October 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

mp specials problem (mkii)
by Peter Rolf 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

Hi. I just updated mpost.dll (1.110) from the windows minimals, but the *empty line* in the temporary ps file still remains and breaks compilation. Mkiv works fine with the same example. [anzeige-mpgraph.1] ... %%EndResource %%EndProlog %%Page: 1 1 %%MetaPostSpecials: 2.0 123 10000 %%MetaPostSpecial: 78 0 1 1 53.99107 14.23862 53.99107 3.01123 12 0.98828 0.98828 0.98828 0.96875 0.98438 0.98828 0.96094 0.96484 0.98828 0.95313 0.95703 0.98828 0.9375 0.9414 0.98438 0.91016 0.91797 0.95703 0.88672 0.89453 0.9375 0.86719 0.8711 0.92188 0.84766 0.85156 0.90234 0.83594 0.83984 0.90234 0.82031 0.8164 0.89063 0.80078 0.79688 0.8711 0.20116 0.2682 0.33525 0.40115 0.46706 0.53296 0.59886 0.66476 0.79887 0.86592 0 0 0 0.5 0 0.6 0 0.8 0 0.6 0 0.6 0 0.2 0 0.6 0 0.6 0 0.7 0 0.8 1 60 %%MetaPostSpecial: 15 0 1 1 0.98828 0.98828 0.98828 28.12476 0 0.9375 0.92969 0.91406 28.12476 17.24985 2 30 0.0123 0.0013 0.0002 R ... Using ConTeXt beta from 08.10.2008. Best wishes, Peter

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error in mag-01 module with luatex
by Khaled Hosny 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

There seem to be some thing broken in latest betas that I can't use mag-01 module (My Way) with luatex. Try the attached example. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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Re: [NTG-context] A strange error I haven't been able to create a minimal for...
by Hans Hagen 14 Oct '08

14 Oct '08

. wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to create a minimal example for this most bizarre > error, up till now without success. > > Nevertheless, I may be lucky someone has encountered a similar one. So > I'll ask anyway... > > - project containing environments, product and components > > - product with standardmakeup, frontmatter, bodymatter, backmatter > > - \startsectionblockenvironment[frontpart] % contains > ToC > \setupheader[state=start] > \stopsectionblockenvironment > > - \setuphead[chapter][header=empty] (1) > > - for some bodyfonts (arial, verdana) and with line (1) in the code, > /placecontent > and \completecontent (in the frontpart) generate a ToC with the 1st > chapter heading displayed > twice, aka weird indeed, so font dependent and header dependent tocs? we really need an example then 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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minimal example for Cyrillic
by Gour 14 Oct '08

14 Oct '08

Hello! I was able to persuade one user to prepare ConTeXt package for NixOS distro, but, unfortunately, being from Russia he quickly discovered that he minimal example from wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Russian) does not work, i.e. \enableregime[utf] \useencoding[cyr] \definetypeface [russian] [rm] [serif] [computer-modern] [default] [encoding=t2a] \setupbodyfont[russian] \starttext Мама и Папа % Some Russian characters \stoptext does transliterate Russian characters. I do not have any experience working with Cyrillic, so if anyone can provide minimal working example it would be very nice? I persistently claimed that "it must work!" :-) Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Zagreb, Croatia | GPG key: C6E7162D ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Equivalent of LaTeX \cancel? and Thanks!
by Benjamin R. Haskell 14 Oct '08

14 Oct '08

Hi all, I recently transitioned from LaTeX to ConTeXt. There was some particular thing I needed to do (which escapes me at the moment) that was far, far easier to do in ConTeXt than in LaTeX. And, as I've learned, I've found that that's quite often the case. So, a huge thank you to everyone involved. A couple hours ago I was annoyed that I couldn't find an equivalent for the LaTeX 'cancel' environment/command/style(?)[1]. Now, I'm truly amazed that 'cancel' required a whole package. After discovering that 'underline' and 'strikethrough' were implemented as overlays, I quickly coded up the following: \startuseMPgraphic{MyCancel} draw (0,.2*\overlayheight)--(\overlaywidth,\overlayheight); \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[mycancel][\useMPgraphic{MyCancel}] \def\cancel#1{\framed[background=mycancel,frame=off]{#1}} Now, I'm sure this is not *quite* the right way to do it. The 'cancel'ed items end up being placed too high on the line, and other spacings are slightly off. But, taking a cue from underlining, I kept the MyCancel graphic and tried: \definetextbackground [cancel] [location=text, alternative=1, background=mycancel] % plus boilerplate for setting up \startcancel\stopcancel ...But, while composing this email, I found what I wanted, which still isn't ``right'' in some sense: \def\cancel#1{\framed[background=mycancel,frame=off,width=fit,height=fit,strut=no]{#1}} I found the parameters for \framed. I'm still learning to Read The Fantastic Manuals, but sent this anyway since I wanted to say thanks. Best, Ben [1] e.g. http://www.sosmath.com/CBB/viewtopic.php?t=9412

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bib module or other in luatex
by Andrea Valle 14 Oct '08

