August 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Splitting footnotes
by Matt Gushee 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Hello, folks-- I am trying to typeset a book that has many footnotes; most of them are of moderate length, but a few are terribly long[*]. I am trying to use \setupfootnotes[split=*], but so far haven't got good results. You see, there is only one footnote that really needs to be split across pages (it takes up about two-thirds of a page); if I use [split=tolerant], many footnotes get split, which I would like to avoid, but if I say [split=strict], the longest one does not get split. I have also tried numeric values, but that doesn't seem to do anything. So my questions/comments are: 1. What does a numeric value represent, and what is the range of useful values? I first tried fairly small values like 1, 10, 25, thinking it was the number of lines, then thought it might be a tolerance value (as in \badness), and tried 1000 and 10000. None of these numbers had any effect. 2. It seems there is a very large gap between 'strict' and 'tolerant'. Might it not be a good idea to have four steps, e.g. 'verystrict', 'strict', 'tolerant', and 'verytolerant'; or 'verystrict', 'strict', 'medium', and 'tolerant'? [*] Of course, the ideal solution would be to edit or delete the overly long ones. However, I'm working with a well-known 19th century text. Thus, it's in the public domain and I can legally do whatever I want with it, but I don't feel it would be appropriate to make substantive alterations to the content. -- Matt Gushee : Bantam - lightweight file manager : matt.gushee.net/software/bantam/ : : RASCL's A Simple Configuration Language : matt.gushee.net/rascl/ :

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Usage of \setupfootnotedefinition?
by Matt Gushee 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Hi, all-- Can anyone point me to a realistic example(s) of \setupfootnotedefinition? I think it may help to solve a problem I am working with, but don't understand precisely how to use it. -- Matt Gushee

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luatex and interaction
by Peter Rolf 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

hi, every peace of code with interactive elements gives me this error message systems : begin file walkfield at line 5 (./walkfield.tuo) javascript : loading script set fld (r:/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base/java-fld.tex) ! Undefined control sequence. \dopresetfieldsymbol #1->\checkobjectreferences \doifobjectfoundelse {SYM}{#... \dosetupfield ...tfieldsymbol \@@DriverFieldValue \setbox \scratchbox \hbox ... \dofield ...abel ,\v!frame ,\v!horizontal ][][][]} \iftrialtypesetting \else ... <to be read again> \egroup \globalcommacommand ...tackedfieldnumber ]\egroup \bgroup \globalprocesscommaitem ...globalcommacommand {#1} \expandafter \globalproces... ... l.43 \smashedvbox{\fieldstack[sequence]} % ? every interactive element should produce this error, but i can also send a test file. best, peter

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update mkiv
by Hans Hagen 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Hi, I'm uploading an update. This fixes the missing texmfstart in the windows related zips. I also added format generation entries in the toolsmenu of scite. Because luatex runs from temp paths, you need to regenerate a format after updating. I also extended ctxtools --update (not tested). luatools and mtxrun now accept a --selfupdate flag that will replace the existing one in the bin path by the one in the script path Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Double integral and subscripts
by Shen Chen 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Hi all, I want to typeset double integral with subscript beneath the integral symbol. I found \unic@dblint for double integral, and used the usual \limits in plain tex: \unic@dblint\limits_{\startsubstack x \ge 0,\NR 0 \le y \le T\stopsubstack} The subscript did go below the integral, but the two integral symbols are separate from each other. Any tips? Thanks a lot! Shenchen

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update of mswincontext.zip from 06-Aug-2007+installation and usage of xetex 0.997
by Ardi 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Hello all, I have fetched mswincontext.zip from 06-Aug-2007. I would like to update it to the latest status of ConTeXt and then install the latest (dev.) version 0.997 of XeTeX but I miss somehow the procedure on the context/xetex mailing list. Can somebody help me? Thanks and regards, Ardi --------------------------------- Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us.

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Re: [NTG-context] OpenType in ConTeXt
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

> > Why should I use otfinstall instead of texfont, besides the fact > > that texfont doesn't work? > > Do you really need another reason? Have you tried otfinst? The > point > of all these scripts is to make your life easier in generating > metrics, > auxiliary fonts and map files; if you tear yourself with questions > before trying them much of their interest is lost on you. It is nice to have such scripts. But I would like to know what goes on behind the scene. In principle one has to know all the steps to do it by hand. Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] mkiv goes beta
by Hans Hagen 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

Arthur Reutenauer wrote: >> at your machine scripts/context/lua/... > > Indeed: /opt/context/current/texmf/scripts/context/lua/mtx-fonts.lua weird then , how about mtxrun --script mtx-fonts --help if that works, you're calling an old mtxrun it resolves [mtx-|]font[s|], so it is quite tolerant ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: [NTG-context] adventor
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 07 Aug '07

07 Aug '07

> > I must admit that I find this a bit frustrating. The tex-gyre font > > project looks so promising, but users need a simpler syntax to use > > the fonts (I know we want need this anymore with luatex, but it > > needs to be fixed anyway). > > This type of patch to type-gyr.tex should help: > > -\starttypescript[serif][palatino][ec,texnansi,cs,el,qx,rm,t5,t2a,t2 > b,t2c,l7x] > +\starttypescript[serif][palatino,pagella][ec,texnansi,cs,el,qx,rm,t > 5,t2a,t2b,t2c,l7x] > > (you can't define a typeface for an undefined typescript). > > Hans doesn't like avantgarde, so for you adventor you will have > to create a completely new typescript, as it was never previously > defined in the core. > > Cheers, > Taco 'type-gyr.tex' defines!!! adventor. But the encoding-script is wrong, as Thomas has pointed out. --- excerpt from type-gyr.tex --- \definetypescriptprefix [n:adventor][TeXGyreAdventor] \definetypescriptprefix [f:adventor][ag] \starttypescript [serif] [pagella,termes,heros,bonum,schola,adventor] [ec,texnansi,cs,el,qx,rm,t5,t2a,t2b,t2c,l7x] \loadmapfile[q\typescriptprefix{f:\typescripttwo}-\typescriptthree.map] \definefontsynonym [\typescriptprefix{n:\typescripttwo}-Regular] [\typescriptthree-q\typescriptprefix{f:\typescripttwo}r] [encoding=\typescriptthree] ... \stoptypescript \starttypescript [sans] [heros,adventor] [name] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [\typescriptprefix{n:\typescripttwo}-Regular] ... \stoptypescript \starttypescript [map] [pagella,termes,bonum,schola,heros,adventor] [all] \loadmapfile[q\typescriptprefix{f:\typescripttwo}-\typescriptthree.map] \stoptypescript --- I still have some questions: - A complete (all gyre-fonts) type-script makes sense. Will 'type- gyr' be fixed, or should I create my own? - What are the map-files at the gyre-site for? - Is the second \loadmapfile entry above redundant? - What is the correct texfont syntax, to install adventors small-caps variant? - There are enc-files in the ??dvips?? subdirectory of the font tree: 'fonts/enc/dvips/tex-gyre/q-<encoding>-sc.enc Should I make use from these files? Will they be found there? Wolfgang

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PDF Metadata / Attachments
by Pascal de Bruijn 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

Hi, With LaTeX I was able to set my own PDF metadata, is this possible with ConTeXt? I mean things like: Title, Subject, Author, Keywords, Creator, Producer? Also, I generally like to include my .tex source file into my PDF as a text file attachment. LaTeX has a package for this, does ConTeXt have similar functionality? Regards, Pascal de Bruijn -- http://blog.pcode.nl/ http://www.linkselente.nl/

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