March 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Problem of transfering bib to bbl in Chinese.
by Wei-Wei Guo 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hi everyone, I asked the question days ago. I find something new, so I submit it here and hope it can provide some useful information and, hopefully, can solve the problem. t-bib can transfer the following bib entry correct. @ARTICLE{c-article-full, author = {姓名一}, title = {文章题目}, journal = {某某杂志二}, year = 1986, volume = 41, number = 7, pages = "73--82", month = jul, language = "chinese" } but the following bib entry will be rubbish. @ARTICLE{c-article-full, author = {姓名一 and 姓名二}, title = {文章题目}, journal = {某某杂志二}, year = 1986, volume = 41, number = 7, pages = "73--82", month = jul, language = "chinese" } The difference is that there are multiple authors separated by 'and' in the second bib entry. Is it solvable? Best wishes, Wei-Wei

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Opposite Blocks or Spread Based Layouts
by Corin Royal Drummond 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi ConTeXt ComRaDes, Trying to design a travelogue book with photos on the left page, and text on the right. Tried \startopposite to get an opposite block, and turned it on with \setupoppositeplacing[state=start], to no discernable effect. Am I doing something wrong, or is there another way to do this? Any tips much appreciated. Corin Royal Drummond P.S. My poetry book is coming along nicely. I'll be sure to send along a link when it's finished.

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epstopdf oddity?
by Marko Schütz 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Dear All, I have some small diagrams I created with MetaPost in 2005. Just recently I wanted to re-run the build of the PDF. It produced a PDF but the typography looks awful. so I compared (diff) with the previous intermediate files and found that the EPS files produced by the mpost run are identical up to timestamps and that it's only the last step epstopdf that uglifies the output. I'm suspecting the fault to be with the ghostscript or the font installation. Maybe someone here has seen this and knows the fix? One of the diagrams is below. Thanks for all hints and best regards, Marko verbatimtex \documentclass{article} \begin{document} etex; defaultfont := "eurm10"; defaultscale := 10pt /fontsize defaultfont; prologues := 2; input mp-tool; input mp-spec; input boxes; input trees; def_nonterminal(lam, btex \texttt{function} $:: \alpha$ etex); def_nonterminal(app, btex @ $:: \alpha$ etex); def_terminal(fun, btex \texttt{exp}$_1$ $:: \beta$ etex); def_terminal(exp, btex \texttt{exp}$_2$ $:: \gamma$ etex); def_terminal(two, btex \texttt{2} etex); def_terminal(times, btex \texttt{(*)} etex); def_terminal(varx, btex \texttt{arg} $:: \beta$ etex); beginfig(2); app.root(fun, exp); drawtrees(root); endfig; end;

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Logos of Context (context-free-design github repo)
by Xan 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi all of you, After aproving of Taco and Mojca, I announce that I start a repository of ConTeXt logos: http://github.com/somenxavi/context-free-designs/ Now it has only the Taco logo that reproduce the contextgarden logo, but it's open to anyone who wants to put in any logo. Just send me the file. The only condition is that the license were free (public domain, Creative Commons, ....) I plan to put the logos in this repo in a Spreadshirt/Cafepress shop that I want to open in a medium time. But the main intention is to have a collection of ConTeXt logos freely distributable. Once I open the shop, the intention is not to earn money, else that "fans" of ConTeXt could have their t-shirts, cofee cups, .... . Surely I donor the few dolars I win to NTG, CTAN or something else. Sincerly, Xan.

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die if a module is missing
by Jesse Alama 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

I was recently debugging some presentation that I was working on in ConTeXt and found, to my surprise, that the problem was that I was using \usemodule[blah-blah] but there was no such module called blah-blah. The output does indeed say that there was no such module, but I didn't see that. Is there a way to set up modules so that, if a module isn't found, an error is generated and the TeX run is stopped? I would have discovered the source of my problem more quickly had I been able to set things up in that way. Thanks, Jesse -- Jesse Alama (alama(a)stanford.edu)

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horoffset & singlesided/doublesided
by Alan Stone 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi, \showframe \setuplayout[width=.65\paperwidth,hoffset=1cm,margin=0cm] \setuphead[chapter][page=right] %\setuppagenumbering[alternative=singlesided] % horoffset_ss.pdf \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] % horoffset_ds.pdf \starttext \dorecurse{2}{\chapter{Chapter #1}\dorecurse{8}{\input knuth}} \stoptext For - horoffset_ds.pdf and - horoffset_ss.pdf how do you define horoffset so that for the - odd pages the layout |horoffset|...|text|...| is - even pages the layout |...|text|...|horoffset| is Alan

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Re: [NTG-context] How to use my own BibTeX style (bst)?
by Wei-Wei Guo 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Thank you, Mojca and Taco. I finally get my t-bib working. Now I can continue working on my bibl style. Taco Hoekwater 写道: >> I don't know those styles get adapted automatically when language is >> changed. Taco should answer (I should take a closer look, but no time >> now). > > They do not. You have to give a setup command like > > \setuppublications[alternative=my-zh] % for bibl-my-zh.tex > >> I'm not sure if you can use different style for different books based >> on language the book was written in (maybe possible, but tedious, the >> style would have to be rewritten completely). > > With a suitable \setuppublicationlayout this should be possible: > you can decide based on the value of the current language, which is > set from the bibtex language field automatically. But I have never > actually tried to do this, so I have no example code available for you. > I'm still confused. Is it possible to use different bibl based on the value of \lang. Or I can only implement it with bunch of \if in *one* bibl file? Best wishes, Wei-Wei

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ConTeXt T-shirts?
by Xan 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Hi, Do you have any cafepress/spreadshirt acount for selling t-shirts, tea cups, etc.? I think it could be useful for "fans" of ConTeXt. Thanks in advance, Xan

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XeTeX font feature selection
by John Hughes 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

What is the correct way of selecting a font and using OpenType features? I have tried \definetypeface[linlib][rm][Xserif][Linux Libertine][features=oldstyle] \setupbodyfont[linlib, 12pt] but the output prints Computer Modern (and not with old-style numerals). The font seems to work without the "features=oldstyle", but I am not sure how to select the font and some OpenType features. I don't seem to be able to find any documentation. John

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beta
by Wolfgang Schuster 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

Hi Hans, I discovered two problems with the beta. 1. \typescriptone is ignored in the typescripts and many fonts (e.g. can't be used) \starttypescript [termes,times] \definetypeface [\typescriptone] [rm] [serif] [termes] [default] \stoptypescript 2. The new feature \getcheckedparameters acts like \get*e*parameter in the lua code. Wolfgang

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