February 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

beta/problem with layers
by Andreas Harder 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hi, it seems there go something wrong with layers. \definelayer[test-layer][width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight] \setlayer[test-layer][preset=middle]{why is this text not visible?} \setlayerframed [test-layer] % [preset=topright] [width=5cm,height=3cm,background=color,backgroundcolor=red] {why is this text not visible?} \defineoverlay[test-overlay][\framed{test-overlay}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background={test-layer,test-overlay}] \starttext \page[empty] \stoptext Greeting Andreas

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beta
by Hans Hagen 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hi, I uploaded a new beta. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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mtxrun --find-file
by Hans van der Meer 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Why does --find-file gives an error: 106 beta: mtxrun --find-file catc-ini.mkiv ...rs/hans/TeX/ConTeXt/beta/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun:14558: attempt to call field '?' (a table value) 107 beta: mtxrun --find-file catc-ini ...rs/hans/TeX/ConTeXt/beta/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun:14558: attempt to call field '?' (a table value) 108 beta: Hans van der Meer

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\useURL broken in mkiv
by Otared Kavian 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Dear Hans, It seems that with ConTeXt beta 2011-01-31, the command \useURL is broken in mkiv, while it works fine in mkii (it worked fine until 2011-01-26 in mkiv). Here is a minimal example %%%% begin bug-useURL.tex \starttext See Prgma's site \useURL{http://www.pragma-ade.nl/} \stoptext %%%% end bug-useURL.tex and here is the error message: \nextoptionalcommandnop ->\doquadrupleemptyNOPone \douseurl <to be read again> I hope these are useful to fix the issue. Best regards: OK

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mtxrun issue in new beta
by Florian Wobbe 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hi, I get mtxrun:12090: bad argument #1 to 'gsub' (string expected, got nil) with texexec (mtxrun --usekpse) in current beta. Best, Florian

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Differences for \Vert in mkii and mkiv
by Otared Kavian 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Dear Aditya, dear Hans, I noticed a serious difference between what one gets for \left\Vert in mkii and in mkiv. Probably this is due to the fact that in mkiv the glyph for \Vert is constructed in a different manner, but as far as I know from what I see in the mathematical printed materials, the correct one, or the expected one, is the output from mkii. I join two small PDF files obtained with the typesetting of the following minimal example: %%% begin test-Vert.tex \let\|=\Vert \starttext Look at the differences between mkii output and that with mkiv: \startformula \left\Vert\int_0^1 G(\cdot,s)ds\right \|_{L^q} \lesssim \|G\|_{L^p}. \stopformula \stoptext %%% end test-Vert.tex Is there a way to redefine locally \Vert (or \|) so that in mkiv one gets the same output as with mkii? Thanks in advance: OK

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Letters in a square frame
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

Hi, How can put this "A" in a square frame? \starttext \inmargin{A} \stoptext This kind of marking (A, B, C...) can be seen in sheet music, e.g. http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs38/f/2008/336/3/2/Dr__Who_Sheet_Music_1_by_DOO… Regards, Vyatcheslav

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\date format according to ISO 8601
by Marco 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Hi, in my opinion it makes sense to display the date in ISO 8601 format. now: \date results in: January 31, 2011 ISO 8601: \date would result in: 2011–01–31 In case Hans does not like this idea, is it possible to change it to make ISO 8601 the default. Something like \setupdate [format={year, –, mm, –, day}] Regards Marco

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Image libraries / figure libraries / resource libraries
by Willi Egger 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Hello! Under MKII we had already the opportunity to create figure libraries. In the meantime Hans has added this functionality to MKIV. There are slight changes in the setup of the xml-databases and the command to create such a library is changed. I have added the new aspects to the Wiki under the existing page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Image_Database. These libraries are great, you get a good overview over images present in a project, you can find images in the library with the index, you can find info over the contained images. Further you can load an image from the library with the label given into your tex-source. I created just for testing a library containing 250 images, scans and drawings in mixed format as png, jpg and pdf. Works like a charm. Kind regards Willi

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Conversion sets broken with newest beta
by Andreas Harder 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

Hi, \starttext \startitemize[set 2] \item test \item test \item test \stopitemize \stoptext stops with ! Undefined control sequence. \@@cvset 2 ->\docheckedconversion … Can someone confirm? Greeting Andreas

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