April 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

listings.sty
by Peter Münster 12 Jul '08

12 Jul '08

Hello, I suggested to the author of the very feature rich LaTeX-Listings package, Carsten Heinz, to port this package to ConTeXt, and it seems, that he is interested. But before doing it, there are some questions: * What do Hans and other people thing about that? * listings.sty uses keyval.sty, how is the proper ConTeXt-way to do the same things as keyval, or should listings stay with keyval? Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ _____________________________________ FilmSearch engine: http://f-s.sf.net/

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Roll-Your-Own Stand-Alone (Was re. ConTeXt ultraminimals)
by Joel C. Salomon 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

I'm working on ConTeXt+SciTE-on-a-USB-Stick. A downloadable program is still far off, as is a version that can be put on PortableApps.com, but I've gotten to the point of mapping out the basic parameters: • We need to have a start-up program, which will set up the environment and start SciTE and/or a command prompt. • Legacy-free is nice, but if ConTeXt+XeTeX (which I'll call "mkiii" whether that's an official name or no) requires texexec then we need to include Ruby anyway, so we may as well keep PDFTeX (mkii), BUT: • Since my Windows machine already has Perl, Python, & Ruby, I'm going to defer working on that last point. • In fact, I'm going to defer including SciTE also, until I have a working stand-alone ConTeXt… I've put my rsync invocations on the wiki. (Since the calls are so closely tied to the directory structure of the Minimals, I added them to <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals/Structure> as an example of how to use & customize them, but I'll move it if folks think it belongs elsewhere.) Also, the commands I'm using to generate my formats are on that page. Could someone please check them for sanity? --Joel

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ConTeXt ultraminimals (was re: Perl/Ruby dependency)
by Joel C. Salomon 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > luatex + context mkiv is indeed independent [of Ruby] > > - index sorting takes place in mkiv > - job control is done with mtxrun/mtx-context Now that I've been told the idea is at least possible, I've been thinking about how to generate a micro-minimal mkiv distribution: no fonts except the LM set, no engines except luaTeX, no kpathsea, & preferably no external dependencies (perl, ruby, &c.). So how to best go about this? I'm downloading the current minimals (or should I use the .zips at <http://www.pragma-ade.nl/download-1.htm>?); what can I cut out? --Joel

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standardmakeup, frontmatter, bodymatter & page numbering
by Mojca Miklavec 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hello, I have a document consisting of title page, some introduction which should have pages numbered with roman numerals, and finally the real content \setuphead[subject][page=odd,style=\ss\bfb] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \starttext \startstandardmakeup title page \stopstandardmakeup \startfrontmatter \setuppagenumbering[conversion=romannumerals] \setupfootertexts[page \pagenumber{}] \subject{some intro pages} \input tufte \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \setupfootertexts[page \pagenumber{} of \totalnumberofpages] \dorecurse{10}{\subject{real content} \dorecurse{\recurselevel}{\input knuth} } \stopbodymatter \stoptext Now the problems: 1.) The second page starts counting at 1, while counting should start at page 3. This can be solved by using another \startstandardmakeup\strut\stopstandardmakeup. 2.) The last page says "page 26 of 27" - the total page number is indeed 27, but counting started on the second page, so it never reaches the last number. 3.) I would like the page number on the first page of bodymatter to be "page 1 of 23" instead of "page 4 of 27", and the last one to ge "page 23 of 23" instead of "page 26 of 27" There is some way=bychapter setting for page numering, but in that case there are no suitable chapters/sections available. Any hints appreciated ... Thanks a lot, Mojca

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French typesetting?
by Oliv 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi, I'm new with ConTeXt. However, during my University years, I frequently used LaTeX. As I'm mostly writing in French, I'd like to know how to configure ConTeXt for the French typesetting. I've already tried the \mainlanguage [fr] switch but this doesn't seem to be enough. For example, it does not insert automatically a small space before the !?: punctuation symbols. So I'm looking for something more complete, like the Babel French or French LE packages worked with LaTeX. Thanks in advance for your help! Oliv

