May 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

TexPaste alpha - my Win application converting Word/HTML to TeX
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 08 Jun '09

08 Jun '09

Hello, I'm glad to report that I made a simple application (sorry, only forWindows at the moment) that coverts text from Ms Word (or other editors) or HTML pages (web sites) into TeX. DOWNLOAD LINK (280 KB): http://ul.to/hmpy60 The app recognizes at the moment only following formats/tags: Bold (<b>), Italic (<i>), Header 1 (<h1>), Header 2 (<h2>), Header 3 (<h3>). It coverts NOBREAK_SPACE (A0) into ~, &nbsp into \enskip, " into ", & into \&, and < > into < >. It is UTF-8 ready. USAGE: copy desired text fragment from Word or web page into clipboard, and click big "Get..." button and see the result in the bottom field. Click "Copy Result" to get TeX-formatted text back into the clipboard, and paste it into your editor. KNOW ISSUES: Some crap from Word formatting like  tags happens to leak, but it is easier at the moment to delete it manually. And sorry... awful interface. It is very-very first alpha, I want to show it just as proof-of-concept and to get some feedback. Actually, I did it for myself to simplyfy conversion from Word into TeX. I have some documents to be converted (e.g., lecture notes), and this happens to be easy task with my tool :). Best, Vyatcheslav

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Printen van code met een PDF overlay, makkelijk met ConTeXt?
by Gerben Wierda 06 Jun '09

06 Jun '09

Beste allemaal, ik wil broncode uitprinten met regelnummers op pagina's met een bepaalde overlay. Ik heb dus ascii text files als input (de code) een overlay in PDF en wil deze gecombineerd printen. Ik zat te denken: is een ConTeXt based workflow hier een mogelijke oplossing? De regelnummers e.d. kan ik eventueel met het pr programma genereren. Met vriendelijke groet, Gerben

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ppchtex experience
by Helge Kruse 06 Jun '09

06 Jun '09

Hello, I need to write some chemical strucutures in LaTeX and dont know, what is the best tools to do it. The structures are crown ether and cryptands. Yes, and I am unexperienced. 1) What would be the way to write a [18]crown-6 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_ether) structure formula with PPCHTEX? 2) Is there any kind of repository, where I can take common structures and/or adapt these to the required structures? Regards, Helge

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I can't find file `TeXGyreChorus-MediumItalic'.
by Ciro Soto 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

I had a file fully functional, but after I did a "ctxtool --updatecontext" it is not working anymore. it complains with the messages below. I am running in linux Ubuntu 9.04 - the Jaunty Jackalope. How do I fix this problem? thank you Ciro PS: FYI: CtxTools | context version: 2009.05.29 23:34 (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.tex) ERROR MESSAGE: kpathsea: Running mktexmf TeXGyreChorus-MediumItalic ! I can't find file `TeXGyreChorus-MediumItalic'. <*> ...nstopmode; input TeXGyreChorus-MediumItalic Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...nstopmode; input TeXGyreChorus-MediumItalic Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: TeXGyreChorus-MediumItalic.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input TeXGyreChorus-MediumItalic' failed to make TeXGyreChorus-MediumItalic.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \*prosefont12ptcgtfcg*:=TeXGyreChorus-MediumItalic at 12.0pt not loadabl e: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \definefontglobal ...dcsname \lastfontname \relax \expandafter \let \expanda... \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... ... l.4 \centerline{\booktitlefont \finaltitleA } ? ^C! Interruption. \definefontglobal ...dcsname \lastfontname \relax \expandafter \let \expanda... \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.4 \centerline{\booktitlefont \finaltitleA } ?

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\setuppageshift and \setuparranging
by Nicolas Girard 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Hi, I'm testing ConTeXt's imposition abilities on a cd booket project. I'd like pages to be shifted in order to compensate paper thickness. Running the following code leads to pages that are properly shifted ; but when uncommenting the line with \setuparranging, pages aren't shifted any longer. What's wrong with my code ? Thanks in advance, Nicolas \setuppapersize[CD][A4] \definepageshift[test][horizontal][10pt,20pt,30pt,40pt,50pt] \setuppageshift[test] \setuplayout[margin=5mm,marking=on,location=middle] %\setuparranging[2*2*4,rotated] \setuppageshift[test] \showframe \starttext \dorecurse{14}{\input tufte} \stoptext

