October 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

quote characters in luatex
by Thomas A. Schmitz 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

In my experiments with luatex, there's one thing that may be surprising for many users: we have come to expect that the characters ` and ' in our input files map to single left and single right quotation marks. luatex just typesets them "verbatim," so to speak. It converts the combination `` and '' to double quotation marks, however. So my question: wouldn't it make sense to convert the single marks as well? (And please don't tell me "Oh but you should use \quote {} instead of ` '." I know that, but I guess that many users have hundreds of old documents where they use `'. Moreover, ' also creates the apostrophe character, which cannot be avoided.) Best Thomas

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Call for test documents
by Norbert Preining 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

Dear all, I am currently testing the installation of ConTeXt/MkIV on Debian and thus being in search for test documents using MkIV features/luatex stuff. Or at least document which I can/should be able to process with luatex/context. If you have any documents it would be great if you could send me them, best together with a short line on HOW to process the documents, and even better with a "correct" pdf output. This way I can do proper checking. Thanks a lot and all the best Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining(a)logic.at> Vienna University of Technology Debian Developer <preining(a)debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THRUMSTRER (n.) The irritating man next to you in a concert who thinks he's (a) the conductor, (b) the brass section. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff

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a question about formula labels: letters preceding numbers
by Jesse Alama 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

I'd like to typeset equations like these: <some formula> (S1) <another formula> (S2) >From the documentation, I can see how to produce labels such as "1S", with the "S" following the equation number, but I don't yet see how to make the "S" come in front. Since there are only two such equations in the particular document that I'm working with, a brutish one-off solution would suffice. But a method for prefixing a letter to a number (rather than the other way around) would be nicer. Thanks, Jesse -- Jesse Alama (alama(a)stanford.edu)

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Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX on Mac OS X
by Jeong Dalyoung 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

Dear Hans, Thank you for your concern. There is no non-ascii character in folder names except ~/Documents/. And the TeX directory is /usr/local/texlive/{2007, texmf-local}/... By the way, where is setuptex command which can be used in Mac? I tried before as in the wiki, but it couldn't find such a command. Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung

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bibtex startup
by Andrea Valle 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

Dear all, I'd like use bibtex support. It's my first time in ConTeXt I took a look at the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography but cannot understand exactly. 1. I created a bibTest.bib file containing: ______________ %% Created for Andrea Valle at 2007-10-02 17:37:21 +0200 %% Saved with string encoding Western (ASCII) @article{trezegol, Author = {Trezeguet, David}, Date-Added = {2007-10-02 17:32:32 +0200}, Date-Modified = {2007-10-02 17:37:19 +0200}, Journal = {Soccer International Journal}, Title = {How to score}, Year = {2007}} ______________ 2. I created in the same folder a bibTest.tex file with this: \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex[database=xampl] \starttext As \cite[trezegol] already indicated, bibtex is a \LaTeX-centric program. \completepublications \stoptext 3. I compiled following the three steps indicated by the wiki texexec --once bibTest bibtex bibTest texexec bibTest Following the example, I have not indicated explicitly in the tex file the name of the biblio file. I guest it is implied by the tex file name (or not?) In any case, I'm having this as a ref (Xxxxxxxxxx, 0000) plus a new page with Reference intuitively empty. What am I missing? Thanks a lot -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong)

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Re: [NTG-context] LuaTeX on Mac OS X
by Dalyoung Jeong 02 Oct '07

