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Math Alignment - start equation at left margin (Bug in latest beta)
by Curiouslearn 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

Just wanted to mention that I tried to achieve left alignment of single equation using: \setupformulas[align=flushleft] \startformula \text{\bf Example: } \frac{d(4x^{2})}{dx} = 4 \frac{dx^{2}}{dx} = 4 (2x) = 8x.\NC\NR \stopformula But that does not work with the latest beta -- (This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.46.0-2009112820 ConTeXt ver: 2009.11.27 21:24 MKIV fmt: 2009.11.29 int: english/english). It, however, works with MKII. I suppose, my question is, whether is another way of doing it, or should I wait until the bug is fixed. Thanks. On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Curiouslearn <curiouslearn(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Can someone please help with the alignment of the equation so that it > starts at left. I tried flushleft and other options (such as without > \NC \NR, with align=left etc.). None of them result in the equation > starting at the left margin. The equation is either placed in the > middle or is aligned to the right. I want it to start at the left. > > Thanks. > > \setuppapersize[letter][letter] > > \starttext > > \startformula\startalign[align={left}] > \NC\text{\bf Example: } \frac{d(4x^{2})}{dx} = 4 > \frac{dx^{2}}{dx} = 4 (2x) = 8x.\NC{ }\NR > \stopalign\stopformula > > \stoptext >

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\inputfilename
by Wolfgang Schuster 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

Hi Hans, has the defintion for \inputfilename changed, when i used it in the past i got the filename without extension but now i get the filename plus extension. \starttext \inputfilename \stoptext Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] Problem with the 'scrp-cjk.lua'
by Yanrui Li 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

2009/11/29 Yanrui Li <liyanrui.m2(a)gmail.com> > > > 2009/11/29 Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> > > Yanrui Li wrote: >> >>> Hi Hans, >>> >>> In the *hanzi* part of scrp-cjk.lua, there is: >>> >>> local injectors = { -- [previous] [current] >>> ... ... ... >>> full_width_close = { >>> ... ... ... >>> chinese = nobreak_shrink_break_stretch, >>> ... ... ... >>> >>> This causes that lines can not be broken after some Chinese punctuations >>> in 'full_width_close' category. I think it should be: >>> >>> local injectors = { -- [previous] [current] >>> ... ... ... >>> full_width_close = { >>> ... ... ... >>> chinese = stretch_break, >>> ... ... ... >>> >>> >>> The same problem also arises here: >>> >>> local injectors = { -- [previous] [current] >>> ... ... ... >>> half_width_close = { >>> ... ... ... >>> chinese = nobreak_shrink_break_stretch, >>> ... ... ... >>> >>> It seems like it should be: >>> >>> local injectors = { -- [previous] [current] >>> ... ... ... >>> full_width_close = { >>> ... ... ... >>> chinese = stretch_break, >>> ... ... ... >>> >> >> i have no problem patching that but can you also make a test file then so >> that we have some benchmark / reference? >> >> > Please see the attachment file which includes a test.tex and two pdf > files. One is 'patched-test.pdf' shows some line-break after some Chinese > punctations. The other is 'no-patched-test.pdf' which seems like there is no > line-break after any punctation forever. > > Oh, sorry for my attachment file is too big. I deleted the 'no-patched-test.pdf'. Please see this attachment. -- Best regards, Li Yanrui

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Troubles with columnsets and MacTeX 2009
by No? 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

