June 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

pararaph indent in footnote
by Alan Bowen 22 Jul '05

22 Jul '05

How does one get ConTeXt to indent and space paragraphs in footnotes according to the same rules as the body text? I have checked the manual but do not see how to adapt \setupfootnotes to do this, and my attempts thus far with \setupfootnotedefinition have not been unsuccessful either. Thanks for any help or pointers. Alan

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presentations in ConTeXt
by Thomas A. Schmitz 20 Jul '05

20 Jul '05

I've decided to bite the bullet and do my presentations in ConTeXt this term. So far, I'm quite satisfied. I've done only very basic stuff so far (if you're interested, you can have a look at http:// www.uni-bonn.de/www/Philologie/Personal/Schmitz/Dateien.html ), but I like the result. The background is just a pdf-image that I created with metapost and reused as a page background (I found this was faster and easier than recalculating it every time...) Things I would like to know: I like the idea of having the small bar showing at which place in the presentations we are (such as in pre-colorful). I'd like it very minimal, though: maybe just grey squares, with the current position being white or yellow. I have a hunch that this could be achieved with \setupinteractionbar, but this command is a bit underdocumented. Hints, anybody? I am still at a loss how to achieve one thing in ConTeXt that was pretty easy in Keynote or (shudder) Powerpoint: When I wanted to highlight something on a map or a picture, I would just draw a red circle around it. What would be the proper way to do this in ConTeXt? Adding a layer with a red circle drawn in Metapost, then positioning it by trial and error? Or can anyone point to a better solution? And lastly: I have never seen transitions working on OS X (both Apple's Preview and Adobe Reader 7.0). Can anybody confirm that they got this working on other systems? Sorry for the long post. I'm hoping for some enlightenment. Best Thomas

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Re: try compiling Tex showcase source : program_sample.tex
by olivier Turlier 17 Jul '05

17 Jul '05

Christopher Creutzig wrote: >> olivier Turlier wrote: >> > >>>> I've tryed to compile whithout success. > >> >> >> The files are deliberately incomplete. ...generate the output, is more than a simple texexec. :-) >> >> >> Regards, >> Christopher Hi Christopher, I was trying to compile Program-sample.tex because I find the transparent white frame over the grey background very nice to see for a pure electronic pdf. In the same range, the vit Zyka font demo catalog (http://typokvitek.com/stormcontext/) push hard the limit of those transparent overlays that I'm still in quest to reproduce. Salutations -- Olivier TURLIER

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fleurons - reprise
by Keith McKay 14 Jul '05

14 Jul '05

Thanks to Hans and Adam for the helpful advice. The code from Adam looked a bit daunting to me as a learner at first but when I changed [pzdr] to [uzdr] it worked fine. I attach the output from Adam's code which also includes his query about symb-run in a previous message. Hope this is of use. From the further discussion between them I hope I didn't open a can of worms. One last question. I did a search on the web for fleuron fonts and came up with a few interesting hits. To use these in Context is it a case of following the 'Texfont explained' and 'Fonts in Context' manuals? I think I have seen some 'My Way' (or is it 'This way'... well, 'Whatever way' ;>) ) on the Wiki about this as well. I realize this is not a trivial pursuit for a beginner but I would like to give it a try. Are there any pitfalls to look out for or should I just dive in? Thanks Keith Keith McKay Hamilton, Scotland -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.3.0 - Release Date: 30/05/2005

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enco-ffr again
by Peter Münster 13 Jul '05

13 Jul '05

I've just discovered, that the problem is only with : and ; but not with ? and ! Here my example files: file env.tex: \startenvironment env \useencoding[ffr] \mainlanguage[fr] \stopenvironment file test.tex: \environment env \starttext No space before : nor ; bla: bla; bla? bla! \stoptext Could someone help? Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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Re: [NTG-pdftex] kerning
by Taco Hoekwater 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Hans Hagen wrote: > Taco Hoekwater wrote: > >> PS. I can create a series of slides that show internals of the >> font reading process for the ntg meeting, if you are interested. > > > sounds like a good idea to me For those of you who are interested in this sort of thing, I've posted an 884-page PDF document that illustrates TeX's loading of a few font metric files: nullfont (internal) cmr10 cmsy10 cmex10 De document, and sources, are available at: http://tex.aanhet.net/temp/fontreader.pdf http://tex.aanhet.net/temp/fontreader.zip Beware, the PDF is pretty large (7.7Mb). MetaPost, Perl and Context sources are quite small (12kb), but very much a hack. Taco

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Re: Animations in ConTeXt
by Richard Hirsch 08 Jul '05