02 Oct '07

Dear Hans, Thank you for the reply. Here is the codes of luatools.lua from line number 1106 - %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 1106: if md5 then do 1107: local function convert(str,fmt) 1108: return (string.gsub(md5.sum(str),".",function(chr) return string.format(fmt,string.byte(chr)) end)) 1109: end if not md5.HEX then function md5.HEX(str) return convert(str,"% 02X") end end if not md5.hex then function md5.hex(str) return convert(str,"% 02x") end end if not md5.dec then function md5.dec(str) return convert(stt,"% 03i") end end end end %%%%%%%%%%%%% Since most people didn't have the problem in installation. it reminded me a problem when I installed the XeTeX a long time ago. After installed files of XeTeX, I tried to make a format, but I couldn't succeed. I reported the error message to XeTeX mailing list, but every one had no problem to install and to make a format. They said that it was good in their system. Finally Jonathan found that it was related with my OSX(OSX korean version) even though I put english at the top priority in the preference panel. He installed korean in his system to locate the problem and removed the problems. Is this problem related with my OSX? I hope that the line 1108 gives you a clue of my problem. Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung

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How to process simple HTML files with LuaTeX
by Mojca Miklavec 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Hello, I was trying to figure out how to process simple HTML files with the new code, but I fail to understand the details. Here's a simple file I would like to process: <html> <head> <title>My first HTML2ConTeXt</title> </head> <body> <h1>Main Title</h1> <p>Some text ...</p> <h2>Subtitle</h2> <p>Some text again ...</p> <h1>Second title</h1> <p>... and not much more text here either ...</p> </body> </html> And the failed tries here: % engine=luatex \setupcolors[state=start] \setuphead[subject][style=bfa,color=blue] \setuphead[subsubject][style=tfa,color=blue] \starttext \xmlload{main}{test.html}{} \xmlgrab{main}{h1}{h1} \xmlgrab{main}{h2}{h2} \startxmlsetups h1 \subject{H1: #1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups h2 \subsubject{H2: #1} \stopxmlsetups How to grab only the title out of here? \xmlfilter{main}{html/head/title} \xmlflush{main} \stoptext Any hints most wellcome. Thank a lot, Mojca

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numbered subitems
by Alan Bowen 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

I need to produce an lengthy itemization of the form: 1.AAAA 1.1 aaaa 1.2 bbbb 2.BBBB 2.1 cccc I can get: 1.AAAA 1 aaaa 2 bbbb 2.BBBB 1 cccc easily enough, but how can I get the main division number to repeat in the subitem numeration? Alan

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placefigure[hang] in columns
by Christof Meigen 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Hi, I'm quite new to ConTeXT, so excuse me if the solution is obvious. I'm trying to typeset a document with three columns which contains _a lot_ of graphics, most of which are pretty small, about one third of a column. Unfortunately, while \placefigure[left,hang] works fine with one column, the text doesn't float around the picture when using two or more columns, so when I do ------ \starttext \startcolumns[n=2] \placefigure[left,hang]{none}{\externalfigure[somepic][width=1.6cm]} sometext \stopcolumns \stoptext ------ "sometext" appears in the second column, instead of next to the figure in the first column. To get an impression of what I want to achive you might try the following link: http://213.239.210.141/cgi-bin/lex.pl?titel=David%20Lynch&db=Berlin&id=58,1… While this comes close to what I mean (it's done in LaTeX), there are some limitations in LaTeX which make the job very painful, one of which is that it's impossible to have floats in columns for larger pictures that span one column (this works fine in Context). Am I just missing something? Ok, if that was too easy, here is the tough problem: *Actually* I would like to let the small pictures float _within_ the paragraph, so that if, say, the paragraph starts three lines before the end of the column, the picture would be set after the first three lines of the paragraph (and thus in the next column). I've experimented with writing \pdflastypos to logfiles, analysing them with a perl script, changing automatically the TeX-File and rerunning latex for days, but the results are ... well, ok, but not perfect. Thanks in advance for any hints, Christof Meigen

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Bib-mod: Formatting of Publication Lists and Cites
by Peter Daum 01 Oct '07

01 Oct '07

Hi all I'd like to try to tell bib-mod to - fill in a vertical space between the entries in the publication list (the distance parameter did not help); - format the author's name in the cite as small caps (I managed to do it for the list, but unfortunately stayed unsuccessful for the cite). Do you have an idea how these issues could be solved? Thanks very much! Regards, Peter. -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer

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