December 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

! Extra \else error
by Bart C. Wise 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

When I run the code below (via minimals), I get the following error, why? enter loop ! Extra \else. \@@plniterate ...\expandafter \@@plniterate \else \fi \myloop ...by 1 \ifnum \tempcnta >#1\else \repeat \fi \message {exit} l.16 \myloop{2008} Code: \newcount\startcnt \newcount\tempcnta \def\myloop#1{% \message{enter} \tempcnta=\the\startcnt% \loop \message{loop} \advance \tempcnta by 1 \ifnum\tempcnta>#1\else \repeat\fi \message{exit} } \starttext \startcnt=1800 \myloop{2008} \stoptext Thanks, Bart

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inconsistent TABLE and figure top-placement
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hi, I just go mad with a grid based document that contains several naturalTABLEs and figures. When I want to place those at the top of the page, their top edge is sometimes higher, sometimes lower than expected. Experimenting with different figure height (and different heights of the first row of the tables) showed that these values move the float up or down!! The result looks very bad (jumping up, jumping down) ... Thus, two urgent questions: 1) How can I force that the top edge is always exactly (!) at the same vertical position, same for ALL tables and figures? 2) If 1) is impossible: How can I manually move a textwidth table/figure the should be placed "top" a little bit vertically (like +/- 2pt)? Thanks, Steffen

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trick
by Hans Hagen 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

The next trick is dedicated to Aditya ... % engine=luatex \unprotect \def\Hack#1#2% {\pdfliteral{/Span << /ActualText <\ctxlua{pdf.hexify(\!!bs\detokenize{#1}\!!es)}> >> BDC}#2\pdfliteral{EMC}} \protect \def\Formula#1{\Hack{#1}{$#1$}} \startTEXpage[offset=3pt] test \Formula{e + a = mc^2 + \alpha} test \blank[2*big] \Formula{e + a = mc^2 + \alpha} \blank[2*big] $e + a = mc^2 + \alpha$ \stopTEXpage \stoptext try to cut and paste the math ... (only acrobat and actually acrobat is a bit bugged in this respect but the idea is there) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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startconstants broken
by Hans van der Meer 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Upgrading seems to have broken \startconstants (and probably also \startvariables). The code below worked in cont-tmf version 2008-08-05 but no longer in 2008-10-31: \startconstants all spine: spine % etcetera \stopconstants \startvariables all % etcetera \stopvariables The error is: ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \c!spine =\v!none \xprocesscommaitem #1,#2->\if ,#1 ,\@EA \xprocesscommaitem \else \if ]#1\@EAE... <argument> ...=\v!cd ,\c!spine =\v!none ,\c!state =\v!draft ,\c! output =\v!p... \xdogetparameters #1]->\xprocesscommaitem #1 ,],\@relax@ l.162 ] Addition of "\def\c!spine{}" makes the error go away. So definitely something is broken in the latter release for the start- macro(s). Could there be given a quick fix sothat I can avoid reverting back to the earlier version or adding changes all ver the place? Hans van der Meer

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mptopdf
by David Arnold 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

All, I sent this to OS X TeX list, but perhaps I can get some guidance here? All, After installing MacTeX (textlve2008), mptopdf fails: pstricks $ mptopdf bruce This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) %&-line parsing enabled. [MP to PDF] (./bruce.0{/Users/darnold/Library/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/ updmap/pdf tex.map}) [1] kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 rm-lmr12 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for rm-lmr12. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. !pdfTeX error: pdftex (file rm-lmr12): Font rm-lmr12 at 600 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) %&-line parsing enabled. [MP to PDF] (./bruce.1{/Users/darnold/Library/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/ updmap/pdf tex.map}) [1] kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 rm-lmr12 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for rm-lmr12. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. !pdfTeX error: pdftex (file rm-lmr12): Font rm-lmr12 at 600 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! MPtoPDF 1.3.3 : bruce.* is converted to bruce-0.pdf + bruce-1.pdf I tried: tlmgr update context No good. Same error as above after update. Any suggestions? david

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\framed question
by Alan STONE 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Hi, How do you get a frame's topframe overlap with the layout header "topframe" ? topspace -------------------------------------------- <--- frame's topframe = layout header "topframe" | header | -------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- | | | text | -- Best, Alan * TeX engine = LuaTeX *ConTeXt minimals ver: 2008.11.10 21:40 MKIV fmt: 2008.11.21 int: english/english * Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

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texexec (and context) stops when using \externalocp
by Khaled Hosny 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Trying to get some sort of 'implicit' bidi with luatex, I though of using an (extenal) OCP filter as it is much easier than messing with luatex nodes, and it respects TeX grouping. The attached example loads the do_bidi.py script as an \externalocp, it works fine with plain luatex, but not with 'texexec', using 'context' I get: MtxRun | fatal error, message: luatex: execution interrupted Any ideas? Is there a lua equivalent to \externalocp ? Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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Context doesn't work
by Michael Talbot-Wilson 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

I've installed Context and attempted $ texexec fig3_2.tex The response is: the file 'texexec.rb' is not found setuptex was run and TEXROOT is correctly set. texexec is: #!/bin/sh texmfstart texexec.rb "$@" There seems to be nothing there which would enable the script to be located. Does texexec have to be changed to state the full path to the script? Does that have to be done with anything else?

