March 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

About Thomas Schmitz My Way
by Otared Kavian 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Dear Thomas, Many thanks for your My Way about « Getting Web Content and pdf-Output from One Source »: first of all I must say that you are « un grand pédagogue »! Thanks to you, I dared to begin to learn how to use the same file on the web and as a ConTeXt source, and had a look to the manual written by Hans, xml-mkiv.pdf, which is indeed great, like all other manuals written by him. (By the way, without participating to the thread on ConTeXt documentation, when I was reading Hans' manual on xml-mkiv, I noticed that only on my computer there are more than 80 different manuals, ranging from manuals for beginners to high level documentation for experts... For all everyday matters these manuals contain what I, or an ordinary user, may need). Regarding the tutorial you have written, although the typo may be corrected by any cautious reader, I think that, on page 2, lines 5 and 6 of your My Way it should be </body> </html> I don't know whether the following observation is correct or not: I had to add at the beginning of the file « ourenvironment.tex » which must contain the xml setups, the command \startenvironment ourenvironment and at the end of that file: \stopenvironment before being able to get what you describe. The curious thing is that even when I didn't add \startenvironment ourenvironment but I did add \stopenvironment the xml file was processed by ConTeXt. For beginners like me, I think this should be said clearly somewhere. Also, in order to have a better PDF in your examples, at some point I understood that in order to have appropriate white space between paragraphs and tables one could, or should, add the tag for preformatted text: <pre> </pre> and transform it into \blank by ConTeXt. To this end one has to add the tag pre to \xmlsetup: \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{html|body|h1|h2|p|em|q|b|table|tr|th|td|pre}{xml:*} and then \startxmlsetups xml:pre \xmlflush{#1}\blank[big] \stopxmlsetups to the environment. Finally a qusetion: is there a way to obtain an xml file from a rather simple TeX source, written with ConTeXt commands? Here by simple I mean something which contains text and math formulas, such as a list of problems and exercises. Best regards: OK

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problem with mp-form.mp while updating minimals
by Jelle Huisman 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hi all, I'm updating my ConTeXt (minimals) installation (on Linux-64) and get this error: (/home/jelle/context/tex/texmf-context/metapost/context/base/mp-form.mp ! I can't find file `string'. l.81 input string Please type another input file name: Eventually I did Ctrl-C, but both ConTeXt and MetaPost seem to work, so... (I also installed the minimals from scratch, but get the same error.) Jelle

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bibtex problems
by Tom 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

I am now trying to create a bibliography database and have, I think, followed the documentation but to no good result. Myfile.tex contains the following: \setupbibtex[database=myfile] \starttex \startpublication ... \stoppublication \stoptext texexec --once myfile processes myfile then returns "no ctx file found" and ends with "nothing to process" What am I missing? Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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smaller-bigger fontsize
by Hans van der Meer 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

ConTeXt fontsizing has \tx to make the current font style one step smaller, then another \txx does that again. For makeing the size bigger I cannot see anything other than the series \tfa \tfb \tfc \tfd. It would however be nice to also have a similar cumulative effect here. Can there be something like "\tsmall" available to reduce the font size one step (to a certain minimum, not just \tx\tx = \txx)? And similar \tbig to enlarge the font size one step? It will make the equivalent of HTML's <small> and <big> tags easy to implement for typesetting my xml data. Or are there already such things? Hans van der Meer

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Problem with „kpathsearch510.dll“
by Helmut Schwertner 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hello, I'm using contextminimals with win7 64bit. Since a few days i get the following two messages when I try to update or to do a new install of contextminimals. The message (error report) for two times is: pdftex.exe – Einsprungpunkt nicht gefunden Der Prozedureinsprungpunkt „sfseek64“ wurde in der DLL „kpathsearch510.dll“ nicht gefunden. Sorry, I'm not able to translate this. Context (mkiv) is working ; texexec (mkii) is broken. What can I do? Thanks, Helmut helmut.schwertner(at)gmx.de

