August 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

MacTex Update
by David Arnold 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

All, If you have a MacTex installation, how can you safely update the context installation that comes with MacTex? David Arnold College of the Redwoods Mathematics Department Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 476-4222 http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/

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Miktex still broken
by David Arnold 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

All, The context in Miktex is still broken. Has anyone got experience installing the standalone version of context on windows alongside Miktex? And one specific question, will the mptopdf command work in this dual installation? Thanks. David Arnold College of the Redwoods Mathematics Department Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 476-4222 http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/

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inframed : makes a newline
by Eric DÉTREZ 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Hello When I use a inframed command at the start of a line it doesn't allow to be continued by text : ****************************************************** \starttext blabla \inframed{essai} blabla \inframed{essai} blabla \stoptext ****************************************************** gives ------------------ blabla framed{essai} blabla framed{essai} blabla ------------------ I expected ------------------ blabla framed{essai} blabla framed{essai} blabla ------------------ Is it anything to do ?

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Line under footer
by Holzminister 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Hi there! I managed to draw a line under my footer (with the help of this mailing list, of course ;) ), but how can I change its thickness? This doesn't seem to work: \setupbackgrounds[footer][text][frame=off, bottomframe=on, height=0pt, depth=3pt] Same effect with this one: \setupbackgrounds[footer][text][frame=off, bottomframe=on, height=3pt] Regards, Eyke

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Delicious - I'm still confused
by Piotr Kopszak 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

Hello list, Sorry for being boring, but I still can't figure out whether Delicious font can or cannot be used with latest beta. It still does not work for me. Strangely mtxrun --script font --list|grep deli gives deliciousbold Delicious-Bold Delicious-Bold.otf deliciousbolditalic Delicious-BoldItalic Delicious-BoldItalic.otf deliciousheavy Delicious-Heavy Delicious-Heavy.otf deliciousheavymedium Delicious-Heavy Delicious-Heavy.otf deliciousitalic Delicious-Italic Delicious-Italic.otf deliciousmedium Delicious-Roman Delicious-Roman.otf deliciousroman Delicious-Roman Delicious-Roman.otf delicioussmallcaps Delicious-SmallCaps Delicious-SmallCaps.otf delicioussmallcapsmedium Delicious-SmallCaps Delicious-SmallCaps.otf but texexec --lua --pdf delicious-test has problems: define font | forced type otf of Delicious-Roman not found define font | font with name Delicious-Roman is not found define font | unknown font Delicious-Roman, loading aborted ! Font \*delicious12ptsstfss*:=Delicious-Roman.otf at 12pt not loadable: metric data not found or bad. Piotr -- -- Piotr Kopszak, Ph.D. Polish Art Gallery, National Museum in Warsaw -----------------------------> http://kopszak.mnw.art.pl/ http://okle.pl

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Place for exercises and solutions
by batela 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Dear Sirs, I'm writing a chemical book and I want include some exercises in the end of each chapter. In the source file the solutions are placed after the related exercise. In the .pdf file the exercises should be located at end of each chapter, but the solutions should appear in the end of the book. Did anybody has a similar implementation? Thanks a lot Jorge Magalhães Abraços, Jorge Manuel de Almeida Magalhães

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Differences between \setupfootnotedefinition and \setupfootnotes
by Holzminister 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Hi! Can anyone explain the differences between the mentioned commands? Thanks in advance, Eyke

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grouped sections and footnotes
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Hi Hans, I am using a module -- non-distributed as far as I know -- created by Wolfgang. It provides grouped sectioning and footnotes: ====startstop-t.tex====== \unprotect \def\????se{@@@@se} \def\definegroupedsection[#1]% {\setvalue{\e!start#1}[##1]% {\getparameters[\????se#1][\c!ref=,\c!title=,##1]% \getvalue{#1}[\getvalue{\????se#1\c!ref}]{\getvalue{\????se#1\c!title}}} \setvalue{\e!stop#1}{\relax}} \def\definegroupednote[#1]% {\edef\currentnote{#1}% \def\dostartcurrentnote[##1][##2]{\setnote[##1][##2]\bgroup\ignorespaces}% \setvalue{\e!start\currentnote}{\dodoubleempty\dostartcurrentnote[#1]}% \setvalue{\e!stop\currentnote}{\removeunwantedspaces\egroup\noteparameter\c!next}} \definegroupedsection[title] \definegroupedsection[chapter] \definegroupedsection[section] \definegroupedsection[subsection] \definegroupedsection[subsubsection] \definegroupednote [footnote] \setupfootnotes[next=\autoinsertnextspace] \protect \starttext \starttitle[title=Title] \stoptitle \startchapter[title=Chapter] \startsection[title=Section] \input knuth Text \startfootnote[nabiyy] A footnote \stopfootnote text \startsubsection[title=Subsection] Text \startfootnote A footnote. See \in{footnote}[nabiyy] \stopfootnote text \startsubsubsection[title=Subsubsection] Text \startfootnote A footnote \stopfootnote text \stopsubsubsection \stopsubsection \stopsection \stopchapter \stoptext ========================= Question: a) Have you added support for grouped sectioning and footnotes in mkiv yet? b) Does the above code seem safe for mkiv? c) (For Wolfgang:) Has the above code been updated or extended etc. yet? For long documents this kind of grouping has become indispensable (easy code-folding etc.) Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Non-printable Unicode control characters
by Khaled Hosny 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

Unicode has many "control characters" that only control text behaviour and shouldn't be rendered visually in the text, such as Bidi_Control and Join_Control chars (see http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.1.0/ucd/PropList.txt and http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UCD.html) Currently, ConTeXt handles ZWJ and ZWNJ, but other characters get rendered if the font has glyphs for them or make no effect at all if the font has no glyphs for them. I think that the optimum behaviour is to make those characters affect text formatting while not visually rendered whether the font has glyphs for them or not. It might be also useful if we can enable rendering those characters manually, for drafts and such. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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Some Arabic ligatures get rendered twice
by Khaled Hosny 16 Aug '08

16 Aug '08

Some Arabic ligatures get rendered twice, I think this happens when a ligature can be divided into subligatures, say ABC ligature where the font has an AB ligature, in this case A+B+C get rendered as ABC+AB. See the attached example. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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