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typesetting xml targets
by Thomas A. Schmitz 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Hi all, I'm currently experimenting with the TEI schema for critical editions. There's one thing that goes beyond my minimal understanding: for internal references, the guidelines strongly suggest defining them with the xml:id attribute. Let's take the example of a textual witness, which could be defined as <witness xml:id="A">manuscript A</witness> Whenever this witness is referenced, it will be done with a target: <rdg wit="#A">Hello</rdg> How can I catch such targets in my ConTeXt setup? Would it be possible to have the #A translated into a macro \WIT:A or something like that? Would it be possible to have ConTeXt read in the value of the <witness> tag to which the taget refers and typset that? There must be something easier than a huge set of nested \doifelse calls, but I can't quite find what would be the best way. I hope this question isn't too confusing... Thanks, and best Thomas

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Feedback on draft manual
by R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

How does one provide feedback on the current draft manual at: http://pmrb.free.fr/contextref.pdf Thanks. Chandra

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Broken ConTeXt
by Tom Maynard 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

While I'm pretty sure I didn't do anything wrong, and I'm absolutely certain that it worked perfectly yesterday, ConTeXt is broken: C:\ConTeXt>path PATH=C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-mswin\bin;C:\Ruby187\bin;c:\bin;c:\tsepro;c:\program iles\vim\vim72;c:\cygwin\bin;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_18\bin;C:\WINDOWS\ sstem32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\ooRexx;c:\program files\MikTex 2.8\mktex\bin;c:\program files\MikTex 2.8\miktex\bin\miktex\bin\ C:\ConTeXt>context --version MTXrun | forcing cache reload MTXrun | resolvers: warning: no lua configuration files found MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of 'c:/ConTeXt/texmf' (runtime) MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of 'c:/ConTeXt/texmf-local' (runtime) MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of 'c:/ConTeXt/texmf-context' (runtime) MTXrun | resolvers: skipping list of 'c:/ConTeXt/texmf-mswin' (runtime) MTXrun | resolvers MTXrun | resolvers MTXrun | the resolver databases are not present or outdated MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua' MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua' MTXrun | resolvers: remembering file 'mtx-context.lua' MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua' MTXrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' C:\ConTeXt> And then I deleted it all, reinstalled Minimals, and get exactly the same result. Is my luck really this bad? What to do? Tom.

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calling ConTeXt as a background process
by Henning Hraban Ramm 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Hi together! I'm trying since about a week to get ConTeXt running as a background process of a web application. It's always hanging, and I get no log. "ps axef" shows the call stack: \_ /var/www/xxx/bin/python /var/www/xxx/releases/current/cerebrale/ manage.py runfcgi method=threaded ... \_ /bin/sh -c cd /var/www/xxx/_textemp && /var/opt/context/tex/ texmf-linux-64/bin/context ... \_ /bin/sh /var/opt/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/context -- purgeall --batchmode --result=/var/www/xxx/_textemp/xxx.pdf \_ texlua /var/opt/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/mtxrun --script context --purgeall --batchmode --result=/ ... \_ [uname] <defunct> I.e. it looks like texlua calls uname in a way that lets the process hang forever. If I call the same from an active shell everything runs fine. Also uname alone works in the shell command. Any ideas what I could/should check? I don't think it could be the PATH, since ConTeXt's bin as well as all the system tools are in: PATH=/var/opt/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin:/var/www/cerebrale/bin:/ command:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/ usr/X11R6/bin TEXMFOS=/var/opt/context/tex/texmf-linux-64 TEXROOT=/var/opt/context/tex The user that runs the server process (incl. sub-shell and ConTeXt) owns all the TeX files and the directory. Maybe it's a Python problem, here's my call: subprocess.Popen(cmd.encode('utf-8'), shell=True, stderr=logfile, stdout=logfile) But I can call several other commands in this way without problems. The whole thing (incl. ConTeXt) works on my Mac (OSX 10.5.8) at home. Everything I call before ConTeXt shows up in the logfile. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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wrong itemize indenting
by Andreas Harder 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Hi all, I mentioned it already but so far I couldn't find a solution. Here is an example of my problem: \starttext \showframe \overfullrule=4pt \startbuffer \startitemize[n,fit][left={Abb. },distance=.5em] \item \dorecurse{20}{eins } \item \dorecurse{20}{zwei } \item \dorecurse{20}{drei } \stopitemize \stopbuffer \getbuffer % -> correct indenting \bTABLE \bTR\bTD \getbuffer \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \getbuffer % -> wrong indenting \stoptext If one uses an itemize environment with the "fit"-option in a TABLE the further itemize environments getting disturbed. Is this a bug or is there a workaround? I appreciate your help. Andreas

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Verbatim typing with numbers inside float
by Stefan Müller 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Hi list, I defined a float for typesetting algorithms, so I can reference them at other places in the document. \definefloat[algorithm][algorithms] When I now place such a figure with \placealgorithm[here][alg:myalgorithm]{Very neat algorithm.}{ \starttyping some source code \stoptyping } then the numbering I set up with \setuptyping[numbering=line] \setuplinenumbering[location=text] is gone. Is there a way to get around this? I try to not use itemize for this (although it seems to work with itemize), because I'd rather use the more semantically correct approach. Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance, Stefan.

