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\writetolist spurious space in the first line hereafter
by Willi Egger 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hi all, I detected that after issuing \writetolist, that there is a unwanted space in the first line after this command. This occurs when indenting is on and off. Please refer to the attached minimal example. I am using ConTeXt 2011.02.25 22:03, LuaTEX beta-0.65.0-2010121316 Kind regards Willi

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symbols fail in mkiv
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hi all, The following file has the expected output with texexec but with mkiv the symbols are replaced by question marks in the output; all my other tests with symbols actually fail with mkiv. ...................... \starttext Hello world! \usesymbols[mvs] \symbol[martinvogel 2][PointingHand] \symbol[martinvogel 2][CheckedBox] \stoptext ...................... ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV fmt: 2011.3.15 -- Jean

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Boekplan books
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hello, I just received the "Fonts in ConTeXt"; thanks that such publication exists. One suggestion: - Wouldn't be good to offer both grey scale and coloured version of the book? The coloured version would be more expensive, indeed. But one would have a choice; and Hans and Taco's documents are very nice in choice of colours, too (I mean especially the documents which are freely available for download), and one may find the coloured version more "readable" or synoptic; and thus preferred. (The coloured cover can exude vision that the whole [printed] document will be coloured, which may not be true.) Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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What are the best fonts to use
by Cecil Westerhof 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

At the moment I use for my ebook: \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,12pt] Does not look to bad, but layout is not my forte. So if people have tips about the fonts to use, I like to hear them. Do you use other fonts when using a printed book? -- Cecil Westerhof

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setupinmargin?
by Hans van der Meer 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

The macro \setupinmargin doesn't seem to exist, although its is described in the Wiki: Minimal example: \starttext \setupinmargin[location=right] \stoptext error log: ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV fmt: 2011.3.13 int: english/english ! Undefined control sequence. system > tex > error on line 2 in file test.tex: Undefined control sequence ... 1 \starttext 2 >> \setupinmargin[location=right] 3 \stoptext 4 l.2 \setupinmargin [location=right] ? Process aborted

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Does MKIV take more time as MKII
by Cecil Westerhof 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

I installed the minimals and use MKIV. It seems that it is 1,5 to 2 times as slow as the MKII I used in texlive. Is this possible, or should there be something else that is responsible for this? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Ctx running once?
by Procházka Lukáš 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hello, is there a possibility how to let Ctx run just once, not three times (as usually), keeping in mind that TOC and/or page numbers may be wrong, just to check correctness of the document? - I have a longer document with enough MP code and I'm interested often just whether there is no error in the Ctx/MP code, so in this case a successful (= the first) run of Ctx is enough for me for that moment. - So is there a switch, e.g. "context.exe --err-check" or "context.exe --once" or something like this? Best regards, Lukas

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\expandoneargafter?
by Hans van der Meer 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

The ConTeXt system macro's used to contain a definition for \expandoneargafter (see Taco Hoekwater's article on this). What happened with it? It seems to have disappeared. A pity because I use it in my macros in several places. ! Undefined control sequence. l.3 \expandoneargafter \command{\abc} Someone who can help? Hans van der Meer

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Changes for setuptex
by Cecil Westerhof 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

To make the shell script setuptex more robust I would add at the beginning: set -o errexit set -o nounset function isVarSet() { if [[ ${#} -ne 1 ]] ; then fatal "${FUNCNAME} <VARIABLE-NAME>" return fi declare -p ${1} &>/dev/null return } And use: if ! isVarSet PS1 ; then instead of: if [ "x$PS1" != "x" ] ; then I use in my script that calls setuptex set -o errexit set -o nounset and that breaks the script. With my change there is no problem. -- Cecil Westerhof

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+ in file names
by Vedran Miletić 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Consider two .tex files located at http://www.inf.uniri.hr/~vmiletic/art-pre/ with same content: context --mode=article art-pre.tex works right, context --mode=article art+pre.tex fails with ! Undefined control sequence. system > tex > error on line 7 in file art+pre.tex: Undefined control sequence ... Should + not be used? It seems to work ok without modes, but I haven't tested deeply. Regards, Vedran Miletić

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