January 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

XeTeX and OpenType LM
by Mojca Miklavec 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Hello, Since there are serious problems with XeTeX on non-TeXLive distributions anyway: why not mess it up properly this time? The attached file seems to work OK, although kpathsea complains a bit (but these are only warnings - no serious problems; perhaps other macros could or should be adapted - I didn't dig too much into the internals): kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmsans12-regular]': contains '[' kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmsans10-bold]': contains '[' kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmsans12-oblique]': contains '[' kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmtypewriter12-regular]': contains '[' kpathsea: Illegal fontname `[lmtypewriter10-oblique]': contains '[' Can someone please take a look? I don't know how well this integrates with luaTeX. Perhaps the name can be changed from \definexetexfontsynonym to \defineotffontsynonym or something similar, so that the underlying code can then differ depending on whether it's luatex or XeTeX the one which has to access the otf fonts. If this or a modified version of it makes it into the core, I would suggest another (slightly radical) change - to redefine default encoding to "uc" instead of "ec" for XeTeX (and luatex) before loading the formats. It would be really great if the default XeTeX settings would simply work out-of-the-box, contrary to now, when the default ec-lmr is nearly useless. Mojca

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Letters in ConTeXt
by Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren 01 Feb '07

01 Feb '07

the one thing that stops my total conversion to ConTeXt is my lack of understanding of, er, context. I've studied the manual "Corresponcence" which presupposes far better understanding of ConTeXt than I currently possess. I imagine though that a useful short working example would help. anyone? -- Rolf Lindgren roffe(a)extern.uio.no

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Footnote in columns/sets?
by Michal Kvasnicka 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Good evening. Since I've got no answer, I date to resent my question once more, and even to add to it. I typeset a document in two columns on the grid. I use both columns, and columnsets. I place footnotes in the "lastcolumn". \setupfootnotes [rule=off, way=bypage, location=lastcolumn, conversion=set 3] \setupfootnotedefinition [location=left, width=fit, hang=1] 1) How can I set interlinespace to a smaller distance? (I don't care that the footnote lines would not be on the grid---I prefer it to a very loose interlinespace.) I guess that there is better way than to write \footnote{\setupinterlinespace[line=9pt] ...\par} Moreover, it doesn't work well since on the first line is apparently inserted a strut. 2) In columnsets, the footnotes appear in the column where they are referenced, not in the last (the second) column. How can I force it to the second column? Many thanks for your answers. M.K.

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wrapping URL bug
by Alan Bowen 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

There is a problem involving \setupinteraction and \useURL with \goto that prevents hyphenation of URL links in the body text. The following works properly when the\setupinteraction line is commented out. Otherwise the URL runs in to the margin. I am using ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.23 13:32 MKII. Alan __________________________ \definepapersize[pagesize][width=36pc,height=54pc] \setuplayout[location=middle,marking=off] \setuppapersize[pagesize][pagesize] \setuplayout[width=26pc] \setupinteraction[state=start,style=rm] % for URLs and links <<===== \useURL [Canterbury][{http://www.canterburytalesproject.org}] [][{http://www.canterburytalesproject.org}] \starttext \noindent \tfx Canterbury Tales project.\ University of Birmingham.\ \goto{\url[Canterbury]}[url(Canterbury)]. \stoptext __________________________

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Colour (color) in mathml
by Duncan Hothersall 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Hello. I'm trying to implement part of a change-tracking system using colour to highlight changed areas in a document. I use MathML for maths, and I need to be able to apply colour to individual elements in an equation. I thought I could do just simply <mi color="green">x</mi> but evidently not. It does look as though colour is dealt with in x-newmml.tex, but not this way. Is there a way of colouring specific elements of a MathML equation? Thanks very much. Duncan

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Portuguese characters under Mac OS X
by Fidel Viegas 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Hello folks! I am having a problem processing my ConText files under Mac OS X. I am using TeXShop, and when I render the text written in Portuguese, it does not render the characters with accents. I did not have this problem under Windows, and so I would like to know from any Mac user that typesetts in languages other than english how I can solve this problem. Thanks in advance, Fidel.

