August 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Too small { in the fourier font
by Mikael Persson 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Hi all, when using the fourier font I get the wrong size of the opening { in the \startcases \stopcases environment. The following small example shows the problem and it fails both at my place and at http://live.contextgarden.net/ %%%% \usetypescript[fourier][ec] \setupbodyfont[fourier,10pt] \starttext \startformula f(x)= \startcases \NC 1 \MC x>0\NR \NC 0 \MC x<0\NR \stopcases \stopformula \stoptext %%%% I run the minimal ConTeXt, from 8th of august: ConTeXt ver: 2007.08.08 14:35 MKII fmt: 2007.8.26 int: english/english Moreover, if I comment the first lines out above, the opening { is "stretched" correctly (in latin modern). Any ideas? Best regards, Micke P

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balancing colums
by Jörg Hagmann 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Sorry for interrupting the luatex discussion with a pedestrian question, but my book is almost finished, and this will not be the last one: In the following minimal example, the left column contains 5, the right one 3 lines. I tried \column to get 4 + 4, but it didn't work \starttext \startcolumns[rule=on] \starttabulate[|l|r|] \NC one: \NC text \NC\NR \NC two: \NC text \NC\NR \NC three: \NC text \NC\NR \NC four: \NC text \NC\NR \NC five: \NC text \NC\NR \NC six: \NC text \NC\NR \NC seven: \NC text \NC\NR \NC eight: \NC text \NC\NR \stoptabulate \stopcolumns \stoptext Thanks, Jörg -- Prof.Dr.med. Jörg Hagmann-Zanolari Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics Centre of Biomedicine, University of Basel Mattenstrasse 28 CH-4058 Basel Switzerland Phone +41 (0)61 267 3565

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A sometxt bug (rather misfeature)
by Aditya Mahajan 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Hi, Found an interesting sometxt misfeature. \startMPinclusions boolean test ; test=true ; \stopMPinclusions \startbuffer[test] if test : label(\sometxt{True}, origin) ; fi ; label(\sometxt{False}, (10,10)) ; \stopbuffer \processMPbuffer[test] \blank[big] \startMPinitializations test := false ; \stopMPinitializations \processMPbuffer[test] Too bad context cannnot parse metapost syntax :) Workaround (ugly) \startTeXtexts \TeXtext{1000}{True} \stopTeXtexts \startbuffer[test] if test : label(sometxt(1000), origin) ; fi ; label(\sometxt{False}, (10,10)) ; \stopbuffer \processMPbuffer[test] Aditya

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Re: [NTG-context] itemize start=2
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

> > how can I start an itemization with 2 > > > > I have tried snippets like > > > > \setupitemgroup[[itemize][start=2] > > \startitemize[n] > > \item zwei > > \item drei > > \stopitemize > > > > but could'nt found a solution. > > > > Btw.: Is there a differenz between > > > > \setupitemize[] > > > > and > > > > \setupitemgroup[[itemize][] > > > > Wolfgang > > Hi Wolfgang, > > \setupitemize is only macro for \setupitemgroup[itemize] and is > generated with \defineitemgroup like many other setup commands. > > To start your enumeration with 2 you have to define your own > number conversion. > > \def\nextnumber#1{\the\numexpr#1+1\relax} > > \defineconversion[nn][\nextnumber] > > \starttext > \startitemize[nn] > \item zwei > \item drei > \stopitemize > \stoptext > > Wolfgang Hi Wolfgang! This works! But two questions remain: 1) I am wondering, how you find such answers. What is your strategie searching the sources? 2) What is that existing option 'start' for? Take this as an example for question 1). Wolfgang

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MKIV, hz, hanging punctuation
by David Wooten 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

Greetings all, Can someone say when typographic "extras" like hz & hanging punctuation will be available in LuaTeX/MKIV for OpenType fonts? --- or are they already available? I thought I'd read a comment on this from Hans, but cannot for the life of me find it. Best, David

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Re: [NTG-context] context_reg_install
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

