December 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Pagemakeup? Was Re: Layers + simplefonts: Using different font in layers?
by Mari Voipio 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 16:52, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > \placelayer use the area of the current block (in this case the text are), one way out of this is to use the “pagemakeup” environment where all margins are set to 0pt. "There were no results matching the query. Create the page "pagemakeup" on this wiki!" i.e. the Garden can't help here - anybody have time to give me a quick "pagemakeup for dummies"? I should be fairly content with couple of minimal examples, mostlyI manage to elaborate from there once I get the first thing working. Thanks, Mari

3 2

OT: How to reference the ConTeXt project?
by Paul Menzel 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Dear Hans and ConTeXt folks, how do you want me to reference ConTeXt? Is there an article you prefer or should I just use the reference manual or the Wiki? Hans Hagen and others (2011), http://contextgarden.net/ Thanks, Paul

1 0

gnuplot: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %
by Paul Menzel 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

Dear Mojca and ConTeXt folks, I compiled gnuplot 4.5 from source (master) and got everything running. Mojca, thank you so much! Trying the example from the gnuplot page in the Wiki [1] \usemodule[gnuplot] \setupGNUPLOT[terminal=mp,option=color] % general settings for the whole document \startGNUPLOTinclusions # you may use TeX commands to format the titles and axes set title '\bf Trigonometry' set xlabel '$x$' set ylabel '$y$' set format y '\%.1f' \stopGNUPLOTinclusions \startGNUPLOTscript[tan] plot tan(x) t '$\tan(x)$' \stopGNUPLOTscript \startGNUPLOTscript[sin] plot 4*sin(x)+x t '$4\sin(x)+x$', x t '$x$' lt 3 \stopGNUPLOTscript \useGNUPLOTgraphic[tan] \useGNUPLOTgraphic[sin][width=10cm] even with the comments removed as above I get the following though. [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] ! Undefined control sequence. l.66 \0 .0% ? [1.1] ! Undefined control sequence. l.71 \1 0.0% ? [1.1] ! Undefined control sequence. l.76 \2 0.0% ? [1.1] ! Undefined control sequence. l.81 \3 0.0% ? ^C! Interruption. <to be read again> 0 l.81 \30 .0% ? I hope that is not related to the used ConTeXt version. ConTeXt ver: 2011.11.25 21:29 MKII fmt: 2011.11.25 int: english/english Actually I hope that it is since then upgrading would fix my issue. ;-) Thanks, Paul [1] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Gnuplot

3 7

gnuplot module
by Mojca Miklavec 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

(was: gnuplot: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %) (sorry, but it was too long to keep it all in title :) On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 01:30, Paul Menzel wrote: > > Thank you for the follow up. I just blindly copied the example from the > Wiki and did not pay any attention. In my thesis, I of course use the > ConTeXt terminal. What is the thesis going to be about? (I just noticed that mptopdf complains about missing bibtex files. :) > PS: Do you have a BibTeX entry for your gnuplot module? Do you suggest me to publish an article about the terminal in arXiv, to get at least some citations by the time when I need to submit my thesis? :P But no, I don't have it. I could try to create one though, but I'm not even sure what the webpage should be. Many scientific programs just ask to cite their first article in some scientific journal if one uses the software, but I neither have an article nor homepage apart from that (still outdated) wiki page. There is some additional documentation on https://github.com/mojca/context-gnuplot/tree/master/texmf/doc/context/thir… (possibly also in minimals, but I'm not sure when I last synced the version), but even that is outdated now since they required from me to strip down terminal options parsing code. Mojca

2 1

Re: [NTG-context] Number formatting in \unit
by Robin Kirkham 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

On 11 December 2011, Xenia <yoraxe(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 11.12.2011 11:25, schrieb Robin.Kirkham(a)csiro.au: >> All, >> >> I have put together some suggestions to extend the number formatting >> capability in \unit, particularly for scientific and engineering purposes, >> including basic support for tolerances and uncertainties. >> >> It is a bit long, so source is attached and a PDF is at >> >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36891398/units6.pdf >> >> Of course, this is just my opinion, so I welcome any feedback from the list. > > I like your suggestions. Especially the current handling of `e-23` etc. > is not intuitive but rather confusing and does not meet the standard. > > I do not know if there is already a solution for automatically > shortening the number of digits in the output, but that would be nice, too. > > Xenia Yes, I thought about that, of course, but did not put it forward because to do it properly the correct numeric rounding/significant figures rules should be applied, and that I guess means the Lua code needs to interpret the number, rather than just treat it as a sequence of digits. However if the Lua code did interpret the number into an internal format it would enable other things like normalisation to scientific or engineering form, etc. However the internal format would have to support arbitrarily long numbers and exponents ... Lua's built-in internal number format (a double precision float, I think) would not do, so there would be a bit of coding involved. Robin

