March 2009 - ntg-context

Font and Typescript Questions
by curiouslearn 04 May '09

04 May '09

Can someone please help me with the following questions so that I can use some of the typescripts that Wolfgang and some others have so kindly made available. I will use font Bera as an example, since I would like to use it. I have a Mac OS X Version 10.5.6 (1) How do I know if I have font Bera? As in, where on my computer do I look to see if I have font Bera installed? (2) If I do not have the font, how do I install Bera? I see that there are files on ctan. Where should I save this? (3) Once I have installed the font and I have downloaded Wolfgang's type-bera.tex file, where do I save this file? Can I save it where I save the third-party modules. Once I save it, do I run the usual texhash, followed by luatools --generate followed by context --make (4) Once I have accomplished the top three steps, how do I use it in a document? Do I just type \usetypescript[bera] \switchtobodyfont[bera,12pt] OR, do I also have to type \usemodule[type-bera] I would really appreciate any help.

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Why searching fonts in xetex is so slow?
by Yue Wang 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

Hi, When I use XeTeX, font searching through texmf- tree is very slow. search font through fontconfig is very fast. plain TeX or LaTeX does not have that problem. why is that? anyway to improve it? Yue Wang

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\rightarrow missing?
by Jesse Alama 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

It seems that \rightarrow is missing. The command exists, in the sense that its use doesn't lead to an error, but it doesn't lead to anything in the output. Minimal example: \starttext $\rightarrow$ \stoptext Jesse -- Jesse Alama (alama(a)stanford.edu)

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xetex and attachment: troubles
by Andrea Valle 10 Apr '09

10 Apr '09

Dear all, I'm using xetex with fun (as suggested and discussed on the mailing list). I'm revising a previously created document which used attachment command. (the one documented here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ Verbatim_text#A_different_approach_to_formatting_and_code_colorization ) The actual version is here: http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/sw/sc/prd_tSCIRMA_scr.pdf Now, with ConTeXt no problem. If I use XeConTeXt (--> texexec --xtx) the file is not attached (there's the marker, a link is diplayed, but Acrobat says that there's no attachment). As far as I can say, the problem seems to depend on --xtx switch, Any hints? Thanks Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " Think of it as seasoning . noise [salt] is boring . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty " (Ken Perlin on noise)

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New module simpleslides
by Thomas A. Schmitz 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

Dear list members, We're happy to announce the initial release of the simpleslides module. It has taken us somewhat longer than we anticipated, but now it's there! simpleslides is a module that facilitates the creation of presentations in ConTeXt. It provides a few macros to position titles, text, and images on slides, some typescripts to make use of LatinModern and the TeXGyre fonts, and a few pre-defined styles that should make your presentations visually appealing. We guarantee that this release is absolutely bug-free; whoever finds a bug has the inalienable right to buy us a beer at the next ConTeXt meeting! Seriously: we are aware that some things are not working as expected. Our biggest and most embarrassing problem for the time being is that the module refuses to work with XeTeX. Neither of us uses XeTeX on a regular basis, and we're not familiar with its innards, so we're at a loss here. If you can offer help, you will be most welcome! We would of course welcome feedback, bug reports, feature suggestions, etc., so download the module at http://modules.contextgarden.net/module/detail?name=simpleslides and give it a whirl! Aditya and Thomas

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MetaPost graphics with TRT direction
by Khaled Hosny 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

MPost graphics inside TRT direction are placed incorrectly overlapping the text on the right, similar to what we had with \pdfximage (see the attached PDF). This seems to be unrelated to images issue since MPost graphics are inserted as \pdfliteral. I'm not sure if this an engine or macro issue, but I'm guessing the later. Changing the \startMPLIBtoPDF so that the \hbox where the graphics is placed is fixed to TLT direction fixes this, but I'm not sure if it is safe to do so. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

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beta
by Hans Hagen 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hi, i uploaded a beta ... this one matches the latest check-in of luatex this is also the last non-xp version as i'm going to merge the cont-xp code into th emain version now 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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How do you get this in the ToC ?
by Alan Stone 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Dear ConTeXt Gang, In the example below, how do you get "Text Page One" in the table of contents ? \starttext \startstandardmakeup Title Page \stopstandardmakeup \startstandardmakeup Text Page One \stopstandardmakeup \startstandardmakeup Text Page Two \stopstandardmakeup \startfrontmatter \placecontent \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter{Chapter One} \input knuth \stopbodymatter \stoptext Thanks, Alan

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Tikz and MKIV
by curiouslearn 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hi, I do not have the very latest beta of Context. I am using This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.35.0 (post_contextgarden.tex ConTeXt ver: 2009.03.18 21:58 With this version, I found something that does not work in Tikz when compiled using MKIV, but works when compiled using MKII. Is this a bug in MKIV that will be fixed soon, or is this due to some fundamental incompatibility between MKIV and Tikz that will remain until Tikz package is modified by the Tikz development team. \usemodule[tikz] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupcolor[xwi] \starttext \starttikzpicture \node (S) [rectangle,draw,text width=2in,fill=linen] at (0,0) {The "fill=linen" option works with MKII. But does not work with MKIV. If I replace "fill=linen" with a Tikz option,such as "fill=blue!20", everything works fine with MKIV}; \stoptikzpicture \stoptext (the quotes are used just to draw attention. Not entered in the actual code)

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Spacing after \cite
by Aditya Mahajan 31 Mar '09

31 Mar '09

Hi Taco, Normally, while using \cite one does not need to worry about adding an explicit space after the command. So, you can write "\cite[something] says ...." rather than "\cite[something]\ says ...". But something has changed in core ConTeXt which has changed this behaviour. Consider the test file: \usemodule [bib] \setuppublications [alternative=num] \starttext Test~\cite[something] is wrong \stoptext I have two versions of ConTeXt. With ConTeXt 2009.01.18 (which has t-bib version=2008.10.27), I get (notice the space after [] and is) %----------- Test [] is wrong %------------- With ConTeXt 2009.03.09 (which has t-bib version=2008.12.01) I get (notice that there is no space after [] and is) %----------- Test []is wrong %------------- The behaviour is the same whether I use pdftex or luatex. There is no major difference between the two versions of t-bib. The changelog says %D \item Catalan translation of 'References' (10/11/2008) %D \item 'chapter' -> 'chapitre' in bibl-apa-fr (27/11/2008) %D \item Run bibtex via os.execute in mkiv modee (01/12/2008) So I am guessing that the difference is because of something else, but I cannot see any differences. Any suggestions? Aditya

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