Hello Mojca, Since you don't use Windows, it may be useless, but here is the proper link: http://rapidshare.com/files/51823950/context-installer-1.0.zip Thank you for detailed suggestions! All your proposals I can implement (theoretically). :-) > - installer downloads the necessary zips and unpacks them > automatically to the desired location" How can I tell necessary zips from unnecessary? And do you mean cont-tmf and other zips found on the pragma site? -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky > A few suggestions of how I would imagine such an instaler to work: > - user downloads the exe file (or zipped exe) and runs it > - user chooses the folder where to install the context minimals > - installer downloads the necessary zips and unpacks them > automatically to the desired location > - if the user want to install the minimals permanently (globally), add > the necessary values to register, but remember any values previously > set (by TeXLive or by some other distribution) > - (you might need to install unzip.exe as well) > - the installer should be able to only fetch and unzip the files, or > additionally set the variables in register > Menu entry of "ConTeXt minimals" sould have the following entries: > - enable context minimals globally > - disable context minimals globally > - check for updates/update context (includes remaking formats) > - remake formats > - I have much more in mind, but that's a topic for some other time > People want to run the minimals in parallel with MikTeX or TeXLive. > This means that they would want to "enable the minimal context > distribution temporary", so that when they call texexec, the minimal > tree will be used, but they would like to "disable it again", so that > when they call texexec again, MikTeX will be used again. > Mojca

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itemize start=2
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Hallo, how can I start an itemization with 2 I have tried snippets like \setupitemgroup[[itemize][start=2] \startitemize[n] \item zwei \item drei \stopitemize but could'nt found a solution. Btw.: Is there a differenz between \setupitemize[] and \setupitemgroup[[itemize][] Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] cont-en.fmt
by Istvan Hollerbach 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Can you please try the following: > - put the file I'm attaching to > [whereeveryourinstallation]/texmf/dvips/base/tex.pro > - run "mktexlsr" > - remake formats again (texexec --make --all), athough this should not > be necessary > - copy the whole log/error report > > Mojca > Dear Mojca, I could save tex.pro only in the directory C:\Program Files\ConTeXt\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local\dvips\, because only in the directory 'texmf-local' is directory 'dvips'. I use mswincontext.zip. It is a 2007-08-08 15:12 version on Windows XP Professional Hungarian SP2. The messages are in cmd.exe window: Microsoft Windows XP [verziószám: 5.1.2600] (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. c:\Program Files\ConTeXt\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin>mktexlsr Cannot open c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-projec t/ls-R to write. mktexlsr: Updating c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf -fonts/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updated c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf- fonts/ls-R. mktexlsr: Updating c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf -local/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updated c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf- local/ls-R. mktexlsr: Updating c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf -extra/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updated c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf- extra/ls-R. mktexlsr: Updating c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf /ls-R... mktexlsr: Updated c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf/ ls-R. Cannot open /varfonts/ls-R to write. mktexlsr: Done. c:\Program Files\ConTeXt\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin>texexec --make --all TeXExec | using search method 'kpsewhich' TeXExec | updating file database Cannot open c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-projec t/ls-R to write. mktexlsr: Updating c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf -fonts/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updated c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf- fonts/ls-R. mktexlsr: Updating c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf -local/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updated c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf- local/ls-R. mktexlsr: Updating c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf -extra/ls-R... mktexlsr: Updated c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf- extra/ls-R. mktexlsr: Updating c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf /ls-R... mktexlsr: Updated c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf/ ls-R. Cannot open /varfonts/ls-R to write. mktexlsr: Done. TeXExec | using tex engine pdftex TeXExec | using tex format path c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/cont ext/tex/texmf-local/web2c/pdftex TeXExec | generating tex format cont-en TeXExec | generating tex format cont-nl TeXExec | generating tex format mptopdf TeXExec | using mp engine mpost TeXExec | using mps format path . TeXExec | generating mps format metafun TeXExec | TeXExec | tex engine path: c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/t ex/texmf-local/web2c/pdftex TeXExec | mps engine path: . TeXExec | TeXExec | TeXExec | runtime: 0.484 c:\Program Files\ConTeXt\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin>texexec --dvips próba.tex TeXExec | processing document 'prˇba.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file prˇba.top TeXExec | using randomseed 311 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (Web2C 7.5.6) \write18 enabled. (c:/Program Files/ConTeXt/isoimage/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-local/web2c/natu ral.tcx) kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'! TeXExec | runtime: 0.391 c:\Program Files\ConTeXt\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin>dvips pr óba.tex This is dvips(k) 5.96 Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) dvips: ! Bad DVI file: first byte not preamble Istvan

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context_reg_install
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Hello, Sorry, this is new link with minor changes http://rapidshare.com/files/51823950/context-installer-1.0.zip -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Gotcha!
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Hello, I found it! My global settings for mswincotext work now, and here is the reason they failed before. I copied the pathes to temp dirs from the .bat file output, where they were DOS-truncated, e.g. c:/DOCUME~... Those tildes were expanded by luatex as \CCC, so that lua failed to reach temp dirs. I just wonder how intolerant it was not to warn user about this occasion. Now I'm in progress of creating an installer for mswincontext. At the moment it is a stand-alone .exe file that sets up global envinronment variables. In principle, I can even create full installer, which would be very appealing to Windows users. Best, Vyatcheslav

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