July 2012 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

how to avoid CID Identity-H encoding?
by Steffen Wolfrum 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

Hi Hans, hi friends, while the PDF that are produced by MkIV show no problems, some applications that use these PDF files for post-processing have big problems with CID/Encoding Identity-H. For example (as far as I have understood) german umlauts eg. "ä" are not recognized anymore but split in eg. "a" and diaeresis (with a space between?). I was told, that other PDF creators have an option to avoid using this kind of encoding. Is this also possible with MkIV? Thanks, Steffen

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 27 Jul '12

27 Jul '12

Hi, I uploaded a beta. There is also an updated status-mkiv document: files done 644 files todo 314 files pending 21 (some day) obsolete 2 total 981 So, I have some files to go (mostly lua files) before I pick up the column thread. The memory footprint should be somewhat smaller for non cjk usage. (format generation as well as runtime) and the format file is some 10-15% smaller now. 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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Struggling with custom title command
by Steffen Fritzsche 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

Hi, my document was compiling fine with an old beta (guess it was from late may - early june). Today I updated to the latest beta and now I've got a problem with my custom chapter command: \def\ChapterCmd#1#2% #1 is number, #2 is text {\vbox{#1\blank#2}} \setuphead [chapter][command=\ChapterCmd, style={\ss\bfc}, page=right, number=yes, frame=off, placehead=yes, align=left, before={}, after={\blank[3*line]}, header=nomarking] The resulting error is: ! Argument of \ChapterCmd has an extra }. system > tex > error on line 103 in file main.tex: Argument of … Any idea what's wrong? The error message does not mean anything to me. Thanks in advance! Cheers, Steffen

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define vs setup
by Bill Meahan 26 Jul '12

26 Jul '12

I'm confused again. :\ When do you use a \defineSOMETHING instead of \setupSOMETHING ? Must something be "\define"'ed before it is "\setup" or is it the other way around or is one required or one not or.... Reading the manual and wiki just leaves me more confused since examples are given which use one OR the other but don't seem to require both. Or am I missing something again. Reading the pages for the individual commands doesn't help since it is often the case the page detailing the "\define" commands mostly seem to imply "\define" inherits from "\setup". Sigh. -- Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan USA “Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.” —Anthony Powell This message is digitally signed with an X.509 certificate to prove it is from me and has not been altered since it was sent.

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\registerctxluafile vs \ctxloadluafile
by Sietse Brouwer 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Hi all, To load the lua functions in a file mycode.lua, I can use one of these two commands: \registerctxluafile{mycode}{0.1} \ctxloadluafile{mycode}\ Here 0.1 is the version number, which is only recorded if `environment.initex` is true. As far as I can tell they differ only in this: the second command registers mycode.lua as having version number `nil`. Questions: 1. Can these commands be used ad-hoc, or should they be reserved for module-writing? (1b. If reserved, what alternative for users?) 2. Is anything ever done with the version number? 3. When is `initex.environment` true? (Approximate answer is okay.) Cheers, Sietse Sietse Brouwer

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Database module gives an error
by Rogers, Michael K 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

There is an example of an address label in Mojca'shttp://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/csv.pdf that throws an error in the current beta. I changed "\def\SendMe" to "\unexpanded\def.." which fixed one error. But now I get the following. Can it be fixed? \usemodule[database] \unexpanded\def\SendMe#1#2#3#4{\framed [align={flushleft,lohi}, width=6cm, height=2.6cm]{#1\crlf#2\crlf\crlf\uppercase{#3\crlf#4}}} \starttext \defineseparatedlist[Address][separator={;},command=\SendMe] \startAddress NTG;Maasstraat 2;NL-5836 BB Sambeek;The Netherlands Dante~e.V.;Postfach 101840;D-69008 Heidelberg;Germany \stopAddress \stoptext ! Missing { inserted. system > tex > error on line 18 in file foo9094.tex: Missing { inserted ... 8 Dante~e.V.;Postfach 101840;D-69008 Heidelberg;Germany 9 \stopAddress 10 \stoptext 11 <to be read again> \unskip \crlf ->\ifhmode \unskip \prewordbreak \crlfplaceholder \ifcase \raggedstatu... <to be read again> \uppercase \crlf MAASSTRAAT 2\crlf \SendMe \SendMe ...f #2\crlf \crlf \uppercase {#3\crlf #4} } \SendMe ...f #2\crlf \crlf \uppercase {#3\crlf #4} } l.18 \SendMe ... l.9 \stopAddress ? Thanks, Michael ________________________________ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments).

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How to draw a red frame of a row in a matrix?
by dalyoung 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Dear all, I made a matrix as follows and I'd like to draw a red frame over the i-th row in a matrix. \startformula \startmatrix[left={\left (\,},right={\,\right)}] \NC a_{11} \NC a_{12} \NC \dots \NC a_{1n} \NR \NC \vdots \NC \vdots \NC \vdots \NC \vdots \NR \NC a_{i1} \NC a_{i2} \NC \cdots \NC a_{in} \NR \NC \vdots \NC \vdots \NC \ddots \NC \vdots \NR \NC a_{m1} \NC a_{m2} \NC \cdots \NC a_{mn} \NR \stopmatrix \stopformula But \frame or \inframe is not working inside matrix. Is there a way to do that? Thank you. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Variables how-to needed
by Mari Voipio 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Hello All, I'm looking for some "for dummies" information about using variables. I tried looking for it in the wiki, but only found this "Internals" page that's a bit too advantaged to me: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Inside_ConTeXt#Using_variables I'm obviously missing something important, so I'd love to see a few more examples of variables and variable input files... What I want is price tags with the item name in Finnish and English/Swedish and then the price. These are placed on a small page and those small pages are then fit onto one A4 by imposition. Like this: Pieni nyörihaarukka, koivua %variable 1,v-descr-fi {\em Small lucet, beech} %variable 2, v-descr-en 6 eur %variable 3, v-price1 Made in xxx %variable 4, v-origin I can do the imposition, that is not a problem - and it works a lot better than a table, so no tables this way... . My data is in a list that can be converted to csv (although it'll then have a bunch of quotes to be removed), the list format is just like above: Item in Finnish, Item in English, price, country of origin. So the main problem is database/mailmerge/variablerelated: How do I (or should I) use variables to fetch this information from a separate spreadsheet type file, i.e. my price list? (IF this was MS Word or OpenOffice, it would be called Mail Merge, but in OO it sucks a bit; and I think the operation itself should be easy if I just figure out how to do it... Thank you, Mari

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Re: [NTG-context] How to draw a red frame of a row in a matrix?
by dalyoung 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Dear Otared, Henning Hraban, Thank you for the reply. \RedMath works! To use TABLE may be another solution. I will try soon. Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Small caps?
by Shriramana Sharma 25 Jul '12

25 Jul '12

Hello. I'm a veritable noob to both TeX and ConTeXT, so please bear with my ignorance. I request your kind guidance. (BTW as I use Indic scripts a lot, my typesetting engine is XeTeX.) I want to produce small caps like those I can get in LibreOffice by doing Right Click > Character > Font Effects > Effects > Small Capitals. Basically the capital letters would be shown in their regular size and the small letters would be shown as small size capital letters. Using \sc seems to select a particular font and ignore my current font selection. (I am using DejaVu Sans Condensed font.) \kap or \cap seems to produce all small caps which is not what I want -- only the small letters in the text should be shown as small caps and the capital letters in the text should be left alone. Can anyone please advise me what to do to get small caps in my current font like in LibO and other popular GUI word-processing systems? Thanks! -- Shriramana Sharma

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