June 2013 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

2013.03.21 broken nightly?
by Kip Warner 14 Jul '13

14 Jul '13

Hey list, The last few nightlies, including the most recent one I have installed, 2013.03.21, keeps bailing when attempting to typeset one of my documents with the same error: ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \????sf :\v!style :\v!serif \setvalue #1->\expandafter \def \csname #1 \endcsname l.256 \setvalue{\????sf:\v!style :\v!serif } {rm} E ? You want to edit file /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/third/simplefonts/t-simplefonts.mkvi at line 256 mkiv lua stats > used config file: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua ! LuaTeX error <local type = type...>:21: attempt to concatenate a table value. <argument> \????sf :\v!style :\v!serif \setvalue #1->\expandafter \def \csname #1 \endcsname l.256 \setvalue{\????sf:\v!style :\v!serif } {rm} The line it is referring to contains the following: \setvalue{\????sf:\v!style :\v!serif }{rm} I hope that is helpful. PS Please cc me, as my subscription is not currently active. -- Kip Warner -- Software Engineer OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred http://www.thevertigo.com

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[***SPAM***] Headers on Empty Page at End of Chapter
by Malte Stien 05 Jul '13

05 Jul '13

Hello, When you setup your chapters such that a chapter always starts on a right page, you naturally get the occasional empty left page just before that. I have my headers setup like this \setupheadertexts[chapter][section] I get the chapter and section name of the previous section printed in the header of that empty page, but I want that page just empty. Is there a way? Regards, Malte. -- “The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.” ― Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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Having text overflow an image
by Sander Maijers 04 Jul '13

04 Jul '13

I have a few large plots that each should take up an entire landscape A3 paper sheet. There is a heading above it. Can I print it on top of the image (overflowing it)? Example code: \setuppapersize[A3,landscape][A3,landscape] \setuplayout[topspace=10mm,header=0mm,footer=10mm] \part[appendices]{Appendices} \appendix[visualization_relations]{A: Visualizations of the relations between perplexity, WER} \subappendix{A-1: Scatterplot of perplexity (LM\low{baseline} and LM\low{skip})} \placefigure [force] [scatterplot_of_PPL] {Scatterplot of perplexity (LM\low{baseline} and LM\low{skip}).} {\externalfigure[/tmp/scatterplot_of_PPL.svg][factor=fit]}

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Re: [NTG-context] Overriding pdfview
by Pavneet Arora 30 Jun '13

30 Jun '13

Exactly what I was thinking: pavneet@darjiling:~$ more .mailcap application/pdf; evince %s I like evince because it also doesn't lock the PDF file, and auto-refreshes the view when updated. It also has/can have a space efficient toolbar structure, which works great on my little netbook: Asus EEE 701 running Bodhi Linux off an SD card---my favourite writing environment by far. So no wrapper needed except for first invocation which puts evince in the background. My own work environment is a bit like an old-school IDE: - tmux with side-by-side panes for vim editing and document compilation. - different tmux "windows" for different documents being worked on. - evince on one of the adjacent workspace to preview. <CTRL><ALT><RIGHT|LEFT> to quickly switch back and forth from edit-compile to test workspaces. > Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 13:25:06 -0400 (EDT) > From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam(a)umich.edu> > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Overriding pdfview > Message-ID: > <alpine.LNX.2.02.1306271320220.24744(a)ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Or, simple read the mailcap preference or use a program such as > run-mailcap or see which choose the viewer based on mailcap > preferences. > > I am half joking here; don't go down this route. One can simply leave it > to the user to write a wrapper to context that calls the PDF viewer when > context is finished. > > Aditya -- ---- Pavneet Arora m: 647.406.6843 Waroc Informatik t: 416.937.9276

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Possible bug with new \start ... \stop way for title, chapter, subject, etc.?
by Andres Conrado Montoya 29 Jun '13

