June 2012 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

even odd page condition
by Pavel Dohnal 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Hello, is it possible to find if you’re on an odd or an even page in context? I want to do something like this: \def\makemytext#1{ %if page is even \rightaligned{#1} %else \leftaligned{#1} } Thanks for the answer. Pavel Dohnal

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line break after “/” (no hyphen)
by Alan Bowen 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

I dimly recall discussion of linebreaking after “/”, but have not been able to retrieve it from the archives. Can any one point to an explanation of how to make “/” a character that will admit a following linebreak (without hyphenation) in MKII? The aim is to break “….Montreal/Ottawa”, say, into “ …..Montreal/ Ottawa…...” Alan

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beta
by Hans Hagen 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Hi, I uploaded a beta that has a (first) update/cleanup of the context runner script. The most important changes are - no longer an option file (jobname.opt) - no longer stub files (for xml and cld) - handling of (most of the) ctx files happens elsewhere (job control) In principle all this should go unnoticed, although one might notice the difference in the call to luatex. 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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ntg-style error
by Meer, H. van der 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Using the NTG-style to reprocess an older article I get the following error: ConTeXt ver: 2012.03.10 13:15 MKIV ... ! Undefined control sequence. ... system > tex > error on line 358 in file exammaps2.tex: Undefined control sequence ... \setupfootnotedefinition ->\setupnotedefinition [\v!footnote ] l.358 \setupfootnotedefinition The style file is marked: %\module [ % file=s-map-se, % version=2005.02.03, % title=\CONTEXT\ Style File, % subtitle=\MAPS\ basis stijl, % author={Hans Hagen, Taco Hoekwater and Siep Kroonenberg}, % date=\currentdate, % copyright={NTG / MAPS}% %] Some change in the style file needed? Hans van der Meer

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postponing conflicts with footnotes
by Henning Hraban Ramm 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Me again... If a footnote doesn’t fit on the same page as its anchor, it gets placed on the next page - even if that’s a postponed one. I’d like to keep my postponed pages free of interfering text. \starttext \startpostponing[3] This page incidentally left blank. \page \stoppostponing \dorecurse{10}{ Weit hinten, hinter den Wortbergen, fern der Länder Vokalien \footnote{\input tufte} und Konsonantien\footnote{\input zapf} leben die Blindtexte. Abgeschieden wohnen Sie in Buchstabhausen an der Küste des Semantik, eines großen Sprachozeans. Ein kleines Bächlein namens Duden\footnote{\input knuth} fließt durch ihren Ort\footnote{Ort} und versorgt sie mit den nötigen Regelialien. Es ist ein paradiesmatisches Land, in dem einem gebratene Satzteile in den Mund fliegen. Nicht einmal von der allmächtigen Interpunktion werden die Blindtexte \footnote{Blindtext} beherrscht – ein geradezu unorthographisches Leben. Eines Tages aber beschloß eine kleine Zeile Blindtext, ihr Name war Lorem\footnote{\input dawkins} Ipsum, hinaus zu gehen in die weite Grammatik. Der große Oxmox\footnote{ox pollox} riet ihr davon ab, da es dort wimmele von bösen Kommata, wilden Fragezeichen und hinterhältigen Semikoli, doch das Blindtextchen ließ sich nicht beirren. Es packte seine sieben Versalien, schob sich sein Initial in den Gürtel und machte sich auf den Weg. Als es die ersten Hügel des Kursivgebirges erklommen hatte, warf es einen letzten Blick zurück auf die Skyline\footnote{Esmane} seiner Heimatstadt Buchstabhausen, die Headline von Alphabetdorf und die Subline\footnote{sublime} seiner eigenen Straße, der Zeilengasse. Wehmütig lief ihm eine rhetorische Frage über die Wange, dann setzte es seinen Weg fort. } \stoptext Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Bistream Charter without any tfm files default font for MAPS style
by Mojca Miklavec 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Hello, Dick just asked me about a problem he experiences with some documents that he ships with MacTeX. One of them is Hans' article using MAPS style. It fails to work with both LuaTeX and pdfTeX. The first one because of that footnote definition and the second one because of Charter being the default font, something like: % type-one.mkii \starttypescriptcollection[charter] \starttypescript [serif] [charter] [ec,texnansi,8r] \definefontsynonym [Charter-Roman] [\typescriptthree-bchr8a] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym [Charter-Italic] [\typescriptthree-bchri8a] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym [Charter-Bold] [\typescriptthree-bchb8a] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym [Charter-BoldItalic] [\typescriptthree-bchbi8a] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym [Charter-Slanted] [\typescriptthree-bchr8a-slanted-167] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym [Charter-BoldSlanted][\typescriptthree-bchb8a-slanted-167] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym [Charter-Roman-Caps] [\typescriptthree-bchr8a-capitalized-800] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \loadmapfile[\typescriptthree-bitstrea-charter.map] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [charter] [name] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Charter-Roman] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Charter-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Charter-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Charter-BoldItalic] \definefontsynonym [SerifSlanted] [Charter-Slanted] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldSlanted] [Charter-BoldSlanted] \definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [Charter-Roman-Caps] \stoptypescript \stoptypescriptcollection % maps style \starttypescript [map] [texnansi] \definetypeface[map][rm][serif][charter][default][encoding=\typescripttwo] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[map][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[map] \starttext test \stoptext Of course no given distribution provides "texnansi-bchb8a" and other tfm files at the moment, so the sample documents that Dick is providing are broken. I think it is a very bad idea to ship two broken documents as "see, here are two documents to show you what you can(not) do with ConTeXt". And then it breaks the very first moment when people try to compile it, give up, and never test ConTeXt again. On one hand we could replace the sample documents (looking for suggestions), but I think that those Charter definitions should really be replaced or fixed. What is the best way to do that? I'm not even sure where they came from except that Hans probably used texfont.pl one day to prepare tfm files ... TeX Live contains bchb8r CharterBT-Bold " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <bchb8a.pfb bchbi8r CharterBT-BoldItalic " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <bchbi8a.pfb bchbo8r CharterBT-Bold " .167 SlantFont TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <bchb8a.pfb bchr8r CharterBT-Roman " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <bchr8a.pfb bchri8r CharterBT-Italic " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <bchri8a.pfb bchro8r CharterBT-Roman " .167 SlantFont TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc <bchr8a.pfb and on my hard drive I have /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter/bchb8a.afm /usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/mathdesign/mdbch/bchb8a.afm but the font is not even closely covering EC and there are no texnansi tfm files in TeX Live. Taco - is the font actually used in MAPS? Mojca

