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\showmathcharacters loop
by Radhelorn 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

Hello All! This simple file sends pdfetex into endless loop: \starttext \showmathcharacters \stoptext Here is texexec --version: TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) context : ver: 2005.08.31 cont-en : ver: 2005.08.31 fmt: 2005.10.8 mes: english \showmathcharacters used to work for some older version of ConTeXt, but now it didn't. As far as I remember my personal settings haven't changed. -- Radhelorn <radhelorn(a)mail.ru>

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hyperlinking files
by andrea valle 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

This should be obvious but I wasn't able to find a fitting example. I'm a having great time creating my pdf slided with context. Now, I'd like to have a link opening a video/audio/html file. How can to do it? I tried with wiki. I'm able to use a .mov, but not an .mpg. What does it depends on? Can I play a .wav from inside the pdf? Thanks -a-

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Anchoring layer
by Thomas A. Schmitz 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

I'm trying to write a module that will mimick the behavior of crop.sty in LaTeX (providing fancier cropmarks than the ones given by the ConTeXt \setuplayout command). I'm done with the code for the cropmarks, and this is working fine. Now I want to have a status line in between the two top marks. How can I give an absolute position for a layer that will put this line midaligned and exactly, say 0.5cm above the level of the upper corners of the page? What I tried so far is: \composedlayer and something like \setlayer[y=2cm] - will only be on the first page, not repeated; \framed - I can give the frame a height like 1.3\textheight, but then the position will not be fixed, but change with the textheight I guess there must be a trivial solution, but I haven't found it yet... Best Thomas

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esoteric macro expansion bug in t-bib?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 Oct '05

10 Oct '05

esoteric macro expansion bug. Dear Taco, There is some esoteric macro expansion bug in the bib module (beyond my capability to understand). For example, the \Ibar macro works fine outside of the a= context. \getcommacommandsize can't seem to figure out that ## stands for an alignment preamble. Is there a way to protect the argument of a= ? Please try the following : ================ibar-bib.bbl==================== \startpublication[k=amini93, t=book, a=al-Am\={i}n\~i, y=1993, s=] \author[]{Mu\.hammad H\=ad\=i}[]{}{Al-Am\=in\=i} \title{Mu\`allimu \~a\~l-\v S\=i\`ah: a~l-\v Say\h h al-Muf\=id} %\pubname{} \city{Beirut} \pubyear{{1993}} \stoppublication =========================================== ================ibar-bib.tex==================== % output=pdf interface=en \usemodule[bib] \def\SHIFT#1{\dimen0=.00#1ex \multiply\dimen0 by\fontdimen1\font \kern-.0156\dimen0} % compensate for slant/italic in lower accents \def\USHIFT#1{\dimen0=.00#1ex \multiply\dimen0 by\fontdimen1\font \kern.0156\dimen0} % compensate for slant/italic in upper accents \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}}} \definecharacter imacron {\IBAR} % ConTeXt-dependent! \setupwhitespace[big] \starttext \cite[amini93] M\=irz\=a \section{References}{\tfx\setupinterlinespace {\leavevmode\placepublications}} \stoptext =========================================== I get the following error =========================================== systems : begin file ibar-bib at line 20 ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \commacommand. <to be read again> \cr \IBAR ...lineskip \lineskip 0.295ex\ialign {##\cr \USHIFT {120}\hfill \hbox ... \dohandleaccent ... #1\string #2\empty \endcsname \else \ifcsname \accentpre... \thebibauthors ->{al-Am\={i} n\~i} \getcommacommandsize [#1]->\edef \commacommand {#1 }\scratchtoks \expandafter... \dobibauthoryear ...acommandsize [\thebibauthors ] \@EA \processcommalist \@E... ... =========================================== Please advise-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] esoteric macro expansion bug in t-bib?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

