January 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Using vim's syntax highlighting in (TeX) publicaions (fwd)
by Aditya Mahajan 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Hi, I forgot to announce the t-vim module here. So here is a copy of Mojca's announcement on the vim mailing list. Aditya From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 07:53:07 +0100 Subject: using vim's syntax highlighting in (TeX) publications Hello, just in case anyone is interested in typesetting publications using vim's syntax highlighter. This is a new module written in ConTeXt (a flavour of TeX) that can be used in documents: http://modules.contextgarden.net/t-vim The idea was "stolen" from 2html.vim (which converts any syntax to html): this one converts any syntax to something "TeX"-friendly; typesetting itself is done by TeX then. Mojca

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HZ with latest ConTeXt
by Peter Münster 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Hello, I've just seen the page about hanging and hz on the wiki, so I've tried the example for lm: \starttext \input tufte \page \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][hanging][normal] \setupalign[hanging] \usetypescript[modern-base][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[reset] \setupbodyfont[modern] \input tufte \page \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][hz][highquality] \setupalign[hanging,hz] %\usetypescript[modern-base][\defaultencoding] %\setupbodyfont[reset] %\setupbodyfont[modern] \input tufte \stoptext I can get hanging but no hz (no difference between 2nd and 3rd page). What is needed to get hz? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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dvipos outputs scaled points, which confuses context
by Sanjoy Mahajan 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

To stress-test things and because xdvi renders crisper text than any pdf viewer, I just tried 'texexec --dvi --nobackend notes'. It failed with: (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/sort-lan.tex) (./notes.tuo ! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted). <to be read again> - \pospxywhd ...fnum \positionanchormode =\plusone - \MPx \pageanchor \fi ... l.193 ...952663}{8880535}{334}{6216377}{134561832} The offending line in notes.tuo is: \pospxywhd{text:33}{33}{10952663}{8880535}{334}{6216377}{134561832} texexec works fine in PDF mode, where that line in the notes.tuo file is \pospxywhd{text:33}{33}{167.12437pt}{135.50621pt}{334.24875pt}{523.95755pt}{0.0pt} And 167.12437pt = 10952663sp. So dvipos (Version 20030628 (KPATHSEA)) is outputting the locations in scaled points (sp), but the results are being interpreted as printers points (pt), whereupon the dimension is absurdly large. [CtxTools | context version: 2007.01.02 13:44] -Sanjoy `A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.' (Gibbon)