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asymptote support
by Mojca Miklavec 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hello, Just to let you know - thanks to John Bowman (Michail Vidiassov is also working on it) these are some latest posts from asymptote developers on their forum - if anyone would like to play with asymptote, feel free to test. I didn't take a look, but John Bowman says that he needed null.tex to get context into interactive mode for some reason. Any clue about that? Mojca PS: I really really have to avoid the temptation to get distracted in the next few days/weeks unless I find an excuse that I need to make 3D/movies for my reports (which is not so unlikely to happen after all :) I have converted asycolors.sty; if anyone wants to take a look at asymptote.sty feel free to take it over. I might come back to it, but not right now. My quick first impression is that it does something similar to t-gnuplot, t-r, t-vim, t-lilypond, etc., that is: it defines some high-level commands, writes a file, lets asymptote process it and then includes the resulting graphic back. PPS: Recent Asymptote logs say "Updates to facilitate TeXLive builds." Sounds promissing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Good news: After digesting the advice /.../, I have been able to implement full support for a context tex engine in 2D. First of all, with TeXLive 2008 it is necessary to configure both lua and context: luatools --generate context --make We also rely on the empty tex file misc/null.tex. Hopefully everyone has that. We use this to get into context interactive mode, for the tex pipe (phase 1 of Asymptote's 2-phase typesetting system): context misc/null This was a crucial trick that I did not see documented anywhere. I didn't like the need for the \hbox but I too could not find a way around this; it seems that context takes liberties with the vertical spacing (glue?) otherwise, in a seemingly unpredictable manner. I was able to work around the one problem that I could forsee, with \eject (newpage() in asy, for multipage output). Everything appears to be working: label clipping, minipage, and even functionshading. This was the benefit of using specials; once the high-level code was in place, all of the low-level support was ready to go. The only thing that I haven't tested is inlinetex mode with the context tex engine. Could someone please test this for me? Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I checked that -inlinetex -tex context appears to be generating the right files. Now all that needs to be done is for someone familiar with context to port asymptote.sty to a context module. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I forgot to mention that context support is committed to svn and will be in 1.74 release (likely tomorrow). Regarding fonts, one can either use the low-level TeX \font way using fontcommand or, as the following contextfonts.asy example illustrates, the high-level way (see the definition of font in plain_pens.asy): settings.tex="context"; texpreamble("\usetypescript[iwona][ec]"); texpreamble("\usetypescript[antykwa-torunska][t5]"); label("$A$",0,N,font("iwona")); label("$A$",0,S,font("antykwa")+red); ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Cannot run Lilypond
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hello, I gave a try to LiliPond today, but it doesn't work for me. 1) I've installed LilyPond 2.12.2 on Windows 2) Ran a simple example \usemodule[lilypond] \starttext There are some notes \lilypond{ \relative{bes a c b} } embedded in this line. \stoptext 3) And got dummy image What's wrong? Details are attached. Regards, Vyatcheslav

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MkIV italic correction?
by Corsair 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hi all, Does MkIV support italic correction? Because the following code produces two identical "f)"s \starttext {\it f}) {\it f\/}) \stoptext -- There is no emotion; there is peace. There is no ignorance; there is knowledge. There is no passion; there is serenity. There is no death; there is the Force.

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Is this an encoding problem?
by Maurício 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

Hi, I'm using the lines below in the start of a book '.tex' file. It selects the 'gentium' pre-defined typeface, and the file itself was done using utf8. However, a few unicode characters desapear or cause small problems, like these (unicodes between 2012 and 2015): ― (before spoken text) - (hyphen) I thought they could be missing from the font, but I have already used gentium by just loading the font, before I learned about typefaces. (I did download the font from its site, however, instead of using that from minimals.) Did I do anything wrong? Thanks, Maurício %%%% \enableregime[utf] \mainlanguage[pt] \setuppapersize[a5][a5] \usetypescript[gentium] \setupbodyfont[gentium,20pt] \setupindenting[small] \indenting[yes] \setupwhitespace[small] \definestartstop [verse] [before=\vbox\bgroup\startlines, after=\stoplines\egroup] \defineselector[title][max=2,n=2] \setuplist[chapter][width=0pt] \setupheads[alternative=middle] \setuphead[chapter][number=no,incrementnumber=list] \starttext

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Error with \placefootnotes
by Khaled Hosny 31 May '09

31 May '09

With the following sample and MkIV \starttext \setupfootnotes[location=text] This\footnote{Or that, if you prefer.} is a sentence with a footnote. \placefootnotes \stoptext I get: ! Undefined control sequence. \doplacenotes ... \endgroup \the \everysetupnotes <to be read again> \fi <to be read again> \stoptext l.5 \stoptext I think \everysetupnotes in strc-not.tex, line 913 should be \everysetupnote, but after fixing it the output isn't correct, any ideas? Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

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