May 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

How to define my own list entry?
by Zhichu Chen 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi everybody, I'm just writing a module to typeset the traditional Chinese books. Here is the thing: I use page-arrangement to put like 15 pages on one page or actually 30 pages on one page in a double-sided mode (I mean page 1 and page 2---which contain 15 mini-pages each---are on the same page), and yes I want to make a table of contents and some PDF bookmarks. But having searched the list, I find that I should use texexec --arrange file.tex to compile the file and get the real page number. That's not what I want. Because if I get one chapter on the second page, the page number is 31 rather than 2 which I really want it to be. And so do the bookmarks behave. If I click the bookmark of the first chapter, it will go to the 31st page of the PDF file if it has page 31. I don't really like the mess. I know it's normal, but I would like to know if there's any way to write the page counters I defined to the .tui or .tuo file so that I can totally handle them and display them on the contents and make the bookmarks not crazy any more. -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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bachotex
by Hans Hagen 07 May '08

07 May '08

for mac and windows users ... http://www.river-valley.tv/conferences/bachotex2008/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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ConTeXt on MikTeX broken
by Mojca Miklavec 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hello, some time ago some MikTeX users have complained that ConTeXt doesn't work on MikTeX. It seems to be a problem with MikTeX itself since this workaround seems to solve the problem, at least temporary: ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby\texmfstart.rb" texexec (But apparently there are not many MikTeX users on the list anyway. Else more would have complained.) Mojca

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MetaPost 1.004 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 06 May '08

06 May '08

The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 1.004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The sources and a win32 package can be downloaded immediately from http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/ This release will also be available from CTAN soon, and it will be included in the next TeXLive. The source package should compile normally on all systems that are capable of compiling a modern web2c-based TeX distribution. The win32 package is intended for texlive or a similar web2c-based installation, and has been tested only with TeXLive 2007. These executables will *not* work for miktex, sorry. Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of the message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in version 1.004: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * The picture color component commands misbehaved in 1.003: the current (default) colormodel was not taken into consideration, so all colors had to be explicit for "redpart" etc. to work. (this bug is the one broke the graph.mp package) In 1.004 for "defaulted" colors, the suitable value in the current (default) colormodel is returned without any errors. This change also reverts to silently defaulting a 'black' color when asking for the redpart etc. of an object that cannot be colored at all. * The picture color component commands misbehaved in 1.003 in a different manner also: the defaults for uninitialized CMYK color picture parts were still assuming 'black' was defined as (1,1,1,1) instead of as (0,0,0,1). * The macro Gwithpc_ in the graph.mp package did not work properly with non-rgb colormodel objects. * plain.mp has a new macro, 'colorpart', that returns the color parts of a graphical object within a picture in a form suitable for feeding it back to 'withcolor'. * The latest kpathsea library from TeXLive is included. * There is now a separate manual for the boxes package (mpboxes.pdf). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal notice / license / bug reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. The MetaPost home page is http://tug.org/metapost. MetaPost and related programs are in the public domain. The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Supelec, https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost; please report bugs and request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you can reach us through the <metapost(a)tug.org> mailing list as well. Have fun! Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, May 1, 2008.

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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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Natural Tables, backgroundcolor, and frames
by Brian R. Landy 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi, I actually posted this last summer, but never got a reply and did not have a chance to follow up. When using natural tables, a cell with backgroundcolor enabled will overwrite the topframe/rightframe from the cell to the left/above. A workaround could be to always use topframe/leftframe. However this workaround is not possible with tables with split=repeat that span multiple pages, since you cannot know which rows on pages beyond the first for which you should set topframe=on. The below code demonstrates the problem for color w/ bottomframe specified for the header -- \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[ice][r=0.867, g=0.945, b=0.973, s=0.9] \starttext \bTABLE[split=repeat,frame=off,background=color] \bTABLEhead \bTR[bottomframe=on] \bTH A \eTH \bTH B \eTH \eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \dorecurse{25}{\bTR[backgroundcolor=ice] \bTD a \eTD \bTD b \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD a \eTD \bTD b \eTD \eTR} eTABLEbody \eTABLE \stoptext I tested this at http://live.contextgarden.net. Does anyone have a solution? One thought I had was to insert a very thin row (with height set to rulethickness) at the bottom of the header, but with split=repeat it appears that the table forces a minimum height to a row, so it is too tall. Thanks, Brian

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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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defineitemgroup interferes with item reference
by Sanjoy Mahajan 03 May '08

03 May '08

I cannot figure out the error in the following nested itemization with a reference. Is it a bug or am I overlooking something? Here is the smallest example I could make. Strangely, if I change the startproblemlist to startitemize and stopproblemlist to stopitemize, all is well. \defineitemgroup[problemlist] \starttext \startproblemlist \item Drag \startitemize \item[ref] blah \stopitemize \stopproblemlist \stoptext I'm using context 2008.01.28 21:28 (mkii), Debian GNU/Linux 'unstable' for i386, and the 2008.04.27 version on the Garden gives the same error. The error is ! Undefined control sequence. <write> ...realfolio }{\relax \@@opitemizesymbol1 \relax .?} <inserted text> }\endwrite \actualshipout ... \box \postponedcontent \box 0}} \else \message {[\ifarrang... \myshipout ... \fi {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} \gotonextrealpage \aftersh... \dofinaloutput ...agebody #1#2\setpagecounters }}} \fi \the \everyaftershipou... \finaloutput ...EAEAEA \dofinaloutput \fi \fi #1#2 \resetselectiepagina \incr... ... l.14 \stoptext -Sanjoy `Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.' --African Proverb

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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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