March 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

setupinmargin?
by Hans van der Meer 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

The macro \setupinmargin doesn't seem to exist, although its is described in the Wiki: Minimal example: \starttext \setupinmargin[location=right] \stoptext error log: ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV fmt: 2011.3.13 int: english/english ! Undefined control sequence. system > tex > error on line 2 in file test.tex: Undefined control sequence ... 1 \starttext 2 >> \setupinmargin[location=right] 3 \stoptext 4 l.2 \setupinmargin [location=right] ? Process aborted

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Does MKIV take more time as MKII
by Cecil Westerhof 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

I installed the minimals and use MKIV. It seems that it is 1,5 to 2 times as slow as the MKII I used in texlive. Is this possible, or should there be something else that is responsible for this? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Ctx running once?
by Procházka Lukáš 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hello, is there a possibility how to let Ctx run just once, not three times (as usually), keeping in mind that TOC and/or page numbers may be wrong, just to check correctness of the document? - I have a longer document with enough MP code and I'm interested often just whether there is no error in the Ctx/MP code, so in this case a successful (= the first) run of Ctx is enough for me for that moment. - So is there a switch, e.g. "context.exe --err-check" or "context.exe --once" or something like this? Best regards, Lukas

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\expandoneargafter?
by Hans van der Meer 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

The ConTeXt system macro's used to contain a definition for \expandoneargafter (see Taco Hoekwater's article on this). What happened with it? It seems to have disappeared. A pity because I use it in my macros in several places. ! Undefined control sequence. l.3 \expandoneargafter \command{\abc} Someone who can help? Hans van der Meer

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Changes for setuptex
by Cecil Westerhof 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

To make the shell script setuptex more robust I would add at the beginning: set -o errexit set -o nounset function isVarSet() { if [[ ${#} -ne 1 ]] ; then fatal "${FUNCNAME} <VARIABLE-NAME>" return fi declare -p ${1} &>/dev/null return } And use: if ! isVarSet PS1 ; then instead of: if [ "x$PS1" != "x" ] ; then I use in my script that calls setuptex set -o errexit set -o nounset and that breaks the script. With my change there is no problem. -- Cecil Westerhof

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+ in file names
by Vedran Miletić 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Consider two .tex files located at http://www.inf.uniri.hr/~vmiletic/art-pre/ with same content: context --mode=article art-pre.tex works right, context --mode=article art+pre.tex fails with ! Undefined control sequence. system > tex > error on line 7 in file art+pre.tex: Undefined control sequence ... Should + not be used? It seems to work ok without modes, but I haven't tested deeply. Regards, Vedran Miletić

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context does not have a parameter timeout
by Cecil Westerhof 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

When using texexec I used the parameter --timeout. With context this parameter does not generate an error, but it does not have the expected result. Does context not have this parameter? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Playing with minimals
by Cecil Westerhof 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

'texexec demo-mps.tex' works, but when trying 'context demo-mps.tex ' I get: <inserted text> ...re.mp ; fi ; ;;;;]===], false)} \processMPgraphic ...e ;\!!es , \MPaskedfigure )}} \egroup \placeMPgraphic \d... \dostartMPpage ...??mg ][#1]\processMPgraphic {#2} \dostopfittingpage l.21 \stopMPpage Is that correct, or am I doing something wrong? Also demo-xml.tex I have to process with texexec. -- Cecil Westerhof

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BASH script for installing minimals
by Cecil Westerhof 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Installing minimals is sometimes a problem. Because of this I wrote a BASH script to automate it. Attached is the script I wrote to easily install the minimals. It installs in ${HOME}/ConTeXt but because I work with DRY it is easily changed. It generate almost no output: 20:47:01: fetch script 20:47:02: first setup 20:53:23: generate MKII 20:54:07: generate XeTeX 20:54:49: generate MKIV 20:55:18: Installing/updating ConTeXt took 497 seconds 20:55:18: before using ConTeXt you have to run: '. /home/cecil/ConTeXt/tex/setuptex' But the output can be found in ${HOME}/ConTeXt/install.log if needed. -- Cecil Westerhof

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Is Minimals ready for non-developers to use? (Tom)
by Tom 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Thank you for explaining this, Mojca. Knowing that it will be fixed sometime before September gives me hope. In the meantime, I think I have a workaround that, although awkward, will create a correct PDF. What I will do is create a PDF that is correct except for the TOC that Context generates, create a correct TOC PDF with another tool, then create a new PDF with the good pages from the original PDF and the bad TOC replaced by the good one. Is there a list of known bugs somewhere? That would eliminate a lot of frustration and your having to deal with problems that are already being handled. Is it possible for one to create a new font style? For example, if I have a need for two different sanserif fonts (Iwona and Helvetica for the sake of argument) to be used sporadically throughout a document. It would be nice to be able to do something like \ss1 to select the first one and \ss2 to select the second one. \ss to select the first one and \aa (or two other letters) to select the other. Thanks, Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax blog: www.TomBenjey.com -----Original Message----- From: Mojca Miklavec [mailto:mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 2:56 PM To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Cc: Tom Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Is Minimals ready for non-developers to use? (Tom) On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 14:22, Tom wrote: > Dalyoung, > > To the contrary, You have been most helpful. Installing the latest version > of Minimals worked fine but I wonder why they even advertise that there is a > stable version to be downloaded. When minimals were created, a new "stable" version was released approximately once a week. It used to be a problem to get the beta version working since beta often depended on a new version of luatex (which was also released every two/three weeks, but often not synchronized with ConTeXt releases). Now Hans only releases a stable version twice a year or so. The problem is that minimals have not been designed with that in mind and there is only a single version of texmfcnf.lua and only a single version of luatex binary. Consequently minimals can only work either with beta or with current when the two versions diverge, but not with both and beta has priority. I need to change the way the distribution works entirely, from the grounds up (I have many parts ready, but not ready to publish yet). An easy solution would be to create another mirror and only provide a working current version there. > I guess they mean a stable version of MKII. > I had the same experience that you had with the Introduction not showing up > in the TOC. Do you know how to report a bug? You don't need to report it. I'm aware of that flaw. I could do a temporary fix, but I would prefer to fix it properly. I'm sorry that it alredy took me several years to address those issues, but I promise to fix it before the conference. Properly. You also need to keep in mind that even though it is advertized as stable, bugs won't be fixed (many project often have at least two branches of development - one for fixing the released version and one for real development; the released version should get bugfixes, but in context development that doesn't and won't happen unless some volunteer starts carefully checking the new code and only applies bugfixes to the stable version). So most people that use ConTeXt actively need bugfixes very often and the only way to get the bugs fixed is to use the latest version. Well, latest version comes with its own bugs, but at least you have a chance to get them fixed quickly. Mojca

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