February 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: [NTG-context] colored column
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

On 21 Jan 2009 at 10:47, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: Von: ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl Betreff: ntg-context Digest, Vol 55, Issue 64 An: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Antwort an: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Datum: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:47:43 +0100 > Hallo Hans, > > > > > What is the problem here? > > > > > > maybe a typo? \{C{red} looks weird > > > > > > > See: > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > % > > Key "\{": Enclose template in braces. \NewFormatKey \{{% > > > \!taDataColumnTemplate=\!thx{\!thx{\the\!taDataColumnTemplate}}% > > \ReadFormatKeys} > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > in > > thrd-tab.tex > > Will this FormatKey be repaired? > > If yes, I would keep this in my example collection. > Hmm! Maybe I have overseen an answer. Wolfgang

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Determing if the argument is one character or not
by Aditya Mahajan 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

Hi, I want to write a macro which behaves differently depending on whether its argumet is a single character or not. \MACRO[a] should give $X_{a}$ \MACRO[a:b] should give $X_{[a:b]}$ Any hints on how to do this? Thanks, Aditya

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footnote inside footnote
by Khaled Hosny 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

How to get a second level footnote that is typeset with it own numbering, some thing like: Main text body[1] has two footnotes[2]. ------ 1. First level footnote[1] 2. Another one ------ 1. Second level footnote. Currently the footnote will just go after the parent one. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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Re: [NTG-context] When to migrate from MKII to MKIV?
by Dave 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Mojca Miklavec < mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: > If you neglect the bugs and problems, transition should be painless - > only typescripts need to be updated, but once you do that, your > documents could even work with both mkii and mkiv. I recall that it took me a good week of work in the evenings to get my regular and math typescripts to work correctly with MKII. I'm happy with the PDF output of the papers/notes, lecture notes I write for work but I will need to switch to OTF in the not-too distant future. My university has a site license for various Adobe pro fonts but they are only being distributed in OTF now. The ones I currently use were derived from manipulating a set of multiple-masters a few years ago. > Btw: math is a big mess at the moment; you can expect any kind of bugs > related to maths with next beta version, but you can become a beta > tester :) > I do physics/chemistry with a lot of equations so incomplete math support is really a deal breaker for me. I recall there being issues with some aspects of bibliography support and a lack of fonts when I last tried the Minimal package. Again, deal breakers for me so I reverted to the ConTeXt included in the 2008 version of texlive with a few bug-fixes from a more recent beta. I think it would be very helpful to most ConTeXt 'users' if there were a wiki page that spelled out the current status of MKIV exactly and listed which features of MKII work, which are buggy, and which are work in progress. Something a little more high-level than the release notes and this mailing list ;) Thank you to everyone who contribute here. I often find myself amazed at the speed at which ConTeXt develops and very much look forward to the end of font voodoo as promised by MKIV.

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Error with TrueType flavor OpenType fonts with .otf extension
by Khaled Hosny 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

I came across an OpenType font with TrueType outline that had an .otf extension, attempting to use it gave me this error: !luaTeX error (file /home/khaled/.fonts/UthmanTN1_Ver06.otf): can't find table `CFF ' ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! Reading OpenType specification, I see that it allows this: * In all cases, fonts with only CFF data (no TrueType outlines) always have an .OTF extension. * Fonts containing TrueType outlines may have either .OTF or .TTF, depending on the desire for backward compatibility on older systems or with previous versions of the font. TrueType Collection fonts should have a .TTC extension whether or not the fonts have OpenType layout tables present. I'm not sure if this is a LuaTeX of ConTeXt issue, but my guess is that a ConTeXt issue, thus reported here. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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Serializing nodes
by luigi scarso 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

While grepping, I've found in base/node-ini.lua .... --[[ldx-- <p>Serializing nodes can be handy for tracing. Also, saving and loading node lists can come in handy as soon we are going to use external applications to process node lists.</p> --ldx]]-- .... \starttext \setbox100=\vbox{Hi} \ctxlua{io.savedata('vbox.hi',nodes.serializebox(100,true, true))} Box reuse:\blank \box100 \blank \ctxlua{initt=loadfile('vbox.hi');initt();tex.box[100] = nodes.FromTableToNodeButItnotExists(t)} %%actually an empty box, of course \box100 \stoptext I was not able to find a "table2node" function ie nodes.FromTableToNodeButItnotExists(t) -- luigi

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Page number not updating in layer
by Michael Bynum 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

I am trying to use a layer to insert a page number in my document, but the page always displays page number 1. It seems nothing that I have tried has worked. I also don't know how to exclude the first page from the total number of pages count. Here is the code I'm trying to use. \setupoutput[dvipsone] \starttext \definelayer[pagenumber] \setuplayer [pagenumber] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight, state=repeat] \setlayer[pagenumber][preset=lefttop,x=4in,y=5.5in]% {\framed[width=1.25in,align=middle,offset=none]{\tfx Page \getnumber[page]~of~\totalnumberofpages}} \setupbackgrounds [page] [background={pagenumber},state=start] test \page test \page test \stoptext Thanks, Mike

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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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beta and index
by Wolfgang Schuster 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Hi, the last beta fails to produce a abbreviation list and the index. \abbreviation{One}{1} \abbreviation{Two}{2} \starttext \placelistofabbreviations text\index{one} and \One\ and text\index{two}, \Two\ and text \placeindex \stoptext Wolfgang

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Any ConTeXt user with ancient linux distribution?
by Mojca Miklavec 03 Feb '09

03 Feb '09

Hello, The new server on contextgarden.net has a newer linux distribution and 64-bit kernel. I used to compile the linux binaries on the server since they worked everywhere, also on newer machines (I once wrote a note "compiled with glibc 2.3.6" and maybe the kernel was 2.4.something; it was debian etch). The vice versa doesn't hold - if we compile the binaries on some newer machine, they won't work on older linuxes. So I have two questions: - Are there still users with old linux distributions using the minimals? - And if yes - any volunteer to compile the binaries on regular basis? (The releases of new luatex are the most critical ones. Other binaries can usually wait longer.) You may write me off-list. Mojca

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