July 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

\Asterisk
by Jesse Alama 01 Oct '08

01 Oct '08

I was working on a document in which I wanted use a symbol that, acording to the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List, goes by the name of \Asterisk or \bigast (see p. 22). I saw, though, that this seems to be missing in ConTeXt. Might it be tucked away in some module, or is it just absent? If it's really not there, what would it take to add it? Thanks, Jesse PS Is there such a thing for ConTeXt as the Comprehensive Symbol List for LaTex? -- Jesse Alama (alama(a)stanford.edu)

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Re: [NTG-context] who eats my spaces (was: chapter setup / table of contents)
by Henning Hraban Ramm 25 Sep '08

25 Sep '08

Coming back to my old thread. Here's my latest chapter setup: --- >8 --- \unprotect \resetvalue{\??sw\v!chapter} \startsetups chapter:list \def\\{{\ \nomarking{\nolist\crlf}}} \doiftextelse{\sectionworldparameter\c!author} {\expanded{\writetolist[\v!chapter] {\sectionworldparameter\c!author:\space \sectionworldparameter\c!text}{}}} {\expanded{\writetolist[\v!chapter] {\sectionworldparameter\c!text}{}}} \def\ChapterAuthor{% \doiftextelse% {\sectionworldparameter\c!author}% {\rm\tf\sectionworldparameter\c!author\crlf\vskip0.2em} {}% } \def\ChapterTitle{{\ss\bfb\sectionworldparameter\c!text}} \def\ChapterSubTitle{% \doiftextelse% {\sectionworldparameter\c!subtitle}% {\crlf\vskip0.3em\ss\bf\sectionworldparameter\c!subtitle}% {}% } \stopsetups \setupsectionworld [chapter] [setups={chapter:list}, author=] \def\ChapterCommand#1#2% {\vbox{\ChapterAuthor\ChapterTitle\ChapterSubTitle}} \let\ChapterAuthor\relax \let\ChapterTitle\relax \let\ChapterSubTitle\relax \protect \setupmarking[chapter][limittext={}] \def\nocr{{\ \nomarking{\nolist\crlf}}} \starttext \startsectionworld[chapter][author=B. Rüssel, title=Consequences of the Brussels Declaration\\for German cultural politics] \input tufte \stopsectionworld \stoptext --- 8< --- My problem is now, that in titles the space after a dot and after \\ (or \nocr) gets eaten, the above example becomes in ToC: B.Rüssel: Consequences of the Brussels Declarationfor German cultural politics What's wrong? (Two different problems, I guess.) (I use XeTeX with latest ConTeXt) For I must send my book to the printer, I fixed it with inserting "\ ". But I'd appreciate a real solution. 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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Context on Miktex
by David Arnold 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

All, On http://blog.miktex.org/post/2008/05/ConTeXt-support.aspx I read that Miktex version of Context is broken. I also read Mojca's workaround, pasted below. Has anyone tried this and does it work? Any conflicts or difficulties? Second question: Can I get mptopdf to work in the Miktex tree without installing Context? Mojca's workaround: May 31. 2008 00:37 If you still want to run ConTeXt on MikTeX while it has been removed, you may create a file texmfstart.bat in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 \miktex\bin with the content: @echo off ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby\texmfstart.rb" "%*" and extract www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip into C: \Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7. Then, update filename database and generate formats, and everything should work again. Mojca Mojca David Arnold College of the Redwoods Mathematics Department Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 476-4222 http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/

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Reading modules from zip files
by Wolfgang Schuster 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Hi, I tried to load a module from the zip archive without placing it in my tex folder, this work fine but I'm unable to include files from my global tex tree because none of them is found by luatex. The following works \usezipfile[t-letter.zip] \usemodule[letter] \starttext \startletter letter text \stopletter \stoptext but this fails \usezipfile[t-letter.zip] \usemodule[letter] \starttext \startletter[opening=hi,closing=bye] \input knuth \stopletter \stoptext The file knuth.tex and all the map files are not found. Wolfgang

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Reference Manual Project
by Taco Hoekwater 13 Aug '08

13 Aug '08

Hi all, Following the discussion with Gerben over the past week, I have initialized a project for the creation of a new Context Reference Manual. The goal is to create a complete manual documenting all of context's user-level commands with the focus on creating a reference manual, but not so much on providing a learner's manual. Anybody who is willing and able to help out in any way is very much invited to join in. The manual is to be distributed under the GNU Free Document License so that it can borrow text from the wiki, and also so that it can be included in free TeX distributions (like TeX Live). I have merged and checked in tex sources of a few base manuals just to get started. The sources are part of the contextman project at supelec: http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextman . There are no released files yet (that would be premature), but you can browse the repository via the SCM tab at supelec's project page. Alternatively, if you have a subversion client, check out the source tree to a local folder. There is also a mailing list, see http://lists.foundry.supelec.fr/mailman/listinfo/contextman-reference for details The current source tree in the repository is basically the english version of the 'Context Manual' plus * Fonts (mfonts.tex) * Columns sets (columns.tex) * Processing modes (mmodes.tex) * Texmfstart (mtexmfstart.tex) * Hyphenation patterns (mpattern.tex) but minus the images and using a simplified layout design. The project needs volunteers for just about everything: * merging existing manuals and wiki pages * copy-editing * writers for new chapters * proofreaders * it could also do with a nicer design so if you want to help out in any way, please subscribe to the mailing list via the link above (I don't want to overburden ntg-context with messages on this subject). Best wishes, Taco