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another problem with \starttables
by Peter Münster 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hello, shouldn't there be a line on the top of each page: \starttext \starttablehead \HL \stoptablehead \starttables[|l|] \NC test \NC\FR \dorecurse{100}{\NC test \NC\MR} \NC test \NC\LR \stoptables \stoptext ? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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error with metafun
by Peter Münster 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hello, with the latest ConTeXt on TeX-live 2007 and this input file: \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} draw fullcircle scaled 4cm withpen pencircle scaled 1cm ; setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox fullcircle scaled 4cm ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext I get the following error in dvi-mode: This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6) (test-mpgraph.mp [1] metafun 2007-1-4 11:2 ) 1 output file written: test-mpgraph.1 Transcript written on test-mpgraph.log. [MP as EPS ./test-mpgraph.1] [MP color conversion ./test-mpgraph.1 ! Argument of \dodohandleMPcolor has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \includeMPasEPS ...\the \!!heightb }\doinsertfile }\wd \scratchbox \!!widthb... \loadMPgraphic ...Pgraphics \insertMPfile {#1}{#2} \fi } \handleuseMPgraphic ....\the \currentMPgraphic }{} \placeMPgraphic \fi \deall... \douseMPgraphic ...s [#1][#2]\getvalue {\@@MPG #1} {}\elabelgroup ... l.6 \useMPgraphic{test} Could anybody help please? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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crash with pdftex-1.40
by Peter Münster 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hello, this is probably only related to pdfTeX and not to ConTeXt, but I'm too lazy to subscribe yet to another list... ;) While playing around with the new shell escaping in pdftex-1.40, I got the following crash: TeXExec | processing document 'test' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file test.top TeXExec | using randomseed 121 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.0 (Web2C 7.5.6) \write18 enabled. (/opt/TeX-live/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.02 13:44 MK II fmt: 2007.1.4 int: english/english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkii)) system : cont-old loaded (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (/home/peter/.TeX/cont-sys.tex (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)) (/home/peter/.TeX/dd-macros.tex loading : Macros for Delta Dore )) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns nl->texnansi:texnansi->1->2:3 nl->ec:ec->2->2:3 fr-> texnansi:texnansi->3->2:3 fr->ec:ec->4->2:3 de->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:3 de->e c:ec->6->2:3 it->texnansi:texnansi->7->2:3 it->ec:ec->8->2:3 pt->texnansi:texna nsi->9->2:3 pt->ec:ec->10->2:3 hr->ec:ec->11->2:3 pl->pl0:pl0->12->2:3 pl->ec:e c->13->2:3 pl->qx:qx->14->2:3 cz->il2:il2->15->2:3 cz->ec:ec->16->2:3 sk->il2:i l2->17->2:3 sk->ec:ec->18->2:3 sl->ec:ec->19->2:3 ru->t2a:t2a->21->2:3 en->ec:e c->22->2:3 uk->ec:ec->23->2:3 us->ec:ec->24->2:3 agr->agr:agr->25->2:3 da->ec:e c->26->2:3 sv->ec:ec->27->2:3 af->ec:ec->28->2:3 no->ec:ec->29->2:3 deo->ec:ec- >30->2:3 es->ec:ec->31->2:3 ca->ec:ec->32->2:3 la->ec:ec->33->2:3 ro->ec:ec->34 ->2:3 tr->ec:ec->35->2:3 fi->ec:ec->37->2:3 hu->ec:ec->38->2:3 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : test.top loaded (./test.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkii)) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) systems : system commands are enabled (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/sort-def.tex) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/sort-lan.tex) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/pdfr-def.tex) systems : begin file test at line 1 (./texcmd.tmp) (./texcmd.tmp) (./texcmd.tmp)TeXExec | runtime: 0.318195 *** glibc detected *** pdftex: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0850f718 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6[0xb7dbe911] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x84)[0xb7dbff84] pdftex[0x80a54b9] pdftex[0x80774fe] pdftex[0x806b764] pdftex[0x807732e] pdftex[0x80a2d2d] pdftex[0x8059f1c] pdftex[0x80a6e3b] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc)[0xb7d7087c] pdftex[0x804a9e1] ======= Memory map: ======== 08048000-08145000 r-xp 00000000 fe:01 262328 /opt/TeX-live/bin/pdftex 08145000-0815c000 rw-p 000fc000 fe:01 262328 /opt/TeX-live/bin/pdftex 0815c000-08539000 rw-p 0815c000 00:00 0 [heap] b3a00000-b3a21000 rw-p b3a00000 00:00 0 b3a21000-b3b00000 ---p b3a21000 00:00 0 b3b13000-b3b1d000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 114396 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b3b1d000-b3b1e000 rw-p 00009000 03:02 114396 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b3b3b000-b7d5b000 rw-p b3b3b000 00:00 0 b7d5b000-b7e74000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 114286 /lib/libc-2.4.so b7e74000-b7e76000 r--p 00118000 03:02 114286 /lib/libc-2.4.so b7e76000-b7e78000 rw-p 0011a000 03:02 114286 /lib/libc-2.4.so b7e78000-b7e7b000 rw-p b7e78000 00:00 0 b7e7b000-b7e9e000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 114294 /lib/libm-2.4.so b7e9e000-b7ea0000 rw-p 00022000 03:02 114294 /lib/libm-2.4.so b7ea0000-b7eb1000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 114337 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3 b7eb1000-b7eb2000 rw-p 00010000 03:02 114337 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3 b7eb2000-b7ef0000 r-xp 00000000 fe:04 461393 /usr/lib/libpng.so.3.1.2.8 b7ef0000-b7ef1000 rw-p 0003e000 fe:04 461393 /usr/lib/libpng.so.3.1.2.8 b7f0a000-b7f0f000 rw-p b7f0a000 00:00 0 b7f0f000-b7f10000 r-xp b7f0f000 00:00 0 [vdso] b7f10000-b7f2a000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 114346 /lib/ld-2.4.so b7f2a000-b7f2c000 rw-p 00019000 03:02 114346 /lib/ld-2.4.so bfbda000-bfbef000 rw-p bfbda000 00:00 0 [stack] This is my input: \starttext \def\myCMD#1{% \immediate\write18{echo -n `#1`\letterpercent >texcmd.tmp}% \input texcmd.tmp } X\myCMD{date -d yesterday}X X\myCMD{echo -n Hello World}X \def\myCMD#1{% \input "\string|#1"\unskip } X\myCMD{date -d yesterday}X X\myCMD{echo -n Hello World}X \stoptext But this should be enough to reproduce it: \starttext \input "\string|echo -n bla" \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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staticMPfigure problem with \runMP[TEX]graphicsfalse
by Sanjoy Mahajan 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Not sure if the following are new behaviors or are the correct ones but I'm just misunderstanding. The following jjj.tex file doesn't correctly generate and include the static metapost figure unless I set \runMPgraphicstrue and \runMPTEXgraphicstrue in cont-sys.rme and set shell_escape = t. If \runMPgraphicsfalse and \runMPTEXgraphicsfalse but shell_escape = t, then the generated pdf figure is only 1pt wide but is included. If all settings are false, then there's a grey square saying 'dummy' etc. It all works fine if all three settings are true. But I thought that one can leave all three settings false, and texexec will still produce the same pdf just with more runs? This is with context 2006.12.27 (from the Debian context package), pdftex 1.40.0, metapost 0.993, plus mostly texlive 2005. =================== begin: jjj.tex ================== \starttext \startstaticMPfigure{fig:ellipse} path p; p := fullcircle scaled 2in yscaled 0.5; label(btex hello etex, origin); draw p; \stopstaticMPfigure \placefigure[right,none]{}{\usestaticMPfigure[fig:ellipse]} \input tufte \stoptext =================== end: jjj.tex ================== -Sanjoy `A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.' (Gibbon)

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Storing temporary files in a different location
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hello, Context places a bunch of temporary files into the same folder where my source and output files are. Is there a way to tell texexec to store temporary files in a different location, say, in a \temp folder? With best regards, Vyatcheslav

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engine should be pdftex
by Peter Münster 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hello, "texexec --make --all" puts the formats in the subdirectory "pdfetex" but I think it should be "pdftex" now. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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support for \starttables ?
by Peter Münster 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hello, is \starttables ... \stoptables still supported in recent ConTeXt? With \starttext \starttables[|l|] \NC test \NC\AR \stoptables \stoptext I get the following error: ! Misplaced \noalign. \TABLEnoalign ->\noalign \bgroup \let \noalign \relax \let \next = \insertTABLEtail ->\TABLEnoalign {\global \settrue \preventTABLEbreak \globa... \stoptables ...erepeattail \else \insertTABLEtail \fi \finishTABLE \egroup \... l.4 \stoptables Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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