You will need to add the following macro to the example file ibar-bib.tex. Once the expansion bug is fixed the file will compile. \def\h#1{{\oalign{\relax#1\crcr\hidewidth\SHIFT{34}% \vbox to.2ex{\hbox{\char'25}\vss}\hidewidth}}} Best Idris =============================================== =============================================== Dear Taco, There is some esoteric macro expansion bug in the bib module (beyond my capability to understand). For example, the \Ibar macro works fine outside of the a= context. \getcommacommandsize can't seem to figure out that ## stands for an alignment preamble. Is there a way to protect the argument of a= ? Please try the following : ================ibar-bib.bbl==================== \startpublication[k=amini93, t=book, a=al-Am\={i}n\~i, y=1993, s=] \author[]{Mu\.hammad H\=ad\=i}[]{}{Al-Am\=in\=i} \title{Mu\`allimu \~a\~l-\v S\=i\`ah: a~l-\v Say\h h al-Muf\=id} %\pubname{} \city{Beirut} \pubyear{{1993}} \stoppublication =========================================== ================ibar-bib.tex==================== % output=pdf interface=en \usemodule[bib] \def\SHIFT#1{\dimen0=.00#1ex \multiply\dimen0 by\fontdimen1\font \kern-.0156\dimen0} % compensate for slant/italic in lower accents \def\USHIFT#1{\dimen0=.00#1ex \multiply\dimen0 by\fontdimen1\font \kern.0156\dimen0} % compensate for slant/italic in upper accents \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}}} \definecharacter imacron {\IBAR} % ConTeXt-dependent! \setupwhitespace[big] \starttext \cite[amini93] M\=irz\=a \section{References}{\tfx\setupinterlinespace {\leavevmode\placepublications}} \stoptext =========================================== I get the following error =========================================== systems : begin file ibar-bib at line 20 ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \commacommand. <to be read again> \cr \IBAR ...lineskip \lineskip 0.295ex\ialign {##\cr \USHIFT {120}\hfill \hbox .. \dohandleaccent ... #1\string #2\empty \endcsname \else \ifcsname \accentpre... \thebibauthors ->{al-Am\={i} n\~i} \getcommacommandsize [#1]->\edef \commacommand {#1 }\scratchtoks \expandafter... \dobibauthoryear ...acommandsize [\thebibauthors ] \@EA \processcommalist \@E... .. =========================================== Please advise-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 _______________________________________________ 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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URGENT: ConTeXt Wiki being actively sabotaged!
by Brooks Moses 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

It looks like someone is currently actively going through the Wiki and deleting pages (and creating some blank useless pages, such as the one named "Brooks"). Can someone block this before the damage gets worse? - Brooks

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Re: [NTG-context] Vowels with accent (teTeX - Linux)
by Jilani Khaldi 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

example: \mainlanguage[italian] \setupbodyfont[12pt] \setuppapersize[A4] \starttext perché, sarà, così, totò, più \stoptext texexec --pdf context.tex => PDF output = perch, sar, cos, tot, pi PDF example generated by ConTeXt http://jkhaldi.oltrelinux.com/context.pdf (6kb) PDF example generated by LaTeX http://jkhaldi.oltrelinux.com/latex.pdf (gives the expected output.) (6kb) locale => LANG=it_IT LC_CTYPE="it_IT" LC_NUMERIC="it_IT" LC_TIME="it_IT" LC_COLLATE="it_IT" LC_MONETARY="it_IT" LC_MESSAGES="it_IT" LC_PAPER="it_IT" LC_NAME="it_IT" LC_ADDRESS="it_IT" LC_TELEPHONE="it_IT" LC_MEASUREMENT="it_IT" LC_IDENTIFICATION="it_IT" LC_ALL=it_IT on Linux Slackware 10.2 Ciao! jk -- // Jilani KHALDI http://jkhaldi.oltrelinux.com

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Re: [NTG-context] Vowels with accent (teTeX - Linux)
by VnPenguin 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

On 10/9/05, Jilani Khaldi <jilani.khaldi1(a)virgilio.it> wrote: > Hi, > > >I don't know which "input encoding" do you use ? Me, I use always > >UTF-8 for all my ConTeXt doc here and I have ALWAYS all accented > >characters on it ;-) > > > > > Where can I see/set the "input encoding"? > Thank you. I used: \enableregime[utf] \setupencoding[default=t5] For UTF-8 input encoding with T5 for vietnamese. -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community

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positions in externalfigure
by Alexander Lazic 09 Oct '05

09 Oct '05

Hi, i have try to add a picture in my footer. what i need is: +-----------------------------------------+ | | |\pagenuber / \totalnumberofpages | +-----------------------------------------+ the hole box is the picture in the footer, there is on the left lower corner place for the pagenumbers. i have try: --- \startreusableMPgraphic{filledsquare} vardef redsquare = image ( interim linecap := butt; filldraw unitsquare xyscaled (300,300) withpen pencircle scaled 0 withcolor red ; ) enddef; \stopreusableMPgraphic \startreusableMPgraphic{exhoch} \includeMPgraphic{filledsquare} draw redsquare xysized (ExHeight-1,ExHeight-1) shifted (bbwidth(currentpicture)+.1mm,0) ; \stopreusableMPgraphic \defineoverlay [footbackground] [{\externalfigure[mypic][frame=on,factor=fit,width=\textwidth,height=2.34cm]}] \def\mypagenumber#1% {\rm \txx \useMPgraphic{exhoch} #1 / \totalnumberofpages } \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,left},command=\mypagenumber] \setupfootertexts[][{\framed[background=footbackground,frame=on]{}}] --- and many combinations of inframed + backgrounds from many manuals. I think i'am on the wrong way :-( Please can anyone help me to come to the right way or solution, thanx. greetings al ;-)

