December 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Where is ifforwardreference defined?
by Mike Bird 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

\somewhere sometimes prints the wrong text. To track down the problem I tried to find the definition for \ifforwardreference. I can see where \iffowardreference is declared to be a \newif but I can't find where the algorithm is defined: $ grep -r ifforwardreference . ./tex/context/base/core-ref.tex:\newif\ifforwardreference ./tex/context/base/core-ref.tex:\def\doifforwardreferenceelse#1#2% ./tex/context/base/core-ref.tex: {\ifforwardreference#1\else#2\fi} ./tex/context/base/core-ref.tex: {\ifforwardreference ./tex/context/base/core-ref.tex: \ifforwardreference Binary file ./web2c/pdfetex/cont-de.fmt matches Binary file ./web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt matches Binary file ./web2c/pdfetex/cont-it.fmt matches $ Does anyone know where \ifforwardreference is defined? Thanks, --Mike Bird

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Making a verbatim file for another language
by cormullion＠mac.com 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

I'm going to try to make a 'verbatim- module' (don't know what the right word is) for another language. I've found: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/verb-pl.tex and can probably have a go at making a version of this. Some questions occur: 1: where should i put my file? 2: do I have to do anything else to get Context to recognise and use it? cheers

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texfont doesn't refresh MiKTeX database
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hello, I use MikTeX. When I run texfont script, it always fails to do FNDB refresh at the end, saying generating : ls-r databases initexmf: This utility does not accept non-option arguments. It seems like a bug in the script. -- Best regards Vyatcheslav

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macro \verticalchineseunicodeglyph may not satisfy the vertical Chinese typeset
by Zhichu Chen 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hi, ConTeXters I'm playing some Chinese vertical typesetting. Mr. Wolfgang Shuster helps me a lot about it. In vertical typesetting, the top of each leading Chinese characters at each column are aligned horizontally. But if we changed the size of the bodyfont of some characters and they could wrap to the next column, then the top of the wrapped texts are not aligned with the other columns. So we can give them a raise, but it is not so easy to calculate the dimension to be raised, for ConTeXt will give every Chinese a \strut and makes the original height and depth unavailable. Since we can aligned the \strut-ed characters precisely, the real characters are not. Can Hans or other TeXperts give me a nice solution? In fact, I think in vertical Chinese, we should move the baseline to the top of the character. and make it with height=0pt and depth=width -- 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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Re: [NTG-context] Forward of moderated message (Why It Is So)
by Taco Hoekwater 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hi Geoff, (Your messsage was too large, I dropped the attachments) From: geoff.moyle(a)gmail.com: > Thanks > > This problem has been with my version of Contex which is running on windows > XP since I first started maybe 2 years ago and has never bothered me as I > was doing simple jobs. The version is kept up to date and I have in fact > downloaded the base distro again on 14 Dec and updated. I am guessing that > it may be in the parameters given to pdftex which I have just noticed from > googling for something else. Like Luigi said: there is no problem. This is absolutely how it is supposed to look. I do not know what you want precisely, but apparently you are unhappy with the standard ConTeXt page layout. That is fine, after all, it is only a default. Just play with \setuplayout until you are happy (try \showlayout if you want to see all of the currently used parameter values). But there is definately no bug in your installation. Best, Taco > I am happy to test this but I am unsure how > > "\pdfpagewidth (dimension) > This dimension parameter specifies the page width of the pdf output (the > screen, the paper, etc.). pdfTEX reads this parameter > when it starts shipping out a page. After magnification has been changed by > the \mag primitive, check that this parameter > reflects the wished true page width. > If the value is not given, the page width is calculated as wbox being > shipped out + 2 × (horigin + \hoffset). When part of the page > falls off the paper or screen, you can be rather sure that this > parameter is > set wrong." > > On 12/30/06, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 12/29/06, geoff.moyle(a)gmail.com <geoff.moyle(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > Gday >> > >> > I know there must be a fundamental answer, but I cannot fathom why >> > everything is shifted left on the page. >> > >> hmm, I don't see anything wrong;this is the standard setup. >> You can play with >> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%5 >> \setuppapersize[A4][A3] >> \setuplayout[location=middle,marking=on] >> \showlayout >> \starttext >> \input tufte >> \stoptext >> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >> or >> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >> \setuppapersize[A4][A4] >> \setuplayout[horoffset=3cm]%%% bang ! >> \showlayout >> \starttext >> \input tufte >> \stoptext

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Newbie: font sizes
by Elliot Clifton 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Hello, I've read the fonts manual, but I don't understand how to change sizes. How can I change the sizes referred to by the sizes selectors \tfx etc... Thankyou, Elliot

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PSTricks
by Mojca Miklavec 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

(was: Manual (English) Update soon?) For Hans: please read further, some things need to be fixed. On 12/29/06, John R. Culleton wrote: > > Jut FYI PSTricks (which runs on Plain TeX as well as LaTeX) can be run as part > of Context. It requires loading a module and an extra pass. Like many of > the "undocumented" modules there is actually documentation in the module > itself. I suspect that if all the documentation in the source code were > collected and organized in some way we would have a new Context Manual. Thanks for the hint! I really like the example with \dorecurse mixed with PSTricks; although they have their own mechanisms for that, \dorecurse is more familiar and easier to use for me. (I doubt that I'll return to PSTricks now that I've learn metapost and now when TikZ is available and more portable, but it's nice to know that I may use my old code there and for some cases PSTricks are still an easier approach.) I knew that there was something about pstricks available, but I always had a feeling that it's only conditionally working (I never heard anyone talking about PSTricks on the mailing list). However: you're probably running the module with perl-based texexec, right? I just tried it and had the following problems: - filename-texapp.tex has been created (and can only be deleted manually), but instead of dvi it resulted in an empty pdf file - I processed that file manually, so I got the dvi, but then dvips failed - the second was probably "my fault" (dvips sent the result to lpr), but it's how it's set up on the system by default; using -Ppdf switch helped, although I have no idea why/how it works exactly So it would really help a lot: - if the intermediate file would result in .dvi, not in .pdf - if dvips would be called with -Ppdf or perhaps some other more appropriate switch to assure slightly more "works-out-of-the-box" cases (- if temporary files could be deleted with ctxtools if needed) It would also help a lot for tex4ht if the switch --dvi could work as intended (and without unneded dvips run afterwards). Mojca PS (in a joke): why didn't you tell me that before I wrote support for gnuplot ??? Gnuplot can already output PSTricks code which could be read by ConTeXt then.

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Why Is It So
by geoff.moyle＠gmail.com 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Gday I know there must be a fundamental answer, but I cannot fathom why everything is shifted left on the page. TIA Geoff Moyle Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?

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Font for enumeration
by Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

consider the following setup: \startitemize[m] \item this \item that \item the other \stopitemize this should give enumeration using oldstyle numbers. now, I have created my own typescript file that sets everything to Sabon, except the oldstyle numbers in question, which are set using computer modern's oldstyle numbers. what do I do to get the base font here? I have set up my typescript file so that {\Var[osf] 123} are set using the base fonts oldstyle numbers. -- Rolf Lindgren roffe(a)extern.uio.no

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Re: [NTG-context] Newbie: font sizes (Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky)
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Hello Elliot, I'm a newbie too but I change font sizes as follows. {\tfa Big text} {\tfa\bf Big and bold} ... Font size selectors from the smallest to the biggest are \tfxx \tfx \tfa \tfb \tfc \tfd You told about a manual, but there are a lot of manuals around. -- With best regards Vyatcheslav mailto:yatskovsky@gmail.com

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