December 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Migrating from prosper to simpleslides in creating presentations
by Pavneet Arora 06 Dec '11

06 Dec '11

Hello, I am trying to put aside doing my presentations using prosper, and migrating to using ConTeXt+simpleslides. I ask this knowing full well that many would consider these features as simply adding visual noise to presentations, and normally I too eschew them, but as I am reading Jean-Luc Doumont's book on effective communications I am reminded that the primary purpose of presentations is to affect change in the audience. I am to give a presentation in a few days to a group of designers/interior decorators, and for this audience presentations using these features are both appropriate and often expected. I am looking for the equivalent of transition effects in the prosper class---the simple Wipe transition would suffice; no need for Glitter ;). The other feature that I would like is the incremental displaying of a slide, i.e., the \overlays feature. Is there an easy way to incorporate these into a ConTeXt based presentation, even if it means not necessarily using simpleslides? advTHANKSance. -- ----- - Pavneet Arora Waroc Fine Audio + Custom Home Cinema www.waroc.com 416.937.WAROC (9276)

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captions for figures -> none -> no longer working
by Ian Lawrence 06 Dec '11

06 Dec '11

Morning all, It seems the parameter {none} is no longer effective in \placefigure: From the wiki: "You get no caption with none." On at least: ConTeXt ver: 2011.11.29 23:11 MKIV fmt: 2011.12.1, this appears **not** to be the case... Anyone else - or is there some change not yet documented on the wiki. My markup worked on previous versions of the beta. ___ Minimal example % make with context /Users/Ian/SPT_PDF_context/tryouts/test_simplest.tex \starttext Hello world \placefigure[place]{none}{\externalfigure[myone]} \stoptext Thanks Ian

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GenBasR.ttf and GenBasRI.ttf are missing from minimals
by Khaled Hosny 06 Dec '11

06 Dec '11

Other Gentium files are present, but those 2 are missing. Regards, Khaled

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Passing TeX parameters to the lua functions
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

Hello ConTeXist. Sorry for the beginner question, more for Lua(TeX) experts. Can somehow be achieved that the parameter of TeX macro get to luafunction unchanged? In the debug.txt file is the result obtained. Thanx Jaroslav \startluacode debug=io.open("debug.txt","w+") function testfun(param) debug:write(param) -- tex.print(param) end \stopluacode \def\testmac#1{\directlua{testfun('#1')}} \starttext $\frac{x_\alpha+y_\beta}{z_\gamma}$ \testmac{\frac{x_\alpha+y_\beta}{z_\gamma}} \stoptext

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Bad linebreak in ToC
by Markus Finke 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

Hello, I don’t understand the behaviour in the second line – this line is not really filled, but there is a linebreak (in case of some hyphenations quite ugly too) Any solution? Markus ==================================================================== \usemodule [simplefonts] \definefontfeature [default] [default] [mode=node, script=latn] \setupbodyfont [12pt] \definefontsize [g] \setupbodyfontenvironment [default] [g=0.95] \setuplist [section] [alternative=b, width=1.2em, style=\tt\tfg] \usemodule [typearea] \setupTypeArea [alphabets=1.8] \starttext \completelist \startsection [title={Sectiontitle}, list={Sectiontitle abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc abc}] \stopsection \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] Interlinespace in layers
by Jan Heinen 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

I solved the problem myself: First I used \showstruts to se struts - and only before and after the first line there were struts. Then I added the following argument into the \setlayerframed: strut=no \setlayerframed [Kontaktdaten] [ width=80mm, height=180mm, hoffset=50mm, voffset=50mm, frame=on, align=right, strut=no] {\FontKlein\setupinterlinespace[8pt] Ich bin Blindtext ...} I don't understand this problem with the strut but I solved it :-) Regards Jannis

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Interlinespace in layers
by Jan Heinen 05 Dec '11

