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Problems with metapost in texlive 2009
by Ram Potluri 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

I had a working installation of texlive 2007 on my opensuse 11.0 machine. I had metapost working nicely converting my *.mp files into *.pdf files. Yesterday, I upgraded to texlive 2009 that is available at http://software.opensuse.org/search/download?base=openSUSE%3A11.0&fil...<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://software.opensuse.org/search/downlo…> I installed all the upgrades of the following packages: texlive texlive-bin-tools texlive-bin-metapost texlive-bin-latex texlive-bin texlive-tools texlive-metapost texlive-latex texlive-context texlive-latex-doc To test my installation, I ran the command mptopdf on some mp files that I had successfully converted to pdf on the earlier installation. Here is the message I am seeing for one such file (blk.mp): ram@linux-94ai:~/Desktop> mptopdf blk.mp MTXrun | kpse fallback with progname 'context' initialized in 0.12 seconds MPtoPDF 1.3.3 : running 'mpost --mem=mpost --tex=latex blk.mp' This is MetaPost, version 1.208 (kpathsea version 5.0.0) ! I can't find file `blk.mp'. <*> blk.mp Please type another input file name: You see, the file blk.mp is very much present in the directory (~/ Desktop). Could someone please help me? Thanks in advance. Best wishes, Ram.

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latest beta Minimals: interactive bookmarks for equations broken
by Ralf. Braun 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

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Re :! Undefined control sequence
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Hallo Taco and Wolfgang, > > Why is this? > > Because \setupitemgroup expands its third argument. > > > And how can I make it work in position 2? > > \setupitemgroup[Tst][1][n,\noexpand\broad ] > thank you very much! > \defineitemgroup[Tst] > > \setvariables[tst][set={\setupTst[1][n,\getvariable{tst}{broad}*broa > d]}] > > \starttext > > \startTst > \item text > \stopTst > > \setvariables[tst][broad=5] > > \startTst > \item text > \stopTst > > \stoptext > > Wolfgang What is the following command for: \setvariables[tst][set={\setupTst[1][n,\getvariable{tst}{broad}*broad] }] This is enough, or are there any problems? \setupTst[1][n,\getvariable{tst}{broad}*broad] Wolfgang

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\textvisiblespace
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Hallo, shouldn't \textvisiblespace work in mkiv? Wolfgang

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page-break
by Jörg Hagmann 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Dear list members, My biggest problem have always been seemingly arbitrary page breaks occuring every now and then in larger documents; and because I don't see a pattern, I can't create a minimal example. But maybe you can make a suggestion based on the following: The section below produces a page break seen in http://www.ogbasel.ch/version-1.pdf. If the line "\page[no]" is inserted, the page break occurs as shown in http://www.ogbasel.ch/version-page-no.pdf Mark IV, on linux and Leopard Context version 2010.03.02 12:34 The font is Gentium at 10.5 Thanks, Jörg -------------snip------------------ {\bf Grauammer} -- {\it Bruant proyer} -- Emberiza calandra: Am 28.2. konnte LEU einen Sänger in der PCA feststellen. Am 29.3. sah und hörte KEL 3 Ind. in Iselisboden bei Hésingue und 1 Ind. bei der Neudörfler Lache bei Village-Neuf. AMA meldet die Beobachtung eines Ind. am 8.6. in der PCA und KEL eines Ind. am 21.6. in Iselisboden bei Hésingue. OES sah am 3.7. 1 Ind. in einer Buntbrache zwischen Reinach und Aesch. \stoplines %\stoplinenumbering \section{Nachträge zum Jahresbericht 2007} %\startlinenumbering S. 29 Goldhähnchenlaubsänger -- Pouillot de Pallas -- Phylloscopus proregulus: Am 15.12. sah M. Solari 1 Ind. bei St-Louis. Die Beobachtung wurde vom Comité National de Homologation angenommen (mitgeteilt durch BLA). \page[no] %%% <-------- without this line in version-1.pdf, with the line in version-page-no.pdf S. 33 Zwergammer -- Bruant nain -- Emberiza pusilla: Am 5.10. wurde in der PCA 1 Ind. von M.Baumann, B. Scaar et al. gefangen. Die Bestimmung wurde vom Comité National de Homologation angenommen (mitgeteilt durch BLA). %\stoplinenumbering \section{Zitierte Literatur} %\startlinenumbering Volet, B. 2006: Liste der Vogelarten der Schweiz. Ornithol. Beobachter 103: 271-294 %\stoplinenumbering \section[title:abbrev]{Abkürzungen -- Abbréviations} \subsubsubject{Abkürzungen der erwähnten Einsenderinnen und Einsender von Beobachtungen} ------------snip-----------------

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Testing TeX macros through Lua
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Hello everybody. Is there any possibility discover through Lua in ConTeXt whether it has been defined in ConTeXt source any regular TeX macros? Be enough for me any simple example or relevant link. Thanx J.Hajtmar

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Problem with \doifelse testing of UTF-8 chars
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Hello, I have problem with testing of strings through \doifelse. I am loading data from external CSV file. CSV file is UTF-8 encoding. Data from external file I am reading to ConTeXt macro and I want compare content of macro (it is one utf-8 character) and other character as per example: (\onecharfromcsvfile contains one character from external CSV file) % I compare e.g. "m" character and content of macro \onecharfromcsvfile \def\result{\doifelse{m}{\onecharfromcsvfile}{true}{false} } \result is however always false When CSV file is CP-1250 encoding then macro does work right as well as classical TeX macro: \def\result{\if m\onecharfromcsvfile true\else false \fi} My question is: Just how modify macro as to work right when CSV file is UTF-8 encoding. Thanx Jaroslav PS: I was working up until now only with CP-1250 encoding, but when I started with LuaTeX (MKIV), then I have to use UTF-8. (MKIV dont work corectly with external CP-1250 files).

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\doifinset
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Hallo, on the garden at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/System_Macros/Branches_and_Decisions one can read to the command \doifinset 'If the first string expands 'empty', it is considered to be always in the set.' But \starttext \doifinset{}{A,B,C}{should go} \stoptext seams to show that this is wrong. Is my example wrong or my understanding of the above sentence? Wolfgang

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how to make uppercase characters?
by Marius 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Hello, There is \uppercase command in tex, but it works just with plane characters. \uppercase{xxx} prints XXX, while \def\xxx{xxx} \uppercase{\xxx} prints "xxx", but I want "XXX". Maybe there is a ConTeXt command of \uppercase, like in LaTeX \MakeUppercase ? Thanks, Marius

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setuppagenumbering command
by Marius 23 Apr '10

23 Apr '10

Hello all, Why does "conversion" option for \setuppagenumbering has no effect? Is it only for me or for others too? Marius

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