December 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Unescaped $ and & in texts
by Wolfgang Schuster 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Can't we add a new mode to ConTeXt to use $ and & in text without escaping them with a backslash, & is not needed to write tables and for inline math \formula could be used. In text only documents I want also the % as normal character where I don't need comments. What do you think, with \nonknuthmode we have already a command to write '_' in text mode. \appendtoks \catcode`\$=12 \catcode`\&=12 \catcode`\%=12 \to \everystarttext \starttext Procter & Gamble’s stock climbed to $2, a 10% gain. \stoptext Wolfgang

3 3

starting headings at top of column
by Lars Huttar 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hello, I've started talking to people in charge about contributing some money to this mailing list, or the wiki, or something ... we're certainly getting a lot of help from it. Is there an org or project to contribute to? Anyway, my current challenge is this. We have a two-column layout using columnsets. Fairly often, we start a new section (within a column... this does not interrupt the flow of columns). Some constraints we want to fulfill are: - Normally we want a little space before each new section heading - Except at the top of a column; can I check whether we're at the top of a column and do a conditional \vskip based on that?(*) - Avoid orphans: when starting a new section, if there's not enough room left in the current column, do a column break before outputting the section heading. I've tried \testcolumn[n], but it doesn't seem to work right. What are the units of the argument to \testcolumn? We also do manual column balancing using \definecolumnset, \setupcolumnset, and \setupcolumnsetlines. My concern is, does this apply after other layout is performed, so that any test performed above (*) regarding position within the column would fail to reflect these column balancing adjustments and therefore could give wrong results? That could explain why \testcolumn has been behaving in unexpected ways... Thanks, Lars

3 2

setupdelimitedtext: linespacing in final quoted paragraph
by Sanjoy Mahajan 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

What's the right way to workaround the following interaction between \setupdelimitedtext and TeX's paragraph building rules? In the example below, the last paragraph from knuth.tex has the linespacing of the regular text set in 12pt, rather than the intended, narrower linespacing of 8pt text. Uncommenting the negligible vertical space (\vskip1sp) fixes the discrepancy. Is it the best workaround? I also tried setting after={\vskip1sp} in the \setupdelimitedtext, but it had no effect. I'm using 2008.10.31, MkII. Thanks for any suggestions, which I'll wikify if the solution is interesting to more than just me. \setupdelimitedtext[blockquote][style={\switchtobodyfont[8pt]}] \starttext \startblockquote \input knuth %\vskip1sp \stopblockquote \input tufte \stoptext -Sanjoy

3 6

mpost manual
by Hans van der Meer 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

This might be considered a little off topic but I take the liberty to draw your attention to a problem with the mpost distribution. If there is really a problem with that distribution, I think it is in our interest to remedy it. I made mpost from the mpost-1.101 distribution (sh build.sh), then updated mpost.mem and finally called make in the manual directory of this distribution. Surprisingly a faulty cmr10.tfm was flagged. The output being: 122 ~/TeX/metapost/metapost-1.101/manual: make mpost -tex=tex mpman This is MetaPost, version 1.101 (kpathsea version 3.5.7) (./mpman.mp (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/metapost/base/boxes.mp) ! Font cmr10 not usable: TFM file is bad. _s->...oup.addto._p.also(EXPR2)infont(EXPR3)scaled (EXPR4)shifted((EXPR5),(EX... <argument> ..._n0="cmr10";_s("Figures",_n0,1,0,0,) ;_s ("in",_n0,1,35.3674,0,)... beginbox_->...UFFIX2):=nullpicture;for._p_=(TEXT3) :pic_ (SUFFIX2):=if.picture... boxit->..."boxpath_","sizebox_",(SUFFIX2),(TEXT3)) ;generic_declare (pair)_n.s... l.26 ....aa(btex \place{Figures in MetaPost} etex) ; As can be seen, I am using the texlive/2008 distribution (on Macintosh MACOSX 10.5.6). Searching for cmr10.tfm delivers: 120 ~/TeX/metapost/metapost-1.101/manual: kpsewhich cmr10.tfm /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/cm/cmr10.tfm Which should be fine in my opinion. The question: Are there people out there who would be willing try the same and report the result? This is the first step to locate the problem: is this is local or does it occur elsewhere and on different systems too? Hans van der Meer

2 1

interactionbuttons question
by Alan STONE 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Hi, Is it possible to make a column (a vertical alignment) of buttons with the interactionbuttons command ? If so, how to proceed ? button 1 button 2 ... button x -- 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

2 3

tiny reshuffle of ConTeXt versions on the Minimals
by Mojca Miklavec 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hello, Just a short notice before it causes confusion. Since Hans is preparing some really big changes in mkiv (basically rewriting almost the whole ConTeXt core if I understood correctly), he is still waiting to update ConTeXt on his website until the changes are finished or at least "working again". Since neither current nor beta are compatible with the latest LuaTeX, I have applied some patches that he sent me to official beta and now both current and beta are pointing to the same patched version of beta. (Maybe I should finally modify the timestamp ...) Else "current" on minimals would be broken, or we would be unable to upload luatex for quite a while. In theory everything should still work normally, beta has also been around for quite a while now, but before anyone asks me "why are the versions on minimals different from the ones that Hans provides" or "it works with context beta/context current on my machine, why doesn't it work on yours", here you have some short explanation. This deviation from the official version will be dropped as soon as ConTeXt gets "stable" again. Mojca

1 1

markiv, "output written on..."
by Patrick Gundlach 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hi, when I run a markiv file I don't get any message of the resulting pdf file. Is this done on purpose? I'd like to have a message that I can parse from textmate (to create a hyperlink to the resulting pdf). Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

3 5

Some ligatures cannot be copied and pasted
by Yue Wang 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Hi, see the attachment Yue Wang

3 4

about "LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file"
by Dalyoung Jeong 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

Dear Mojca, > "texmfstart texexec --make (--xtx) --all" run smoothly, but luatools > still has a cnf error. Did you update the scripts in binaries as well? (Unless you updated ConTeXt from TL repository, it will keep the old mtxrun in binaries, and that one doesn't work at all.) Mojca I upgraded MacTeX using "tlmgr updarw --all" first. And then, texhash texmfstart texexec --make --all texmfstart texexec --make --xtx --all It's working good. But, I try "luatools --generate", then error messages are appreared. luatools --generate LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file LuaTools | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.002 seconds Should I run .luatex(containing "export $texmf= ... ", etc) as before to set environment? Thank you for your help. Best regards, Dalyoung

3 2

PDF page numbers
by Derek CORDEIRO 16 Dec '08

16 Dec '08

In latex + book/memoir + hyperref, if \frontmatter \mainmatter are used, the pdf files generated use the roman numbers in the pdf itself. It appears as ii (2 of 500) in the pdfviewer. Is it possible to do the same with ConTeXt? Is there any introduction to using fonts(typefaces) in ConTeXt? I find myself stumbling on simple things(I'm a beginner). For example, the following works fine. \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr] \usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino,11pt] but the following does not work. \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr] \usetypescript[schoolbook][ec] \setupbodyfont[schoolbook,11pt] I have tried with and older distribution of ConTeXt which comes along with Fedora 10 as well as with ConTeXt minimals. Incidentally if I use \definetypeface[schola][rm][serif][schola][default][encoding=t5] it works fine. What am I doing wrong? Regards, Derek

8 12