January 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Module `database' and UTF8?
by Michal Kvasnicka 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Good evening. I apologize that I bother you now so much with my own problems but I have to rewrite some of my macros right now for some reason. I found there is a great `database' module. I tried it with ConTeXt version 2007.01.12 15:56, perl TeXExec 5.4.3, and pdfetex 1.40.1 under SuSE Linux 10.1. I use input encoding regime utf8, and fonts in ec-lm encoding. I set it this way: \defineseparatedlist[CSV] [separator=tab,%{,}, %quotechar={"}, before=\bTABLE, after=\eTABLE, first=\bTR, last=\eTR, left=\bTD, right=\eTD] And call it with \processseparatedfile[CSV][file.csv]. It works well with words without accents. If there is an accented letter in the file.csv, it failes with this error message: ! Argument of \utftwouniglph has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \dodoprocessseplist #1#2 ->\edef \!!stringa {#1} \ifx \edef@relax \!!stringa ... <argument> PŘÍJMY leden únor březen duben květen červen červenec srpe... \doprocessseplist ...elax ->\dodoprocessseplist #1 \relax \relax \relax \end \doprocessseparatedfileline ...plist \line \relax \else \expanded {\processq... ... Can you help me to make it work? Many thanks. Yours Michal Kvasnicka

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setup linecorrection
by David Arnold 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

All, How do you set up: \startlinecorrection[blank] \midaligned{\getbuffer[table]} \stoplinecorrection so ensuing lines are not indented?

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translation question
by Frans Goddijn 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Note: this is not about ConTeXt (I have used ConTeXt but not actively these days) but I'm sending in this question as per suggestion to me by Hans Hagen. Sarah, the daughter of a friend, is studying at Carnegie Mellon University where she's designing games with a group called the Game Creation Society. One of the games produced popped up on a Czech download site with a Czech text and Sarah and her group would like to know what the text means... Any Czech here who'd care to translate or give a general impression in English of what the text says? Hans Hagen said there might me. Thanks for your time, Frans frans(a)goddijn.com www.rijksbinnenhaven.nl /// Sarah writes: This is about one of the GCS games... It's been put up on some free game downloading site, and he found a different foreign website that has it on it. "Power Monkey je novinkou z dílny týmu Game Creation Society. Jejich díla je tøeba brát smrtelnì vážnì už jen proto, že jde o seskupení profesionálních vývojáøù, kteøí se ve volném èase baví tvorbou nezávislých titulù. Konkrétnì tenhle je roztomilou arkádou s opièkou v hlavní roli. Jako každá správná opice, má i tahle velice ráda banány. Nìjaký dobrodinec jí pøitom poházel po dvou na zaèátku dostupných úrovních spoustu kusù lahodného žlutého ovoce. Úkolem hráèe tedy není nic jiného, než se jimi proskákat a všechny banány v èasovém limitu sežrat. Povede-li se dokonèit dva poèáteèní levely, otevøe se ještì bonusový tøetí. Power Monkey se hraje dokonale pohodovì. Èas, který je na jednotlivé levely nasazen, není úplnì benevolentní, napodruhé èi nejpozdìji napotøetí už ale vìtšina hráèù úroveò dokonèí. K ovládání slouží základní kombinace WASD a myši, celkový dobrý dojem pak dotváøí audiovizuální zpracování, možná ne dokonalé, rozhodnì ale roztomilé a zejména v lesním levelu velmi stylové. Power Monkey je zkrátka pìkná 3D arkáda, jež potìší zejména mladší hráèe. "

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Another \setuparranging
by Michal Kvasnicka 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Good evening. Is there any SIMPLE way to add one more arranging scheme to \setuparranging command? I regularly typeset some document on a piece of paper that is 1/3 of A4, and want to print it in such a way that three of them are positioned side to side on one A4 paper. I've been doing it with pstops utility. Isn't there a simple way how make \setuparranging command to do it? And one more related question: Usually the document has just one page, so in the print version there are three same pages side to side to each other. Any hint how to do it? Many thanks for your help. Michal Kvasnicka

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[Fwd: Re: Latest ConTeXt and lmmi7]]
by Hans Hagen 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

lm and gyre news ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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error: the file 'texexec' is not found
by Bob Reynolds 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Hi, I just updated my TeX (and ConTeXt) tree, based on the linuxtex.zip file at http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm, at /usr/local/share/tex from about the August version and after a few minor tweaks I've got it working. No other TeX stuff is installed on my Gentoo system. One big problem: all of a sudden, I need to run "source /usr/local/share/tex/setuptex" or else a command like "texmfstart texexec --color 'story.tex'" exits with an error message "the file 'texexec' is not found". This breaks the Kile program that I use to write and compile TeX files. Is there any way to get this or something similar that's not in a bash environment to just work? Thank you very much, Bob ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367

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ConTeXt release 2007.01.18
by Taco Hoekwater 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Hi all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip The current release has version 2007.01.18 A very short list of changes is given below. As usual, there is an html page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes Two important caveats apply to this release: * ConTeXt has switched to Latin Modern for the base math fonts as well. If this gives you problems with missing metrics, then your latin modern font package needs to be updated. In case your TeX installation does not have an easy update solution, the LM package is on CTAN: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/lm/ * ConTeXt has switched to pdftex 1.40. Unfortunately, due to changes in pdftex, it is not possible to support both 1.40 and 1.30 reliably at the same time, so if you normally use pdftex, you have to upgrade pdftex as well as context. In case your TeX installation does not have an easy update solution, the pdftex 1.40.1 distribution is available in source from here: http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex Alternatively, you could temporarily use XeTeX instead of pdftex. If you cannot solve or work around the two above issues, you should not update to the new ConTeXt. New features (compared to 2007.01.02): * Complete support for pdftex 1.40 * Swich to Latin Modern Math * Support for TeXGyreSchola fonts * Support for pdftex 1.40's draft mode (texexec --draft) * The scripts texmstart, texexec and texsync return exit codes now * The vim-based syntax highlighting module is added to cont-ext.zip Bugfixes: * A math display error message from 2007.01.02 is fixed * The unicode map file loading was broken in non-pdftex * texexec's --passon switch is re-instated * The Adobe euro font map file is now usable by dvips as well Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater

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footnotes and footnote markers on SPREAD
by Steffen Wolfrum 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hi, there seems to be a rule that footnotes and footnote markers have to be kept on the same page -- even if there stays a lot of white space at the bottom. Is there also a kind of penalties to modify the rule like this: Keeping on the same page would be best, but on the same SPREAD is fine enough?! Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] Latest ConTeXt and lmmi7
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

On 18 Jan 2007 at 15:20, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: > http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin_modern > gets a > Resource not found > message. (Is there another source?) Thats a typo at that web-site: take 'latin-modern' not 'latin_modern'! but there is no aktuall lm to download at the moment Wolfgang

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Keeping section heading with following text?
by cormullion＠mac.com 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

The other minor problem I had is that in one place i got a subsection heading at the bottom of one page and the text that follows it on the top of the next page. Is there some setting I can make which stops this happening?

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