January 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

mktexlsr in minimals
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

Hi all, Having installed the minimal distro from http://minimals.contextgarden.net/ on my linux box (in my home directory) I added some own modules in /home/jean/lua/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/extra an tried various texhash and mktexlsr: mktexlsr lua/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/ texhash lua/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/ But these are still not found and I had to specify the complete path of the modules! This seems specific to the minimals -- Jean

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t-lilypond, placement of oversized lines.
by David Wooten 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

Greetings all, In tinkering around with the lilypond module, oversized lines of notation do not get adjusted into the left margin as this bit of code seems to be trying to achieve: ---> %D %D TODO: Get the relevant dimension directly from lilypond, %D to place the instrument name into the left margin for %D short snippets as well. %D If we are not in the middle of some text, we have to check %D whether lilypond created an image that is wider than requested: %D It places the instrument names in the left margin. %D \ifvmode \getfiguredimensions[\lily!filename.pdf]% \leavevmode% \newdimen\FigWidth \FigWidth=\figurewidth \ifdim\FigWidth>\localhsize \!!dimena=\localhsize \advance\!!dimena by-\FigWidth \noindent\hskip\!!dimena \fi \fi \externalfigure[\lily!img]% \egroup% }% <--- This includes lines which have an instrument name, as mentioned in the comments, and also includes piano notation, which has a special bracket on the left joining the two staffs. Can anyone help me out here? Best, David

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[OT] The ISO 32000 Standard (DIS)
by luigi scarso 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

Adobe has received word that the Ballot for approval of PDF 1.7 to become the ISO 32000 Standard (DIS) has passed by a vote of 13::1. http://blogs.adobe.com/insidepdf/ -- luigi ... it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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pdfsync / editsnc
by Steffen Wolfrum 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Hi, in the garden I read that editsnc in 2003 was regarded the successor of pdfsync. Anybody has experience with one of them? Or the other way round: I am interested in pdf/source sync. Any recommendations? Thanks, Steffen

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shading in metapost
by Thomas A. Schmitz 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Hi all, I have a somewhat silly question about metapost/metafun. To emphasize parts of a picture, I place a bright red arrow or circle/ellipse on top of the picture. I would like to make this arrow more visible by putting a shade beneath it (I attach a jpg that will hopefully show the desired effect). Right now, I simply draw the arrow twice with a transparent black color, once with a smaller pencircle, so the effect is like a shadow that is darker in the center than at the edges. However, I think the effect would be more dramatic if I could have a transparent area with a smooth grading. Is this possible at all in metapost? filling a path with a transparent AND shaded color? All best Thomas

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Bug: Messy results when using "table" in head and multi-page "tables" in text
by Carsten Fechtmann 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Dear ConTeXt experts, I have setup a page layout where I use "table" in the page-head for formatting quite a bit of stuff. (The example below is just a simple as can be basic idea, to show the overall effect) Now - as I can't prevent later users of this layout environment - to not use \starttables ... \stoptables I naturally would like for this to work in the text region as well. This works fine and as advertised (well mostly, see below) as long as the table does not spill over to the next page. In which case, things start to look very messy, indeed. From my (simple) point of view it looks like ConTeXt gets confused about which format to use for which table and tries to do them all at the same place or something. Any chance to get this fixed ? Thanks in advance Carsten P.S.: There is an additional bug (also concerning the single page version and not related to having a "table" in the pagehead), which puts in an extra (empty) gap in between the end of the tablebody and the tablefoot when the tablefoot starts with \HL (and there is no \HL at the end of tablebody). Things work when putting the \HL at the end of the tablebody, but then no \HL will be put on top of the foot for any intermediate pages of the table, which is certainly not what one would usually want in this case. Anyway, here a simple version of this to demonstrate the effect(s) \setuppagenumbering[location=] \setupheadertexts[\setups{pagehead}][][\setups{pagehead}][] \startsetups[pagehead] \SetTableToWidth{\makeupwidth} \starttable[|p(40mm)|p(60mm)|p(40mm)|] \HL \VL \leftaligned{left} \VL \midaligned{middle} \VL \rightaligned{right} \VL\SR \HL \stoptable \stopsetups \starttext \start \SetTableToWidth{\makeupwidth} \setuptables[split=repeat] \starttablehead \HL \VL Head \VL\SR \HL \stoptablehead \starttabletail \HL % This results in an additional bug, % i.e. an extra / unwanted gap \VL Foot \VL\SR \HL \stoptabletail \starttables[|p(.95\textwidth)|] \VL \input knuth \VL\FR %\dorecurse{1}{\VL \input tufte \VL\MR} \dorecurse{10}{\VL \input tufte \VL\MR} \VL \input knuth \VL\LR % \HL % putting \HL here does not introduce % that unwanted gap ...?!? \stoptables \stop \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] Module for svn info
by Robin Kirkham 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

