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Re: [NTG-context] beta
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Thanks!!! The fantastic thing about is that text created with this new macro is editable inside Acrobat! (While other options, e.g. font specs do not lead to this) > The latest beta has a few more fonts defined in type-otf.mkiv. YOu can > do things like > > \setupbodyfont[mscore,ss,10pt] Happy Vyatcheslav

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bib in mkiv
by Thomas A. Schmitz 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Hi all, shouldn't this work in mkiv as well? It does work in mkii. In mkiv, I see in the log file publications : warning: cite argument * is unknown on line 175 so it looks like it's interpreting the \nocite[*] literally. Any thoughts on this? All best Thomas \setuppublicationlist[samplesize={vdORW06},totalnumber=2] \startpublication[k=arafatpausanias,t=book, a={{Arafat}},y=1996, n=1,s=Ara96] \author[]{Karim~W.}[K.~W.]{}{Arafat} \pubyear{1996} \title{Pausanias' Greece: Ancient Artists and Roman Rulers} \city{Cambridge (Engl.)} \pubname{Cambridge UP} \stoppublication \startpublication[k=sidebottompausanias,t=article, a={{Sidebottom}},y=2002, n=8,s=Sid02] \artauthor[]{Harry}[H.]{}{Sidebottom} \pubyear{2002} \arttitle{Pausanias: Past, Present, and Closure} \journal{Classical Quarterly} \volume{52} \pages{494--499} \stoppublication \setuppublications [state=start, sorttype=bbl, criterium=all, numbering=yes] \setuppublicationlist[criterium=all] \starttext \section{References} \nocite[*] \placepublications[criterium=all] \stoptext

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\skipenumerationcoupling in mk4 and other troubles
by Matthias Weber 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Dear all, with today's beta, I am trying to use \skipenumerationcoupling without success. A sample project is attached. Will this stay an mk4-only feature? Also, I still have major misnumberings of all enumerations in mk4. They come out as I want in mk2, but I have the hunch that I am using erroneous code in the setup that is tolerated in mk2 but not in mk4. For instance, does \defineenumeration [exercise] [before=\blank, after=\blank, way=bysection, text=Exercise, start=1, location=hanging, letter=rm] make sense in mk4? Thanks, Matthias

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 67, Issue 63
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Hello, Thanks for the hint. Actually, I rather use it "inline" as \bTR[background=color,backgroundcolor=blue] .... Regards, Vaytcheslav > referring to is the first row, you could add before \bTABLE: > > \setupTABLE[row][1][background=color,backgroundcolor=blue] > >

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natural table row color
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 26 Jan '10

26 Jan '10

Hi, How to color (highlight) a natural table row? \bTABLEbody \bTR \bTD this \eTD \bTD whole \eTD \bTD row \eTD \bTD needs \eTD \bTD to be \eTD \bTD highlighted \eTD \eTR .... BR, Vyatcheslav

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Repeating page backgrounds
by Willi Egger 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hi, I thought that \setupbackgrounds[page][state=repeat] would result in placing the defined background on every page. - It seems that I miss something or the mechanism is broken. Se attached sample-file. This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.50.0-2009122422 Context current version: 2010.01.25 11:09 The example gives the page background on the first page only with MKII as well as with MKIV. Willi

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Text separators
by Vedran Miletić 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Is there any prefered way for inserting text separators? -- Vedran Miletić

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useblocks troubles
by Bernhard Vogel 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Dear all, When selecting multiple blocks: \useblocks[someblock,otherblock], the blocks are selected but the before and after statements are not processed. Is the expected behaviour? Tia, Bernard Example: \defineblock[someblock] \defineblock[otherblock] \setupblock[someblock] [before={ -Begin- }, after={ -End- }] \hideblocks[someblock,otherblock] \starttext \beginsomeblock SOMEBLOCK \endsomeblock \beginotherblock OTHERBLOCK \endotherblock \section{No before or after} \useblocks[someblock,otherblock] \useblocks[otherblock,someblock] \section{Separately they work} \useblocks[someblock] \useblocks[otherblock] \stoptext

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updating Minimals for MKIV
by Gour 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hiya! I've decide to (finally) learn ConTeXt and use it exclusively as well as port (some of) the old documents from LaTeX/LyX. In order to do that I've installed context-minimals-git package available for Arch Linux (thank you Aditya! - mahajano yena gatah sa panthah) ;) I've some issues with update (left the note on AUR), but I'm curious what is the proper way to update ConTeXt for MKIV format? (I do not need MKII and want to focus on MKIV exclusively - to help with testing and because I've no need to keep any MK II document.) The wiki page (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals) says: * For making MKIV format luatools --selfupdate mtxrun --selfupdate luatools --generate context --make while the package for Archlinux has the following update function: post_upgrade() { source /opt/context-minimals/setuptex mktexlsr texexec --make cont-en metafun texexec --make --xetex echo "*************************************************************" echo "To use ConTeXt minimals run" echo " /opt/context-minimals/setuptex" echo "To use MkIV run" echo " luatools --generate" echo "*************************************************************" } i.e. only "luatools --generate". Anyone can clarify? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Hlapicina, Croatia | GPG key: F96FF5F6 ----------------------------------------------------------------

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More numbering trouble with blocks
by Matthias Weber 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Dear all, when pairing exercises with recalled solution blocks it seems that both are numbered consecutively but independently. When I don't give a solution to an exercise, the subsequent solution numbers are incorrect. What is the proper way to deal with this? Manipulate the counter in the exercises without answers somehow? Basic example attached. Thanks, Matthias

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Re: [NTG-context] More questions about hiding/reusing blocks
by Hans Hagen 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

On 24-1-2010 18:15, Matthias Weber wrote: > On Jan 24, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > > actually in mkii there is (using symbols pointing to the companion that > can be clicked) but in mkiv i didn't yet add the code for that but i > will do that (we used that long ago in interactive educational documents) > > That would be extremely cool - I am working on two long textbooks for my > students right now, and when working with them in class, > navigating through something with more than 200 pages can be painful. > > Is there any source/documentation I can look at? in mkii it's provided by the coupling directive but as we only used it ourselves for some projects it was never document (i think) in mkiv it will be named couplings: \defineenumeration [exercise] [way=bysection, text=Exercise, coupling=solution, location=hanging] \defineenumeration [solution] [text=Solution, way=bysection, coupling=exercise, location=hanging] \defineblock[exercise] \defineblock[solution] \hideblocks[solution] \setupinteraction [state=start] \starttext \section{Main Text} \subsection[subsec:1]{problem section 1} \startexercise[ex:1] Addition\index{addition} problem: $1+1=?$ (\in{solution}[sol:1]) \stopexercise \beginsolution[one] \startsolution[sol:1] Answer: 2. (\in{problem}[ex:1]) \stopsolution \endsolution \subsection[subsec:2]{problem section 2} \startexercise[ex:2] Multiplication problem: $1\times1=?$ (\in{solution}[sol:2]) \stopexercise \beginsolution[two] \startsolution[sol:2] Answer: 1. (\in{problem}[ex:2]) \stopsolution \endsolution \page \reset[solution] \section{Answers to the Problems} \subsection{Answers to \in{section}[subsec:1]} \useblocks[solution][one] \subsection{Answers to \in{section}[subsec:2]} \useblocks[solution][two] \stoptext keep in mind that this only works well (at least currently) for synchronized enumerations; also, the rendering uses symbols; more variants can be provided later (no time for that now) and the mechanism has to be more pluggable i will update a beta that provides this 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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Re: [NTG-context] font spec
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 25 Jan '10

25 Jan '10

Hm... Why does it complain about conflicts? D:\>mtxrun --script fonts --list --spec minion minionpro normal normal normal minionproit C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/MinionPro-It.otf conflict: regular minionpro normal normal normal minionproregular C:/WINDOWS/Fonts/MinionPro-Regular.otf conflict: regular BR, Vyatcheslav

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spaces in file names
by Hans van der Meer 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

I would like to include a file with spaces in its name. Clearly it does not work using: \input /Users/me/dir with spaces/file I can use something like: \def\DataDirectory#1{\def\DATADIRECTORY{#1/}} % in reality coping with empty #1 \DataDirectory{/Users/me/dir with spaces} \def\Input#1{\input "\DATADIRECTORY#1"} and then that file is read. When however I want to set this directory with \setupexternalfigures[directory=\DATADIRECTORY] it does not find the picture file there. How can I accomplish the setup? Do I miss something? Using contextbeta, if that makes a difference. Hans van der Meer

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OS numbering in itemize
by Mohamed Bana 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

why does this use LMMathItalic10-Regular for the OS numbering? \startitemize[m,packed,text] \item a \item b \stopitemize \os clearly works in other parts because it's using minion % pdffonts file.pdf name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- --------- TCLXBY+MinionPro-Capt-Identity-H CID Type 0C yes yes yes 5 0 JAHMWQ+MinionPro-Regular-Identity-H CID Type 0C yes yes yes 7 0 UGISSP+MinionPro-SemiboldDisp-Identity-H CID Type 0C yes yes yes 9 0 LBRKWQ+MinionPro-SemiboldSubh-Identity-H CID Type 0C yes yes yes 13 0 *FVROKN+LMMathItalic10-Regular Type 1C yes yes yes 14 0* VQGIRJ+MinionPro-Semibold-Identity-H CID Type 0C yes yes yes 16 0 TMNGMR+MinionPro-It-Identity-H CID Type 0C yes yes yes 18 0 % pdfinfo file.pdf Title: x Subject: x Author: x Creator: ConTeXt - 2008.05.21 15:21 Producer: xdvipdfmx (0.7.3) CreationDate: Sun Jan 24 17:11:23 2010 ModDate: Sun Jan 24 00:00:00 2010 Tagged: no Pages: 2 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.28 x 841.89 pts (A4) File size: 39591 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.5 please CC me on reply. —Mohamed

