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Lua script not registered
by John Kitzmiller 02 Dec '11

02 Dec '11

Hello. Trying to make my first doc with ConTeXt (Win7, standalone install) I get the error: context: The Lua script is not registered context: Data: context and I am taken back to the command prompt. Nothing is produced. Any ideas? What did I overlook? After `texing otherwise for years I am really looking forward to diving into ConTeXt. Thanks, John

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Why does the oldstyle numerals switch, \os, also switch off m-dashes?
by Pavneet Arora 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

I enclose a minimal example as well as the output. It would seem that the \os causes the m-dash to come out as three hyphens. Is this the expected behaviour? advTHANKSance. -- ----- - Pavneet Arora

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metapost question
by Hans van der Meer 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

In MetaPost: After putting something in a picture, one can draw its boundaries with "draw boundingbox thepicture". Is it possible to obtain at that point the dimensions of this boudingbox in order to do some calculations with them? Hans van der Meer

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Escaping a special character in a MetaPost figure within a ConTeXt document fails
by Raymond LeClair 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

I have escaped the '#' character in the usual way, using a backslash, as '\#' in a btex...etex picture as part of a MetaPost figure created within a ConTeXt document, but the escaped character still causes the ConTeXt processing to fail. Here is an example... \pdfminorversion=5 \definepapersize[LG1][width=4.25in,height=6.875in] \definepapersize[LP1][width=4.25in,height=6.875in] \setuppapersize[LG1][LP1] \definelayout[frontmatter] [topspace=0.222222222222in,header=0.555555555556in,height=6.43055555556in,footer=0.694444444444in, backspace=1.05555555556in,width=2.86111111111in,location=middle, leftmargindistance=0.222222222222in,rightmargindistance=0.222222222222in, leftmargin=0.833333333333in,rightmargin=0.111111111111in] \definefont[TitleFont][Serif sa 3.5] \definecolor[TransparentWhite][b=1,t=0,a=1] \def \FrontMatterTitle { \startreusableMPgraphic{frontmattertitle:\overlaywidth:\overlayheight} matter_paper_width := 4.25in; matter_paper_height := 6.875in; front_left_margin := 0.388888888889in; top_margin := 0.347222222222in; draw (0, 0)--(matter_paper_width, matter_paper_height) withpen pencircle scaled 1bp withcolor white; picture titleText; % == HERE IS THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM == titleText := btex {\vbox{\hsize 2.72916666667in \baselineskip 38.0pt \setupalign[flushleft,hyphenated,verytolerant] \TitleFont THE BEGINNINGS OF \#BOOM}} etex; labeloffset := 0bp; label.lrt(titleText, (front_left_margin, matter_paper_height - top_margin)); \stopreusableMPgraphic \reuseMPgraphic{frontmattertitle:\overlaywidth:\overlayheight} } \defineoverlay[frontmattertitle][\FrontMatterTitle] \starttext \setuplayout[frontmatter] {\TransparentWhite\title{...}} \setupbackgrounds[page][background={{frontmattertitle}},state=repeat] {\TransparentWhite\midaligned{...}} \stoptext

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math font
by Hans van der Meer 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

Instead of the mathfont'a italics I would like to try an upright typeface. See for example the P.p on the left of the sample, 1-p in the second \pmatrix and the toprow in the last one. How can I do this globally, there by avoiding avoiding the need to sprinkle \mathrm's all around as in: \pmatrix{\mathrm p\cr\mathrm 1-p\cr}. A single \mathrm in front as not enough for the matrices. By the way, this comes from the lucida typescript. Hans van der Meer

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MPpage-MPcode
by Hans van der Meer 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

Can someone give me a short explanation of the difference between the various metapost "enclosures" in MetaFun? such as \startMPpage-\stopMPpage, \startMPcode-\stopMPcode? I am on the lookout for a setup in which textext can be used and where the figure comes out clipped, i.e. not contained in a full page with lots of surrounding whitespace. Note without textext doing framed's etc. there is no problem. The problem arises when the pageheight and pagewidth come into play. Hans van der Meer

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mptopdf TeX text problem
by Martin Bruchanov 01 Dec '11