14 Oct '08

Hi, this works in mk II but not in ma IV \enableregime[utf] \usemodule[bib] \mainlanguage[en] \setuppublications[alternative=apa,criterium=all] \setupbibtex [database=/mio/pubblicazioni/pubblicazioni.bib, sort=author] \starttext \setupheadtext[en][pubs={Andrea Valle: publications}] \nocite[*] \completepublications \stoptext (Stack below) What am I missing? Thanks Best -a- Setting "/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex" as TEXROOT. (/mio/pubblicazioni/pubdoc.tex ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKIV fmt: 2008.7.15 int: english/ english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/ cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/ cont-new.mkiv lua : used config path - /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/ texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf lua : used cache path - /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/ texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/aac20ce207a097b4b480d7b5eb76554a ) (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/ cont-mtx.tex)) system : cont-old loaded (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/ cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/ cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user/ cont-sys.tex (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/ context/base/type-tmf.tex) (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf- context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/ tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded specials : tex loaded system : pubdoc.top loaded (pubdoc.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/ spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/ spec-fdf.tex (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/ context/base/spec-fdf.mkiv)) specials : fdf loaded (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/ spec-tpd.mkiv)) specials : fdf loaded ) system : module bib loaded (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/bib/t- bib.tex publications : loading formatting style from bibl-apa (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/bib/bibl- apa.tex)) publications : loading formatting style from bibl-apa (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/bib/bibl- apa.tex) publications : wrote a new auxiliary file pubdoc.aux utilityfile | not present (pubdoc.tuo) (pubdoc.tuo) publications : loading database from pubdoc.bbl (pubdoc.bbl) systems : begin file pubdoc at line 8 {vertical mode: \tracingstats} {\tracingpages} {\tracingoutput} {\tracinglostchars} {\tracingmacros} {\tracingparagraphs} {\tracingrestores} {\showboxbreadth} {\showboxdepth} {\tracinggroups} {\tracingifs} {\tracingscantokens} {\tracingnesting} {\tracingassigns} {into \tracingassigns=2} {\errorstopmode} {\tracingonline} {changing \tracingonline=1} ! Undefined control sequence. \dogetupsometextprefix ...rrenttextprefixlanguage {#1}\ifcsname #2 \currentte... \docompletepublications ...anguage \c!title {pubs} }\doifdefinedelse {\??pv d... <to be read again> \stoptext l.12 \stoptext ? ! Emergency stop. \dogetupsometextprefix ...rrenttextprefixlanguage {#1}\ifcsname #2 \currentte... \docompletepublications ...anguage \c!title {pubs} }\doifdefinedelse {\??pv d... <to be read again> \stoptext l.12 \stoptext ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! MtxRun | loading configuration for /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/ texmf/web2c from /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-cache/luatex- cache/context/aac20ce207a097b4b480d7b5eb76554a/trees/ d9ef00871d7b11751a275cffd8a85753 MtxRun | run 1: luatex --fmt="/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf- cache/luatex-cache/context/aac20ce207a097b4b480d7b5eb76554a/formats/ cont-en" --lua="/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-cache/luatex- cache/context/aac20ce207a097b4b480d7b5eb76554a/formats/cont-en.lua" "/ mio/pubblicazioni/pubdoc.tex" MtxRun | fatal error, code: 1 -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> 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) -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " Think of it as seasoning . noise [salt] is boring . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty " (Ken Perlin on noise)

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How to influence hyphenation points in URLs?
by Mojca Miklavec 14 Oct '08

14 Oct '08

Hello, I have many really bad breaking points in URLs (both produced with bib module and with \useURL[bla][http://www.very-very-very-very-very-long-bla.com]\from[bla], or \hyphenatedurl, doesn't matter). Is there any way to influence breaking points in those URLs manually? For normal words there exists \hyphenate{...}, but how to handle urls? (I have the interction turned off if that matters.) I faintly remember some discussion about preparing hyphenation patterns for URLs (like: never try to break http:// or after ~, try to put slash at the end of first part). Would that solve the issue? I sometimes try to replace space and _ in wikipedia URLs and results are totally random, but in general all of them breaking really bad - leaving several letters too much in each line. Thanks a lot, Mojca

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Letter module béta
by Olivier Guéry 14 Oct '08

14 Oct '08

Hello everybody, hello Wolfgang, Since I've needed to typeset some letters I'd test the last béta letter module. The result is realy great (the signature is a the right place). I'd just need to use \setuplabeltext[fr][letter:enclosure={P.J.\,:\kern\spaceamount},letter:subject=Objet\,: ] in order to have the right traductions for « subject ». Some small things : — changing the interligne space dont change it in the « fromaddress » — why can't I put all the \setupletter in the same section ? for exemple : \setupletter [place=Paris] [place] [separator={, le }] don't work, and I need to use : \setupletter [place=Paris] \setupletter [place] [separator={, le }] Anyway, thank's a lot, it work's great ! Cheers, Olivier. -- [Message tapé sur un clavier Bépo : http://www.clavier-dvorak.org ] http://nemolivier.blogspot.com

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UTF-8 and Sigma
by Tobias Burnus 13 Oct '08

13 Oct '08

Hello, using \enableregime[utf] \starttext Σ, σ or ς? \stoptext with pdftex prints "Σ, σ or σ?" (but the latter should be a \varsigma and not a \sigma). And with LuaTeX the result is even "Σ, or ?", i.e. the small sigmas disappear completely. Can this be fixed, even though the proper way would be to use a different font? Tobias

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Using adventor in mkii
by Aditya Mahajan 13 Oct '08

13 Oct '08

Hi, Is something still wrong with type-gyr with respect to adventor? The following file fails \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr] \definetypeface [mainface] [ss] [sans] [adventor] [default] [encoding=ec] \setupbodyfont[mainface,ss,12pt] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext with ! Font \*mainface12ptsstfss*:=TeXGyreAdventor-Regular at 12.0pt not loadable: M etric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> I cannot find what's wrong with type-gyr. Aditya

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