September 2008 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

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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Pyramiding \defs
by Holzminister 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Hi! Can perhaps anyone explain to me why the example works in one case, but not in the other? >>> \enableregime[utf-8] \mainlanguage [de] % \def\werte#1{\em [#1]} % +++ works \def\werte#1{{\em [#1]}} % --- doesn't work \def\moretest{} \def\test% { Testtext \def\moretest% { More Testtext } } \starttext \werte{\test} \moretest \stoptext >>> Thanks in advance, Eyke

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mkii colour problem
by Mohamed Bana 20 Sep '08

20 Sep '08

Hi everbody, 1. Blank links source; http://pastebin.com/m4dd31559, Doesn't work, but strangely enough "color=urlcolour" (the one below) does. Log; http://pastebin.com/m1034c274 2. Colour links source; http://pastebin.com/m70fa91b6. Log; http://pastebin.com/m16be2374 Just compile the and you'll see for yourself. So if I do use "ucolour", the links are shown in black. I can't compile the file with mkiv, see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/44025. pdf using urlcolour; pdf using ucolour; % This results in black hyperlinks. \definecolor[ucolour] [c=0,m=0.83,y=1,k=0.7] \definecolor[urlcolour] [c=0,m=0.51,y=1,k=0] \setupinteraction[ state=start, color=ucolour, option=bookmark] Mohamed

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Interaction and accented letters
by Flavien Lambert 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Dear all, is there a way to put accented letters in the interaction command ? I tried \setupinteraction[state=start, author={Flavien Lambert}, title={Optique géométrique}, date={Septembre 2008}] and \setupinteraction[state=start, author={Flavien Lambert}, title={Optique g\'eom\'etrique}, date={Septembre 2008}] but both trials led to strange things in Acrobat Reader and Evince. -- Flavien. ---------------------------- "Quantum objects are completely crazy but, at least, they are all crazy in the same way." R.P. Feynman.

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Additional blank methods
by Wolfgang Schuster 19 Sep '08

19 Sep '08

Hi Hans, can you add \defineblankmethod [endgraf] {\endgraf} \defineblankmethod [nobreak] {\penalty\plustenthousand} to core-spa.tex Can you also add \def\previousnumber#1{\number\numexpr#1-1\relax} \defineconversion [previousnumber] [\previousnumber] to core-con.tex Wolfgang

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problem finding files (cygwin-related?)
by Jelle Huisman 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Hi all, I try to help a colleague who has successfully installed ConTeXt using the Windows installer and has started typesetting some documents. His installation has problems finding files. Using something like "\input ./path/to/file.tex" works OK, but this doesn't: \externalfigure[./path/to/file.pdf] He gets a "figure ./path/to/file.pdf can not be found"-error, while the same code works OK with my local Windows in a VMware virtual machine. He happens to have cygwin installed (I don't have it) and I was wondering whether that is the course of his problems? How does cygwin interfere with finding the /path/to/the picture file? Can I solve this by escaping the path in some special way? Or would moving the picture to the current directory help? Thanks for any suggestions, Jelle

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Arabic numbers (in MkIV) should be left to right
by Khaled Hosny 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

Arabic numbers (characters with bidi property "an") should be left to right, just as European numbers ((characters with bidi property "en"). Currently Arabic numbers are made right to left: \setupdirections[bidi=global] \starttext 12345\par ١٢٣٤٥ \stoptext Both line should have the same digits order. I think "d == "an"" in core-spa.lua line 1075 should be moved to line 1071 (I tested it and it does fix this issue for me). -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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Re: [NTG-context] Type-setting filenames
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

>> I am using \filename to type-set filenames. Some of these are very >> long >> (greater than 30 characters) and overhang >> the right hand margin, sometimes even disappearing off the edge of the >> page. The first line break is just before the >> full stop. There are usually plenty of spaces in the names. Can I >> get >> ConTeXt to put a line-break into filenames? > > Did you try \hyphenatedfilename ? Yes, I tried that, no difference. I presume that \hyphenatedfilename is for use with filenames that already have hyphens in them? Mine don't, but I want them to split. Perhaps splitting filenames is frowned upon - if so, what is the best way to put them into documents? Or perhaps I should use shorter filenames, but why should I compromise readability? One example is "Transfer functions for PID and KF controllers.xmcd" Any ideas or comments? Richard

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Re: [NTG-context] Type-setting filenames
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 18 Sep '08

18 Sep '08

> \def\myfilename#1{{\spaceskip.25em plus 1em\relax\tttf\normallanguage\zerocount#1}} > > \myfilename{Transfer functions for PID and KF controllers.xmcd} > \myfilename{Transfer functions for PID and KF controllers.xmcd} > \myfilename{Transfer functions for PID and KF controllers.xmcd} > \myfilename{Transfer functions for PID and KF controllers.xmcd} That works brilliantly (I've no idea why through). Thanks Hans

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Hyphenating hyperlinks
by Mohamed Bana 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

Why aren't the the urls broken across the lines on page2-3. I'm pretty sure the hyperref package in latex supported this, Am I missing an option somewhere? Screenshot; http://imagebin.ca/view/VHwQ0w.html. The code used is; \dorecurse{6}{Download Apache at \from[apache]} Full source; http://pastebin.com/m1cf28c3c Pdf; http://filebin.ca/dnoqva/test.pdf or http://filebin.ca/dnoqva. Mohamed

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