April 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

bachotex
by Hans Hagen 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Hi, I'm away for a week to the polish bachotex conference; given mail access, i'll try to keep up with my mails. 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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texexec does not Rotate right on pdfarrange
by Thomas Schrader 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Hi everybody, I've got a PDF saying /MediaBox [ 0 0 842 595 ] /Rotate 270 but on concatenating it via texexec to a second PDF saying /MediaBox [0 0 595 842] the first one is displayed landscape and cut to half. How can I prevent this. Does texexec ignore the rotation commands? Need I parse odd PDFs myself? Thanks much for any hints

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new beta (again)
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 28 Apr '05

28 Apr '05

Hi all, inline metapost generation was broken aftre upgrading context. I have seen the recent thread with several patches to texexec, so I updated to yesterday evening's beta in the hope that this would fix the problems. Unfortunately not. When trying to generate the mp graphic I get this error: sh: metafun: not found After that, mpost fails with: ! End of file on the terminal... why? Already when generating the metafun format with texexec --make, I get two errors: Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /homes/eguthoeh/bin/texexec line 2291, <DATA> line 184. Use of uninitialized value in scalar assignment at /homes/eguthoeh/bin/texexec line 2292, <DATA> line 184. I'm currently using TeX (Web2C 7.4.3) 3.14159 from the bash shell under solaris. Does somebody know which patches still have to be applied to texexec to get it working? Thanks, -- Eckhart

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paragraph enumeration
by piskala upendran 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

The paragraph enumeration is useful for only for particular section and restart the number. can this be modified to use for the whole book consisting of different chapters and sections? It should not number the chapter and sections as paragraph thanks __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Right way to load hyphenation patterns
by Ville Voipio 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

I want to use a non-standard hyphenation pattern (Finnish) in some of my documents. I have been able to make it work by: editing cont-usr.tex (removing a % from the \installlanguage) remaking formats (texexec --make) copying the format wile to the .../web2c directory This works. However, I read in the Wiki that "It is generally better to add local settings to a run-time included file like cont-sys.tex instead, so unless your stuff does absolutely have to become part of the format file, you are better off leaving this file well alone." So, where should I put the \installlanguage directive for it to be in the right place? Is it something that really has to be there when the formats are being built, or could it be loaded afterwards (i.e. at run-time)? Could it be put in the cont-sys.tex? TIA, - Ville

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RE: [NTG-context] Postscript fonts (was: gwTeX and missing PS fonts)
by Idris Samawi Hamid 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Hi Ville, >===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > I want to make documents with Times/Helvetica/Courier > combination (as was done with "pos"). I do not have the > commercial fonts, but I do have the TeX Live (or teTeX) > distribution. What is the right way to get to use the > fonts? The following works for me in the latest official Context (3-16-05): ============================================================ \starttext \definetypeface [helvetica] [ss] [sans] [helvetica] [default] [encoding=ec] \switchtotypeface [helvetica] [12pt,ss] Helvetica \input tufte.tex \definetypeface [times] [rm] [serif] [times] [default] [encoding=ec] \switchtotypeface [times] [14.4pt,rm] Times \input tufte.tex \stoptext ============================================================ Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Postscript fonts (was: gwTeX and missing PS fonts)
by Ville Voipio 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

> However, something else broke when I upgraded. I cannot get the > Postscript fonts working anymore. Here is what I have in the file: > > \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] > \setupbodyfont[pos,11pt] By some grepping into the sources I found the problem. It seems that the file type-pre.tex has changed between the versions I have been using. Now there is the extra line: \starttypescriptcollection[previous] which seems to cause the problem of "unknown variant: pos". Without knowing anything more, a simple "usetypescriptcollection" or something similar would be my guess. However, I am a bit afraid of the word "previous" and the comments in the beginning of the file. So, a question follows: I want to make documents with Times/Helvetica/Courier combination (as was done with "pos"). I do not have the commercial fonts, but I do have the TeX Live (or teTeX) distribution. What is the right way to get to use the fonts? I'm sorry but I do not like the Computer Modern in my reports and brochures. I want to have something else, and that something should be easy to use in any distribution. TIA, - Ville

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start*matter adding page
by Stuart Jansen 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

When I divide my document into \startfrontmatter, \startbodymatter, etc. an extra page is added to the end of the pdf. Is this expected behavior? How can I prevent it? \def\mypagenumber#1% {\headnumber[chapter]-#1} \setuppagenumbering[command=\mypagenumber] \starttext \startfrontmatter \completecontent \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter{foo} \section{bar} \section{baz} \chapter{qux} \section{quux} \section{corge} \chapter{grault} \section{garply} \section{waldo} \stopbodymatter \stoptext -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C.

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table questions
by Hans Hagen 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Hi, I'm fighting deadlines right now, but later i'll try to get a look at the current table thread (maybe someone can summarize the problem) 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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Re: [NTG-context] TABLE: spacing, before/after
by Hans Hagen 27 Apr '05

27 Apr '05

Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: >>- control over column and row spacing >>- material before/after a cell, e.g. \setupTABLE[row][first][before=bla] >>- command hooks like \setupTABLE[1][3][hook=\dowithentry] > > > Hi Hans, > > sorry for being a pain in the neck, but is there any chance that this > will be supported by natural tables in the near future? > Don't get me wrong, I'm not demanding anything, I just need to know so > that I can do it differently otherwise. it depends on what near is ... if you want a hook, try something: \starttext \def\TBLcharalign#1#2{hooked {\bf #2} on tables} \bTABLE \bTR \bTD aa\eTD \bTD bb\eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD aa\eTD \bTD bb\eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD aa\eTD \bTD bb\eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD aa\eTD \bTD bb\eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD aa\eTD \bTD bb\eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext if you remind me in a couple of weeks i can see if i can generalize it; hooks are a bit tricky because one also needs to know in what pass on is (there are multiple passes in constructing the table) before ... after cell, is probably doable but need some thinking (keep in mind that these tables need to span and such; not really complex but needs to be done carefully between rows ... tricky since that may interfere with splitting; maybe doable when some limitations are accepted 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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