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xml content and tweaked pdf output
by Steffen Wolfrum 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hi, very carefully I am trying to make first steps towards XML and ConTeXt (with MkIV). Thus, I have enjoyed reading Thomas' MyWay "Getting Web Content and pdf-Output from One Source": I only kept wondering, how to keep control over the pdf-Output in terms of fine-tuning the actual typesetting? A quick search in the archive gave me the answer that is attached below: by using XMLentities. But coming back to Thomas' issue "Getting Web Content and pdf-Output from One Source": What about the other branch, getting web content? Doesn't the XML source gets "spoiled" by these inserted XMLentities that only make sense when following the pdf-Output branch? Or will these XMLentities be silently ignored when feeding the XML source in a CMS system or processing further to web content? Apologies for asking such basic questions... Any help or tips to deal with this hybrid will be greatly appreciated Steffen Am 13.04.2008 um 11:54 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: > Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: >> Hi gang, >> >> speaking of xml... I have two easy questions, but can't find an >> answer. It's about tweaking the pdf-output I get: >> >> 1. How do you add an additional hyphenation to a word? How would I >> enter the equivalent of super\-duper in an xml-file? I tried >> super&addhyphen;duper with this definition: >> \defineXMLentity[addhyphen]{\-} >> >> in my environment, but this doesn't seem to work. > > Needs an example file, because > > \defineXMLentity[addhyphen]{\-} > \starttext > \hsize 1in > \startXMLdata > I tried super&addhyphen;duper > \stopXMLdata > \stoptext > > works in both mkii and mkiv. > > >> 2. Similar question: how to prevent an unwanted ligature, esp. in >> German? In TeX, I write Kauf{}laden. What would be a good way to do >> this in xml? I was thinking of Kauf&nolig;laden and >> \defineXMLentity[nolig]{\kern0pt} > > That should work, but probably better is: > \defineXMLentity[nolig]{\prewordbreak\kern0pt\postwordbreak} > because the \kern will disable hyphenation, otherwise. > > In mkii, just > \defineXMLentity[nolig]{{}} > also works (but not in mkiv, and that is a feature). > > Best wishes, > Taco > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________

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no space after \note[]
by Peter Münster 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hello, The space after \note[test] is eaten: \starttext bla\footnote[test]{bla} bla\note[test] bla \stoptext Bug or feature? Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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unwanted space in front of table
by zs 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hi, I found a space between character and table. Is it intended behavior or bug? Zdenek Sample code: \starttext \setupTABLE[background=color,backgroundcolor=yellow] This is OK: a% \setupTABLE[column][1][width=20mm]% \setupTABLE[column][2][width=20mm]% \setupTABLE[column][3][width=20mm]% \bTABLE% \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \eTABLE% b Here we have space: a \setupTABLE[column][1][width=20mm] \setupTABLE[column][2][width=20mm] \setupTABLE[column][3][width=20mm] \bTABLE% \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \eTABLE b ... and thinner space here: a \setupTABLE[column][1,2,3][width=20mm] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \eTABLE b \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 69, Issue 49
by Michael Saunders 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

> The question is: what have you set OSFONTDIR to, and does that > location actually contain the system fonts? Thank you, Taco. Double checking, I find that I have set OSFONTDIR to C:\Windows\Fonts, which does indeed contain my 1074 system font files, 970 of them open type. The slightly different string you put on the webpage: mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=* now seems to find them. That was the problem. My next problem is to make sense of what lies under the heading "The standard way: Typescripts". It's clear that the instructions don't mean "typescript" in the ordinary English sense of the word (a typewritten document), but some new, undefined thing. From other bits of documentation here and there, I've gotten the idea that typescripts are files that contain commands. I know that there are examples of typescripts given elsewhere, but without explanation, I couldn't decipher them. I don't suppose there is a syntax of the typescript language written down anywhere. The first instruction stymies me: "1. Copy the typescript files into either $TEXMF/tex/texmf-fonts/tex/context/user $TEXMF/tex/texmf-project/tex/context/user" What typescript files? Where? Also, the two directories don't exist in my distribution of Context Minimals. Are we supposed to create them? I look ahead for clues as to where the typescripts for my fonts might be. A little farther down there is a heading, 'Where to find existing typescripts', but it doesn't talk about where to find typescripts. It does hint at what typescripts are though---it says, 'Each of the typescripts below...' and then, below, there is a list of lines like the following: Latin Modern (typescript name: modern; this is the default font set) Maybe a line like that is a typescript. Who knows?

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unwanted space in front of table
by zs 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hi, I found a space between character and table. Is it intended behavior or bug? Zdenek Sample code: \starttext \setupTABLE[background=color,backgroundcolor=yellow] This is OK: a% \setupTABLE[column][1][width=20mm]% \setupTABLE[column][2][width=20mm]% \setupTABLE[column][3][width=20mm]% \bTABLE% \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \eTABLE% b Here we have space: a \setupTABLE[column][1][width=20mm] \setupTABLE[column][2][width=20mm] \setupTABLE[column][3][width=20mm] \bTABLE% \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \eTABLE b ... and thinner space here: a \setupTABLE[column][1,2,3][width=20mm] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \eTABLE b \stoptext

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