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Re: [NTG-context] pagenumber in header line.-SOLVED
by John R. Culleton 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

>4 ROBERT S. CABLE >but what I want is the two components in the middle thus: > 4 ROBERT S. CABLE >If I insert \hfil etc. the pagenumbering gets replaced with the word > >"pagenumber". >Solution? I received a few solutions that didn't work for me. Thanks to those who wrote me. But a little plain TeX trickery did it nicely as follows: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \setupheadertexts[text] [][\CapStretch{INVESTING ON AUTOPILOT}\kern 1em\number\pageno\hfil] [\number\pageno\kern 1em \CapStretch{ROBERT S. CABLE}\hfil][] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since a centered header with page number included is a recurring requirement perhaps this should go in the wiki. Or perhaps not :<) -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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new font bugs
by Idris Samawi Hamid 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Dear gang, Does anyone understand the following font error? The file used to work for over a year till I installed the latest ConTeXt files: ======================================= ! pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible with scalable fonts. \actualshipout ... \box \postponedcontent \box 0}} \else \message {[\ifarrang... \myshipout ... \fi {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} \gotonextrealpage \aftersh... \dofinaloutput ...agebody #1#2\setpagecounters }}} \fi \the \everyaftershipou... \finaloutput ...EAEAEA \dofinaloutput \fi \fi #1#2 \resetselectiepagina \incr... \sidefloatoutput ...e \else \finalsidefloatoutput \global \sidefloatvsize \n... <argument> ...\fi \else \the \defaultstreamoutput \fi ... l.70 ======================================= The problem with making a sample file is that it involves a non-standard font (minion expert) with a lot of setup and so may be difficult to emulate. Indeed, my entire MinionProOpticals setup does not work at all anymore. A clue: Another file gives in the log: ========================================= pdfTeX warning: pdftex.exe (file texnansi-axoc-MinionPro-SemiboldItSubh): Font texnansi-axoc-MinionPro-SemiboldItSubh at 720 not found ========================================= But the tfm texnansi-axoc-MinionPro-SemiboldItSubh is found in \ConTeXt\tex\texmf-fonts\fonts\tfm\adobe\minion and the vf in \ConTeXt\tex\texmf-fonts\fonts\vf\adobe\minion Please help! Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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How to use columns inside another column?
by Zhichu Chen 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Hi everybody I used --------------------------- \definecolumnset[example][n=2] \definecolumnset[innerexample][n=2] \starttext \startcolumnset[example] \dorecurse{15}{\input knuth\par} \startcolumnset[innerexample] \input knuth\par \stopcolumnset \dorecurse{15}{\input knuth\par} \stopcolumnset \stoptext --------------------------- but nothing happened, can I use columns inside another column? -- 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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Latest ConTeXt releases (please read)
by Taco Hoekwater 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Hi, The ConTeXt releases starting from 2007.01.12 have a few major changes that seem to catch some people unawares. 1. As of 2007.01.12, ConTeXt uses a 'pdftex' executable, no longer 'pdfetex'. This matches up with the release of pdftex 1.40, where there no longer is a separate 'pdfetex' executable. There are two ways out of this: - Apparently an old install of pdftex can still run, but only if you copy the 'pdfetex' executable to the name 'pdftex'. - But a better option is to update to pdftex 1.40, if that is possible for you. If your distribution does not offer a 1.40 package yet, you can try to compile and install pdftex yourself. The sources are available here: http://sarovar.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=106 2. As of 2007.01.18, ConTeXt uses Latin Modern math fonts instead of computer modern. Unfortunately, most distributions still have a rather old version of the Latin Modern package, that does not have these fonts, so you may get 'Cannot find font ...' errors from TeX. The possible font names are 'rm-lmr', 'lmmi', 'lmsy' and 'lmex' (with a pointsize attached), so if you see such errors, you need to update our installation. If your distribution does not offer a latin modern 1.01 package yet, you can fetch the fonts from either CTAN or the Gust website. CTAN: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/lm/ GUST: http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern 3. If you use XeTeX or aleph, there is yet another problem: the latin modern package does not itself contain dvipdfmx map files. This means (x)dvipdfmx will likely find the ones intended for pdftex instead, and it will generate a lot of warnings and errors. ConTeXt comes with a tool to generate dvipdfmx-type map files automatically, but you have to run it manually. It is a commandline tool, and you have to run it like so: ctxtools --dpx --force <texmfroot> You need to replace <texmfroot> with the toplevel texmf directory where the latin-modern font map files are. While on the commandline, you can type in kpsewhich lm-math.map If it returns /opt/tex/texmf-local/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map, then the <texmfroot> is /opt/tex/texmf-local, and the full commandline is ctxtools --dpx --force /opt/tex/texmf-local I hope this explains most of the problems people have been having. If you or your distribution can not handle the required upgrades above, you should not update context at all, it will only give you grief (and broken output). In case this warning comes to late, all previous versions of ConTeXt are still available for download from the museum: https://foundry.supelec.fr/frs/?group_id=14 you probably want either 2007.01.12 or 2007.01.09. Happy TeXing, Taco

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