April 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: [NTG-context] spreading natural tables across the page
by MASON Peter J 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Thankyou, but I'm seeking a little more. This example gives columns of equal width. I need to be able to control width for each col, viz some I want tight fitting, others not. Seems that I can do this if I'm explicit about setting width= per column, but with Latex using "tabular*" I didn't need to set width explicitly for each col. Does this make sense? If so then howto? -----Original Message----- From: ntg-context-bounces(a)ntg.nl [mailto:ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl]On Behalf Of Wolfgang Schuster Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2007 4:16 PM To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] spreading natural tables across the page 2007/4/5, MASON Peter J < Peter_MASON(a)rta.nsw.gov.au>: I'm trying to have my tables extend across the full (\textwidth) of the page. In LaTeX I was using tabular*, specifying a \textwidth for width, and with approp use of @{\extracolsep\fill}} bu am not having any success. Basically, in ConteXT I want odd columns to act as labels and be tight fitting but even cols to be the values an NOT be tight-fitting, within a page-wide table, ie some tight, some not. As well, I' d like not to be explicitly specifying column width. I saw examples using option=stretch somewhere but am not able to get my use of same happening. As well, I' d like not to be explicitly specifying column width. Could a kind person please point me to an example of this usage. Thanks. Hi Peter, \starttext \bTABLE[option=stretch] \bTR \bTD Left \eTD \bTD Right \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext Wolfgang IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment to it are intended only to be read or used by the named addressee. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistaken transmission to you. The RTA is not responsible for any unauthorised alterations to this e-mail or attachment to it. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of the RTA. If you receive this e-mail in error, please immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender. You must not disclose, copy or use any part of this e-mail if you are not the intended recipient.

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Re: [NTG-context] natural tables - first row not gray
by MASON Peter J 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Thanks. Yes, that works better. Is there some general I can draw from this? -----Original Message----- From: ntg-context-bounces(a)ntg.nl [mailto:ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl]On Behalf Of Wolfgang Schuster Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2007 4:26 PM To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] natural tables - first row not gray 2007/4/5, MASON Peter J < Peter_MASON(a)rta.nsw.gov.au>: G'day, firstly thanks for your contextgarden.net website and the "live-context" facility. I checked my results against it. Could I seek help on this please. I'm expecting rows 2-4 of the table resulting from the segment below to have odd columns in rows 2-4 with white-on-black but all columns are coming out as black-on-white. I also tried completely specifying it by supplying \setupTABLE[even][2-4] ... as well. Something obvious I expect, but I'm missing it. Thanks. \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \bTABLE \setupTABLE[first][first][align=middle, background=color,backgroundcolor=gray,foregroundcolor=black] \setupTABLE[odd][2,3,4][align=left,background=color,backgroundcolor=black,foregroundcolor=white] Hi Peter, can you try the follwing setups: \setupTABLE[c][odd][align=left,background=color,backgroundcolor=black,foregroundcolor=white] \setupTABLE[r][first][align=middle,background=color,backgroundcolor=gray,foregroundcolor=black] Wolfgang \bTR \bTD [nc=6] Prime Unit \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Plate: \eTD \bTD xxxxx \eTD \bTD State: \eTD \bTD sssss \eTD \bTD Type: \eTD \bTD ttttt \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Make: \eTD \bTD mmmm \eTD \bTD GCM: \eTD \bTD [nc=3] gggg \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Chassis: \eTD \bTD cccc \eTD \bTD GVM: \eTD \bTD [nc=3] vvv \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment to it are intended only to be read or used by the named addressee. It is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistaken transmission to you. The RTA is not responsible for any unauthorised alterations to this e-mail or attachment to it. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of the RTA. If you receive this e-mail in error, please immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender. You must not disclose, copy or use any part of this e-mail if you are not the intended recipient.

