May 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

inmarge figures and references
by Jörg Hagmann 10 May '05

10 May '05

Dear list members, My happiness about my first pdf-file was a bit premature. It worked fine on my Mac at work (TeX and ConTeXt downloaded with Fink commander). But on the two setups I'm using at home (TeXLive and ConTeXt on Mac OS X; teTeX on Mandrakelinux 10.1 on a Powermac G4) the exactly same two problems occur: 1. \inmarge figures can't be handled. Instead they appear in the text. This is an example from the log file: ! Undefined control sequence. l.35 \inmarge {\externalfigure[8pyruvate_lab]} ? <./FIGURES//8pyruvate_lab.pdf Warning: pdfetex (file ./FIGURES//8pyruvate_lab.pdf): pdf inclusion: Page Group detected which pdfTeX can't handle. Ignoring it. > figures : dimensions of ./FIGURES//8pyruvate_lab.pdf loaded from figuref ile itself 2. The references don't work ("??"). Again, an example: references : unknown reference [][krebsbox] Everything else (chapter numbering, textrule, figures, footnotes, tables etc.) is working. Also, the test suggested in the texexec manual ("\framed") is working. Since the tex file itself has not been changed, I suppose that something is wrong with my setups at home. Thank you for any suggestions. 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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Re: [NTG-context] INstalling a new version of context
by bb 10 May '05

10 May '05

> The upgrading of Context or even of pdftex is sufficiently > failure prone that I have given up trying. I tend to agree. I follow the meager instructions I have found, as well as some direct help from hh himself and am still not able to get it working right. I think the problem is with hacked engine support. I try disabling the use of engine but I still get the same problem. At this point I am tracking down a weird error in texexec.pl in which kpsewhich returns a null result and TEXFORMATS gets set to '0'. This wreaks havoc and breaks everything. I suspect texlive texmf.cnf settings trigger a bug in texexec. Perhaps everything would work just fine with the limited linux tex distribution from pragma. But I, like many others, prefer to use texlive because it is fairly comprehensive and I can use my normal latex and friends. I think it would be a very useful exercise for hh to install a complete texlive on a stock fedora box. Then write down _every_ step necessary to get beta cont-tmf.zip installed and working. I would think that targeting texlive as the standard platform for distributing context on linux/unix would make the most sense. It should _not_ be necessary to make anything but a trivial change to texmf.cnf. sc

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RE: [NTG-context] margin kerning issues
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi Hartmut, Thnx 4 your reply. >===== Original Message From Hartmut Henkel <hartmut_henkel(a)gmx.de> ===== >> In the following example, margin kerning works for \hyphen and >> \endash, but not for `-' and `--'. I don't think this is an encoding >> problem, because e.g. \hyphen and `-' generate the same output. > >all four text blocks show right protrusion here, with ConTeXt as of >teTeX-3.0 and pdftex-1.21b-beta. Maybe your pdftex or ConTeXt is too >old. Maybe try pdftex-1.21a. This is strange, because I am using the latest official ConTeXt (2005-03-16) with the pdfetex that comes with it: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) ... : ConTeXt ver: 2005.03.16 fmt: 2005.4.18 Hans: If this is indeed the problem, and if there is a pdfetex binary compatible with ConTeXt ver: 2005.03.16 on Windows please let me know! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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combining references to several targets
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hi, say that I have four tables with lables tab:A ... tab:D. Now, I would like to say something like \in{Tables}[tab:A,tab:B,tab:C,tab:D] and the output should be "Tables 2, 7-9". How can this be done? Greetings, -- Eckhart

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margin kerning issues
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 May '05

10 May '05

Dear gang, In the following example, margin kerning works for \hyphen and \endash, but not for `-' and `--'. I don't think this is an encoding problem, because e.g. \hyphen and `-' generate the same output. Please advise-) Thnx as always Idris =================================================== \setupoutput[pdftex]% \setupfontsynonym[cmr10][handling=normal] \usetypescript[cmr] \setupbodyfont[10pt] \setupalign[hanging] \setuplayout[width=4.2in] \showframe \starttext \dorecurse{40}{testing\hyphen\ test\hyphen\ } \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing- test- } \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing\endash\ test\endash\ } \blank \dorecurse{40}{testing-- test-- } \hyphen\ - \endash\ -- \stoptext =================================================== ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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recent ConTeXt reference manual
by Gentile 10 May '05

10 May '05

Hello, I'm looking for an up-to-date version on the ConTeXt reference manual (cont-emp.pdf). The one I fond at Pragma's site is dated November 12, 2001. Is it the latest ? Regards

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Vertical alignment of footnotes in \bTABLE
by Johan Sandblom 09 May '05

09 May '05

The following admittedly contrived example exposes a problem with vertical alignment of footnotes. The problem was first encountered with a multipage table where the footnotes became more far apart instead of on top of each other as here. It appears the problem only occurs if 1. there is a cell with multiple lines 2. there is a cell that spans several columns. Is there a workaround? Regards, Johan \starttext {\startlocalfootnotes[n=0, location={text, none}] \bTABLE \bTR\bTD \input knuth \footnote{C1}\eTD\bTD A\footnote{C1}\eTD\bTD\eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD[nx=2] A\footnote{A2}\eTD\bTD A\eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoplocalfootnotes} \placelocalfootnotes \stoptext -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" -- Bertrand Russell

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Recomputing useMPgraphic in footers
by David Antos 09 May '05

09 May '05

Hello, I have \defineoverlay[Wave][\useMPgraphic{Wave}] \startuseMPgraphic{Wave} ... \stopuseMPgraphic \setupbackgrounds[footer][text][background={Wave}] The problem is that the graphics is not re-computed on every page, although I pretty convinced it should. On the opposite, when I set \setupbackgrounds[text][text][background={Wave}] it works perfectly well. (The difference is in [footer] vs. [text].) An ugly workaround is to call \setupbackgrounds on every page, but it's not nice at all. What went wrong? Thanks, D.A. -- Trust no man, not even your brother With hair one colour and beard another -- Ty Semaka (The Plaid Tongued Devils): never drown a cat

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RE: [NTG-context] alignment issues
by Idris Samawi Hamid 09 May '05

09 May '05

Hi Taco, In addition to [flushright] and [flushleft], would it be possible to add support for the options [raggedright] and [raggedleft] (equivalent to the default [right] and [left] respectively)? This would add useful symmetry to the alignment options, and is easy to remember-) Thnx 4 all your help (Otared too!) and Best Idris >===== Original Message From Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> ===== >> \startalignment[right] bla bla bla \stopalignment > >You can use > > \startalignment[flushleft] bla bla bla \stopalignment > >instead ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Indenting after \stopitemize
by Idris Samawi Hamid 09 May '05

09 May '05

Dear knights, Has ConTeXt changed its default for indenting after \stopitemize? Normally ConTeXt suppresses indentation after positive whitespace but this does not work in e.g. ======================= \setupoutput[pdftex]% \setupindenting[medium,next] \setupitemize[each][][before={\blank[big]},after={\blank[big]}] \starttext \startitemize \item Item \stopitemize %\blank[big] \input knuth \stoptext ======================= I think this used to work before... How do I force no indentation after an itemize environment? I'm also unclear about what the indentnext=no is supposed to do. Thnx as always Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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