January 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

PhD Thesis in ConTeXt
by Piotr 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Hello, I have spent some time with google in order to find an answer to the following questions. Unfortunatly, I was not satisfied with the answers, which I now hope to find here. It is my plan not to use the MS Office suite for the production of my PhD thesis (in chemistry). I have used Miktex some years ago during my studies for some project reports, and I remember beeing quite satisfied with the results. My Master thesis, on the other hand, I wrote in word.. and although I remember not having too many difficulties, there were some nasty obstacles to be overcome. Obstacles which I simply do not want to risk having repeated a second time on a much bigger scale. I this mailing list I read several reports of people who either had written their thesis in Latex or ConTeXt. There was a mention of Latex beeing designed for mathematic purposes, while ConTeXt was said to be better suited for the intergration of graphics or larger/more complex layout changes. 1) Finding the right context For now I had quite some difficulties to find that proper Latex distribution - a problem that actually led me to the existence of ConTeXt. I am wondering which latex distribution I should choose in order to work with ConTeXt? I am running Windows Vista (64-bit). Or is there a ConTeXt stand alone package that will absolutely satisfy my me in my needs? In principle, all I need is 2) The right editor What is the preferred editor for ConTeXt? for such a project? Is there any loss in functionality when using Texniccenter with ConTeXt than with MikTex instead? 3) I have seen some thesis templates/examples in this mailinglist. Can anyone point me to additional sources regarding the creation of a PhD Thesis with ConTeXt? What is the advantage over Latex, what are the disadvantages? Is there a win-win distribution somewhere on the table? 4) Has anyone used a typesetting suite like ContTeXt with CVS? 5) Is the ConTeXt reference system compatible with Endnote? Is there any point to have latex installed, when context can do the trick? Or lets ask the devils advocate the other way around: What is the point of installing context, when latex could do the trick? Apart that I have to re-learn latex anyway.. what is better with Context? Regards, Piotr Jakubowicz

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Re: [NTG-context] Bibtex doubt (was Re: Forward of moderated message)
by Taco Hoekwater 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

Xan wrote: > > Another question: with "\language [ca]", the references title that show > "\completepublications" appeared in english. I could change somehow in > catalan language? There is no translation for [ca] known. You can add one with \setupheadtext [ca][pubs=References] % change "References" to what you want Best wishes, Taco

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new experimental
by Hans Hagen 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

Hi, the experimental branch of the garden distribution has a prelude to the new math font subsystem - less definitions, so faster (but some things might not yet work) - unicode math (but mojca, aditya, taco and i are in the process of checking and completing the definitions) - faster startup time of mkiv as well as less memory usage - using runtime virtual fonts which permits more math alphabets (as un unicode) but not all are defined now (not all make sense) since this is evolving, if you use experimental, you need to update on a regular basis (mkiv as well as the luatex bin) but mojca keeps things nicely in sync so that should be done automatically for lin/win/osx Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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unwanted rgb-->gray conversion (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Hi Hans, The attached example works fine with mkii (text and gfx both use RGB colors). Using mkiv reduces the colorspace of the graphic to GRAY. Sadly PDFX/-4 doesn't allow to mix color profiles of colorspace RGB with GRAY ones. So I'm forced to always use the RGB colorspace... Best wishes, Peter \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[rgbgray] [r=.5,g=.5,b=.5] \startuniqueMPgraphic{foo}{size} fill unitsquare xyscaled(\MPvar{size},\MPvar{size}) withcolor \MPcolor{rgbgray}; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \starttext \uniqueMPgraphic{foo}{size=5cm} \color[rgbgray] Gray text. \stoptext

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How to capture a typeset page into a box instead of shipping it out
by Kevin D. Robbins 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

Hi all, I am looking for ideas of how to capture a typeset page (as it would appear in the resulting pdf output) into a box instead of actually shipping it out directly, if it is possible. I would like to take advantage of ConTeXt's layout features including layers, otherwise I would just create the box with \setbox. My intent is to draw slides using all of ConTeXt's many layout features, but capture the rendered slide in a box so I can use it either as a full page in the presentation output or as a scaled image included as a figure in a full text "train the trainer" document. Thanks, Kevin Robbins

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XeTeX and/or LuaTeX?
by J.A.J. Pater 01 Feb '09

01 Feb '09

I'm was planning to write my master thesis in XeLaTeX until I discovered that ConTeXt can use the XeTeX engine. I need to use a lot of Hebrew - so Right to Left typing - and some linguistic glyphs and stuff. But from the wiki I understand there are still some issues with ConTeXt's XeTeX-awareness. Like the bookmarks "may result in some strangeness in certain documents" Can someone tell me what kind of strangeness? And XeTeX can't use "certain specials and other types of features" Can someone tell me what kind of "specials and types of features"? And now on this list there is a lot of talk about LuaTeX and Mark IV. So I wonder: Is it possible to use MarkIV and XeTeX engine at the same time? And if not, why should (or shouldn't) I use MarkIV over XeTeX? Thanks in advance, Adriaan Pater

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setuphead question
by Alan Stone 31 Jan '09

