August 2006 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

scite line endings
by David Arnold 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

All, I know where the line endings choice is on the menu in scite. Seems to default to cr+lf in windows regardless of the file it is reading, or am i mistaken? Is there way to have it interpret the line endings and keep whatever form is used when the file is opened?

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problems with \lcommaaccent
by Mojca Miklavec 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Hello, I've been trying to use \lcommaaccent, but with no success until I commented out the following line in enco-cas: % \defineULcharacter Lcommaaccent lcommaaccent Any ideas how to solve that problem (otherwise the temporary workaround will disappear as soon as I update ConTeXt)? The only remedy that came to my mind was adding additional two lines to enco-def. (Hans, would it be possible to add them to the distribution as well?) \definecharacter lcommaaccent {\buildtextbottomcomma l} \definecharacter Lcommaaccent {\buildtextbottomcomma L} \starttext \lcommaaccent\Lcommaaccent \stoptext Thanks, Mojca

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fullpage graphic
by wwl＠musensturm.de 02 Aug '06

02 Aug '06

Hallo! I can not find a solution for the following problem: I would like to place a floating, framed graphic at the next page following the \placefigure[]{}{\framed[]{...}} command. Problem: The graphicdimensions are (\makeupwidth,\textheight). Neither the options page, here, force or always help. If the graphic is a little smaller, so that at least one line of text fit on the page, than the graphic gets placed at the right page, else the graphic is placed behind the end of the chapter. Second question: How can I place a fullpage graphic (\paperheight+epsilon,\paperwidth+epsilon) as above at the next page, and how can I count, but don't display pagenumbers for such graphic pages? Wolfgang

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updating context on Ubuntu 6.06
by Sanjoy Mahajan 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Here's what I had to do to update to the latest Context (2006.07.14) on Ubuntu 6.06 (i.e. 2006.06) distribution of Linux. It comes with tetex 3.0. The commands below assume a working Context already installed in your ~/texmf, and the commands use bash syntax, which is almost like 'sh' but has the ~ idiom for $HOME. Beforehand I had been using the 2006.04.17 beta and had put off upgrading because I was scared of the change from perl texexec to ruby texexec. 1. (optional cleanup) Delete the old Context-installed files in ~/texmf/. This step is optional, but I do it so that I can track the versions using an SCM. I use mercurial (hg is the program name), but it could have been svn, cvs, etc. The command (done in ~/texmf): hg locate -0 | xargs rm -0 2. (download, unpack) Download cont-tmf.zip, cont-fnt.zip, and cont-img.zip. Probably you need only the first zip file, but I'm reporting exactly what I did just in case any substep is the crucial one. The command: cd /tmp/ # no need to save them long-term wget http://www.pragma-ade.nl/context/current/cont-{tmf,fnt,img}.zip Unzip the zip archives into ~/texmf, appending the giant list of files to /tmp/a.log: cd ~/texmf for f in /tmp/cont-{tmf,fnt,img}.zip ; do unzip $f >> /tmp/a.log ;done 3. (stubs, part 1) Create ~/bin/texmfstart containing two lines: #!/bin/bash ~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb "$@" Then make it executable with chmod +x ~/bin/texmfstart From what I can tell from reading the ruby code, using the full path to texmfstart.rb helps texmfstart.rb find the other .rb programs, like texexec.rb. (texmfstart.rb uses the path it was called with and looks in that directory, but Hans can correct me if I'm wrong here.) 4. (stubs, part 2) texmfstart will run texexec, so create texexec as a symlink to ~/texmf/scripts/context/stubs/unix/texexec: cd ~/bin ln -s ~/texmf/scripts/context/stubs/unix/texexec chmod +x texexec Hans: Could texexec be made executable in the distribution's zip file, to avoid the chmod? 5. (test 1) A first check is that texexec works. So change to a random directory, e.g. where you keep some Context files: cd ~/tmp/xy ; texexec --version That produces: TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD which looks good 6. (formats) Remake the formats with texexec --make --all 7. (test 2) Try a simple file. I use ~/tmp/xy/t.tex containing one line, "\starttext abc \stoptext". Here goes: texexec t fails with ! Font \*12ptrmtf*=ec-lmr12 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. 8. (dreaded lmodern) Ack, it's the dreaded lmodern problem. I thought I had avoided this issue on my previous laptop, which ran Debian testing/unstable and got reincarnated as an Ubuntu laptop. And I had fixed it, by installing the 'lmodern' package. But Ubuntu lmodern is v0.92, at least as of Ubuntu 6.06, and Debian unstable uses v1.00, which includes the necessary .tfm files for ec-lmr*. The beta Ubuntu ('edgy eft') uses the new version, so I downloaded its .deb via http://packages.ubuntu.com, which eventually pointed me to a monster url and I did: cd /tmp wget http://ubuntu.mirrors.tds.net/ubuntu/pool/universe/l/lmodern/lmodern_1.00-2… Note that the package version may change, so the easiest way is to download the latest .deb from http://ubuntu.mirrors.tds.net/ubuntu/pool/universe/l/lmodern/ Installing it is a bit painful. The first try (done as root) of dpkg -i /tmp/lmodern_1.00-2_all.deb complains with Usage error: unrecognized option Usage: update-fonts-dir DIRECTORY ... 'update-fonts-dir' is some X program that updates X's ideas of where its fonts are, and the package isn't calling it correctly. But I don't care whether X knows about the lmodern fonts, since I'm using them for documents viewed with gv or xpdf, not directly as an X font. So I shut up update-fonts-dir for the moment, installed, and undid the shutting up (all as root): chmod -x /usr/bin/update-fonts-dir dpkg -i /tmp/lmodern_1.00-2_all.deb chmod +x /usr/bin/update-fonts-dir 9. (test 2 again, not as root) Now 'texexec t' works fine, as does 'texexec --check' So I think all is well, and I didn't need to set RUBYLIB. Let me know of any corrections or improvements; if there's interest I'll wikifi. >From now on, I hope I can update using texmfstart ctxtools --updatecontext -Sanjoy `A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.' - Bertrand de Jouvenal

