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French, ? : ; !, and spacing, \setuppapersize problem
by Tobias Burnus 14 May '04

14 May '04

Hello, (Passing on a question.) Is there a simple methode to automatically add a thinspace before "?", "!", ":" and ";" as it is done commonly in French? This would make typing easier and would allow to change a thinspace into a normal space etc. In addition, I have the following problem. I downloaded the latest (?) ConTeXt - 2004.4.9 -, installed it in my $HOMETEXMF tree, added two symlinks to make it work with an old TDS tree texmf.cnf configuration, run texhash and fmtutil. TeX works rather nicely, except \setuppagersize. Using \setuppapersize[a5][a4] or a5 a5 I get always one A4 page on a A4 sheet of paper. Using [a5][a4,landscape] I get a A4 paper on a sheet of paper which is as wide and high as the height of an A4 paper. Can anyone reproduce this? Or is this due to my configuration (e.g. a file present in the system TEXMF tree which is not in $HOMETEXMF and gets included)? Regards, Tobias

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Strange MP problem
by Tobias Burnus 14 May '04

14 May '04

Hello, I have a really strange problem. After changing a label in ghostscript (mpost terminal), I fail to mpost the output since the TeX file looks like \switchtobodyfont[7.5pt] % [...] \shipout\hbox{\smash{\hbox{\hbox{% line 402 gnuplot0001.mp xtls ($1+2885.878040):($3/1.6637149187); $\Gamma_{\rm L}=1.5$, $\Gamma_{\rm G}=0 .2$}\vrule width1sp}}} \end{document} Of cause it fails at the "\end{document}", but why is it there at all? In the metapost file are only the normal put_text(btex ... etx) statements (plus my verbertim "\switchtobodyfont[7.5pt]"). Any ideas? Tobias PS: Thanks Patrick for a5 vs. A5 help.

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Fwd: Chinese support of ConTeXt
by Hans Hagen 13 May '04

13 May '04

For chinese experts: >Hello, I'm a new Chinese user (would-be at least) of ConTeXt. In your >site, you have a PDF about Chinese support in ConTeXt. The information >within that PDF utilizes some of the seemingly outdated tools. I'm not >very experienced with teTeX (on my Debian system) administration, so I got >nearly completed lost. Can you help me setup Chinese for ConTeXt? I'd like >to summarize my experience into a Chinese document if I can get it up and >run. I will contribute the document back to the community to pay back help >I would get from you. Anyway, here's my questions: > >1. Can I use tools from the freetype1-tools package of Debian to generate >all the Chinese fonts stuff from my truetype fonts from my Windows system? > >The current document about Chinese in ConTeXt in your site concentrate on >(seemingly outdated) Turbolinux information. > >2. How can I install the fonts stuff generated to local texmf without >being a teTeX administrator? In your current document, there is no >information about this. As reading various TeX command logs, I suppose it >should have something to do with running mktexlsr etc.? > >Thank you very much for your time and the many charming PDFs out there >which makes ConTeXt really desirable! > >ZHAO Wei > >================================================================ >Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd >op virussen. >Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst >waar op wordt gecontroleerd. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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page selection with context magnifies
by karl＠freefriends.org 13 May '04

13 May '04

(I believe this is the same bug I reported on December 6, with additional information.) I'm using context (from TL 2003) to select pages. It's apparently actually changing the content, that is, enlarging it! Consider page 2 of the attached covers.pdf. I try to extract it with: texexec --mode=letter --pdfselect --selection=2 --result=bad2.pdf covers.pdf The result is the attached bad2.pdf. If you view at, say, 100% ("fit to page" will eradicate the difference) and compare to the original page 2, the fonts appear larger and everything is moved to the right a bit, as if the page was magnified by some small proportion. The same thing happens with page 4 and with other files I have tried. I tried removing the --mode=letter, it made no difference. Any help appreciated. Although gs can extract pages correctly, it loses the searchable text, while context preserves it, so I'd rather use the latter. :). Thanks, k

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reuse of LaTeX code
by Viktor Tron 12 May '04

12 May '04

Dear List users, I just heard about ConTeXt on the lingtex list. I am a rather old and experienced Latex user, and, although rather unsatisfied, I have tons of latex sources for constant reuse. My first questions are Is there any hope that I can painlessly reuse my Latex code in Context? Is there any hope that I can ever use Latex styles (some more complicated macro defs) in Context? Thanks for help. Viktor +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Viktor Tron v.tron(a)ed.ac.uk| |3fl Rm8 2 Buccleuch Pl EH8 9LW Edinburgh Tel +44 131 650 4414| |European Postgraduate College www.coli.uni-sb.de/egk| |School of Informatics www.informatics.ed.ac.uk| |Theoretical and Applied Linguistics www.ling.ed.ac.uk| | @ University of Edinburgh, UK www.ed.ac.uk| |Dept of Computational Linguistics www.coli.uni-sb.de| | @ Saarland University (Saarbruecken, Germany) www.uni-saarland.de| |use LINUX and FREE Software www.linux.org| +------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Images
by techw＠siritech.com 12 May '04

12 May '04

Hello all! Thanks for all your suggestions. I am capturing screenshots and saving them as .eps images using Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8. I then convert the eps images to PDF using "convertall2pdf"(on the command line) which is the batch file that Ghostscript uses. When I then use context tags \placefigure {test} {\externalfigure[Image1-4][type=pdf,preset=yes]} \blank I still get blank gray boxes in the output. Why does this happen? How do I solve this problem? Does it have anything to do with the bounding box? How do I fix the bounding box? Thanks and regards, -priya

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Images
by techw＠siritech.com 12 May '04

12 May '04

Hello all! Thanks for all your suggestions. I am capturing screenshots and saving them as .eps images using Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8. I then convert the eps images to PDF using "convertall2pdf"(on the command line) which is the batch file that Ghostscript uses. I am sending through the script of "Convertall2pdf". @echo off PATH=%PATH%;c:\gs\gs8.13\lib;c:\gs\gs8.13\bin; for /F %%i in ('dir /b *.eps') do ps2pdf %%i %%i.pdf When I then use context tags \placefigure {test} {\externalfigure[Image1-4][type=pdf,preset=yes]} \blank I still get blank gray boxes in the output. Why does this happen? How do I solve this problem? Does it have anything to do with the bounding box? How do I fix the bounding box? Thanks and regards, -priya

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[very OT] test, don't read
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 May '04

11 May '04

Sorry. Just a test (account dead?). Steffen

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eps to pdf images
by techw＠siritech.com 11 May '04

11 May '04

Hello all! I had not set the path for the Ghost script correctly. Now that I have set it, the conversion to pdf works like magic! Thanks a lot for the help, special thanks to Mr.Burnus and Mr.Hagen and Mr.Egger for their replies. I use Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 to convert jpg images to eps. But the images are not very good when converted to pdf. How can I improve the quality of the images? Suggestions please! Thanks and regards, -priya.

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by Aleida Stephani 10 May '04

10 May '04

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