June 2009 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Suggestion
by Arun Dev 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Hi, You can increase the popularity of ConTeXt by eliminating the need to install Perl and Ruby.

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math and palatino
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد 19 Jun '09

19 Jun '09

Dear gang, [mkiv only] What is the best available math font for use with Pagella/Palatino? [Hint: it's not LM] I had to roll my own typescript so what I need to fill in is the commented line below \definetypeface [pagella_ar] [rm] [serif] [pagella_arabic] % [pagella_arabic] % \definetypeface [pagella_ar] [mm] [math] [palatino] [default] Uncommenting the above gives me an incomplete math font that does not look good. Any ideas on getting this right? Is there an otf euler option? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Lots of problems in mkiv
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

I've recently started using mkiv because of the fonts, but I have found lots of things that don't work. The trouble is, I don't know if it's just me, or whether I need to go back to mkii until things settle down. Can someone, PLEASE, tell me if they get any of the following problems with mkiv (I've included code snippets): Everything below works perfectly in mkii. 1) References to equations appear as '??' in the final document \placeformula[eq:pythag] \startformula a^2 = b^2 + c^2 \stopformula Pythagoras proposed \in{equation}[eq:pythag]. 2) References to footnotes appear as '??' inside \startlocalfootnotes...\stoplocalfootnotes \startlocalfootnotes This has a note.\footnote[fn]{Footnote.} See note \note[fn]. \stoplocalfootnotes 3) References to sections are repeated (e.g. reference to section 1 appears as '11' or ref to section 1.1 appears as '1.11.1') \section[sec:one]{Section one} It was in \in{section}[sec:one]. 4) \digits command falls over at periods or commas with "\textfont1 is undefined (character 58)." \digits{1.6} 5) \infull command does not work for abbreviations: falls over with "Missing } inserted." \abbreviation {KF} {Kalman filter} Rudolph Kalman invented the \infull{KF}. Please help!! Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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Problem with "fontdata.cache" being set to "no" in font-def.lua
by Yanrui Li 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

Hi Hans, I am testing comperssion of Chinese punctuations according boundingbox. But I found that the "fontdata.cache" in font-def.lua is set to "no", so I can't get the boundingbox information of those punctuation glyphs in my module. I want to know why set to "no" as default. Is it for efficiency? -- Best regards, Li Yanrui

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Re: [NTG-context] Problem with \digits
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 18 Jun '09

18 Jun '09

>> I am using mkiv beta (14-Jun-09) and the \digits command does not like the >> decimal point. Any suggestions? > a lpeg grammar ? > > -- > luigi I'm sorry, I don't understand. Does anybody else have this problem, or is it just me? Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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finding out what font are available
by Ciro Soto 17 Jun '09

17 Jun '09

Hi all, what would be the command to list all fonts available in my installation via context? thank you Ciro -- Links of your interest: http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~cirosoto/ http://www.TheGuitarMakerExploration.com http://www.myspace.com/sotoaguirre

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Re: [NTG-context] \setupcaption stopper does not work in mkiv
by jm 16 Jun '09

16 Jun '09

hans, thank you so much! was finally able to solve my problem using your solution. :-) just one thing though, how do i produce "Figure 1.1" or "Figure 1-1"? Thanks so much for bearing with me. I still have a lot to learn a lot about ConTeXt. :-) Cheers! :-) joel mendoza

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--synctex switch available
by Mojca Miklavec 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Just a short notice ... The ConTeXt from version 2009-06-13 on (mkii only) provides the --synctex switch (that is equivalent to "--synctex=1" call to engine). Mojca

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structure bugs: \nomarking
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي ح امد 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

Hi, As we discussed, I'm submitting structure bugs as we move along to get this manuscript to the publisher. \nomarking fails: ! Undefined control sequence. \@@mklimittext ->\@@kolimittext \doifelse #1#2->\edef \!!stringa {#1 }\edef \!!stringb {#2}\ifx \!!stringa \!... \splitsequence #1#2->\doifelse {#1}\v!no {#2}{\doifelse {#1}\v!yes {\languag... l.1 ...\nomarking {it extends way past the margin} \sectionheadmarkingtitle ...arks.title("#1","#2")} \fetchmark ...sname \??mk \??mk #3\endcsname {#1}} \fi \fi ... l.5 ? test file attached Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] Using a tikz package
by Mojca Miklavec 15 Jun '09

