May 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Search Path
by Randall Skelton 06 May '05

06 May '05

Hi all, I've become rather confused on how ConTeXt searches paths so I made a quick example... Attached is ConTest.zip which expands to a trivial directory layout for a project. ConTest/env_test.tex ConTest/prd_one ConTest/prd_one/cmp_aaa ConTest/prd_one/cmp_aaa/cmp_aaa.tex ConTest/prd_one/cmp_aaa/tbl_aaa.tex ConTest/prd_one/cmp_bbb ConTest/prd_one/cmp_bbb/cmp_bbb.tex ConTest/prd_one/prd_one.tex ConTest/prd_two ConTest/prd_two/cmp_ccc ConTest/prd_two/cmp_ccc/cmp_ccc.tex ConTest/prd_two/cmp_ddd ConTest/prd_two/cmp_ddd/cmp_ddd.tex ConTest/prd_two/prd_two.tex ConTest/prj_test.tex My problems: (1) I generally like to keep tables, figures and even some complicated equations in separate input files so that I can easily move the files between different projects (i.e. papers for publications, internal docs, grant applications, etc). More often than not, my 'tbl_*' files are symlinks. In this example I use: \input tbl_aaa.tex within the file cmp_aaa.tex to illustrate my problem. Namely, I cannot find the file tbl_aaa.tex when generating either prj_test.tex or prd_one.tex? I've tried a variety of commands in place of input, including the various readfile commands but nothing I've tried can make ConTeXt find this file. (2) Can someone please explain what \usepath[] and \usesubpath[] are for and what the difference between the two is? I've read many messages that refer to these but have yet to find a true example showing their use. Their names suggest they may be useful in the case but as the attached files suggest, I've been unable to figure out what to do with them. (3) I've largely switched over my figures to using the image database (aka resource libraries?). Is it currently possible to create databases of equations and/or tables? Many thanks and have a good weekend, Randall

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Using fonts of an existing TeX-Installation
by Tobias Hilbricht 05 May '05

05 May '05

Dear readers of this list, I have a working recent (La)TeX and ConTeXt installation. I have added several commercial PostScript fonts and can use them with (La)TeX. The font files of those fonts are in directories under texmf-local/fonts (afm, tfm, vf, type1), that is, as suggested by TeXFont manual for ConTeXt. However, following the TeXFont manual for ConTeXt, do I have to reinstall them from scratch for ConTeXt starting with the pfb- and afm-files from texmf-local/fonts/source, or can I use the already distributed pfb- and afm-files? Does a reinstallation interfer with the existing font installation for (La)TeX? Thanks for helpful hints in advance Yours sincerely Tobias Hilbricht -- Dr. Tobias Hilbricht Linopus Satz und Grafik www.linopus.de

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\setupMMLappearance
by Duncan Hothersall 05 May '05

05 May '05

Hello MathMLers. I just discovered the very promising \setupMMLappearance command, which looked like it held the answer to one of my most niggling of problems with display MathML processing - the fact that in a tabular layout using <mtable> I couldn't make the left-hand-side right-aligned, the middle (equals sign) centred and the right-hand-side left-aligned. The default layout has all columns centred. So having looked through the sources I tried \setupMMLappearance[mtable][alternative=b] and to my joy the horizontal alignment seemed to be perfect. But... the vertical spacing seems to have changed as well. There is now just a bit more vertical space between the rows, which throws my existing pagination out of whack, and also looks ugly. I think I reached my limit on understanding the sources, so I wonder if someone could help by telling me if there are any other options for the magical \setupMMLappearance command which might help, or indeed any other fine-tuning commands for MathML layout. One other thing I'd really like to be able to do is have the entire equation aligned on the left rather than centred in the text flow. Is there an option for that? Thanks very much to anyone who can help. Duncan

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Pb compiling s-pre-61.tex
by olibou＠free.fr 05 May '05

