October 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

missing metafun graphics in mkii
by Mojca Miklavec 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

Hello, Does anyone else experience problems using metafun graphics in mkii? Did I miss some runwhatevertrue switch somewhere? Are the stubs in minimals incompatible in some way? At least live.contextgarden.net seems to suffer as well. Minimal example: \startMPcode draw fullcircle scaled 3cm; \stopMPcode If I run the code with some older ConTeXt then the code starts working again with a recent ConTeXt, but recent ConTeXt doesn't generate the jobname-mpgraph.1 file at all. Once compiling the document with an older version, the file is generated and it starts working again. But this behaviour breaks my module :( Thanks, Mojca

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Producing PDF x/1-a:2001 output.
by John Culleton 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

At least two commercial printers that I use prefer or insist on the format PDF X/1-a:2001 output. The only way I have found to produce such in TeX without a pass through Adobe Acrobat Distiller or the shareware program Pstill is via the package pdfx.sty authored by CV Radhakrishnan and Han The Thanh. This in turn uses some other files such as xmpincl.sty. I wonder if this setup could be incorporated into some flavor of Context? Or even pdftex? I prefer not to live within the strictures of pdflatex. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Re: [NTG-context] Scite + non-global environbment variables
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Hallo Wolfgang, > I have just started with Context, having been working with LaTeX > (i.e. MikTeX / TeXnicCenter under WIndows) for quite a while. > > I installed Contextminimal and Scite just as proposed as the easiest > way to get started. As setting global environments variables would > interfere with MikTeX, I switched off this option during the > installation process (in the GUI Windows installation program). > > But now I cannot easily start the compilation by pressing Crtl+1 in > Scite, bcause this just calls the compiler and the environment > variables are of course not set for this process. So which file do I > have to change to make Scite call the batch file which sets the > environments variables before it calls the compiler? > > What global Context environment variables would possibly interfere > with MikTeX? > > Greatings from M?nster > Wolfgang Hugemann you should not have any global Context environment variables, because you call cscite.bat (setuptex.bat is called then before scite is started). The problems I see are miktex executables which are in the PATH and can interfere with their context aequivalents. How exactly are you starting scite? Wolfgang

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last beta and fieldstacks
by Wolfgang Schuster 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

Hi, the latest beta has a problem with fieldstacks. \setupinteraction[state=start] \definefieldstack[symbollist][symbol1,symbol1][frame=off] \definesymbol[symbol1][1] \definesymbol[symbol2][2] \starttext \fieldstack[symbollist] \stoptext PS: Is it possible to change \ctxlatetua to \ctxlatelua in the MkIV version of \savetwopassdata (core-two.mkiv). PPS: context version: 2008.56.06 19:11 :-) Wolfgang

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Error with \inline[…]
by Andreas Harder 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

Hello Hans. With the current beta referencing lines is broken again. It used to work yesterday. Here is a test file and the error message: \starttext \startlinenumbering \input tufte \someline[lin:b] \startline[lin:a] \input tufte \stopline[lin:a] \stoplinenumbering \inline[lin:b] \stoptext ! LuaTeX error no string to print stack traceback: [C]: in function 'texsprint' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/strc-ref.lua:840: in function 'get_current_prefixspec' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. \currentreferencecontent ...ixspec("\v!default ")} )} <argument> ...freference \currentreferencecontent \the \rightreferencetoks \... \doifelsenothing #1->\edef \!!stringa {#1 }\ifx \!!stringa \empty \expandafte... <argument> ...ghtreferencetoks \rightofreference } \dosymbolreference \dowant... \firstoftwoarguments #1#2->#1 \dodoinatreferenceindeed ...eference {#1}{#2}[#4]} \endgroup ... l.9 \inline[lin:b] Thanks in advance! Andreas

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Metapost and mkiv
by Otared Kavian 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