Hi, I've been having issues with columns and \start(stop)bodymatter statements since I updated MacTeX to 2009. Here is a sample of code which works fine on MacTeX 2008 (tlmgr update'ed) version, and which crashes on MacTeX 2009. In both cases, the code was compiled using TeXShop in "ConTeXT" mode. This was tested on another Mac and the results are the same. Note that if you comment out the \start(stop)bodymatter statements in the TeX code, it actually compiles, but the text is missing (that is, only the titles of the sections show up in the PDF!). In the end: # Scenario 1: MacTeX 2008: everything is fine # Scenario 2: MacTeX 2008, *bodymatter statements commented out: everything is fine # Scenario 3: MacTeX 2009: code won't compile. Error message listed below # Scenario 4: MacTeX 2009, *bodymatter statements commented out: compilation OK, but no text in the PDF except for the section titles I am running Snow Leopard, and I have been using MacTeX for ages, and up to now, everything was fine with ConTeXT. I would really appreciate help! I hope the information I included is sufficient. Thank you very much! Nauhaie ### TeX code ### \useencoding[ffr] \mainlanguage[fr] \enableregime[utf-8] \definecolumnset[deuxcolonnes][n=2,balance=yes,distance=26pt] \starttext \startbodymatter \startcolumnset[deuxcolonnes] \section{Introduction} The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. \stopcolumnset \section{Annexes} \startcolumnset[deuxcolonnes] The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. The text here. \stopcolumnset \stopbodymatter \stoptext ### Error returned with MacTeX 2009 ### MTXrun | kpse fallback with progname 'context' initialized in 0.13 seconds TeXExec | processing document 'rapport_spectroscopie_optique.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file rapport_spectroscopie_optique.top TeXExec | using randomseed 96 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009) (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./rapport_spectroscopie_optique.tex ConTeXt ver: 2009.08.19 17:10 MKII fmt: 2009.11.13 int: english/english system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkii)) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : ConTeXt File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-config/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-tmf.mkii)) (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkii)) (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-one.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-one.mkii))) system : rapport_spectroscopie_optique.top loaded (./rapport_spectroscopie_optique.top) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns nl->texnansi:texnansi->1->2:2 nl->ec:ec->2->2:2 us-> ec:ec->3->2:3 de->texnansi:texnansi->4->3:3 de->ec:ec->5->3:3 da->ec:ec->6->2:2 sv->ec:ec->7->2:2 gb->ec:ec->8->2:2 fr->texnansi:texnansi->9->2:2 fr->ec:ec->1 0->2:2 es->ec:ec->11->2:2 ca->ec:ec->12->2:2 it->texnansi:texnansi->13->2:2 it- >ec:ec->14->2:2 la->ec:ec->15->2:2 pt->texnansi:texnansi->16->2:2 pt->ec:ec->17 ->2:2 ro->ec:ec->18->2:2 pl->pl0:pl0->19->2:2 pl->ec:ec->20->2:2 pl->qx:qx->21- >2:2 cs->il2:il2->22->2:2 cs->ec:ec->23->2:2 sk->il2:il2->24->2:2 sk->ec:ec->25 ->2:2 hr->ec:ec->26->2:2 sl->ec:ec->27->2:2 tr->ec:ec->28->2:2 agr->agr:agr->30 ->2:2 fi->ec:ec->31->2:2 hu->ec:ec->32->2:2 ru->t2a:t2a->34->2:2 uk->t2a:t2a->3 5->3:3 loaded specials : dvips loaded systems : system commands are disabled language : language en is active specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.mkii specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkii)) encoding : coding ffr is loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/enco-ffr.mkii system : module tryout loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/m-tryout.tex) language : language specific options [ec-fr] seamless appended language : language specific options [ec-fr] seamless appended ) (./rapport_spectroscopie_optique.tuo system : new version of utility file, second pass needed ) (./rapport_spectroscopie_optique.tuo) (./rapport_spectroscopie_optique.tuo) (./rapport_spectroscopie_optique.tuo) (./rapport_spectroscopie_optique.tuo) (./rapport_spectroscopie_optique.tuo) (./rapport_spectroscopie_optique.tuo) (./rapport_spectroscopie_optique.tuo) (./rapport_spectroscopie_optique.tuo) (./rapport_spectroscopie_optique.tuo) (./rapport_spectroscopie_optique.tuo) (./rapport_spectroscopie_optique.tuo) systems : begin file rapport_spectroscopie_optique at line 6 structure : begin of sectionblock bodymatter section : 1 Introduction section : 2 Annexes structure : end of sectionblock bodymatter fonts : resetting map file list {/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-empty.map } fonts : using map file: original-base {/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-base.map} fonts : using map file: original-ams-base {/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-base. map} fonts : using map file: original-public-lm {/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-public-lm .map} fonts : using map file: lm-ec {/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-ec.map} fonts : using map file: lm-math {/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map} fonts : using map file: lm-rm {/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map} fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler {/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-euler .map} (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/sort-def.mkii) (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/sort-lan.mkii) [1.1] ! Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } <to be read again> \endgroup l.31 \stopbodymatter ?

