April 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Leopard and ConTeXt
by Steffen Wolfrum 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi MacUsers out there, until yesterday I worked with 10.4 and a recent context: no problem (only mkII). Today I finally set up a new machine with 10.5. and MacTeX, run ctxtools --updatecontext. Running a context-file now gives me the right context-version but ends up with: "TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=5000]" Well, I remember this was something about texmf.cnf (or context.cnf?). So I changed the value to 10000, remade the format but still the echo mentions 5000. Some known problem with Leopard and ConTeXt? Maybe PATH stuff? =o( Please help!!! Steffen

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Short question regarding PDF bookmarks
by Dietrich Rordorf / MDPI 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi everybody, Default setting when creating pdf bookmarks (e.g. for \section, \subsection, etc.) seems that the bookmark points to the page (it zooms out to fit the whole page), rather than only going to the referenced object: E.g. try to click on a bookmark on this pdf (365 KB): http://www.mdpi.org/marinedrugs/papers/md6010001.pdf An example where the bookmark points to the object, and will not affect the current magnification/zoom: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1741-7015-4-14.pdf Can this be realized in ConTeX? Looking forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Dietrich

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[OT] random Computer Science paper generator
by luigi scarso 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ it would be nice to have something in context. -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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page numbering question
by David C. Walden 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi, I have been searching contextgarden.net and the manuals at the Pragma website for more than an hour now, and I have yet to find a way to have ConTeXt decide in two-sided mode that the last page of a book chapter is a even numbered page without anything on it and therefore will also not have a page number. I probably can manually effect this by carefully inserting \setuppagenumber commands which start and stop the state, but that's not a very general solution. Will someone please point me to appropriate documentation or an example. Thanks, Dave -- home address: 12 Linden Rd., E. Sandwich, MA 02537; ph/fax=508-888-7655/4168 email address: dave(a)walden-family.com; website(s): http://www.walden-family.com/

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ConTEXt - produced book
by Jörg Hagmann 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Dear list members, My biochemistry textbook has been published by orell füssli as an UTB book. I would like to thank all the members of this list, and Hans in particular, for their help (acknowledgements in the "Thank you" section of the book as well). You'll find a few sample pages under: www.ogbasel.ch/context.html (2.5MB) Page and margin sizes prescribed by the publisher. The pages illustrate: p. 7: The use of inmargin text. p. 79: a "vignette", in the margin and partially in the text area. p. 110: The height of some margin figures was large, necessitating manual adjustments. p. 145: A framed box and a wide table. The large number of enumerations, figures, frames etc. made some typographical sins inevitable (e.g. last line on this page). p. 155: textbody and margin completely filled p. 190: I include this page for Willi and Thomas p. 235: Some chapters end with what students really need to know (red background). This is the end of the chapter on nutrition p. 239: The "Toolbox" contains framed figures without a legend. -- Prof.Dr.med. Jörg Hagmann-Zanolari Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics Centre of Biomedicine, University of Basel Mattenstrasse 28 CH-4058 Basel Switzerland Phone +41 (0)61 267 3565

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Scite startup script error
by Abhishek Seth 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi, It seems I have missing scite-ctx.lua. It is not present in the cont-tmf.zip which I had downloaded. I created an empty scite-ctx.lua to suppress the error message. Is this file meant to be created manually or a part of distribution (cont-tmf.zip)? Thanks > Abhishek Seth wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After reinstalling the Scite 1.76 and putting the support files in > > place, I am getting the following error: > > > > "attempt to call a string value > >> Lua: error occured while loading startup script" > > > > I don't know what it is. Can someone please help? > > probably related to scite using lua 5 now; did you update to the > scite-ctx from the context distribution? > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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Re: [NTG-context] first steps
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

On 9 Apr 2008 at 10:25, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: Hallo, > > Just to make sure - what's the version of ConTeXt and LuaTeX > > you're using, and do you have the cont-sys.tex file? > > Werner said he had used: Wolfgang :-) > > > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip > > But perhaps something was left behind from an earlier install? I reinstalled the whole thing, exactly the same steps and now it runs. Usally I am switching off an existing MikTeX-Installation by renaming the MikTeX-Directory. This was a problem in the past. May be something went wrong with this step. -------------------------------------------------- rem switchmt.bat [on|off] @echo off set OTEX="E:\PROGRAMME\" set MTEX="MiKTeX 2.7" set XTEX="MiKTeX 2.7.closed" if %1h==h goto end if %1==out goto off if %1==on goto on goto end :on if exist %OTEX%%XTEX% rename %OTEX%%XTEX% %MTEX% goto end :off if exist %OTEX%%MTEX% rename %OTEX%%MTEX% %XTEX% :end -------------------------------------------------- Thank you, Wolfgang

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[OT] PDF/A conference
by luigi scarso 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

I will be in amsterdam for first pdf/a conference. Maybe someone too: if so we can manage to meet. But i will also in amsterdam saturday, and i would like to buy some books (in english) about typography , exp. arabic typography . Open to any suggestions (about titles and bookshop) -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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a sort of marking
by Andrea Valle 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi to all, I have a manual. It's A5 to be printed in A4 (so to cut in the middle the A4 page). I'd like to have a cue like a marking to be able to cut exactly in the middle. \setuplayout[marking=on] does not print anything useful for the case. I've thought about \showframe[text=off, margin=off] but it creates a green border all around. Ideas? Many thanks -a- -------------------------------------------------- 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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LuaTex error "attempt to index global 'lang' (a nil value)"
by Roland 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi, I've been following Thomas Schmitz's great instructions at http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2007/027418.html to set up Luatex. All works fine and without errors but the last step: $ luatools --ini --verbose --compile cont-en LuaTools | version 1.1.1 - 2006+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT LuaTools | skipping configuration for /texmf-local/web2c from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/d80510d450a3fa2a64df4d3741825f1d LuaTools | skipping configuration for /texmf/web2c from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/3113242409ded67a0ad7bd508bd26609 LuaTools | locating list of /Users/rs/.texlive2007/texmf-config LuaTools | locating list of /Users/rs/.texlive2007/texmf-var LuaTools | locating list of /Users/rs/Library/texmf LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist LuaTools | loading files for /Users/rs/.texlive2007/texmf-var from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/f1bc347f62f0cb65067c428b92016cc8 [snip] loading : Context Attribute Macros / initialization systems : defining attribute mark with number 1 systems : defining attribute state with number 2 systems : defining attribute trigger with number 3 systems : defining attribute skip with number 4 systems : defining attribute penalty with number 5 systems : defining attribute colormodel with number 6 systems : defining attribute color with number 7 systems : defining attribute transparency with number 8 systems : defining attribute overprint with number 9 systems : defining attribute negative with number 10 systems : defining attribute effect with number 11 ) (/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/node-ini.tex loading : Node Support (initialization) ! LuaTeX error ...al/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/node-ini.lua:506: attempt to index global 'lang' (a nil value). \ctxluabytecode ...ode " .. "#1" .. str) end end } \registerctxluafile ...{\the \luabytecodecounter } \fi l.16 \registerctxluafile{node-ini}{1.001} ? Anybody have an idea what is wrong? I'm on Leopard 10.5.2. Thanks Roland

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