May 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

vertically centered aligment of different sized texts
by frantisek holop 18 May '06

18 May '06

hi there, another question to which shamefully i cannot find the answer. perhaps it's just too late... consider the following example: \definefont[BigFont][Regular sa 3] \starttext {\tfc The {\BigFont 7}\high{th} Seal} \stoptext how can i make that line vertically centered, like --, the /th seal / :) is \startalignment used for this? -f -- every great journey begins with a single step.

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More Feature Requests for math
by Aditya Mahajan 18 May '06

18 May '06

Hi Hans, Can you provide some more features to \definematrix and \definemathcases. 1. Allow \definematrix and \definemathcases to have a parameter displaystyle or textstyle. Right now, everything is in textstyle. Consider \startformula a = \startcases \NC E = mc^2 \NC nothing interesting to see here \NR \NC \int_0^1 x - 3 d\,x \NC Integral is in text mode \NR \stopcases \stopformula \startformula \startmatrix[n=2] \NC x \NC y \NR \NC \int_0^1 x - 3 d\,x \NC 20 \NR \stopmatrix \stopformula Both integrals are in textstyle. It will be nice if one had a configuration like \definemathcases[displaycases][displaystyle] and \definemathmatrix[displaymatrix][displaystyle] so that \startdisplaymatrix \NC a \NC b \NR \NC d \NC e \NR \stopdisplaymatrix is equivalent to \startmatrix \NC \displaystyle a \NC \displaystyle b \NR \NC \displaystyle d \NC \displaystyle e \NR \stopmatrix and similar for startdisplaycases. I don't know which syntax is better displaystyle=on|off (yes|no) or [mathstyle=display|text]. 2. Allow location=top|center|bottom for \definemathmatrix. Right now, inside \dostartmathmatrix there is a \vcenter. Can this be changed to \vtop or \vbottom depending on the value of location. With these features, it will be straightforward to emulate the behaviour of aligned and gathered environments of amsmath. 3. Can pagebreak inside \startalign be restored. This used to work, but broke while ensuring compatibility with \setupformulas[align=??] \placeformula \startformula \startalign \dorecurse{50} { \NC a \EQ b \NR[+] } \stopalign \stopformula Thanks, Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008

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First hack at new ruby-aware texexec script for linux/unix
by gnwiii＠gmail.com 18 May '06

18 May '06

There are two classes of users: 1) most error messages are ignored up to and including the ones that promise global thermonuclear war if you click on "Yes", or 2) minor warnings bring all work to a halt until explained. In honor of the latter class, who ask about the suggestion to use "texstart texexec.rb ..." when running context, the following script may be helpful. TeX Live on linux runs texexec, etc. via a shell script that is linked to the names of various perl utilities. Here is my first cut at a version that tries to use the ruby scripts: ------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh # use ruby and texmfstart.rb or perl # to use: link to the names of ConTeXt scripts what=`echo $0 | sed 's@.*/@@'` case $what in texmfstart|texexec|pstopdf|textools|texutil) p=`kpsewhich -format=texmfscripts $what.rb` { test -n "$p" && test -f "$p"; } \ || { echo "\`$what.rb' not found."; exit 1; } RUBYLIB="${RUBYLIB:-${p%/*}}" export RUBYLIB exec ruby "$p" ${1+"$@"} ;; *) p=`kpsewhich -format=texmfscripts $what.pl` { test -n "$p" && test -f "$p"; } \ || { echo "\`$what.pl' not found."; exit 1; } exec perl "$p" ${1+"$@"} ;; esac ------------------------------------------------------- This version runs the ruby scripts directly, rather than the suggested form, e.g., "texfmstart pstopdf.rb file.ps". I have no idea if that is intended to work -- it did in my very simple tests . I'm not sure the RUBYLIB line is needed. -- George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

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Missing <space> in gs.rb from recent con-tmf.zip
by gnwiii＠gmail.com 18 May '06