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Frutiger Typescript
by Renaud AUBIN 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

Hello, I know almost nothing of typescript but it seems to me that, for Frutiger, type-buy.tex should contains: % frutiger \starttypescript [sans] [frutiger] [name] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [Frutiger-Roman] \definefontsynonym [SansCaps] [Frutiger-Roman] \definefontsynonym [SansItalic] [Frutiger-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SansSlanted] [Frutiger-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SansBold] [Frutiger-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [Frutiger-BoldItalic] \definefontsynonym [SansBoldSlanted] [Frutiger-BoldItalic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [sans] [frutiger] [ec,8r,texnansi] \definefontsynonym[Frutiger-Bold] [\typescriptthree-ftb] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym[Frutiger-BoldItalic] [\typescriptthree-ftbi] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym[Frutiger-Black] [\typescriptthree-ftbl] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym[Frutiger-BlackItalic][\typescriptthree-ftbli][encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym[Frutiger-Italic] [\typescriptthree-fti] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym[Frutiger-Light] [\typescriptthree-ftl] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym[Frutiger-LightItalic][\typescriptthree-ftli] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym[Frutiger-Roman] [\typescriptthree-ftr] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym[Frutiger-UltraBlack] [\typescriptthree-ftubl][encoding=\typescriptthree] % \loadmapfile[\typescriptthree-adobe-frutiger.map] % COMMENT THIS ONE \stoptypescript % ADD THESE \starttypescript [frutiger] [texnansi,ec,8r,uc] \definetypeface [frutiger] [ss] [sans] [frutiger] [default] [encoding=\typescripttwo] \loadmapfile [\typescripttwo-adobe-frutiger.map] \stoptypescript Best regards, Renaud

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Verbatim problem in mkiv
by Chen Shen 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

Hi, I'm having problem with verbatim typing with linenumber under mkiv. The following code works fine without location=text turned off, but fails when it's turned on. The text 0279699410 appears at the beginning of every alternate line. Thanks a lot. regards, shenchen ========= start =========== \setuplinenumbering[location=text] \starttext \starttyping[numbering=line] aaaaa aaaaa aaaaa \stoptyping \stoptext ========= end ===========

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Problem with the 'scrp-cjk.lua'
by Yanrui Li 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

Hi Hans, In the *hanzi* part of scrp-cjk.lua, there is: local injectors = { -- [previous] [current] ... ... ... full_width_close = { ... ... ... chinese = nobreak_shrink_break_stretch, ... ... ... This causes that lines can not be broken after some Chinese punctuations in 'full_width_close' category. I think it should be: local injectors = { -- [previous] [current] ... ... ... full_width_close = { ... ... ... chinese = stretch_break, ... ... ... The same problem also arises here: local injectors = { -- [previous] [current] ... ... ... half_width_close = { ... ... ... chinese = nobreak_shrink_break_stretch, ... ... ... It seems like it should be: local injectors = { -- [previous] [current] ... ... ... full_width_close = { ... ... ... chinese = stretch_break, ... ... ... -- Best regards, Li Yanrui

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

Hi, i uploaded a beta with a few fixes. i also replaced the mtxrun.cmd etc file by executables (windows stubs only); on tex live we have a call chain: *.exe -> *.cmd|bat -> whatever and we don't want that many calls (and files) so i copied the regular runner and patched it into a mtxrun (.exe) this means that users who run mtxrun from an editor (default scite setup) should change mtxrun.cmd into mtxrun.exe (the same is true for luatools, texexec and texmfstart, where the later is actually replaced by mxrun) (btw, if you want a stub to for instance "mtxrun --script font" then you can just copy mtxrun.exe to mtx-fonts.exe and have a more direct call 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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New exe stubs for Windows & XP
by Mojca Miklavec 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 17:19, Andreas Schneider wrote: > Hans Hagen wrote: >> Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >>> I just came back. I guess that I should start fixing the (already >>> broken?) windows installation :) >> >> no need for fixing, it's just stubs .. just make sure that you copy the >> dll and exe files from the stub paths (and get rid of cmd/bat files when >> an exe is there) > > Doesn't work all too well here. I always get "Unsupported 16-Bit > Application" - "The program or feature [..]\luatools.exe cannot start or run > due to incompatibility with 64-bit versions of Windows. Please contact > [...]" and so on. Hello, Can any other "experienced" user please also test if these new executables inside scripts/context/stubs/mswin/ run fine on XP? Since the arrival of this complaint I didn't dare to touch anything yet. Mojca

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Problem with font mapping
by Mika Ritola 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

