October 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Overfull boxes using m-cweb
by Edwin Wisse 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

Hello, I am running into overfull boxes when including a weaved cweb file into a context document. The original reference to the cwebmac.tex file (the plain TeX macro) is commented out and replaced by \usemodule[cweb]. The cweb macros appear to expand something into \*11ptmmmt* which seems to have something to do with it. Is there anyone here with experience and deep (Con)TeX(t) knowledge who understands what is happening? Regards, Edwin ----------------------------------part of my log file------------------------------------------------ Overfull \hbox (6.4885pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 3--13 \*11ptmmmr* for the ap-pli-ca-tion de-vel-op-ment mod-ule. This is a small ap-p li-ca-tion which loads file \hbox(7.63889+2.13889)x398.33858 .\*11ptmmmr* f .\*11ptmmmr* o .\*11ptmmmr* r .\glue(\spaceskip) 3.66628 .\*11ptmmmr* t .etc. Overfull \hbox (8.38132pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 3--13 \*11ptmmmr* with point and line da-ta and dis-plays it in a win-dow. It pro-vid es a us-er in-ter-face al- \hbox(7.63889+2.13889)x398.33858 .\*11ptmmmr* w .\*11ptmmmr* i .\*11ptmmmr* t .\*11ptmmmr* h .\glue(\spaceskip) 3.66628 .etc.

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compound titles, lists and headers
by Henning Hraban Ramm 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

Dear list, my publisher forces me to set different things as titles, in headers and table of contents. In some cases \nolist and \nomarking aren't enough. here are my actual definitions: ---- \def\Untertitel#1{\blank[3pt]{\ss\bf #1}\blank} % ok \def\Titel#1#2{{\nohyphens\chapter{#1}\Untertitel{#2}}} % ok \def\KomplexTitel#1#2#3{{\writetolist[chapter]{#3}\nohyphens\title{#1}\U ntertitel{#2}}} ---- with ---- \start \setupheadertexts[][manual entry][part][] % normally defined as [][chapter][part][] \KomplexTitel{Main chapter title}{chapter subtitle}{toc entry} Much text \stop % of other headertext ---- Real life example: \start \setupheadertexts [][Vorwort][][] \KomplexTitel{Die neutrale Schweiz und das globale Dorf}% {Vorwort von Prof.|~|Dr.|~|Heinrich Ott}% {Vorwort Prof.|~|Dr.|~|Heinrich Ott:\\Die neutrale Schweiz und das globale Dorf} ... Now there stay two issues: 1. I'd like to get a four-parameter command that can set the header text also. 2. I must get a line feed into the toc, but neither \\ nor \crlf works. Please help! Thanks. Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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listings.sty
by Peter Münster 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

Hello, I suggested to the author of the very feature rich LaTeX-Listings package, Carsten Heinz, to port this package to ConTeXt, and it seems, that he is interested. But before doing it, there are some questions: * What do Hans and other people thing about that? * listings.sty uses keyval.sty, how is the proper ConTeXt-way to do the same things as keyval, or should listings stay with keyval? Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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register fine tuning
by Steffen Wolfrum 15 Feb '07

15 Feb '07

Hi, I am not sure how a ConTeXt index register is generated and what role the tui and tuo files play. But could it be possible to manually "fine tune" the generated register? Something like from ... Keywords -- secret 35 -- popular 25, 26, 27, 88, 89 ... to ... Keywords see also Commands -- secret 35 -- popular 25-27, 88-89 ... just by typing the changes in one of those helper files? Steffen

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ConTeXt on Debian: The wiki entry
by Frank Küster 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

