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Re: [NTG-context] setbreakpoints
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Hi Wolfgang, To be serious, what \setbreakpoints[] do? I want to wikify this command. Vyatcheslav

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Occasional words sticking out from flush-right
by James Fisher 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

Hi, I'm experiencing an issue where, when the width of a block of text is small, the occasional word sticks out from the otherwise flush right. I've previously seen an example of this in an image on the contextgarden wiki, but now can't find it. To reproduce what I mean, compile this with Mark IV: \mainlanguage[en] \usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino,11pt] \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuphead[title][header=empty] \starttext \title{Personal statement} \startcolumns[n=2] This heavily-hyphenated jauntily-formatted flush-left flush-right justified-text paragraph set in a two-column layout and subtly-quirky-but-never-offensive Palatino shouldn't produce out-of-flush sticking-out-like-a-sore-thumb words from the flush-right. \stopcolumns \stoptext In this example, the string 'sticking-out-like-a-sore-thumb' sticks out to approx 3mm from the right edge of the paper. In this situation, I would much prefer that that string is hyphenated, using one of the hyphens already in the string. Based on one other test (in which my text was far less hyphenated than the above), it seems that the hyphenation algorithm refuses to hyphenate strings of words that are already hyphenated. Is this true? If so, is it deliberate? And how do I turn it off? (And do other people agree with me that it's awfully ugly?) Best James Fisher

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Using XeTeX results in: ! Undefined control sequence. \PDFversion ->1.\the \pdfminorversion
by James Fisher 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

Somewhere in my twists and turns to get Mark IV working today, it appears XeTeX has been broken. Running `texexec --xtx' on any ConTeXt file results in: ! Undefined control sequence. \PDFversion ->1.\the \pdfminorversion All I've been able to find out is that these macros are something to do with PDFTeX. I really don't know where to turn now. I'm running: XeTeX 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (Web2C 7.5.6) TeXExec | version 6.2.1 - 1997-2009 - PRAGMA ADE/POD MTXrun | current version: 2010.03.02 12:34

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no protrusion for hyphen ??
by Steffen Wolfrum 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

Hi, I have read there were troubles with |-| in MkIV last year. I found another one: the hyphen set by |-| doesn't get protruded. See example below, please: \startluacode fonts.protrusions.vectors['stpure'] = { [0x002D] = { 0, 0.50 }, -- hyphen } fonts.protrusions.classes['stwpure'] = { vector = 'stpure', factor = 1 } \stopluacode \definefontfeature[default][default] [mode=node,protrusion=stwpure,script=latn]% extend=2,slant=.2, \usetypescript[postscript] \definetypeface[postscript][rm][serif][times][default] \setupbodyfont[postscript,18pt] \setupalign[line,block,hanging] \showframe \starttext \dorecurse{13}{test } test|-|text test \dorecurse{13}{test } test- text test \stoptext Steffen

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doifnumberelse
by Hans van der Meer 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

The macro \doifnumberelse is not behaving as I would have expected from the description in Taco Hoekwater's article "Context System Macros: part 1: General macros". There I read: The next macro executesa command depending of the outcome of a test on numerals. \doifnumberelse {string} {then ...} {else ...} This text suggest that the the test is on whether "string" as a whole is a number (taken as having digits 0123456789 only, I presume) of contains nondigits and thus isn't a number. However, it seems the macro tests on the first character only. Below follows a minimal example, the context version is: ConTeXt ver: 2010.02.18 14:48 MKIV fmt: 2010.2.20 int: english/ english % test result of \doifnumberelse \def\test#1{#1 is \doifnumberelse{#1}{a number}{not a number}\crlf} \starttext \test{1} % result: 1 is a number \test{a} % result: a is not a number \test{1a} % result: 1a is a number \test{a1} % result: a1 is not a number \stoptext Hans van der Meer

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Blank page at end of chapter
by Tom 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

I can't figure out how to turn off running headers on the blank pages that are inserted into a document to make the first page of the next chapter start on a right page. I'm probably overlooking something. Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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METAPOST's superellipse with superness<0.5 does not give a superellipse
by James Fisher 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi again, Another METAPOST problem. For the sake of curiosity, I've been looking at and playing with the superellipse() function in plain METAPOST. This is all fine and dandy until I try values of 'superness' less than 0.5, in which case it generates shapes that are seemingly not superellipses. At s=0.5, the function generates a diamond shape -- which, AFAIK, is correct. However, s<0.5, the points of the diamond immediately turn to curves. (My knowledge of superellipses here is just from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superellipse -- try the image at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lame_anima.gif to see how I expect the shape to change with varying values of superness). Some code follows -- perhaps someone could run it and tell me if, for starters, they get the same as me. (See http://i49.tinypic.com/2ijqatl.jpgfor superellipse() with s=0.3). Best, James % The following is a superellipse function at < http://lists.foundry.supelec.fr/pipermail/metapost-commits/2008-June/000340… >; % I think it's the superellipse function in my copy of METAPOST; it at least has the same behaviour. % It seems to calculate the vertices correctly, but not the way they join (try changing all ... to --). % %def superellipse(expr r,t,l,b,s)= % r ... (s[xpart t,xpart r],s[ypart r,ypart t]){t-r} ... % t ... (s[xpart t,xpart l],s[ypart l,ypart t]){l-t} ... % l ... (s[xpart b,xpart l],s[ypart l,ypart b]){b-l} ... % b ... (s[xpart b,xpart r],s[ypart r,ypart b]){r-b} ... cycle %enddef; def supertest expr s = superellipse( ( 100, 50 ), ( 50, 100 ), ( 0, 50 ), ( 50, 0 ), s ); enddef; % These >0 supernesses are fine, I think ... beginfig(0); draw supertest 2; endfig; beginfig(1); draw supertest 1.01; endfig; % The following, 0.5>=superness<=1, % are from visual reference definitely right beginfig(2); draw supertest 1; endfig; beginfig(3); draw supertest 0.99; endfig; beginfig(4); draw supertest 0.7; endfig; beginfig(5); draw supertest 0.51; endfig; beginfig(6); draw supertest 0.5; endfig; % Now, for <0.5, % things get problematic -- % the points in the shape generated by s=0.5 % should stay 'pointy' beginfig(7); draw supertest 0.49; endfig; beginfig(8); draw supertest 0.3; endfig; beginfig(9); draw supertest 0.01; endfig; beginfig(10); draw supertest 0; endfig; end;

