June 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

[metapost] mptopdf from the command line in ConTeXt minimals?...
by Stuart Hungerford 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

Hi, I'm a ConTeXt and Metapost newbie, so apologies in advance if this is a stupid question. I've successfully installed ConTeXt minimals on an OS/X 10.6.x system and it seems to be running okay. I'd like to run some metapost examples from the command line and "mpost" also seems to be running well. I've seen references to a "mptopdf" script and there is a Perl script of that name but it looks like it needs to be installed somewhere. Is there some post-setup procedure I need to follow to access "mptopdf" or another one I've seen references to "fmtutil"? Thanks, Stu -- Stuart Hungerford ANU Supercomputer Facility

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How do I stretch text in header?
by Oliver Heins 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

I want to typeset the section title in stretched smallcaps in the header. This is what I came up with, but it won't print the section title, but instead the phrase »section«: \setuppagenumbering[none] \def\stretchedspacefactor{4} \def\stretchedspaceamount{.2em} \setupheader[] \setupheadertexts[\setups{header}] \startsetups[header] \hfill {\sc\stretchedlowercase{\getmarking[section]}}\hfill % \hfill {\sc\getmarking[section]}\hfill % works, but no stretching \stopsetups \starttext \section{This is a test!} \input knuth \stoptext Thanks, olli -- Oliver Heins heins(a)sopos.org http://www.sopos.org/olli GPG: F27A BA8C 1CFB B905 65A8 2544 0F07 B675 9A00 D827 1024D/9A00D827 2004-09-24 -- gpg --recv-keys 0x9A00D827 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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direction in columnset (MKII)
by Jelle Huisman 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

Hi all, Is it possible to tell columnsets which column is the first one? I use columnset in MKII to typeset Arabic text in a multicolumn layout and the text starts in the left column. Is there a nice way to force the text to start in the right column? Something like \definecolumnset[arabic][n=2,direction=right] doesn't work. (A nasty, ugly hack is fine too ;-) Example: \starttext \definecolumnset[arabic][n=2,direction=right] \startcolumns[arabic] Oeps. In Arabic the 'first' column is on the right: \input knuth \stopcolumns \stoptext Thanks, Jelle

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Problem with large space after section header
by Jason Earl 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

I am having a bit of a problem with some documents that I am trying to lay out in Context. The idea is that section contents are formatted in two columns, but in some cases Context leaves a huge space between the section header and the content. I have included a sample context file (test.tex) and the output I get from running: context test.tex using the newest version of context minimals. I expect "1.2.1 Test SubSection 1" and "1.2.2 Test SubSection 2" to be on the same page as "Problem Header," but, as you can see, they aren't. I appreciate any help in sorting this out. I'm new to Context, and not particularly experienced in typesetting either, so if you have any other advice I would appreciate that too :). Thanks, Jason Earl

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pre-fuzzy blank slides
by Pau 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Hello, I am using the pre-fuzzy style for a talk and I get (in principle) randomly blank slides. I thought that it could be due to the fact that I use \page whenever I finish a slide and that that could be conflicting with \Topic{} but removing all \page did not help. Has anybody had this problem and/or could you suggest a fix for it? I do not paste here the whole presentation because I do not want to spam the list. Thanks, Pau

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Re: [NTG-context] Tagged PDF
by hagen＠ntg.nl 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

> > --- Original message --- > Subject: Tagged PDF > From: Steffen Wolfrum <context(a)st.estfiles.de> > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Cc: Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> > Date: Monday, 28/06/2010 7:17 AM > > > Am 20.01.2009 um 16:19 schrieb Arthur Reutenauer: > >> >> Tagged PDF is indeed a problem >> for the moment, but it's clearly not the feature your printer asks >> for, >> and as a rule, you can be sure that if some functionality is essential >> to publishers, it will be added quickly to ConTeXt :-) > > > > Hi Hans, > > these wise words were written 1 1/2 years ago ... and publishers > indeed more and more often ask for that! > > For me, the only way to do tagging is with AcrobatPro. > > But as LuaTeX made so much progress in the last 18 month, maybe is > there also some break-through on this topic? > > no as i don't need it and it's not something you implement for fun (only as part of a project) .. it's quite doable (unrelated to luatex i think) but boring Hans

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PDF Meta Tags
by Bart C. Wise 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

I received the following message from a publisher: [The PDF generator] you used flattens the file such that is has no meta tags whatsoever. We need the tags that give page separations, page count, header info, etc. How do I get those meta tags enabled? Would setting \interaction[state=start] do what's needed? Running minimals-beta. Thanks, Bart

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unusable PDF bookmarks
by Steffen Wolfrum 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Hi, is there a way to avoid bookmark entries like this? With language is german and encoding utf8 MkII compiles this ... \section{Test~–~Nummer §\,613\,a} ... to: TestCCC:4:126 dochar {123}CCC:4:126 Nummer elax $unhbox voidb@x hbox {$mathsurround z@ mathchar "278$}$ extormathspace + hinmuskip 1613 extormathspace + hinmuskip 1a Steffen

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Page numbering in Adobe Reader
by Zhichu Chen 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Hi Hans and Taco, Some guy think it's cool to use romannumeral numbers in the preface and so is in the Adobe Reader. I searched the source but apparently it is not provided. I made a very dirty test file so could you make a switch in the \setupinteraction officially? My test file is like: ============================================== \pdfcompresslevel 0 \setupinteraction [state=start, focus=width, page=yes, openaction=firstpage, click＝no, title=TEST, author=Neals, subtitle=Test, keyword={test}] \setupcolors [state=start] \newcount\FrontPageNumbers \setupsubpagenumber[way=bytext,state=start] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \startsectionblockenvironment[frontpart] \setupfootertexts[pagenumber] \setuppagenumbering[conversion=romannumerals] \stopsectionblockenvironment \startsectionblockenvironment[bodypart] \global\FrontPageNumbers=\pagenumber \global\advance\FrontPageNumbers\minusone \setuppagenumber[number=1] \resetsubpagenumber % \setupfootertexts[\the\FrontPageNumbers] \setupfootertexts[pagenumber] \stopsectionblockenvironment \startsectionblockenvironment[backpart] \resetsubpagenumber \stopsectionblockenvironment \def\PageLabels{\pdfcatalog{/PageLabels << /Nums [ 0 << /S /r >> \the\FrontPageNumbers << /S /D >> ] >> >>}} \prependtoks \PageLabels \to \everystoptext \starttext \startfrontmatter % \chapter{Table of Contents} \completecontent[interaction=all] \chapter{Preface} \dorecurse{10}{\input zapf\par} % \chapter{Preface} % \dorecurse{10}{\input zapf\par} % \chapter{Preface} % \dorecurse{10}{\input zapf\par} \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter{Test} \dorecurse{15}{\input tufte\par} \chapter{TestAgain} \dorecurse{15}{\input ward\par} \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter Index maybe. \stopbackmatter \stoptext ============================================== A lot of the code to setup the main layout is stolen from Wolfgang :) -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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s-pre-02 looks a bit weird in TL2010
by Vedran Miletić 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Hi, upon compiling s-pre-02 with TL2010 ConTeXt, I get the attached file which is very narrow and text gets cut off (at least when viewed in Evince). Is this a bug? -- Vedran Miletić

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