November 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Chemical structure formula flows out
by Zhichu Chen 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Hello I've been studying PPCHTEX these days, it's very powerful, and I cannot control it well. I just wrote a chemical struture like: ================================ \startchemical [size=small,scale=small,width=fit,height=fit,frame=on] \chemical[SIX,SB13456,DB2,Z] [C,C,C,C,C,C] \chemical[PB:Z1,ONE,Z0,SB18,Z8,MOV1,ONE,DB1,SB7,Z07,MOV1,ONE,SB13,Z03,MOV1,ONE,SB1,DB7,Z017,PE] [C,H,C,H,C,H,C,CH_3,O] \chemical[PB:Z2,ONE,Z0,SB1,Z1,PE] [C,CH_3] \chemical[PB:Z3,ONE,Z0,SB3,Z3,PE] [C,H] \chemical[PB:Z4,ONE,Z0,SB45,Z45,PE] [C,H,H] \chemical[PB:Z5,ONE,Z0,SB56,Z56,PE] [C,CH_3,H] \chemical[PB:Z6,SIX,Z3,SB23,Z24,PE] [C,CH_3,CH_3] \stopchemical ================================ only the carbon-ring is in the frame, I think maybe PB:..,PE pair does not change the size of the picture. I know I can use like ================================ \startchemical [size=small,scale=small,width=9000,height=5000,left=3000] ================================ to specify the size, but I need to try several times to get a correct version. Is there any parameter that do this staff automatically? Thanks -- Sincerely yours, Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Meeting NTG saturday 18 november 2006
by Willi Egger 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Dear list user, The Dutch TeX users group organizes a meeting on saturday 18 november. Location: Highschool Helicon, Zeist, The Netherlands. Theme: "The next generation TeX - a glance on the future" At the this moment active development takes place for the successor of pdfTeX. During next year this engine will be dirstributed. Next to this, steps are undertaken to improve the integration of the graphical possibilities of Metapost.in TeX. A bunch of new fonts are in the pipeline which can replace existing (free) font-collections: extended, improved, OTF versions. There are different initiatives for enhancing TeX and related programs e.g. giving them a more modern, up-to-date interface. Further one can see, that TeX is moving form the front-end into the background, so that users do not even know that the final work is performed with TeX. The mentioned aspects will be discussed and presented during the upcoming NTG-meeting. The NTG would like to invite you to join us. Global programme: 09 :30 arrival 10:00 opening, presentations/discussion 11:15 coffee break 11:45 presentations/discussion 12:45-13.30 lunch 13:30 presentations/discussion 15:00 Thea break 15:30 presentations/discussion 16:30 closing 17:30 Diner in one of the restaurants in Zeist Issues to be presented: luatex: development of the next generation pdfTeX opentype: the first three delivered replacement fonts from the polish "foundry" metapost: on its way to full integration into TeX epspdfgui: Good-bye to obscure commandline programs processing in the background ...: how Tex moves behind the scene pgf: replacement of macros containing graphics TeXlive: the in's en out's of preparing a distribution Description of the location and how to get there: http://www.hhelicon.nl/index2.html If you would like to join in, please send an e-mail to the NTG secretary: ntg-secretaris(a)ntg.nl Kind regards Willi Egger Secretary NTG

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underbar in MP text
by Peter Rolf 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

Hi all, if \underbar is used inside a MP text, it always uses a fixed rule thickness, regardless of the settings in ConTeXt. How can I change this? TIA, Peter \setupoutput[pdftex] \setMPtext{testtext} {} \startusableMPgraphic{mptext} draw textext.rt(\MPstring{testtext}) ; \stopusableMPgraphic \starttext \setupunderbar[rulethickness=2pt] \underbar{Thick line} \setMPtext{testtext}{\underbar{Thick line}} \useMPgraphic{mptext} \setupunderbar[rulethickness=.15pt] \underbar{Thin line} \setMPtext{testtext}{\underbar{Thin line}} \useMPgraphic{mptext} \stoptext

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texfont create map file
by Johan Sandblom 13 Nov '06

13 Nov '06

I am now using the Debian context package with Debian texlive. It works very well but some fonts need tweaking. For instance, Zapf Chancery is in ~$ find /usr/share/texmf-texlive -name '*uzcmi8a*' /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/afm/urw/zapfchan/uzcmi8a.afm /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/urw/zapfchan/uzcmi8a.pfb /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/urw/zapfchan/uzcmi8a.pfm but there are no .tfm or .vf and no map file, so my typescripts do not work. I assume I might use texfont to fix this but with what invocation? Regards, Johan -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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XeTeX, ConTeXt and PDF
by Pablo Rodríguez 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

Hi there, I'm using xdvipdfmx 0.3 and ConTeXt ver: 2006.11.06 09:10 MK II fmt: 2006.11.11 int: english/english. Papersize doesn't seem to work in \setuppapersize[A4,landscape]. Even if I use \pdfpageheight=21cm and \pdfpagewidth=29.7cm, I get a 29.7×29.7cm square as papersize. I think that the issues with XeTeX and papersize have been already solved. When producing bookmarks with XeConTeXt, for some strange reason destinations change the page view to /Fit. Is there any way to avoid this? Bookmarks are generated fine in UTF-8, but surprisingly (at least for me) the file info is wrong generated. Here you have an example: \enableregime[utf] \definetypeface[myfont][rm][Xserif][Junicode] \setupbodyfont[myfont,12pt] \setupinteraction[state=start,title={χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά}] \setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark] \placebookmarks[chapter,section,subsection] \starttext \chapter{χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά} \stoptext By the way, could not "texmfstart texexec --xtx" invoke xdvipdfmx with the -E option enabled by default? Many fonts include the embedding restriction not forbid embedding, but to avoid font modification. Thanks for your help, Pablo