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Math integral symbols (cambria) , MK-IV
by gummybears 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi, When using font Cambria, the integral symbols \iint and \iiint look funny compared to \int. The contour, surface and volume integrals look fine. Version ConText version 2010.02.25 19:46. LuaTeX version 50,0 Test file \usetypescript[cambria] \setupbodyfont[cambria] \starttext \startformula \startalign[n=2] \NC \text{integral} \NC \int_{a}^{b} \NR \NC \text{double integral} \NC \iint_{a}^{b} \NR \NC \text{triple integral} \NC \iiint_{a}^{b} \NR \NC \text{contour integral} \NC \oint_{a}^{b} \NR \NC \text{surface integral} \NC \oiint_{a}^{b} \NR \NC \text{volume integral} \NC \oiiint_{a}^{b} \NR \stopalign \stopformula \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] Math in MKIV - HOWTO
by Zhichu Chen 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi, I got some time today and checked some symbols of hlcra.tfm (LucidaNewMath-Arrows), and got this table: ==================================================== fonts.enc.math["lucida-ma"] = { [0x025CB] = 0x00, -- circle [0x025CF] = 0x01, -- blackcircle [0x025A1] = 0x02, -- square [0x025A0] = 0x03, -- blacksquare [0x025B3] = 0x04, -- triangleup [0x025B2] = 0x05, -- blacktriangleup [0x025BD] = 0x06, -- triangledown [0x025BC] = 0x07, -- blacktriangledown [0x02B28] = 0x08, -- lozenge [0x02B27] = 0x09, -- blacklozenge [0x02B29] = 0x0A, -- blackdiamond [0x02571] = 0x0B, -- upright [0x02572] = 0x0C, -- downright [0x022E4] = 0x0D, -- squareimageofnoteq [0x022E5] = 0x0E, -- squareoriginalofnoteq [0x02A4F] = 0x0F, -- dblsquareunion [0x02A4E] = 0x10, -- dblsquareintersection [0x02A64] = 0x11, -- zdomainantirestriction [0x02A65] = 0x12, -- zrangeantirestriction [0x022EE] = 0x13, -- verticalellipsis [0x022EF] = 0x14, -- ellipsis [0x022F0] = 0x15, -- uprightellipsis [0x022F1] = 0x16, -- downrightellipsis [0x022D5] = 0x17, -- equalparallel [0x0225B] = 0x1A, -- stareq [0x00127] = 0x1B, -- hbar [0x022F6] = 0x1C, -- barelementof [0x02209] = 0x1D, -- notelementof [0x022FD] = 0x1E, -- barcontains [0x0220C] = 0x1F, -- notcontain [0x02204] = 0x20, -- nexists [0x02194] = 0x21, -- leftrightarrow [0x02195] = 0x22, -- updownarrow [0x0219E] = 0x23, -- leftleftarrow [0x0219F] = 0x24, -- upuparrow [0x021A0] = 0x25, -- rightrightarrow --~ [0x00026] = 0x26, -- amperand [0x021A1] = 0x27, -- downdownarrow [0x021A2] = 0x28, -- leftarrowtail [0x021A3] = 0x29, -- rightarrowtail [0x021A4] = 0x2A, -- leftarrowbar [0x021A6] = 0x2B, -- rightarrowbar [0x021A5] = 0x2C, -- uparrowbar --~ [0x02212] = 0x2D, -- minus --~ [0x0002D] = 0x2D, -- minus [0x021A7] = 0x2E, -- downarrowbar [0x021E4] = 0x2F, -- barleftarrow [0x021E5] = 0x30, -- barrightarrow [0x021E0] = 0x38, -- dashleftarrow [0x021E1] = 0x39, -- dashuparrow [0x021E2] = 0x3A, -- dashrightarrow [0x021E3] = 0x3B, -- dashdownarrow [0x021A9] = 0x3C, -- hookleftarrow --~ [0x0003D] = 0x3D, -- equalto [0x021AA] = 0x3E, -- hookrightarrow [0x021AB] = 0x3F, -- looparrowleft [0x021AC] = 0x40, -- looparrowright [0x1D538] = 0x41, -- A (blackboard A) [0x1D539] = 0x42, -- B [0x02102] = 0x43, -- C [0x1D53B] = 0x44, -- D [0x1D53C] = 0x45, -- E [0x1D53D] = 0x46, -- F [0x1D53E] = 0x47, -- G [0x0210D] = 0x48, -- H [0x1D540] = 0x49, -- I [0x1D541] = 0x4A, -- J [0x1D542] = 0x4B, -- K [0x1D543] = 0x4C, -- L [0x1D544] = 0x4D, -- M [0x02115] = 0x4E, -- N [0x1D546] = 0x4F, -- O [0x02119] = 0x50, -- P [0x0211A] = 0x51, -- Q [0x0211D] = 0x52, -- R [0x1D54A] = 0x53, -- S [0x1D54B] = 0x54, -- T [0x1D54C] = 0x55, -- U [0x1D54D] = 0x56, -- V [0x1D54E] = 0x57, -- W [0x1D54F] = 0x58, -- X [0x1D550] = 0x59, -- Y [0x02124] = 0x5A, -- Z (blackboard Z) [0x0231C] = 0x5B, -- ulcorner [0x0231D] = 0x5C, -- urcorner [0x0231E] = 0x5D, -- llcorner [0x0231F] = 0x5E, -- lrcorner [0x02225] = 0x5F, -- parallel, Vert, lVert, rVert, arrowvert [0x021D5] = 0x60, -- Updownarrow [0x021D4] = 0x61, -- Leftrightarrow [0x021D6] = 0x62, -- Upleftarrow [0x021D7] = 0x63, -- Uprightarrow [0x021D9] = 0x64, -- Downleftarrow [0x021D5] = 0x65, -- Downrightarrow [0x021CD] = 0x66, -- nLeftarrow [0x021CE] = 0x67, -- nLeftrightarrow [0x021CF] = 0x68, -- nRightarrow --~ [0x021CE] = 0x69, -- nLeftrightarrow -- what's the difference between this and 0x0067[0x021CE] [0x021DA] = 0x6A, -- Lleftarrow [0x1D55C] = 0x6B, -- k \Bbbk (blackboard k) [0x021DB] = 0x6C, -- Rrightarrow [0x021C4] = 0x6D, -- rlarrow [0x021C6] = 0x6E, -- lrarrow [0x021C5] = 0x6F, -- udarrow --~ [0x021C5] = 0x70, -- duarrow [0x021C7] = 0x71, -- llarrow [0x021C8] = 0x72, -- uuarrow [0x021C9] = 0x73, -- rrarrow [0x021CA] = 0x74, -- ddarrow [0x021BE] = 0x75, -- rupharpoon [0x021BF] = 0x76, -- lupharpoon [0x021C2] = 0x77, -- rdownharpoon [0x021C3] = 0x78, -- ldownharpoon [0x021CB] = 0x79, -- lrharpoon [0x021CC] = 0x7A, -- rlharpoon [0x021B0] = 0x7B, -- upthenleftarrow --~ [0x0] = 0x7C, -- part [0x021B1] = 0x7D, -- upthenrightarrow --~ [0x0] = 0x7E, -- part [0x02276] = 0x7F, -- ltgt [0x021B2] = 0x81, -- downthenleftarrow [0x021B3] = 0x82, -- downthenrightarrow [0x02B0E] = 0x83, -- rightthendownarrow [0x02B10] = 0x84, -- leftthendownarrow [0x02B0F] = 0x85, -- rightthenuparrow [0x02B11] = 0x86, -- leftthenuparrow [0x021B6] = 0x87, -- leftarcarrow [0x021B7] = 0x88, -- rightarcarrow [0x0293D] = 0x89, -- leftarcarrowplus [0x0293C] = 0x8A, -- rightarcarrowminus [0x021BA] = 0x8B, -- anticlockwise [0x021BB] = 0x8C, -- clockwise [0x02260] = 0x94, -- noteq [0x02262] = 0x95, -- notidentical [0x02241] = 0x96, -- nottilde [0x02244] = 0x97, -- notasymptoticallyequal [0x02249] = 0x98, -- notalmostequal [0x02247] = 0x99, -- notapproximatelyeq [0x0226E] = 0x9A, -- nless [0x0226F] = 0x9B, -- ngtr [0x02270] = 0x9C, -- nleq [0x02271] = 0x9D, -- ngeq [0x022E6] = 0x9E, -- lnsim [0x022E7] = 0x9F, -- gnsim [0x02605] = 0xAB, -- black star [0x02713] = 0xAC, -- check [0x02277] = 0xC5, -- gtlt [0x02284] = 0xC6, -- nsubsetof [0x02285] = 0xC7, -- nsupsetof [0x02288] = 0xC8, -- nsubseteq [0x02289] = 0xC9, -- nsupseteq [0x0228A] = 0xCC, -- subsetneq [0x0228B] = 0xCD, -- supsetneq --~ [0x0228A] = 0xD0, -- subsetneq --~ [0x0228B] = 0xD1, -- supsetneq [0x02270] = 0xD6, -- nleq [0x02271] = 0xD7, -- ngeq [0x02268] = 0xDC, -- lneqq [0x02269] = 0xDD, -- gneqq [0x022E6] = 0xE0, -- lnsim [0x02219] = 0xE1, -- bullet [0x022E7] = 0xE2, -- gnsim [0x02280] = 0xE5, -- nprec [0x02281] = 0xE6, -- nsucc [0x022E8] = 0xEB, -- precnsim [0x022E9] = 0xEC, -- succnsim [0x022EA] = 0xEF, -- nnormalsub [0x022EB] = 0xF0, -- ncontainnormalsub [0x022EC] = 0xF1, -- nnormalsubeq [0x022ED] = 0xF2, -- ncontainnormalsubeq [0x02226] = 0xF7, -- nparallel [0x022AC] = 0xF8, -- nvdash [0x022AE] = 0xF9, -- nVdash [0x022AD] = 0xFA, -- nvDash [0x022AF] = 0xFB, -- nVDash } ==================================================== The empty lines indicate that there're some symbols I can't find in the unicode chart, the commented lines indicate that I'm not sure about that. I don't know if you were working on that. I almost went blind after this and I hope you won't go through the same work. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> The double stroke A--Z from U+1D538 -- U+02124 in hlcra.tfm(lbma.pfb) >>> from 0x41--0x5a are missing, even though I added to the lbr-ma vector >>> :( >> >> you should coordinate this with mojca > > Just go on ... I'll check once I finish a few important task (and that > most probably won't be today), but I promise to do a precise check > (whether or not the vector will be complete by then - of course it > will be much easier if Zhichu does the work :). > > Mojca > -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Suggestions on fonts and foundries
by Tom 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Some time back I recall seeing a message in which someone discussed using fonts available from foundries and recommended certain ones. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find that message. I will probably need one serif font for the text of the book, a plain sans serif font to use for entries in a table, a fancier sans serif font for chapter titles and, possibly a different not-too-plain sans serif font for page headers. Also, I can't figure out how to tell ConTeXt which font to use for page headers. Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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[ntg-context] ppchtex questions and maybe buglets
by Bernhard Rosensteiner 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi all, ppchtex is really nice. after experimenting with it i found some buglets: \starttext \setupchemical[axis=off,frame=on, option=test, size=medium, scale=medium, right=2000, left=3000, height=6000,textsize=medium]%textsize and option=test has no effect - why? \startchemical \chemical[SIX,SB135,DB246,SR6,Z,CRZ6][N,C,N,C,C,C,{\LC{\color[green]{NH}}}]%here color works \color[green]{\chemical[ADJ3,Five,SB235,DB4,Z345,SR3,CRZ3][N,C,H,H]}%color does not work here, manual says it should -why? \bottext{\offset[y=-\baselineskip]{Adenin}} \stopchemical \stoptext maybe someone can also explain how the OFF key works. the behaviour is strange in my opinion. i found nothing precise in the manual. onhttp://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2004/05/ppchtex.html i found following explanation: 18OFF1: do 18 small steps in direction 1 (right) but this don´t work - even with the example on the homepage. best regards Bernhard

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[MkII] Difference in output in minimals versus TeX Live 2009
by Vedran Miletić 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi, is minimals supposed to have the same output using MkII as TeX Live 2009? Or have I missunderstood what does it mean that 'MkII is frozen'? I ask because I get different results on same document. I'm using Palatino font. It seems related to spacing between letters in "il" and "ij" that is larger in current minimals. Any ideas why? -- Vedran Miletić

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verbatim showing line number issue for mkiv
by Joshua Lee 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi All, I would like to show the line number for the verbatim, but it fails in mkiv and works with mkii. Please refer to attached test.tex for the source code and test-mkii.pdf for the mkii output and test-mkiv.pdf for the mkiv output. Thanks in advance for your help. BR/JL

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Dash broken in MKIV
by Andreas Schneider 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi, in MKIV, the "long" dash (--) seems to be broken. Example: \starttext some -- text \stoptext Outputs with literal "--" instead of a longer "-" as it used to do before. It still worked ~2 weeks ago. I tested it with the minimals (beta) under Linux and Windows. Best Regards, Andreas Schneider.

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Re: [NTG-context] table alignment
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Thank you Aditya and Wolfgang, I will try it both: > No page breaks possible: > > \defineframedtext[tablebox][frame=off,width=\hsize,offset=0pt,before > =,after=] > > \starttext > > vorher > > \startnarrower > > text > > \starttablebox > \starttable[s0|l|] > \NC table entry \NC\AR > \stoptable > \stoptablebox > > \stopnarrower > > text > > \startnarrower > > text > > \startlinecorrection \dontleavehmode > \startTABLE[frame=off,offset=0pt,loffset=0.25ex,roffset=0.25ex] > \NC table entry \NC\NR > \stopTABLE > \stoplinecorrection > > \stopnarrower > > text > > \stoptext Wolfgang

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MK-II to MK-IV
by gummybears 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Hi, A couple of years ago, I decided to switch from LaTex to ConText. Now I have compiled a lot of documents (Physics syllabi's) which compiles fine in MK-II. I thought I would try to make a switch to MK-IV, mainly because I want to include 3D PRC figures in my documents. I made some test cases to test MK-IV in order to get a handle on the differences between MK-II and MK-IV Some of my observations are *) Numbered formulas, numbered by section, don't seem to work *) I am getting a lot of warnings of identifiers, apparently used more than once, which they are not LuaTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{km1_chapter1_sec1}) has been already used, duplicate ignored Question Are these observations correct, someone else can confirm them ? Question If so, is there a fix, patch, or change in ConText commands/options I am not aware of ? TIA

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MkIV gray, no MkII black ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Hi, in MkII I set \setupcolors[state=start] to activate defined colors (for text, numbers etc.), and \setupcolors[state=stop] to set these colors to black. Now, in MkIV \setupcolors[state=stop] does set these colors to gray. Not to black. [Log: "color : system gray is global activated"] What is the key to set either "color is color" or "color is black" again? Steffen

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Presentation from document
by Matija Šuklje 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

Hullo, I was wondering the other day: since most people make "slides"/presentations basically by copy-pasting the chapter and subchapter titles into bulleted lists, would it be possible to make slides in ConTeXt by just loading a module in the original document and then when the PDF would be generated it would just take those titles and order them into a neat slide show? I know this is not how presentations should be made, but just sometimes such lazy person's slides would be a life saver. Cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org

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Macro with variable number of arguments
by Otared Kavian 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

Hi all, I would like to write a macro which may have sometimes two, sometimes three arguments. The first and the last one are always present, but not necessarily the middle one. The unsatisfactory solution I have now is something like the example below: \define[2]\myMacroTwo{Name: #1\crlf Email: #2\crlf\thinrule\blank[small]} \define[3]\myMacroThree{Name: #1\crlf Address: #2 \crlf Email: #3\crlf\thinrule\blank[small]} \starttext \myMacroTwo{Hans}{hans(a)hagen.context.nl} \myMacroThree{Wolfgang}{Paradise of TeX, 2010}{wolfgang(a)schuster.context.de} \stoptext I think that (or rather I am certain…) in ConTeXt it is possible to define a unique macro called \myMacro which automatically tests the number of arguments: if there are only two of them the commands in \myMacroTwo are executed, while if three arguments are present, the commands in \myMacroThree are executed. Can anyone give a hint on this matter?