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Re: [NTG-context] times new roman, arial and courier fonts
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

> \definetypeface[winfonts][rm][specserif][Times New Roman][default] > > \definetypeface[winfonts][ss][specsans] [Arial] [default] > > \definetypeface[winfonts][tt][specsmono][Courier] [default] > > \definetypeface[winfonts][mm][math] [times] [default] > > \starttext > > Hello > > {\ss Hello} > > {\tt Hello} > > \stoptext > Wow! This is simply fantastic!!! What a gift for me ant other ConTeXt users! )))) BR, Vyatcheslav

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Hyperlinks in the table of contents/ Mark IV
by Matthias Weber 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

Dear all, it appears that the hyperlinks from the section numbers in the table of contents to the actual sections have disappeared in Mark IV. The following works in Mark II: \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \completecontent \section{A} \section{B} \stoptext There certainly is a magic word to re-open that door? Thanks, Matthias

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coloring rules
by Hans van der Meer 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

ConTeXt ver: 2010.01.19 23:29 MKIV fmt: 2010.1.20 int: english/ english Coloring hrule's and vrule's with \color[aColor]{\vrule heightdepthwidth} works only if aColor is one of the standardcolors like red, blue, gray, etc. But defining other colors don't color the rule \definecolor[mygray][r=. 6,g=.7,b=.7]\color[mygray]{\vrule heightdepthwidth} typesets the rule in black, not in mygray. The strange is that the lines around \framed[framecolor=mygray] do get colored correctly. How can I accomplish the general coloring of vrule's and hrule's? Hans van der Meer

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times new roman, arial and courier fonts
by Marius 24 Jan '10

24 Jan '10

Hello all, how to set times new roman as \rm, arial as \ss and courier as \tt? \usetypescriptfile[type-win] \usetypescript[times] \usetypescript[arial] \usetypescript[courier] \setupbodyfont[times,10pt] This code sets just \rm, but \ss and \tt are left as default latin modern font. Thank you, Marius

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Speed of texexec with Unicode TrueType Font
by Bryant Eastham 23 Jan '10

23 Jan '10

All- Apologies if the question should go to another list - let me know if so. I am using texexec with MSPMincho on a Japanese utf-8 document. I followed the instructions and it appears to work well. Texexec runs several passes, and on each pass spends a *long* time integrating each font "page". I get many lines saying: {<path to enc>/MSPMinchoXX.enc}<<path to tt>/MSPMincho.ttf> The time taken in this process is many times that of the rest of the conversion. The resulting PDF font properties lists "MS-PMincho (Embedded Subset), Type: TrueType, Encoding: Built-in" 75 times. I imagine that I am glad that the whole font is not included (for file size). However, during development it is painful to wait. Is there a way to optimize the process? Thanks, -Bryant [Panasonic] Panasonic Electric Works Laboratory of America - SLC Lab 4525 So. Wasatch Blvd., Suite 100, 84124 Salt Lake City, UT 84124 T 801.993.7124 F 801.993.7260 beastham(a)pewla.us.pewg.pansonic.com Bryant Eastham Chief Architect [Panasonic]

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Use sans font for math
by Vedran Miletić 23 Jan '10

23 Jan '10

Is it possible to use Latin Modern Sans font for math instead of Roman, like in Beamer? -- Vedran Miletić

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new language and hyphenation
by Marius 23 Jan '10

23 Jan '10

Hello all, The hyphenation patterns for lithuanian language are missing. So, how does one add a new language and hyphenation patterns for ConTeXt?

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beta
by Hans Hagen 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

Hi, I uploaded a new beta. The most important new feature is that nested footnotes are working better now (like notes in tabulate). For the moment this is not enabled by default. Use \automigrateinserts if needed. Test case: \chapter{What a notes \footnote{1} \footnote{2} \footnote{3} \footnote{4} \footnote{5} \footnote{6}} \starttabulate \NC test \NC test \footnote{7} \input tufte \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \footnote{8} \input tufte \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \footnote{9} \input tufte \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \footnote{10} \input tufte \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \footnote{11} \input tufte \NC \NR \NC test \NC test \footnote{12} \input tufte \NC \NR \stoptabulate Of course this a mkiv-only feature. More control will be added later. 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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Multiple text flows
by Salil Sayed 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

Hi, My book needs to have two separate texts for two different audiences. I get the inspiration from http://books.google.co.in/books?id=qdltz8N9qSEC&lpg=PP1&dq=the%20body%20mul…. Here the author is separating each page on two parts. The top text is descriptive while lower text is literature research relating to the upper text. I want to have one text flowing on right page and another on left. However, they are interconnected i.e. parallel. So there needs to be an anchoring mechanism so that on each right-left page couple they are talking about the same thing. I am new to ConText but not shy of programming. I can explore any clues you give. Thanks, Salil

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Strange Behaviour / Strange Memory effect when creating pdf charts with the chart module in context
by moritz braun 22 Jan '10

22 Jan '10

Dear All I am experiencing a strange problem with the chart module using context on ubuntu. this module allows for the creating of nice flow charts! however when creating the flow chart from the source code with texexec --pdf chart.tex the resultiong pdf file sometimes shows information that is not in the tex file but was in a previous version of it, i.e. some kind of a wierd memoery effect is present I am wondering, where does context keep its cache. In order to debug this problem I installed context on another ubuntu box and when freshly installed , i.e. for the first call of texexec the result was fine. however any subsequent call will again create unpredictable effects. I have written some documentation using context and the chart module and today is may last day in the project and I need to hand this over! regards Moritz -- Prof M Braun Tel.:27-12-4298006/8027 Physics Department Fax.: 27-12-4293643 University of South Africa (UNISA) moritz.braun(a)gmail.com P.O. Box 392 0003 UNISA South Africa

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How to add line number to verbatim typefile?
by Joshua Lee 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

Hi all, Here's a little sample named test.tex, \starttext \setuptyping[file][numbering=line] \typefile[start=1,step=1]{test.tex} \stoptext But, it does not shows the line number, any questions about the code snippet, thanks. BR/JL

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simpleslides - no macros found errors
by Himanshu B. Dave 21 Jan '10

21 Jan '10

I am a new user of simpleslides. Linux 2.6.21 kernel, Slackware 12.0, teTeX installed latest version of t-simpleslides via t-simpleslides.zip in /usr/share/texmf tree Executed: mktexlsr confirmed: appearance of t-simpleslides.tex in /usr/share/texmf/ls-R confirmed: path via kpsewhich t-simpleslides.tex copied: speaker_introduction-2min.tex to my HOME directory, and tried to compile it. Got the following errors: system : no macros found in module style=Boxed system : macros of module font=Bookman already loaded ... ... ... ! Undefined control sequence. l.29 \SlideTitle {Speaker's Name} ? Incidentally, context system itself is running OK. Am I missing something? Or, doing something silly? Help requested. Thanks.

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Re: [NTG-context] ConText and definecolor: undefined control sequence
by Aditya Mahajan 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Ben wrote: > Dear List, > using the pgf build from 20100103 and texlive2009 from the Debian unstable > I've just tried to do the following: > > \enableregime[utf] > \usemodule[tikz] > > \starttext > > \startTEXpage > \pgfutil@definecolor{magenta}{rgb}{1,0,1} > > \starttikzpicture > \draw (0,0) -- (1,1); > \stoptikzpicture > \stopTEXpage > > \stoptext > > I always get > > ! Undefined control sequence. > l.21 \pgfutil > @definecolor{magenta}{rgb}{1,0,1} > ? > ! Emergency stop. > l.21 \pgfutil > @definecolor{magenta}{rgb}{1,0,1} > End of file on the terminal! You need to add \unprotect and \protect \unprotect \pgfutil@definecolor{...} \protect They are similar to \makeatletter and \makeatother in LaTeX. The correct way is to ConTeXt's color mechanism to define colors. For example, \usemodule[tikz] \definecolor[mycolor][r=1,g=0,b=1] \starttext \starttikzpicture \node[text=mycolor] {Test} ; \stoptikzpicture \stoptext This works with MkII but gives an error with MkIV. ! Undefined control sequence. \pgfutil@registercolor ...ef \pgf@temp {\PDFcolor {#1}}\edef \pgf@marshal {\... \pgfutil@colorlet ...x \pgfutil@registercolor {#2} \fi \edef \pgf@marshal {\n... \tikz@next ...futil@colorlet {.}{\tikz@textcolor } \fi \pgfsetcolor {.}\setbo... l.7 \node[text=mycolor] { Test} That is because MkII and MkIV have a different color model, and tikz does not support the MkIV model yet. I am attaching a fix for that. I do not know what is the best way to incorporate it into tikz (perhaps a pgfutils-mkiv.tex file). For the moment, you can just input it after loading tikz. Aditya

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\startitemize[4,inmargin]
by Vedran Miletić 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

Hi, I'm working on three-column document and I would like to put symbols a bit closer to text (but still leave them in margin). Is there an option that does it? I tried with margin=, width= and distance=, but it put them outside the margin and turned symbols into black dots, and that's not quite what I wanted. Regards, -- Vedran Miletić

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\setuplabeltext[chapter=Chapter ] (or mkiv document structure/TOC)
by Alan BRASLAU 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

