August 2005 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Aleph reminder
by Idris Samawi Hamid 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Dear syndicate, For those using aleph and ConTeXt: upon upgrading don't forget to comment all extra_mem_bot.context = lines in texmf.cnf, both in \texmf and \texmf-local, otherwise aleph will crash on e.g. over/underfull boxes. If Giuseppe reads this: the main XeTeX developer believes he found the source of this bug (and a fix->)... Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] upgrading to latest ConTeXt
by Idris Samawi Hamid 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >>System complains that pdfetex.dll cannot be found. Sure enough, there is no >>such dll in the distribution. >just use the old pdfetex and pdfetex.pool (i'll fix the mswin zip files One more question: I have a lot of private/generated stuff in texmf-local and texmf-fonts, much of it generated by texfont etc. Is it safe (after backup) to just drop the new C:/ConTeXt on top of the older one? Is engine path working? Is there one command to generate both aleph and pdfetex formats or do I have to do this separately? Any other upgrade tips are appreciated! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Image Database
by Jessica Holle 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

I've some questions about the Image Database. I found no answers in the xfigure.pdf. Can I generate the xml file automaticly? I can use xmltools --dir --pattern=/home/tralal/*.jpg --output=tralala.xml but then in the xml file doesn't stad figure, there is file. so this doesn't work I think. Must everything be in the same folder? the xmlfile, the images and my document I'm writing? Or can I specify a directory in the xmlfile? So that the images can be on an other folder than the xmlfile? Must the xmlfile be in the same directory than my document?

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upgrading to latest ConTeXt
by Idris Samawi Hamid 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Dear gang, Have not updated in a while, noticed a new mswincontext.zip, now trying to upgrade to the latest. First thing: System complains that pdfetex.dll cannot be found. Sure enough, there is no such dll in the distribution. 2. Can I go back to the last mswincontext and just use cont-tmf, or are there some new features in the latest mswincontext that we need? Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Uppercase in headers
by Olivier 18 Aug '05

18 Aug '05

Hi, I would like to set the headers all caps, but not the title of the section in the body text. This setting %\setupheader[text][style={\WORD}] % <- does not work \setupheadertexts[text][\setups{run:left}][][][\setups{run:right}] \startsetups run:left \CapHeadFont\pagenumber\qquad\WORD{\getmarking[section]} \stopsetups eats the section title in the headers. What should I do to get it right? Thanks, Olivier

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[Fwd: [NTG-context] Re: ec encoding and tcaron]
by Hans Hagen 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Hi Jacko, There is some confusion about tcaron. The problem si that when another name is used, am2tfm cannot create proper small caps when there is no matching upper/lowercase slot. What do you advice in this. Should the ec enc file be changed? Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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alpha version
by Hans Hagen 17 Aug '05

17 Aug '05

Hi, For those interested in sorting registers ... ... the alpha release has sort-* files in it. For the moment you need to load: \readfile{sort-ini}{}{} After that mainlanguage[sl] \starttext test \index {aa1} test \index {ab1} test \index {aa2} test \index {ab2} test \index {aa10} test \index {aa8} test \index {aa9} test \index {aa11} test \index {aa10} test \index {cccc} test \index {\ccaron ccc} test \index {\cacute ccc} test \index {caaa} test \index {\ccaron aaa} test \index {\cacute aaa} \placeindex \stoptext will adapt itself to the language. Sort orders are defined in sort-lan.tex. You need to run 'newtexexec' (ruby reimplementation of texexec), which uses the texutil module/class instead of the program (faster). The reimplementation of texutil permits user plugins and such (more about that later). I need more info on sort order about for instance czech and german and ... Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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indic languages
by Hans Hagen 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Hi, Anyone interested in indic scripts? There is a new release of a conversion to type1 at: http://www-hep.fzu.cz/~piska/indic.html pretty good quality and interesting shapes -) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Image Database Font missing?
by Jessica Holle 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Hi, I've again a problem but I don't know how to solve it. Please help... I want to test the Image Database. The XML file for my testing is written and now I want to produce the PDF with this: texexec --pdf --use=fig-make test.xml and the output looks like this: (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex))kpathsea: Running mktextfm utmr8t mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input utmr8t This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.4) kpathsea: Running mktexmf utmr8t ! I can't find file `utmr8t'. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input utmr8t Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input utmr8t Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: utmr8t.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input utmr8t' failed to make utmr8t.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \*postscript12ptrmtf*:=utmr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.308 [pos] This are the fonts I've found: rzvlabwks:/home/jessi/test/neu # locate utmb8 /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/urw/times/utmb8a.afm /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/urwvn/utmb8v.tfm /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/urwvn/utmb8v.pfb /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/times/utmb8a.pfb There is a font missing I think. Now I've looked in the mail achive and found nothing which explain how to get this font. Then I've found something about the cont-sys.tex, but I've no tex file only a rme can this depend on my problem? rzvlabwks:/home/jessi/test/neu # updatedb rzvlabwks:/home/jessi/test/neu # locate cont-sys /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-sys.ori /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-sys.ori /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme Hope somebody can help Greetings Jessica

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ec encoding and tcaron
by Vit Zyka 16 Aug '05

16 Aug '05

Hi all, let allowed me some pessimism. I am working on our 40-years-scout-group-bulletin intensively for more then a month. I have to solve many many technical problems instead on focusing on the design. The Bulletin is rather complex but many problems are 'simple'. I start to doubt if ConTeXt (and that is why TeX generally) is good tool for such typsetting. Detective debugging is good fun but if time is going, no results, and the list of todo technical unwanted features is increasing... Only some of these 'bugs' I presented in this list. Even such number would be looking as making only troubles. Never mind, here is another problem I am puzzled by for 4 hours... Please imagine a simple code in ISO-8859-2: -------------------------------------- \enableregime[il2] %\enableregime[latin2] \usetypescript[modern][ec] \setupbodyfont[10pt,rm] \starttext ťŤ % \tcaron\Tcaron \WORD{ťŤ} \stoptext --------------------------------------- It produces an error ! Undefined control sequence. <to be read again> ¢ It comes from the first letter inside \WORD{...}. The same letters outside \WORD are typeset OK. So ť is not defined. But where it should be defined? \tcacon def is OK. Other diacritics chars e.g. \dcaron, \rcaron are OK. I was looking to enco-ec, enco-il2, regi-lat. Upper/lower mapping and char codes seems to be OK. But more I looking into I less understand it. There is no regi-il2 file, so I expect that appropriate info goes from enco-il2. But any other (perhaps more appropriate) combination like \enableregime[latin2] \usetypescript[modern][ec] or \usetypescript[modern][il2] gives totaly wrong glyphs. I believe that ť uppecase bug also relates with ignoring making pseudo-caps for this letter by texfont --fontroot=X: --en=ec --ve=public --co=lm --source=auto --ca=0.8 lmbx10 So problem is somewhere in ec encoding. Can somebody help please? Thanks and sorry for my embittering - it aims to my own head. vit

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