October 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

strange file name
by Ruini Xue 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

source file: %%%%%%%%%%%%%% \starttext {\input knuth} \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% compiling it produces error: ! I can't find file `knuth}'. l.2 {\input knuth} Why does tex recognize "knuth}" but not "knuth" as the file name? -- ruini

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Textbackground with leftframe
by holzminister 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Hi! 1) I wanted to color some text inside a columnset-environment. That works fine for text that stays in one column or spans two consecutive ones. But if there's a pagebreak after the first page, only the left column gets the background. From page two on everything is fine again. Any ideas how this comes? >>> \setupcolors[state=start] \definetextbackground[test][ backgroundcolor=yellow, frame=off, leftoffset=5mm, location=paragraph, color=black] \definecolumnset[example][n=2,distance=5mm] \starttext \startcolumnset[example] \starttextbackground[test] \dorecurse{12}{\input knuth \par} \stoptextbackground \stopcolumnset \stoptext >>> 2) And another question: Is there a way to get a leftframe activated in my defined background? Have a nice evening, Eyke

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why does not this style work?
by Ruini Xue 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

I want to use a dedicated font size for the chapter title, so I wrote this piece of code: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \def\mybig% {\dosingleempty\dosanhao} \def\dosanhao[#1]% {\switchtobodyfont[24pt]} \setuphead [chapter] [style=\mybig] \starttext \chapter{hello, world} \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% However, the error is: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ! Use of \dosanhao doesn't match its definition. \doifnextcharelse ...token =#1\def \!!stringa {#2} \def \!!stringb {#3}\futur... \@@kochapterstyle ->\mybig \bf \doconvertfont #1->\edef \p!defined {#1 }\ifx \p!defined \empty \else \@EA \d... \dosetfontattribute ...me #1#2\@EA \endcsname \fi \empty \doplaceheadnumbertext ...bute {\??ko #1}\c!style \dosetcolorattribute {\??k... \dodododoconstructhead ...{\finalsectionnumber }}} \writesection {#1}{#3}{#4}... l.11 \chapter{hello, world} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% If I replace the \mybig with \switchtobodyfont in style=xx, it works fine. What's the difference between them? and why the former does not work? -- ruini

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Embedded fonts question
by David Wooten 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Greetings all, A sad story: My context-typeset dissertation was printed/distributed by a POD publisher with aweful typographical errors (like all commas in the main font being replaced by an ff ligature). Obviously the printer didn't check their results. The file reads fine both for me and the publisher, but the printer let us know that the file is unprintable due to problems with fonts not being embedded (why they originally printed an "unprintable" file I'll never know). Now as far as I can tell, fonts are embedded. It was made with context MKII, using hz and hanging punctuation, etc. When I look at the document in Adobe Acrobat, and check the document/font details, it gives a list of embedded fonts only. I'm not certain that the printer is in the right, but how can I tell? Is it possible that the pdf was altered when transferred from me to the publisher then to the printer? That compression of the pdf (zip) had any impact? Any other possibilities? What do you need to know to offer advice? ---I can send the file or a part of it if it is needed. Best, David

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Reverting to an earlier date in CVS repository (was: mkiv, luatex and tikz)
by Mojca Miklavec 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Hello, Sorry, the wrong mailing list for this question, but I still hope to find some guru here ... On the garden we fetch the version of TikZ from CVS at http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=142562 (because it often provides the functionality that's not available in stable version, including some very important patches; for example - smooth shading functionaly that Aditya was asking about only works in XeTeX with CVS version and not with the stable one). Apparently some patch broke TikZ support in ConTeXt completely (not only in luatex), but I'm not very confident with working with CVS. Can someone please give me a short hint how to revert to an older version of TikZ from CVS repository? Thanks a lot, Mojca On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:17 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > Tikz seems to be broken under luatex. > As is, compiling something as simple as > \usemodule[tikz] > \starttext > Hello, world! > \stoptext > gives errors.

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T-shirts (was: Reference to a subitem)
by Mojca Miklavec 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Diego Depaoli wrote: > 2008/10/23 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >> >> \def\ItemNumber#1% >> {\expandafter\doItemNumber#1..\relax} > As usual, Wolfgang solved! > > Mojca, can I have a Context t-shirt customized 'Wolfgang's fan club'? ... A few moments too late :) :) :) They have been printed on Thursday (when I brought four additional blank T-shirts in the afternoon, they have finished the reprinting already). But we can make wiki-editing tournaments now with T-shirts as presents if anyone is interested. Mojca (PS: unless the subject or specific mailing list makes it evident that I should read it, it might be safer to put me on CC these days.)

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Wrong cache-path with luatex
by Holzminister 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Hi! Within my luatex-chache directory there is the directory "2afa1e18082b2d9b8e2af9f2c6e925a6". But when I call texexec --lua it searches for a directory called "0aa031a3f94c398f99a9660a610ae9ef". I linked this with the existing one, but now luatex can't find any fontfiles anymore. Running luatex with --fmt=.../2afa1e18082b2d9b8e2af9f2c6e925a6 everything works fine. luatools --generate says alot about 2afa1e18082b2d9b8e2af9f2c6e925a6. I'm using the latest Contextgarden-Beta. Any ideas how to solve this? Best regards, Eyke

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bib module error with context 2008.10.23
by Michael Green 25 Oct '08

25 Oct '08

After updating the minimals for OSX-intel, I get an error when using the bib module. Here's the relevant bit of the log. Thanks! p.s. this isn't urgent for me. I'm just rolling back to the previous, working installation. ConTeXt ver: 2008.10.23 17:32 MKIV fmt: 2008.10.24 int: english/ english [snip] system : module bib loaded (/Volumes/Data/Users/mjg14747/Applications/context/tex/texmf-context/ tex/context/bib/t-bib.tex ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \v!author \p!compareprocessaction ...]->\edef \!!stringb {#1 }\ifx \!!stringb \s! defaul... \next2 #1,->\p!doprocessaction {#1} \doprocesscommaitem <argument> ...v!author =>\def \bibstyle {cont-au}, \v!title =>\def \bibstyle... \processnextcommalist ...dodoprocesscommaitem #4#5 ,]\relax \global \advance ... \dosetupbibtex ...nown =>\def \bibstyle {cont-no}] \ifx \@@pbdatabase \empty ... l.314 \dosetupbibtex[bibtex=bibtex]

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[OT] More lobby , please.
by luigi scarso 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

OK, this year latex wins http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/pr/vonneupr.html -- luigi

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Re: [NTG-context] Thank you for the Chinese support, but still one question.
by Yanrui Li 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:17:15PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: >Longmin Wang wrote: > >> Hi, Hans, Thank you for the great works. But there is still a problem when >> I test a more complicated file which is attached below. In this file, >> both \bf and \bi give the same font lmroman10-bold. > >experimental patch in beta > Hi, Hans, Now, a problem like it appeared again. Can the experimental patch still work? Best wishes, Li Yanrui

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