05 Dec '11

Hello, I am struggling with interlinespace and layers. With the help of this mailinglist I managed to use layers and to format the text in the layers. There is only one error I can't get rid of: before and after the first line of my text in a layer there ist a bigger space. In all the other lines of the text the interlinespace is ok. You can see the result here: http://www.imagebanana.com/view/gvv2twwv/paragraphinlayersetupinterlinespac… And this is my soucecode: \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[latinmodernsans] \definefont[FontKlein][Serif at 8pt] \definelayer [Kontaktdaten] [ x=0mm, y=0mm, width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight, state=start ]% size is ignored! \setupbackgrounds [paper] [ background=Kontaktdaten, state=start ]% \starttext \setlayerframed [Kontaktdaten] [ width=80mm, height=180mm, hoffset=50mm, voffset=50mm, frame=on, align=right] {\FontKlein\setupinterlinespace[8pt]Ich bin Blindtext. Von Geburt an. Es hat lange gedauert, bis ich begriffen habe, was es bedeutet, ein blinder Text zu sein: Man macht keinen Sinn. Man wirkt hier und da aus dem Zusammenhang gerissen. Oft wird man gar nicht erst gelesen.\par Aber bin ich deshalb ein schlechter Text? Ich weiss, dass ich nie die Chance haben werde, im Stern zu erscheinen.\par Aber bin ich darum weniger wichtig? Ich bin blind! Aber ich bin gerne Text. Und sollten Sie mich jetzt tatsächlich zu Ende lesen, dann habe ich etwas geschafft, was den meisten "normalen" Texten nicht gelingt.Ich bin Blindtext. Von Geburt an. Es hat lange gedauert, bis ich begriffen habe, was es bedeutet, ein blinder Text zu sein: Man macht keinen Sinn. Man wirkt hier und da aus dem Zusammenhang gerissen. Oft wird man gar nicht erst gelesen.\par Aber bin ich deshalb ein schlechter Text? Ich weiss, dass ich nie die Chance haben werde, im Stern zu erscheinen.\par Aber bin ich darum weniger wichtig? Ich bin blind! Aber ich bin gerne Text. Und sollten Sie mich jetzt tatsächlich zu Ende lesen, dann habe ich etwas geschafft, was den meisten "normalen" Texten nicht gelingt.\par} ~ \page \stoptext Though I can't imagine, what's wrong - I hope the solution is easy. Regards Jannis

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Saving module data in tuc file
by Aditya Mahajan 04 Dec '11

04 Dec '11

Hi, How does one save and read third-party data in tuc file at the lua end? I am trying to write a module t-ifchanged that defines a \doiffilechanged macro that provides the functionality of mtxrun --ifchanged without calling an external program (This is meant to be a support module for t-vim, where the external calls to mtxrun are too time consuming). I can successfully write additional data to the tuc file, but cannot figure out how to initialize the data from tuc file. (See attached file). Any hints are welcome. Aditya

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Fractions and binomial inlined in text ($n \choose \frac{n}2$): Parentheses not scaled
by Paul Menzel 04 Dec '11

04 Dec '11

Dear ConTeXt folks, using the following minimal example \starttext Using \type{\choose} in text $n \choose \frac{n}2$. \startformula n \choose \frac{n}2 \stopformula \CONTEXT\ \contextmark\ \contextversion\ with \texenginename\ \texengineversion \stoptext the parentheses of the binomial in the text or too short. I guess this is because the parentheses are not scaled when inlined and that this is also a TeX limitation and therefore expected? ConTEXt MKIV 2011.11.25 21:29 with LuaTeX 0.70.1 Thanks, Paul

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Parse error when using `\define`
by Paul Menzel 04 Dec '11

04 Dec '11

Dear ConTeXt folks, could some please try to parse the following minimal example and report back if a parse problem occurs. Please find the protocols attached. \define[1]\abs{\lvert #1 \rvert} \define\Ew{{\mathbf E}} \define[1]\ew{\Ew \left[ #1 \right]} \starttext a \starttext I am using ConTEXt MKIV 2011.11.25 21:29 with LuaTeX 0.70.1 and I have to insert `/end` manually. $ context 20111203--parse-error.tex mtx-context | run 1: luatex --fmt="/opt/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2448223e6631addb83df348d74153606/formats/cont-en" --lua="/opt/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2448223e6631addb83df348d74153606/formats/cont-en.lui" --backend="pdf" "./20111203--parse-error.tex" \stoptext This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.70.1-2011051923 (rev 4277) \write18 enabled. (20111203--parse-error.tex ConTeXt ver: 2011.11.25 21:29 MKIV fmt: 2011.11.25 int: english/english system > cont-new.mkiv loaded (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv system > beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv ) system > 20111203--parse-error.top loaded (20111203--parse-error.top) fonts > latin modern fonts are not preloaded languages > language en is active {/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map} fonts > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage) (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv) (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv) files > readfile > asked name: 'loc', not found {/opt/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{/opt/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map} fonts > virtual math > unable to resolve name mapsfromchar fonts > fallback modern rm 12pt is loaded ) *\end system > don't use \end to finish a document backend > xmp > using file '/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lpdf-pdx.xml' […] Afterward changing anything in the file like removing the defines the error will still appear. Thanks, Paul

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