Hello again, I seem to be running into all sorts of font problems. Now my document has suddenly turned bold. For example, running the following code results in "Test." being rendered in bold characters. \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[Adobe Garamond Pro] \starttext Test. \stoptext Running "mtxrun --script font --list --pattern="*Garamond*" --all" reveals that there's something fishy about the font mapping: adobegaramondpro => agaramondprosemibold => AGaramondPro-Semibold.otf adobegaramondprobold => agaramondprosemibold => AGaramondPro-Semibold.otf adobegaramondprobolditalic => agaramondprosemibolditalic => AGaramondPro-SemiboldItalic.otf adobegaramondproitalic => agaramondprobolditalic => AGaramondPro-BoldItalic.otf adobegaramondpronormal => agaramondproregular => AGaramondPro-Regular.otf adobegaramondproregular => agaramondprobold => AGaramondPro-Bold.otf adobegaramondprosemibold => agaramondprosemibold => AGaramondPro-Semibold.otf agaramondprobold => agaramondprobold => AGaramondPro-Bold.otf agaramondprobolditalic => agaramondprobolditalic => AGaramondPro-BoldItalic.otf agaramondproitalic => agaramondproitalic => AGaramondPro-Italic.otf agaramondproregular => agaramondproregular => AGaramondPro-Regular.otf agaramondprosemibold => agaramondprosemibold => AGaramondPro-Semibold.otf agaramondprosemibolditalic => agaramondprosemibolditalic => AGaramondPro-SemiboldItalic.otf As you can see, agaramond... are mapped properly while adobegaramond... are mapped wrong. Changing \setmainfont[Adobe Garamond Pro] to \setmainfont[agaramondpro] fixes the issue but, still, I'd prefer to use the former (as I've done until now) since it's clearer. I'm running ConTeXt version 2009.11.24 10:13. Mika

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New current context: 2009.11.26
by Taco Hoekwater 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Hi, Hans released a new current context yesterday. This is mostly a bugfix/ catchup release for mkiv functionality, but there are also a few other bugfixes. See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2009.11.26 for details. Best wishes, Taco

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Math setup with Times (Termes)
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Hello Gurus, Please, please, please! I need your help badly. The problem is with math font setup. If I use default math font, two problems arise: 1) Greek letters are slanted, while they supposed by our standards to be straight. 2) Cyrillic does not work in math, while some indexes are in Ukrainian. I also try to setup Times New Roman (from Windows) to replace default math font. This would be perfect solution for me, but I've lost completely. For my current point, I found that my TimesNR typescript behaves just like Gyre-Termes, so you can experiment on the latter (without need of Windows). This is my minimal example (see attachment also): \usetypescript[termes]\setupbodyfont[termes, 14pt] \starttext Така система рівнянь має вигляд: $это мат. текст this this math text$ \startformula\left\{ \matrix{ 2 = a \cdot {2^2} + b \cdot 2 + c; \hfill \cr 1 = a \cdot {3^2} + b \cdot 3 + c; \hfill \cr 2a \cdot 2 + b = 0. \hfill \cr} \right.\stopformula Вирішуючи цю систему рівнянь, можна отримати всі три коефіцієнти: $c = - 2$; $a = - 1$; $b = 4$. \stoptext The main problem is that Latin letters in math are not slanted at all! I only found that some tricky conversion is done by original-youngryu-tx.map , but it's far beyond my understanding to fix something in it. Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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are typescripts really working in mkiv?
by Bernhard Rosensteiner 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Hello all, after writing a typescript i get never the results in my document as expected. Please have a look in the attachment. When i do \showbodyfont[12pt] there is my rm typeface (MinionPro) in the row \tt visible (column \tfx), in \showbodyfont[13pt] this is not the case. Strangely enough, the rm typeface is apart from that never visible in my document but should be. Instead there is the ss typeface. I´ve no clue whats going on here. Please help. best regards Bernhard

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Indentation
by commb07＠googlemail.com 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

> \startnarrower[left] > \stopnarrower that was quick, thank you! just what i was looking for but couldn´t find. tobias

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footnote placement in columns
by Andreas Harder 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi, something is wrong with the column placement or I did something wrong. I want them on both columns or at least at the right one. % \setupfootnotes[location=columns] % -> box0 \setupfootnotes[location=lastcolumn] % -> = firstcolumn \starttext \startcolumns \dorecurse{10}{test \footnote{one one one one one one} \input zapf \footnote{two two two two two two} } \stopcolumns \stoptext Greetings Andreas