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active chars in xml -- suggestions needed
by Philipp Gesang 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

Dear listmates, I need some suggestions on how to setup non breaking spaces in XML. I tried an empty element <nbsp/> to be processed as follows: \startxmlsetups xml:nbsp ~ \stopxmlsetups which was ignored by context. (I'll need something similar with \discretionary as well, I guess.) Thanks for any suggestions, Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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Re: [NTG-context] table alignment
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

Hallo, > > But how can I get my 3cm? > > If you do not use horizontal lines.... > > \starttable[o(3cm)|l|] > > Aditya > Not horizontal lines, but a gray header: \starttable[o(3cm)|l|] \RL\SR \NC hmm \NC\AR \stoptable Thank you Aditya for this workaround. If there is really no solution, I will make something with an empty first column. Wolfgang

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METAPOST -- specifying an unknown point coordinate by giving the angle from another known point
by James Fisher 28 Feb '10

28 Feb '10

This isn't specifically a ConTeXt question, but via it I've run into a seemingly simple problem in METAPOST that I just can't solve. I'm trying to draw a parallelogram by specifying: (1) the length of sides parallel to the x-axis; (2) the total height of the figure; (3) one of the interior angles. This is how I'm trying to solve it: ----------------- % Draw a parallelogram, like so: % % z3 z2 % +-----+ ^ % / / | % / / | % / / |10 units % /BL / | % +-----+ v % z0 z1 % <-----> % 5 units % % Interior angle BL = 87 degrees beginfig(1); z0 = origin; % bottom left z1 = (5,0); % bottom right y2 = y3 = 10; % shape is 10 units high x2 - x3 = x1 - x0; % top edge is the same length as bottom edge % We've completely specified z0 and z1; % We know that the top edge is the same length and angle as the bottom, but lies somewhere on y = 10; % all we have to do is specify one angle and we have a complete parallelogram. % % The following should work as it provides the following information: % the unit vector from z0 to z3 is at an angle 87 degrees anticlockwise from (0,0) -- (1,0). angle(z3-z0) = dir(87); endfig; end; -------------------- This doesn't work; using the angle() function gives the error: Not implemented: angle(unknown pair). Strictly speaking, yes, z3 has an unknown x-coordinate at that time in execution. But I am told that METAPOST is declarative, so I would expect my line of code to mean: "set the x-coordinate of z3 such that angle(z3-z0) = dir(87)". AFAICS that provides all the needed information to draw the shape. So, is there another way I can do what I want without falling into low-level trig? Best, James

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title style
by R. Bastian 27 Feb '10

27 Feb '10

Hello, I use 'context 2010.01.26'. When i write \title{Abbb} context sets 'ABBB' I did not find anything in the contextgarden. \title[style=normal]{Abbb} has no effect. Please help me. -- René Bastian www.pythoneon.org www.musiques-rb.org http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/

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footnote marker gone (MkIV)
by Steffen Wolfrum 27 Feb '10

27 Feb '10

Hi, what happened with footnote number 3 and 5? In MkIV their marker are gone ... \starttext test\footnote[a]{text} test. test\note[b]\footnotetext[b]{text} test. test\footnote[x]{text} test. test\note[d]\footnotetext[d]{text} test. test\footnote[y]{text} test. \stoptext Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] table alignment
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Thank you Taco, > > I want some space on the left of \start\stoptables. What I get is > > SOME space, but not that what I wanted! > > > > --------------------------- > > \starttext vorher > > \setupnarrower[left=3cm] > > \startnarrower[left] > > \starttables[|l|] > > > > Where is that little space from? How can I get a left space of, > say 3cm? > > \starttables[s0|l|] > I see. So, there is no space anymore. But how can I get my 3cm? Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] table alignment
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Hallo, > > I want some space on the left of \start\stoptables. What I get > is > > SOME space, but not that what I wanted! > > > \starttabulate[|l|] > \NC hmm \NC\NR > \stoptabulate > > Wolfgang Does this mean, that there is no solution with \start\stoptables? Wolfgang

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PPCHTEX - questions and maybe buglet
by Bernhard Rosensteiner 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Hi all, ppchtex is really nice. after experimenting with it i found some buglets: \starttext \setupchemical[axis=off,frame=on, option=test, size=medium, scale=medium, right=2000, left=3000, height=6000,textsize=medium]%textsize and option=test has no effect - why? \startchemical \chemical[SIX,SB135,DB246,SR6,Z,CRZ6][N,C,N,C,C,C,{\LC{\color[green]{NH}}}]%here color works \color[green]{\chemical[ADJ3,Five,SB235,DB4,Z345,SR3,CRZ3][N,C,H,H]}%color does not work here, manual says it should -why? \bottext{\offset[y=-\baselineskip]{Adenin}} \stopchemical \stoptext maybe someone can also explain how the OFF key works. the behaviour is strange in my opinion. i found nothing precise in the manual. on http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2004/05/ppchtex.html i found following explanation: 18OFF1: do 18 small steps in direction 1 (right) but this don´t work - even with the example on the homepage. best regards Bernhard

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Math formula numbering by section in MK-IV
by gummybears 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

In MK-II I use \setupnumbering[way=section] to number math formulae by section. What is the equivalent for MK-IV ?

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Lua fonttester error
by Lutz Haseloff 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Hi Hans Hi all, since yesterday evening (Context 2010.02.25 19:46 MKIV) the Lua fonttester doesn't work anymore. After starting it with mtxrun --script server --auto (MAPS 39, page E75 :-) I can see the Startpage in my Browser. After clicking fonttest the script breaks with following errormessage: MTXrun | requested action: mtx-server-ctx-fonttest.lua MTXrun | performing action: mtx-server-ctx-fonttest.lua MTXrun | locating script: C:/contextminimal/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-server-ctx-fonttest.lua MTXrun | loading script: C:/contextminimal/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-server-ctx-fonttest.lua MTXrun | return type: function ...textminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/l-aux.lua:212: attempt to index field 'patterns' (a nil value) C:\contextminimal> Greetings Lutz

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table alignment
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Hallo, I asked this question some times before but I can't remember if I got some answers. Sorry! I want some space on the left of \start\stoptables. What I get is SOME space, but not that what I wanted! --------------------------- \starttext vorher \setupnarrower[left=3cm] \startnarrower[left] \starttables[|l|] \NC hmm \NC\MR \stoptables \stopnarrower nachher \stoptext --------------------------- Where is that little space from? How can I get a left space of, say 3cm? Wolfgang

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TeX syntax -- a guide?
by James Fisher 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Hi, After a few days working in "do what the tutorials say" mode, I now want to understand TeX from a programmer's mindset. I have not been able just by practise to work out what the syntactic rules of TeX are, and I am hoping that there is a sensible guide to this somewhere. However, searches for things like "tex syntax" draw a blank. Some of the things I want to understand, for example, are: (1) what is the distinction between square brackets and curly brackets after a command? (2) Why are there sometimes lists of square-bracketed lists after a command, each with lists of seeming arguments inside them? (2) What exactly are the "variables" in a TeX file? (I've seen variable-like things sometimes referred to just plainly, sometimes with preceding backslashes as if they were commands/macros). (4) Why can't I end a square-bracketed section with a final square-bracket on a line of its own, as I may do in other programming languages? (5) How are things like \subsection, \subsubsection, \subsubsubsection, ... implemented? I am used to languages in which there is only a finite set of commands; why is the logic here not more like \section[level=1], \section[level=2], ... ? (6) Perhaps I'm misunderstanding things and all this isn't actually the fundamental syntax of TeX but just adhoc syntax defined by various macros doing different things -- is this the case; to what degree can macros define syntax? Obviously I don't expect answers to all these here, but can someone point me to somewhere on the 'net that could answer them? The only other possibilities I can see are buying an expensive copy of the TeXbook, etc. Thanks all, James Fisher

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Re: [NTG-context] Math in MKIV - HOWTO
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 26 Feb '10

26 Feb '10

Hi Mojca, After trying step 1 (vusialize the font) with Times math, I have the following error: systems : begin file math.tex at line 2 (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-run.mkii) color : system all is global activated ! Undefined control sequence. \doshowfont ...f \setstrut \dummy \localcolortrue \offinterlineskip \dostepw... <to be read again> \stoptext l.4 \stoptext The strange thing here is .mkii extension, while I definitely use mkiv. My script is \loadmapfile[original-youngryu-tx.map] \starttext \showfont[rtxptmr] \stoptext B.R., Vyatcheslav

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context, jobnam
by R. Bastian 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Hello, is there a way to get the option '--jobname= ' as in tex ? -- René Bastian www.pythoneon.org www.musiques-rb.org

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\definetypeface broken?
by Yanrui Li 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Hi, I found '\definetypeface' can not work with beta 2010.02.24. This is a minimal example: \starttypescript[serif][test] \definefontsynonym[Serif][name:texgyrepagella] \stoptypescript \definetypeface[myfonts][rm][serif][test][default] \setupbodyfont[myfonts] \starttext Hello world! \stoptext -- Best regards, Li Yanrui

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Changing "chapter"-line layout
by Daniel Stender 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Hi guys, simple question: how can the layout of the "chapter" line be modified? (changing the fontsize to what's \tfb). Thanks in advance & greetings, DS

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MkII to MkIV
by Steffen Wolfrum 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

Hi, typesetting an old MkII written project with MkIV today gives more then 2000 "unable to resolve" warnings, like these ... !pages : flushing realpage 12, userpage 16 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 67 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 69 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 70 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 71 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 72 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 74 !pages : flushing realpage 13, userpage 17 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 75 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 76 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 83 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 80 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 81 !pages : flushing realpage 14, userpage 18 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 82 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 85 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 86 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 91 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 89 !backends : unable to resolve destination attribute 90 ... what does this mean? As that project did not even have 2000 \footnotes or \index or reference marks, what is meant? Paragraphs??? Steffen

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[OT] TEX line breaking algorithm in JavaScript
by Mojca Miklavec 25 Feb '10

25 Feb '10

http://www.bramstein.com/projects/typeset/ PS: the author comes from the second nicest country in the world :)