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bib module: author-date macros
by Idris Samawi Hamid 08 Oct '05

08 Oct '05

Here are some macros that I use; I was wondering if the new bib module has a better way to implement the following, since this sort of thing is used quite frequently in the author-date system that t-bib defaults to. See the examples in the following file (three depend on \cite[year] which has a problem--see previous mail). I would really appreciate suggestions for improving this-) Best Idris ==========test-bib-macros.tex========== % output=pdf interface=en \setupwhitespace[big] \usemodule[bib] \setuppublications[alternative=apa] \setuppublications[autohang=yes] \setuppublications[numbering=no] \setuppublications[criterium=cite] \setuppublications[sorttype=bbl] \setuppublicationlist[totalnumber={},samplesize=,author={\invertedauthor}] \setupcite[authoryears][left={(},inbetween={ }, right={)}] \def\citeauthoryear[#1]{% {\setupcite[authoryears][right={)},inbetween={ }]% \cite[authoryears][#1]% }% } \def\citeyear[#1]{% {\cite[year][#1]% }% } \def\citeauthoryearpage[#1][#2]{% {\setupcite[authoryears][right={, #2)},inbetween={ }]% \cite[authoryears][#1]% }% } \def\citeyearpage[#1][#2]{% {\setupcite[year][right={, #2)},inbetween={ }]% \cite[year][#1]% }% } \def\citeauthorout[#1]{% {\setupcite[authoryears][left={}, right={)},inbetween={ (}]% \cite[authoryears][#1]% }% } \def\citeauthoroutpage[#1][#2]{% {\setupcite[authoryears][left={}, right={, #2)},inbetween={ (}]% \cite[authoryears][#1]% }% } \def\citeleft[#1]{% {\setupcite[authoryears][left={(}, right={, },inbetween={ }]% \cite[authoryears][#1]% }% } \def\citeleftpage[#1][#2]{% {\setupcite[authoryears][left={(}, right={, #2; },inbetween={ }]% \cite[authoryears][#1]% }% } \def\citemiddle[#1]{% {\setupcite[authoryears][left={}, right={, },inbetween={ }]% \cite[authoryears][#1]% }% } \def\citeright[#1]{% {\setupcite[authoryears][left={}, right={)},inbetween={ }]% \cite[authoryears][#1]% }% } \def\citemiddlepage[#1][#2]{% {\setupcite[authoryears][left={}, right={, #2; },inbetween={ }]% \cite[authoryears][#1]% }% } \def\citerightpage[#1][#2]{% {\setupcite[authoryears][left={}, right={, #2)},inbetween={ }]% \cite[authoryears][#1]% }% } \input test-bib.bbl \starttext % examples \dots as someone else pointed out \cite[afghani60]. \dots as someone else pointed out\citeauthoryear[afghani60]. %\dots as Afghani points out \cite[year][afghani60]. % crashes %\dots as Afghani points out \citeyear[afghani60]. % crashes %\citeyearpage[afghani60][p.~20]. % crashes \dots as someone else pointed out\citeauthoryearpage[afghani60][p.~20]. See \citeauthorout[afghani60]. See \citeauthoroutpage[afghani60][p.~20]. \dots as others have pointed out\citeleft[afghani60]% \citemiddle[afghani60]% \citeright[afghani60]. \dots as others have pointed out\citeleftpage[afghani60][p.~20]% \citemiddlepage[afghani60][p.~20]% \citerightpage[afghani60][p.~20]. % \citeypage[afghani60][p.~20] %(1956, p. 20) \section{References}{\tfx\setupinterlinespace {\placepublications}} \stoptext ========================================= ==============test-bib.bbl=============== \startpublication[k=afghani60, t=book, a=Afgh\=an\=i, y=1960, s=] \author[]{Sa\high{c}\=id}[]{}{Al-Afgh\=an\=i} \title{Asw\=aqu \~al-\high{c}Arab f\=i \~al-J\=ahiliyya\~h wa \~al-Isl\=am} \pubname{D\=aru \~al-Fikr} \city{Damascus} \pubyear{1960} \stoppublication ========================================= ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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