05 May '05

Hello ! Sorry, I'm a bit new to context ... but I try it for presentation slides... And up to now, I like it very much ... I tried to compile different examples included in the base distribution ... but some, I fail to compile ... And I do not know where I'm wrong ... For example, I tried s-pre-61.tex to compile and it fails ... here is the output of the compile process ... # cp /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/s-pre-61.tex . oli@olinux:~/E/Context # texexec --pdf --mode=demo s-pre-61.tex TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : s-pre-61 output : pdftex interface : en current mode : demo TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extended mode (./s-pre-61.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2005.1.21 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! system (E-TEX) : [line 726] \ifcsname ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-2 3:2-uk-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2 7:2-it-2 8:2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : s-pre-61.top loaded (./s-pre-61.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 1815] \ifcsname <unprotect 5> <protect 5> <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map system : macros of module pre-60 loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/s-pre-60.tex javascript : loading script set stp (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/java-stp.tex) ! Undefined control sequence. l.38 \defineproperty [step:busy][layer][state=start] ? -- Oli Laetius est, quoties magno sibi constat honestum. Lucain, Pharsale, IX, 404.

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font encodings
by Thomas A.Schmitz 05 May '05

05 May '05

Hi all, I want to use a custom font encoding (in my case, enco-agr for ancient Greek). I can't set it up for the entire document because it breaks, e.g., the output of accented letters. But when I try to use it for certain parts of the document only, it will insert a line break whenever it is used. So my question: is it possible to switch font encoding in mid-paragraph? Best Thomas

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Mails of this mailing list
by Patrick Gundlach 05 May '05

05 May '05

Dear ConTeXters, I am still looking for the first emails of this list. The archive on http://archive.contextgarden.net is missing the first half year. If there is anybody out there (Tobias? Slavek?) who has them, please email me off list. Your help is *greatly* appreciated. Patrick (I can't sleep well without having all mails :-)

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pdf bookmarks
by David Waller 05 May '05

05 May '05

Hello, I am trying to produce bookmarks in the PDF file produced with context. I can produce bookmarks but I am unable to get any hierarchy of bookmarks such that chapters can just be displayed initially and then the sections open up. I am able to do this in latex, with hyperref, and am looking for a list of commands, or guidance, which would allow me to do the same in context. Thanks David Waller

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RE: [NTG-context] Two hyphens do not give en dash
by Ville Voipio 05 May '05

05 May '05

> Try adding the --afmpl switch to your texfont command. It switches over > to the afmpl utility, which does better with preserving ligatures and > kerns. Thank you! Now it works. I added this onto the Wiki page, as well. I did a few other changes there, as well (mostly according to your suggestions). - Ville

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Problem with figure placing
by Richard Gabriel 05 May '05

05 May '05

Hello ConTeXters, I have the following problem with placing figures into the document: Sometimes, when there are more larger images and fewer text, TeX lets some of the images run out of the page (see the attached screenshot). This hapens in very, very seldom cases - e.g. whole the document contains more than 200 images and this issue occurs on one or two places... For placing images, I'm using the following commands: \page[bigpreference] \placefigure[here][fig-xyz]{Figure caption}{\externalfigure[xyz.png][scale=3000,maxwidth=\textwidth]} The \page[bigpreference] command handles this situation quite well except certain cases (like it's shown in the attachment). I really don't understand how TeX can typeset anything outside the given page area... Here is my page setup: \definepapersize[MAN][width=17.5cm,height=22cm] \setuppapersize[MAN][A4] \setuplayout[location=middle, marking=on, topspace=1cm, backspace=1.5cm, height=middle, width=middle, header=1cm, footer=1cm] Does anybody guess? Many thanks, Richard

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\lowerleftdoubleninequote (German quotes)
by Frank Grieshaber 05 May '05

05 May '05

Dear all, I want to use German double quotes for my text but noticed that the beginning double quotation sign/glyph is somewhat corrupt: there is a bigger distance between the two signs than is with the ending double quote (which are typographically correct). To make this a bit clearer, I have appended to this email an examle. If you look very carfully you can see this effect already in the Context Manual, chapter 10.8 page 198 (\lowerleftdoubleninequote). The Code of the appended pdf is the following: \mainlanguage [de] rules, quote signs etc. \starttext Dies ist ein \quotation{Test}. \stoptext Has anybody noticed this error, or does anybody know a solution? Thanks, Frank

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