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TeX terminology
by Mojca Miklavec 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hello, Sorry for a questioin that is a bit off-topic. I'm a bit confused about the TeX terminology. I know what is what, but I don't know how all these programs/packages/macros are officially called in English. How would you explain those in an encyclopedy with no more than one sentence? * plain TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt are ... ? TeX formats ? (but ConTeXt is not just that) * TeX, eTeX, pdf(e)TeX, Aleph, Omega, XeTeX are ... ? TeX engines/extensions, an extended version of TeX ? * pdflatex is ... ? * texexec is ... ? * texutil, texfont are ... ? scripts/utilities for [whateverthetask] * MikTeX, TeX Live, teTeX are ... TeX distributions * PPCHTeX, XymTeX, MusicTeX are ... ConTeXt module(s) / LaTeX package(s) * PicTeX is ? TeX drawing environment * BibTeX is ... ? * TeXCeH is ... TeX user group Thanks a lot, Mojca

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Big Manual
by David Arnold 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hans, Taco, Any news on releasing source for the "big manuals?"

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Title page of french phd thesis
by Renaud AUBIN 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi all, I want to obtain something like this on my title page : Composition du jury : Président : M. Prénom NOM Rapporteurs : M. Truc BIDULE de paris Mme Machin CHOUETTE blabla Examinateurs : M. Ano NYME I would have macro to do this (inspired from thloria LaTeX package) like : \President = {M. Prénom NOM} \Rapporteurs = {M. Truc BIDULE&de Paris\\ Mme Machin CHOUETTE&blabla } \Examinateurs = {M. Ano NYME} I have some ideas on how to do this but I need advices to know what's the best way to manage this issue. Cheers,

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serial definition
by Henning Hraban Ramm 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi ho! This is a part of Holger Schöner's letter style (see http:// wiki.contextgarden.net/Letter_style) \def\lettersenderkeyone{} \def\lettersendervalone{} \def\lettersenderkeytwo{} \def\lettersendervaltwo{} % etc. \def\lettersenderkeynine{} \def\lettersendervalnine{} \def\senderone#1#2{\def\lettersenderkeyone{#1}\def\lettersendervalone {#2}} \def\sendertwo#1#2{\def\lettersenderkeytwo{#1}\def\lettersendervaltwo {#2}} % etc. \def\sendernine#1#2{\def\lettersenderkeynine{#1}\def \lettersendervalnine{#2}} \startsetups sendertablesetup \bTABLE \setupTABLE[frame=off] \setupTABLE[x][1][width=\senderkeywidth, align=left, style= {\keystyle\strut}] \setupTABLE[x][2][width=\sendervalwidth, align=right, style= {\valstyle\strut}] \bTR\bTD\doiftextelse{\lettersenderkeyone} {\lettersenderkeyone:}{}\eTD\bTD\lettersendervalone\eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD\doiftextelse{\lettersenderkeytwo} {\lettersenderkeytwo:}{}\eTD\bTD\lettersendervaltwo\eTD\eTR % etc. \bTR\bTD\doiftextelse{\lettersenderkeynine} {\lettersenderkeynine:}{}\eTD\bTD\lettersendervalnine \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stopsetups Is there a more programmatical way for such? (Does TeX know something like arrays or dicts?) Sorry, I still can't program in TeX... Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Bib Module: bibl-ssa
by David Wooten 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Greetings all, Taco, I've just run across a small bug in the bibl-ssa style for the bib- module. The (wonderful) mechanism for deleting subsequent identical names goes a little too far if the first item in the bibliography is an edited book---that is, editor(s) only, and no author(s). "A little too far" meaning the first item is printed without the editor's name. Current set-up: \usemodule[bib] \setuppublications[alternative=ssa,refcommand=authoryears] \setuppublications[sorttype=bbl,criterium=all] \setupbibtex[sort=author] \sortbycitefalse Kind regards, David Wooten

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nice examples
by Hans Hagen 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi, I dunno how many of you know this, but the next site gives examples (in pdf) of column handling http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~naw/serie5/index.php Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] Questions about the rsteps module.
by Fabrice Larribe 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Peter Münster wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Fabrice Larribe wrote: > > > 2) I wish to use the same text to print (wihout steps) and with slide > > (with steps). If I comment the "\usemodule [rsteps]", the instructions > > \StartSteps \NextStep.. are unknown of course, so how should I redefine > > them ? I guess I should provide new definitions only for screen mode ? > > Is there a simpler solution ? . > > \UseStepsfalse > Cheers, Peter > Thanks for the answer. Mojca Miklavec also mentionned this which I did not know. This resolves one of my problem. I'm still working on the others ! Fabrice L.