> Hi Ernesto, > hi Robin, > > thanks for your replies. > > The thing I like most with your solution is that svnversion provides a > modify flag, so I can see whether all changes have been cheched in. > Great. > > A little drawback is that all files under the current path are used to > determine the version. If theres a file in the path which is not part > of the document changes to this file will also change the revision of > the document. But I think this can be easily prevented by placing > every document into an own directory. > > What do you think of using: > > \def\SVNVERSION{svnversion -n > svnversion.tex} > > \ifeof18 > \installprogram{\SVNVERSION}% > \else > \executesystemcommand{\SVNVERSION}% > \fi That is nicer of course ... I just do it outside the document in a Makefile because I'm used to doing that sort of thing. I imagine the only uncompromised way to extract an svn revision (or revision range) that covers the whole document accurately is to write a script that extracts the source file names from the previous logfile (or somewhere), individually determines their revision using "svn status" (to get modified status), and constructs an overall result. I guess some embedded Lua could do that pretty easily and portably. It would also catch files that are often outside the immediate document directory (in particular, bib files). > Ernesto Schirmacher schrieb: >>> If your sources are in svn, then they actually have the same svn- >>> number, after a commit. But the numbers in the $Revision$ or >>> $Id$ tags of your working copies are not updated by svn commit. >>> However, if you do an "svn update" after the commit, it should >>> update the numbers. > > This is not true. The complete name of $Rev§$ is > $LastChangedRevision$. It's the revision of the last change to this > file. Quite right, my apologies. An "svn update" does however alter the output of "svnversion", for instance if it indicates a mixed revision (1234:3456), after an update it will be just 3456. Best, Robin

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Re: [NTG-context] Module for svn info
by Robin Kirkham 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Hi Markus, If your sources are in svn, then they actually have the same svn- number, after a commit. But the numbers in the $Revision$ or $Id$ tags of your working copies are not updated by svn commit. However, if you do an "svn update" after the commit, it should update the numbers. So, you shouldn't need to work out the maximum value. Here, we actually use the output of the "svnversion" command, save it automatically it in a file, and include it in the document. This way, the version number indicates if the document came from checked-in sources, modified sources, or mixed revisions. We don't have a module to do it, just a svnversion > svnversion.tex ; texexec document.tex in the Makefile, and on the document front page somewhere \doiffileelse{svnversion.tex}{ Subversion revision \ignorespaces \input svnversion\relax \removeunwantedspaces . \crlf }{} Cheers, Robin > Hi Aditya, > > thanks for your reply. It's a good starting point. > > One thing is missing in this solution. > > Our documents are structured into several files. > Every file has an svn-version. So I want to > calculate the max version. > > Do you know a small example where a max value > is calculated. I would try to integrate it into > the other example. > > Kind regards, > Markus

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JavaScript conflicts
by Zhichu Chen 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Hi, I was trying to make a report for my job last year. I did some javascript things to put a clock at each page of my presentation to make sure I'll finish it in time. But I found some tricky conflicting between my script and the one in java-stp.tex OK, here is my test file (it's a little too long): ================================ \usemodule [pre-60] \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \setuppagenumbering[state=start,location=] \setuptolerance[verytolerant,stretch] \setupinteractionscreen [option=max] \setupinteraction[state=start,click=no,menu=on] \startJSpreamble functions used now font.Digital = "Courier-Bold" ; function start_clock() { this.getField("time.clock").value = util.printd("HH:MM:ss", new Date()); this.getField("time.clock").readonly = true ; this.getField("time.clock").textColor = color.red ; this.getField("time.clock").textSize = 13 ; this.getField("time.clock").textFont = font.Digital ; this.dirty = false } var timeout = app.setInterval("start_clock()",1000); \stopJSpreamble % Field of clock \useJSscripts[fld] \definefield [time.clock] [line] [TimeLogo] \setupfield [TimeLogo] [horizontal,frame] [width=fit,height=25pt,background=, backgroundcolor=,frame=off] [width=5.2cm,frame=off] [width=5.2cm,frame=off,style=type] \dorecurse{\totalnumberofpages}{\copyfield[time.clock ][clock::\recurselevel]} \def\clock{\field[clock::\pagenumber]} \setupfootertexts[{\color[white]\tfxx \midaligned{\rlap{\currentdate} \hfill TITLE\hfill \llap{AUTHOR}}}] \setuplayout[bottomspace=.8cm, bottom=12pt] \startinteractionmenu[bottom] {\interactionbar[alternative=f,width=\makeupwidth,height=1ex]} \stopinteractionmenu \setupfooter[state=start] \starttext \field[time.clock] \field[clock::\pagenumber] page number is \pagenumber. % \StartSteps % \starttabulate % \NC test \FlushStep \NC test \FlushStep \NC \NR % \NC test \FlushStep \NC test \FlushStep \NC \NR % \NC test \FlushStep \NC test \FlushStep \NC \NR % \stoptabulate % \StopSteps \page \field[clock::\pagenumber] page number is \pagenumber. \page \field[clock::\pagenumber] page number is \pagenumber. \page \field[clock::\pagenumber] page number is \pagenumber. \stoptext ================================ This is just a test file, I will put those fields into \setupfootertexts or somewhere else to make every page a clock. If I uncomment the \StartSteps . . . \StopSteps part, some PDF layer kind of error will show and nothing is generated. Do I have to remove the clock to make the fancy stepwise thing or keep the clock but lost the stepwise function of ConTeXt? -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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porting database module to MK IV
by Mojca Miklavec 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Hello Hans (and Taco), In case you run out of challenges, there is one thing that might be handy to have in MK IV: the database module for typesetting tables (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/M-database, there is no hurry though.) The benchmark is here: http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/csv.tex but the first thing that fails is already \usetypescript [palatino][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont [palatino,10pt] inside s-mag-01.tex. Thanks a lot, Mojca

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