May 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Paragraph numbering
by piskala upendran 12 May '05

12 May '05

Thanks Taco, It works perfectly works as desired. with the addition of \doglobal with paragraph enumeration, it is solved. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail

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font mapfiles
by Thomas A. Schmitz 12 May '05

12 May '05

I just had to reinstall my TeX installation (upgrade to OS X 10.4). After mucking around with my old TeX, I decided to reinstall, and I hit a problem: even though I ran updmap, ConTeXt doesn't seem to work with the fonts I installed myself unless I include the \loadmapfile [foo] either in the typescript or in the source file. This wasn't the case before. I also tried moving the mapfiles to texmf/fonts/map/ pdftex/context insteadt of just fonts/map/, but that didn't change anything. Am I missing something obvious, or is this the expected behavior? I much prefer to have system-wide mapfiles since I use LaTeX from time to time and want the same fonts available there. They work with plain pdfetex as well, it's just ConTeXt that gives trouble. So my question is: is this the new setup, are we supposed to load mapfiles this way, and what is the advantage over the old method? Thanks! Thomas

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how to align footer text
by Paul Tremblay 12 May '05

12 May '05

How do I set up the space between the bottom of the page and my footer text? I need to setup a 1 inch margin at the bottom of the page. I need for the pagenumber to be centered and 1/2 inch from the bottom. Here's what I have: \definelayout[MyCustomLayout][ topspace=1in, header=0in, bottomspace=1.0in, bottomdistance=.5in, footer=.5in, footerdistance=1mm, backspace=1.5in, cutspace=.75in, height=middle, width=middle,] \setuplayout[MyCustomLayout] \part{} setupfootertexts[\hfill{}\pagenumber{}\hfill{}][][\hfill{}\pagenumber{}\hfill{}][] The problem with this setup is that the page number appears to close to the bottom of the page. Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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placefigure inmargin; inmargin justification
by David Wooten 12 May '05

12 May '05

Greetings all, I've been experimenting a little with margin-notes, and am wondering if there is support for running the inmargin text around a figure, e.g. \inmargin{\placefigure[left]{none}{\externalfigure[Figgy][width=4em]} Interesting words.} The above places the figure and the text on top of each other. It also appears that there is no option in an inmargin text to have both-sides-justified. Is this a general stylistic assumption? In this instance, my margins are to be unusually large. And finally, if it's simply the case here, is there a nice way to achieve a similar result (as margin notes) on multiple pages, two- sided, where the main text width runs normally from page to page? I'm thinking of perhaps pseudo-columns. Thanks, David Wooten

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greek characters
by Jörg Hagmann 11 May '05

11 May '05

Dear list members, I left the font questions until last, but I now need to replace my alpha ("alpha-ketoglurate") etc to greek letters. The only way I could achieve this was by using $\alpha$, but there must be a better way? Thank you very much, Jörg. PD Dr.med. Jörg Hagmann-Zanolari Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics DKBW, University of Basel Mattenstrasse 28 CH-4058 Basel Switzerland Phone +41 (0)61 6953049

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MetaPost 0.901 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 11 May '05

11 May '05

The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 0.901 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The sources, as well as binary packages for both fptex and miktex installations 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 web2c-win32 package is intended for fptex or a similar web2c-based installation, and has been tested only with TeXLive 2003. * The miktex package contains macros and binaries for miktex 2.4, kindly provided by Christian Schenk himself. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in version 0.901: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * A corrected bugfix for the degerate path bug (the old fix made metapost fail the trap test) * Included mpost.mp for mem generation * Updated trap test * The mpost executable is now version 0.901 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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, May 11, 2005

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RE: [NTG-context] more on margin kerning
by Idris Samawi Hamid 11 May '05

11 May '05

Dear gang, I just got home, installed the pdfetex binary from xemtex and, presto! problem solved:-))) Thank you everyone for coming to my rescue in my latest crisis, especially Hartmut and Taco for pointing me in the right direction;-) and thank you Ulrich, Fabrice and Hans. It's interesting that this issue in my work came up the same day that Fabrice set up the stuff on the xemtex site. My (very agnostic/atheist) logic professor*** from grad school would call this "almost a proof for the existence of God";-) Best to all and THNX!! Idris ***John Corcoran, an associate/editor of Tarski and one of the world's very top logicians >> The latest mswincontext.zip has an older pdfetex, 1.20; this seems to be >> the problem. I will get the XemTeX version and test it when I get home >> this evening. > >that version should kern as expected ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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more on margin kerning
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 May '05

10 May '05

Dear syndicate, Hartmut may be right that this is a pdfetex problem***, but the following example makes me think there is more to it. Indeed, the following is actually more to the point of my own problem: Consider the following typescript type-test.tex and and example file hanging.tex. When TeX hyphenates the word, the dash is kerned into the margin, but when a dash is manually inserted, no kerning occurs. Note: in this example neither `-' nor \hyphen works, whereas in the previous posted problem \hyphen did work. This makes me think that this is a macro, not an engine, issue. Please help! Best to all and thnx Idris *** I am using ConTeXt ver: 2005.03.16, the full mswincontext.zip. If there is a compatible up-to-date pdfetex binary out there please point me to it (or send it to me)! =============type-test.tex============== %% font mapping \starttypescript [serif] [test] [texnansi] \definefontsynonym [LMRSerif] [texnansi-lmbx12][encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript %% general names \starttypescript [serif] [test] [name] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [LMRSerif] \stoptypescript %% font sizes \starttypescript [serif] [test] [size] \definebodyfont [4pt,5pt,6pt,7pt,8pt,9pt,10pt,11pt,12pt,14.4pt,17.3pt] [rm] [tf=Serif sa 1] \stoptypescript %% hanging \starttypescript [serif] [hanging][test] \setupfontsynonym [Serif] [handling=normal] \setupfontsynonym [SerifCapt] [handling=normal] \stoptypescript %% final typeface \starttypescript[LMRTest] \definebodyfontenvironment [LMRTest] [default] [interlinespace=2.8ex] \definetypeface [lmrtest] [rm] [serif] [test] [test] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript =================================== =============hanging.tex=============== \setupoutput[pdftex] \setuplayout[width=4in] \usetypescriptfile[type-test] \usetypescript[serif] [hanging] [test] \usetypescript[LMRTest] \setupbodyfont[lmrtest,10pt] \setupalign[hanging] \showframe \starttext \dorecurse{40}{lots of hy\-phen\-a\-tion\hyphen\ } \blank \dorecurse{40}{lots of hy\-phen\-a\-tion- } \hyphen\ - \stoptext =================================== ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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hook TABLE
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi, I have tried to use Hans' recent tip concerning hooks for TABLE entries in oder to increase the horizontal separation of cells. Here is what I currently have: \newdimen\TabCol\Sep \TabColSep6pt \def\TBLcharalign#1#2{% \hskip\TabColSep\relax \framed[align=right,frame=off,rulethickness=0mm,offset=0mm,strut=yes]{#2}% \hbox to\TabColSep{\hss}% } This works - kind of, at least the horizontal cell separation is increased. Unfortunately, vertical spacing between rows is also affected. I had to introduce the \framed in order to treat multi-line entries, and the strut in order to ensure correct vertical alignment in the row. Now, my call for help: Does anybody have an idea how to control horizontal spacing without changing the inter-row space? Thanks, -- Eckhart

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[Fwd: [fptex] fptex becomes xemtex]
by Hans Hagen 10 May '05

10 May '05

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