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Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: hyphen breaking (URGENT)]
by Hans Hagen 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

On 23-2-2010 12:22, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > Am 25.10.2009 um 21:33 schrieb Hans Hagen: > >> Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >> >>>> \unprotect >>>> \def\FrozenTUO{MyFile} >>>> \def\doplacerawlist[#1][#2]% >>>> {\begingroup >>>> \dogetcommalistelement1\from#1\to\firstlistelement >>>> \dosetuplist[#1][#2]% >>>> \doifvalue{\??li\firstlistelement\c!coupling}\v!on >>>> {\startlistreferences{#1}}% >>>> \dosettoclevel\??li\firstlistelement >>>> \honorlocalfilterlevel >>>> \doutilities{listentries,#1}\FrozenTUO{#1}\relax\par >>>> \stoplistreferences{#1}% >> >> ^^^^ >> >> remove {#1} here >> >>>> \dosetlistmode >>>> \endgroup} >>>> \protect >> >> i probably added some proper push/pop here > > > > Today the code above gives an error: > > ! Undefined control sequence. > \doplacerawlist ...references {#1}}\dosettoclevel > \??li \firstlistelement \h... > \doplacelist ...ginoflist \doplacerawlist [#1][#2] > \doendoflist > <to be read again> > > > > Can you see what needs to be changed? sure, as the whole underlying mechanism of lists has changed (and now mostly happens in lua) that code makes no sense and iven if i made a (fake) \dosettoclevel it would not kick in so, you need to identify your need and then implement a mkiv solution 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

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groupedcommand italic and upright (MkIV)
by Steffen Wolfrum 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Hi, in MkII the slash became set upright, in MkIV it stays italic: \def\Textit{\groupedcommand\it\/} \def\Textmr{\groupedcommand\mr\/} \definetextmodediscretionary : {\prewordbreak\discretionary{\kern.05em\Textmr/}{}{\kern.05em\Textmr/}\kern.05em\prewordbreak}% ist schon Textmr = aufrecht ! \starttext test \Textit{non|:|italic} here. \stoptext What needs to be changed to get an upright slash in that italic group? Steffen

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Math in MKIV - HOWTO (was: Lucida Fonts with MKIV)
by Mojca Miklavec 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

These basic set of rules should also apply to fourier or any other font that still needs better math support. I'm posting them on the list for future reference (for when the next volunteer pops up). On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 14:50, Troy Henderson wrote: > > I have followed the first set of instructions at > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Lucida ... > Is there an easy way to adapt the configuration file(s) for MKII to MKIV? > If this is possible but just requires a tedious process, I'm willing > to do this, but I have no clue of the steps needed. So here are some basic instructions: Step 1: check what's in the fonts ===== The file lucida.map includes the following lines: hlcda LucidaNewMath-Arrows-Demi <lbmad.pfb hlcdim LucidaNewMath-DemiItalic <lbmdi.pfb hlcdima LucidaNewMath-AltDemiItalic <lbmdo.pfb hlcdm LucidaNewMath-Demibold <lbmd.pfb hlcdy LucidaNewMath-Symbol-Demi <lbmsd.pfb hlcra LucidaNewMath-Arrows <lbma.pfb hlcrim LucidaNewMath-Italic <lbmi.pfb hlcrima LucidaNewMath-AltItalic <lbmo.pfb hlcrm LucidaNewMath-Roman <lbmr.pfb hlcrv LucidaNewMath-Extension <lbme.pfb hlcry LucidaNewMath-Symbol <lbms.pfb After short inspection you may notice that some are just bold variants, so you are basically left with only 6 files that you need to take care of: hlcrm LucidaNewMath-Roman <lbmr.pfb hlcrim LucidaNewMath-Italic <lbmi.pfb hlcrima LucidaNewMath-AltItalic <lbmo.pfb hlcrv LucidaNewMath-Extension <lbme.pfb hlcry LucidaNewMath-Symbol <lbms.pfb hlcra LucidaNewMath-Arrows <lbma.pfb You may want to visualize the content of those fonts by using: \loadmapfile[lucida.map] \starttext \showfont[hlcrm] \showfont[hlcrim] \showfont[hlcrima] \showfont[hlcrv] \showfont[hlcry] \showfont[hlcra] \stoptext Step 2: compare ===== It might be interesting to know what's in LM (so that you know what you need to modify): \starttext \showfont[rm-lmr10] \showfont[lmmi10] \showfont[lmex10] \showfont[lmsy10] \stoptext as well as seing what's in ams fonts perhaps. Now all the info that describes the content of these files is in math-tex.mkii (for MKII) and math-vfu.lua (for MKIV): mathematics.make_font ( "lmroman10-math", { { name = "lmroman10-regular.otf", features = "virtualmath", main = true }, { name = "rm-lmr10.tfm", vector = "tex-mr-missing" } , { name = "lmmi10.tfm", vector = "tex-mi", skewchar=0x7F }, { name = "lmmi10.tfm", vector = "tex-it", skewchar=0x7F }, { name = "lmsy10.tfm", vector = "tex-sy", skewchar=0x30, parameters = true } , { name = "lmex10.tfm", vector = "tex-ex", extension = true } , { name = "msam10.tfm", vector = "tex-ma" }, { name = "msbm10.tfm", vector = "tex-mb" }, -- { name = "rm-lmbx10.tfm", vector = "tex-bf" } , { name = "lmroman10-bold.otf", vector = "tex-bf" } , { name = "lmmib10.tfm", vector = "tex-bi", skewchar=0x7F } , { name = "lmsans10-regular.otf", vector = "tex-ss", optional=true }, { name = "lmmono10-regular.otf", vector = "tex-tt", optional=true }, { name = "eufm10.tfm", vector = "tex-fraktur", optional=true }, { name = "eufb10.tfm", vector = "tex-fraktur-bold", optional=true }, } ) You may want to check any tfm font mentioned here as well as any vector="..." mentioned. fonts.enc.math["tex-mi"] = { [0x1D6E4] = 0x00, -- Gamma [0x1D6E5] = 0x01, -- Delta [0x1D6E9] = 0x02, -- Theta [0x1D6F3] = 0x02, -- varTheta (not present in TeX) [0x1D6EC] = 0x03, -- Lambda [0x1D6EF] = 0x04, -- Xi [0x1D6F1] = 0x05, -- Pi There's a very precious source of information available for unicode mappings for many fonts that might be worth considering: tex4ht/ht-fonts/unicode/ Step 3: make use of available glyph information ===== 3a) You may use lucidabr.sty as a pretty reliable source of information to extract the mapping between: - glyph name (in LaTeX) - font - slot 3b) In char-def.lua there are some mappings between context commands and unicode points. If any mapping is missing, you need to add it anyway (else you won't be able to use that particular command), for all other commands you already have unicode point, so when you find "rightarrow" or some other glyph in font, you may look it up in char-def.lua to determine the unicode number. You may want to use both the comprehensive TeX symbol list as well as the Unicode Standard to help you out if there are some glyphs you don't know. Step 4: fix math-lbr ===== Step 5: complete the vectors in math-vfu.lua ===== I'm not completly sure about some aspects of bold math, but here are at least some points to start with. Step 6: test ===== Translate ams test paper and the comprehensive LaTeX symbol list to ConTeXt in order to test if all the characters work ok in all the math fonts supported by ConTeXt :) :) :) Mojca

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Re: [NTG-context] [dev-context] 2 columns itmize in letter module possible
by Wolfgang Schuster 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Am 17.02.10 22:57, schrieb Jörg Hecke: > Hi Wolfgang, > > I am using your letter module, but it seems that I am not able to use a 2 column itemize environment? > Fixed. Wolfgang

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\wordright and line break
by Andreas Harder 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Hello Hans, is there a reason (I’m sure there is) that \finalhyphendemerits\zerocount in the \wordright-definition is commented out? Without this line I get wrong line breaks with hyphenated words followed by \wordright{…}. \starttext \setupframedtexts[width=.65\textwidth,offset=none] \startTEXpage[offset=1ex] \hsize=.65\textwidth \startframedtext test text test text test text test text test text test testtext \wordright{(S.\,3, Z.\,78–97)} \stopframedtext \startframedtext test text test text test text test text test text test test- text \wordright{(S.\,4, Z.\,117–121)} \stopframedtext \stopTEXpage \stoptext Greetings, Andreas

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MyWay on processing xhtml
by Thomas A. Schmitz 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Dear all, Parick has just uploaded a MyWay that I've written. It's an introduction to processing xhtml files with ConTeXt. As such, it is probably most suitable for beginners; if you're an old hand at using and processing xml, there won't be anything new here. But if you're interested in having a web page and typeset output from the same source and a newbie on this field, this might be of interest to you. The MyWay and a few example files can be found at http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/tas/ All best Thomas

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\getfiguredimensions again in mkiv
by Aditya Mahajan 24 Feb '10

24 Feb '10

Hans, Something is also wrong with getting the width and height of a figure in mkiv. Minimal example: \starttext \getfiguredimensions[filename] \figurewidth \figureheight \stoptext Aditya

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LuaTeX error <main ctx instance>:1: '<name>' expected near '\'.
by Peter Münster 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hello, With the latest version, I get the following error: MTXrun | executing: vim -u NONE -e -C -n -c "set tabstop=4" -c "syntax on" -c "set syntax=c" -c "let contextstartline=1" -c "let contextstopline=0" -c "source /opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/third/vim/2context.vim" -c wqa c-course-vimsyntax.tmp MTXrun | MTXrun | (c-course-vimsyntax.tmp-vimsyntax.tmp ! LuaTeX error <main ctx instance>:1: '<name>' expected near '\'. l.3 } \dolocationpagecheck ...eferences.expandcurrent()} \fi \ifx \@@iaclosepageact... <inserted text> ...onstartup \dolocationpagecheck \synchronizepaperdimension... \actualshipout ...mptytoks \fi \the \everyshipout \relax \ifnum \realpageno ... \myshipout ...\@@ppmethod }\gobbleoneargument {#1} \setnextrealpageno \afters... \dofinaloutput ...hbox {\vbox {\dopagebody #1#2}}} \the \everyaftershipout \a... ... l.1 ...{char}\s[]{ uc = }\s[Constant]{0x80}\s[]{;} ? This is the file c-course-vimsyntax.tmp-vimsyntax.tmp: \s[Type]{unsigned}\s[]{ }\s[Type]{char}\s[]{ uc = }\s[Constant]{0x80}\s[]{;} \s[Type]{unsigned}\s[]{ }\s[Type]{long}\s[]{ ul = }\s[Constant]{0}\s[]{;} \s[]{ul {\letterbar}= uc {\letterless}{\letterless} }\s[Constant]{8}\s[]{ * (}\s[Statement]{sizeof}\s[]{(}\s[Type]{int}\s[]{) - }\s[Constant]{1}\s[]{);} \s[]{printf(}\s[Constant]{{\letterdoublequote}0x}\s[Special]{{\letterpercent}lx}\s[Special]{{\letterbackslash}n}\s[Constant]{{\letterdoublequote}}\s[]{, ul);} I get this error, when compiling my product. When components are compiled one by one, there is no such error. I use pre-stepwise. Without this module, there is no such error. I would like to help, finding the reason for the problem, but the last time, I've spent more than 2 hours to build a minimal example. So, I would be glad, if there are other, not so time consuming ways, to track down the problem. If there is no other way, I'll build a minimal example of course. TIA for any hints! Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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alternate end glyphs in MKIV
by Jeremy 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hi all, I want to get alternate end glyphs. Am I going about it correctly? I'm using the latext context minimals. The following compiles fine using the context command, but 'illustrate' ends with a normal e, not the e.end alternative. --------- test.tex ------------------------ \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[MEgalopolis Extra][features={mode=node,fina=yes}] \starttext Text to illustrate \stoptext --------- end ----------------------------- Thanks for your help, Jeremy

