March 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Simplefonts, \setcjk....font has some side effect on verbatim typing
by 尹冠皓 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Did I miss anything? \usemodule[simplefonts] \setcjkmainfont[whatever] \starttext \type{'} % expect ', but get ’ \type{--} % expect --, but get – \stoptext

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Creation of PDF Oddly Differs on Ubuntu and Mac OS X
by Raymond LeClair 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

All, I am using ConTeXt to create a PDF for upload to Lulu.com. I am getting the following exception using the LuLu Python publication API on Mac OS X 10.6.6 with Python 2.6.6 or 2.7.1: ServiceError: Couldn't create Lulu project. '{"error_type": "LFilesystemException", "error_value": "shell command failed: rm -rf \'/opt/stable/stable/htdocs/items/volume_69/10290000/10290657\' 2>&1\\nrm: cannot remove directory `/opt/stable/stable/htdocs/items/volume_69/10290000/10290657/1/cover\': Directory not empty", "HTTPErrorCode": 500}' Oddly, the exact same code works fine on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with Python 2.6.5. I have track down the issue to the difference between the _cover_ PDF created on Ubuntu with ConTeXt ver: 2009.11.26 16:28 MKIV and on Mac OS X with ConTeXt ver: 2010.05.24 13:05 MKIV, although the cover PDF generated on either platform appears correctly in Preview. I have posted an archive that illustrates the issue at http://www.synterein.com/lulu_context_issues/lulu_context_issue_01.zip Any wisdom out there? What should I look for next? Ray. 978-621-5755

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Defining new head & grid problem
by Bart Wise 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

The code below prints out the word "Text:" in bold and then follows with the text. However, if I turn the grid on (as is coded below), the first line of the paragraph is printed, followed by a blank line, followed by the remaining text. The blank line after the first line should not be there. If I don't use the grid, I don't get the extra blank line. Is something broken (I'm using the latest beta), or am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Bart \setuplayout[grid=yes] \definehead[paragraph][subsubsubject] \setuphead[paragraph][ alternative=text, style=bold] \starttext \paragraph{Text: } \input knuth \stoptext

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Macro for acronyms
by Cecil Westerhof 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

At the moment I have I my document: {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf M}ust {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf S}hould {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf C}ould {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf N}ot now But I like to have a macro for this, so I could just do: \Acronym{Must Should Could Not~now} Is more readable and when I want a change (for example another color for the first letter), this is much easier to implement. How should I implement such a macro? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Some problems I experienced when using ConTeXt
by Cecil Westerhof 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

In my explorary journey into ConTeXt I bumped into a few problems. Attached my tex file and the generated PDF. I found a few problems while using ConTeXt. I did my best to reproduce them (the table problem was difficult to reproduce) and make a small sample document. There is a problem with the formatting of paragraps. This manifests itself when I set lefthyphenmin and righthyphenmin. Then sometimes sentences are to long. Would it not be better to have a lot of whitespace between the words, but keep the formating? In the document the third line of the first paragraph is to long and the fifth and sixth line from the second paragraph are to long. When I use a sentence like: In de boxen van de stam vul je voor iedere dag (maandag t/m zondag) een activiteit in die je op die dag afrond. I would prefer t/m kept together. It is, but the way it is displayed, it looks like there is (a) space between the '/' and the 'm'. Is there something that can be done about this, or have I to live with it? I found also an obscure problem with table. I had to dabble a bit to reproduce it. (For a moment I thought I had imagined it.) The table does not fit on the space that is left on the page, so it is moved to the next page. So far so good. But the text after the table is put on the current page and is now before the table. It is not that they can not be put on a page together, because when you uncomment the break, the table and text reside on the same page. Lastly a question about a long click-able email address. I would like it not to be broken up. But sometimes this can happen. See the end of the document.(Can of-course also happen with a short address, but will happen less often.) What is the best way to circumvent this? At the moment I just put it centered on its own line. At the moment I do not have a problem with this. But I do not know if this will be always the case. -- Cecil Westerhof

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cals tables
by R. Ermers 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Dear All, I am struggling with the processing of cals tables in mkiv. I used the module x-cals, in different styles ([x][cals], etc.) but there is no effect, the table is not typeset. \usemodule x-cals.mkiv \xmlloaddirectives x-cals-test.cdx By way of experiment I also used the directives, but no avail either. Should I write an xmlsetup for each element, e.g. \xmlsetsetup{#1}{//thead}{xml:thead} \xmlsetsetup{#1}{//entry}{xml:entry} Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance. Robert