08 Jul '05

Richard Rascher-Friesenhausen asked > So again. Is it possible to write something like the above animation packages > in ConTeXt (as a module)? If Acrobat can display them, ConTeXt can generate them. Here is a simple example. \setupoutput [pdf] \setupcolors [state=start] \setupinteraction [state=start] \setuppapersize [S6][S6] %% this is just code to get something to animate \startMPinclusions picture thearrow, thestar; drawarrow (origin--up) scaled 10mm withpen pencircle scaled 3pt withcolor .9 red; setbounds currentpicture to (fullcircle scaled 22mm); thearrow:= currentpicture scaled 5; currentpicture:= nullpicture; for angle=0 step 72 until 359: draw thearrow rotated angle; endfor thestar:= currentpicture; currentpicture:= nullpicture \stopMPinclusions \setupMPvariables [drawstar] [rotation=0] \startuniqueMPgraphic{drawstar}{rotation} draw thestar rotated \MPvar{rotation}; \stopuniqueMPgraphic %% now we define some symbols (the frames of the animated sequence) \def\definestarsymbol#1{% \definesymbol [star #1] [\uniqueMPgraphic{drawstar}{rotation=#1}]} \definestarsymbol{0} \definestarsymbol{6} \definestarsymbol{12} \definestarsymbol{18} \definestarsymbol{24} \definestarsymbol{30} \definestarsymbol{36} \definestarsymbol{42} \definestarsymbol{48} \definestarsymbol{54} \definestarsymbol{60} \definestarsymbol{66} %% the frames are put into a fieldstack \definefieldstack [vortex] [star 0, star 6, star 12, star 18, star 24, star 30, star 36, star 42, star 48, star 54, star 60, star 66] %% and this is the JavaScrip code that displays the frames one by one \startJSpreamble MyField used later var current = 1; var delay = 200; % 200 milliseconds var timer; var running = false; % animation currently not running function Advance_Angle ( ) { this.getField("vortex:"+current).value = "Off"; if (++current > 12) % number of frames { current = 1; } % loop through frames this.getField("vortex:"+current).value = "On"; } \stopJSpreamble %% we want to control the starting and stopping of the animation \startJScode Rotate_Star uses MyField if (running) { try { app.clearInterval(timer); } catch(except) {}; running = false; } else { timer = app.setInterval("Advance_Angle()",delay); running = true; } \stopJScode \starttext \placefigure [here] [fig:animation] {A simple \MetaFun\ animation, click \goto {here} [JS(Rotate_Star)] to start (or stop)} {\fieldstack [vortex]} \stoptext Of course you would want to put the symbol definitions and the definition of the fieldstack into a loop. I tried %% \newcount\angle %% \angle=0%\zerocount %% \dorecurse{12} {% %% \number\angle:\qquad %% \definestarsymbol{\the\angle} %% \symbol[star \number\angle]\par %% \advance\angle by 6} and did get the single symbols. I wasn't successful however in putting the symbol list of the fieldstack definition into a loop. Perhaps the ConTeXt gurus can help. Best regards, Richard

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metafun not working
by piskala upendran 07 Jul '05

07 Jul '05

hello Taco, I did search the result of all the files. All the files are ok. except the MP-mpgraph.mpy and MP-mpgraph.1. The mpy shows only the %mpochecksum : 8298 rest are all blank. Iam also finding the error in MP-mpgraph.1 I am attaching the file. It means both mpy and MP-mpgraph.1 files are wrong. what should i do next. how to find the mistake? thanks upendran %---------attached MP-mpgraph.1------------ %!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0 %%BoundingBox: 0 0 0 0 %%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 0 0 %%Creator: MetaPost 0.901 %%CreationDate: 2005.06.29:0155 %%Pages: 1 %%BeginProlog %%EndProlog %%Page: 1 1 %%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 0 0 showpage %%EOF %---------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com

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texsync
by Stuart Jansen 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

Is the newest version available through texsync? I performed: ruby /data/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/texsync.rb --force --update --tree=tex --destination=/data/tex/ ruby /data/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/texsync.rb --force --update --tree=linux-64 --destination=/data/tex/ ruby /data/tex/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/texsync.rb --force --update --tree=doc --destination=/data/tex/doc/ texexec --make --all But /data/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/context.tex contains \def\contextversion{2005.03.16} -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C.

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International characters in math
by Radhelorn 05 Jul '05

05 Jul '05

Hello All! I've returned to my experiments with fonts and have a question: is there a way to use international characters in math like with LaTeX mathtext package? Or even as \text{} in AMS LaTeX? Is there some documentation on math in ConTeXt except sources? -- Radhelorn <radhelorn(a)mail.ru>

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