August 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

ruby
by Hans Hagen 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Hi, when pondering about some ruby to bin for unix and googling a bit, i ran into: http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/ruby.html amazing stuff, not only rubyscript2exe (cross platform)! Hans (ps. until now i used exerb for making a texmfstart bin) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Antykwa math support & \Longrightarrow
by Mojca Miklavec 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Hello, a slightly strange question. I re-compiled a pretty old ConTeXt document a couple of days ago. In the "old good times" it was typeset with \setupbodyfont[ant,18pt] and an equation with $a\Longrightarrow b$. Apparently math support was added inbetween. I'm not asking for any backward compatibility at all (my system behaves pretty strange anyway), I would only like to know the most elegant way to keep Antykwa for "a" and "b" in the example above, but to use a latin-modern arrow. I'm sorry, I wasn't able to reproduce the result anywhere else (each of the three distributions where I can try out ConTeXt is behaving differently), so I temporary uploded the files to http://pub.mojca.org/tex/ant/. And the second question: Why does this code below fail? It wotks ok for texnansi, but not for ec: \usetypescript[antykwa-torunska][ec] \definetypeface[MyAnt] [rm] [serif] [antykwa-torunska] [default] [encoding=ec] \setupbodyfont[MyAnt,10pt] \starttext abc\ccaron \stoptext Thank you very much, Mojca

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Relative font scaling
by Olivier 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Hi, I'm experiencing issues with rscale. When using: \starttypescript [MyFnt] \definetypeface [MyFnt] [rm] [serif] [rfont] [default] [encoding=ec] \definetypeface [MyFnt] [mm] [math] [mfont] [default] [rscale=0.99,encoding=default] \definetypeface [MyFnt] [tt] [mono] [tfont] [default] [rscale=0.1,encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript everything works as expected (text font is indeed rfont, math font is indeed mfont, tt font is indeed tfont, and moreover the math font is correctly rscaled) but the tt font isn't rscaled at all. Any idea where the issue might come from? Thanks, Olivier

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bug with active :!;?
by Olivier 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hi, Seems like the following crashes conTeXt: \useencoding [ffr] \mainlanguage[fr] \setupheadertexts[text][][][\setups{run:left}][] \startsetups run:left nothing \stopsetups \starttext Nothing special here \stoptext Of course one can live with this by renaming the tag. However, the bug will also occur in the \cite[Bob:A,Bob:B] commands from the bib module, and I assume in anything that deals with csnameS containing active colons... Strangely enough, the bug doesn't seem to occur in \placeformula[eq:A] Many thanks for hinting a fix, Olivier

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Problem with \startcombination
by John R. Culleton 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Here is a code fragment: \section{Gallery} \useexternalfigure[B008][B008.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[B009][B009.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[B010][B010.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[B013][B013.jpg][scale=2000] \useexternalfigure[picnic.jpg] \placefigure{} \startcombination[2] {\externalfigure[B008]}{} {\externalfigure[B009]}{} \stopcombination --------------------------------------- ---and here is the error message: )) (./gallery.tex section : - Gallery ! Missing { inserted. <to be read again> \let \noshowargumenterror ->\let \expectedarguments \noexpectedarguments \dodoubleempty #1->\noshowargumenterror \doifnextcharelse [{\dodoubletestemp... l.9 \startcombination [2] ? ------------------------------------------------------ I am using TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 on a Slack Linux system. John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf

