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TeX i-Package update: Charis SIL font (ConTeXt)
by Gerben Wierda 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

The TeX i-Package for Mac OS X has been updated. This update contains the new Charis SIL fonts in Truetype format and support for those for use with ConTeXt. To use the font, just add \usetypescriptfile[type-silcharis] \usetypescript[SilCharis][ec] \setupbodyfont[SilCharis,12pt] or variants on that theme to your ConTeXt project. There is no support for LaTeX until either I need it myself or someone writes it (look at the gtamacfonts to see how it can be done) and sends it to me. During configuration, the SIL fonts are also installed in (copied to) /Library/Fonts/CharisSIL so they are available for GUI apps. G

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Imaginary entity rendering in MathML
by nico 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Hello, The following MathML test case (rec-arg1) using newmml does not render the imaginary entity ⅈ correctly. It is shown as a minus ("-") instead of "i". I have this behaviour for any test using this entity. <math> <apply> <arg/> <apply> <plus/> <ci> x </ci> <apply> <times/> <cn> ⅈ </cn> <ci> y </ci> </apply> </apply> </apply> </math> Regards, BG

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multiple line comments
by andrea valle 29 Mar '06

29 Mar '06

Dear all, It's a bit tiring to start many lines always with %. Is it possibile to have multiple line comments like in C \* comments here *\ I wasn't able to find anything like it in manual. In this case, what about a \startcomment \stopccoment syntax? Or maybe is it possible to have a user defined command? \comment{ comments here } Thanks -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea andrea.valle(a)unito.it

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64-bit linux minimal distribution
by Piotr Kopszak 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Hello again, Some time ago I came across an information about 64-bit Minimal ConTeXt Distribution, but I can't find it anywhere. Right now I have to stick to Debian tetex 3.0 but this is far from what I want, as ugrading to most recent ConTeXt breaks the package system. I wasn't able to setup a separate texmf tree in my home directory. It doesn't work. So maybe having a separate 64-bit debian in chroot with just a Minimal ConTeXt Distribution might solve the problem. Sorry for beeing fussy, but didn't have to make complete ConTeXt reinstallations for couple of years and now it seems things has changed rather for worse than the better :( Piotr

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RFC: 'What would you like in an Text Editor?'
by Jeffrey Drake 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

If you were going to use an editor for context usage (potentially integrated into a Context suite), what features would you like from it? Especially interested in what features in regular editors are quite useless to have around all the time. I tried the scite in the context mswindows distro, and didn't find it the most visually appealing and slightly cumbersome in configuration. Regards, Jeffrey Drake

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Automatic typesetting of catalogue entries
by Piotr Kopszak 28 Mar '06

28 Mar '06

Hello list, This is a more general question so I'm not attaching any specific code examples but rather will try to explain what I'm thinking about. I'm going to typeset a catalogue of about 200 objects. Each entry consists of two main parts: a block of text and a photograph of the object. As we have to be economic rather than luxurious I adjust manually the size of each figure so that the text fills the rest of the page entirely. That means I keep on incrementing the figure width until the text spills onto next page, then I go back to the last value that was OK. Sometimes I have to squeeze two entries on one page so that each occupies half of a page. Perfectly repetitive task at which computer would do much better than human. Sorry if it's something trivial but I couldn't find any solution on my own. Thanks for any hints in advance Piotr

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Re: [NTG-context] More on margin figs
by Hans Hagen 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

David Arnold wrote: > Hans, I sent this to the list a couple of days ago. I'm wondering if > you saw it, or if it is actually a bug that will take some time to > fix. Or, alternatively, am I missing the point? > > Hans et al, > > Maybe I am missing the point, but this example has output that is > unexpected. There's a huge block of whitespace, that coincidentally > continues to the bottom of the caption on the margin fig. you, being a mathematician, should not dismiss this too fast as being a coincident -) it's expected behaviour, imagine that you have two side floats ... you can tell the float handler to forget about the sidefloat state by saying \placefigure [inright,reset] [fig:graphmap] {A mapping diagram for $f$.} {\externalfigure[graph1][width=\marginwidth]} (low level commands are \forgetsidefloats etc) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Help : Unknown references
by WN 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi, I am getting unknown references when I use \startformula \startalign[n=3] .... Some math ...... \stopalign \stopformula in conjunction with \placeformula[eqn1] \startformula .... math .. \stopformula See \in[eqn1] .... <----------- unknown reference It has something to do with the formulanumber not set, I know, but how do I fix this in the above ?? Thanks for your help and time WN

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Feature Request: mathmatrix enhancement
by Aditya Mahajan 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hi, Is it possible to have allow math matrix column alignments to be configurable, on the lines of align={left,left} of \startalign. I want to be albe to say \startformula \startmatrix[align={right,left}] \NC x \NC = a + d \NR \NC y \NC = d \NR \stopmatrix \stopformula to give me x = a + d y = d This is a contrived example. The actual equation that I want to type is \startformula \text{Let }{\cal R} = \bigcup_{P_{X_1},P_{X_2}} \left\{ (R_1, R_2) : \startmatrix[distance=0.1em] \NC \hfill R_1 \NC < I(X_1 ; Y \mid X_2) \hfill \NR \NC \hfill R_2 \NC < I(X_2 ; Y \mid X_1) \hfill \NR \NC \hfill R_1 + R_2 \NC < I(X_1,X_2 ; Y) \hfill \NR \stopmatrix\right\} \stopformula All these manual hfills look ugly. Is matrix the wrong way to go about this? Should we rather have a aligned environment like amsmath? Or is there a simple alternative that I have overlooked? Thanks Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008

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ConTeXt 2006.03.25 released
by Taco Hoekwater 27 Mar '06

27 Mar '06

Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip The files will also be uploaded to CTAN. The current release has version 2006.03.25 13:21 A very short list of changes is given below. As usual, there is an html page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes New features (since 20006.03.20): * support for synchronised page streams (experimental) * new sidebar implementation Bug fixes since (2006.03.20): * small fixes to the new mathml handler * some efficiency improvements to the verbatim macros Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater

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