August 2010 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Ubuntu and Context MKIV
by Xan 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, I have installed context package [http://packages.ubuntu.com/hu/lucid/context] in ubuntu. In theory it's the MKIV package. But when I run context I get: MTXrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' How can I fix it? I have 10.04. Regards, Xan.

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My mtx-fonts.lua script is broken?
by Zhichu Chen 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

It may have happened a long time ago. I just updated my context and could not compile my document with \setupbodyfont[lucida], something like: =========================================== define fonts > forced type afm of stmary10 not found define fonts > font with name stmary10 is not found load otf > loading: d:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroma n8-bold.otf (hash: lmroman8-bold) load otf > font loaded okay load otf > file size: 112404 load otf > enhancing ... load otf > saving in cache: d:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/l m/lmroman8-bold.otf report | lua: compiling d:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/04a4119 fb83ff6c1c1b215f165317af6/fonts/otf/lmroman8-bold.tma into d:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf -cache/luatex-cache/context/04a4119fb83ff6c1c1b215f165317af6/fonts/otf/lmroman8 -bold.tmc virtual math > font LMMath8-Regular, no parameters set ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [parameter stack size=60]. \xdodefinebodyfont [#1][#2][#3]-> \checkrelativefontsize {#2}\ifcsname #2\end... \dododododefinedefaultbodyfont ...csname {4pt}{rm} \fi \next7 #1,->\dododododefinedefaultbodyfont {#1} \doprocesscommaitem \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1, ]\relax \global \advance \... \next6 #1,->\dodododefinedefaultbodyfont {#1} \doprocesscommaitem \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1, ]\relax \global \advance \... ... l.22 \setupbodyfont[lucida] ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! MTXrun | fatal error: return code: 1 =========================================== Last time I saw this message, I was preparing a document in a hurry so I just download an old cont-tmf.zip and it's okay again. I got a font AdobeSongStd-Light.otf and after ========================================== mtxrun --script fonts --reload ========================================== I still could not find it: ========================================== Zhichu@ZHICHU-PC /context/tex $ mtxrun --locate AdobeSongStd-Light.otf tree:///d:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts/opentype/public/Adobe/AdobeSongStd-Light.otf Zhichu@ZHICHU-PC /context/tex $ mtxrun --script fonts --list --pattern=Adobe* Zhichu@ZHICHU-PC /context/tex $ ========================================== Well, can you give me a hint what's wrong here? -- Best Regards Chen

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Issues with MetaPost boxes
by Andreas Schneider 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Since some weeks I have strange problems with MetaPost in MKIV (beta). The attached example should (and did in the past) output a central box ("Fakt") surrounded by five boxes named "Dimension". However some of them (in that particular example one) is drawn wrong: the box is on the right spot, but the label seems to be at 0,0. It seems to happen whenever the boxes are drawn from within a loop - at least all of my problems with boxes show similar symptoms and only occur within loops. Any ideas what goes wrong here?

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Typeface - simple example
by Peter Schorsch 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi, I reactivated my interest in Context. A lot changed since then... so I am became a beginner again. E.g. I don't know / understand how to use that Typescript-Framework. I tried to build a simple example, but I do not get it to work. I crosschecked successfully with simplefonts that the fonts itself are working (via \simplefont[..]). In this example I wanted to put the Nimbus Sans fonts on the rm-Definitions (just to see that it is working). I like what I was reading in the wiki, examples, posts and manuels about the Typescript-framework - but can anyone help me to understand it really / help me to get this simple example to work? Thanks ------ simple example environment --- Nimbus fonts are stored under /usr/share/fonts OSFONTDIR is correct, fonts via mtxrun imported mtxrun --script fonts --list --all pattern=nimbuss* shows all the nimbus fonts I used in the example ------ simple example ---------- \enableregime[utf] \setupencoding[default=uc] \setupcapitals[sc=yes] \definefontsynonym [Nimbus-Sans-Regular] [nimbussanlregu] \definefontsynonym [Nimbus-Sans-Bold] [nimbussanlbold] \definefontsynonym [Nimbus-Sans-Italic] [nimbussanlreguital] \definefontsynonym [Nimbus-Sans-Slanted] [nimbussanlreguital] \definefontsynonym [Nimbus-Sans-BoldItalic] [nimbussanlboldital] \definefontsynonym [Nimbus-Sans-BoldSlanted] [nimbussanlboldital] \definefontsynonym [Nimbus-Sans-Caps] [nimbussanlregu] \starttypescript [Nimbus] \definetypeface [Nimbus-whatIsThisFor] [rm] [whatIsThis] [Nimbus-Sans-Regular] \definetypeface [Nimbus-whatIsThisFor] [rm] [whatIsThis] [Nimbus-Sans-Bold] %here: how to access / define rm,bf? \definetypeface [Nimbus-whatIsThisFor] [tt] [whatIsThis] [Nimbus-Sans-Italic] \definetypeface [Nimbus-whatIsThisFor] [ss] [whatIsThis] [Nimbus-Sans-Bold] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[Nimbus] \setupbodyfont[Nimbus-whatIsThisFor,rm,12pt] \starttext Regular {\it Italic} {\bf Bold} {\bi Bold-Italic} \showbodyfont \stoptext

