October 2012 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

scripts
by Hans Hagen 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Hi, I wasted a whole afternoon figuring out why a job that runs ok on many opensuse machines fails on a machine that runs a debian alpha distribution (customer demand). I already had to fix all kind of startup scripts due to the fact that sh(ell scripts) are run with dash which is incompatible so maybe I should have be more suspicious towards the os instead of trying to fix the tex end. Anyhow, one thing I noticed is that setuptex doesn't seem to work ok i.e. there is something wrong with determining $OWNPATH which makes the initialization fail. Maybe some volunteer can figure that out (there are some catches for other shells in the script too so adding yet another doesn't hurt). But, the biggest surprise (if I got it right) is that in some of the scripts that I use and run from within context, the to be produced results sometimes were there and sometimes not. This got obscured by the fact that in a second run the content actually was there (it has to be fetched from a remote database) but that code like "page \pagenumber\ of \lastpage" failed to report the right last page which in fact was a side effect of the first run not using content. Okay, it got somewhat more obscured by the fact that I used --runs=2 Accidentally, by adding more tracing code, I figured out is that I pipe the messages to a log file using &> which is pretty valid in bash but not so in dash where the & puts the job in the background and thereby let the tex run carry on without waiting. So, it looks like we need to use >filename 2>&1 instead of &>filename. I checked the scripts in the context tree and so far found no occurences but first-setup.sh has two &>'s in it that might need fixing. 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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Bug in footnote conversion?
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Hello, the following example is copied from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Command/setupfootnotes: ---- \defineconversion[starred][\starredconv] \def\starredconv#1{\ifcase#1\or*\or**\or***\fi} \setupfootnotes[conversion=starred,color=blue,frame=on] \starttext Charles IV\footnote{Best Czech king (14th cent.) and the winner of a \quote{best Czech person} poll.} \it Charles IV\footnote{Best Czech king (14th cent.) and the winner of a \quote{best Czech person} poll.} \tt Charles IV\footnote{Best Czech king (14th cent.) and the winner of a \quote{best Czech person} poll.} \stoptext ---- The problem is that - contrary to wiki - no conversion from numbers to stars is performed. Any fix needed? Or a new calling convention? TIA. Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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align and location in \setupcombination
by Jeong Dal 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Dear all, In the output of the following sample, figures are left flushed. I found some discussions about the align and location in \setupcombination. "align=" is for caption and "location=middle" is for figures' location. But "align= " worked while "location= " has no effect at all. So I have to enclose \startcombination … \stopcombination in \placefigure[][]{}. How to locate the combined figures at the horizontal center? Thank you for reading. Best regards, \starttext \setupcombination[align=leftflush, location=middle] \startcombination[2*1] {\externalfigure[dummy][]}{aaaaaa} {\externalfigure[dummy][]}{bbbbbb} \stopcombination \stoptext ***** my system: Mac OS 10.8 This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.70.2-2012052309 (TeX Live 2012) \write18 enabled. (/Users/graph/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-yes.mkiv ConTeXt ver: 2012.10.19 00:06 MKIV fmt: 2012.10.19 int: english/english

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Search path for .tex files (mkiv)
by John Devereux 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hi, What is the correct way to set or modify the search path for tex files? I want to make it mode-dependent. For example, for figures I have something like \doifmode{en} {\def\FigDirLanguage{fig/lang_en}\def\DocumentSuffix{EN}\mainlanguage[en]} \doifmode{de} {\def\FigDirLanguage{fig/lang_de}\def\DocumentSuffix{DE}\mainlanguage[de]} [...] \setupexternalfigures[directory={fig,{\FigDirLanguage},{../fig},{../\FigDirLanguage}}] I want to be able to do for example \input disclaimer And have it use the correct version. (There are more complicated scenarios too). In case there is a better way to do it, what I want is to have language- or mode- specific versions of some "boilerplate" texts. These would be in individual files. Documents elsewhere in a directory tree could reference these using a standard name and it would be picked according to the set language/mode. Thanks, John -- John Devereux

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Chinese setuplabeltext
by John Devereux 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hi, There do not seem to be translations for the labels for Chinese, is that correct? Is "zh" the correct language code? \setuplabeltext[zh][figure=CHINESE_HERE ] \mainlanguage[zh] \language[zh] \starttext \labeltext{figure} \stoptext This just displays the English word "Figure". context --version mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.60 mtx-context | mtx-context | main context file: /opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.mkiv mtx-context | current version: 2012.09.16 23:18 Thanks, John -- John Devereux

