August 2011 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

context on miktex problem: databases are not generated
by Ulrike Fischer 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

The context installation on miktex is (again) broken. The problem seems to be that for all trees the databases are not generated: "resolving | not saving runtime tree ..." And so context and also the format generation breaks on machines where old databases don't exists with "! I can't find file `catc-ini.mkiv'." I made some test on my context-minimals installation and found out that I can recreate in a context-minimal installation the message "resolvers | resolving | not saving runtime tree 'XYZ' I only have to remove the !! before variables in the definition of TEXMF. E.g !!$TEXMFMAIN -> cache is created, $TEXMFMAIN -> cache is not created. So it could be that a wrong "Syntax" of TEXMF is the problem in miktex. But as I have no idea how in miktex context gets the TEXMF, is there a way to *force* the generation of caches for all trees with mtxrun? -- Ulrike Fischer

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Using the width of the page with start/stop tabulate
by Cecil Westerhof 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

I am using the following code: \starttabulate[|l|l|] \HL \NC {\bf Primair} \NC {\bf Secundair} \NC\NR \HL \NC C en C++ \NC Java \NC\NR \NC Python \NC Perl \NC\NR \NC shell-script \NC Lisp \NC\NR \NC SQL \NC HTML-4 en JavaScript \NC\NR \NC \NC PHP \NC\NR \NC \NC Pascal \NC\NR \HL \stoptabulate But this uses only the necessary space. I would like to have the table using the width of the page and both columns having the same size. Is this possible? -- Cecil Westerhof

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linenumbering and text backgrounds
by Aditya Mahajan 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

Hi, Line numbering does not work well with text backgrounds (with location=paragraph). Consider the following minimal example \definetextbackground [test] [location=paragraph, alternative=0, frame=off, background=color, backgroundcolor=yellow] \starttext \startlinenumbering \starttest \dorecurse{20}{some random text} \stoptest \dorecurse{20}{continue text} \stoplinenumbering \stoptext Notice that line numbers 1 and 2 are overprinted, and so are 6 and 7. I can "fix" this by using "location=text", but that only highlights half of the last line (while I want full line to be highlighted). Any idea on how to fix this? Thanks, Aditya

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Enlarge the text height for a row on a single page
by Markus Finke 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

I need the function of \enlargethispage{\baselineskip} (= LaTeX) and can’t find anything. I want to pull back an one-row-paragraph after \fancybreak in my final typesetting process. TIA

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background over two page
by Emanuele Sacco 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hi all, I'm using context MkII. My code is \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbackground [bottomframe=on, rulethickness=1pt, rightframe=on, leftframe=on] \starttext Good: \startbackground \input knuth \stopbackground Not good: \startbackground \input knuth \input knuth \input knuth \stopbackground \stoptext The second backgrounded text is on two pages. Is there a way to not show the bottomframe at the end of the first page? thanks ES -- Al mondo ci sono 10 tipi di persone: quelli che conoscono il sistema binario e quelli che non lo conoscono.

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METAFUN's randomized operator's seed
by Marcin Borkowski 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hi, I noticed that each time I recompile a document using randomized the result is the same, so presumably the random seed is also the same. I guess this is intentional. My questions are: * Does the random seed value depend on a checksum of the tex file or something like this? * How to change it (e.g., to make it depend on the compile time or whatever)? Regards, -- Marcin Borkowski

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Runaway argument with \stoptabulate in a macro
by Cecil Westerhof 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

I have the following code: \usemodule[fancybreak] \definefancybreak[myblank][indentnext=no] \define[2]\StartWorkTable{ \myblank[2*big] \starttabulate[|w(.1\textwidth)|p(.9\textwidth)|] \HL \NC #1 \NC #2 \NC\NR \HL \NC \NC {\bf Gedaan} \NC\NR } \define[1]\ActivityWorkTable{ \NC \NC \bullet\space #1 \NC\NR } \define\StopWorkTable{ \HL \stoptabulate } \starttext \StartWorkTable{Huidig}{Senior software engineer bij Artex} \ActivityWorkTable{Teamleader voor een groep van 5 PHP-programmeurs die werken volgens scrum/agile principes. Dit team ontwikkeld grootschalige web applicaties met gebruikmaking van PHP/AJAX/Zend en HTML5. } \ActivityWorkTable{Quality Management} \ActivityWorkTable{Schrijven documentatie, zowel technische als gebruikers} \ActivityWorkTable{Definieren nieuwe functionaliteiten} \ActivityWorkTable{Installeren subversion server en definiëren werkwijze} \StopWorkTable \stoptext When I compile this I get: compileContextFiles.sh --verbose * CV.tex was already up to date mtx-context | run 1: luatex --fmt="/home/cecil/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2448223e6631addb83df348d74153606/formats/cont-en" --lua="/home/cecil/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2448223e6631addb83df348d74153606/formats/cont-en.lui" --backend="pdf" "./dummy.tex" \stoptext This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.70.1-2011051923 (rev 4277) \write18 enabled. (dummy.tex ConTeXt ver: 2011.07.14 16:09 MKIV fmt: 2011.7.19 int: english/english system > cont-new.mkiv loaded (/home/cecil/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv system > beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv ) system > dummy.top loaded (dummy.top) fonts > latin modern fonts are not preloaded languages > language en is active resolvers > modules > loaded: 'fancybreak' (/home/cecil/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-modules/tex/context/third/fancybreak/t-fancybreak.mkiv loading > ConTeXt User Module / Fancybreak ){/home/cecil/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map} fonts > preloading latin modern fonts (second stage) (/home/cecil/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv) (/home/cecil/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv) files > readfile > asked name: 'loc', not found {/home/cecil/ConTeXt/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{/home/cecil/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 ) Runaway argument? \HL \NC Huidig \NC Senior software engineer bij Artex \NC \NR \HL \NC \ETC. ! File ended while scanning use of \doprocesscontent. system > tex > error on line 0 in file : File ended while scanning use of \doprocesscontent ... <empty file> <inserted text> \par <*> ./dummy.tex \stoptext ? When I put a \stoptabulate after \StopWorkTable it compiles as expected. But why does the \stoptabulate in \StopWorkTable not work? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Problem with integral limits with Pagella
by Marcin Borkowski 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hi, this gives a very bad result (the limits overlap the integral sign): \usetypescript[pagella] \setupbodyfont[pagella] \starttext \startformula \int_a^b\frac{dx}{x^2+1} \stopformula \stoptext A similar thing happens with termes, but with LM it's okay. Am I doing something wrong? -- Marcin Borkowski

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sorted phone directory
by Johan Sandblom 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

I am maintaining a small vademecum for my workplace. One of the things it contains is a list of handy phone numbers, which should be sorted. Until now I have used the attached hack. It has worked reasonably well until the directory outgrew the one page. Before I start to modify my hack it occurred to me that ConTeXt most likely has a machinery for this already. It is a sort of register, after all. I have looked in the manual at registers and sorted lists but have not been able to find what I want. The desired specifications are: 1. columns (to save space) 2. sorted (in a correct Swedish order) 3. spans several pages Thanks for any pointers, Johan -- Johan Sandblom, MD PhD m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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timestamps with \date
by Mojca Miklavec 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Hello, I would like to add timestamps to the document. The command \date seems handy for that, but it doesn't offer any hour/minute/second keyword, or at least I wasn't able to find it in documentation. Is there some more convenient way to add current date and time to the document? Thank you, Mojac

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