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file-contents module
by Peter Münster 23 Feb '10

23 Feb '10

Hello, It would be nice, if this module could be integrated in the distribution: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Filecontents Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] Automatically filled forms
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Ok, thanks. I will investigate the possibilities. Database module looks like the right choice. Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] Automatically filling forms
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Wolfgang, editable pdf fields are also good idea, but this will be just another form or current workflow, and I want another thing. I want to generate pdf with data already filled in, taken from a database. The form should be repeated as many times as there are rows in the database. By database I mean xml or plain text or excel format (cvs), whatever easy editable. What about it? Vyatcheslav >> >> >> I have a rather specific question. In my workplace, there are many >> forms in Word format: >> >> TITLE OF THE FORM >> A student ___________________________ (name, surname) >> was employed at ________________ (place) _______ (date) >> bla-bla >> bla-bla >> >> The fields represented here by underlines should be filled in. >> Typically, it should be done electronically for a number (say, a >> group) of students, and then printed out. Performing this task in >> Word was proven to be error-prone and tedious. >> >> What is the best way to handle such forms in ConTeXt? Maybe, some >> generic examples are already available? > Look into the widgets manual: http://pragma-ade.com/show-man-22.htm > > Wolfgang

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pret-c.lua
by Peter Münster 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hello, Thanks to the wiki-page "Custom pretty printer" I managed to write the pret-c.lua module here: http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/pret-c/ Comments and bug-reports are welcome. What about integrating it into the distribution, or is it better on http://modules.contextgarden.net/ ? Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Exams
by Roger Mason 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hello, Sorry, I sent this message to the list without a subject earlier today. I'm working on a project to set up exams, basing the work on Aditya's asignment class that was published in Practex in 2006. I have a problem getting title information printed correctly. This is a cut-down version: \setupcolors [state=start] \definecolor [colorone] [r=0.625,g=0,b=0] %dark red \definecolor [colortwo] [b=0.625,g=0,r=0] %dark blue \def\exam[#1] {\getrawparameters [Exam] [ title= course=, date=, start=, stop=, #1] \title{\Examtitle}} \definefont [BigFontOne] [RegularSlanted sa 2.5] \definefont [BigFontTwo] [Regular sa 1.5] \setuphead[title] [ style=\BigFontOne, command=\examtitle, before={}, after={\blank[big] \bgroup \colortwo Date: \expanded{\date[Examdate]} \hfill Start: \expanded{Examstart} Stop: \expanded{Examstop} \egroup\blank}, ] %D This macro does the actual typesetting of the title \def\examtitle#1#2% {\framed[ width=broad, frame=off, align=middle, foregroundcolor=colortwo, % I want a shadow around the title frame background=shadow] {#2\\{Examcourse}}} \exam[ title=Mid-term 2010, course=ES2917, date={d=17,m=2,y=2010}, start={9:00 am}, stop={11:00 am} ] I'm processing this with Mark II. The problems are that (1) The literal 'Examcourse' is typeset; (2) Today's date is typset, not the one entered in the interface; (3) The start and stop times are typeset as literals 'Examstart' & 'Examstop' Thanks for any help, Roger

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Footnote Failure
by John Haltiwanger 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

I'm having trouble understanding why the attached file fails with: structure : subject @ level 3 : 0.0.0 -> Information ! Undefined control sequence. \dododescriptioncomponent ...entdescriptioncoding \s!tex \fi \ifx \currentde... \@@notemakedescription ...list =,\c!bookmark =,][] \xdef \currentnotenumber {... l.79 ...r in light of Pasquinelli's presentation.} If I replace \footnote{} with parantheses, the included source compiles fine. I've had a separate issue where a URL containing %'s seems to gum up the system (that is, when I pared down the source to isolate the above peculiarity I removed the URLs with %s and the other error, which would stop compilation itself if the parantheses had solved the above issue, disappeared.) Is pandoc producing the proper, or preferred, \useURL syntax? I'm assuming pandoc aims for mkII over mkIV, but I thought I read that the interface had not changed. Sincerely, John Haltiwanger

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file names
by Hans van der Meer 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

A while ago I posted a question about spaces etc. in file names in mkiv. Hans Hagen diligently remedied that point and now context typesets files with names like "a/b, c and d/x.tex" without complaining. I fear however, that there are places where that same code is not being used for opening files. One such place is the inclusion of externalfigures. Here a file "a/b, c and d/x.jpg" is not found. I would be very pleased if it becomes possible to have uniform behaviour in file names everywhere in context. So, if Hans is willing to have a look at it again....... Thanks in advance, of course. Hans van der Meer

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Automatically filling forms
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hello, First of all, thanks to NTG for the proceedings book. I have a rather specific question. In my workplace, there are many forms in Word format: TITLE OF THE FORM A student ___________________________ (name, surname) was employed at ________________ (place) _______ (date) bla-bla bla-bla The fields represented here by underlines should be filled in. Typically, it should be done electronically for a number (say, a group) of students, and then printed out. Performing this task in Word was proven to be error-prone and tedious. What is the best way to handle such forms in ConTeXt? Maybe, some generic examples are already available? Obviously, data could be stored in simple relational database-like columns: Name, Place, Data. But what format to choose? XML, CVS, plain text? Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Changing typeface for non-body text, using XeTeX -- how?
by James Fisher 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hi all, I'm new to TeX, ConTeXt, and XeTeX. I'm progressing fine except for in one area: even though I'm told I'm using the best possible software for easy typeface use in TeX, I'm finding this area (i.e., fonts) confusing and badly documented. This is all the more surprising as what I want to do seems entirely bog-standard: set some basic brand identity by using a body typeface and heading typeface. There's the \setupbodyfont command for, obviously, the body font -- but I can't identify any equivalent command like "\setupheadingfont". I can see other commands for *ad hoc* use of other fonts, but I want to stick with as much semantic markup as possible and apply style elsewhere. Presumably this is possible! Could someone explain to me how to do this? Best wishes James Fisher (p.s. -- I'm coming from HTML+CSS-ish paradigms here, if that would help someone explain to me how I should reorganise my mind.)

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Floats broken under some circumstances
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hi, Weird, but when I use rather big linespace \setupinterlinespace[line=28pt] and set \setupfloats[spaceafter=medium], then the error rises. With less interlinespace value or without spaceafter all works ok. !pages : flushing realpage 1, userpage 1, subpage 1 floatblocks : 1 moved ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> m <argument> -m edium \addaskedblankskip ...nce \blankskip #1\dimexpr #2 \relax l.6 } \dovspacingyes ...ument #1\else \s!default \fi ")} \fi \betweenfloatblanko ...dparameter \c!spacebefore ] \fi \egroup ... l.25 B.R. Vyatcheslav

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linetables broken?
by Thomas A. Schmitz 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hi all, when I played a bit with linetables today, I found out that something's broken here. Minimal example (simplified from tabl-ltb.mkiv): \starttext \startlinetable \NC[background=color,backgroundcolor=darkred] xxx \NC yy \NC ddddd \NC eeee \NC ff \NC \NR \stoplinetable \stoptext I get ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> d \!!depth ->d epth \domakeblackrule ...!!height \@@bjheight \!!depth \@@bjdepth \stopcolor \complexblackrule ...[\??bj ][#1]\domakeblackrule \egroup <argument> ...depth }, \c!width =\wd \scratchbox ] \hskip -\wd \scratchbox \b... \firstoftwoarguments #1#2->#1 ... l.8 \NC yy \NC ddddd \NC eeee \NC ff \NC \NR All best Thomas

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ConTeXt minimal Win32 : kpathsea510.dll can not found !!!
by Vnpenguin 22 Feb '10

22 Feb '10

Hi all, Just download http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip and run first-setup.bat and I see the error about : texlua.exe looks for kpathsea510.dll but this file was not found in the distribution !!! I see only file kpathsearch510.dll so I make a copy of this and rename to kpathsea510.dll. Now texlua.exe goes without error. After installation, when I run "context --version" I see again the error about "texlua.exe can not found kpathsea510.dll". Hmmmmm I have to copy kpathsea510.dll (renamed early) into context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\ folder to work. There is some things changed for librarie file name ? I'm working with Windows XP SP3 32bit. Thanks

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doifmode with a buffer following this command
by Willi Egger 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

Hi, If I use multiple modes I need to use also \doifmode{}{}. Now it appears that it is nomore possible to have \start/stopbuffer inside the second pair of braces of \doifmode. This results in an error in MKIV and in no output in MKII Runaway argument? \bfc Text \stopbuffer \getbuffer [Test] \stoptext ! File ended while scanning use of \dododowithbuffer. <inserted text> \par Please refer to the attached minimal test file. Willi

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dorecurse...
by Willi Egger 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

Hello, I was busy to build a larger table with a lot of empty but numbered rows. So I thought to use the \dorecurse macro to help me. Now I can't recall the actual value of \recurselevel. Interestingly it fails only when calling for preparing whole rows in the table. When the \recurselevel is retrieved in normal text it works as expected. Please refer to the attached minimal example-file. Is there something changed in calling for the \recurselevel value? Kind regards Willi

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Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt update
by Hans Hagen 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