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Re: [NTG-context] Questions about the rsteps module.
by Fabrice Larribe 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Hi, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > I may be wrong, but I'm afraid that I have to disappoint you for > almost all the request that you mentioned unless someone implements > them in the near future (I guess that many people would need this > functionality anyway). t-rsteps is still experimental in a way. It > works, but not for very advanced usage. Hans wrote some modules to > provide similar functionality, but they all rely on JavaScript. > Thanks for your feed-back. I wish somebody will work on this or a similar macro one day, and we have in Context a way to deal with these simple animations, like what offers the beamer package in Latex. About the javascript macro wrote by Hans, it is a little risky, since when you made a presentation, you have nerver sure what computer and acrobat version you are going to present. > > 1) When I define a theorem in a slide with steps, my theorem 1 is > > theorem 2 at the second step. How to control this ? > > As far as I know, the code is implemented in such a way that it only > controls at which step to process the code. It means that if you write > a theorem once on the first slide and once on the second, it will be > processed twice and TeX will see it as a new theorem. > > Some code was written to hack treating the equation numbers and > chapter/section numbers. I don't know how you write and number > theorems, but you can manually reset the theorem number to one number > less the the current one and then increment it again at the end of > slide, although this is tedious. > > I don't know to which extent you can read the TeX source code (it's > much uglier than for any other usual programming language). It should > be possible to mimic the behaviour of resetting equation numbers, but > don't ask me how to do that. > > Yet another approach would be to save everything in a box and then > output only the box. I don't know how well this works (if it works at > all). > > \setbox2=\vbox{ here comes your theorem } > \FromStep[2]{\copy2} > > All the mentioned solutions are ugly. > I have tried your solutions based on putting the theorem in a vbox, but this does not work. Yes I have seen a discussion on this mailing list where the author of t-rsteps modify the macro to handle equations numbers. So this may be possible. I had a look on the macro, perhaps I will try to do something, but this is a huge work since I'm not so fluent in Tex macro... Perhaps ths simple solution is to number theorem manually, but this pose a problem, since I have others enumerations in the document (Definition, Exemples...). I can cheat and adjust counters at each step in screen mode, but I'm not sure how to do this: there is a command \setEnumeration{value} and \nextEnumeration, but no \previousEnumeration... > > 2) I wish to use the same text to print (wihout steps) and with slide > > (with steps). If I comment the "\usemodule [rsteps]", the instructions > > \StartSteps \NextStep.. are unknown of course, so how should I redefine > > them ? I guess I should provide new definitions only for screen mode ? > > Is there a simpler solution ? . > > There is a switch \UseStepsfalse. (I don't know if this satisfies your > needs - there are some differences, ie: there may be problems with > Table of Contents or similar.) > I did not know the \UseStepsfalse option. This seems to work nice. Thanks. > > 3) On each slide, the header contains the page number, which appears > > only at the last step of the slide.The same effect occurs with the > footline > > which appears only at last step of a slide. Is there a way to correct > > this ? ie I wish the header and footer do not change, so the steps are > > more transparent. > > No idea. > > Sorry for being of almost no help and for bringing bad news only, > Mojca > > > Thanks anyways for your answers, sometimes to know that something is impossible and likely difficult is valuable ! Fabrice L. >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >ntg-context(a)ntg.nl >http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > >

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Danielle Steel module (t-firstline)
by Taco Hoekwater 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

Hi, Attached is a module that can (automatically) do special processing on just the first line of a paragraph. It is based on a question about Danielle Steel novels on c.t.t. by John Culleton. For John: I've renamed the macro to \Firstline Cheers and a happy newyear to all, Taco

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Mptopdf batch
by David Arnold 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

All, I am wondering why this only compiles one file. How can I compile section3figs-mpgraph.# of #=1-7 in one command? figures $ ls figlibSection1.xml section3figs-mpgraph.log figlibSection2.xml section3figs-mpgraph.mp figlibSection3.xml section3figs-mpgraph.mpo junk5.tex section3figs-mpgraph.mpt mpgraph.mp section3figs-mpgraph.mpx mptrace.tmp section3figs.log section1figs.tex section3figs.pdf section2figs.tex section3figs.tex section3figs-mpgraph-1.pdf section3figs.tmp section3figs-mpgraph.1 section3figs.tui section3figs-mpgraph.2 section3figs.tuo section3figs-mpgraph.3 tmpgraph-mpgraph.mp section3figs-mpgraph.4 tmpgraph.bck section3figs-mpgraph.5 tmpgraph.log section3figs-mpgraph.6 tmpgraph.tmp section3figs-mpgraph.7 tmpgraph.tui figures $ mptopdf section3figs-mpgraph.* This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) [MP to PDF] (./section3figs-mpgraph.1{/Users/darnold/Library/texmf/ fonts/map/pd ftex/updmap/pdftex.map}) [1]</usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/ type1/blu esky/cm/cmsy10.pfb></usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/type1/ bluesky/cm/c mr12.pfb>{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/lm- ec.enc}</usr /local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/type1/public/lm/lmr12.pfb></usr/ local/teTe X/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmmi12.pfb> Output written on section3figs-mpgraph.pdf (1 page, 24994 bytes). Transcript written on section3figs-mpgraph.log. MPtoPDF 1.3 : section3figs-mpgraph.1 is converted to section3figs- mpgraph-1.pdf figures $ I also tried: figures $ mptopdf section3figs-mpgraph.[1-7]This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) [MP to PDF] (./section3figs-mpgraph.1{/Users/darnold/Library/texmf/ fonts/map/pd ftex/updmap/pdftex.map}) [1]</usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/ type1/blu esky/cm/cmsy10.pfb></usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/type1/ bluesky/cm/c mr12.pfb>{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/lm- ec.enc}</usr /local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/type1/public/lm/lmr12.pfb></usr/ local/teTe X/share/texmf.tetex/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmmi12.pfb> Output written on section3figs-mpgraph.pdf (1 page, 24992 bytes). Transcript written on section3figs-mpgraph.log. MPtoPDF 1.3 : section3figs-mpgraph.1 is converted to section3figs- mpgraph-1.pdf figures $

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