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Adding supplemental information to entry in list of figures
by Elias Oltmanns 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi all, \nolist{}, I understand, is used in headings and presumably in captions as well to exclude parts of the heading / caption from the automatically generated list of contents or floats. Now, my question is what the canonical way would be to add information to an entry in a list of figures that doesn't appear in the caption to that figure; indeed, it might be desirable sometimes to specify the entry in the list of figures independently of the caption, very much like the LaTeX command \caption[entry text]{caption text} does. Thanks for your help, Elias

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collecting user wishes for streams related functionalities
by Salil Sayed 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Hi All, Hans will starting looking into the development of 'streams' for mkvi soon. So let us gather our wishes for these functions so that the interface can be well thought of beforehand. Please respond to this thread with your wishes and I might compile them later in one place if doing so makes sense. To begin with here is my first wish: Being able to flow multiple texts in parallel. A simple case is a translation of the same text running on opposite page while the original runs on left/right page. In my thesis these are not translations, but correlated texts written for different audiences. (think of levels in a CG game) So the texts need to be designed differently. To extrapolate this facility, if columns on one page can run such parallel texts then we can have multiple translations running together. Best regards, Salil

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Re: [NTG-context] Numbering in Table of Content
by Martin Althoff 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

> and it doesn't work. The title and subject parts never get > into the generated TOC. Any idea why? Thanks very much! Not sure, seems to work for me. Though I do get two TOCs, one for front matter, one for body matter -- the limit of my knowledge is reached here. Are you all current and updated? Martin

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Problems with the minimals
by Florian Baudach 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Hi, I have installed the minimals for Linux. If I am using texexec now I am getting the following error: /usr/bin/mktexfmt: 926: /home/florian/context/tex/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr: not found fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'! I am a little bit confused, becaus the minimals worked just fine for me :-(. How can I fixed it? Greetings Florian

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\lowerbox
by Wolfgang Schuster 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Hi, the \lowerbox macro from supp-box.tex use \raise instead of \lower in it’s definition: \def\lowerbox{\doraiselowerbox\raise} Wolfgang

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Does Makempy still work?
by Cedric Mauclair 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Hi everybody, I tried to make a Metapost outline by following the mmakempy manual but it didn't work. As I saw that "makempy" and "makempy.bat" files were removed in 2010 (I don't remember the date), my question is: is it still usable/valid feature? I processed the example from the manual, both from a standalone mp file and a tex file (which follows): \starttext \startMPcode input mp-grph ; beginfig(1) ; graphictext "$e=mc^2$" scaled 10 dashed evenly withdrawcolor .7blue withfillcolor .7white withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; endfig ; \stopMPcode \stoptext It sucessfully created the test-mpgraph.pdf with the text processed by TeX but the result page is blank, though it seems the "graphic" is on a line by itself (seen from another document where all the lines go down). When the mp file is processed with "mtxrun --script mptopdf", it warns of a width and height of less than 1in when it tries to convert from ps to pdf. When the tex file is processed with "mtxrun --script context", it complains that metapost had a problem flushing a literal and that it couldn't find pstoedit. Of course, this could be the problem, but I have no idea of how I could get around this. By the way, I use the TeXlive 2010 pretest. Thanks. -- Cédric

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