On 21-2-2010 17:44, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 15:11, Troy Henderson wrote: >> Mojca, >> >> This is great news. Perhaps this page should be updated >> >> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Lucida > > Not yet. It needs to start working in the first place. Math is still > pretty broken (some basic commands work, but all the rest doesn't). > >> Also, I've noted (as previously stated in another feed) that there >> appears to be some kerning issues in the math as well. For example, >> $\sin(x)\cos(y)$ have the "n" in "sin" and the "s" in "cos" too close >> to the following "(". > > You are talking about MKIV, right (since I don't even get parenthesis > in MKII, but harpoons instead; I know the reason, I just didn't write > the cure yet). you need a more recen tversion then i guess ... older attempts still used the traditional lucida math vectors > Bold math is a separate issue that I have never really understood. > There is \mathbf, \bf, \bfm, \bfmath, switching the complete typeface > to a bolder variant etc. > I really really really really wish that somebody would explain and > document how bold math is supposed to work (there are several variants > - some should also influence operators and some should only influence > numbers). there is some about it in the mk.pdf document (math chapter) this is what i think happened ... - in math there are cases where you use bold or sans or whatever letters - in traditional tex, this was dealt with by assigning bold, sans .. fonts to families (16 families max with already some taken by symbols and extensible characters) - so, there we're taking of a mix of regular (non bold) math with an occasional bold letter; in plain that could be achieved by \bf which simply does a family change - in addition, for instance for titles, full bold math is needed but for that one needs all math symbols etc to be available - also, one needs to make sure that all families then are associated with bold shapes - however, as tex only applies the fonts related to families at the end of reading a formula, mid time reassigning fonts to families will not work - so, we end up with (1) mixed normal/bold/etc, (2) full bold, (3) compromises due to lack of families and fonts - in unicode however, the bold etc letters (and a few symbols) have their oen place and we have several alphabets - this means that a proper math font now has all relevant symbols, letters (in multiple lphabets) in one set - so, as the occasional bold character now is no longer associated with a family, we can d with two families: regular (with also a bold alphabet) and bold and this iexactly what context mkiv does - now, as users are unlikely to use the proper unicode bold letters, we still need to support switching to (say) a bold alphabet and (again in mkiv) this means some sort of remapping on the fly and no family trickery any more So, to summarize, mkiv: (1) implements unicode math (2) for traditional tex fonts it makes virtual math unicode fonts (3) supports traditional input using wel known font switching commands (4) has an implementation that deviates from the traditional way (but in my opinion is more modern) Of course, in the process we need to do a lot of testing esp because we cannot rely on other sources (to many errors so we started from scratch). Also, all math related data is collected in tables in such a way that we can at some point add more advanced support, like domain specific rendering (and symbols) which is currently seldom part of tex math implementations. Feel free to ask for all you have been missing in math so far. We're not that bound to traditional approaches. 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

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error with footnotes blackrule
by Steffen Wolfrum 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

Hi, todays minimal gives an error: Runaway argument? \letvalue {\??vn \c!rule :c:\currentnote }\normalnoterule , \v!normal \ETC. ! File ended while scanning use of \p!compareprocessactionD. <inserted text> \par <*> ./notetext.tex ? The cause is "\blank[2mm]" in this example: \def\MyRule{\blackrule[width=18mm,height=0.4pt]\blank[2mm]} \setupfootnotes [rule=\MyRule] This harmless vertical space did it up to now. What's the phrase that should be chosen instead? Steffen

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beta
by Hans Hagen 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

Hi, The latest beta has a few more fonts defined in type-otf.mkiv. YOu can do things like \setupbodyfont[mscore,ss,10pt] \setupbodyfont[liberation,rm,10pt] as mscore and liberations are yet unknown the related typescript will be loaded automatically (new feature). 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Left, right, top, bottom margins in a \framed box
by Oliver Buerschaper 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

Dear all, I'm wondering how I can get different margins between the contents of a framed box and its left, right, top or bottom border. Somehow "offset" affects all margins simultaneously ... Best wishes, Oliver

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How to use OTF fonts in ConTeXt?
by Vnpenguin 21 Feb '10

21 Feb '10

Hi all, Is there any wiki/tuto pages to help me to setup my OTF fonts for using in ConTeXt ? I have ConTeXt minimal. Thanks

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type-loc.tex
by Hans van der Meer 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

For some reason running mkiv-beta needs the presence of a file ..tex/context/user/type-loc.tex If I remove the file I get a complaint of not being able to find this file. Is the file absolutely required or could it be some remnant in some cache that causes the request? Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] One interline space setup trouble
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

Thanks, Wolfgang! This works really fine \setupinterlinespace[height=0.55,depth=0.45,line=38pt] \definedelimitedtext [example] [spacebefore={\strutdepth,none}, spaceafter=none, style=\tfx, before={\setupinterlinespace[line=16pt]}] B.R. Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] ancient greek module
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

Hello, Thanks for very clear explanation. I wikified it. Vyatcheslav > When you load a module with \usemodule[modulename] ConTeXt looks for a > file with the following names: > > - m-modulaname (core module) > - p-modulename (private module) > - s-modulename (ConTeXt style file) > - x-modulename (XML module) > - t-modulename (Third party module) > - modulename > > Once a file is found ConTeXt stops the search and loads the found file > (only once). > > When you have two file with the same name but different prefixes you > can tell ConTeXt which file it should load with > > \usemodule[<prefix>][modulename]

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Wiki page
by Marius 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

Hello, what is the answer? (58 minus 6) times roman 'X'

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Re: [NTG-context] Mathdesign and Fourier fonts (was What do you miss in ConTeXt?)
by Mikael Persson 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Mikael Persson <mickep(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: >> On 16-2-2010 11:38, Mikael Persson wrote: >>> >>> Thank you Mojca and Aditya for your answers, >>> >>> I hope the mathdesign part of mtx-update.lua will end up in the >>> orignal file. I do not know how to use it now. >>> >>> If I save this file and update with "sh firstsetup.sh --extras=all" >>> (or --extras=mathdesign) it seems that the mtx-update.lua is >>> overwritten with the version from the server. I do not know howto >>> upgrade with mtx-update.lua without firstsetup.sh. >>> >>> About the fourier fonts. Is there a lot of work to do in math-vfu.lua >>> to get it to work? I looked into that file, but it was a bit hard to >>> understand what is needed... >>> >>> Maybe it is hard work to get the fonts working, but I really think >>> that if we have several text+math fonts easily available in the >>> minimals that will make (new) users very happy. >> >> it depends ... if the font is in tex default encoding then it's only a >> matter of adding a small table > > I'm not 100% sure how it works wth font encodings, but the fourier doc > (http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/fourier-GUT/doc/latex/fourier/fourier-doc-en.p…) > says that the fonts are _fully_ T1 encoded. > > Mikael > > PS: Hans, do you have any comments about the mathdesign patch > suggested by Mojca above? I have now manually downloaded the mathdesign fonts (and the charter fonts, not available on the server it seems) The fonts gets used, but I get upright math letters instead of italic ones. My test file is given by \definetypeface[charter][rm][serif][charter] [default] \definetypeface[charter][mm][math] [charter] [default] \setupbodyfont[charter,10pt] \starttext We define, for real $x$, the absolute value of $x$ as \startformula |x|= \startcases \NC \hphantom{-}x \MC x\geq 0,\NR \NC -x \MC x<0.\NR \stopcases \stopformula Also let $\alpha$, $\beta$ and $\Gamma$ be\dots \stoptext The output can be found at http://home.imf.au.dk/mickep/mdesign.pdf Typesetting a similar document with LaTeX I get italic math (note also that the \Gamma is upright, I guess that this is an option that is turned on by default by LaTeX) http://home.imf.au.dk/mickep/lmdesign.pdf I guess this has something to do with the following lines in math-vfu.lua mathematics.make_font ( "charter-math", { { name = "file:bchr8a", features = "virtualmath", main = true }, -- { name = "md-chr7m.tfm", vector = "tex-mr" }, { name = "md-chri7m.tfm", vector = "tex-mi", skewchar=0x7F }, { name = "md-chri7m.tfm", vector = "tex-it", skewchar=0x7F }, { name = "md-chr7y.tfm", vector = "tex-sy", skewchar=0x30, parameters = true }, { name = "md-chr7v.tfm", vector = "tex-ex", extension = true }, { name = "msam10.tfm", vector = "tex-ma" }, { name = "msbm10.tfm", vector = "tex-mb" }, } ) However, I am not able guess what to change (I tried different things available in mdbch.map). Any help is appreciated. Mikael

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Lucida Fonts with MKIV
by Troy Henderson 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

I am a LaTeX user for about 15 years, but I am very new ConTeXt. I am having trouble using the complete set of Lucida fonts purchased from TUG. http://www.tug.org/store/lucida/ I have followed the first set of instructions at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Lucida and the fonts work great for MKII (texexec). When building the same document (that works for MKIV) with MKIV (context), the text fonts are fine but the math fonts are set in Roman instead instead of math. Is there an easy way to adapt the configuration file(s) for MKII to MKIV? If this is possible but just requires a tedious process, I'm willing to do this, but I have no clue of the steps needed. I would appreciate any advice. Troy Henderson

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Change Font in PDF-fields
by Andreas Harder 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

Hi all, if I use the following setup \setupfield [ShortLine] [label,frame,horizontal] [height=fit,framecolor=green] [] [height=18pt,type=normal] % <- is mono \definefield [Email] [line] [ShortLine] [] [pragma(a)wxs.nl] \starttext \startTEXpage[offset=1ex] \field [Email] [E-Mail:] \stopTEXpage \stoptext the type-setting don't seem to have any affect, it's always mono. Is it possible to use a system font for typing in a field? Thanks in advance Andreas

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examples from xml-mkiv
by Philipp Gesang 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

Dear Wolfgang and others, (Reference: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2010/046680.html; I'll continue this here as the original thread is growing rather large.) On 2010-02-08 <23:13:38>, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > Am 08.02.10 23:08, schrieb Philipp Gesang: > >But thank you anyways, I now have an impression about how things may > >look like in the future and I promise to read > >http://wiki.contextgarden.net/XML#XML.2FConTeXt_in_general next > >weekend. > For MkIV read this: http://pragma-ade.com/show-man-43.htm It finally took me longer as I decided to become a bit familiar with XML and read through Eric Ray’s “Learning XML” first. So now I went on to try the examples from said xml-mkiv.pdf and they don’t seem to work. Running context on them as they are will stop at a TeX-prompt, typing \end into it will finish the run but no pdf is produced. The log file is quiet as usual. However, naively adding \starttext TEST \stoptext to the document will result in a pdf that looks as if the XML part was ignored. Are those examples supposed to work as they are given in xml-mkiv or is there some switch to get them working? Thanks in advance, Philipp Btw there’s a typo in section 1.1: the xml declaration should read <?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?> ^ -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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ancient greek module
by Steffen Wolfrum 20 Feb '10

20 Feb '10

Hi, is "t-greek-2008.08.11.zip" still valid (and recommended for MkIV?) From contextgarden: The requested URL /modules/t-greek/doc/greek/ancientgreek.pdf was not found on this server. The requested URL /modules/t-greek/doc/greek/readme.txt was not found on this server. Steffen

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\groupedcommand missing bracket
by Steffen Wolfrum 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

Hi, does someone know what's going wrong here? \definestartstop[Literature] [before={\startcolumns[n=1]},after={\stopcolumns}] \define\Colorit% {\groupedcommand{\color[blue]\em}\/} \starttext This works: test \Colorit{color} text. This dont't: \startLiterature test \Colorit{color} text. \stopLiterature Why? \stoptext This gives: ! Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } <to be read again> \endgroup \stopLiterature ->\dostopattributes \egroup \getvalue {\??be Literature\c!af... l.18 \stopLiterature ? Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] Framed text with arrows
by Xan 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

En/na Willi Egger ha escrit: > You might use grouping \bgroup ... setup, part of the FLOWchart \egroup. > > Willi > On Feb 18, 2010, at 8:43 PM, Xan wrote: > How can I do that? Can you put me an example? How can we change the width, height and color of the second node ("chart") in this example: \usemodule[chart] \setupFLOWcharts[height=3\lineheight] \startFLOWchart[example] \startFLOWcell \name {flow} \location {1,1} \text {Flow} \connection [rl] {chart} \stopFLOWcell \startFLOWcell \name {chart} \location{2,1} \text {Charts} \stopFLOWcell \stopFLOWchart \FLOWchart[example] ? Thanks a lot, Xan. PS: I cc mailing list, because I think it's general interest topic.