15 Jun '09

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 20:58, Massimo Redaelli wrote: Dear Massimo, Thanks a lot for such a quick response. > thanks for letting me know about this. I am certainly willing to > fix it, but my knowledge of Context is null. My knowlegde of LaTeX equals that as well, so ... :) :) :) I'm putting this back to the mailing list since I should be studying instead of playing with TeX now ... > Could you suggest to me a good starting point to find out differences > and incompatibilities of Latex and Context? ConTeXt knows and respects 99% of plain TeX commands. So only LaTeX-specific ones will need to be fixed. I suggest to take a look at pgfplots or TikZ package itself to see how the differences are implemented. If you are ready to adapth the package to ConTeX, plain TeX support could be done at the same time for no extra cost, I guess. I suspect that almost all of your code works out of the box already anyway. These are the most obvious exceptions, but I didn't inspect closely enough, so there might be others: \NeedsTeXFormat -> no equivalent in ConTeXt (and is not needed) \RequirePackage{name} -> \usemodule[name] \RequirePackage{xstring} -> no idea what it does; it might be that the functionality of this package will have to be adapted/implemented in ConTeXt or something else will have to be done \DeclareOption -> it might be that this needs to be implemented in semi-low-level ConTeXt (you'll get help on this mailing list); maybe that's the most work, but once you have a single example you just copy-paste \ExecuteOptions \ProcessOptions \newcommand -> in ConTeXt one would use the "plain-TeX" \def\commandname#1#2... \newenvironment{circuitikz}{ \begin{tikzpicture}}{\end{tikzpicture}} -> \long\def\startcircuitikz#1\stoptikzcircuitikz{\starttikzpicture#1\stoptikzpicture} You can take a look at pgfplots for example. They put all the code to tex/generic/pgfplots and only a single file to tex/latex/pgfplots. The beginning of circuitikz.sty should go to tex/latex/circuitikz/circuitikz.sty, while the "contents" of that file and probably all other files should better have the ending "tex" and go to tex/generic/circuitikz/...(I don't know exact conventions of tikz).code.tex and you should create a file in tex/context/third/circuitikz/t-circuitikz.tex that starts approximately like this: % some nice header, but you may worry about that later \def\pgfcircversion{0.2.1} \writestatus{loading}{2009/04/17 The CircuiTikz circuit drawing package version \pgfcircversion} \startmodule[circuitikz] \unprotect % this sets the catcodes of @ and ! to letter (if needed) \usemodule[tikz] \usetikzlibrary[calc] \usepgflibrary[decorations.pathmorphing] % maybe some ConTeXt-specific initialisations % load all the generic file(s) that you need \input nameofyourfile.code.tex % define the environment \long\def\startcircuitikz#1\stopcircuitikz{\starttikzpicture#1\stoptikzpicture} \stopmodule \protect \doifnotmode{demo}{\endinput} % you may put some simple sample document below In order to test the package: % \usemodule[tikz] % maybe you don't need this if you load circuitikz already \usemodule[circuitikz][american] \starttext \startcircuitikz .... \stopcircuitikz \stoptext But I'm sure that the list will help you further with implementation details ... Mojca > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 20:48 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 20:35, Maurício wrote: >> > I would like to use this package for >> > drawing circuits: >> > >> > http://home.dei.polimi.it/mredaelli/circuitikz/index.html >> > >> > The examples are in Latex, but I imagine it >> > could be used in ConTeXt since it's written >> > using Tikz. >> > >> > How can I do that? The recomended instalation >> > procedure at the website is to just uncompress >> > everything in texmf-local directory, but that >> > creates a 'latex' directory that I imagine >> > ConTeXt won't use. >> >> Hello Maurício, >> >> You'll need to convince the author to make a generic package. >> >> I'm not sure if he's familiar with ConTeXt or not. The changes that >> are needed might be doable in reasonable amount of time (from my first >> impression there are not too many LaTeX-specific commands present), >> but the package won't work out of the box as it stands at the moment. >> >> Mojca > >

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