September 2013 - ntg-context - NTG Mailing Lists

Problem with units and problem with libraries
by Tomas Hala 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

Hi all, recently I installed TeXlive 2013. In a document, I ran into the problem with font sizes: only points and ems operates properly in contrast to other units giving the basic (12pt) size. The same behaviour gives ConTeXt in TL2012. Older TL2011 and TL2010 are OK. Mimimal example: \starttext \def\text[#1]{blah blah --- #1: {\setupbodyfont[#1]blah blah}\par} % O.K. \text[8pt] \text[0.5em] %% K.O. \text[4pc] \text[1in] \text[12mm] \text[1cm] \text[500000sp] \text[0.5ex] \text[6dd] \text[0.5cc] \stoptext Therefore, a few days ago I tried to install the current version from the garden. Shortly after the beginning of execution, the first-setup.sh script broke down with the following error: texlua: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.7' not found (required by texlua) texlua: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.11' not found (required by texlua) It was discussed in this list on May, so I tried the following but without the password for svn I was not successful. svn co http://svn.contextgarden.net/suite/build-binaries ./do_all.sh Thanks in advance for advice, help and/or password. Best wishes, Tomas Hala

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Re: [NTG-context] Another issue with my magazine
by Mikoláš Štrajt 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

On 2013-09-04 Hans Hagen wrote: > first of all you need to switch to mkiv ... more change on tips and solutions then OK. I have switched to mkiv. What now about my head whitespace problems. -- Mikolas Strajt

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Footnote number in different font?
by J. R. Schmid 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hello List, this is a nitpick, but it's an itch that's been itching me for a couple of days now. When you put a footnote to Arabic text, the little number (like this one: ²) appears in the font the Arabic text is in, which makes it look distinct from the other footnote numbers in the text and thus difficult to identify for the eye. I'm using \setupnotation[footnote][before=\lefttoright] to keep the footnotes from appearing completely mirrored, but haven't been able to find out a way what else to put there (perhaps next to the \lefttoright) to affect the font of the little number. Is there a way to do that? Cheers, J. R.

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How to redefine \section temporaly?
by Romain Diss 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hi all, I wrote some articles with context and they contain (of course) sections. Now I have to include all these articles in a book but each article should become a section of the book. So I wonder if there is a way to convert the \section command of the article files into \subsection in the book. Minimal not working (but supposed to explain my problem) example: %%% article.tex \startsection[title=A first point] ... \stopsection \startsection[title=A second point] ... \stopsection %%% book.tex % command to make the \section of the input articles become \subsection % commands \startsection[title=My first article] \input article \stopsection %%% end I know I can change the \section commands of the article.tex into \ArticleSection and switch with \definehead[ArticleSection][section] \definehead[ArticleSection][subsection] depending of the context, but it would be better (for me) to not modify the article.tex files. Any ideas? Thank in advance. -- Romain Diss <romain.diss(a)yahoo.fr>

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Unexpected EPUB Output
by Thangalin 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hi, I ran the following commands: - context t.tex - mtxrun --script epub --make t.specification This produced the following code: <document xmlns:m="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" date="Tue Sep 3 17:29:27 2013" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" file="t" context="2013.08.17 00:58" version="0.30" language="en"> <division detail="frontpart"> *Title pageCopyright * <xhtml:a name="aut_1"><section detail="title" location="aut:1" reference="content"> <sectiontitle>Contents</sectiontitle> The "Title page" and "Copyright" page are inseparable text. I believe this is due to how the front matter is coded: \startfrontmatter \startstandardmakeup Title page \stopstandardmakeup \startstandardmakeup Copyright \stopstandardmakeup \completecontent \stopfrontmatter The front matter produces correct PDF output (with three separate pages for the title page, copyright page, and ToC, respectively). What must I do to wrap the *Title page* and *Copyright* page in separate elements, yet still produce the same PDF? Kind regards.

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letter module: File ended while scanning use of \buff_gobble
by Peter Münster 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Hi, How could I embed \startletter/\stopletter in a macro please? This does not work: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- \usemodule[letter] \def\myStartLetter{\startletter} \def\myStopLetter{\stopletter} \myStartLetter \input tufte \myStopLetter --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- TIA for any hints, -- Peter

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texlive vs. Context minimal on Windows
by john Culleton 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

I know that Context Minimals is more up to date than texlive, which is updated yearly. But texlive when installed on Windows adds a menu under "programs" that is very handy for beginners. I don't have an internet conection for my windows partition. (Some nonsense about a driver for my ethernet board.) So I ask the question: when a user downloads Context Minimals on a Windows partition what must they do to run the programs such as context and mtxrun? Go to a text console? I am writing a book about using Context for novels, so my question is not idle. About 90% of my audience will be using Windows. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" available at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Re: [NTG-context] Different counters for titles
by "H. Özoguz" 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

> \startchapter[ownnumber=1,title=chap 1] This cheat gives the chapter his own number, but the counter still counts. So for my minexample it does not work: \definehead[mychapter][chapter] \setuphead[mychapter][number=no] \setupcombinedlist [content] [list={mychapter, chapter, section}] \starttext \completecontent \startmychapter[ownnumber=0,title=Vorwort] \chapter{First Chapter} \section{Some section in the first chapter} \chapter{Second chapter} \section{Some section in the second chapter} \stoptext Still "first chapter" has the number 2 etc. Of course I could change all chapter numbers by my own with this cheat "ownnumber", but that would be inappropriate, I have many of them in my currect project, and maybe things change and then I have to change and correct all of them again and again ... Maybe this way would work too: To define a new title (same styled like chapter, but not a clone), which has no counter and to add this title "Vorwort" into the toc. Then the first "real" chapter would automatically begin with "1"?! Would that work, and if yes, how to do that? Huseyin

