September 2005 - ntg-context

Can't compile the whole project
by Roman Schechtel 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Hello from a new ConTeXt user! I've read the wiki-page on how to separate input files into a project structure (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Project_structure) and now I have the problem that: - I can "compile" an individual component (resulting in a PDF) - I also can compile a product - But I can't compile the whole __project__! Everytime I try to compile the project, I get the "No pages of output" message in the log. My setup is the following: ----------------File: /environment.tex------------------------- \startenvironment environment \stopenvironment ----------------File: /project.tex----------------------------- \startproject project \environment environment \product ./product/product \stopproject ----------------File: /product/product.tex--------------------- \startproduct product \project project \component ./component/component \stopproduct ----------------File: /product/component/component.tex--------- \startcomponent component \product product \project project \dorecurse{10}{Component 1} \stopcomponent %________________________________________________________________ %I've put up those files in http://schechtel.de/pub/context/proj.zip Now.. I get a PDF when I compile component.tex individually, the same with product.tex -- but the PDF is not build when I compile project.tex The Logfile http://schechtel.de/pub/context/project.log.html ...shows something very interesting (marked red, scroll down). What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help, Roman Schechtel

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[BIB] Extra space before surname
by Giuseppe Bilotta 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

Hello, I just noticed that there is an extra space before the surname if there is no "von" part. My setup: \def\bracketed#1{[#1]} \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database={mrabbrev,bezier}] \setuppublications[numbering=yes, sorttype=cite, criterium=all, numbercommand=\bracketed, refcommand=num] \setupcite[num][left={\start\bf[},right={]\stop}]

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puzzling metafun graphics
by Thomas A. Schmitz 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

This one hast just cost me two hours, and I'm still baffled. The story (in shorthand): was trying to integrate a positional metafun graphic into a presentation. I got no output. I tried making a minimal example file to reproduce the problem, and sure enough, everything went fine. I rebuilt the entire file, by pasting one paragraph of the original file at a time, and I got exactly the output I wanted. [Drumroll] I deleted the original file and everything associated with it [i.e. all those .tui and .tuo etc.], saved the new file from my /tmp directory to my working directory, and -- I got no output again. diff shows that both files are identical. Looking at the logs, there's only one difference I can spot: < \openout5 = `test-mpgraph.mp'. --- > \openout5 = `05.11.08-mpgraph.mp'. 205,206c206,207 < [MP to PDF] (./test-mpgraph.1) [MP to PDF] (./test-mpgraph.2) < [MP to PDF] (./test-mpgraph.3) --- > [MP 05.11.08-mpgraph.1] [MP 05.11.08-mpgraph.2] > [MP 05.11.08-mpgraph.3] 211c212 < systems : end file test at line 426 --- > systems : end file 05.11.08 at line 426 213c214 < [flush and process test-mpgraph.mp afterwards] ) --- > [flush and process 05.11.08-mpgraph.mp afterwards] ) The "MP to PDF" part is missing from the file 05.11.08, which might explain why I don't see anything in the resulting pdf. But why? Can anybody enlighten me why the same file can behave differently? And how I can coax ConTeXt into running this MP to PDF thingy? Thanks Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] help at layout
by Boris Pedrofiets 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

Thank you Taco. This is exactly what i needed! btw. I think I need to do layouts more often. What is good litterature about this subject? Boris From: Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] help at layout Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:22:21 +0200 > > >Boris Pedrofiets wrote: >>Hello, >>I want to make a layout where a vertical line is putted at the rigth of >>the left margin. Capters and paragraphs must indent in the left margin, >>and be boxed. >>Someting like: > >The important trick is to define a special command that does the >typesetting of the chapter number + text, I hope you're not too >scared of low-level TeX, because in the actual example below I've >added some low-level stuff to fiddle with the outdent. > >This is the basic setup for the chapter command: > > > \setupcolors[state=start] > > \def\Boxedchapter#1#2% > {\framed[background=color, > backgroundcolor=white]{#1.~#2}} > > \setuphead[chapter][command=\Boxedchapter] > > >The color commands are needed so that the background of the >chapter head overwrites the line in the margin. That line >is a single command, btw: > > \setupbackgrounds[text][leftmargin][state=start,rightframe=on] > > >Also, I've added a \blank in the example below so that a bit >of the line sticks out above the framed text, that looks >better, I think. > > >You can look up other options for \setupbackgrounds, \framed and >\setuphead in http://texshow.contextgarden.net, or use your local 'texshow' >command. > > >Greetings, Taco > > >% start >\setupcolors[state=start] > >\setupbackgrounds[text][leftmargin][state=start,rightframe=on] > >\newdimen\outdentchapter > >\outdentchapter=1cm % change this for more or less outdent > >\def\Boxedchapter#1#2% > {\advance\hsize\outdentchapter > \vbox > {\moveleft\outdentchapter > \vbox > {\blank[2*line] > \framed[background=color, > backgroundcolor=white]{#1.~#2}}}} > >\setuphead[chapter][command=\Boxedchapter] > >\starttext > >\chapter{The first chapter} > >\input knuth > >\stoptext >% end > >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >ntg-context(a)ntg.nl >http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context _________________________________________________________________ Stuur een voiceclip met MSN Messenger 7.5 http://www1.imagine-msn.com/Messenger/Video.aspx