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new to ConTeXt
by Pablo Rodríguez 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

Hi there, after more than five years using LaTeX (Lambda and XeLaTeX, this one for the last months), I have decided to give ConTeXt a try. LaTeX is fine for me: I have typeset my own dissertation in Philosophy (with ancient Greek and Unicode) and a couple of books. But the modular design makes things tricky at the end, and I would like to give ConTeXt (with XeTeX and LuaTeX when it comes) a try. At the same time, I would like to switch from TeX to XML. TeX is fine, but XML is better for other than typographical purposes. Coming from the humanities, I guess the right choice is TEI (P5 is expected to be released before middle of the following year). I had some experience with XML and Docbook some years ago, but that was before I switched to Linux and Docbook aims to technical documentation (and I'm not a technical guy). I guess I can mix ConTeXt and XML with the eXaMpLe framework (I have just read about it at wiki.contextgarden.net) In order to understand TEI and ConTeXt, I would like to be able to create the files that will be able to compile an TEI XML document with ConTeXt without having to convert it to ConTeXt. I would like to avoid XSL and XSL-FO. I guess it should be something similar DocbookInConTeXt, but I don't know whether it uses the eXaMplE framework (I don't even know whether . Could anyone comment on this topic? I mean, whether the described task could be achieved with ConTeXt, which issues may arise, whether this is the best approach to the issue, whether I miss something, and so on. Thanks for your help, Pablo

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Columns and backgrounds problem
by Matthias Weber 10 Nov '06

10 Nov '06

Hello, I am trying to use backgrounds in columns. Typically, the background runs into the other column as the following example. Is this a limitation, or am I doing something wrong? Any help is appreciated. Matthias \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \setupbodyfont[12pt] \definecolor[myframecolor][r=.0,g=.5,b=.6] \definecolor[myheadcolor][r=.0,g=.5,b=.0] \definecolor[myemcolor][r=.6,g=.1,b=.5] \definecolor[textcolor][r=.2,g=.02,b=.3] \definecolor[thmcolor] [r=.94,g=.94,b=.9] \definetextbackground [thmbackground] [backgroundcolor=thmcolor, %corner=round, before=\blank, after=\blank, leftoffset=5pt, rightoffset=5pt, topoffset=5pt, bottomoffset=5pt, frame=on, framecolor=darkblue, location=paragraph, color=darkblue] \defineenumeration [theorem] [before={\starttextbackground[thmbackground]}, after={\stoptextbackground}, text=Theorem, way=bysection, location=hanging, letter=rm] \setuppapersize[letter][letter] \starttext \startcolumns[n=2] \input tufte \starttheorem $1+1=2$ \stoptheorem \input tufte \starttheorem $1+1=2$ \stoptheorem \input tufte \stopcolumns \stoptext

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postoned text and headers
by Paul Jones 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Hello everyone, I have a tex document where I postpone (\startpostponing) certain pages until later in the document. On those pages I would like the headers/footers turned off. I have tried \noheaderandfooterlines, and setting the header to high, but neither seem to work. Have I done something wrong or is there another way to do this? Here is an example of what I tried to describe. %output=pdf \setuppagenumbering[conversion=numbers, location=] \setupheadertexts[pagenumber][][][pagenumber] \starttext \startpostponing[+2] \page \noheaderandfooterlines %this will generally be a fullbleed picture or set of pictures on a page by themselves \framed[frame=on, width=\textwidth, height=\textheight] {\dorecurse{1}{\input zapf}} \page \stoppostponing \dorecurse{20}{\input davis } \stoptext Thanks in advance for any help, paul

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Specifying BibTeX engine
by Philipp Reichmuth 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Hi, texexec has been doing the necessary BibTeX calls for some time now, but is there a way to configure which BibTeX engine is being called? I am using BibTeX 8 (because of Unicode in my bibliography) and have been renaming the executable so far, but it seems there should be a better way. (Incidentally, I've been using a Python script to convert BibTeX files between Unicode and {\=a}-style accent notation and am currently thinking of putting in ConTeXt {\adiaeresis}-style accents as well; would this be of interest to anyone?) Philipp

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Debian/texlive/context: Segfault in mpost
by Johan Sandblom 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

On Debian testing/unstable with texlive-metapost/testing uptodate 2005.dfsg.2-2 texlive-base/testing uptodate 2005.dfsg.2-3 texlive-common/testing uptodate 2005.dfsg.2-3 texlive-base-bin/testing uptodate 2005.dfsg.2-2 and the new context package from www.tug.org/texlive/Debian version 2006.08.08 the following text file processes without error but has no graphic \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} draw (0,0)..(1,0)..(1,1)..(1,0)..cycle scaled 5cm withcolor black ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext Further investigation revealed that johans@smoke:~$ mpost -progname=metafun -mem=metafun mptest-mpgraph.mp This is MetaPost, Version 0.901 (Web2C 7.5.5) (mptest-mpgraph.mpSegmentation fault Mpost segfaulted, which I have never seen and have no idea how to pursue. More details: johans@smoke:~$ mpost --version MetaPost 0.901 (Web2C 7.5.5) kpathsea version 3.5.5 Copyright 2005 AT&T Bell Laboratories. Kpathsea is copyright 2005 Karl Berry and Olaf Weber. There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is covered by the terms of both the MetaPost copyright and the Lesser GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING and the MetaPost source. Primary author of MetaPost: John Hobby. Kpathsea written by Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and others. johans@smoke:~$ locate metafun.mem /etc/texmf/web2c/metafun.mem /var/lib/texmf/web2c/metafun.mem -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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