October 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

How to test font availability?
by Ruini Xue 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

I want to define sans to A.ttf, and if A.ttf is unavailable, B.ttf will be used. So the question is, how to test whether a font is available? Or is it possible to provide a list of candidates (e.g., \definefontsynonym[sans][name:A.ttf;name:B.ttf])? -- ruini

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Vertically centered title page
by Flavien Lambert 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

Dear all, I am trying to build a presentation with specific requirements. I would like to have the title of the presentation on the middle (both vertical and horizontal) of the first page. I tried, on one hand, two \vfill, and, on the other hand, \framed[location=middle,align=middle] but without success. The title is always on the top of the text area. Any help is welcome ! -- Flavien. ---------------------------- "Quantum objects are completely crazy but, at least, they are all crazy in the same way." R.P. Feynman.

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

Hi, I uploaded a new beta. There are changes in the cached font data but this should not affect runs (apart from some fonts being recached). The memory footprint of fonts is slightly smaller, in otf we now handle multiple unicode -> one glyph situations. As part of redoing structure related code i rewrote the moveable block code which will be part of the major update later this year. It's not yet 100% functional compatible but faster and more flexible. I'm wondering, are there mkiv users out there who use the block features? 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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Feature Request: \startitemize[text]
by Aditya Mahajan 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

Hi Hans, I have always found the space at the beginning of each item in \startitemize[text] to be too large. Currently, this is hard coded to be \emwidth plus \intertwordstretch minus \interwordshrink (line 1132 of core-itm.tex with the comment "new per 2006/10/20"). I always end of copying the definition of complexdoitemgroupitem to my private modules and changing the emwidth in the definition to 0.5\emwidth. Can you please keep this key to be configurable with a key (textinbetween)? BTW, any particular reason not to simply say \removeunwantedspaces\space\ignorespaces instead of \removeunwantedspaces\hskip\emwidth\!!plus\interwordstretch\!!minus\interwordshrink\relax \stopitemgroup uses just the first variant. Thanks, Aditya

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What's the difference between \dodoubleargument and \dodoubleempty?
by Ruini Xue 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

It's difficult to understand them from the code. -- ruini

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mkiv
by Hans Hagen 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

Hi, at the context meeting it was concluded that there is no reason for mkiv to be fully downward compatible. one thing that i consider removing is the 'background=screen' option from \framed. After all, screens internally already are just grayscales and the old 'method' mechanism is no longer valid given postscript and pdf technologies in practice it means that those who use it (in mkiv) will have to use colors (grayscales) instead (the last time that i used screens myself is sometime last century) 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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Problem with itemize with arranging pages
by Marcin Borkowski 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

Hi all, itemize won't work with page arrangement. Is this connected with this: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Imposition#Caveat:_common_troubles ? (In other words: feature, not bug; and resolvable using texexec --arrange?) (I just want to be sure.) Greets -- Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.pl)

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Changing margins mid-page?
by Rory Molinari 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

Hi, I'm sorry that the subject isn't clearer. I'm learning ConTeXt at the moment by trying to typeset a copy of my resume. I'd like the format to be something like this (view in fixed width): <Address line 1> <phone number> <Address line 2> <email address> <MY NAME IN LARGE SIZE> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EDUCATION <Details> <of Degree 1> <Details> <of Degree 2> WORK EXPERIENCE <Details> <of> <most> <recent> <job> <many lines here> <Details> <of> <another> <job> <Yet another job> ANOTHER SECTION <More information> <appropriate for this> <section> My first thought was to have "EDUCATION", "WORK EXPERIENCE", etc as unnumbered sections, and to arrange that section titles would appear in a (very large) left margin. But then I couldn't work out how to have "normal" margins for the top of the page containing my contact information and name. Margins appear to apply to the whole document. So I tried a hack using paragraphs in two columns. The left column is the section heading and the right column is the information. Example: \defineparagraphs[TwoColumns][n=2] \setupparagraphs[TwoColumns][1][width=1.5in] \startTwoColumns \tfb\ss Education \TwoColumns %% details for one degree here \blank[medium] %% details of another degree here \stopTwoColumns The problem with this is that this setup cannot break across pages, so when a section becomes too long it first starts on a new page and then runs off the bottom of that page. What is the right way to typeset this? Cheers, Rory Molinari

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Problems with Palatino sans serif
by Rory Molinari 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

Hi, I'm having problems with Palatino sans serif in my documents. Consider the following small file: \usetypescript[palatino][ec] \setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt] \starttext \ss Hello world! {\tfa\ss tfa} {\tfb\ss tfb} {\tfc\ss tfc} {\tfd\ss tfd} \stoptext On live.contextgarden.net this renders correctly, with sans serif text and appropriate character sizes. On my local system, though, all the text is serif and at the same size. There is no size variation with \tfa, \tfb, etc. If I remove all the \ss commands then the sizing works again. I'm using MacTeX 2008. Here are my version strings from texexec: This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) ConTeXt ver: 2008.04.11 00:07 MKII fmt: 2008.10.11 int: english/ english What is wrong with my installation (or my document)? Cheers, Rory Molinari

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luatex 0.30.1
by Thomas A. Schmitz 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

Hi Taco, is it possible that luatex 0.30.1 is a little bit broken? When I try to process an xml file with it and the latest beta, I get no pdf output (but also no errors; it simply doesn't process the contents). Downgrading to luatex 0.30.0 solves this problem; I get the expected output. Thomas

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