January 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

How to run Typesetting in MetaPost example (MetaFun)?
by Verhaag, G.C.H.M. 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

Hi, I wanted to try (using ConTeXt minimals MkIV) the example on page 228 of the MetaFun manual, dealing with typesetting in MetaPost. The code is given as: \resetMPdrawing \startMPdrawing picture pic[] ; numeric wid[], len[], pos[], n ; wid[0] := len[0] := pos[0] := n := 0 ; \stopMPdrawing \def\whatever#1% {\appendtoks#1\to\MPtoks \setbox\MPbox=\hbox{\bfd\the\MPtoks}% \startMPdrawing n := n + 1 ; len[n] := \the\wd\MPbox ; \stopMPdrawing \startMPdrawing[-] pic[n] := textext("\bfd\setstrut\strut#1") ; pic[n] := pic[n] shifted - llcorner pic[n] ; \stopMPdrawing} \handletokens MetaPost is Fun!\with\whatever But is won't run. The following message is generated: \@@toks ->\MPtoks \dodoappendtoks ->\dodoglobal \@@toks \@EAEAEA {\@EA \the \@EA \@@toks \the ... \whatever #1->\appendtoks #1\to \MPtoks \setbox \MPbox =\hbox {\bfd \the \MP... \dodohandletokenstwo *#1->\dododohandletokens {#1} \dohandletokens <argument> M etaPost is Fun! \handletokens ...ndletokens {#2}\dohandletokens #1 \end l.96 \handletokens MetaPost is Fun!\with\whatever Anybody any idea? Regards, Gerard Verhaag

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Translating PDF-files
by Cecil Westerhof 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

Properly not really a ConTeXt question, but maybe nows the answer. Someone asked me how to convert a PDF to XML and back. The reasons is that he has a PDF in English, but he likes to have it also in Russian. His idea is to convert the PDF file to XML, translate the XML file with GoogleTranslate and convert the translated XML file to PDF. He asked me how to do this. Of-course it does not have to be a XML file, if GoogleTranslate can work with a TEX file, there is no reason not to do it. Does anyone know how to do this, or has pointers about how to do this? -- Cecil Westerhof

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\getscaledglyph
by Thomas Floeren 20 Jan '11

20 Jan '11

Hi, I did a rather huge update step from my working context 2010.09.29 to the actual beta. I noted that \getscaledglyph doesn’t work anymore. I use it a lot for symbol insertions like this: \definefontsynonym [ArialU] [name:ArialUnicodeMS] \definesymbol [Diameter] [\getscaledglyph{1.5}{ArialU}{\char"2300}] \def\Diam{\symbol[Diameter]} \starttext hello \Diam\ goodbye \stoptext ( \getglyph seems to work as usual: \definesymbol [Diameter] [\tfb\getglyph{ArialU}{\char"2300}] ) Should I better change my definitions or is it just a bug? Thank you & Greetings Thomas MTXrun | current version: 2011.01.18 19:34 This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.65.0-2010121316

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\hangaround in xml mkiv
by R. Ermers 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Dear All, I am processing a docbook xml file, which works great (thanks to Wolfgang's introduction to TEI). I have some images and I want the text before and after them to wrap around. This can be achieved through the command \starthangaround .. \stoparound. Since the text that is to wrap around must be put between commands, I cannot attach the image to the figure/graphic tags that are within that text. The figure tag does not allow the para tag to be inserted, nor do other approprate media tags. Instead I attached them to the attribute 'role' of the para tag: <para role="dolce1">abcdef abcef</para> In the environment file I specified this: \xmlsetsetup{#1}{//para[@role]}{xml:chapter:para:role} The hangaround environment is put in the accompanying startxmlsetups: \startxmlsetups xml:chapter:para:role \starthangaround{\externalfigure[\xmlatt{#1}{role}]} \xmlflush{#1} \stophangaround \stopxmlsetups I also added an \xmlflush, assuming that the text itself is processed there. In a rough sense this works. There is a white angle in the text for the image. However, the image itself slides away. I am not sure what is going wrong. Has anybody got a clue? Thanks! Regards, Robert

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\definetyping to avoid wrapping lines
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Hello, is there a way how to disable wrapping (breaking) very long lines being processed by \typefile? E.g. with a \definetyping option? Kind regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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new tikz terminal for gnuplot
by Mojca Miklavec 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Dear gnuplot lovers, Peter Hedwig is soon going to submit a patch to gnuplot that fully supports ConTeXt via TikZ output. Its advantage over ConTeXt terminal is that one won't need to recompile gnuplot in order to be able to use it (the gnuplot team at least accepted TikZ terminal if they didn't accept the one for ConTeXt) which is great news. I need to fix some tiny bits before I upload a new version to ConTeXt modules (however the files are here: https://github.com/mojca/context-gnuplot) I can also commit changes done by Peter to https://github.com/mojca/gnuplot if they won't be added any time soon (but if anyone else wants to test it, feel free to ask for the files). An example of usage follows below. Here's his message (the comment about TeX Live is related to the long-standing bug in TikZ for ConTeXt; I'm just thinking about uploading a patch for TikZ to TLContrib ...): I am sorry, that it stalled a bit, but I worked on it secretly ;) But now I think it is time to release what is done so far to anyone who is willing to test it. Here is a brief list of changes to the gnuplot CVS version: * support for ConTeXt and plain TeX * removed dependencies for LaTeX packages other than TikZ * needs TikZ Version >= 2.0 * better support for saving terminal options with gnuplot 'save' command * fixed "overflow" on negative coordinates that are outside of the crop box * merged all recent patched from murphy-md and Ethan Unfortunately it is the Context output that does not compile with the most recent Context version I installed from TeXLive 2010 and the http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010/ repository. But I remember it working with an older version so I hope this can be fixed easily ... Mojca \usemodule [gnuplot] \setupGNUPLOTterminal [tikz] [width=6in, height=4in] \setupGNUPLOTterminal [context] [dashed=no] \setupbodyfont[iwona] \starttext \startGNUPLOTinclusions set format y "%.1f" \stopGNUPLOTinclusions \startGNUPLOTscript[a] plot sin(x) \stopGNUPLOTscript \startGNUPLOTscript[b] plot sin(x) lc 4 lw 2, cos(x) lw 3 \stopGNUPLOTscript \framed{\useGNUPLOTgraphic[a]} \framed{\useGNUPLOTgraphic[b]} \setupGNUPLOT[terminal=tikz] \framed{\useGNUPLOTgraphic[a]} \framed{\useGNUPLOTgraphic[b]} \stoptext

