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Proposal for math mappings
by Aditya Mahajan 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

This is a proposal for a new way of selecting math mappings in MkIV. I want to get input from other math users whether this syntax would take care of all scenarios or not. There are five different ranges in mathematics: - digits (0..9) - lower case Latin (abc..z) - upper case Latin (ABC..Z) - lower case Greek (αβγ..ζ) - upper case Greek (ΑΒΓ..Z) A user may want to control what each range is mapped to. So, I suggest a setup command \setupmathmappings [ digits={style,alternative}, lclatin={style,alternative}, uclatin={style,alternative}, lcgreek={style,alternative}, ucgreek={style,alternative}, ] where the options for style are normal, bold while the options for alternative are normal, italic, sans, sansitalic, blackboard, script This command will the mappings for each range. **NOTE**: All combinations are not valid. A companion command \definemathmappings [whatever] [....] can be used to define multiple mappings. These mappings can be used by \setupmathmappings[whatever] (An alternative is that these mappings are activated using \whatever ...) For example, we can define a command to typeset vectors using \definemathmappings [vectors] [ digits={bold,normal}, lclatin={bold,normal}, uclatin={bold,normal}, lcgreek={bold,normal}, ucgreek={bold,normal}] \def\VEC{\groupedcommand{\setupmathmappings[vector]}{}} If later, we want to represent vectors as sans serif, we can use \definemathmappings [vectors] [ digits={normal,sans}, lclatin={normal,sans}, uclatin={normal,sans}, lcgreek={normal,sans}, ucgreek={normal,sans}] This interface makes it easy to switch math fonts for disiplines that want different style for different alphabet ranges. It is relatively easy to implement the above interface. All we need is some bookkeeping to set the right attributes. The default math mapping commands can be reimplmeneted using \definemappings. Before implementing this, I want to ask the opinion of other math users. Would the above interface take care of different use cases, or is it missing something? Finally, I am not too happy with the syntax. There are only a few ConTeXt commands in which the keys take a pair of values. Another option is to allow all 12 valid options normal, italic, sans, sansitalic, blackboard, script, bold, bolditlaic, boldsans, boldsansitalic, boldblackboard, boldscript with the variants sansitalic-italicsans, boldsans-sansbold, etc. as synonmyms. Which way of specifying the keys do you prefer? Aditya

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How to us hvdm-exm.tex
by Jason Stein 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hello everyone. I am new to ConTeXt, but a frequent LaTeX user. I have got ConTeXt to compile simple text documents, and want to try to use the hvdm-exm.tex package (or module?) from http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/ When I try to load it with \usemodule I get the error module hvdm-exm not found I am using TeX Live 2010 on Mac OS X 10.6.4. Any thoughts? Jason T. Stein, B. Sc. (1998), B. Ed. (2002)

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buffers and expansion order
by Yury G. Kudryashov 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi! Why the following doesn't work? \def\mybuf{\startbuffer[a]b\stopbuffer} \mybuf Actually, I need slightly more advanced command, but this is the minimal example.

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Help Using \placetable and TABLE
by barndog1946＠gmail.com 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

I got the recodes for splitting loooooong tables and that works but: How can I get (continued) in the footer and get the table number within the caption to understand that the table is continued and NOT a NEW table? barney

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Issues with cross reference
by views63 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi all, cross reference is not worked in latest beta (MkIV) example: \starttext \placeformula[f] \startformula {\bf d}(t)=(1-t)^2{\bf b}_{0,0}+2(1-t)t\Big[\frac{1}{2}{\bf b}_{0,1}+\frac{1}{2}{\bf b}_{1,0}\Big]+t^2{\bf b}_{1,1}. \stopformula see (\in[f]) \stoptext -- Best regards, Huang Ze

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New version of Asana Math
by Florian Wobbe 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

Hi, I just stumbled over a new version (000.931) of Asana Math here: http://openfontlibrary.org/content/asyropoulos/334/Asana-Math.otf Both CTAN and http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/fonts/extra/Asana-Math/ still have v000.928. Florian

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Re: [NTG-context] Re; TABLE help
by barney schwartz 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

Wolfgang and others, Thanks for the recode but, I still need the TABLEs to be continued after splitting and NOT to be numbered as 1.1, 1.2, 1.3. they need to be 1.1, 1.1(cont.), 1.1(cont), etc. ideas? Please barney see attached file

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metafun: formatting numbers
by Peter Münster 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

Hello, Formatting numbers seems to be buggy: \starttext \startMPcode drawoptions(withpen pencircle scaled .25pt withcolor .5white) ; draw hlingrid (0, 20, 1, 20cm, 10cm) ; fmt_pictures := false ; % use TeX as formatting engine draw hlintext.lft(0, 20, 1, 20cm, "@3e") ; \stopMPcode \stoptext See also page 381 of latest metafun-s.pdf. Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Referencing bug
by Willi Egger 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

Hi Hans, Today I tried to makeup some text, wherein I need the referencing mechanism. It looks likely that the whole referencing mechanism is out of service.... Please refer to the attached test file. Kind regards Willi

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Saveable PDF-Files for Adobe Reader
by Daniel Grycman 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

Hi list, how can I create saveable PDF-Files with ConTeXt for Adobe Reader? Daniel

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