November 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with mkiv under MacOSX 7 (Lion)
by Robert Blackstone 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

On 5 Nov 2011, at 15:53 , Otared Kavian <otared(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I use also Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 with TeXShop 3.06 and everything works perfectly, both mkii and mkiv from the Minimals (everything is also fine when invoking context from the command line in Terminal). However I never succeeded using mkiv from TeXLive? > Maybe you could say how you typeset your files in ConTeXt? I use TeXShop 2.43 (which, incidentally, tells me, when I check for updates, that it is the newest version available.) with an engine that reads: #!/bin/bash source /Users/robertblackstone/context-minimal-04-11/tex/setuptex context "$1" This works on another Mac under OSX 10.6. The log file when I try to typeset the .tex-file mentioned in the first sentence below is very brief: The argument "/Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Initials/Initials-test1.tex" is not a valid TEXROOT path. (There is no file "/Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Initials/Initials-test1.tex/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex") ...ne/context-minimal-04-11/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun:10769: cannot open /Users/robertblackstone/texmf/tex/symb-uni-zapf/: Permission denied I have no idea what the folder symb-uni-zapf does in my texmf/tex directory. Should I perhaps thrash it? (I cannot change its permissions.) And there is indeed no file: "/Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Initials/Initials-Test-1.tex/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex" but why should there be one? Thanks also to Wolfgang Schuster and H. vd Meer for their quick replies that, though not offering an immediate solution, reassured me that I will eventually be able to use mkiv on this Mac. Regards, Robert Blackstone

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page number placement in multiline TOC entry
by Michael Guravage 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Greetings, At the recent ConTeXt workshop someone mentioned that they had achieved placing a pagenumber to the right of the first line of a multiline table of contents entry. Can anyone describe how to acomplish this? With kind regards, Michael Guravage

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defineselector
by Alan Braslau 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Hi, One can select between short and long figure captions (for an index of figures and the figure display itself, respectively) using a selector. The syntax is: \defineselector [caption] [max=2,n=2] % alternate {short}{long} captions \starttext \placefigure [here] [fig:reference] {\select{caption} {short caption} {long caption: bla, bla, bla.} } {\externalfigure [myfigure]} ... \startchapter [title={Figure index}] \setupselector [caption] [n=1] \placelistoffigures [criterium=all] \stopchapter \stoptext I find "\select{caption}" to be awkward as the label caption is not typeset (the convention of text between {}). Should not the syntax be rather "\select[caption]{short}{long}" or else "\selectcaption{short}{long}"? What do the experts think? Alan

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mp-chem.mpiv bug
by Alan Braslau 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

There is a (new) problem typesetting text in chemical structures. Alan Minimal example: \starttext \startchemical \chemical [ONE,Z0] [O] \stopchemical \stoptext ! terminal: (/usr/local/context/beta/tex/texmf-context/metapost/context/base/mp-chem.mpiv) >> labtype-10 ! Unknown relation will be considered false. <to be read again> ) chem_text->...XPR3));p:=p.if(labtype(SUFFIX2)>=10) :shifted(0,ypart.center.p)... chem_z_zero->...(SUFFIX2)((TEXT3),chem_do(origin)) ;endgroup <*> chem_z_zero("\dochemicaltext{O}") ; . system > tex > error on line 4 in file foo.tex: terminal: (/usr/local/context/beta/tex/texmf-context/metapost/context/base/mp-chem.mpiv) >> labtype-10 ! Unknown relation will be considered false. <to be read again> ) chem_text->...XPR3));p:=p.if(labtype(SUFFIX2)>=10) :shifted(0,ypart.center.p)... chem_z_zero->...(SUFFIX2)((TEXT3),chem_do(origin)) ;endgroup <*> chem_z_zero("\dochemicaltext{O}") ; ... 1 \starttext 2 \startchemical 3 \chemical [ONE,Z0] [O] 4 >> \stopchemical 5 \stoptext 6 \stopchemical ...erence \ctxlua {chemicals.stop()} \egroup \chemicalwidth \wd... l.4 \stopchemical

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Italic correction (line starts with comma)
by Andreas Harder 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Hi Hans, as a side effect of italic correction some lines start with an comma. \setuppapersize[A5] \definefontfeature[default][default][itlc=yes] \setupitaliccorrection[always] \starttext \showframe[text] \startbuffer {\it italic}, normal, {\em emphasized}, normal \stopbuffer \dorecurse{20}{\getbuffer} \stoptext Regards Andreas