In a large project, a book with parts, chapters, appendices, etc. I have set the table of contents to display the label "Chapter" yielding: Part I Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Part II Chapter 4 ... Through the following (mkiv): % % section headings % \definestructureresetset [default] [0,0] [1] % do not reset parts and chapters \setuphead [part] [sectionresetset=default, placehead=yes, conversion=Romannumerals] \setuphead [chapter,section,subsection] [placehead=yes,sectionsegments=2:100] % % table of contents % \setuplabeltext [chapter=Chapter ] % with trailing space; blank by default \setuplist [chapter] [label=yes,width=5em] \setuplist [part,chapter,section,subsection,subsubsection] [interaction=all,alternative=c] % number – title – dots – pagenumber \starttext \startfrontmatter \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \stopbodymatter \startappendices \stopappendices \startbackmatter \stopbackmatter \stoptext In the above use, the appendices A,B,... get listed as Chapter A Chapter B and the Bibliography, Name Index, Subject Index, List of Figures, List of Tables all get listed as Chapter Bibliography Chapter Name Index ... Adding \setuplabeltext [chapter=Appendix ] % with trailing space; blank by default after \startappendices doesn't work, nor does \setuplabeltext [chapter=] % reset to blank after \startbackmatter. (of course, these labels should be predefined according to the language, and some switch, \setuplist [chapter] [label=no] after \startbackmatter, maybe by default, should take care of it.) Any suggestions? Alan

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Questions regarding simplefonts
by Nicolas Girard 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

Hi again, although simplefonts seems very promising and I put the highest hopes on it, the lack of proper documentation simply prevents me to use it, which is somewhat frustrating. Here are some of my unanswered questions about simplefonts ; I'm willing to update the wiki with any informations this thread could bring. 1) How can I specify that the default font features should enable the standard ligatures (liga) ? I blindly tried several possibilities like \setupsimplefonts[features={liga}] but none worked 2) How can I get \sc to work with a font family whose small caps are defined as a font feature, rather than dedicated .otf files ? 3) How can I get font expansion and protrusion to work using simplefonts' dedicated keywords ? There again, I spent more than 30 minutes trying every combination I could think of, unsuccessfully. I think it would be useful to have a complete example of code involving simplefonts and expansion/protrusion that people could copy & paste from the wiki 4) What is the purpose of the 'mode' keyword ? Many thanks in advance, cheers, Nicolas

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ConTeXt swallows text
by Oliver Heins 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

Hi, under certain circumstances, ConTeXt swallows text. This happens with both MkII and MkIV and a fairly recent minimals distribution. | ConTeXt ver: 2009.11.24 10:13 MKII fmt: 2009.11.25 int: english/english | ConTeXt ver: 2009.11.24 10:13 MKIV fmt: 2009.11.25 int: english/english Sadly, I noticed not until the booklet was already printed. (Actually, it was my customer who noticed.) :-( Best regards, olli % ----------------------------------- \enableregime[utf-8] \setupbodyfont[ss,10pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=2.6ex] \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuplayout[backspace=2cm,width=middle, offset=0mm, topspace=0cm,height=middle, location=middle, ] \setupcolors[state=start] \setuptolerance[tolerant,verytolerant] \definefloat[grafik] \setupcaption[grafik][number=no,location=bottom] \definecolumnset[ergebnisse][n=3] \definecolumnsetarea [title][left] [x=1,y=1,nx=6,ny=42,page=2,state=start] \starttext \startcolumnset[ergebnisse] \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte} \placegrafik[btlr]{none}{\externalfigure[foo][width=1.95\textwidth]} \subject{Victoria Beckham pregnant again!} Barack Obama is the father! Confronted with this fact, her husband David Beckham said\,\dots (Actually, this is a very important news the world should knew about!) \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte} \stopcolumnset \stoptext % -----------------------------------

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numbered itemize
by Hans van der Meer 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Risking that, like my previous question, this one too will be posed the Nth time, I nevertheless ask. Typesetting a numbered list I tried a lot of paramaters on the itemize macros, but always the code: \startitemize[][start=8] \item a \item b \item c \item d \stopitemize results in: 8. a 9. b 10. c 11. d whereas I would have had: 8. a 9. b 10. c 11. d That is, the item labels aligned at the stoppers. Hans van der Meer

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location of /user/files?
by paul morgan 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Thank you again Aditya and Khaled for getting ConTeXt working here. One more question for the list: Under MacTex or TexLive, not sure which one, on my 10.4.11 system, my setup and env* files were located in ~/Library/texmf/tex/context/user/ I rsynced that dir to ~/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user and ConTeXt is not finding them. Could someone please where I should put these files so context will find them? Thanks again, Paul

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Font database does not report all fonts
by Nicolas Girard 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hi all, and happy new year ! I've just (properly) installed a fresh ConTeXt Minimals on Linux and built the font database. Although my /usr/local/share/fonts/d directory contains Delicious-BoldItalic.otf Delicious-Bold.otf Delicious-Heavy.otf Delicious-Italic.otf Delicious-Roman.otf Delicious-SmallCaps.otf the command mtxrun --script font --list elicious only reports delicioussmallcaps delicioussmallcaps /usr/local/share/fonts/d/Delicious-SmallCaps.otf The problem also arises with other (possibly all) font names. Any thoughts ?

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Re: [NTG-context] negative kerning
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hi, I tried the following snipped out of curiosity and it gives me the error (even with the latest beta) systems : begin file 1.tex at line 5 (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/sample/knuth.tex) (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/sample/knuth.texerror: ...tminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/base/typo-krn.lua:121: attempt to index local 'before' (a nil value) . l.11 ? > \definecharacterkerning[packed] > > \setupcharacterkerning[packed][factor=-.125] > > \starttext > > \input knuth > > \start > > \setcharacterkerning[packed] > > \input knuth > > \stop > > \stoptext > What have I missed? Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Blank at beginning of page
by Philipp Gesang 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Hi, being new to ConTeXt I'd have loads of questions but I'd like to start with what puzzles me most: any \blank[] command that happens to be at the beginning of a page seems to be ignored. For instance in a document as follows \showframe \starttext \blank[5*big] Some text. \stoptext the string "Some text." will be placed on the very top of the text field, regardless of what \blank[]s precede it. I read a good deal of the documentation but couldn't make out the cause nor a workaround. Right now I even consider to put headings inside a float or something like that in order to make their [before=\blank[someblank]] option effective. Thanks in advance for any advice Philipp

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negative kerning
by Horacio Suarez 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

hello all: I need someting like a negative kerning to reduce some paragraphs length. I was reading the mails but I didn´t find it or was too complex for me. thankyou in advance. -------------------- Horacio Suarez _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Keep your friends up to date with what you do online. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/so…

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footnotes and naturalTABLES - Bug?
by Bernhard Rosensteiner 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hello all, when i place a footnote in a naturalTABLE the output at the bottom is always multiplied by four per footnotemarker. In normal tables it works normal (see minimal example in attachment). Is this a bug or make i something wrong? best regards Bernhard

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itemize
by Hans Hagen 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi, I uploaded a beta with some mkiv adaptions of itemize, esp the itemalignment \startitemize[n][width=3cm,itemalign=flushright,distance=1em] \dorecurse{12}{\item test} \stopitemize it also works with fit and distance is now also hounoured; a side effect is that broad no longer is driven by distance but by a new parameter step (which default to the old value so hopefully there should be no compatibility issue) 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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last chapter number
by Andreas Harder 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi all, is there already an equivalent to \lastpage for the last chapter number in a document. I tried something like \getmarking[chapternumber][last], but the output is still the current chapter number. Thanks in advance Andreas

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Is there the length of article title limited in bibliography with MkIV for Chinese?
by Yanrui Li 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi all, If the .bib file includes a article with Chinese title, I found the article's length should be equal or less than 22 characters. Once the length is over 22 characters, the compile process will hang. The following is an example: %% filename: test.tex, it depends on the AdobeSongStd-Light.otf font. \starttypescript[serif][zhfont] \definefontsynonym[Serif][name:adobesongstd] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic][name:adobesongstd] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[myfonts] \definetypeface[myfonts][rm][serif][zhfont] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[myfonts] \setupbodyfont[myfonts,rm,11pt] \setupbibtex[database=ref] \starttext 测试\cite[测试]。 \placepublications \stoptext %% filename: ref.bib @book{测试, title = {〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二}, author = {一二三}, publisher = {四五六}, year = {2000}, } After compiling the above test.tex, I can get the following test.bbl file: \setuppublicationlist[samplesize={一00},totalnumber=1] \startpublication[k=测试,t=book, a={{一二三}},y=2000, n=1,s=一00] \author[]{}[]{}{一二三} \pubyear{2000} \title{〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二} \pubname{四五六} \stoppublication If I modify the ref.bib file, for example I add one Chinese character in the "title" field: %% filename: ref.bib @book{测试, title = {〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二三}, author = {一二三}, publisher = {四五六}, year = {2000}, } When I compile the test.tex again, the compiling process stops here: publications : loading database from test.bbl (test.bbl ! String contains an invalid utf-8 sequence. l.8 ...�九〇一二三四五六七八九〇一二 ��% ? I'm sure that all texts in my files are encoded with utf-8. -- Best regards, Li Yanrui

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\everyaftershipout isn't "called" for every pagebreak
by Andreas Schneider 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

