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RE: [NTG-context] Debian Install
by Idris Samawi Hamid 15 Oct '05

15 Oct '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >Olivier wrote: > >>Actually, the file texmf.cnf should be located at /etc/texmf/ like all >>the config files for the tetex distrib (and I assume the /usr/share/texmf/web2c >>is just a link from there). >> >> >actually, moving all such files to etc is a bad idea; if etc really wants that file there (maybe under /etc/web2c), best make a symlink from there to the formal place tex tree; makes updating easier; a lot of effort goes into making the tex tree clean and self contained, so moving files outside the tree is a bad idea. > >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 >----------------------------------------------------------------- > >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >ntg-context(a)ntg.nl >http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] Chinese in utf-8
by Duncan Hothersall 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

>>(beware, the font-chi modules talk about unicode while actually it's >>about dedicated mapings resembling a unicode approach; this >>\defineucharmapping stuff) > > Yes indeed, that had me going... :-) Oh well. > > Thanks for the insight, I'll feedback further. I have to say I'm unable to make any sense of it at the moment. I think I understand the logic of what is needed but understanding the current implementation is way beyond my current capacity. Does anyone else have a need to process Simplified Chinese encoded in UTF-8? If not, perhaps I should just explore getting my sources changed into GBK. If there was someone else with the same need we could perhaps share the burden... Thanks again, Duncan (PS I'm away for the next week, please don't think I'm ignoring you if I don't reply over that period.)

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Antwort: Re: [NTG-context] Interactive things and exact placement of graphics
by Jessica Holle 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

Ups, problem solved with the page hyperlinks. Its to early in the morning to read correct *gg*

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Antwort: Re: [NTG-context] Interactive things and exact placement of graphics
by Jessica Holle 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

Hi, thanks for your answer :-) These tipps will help a lot and answers a piece of my questions. With metafun I produced a graphic an the text comes in with \framed like its described in metafun and this works fine. The exact positioning is a problem but it works, not total like my suggestions, with a table. I've read mwidget and I have a question. Is it possible to mak a goto to a exact site in my document? I've read of next, previous and other documents but can I say something like "goto page 5 of the document" ? thx Jessica

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Re: MathML: Please ignore <mo>⁡</mo>
by Duncan Hothersall 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

> Salvete, > > I just started to think about using ConTeXt on XML input files, so I've > got a question which should be easy to answer: My MathML source > generates presentation code which includes <mo>⁡</mo> between a > function symbol and its arguments. I get a black rectangle for that; > I'd like ConTeXt to ignore this character, where do I define it as > “nothing”? This is the hex unicode reference for the entity ⁡ which is already defined in xtag-mml.tex as nothing ({}) via its expansion into ⁡. So the problem seems to be in arriving at ⁡ from ⁡. I'm not sure how to do that, but in the meantime you can define ⁡ explicitly using: \defineXMLentity [x02061] {} I think there is a mapping mechanism though, since a lot of Unicode is supported natively; perhaps the vector to which ⁡ belongs hasn't been completed yet. Duncan

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Re: [NTG-context] Chinese in utf-8
by Duncan Hothersall 12 Oct '05

12 Oct '05

Hans wrote: > that's tricky. the utf handler assumes named glyphs and noone named > the 5000 chinese ones so far ... > some variant on: ... > \startunicodevector chinese_unicode_page_number_1 > getglyph\endcsname{ChineseFont1}{#1}\gobbleoneargument > \stopunicodevector > > so, then you only need to define the right fonts i.e. > > \definefont[ChineseFont1][whateverchinesefont_1] > > which has the right glyphs in the right slots > > so ... it's actually simple, once you have the fonts split up > > probably the getgyph needs to be replaced by a more clever one that > handles special chinese thingies, Wow. At the moment I have no idea how most of the Chinese module or font-handling works, nor how I would implement something using the tricks you describe. I guess I would need some hand-holding if I were to embark on this, I guess also I would need to understand the mechanism used to re-use a TTF font many times with different encodings to create multiple 256 char tfms. > another option is to write another mapper analogue to the ones > already there for chinese, i.e. is there some mapping from utf to > big5 or so and hook that into the utf handler. This sounds like something I can at least understand a bit better. I will start here, and see what success I have. Perhaps it will help eventually with an attempt to do it the "right" way above. > (beware, the font-chi modules talk about unicode while actually it's > about dedicated mapings resembling a unicode approach; this > \defineucharmapping stuff) Yes indeed, that had me going... :-) Oh well. Thanks for the insight, I'll feedback further. Duncan

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RE: [NTG-context] esoteric macro expansion bug in t-bib?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

>===== Original Message From Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> ===== >Christopher Creutzig wrote: >> Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: >>>\def\IBAR% >>>{\leavevmode\vbox{\offinterlineskip\lineskip0.295ex% >>>\ialign{##\cr\USHIFT{120}\hfill\hbox to .21243em{\leaders\hrule >>>height .07ex\hfill}\hfill\SHIFT{1}\cr\i\cr}}} >> >> >> Could you try >> \unexpanded\def\IBAR% ... >> > >That was my first thought as well. That finally ocurred to me after you all were sleep yesterday-) Yes, the \unexpanded solves things. I'm curious: how exactly does \unexpanded work? Is this an eTeX primitive? Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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bib module: interaction (wish)
by Giuseppe Bilotta 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

Hello all, and Taco in particular, I'm a great fan of interaction, and I was wondering about what kind of interaction the BibTeX module could support. I'm thinking of two of them in particular. One of them is the obvious link to list of references on click. However, I'm also a great fan of balloons, so I was thinking of something like a popup-on-hover showing the full reference, thus sparing the need to go back-and-forth through the document. (Can these things be optimized so that the popup is only stored once in the PDF?) A potential problem would be with compressed citations, but I guess that in this case making only the displayed numbers active is the right solution. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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last-name only in bib
by Idris Samawi Hamid 11 Oct '05

11 Oct '05

Dear Taco, I need a last-name only option for a few but not all authors, such that no comma comes after the last name; rather it goes straight to the year e.g., it appears in the actual bibliography as ============================================== McDermott (1976). The Theology of Shaykh Mufid ============================================== Right now I get (with spurious comma) ============================================== McDermott, (1976). The Theology of Shaykh Mufid ============================================== Sometime authors give me bib's where the first name of the author is unknown... Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] Curious instruction from Texfont
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

>I should explain that I use Context for non-fiction but plain >pdftex for novels etc. I must ask: Why is that? -) Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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