) Have fun! Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, April 12, 2005 _______________________________________________ metapost mailing list http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/metapost

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Re: ntg-context Digest, Vol 10, Issue 21
by Kai Straube 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Am Freitag, 8. April 2005 09:55 schrobst Du: > Kai Straube wrote: > > ! Undefined control sequence. > > l.15 \startfontclass > > [modern] > > > > Whats wrong? > > different version than mine -) Thank you, this does it! But (sorry, the questions never ending) how can I get the sansserif-font in formulas in bold letters? Kai

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RE: [NTG-context] Encoding and mapping glyphs from an expert font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Hi Thomas, Adam, and all... >===== Original Message From "Thomas A.Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz(a)uni-bonn.de> >So there is no simple answer to your question. TeX knows to pick up >zerooldstyle instead of zero either >1. because you have a virtual font that says MAPFONT 1, so it knows it >will have to use a different pfb than for the rest, or >2. because the encoding file points to character zerooldstyle within >the ttf. You are right. I just realized that I misunderstood what Hans meant by avoiding virtual fonts: I was assuming all this time that the \usetypescript[map][latin-modern-os][texnansi] setup was mapping latin modern to cmmi10, etc. I looked at the log of a test file for latin-modern-os: no mention of cmmi10, etc. I looked at the pdf, listed all fonts, and boom, only one font, lmr12.pfb. I opened lmr12 in FontLab and, lo and behold, it contains a palette of old style numerals! So what Hans meant was that there is no need for a virtual font to remap lmr itself, not that you could actually map the numerals of lmr to cmmibi without a virtual font. The OldStyle to MathItalic mappings are apparently useful for local switches like \os, but not for global setups. Oh well, I certainly learned a lot about fonts and ConTeXt this past day-and-a-half, so I guess it was not a total waste of time. Now I guess I have to make some virtual fonts (sigh), so it's now on to Thomas' how-to. Thnx to all Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: Tutorial
by Loeghmon Tadayon Nejad 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Partick, I am currently working in a Windows (XP) environment but if it makes a difference and Linux is more suitable for a Tex environment I move to a Unix based one then. Thanks for the reply. Patrick Gundlach <patrick(a)gundla.ch> wrote: Hello, > Could one of you please recommend a document that tells me what to > download and how to install and run a Tex application such as > "Context" and how to compose and compile a document such as a > booklet or more? I like to learn and use Tex and have absolutely no > experience with it. Thank you all. You can take a look at the ConTeXt wiki (see below for address). If you have a current TeX distribution, you are probably ready to go. If not, get one, such as teTeX for Unix or MikTeX for Windows. Tell us more about your environment. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context Regards, Loeghmon Tadayon Nejad

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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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Bib in project
by Robert Ullrey 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Quick question. Using Hans' project script, I want to add a bibliography. Should I add the \setuppublications[database={mybib}] in the environment (env_myproject), or in the project header (project_myproject)? Thanks Robert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.1 iQA/AwUBQlrHwvFTYcwurb3FEQJbDQCgxZ2cDuxbFq5FkiG7+ONA92gInmcAoJY2 JPkAUbihg3QfFdyToX84uGmE =rBsp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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undefined guillemots
by Henning Hraban Ramm 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Hi there! AFAIK this should work: \setuplanguage[de][ leftquote=\guilsinglleft, rightquote=\guilsinglright, leftquotation=\guillemotleft, rightquotation=\guillemotright ] %\mainlanguage[de] \language[de] \setupencoding [default=ec] \quotation{Doppelte Anführungszeichen} \quote{Einfache Anführungszeichen} But none of the guillemots seems to be defined: ! Undefined control sequence. \@@ladeleftquotation ->\guillemotleft \leftboundarycharacter #1#2->\languageparameter #1 \nobreak \hskip \hspaceamo... \dodosymbol ...bol \csname \??ss :#1:#2\endcsname \relax }\relax \dosymbol ...fnosymbol \redosymbol \currentsymbol \fi \fi <to be read again> \penalty \dohandlequotation ...\strut \symbol [#1]\penalty \!!tenthousand \hskip \quo... ... l.12 \quotation {Doppelte Anführungszeichen} ? ! Emergency stop. What can I do? Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net

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\type{a_b} inside \bTABLE ... \eTABLE
by Mojca Miklavec 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

Hello, there's a very comical behavior of \type{sometextfollowedby_underscore} inside \bTABLE and \eTABLE. For example: \starttext \bTABLE \bTR\bTD \type{a_b} \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext \type{_} or \type{_b} work OK, \type{a_b} outside the table works OK as well. --- I tried to find \def\type in ConTeXt source, but I couldn't and I'm also not advanced enough to interpret the error message below. Any ideas? (I would use the shorter form, \_, but the results are not quite the same. I solved my problem temporary by using \type{a}\type{_b} with quite some (unnecessary ?) "\type"-ing, but I'm still curious about the reason for the strange behavior.) Thank you, Mojca ! Missing $ inserted. <inserted text> $ <to be read again> _ <argument> \type {a_ b} \handleTBLcell ...{\bTBLCELL \TBLcharalign {#2}{#4 }\eTBLCELL \inTBLcell {#1}... <inserted text> ...bl \begintblrow \makeTBL {1}{1} \nexttblcol \endtblrow \en... \endTBL ...x {\trialtypesettingtrue \the \tbltoks }\ifautoTBLspread \checktb... ... l.4 \eTABLE ? ! Emergency stop. <inserted text> $ <to be read again> _ <argument> \type {a_ b} \handleTBLcell ...{\bTBLCELL \TBLcharalign {#2}{#4 }\eTBLCELL \inTBLcell {#1}... <inserted text> ...bl \begintblrow \makeTBL {1}{1} \nexttblcol \endtblrow \en... \endTBL ...x {\trialtypesettingtrue \the \tbltoks }\ifautoTBLspread \checktb... ... l.4 \eTABLE

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Why do margins bleed?
by John R. Culleton 12 Apr '05

12 Apr '05

I have been playing with the very interesting t-layout module written by Patrick Gundalach. When looking at the visualization thus presented I have these questions: 1. Why do the left and right margin areas bleed off the page? 2. Why are the margins offset a little from the main text block? These offsets are defined as leftmargindistance and rightmargindistance. These aspects seem to be related. . -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

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