September 2007 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

still waiting for mswincontext
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Hello, Let me ask a few questions: 1) When "big things" will be regenerated? I'm still waiting for mswincontext with updated binaries. 2) What is the difference between mswincontext and mswintex packages? 3) If someone made mswincontext to work with latest updates, can he or she post how? After September 10 update of cont-tfm my installation produces broken pdfs, and even getting latest luatex from sourge didn't help. Best regards, Vaytcheslav Yatskovsky

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Re: [NTG-context] still waiting for mswincontext
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Hello, > So what environment variables can I set globally to avoid the need for > running setuptex.bat? Personally I came to the following set of vars (for luatex): PATH = G:\rsync\windows\texmf-mswin\bin; OSFONTDIR = %WINDIR%\Fonts TEXMF = {g:\rsync\windows\texmf,g:\rsync\windows\texmf-local} TEXMFCACHE = %WINDIR%\Temp TEXMFCNF = G:\rsync\windows\texmf{-local,}/web2c LUAINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/tex/context/base;$TEXMF/scripts/context/lua I use this set at the moment and luatex works (though, I use little features). Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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Page numbers at empty pages and then empty header
by Gerhard Kugler 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Hi in a thread "Page numbers at empty pages" in the beginning of September I got a solution for the empty pages. But if I want empty headers at the beginning of the chapter it does not function: \setuphead[chapter][header=empty] \setuphead [chapter] [page=yes, before={\ifodd\realpageno\else\page[empty]\fi}] How can I combine these two options? Gerhard -- Gerhard Kugler Psychotherapeut Bensheim (Germany) http://www.psychotherapie-kugler.de

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Completelistoffigures, help needed!
by G.C.H.M. Verhaag 30 Sep '07

30 Sep '07

Dear ConTeXt Users, Last week I posted a completelistoffigures question, but unfortunately nobody responded to it! That's why I give it another try, because I don't know how to tackle this problem. I'd like to generate a list of figures that only have a caption description, but no figure (\setupcaptions[...,number=no,....]) number. Using the setupcaptions command in the preamble with the number=no option yields only the title Figures of the list of figures, nothing more! However, when I change the number option of the setupcaptions command to yes, the list is generated correctly. But I don't want a figure number to appear in the caption of a figure! The figures appear throughout a book I'm currently writing using ConTeXt. Is there a way to accomplish the desired effect using the completelistoffigures command? Please can anybody give a hint! Thanks! Regards, Gerard

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no hyphenation for a single word
by Gerhard Kugler 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

Hi, how can I turn off the hyphenation for a single word? Gerhard -- Gerhard Kugler Psychotherapeut Bensheim (Germany) http://www.psychotherapie-kugler.de

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SciTE under Windows and Metapost
by Michal Kvasnička 29 Sep '07

29 Sep '07

Good morning (or whatever you have in Europe now). Two or three week ago I've installed the minimal ConTeXt distribution under Windows. My first use of TeX under Windows, many thanks for the distribution, it's great! However, when I try to compile a metapost/metafun source from the SciTE editor, it fails. It tries to run mpost directly, and it's not found. I can run texmfstart texexec --mptex ... in the SciTE's command promt, and it works, but it's annoying. Can I somehow reconfigure the SciTE to run the metapost properly (I mean to run texexec --mptex)? Many thanks. Michal Kvasnicka P.S. Hans, would it be possible to add the Metafont into the minimal distribution? I like it so much I'd like to make it my major distribution even in Linux, but I need the Metafont since from time to time I still use some bitmapped font (like Concrete Math). Many thanks.

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luatex "success story"
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

Hello all, Let me share my luatex "success story". I teach computer science, and current topics I deliver are Numbering Systems and Data Representation. Yesterday, I needed to prepare about twenty test papers with 10 questions per a paper. Examples: "1. convert Dec 36 into Hex", "2. convert Bin 10010101 into Dec", etc. The wording of every question has not to be changed through papers, only numbers had. Instead of filling in numbers manually, I took more intelligent approach and (with Hans' help) wrote simple lua scripts to generate random numbers right inside my document: % question involving random decimal number Convert \ctxlua{n=math.random(30,60) ; tex.print(n) ;}\low{10} into Bin. % question involving random binary number Convert \startluacode for c = 1, 16 do n = math.random(0,1) tex.sprint(n) end \stopluacode\low{2} into Hex. and so on... I specified the lower and upper limits as two arguments of random function, and that was very easy indeed. Then I copied my finished test text and pasted it many-many times. (It was probably not very wise approach, but I'm not familiar with looping TeX commands at the moment.) Luatex did the rest of the job perfectly, and in minute I had test papers with identical questions but all different figures! I only had to cut papers apart and hand out to my students. Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Arabic/English typesetter needed.
by John Culleton 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

A poster on the self-publishing list is looking for a typesetter who can handle a dual language book, Arabic and English. I don't qualify :<) This list with its international membership seemed a good place to inquire. If interested please drop me a line and I will forward to the other poster. -- John Culleton http://wexfordpress.com http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

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How to include animation into pdf
by WN 28 Sep '07

28 Sep '07

Hello All, I made a little animation with Asymptote (http://asymptote.sourceforge.net) which is self contained in a single pdf. The reason of using Asymptote is, that it produces a single pdf without having to combine the resulting pdf's files myself. I now want to include this animation into my main document with the help of \externalfigure[animation.pdf] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \externalfigure[animation.pdf] \stoptext Alas I don't see my animation, to be honest I did not expect it to work, but I thought I give it a try. Thanks Wim

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Re: [NTG-context] still have a problem in using luatools
by Dalyoung Jeong 27 Sep '07

27 Sep '07

Dear Hans, It says nothing. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% dalyoung$ luatools --variables dalyoung$ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Just blank lines for other options, like --expansions, -- configurations, --show-path, etc. I copied /texmf-local/scripts/context/lua/luatools.lua to /usr/texbin/ luatools. If there is nothing wrong, I'll try once more after reinstalling MacTeX again. Thank you Best regards, Dalyoung

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