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About ArabTeX
by Ahmad Zareef 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Al salamu Alaikum Prof. Idris I have read your message here http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2004/004974.html and I wonder if I can have a look of your modified package pf ArabTeX. I am Ahmad Zareef, an Electronics and communications engineer graduated 2005 from cairo University. my graduation project was also based on ArabTeX and it aimed to expand it so that it be able to typeset traditional Arabic. we (my team and I) hope to start an EgTUG Egyptian TUG and we are working on our modified package now and I think it will be too useful to have a look on your package. By the way, we also are preparing a new font now but this as you mentioned consumes time and work. If I can be of any benefit please tell me. Ahmad --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP.

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\uchar and italics question
by sjoerd siebinga 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi all, Due to the nature of the font I am using (which has horrendous looking combining diacritics), I have to call the unicodeglyphs directly through the \uchar command. Which works fine for the regular face. But I am unable to get the italic glyphs via the same method. So {\it \uchar{1}{01}} renders the 'normal' regular glyph. Could somebody help me out? Sjoerd

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Bug collector reminder
by Taco Hoekwater 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi all, I want to remind everybody of the existance of the context bug and feature request collector: http://context.literatesolutions.com/collector If you have found a bug or requested a new feature in the past few months, please consider adding a collector item. This is especially relevant if you have not yet received/ seen any reply or test code from Hans or me. We always strive to answer/aknowledge all bug- or feature related e-mail messages, but sometimes something slips through, and (at least for me) backtracking through the e-mail archive is just not feasible these days. Happy TeXing, Taco

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ConTeXt Revisions
by Taco Hoekwater 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi all, It has taken us a long time to get to this point, but I am glad to announce that the ConTeXt Revisions project that has been talked about for nearly two years now is finally available to the public. ConTeXt Revisions is two things: a museum of old ConTeXt release zips, as well as an incremental subversion repository. Currently it contains information of more than 110 releases of ConTeXt, dating back as early as October 1997. The homepage of the project is on the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Revisions Happy TeXing, Taco

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indexing suggestion
by Hans van der Meer 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

When I started to do my syllabus again but in ConTeXt, I also began to set up an index. Readily it became a nuisance to type each time: in this sentence \index{sentence} etc. Making this into a macro I am now typing: in this \indexed{sentence} etc. It is a small difference but not only is it less typing, it also keeps the text more readable. I coded this macro: \def\indexed#1{\index{#1}#1} Note, \index{#1} preceeds typesetting of the text #1, otherwise the next space is eaten by \index. Of course the full macro would be something like \indexed[whatever] {sentence}, and all the other options in \index[]{}. However if have not enough experience with the way such things are cooked in ConTeXt and do not want to pollute the code with halfbaked code of my own. Maybe Hans and Taco feel this suggestion useful enough to pick it up. yours sincerely, dr. H. van der Meer

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[Ann-context] ConTeXt Revisions (bis)
by Taco Hoekwater 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi all, It has taken us a long time to get to this point, but I am glad to announce that the ConTeXt Revisions project that has been talked about for nearly two years now is finally available to the public. ConTeXt Revisions is two things: a museum of old ConTeXt release zips, as well as an incremental subversion repository. Currently it contains information of more than 110 releases of ConTeXt, dating back as early as October 1997. The homepage of the project is on the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Revisions Happy TeXing, Taco _______________________________________________ Ann-context mailing list Ann-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ann-context

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Newbie question ConText
by Wim Neimeijer 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi, I am a Latex (MikTex 2.4, WindowsXP Pro) user and I want to learn more about ConText. I installed ConText via the MikTex 2.4 package manager, and read some of the ConText manuals. I also compiled successfully some of the ConText tex samples, but I ran into a couple of problems : - First I would like to know the most recent stable version of ConText and where to get it. - Looking at the logs of some of the runs e.g. compiling the MetaFun manual, I am running into font problems. Error messages like : maketfm : No creation rule for font "ComputerModernSans-Bold" pop up. I saw some emails on this list dealing with the same problem, but I could not find a definite solution. Thanks for your help Kind regards W. Neimeijer

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[Ann-context] ConTeXt Revisions
by Taco Hoekwater 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi all, It has taken us a long time to get to this point, but I am glad to announce that the ConTeXt Revisions project that has been talked about for nearly two years now is finally available to the public. ConTeXt Revisions is two things: a museum of old ConTeXt release zips, as well as an incremental subversion repository. Currently it contains information of more than 110 releases of ConTeXt, dating back as early as October 1997. The homepage of the project is on the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Revisions Happy TeXing, Taco _______________________________________________ Ann-context mailing list Ann-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ann-context

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New Installation under miktex, not working
by Todd DeVries 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi, I'm attempting to install context under miktex 2.4. I've updated the format files and followed other instructions as per the contextgarden discussions. I'm probably missing something really obvious and would appreciate any help offered. I receive this output when running the following commands: << texexec test.txt TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 unknown file type: texmfscripts fixing texformat path : C:/localtexmf/miktex/fmt fixing engine variable : pdfetex total run time : 0 seconds >> texexec --version and << TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 unknown file type: texmfscripts texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) (preloaded format=cont-en 2006.1.15) 15 JAN 2006 11:32 context : ver: 2006.01.09 cont-en : ver: 2006.01.09 fmt: 2006.1.15 mes: english unknown file type: 'fmt' unknown file type: 'fmt' unknown file type: 'fmt' unknown file type: 'fmt' unknown file type: 'fmt' unknown file type: 'fmt' unknown file type: 'fmt' unknown file type: 'fmt' total run time : 1 seconds >>

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Pagenumbers and labels
by Idris Samawi Hamid 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Dear syndicate, Three questions (test file attached): 1. A pagenumbering problem: I have \setuppagenumbering[way=bytext] Good: The page numbers are continuous and do not restart with each new part; Bad: The page numbers are still prefaced by the part number, e.g. 1-24, 1-25, 2-26, 2-27 etc. I want, rather, just 24, 25, 26, 27 etc.... 2. I want the chapter numerals to ignore the part, so I get Part 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4. 3. I would to keep "Part 1" "Part 2" in the TOC, but no numeral at all in the main text. I got rid of the "Part" label in the main text, but not the numeral. incrementnumber=no works but then the TOC loses the "Part"s altogether. Thnx in advance Best Idris ==================================================== % output=pdf interface=en \setuphead[part][number=yes, bodypartlabel={}, page=right, continue=yes, ownnumber=no, incrementnumber=yes, placehead=yes] \setuppagenumbering[way=bytext] \definecombinedlist[summary][part,chapter][textstyle=\tf] \starttext \placesummary \part{Test} \chapter{Knuth} \dorecurse{7}{\input knuth\par } \chapter{More Knuth} \dorecurse{7}{\input knuth\par } \part{Test} \chapter{Knuth} \dorecurse{7}{\input knuth\par } \chapter{More Knuth} \dorecurse{7}{\input knuth\par } \stoptext ==================================================== -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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