May 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

metafun.mem on texlive
by Andrea Valle 24 May '07

24 May '07

Hi to all, I have to extended the memory used by metafun. On my old PPC macosx with gwtex it was here: The right metafun.mem (the effective one with TeXShop): /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/ Now, I have texlive, but cannot find that file. (I tried a find form bash, but no way) Any help is much appreciated Thanks 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)

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Manual hyphenation
by Elliot Clifton 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hi, I found that my text, which is set in two columns, looks better with auto-hyphenation disabled using: \setupalign[nothyphenated] There are however several over-hanging words that I will need ConTeXt to hyphenate. I've searched the mailing list and manual and have found no information on how to do this. The info I did find was about how to influence the automatic hyphenation. How do I manually indicate to ConTeXt that a word should be hyphenation. For example if I wanted to manually force a page break or column break I would use \page and \column respectively, but what about hyphenation? At the moment I'm using: ... document-\crlf ation ... to manually create a hyphenation. Is there a better way? TIA, Elliot -- " By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately, and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist. " Robert Bringhurst (1946-)

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Re: [NTG-context] \setuplayout doesn't set bottomspace
by Elliot Clifton 23 May '07

23 May '07

On 2007-05-23 18:08 +100 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >give us next time a example that make it possible for us to reproduce >your problem, I don't know how your setup is defined. > Sorry. >The following setting give me a topspace and a bottomspace with 2cm, >the values a correct in the output. You can try to replace my >dimensions with yours. > >\setuplayout >[topspace=2cm, >bottomspace=2cm, >%header=0cm, >%footer=0cm, >height=fit] Anyway that helps, I can see that I must have forgotten the height declaration. I just didn't see it was missing -- oops! Thanks, for the reminder. Elliot -- " By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately, and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist. " Robert Bringhurst (1946-)

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Creating PDF files which are editable in Adobe Reader
by Tobias Burnus 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hi, does anyone know how to enable the editing functionality in PDFs files? Adobe Reader 8.x seems to be able to edit PDFs which have been marked as such. (Editting: Highlighting and adding comment boxes + saving the modified files. See: http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/ -> e.g. Feature tour) I actually failed to find a description for this in http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html (It might be hidden in TABLE 3.20, p. 123. I'm not good at reading standards and I'm sure Adobe won't make this feature too obvious.) Tobias, who finds Adobe Reader 8 a slow resource hog

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\setuplayout doesn't set bottomspace
by Elliot Clifton 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hi, ConTeXt is ignoring my bottomspace dimension, all other dimension are set correctly. What can I do to set the bottom margin? I wanted a dimension of 25mm but it is currently set to 34.1mm. Thanks, Elliot -- " By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately, and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist. " Robert Bringhurst (1946-)

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Multipage tables - repeating header
by The Wizard 23 May '07

23 May '07

All - I have created a table similar to the example in the wiki \starttext \setuptables[split=repeat] \starttablehead \HL \VL {\bf Head1} \VL {\bf Head2} \VL \AR \HL \stoptablehead \starttables[|l|l|] \dorecurse{50}{% \VL SomeText \VL SomeText \VL \AR \HL} \stoptables Problem: top margin on first page is bigger. \stoptext The header repeats as expected, and the table extends properly across multiple pages. The problem is, the last row on each page is missing the bottom horizontal line, except for the very last row in the table. I have tried numerous variations of "\starttabletail ... \stoptabletail", and none seem to have the desired effect. Is there an easy way to get the bottom "\HL" on the last row of each page to appear? I have tried this both on my system and on the live area of the wiki with the same result; my install is TeXExec | current distribution: web2c TeXExec | context source date: 2007.04.17 12:51 TeXExec | format path: . /home/markea/.texmf-config/web2c /home/markea/.texmf-var/web2c /home/markea/texmf/web2c /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config/web2c /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/web2c /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/web2c /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/web2c TeXExec | start of analysis TeXExec | processing document 'texexec' TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | writing option file texexec.top TeXExec | using randomseed 1319 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./texexec.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.17 12:51 MKII fmt: 2007.5.3 int: english/english Output written on texexec.pdf (1 page, 21611 bytes). Transcript written on texexec.log. TeXExec | runtime: 0.638854 TeXExec | end of analysis TeXExec | TeXExec | TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD TeXExec | TeXUtil | version 9.1.0 - 1997-2005 - PRAGMA ADE/POD TeXExec | CtxTools | version 1.3.3 - 2004/2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD TeXExec | TeXExec | testing interface en TeXExec | pdfTeX Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) TeXExec | ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.17 12:51 MKII fmt: 2007.5.3 int: english/english TeXExec | TeXExec | testing interface nl TeXExec | pdfTeX Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) TeXExec | ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.17 12:51 MKII fmt: 2007.5.3 int: dutch/dutch Mark Almeida