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withshade (mlib)
by Peter Rolf 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi, there are some problems in combination with the 'withshade' operator in mlib. this must be patched in mp-mlib.mp (':=' instead of '='; too much lua ;) vardef define_circular_shade (expr a, b, ra, rb, ca, cb) = _defined_cs_ := _defined_cs_ + 1 ; _defined_cs_pre_ [_defined_cs_] := "cs" ; _defined_cs_post_[_defined_cs_] := "0 1 " & decimal shadefactor & " " & colordecimals ca & " " & ddecimal (a shifted shadeoffset) & " " & decimal ra & " " & colordecimals cb & " " & ddecimal (b shifted shadeoffset) & " " & decimal rb ; _defined_cs_ enddef ; vardef define_linear_shade (expr a, b, ca, cb) = _defined_cs_ := _defined_cs_ + 1 ; _defined_cs_pre_ [_defined_cs_] := "ls" ; _defined_cs_post_[_defined_cs_] := "0 1 " & decimal shadefactor & " " & colordecimals ca & " " & ddecimal (a shifted shadeoffset) & " " colordecimals cb & " " & ddecimal (b shifted shadeoffset) ; _defined_cs_ enddef ; i still get an error after this patch, because '_defined_cs_' is not increased somehow (donno why, not my day; cleared mem, remade formats). _defined_cs_pre_0 is of course undefined. [..] report >> mp terminal: ! Missing argument to withshade. <to be read again> define_linear_shade <*> ...,1cm); fill p withshade define_linear_shade (p,1,red,blue); ; >> unknown string _defined_cs_pre_0 ! Improper type. <to be read again> withpostscript withshade->...fined_cs_pre_[(EXPR0)]withpostscript ._defined_cs_post_[(EXPR0)] <to be read again> define_linear_shade <*> ...,1cm); fill p withshade define_linear_shade (p,1,red,blue); ; >> _defined_cs_post_0define_linear_shade ! Improper type. <to be read again> ( <*> ...1cm); fill p withshade define_linear_shade( p,1,red,blue); ; ! Extra tokens will be flushed. <to be read again> ( <*> ...1cm); fill p withshade define_linear_shade( p,1,red,blue); ; report >> mp error: unknown, no error, terminal or log messages [..] here the test code: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \null \startMPcode path p; p:= unitsquare xyscaled(10cm,1cm); fill p withshade define_linear_shade(p,1,red,blue); \stopMPcode \stoptext

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Font features not always working
by Wolfgang Schuster 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hi, the features from OpenType fonts are not accesable for all fonts, I tried to use my old test case for Microsofts Cambria fonts and none of the features did work, also kerning is disabled. I put the files with the result from last year and the latest stable online. http://schuster.wolfgang.googlepages.com/files I saw this effect also in a few other fonts where I was unable to select features in the font like oldstyle or smallcaps. Wolfgang

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ConTeXt Minimals & NixoS
by Gour 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hello! Soon I plan to move to NixOS (http://nixos.org/) distro which uses purely functional package manager (Nix) and does not allow 'destructive' updates which happen with e.g. ConTeXt Minimals and rsync. I'd like to use Luatex and due to its rapid development I am interested to know whether it would be feasible to do rsync locally and then provide Minimals 'snapshot' ? (the question is how to deploy luatex via Minimals'distro'?) Anything what can be done to help with Minimals? Sincerely, Gour

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reference manual for cont-en.lua
by Peter Münster 04 May '08

04 May '08

Hello, Is there a reference manual for the functions in cont-en.lua? Or just a function index? There are really a lot of nice functions, for example table.serialize(), for the every-day usage! Anyway, even without reference: thanks for these tools! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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headers and pagenumbering
by Henning Hraban Ramm 03 May '08

03 May '08

Hello again, just trying to understand some remaining issues with my latest project. --- startcode --- \starttext % Setups \setuppagenumbering[ alternative=doublesided, location={header,right}, strut=yes, state=stop] % chapter title in the header, % but not on first page of chapter % pagina also in the header, always \setupheader[text][state=stop] \setupheadertexts[text][chapter][pagenumber] \setuphead[chapter][header=high] % Content % some firstmatter stuff left out \setuppagenumbering[state=start] % table of contents % without header, without pagina % but page numbering starts here { \setuppagenumbering[location=] \title{Inhalt} \placecontent \page } %\page % too late! \setupheader[text][state=start] \chapter{10 \times\ Tufte} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte} \stoptext --- stopcode --- (1) % or 0? ;-) I struggled how to leave out the pagina on the ToC page, no setups seemed to work. I just reckognized that I need the \page inside of the braced area. (2) How can I leave out the chapter header on the first page of a chapter, but keep the page number? (Probably simple?) (3) One can "hide" the page number with "location=", but the header on the first page of a chapter with "header=high". Is there any logic behind that? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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