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Re: [NTG-context] New current context: 2009.11.26
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi Taco, I see that Wolfgang's fix for itemize indentation is not included in the new version. Was it forgotten or treated a 'hack'? (attached) > Hans released a new current context yesterday. This is mostly a bugfix/ > catchup release for mkiv functionality, but there are also a few other > bugfixes. > > Regards, Vyatcheslav

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4th ConTeXt meeting: Brejlov (Prague), Czech Republic
by Jano Kula 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Dear all, we are glad to announce the date of the 4th ConTeXt meeting, which will take place in Brejlov (Prague), Czech Republic: September 13-18, 2010 We'll add more details to the conference page and inform you about important updates on the list, especially deadlines and fees. For now, book the dates in your schedule. We look forward to seeing you there. Hans, Jano, Pavel, Taco http://meeting.contextgarden.net/

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Indentation
by commb07＠googlemail.com 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi @all, i´m new to context and so far i like it a lot more than messy latex. i try to write some mathematical proofs and have a layout in mind which i can´t implement in a nice way: i want to write the proofs in a tree-like structure, where a 'subproof' for a statement is indented below the statement. it should be possible to do this on more than five levels, for more complex proofs, and across pages would be nice. Example:{ The mapping f is continous, because: f is a linear functional: it maps a vectorspace into its field and it is linear: f(a*x+b*y)=.. =a*f(x)+b*f(y). and its null space is closed: . . so by theorem xy, f is continous } i have tried vtop, which works ok, but looks ugly, and splitting proofs across multiple pages is a pain. is there a better way to do this? tobias

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Alphabetical order in register
by Gerhard Kugler 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hello, the German umlauts are not sorted correctly in a register. How can I change their positions? Gerhard -- Gerhard Kugler Psychotherapeut Bensheim (Germany) http://www.psychotherapie-kugler.de

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font-syn.lua error
by Andreas Harder 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi, if I try to run $ mtxrun --script fonts –reload it ends with: ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:666: attempt to call field 'data_state' (a nil value) The same with \definefont[test][name:minionpro-regular] \starttext \test Hallo Welt, das ist ein Test \stoptext Greetings, Andreas

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\vspace
by Wolfgang Schuster 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hi Hans, can you add a \vspace command which behaves like \hspace but for vertical mode, there are some cases where \blank is not so well suited (i know the \??vs namespace is already used by \blank) \def\definevspace {\dotripleempty\dodefinevspace} \def\dodefinevspace[#1][#2][#3]% {\ifthirdargument \setvalue{\??vs#1:#2}{#3}% \else \setvalue{\??vs:#1}{#2}% \fi} \unexpanded\def\vspace {\dodoubleempty\dohspace} \def\dovspace[#1][#2]% {\ifsecondargument \dodovspace[#1][#2]% \else\iffirstargument \vspace[][#1]% \else \vspace[][\s!default]% \fi\fi} \def\dodovspace[#1][#2]% {\vskip\vspaceamount{#1}{#2}} \def\vspaceamount#1#2% {\executeifdefined{\??vs#1:#2}{\executeifdefined{\??vs:#2}\zeropoint}} Wolfgang

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3d prc
by gummybears 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

How to include 3d prc pdf (produced with Asymptote) with Context ?

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texshow-web parameters
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

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redirecting temp files (MkII)
by Jelle Huisman 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hi all, I use the XeTeX/ConTeXt MkII combi as part of another application. This (Windows) application is installed in the C:\Program Files tree which apparently is marked 'read only' in Vista/Windows 7. Would it be possible to redirect the temp files (*.top, *tui, *.log, *.mp) to a different folder outside C:\Program Files\ ? Texexec.rb comes with an option --tempdir= but that doesn't work. Thanks, Jelle

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formulas in itemgroups
by Andreas Harder 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hi all, I use the following construct for exercises (attachment) and would like to save some space saved, like in the second example. Is there a trick/command/setup one can use? Many thanks Andreas

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Layout - once again!
by Curiouslearn 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Why does the following does not center the text? I am choosing a letter size paper which is 8.5 inches wide. I have both margins at 1.5in and all other distances equal to 0 in. Should the text be not centered. Thanks. \setuppapersize[letter][letter] \setuplayout[leftmargin=1.5in,rightmargin=1.5in,leftedge=0in,rightedge=0in,leftmargindistance=0in,rightmargindistance=0in,leftedgedistance=0in,rightedgedistance=0in,width=5.5in] \starttext \showlayout \input tufte \stoptext