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 34, Issue 18
by Steve MC Han 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

I wish I could understand one single line of theses! C:\Han\slide>mpto -tex 2MS2.mp \documentclass[12pt]{amsart} \usepackage{mflogo} \begin{document} \newif\ifloadfontfileonce % \gdef\mpxshipout{\shipout\hbox\bgroup \setbox0=\hbox\bgroup} \gdef\stopmpxshipout{\egroup \dimen0=\ht0 \advance\dimen0\dp0 \dimen1=\ht0 \dimen2=\dp0 \setbox0=\hbox\bgroup \box0 \ifnum\dimen0>0 \vrule width1sp height\dimen1 depth\dimen2 \else \vrule width1sp height1sp depth0sp\relax \fi\egroup \ht0=0pt \dp0=0pt \box0 \egroup} \mpxshipout% line 151 2MS2.mp $A$\stopmpxshipout .... etc. Steve MC Han wrote: > Still it says "command failed" as you can see below. > > C:\Han\slide>mpost --tex=latex 2MS2 > This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6) > (2MS2.mp [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]makempx: Command failed: mp > to -tex 2MS2.mp So, you should try this command: mpto -tex 2MS2.mp tex-based labels in metapost are not simply created by one program, but a number of programs called in turn. For simplicity's sake, the relevant commands are normally hidden. Taco --------------------------------- Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users.

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Help with ConTeXt TaBlE
by Jeremy Johnson 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Hi, I have a letterhead defined in latex: \newcommand{\myletterhead}{\noindent {\begin{tabular*}{6.5in}{ @{} l @{} r @{} } \parbox[b]{2.5in}{\huge \sc John Doe} & \parbox[b]{4.0in}{\flushright \large \sl MOTTO}\ \ \hline \hline \\[-8pt] \Large WhoIAm & \normalsize STREET\\ \Email \it email@nowhere & P.O.~Box ddd\\ \Telefon \it telnumber \FAX faxnumber & TOWN, STATE ZIPCODE\\ \end{tabular*}} \normalsize } I'm trying to find the equivalent in ConTeXt But I can't find the equivalent of "@{}" which removes the padding around cells so that a horizontal line is flush with thee text. I also can't seem to find a way to draw a fine double line: "\hline \hline \\[-8pt]" "\HL \MR \HL" skips a whole line and godown[] doesn't seem to work in table context. Thanks for any suggestions.

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 34, Issue 17
by Steve MC Han 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Still it says "command failed" as you can see below. C:\Han\slide>mpost --tex=latex 2MS2 This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6) (2MS2.mp [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]makempx: Command failed: mp to -tex 2MS2.mp >> 2MS2.mp >> 2MS2.mpx ! Unable to make mpx file. l.151 label.lft(btex $A$ etex, z8); 11 output files written: 2MS2.0 .. 2MS2.10 Transcript written on 2MS2.log. C:\Han\slide>makempx -tex=latex 2MS2.mp 2MS2.mpx makempx: Command failed: mpto -tex 2MS2.mp Thanks, Steve --------------------------------- 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with theYahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut.

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unicode in metafun?
by Andrea Valle 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

Hi to all, I'm plotting a phonetic formant chart with metapost inside context. I know I can't use TIPA, but I would be happy with utf8. So I'm encoding a utf8 file, and I can see the chars in the source. As an example I see this: ɷ But MP is complaining about not ascii characters. Even outside MP, just using ConTeXt I'm not able to see the previously mentioned char. There's no error with "œ" (I guess it's extended ascii?) but result is \dochar etc printed on resulting pdf. Is there a way to use unicode symbols with metapost? (or what else?) Many thanks as usual Best -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) -------------------------------------------------- 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] ntg-context Digest, Vol 34, Issue 16
by Steve MC Han 07 Apr '07