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Euler font and context minimals
by Mathieu Boespflug 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Hi everyone, I'm using ConTeXt for my PhD thesis and as I'm getting sick of writing up I've been trying to tweak the appearance a bit. I'd like to switch to using Palatino font for main body and Euler font for math. So I tried \setupbodyfont[pagella-euler] \starttext test $f(x) = x^2$. \stoptext But I get errors during processing such as: MTXrun | run 1: luatex --fmt="/home/mboes/src/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/9076a3f5a9f873039eaa5d3001a4c6ac/formats/cont-en" --lua="/home/mboes/src/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/9076a3f5a9f873039eaa5d3001a4c6ac/formats/cont-en.lui" --backend=pdf "./chap-one.tex"This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.63.0-2010090921 \write18 enabled. (chap-one.tex jobcontrol > resuming randomizer with 0.20642945552544 ConTeXt ver: 2010.09.24 11:40 MKIV fmt: 2010.9.25 int: english/english system : cont-new loaded (/home/mboes/src/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (/home/mboes/src/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv)) system : cont-fil loaded (/home/mboes/src/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : ConTeXt File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (/home/mboes/src/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (/home/mboes/src/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-def.mkiv) (/home/mboes/src/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-lua.mkiv) (/home/mboes/src/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv) (/home/mboes/src/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv)) system : cont-err loaded (/home/mboes/src/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-err.tex systems : no file 'cont-sys.tex', using 'cont-sys.rme' instead ) system : chap-one.top loaded (chap-one.top) fonts : preloading latin modern fonts {/home/mboes/src/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{/home/mboes/src/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map}{/home/mboes/src/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map} bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : language en is active define fonts > forced type otf of euler not found define fonts > font with name euler is not found define fonts > unknown font euler, loading aborted define fonts > unable to define euler.otf as \*pagella-euler7ptmmmr33* define fonts > forced type otf of euler not found define fonts > font with name euler is not found define fonts > unknown font euler, loading aborted define fonts > unable to define euler.otf as \*pagella-euler9ptmmmr22* define fonts > forced type otf of euler not found define fonts > font with name euler is not found define fonts > unknown font euler, loading aborted define fonts > unable to define euler.otf as \*pagella-euler12ptmmmr11* [...] I noticed that in my (recent) ConTeXt minimals tree, there was no euler.odf, so I grabbed one from somewhere in the tree in http://minimals.contextgarden.net/minimals/current, and placed it $CONTEXTROOT/tex/texmf-fonts, but to no avail. I still get the same error messages. I also ran luatools --generate and that doesn't make a difference. I read through the typography and fonts chapters of the manual but I didn't find specific information about installing fonts. Am I doing it right? How can I get ConTeXt to recognize this standard font? Many thanks, Mathieu

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\seeindex
by Alan BRASLAU 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Wishlist: add interaction to \seeindex Explaination: \seeindex{index_entry}{see_entry} can be used to add entry to an index that refers one to another entry. Example: \seeindex{DNA}{deoxyribonucleic acid} With \setupinteraction [state=start] one gets active hyperlinks on the page numbers of the index entries. It would be nice if \seeindex entries to the index would create an interaction hyperlink to the corresponding real index entry. This is pretty straight-forward, but probably non-trivial to implement, as there is no guarantee that the second entry of \seeindex indeed exists. Of course, \seeindex could create this entry, but it may not have an associated page number or page numbers if \index{deoxyribonucleic acid} was never called. Even more sophisticated, but the bookkeeping on this might get a bit complicated, \index{DNA} could create an index entry under {deoxyribonucleic acid} as \seeindex instructs to "hijack" this label. (currently, it will put "see DNA" followed by a page number.) Alan

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Example Gallery
by R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Dear Folks, When I first started learning to use TikZ-PGF, I was aided a great deal by the varied examples available at: http://www.texample.net/tikz/ Is there any such example gallery for ConTeXt? Thank you. Chandra 07 Oct 10

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Running Mk-IV using TeXLive 2010
by R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Dear Folks, I am a LaTeX user trying out ConTeXt for the first time. I am running TeXLive 2010 (full scheme) on a x86_64-linux platform. I have visited http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV and put the instructions there into an executable file: --- #! /bin/bash # # Manual update for ConTeXt in TeXLive 2010 as suggested at # # http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV # # Update ConTeXt rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/context/current/ /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/ # Update LuaTeX rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/bin/luatex/linux-64/bin/luatex /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-linux/ # Run equivalent mktexlsr luatools --generate context --make context --make cont-en --- The last output lines after running this file are: --- LuaTools | runtime: 1.610 seconds .../2010/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/mtx-context.lua:985: attempt to call upvalue 'make_mkiv_format' (a nil value) .../2010/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/mtx-context.lua:985: attempt to call upvalue 'make_mkiv_format' (a nil value) --- When I compiled a trivial file called first.tex using texexec first I got in the output, inter alia, --- ConTeXt ver: 2010.07.30 11:35 MKII fmt: 2010.10.5 int: english/english --- Why am I not seeing Mk-IV yet? I have used LuaLaTeX with fontspec quite successfully and would like to try ConTeXt with LuaTeX support in Mk-IV to compare ease of customization and use. I am happy to furnish more information if necessary. Sorry if my query sounds elementary, but I am new to ConTeXt. Thanks in advance. Chandra

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