31 Jan '09

Hello, In the example below... ---------------------------------------------------- %\def\myCommand#1#2{} \def\myCommand#1#2{#1 #2} %\def\myCommand{} \setuphead[chapter] [number=yes, align=middle, % anyotherparameter=whatever, command=\myCommand] % command=] \starttext \startfrontmatter %\placecontent \completecontent \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter{chapter one} \dorecurse{5}{\input tufte\par} \chapter{chapter two} \dorecurse{5}{\input douglas\par} \stopbodymatter \stoptext ---------------------------------------------------- ... how do you define myCommand so \setuphead[chapter] [(any other parameter settings), command=\myCommand, (any other parameter settings)] is equal to \setuphead[chapter] [(any other parameter settings), command=, (any other parameter settings)] i.e. with any other parameter settings remaining active. In the example above, with align=middle and - \def\myCommand#1#2{} the ToC and chapter heads are blank - \def\myCommand#1#2{#1 #2} the ToC and chapter head alignment is lost - \def\myCommand{} the ToC and chapter head alignment is lost Thanks, Alan

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Minimals and dvipng
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Hi all, My TeX setup: TeXLive (systemwide) for evetything but ConTeXt, and the minimals for ConTeXt, in my userspace. I have some issues using dvipng with minimals. I first compile this file with texexec: ...................... \setupoutput[dvi] \enableregime[utf] \starttext \startTEXpage $ SP=\int_0^{Q_0}(p_0-Cm(Q))dQ $ \stopTEXpage \stoptext ...................... In the minimals environment, dvipng says: ...................... This is dvipng 1.11 Copyright 2002-2008 Jan-Ake Larsson dvipng warning: cannot find ps2pk.map, nor psfonts.map [1dvipng warning: font rm-lmr12 at 400 dpi not found, characters will be left blank dvipng warning: font rm-lmr7 at 400 dpi not found, characters will be left blank dvipng warning: font rm-lmr9 at 400 dpi not found, characters will be left blank dvipng warning: unable to draw glyph 61, skipping dvipng warning: unable to draw glyph 48, skipping dvipng warning: unable to draw glyph 48, skipping dvipng warning: unable to draw glyph 40, skipping dvipng warning: unable to draw glyph 48, skipping dvipng warning: unable to draw glyph 40, skipping dvipng warning: unable to draw glyph 41, skipping dvipng warning: unable to draw glyph 41, skipping ] ...................... And the output is awful!! But if I dvipng in the TL environment, it works like a charm. So what should I add to my minimals install, or do to have all the TL stuff not forgotten when I use minimals? tia, -- Jean

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Re: [NTG-context] installing fonts pdftex
by Thomas A. Schmitz 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

On Jan 27, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Mohamed Bana wrote: > Hi Thomas, > Hi, please address questions to the mailing-list, not to me personally. > 1. when is the last time you tried to install a font manually using > texfont? i've been trying to get install warnockpro and cronospro - > both of which are .otf - but i've had no lack. > > texfont --makepath --install --fontroot=`pwd` --vendor=adobe -- > co=warnockpro --en=texnansi --lcdf --preproc -- > variant=liga,kern,smcp,onum > > the last time i checked texfont was generating an empty map file. texfont is really old, it predates opentype fonts, so you can't expect it to handle such fonts. It was a brave and wonderful effort to automate installation of fonts, but I gave up using it - not because texfont itself is bad, but because so many fonts are just faulty and/ or idiosyncratic, and automatization just can't handle all these eceptions. I always had to double-check and edit files by hand, so I decided to go for a manual process. The --lcdf switch was added by Adam Lindsay, who also wrote a short article about otf and ConTeXt: http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2005-2/lindsay/lindsay.pdf Too bad Adam isn't active anymore, he was a great help in ConTeXt development. If you search the mailing list archive for "texfont lcdf," you will see that the problem with the empty map file is common and was never really solved, AFAIK. So you have several options: 1. install the fonts manually 2. use texfont and write the map file manually 3. try Patrick's otfinst http://wiki.contextgarden.net/otfinst 4. I have a set of support files for using Cronos and Warnock with pdftex; if you want, I can make a zip and send them to you (not before Thursday, however). > > > the free version of lucida (.ttf) that ship with Java files worked > fine > > 2. is there someone i must do to get to dashes working properly? as > in, --- doesn't generate the right dash nor does --. These are defined as ligatures in the tfm/vf files. Doesn't texfont produce vpl-files as an intermediate format? You could open those and check whether the ligature is defined. It probably isn't, and then you have to hunt down the reason or add it manually... Good luck Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] Please fix this
by Yue Wang 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

> I'm impressed if any math works at all in experimental. Hans and Taco > have just switched to OpenType math and the current state looks like a > nightmare to me. (You can take a look at char-def.lua, math-vfu.lua > and some other files. It all needs to be improved and fixed.) Yes, the math in experimental is not working. see the attachment. However, I have a document which uses - Myriad Pro - a lot of math but I can use neither beta (failed to parse Myriad Pro) nor experimental (cannot typeset math) I use the nightly build version of LuaTeX provided by w32tex. Yue Wang

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