Hi, I'm using \appendtoks...\to\everyaftershipout to reset a variable on every pagebreak. This doesn't work as I expect(ed) it, since it seems to only trigger after a paragraph. The following example shows the problem. On every new page, the first footnote should be "New", which is not the case here. What would be the way to go for me, to get the result I described? Thanks in advance, Andreas. The example: \define\test{\doifelse{\getvalue{testvar}}{page}{% \footnote{Repeat}% }{% \footnote{New}% \setvalue{testvar}{page}% }} \appendtoks \global\setvalue{testvar}{} \to\everyaftershipout \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\dorecurse{250}{text }\test} \dorecurse{10}{\dorecurse{250}{text }\test} \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] lost in documentation
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

> Can you make a minimal example or should we waste our time to write > one for you? > > Wolfgang Sorry, here it is: \starttext >From texshow-web { \setuphead[section-3][bodypartconversion=Characters] \section{One} } but this does not work. I deleted the 's' from Characters { \setuphead[section-3][bodypartconversion=Character] \section{Two} } but that is not working too. At the garden page 'titles' I found { \setupsection[section-3][bodypartconversion=Character] \section{Three} } that works, but it does not correspont to the syntaxdescription in texshow-web, which is \starttyping \setupsection[...][...][...,...=...,...] [...] name [...] name conversion numbers characters Characters romannumerals Romannumerals previousnumber yes no \stoptyping The second parameter should be a 'name' and bodypartconversion is not a parameter at all. Looking at the description, my problem should be solved by { \setupsection[section-3][][conversion=Characters] \section{four} } and this works. But the version { \setupsection[section-3][conversion=Characters] \section{five} } works too. Why? And what is the difference to the first solution? \stoptext Wolfgang

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itemize-margin->break joinedup
by Hans van der Meer 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

The joinedup parameter in \startitemize is meant to close the gap between the list and the preceding material. The margin parameter is for horizontal movement of the list, is I understand it. However, addition of a margin to the \startitemize disables the joinedup. Is this expected behaviour? Below is a minimal example showing the effect. Hans van der Meer \setupblank[small] \setupitemize[n,packed] \starttext \contextversion\ After \type{\startitemize[joinedup]} joinedup ok: \startitemize[joinedup] \item sub a \startitemize \item sub a1 \item sub a2 \stopitemize \item sub b \stopitemize \contextversion\ After type[joinedup,margin=2cm] joinedup ineffective: \startitemize[joinedup,margin=2cm] \item sub a \startitemize \item sub a1 \item sub a2 \stopitemize \item sub b \stopitemize \stoptext

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Minimals installation problem OS X 10.6.2
by paul morgan 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Hi, On a new Snow Leopard machine, I ran ./first-setup.sh in ~/context. As instructed at the end of the ./first-setup.sh run, I then added /Users/pm/context/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin to my .zshenv, and % echo $PATH shows correct path when I source, logout, restart, etc. I ran: p% texexec example.tex MTXrun | kpse fallback with progname 'context' initialized in 0.001019 seconds I then tried p% luatex sample.tex This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.50.0-2009122423 \write18 enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt luatex.fmt mktexfmt: No such file or directory I can't find the format file `luatex.fmt'! Any suggestions on what I should do? Also, first-setup.sh creates the dir ...tex/texmf-osx-64/bin, but, p% uname -m i386 Thank you very much for any help you can offer.

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lost in documentation
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Hallo, this are the things which driving me nuts: Suppose I want to numerate my sections with uppercase characters. In texshow-web I found \setuphead[section-3][bodypartconversion=Characters] but this does not work. I deleted the 's' from Characters \setuphead[section-3][bodypartconversion=Character] but that is not working too. At the garden page 'titles' I found \setupsection[section-3][bodypartconversion=Character] that works, but it does not correspont to the syntaxdescription in texshow-web, which is \setupsection[...][...][...,...=...,...] [...] name [...] name conversion numbers characters Characters romannumerals Romannumerals previousnumber yes no The second parameter should be a 'name' and bodypartconversion is not a parameter at all. Looking at the description, my problem should be solved by \setupsection[section-3][][conversion=Characters] and this works. But the version \setupsection[section-3][conversion=Characters] works too. Why? And what is the difference to the first solution? So much open questions. So much lost time. Wolfgang, a little bit frustrated.

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leftedge
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Hallo, in \setupbackgrounds[header][leftedge,text,rightedge][bottomframe=on] left- and rightedge is not recognized. Wolfgang

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stopper and separator
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Hallo, can anyone explain, what \setupheads[stopper={A}] resp. \setupheads[separator={B}] should do? Wolfgang

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problem with url in \setupexternalfigures
by Peter Münster 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

Hello, This used to work: \setupexternalfigures[directory={\currentvalue, http://pmrb.free.fr/tmp/}] \starttext \externalfigure[hacker-test] \stoptext But with the latest version, the figure is not found... Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Page numbering and MkIV
by Vedran Miletić 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

This code: \enableregime[utf] \starttext \title{BLAH BLAH\\ BLAH} \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \page \setuppagenumbering[state=start,location={footer,center},conversion=romannumerals,style={\bf}] \completecontent \page \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \chapter[chapter:foo]{Foo Bar} \setuppagenumbering[state=start,location={footer,center},conversion=no,style={\ss\bf}] \section[sect:evocation]{EVOCATION} Lorem ipsum. \stoptext Produces what I expect with MkII (blank page, roman numbered page, arabic numbered page), but MkIV produces PDF with arabic numbering on every page. Any ideas? -- Vedran Miletić

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Re: [NTG-context] simple layout
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

> \NC \tbox{\externalfigure[...]} \NC ... \NC\AR > > You can find more box type in supp-box.tex Yes! I have never heared about this. Thank you very much! Wolfgang

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XML - creating a list by hand (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

Hi, can someone give me a helping hand with the following example. I still have no general survey over the XML related code in ConTeXt (donno what functions to use). The last time I played with it is one and a half year ago and many things have changed (meaning that the old examples no longer work). I simply want to create a XML document and insert some elements. My main problem is to insert an element at root level. I can insert an element before and after another element, but not into the element. I'm not sure, if I have understood the meaning of the pattern parameter correctly. Is this equal to XPath? %----- \starttext \startluacode local xmp = xml.convert("<?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?>\n<root>\n<bar>bla</bar>\n</root>") --xml.before(xmp,"/root/bar","foo") --xml.delete(xmp,"bar") --xml.inject(xmp,"/sub","bar")-- only for xml-files? xml.insert(xmp,"/root/bar","") --xml.inject(xmp,"/*/bar","") --xml.sprint(xml.filter(xmp,"/root/sub")) xml.save(xmp,"test.xml") \stopluacode \stoptext %----- Best wishes, Peter

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simple layout
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

Hallo, I need a little help for this simple layout. I am looking for a solution for hours now, but I can not get it work: ---------------------------------------------------------------- \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \framed[background=color, backgroundcolor=gray]{% \starttable[|lp(.1\textwidth)|lp(.9\textwidth)|] \NC \placefigure[left,high]{none}{\framed[height=1cm]{graphic}} \NC Text rechts!\crlf Text rechts!\crlf Text rechts!\crlf Text rechts!\crlf Text rechts!\crlf Text rechts!\crlf Text rechts!\crlf Text rechts!\crlf Text rechts! \NC\AR % \NC Text rechts! \NC\AR \stoptable} Mehr Text \ldots \stoptext ----------------------------------------------------------------- left: picture (not always the same height) right: text (variable height, sometimes more, sometimes less than on the left) left and right framed (height should be the maximum of left and right height) after that: normal text. Problems: If height(left)>height(right) than height(framed) is not height(left) 'Mehr Text' is not left aligned Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] Putting chord names above the lyrics
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

Thanks, Wolfgang! Good toy ) \usemodule[ruby] \define[1]\chord{\dontleavehmode\ruby[position=before,align=left,inbetween={\blank[big]}]{}{#1}} \starttext \setupinterlinespace[big] \startlines \chord{E}Cvet dišeč z \chord{H7}jutrom se od\chord{cis}pre, \chord{A}sonce od\chord{E}pira o\chord{H}či. \chord{E}Polje z vetrom v \chord{H7}plesu ziblje \chord{cis}se. Gos\chord{E}pod, pov\chord{H}sod vidim \chord{E}Te. \stoplines \stoptext However, it was tricky to find out that "inbetween={\blank[big]}"key controls the distance between chords and lyrics. Can this distance be set more precisely? And "position=before" or "after" would better be "above" and "below", respectively. Don't you dare to change this? ) Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 67, Issue 18
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

Thanks for answers, friends! I don't have ruby installed, so I try Mojca solution. It works perfectly (thanks!), except I need to wrap the lyrics into the 'lines' envinroment. To achieve this, I need to replace \setupwhitespace with \setupinterlinespace and adjust raisebox amount. \starttext \def\Ch#1{% \strut\hbox to 0pt{\raisebox{0.45\baselineskip}\hbox{\bf#1}\hss}} \setupinterlinespace[big] \startlines \Ch{E}Cvet dišeč z \Ch{H7}jutrom se od\Ch{cis}pre, \Ch{A}sonce od\Ch{E}pira o\Ch{H}či. \Ch{E}Polje z vetrom v \Ch{H7}plesu ziblje \Ch{cis}se. Gos\Ch{E}pod, pov\Ch{H}sod vidim \Ch{E}Te. \stoplines \stoptext What do you mean talking about optimization? ) Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Putting chord names above the lyrics
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