07 Apr '07

>> C:\Han\slide>mpost --tex=latex 2MS6 This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 >> (Web2C 7.5.6) (2MS6.mpmakempx: Command failed: mpto -tex 2MS6.mp >>>> 2MS6.mp 2MS6.mpx >> ! Unable to make mpx file. l.34 label.lft(btex Number of students >> etex rotated 90, (-u,u)); Transcript written on 2MS6.log. Try trunning makempx -tex=latex 2MS6.mp directly. Maybe that gives a better error message Best, Taco This is what I got: C:\Han\slide>makempx -tex=latex 2MS6.mp makempx: Need exactly two file arguments. Try `makempx --help' for more information. C:\Han\slide>makempx --help Usage: makempx [-tex[=<program>]|-troff[=<program>]] MPFILE MPXFILE. If MPXFILE is older than MPFILE, translate the labels from the MetaPost input file MPFILE to low-level commands in MPXFILE, by running mpto -tex, tex, and dvitomp by default; or, if -troff is specified, mpto -troff, gsoelim | geqn -Tps -d$$ | gtroff -Tps, and dmp. The current directory is used for writing temporary files. Errors are left in mpxerr.{tex,log,dvi}. If the file named in $MPTEXPRE (mptexpre.tex by default) exists, it is prepended to the output in tex mode. There is one file called "mpxerr.tex" which contains stuffs like \mpxshipout% line 156 2MS3.mp $A$\stopmpxshipout \mpxshipout% line 157 2MS3.mp $B$\stopmpxshipout \mpxshipout% line 158 2MS3.mp $C$\stopmpxshipout \mpxshipout% line 159 2MS3.mp Does this mean anything? Thanks, Steve --------------------------------- Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A.

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interlinespace and accented capital
by Peter van Kranenburg 07 Apr '07

07 Apr '07

Hi list, I have an accented E (É) somewhere in my text. The height of this character changes the interlinespace, probably to avoid collision of the accent and the line above it. Unfortunately it is visually very disturbing to have a larger interlinespace for one single line on the page. I couldn't find a way to make ConTeXt ignore this height and space the lines evenly. I would be very glad if someone could point me to a solution for this. best Peter van Kranenburg

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 34, Issue 14
by Steve MC Han 07 Apr '07

07 Apr '07

Hi Tako, thank you for your response. There is nothing in mpxerr.log. When I was trying to use mptopdf to convert mp file to pdf, it didn't produce myfile-1.pdf... type files, even though it said it was converted. So, I looked up this manual http://tex.aanhet.net/context/mirror/general/sources/mptopdf.pdf and typed "pdftex --ini mptopdf" at command prompt without understanding. Magically, it produced pdf files, but now metapost doesn't work. Maybe, the process "pdftex --ini mptopdf" had changed the path of metapost execution. Steve MC Han wrote: > Could someone give some help for me? > > If I do metapost I have an error message: this is the exact error message > > > C:\Han\slide>mpost --tex=latex 2MS6 > This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6) > (2MS6.mpmakempx: Command failed: mpto -tex 2MS6.mp > >> 2MS6.mp >>> 2MS6.mpx > ! Unable to make mpx file. > l.34 label.lft(btex > Number of students etex rotated 90, (-u,u)); > Transcript written on 2MS6.log. > Can you check what is in mpxerr.log? It looks like the 'normal' latex command in your path has a problem with something, that does not happen with the executable in texlive's bin directory. Best wishes, Taco ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context End of ntg-context Digest, Vol 34, Issue 14 ******************************************* --------------------------------- Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games.

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Re: [NTG-context] What happened to \usetypescript[postscript] ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 07 Apr '07

07 Apr '07

Zitat von luigi scarso <luigi.scarso(a)gmail.com>: >> ! Font \*postscript12ptrmtfrm*:=texnansi-utmr8a at 12.0pt not >> loadable: Metric >> (TFM) file not found. > This line say that you don't have installed the font required; > maybe the font is in your system, but you didn't said to TeX to > install it (no tfm=> no Tex Font Metric found) Well, yes, you are right: The fonts used with \usetypescript[postscript] I never did install, actually I don't know much about them. I thought they are kind of preinstalled fonts... Now, with TeXLive they are gone. But some projects allready started with eg NimbusRoman. So, how do I get it back? > I usually use texfont for this kind of work. texfont? Tell me more about it! Up now I didn't came across it, don't know it... Steffen

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