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Help with \setuplayout[grid=yes]
by Randall Skelton 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hi all, Attached is an example showing my misunderstanding about grid alignment. The attached works as expected when \setuplayout[grid=no] is used or the 'Author table' is commented out. The inclusion of the little table in the text is really just to convince myself that I can have a table with the grid enabled. Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated. Cheers, Randall ---- \showframe %\showmakeup %\showgrid %%% Dimensions \newdimen\PaperWidth \PaperWidth=8.5in \newdimen\PaperHeight \PaperHeight=11.0in \newdimen\TextWidth \TextWidth=5.5in \newdimen\TextHeight \TextHeight=10.0in \setuppapersize[letter][letter] % paper size \definepapersize[width=\PaperWidth,height=\PaperHeight] \setuplayout [location=doublesided, % double-sided printing grid=yes, %%%% WHY DOES THIS CAUSE AN ERROR? topspace=0.50in, % the space at the very top of the page backspace=1.5in, % the space in the gutter header=0.75in, % the space for headers footer=0.50in, % the space for footers leftmargin=1in, % the space for margin notes rightmargin=1in, % the space for right margin notes width=\TextWidth, % the width of the body text height=\TextHeight] % the height of the body text %%% Authors and Approvals \def\AuthorsTitle{\midaligned{\sc{Authors and Approvals}}} \def\startAuthors{% \blank[2*big]\AuthorsTitle\\\blank[2*big]% \hbox to \hsize\bgroup\hss\SetTableToWidth{6.5in}% \starttable[|c|c|c|c|c|] \HL \VL \VL Function\VL Name\VL Signature\VL Date\VL\SR\HL} \def\stopAuthors{\stoptable\hss\egroup} def\Author[#1]{% \getgparameters[Author][#1]% \doifundefined{AuthorRole}{\gdef\AuthorRole{Prepared by:}}% \doifundefined{AuthorFunction}{\gdef\AuthorFunction{-}}% \doifundefined{AuthorName}{\gdef\AuthorName{-}}% \doifundefined{AuthorSignature}{\gdef\AuthorSignature{}}% \doifundefined{AuthorDate}{\gdef\AuthorDate{-}}% \VL\AuthorRole \VL\AuthorFunction% \VL\AuthorName \VL\AuthorSignature% \VL\AuthorDate% \VL\SR\HL% \gdef\AuthorFunction{ }\gdef\AuthorName{ }% \gdef\AuthorSignature{ }\gdef\AuthorDate{ }% } \starttext %%% Start: Front \startfrontmatter \startAuthors \Author [Role={Prepared by:}, Function={Scientist}, Name={John Smith}, Date={2005-08-24}] \Author [Role={Checked by}:, Date={2005-08-24}] \Author [Role={Approved by:}, Date={2005-08-24}] \stopAuthors %%% Stop: Front \stopfrontmatter %%% Start: Body \startbodymatter \section{One} \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth} \starttable[|c|c|] \HL \VL One \VL Two \VL\FR \VL Three \VL Four \VL\LR \HL \stoptable \section{Two} \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth} %%% Stop: Body part \stopbodymatter \stoptext

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Re: Setting header texts (second)
by Duncan Hothersall 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hi. "\getmarking[chapter][current]" should give you the title of the current chapter. Similarly "\getmarking[section][current]", etc. In order to rid yourself of the default pagenumber in the middle of the top header, use "\setuppagenumbering[location=]", or add "location=" to your existing \setuppagenumbering command. Hope that helps. Duncan

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Elided page numbers in registers
by Duncan Hothersall 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Another question on registers (just getting into indexing!). I have a book which numbers its pages by chapter, and so page numbers are 1/1, 1/2 ... for the pages of chapter 1, and then 2/1, 2/2 ... for the pages of chapter 2. I have page ranges in my index, such as 1/1-1/3, or 2/24-2/26. I would like these ranges to be elided - in other words, the first one would read 1/1-3 (remove repeated chapter number), and the second would read 2/24-6 (remove repeated chapter number and also the repeated 2 in page number). Question: is there an already existing system to do this? I guess no :-) Followup: I would be willing to help to code this if it doesn't exist (I have some experience with such systems) if someone can point me at the right bit of code to look at (things seem to be changing around texutils, newtexexec etc. so I don't want to start at the wrong place). Thanks... Duncan

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Re: [NTG-context] Problem installing ConTeXt jedit syntax
by Elliot Clifton 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Hans, Sorry about taking a long time to get back to you. I checked the syntax of the ConTeXt mode files. They seem to be consistent with the syntax in modes that are known to work. The delegate syntax doesn't seem to have changed. I don't recieve XML validation errors for any other parts of the code. Just the delegation. I can't see why the XML is invalid. For the record, I'm using jEdit 4.2final Elliot Elliot Clifton wrote: >Hi, > >I've added the context jedit mode files to the modes directory inside >my jedit settings directory, and appended the mode to the catalogue. I >get XML validation errors that state the various DELEGATEs are >invalid. The external files (*-en, *-de, etc...) do not import. Why? >What am I doing wrong? > > is there a more detailed report? can you figure otu if the delegates syntax has changed? Hans

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Register page ranges
by Duncan Hothersall 31 Aug '05

31 Aug '05

Bug or feature? In a register (such as the index), a command like \index[key]{entry} creates an index entry sorted as 'key', and there exists also \startregister[key]{entry} ... \stopregister[key] which creates a page range. As far as I can tell, the [key] here plays two roles - the ID of the range, and the sort key. Problems arise if a publication contains more than one range with the same key - the system ends up thinking it is one long range and you get output like entry 1-2-8-9 instead of entry 1-2, 8-9. One solution here is to simply add a number to the end of the key, so that the first range becomes [key1] and the second [key2]. This corrects the output. So I guess my question is, is this a bug or a feature? It had me confused for a while... Thanks, Duncan

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