January 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

numbered itemize
by Hans van der Meer 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Risking that, like my previous question, this one too will be posed the Nth time, I nevertheless ask. Typesetting a numbered list I tried a lot of paramaters on the itemize macros, but always the code: \startitemize[][start=8] \item a \item b \item c \item d \stopitemize results in: 8. a 9. b 10. c 11. d whereas I would have had: 8. a 9. b 10. c 11. d That is, the item labels aligned at the stoppers. Hans van der Meer

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location of /user/files?
by paul morgan 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Thank you again Aditya and Khaled for getting ConTeXt working here. One more question for the list: Under MacTex or TexLive, not sure which one, on my 10.4.11 system, my setup and env* files were located in ~/Library/texmf/tex/context/user/ I rsynced that dir to ~/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user and ConTeXt is not finding them. Could someone please where I should put these files so context will find them? Thanks again, Paul

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Font database does not report all fonts
by Nicolas Girard 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hi all, and happy new year ! I've just (properly) installed a fresh ConTeXt Minimals on Linux and built the font database. Although my /usr/local/share/fonts/d directory contains Delicious-BoldItalic.otf Delicious-Bold.otf Delicious-Heavy.otf Delicious-Italic.otf Delicious-Roman.otf Delicious-SmallCaps.otf the command mtxrun --script font --list elicious only reports delicioussmallcaps delicioussmallcaps /usr/local/share/fonts/d/Delicious-SmallCaps.otf The problem also arises with other (possibly all) font names. Any thoughts ?

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Re: [NTG-context] negative kerning
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hi, I tried the following snipped out of curiosity and it gives me the error (even with the latest beta) systems : begin file 1.tex at line 5 (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/sample/knuth.tex) (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/sample/knuth.texerror: ...tminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/typo-krn.lua:121: attempt to index local 'before' (a nil value) . l.11 ? > \definecharacterkerning[packed] > > \setupcharacterkerning[packed][factor=-.125] > > \starttext > > \input knuth > > \start > > \setcharacterkerning[packed] > > \input knuth > > \stop > > \stoptext > What have I missed? Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Blank at beginning of page
by Philipp Gesang 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hi, being new to ConTeXt I'd have loads of questions but I'd like to start with what puzzles me most: any \blank[] command that happens to be at the beginning of a page seems to be ignored. For instance in a document as follows \showframe \starttext \blank[5*big] Some text. \stoptext the string "Some text." will be placed on the very top of the text field, regardless of what \blank[]s precede it. I read a good deal of the documentation but couldn't make out the cause nor a workaround. Right now I even consider to put headings inside a float or something like that in order to make their [before=\blank[someblank]] option effective. Thanks in advance for any advice Philipp

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negative kerning
by Horacio Suarez 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

hello all: I need someting like a negative kerning to reduce some paragraphs length. I was reading the mails but I didn´t find it or was too complex for me. thankyou in advance. -------------------- Horacio Suarez _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/so…

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footnotes and naturalTABLES - Bug?
by Bernhard Rosensteiner 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hello all, when i place a footnote in a naturalTABLE the output at the bottom is always multiplied by four per footnotemarker. In normal tables it works normal (see minimal example in attachment). Is this a bug or make i something wrong? best regards Bernhard

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itemize
by Hans Hagen 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi, I uploaded a beta with some mkiv adaptions of itemize, esp the itemalignment \startitemize[n][width=3cm,itemalign=flushright,distance=1em] \dorecurse{12}{\item test} \stopitemize it also works with fit and distance is now also hounoured; a side effect is that broad no longer is driven by distance but by a new parameter step (which default to the old value so hopefully there should be no compatibility issue) 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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last chapter number
by Andreas Harder 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi all, is there already an equivalent to \lastpage for the last chapter number in a document. I tried something like \getmarking[chapternumber][last], but the output is still the current chapter number. Thanks in advance Andreas

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Is there the length of article title limited in bibliography with MkIV for Chinese?
by Yanrui Li 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi all, If the .bib file includes a article with Chinese title, I found the article's length should be equal or less than 22 characters. Once the length is over 22 characters, the compile process will hang. The following is an example: %% filename: test.tex, it depends on the AdobeSongStd-Light.otf font. \starttypescript[serif][zhfont] \definefontsynonym[Serif][name:adobesongstd] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic][name:adobesongstd] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[myfonts] \definetypeface[myfonts][rm][serif][zhfont] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[myfonts] \setupbodyfont[myfonts,rm,11pt] \setupbibtex[database=ref] \starttext 测试\cite[测试]。 \placepublications \stoptext %% filename: ref.bib @book{测试, title = {〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二}, author = {一二三}, publisher = {四五六}, year = {2000}, } After compiling the above test.tex, I can get the following test.bbl file: \setuppublicationlist[samplesize={一00},totalnumber=1] \startpublication[k=测试,t=book, a={{一二三}},y=2000, n=1,s=一00] \author[]{}[]{}{一二三} \pubyear{2000} \title{〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二} \pubname{四五六} \stoppublication If I modify the ref.bib file, for example I add one Chinese character in the "title" field: %% filename: ref.bib @book{测试, title = {〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二三}, author = {一二三}, publisher = {四五六}, year = {2000}, } When I compile the test.tex again, the compiling process stops here: publications : loading database from test.bbl (test.bbl ! String contains an invalid utf-8 sequence. l.8 ...�九〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二 ��% ? I'm sure that all texts in my files are encoded with utf-8. -- Best regards, Li Yanrui

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