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emtpy TOC (beta)
by Peter Rolf 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hi, I get an empty TOC for my document with the latest beta (works with 2012-10-19). I have deleted the *.tuc file (just to be sure), but still no TOC after a fresh run. Sorry, no small example yet. The document is the draft documentation of a not yet published module (won't compile without the module files). No time to look deeper into this, as I have to finish the documentation... Peter

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Underbar & quotation
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hello, in the following example the space before the leading quotation mark (between 'f' and '"g') is not colored: ---- \definebar[MyBar][color=green,rulethickness=2.8,order=background,offset=1.5,continue=yes] \starttext \MyBar{Abc def \quotation{ghi}.} \stoptext ---- How to make the bar color the uncolored space as well? TIA. Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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Re: [NTG-context] align and location in \setupcombination
by Jeong Dal 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Dear Marco and Wolfgang, Thank you for solutions. I have tried \startalignment … \stopalignment, but it is not working. Does it work as same as \midaligned? \startcontent … \stopcontent, \startcaption … \stopcaption seem to me a new commands. Is every command in ConTeXt changed as a form of "\start … \stop"? Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Creating a background texture with text/graphic
by Mari Voipio 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hello all! While staring at the pile of ConTeXt instruction book(let)s on my desk, I realized that I should be able to use a logo or a text to create a background texture to use in scrapbooking and cardcraft. The problem is that my skills don't quite stretch that far and I can't remember where I once saw the code for this... The logo I'm thinking of is originally an Inkscape svg file that I've this far used in ConTeXt in pdf format. Other available and compatible vector formats are at least plain svg, ps eps and pdf. Possible solution 1: to insert the logo in MetaPost and use loops, rotate, shft and randomize to create a texture. Loop+shift would make a nice alternating background, randomized with loop and 90degree rotation steps would make a denser texture. The problem: I don't know how to input the logo graphic into Metapost code. This did not work, even though the pdf is in the same directory: externalfigure "vaaka-logo.pdf" scaled 1cm; Don't know if I'm missing something here, this snippet comes from the MetaFun manual p. 199. Unfortunately I don't have pstoedit on my Mac, so the conversion trick on page 198 doesn't work for me. For text there're more ideas and I think I can handle that based on MetaFun manual p. 92 + randomize, but with the external figure I'm at loss on how to do it. Possible solution 2: ConTeXt. Insert here some code I don't have a clue about. Might be ConTeXt only or ConTeXt and Metapost/Metafun together. Inserting the graphic is no big deal in this case, \externalfigure will do that. (I got almost what I wanted by tweaking an older label/imposition file, but I have some weird margin issues there and the positioning system is not very exact and there are a bit too many things that affect the layout. I'd rather put stuff on a grid than just tweak it with the location and margin settings. That's the Word way, in the long run not the smartest way of doing things. I'm planning to use this feature a lot, so I'd rather code something that stands for longer.) Feel free to point me towards the correct wiki pages, my problem may just be that I cannot come up with the correct search term, "background" is not a very good one. And of some reason the garden is not very good at scrapbooking terms (yet). ;-) Note. On the moment I have no need to put text on top of those textures, and I'm not worried about that bit anyway, layers usually work nicely there. Now I'm interested into creating a "personilized" background texture onto which I can e.g. glue a chipboard shape or paper flower or a bit of glitter. It feels stupid to pay for so called digital stamps/textures/backgrounds when I have the tools to create some myself. Running text is easy, but using and reusing one logo would be more fun. :-) Thanks, Mari

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Possibilities for basso continuo figures in a text-line disappeared?
by Robert Blackstone 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

Hello, The code for including basso continuo figures in a text, added somewhere between may and august this year: \definelow[MyLow][style=\txx,frame=off] \definehigh[MyHigh][style=\txx,frame=off] \definelowhigh[MyLoHi][style=\txx,frame=off] \definelowmidhigh[MyLoMiHi][style=\txx,frame=off] is unfortunately no longer recognized in the minimals I installed today (29-10). They still worked in august (25-08). Have they been changed or accidentally deleted from the source? Could I have them back please? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Robert Blackstone

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