Hi everybody, this mail has a double purpose. At the end, there's a call for testers of a new (planned) Debian ConTeXt package that would be updated more frequently than now (at least in unstable and testing), where ConTeXt is tied to teTeX's or TeXlive's release cycles. But first, I'd like to talk about http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Debian_installation Are some of the people around who wrote this? I found some information in it misleading and in part just wrong (this has already been pointed out two weaks ago by "plink"), and have started to edit the page to change the parts that give us, the Debian TeX maintaines, most headache. But in the lower part, "Steps to finish a first context upgrade", I felt lost. If these steps are really needed, then there's something seriously wrong in Debian's (and probably upstream's) packaging of ConTeXt. Therefore I didn't just change the text to reflect how I think it should work. Instead, we should try to figure out together whether it in fact does not work as it should, and then fix the Debian packages (hopefully still possible for etch). So the specific question I have are: - Is it intended that context formats end up in $TEXMF/web2c/pdfetex/? If yes, why is that so? If not, we should rather find out why it happens and fix it. - Why does it make a difference if the formats are created by fmtutil instead of texexec (Except for the output directory)? Should the upstream packaging be changed so that fmtutil is never used, but texexec, or should fmtutil be fixed to produce the same as texexec? Finally, here comes Norbert Preining's Call for Testers: Dear all! We = Debian TeX maintainers searching for users of the Debian Operating Systems which are also using ConTeXt. Currently Debian etch (testing) and sid (unstable) contains packages for TeX live 2005. But this contains a bit old ConTeXt version, so users are asking us to update ConTeXt. We have prepared a updated ConTeXt package for Debian, based on the latest released version (2006.08.08), and would ask you to help use testing, as we are not experienced in ConTeXt type settings. I checked some simple documents from the ConTeXt Garden, and they worked, but more detailed testing would be nice. If you have interest, please contact us at debian-tex-maint(a)lists.debian.org or, if you have a bit experience, you can straight away add deb http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ context/ to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and install context. After this, please tell us our experiences/failures/suggestions. Thanks a lot and all the best Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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How to get a PhD with ConTeXt (+ hard work ;) )
by Renaud AUBIN 15 Nov '06

15 Nov '06

Hi all, Maybe some of yours (from the ConTeXt POV) can be interested by my PhD dissertation and my presentation (both in french)... http://www.nibua-r.org/ConTeXt/PhD/ The slides are made to work under linux with sh script to run mplayer or custom simulations... These scripts will obviously not work without the movies or my simulator binaries... Renaud

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bib and bibltx problems
by Matthias Wächter 05 Nov '06

05 Nov '06

Hi Taco, I ran into the following problems: 1. see attached files. Three bib entries with different authors, but the resulting references are the same for two of them (!). Appearantly, without sorting the bib entries, the extra label numbering does not work correctly. Changing \setupbibtex to "sort=short" fixes the issue (appending "a" and "b") as well does changing "ITERATE {presort.none}" to "ITERATE {presort.clabel}" in cont-no.bst. But is this a once-and-for-all fix? 2. see attached files. In \setuppublications, numbering is given as "short", but the resulting list of references is only as good as "yes" - I only get the numbers, not the short references in the list. Hmmm, what's the cause for this? Any ideas? Or is it My Fault(TM)? 3. In general: If I'd use bib handwriting \{start,stop}publication without bibltx, would I have to care about the uniqueness of the "short" document names (the "s=" option to \startpublication)? Really? Considering hundreds of possible bibliography entries, this would double the effort: Not only the key (the "k=" option) but also the short name must be unique for correct references. 4. Sometimes, the build process ("texexec --pdf test") breaks after changing some text in the bibliography. Appearantly, sometimes the .bbl file is not updated. removing the .bbl file fixes the build. No recipy available, sorry. Thanks, - Matthias \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex[database=mybibs,sort=no] \setuppublications[refcommand=short,numbering=short] \starttext For all times, \cite[TRUE] is right and \cite[FALSE] is wrong. \completepublications \stoptext @techreport{TRUE, Title = "True Values", Author = "True Author", Year = "2005", } @techreport{GNUS, Title = "Gnus in the Wild", Author = "Another Doctor", Year = "2005", } @techreport{FALSE, Title = "False values", Author = "False Author", Year = "2005", }