01 Dec '11

Hello, what is the proper way of using MetaPost with TeX text? I have two examples: beginfig(1); draw unitsquare scaled(1cm); draw textext("$\pi$") shifted((0.5,0.5)*cm); % label(btex $\pi$ etex, origin); endfig; end mptopdf --metafun produces only "unknown" where the Pi symbol should be and when I uncomment label the following problem occurs: Output written on test-temp.dvi (2 pages, 256 bytes). Transcript written on test-temp.log. TeXExec | runtime: 0.16436 This is MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.0) mpost: Not writing to .log (openout_any = p). ! I can't write on file `.log'. Please type another transcript file name: ... !pdfTeX error: pdftex (file lmmi12): Font lmmi12 at 600 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! MPtoPDF 1.4.1 : error while processing tex file ----------------------------------------------- But, when I put source in \startMPpage draw unitsquare scaled(1cm); draw textext("$\pi$") shifted((0.5,0.5)*cm); label(btex $\pi$ etex, origin); \stopMPpage and call context, the output PDF is okay. So what is proper way to use TeX inside mpost nowaday? Best regards -- Martin Bruchanov Skype : bruxytronics WWW : http://bruxy.regnet.cz/ GPG-Key : http://bruxy.regnet.cz/bruxy-gpg.key (0x8107ED53) AX.25 : OK2MNM @ OK0PBX.#MOR.CZE.EU IRCNet : #linux.cz, #cvut, #z80 Linked-In : http://www.linkedin.com/in/bruxy

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Splitting natural tables
by Christian 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hello, is it still not possible to split a table so that it covers one half page an then another half page? It is my understanding that splitting moves the table to the next page and then splits it to the following if it gets too long for one entire page. Would a "manual split" be possible? Examle (table is not split, but could be): \starttext \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth } \startplacetable[title={My Table}] \bTABLE[option=stretch,split=repeat] \bTABLEhead \bTR \bTH C1 \eTH \bTH C2 \eTH \eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \dorecurse{20}{\bTR \bTD text \eTD \bTD text \eTD \eTR} \eTABLEbody \eTABLE \stopplacetable \input knuth \stoptext

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Math in metapost
by Hans van der Meer 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

I would like to put some math in metapost pictures. For the moment I am using textext for the typesetting in my metapost macro: pic := textext("\setbox0=\hbox{\color["&textcolor&"]"&labeltext&"}\dp0=0pt\box0"); picture pic will be placed in the metapost figure. Simple math like $p=2$ works fine, but the system chokes on something like the following matrix: $\pmatrix{p_{0|0}\cr}$ (it does fine in ConTeXt itself). The error is: ! Only one # is allowed per tab. system > tex > error on line 6 in file Info/kanaalmatrix.tex: Only one # is allowed per tab ... Perhaps I am too optimistic about textext's possibilities. But how can I accomplish the placement of these and more elaborate formulae in metapost pictures using ConTeXt? It is of the essence for a series of Powerpoint slides I am preparing, wheein these formulae must be placed as individual pictures. Hans van der Meer

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Export to epub
by Keith McKay 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hi I've been playing about with Export in Context with a view to producing ePubs. When I run the script: /mtxrun --script epub --make test.specification /the test.tree is prepared but no epub file. The output shown below has a couple or 'error' messages which are probably due to the way my text editor is set up (Scite Version 2.02). If anyone is using Scite and producing ePubs I be grateful for some hints on how to set this up so that inkscape and zip works. %%Script Output mtx-epub | creating paths in tree test.tree mtx-epub | copying toc.ncx to test.tree/OPS/toc.ncx mtx-epub | copying test-styles.css to test.tree/OPS/test-styles.css mtx-epub | copying test-images.css to test.tree/OPS/test-images.css mtx-epub | copying test.css to test.tree/OPS/test.css mtx-epub | copying test.xhtml to test.tree/OPS/test.xhtml mtx-epub | running command 'inkscape --export-plain-svg=cow.svg cow.pdf' 'inkscape' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. mtx-epub | copying cow.svg to test.tree/OPS/cow.svg mtx-epub | copying hacker.jpg to test.tree/OPS/hacker.jpg mtx-epub | copying mill.png to test.tree/OPS/mill.png mtx-epub | creating archive 'zip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. 'zip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. 'zip' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. mtx-epub | epub archive: test.tree/test.epub>Exit code: 0 %%End Script Output I'm using Minimals ConTeXt ver: 2011.09.27 20:05 MKIV fmt: 2011.11.19 int: english/english on a Windows 7 machine and the test.tex file is the |export-example.tex file renamed from the Minimals distribution|. Thanks Keith McKay

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