June 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

entity-relation diagram
by Cecil Westerhof 04 Jun '11

04 Jun '11

Is it possible to make an entity-relation diagram with ConTeXt, or can I better look for another tool? -- Cecil Westerhof

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I do not get a highlighted header with M-database
by Cecil Westerhof 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

I looked at the example at: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/M-database In this example the first row is highlighted. I tried something like that, but I do not get a highlighted first row. I attached my tex and pdf file. What am I doing wrong? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Re: [NTG-context] Problem installing minimals on PowerMac G4
by Robert Blackstone 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 17:53:34 +0200 Mojca Miklavec wrote > Where did you install the minimals? First of all: thank you for your quick reply. As usual I installed it in a subdirectory of my Home directory. I would assume that there would not be any problems of permissions. However I did chmod -R 755 in this (sub)directory but to no avail. > Can you try > chown -R yourusername /path/to/installation Yes, I did, but again the process stopped. >> (I even do not know how to abort the process other than quitting Terminal.) > Ctrl-C (a couple of times), Ctrl-D, Ctrl-\, ... or killall (but I'm > not experience enough in giving you further details). Ctrl-C did nothing but Ctrl-D set the installation process in motion again. The result is that I can use mkii but not mkiv. I clearly need to experiment a bit more. Thanks again for your advice which really helped me. Robert Blackstone

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teletype style in type-win.mkiv
by Richard Stephens 03 Jun '11

03 Jun '11

Hello all, I'm afraid I've never spent the time to understand fonts properly, I just make do with the defaults most of the time. Now, however, I am being forced to use company default fonts for some documents. I have got as far as using the following commands to setup my body font: \usetypescriptfile[type-win] \usetypescript[arial] \setupbodyfont[arial, 10pt] But the teletype style now has no effect: e.g. using {\tt teletype} gives the same font as normal, and \showbodyfont reveals the same. I've tried making sense of the type-win.mkiv file but it's beyond me! Any suggestions how to get \tt to use Courier New, for instance? Thanks, Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. http://www.converteam.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

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Problem installing minimals on PowerMac G4
by Robert Blackstone 02 Jun '11

02 Jun '11

Hi, When installing the current version of ConTeXt-minimals on my old PowerMac G4 (OSX 10.4.11), on which the minimals have been installed, and have worked, without any problems up till october last year, the process stopped midway, because the file 'metafun' could not be opened. The last lines of the log are: "TeXExec | using tex engine xetex TeXExec | using tex format path ./xetex TeXExec | unable to make format due to lack of permissions TeXExec | using mp engine mpost TeXExec | using mps format path . TeXExec | generating mps format metafun This is MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.0) ! I can't open file `metafun'. <*> metafun Please type another input file name: " Does anybody know what can be done about this? (I even do not know how to abort the process other than quitting Terminal.) Incidentally, the PowerMac has not been used between october and now. Thanks in advance. Robert Blackstone

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 84, Issue 5
by Jeong Dalyoung 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Dear Hans and Wolfgang, Thank you for the comments and samples. > What exactly do you plan to do with the language check, for simple texts your method is overkill and labeltexts are better suited, even a command which prints a text can be written in TeX without problems: > Yes, you are right. Those methods are beyonds of my normal use. For me, either \doifelse or context.setvalue is enough to set some labels depending on two languages, Korean and English. However, it is a good oppertunity to know various methods and lua codes. I didn't know that \labeltext can do the same thing. Your sample gives me a new ideas to handle them. Thank you so much. Best regards, Dalyoung

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ctx conference 2011
by Hans Hagen 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Hi, Taco and I are discussing the program of the upcoming context conference. So far we've come up with the following categories: - graphics: metapost tricks, metapost decimal / scientific numbers, basic graphs (maybe I'll upgrade the graph package to the new mp machinery), graphic conversion, gnuplot, pdf standards, etc - math (and science related) things: fonts, unicode, structured math (input and export) - accessibility: like registers (and sorting them), structure, epub production, styling, coding etc, interactivity (maybe widgets etc) - user experiences and tutorials: this can be anything If there are special demands we can try to fulfill them, so feel free to contact us. Proposals for talks are welcome, 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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[register] setup detailed formatting
by Philipp Gesang 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Hi all, according to the manual (current draft p. 238f.) the following should work: ···8<···························································· \setupinteraction[state=start] \defineregister[myreg][myreg] \setupregister[myreg][textstyle=italic,pagestyle=slanted] %% That’s what it’s about: \setupregister[myreg][alt][textstyle=bold] \starttext \myreg{one}one \myreg{two}two \myreg{three}three %% This works in mkii but not mkiv. \myreg[alt::two]{two}two \myreg[alt::zwo]{two}two \myreg[alt::zwo]{alt::two}two \myreg{alt::two}two \myreg{one}one \placemyreg \stoptext ···8<···························································· (mtx-context | current version: 2011.05.12 15:19 This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.71.0-2011060119 (rev 4285)) Mkii is fine but I seem to need this functionality in mkiv for local font switches (when entries are in a different script). Am I using this right? Any known workaround? Thanks for your help Philipp

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unusual behaviour of \if(x)
by Mojca Miklavec 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Dear magitians, I discovered this in LaTeX, but ConTeXt behaves the same (plain TeX behaves differently). Can somebody please explain me why this code fails to work? (A workaround is to move \newif on top which I'm willing to do, but I'm still curious.) \starttext \ifx\hbox\undefined \message{invisible to tex} \newif\ifabc \abcfalse \ifabc \message{abc true breaks} \else \message{abc false breaks} \fi \fi \stoptext systems : begin file iftest at line 1 abc false breaks ! Extra \fi. l.7 \fi or abc false breaks ! Extra \fi. system > tex > error on line 7 in file iftest.tex: Extra ... 1 \starttext 2 3 \ifx\hbox\undefined 4 \message{invisible to tex} 5 \newif\ifabc \abcfalse 6 \ifabc \message{abc true breaks} \else \message{abc false breaks} \fi 7 >> \fi 8 9 \stoptext 10 l.7 \fi Mojca

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\startitemize: intro ignored with columns
by pmlists＠free.fr 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

Hello, How can I avoid a page break here: \setuplayout[height=2cm] \starttext \startsection[title=test] \startitemize[columns, intro] \item bla \stopitemize \stopsection \stoptext TIA for any hints! -- Peter

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