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context grid and \textrule
by wwl＠musensturm.de 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

> You can wrap that whole stuff inside > > \startlinecorrection > ... > \stoplinecorrection > > The stuff inside that environment will not be grid-aligned, > but the final resulting box will be. Thank you, that works. Wolfgang

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Figure number off one time
by David Arnold 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

All, I would like to use: \placefigure [right][fig:pythagoras] {An early portrait of Pythagoras.} {\getbuffer[figure]} And I would like to turn off the figure number in this caption, but just for this graphic, not for any other I place. I want the number off, but I want to keep the caption "An early portrait of Pythagoras." The following didn't work. \startbuffer[figure] \setupcaptions[number=no] \externalfigure[Pythagoras][width=4cm] \stopbuffer \placefigure [right][fig:pythagoras] {An early portrait of Pythagoras.} {\getbuffer[figure]} Pythagoras was a Greek mathematician and philosopher, born on the island of Samos somewhere near the year 582 BC. He founded a number of schools, one in particular in a town in southern Italy called Crotone, whose members eventually Any ideas?

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colums
by Hans van der Meer 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

When I do: \setupcolumns[n=2,balance=no,tolerance=verytolerant,rule=on] % and variations \startext \startcolumns abc \column def \stopcolumns \stoptext This produces two columns when typeset on the upper half of the page. Suddenly about halfway the page the columns are not put side by side but below each other! Is this something known are am I becoming mad? Hans van der Meer

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grid and \textrule
by wwl＠musensturm.de 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

Hallo! I use \setuplayout[grid=yes] and a chapterdefinition which looks like: Author ------------------------------------------------- Title Text text text ... The hor. Line above is a \textrule and the vert. spacing between author and line and line and Title resp. should not depent on the grid. So I can not use \placeongrid{textrule} in my chapterdefinition. I have to do this afterwards. \blank[force,3.9pt] In short: \setuplayout[grid=yes] \def\Sync{...} \showgrid \starttext Bla Blub \textrule \Sync Bla Blub \stoptext How should \Sync be defined to snap on the next gridline? My solution is \def\Sync{\blank[force,7.4pt]}% try and error isn't there a better solution? Wolfgang

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Figure 1.
by David Arnold 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

All, Anyone know how to put a period after Figure 1 in a figure caption?

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Rule under length of last line
by Duncan Hothersall 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

I've had a last-minute impossible request for a typesetting style, and having already told the person it can't be done in the time available, wondered whether it can actually be done at all. The request is for a subsection heading to have a continuous horizontal rule under both its number and title, at a distance of about 6pt from the baseline (i.e. not underlining), extending just the length of the heading. I can do that by setting both number and title in a TABLE, setting the offsets and specifying the bottom frame to be on - no problem. However, the tricky part is that where a longer title runs beyond one line, the line should only appear under the last line, and only to the length of the last line of text. In other words, for viewers with fixed width fonts: 1.1.1 Short title ----------------- 1.1.2 Longer title which wraps onto a second line like this --------------------------- We generate the ConTeXt code from XML, so ideally a solution wouldn't require the last line to be set separately, but would just work whether the heading was single or multiple line. What I'm really looking for is a subsection setup that will automatically do this whatever length of title. I have to say I think it's quite ugly, but can anyone give me a pointer as to how it could be done? Is there a box left at the end of a par which shows the width of the last line? As I say, I've already said no, so this is just out of interest, no urgency. Thanks, Duncan

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