Hello, How to put chord names above the lyrics? I have the following in mind \starttext \setupinterlinespace[big] \startlines \chord[C6]Pardon me, boy Is that the Chattanooga choo choo? Track twenty-nin\chord[Gadd9/D]e Boy, you can gimme a sh\chord[C6]ine \stoplines \setupinterlinespace[small] \stoptext which should look like C6 Pardon me, boy Is that the Chattanooga choo choo? Gadd9/D Track twenty-nine C6 Boy, you can gimme a shine Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Using frames with metapost background in metapost
by Aditya Mahajan 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

Hi, I want to use a frame with metapost background to highlight some text inside metapost. But, the best that I can do is get metapost to typeset the code for the background, rather than execute it! Any ideas on a work around (in MkIV). \startmode[error] \defineoverlay[MP:background] [\useMPgraphic{MP:backgound}] \startuseMPgraphic{MP:backgound} draw OverlayBox randomized 9pt withcolor blue; \stopuseMPgraphic \stopmode \defineframed[boxframed][frame=on,background=MP:background] % A frame defined with \defineframe does not work % inside Metapost, so I prevent expansion. \unexpanded\def\boxed#1{\boxframed{#1}} \starttext \boxed{Boxed in text} \startMPcode draw textext("\boxed{boxed in metapost}") ; %draw textext("\boxframed{boxed in metapost}") ; \stopMPcode \stoptext Thanks, Aditya

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False chapter numbering
by Andreas Harder 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Hi, it seems like footnotes disturbs chapter numbering. \starttext \dorecurse{3}{\chapter{Chapter}\section{Section}footnote\footnote{test}} \stoptext Greetings Andreas

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Verbatim Text with Embedded Formatting Commands (MkIV)
by Tad Ashlock 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

As noted at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Verbatim_text#Embedded_formatting_commands, the embedded formatting commands in verbatim text don't work in MkIV. Are there any plans to fix this capability soon? I'm planning on working on a project on over the holiday break that will need it. I'm not pushing to change your priorities. If it's not going to be fixed soon, then I'll implement a simple verbatim module that supports embedded formatting commands that will do until the official module works. I just don't want to waste that effort if verbatim is going to be fixed soon anyway. Thanks, Tad Ashlock

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Minimals and XeTeX
by Vedran Miletić 11 Jan '10

11 Jan '10

Hi, I'm a new user of ConTeXt and minimals distribution and first I would like to say to thank everyone involved in it. Like most LaTeX users, I found something that was very hard to do in LaTeX to be fairly trivial in ConTeXt, and gave it a shot. Nevertheless, there is an issue with missing files that might be relevant and worth noting here. When compiling with --xtx, texexec (or xdvipdfmx) warns about missing dvipdfmx.cfg (that should, according to TeX Live structure, be in texmf/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx.cfg), and once you manually add that, about missing cid-x.map (texmf/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/cid-x.map). After adding both files, there are no more complains. Can those files be added to minimals distribution? -- Vedran Miletić

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typo in luatex-mplib.lua
by luigi scarso 09 Jan '10

09 Jan '10

line 323 of tex/texmf-context/tex/generic/context/luatex-mplib.lua should be local fignum = tonumber(match(figure:filename(),"([%d]+)$") or figure:charcode() or 0) -- luigi

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sectionstopper
by Wolfgang Schuster 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

Hi Hans, how I can i put symbols at both sides of a header, with sectionstopper i can get only on at the right side of the number but not at the left and tricks like numbercommand or setuplabeltext do not affect references and the content entries. In the following example i want the chapter number to be printed as 1) Chaptertitle -> sectionsegments=2:2 and the section number as (1) Sectiontitle -> sectionsegments=3:3 but a reference in the test should show the complete number in the form '1)(1)' and the same should appear in the table of contents. Best regards, Wolfgang \setuphead[chapter][sectionsegments=2:2,sectionstopper=)] \setuphead[section][sectionsegments=3:3,sectionstopper=),numbercommand=(] % How can I print the section number as '1) (1)' in the toc? %\setuplist[section][sectionsegments=2:3,numbercommand=(] \setupreferencestructureprefix[default][prefixsegments=2:100] % uncomment to get the correct result for references in the text, brr %\definestructureseparatorset [default][,(][] \starttext \completecontent \chapter[sec:knuth]{Knuth} \input knuth \section[sec:ward]{Ward} \input ward \page see \in{section}[sec:ward] at \at{page}[sec:ward] \stoptext

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Automated Quotation/Punctuation Placement
by Tad Ashlock 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

Hi All, I'm trying to create a command that will apply a consistent style to a word or phrase. For example, when documenting source code, I'd like to be able to mark variables with \Var{var_name}. Then if I want the variable names to be in mono, I can \def\Var#1{\type{#1}}. No problem there. If I want variable names to be in quotes, then \def\Var#1{\quote{#1}}. The problem is that in my ConTeXt code I'd write "This is \Var{var_name}, a variable." Which would get typeset as "This is 'var_name', a variable." where punctuation convention (at least in American English) would have the comma inside the quote like this: "This is 'var_name,' a variable." I've tried four different ways of implementing this, but none of them work consistently. Here's my last attempt: ========================== \startluacode function move_end_punctuation (text, punc, cmd_start, cmd_mid, cmd_end) context(cmd_start .. text .. cmd_mid) if string.find('.,!?', punc, 1, true) then context(punc .. cmd_end) else context(cmd_end .. ' ' .. punc) end end \stopluacode \def\Var#1#2{\ctxlua{move_end_punctuation([==[#1]==],[==[#2]==], '\\quote{\\type{','}','}')}} \starttext This is \Var{var_name}, a variable. \stoptext ========================== This works, until the \Var{} macro appears in the argument of another macro. For example, make the text: \framed{This is \Var{var_name}, a variable.} and the following error results: ========================== systems : begin file test.tex at line 16 ! Missing $ inserted. <inserted text> $ <to be read again> _ l.1 ...spaces quote{unskip ignorespaces type{var_ name} \Var ...=],[==[#2]==], '\\quote{\\type{','}','}')} l.18 \framed{This is \Var{var_name}, a variable.} ? ========================== I think my problem has to do with parameter expansion, but I don't understand the intricacies enough to solve this. I flailed away, unsuccessfully, with various combinations of \unexpanded, \normalunexpanded, luaescapestring, etc. Does anyone have a solution or a pointer in the right direction? Thank you, Tad

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Error with the actual beta
by Andreas Harder 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

Hi, the example at the bottom ends up with: ! LuaTeX error ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:1243: attempt to get length of local 'splt' (a nil value) \definefont[test][name:linuxlibertineo] \starttext \test test \stoptext Can someone confirm? Greetings Andreas

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Re: [NTG-context] TeX Gyre and (no) Cyrillic
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

Dear Mojca > Did you read the message about TeX Gyre? > Ohhhh! I overlooked it. This will not affect me much since I use standard Windows fonts and sometimes Adobe. But the poor thing is that ConTeXt will not work with Cyrillic "out of the box" anymore. However, since we count Cyrillic users using fingers of one hand :), I think you can drop old Gyre fonts and don't bother yourself with it. Anyone will seek another solution, and Gyre fonts never was of top quality, IMHO. Thank you for caring about us! Vyatcheslav

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Error when using external fonts
by Vladimir Lomov 08 Jan '10

08 Jan '10

Hi. Consider small example: <example file="sample1.tex"> \usetypescriptfile[type-dejavu] \usetypescript[dejavu] %\usetypescript[cambria] \setupbodyfont[dejavu,12pt] %\setupbodyfont[cambria,12pt] \starttext This is default sample text. Текст для пробы. \stoptext </example> I run context from context-minimals but get error: ...skipped... !load otf : loading: /usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSerif.ttf (hash: dejavuserif) !load otf : file size: 328908 !load otf : enhancing ... ! LuaTeX error ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:1243: attempt to get length of local 'splt' (a nil value) stack traceback: ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:1243: in function 'enhancer' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:198: in function 'enhance' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:260: in function 'load' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:1565: in function 'otf_to_tfm' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:1781: in function 'read_from_open_type' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:476: in function <...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:456> (tail call): ? (tail call): ? ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:308: in function 'read' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:585: in function 'read' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-ctx.lua:360: in function 'command_2' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. \lowleveldefinefont ...dimexpr \textface \relax )} \edef \somefontspec {at \s... \xxdododefinefont ...efont {#4}\newfontidentifier \fi \csname \newfontidenti... \applyfontclassstrategies ...\fontsize \endcsname \else \expandafter \fontcl... \synchronizefont ...lse \applyfontclassstrategies \fi \autofontsizefalse \if... \rm ->\ifmmode \mathrm \else \normalrm \fi \doswitchstyle ...e \csname \@style@ #1\endcsname \edef \fontstyle {#1}\ifmm... ... l.5 \setupbodyfont[dejavu,12pt] ? ...skipped... (log file produced by context --nonstopmode sample1.tex is attached). Same for Cambria. When I run context from TL2009 all works fine (I got pdf file with dejavu font). --- WBR, Vladimir Lomov

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mkII tabulate midline bug
by Thomas Floeren 07 Jan '10

07 Jan '10

there seems to be a typo in the recent versions of tabl-tbl.mkii: line 1225: \vskip1\topskip\allowbreak1\vskip-\topskip (should probably read: \vskip1\topskip\allowbreak\vskip-\topskip) example: \starttabulate [|l|] \NC text \NC\NR\FL \NC midline ok \NC\NR\ML \NC midline messed up \NC\NR\ML \NC text \NC\NR\LL \stoptabulate ConTeXt ver: 2010.01.05 16:47 MKII fmt: 2010.1.7 int: english/english best wishes Thomas