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How to get rounded corners and a thicker line with \startframedtext
by Cecil Westerhof 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

I am still dabbling with ConTeXt. There is a lot to learn, but it is worth it. ;-} At the moment I have (when finished I make a macro of it): \startframedtext[middle] \startalignment[middle] {\bf A goal properly set is halfway reached.} \stopalignment \blank[small] \startalignment[flushright] {\it Abraham Lincoln} \stopalignment \stopframedtext I want to use this to intersperse my document with citations. It is not bad, but I like to change two things: - I would like to use rounded corners - I would like to use a slightly thicker line to draw the box How could I accomplish this? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Fwd: The creation of a new Arabic typeface (funded by Google)
by Henning Hraban Ramm 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

From TeX-D-L: Google sponsors development of a screen-optimized Arabic font. > Graham Douglas weist in seinem Blog darauf hin, daß Google derzeit die > Entwicklung eines arabischen Fonts finanziert, der besonders für die > Darstellung auf Bildschirmen optimiert worden ist. Die Entwicklung des > Fonts wird im Blog fortlaufend dokumentiert. > > <http://www.readytext.co.uk/?p=924> > <http://shashafont.com/> Idris et al., perhaps you can teach them to include the proper OpenType magic? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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(RSFS) font installation
by Stefan Müller 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Hi, like others before, I tried to get the script alphabet from Ralph Smith's Formal Font to work in MkIV (minimals) and failed. There seems to be only outdated or unclear and unspecific information about where to start with fonts available. Or: there is information everywhere but I can't put it together. I downloaded a rsfs.zip from [1] containing .mf, .pfb, .afm, .pfm files and a .map file. It seems to be a type1 font. The manual [2] states, that a script texfont.pl can do install the font. Mojca said [3] on the mailing list that texfont is not the way to go, so I didn't try to go further in that direction. Do I need .tfm files? If so, how to get them? I put the "rsfs" directory with its subdirs from the .zip to the folder c:\context\tex\texmf-fonts\fonts\data\ as Wolfgang suggested [4] and ran "context --generate". I seems as if this did not install the font, but I have no idea. How can I check this? \definefont[rsfs][file:rsfs*default] \starttext \rsfs ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ \stoptext just gave me the alphabet in default font. Is there a way to ask ConTeXt which fonts (or does ConTeXt "know" typescripts?) it knows? In addition, I tried the example from Hans and Otared at [5] which crashes on my installation (error log appended at the end). I don't know how to proceed here. Hopefully someone from this list can assist me. Thanks in advance. Kind regards, Stefan [1] http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/rsfs/ [2] http://pmrb.free.fr/contextref.pdf [3] http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20101213.120015.795450f2.en.html [4] http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20101214.102347.a6a2216f.en.html [5] http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20100414.122529.bc3ba584.en.html mtx-context | warning: syntex is enabled mtx-context | run 1: luatex --synctex=1 --fmt="C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/cont-en" --lua="C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/cont-en.lui" --backend="pdf" "./rsfs_test.tex" This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.66.0-2011021923 (rev 4086) \write18 enabled. (rsfs_test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV fmt: 2011.3.16 int: english/english system > cont-new.mkiv loaded (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv system > beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv ) system > rsfs_test.top loaded (rsfs_test.top) fonts > latin modern fonts are not preloaded languages > language en is active (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv) (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv){C:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{C:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map}{C:/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map} system > begin file rsfs_test.tex at line 41 backend > xmp > using file 'C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lpdf-pdx.xml' pages > flushing realpage 1, userpage 1, subpage 1 system > end file rsfs_test.tex at line 57 ){C:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/lm-mathsy.enc}{C:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/lm-mathit.enc}<C:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman10-regular.otf><C:/context/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts/data/rsfs/type1/rsfs10.pfbType1: Could not understand Type1 font: C:/context/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts/data/rsfs/type1/rsfs10.pfb mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1

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[OT] VirtualWin
by luigi scarso 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called 'workspaces'). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow. http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/ -- luigi

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