Hi all, The following minimal example used to work with mkiv (until last May, I would guess…) but now it doesn't work with the latest ConTeXt version 2009.09.21 17:39 Can any one tell me please what am I doing wrong? Best regards: OK %% begin \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startbuffer[axes-1] numeric u ; u := .5cm ; path xox ; xox := (-u,0)--(8u,0) ; path yoy ; yoy := (0,-u)--(0,7u) ; draw xox withcolor blue ; draw yoy withcolor blue ; \stopbuffer This MetaPost graphic is \doifmodeelse{mkiv}{not shown with mkiv} {shown with mkii}: \placefigure[middle][-]{}{\processMPbuffer[axes-1]} {} \stoptext %% end

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Where is the bib module link?
by Xan 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

Hi, If you go to http://modules.contextgarden.net/bib, you get a message that no bib module is avaliable. I suppose that you remove the page because bib (will?) is integraded in ConTeXt release. But, can you restore the link or at least put the documentation module avaliable somewhere? The pdf documentation was very good for consulting options... Regards, Xan. PS: CCme

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subsection and special characters
by Bernd Militzer 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi all, making transcriptions of old church books I defined two special characters nmacorn and mmacron, but when using subsections the characters are not printet. Has something changed or is this a bug? % <---snip % \enableregime[utf] \mainlanguage[de] \setupencoding[default=texnansi] % \usetypescript[modern] % als Standardschrift \usetypescript[chorus] % als Schreibschrift \setupbodyfont[modern,12pt] % allgemeine Schrift für das Dokument % % \startencoding[default] \definecharacter nmacron {\buildtextaccent\textmacron n} \definecharacter mmacron {\buildtextaccent\textmacron m} \stopencoding % \startbuffer Die Wiedergabe der Kirchenbucheinträge lehnt sich an die {\bi ursprüngliche} Schreibweise an. So wurde in der Regel über dem {\bi u} ein Querstrich geschrieben, also {\bi \u{u}} oder man schrieb ko\mmacron en, statt kommen oder beka\nmacron t statt bekannt. \stopbuffer % \starttext % \startchapter[title={Vorbemerkungen}] \startsection[title={Test}] \getbuffer\hfill OK \stopsection \startsection[title={Das Dokument}] \startsubsection[title={Allgemein}] \getbuffer\hfill PROBLEM !? \stopsubsection \startsubsection[title={Das Taufregister}] \getbuffer \hfill PROBLEM !? \stopsubsection \stopsection \startsection[title={Das Heiratsregister}] \getbuffer\hfill PROBLEM !? \stopsection \stopchapter % % \stoptext % % <--- snip This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.43.0-2009081911 ConTeXt ver: 2009.09.12 14:44 MKIV fmt: 2009.9.13 int: english/english Thanks for help Bernd

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Bib: Cite with alternative=data fails
by Andreas Schneider 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

In the context minimals' bib mod, \cite[alternative=data][...] fails with the following error: ! Undefined control sequence. \@@pvdatainbook ... }{\egroup . }{\insertcrossref { in~}{}{. }}} {\insertseri... \dotypesetapublication ...ve {\getvalue {pbdt-#1}} \fi \egroup \next1 #1,->\dobibdata {#1} \doprocesscommaitem \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1, ]\relax \global \advance \... \bibdataref ...e \processcommalist [#1]\dobibdata \bibalternative \v!right \docite ...alue {bib\@@currentalternative ref}[#2] \else \processcommalist [#... l.158 ...alternative=data][lippe_evolutionre_2006] Is that still supposed to work and/or is there another alternative to display the full citation info? Btw. the current beta minimals don't contain the bib documentation (at least there is no PDF regarding bib in my whole context tree). Thanks in advance, Andreas Schneider.

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Getting number of figure pages in MkIV
by Aditya Mahajan 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Hi, What is the correct way of getting the number of figure pages in MkIV. The following, which works in MkII, always gives 0 is MkIV. \getfiguredimensions[filename] \noffigurepages Thanks, Aditya

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