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TeX Gyre and (no) Cyrillic
by Mojca Miklavec 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

Dear Cyrillic users, this is just to let you know (in particular Vyatcheslav) that minimals still contain an outdated version of TeX Gyre fonts. Below you can read part of font development history. Simply put: Cyrillic support has been removed a few months ago (I didn't follow closely and didn't notice that right away). We might keep a zip with the old font files somewhere, but support for Cyrillic will be gone by default. Someone would need to take over the development of Cyrillic glyphs if they were to be supported. And someone needs to fix the wiki page. Please do not blame me - we cannot do anything but follow what the Polish have decided. If anyone disagrees, you are welcome to form a team to work on those glyphs. Ver 2.003: 16.09.2009 * this is the first official release of the TeX Gyre Termes fonts since June 22, 2009, when URW++, represented by Dr. Peter Rosenfeld, its Managing Director, kindly agreed to release the original 35 base PostScript fonts as shipped with Ghostscript ver. 4.00 under the LPPL (LaTeX Project Public License). This should be understood so that the 35 base Postscript fonts may be used and developed either under the LPPL or one of the GPL (GNU Public Licence) or AFPL (Aladdin Free Public Licence). The latter were put in force with the initial release of the base fonts with Ghostscript ver. 4.00 in 1996. Hereby we thank Dr. Rosenfeld. The TeX Gyre fonts are being develped from the Ghostscript ver. 4.00 base. For reasons explained elsewhere, we prefer to provide our work under the GUST Font Licence (GFL) which is legally equivallent to the LPPL. However, since 1996 the 35 PostScript base fonts were enhanced under the GNU Public License with Vietnamese glyphs by Han The Thanh and Cyrillic glyphs by Valek Filippov. Han The Thanh kindly permitted his additions to be retained under under GFL/LPPL in this and future TeX Gyre fonts releases. Unfortunately, we were unable to receive a similar permission from Valek Filippov for his Cyrillic glyphs, thus there are no Cyrillic glyphs in any of the TeX Gyre fonts. * with the removal of the Cyrillic glyphs all t2a-*.tfm, t2b-*.tfm t2c-*.tfm files and the relevant LaTeX *.fd files were also removed. Mojca

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Natural Tables Cell Borders
by Curiouslearn 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

Help needed! The fifth \setupTABLE command below reduces the rulethickness of the bottomframe in cells (2,5) and (3,5). Is there a way to avoid that? I just want the rightframe to be thin in these cells, but the bottomframe to be thick. Thanks a ton! \starttext \start \setupTABLE[frame=off] \setupTABLE[column][align={middle,lohi}] \setupTABLE[2,3,4,][1,5][bottomframe=on,rulethickness=1pt] \setupTABLE[1,4][2,3,4,5,][rightframe=on,rulethickness=1pt] \setupTABLE[2,3][2,3,4,5][rightframe=on,rulethickness=0.2pt] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD \eTD\bTD \eTD\bTD[nc=2] {\bf 2} \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD \eTD\bTD \eTD \bTD a2 \eTD \bTD b2 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD[nr=3] 1 \eTD \bTD a1 \eTD \bTD 2,2 \eTD \bTD 4,5 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD b1 \eTD \bTD 5,4 \eTD \bTD 3,3 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD c1 \eTD \bTD 6,6 \eTD \bTD 4,4 \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stop \stoptext

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What is the luatex version of \pdfescapehex
by Zhichu Chen 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

Hi, I've written a very old module which used a lot of pdf primitives like \pdfescapehex and \pdfescapename etc. and it turns out not they don't work in mkiv. So I just want to know are there any alternatives? TIA -- 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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resetting local footnote number (conversion = character)
by Bowen Alan C. 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

Yet another try. I have some local footnotes (conversion = character) and would like to reset set the counter (a) to “a” and (b) to a specific value other than “a”. How can I do this? re (a) \resetnumber[localfootnote] does not work. ! Missing \endcsname inserted. <to be read again> \numberlocalfootnotenumber \setcounter #1#2->\@EA \xdef \csname #1 \endcsname {\the \numexpr #2\relax } l.217 \resetnumber[localfootnote] Am I even right to assume that there is a pre-defined localfootnote counter? Alan

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cutmarks length setting?
by Hans van der Meer 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

I would like to make the cutmarks (those placed around the four corners of a page) a little longer. I have looked into the sources (contextbeta) but could not spot where to set the length of these lines. What do I have to do to vary their length? Hans van der Meer

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startbuffer fails with %
by H. van der Meer 06 Jan '10

06 Jan '10

\startbuffer[ABC]% {} Braces at beginning fails with buffer \stopbuffer \starttext \getbuffer[ABC] \stoptext Error message: ! File ended while scanning use of \dododowithbuffer. <inserted text> \par Remove the {}'s at the beginning and all is well. The culprit however is the % in the first line; remove and the braces do no harm. I suspect that a missed newline is the cause. If that cannot be remedied, I advise adding a warning in the manual. Hans van der Meer

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Referencing...
by Willi Egger 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

Hi, I have small tabulations which contain references to footnotes in the header line. - The footnotes are placed correctly, how ever if I refer to the references I get in 2 out of the three cases ?? i.e. ConTeXt does not know the reference. I am puzzled because it works for the third reference... When extending the list of footnotes again the referencing works only for the last reference. Is there something changed in the approach in MKIV? \starttext \starttabulate[|l|c|r|r|r|] \NC Issue \NC Time \NC Avg.\footnote[av]{Average log\low{10} values} \NC s\footnote[stdv]{Standard deviation} \NC se\footnote[se]{Standard error of the mean} \NC\NR \NC A \EQ 1 \NC 3.85 \NC 1.06 \NC 0.31 \NC\NR \stoptabulate \starttabulate[|l|c|r|r|r|] \NC Issue \NC Time \NC Avg.\note[av] \NC s\note[stdv] \NC se\note[se] \NC\NR \NC B \EQ 1 \NC 1.18 \NC 0.8 \NC 0.23 \NC\NR \stoptabulate Look at s\note[av] \stoptext I am using: This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.50.0-2009122422 ConTeXt ver: 2010.01.03 12:54 MKIV fmt: 2010.1.4 int: english/english Kind regards Willi

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defineenumeration does not work with MKIV. Works with MKII
by Curiouslearn 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

Minimal example \setuppapersize[letter][letter] \starttext \defineenumeration[problem][text= ,location=inleft] \setupenumerations[problem][stopper=)] \problem problem 1 \problem problem 2 \stoptext In MKIV there are numbers do not appear. Thanks.

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Cannot make \digits work with palatino
by Alexandre Patry 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

Hi, when I use the \digits command with default fonts, everything work fine. However, when I set the fonts to palatino, the following documents print "1:234;56" instead of "1.234,56" 8<--------------------------------- \usetypescript[palatino][ec] \definetypeface [palatino] [mm] [math] [euler] [euler][rscale=1.03] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] \starttext \digits{1.234,56} \stoptext 8<--------------------------------- Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Alexandre

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resetting local footnote number (conversion = character)
by Bowen Alan C. 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

I have some local footnotes (conversion = character) and would like to set the counter to a specific value other than “a”. How can I do this? Alan

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Thoughts on ConTeXt: ditched
by Manuel P. 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

ConTeXt is a good software. I was impressed with a manual typesetted with it and decided to give it a try. After some small documents, despite my ridicously small knowledge of it I decided to use ConTeXt for my thesis. Bad move. ConTeXt is beautiful because it's very configurable, for the most uses doesn't need any external module (unlike LaTeX), and gives me more power on the presentation of the document. But in a few days of work I've come to realize that it's not suited for me and this project. I've had some unpleasant surprises: - Bibliography doesn't work the way it should on MKIV. Unlike MKII. - MKIV, unlike MKII, doesn't setup any background color: ---- \setupcolors[state=start] \setupbackground[background=screen] \setupbackground[state=start] \def\quotebox#1#2 {\blank \midaligned{\startbackground \quotation{\em #1} \crlf --#2 \stopbackground} \blank} ---- - the above \quotebox command, in some cases, sends pdftex and luatex (MKII and MKIV) to the moon with an infinite loop (100% CPU). One reason for this is probably my very limited knowledge and experience with ConTeXt. It's extremely configurable, and this is a plus. But on the other hand if you don't know how to move, what to do, the system internals and how any configuration affect the typesetting, a lot of thing won't work. And worse, you won't know where to bump your head. I don't have time to read the reference manual (I've already read the excursion) because the deadline is too near, so I have to call defeat and go to the LaTeX camp. I've wasted days of work, now I can't afford more of that. It's a learning experience: don't use an "experimental" (new for me) tool for an important job. Stick to the tried&tested ones, and use new stuff only in a safe context (without a near hard deadline). Maybe, in some future, I'll take again ConTeXt and try to learn it the proper way. But for now, it's "fired". For your patience, time and help: thanks to all of you! A little wish: I hope that when I'll return here there'll be good documentation (user-oriented) and a single (througly tested, see TDD/BDD approaches) reference implementation. -- Manuel P.

