June 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Problem with Xetex
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

Probably I am the most troubled, unsuccessful beginner in this list (it's my <i>fado</i>), anyway: I have two installations of context: one in ~/texmf; another in ~/context to which I switch typing . ~/context/tex/setuptex ~/context/tex. The first one has a problem with 8bit output (\enableregiem[utf8]: it says in the log file: possible problem with 8bit output. Xetex hangs on with: kpathsea mktextfm lmroman... The second installation has another problem with xetex: "could not open config file dvipdfmx.cfg"

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fontscript for delicious?
by Uwe Koloska 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

Hello, does someone have a typescript (or what's now needed) for using the wonderful delicious font with context? http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/delicious.html It's available in opentype format. Thank you Uwe Koloska

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How could a typesetting system be today?
by Maurício 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

Hi, Just because I'm curious: how could a typesetting system like TeX be if it was created today? I've tried google and wikipedia, and all I found different from TeX is a system called 'Lout', but it seems dead. Does anyone knows about novel or interesting ideas that could be used if we would write a new typesetting system from scratch? Thanks for your thoughts, Maurício

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Fwd: (scientific) poster
by Andrea Valle 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

(originally bounced) -a- Begin forwarded message: > From: Andrea Valle <valle(a)di.unito.it> > Date: 13 June 2008 14:59:19 GMT+02:00 > To: vim.unix(a)gmail.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg- > context(a)ntg.nl> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] (scientific) poster > > > Hi Pau, > I have made a couple of posters with ConTeXt. > Here they are: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Andrea > > Code attached: > > > I have to say that for poster stuff where you have to control > visually the layout a GUI is not that bad. > So now I'm using ConTeXt for text-based projects (documents, books) > and Nodebox for visual related things (posters, presentations). > > Best > > -a- >

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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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Format does not match the base files
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

After updating my system with rsync to get the latest binaries of context I got this message: adsm@adsm:~> texexec --xtx greek_exp.tex system : cont-new loaded (/home/adsm/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex FatalError : Your format does not match the base files! FormatVersion : 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII FilesVersion : 2008.05.21 15:21 I have done texhash texexec --make --all --xtx texexec --make --all --pdftex Armando

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(scientific) poster
by Pau 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

Hi, I have googled, looked in the pragma site etc for a template (style) of an a0 poster. Doing this with latex is a bit of a nightmare and the result is not very appealing. I am looking for something in the size of a0 with embedded boxes with plots, equations etc. If such a file existed and was to be found somewhere I'd be grateful if you gave me a link. thanks

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Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)
by Alan Stone 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

Hi, Yesterday WXP crashed and it took me a whole day to repair the thing and get it up and running again. Ha

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caption in TSV tables
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

Hi All ConTeXt lovers! I am studying physics at Örebro University in Sweden and often produce documents report from experiments. For Me it naturally fells in to use Context typesetting together with tools like octave and Gnuplot. The issue until now, has been when you need to transer data from octave output textfiles to a representable table in a context document. Hardwriting all \NC and \HL stuff together with cut and paste method is time consuming. But thanks to Hans, Wolfgang, Taco and Mojca I successfully manage to import experiment values from a textfile (that also Gnuplot can read and do graphic) to a nice table with caption so you can refer to it in the textflow. So I decided to contribute my successfull result in attached examplefiles. Thanks and all wishes! Jan-Erik Hägglöf

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Minimals and FreeBSD
by Dominique Dutoit 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

> MtxRun | skipping configuration for /texmf-local/web2c from > /home/diego/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/d80510d450a3fa2a64df4d3741825f1d > MtxRun | skipping configuration for /texmf/web2c from > /home/diego/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/3113242409ded67a0ad7bd508bd26609 > MtxRun | using script: ./bin/mtx-update.luareport >> state: loaded > report >> update: start > ./bin/mtx-update.lua:181: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, > got nil) For some reasons, os.currentplatform() returns "generic" under FreeBSD (tested on 7.0), which is not defined in the platforms table and creates this error. The workaround is to pass the platform name to first-setup.sh: ./first-setup.sh --platform=freebsd But near the end of the installation process, MtxRun fails to execute the binaries because it tries to find them in tex/texmf-generic. At this stage, I have used the source command to setup the environment and executed texexec --make --all to finish up the installation. So good so far, it seems to work, but I have no idea what's happening there. Bye, Dominique

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