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i-Installer / minimal TeX installation for ConTeXt?
by David Wooten 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Greetings all, By and by I've found that I am only using ConTeXt for my typesetting needs. I am curious as to whether someone can advise me how best to install a suitable yet minimal TeX installation: without LaTeX, etc. I am currently using Gerben's very helpful i-Installer. Perhaps it would vary too much between users to say definitively? In any case, Thanks very much David

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Struggling with ttf on Windows XP
by Frederic Donckels 11 Jan '06

11 Jan '06

Hello, I recently upgraded my 3-year old installation of MikTex to the latest version. I had a document which contained glyphs from the windings.tff font. Once I upgraded, this didn't work anymore. So I tried to read around to find out how it works, and so on, but couldn't find anything... I have generated an afm and tfm files from the ttf font. I created a map file which references this. My tex file apparently loads the map file without problem (at least pdftex doesn't complain). But, when I call \showfont, the generated table is empty, it doesn't contain any symbol. (I'm at work right now, so I can't post any code snippet) Does anyone have any clue or could anyone point me to any resource to guide me? Thanks, Best regards, Frederic

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Problem with \placefigure
by FrancoisFasoli 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

The following test file gives a good result with old ConteXt but gives an error with new ConteXt It seems that new ConteXt does not accept [center] What is the problem ? Thanks \starttext \placefigure[center]{}{} \stoptext error message : (c:/MesPGM/TeXLive/texmf-local/tex/ConteXt/base/spec-fdf.tex) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) systems : begin file test at line 1 floatblocks : no block given floatblocks : 1 placed ! Undefined control sequence. \OTRONEsomeherefloat ...\dorechecknextindentation <argument> ...placesomeherefloat [\v!here ,center] \else \dosavefloat \fi \fi \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \dogetfloatbox ... \floatmethod \floatmethod }[#1] \fi \docompletefloat ...#5}{\preparednumber }}{#6}{#1} \fi \fi \global \insideflo... <argument> ...}{figure}{center}{figure}{}\nextbox \else \docompletefloat {fi... ... l.3 \placefigure[center]{}{}

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page breaks broken?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Dear gang, Having serious trouble with pagebreaks: ==================================================== % output=pdf interface=en \starttext \input knuth \page[blank,right] \page[yes,blank,yes] \page \input knuth \stoptext ==================================================== I can't get a blank page; what's wrong here? ConTeXt ver: 2006.01.09 Best Idris -- 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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columnsets and footnotes (minimal example)
by Steffen Wolfrum 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

... and here is an example that shows the problem: \definecolumnset[example][n=2] \setupfootnotes[n=3] \starttext \startcolumnset[example] \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte\footnote{\input ward \relax}} \stopcolumnset \stoptext >Hi, > >is there a way to have both: > >a main text set in \definecolumnset[example][n=2] >and footnotes on bottom of page with \setupfootnotes[n=3]? > >Thank you, Steffen

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columnsets and footnotes (better explained)
by Steffen Wolfrum 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

Hi Hans, maybe my problem was not clear enough. So please let me try it once more. The following example has main text in 2 columns and footnote text in 3 columns: \setupfootnotes[n=3] \starttext \startcolumns \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte\footnote{\input ward \relax}} \stopcolumns \stoptext But as I also have to use section titles that span the columns (without causing pagebreaks) I need to use columnsets (like they are used in the following example): \definecolumnset[two][n=2] \definecolumnsetspan[two][n=2] \setupfootnotes[n=1,width=\hsize] \starttext \startcolumnset[two] \input tufte\footnote{\input ward \relax} \startcolumnsetspan[two] \subsubsection{Spanning all columns without page break} \stopcolumnsetspan \dorecurse{10}{\input ward\footnote{\input tufte \relax}} \stopcolumnset \stoptext But I don't want the footnotes to be placed at the bottom of each column, I want them to be set in 3 columns at the bottom of the page (as shown in the columns example above). How can this be done? Steffen

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Monospace Fonts for Verbatim
by Louis Springer 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