18 May '06

The line in scripts/context/ruby/graphics/gs.rb with -dSAFER needs a <space> before the closing quote. The corrected line is: arguments << "-q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dNOCACHE -dBATCH -dSAFER " -- George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

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[Fwd: PracTeX Journal 2006-2 released]
by Hans Hagen 18 May '06

18 May '06

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customized itemize
by Na Li 17 May '06

17 May '06

I need use repeatedly a list like this, with the same set of words (five or six of them), 'icon', 'coni', etc, \startitemize[width=3em,symstyle=bold] \sym{icon} blah \sym{coni} llla \stopitemize How to define a customized list so I can do: \startmylist \item blah \item llla \stopmylist to get the same result? Thanks, Michael

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Trouble with new update
by Aditya Mahajan 17 May '06

17 May '06

I just now did a fresh install of 2006.05.11 10:30 (i.e. removed my old installation, downloaded mswincontext, did ctxtools --update) and now I get error messages systems : begin file test at line 1 fonts : resetting map file list fonts : using map file: original-base fonts : using map file: ec-public-lm fonts : using map file: ec-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler fonts : using map file: original-public-lm (e:\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/pdfr-ec.tex) [1.1 Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-empty.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file ec-public-lm.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file ec-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-ams-base.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-ams-euler.map): cannot open font map file Warning: pdfetex.exe (file original-public-lm.map): cannot open font map file ] systems : end file test at line 5 ) The files are present in the system, have permission 755, I do not know what is going wrong. I have tried, but of no avail. Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008

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right way to get type1 ccr fonts?
by Sanjoy Mahajan 17 May '06

17 May '06

After a bit of experimenting and reading the mfonts manual, I got the following to include the type1 font for ccr10 (otherwise pdfetex was including /var/cache/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/concrete/ccr10.720pk): \definetypeface[ceul][rm][serif][concrete][default][encoding=default] \definetypeface[ceul][tt][mono] [modern] [default][encoding=texnansi, rscale=1.05] \definetypeface[ceul][mm][math] [euler] [euler] [rscale=1] \setupbodyfont [ceul] \loadmapfile[my.map] \starttext a $abc + \int_0^\infty$. \stoptext my.map contains: ccr5 ccr5 < sform5.pfb ccr6 ccr6 < sform6.pfb ccr7 ccr7 < sform7.pfb ccr8 ccr8 < sform8.pfb ccr9 ccr9 < sform9.pfb ccr10 ccr10 < sform10.pfb The sfo*.pfb fonts are part of the cm-super debian package. Its README said sfo*.pfb were the Concrete Roman fonts, so I just went ahead and guessed the above my.map. Is this the right way to get the type1 inclusion to work? And if it's basically okay, then 1. Do I need some re-encoding magic? 2. Is there a pre-built version of this file lying around? 3. When I generate dvi, then I do 'dvips -u +my file.dvi' in order for dvips to use the map file. Should I instead have put the contents of my.map in one of the canonical map files that both context/pdftex and dvips find? But I'm not sure I can get pdftex and dvips to agree on the set of map files. I'll wikify the results if they seem of general use. -Sanjoy

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Several publication lists
by nico 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hello, I wonder if it is possible to display several publication lists. Can we achieve this with the bib module? What I would like to do is to split the publication list into different sections, like this: \section{Bibliography} \subsection{Specifications} ... Here are the list of publications that are specifications ... \subsection{Manuals} ... Here some manuals ... Regards, BG

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Columns again
by Ehrt, Michael 17 May '06

17 May '06

Hi everyone, Is there a way to nest two \startcolumns environments, or to define a columnsetspan that "wraps"? What I'd like to do is produce a two column text which is unbalanced on the last page, and then place another two-column text in the last column. I haven't yet found a way to do it in ConTeXt since nesting \startcolumns doesn't seem to work... Cheers Michael

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