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problem with switchtobodyfont
by Brian Landy 06 Jun '12

06 Jun '12

Hi, I decided to give the latest minimals a test (I had been using 2012.01.16, updated to 2012.06.05 today), and noticed that switchtobodyfont no longer seems to work properly. Here is a small example: \starttypescript [cleartype] \definetypeface [\typescriptone] [rm] [serif] [constantia] [default] \definetypeface [\typescriptone] [ss] [sans] [calibri] [default] \stoptypescript< \usetypescript[cleartype]% \starttext {\switchtobodyfont[cleartype,serif,24pt]should be serif\par} {\switchtobodyfont[cleartype,sans,24pt]should be sans\par} \stoptext The problem appears to be applying in a font size the first time the font is loaded. For example, adding this line works: % typescript \starttext {\switchtobodyfont[cleartype,serif]\switchtobodyfont[24pt]} % new line {\switchtobodyfont[cleartype,serif,24pt]should be serif\par} {\switchtobodyfont[cleartype,sans,24pt]should be sans\par} \stoptext The point sizes have to match for this to work. It also works to add in \setupbodyfont[cleartype]; however, this isn’t helpful if there are multiple typescripts to use in the same document. I didn’t notice any mention of this in the list (apologies if I overlooked it) so assume this is a bug? Thanks! Brian

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A problem with arranging pages
by Marcin Borkowski 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

Hi, I'm preparing a leaflet in ConTeXt. The leaflet is typeset in a landscape orientation on an A6 sheet, and it is going to be printed 8 times on an A3 sheet. My problems are: 1. How to achieve such an effect using \setuparranging? \setuparranging[2*8] didn't work for me. (I'm using MkIV; below is a minimal example showing my problem.) \setuppapersize[A6,landscape][A3] \setuparranging[2*8] \starttext \dorecurse{15}{\input knuth } \stoptext 2. I'd like to get crop marks, in this case short (5mm) lines showing where to cut the sheet, located near the borders, but *within* the printable area. How to achieve this? Thanks in advance -- Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl

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request for two typical ConTeXt documents for newbies for MacTeX
by Mojca Miklavec 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

Hello, I have a tiny request. Can someone please suggest/provide a few typical ConTeXt documents, something that shows what ConTeXt can do, and/or is easy to understand at the same time. Dick includes those documents into MacTeX. Last year Hans sent a MAPS article describing LuaTeX tricks, but given some problems in MAPS style the document doesn't even typeset, but even after those problems are fixed, it would be nice to include a simple self-explanatory document showing off some functionality that is easy to achieve in ConTeXt (little & understandable code) and more difficult in pdfLaTeX. Basically anything to impress and keep a curious newbie. Mojca

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Error message (cont-yes.mkiv)
by Wolfgang Schuster 05 Jun '12

05 Jun '12

Hi, the new error message in the last beta isn’t very helpful. Example: \starttext \undefined \stoptext Terminal output: ! Undefined control sequence. system > tex > error on line 2 in file /Users/wolf/context/beta/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-yes.mkiv: Undefined control sequence ... 1 %D \module 2 >> %D [ file=cont-yes, 3 %D version=2012.06.01, 4 %D title=\CONTEXT\ Miscellaneous Macros, 5 %D subtitle=Startup Stub, 6 %D author=Hans Hagen, 7 %D date=\currentdate, 8 %D copyright={PRAGMA ADE \& \CONTEXT\ Development Team}] 9 %C 10 %C This module is part of the \CONTEXT\ macro||package and is 11 %C therefore copyrighted by \PRAGMA. See mreadme.pdf for 12 %C details. l.2 \undefined ? Wolfgang

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