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an ugly bug
by Idris Samawi Hamid 22 May '07

22 May '07

Dear syndicate, This is an ugly bug; The right kerning of the the numeral '1' is really bad: ======================= \usetypescript[modern-base][texnansi] % a simplified latin-modern typescript \usetypescript [map] [latin-modern-os] [texnansi] \setupbodyfont[reset] \setupbodyfont[modern,11pt] \noheaderandfooterlines \starttext 1932 19 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 21 31 41 51 61 71 81 91 01 \stoptext ======================= pdf attached. Uses ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.26 Has anyone else noticed this? 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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oldstyle bug
by Idris Samawi Hamid 22 May '07

22 May '07

Dear gang, Using global oldstyle: ================= \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][hanging][hz,normal] \setupalign[hz,hanging] \usetypescript[modern-base][texnansi] % a simplified latin-modern typescript \usetypescript [map] [latin-modern-os] [texnansi] \setupbodyfont[reset] \setupbodyfont[modern,11pt] ================= When I use \type, I get lots of messages like: ================= pdfTeX warning: pdftex.exe (file c:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf/fonts/type1/public/lm/lmt t10.pfb): glyph `eight.oldstyle' undefined ================= This did not used to happen before. Not sure if this is a ConTeXt or Latin~Modern bug. I tried ================= \def\TYPE{% \usetypescript [map] [latin-modern] [texnansi] \switchtobodyfont[modern,11pt]} \setuptyping[style=\TYPE] ================= but this did not work. Please advise! Workarounds welcome-) 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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margins at a cover page
by Gerhard Kugler 22 May '07

22 May '07

Hi, I think it is not appropriate to have a smaller left than right margin at a cover page. But my tries to achieve this are not successful. My relevant expressions: \setuplayout[header=0mm,location=middle] \definelayer[bild][x=0mm, y=0mm, width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight] \setlayer[bild][]{\externalfigure[cover4a1.pdf][]} \defineoverlay[cover][{\placelayer[bild]}] \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \setuppagenumbering[alternative=singlesided] \setupnumbering[place=] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=cover] \startstandardmakeup[doublesided=no] Gerhard -- Gerhard Kugler Psychotherapeut Bensheim (Germany) http://www.psychotherapie-kugler.de

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Ubuntu 7.04 texlive and context packages backported
by Sanjoy Mahajan 19 May '07

19 May '07

Here are not well untested texlive and context packages backported to Ubuntu 7.04: deb http://web.mit.edu/sanjoy/texlive-backports/ feisty/ deb-src http://web.mit.edu/sanjoy/texlive-backports/ feisty/ I use these packages on my laptop with no problems so far (half a day of testing), but let me know if you find anything broken. They are based on the version in Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy), and the context-nonfree and context-doc-nonfree packages are directly from Norbert's repository. Quickstart: Put the above two lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list (replacing the lines for Norbert's repo) then hopefully just these two commands: apt-get update apt-get install context By 'not well tested', I mean that I learnt only yesterday how to turn rebuilt packages into a public repository, so something will go wrong. But I can recompile my textbook after installing those packages, so metapost and pdftex and context are working reasonably well. -Sanjoy

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