I have a typescript I am using for a custom font, but the custom font has no monospace variant appropriate for verbatim text. I'm attempting to use Courier or some other monospace font for verbatim and maintain my custom font for normally typeset serf text. My broken typescript is as follows: \starttypescript [map][sunsans,sunserif][texnansi] \loadmapfile[texnansi-sun-sunsans.map] \loadmapfile[texnansi-sun-sunserif.map] \stoptypescript % sans serif \starttypescript [sans] [sunsans] [name] \definefontsynonym[Sans] [SunSans-Regular] \definefontsynonym[SansItalic] [SunSans-Italic] \definefontsynonym[SansBold] [SunSans-RegularDemi] \definefontsynonym[SansBoldItalic] [SunSans-Regular-BoldOblique] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [sans] [sunsans] [texnansi] \usetypescript[sans][fallback] \definefontsynonym[SunSans-Heavy][texnansi-SunSans-Heavy] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[SunSans-Italic][texnansi-SunSans-Italic] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[SunSans-Regular-Bold][texnansi-SunSans-Regular- Bold][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[SunSans-Regular-BoldOblique][texnansi-SunSans- Regular-BoldOblique][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[SunSans-Regular][texnansi-SunSans-Regular] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[SunSans-RegularDemi][texnansi-SunSans-RegularDemi] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript %serif \starttypescript [serif] [sunserif] [name] \definefontsynonym[Serif] [SunSerif-Regular] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic] [SunSerif-Italic] \definefontsynonym[SerifBold] [SunSerif-Regular-Bold] \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic] [SunSerif-Regular-Bold-Italic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [sunserif] [texnansi] \usetypescript[serif][fallback] \definefontsynonym[SunSerif-Italic][texnansi-SunSerif-Italic] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[SunSerif-Regular-Bold-Italic][texnansi-SunSerif- Regular-Bold-Italic][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[SunSerif-Regular-Bold][texnansi-SunSerif-Regular- Bold][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[SunSerif-Regular][texnansi-SunSerif-Regular] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript %monospace \starttypescript [mono] [sunserif] [name] \usetypescript[mono][fallback] \definefontsynonym[Serif] [Mono] \stoptypescript The last bit (around the comment "monospace") is my apparently futile attempt to get the verbatim to use the default monospace font. I get the desired results with a kludge if I replace \definefontsynonym[Serif] [SunSerif-Regular] with \definefontsynonym[Serif] [Mono] but this affects "normally" typeset serif. Ideally, I would like to have in the SunSerif-Regular typeface for non-verbatim serif text. Lou

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ConTeXt updater i-Package blocked
by Gerben Wierda 10 Jan '06

10 Jan '06

I blocked the ConTeXt-updater i-Package until the problems discussed on the ConTeXt list are solved. Normally I would not do that because unstable stuff is mostly done via beta releases, but this release does not have a beta and if I read the list I understand there are font problems. So I have blocked it to prevent an accidental update by users. G

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How to break laws in physics?
by Mojca Miklavec 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hello, I thought it was because it was too late for learning that Maxwell equations failed to work: \definetypeface [maxwell] [mm] [math] [euler] [default] \setupbodyfont[maxwell] \starttext $$\vec{\nabla}\vec{D}=\rho$$ \stoptext But apparently it was something else, see math-eul.tex and please fix this: \definemathcharacter [D] [nothing] [mr] ["44] OK, Euler didn't work, so I tried to use Iwona. \definetypeface [iwona] [mm] [math] [iwona] [default] \setupbodyfont[iwona] ${\partial\rho\over\partial t}+\vec{\nabla}\vec{\jmath}=0$ (If I fail on the exam, I'll try to explain to professor that I found a few mistakes in the Maxwell equations and lost the whole time trying to fix them before I was able to learn further :) I've found three "kind-of-bugs" in font itself (\jmath and \imath were missing, \partial is mirrored, vectors placed strangely - the latter may not be connected with the font itself). So I tried to redefine \jmath to use dotlessj from italic version of font and found another "bug" in ConTeXt. dotlessj is commented out in enco-ec.tex. Well, I understand that it may not be present in every font, but it's worse: it's already defined in the default encoding, so \dotlessj results in double quotes, which is worse than no char at all. enco-ec has some other faults present, I tried to fix a few of them ([t|s]cedilla should be [t|s]commaaccent, \Eth and \eth were commented out, while they are OK, one glyph is present twice, I redefined it to map to the first slot, since usually the second one is empty, upper/lower casing may still need some revision). Is there any chance that any numerical definitions of characters disappear from enco-def slowly? If anyone is using any other encoding than the standard one, the characters map to something completely weird then. Some fixes for enco-def: % DELETE THIS ONE: IT'S WORSE THAN NOTHING \definecharacter eth {\dstroke} % wrong but better that nothing % and replace by: \definecharacter eth {\unknownchar} \definecharacter scommaaccent {\buildtextbottomcomma s} \definecharacter Scommaaccent {\buildtextbottomcomma S} \definecharacter tcommaaccent {\buildtextbottomcomma t} \definecharacter Tcommaaccent {\buildtextbottomcomma T} \definecharacter Ohorndotbelow {\buildtextbottomdot\Ohorn} \definecharacter ohorndotbelow {\buildtextbottomdot\ohorn} \definecharacter Uhorndotbelow {\buildtextbottomdot\Uhorn} \definecharacter uhorndotbelow {\buildtextbottomdot\uhorn} enco-ini: Any chances to add something like: \definecharacter bottomcomma {,} % comma, lowered a bit \def\buildtextbottomcomma{\bottomaccent{.25ex}{0}{5}{\textbottomcomma}} I have no idea what \textbottomcomma should be, but probably just a comma, lowered a bit. The current definition with ' is a bit strange. Mojca

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Generating smallest possible format file
by Willi Egger 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hello gurus! I want to use context as a backend-typesetting engine in a server-ennvironment. In order to minimize compilation time I want to make the format files as small as possible. E.g. I would like to remove all pattern files which are unnecessary for the purpose of the application. How do I achieve this? Cheers Willi

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