29 Jun '13

I was trying to implement the solution provided by this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg51152.html and it works very well. However, finding a problem related to this implementation, I found that the output of the new \start ... \stop versions of the title, section, chapter, subject, etc. commands is different from the old \title, \chapter, \subject, etc. As you can see in the following MWE, the new implementation indents the first paragraph of the given section, by some amount (even different from the default for paragraphs). Is this a bug or a new feature that I don't understand? mtx-context | current version: 2013.06.10 22:51 %******** START MWE **********% \setuplayout[grid=yes] \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided,location={footer,center}] \showgrid \setupindenting[yes,big,next] \usemodule[lettrine] \define[2]\SectionCommand {\inoutermargin{#2}} \setuphead [title,subject] [page=no, alternative=text, command=\SectionCommand, distance=0pt, style={\tf\sc}, before={\blank[line]}] \starttext \title{Knuth} With title: \input knuth\par \starttitle[title={Tufte}] With starttitle: \input tufte\par \stoptitle \subject{Knuth} With subject: \input knuth\par \startsubject[title={Tufte}] With startsubject: \input tufte\par \stopsubject \stoptext %******** STOP MWE ************%

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french character spacing in footnotes
by Alan Bowen 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

The following code has the right character spacing spacing in the body text but not in the footnote. \startcomponent Test \mainlanguage[fr] \setcharacterspacing[frenchpunctuation] Le début est lacunaire; le début est lacunaire: le début est lacunaire. Est-ce que le début est lacunaire? \quote{Il n’y a pas de titre final}?% \footnote{Le début est lacunaire; le début est lacunaire: le début est lacunaire. Est-ce que le début est lacunaire? \quote{Il n’y a pas de titre final}?} \stopcomponent I am running the latest standalone. Any suggestions? Alan

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Cloze Text (text with gaps)
by Christian Prim 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

Hi list I wonder if I can typeset a cloze text using context. The gaps (__________) must have a given length (say in cm or the length of a given word, given sentence) and must break at the end of a line. \hl[4] is nice but won't do the trick since it won't break. \fillinline and others fill the hole line, but I only want to fill a given size. Are there some ideas how to deal with it? Example: The name of the _____________ is _____ ________. And now it's time to go to bed. Some more text..... Hope you get the point. Thanks in advance Christian PS.: For Latex there is a package: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/79689/control-ulines-for-cloze-text

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[fontloader] cached fonts have invalid tounicode values
by Akira Kakuto 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

Hi Philipp, > I’ve traced it to luatex-basics-gen.lua. luaotfload-basics-gen.lua and luaotfload-merged.lua? Thank you very much. Akira

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Re: [NTG-context] Overriding pdfview
by Keith J. Schultz 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

Hi All, I have been following this thread with some amusement. There is no real optimal answer to this question short of developing a dedicated pdfviewer for ConTeXt. But, is this the best use of our resources. Furthermore, how about a dedicated editor? ;-)) (just joking, but I am sure somebody would come with the idea eventually, once we start down this path) As a Mac user, and one that shys away from using X. I use TeXShop. TeXShop has a multiplatform counterpart TeXWorks, distributed with TeXLive. It has a integrated pdf viewer with SyncTeX functionality. Its pdf viewer is based on Poppler. How good it is I can not say. But, it should not be two hard to extract it and turn it into a standalone. I think it could work as an adequate viewer. If someone then needs to use something better they can write the scripts they need themselves. Maybe, the TeXWorks guys could help. regards Keith

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how to use \dimexpr and fractional values
by Thomas A. Schmitz 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

Hi all, long story short: I want to calculate a width or height from user input, which is in the form "0.x" (as in "0.3\textwidth") since I want to use that number differently in different circumstances. Problem is that \dimexpr doesn't like decimal values. Example (uncomment second \externalfigure to see the problem): \starttext \def\myfactor{0.3} \externalfigure[mill][height=\myfactor\textwidth] %\externalfigure[mill][height=\dimexpr10cm*\myfactor\relax] \stoptext (silly, but shows my problem). How can I obtain an image of height "0.3*10cm" from my \myfactor macro? I tried to get my head around \numexpr etc. in the etex manual, but couldn't really figure out what to do. Thanks, and all best Thomas

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