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formula, bookmarks and misc
by Sebastian Rooks 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

Dear ConTeXters, 1/ I would like to use a named formula with a reference containing several subformulae each with a reference. The closer I can get to is to add an empty namedformula followed by subformulae (see test file below). How can I get rid of the empty line with a number in the pdf ? 2/ I'm using bookmarks but abbreviations in heads do not work properly. I've used a workaround some 3 years ago but I cannot remember which. Any suggestion ? (see test file below) 3/ What should I do to get the bookmarks numbered with their chapter/section/ etc. number ? (see test file below) 4/ How can I redefine the \vec command in my formulae without having a warning "system : command \vec is already defined" 5/ I do like a lot the minimum distribution so easy to install. It would be even better if bibtex can be added. It's only 82.8 KiB Thanks for ConTeXt (special thanks to Hans and Taco of course), it's really a pleasure to work with it. Regards, Seb test.tex %%%%% %>< %>< %>< %%%%% \setupinteraction[state=start] \placebookmarks[chapter,section,subsection] \abbreviation [UK] {UK} {United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland} \starttext \placelist[formula] \chapter{Math formulae} \placenamedformula [eq:well_known] {Well known equalities} \startformula \stopformula \placesubformula[eq:first]{a} \startformula 1+0=1 \stopformula \placesubformula[eq:second]{b} \startformula 1+1=2 \stopformula \chapter{Weather in the \UK} \dorecurse {2} {\input dawkins \par} \stoptext

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A new manual
by John R. Culleton 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

What is needed now for greater acceptance of Context is not new features but a new manual, perhaps a multi volume set with a common index. The 2001 manual is great, but many of the features discussed daily here are not in it. One must chase around the wiki and the individual manuals like "details", and that is not satisfactory from the point of view of the new user. Most of us have memorized the locations of key information but newcomers have not. If a consolidated manual set were offered for sale there would be a lot of customers. Or an abridged version, something like the 1999 Excursion manual but expanded and updated, would be a possibility. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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xmldir : hyperlinks not working
by olivier Turlier 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

Hi every Context lover/user, I came to using xmltools for building an long (boring) list of folders&files, with the idea of sharing a cdrom with "automount" niceties (shellexec.exe & autorun.inf telling to open the generated pdf). The problem is that xmltool apparently ("skip" certain portions ?) don't "recognise" or "retranscribe" a full path, i.e if a real path is root(K:\MESDOC\COURS\05-TEB~1\000_ZI~1)\01-at1-repres_graphic_gene\01-s8910-metre_infra\cours-ppes-metre-go-0506.pdf firefox answer that (//media/cdrom0)/cours-ppes-metre-go-0506.pdf. is unreachable ------------.tex file for creating xmldir.xml : \useregime[il1] \enableregime[il1] \useencoding[ffr] \mainlanguage[fr] \executesystemcommand % {texmfstart xmltools --dir --recurse --root=K:/Mesdoc/cours/05-teb-0506/000_zip-tout --pattern={*.pdf,*.xls} --output=xmldir.xml} {texmfstart xmltools --dir --recurse --pattern=*.* --output=xmldir.xml} ---------- command for making pdf from xmldir.xml : texmfstart newtexexec.rb --autopdf --pdf --mode=colorscheme-red --xml --use=dir-01 --pdf xmldir.xml (I've tried also : texmfstart newtexexec.rb --autopdf --pdf --mode=colorscheme-red --root=K:/Mesdoc/cours/05-teb-0506/000_zip-tout --xml --use=dir-01 --pdf xmldir.xml : without success) ---------- TIA for any answer -- Olivier TURLIER CRP La Rouguière 101 Bd des Libérateurs 13367 MARSEILLE CEDEX 11 tel : (33) 04 91 18 56 00

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