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outer floats on doublesided pages
by R. Ermers 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Dear all, I have problems with the placement of floats. I need them to be placed in the outer edge of the text, but Context puts them in the middle of the page. The outer, inner, outeredge, inneredge, commands do not work. Right and left do work. Preferably the criterium option should also work, e.g. criterium=0.67. A minimal test file is attached. Try it out with a dummy, or with cow picture, or with any other picture of your liking. I updated my context installation today to a bèta version. The version is: 2013.08.30 02.05. All help is welcome! Many thanks in advance, Robert %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided,location=footer] \definefloat[edgefigure][figure] \setupfloat [edgefigure] [leftmargindistance=-\outercombitotal, rightmargindistance=-\outercombitotal, default={outer,none,low,high}] \setupcaption[edgefigure][number=no] \useexternalfigure[cow][./cow.pdf] \starttext \startsection[title={insight},reference=insight] \placeedgefigure[][]{}{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[cow][scale=150]}} When the first volume of Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming was published in 1969, it was typeset using hot metal type set by a Monotype Corporation typecaster with a hot metal typesetting machine from the 19th century which produced a "good classic style" appreciated by Knuth. When the second edition of the second volume was published, in 1976, the whole book had to be typeset again because the Monotype technology had been largely replaced by photographic techniques, and the original fonts were no longer available.[4] When Knuth received the galley proofs of the new book on 30 March 1977, he found them awful.[5] Around that time, Knuth saw for the first time the output of a high-quality digital typesetting system, and became interested in digital typography. The disappointing galley proofs gave him the final motivation to solve the problem at hand once and for all by designing his own typesetting system. On 13 May 1977, he wrote a memo to himself describing the basic features of TeX.[6] \placeedgefigure[][]{}{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[cow][scale=150]}} He planned to finish it on his sabbatical in 1978, but as it happened the language was not frozen until 1989, more than ten years later. Guy Steele happened to be at Stanford during the summer of 1978, when Knuth was developing his first version of TeX. When Steele returned to MIT that autumn, he rewrote TeX's I/O to run under the ITS operating system. The first version of TeX was written in the SAIL programming language to run on a PDP-10 under Stanford's WAITS operating system. For later versions of TeX, Knuth invented the concept of literate programming, a way of producing compilable source code and cross-linked documentation typeset in TeX from the same original file. The language used is called WEB and produces programs in DEC PDP-10 Pascal. \placeedgefigure[][]{}{\framed[frame=off]{\externalfigure[cow][scale=150]}} When the first volume of Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming was published in 1969, it was typeset using hot metal type set by a Monotype Corporation typecaster with a hot metal typesetting machine from the 19th century which produced a "good classic style" appreciated by Knuth. When the second edition of the second volume was published, in 1976, the whole book had to be typeset again because the Monotype technology had been largely replaced by photographic techniques, and the original fonts were no longer available.[4] When Knuth received the galley proofs of the new book on 30 March 1977, he found them awful.[5] Around that time, Knuth saw for the first time the output of a high-quality digital typesetting system, and became interested in digital typography. The disappointing galley proofs gave him the final motivation to solve the problem at hand once and for all by designing his own typesetting system. On 13 May 1977, he wrote a memo to himself describing the basic features of TeX.[6] He planned to finish it on his sabbatical in 1978, but as it happened the language was not frozen until 1989, more than ten years later. Guy Steele happened to be at Stanford during the summer of 1978, when Knuth was developing his first version of TeX. When Steele returned to MIT that autumn, he rewrote TeX's I/O to run under the ITS operating system. The first version of TeX was written in the SAIL programming language to run on a PDP-10 under Stanford's WAITS operating system. For later versions of TeX, Knuth invented the concept of literate programming, a way of producing compilable source code and cross-linked documentation typeset in TeX from the same original file. The language used is called WEB and produces programs in DEC PDP-10 Pascal. \stopsection \stoptext

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Different counters for titles
by "H. Özoguz" 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

To solve my last asked question, I chose a somewhat easiert way and defined an own chapter-title, which is unnumbered. Here is my Minexample: \definehead[mychapter][chapter] \setuphead[mychapter][number=no] \setupcombinedlist[content] [list={mychapter, chapter, section}] \starttext \completecontent \mychapter{Vorwort} \chapter{First Chapter} \section{Some section in the first chapter} \chapter{Second chapter} \section{Some section in the second chapter} \stoptext The problem is now: Obviously the counter of mychapter and chapter is the same. Because "first chapter" begins with number 2, but should with 1 – that was the intention of this new chapter style, which is nothing but a unnumbered copy of the default chapter. Was that idea wrong? How to give chapter and mychapter their own counters, to achieve this result – or any other way to let "first chapter" begin with 1 (but not subtract 1 from the numbers, because that ends up in the first section "1.0". The first section of the first chapter should be numbered with "1.1", as usual). Huseyin

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