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Section level of system supplied section?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

I found myself in the need to manually specify the section level at which things like e.g. the table of contents, bibliography etc were to appear. I did this with \let\systemsuppliedtitle\subject, but it looks like an (undocumented) hack. Is there some more correct way? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Bold BibTeX refs in text?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

This is my bibliography set up \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database={mrabbrev,bezier}] \setuppublications[numbering=yes, sorttype=cite, numbercommand=\bracketed, refcommand=num] I would have liked the in-text bibtex refs to come out in bold, so I tried: \setupcite[num][before={\start\bf},after={\stop}] but this isn't working. I'm pretty sure I'm missing something obvious here ... While we're at it, the reference compression method is a little too aggressive: I have a \cite[onething,another] and it gives me [1--2] in text ... in this case [1,2] would be better, IMO. Compression is good if you have three or more consecutive refs. BTW, how do I add the whole database to the reference list? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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No small caps?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

I have Palatino as main font set up with \usetypescript[adobekb][8r] \loadmapfile[context-base] \usetypescript[palatino][8r] \setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,12pt] \switchtobodyfont[12pt] Plus I have \setupcapitals[sc=yes] \definestartstop[abstract] [before={\sc Abstract.\hskip1em}] But \starttext \startabstract In this article we will analyze a few techniques that can be used to approximate, by means of Bézier cubics, envelopes of circles centered on Bézier cubics. Such an approximation is useful, if not necessary, in several applications in many branches of computer graphics, ranging from CAD to outline font conversions. \stopabstract \stoptext does not give me Abstract in small caps. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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help at layout
by Boris Pedrofiets 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

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Using Adobe built-in fonts with latest context + texlive 204
by Berend de Boer 13 Sep '05

13 Sep '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, I just upgraded my entire TeX system. There are no traces of old files anymore, everything is brandnew. I installed texlive 2004 (because I had it on a DVD, thanks NTG!). I got the latest ConText (Aug 31). The first thing I had to do was to setup the proper encoding. For example I had to specify this: \setupencoding[\s!default=8r] % or "ec", if you prefer \usetypescript[berry][\defaultencoding] or ec encoding, works as well. It didn't work out of the box unfortunately. But this seems to get me the URW fonts, not the greatest fonts. It seems the latest tex has something like updmap, whatever that is. Using "updmap --edit" I changed the LW35 setting to ADOBEkb and now I get the built-in fonts I believe. Is that correct? But I still got complaints about this one: Warning: pdfetex (file ptmbi8a.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for reading Warning: pdfetex (file ptmri8a.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for reading Warning: pdfetex (file ptmr8a.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for reading Warning: pdfetex (file ptmb8a.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for reading But document displays fine BTW. I fixed that by changing another setting: setting pdftexDownloadBase14 to false. But I'm a bit confused here. I thought Adobe had made those fonts freely available, so shouldn't they be in my tex installation? Or is this still an encoding issue, and should I use a different encoding in order for pdfetex to find these four missing font files?? - -- Live long and prosper, Berend de Boer (PGP public key: http://www.pobox.com/~berend/berend-public-key.txt) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFDJhUNIyuuaiRyjTYRAqHNAKDDNtQ8BqyXrpUAix0Dr1it7YBMTgCdGmHX /IgEDy4JJta6dO/v/y7z/vo= =5l6+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Disappearing figures
by Giuseppe Bilotta 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Hello people, I think I spotted a bug either in ConTeXt or in my capability comprehension. Take the following simple code: \placefigure[here][testfigs]{Test cases}{ \startcombination[3*3] {\externalfigure[tests/curves.1]}{Testcase~1} {\externalfigure[tests/curves.2]}{Testcase~2} {\externalfigure[tests/curves.3]}{Testcase~3} {\externalfigure[tests/curves.4]}{Testcase~4} {\externalfigure[tests/curves.5]}{Testcase~5} {\externalfigure[tests/curves.6]}{Testcase~6} {\externalfigure[tests/curves.7]}{Testcase~7} {}{} {\externalfigure[tests/curves.8]}{Testcase~8} \stopcombination } It works --- on the first texexec run. On subsequent runs, ConTeXt complains that figure tests/curves can not be found The problem is that I have a file curves (no extension in tests/ ... but why is ConTeXt looking for it, if I *did* specify an extension? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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