March 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

mkiv xp
by Hans Hagen 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Hi, i uploaded a new beta with some fixes for the reported with the xp verion 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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CoTeXtgarden is down
by Henning Hraban Ramm 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Ahoi, since some hours the garden server doesn't respond on http or rsync. Could you please look after it? Greetlings, Hraban

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Itemize symbol
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Hello, How can I get a symbol used in itemize, mode 2 (bold dash)? Best, Vaytcheslav

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Placing figures 'outside'
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Is there a way to place figures 'outside'? I mean on the left on right pages and on the right on left pages? (I use \placefigure) Cheers, Vyatcheslav

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PDF ExtensionLevel
by Michail Vidiassov 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Dear All, Is there any way in ConTeXt to set PDF ExtensionLevel, as per http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/adobe_supplement_iso32000.pdf and like %PDF 1.7 <</Type /Catalog /Extensions <</ADBE <</BaseVersion /1.7 /ExtensionLevel 3 >> >> >> Sincerely, Michail

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initial view of PDF
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Hello, How to set initial view of PDF document to 'fit page'? Cheers, Vyatcheslav

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math problems in last beta (cont-en and cont-xp)
by Lutz Haseloff 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Hi Hans, hi Taco, hi all, testing math with the latest ConTeXt beta i found some problems. My test file is: \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] \def\currentfontname {\ctxlua{tex.print(font.getfont(font.current()).fullname)}} \starttext \startbuffer[mathbuffer] \currentfontname $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$ $E = mc^2 \bigotimes \sum$ $α^2 + β^2 = γ^2$ \blank[big] \stopbuffer \getbuffer[mathbuffer] \usetypescript[lucida][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[lucida] \getbuffer[mathbuffer] \usetypescript[cambria] \switchtotypeface[cambria] \getbuffer[mathbuffer] \usetypescript[palatino] \switchtotypeface[palatino] \getbuffer[mathbuffer] \stoptext Latin Modern and Palatino/px work very fine. Lucida lacks greek and some operators. I found no embedded LucidaNewMath fonts in the resulting pdf. Cambria has a very ugly spacing. btw. in the wiki is described a ConTeXt command \showmathcharacters. This seems not to work anymore. The related file math-run.tex is not input at the time of format generation. Greetings Lutz P.S. will the key [texnansi] (or [ec]) remain necessary to switch to LucidaBright?

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Dividing dimensions
by Aditya Mahajan 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Hi, Can I divide dimensions to get a number in pdftex? I have four dimensions \!!dimena, \!!dimenb, \!!dimenc and \!!dimend, and I want if (dimena/dimenb) > (dimenc/dimend) do something else do otherthing Any hints on how to do this in ConTeXt. Thanks, Aditya

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Value of Metapost variable as a label
by Curiouslearn 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Hello, First of all, Mojca thanks very much for the update about TikZ. (I could not find an option to reply in Context Garden mailing list). My new question is the following. I have the following code to generate the labels for the tick marks: for i = 0 step 5 until 45: draw (i,0)*u -- (i,-0.2)*u; label.bot(decimal(i) ,(i,-0.2)*u); endfor; As you can see I use "decimal(i)" to get the labels (0,5,10,... and so on). But the font of these numbers is not the same as when I use the "btex label_text etex" command, which I have set to palatino. How can I typeset the value of Metapost variables (such as "i" in this case), using tex commands. For example, if I had to typeset (n_{1},n{2},...,n_{100}), how could I do that. On page 63 of John Hobby's metapost manual, he talks about how this could be achieved using TEX.mp. I tried typing \input TEX before \starttext, however, I get the error "I can't find file `TEX;' If I put it within the \startuseMPgraphic and \stopuseMPgraphic, it still does not work. Do I have to download this from somewhere or does Context have another solution? Thanks very much.

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error in the latest distribution in the garden
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

Hi, Just synced context with the latest distribution in the garden. Ahhh! context --make gives an error: loading : Unicode Support (utf) ) (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/char-ini.tex loading : Character Support (initialization) ) (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/char-enc.tex loading : Character Support (encodings) ) (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/node-ini.tex loading : Node Support (initialization) ) (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/node-fin.tex loading : Node Support (finalization) ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \c!global \doifnotinset #1->\edef \!!stringa {#1 }\ifx \!!stringa \empty \expandafter \... \dodefineattribute ...te }\doifnotinset \c!global {#2}{\appendetoks \csname ... <to be read again> \par l.35 ? I have an urgent job to do. Help, please! Vyatcheslav

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