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\framedparameter
by Wolfgang Schuster 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

Hi Hans, in MkII the following is possible without problems: \setupcolors[state=start] \startuseMPgraphic{frameborder} drawoptions(withcolor \MPcolor{\framedparameter{framecolor}}) ; draw topboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled \the\dimexpr\framedparameter{toprulethickness}\relax ; draw bottomboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled \the\dimexpr\framedparameter{bottomrulethickness}\relax ; draw leftboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled \the\dimexpr\framedparameter{leftrulethickness}\relax ; draw rightboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled \the\dimexpr\framedparameter{rightrulethickness}\relax ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[frameborder][\useMPgraphic{frameborder}] \defineframed [mpframed] [ toprulethickness=\framedparameter{rulethickness}, bottomrulethickness=\framedparameter{rulethickness}, leftrulethickness=\framedparameter{rulethickness}, rightrulethickness=\framedparameter{rulethickness}, background=frameborder] \starttext \mpframed[width=4cm,height=4cm,toprulethickness=1pt,framecolor=red]{text} \stoptext In MkIV this is no longer possible because \framedparameter accepts only protected keys (e.g. \c!rulethickness) and on the fly key-value-pairs like 'toprulethickness=\framedparameter{rulethickness}' are also useless because you need now \c!toprulethickness to use the value in another command like metapost graphics. Can you provide a mechanism to access these values again on the user side, e.g. \userparameter{framed:toprulethickness}. Best regards, Wolfgang

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A thesis not just using, but on, ConTeXt.
by John Haltiwanger 04 Jan '10

04 Jan '10

I have narrowed down my subject options for a masters thesis (New Media at Universiteit van Amsterdam) and landed on a software study<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_studies>of TeX through the lens of ConTeXt/LuaTeX (the idea being to document the cutting edge). For instance, the many materialities of a TeX document, the fact that it exists as a source file, an evolving memory heap during compilation, a ready-to-print document, and (often) as a print document. Part of my thesis, and a good reason to investigate ConTeXt, is exploring the material aspects of texts generated specifically for on-screen use/how an interlinked PDF differs from a website/etc. Naturally, a materialist analysis leads to discussing liberational potential, and the entire assemblage of TeX will be examined in light of Benkler's 'virtuous software'. (See Benkler<http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/papers/jopp_235.pdf>or me<http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2009/11/01/git-virtue-github-and-commons-b…>for more.) More, I'm sure, will arise. The second half of the thesis is an operational component: setting up an online collaborative web application (with Ruby Waves <http://rubywaves.com>) that is able to interweave git, reST/markdown/HTML (or a new one of my own that I convert to ConTeXt), pandoc (unless option 2), and ConTeXt to craft a system capable of outputting anything, not the least of which a PDF with layout and typesetting specific to that system (in this case, a new open, post/pure peer review journal of new media studies). I feel this must be possible because I've read that some of you folks are running highly automated typesetting jobs with ConTeXt. However, it occurs to me I should discuss the feasibility of at least the operational component with you folks before I end up trying to develop something impossible come March. The theoretical component relates to the operational component in as much as it seeks to justify it--this part is basically saying 'typesetting matters' but in the sense that a good typeset will a) make the journal feel much more established and allow an easy means to produce an on-demand print version, and b) liberate the information in as much as it is available in both PDF and machine-parsable ASCII, along with everything in between. Hmmm, maybe that _is_ taking a bit on.. Especially sense I don't know much ConTeXt at the moment (for instance, not using them on my final papers this semester). However, I will have significant time to dedicate to this thesis (all day every day starting March), and I've become something of an obsessive about TeX and typesetting, despite not having a lot of free time to dedicate right this second. For instance I find myself reading the Mark IV documentation (perfect for a software studies, btw!) rather than other, perhaps more pressing things. I guess I'm just sending a ping out to see what kind of response you folks have to such a project. I don't feel as if anything is set in stone, per se. The final proposal presentation is yet to happen, so I have time to make changes. Sincerely, John Haltiwanger

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Integrating ConTeXt into TL2009
by Vladimir Lomov 02 Jan '10

02 Jan '10

Hi. I'm newbie with ConTeXt. I followed instruction from contextgarden.net and integrated ConTeXt current into TL2009 (instruction talked about TL2008) http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV but that didn't work (simple example found on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Russian gives not russian letters). Then I setup ConTeXt minimals following instruction on page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals and that installation works fine on the same example. So my question: is a way to intergrate ConTeXt (current or the same as ConTeXt minimals provides) into TL2009 (distributed by tug)? I noticed that (TeX Live distribution root in /usr/local/opt/texlive, ConTeXt minimals root in /usr/local/opt/texlive/context): $ ls -lA /usr/local/opt/texlive/bin/x86_64-linux/luatex -rwxr-xr-x 1 lomov users 4689064 Дек 26 02:39 /usr/local/opt/texlive/bin/x86_64-linux/luatex $ ls -lA /usr/local/opt/texlive/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/luatex -rwxr-xr-x 1 lomov users 4689064 Дек 26 02:39 /usr/local/opt/texlive/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/luatex $ md5sum /usr/local/opt/texlive/{bin/x86_64-linux,context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin}/luatex b59a929dfe2aff9ace6becad5120a340 /usr/local/opt/texlive/bin/x86_64-linux/luatex b59a929dfe2aff9ace6becad5120a340 /usr/local/opt/texlive/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/luatex so seems that both executables are the same (I think that failure of my example in first case was because TL2009 has older files that ConTeXt requires and ConTeXt minimals has newer version of them).

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Columns within a layer
by Oliver Buerschaper 02 Jan '10

02 Jan '10

Dear all, how can I get columns within a layer? I tried --- \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=text] \definelayer [text] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight] \startbuffer[test] \startcolumns[n=2] \input zapf \stopcolumns \stopbuffer \starttext \startstandardmakeup \setlayerframed [text] [x=1cm, y=3cm] [width=12cm, height=6cm, align=normal, offset=none, framecolor=gray] {\getbuffer[test]} \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext --- with no success :-( I'm running MkIV, by the way. Any help much appreciated! Best wishes, Oliver

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Metapost Font Question
by David Arnold 01 Jan '10

01 Jan '10

All, The attached Metapost file uses the statsmac package by Anthony Phan. http://www-math.univ-poitiers.fr/~phan/statsmac.html And the package: mps.tar.gz To compile the attached file I use: mpost Untitled.mp mptopdf Untitled.1 I've attached the resulting file. I am wondering why the "cm" label is set in a larger font than the ticklabels. Can anyone help? David.

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Happy Newyear
by Taco Hoekwater 01 Jan '10

01 Jan '10

Hi, For each of you, I hope that 2010 turns out better than what you are wishing for right now! Taco

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The problem with structure of heads in MkIV
by Yanrui Li 01 Jan '10

01 Jan '10

hi all, For example: %%%% \starttext \placelist[part,chapter,section,subsection][criterium=all] \part{first} \chapter{alpha} \section{a} \section{b} \subsection{x} \subsection{y} \chapter{beta} \part{second} \chapter{gamma} \section{a} \section{b} \subsection{x} \subsection{y} \chapter{delta} \stoptext %%%% how to get the following head structure in MkIV ? Part 1 first 1 alpha 1.1 a 1.2 b 1.2.1 x 1.2.2 y 2 beta Part 2 second 3 gamma 3.1 a 3.2 b 3.2.1 x 3.2.2 y 4 delta -- Best regards, Li Yanrui

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Random numbers in metapost
by David Arnold 31 Dec '09

31 Dec '09

Hi, Does anyone have any strategies for drawing random numbers from various statistics distributions in Metapost? For example, say, drawing 100 random numbers from a beta distribution? David

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Conflict between blackboard bold font and enumerations
by Ogam Géry 31 Dec '09

31 Dec '09

Hi, I've got a problem with "\blackboard". When I use it in the title of an enumeration (title=yes in setupenumerations), I get this error during compilation: ! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line x. <inserted text> \fi For instance: \starttext \defineenumeration[hello] \setupenumerations[hello][title=yes] \starthello{$\blackboard{ABCD}$} \stophello \stoptext Yet if I replace "\blackboard{ABCD}" with \reals (or \naturalnumbers, or \integers etc.), it works fine. What's wrong? Thanks. Géry

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Happy new year!
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 31 Dec '09

31 Dec '09

Dear friends, Happy new year to you! More inspiration and brilliancy in 2010! ) With best regards from Ukraine, Vyatcheslav

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Bug in \Umathlimitbelowvgap?
by Oliver Buerschaper 31 Dec '09

31 Dec '09

Dear list, with LuaTeX beta-0.40.5-2009061123 and ConTeXt 2009.06.13 13:37 the following throws an error: --- \starttext LowerLimitGapMin: \the\Umathlimitbelowvgap\displaystyle UpperLimitGapMin: \the\Umathlimitabovevgap\displaystyle \stoptext --- Unfortunately I can't update at the moment. Can anyone confirm the problem with the latest version? Oliver

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Using Adobe Arno Pro in Mkiv
by Changlin Ai 31 Dec '09

31 Dec '09

Hello, all When I used Adobe ArnoPro font in Mkvi with default font features, I found the memory useage of LuaTeX was very big. These are some tests: \starttypescript [serif] [arno] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [ArnoPro-Bold.otf] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [ArnoPro-BoldItalic.otf] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [ArnoPro-Italic.otf][features=default] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [ArnoPro-Regular.otf] [features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [arno] \definetypeface [arno] [rm] [serif] [arno] [default] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[arno] \setupbodyfont[arno, 11pt] \starttext \rm test\par \it test\par \bf test\par \bi test\par \stoptext and this is the information in log: mkiv lua stats : fonts load time - 25.328 seconds mkiv lua stats : result saved in file - cont-en.pdf mkiv lua stats : luatex banner - this is luatex, version beta-0.50.0-2009122521 mkiv lua stats : control sequences - 29946 of 165536 mkiv lua stats : current memory usage - 479 MB (ctx: 491 MB) mkiv lua stats : runtime - 27.828 seconds, 0 processed pages, 1 shipped pages, 0.036 pages/second SyncTeX written on lua.synctex.gzMTXrun | total runtime: 28.063 When I used these fonts without font feature, I got these: mkiv lua stats : fonts load time - 3.016 seconds mkiv lua stats : result saved in file - cont-en.pdf mkiv lua stats : luatex banner - this is luatex, version beta-0.50.0-2009122521 mkiv lua stats : control sequences - 29946 of 165536 mkiv lua stats : current memory usage - 84 MB (ctx: 86 MB) mkiv lua stats : runtime - 5.344 seconds, 0 processed pages, 1 shipped pages, 0.187 pages/second SyncTeX written on lua.synctex.gzMTXrun | total runtime: 5.484 How can I reduce the memory useage in such situation?