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Metafun does not change color
by Xan 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

Hi, I have the following code (see at final). I define SquareText to be darkblue in framecolor, but metafun use darkred. Why? Any ideas? Xan. \page \section{Tectònica de plaques} \subsection{Com es formen els relleus?} \setupFLOWcharts[width=.4\textwidth] \startFLOWchart[fixistes] \startFLOWcell \name {Fonts} \location {1,1} \text {Algunes teories es basaven en relats bíblics. Atribuïen al diluvi universal la causa d'alguns relleus i la presència de fòssils marins a les muntanyes.} \connection [rl] {fixistes} \shape{procedure} \stopFLOWcell \startFLOWcell \name {fixistes} \location{2,1} \text {Altres suposaven que la Terra s'ha anat arrugat progressivament en refredar-se i que els relleus són arrugues provocades per l'escorça en contracció.} \shape{decision} \stopFLOWcell \stopFLOWchart \defineoverlay[FunnyFrame][\useMPgraphic{FunnyFrame}] \defineframedtext[FunnyText][frame=off,background=FunnyFrame] \def\StartFrame{\startFunnyText} \def\StopFrame {\stopFunnyText } \def\FrameTitle#1% {\setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{\hbox spread 1em{\hss\strut#1\hss}}} \setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{} % initialize the text variable \startuseMPgraphic{FunnyFrame} picture p ; numeric o ; path a, b ; pair c ; p := textext.rt(\MPstring{FunnyFrame}) ; o := BodyFontSize ; a := unitsquare xyscaled(OverlayWidth,OverlayHeight) ; p := p shifted (2o,OverlayHeight-ypart center p) ; pickup pencircle scaled OverlayLineWidth ; b := a superellipsed .95 ; fill b withcolor OverlayColor ; draw b withcolor OverlayLineColor ; b := (boundingbox p) superellipsed .95 ; fill b withcolor OverlayColor ; draw b withcolor OverlayLineColor ; draw p withcolor black ; setbounds currentpicture to a ; \stopuseMPgraphic \setupframedtexts [FunnyText] [backgroundcolor=lightgray, framecolor=darkred, rulethickness=2pt, offset=\bodyfontsize, before={\blank[big,medium]}, after={\blank[big]}, width=\textwidth] \FrameTitle{Teories fixistes} \StartFrame Al llarg del segle XIX i el començament del XX, es crearen diverses teories que intentaven explicar l'origen de les serrelades i el plegament dels estrats, que no podem explicar fàcilment. Totes aquestes teories tenen com a {\bf principi} que els continents i els oceans han ocupat les {\em mateixes posicions} des de l'origen de la Terra fins ara. \StopFrame \FLOWchart[fixistes] \defineoverlay[SquareFrame][\useMPgraphic{SquareFrame}] \defineframedtext[SquareText][frame=off,background=SquareFrame] \def\StartSquareFrame{\startSquareText} \def\StopSquareFrame {\stopSquareText } \def\SquareTitle#1% {\setMPtext{SquareFrame}{\hbox spread 1em{\hss\strut#1\hss}}} \setMPtext{SquareFrame}{} % initialize the text variable \startuseMPgraphic{SquareFrame} picture p ; numeric o ; path a, b ; pair c ; p := textext.rt(\MPstring{SquareFrame}) ; a := unitsquare xyscaled(OverlayWidth,OverlayHeight) ; o := BodyFontSize ; p := p shifted (2o,OverlayHeight-ypart center p) ; drawoptions (withpen pencircle scaled 1pt withcolor .625red) ; b := a randomized (o/2) ; fill b withcolor .85white ; draw b ; c := center p ; c := b intersectionpoint (c shifted (0,-o)--c shifted(0,o)) ; p := p shifted (c-center p) ; b := (boundingbox p) randomized (o/8) ; fill b withcolor .85white ; draw b ; draw p withcolor black; setbounds currentpicture to a ; \stopuseMPgraphic \setupframedtexts [SquareText] [backgroundcolor=screen, framecolor=darkblue, rulethickness=2pt, offset=\bodyfontsize, before={\blank[big,medium]}, after={\blank[big]}, width=\textwidth] \SquareTitle{Mobilisme} \StartSquareFrame El 1912, Alfred Wegener proposa una teoria revolucionària \StopSquareFrame

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Can not register the callback functions in MkIV
by Yanrui Li 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

Hi, Now it seems that we have not allowed to register the callback functions since beta 2010.02.18. For example: \startluacode local old_pre_linebreak_filter = callback.find ('pre_linebreak_filter') local function my_pre_linebreak_filter (head, groupcode) if old_pre_linebreak_filter then old_pre_linebreak_filter (head, groupcode) end print ('This is my pre_linebreak_callback') return true end callback.register ('pre_linebreak_filter', my_pre_linebreak_filter) \stopluacode \starttext This is just a test! \stoptext The 'my_pre_linebreak_filter' function can not work again. Is this a bug? -- Best regards, Li Yanrui

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Magazine imposition.
by John Culleton 19 Feb '10

19 Feb '10

A person has asked for a solution to this problem: print a dual magazine where the first half is a regular magazine, but the second half is a magazine with the pages upside down with respect to the first half. In other words the back cover is really the front cover of the second magazine. I assume that the page counts of each magazine are equal. I know that Context has an extensive imposition capability but I don't think this particular problem has been addressed. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Flowchart module--> height proportional to text
by Xan 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hi, I use flowchart module for doing a simple chart (see attach files) but the text is over the node ("Fonts"). Is there anyway for doing node ocupies all text? And is there any way for align the itemize within to left? Thanks in advance, Xan, PS; I use MKII. And please, CCme. \section{Tectònica de plaques} \subsection{Com es formen els relleus?} \setupFLOWcharts[nx=2,ny=1,width=.4\textwidth] \startFLOWchart[fixistes] \startFLOWcell \name {Fonts} \location {1,1} \text {{\bf Fonts} \startitemize[1] \item Algunes teories es basaven en relats bíblics. Atribuïen al diluvi universal la causa d'alguns relleus i la presència de fòssils marins a les muntanyes. \item Altres suposaven que la Terra s'ha anat arrugat progressivament en refredar-se i que els relleus són arrugues provocades per l'escorça en contracció. \stopitemize } \connection [rl] {fixistes} \shape{loop} \stopFLOWcell \startFLOWcell \name {fixistes} \location{2,1} \text {Teories fixistes: Els continents i els oceans han ocupat les mateixes posicions des de l'origen de la Terra.} \stopFLOWcell \stopFLOWchart \defineoverlay[FunnyFrame][\useMPgraphic{FunnyFrame}] \defineframedtext[FunnyText][frame=off,background=FunnyFrame] \def\StartFrame{\startFunnyText} \def\StopFrame {\stopFunnyText } \def\FrameTitle#1% {\setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{\hbox spread 1em{\hss\strut#1\hss}}} \setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{} % initialize the text variable \startuseMPgraphic{FunnyFrame} picture p ; numeric o ; path a, b ; pair c ; p := textext.rt(\MPstring{FunnyFrame}) ; o := BodyFontSize ; a := unitsquare xyscaled(OverlayWidth,OverlayHeight) ; p := p shifted (2o,OverlayHeight-ypart center p) ; pickup pencircle scaled OverlayLineWidth ; b := a superellipsed .95 ; fill b withcolor OverlayColor ; draw b withcolor OverlayLineColor ; b := (boundingbox p) superellipsed .95 ; fill b withcolor OverlayColor ; draw b withcolor OverlayLineColor ; draw p withcolor black ; setbounds currentpicture to a ; \stopuseMPgraphic \setupframedtexts [FunnyText] [backgroundcolor=lightgray, framecolor=darkred, rulethickness=2pt, offset=\bodyfontsize, before={\blank[big,medium]}, after={\blank[big]}, width=\textwidth] \FrameTitle{Teories fixistes} \StartFrame Al llarg del segle XIX i el començament del XX, es crearen diverses teories que intentaven explicar l'origen de les serrelades i el plegament dels estrats, que no podem explicar fàcilment. Totes aquestes teories tenen com a {\bf principi} que els continents i els oceans han ocupat les {\em mateixes posicions} des de l'origen de la Terra fins ara. \StopFrame \FLOWchart[fixistes]

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Framed text with arrows
by Xan 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hi, I'm a novice yet. I just want to put framed long texts (paragraphs) with arrows connecting these. I want to decorate these frames (background, beaty border, etc.). Like entity-relationship diagrams but more beauty and that I could put long text in each node. Is this possible? Do I must use metafun? Can you provide a simple example? Thanks a lot, Xan. PS: Please, CCme.

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[OT] ASCII text output
by Roger Mason 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hello, I need to convert an exam written in ConTeXt to an ascii text file like the following: NewQuestion,MC, Title,Which is gem, QuestionText,Which one of the following is regarded as a gem? Points,1, Difficulty,1, Image,, Option,0,Feldspar,, Option,100,Ruby,, Option,0,Sodium chloride,, Option,0,Quartz,, Hint,,,, Feedback,,,, Before I go to the trouble of creating a parser to read the ConTeXt input and write the desired output I'm wondering if this can be done with ConTeXt itself. Sorry if this is way OT. Thanks, Roger

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combiation trickery again now with attachement - sorry
by Bernhard Rosensteiner 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hi, in the attachment is an example file which describes best what i want do. The method with \offset and \clip to place the figures where i want is really brutal force i think. Especially fiddling around with dimension to get the "right fit“ is tedious. Is there a better solution to do such a start/stopcombination? Floatplacing is also influenced by the offset command but i compensated this with *hang - nevertheless all in all i think no good solution. Please help. best regards Bernhard

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CritTeXt
by Daniel Stender 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

Hi people, I've tried to get into contact with Idris Hamid but got no reply so far. Can anybody tell what's the status of the CritTeXt packet? Is there already anything to play around with? Are there any alternatives for critical editing, would it be possible to get old Edmac running wit ConTeXt for example? Greetings, D.Stender

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Re: [NTG-context] [dev-context] 2 columns itmize in letter module possible
by Wolfgang Schuster 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Am 17.02.10 22:57, schrieb Jörg Hecke: > Hi Wolfgang, > > sorry for bothering you again. > I am using your letter module, but it seems that I am not able to use a 2 column itemize environment? > No idea what’s the problem but as a workaround you can use this: \startsimplecolumns[n=2] \startitemize \item ... \stopitemize \stopsimplecolumns > \startletter > [subject=Verteiben der Position \quotation{nicht hier {\bf B11r} }, > opening=Sehr geehrter Herr nicht Hier\textcomma, > closing=Mit freundlichen Grüßen\crlf\crlf\crlf Jörg Hecke] > \setupletterstyle[closing][inbetween={\blank[3*line]}] \startletter [subject={Vertreiben der Position \quotation{nicht hier {\bf B11r}}}, opening={Sehr geehrter Herr nicht Hier,}, closing={Mit freundlichen Grüßen}, signature={Jörg Hecke}] Wolfgang

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gnuplot in mkiv
by Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Hi List, is a direct usage of gnuplot in ConTeXt MKIV possible or does one need to invoke ConTeXt with a special parameter to create a dvi/ps file and convert it to pdf? if so an option of generating the graph and converting it to be included would be nice in that function, so that a direct usage in ConTeXt MKIV would be possible... Greetings Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz

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metapost
by Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Hi list, does anybody know how I could start metapost itself standalone from the context-minimals? mpost is telling me there is no mpost.mem and no plain.mem file so it can not start... Thanks for any hint...