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Custom XML Pretty Printer
by Renaud AUBIN 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Hi there, See http://gitorious.org/xml-pretty-printer-module-for-context for testing. As soon as I have made more testing and some improvements (inc. cleaning up), I'll submit to tlcontrib. Cheers, Renaud

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Fwd: EuroBachoTeX 2011 -- Call for papers
by Willi Egger 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Dear list-users, I would like to draw your attention to the mail I received from the organizers of the BachoTeX-EuroTeX. Kind regards Willi Egger Secretary NTG Begin forwarded message: > From: Jerzy Ludwichowski <Jerzy.Ludwichowski(a)uni.torun.pl> > Date: 17 January 2011 21:44:56 CET > To: LUG boards <lug-boards(a)ifi.uio.no> > Subject: EuroBachoTeX 2011 -- Call for papers > Reply-To: lug-boards(a)ifi.uio.no > > Dear Friends, please forward this to your membership. > > Best regards, > > JBL > > EuroBachoTeX 2011: CALL FOR PAPERS > ================================== > > AESTHETICS AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE MESSAGE, CULTURAL CONTEXTS > > The BachoTeX conference in 2011, the XIXth of the series, will be held > from April 29th through May 3rd 2011. It will also be the official > EuroTeX conference, hence we will reference it by the traditional name > EuroBachoTeX with the distinguishing ``2011''. BachoTeX conferences have > been organized yearly since 1993 by GUST, the Polish TeX Users Group. > Please visit the main site of the conference: > http://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2011 . > > As the lead theme we propose the aesthetics of publications from the > perspective of the effectiveness of the message. Encouraged are also > references to the cultural contexts -- not everything is liked by > everyone everywhere. > > We look forward to TeX, METAPOST, ConTeXt, LaTeX, and friends related > presentations revolving around those issues, but will be more than > happy if programmers and designers of typographic systems, > typographers and other users of such systems want to share their > thoughts and experience. > > In addition, we look forward to papers on support that typography > systems can offer to the disabled, e.g., in connection with sign > languages or generating speech (e.g., from TeX's mathematical > notation). Perhaps somebody looked into issues with non-alphabetic > notations such as tablature. > > Also, please note the ``Call for TeX Pearls'' below. > > WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS > > Especially welcome are proposals for TeX-related tutorials or > introductions. If you have suggestions for tutorials or workshops > by others than yourself or about specific topics, please let us know. > > POSTER SESSIONS > > All participants will be given the opportunity to present their TeX > and typographic results in the form of posters. We will provide > exhibition space. Perhaps new ideas or solutions will emerge? > > CALL FOR TeX PEARLS > > We are continuing the tradition of ``The Pearls of TeX Programming''. > Here is, briefly, what is wanted: > > * short TeX, METAFONT or METAPOST macro(s), not necessarily useful, > > * the solution not obvious at the first glance, > > * easy to explain: necessarily 10 minutes at most. > > If you have something that fits the bill, please consider submitting > a proposal. If you know of somebody's work that does the same, please > let us know, and we will contact that person. > The email address is: pearls at gust dot org dot pl. > Previously collected pearls can be found at > http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/pearls. > > THE TeX CLINIC > > We hope that more advanced TeX ies will help out the TeX Clinic team > led by Joanna Ryćko (http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/klinika) > > DEADLINES AND ADDRESSES > > The deadline for abstracts and other proposals is March 28th 2011. > The deadline for final papers to appear in the conference materials > is April 11th. > > Contributions should be sent by email to the Programme Committee: > prog-ebt2011 at gust dot org dot pl. The PC is chaired by > Bogusław Jackowski (b underscore jackowski at gust dot org dot pl). > > The PDF version of this call is available at the conference page. > > Best regards, > Jerzy Ludwichowsi >

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what about \numero ?
by pmlists＠free.fr 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

Hello, \numero is broken (additional "n" is printed) and seems to be obsolete (comment in symb-mis.mkiv). Should \textnumero be used instead, or what else is recommended? -- Peter Münster Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] Conditional cross references to floats
by Robert Blackstone 18 Jan '11

18 Jan '11

On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:22:03 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 16.01.2011 um 20:58 schrieb Robert Blackstone: > >> Hi all, >> >> I wonder if it is already possible to perform the following task: >> >>.... can one make a sort of >> conditional reference that only mentions the page if it is not the >> present page? > > ConTeXt has a \atpage and a \somewhere command but none of them > can be used to omit the reference when the float and the reference > are on the same page but it?s not impossible. > > As you can see from this example: > > ..... >Wolfgang Thank you, Wolfgang. The code you gave, while not a fool-proof tool, works quite well. I expect I will be able to use it when figures will not be pushed away too far from their intended place in the text. I have changed "above" and "below" to "the previous page" and "the next page" respectively but that is a detail. It will still require careful proofreading anyway. Kind regards, Robert Blackstone

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