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Re: [NTG-context] how to get thick and thin borders working in tables (ConTeXt)
by Lars Huttar 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

On 12/9/2008 12:04 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 09.12.2008 um 17:48 schrieb Lars Huttar: > >> Hello, >> >> We are using ConTeXt (with XeTeX engine) to typeset some tables that >> have borders (rules) between cells. >> >> In the previous edition of the book (which was not done in TeX), some of >> the lines between table cells were double, others single. This was done >> to show grouping of columns and rows. We have been told that in TeX, or >> at least in ConTeXt, you can't do double rules (we'd be happy to be >> corrected on that point), so we have been trying to use thick and thin >> lines to show grouping. >> >> Thick or thin lines work fine if applied to whole tables or whole cells, >> but when there are cells with thick rules on some sides and thin rules >> on other sides, it gets confused. >> >> For example, we tried >> (a) \setupTABLE[c][4][leftframe=on,rulethickness=0.5mm] >> to set the left border of the fourth column to be thick. This worked. >> But then if we use >> (b) \setupTABLE[c][4][rightframe=on,rulethickness=0.25mm] >> to set the right border of the same column to be thin, it overrides the >> thickness of both left and right borders, so setting (a) is lost. >> >> In other words, we can't seem to get a given cell to have a thick border >> on one side and a thin border on the other side. (Well, we could fake it >> in some cases by setting rulethickness for an adjacent cell, but that >> adjacent cell would then have to have thick borders on all sides.) >> >> Does anybody know if it's possible to do this in ConTeXt? or in TeX? >> >> Thanks for any ideas, >> Lars >> >> P.S. >> Incidentally, if you set the bottom border of row 1 and the top border >> of row 2 each to be thick, the result is additive: you get a >> doubly-thick border. > > I can provide a patch for ConTeXt to draw rules with different > thickness on each side but I can't assure it will work in the future. > > With metapost you can nearly all types of borders you want. > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:double} > draw OverlayBox enlarged -\the\dimexpr\linewidth/2\relax ; % outer frame > draw OverlayBox enlarged -2pt ; % inner frame > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:all} > draw OverlayBox enlarged -\the\dimexpr\linewidth/2\relax ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:left} > linecap := squared ; > draw leftboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2 ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:right} > linecap := squared ; > draw rightboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2 ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:top} > linecap := squared ; > draw topboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2 ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:bottom} > linecap := squared ; > draw bottomboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2 ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \defineoverlay[table:frame:double][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:double}] > > \defineoverlay[table:frame:all] [\useMPgraphic{table:frame:all}] > \defineoverlay[table:frame:left] [\useMPgraphic{table:frame:left}] > \defineoverlay[table:frame:right] [\useMPgraphic{table:frame:right}] > \defineoverlay[table:frame:top] [\useMPgraphic{table:frame:top}] > \defineoverlay[table:frame:bottom][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:bottom}] > > \starttext > > \startbuffer > \bTABLE[frame=off,offset=2ex] > \bTR > \bTD One \eTD > \bTD Two \eTD > \bTD Three \eTD > \eTR > \bTR > \bTD Four \eTD > \bTD Five \eTD > \bTD Six \eTD > \eTR > \bTR > \bTD Seven \eTD > \bTD Eight \eTD > \bTD Nine \eTD > \eTR > \eTABLE > \stopbuffer > > \start > \setupTABLE[background={table:frame:double}] > \getbuffer > \stop > \blank > > \start > \setupTABLE[background={table:frame:all}] > \setupTABLE[c][first][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:left}] > \setupTABLE[c][last][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:right}] > \setupTABLE[r][first][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:top}] > \setupTABLE[r][last][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:bottom}] > \setupTABLE[first][first][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:left,table:frame:top}] > > \setupTABLE[last][first][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:right,table:frame:top}] > > \setupTABLE[first][last][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:left,table:frame:bottom}] > > \setupTABLE[last][last][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:right,table:frame:bottom}] > > \getbuffer > \stop > > \stoptext > > Wolfgang > > > Thanks for the very detailed example! We should be able to apply this to our document. I'm copying it to the list because I think it would be valuable for posterity. Thanks to Aditya too for the reply. Regards, Lars -- Lars Huttar

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backward-incompatible behavior of Palatino and modern
by Sanjoy Mahajan 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

I texexec'ed a one-page file that I hadn't compiled for almost a year (preparing for the next offering of the course). The font sizes increased, resulting in a two-page PDF file. The one-page result, which is what I expected, came from ConTeXt 2008.01.02 (MkII), for which I had selected font sizes to fit it onto one page. I couldn't find that release in the museum, so it was probably 2007.12.31 with my patches. I downloaded the cont-tmf for 2007.12.31, and it too produced the expected one-page PDF file. Whereas current versions produce a two-page file, either with 2008.10.31 from the Debian packages and with 2008.11.10 on live.contextgarden.net. I'm not sure which behavior (2007 or 2008) is correct. Below is a minimal example testfile.tex producing only a few lines instead of a whole page, but it illustrates the differences. With the 2007.12.31 version, the lines fits within the frame (from \showframe). With the new versions, the "Approximation" extends outside the frame, and the "The Art" gets split onto separate lines. Commenting out the "\setupbodyfont [palatino,11pt]" line makes the two versions identical. But the original example uses Palatino text, so I cannot do that for the long-term solution. I've attached 'good' and 'bad' PDF files. If the new version is correct, I'll retune the font sizes to make it fit, and it's no big deal. But I'm reporting the issue in case the example has exposed an unexpected change in ConTeXt over the last year. -Sanjoy ======= cut here: testfile.tex ==================== \setuppapersize[letter,landscape][letter,landscape] \setuplayout[height=fit,margin=0pt,width=fit, backspace=0.7in,cutspace=0.7in,topspace=0in,bottomspace=-0.2in] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \usetypescript [palatino][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont [palatino,11pt] \showframe \starttext \raggedleft \setupbodyfont[modern,54pt]\ss {\bfa 6.055J/2.038J\hfill The Art of}% \break \baselineskip=19pt% \setupbodyfont[modern,50.7pt]% \bfd Approximation \stoptext ======= cut here: testfile.tex ====================

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