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

Hi, I uploaded a new beta. The problematic fonts (reported a while ago) now are dealt with more efficiently. The problem is with the (way too) many kerns. First time loading is also somewhat faster as is the memory footprint for base mode fonts. (for those huge ArnoPro fonts using node mode is much more efficient than base mode). I hope that I didn't break anything else. 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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smaller inter line space for headings (on a grid)
by Andreas Harder 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

Hi all, I have three questions: 1) Is there a convenient way to reduce the inter line space for an head on a grid? First I tried \setuphead[section][style={\ssb\setupinterlinespace[line=1ex]}]—no effect. Finally I defined three commands to get it work. Perhaps someone knows a better way. 2) In a manual I found an example \setuphead[section][grid={line,-5pt}], but it doesn’t seem to work. Is it outdated? Is there an MkIV alternative? 3) Is there a MkIV pendant for \showgridboxes? Thank you in advance Andreas

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fonts with non latin file names
by Wolfgang Schuster 30 Dec '09

30 Dec '09

Hi, i have a problem when i use font which contain non ascii letters in the file name, e.g. the filename of the Hirganino fonts on Mac OS X are a mixture or japanese and latin letters but only the latin part is used to cache the font information. In the following example \definefontsynonym[Mincho][file:ヒラギノ明朝 Pro W3][features=default] % /Library/Fonts/ヒラギノ明朝 Pro W3.otf \definefontsynonym[Gothic][file:ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3][features=default] % /Library/Fonts/ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3.otf \starttext \startlines \definedfont[Mincho]Hiragino Mincho Pro \definedfont[Gothic]Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro \stoplines \stoptext the font information is saved at each run in the font cache under the name '-pro-w3'. fonts : preloading latin modern fonts bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : language en is active systems : begin file selectfont-13 at line 3 !load otf : loading: /Library/Fonts/ヒラギノ明朝 Pro W3.otf (hash: -pro-w3) !load otf : file size: 11580728 !load otf : enhancing ... !load otf : saving in cache: /Library/Fonts/ヒラギノ明朝 Pro W3.otf !load otf : loading: /Library/Fonts/ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3.otf (hash: -pro-w3) !load otf : file size: 9362284 !load otf : enhancing ... !load otf : saving in cache: /Library/Fonts/ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3.otf fonts : resetting map file list {/Users/wolf/ctx/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-empty.map} fonts : using map file: original-base {/Users/wolf/ctx/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-base.map} fonts : using map file: original-ams-base {/Users/wolf/ctx/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-base.map} fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler {/Users/wolf/ctx/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-euler.map} fonts : using map file: original-public-lm {/Users/wolf/ctx/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-public-lm.map} fonts : using map file: lm-math {/Users/wolf/ctx/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map} fonts : using map file: lm-rm {/Users/wolf/ctx/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map} !pages : flushing realpage 1, userpage 1, subpage 1 systems : end file selectfont-13 at line 8 system : cont-err loaded (/Users/wolf/ctx/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-err.tex systems : no file 'cont-sys.tex', using 'cont-sys.rme' instead ) )</Library/Fonts/ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3.otf></Library/Fonts/ヒラギノ明朝 Pro W3.otf></Users/wolf/ctx/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman12-regular.otf> Wolfgang

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simplefonts not found
by Hans van der Meer 29 Dec '09

29 Dec '09

Freshly loaded contextbeta an hour ago. Retrieved simplefonts from the ConTeXt site. Unpacked the zip and put the t-simplefonts .lua and .tex files inside the directory where all my context (user) input files reside. Read the (somewhat terse) documentation. Ran contextbeta on: \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[schoolbook][schola] \setsansfont[helvetica][heros] \setmonofont[courier][cursor] \starttext Hello world! \stoptext Result in the log: system : module simplefonts not found ! Undefined control sequence. <recently read> \setmainfont l.3 \setmainfont [schoolbook][schola] Now what? Why are my files in the same directory found and simplefonts is not? Hans van der Meer

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Fwd: [Dev-luatex] MKIV badly wrong on fonts?
by Hans Hagen 29 Dec '09

29 Dec '09

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Dev-luatex] MKIV badly wrong on fonts? Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:33:28 +0100 From: Hans van der Meer <H.vanderMeer(a)uva.nl> To: luatex development list <dev-luatex(a)ntg.nl> Installed contextbeta just a few hours ago. Running it on the following code gives me (according to Adobe Reader) the fonts TeXGyreSchola-Italic and -Regular: \usemodule[hvdm-cas] \usetypescript[schoolbook]\setupbodyfont[schoolbook,10pt] \starttext Hello world, I'm {\it some} font! \page \stoptext However, using the code in my hvdm-cas module gives me LMMono and LMSans, mirabile dictu! \usemodule[hvdm-cas] \usetypescript[schoolbook]\setupbodyfont[schoolbook,10pt] \starttext \startcase[state=draft] % <<<< Hello world, I'm {\it some} font! \page \stopcase % <<<< \stoptext I am fairly sure in the module there are no font setups (see the module in the accompanying zip). What it does, is putting things in framed's within framed's and so. But that shouldn't influence the typesetting of fonts! Could it be that there is something terrible wrong here in context? I might add that in the older context, I did not encounter this "loss of font".

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Removing vertical space before heading within framed layer
by Oliver Buerschaper 29 Dec '09

29 Dec '09

Hi everyone, slowly getting to grips with layer etc. However, some vertical space at the top of my framed layer appears whenever the first element is a heading: --- \definelayer [text] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight] \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=text] \startbuffer[test] \subject{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur, sadipisci\dots} \input zapf \stopbuffer \setuphead [subject] [before=, after=, align=right] \starttext \setlayerframed [text] [x=1cm, y=3cm] [width=7cm, align=normal, offset=none] {\getbuffer[test]} \page[empty] \stoptext --- How do I remove this space? Best, Oliver

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Pretty Printing Python code
by Erik Margraf 29 Dec '09

29 Dec '09

Hello all, I wanted to typeset some Python code and stumbled across the pretty printing feature of ConTeXt. So far, I think I've learned the following: -- There's no pretty printer for python. Neither in MKII nor in MKIV -- The wiki has an example implementation for a python pretty printer for MKII, i guess. I decided to play a little bit with pretty printing (maybe implement a Python pretty printer on my own) and failed at the start ;-) I tried the following: -- Copied the filename pret-lua.lua to pret-py.lua -- Added a print statement to verify that the respective lua code (pret-lua.lua, pret-py.lua) is actually called. When I ran context on the file below, I could see that "pret-lua.lua" had been called, but "pret-py.lua" had not. I guess, I did wrong something very fundamental. Thanks in advance for any hint Erik Margraf

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Getting font parameters in MkIV
by Oliver Buerschaper 29 Dec '09

29 Dec '09

Dear all, how can I access font parameters (e.g. the thickness of the fraction rule) of an OpenType font in MkIV? Taco once gave me the solution: --- \usetypescript[cambria] \setupbodyfont[cambria] \def\defaultrulethickness{\the\fontdimen8\textfont3\relax} \starttext \the\defaultrulethickness \stoptext --- which used to work in the old MkII days. Now with MkIV I get: --- ! Font \nullfont has only 7 fontdimen parameters. <to be read again> \relax l.10 \the\defaultrulethickness ? --- What's the new method to obtain the desired parameters? Best wishes, Oliver

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font expansion
by Wolfgang Schuster 26 Dec '09

26 Dec '09

Hi Hans, font expansion is broken in MkIV. \definefontfeature[default][default][expansion=quality] %\setupalign[hz] \usetypescript[modern] \setupbodyfont[modern] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext Wolfgang

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Bibliographic mess
by Manuel P. 26 Dec '09

26 Dec '09

Hi! I'm fighting with the bibliography for hours now. I've a bibtex file with the entries: "bibliografia.bib", and I want to list ALL its entries (whether cited or not). Easy enough: ---- \setupbibtex[database=bibliografia] \setuppublications[alternative=num,criterium=all,numbering=yes] \starttext % Thesis [...] \placepublications[sorttype=bbl,criterium=all] \stoptext ---- I've incorporated a style for typesetting urls stealed from contextgarden: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Bibliography Except for the fact that with MKIV (context command) I see only the cited ones. With MKII (texexec) I see all the entries but there isn't any url despite the \setuppublicationlayout command. I would love to have a bibliography chapter with all the entries (cited or not), some of them must display an acrive URL, and possibly filed by type in different sections. For example: ---- \chapter{Bibliography} \section{Books} % books entries \section{Presentations} % Audio-video presentations references with the internet URL \section{Articles and Papers} % Entries with an active URL ---- Is it possible? I've read "bibmod-doc.pdf" without much success. -- Manuel P.

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