February 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

OpenType and XeConTeXt
by Steffen Wolfrum 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

Hi, using ConTeXt with XeTeX seems to be an nice option for us MacOSX users. But I get always confused with the names for these rich features like Style Option, Ligatures, Variants. I mean: how do I know how many variants and style options a font has and how they and their ligatures etc. want to be called? In plain ConTeXt (for the 255 characters) we can use \showfont[...] and \showcharacters in order to know how to call the specific characters/glyphs. But what about OpenType? Peeking at the LaTeX side of XeTeX, I saw that they have created a packages called fontspec which seems to give better access to all (?) if these options. What about us? Is there help also for XeConTeXt? Thank you, Steffen

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combinations and captions
by Hans van der Meer 15 Feb '06

15 Feb '06

The setup of captions (\setupcaptions) seems to be independent of the captions in the members placed within \startcombination ... \stopcombination. I have a feeling that these captions also can be generally setup, but I cannot find the corresponding macros. Someone who can point me to these? yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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Including bitmapped fonts
by Michal Kvasnička 14 Feb '06

14 Feb '06

Good evening. I typeset one of my documents in Computer Modern Concrete. I use text ghyphs from CM-Super family, but there are no mathematical fonts there, so I have to use old Metafont version of Concrete Math.Now, if I include it in plain TeX, pdfetex bitmaps it with the resolution 600 dpi. When I try the same from the ConTeXt, I get this error message: Warning: pdfetex (file xccmi10): Font xccmi10 at 50 not found kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+0/72 --dpi 72 ccr10 mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfour and resolution 72; ignoring mode. mktexpk: Can't guess mode for 72 dpi devices. mktexpk: Use a config file, or update me. I tried to find in what configuration file it is mismatched, but I completely failed. I even don't know if it's ConTeXt problem, or a problem of my distribution. Now, I use the last ConTeXt (downloaded and installed today) :-) and teTeX tetex-3.0-13 from SuSE Linux 9.3 under SuSE 9.2. Many thanks for any hint. Yours Michal Kvasnicka P.S. If anybody knows where can I get math fonts for Concrete, please tell me.

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audio files in pdf
by andrea valle 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

Dear all, In the next weeks I will make some presentations in which I will use audio examples. More my course on audio will start soon. Obviously, I want to use context. How can I link to audio files? I tried once but wasn't able to get any result. Could anyone post a little code snippet to exemplify? (Or maybe send me a link to existing resources) Thanks a lot as usual Best -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea andrea.valle(a)unito.it

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Re: [NTG-context] [OS X TeX] formats for ConTeXt-XeTeX
by Steffen Wolfrum 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

Am 12.02.2006 um 18:54 schrieb Jonathan Kew: > On 12 Feb 2006, at 5:33 pm, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> again, after an i-installer update, my ConTeXt-XeTeX typesetting >> failed. Probably I'd never understood how to make the required >> formats (what command, what order) properly... >> > > Did you reinstall XeTeX after updating the TeX package? I assume > so, just checking.... Yes, this was the order: .FreeType 2 .libwmf .Ghostscript 8 .ImageMagick .FontForge .TeX .ConTeXt-Updater .XeTeX > >> Can someone please tell me what's the right way >> for using ConTeXt-XeTeX and ConTeXt-pdfeTeX? > > ....and if it looks simple and robust and I can understand it, I > guess I could try adding this to the XeTeX installation scripts. > I've never had the time to really look into ConTeXt, but it'd be > nice if it could "just work" for people. After an i-installation running ConTeXt (by pdfeTeX) works right out of the box (without any commandline action), same for plain XeTeX (plainTeX by XeTeX?). But running a ConTeXt document by XeTeX fails: TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 fixing engine variable : pdfetex executable : xetex format : cont-en inputfile : text output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.99b (Web2C 7.5.3) (WARNING: translate-file "natural.tcx" ignored) ---! /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) return code : 256 run time : 1 seconds total run time : 1 seconds Someone knows what to do? Steffen

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FatalError: Your format does not match the base files!
by andrea valle 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

Thanks hans and Luigi for the hints on audiofiles. Sorry for late reply but I was out of home. In any case, I wasn't able to test because running context (as usual, from inside texshop) I obtain always this: TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 fixing engine variable : pdfetex executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : test output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2005.10.27 fmt: 2005.11.9 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex FatalError : Your format does not match the base files! FormatVersion : 2005.10.27 FilesVersion : 2006.01.28 10:09 return code : 0 run time : 1 seconds sorting and checking : running texutil TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 action : processing commands, lists and registers option : sorting IJ under Y option : converting high ASCII values error : empty input file test total run time : 2 seconds I create this minimal file, and that's the same. Macosx 10.3.9 here, I also update via Gerben's distro, but that's the same. It seems that it depends on format discrepancies. Uh? Thanks a lot -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea andrea.valle(a)unito.it

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Re: [NTG-context] Table column format
by Elliot Clifton 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

On 08/02/06, Hans Hagan wrote: > > Regardless of the table column format I specify, paragraphs remain > > justified this is not what I want. > > > hm, can you give an example of usage? > > Hans \starttable[|l p(2cm)| l p(5cm)] \NC System1 \NC SubsystemA, SubsystemC, SubsystemD, SubsystemE, SubsystemF, etc. \AR \NC System2 \NC SubsystemA, SubsystemC, SubsystemD, SubsystemE, SubsystemF, etc. \AR \NC System3 \NC SubsystemA, SubsystemC, SubsystemD, SubsystemE, SubsystemF, etc. \AR \stoptable It works this sample text but doesn't work actual text I want to use. I do not want to post this information in a public forum, can I sed it to you personally? Elliot

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Equation Numbering bug?
by Aditya Mahajan 13 Feb '06

13 Feb '06

I do not understand why the second equation is numbered \starttext \placeformula \startformula \startalign[n=2] \NC a \NC = b \NR \NC c \NC = d \NR[+] \stopalign \stopformula Some text to separate equations \startformula e = f \stopformula \stoptext I can get rid of the numbering by placing a \placeformula[-] in the begining. But, it should not be numbered by default. Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008

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Reconfigure mpgraph
by Sebastian Sturm 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

Hi, I'd like to use the Metapost graph module together with the Euler math fonts. Unfortunately, mpgraph seems to expect its label font to have the decimal dot at position 46/2E, whereas according to \showfont the eurm10 dot is at position 58/3A. This results in Metapost omitting all dots from the tick mark labels. Is there an easy way to reconfigure mpgraph (I looked at the source code, but that seems very confusing to me) to look for its dots at the other position? Best regards, Sebastian Sturm

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formats for ConTeXt-XeTeX
by Steffen Wolfrum 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

Hi, again, after an i-installer update, my ConTeXt-XeTeX typesetting failed. Probably I'd never understood how to make the required formats (what command, what order) properly... Can someone please tell me what's the right way for using ConTeXt-XeTeX and ConTeXt-pdfeTeX? Thank you, Steffen

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