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MkIV grid ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Hi, I have seen Hans' reply to Peter Rolf from Nov. 19th 2009 on "grid snapping (mkiv)". What has changed since then? Is there some more info somewhere? I am missing my MkII optimized section setting, like ... grid={page,3.5pt,fit,low} Steffen

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Cut marks + alignment marks
by Jean-Philippe Rey 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Hello everybody, I am using the imposition feature of ConTeXt which is very nice. \setuplayout[marking=on] allows me to print cut marks, but this doesn't produce alignment marks. Is there an option to print, along cut marks, traditional alignement marks (hirondelles in French), i.e. cross hairs in a circle exactly positioned at the middle of each four paper sides. Thanks for your answers. -- Jean-Philippe Rey Professeur - École Centrale Paris jean-philippe.rey(a)ecp.fr 92295 Châtenay-Malabry Cedex - France

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very strange error with \xypos and vim-typing
by Peter Münster 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Hello, I get the following error: ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \dontleavehmode <argument> \dontleavehmode \normalspace \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 l.1 \the\dimexpr 63.6383pt-0pt\relax \MPy #1->\ctxlua {jobpositions.MPy("#1")} \dopresetpositionanchors ...expr \MPy \textanchor +\MPh \textanchor -\!!dime... ... l.5 \s[]{bla;} with this test-file: \usemodule[vim] \setupbodyfont[ss, 14pt] \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \definevimtyping[C][syntax=c] \starttext \startC \stopC \xypos{XXX} \startC bla; bla; bla; \stopC \startC bla; bla; bla; \stopC \startC bla; bla; bla; bla; \stopC \startC bla; bla; bla; bla; bla; \stopC \stoptext t-vim.tex comes from http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2009/042527.html Strange, because whenever I remove a line of this test-file, the error disappears. Could someone help please? TIA for any hints! Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] One interline space setup trouble
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Hi, Wolfgang, Thank you for the visual hint. The space around 2th paragraph is equal, I agree with you. However, why there is only a half of interline space BELOW 1st paragraph, while 3st paragraph has full space ABOVE it? That is the root cause of my problem. \setupinterlinespace[line=28pt] \definedelimitedtext [example] [spacebefore=small, %spacebefore=medium, %spaceafter=small, style=\tfx, before={\setupinterlinespace[line=12pt]}] \starttext\ruledvtop{\begstrut Most models we discussing here are specification of dynamic behaviour of SUI. This behaviour is described in terms of the interactions over time among some entities. The entities in question fall into two broad categories: {\em endogenous} (intrinsic to the SUI itself) and {\em exogenous} (belonging to a system's environment).\endstrut} \startexample \ruledvtop{\begstrut All processes that take place inside Earth (and other planets) are considered endogenous. These processes make the continents migrate, push the mountains up, trigger earthquakes and volcanism, and are driven by the warmth that is produced in the core of Earth. Exogenous processes are all taking place at the outside of the Earth. Weathering, erosion, transportation and sedimentation are the main exogenous processes.\endstrut} \stopexample \ruledvtop{\begstrut Constants and parameters serve as names for the values that do not change during a simulation run. In the case of a {\em constant}, the assigned value remains invariant over all experiments. Often it is a physical constant, like $g$ -- force of gravity. In the case of a {\em parameter}, there normally is an intent to explore the effect upon behaviour of a range of different values for the parameter.\endstrut} \stoptext Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] One interline space setup trouble
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

Hi, Sorry for my strive for perfection, but if I set new interline space in delimited text using 'before' key, the space BEFORE is affected by \setupinterlinespace, while the space AFTER does not. The result is a paragraph with visibly unbalanced surroundings. Is there a way to set the spaces equal without manual adjusting? Example: \setupinterlinespace[line=18pt] \definedelimitedtext [example] [spacebefore=small, style=\tfx, before={\setupinterlinespace[line=12pt]}] \starttext Most models we discussing here are specification of dynamic behaviour of SUI. This behaviour is described in terms of the interactions over time among some entities. The entities in question fall into two broad categories: {\em endogenous} (intrinsic to the SUI itself) and {\em exogenous} (belonging to a system's environment). \startexample All processes that take place inside Earth (and other planets) are considered endogenous. These processes make the continents migrate, push the mountains up, trigger earthquakes and volcanism, and are driven by the warmth that is produced in the core of Earth. Exogenous processes are all taking place at the outside of the Earth. Weathering, erosion, transportation and sedimentation are the main exogenous processes.\stopexample Constants and parameters serve as names for the values that do not change during a simulation run. In the case of a {\em constant}, the assigned value remains invariant over all experiments. Often it is a physical constant, like $g$ -- force of gravity. In the case of a {\em parameter}, there normally is an intent to explore the effect upon behaviour of a range of different values for the parameter. \stoptext B.R., Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] columns and whitespace
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Hallo Wolfgang, > > Neither \setupwhitespace[halfline]nor > \setupcolumns[blank=halfline]is > > working. Grid is off by default, isn't it? > > > Set the whitespace after \startcolumns. This works, but shouldn't be the whitespace a global setting? I found an other ?solution? When BOTH \setupwhitespace[small] \setupcolumns[blank=halfline] is set then halfline is accepted. But halfline > small. I like context very much, but finding the right option is often a game of pure chance. Wolfgang

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combination trickery - help needed
by Bernhard Rosensteiner 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Hi, in the attachment is an example file which describes best what i want do. The method with \offset and \clip to place the figures where i want is really brutal force i think. Especially fiddling around with dimension to get the "right fit“ is tedious. Is there a better solution to do such a start/stopcombination? Floatplacing is also influenced by the offset command but i compensated this with *hang - nevertheless all in all i think no good solution. Please help. best regards Bernhard

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Re: [NTG-context] [tex-live] difference texlive 2008, 2009
by Taco Hoekwater 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Lubos Kolouch wrote: > Hello, > > I have a strange problem and I am not sure what causes it. This is a context question, redirecting to the mailing list. (we will still need a small test file, though) Best wishes, Taco > When I run texlive on one of my .tex files in Gentoo (texlive-2008), > > \bTD[width=120pt,topframe=on,height=32pt,align={right,low}] \ > {\externalfigure[flcz.png] [width=20pt]} Czech \eTD > > the result is that I have the flag, then space and the word Czech > > In Archlinux (texlive 2009) the text is behind the flag, ie. invisible > > When I change \ {\extern.... to for example xx \{\extern... , in both > versions it is correct, ie. xx flag Czech > > Is that > - my file issue > - Archlinux issue > - texlive version difference issue > > ? > > Thank you for any hints... > > Lubos

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Mathdesign and Fourier fonts (was What do you miss in ConTeXt?)
by Mikael Persson 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 10.02.10 09:00, schrieb Mikael Persson: > >> I would like support for more fonts out of the box (in the minimals). >> For example it would be really nice to be able to use >> utopia+fourier ( http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/fourier-GUT/ ) >> charter+mathdesign ( >> http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=mathdesign ) > > MkIV has support for the Charter and the Mathdesign fonts. > > \definetypafec[charter][rm][serif][charter] [default] > %\definetypafec[charter][mm][math] [mathdesignch][default] > \definetypafec[charter][mm][math] [charter] [default] > > What's missing are the fonts but they are already on the server [1], > Mojca should be able to tell you how you can install them. > > [1] http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/fonts/extra/ > > Wolfgang Thanks for your reply Wolfgang. I use the minimals and have some further questions: 1) Is there any way to use first-setup.sh to install these fonts? 2) The type1 dir is empty. Is that on purpose? Should one download the pfb files from ctan? 3) Will there be any support of the Fourier fonts? I have asked this before, sorry about that, but I'm kind of clueless about the present situation. Mikael

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Formatting numbers in LuaTeX
by Andreas Harder 16 Feb '10

16 Feb '10

Hi all! I played a little bit with LuaTeX in ConTeXt and two questions have arisen. \usemodule[calcmath] \starttext \def\calculate#1{\calcmath{#1=\ctxlua{tex.print(#1)}}} \calculate{1+2} \par \calculate{3/2-1}\par % the output should be 0,5 \calculate{3*2}\par % \calculate{sqrt(2)} \calculate{2*π} % 2*\pi \stoptext 1) Is it possible to have a comma as decimal separator? 2) If you look at the above definition, it works fine with +, –, /, but not with *. Is it possible to expand my macro that it will also work with a multiplication or even with the last two examples? Thank you in advance Andreas

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Re: [NTG-context] columns and whitespace
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

> > is it possible to get a half line space after paragraphs in > columns? > > The default is no space. And > > > > \setupwhitespace[small] > > > > produces a whole line of space. > > halfline should work unless the grid is forced (although in mkiv > different rules apply than in mkii) > > Hans Neither \setupwhitespace[halfline]nor \setupcolumns[blank=halfline]is working. Grid is off by default, isn't it? Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] showlayoutcomponents: amazing!
by Hans Hagen 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

On 15-2-2010 12:46, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > Am 15.02.2010 um 12:39 schrieb Hans Hagen: > >> On 15-2-2010 11:51, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: >> >>> I just read Otareds posting in the list (not knowing the background of his thread): >>> when I set \showlayoutcomponents at the beginning of a document running with MkIV, I get this: >>> >>> >>> ! Missing { inserted. >>> <to be read again> >>> a >> >> are you running an old version? > > > > todays minimal (ConTeXt ver: 2010.02.14 18:59 MKIV) then i need a minimal example showing the problem 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------

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interlineskip problem (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

Hi, I get unwanted interline skips when using a MP based background. The attached example works fine in mkii. In mkiv I only get the desired result, if I don't use the MP background. Best wishes, Peter

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