November 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

getting output in ConTeXt
by gururaj 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Sir,     I have Protext installed on my machine with WinXp as OS. I have problems in getting the output. When I try I get the error message "The file doesn't exist". I am using MeWa as tex editor. Please help me.

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Gentium Basic/Book
by Joel C. Salomon 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

How difficult would it be to adapt the typescript for Gentium (at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TypeScripts) to use the new Gentium Basic for headings & Gentium Book Basic for text weights (both have Roman, Bold Roman, Italic, & Bold Italic) -- but with reverting to Gentium for characters that aren't in the Basic fonts? --Joel

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metafun's "smoothed"
by Mojca Miklavec 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Hello Hans, What exactly is the intended function of "smooothed"? I thought that the following should work and make round corners, but it only takes the bounding box. (I didn't play with it yet, but I assume that "punked" behaves in a similar way to what I would expect - it modifies the whole curve.) \starttext \startMPcode path p; % return p := ((0,0)--(1,0)--(1,2)--(-0.5,2)--(-0.5,1)--(0,1)--cycle) scaled 1cm; draw p; draw p smoothed 1mm shifted (3cm,0); \stopMPcode \stoptext Thanks, Mojca

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[OT] gnupdf.org
by luigi scarso 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Just discovered: http://gnupdf.org/Main_Page -- luigi ... it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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Re: [NTG-context] typesetting a formula as a figure
by Jeong Dalyoung 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Dear Idris, I have used buffers and \plcadefigures to display formula and figure together. Here is my short sample file. \startbuffer[one] \startformula \startmatrix \NC \NC e_1 \NC e_2 \NC e_3 \NC e_5 \NC e_5 \NR \NC u \NC 0 \NC 1 \NC 1 \NC 0 \NC 1 \NR \NC v \NC 1 \NC 0 \NC 1 \NC 0 \NC 0 \NR \NC w \NC 1 \NC 1 \NC 0 \NC 1 \NC 0 \NR \NC x \NC 0 \NC 0 \NC 1 \NC 0 \NC 1 \NR \NC y \NC 1 \NC 0 \NC 0 \NC 1 \NC 0 \NR \stopmatrix \stopformula \stopbuffer \starttext \placefigure[here][fig:test]{Test of buffers} {\startcombination[2*2] {\externalfigure[7starmagic1][width=.25\makeupwidth]}{G} {\externalfigure[one.tmp]}{AA} {\externalfigure[one.tmp]}{BB} {\externalfigure[one.tmp]}{CC} \stopcombination} \stoptext Then, I got a strange output(fig 1: wide blank spaces between columns). If I use \getbuffer instead of \externalfigure, I got somewhat proper output(fig 2), but the figure is located much higher than the matrix(horizontal alignment is bad). What is wrong in my sample? Is there any option for \startcombination? Thank you. Best wishes, Dalyoung fig 1: figure matrix 1 figure matrix 1 figure matrix 1 figure matrix 1 <....... wide ........... blank ......... space..........> matrix 2 matrix 3 matrix 2 matrix 3 matrix 2 matrix 3 matrix 2 matrix 3 fig 2: figure figure figure figure matrix 1 figure matrix 1 matrix 1 matrix 1 matrix 2 matrix 3 matrix 2 matrix 3 matrix 2 matrix 3 matrix 2 matrix 3

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sorting bug in mkiv
by Wolfgang Schuster 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Hi, I found a bug in the mkiv code with the \definsorting macros. When I try to output the sorted list with \placelistofsorts ConTeXt give me only the name of the sort list but not the list entries. \definesorting[test][tests] \starttext \test[One]{one} \test[Two]{Two} \test[Three]{3} text \One\ text \Two\ text \Three\ text \placelistoftests \stoptext This bug did also appear with the synonym mechanism. The old mkii code works as expected but I found a interestins side effect of the old mechanism. ConTeXt writes the whole list entries in galley files and one can misuse this to output the list of synonyms before the commands are definied;-) \definesynonyms[test][tests][\testtext] \starttext %\placelistoftests \test[One]{one}{number one} \test{Two}{Two} \test{Three}{Three} text \One\ text \Two\ text \Three\ text \testtext{One} text \placelistoftests \stoptext Wolfgang

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kpse.rb bad guess for distribution (web2c vs miktex)
by George N. White III 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

I use MiKTeX's package manager to install updates on linux TeXLive. I put mpm in /opt/miktex/bin, which causes kpse.rb to deduce that distribution=miktex (rather than web2c). Here is a trivial patch that adds a test for mswin: $ diff -C 3 kpse.rb.orig kpse.rb *** kpse.rb.orig 2007-01-11 11:52:06.000000000 -0400 --- kpse.rb 2007-11-23 12:59:11.000000000 -0400 *************** *** 64,71 **** # @@distribution = 'miktex' if ENV['PATH'] =~ /miktex[\\\/]bin/o ! if ENV['PATH'] =~ /(.*?)miktex[\\\/]bin/i then ! @@distribution = 'miktex' unless $1 =~ /(texmf\-mswin[\/\\]bin|bin[\/\\]win32)/i end @@re_true = /yes|on|true|1/i --- 64,71 ---- # @@distribution = 'miktex' if ENV['PATH'] =~ /miktex[\\\/]bin/o ! if (Config::CONFIG['host_os'] =~ /mswin/) && (ENV['PATH'] =~ /(.*?)miktex[\\\/]bin/i) then ! @@distribution = 'miktex' unless $1 =~ /(texmf\-mswin[\/\\]bin|bin[\/\\]win32)/i end @@re_true = /yes|on|true|1/i -- George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

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backward compatibility
by Peter Münster 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

Dear ConTeXt developers, With the new generation of ConTeXt, MKIV, would it be possible to drop backward compatibility at some places, where it was the only reason to keep some undesired behaviour? Examples: align=left|right or insertion of \dontleavehmode before \externalfigure and \framed Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Images centered on page : Solved
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

Hello, Thank you all very much. I'm pleased with number and quality of solutions to my problem. The winner solution is provided by Wolfgang Schuster. Simple \centeredbox{} makes all the magic I need. I was also amazed with quick porting of my Lua code for batch image processing to native TeX script. I'm an imperative programmer to the marrow and never will be able to do such things. Luckily, now we have embedded Lua! Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Images centered on page
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

Hello, How can I center the image on a page? I want images to cover the page completely, and since they have proper size (roughly A4), I only need them to be centered. Now they are stuck to the top, leaving a gap on bottom (and same for left-right). I have the following script (note my Lua trick to process images in a batch). Image names are "Image00001.png" and so on. %engine=luatex \setuplayout [footer=0mm, header=0mm, topspace=0mm, backspace=0mm, leftmargin=0mm, rightmargin=0mm, location=middle, height=fit, width=fit] \starttext \startluacode for n = 1, 9 do tex.print(string.format("\\externalfigure[Image%05d.png]", n)); end \stopluacode \stoptext Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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