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Fontsize
by Ulrich Dirr 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Hi, is it possible now (with luatex or mkiv) to typeset a document in bp? I've tried \setupbodyfont[9bp] but the resulting pdf uses 8,97bp which means 9pt (TeX points)? Ulrich

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\word of synonyms
by Matthias Wächter 05 Aug '08

05 Aug '08

Hi list! What am I doing wrong? \Word, \Words and \WORDS cannot be applied to synonyms, they are displayed unmodified which is a pity as these words should be capitalized at the beginning of a sentence. Is there a solution? \starttext \definesynonyms[term][terms] \setupsynonyms[term][headstyle=bold,width=4cm,criterium=all] \term[FTce]{fault tolerance}{The ability of a system to mitigate a fault avoiding desastrous behavior} \placelistofterms Original: \FTce\ First letter: \Word{\FTce} All first letters: \Words{\FTce} All letters: \WORDS{\FTce} First letter: \Word{fault tolerance} All first letters: \Words{fault tolerance} All letters: \WORDS{fault tolerance} \stoptext Thanks, - Matthias

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mkii and xetex with tl2008: invalid fontname errors
by Jesse Alama 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

Using XeTeX and ConTeXt MkII with the TeX Live 2008 developer snapshot (as of a few days ago), I run into a bunch of "invalid fontname" errors when compiling some documents: $ texmfstart texexec --xtx file.tex TeXExec | processing document 'file.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file file.top TeXExec | using randomseed 518 TeXExec | tex engine: xetex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is XeTeXk, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.2 (Web2C 7.5.7) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (./file.tex ConTeXt ver: 2008.07.14 18:07 MKII fmt: 2008.7.15 int: english/english [snip] kpathsea: Invalid fontname `texgyrepagella-italic:+liga;+kern;mapping=tlig;+trep;', contains ':' kpathsea: Invalid fontname `texgyrepagella-italic:+liga;+kern;mapping=tlig;+trep;', contains ':' kpathsea: Invalid fontname `texgyrepagella-italic:+liga;+kern;mapping=tlig;+trep;', contains ':' kpathsea: Invalid fontname `texgyrepagella-italic:+liga;+kern;mapping=tlig;+trep;', contains ':' kpathsea: Invalid fontname `texgyrepagella-italic:+liga;+kern;mapping=tlig;+trep;', contains ':' kpathsea: Invalid fontname `texgyrepagella-bolditalic:+liga;+kern;mapping=tlig;+trep;', contains ':' kpathsea: Invalid fontname `texgyrepagella-bolditalic:+liga;+kern;mapping=tlig;+trep;', contains ':' [many more errors like that] Any idea what might be going on? Thanks, Jesse -- Jesse Alama (alama(a)stanford.edu)

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Re: [NTG-context] Error when calling \placecontent from product
by Elliot Clifton 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

Thanks Wolfgang, On 2008-07-31 11:38 +100 Wolfgang Schuster >\def\dostartArticle[#1]% >{\getparameters[my][title=,#1]% >\expanded{\chapter{\mytitle}}} I have tried wrapping the call to \chapter in \expanded. Hans, also suggested that here: www.ntg.nl/maps/20/12.pdf Unfortunately doesn't seem to work. I think the problem occurs in the final run of TeXexec, whilst finalising the ToC. Is it something to do with the .tuo file? systems : begin file prd-test at line 1 systems : begin file ../env-test at line 2 systems : end file ../env-test at line 2 (./prd-test.tuo ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \mytitle \listtextcommand #1->\begstrut #1 \endstrut \doattributes ...sname #1#2\@EA \endcsname \fi {#4 }\dostopattributes <argument> ...ont \limitatedlistentry {\mytitle }} \egroup \ifdim \wd 4=\zero... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \dosomelistelement ...hss \dostoplistattributes }} \endgraf \nointerlineskip ... ... l.30 ...}{1}{1}{\mytitle }{2--0-1-0-0-0-0-0--1}{1} Just to be clear, \mytitle is defined by \getparameters in my environment file -- 'env-test'. The product 'prd-test' includes the component 'cmp-test'. The problem only occurs when ConTeX tries to build the product, not the component. What is it about the relationship between the product and component that cuases the trouble? Regards, Elliot

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font eatures with fallback fonts
by Khaled Hosny 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

Font features doesn't seem to work with fallback fonts (or I didn't get it right). See the attached file (has some comments) -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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