1 0

mptopdf and btex ... etex (was: gnuplot: `! Undefined control sequence.` with format specifier %)
by Mojca Miklavec 12 Dec '11

12 Dec '11

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 01:02, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > ... however I still have some problems. For some reason ConTeXt only > generates dvi files from metapost code which has never been the case > before. I need to figure out what is going on. Ouch. > mtxrun mptopdf gptest-gnuplot-2-mp.mp MPtoPDF 1.4.1 : running 'mpost --mem=mpost gptest-gnuplot-2-mp.mp' This is MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.0) (mpost.mp (/context/tex/texmf/metapost/base/plain.mp Preloading the plain mem file, version 1.004)) (./gptest-gnuplot-2-mp.mpTeXExec | processing graphic './gptest-gnuplot-2-mp.mp' TeXExec | using internal mptotex converter TeXExec | processing document './gptest-gnuplot-2-mp-temp.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | writing option file gptest-gnuplot-2-mp-temp.top ... (./gptest-gnuplot-2-mp.mp [0 Warning: cannot open font map file psfonts.map ] metafun ii 2011-12-12 01:03 ) ) (end occurred when else on line 5 was incomplete) 1 output file written: gptest-gnuplot-2-mp.0 Transcript written on gptest-gnuplot-2-mp.log. TeXExec | runtime: 0.835873 [0] ) 1 output file written: gptest-gnuplot-2-mp.0 Transcript written on gptest-gnuplot-2-mp.log. This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 2009) \write18 enabled. entering extended mode [MP to PDF] (./gptest-gnuplot-2-mp.0{/Users/mojca/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/p dftex/plain/pdftex.map}) [1] !pdfTeX error: pdftex (file rm-lmr12): Font rm-lmr12 at 600 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! MPtoPDF 1.4.1 : error while processing tex file It seems that half of the time content is processed with ConTeXt and half of the time it is processed with plain pdfTeX. I need to inspect. In TeX Live 2011 it works since pdftex.map is complete. I could in theory extend pdftex.map, but I need to figure out which step in mptopdf is failing anyway. Mojca

1 0

MetaFun: MetaPost example works with `mpost` but not embedded in ConTeXt: `! Redundant equation.`
by Paul Menzel 11 Dec '11

11 Dec '11

Dear ConTeXt folks, looking for graphics example and therefore searching the list I found the answer from David Arnold in the ntg-context list thread »OT: looking for metapost/fun examples« [1]. It is for plain MetaPost and works fine with `mpost` after making sure to remove the line breaks inserted by the mail program. I then copied it into `\{start,stop}useMPgraphic`, removed the `end ;` and `{begin,end}fig` and replaced `{e,b}tex` by `textext()` but still get the following error. ! terminal: ! Redundant equation. <to be read again> ; <*> ...500; dt:=(tstop-tstart)/N; (b-a)*ux=1.75in; (d-c)*uy=1.75in; q=(a,c)-... ! Redundant equation. <to be read again> ; <*> ...start)/N; (b-a)*ux=1.75in; (d-c)*uy=1.75in; q=(a,c)--(b,c)--(b,d)--(a... . system > tex > error on line 39 in file arnold-2005.tex: terminal: ! Redundant equation. <to be read again> ; <*> ...500; dt:=(tstop-tstart)/N; (b-a)*ux=1.75in; (d-c)*uy=1.75in; q=(a,c)-... ! Redundant equation. <to be read again> ; <*> ...start)/N; (b-a)*ux=1.75in; (d-c)*uy=1.75in; q=(a,c)--(b,c)--(b,d)--(a... Does someone have an idea why this fails and how to fix it? Thanks, Paul [1] http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2005/009928.html

2 1

Arabic transliteration—ayn and alif (MKII)
by Alan Bowen 11 Dec '11

11 Dec '11

What is the best way to produce ayn and alif in transliterated Arabic using MKII (Latin Modern)? ACB

2 1

wider right margin when it shouldn't be
by Pablo Rodríguez 11 Dec '11

11 Dec '11

Hi there, compiling this document: \setuppapersize[A4] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=singlesided,location=middle] \starttext \showsetups \dorecurse{4}{\input dawkins \par \input knuth \par} \stoptext I should get the exact same length for left and right margin (defining margin as the total distance from the page edge to the text body edge [sorry, it isn't as accurate as it should, but I would like to avoid misunderstandings]). Setups show also that margin width and distance are equal for both sides. What I see on my laptop (and what I have seen on the printed version) is that the right margin is wider than the left one. Is there something wrong or which is the measure I'm missing? Thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

2 1

orphan and widow lines
by Pablo Rodríguez 11 Dec '11

11 Dec '11

Hi there, I have been using ConTeXt for some months and one of the things I cannot control is orphan or widow lines appearing in my documents. Isn't there a general method to avoid them? (This should set ragged bottoms, but I'd rather have ragged bottoms than orphan or widow lines.) Thanks for your help, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk

2 2