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Export \thinspace
by Andreas Harder 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Hi Hans! If one uses the HZ-algorithm the behavior of (the exported) \thinspace depends on the line break. \definefontfeature[default][default][expansion=quality] \setupalign[hz] \setupbackend[export=yes,css=yes,xhtml=yes] \starttext \startbuffer narrow\,nonbreaking\,space \stopbuffer \getbuffer \par \dorecurse{10}{\getbuffer} \stoptext exports to: narrownonbreakingspace <break/> narrow nonbreaking … Would it be possible to export \, to  ? Regards Andreas

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Re: [NTG-context] Problems with linespacing
by Jan Heinen 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

> When “file:allerlt” doesn’t work your fonts have a different filename than mine. > What output on the command line do you get? > keima:TeX wolf$ mtxrun --script font --list --all aller* > > aller aller /Users/wolf/Library/Fonts/Aller_Rg.ttf > allerbold allerbold /Users/wolf/Library/Fonts/Aller_Bd.ttf Was my fault: I had installed both versions of aller: from daltonmaag and from font-squirell. I think that caused a conflict. I now deleted the daltonmaag-version and the typescript is running well. Linespacing is still not working in every case - I try a little bit more, maybe I find my error ... otherwise I start another thead. Regards Jannis

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Table bug in MkIV?
by Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Dear gang, It seems that \starttable has a bug in MkIV: \starttext \starttable{|c|c|c|} \HL \VL Test \VL Test \VL Test \VL\FR \stoptable \stoptext This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.71.0-2011071409 (rev 4332) \write18 enabled. (placetable.tex ConTeXt ver: 2011.11.05 01:19 MKIV fmt: 2011.11.6 int: english/english : ! Undefined control sequence. system > tex > error on line 3 in file placetable.tex: Undefined control sequence ... 1 \starttext 2 \starttable{|c|c|c|} 3 >> \HL 4 \VL Test \VL Test \VL Test \VL\FR 5 \stoptable 6 \stoptext 7 l.3 \HL ? Works in mkii (this is part of my ongoing work to port my huge mkii project to MkIV). Please advise! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shīʿī Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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No numbers with `\ref` and floats like `\placetable`
by Paul Menzel 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Dear ConTeXt folks, I am sorry for another reference related question. Using ConTeXt ver: 2011.10.14 22:47 MKIV fmt: 2011.10.15 int: english/english the following example does not work. Either no number is shown or »??«. \starttext Table \ref[][tab:reference] is a nice table. But referencing does not work \ref[tab:reference]. \placetable[][tab:reference] {The table should be set up better.} { \startluacode context.bTABLE() context.bTR() context.bTD() context("n") context.eTD() for j=1,10 do context.bTD() context("$10^{" .. j .. "}$") context.eTD() end context.eTR() t = { 1, 2, 4, 8 } for index, i in ipairs(t) do context.bTR() context.bTD() context("$n^{" .. -i .. "}$") context.eTD() for j=1,10 do context.bTD() context("\%.4f", 10^(-j/i)) context.eTD() end context.eTR() end context.eTABLE() \stopluacode } \stoptext Please find the source file and the resulting PDF file attached. Thanks, Paul

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xtreme tables repeating header
by Patrick Gundlach 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

Hi, I can't get the repeating header to work with the new extreme tables (the "new column A" should be on the second page). What is the error here? Thanks Patrick -------------------------------------------------------- \setuppapersize [a5][a5] \starttext \setupxtable [width=.5\textwidth, split=yes, header=repeat, footer=repeat] \startxtable \startxtablehead \startxrow \startxcell Column A \stopxcell \startxcell Column B \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtablehead \startxtablenext \startxrow \startxcell new column A \stopxcell \startxcell new column B \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtablenext \startxtablebody \startxrow \startxcell \vrule height 7cm \stopxcell \startxcell x \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell \vrule height 7cm \stopxcell \startxcell x \stopxcell \stopxrow \startxrow \startxcell \vrule height 7cm \stopxcell \startxcell x \stopxcell \stopxrow \stopxtablebody \stopxtable \stoptext --------------------------------------------------------

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