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by Alan Bowen 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hraban— > I'm finally updating my typescripts and font packages for ConTeXt, see > http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4&lang=en Should the apostrophe-steinem and the bitstream-vera files include map files (apostrophe-steinem.map, bitstream-vera.map) too? I get Warning: pdfetex (file qx-bitstream-vera.map): cannot open font map file and then complaints about not being able to create a long list of bitmap fonts, when I try to compile your vera-test.tex. Alan

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problem with font variants in setupTABLE
by Henning Hraban Ramm 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hi wizards! In my typescript I define a condensed variant: \definefontvariant [Serif] [cond] [Cond] That works fine if I call \Var[cond] where I need it. But if I try to setup a TABLE column like this: \setupTABLE[c][3][width=10em, distance=2em, style={\Var[cond]}] I get: ! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 136. <inserted text> \fi <*> &cont-en test.tex What's wrong? Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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\setupinteraction[state=start,focus=...]
by Peter Münster 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hello, it seems, that the focus-option is only for links in the pdf. How could one get the right focus even on startup of acroread? TIA for any hint! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Font Question
by Henry Blodgiitt 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

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Tex drawing tool
by Boris Pedrofiets 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hi guys, I run into a drawing tool, capable of generating metapost. It's on http://tpx.sourceforge.net/ . It looks great to me, soo I like to share this with you all! Has anyone got any experiance with it? B. _________________________________________________________________ Een audiogesprek? Pak Messenger, niet de telefoon http://www1.imagine-msn.com/Messenger/Video.aspx

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modes in newtexexec
by Johan Sandblom 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hello. Doing texmfstart texexec now appears to call newtexexec. However, newtexexec does not seem to handle --mode at all. Is it coming? Should I set it up so I can call texexec directly in order to use modes? Regards, Johan -- Johan Sandblom N8, MRC, Karolinska sjh t +46851776108 17176 Stockholm m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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Re: mfonts.tex from manuals
by Mojca Miklavec 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

piskala upendran wrote: > hi, Mojca > > The complain about the fonts is 8t encoding. use 8r > encoding. it should work ok. > > I got the palatino font using 8r encoding using the > following. > > \usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding] > \usetypescript [palatino][\defaultencoding] > \setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt] > > it should compile ok. Thank you very much. I replaced \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] with \usetypescript [adobekb][\defaultencoding] which finally worked. Installing cont-fnt as Hans suggested didn't have any influence at all. However, now some really strange bug(?) appeared. \type{\whatevercommand} doesn't work inside \starttabulate ... \stoptabulate. This is only true for MikTeX, everywhere else it works OK. \starttabulate and \type{\whatevercommand} both work when they are used separately, but fail when \type comes inside \starttabulate. It may be that MikTeX is a bit "old" (27.10.), but there is no newer version available yet, so I hope that the problem will go away with the next version. Mojca ! Missing $ inserted. <inserted text> $ <to be read again> \atop \tabulatecontent ->\NC \type {\atop } \NC \NR \fulltabulatecontent ...dcontent \tabulatecontent \tabulatetailcontent \remo... \processtabulate ...sa \crcr \fulltabulatecontent \crcr }}\ifnum \nofautotab... l.4 \stoptabulate ?

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Fwd: Former Y&Y Lucida fonts available from TUG
by Brooks Moses 12 Dec '05

12 Dec '05

Hello! The following message was posted to comp.text.tex yesterday; I thought some of you who don't read the newsgroup regularly would like to hear about it, and so I'm passing it along. For those who haven't been following the story: Since the demise of Y&Y, there hasn't been a place to obtain a legal copy of their Lucida font distribution, which was the only place to get the Lucida New Math fonts needed for doing TeX math properly in Lucida. TUG has been in negotiations with the relevant copyright holders for a while in order to be able to distribute the fonts; this has finally come to fruition, and the fonts are now available again -- for prices considerably lower than what I gather Y&Y charged, and with a license that allows embedding the fonts in PDF files. - Brooks ======================================================================== Subject: Lucida fonts available from TUG Date: 10 Dec 2005 15:26:44 -0800 From: Karl Berry <karl(a)tug.org> Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Hi everyone, The Lucida fonts are now available through TUG; visit http://tug.org/lucida if you're interested. In short, the "complete set" offered by TUG is exactly the same 41 Lucida fonts which Y&Y sold. (The pfb's are completely unchanged.) There is also a "basic set" with 22 fonts -- all the math fonts and the essential text fonts. Both individual and site licenses are available. There is a substantial discount for TUG members. Due to legal and overhead considerations, we aren't currently planning to offer the fonts one at a time, or in any other bundles. Hopefully the price is low enough that this will not be a significant problem. The Lucida TeX support metrics and lucidabr (psnfssx) macros have been (slightly) updated. They have been uploaded to CTAN and should appear there in due course. Of course all the support files are included in the downloads from tug; they're on CTAN primarily for the benefit of Y&Y users who already have the fonts. We have also established a mailing list lucida(a)tug.org for user questions, suggestions, bug reports, etc. Please feel free to post and/or join. http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/lucida A separate address, lucida-admin(a)tug.org, should be used for licensing, billing, and other such admin questions. Font samples, documentation, and more are available on the web site. Although we still expect to offer a license upgrade for Y&Y users, this has proven legally complicated, so it's not online quite yet. I'll post again when it is ready; it might be a few more weeks, given the holidays (and lawyers' usual working pace, anyway :). I didn't want this to delay making the fonts available, so decided to go ahead. Major thanks to Chuck Bigelow and Kris Holmes for generously allowing TUG to offer this to the TeX community - and especially for designing this remarkable typeface in the first place. Also thanks to Walter Schmidt for creating and updating the TeX font support files, PCTeX for sponsoring him and allowing his work to be redistributed, and to Morten Hoegholm for working on the samples and other TeXnical help. Happy Lucida holidays, Karl (R) Lucida is a trademark of Bigelow & Holmes Inc. registered in the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and other jurisdictions.

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An idea
by Zeljko Vrba 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

A motivation and idea that came to mind while writing a post to comp.text.tex: == Then again, most (all?) of publishers require Latex source, if my document ever makes it that far.. And Latex has nicer source code formatting than Context. so I'm really split between Latex and Context.. None of them individually fit all (I admit, vague) requirements.. Context being able to chew up Latex .cls files and still allowing for its advanced formatting directives, long tables, and other goodies would be a perfect match. == Basically, rewrite standard Latex environments and commands (\chapter, \section, itemize, enumerate, etc..) present in article.cls and report.cls to expand to Context commands that give an equivalent layout.. How much work would it be? Either a Latex emulation environment or a new implementation of "Latex classes" for Context? I have to admit that I don't have time to start implementing either. I'm just interested in some feasibility opinions.. 80% of Latex<>Context transition can be done with a few simple regexes. Other 20% have to be translated by hand, and it is very painful, esp. if tables are in question..

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Blasphemy-)
by Idris Samawi Hamid 11 Dec '05

11 Dec '05

Dear gang, I am now on WinXP now (up from W2000) and only use mswincontext.zip for my TeX'ing needs. However, I need to install LaTeX for legacy purposes (mainly Lambda/Aleph critical edition stuff). fpTeX is gone, I can't find XemTeX (broken link https://xemtex.groups.foundry.supelec.fr/downloads/xemtex-0.5-rc0.msi ) so I guess that leaves MiKTeX. Any advice on choosing/installing a minimal LaTeX distribution? Updated links? Sorry for the sacrilege-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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