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hyphenation problem using |-| in composed words -- bug?
by Oliver Heins 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hi, when using |-| in a word as a non exclusive dash, this produces wrong hyphenation. For example, the word »longer-word-to-be-hyphenated« should be hyphenated e.g. like this: longer- word- to- be- hy- phen- ated but actually it is hyphenated like this: longer -word -to -be -hy- phen- ated Using || instead of |-| works like expected, so using it in combination with \setuphyphenmark[sign=normal] could be considered a workaround. Sadly, that produces the same bad result. :-( Here's a minimal example: %\setuphyphenmark[sign=normal] \starttext \hsize 1em longer|-|word|-|to|-|be|-|hyphenated longer||word||to||be||hyphenated \stoptext TIA, olli -- Oliver Heins heins(a)sopos.org http://oliverheins.net/ http://blog.overheins.net/ F27A BA8C 1CFB B905 65A8 http://scriptorium-adp.de/ 2544 0F07 B675 9A00 D827 1024D/9A00D827 2004-09-24 -- gpg --recv-keys 0x9A00D827 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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How to show footer only with chapter head
by Elliot Clifton 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Hi, I have page numbers and chapter headings displayed in my document's header. The header is suppressed on a page with a chapter head i.e. \setuphead[chapter][header=high] therefore I want a footer on these pages to display the page number. The footer should disabled on all other pages. I've tried, \setuphead[chapter][footer=normal] but it overrides \setupfooter[state=none] everywhere, not only on chapter pages. Any ideas? TIA, Elliot

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Metapost - Seems like weird behavior. Is it a bug?
by Curiouslearn 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

The code below shows a cyclic path that I am interested in creating (it is in red if you run the code). The example works fine as long as I have, u:=1cm, as in the code below. But if I replace it by , u:=0.6cm, there is no output. There is an error saying that paths 4 and 3 do not intersect. Is this a bug? Thanks for your help. \setuppapersize[letter][letter] \setuplayout[leftedge=0in,leftmargin=1in,leftmargindistance=0in,rightmargin=1in,rightmargindistance=0in,rightedge=0in,leftedgedistance=0in,rightedgedistance=0in,topspace=0.5in,width=6.5in,height=10in] \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{buildS22} numeric u; u := 1cm; w:= 2pt; path xaxis; path yaxis; xaxis := (0,0)--(12,0) scaled u; yaxis := (0,0)--(0,12) scaled u; path stLine; path Curve; stLine := function (1,"x","10-x",0,10,1) scaled u; Curve := function(1,"x","2+8/x",1,10,0.1) scaled u; drawarrow xaxis withpen pencircle scaled w; drawarrow yaxis withpen pencircle scaled w; draw stLine withpen pencircle scaled w withcolor 0.5red; draw Curve withpen pencircle scaled w withcolor 0.5green; pair Lint[]; Lint[1]:=yaxis intersectionpoint stLine; Lint[2]:=stLine intersectionpoint Curve; Lint[3]:=reverse stLine intersectionpoint Curve; Lint[4]:=stLine intersectionpoint xaxis; path cyclicPath; cyclicPath := buildcycle(Lint[1]--Lint[2],Curve,Lint[3]--Lint[4],reverse xaxis,yaxis); draw cyclicPath withpen pencircle scaled 5pt withcolor red; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{buildS22} \stoptext

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Simplefonts and math fonts
by Khaled Hosny 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Though there is a \setmathfont command, it doesn't seem to work. The following example still typeset in LM. \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmathfont[Asana Math] \starttext $\sqrt{x+y}=z$ \stoptext Any idea? Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

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Adjusting the size of a figure when using placefigure
by Curiouslearn 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Please see the figure generated by the following minimal example. Due to the dimensions chosen in the figure, the figure is wider than the text width. Is there an option in \placefigure or another command that can help to make this figure smaller (without changing the code of the original figure)? Thank you. \setuppapersize[letter][letter] \setuplayout[leftedge=0in,leftmargin=1in,leftmargindistance=0in,rightmargin=1in,rightmargindistance=0in,rightedge=0in,leftedgedistance=0in,rightedgedistance=0in,topspace=0.5in,width=6.5in,height=10in] \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{firstFig} numeric u; u:=1in; draw (0,0)--(4u,0) withpen pencircle scaled 2pt withcolor red; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{secondFig} numeric u; u:=1in; draw (0,0)--(4u,0) withpen pencircle scaled 2pt withcolor blue; \stopuseMPgraphic \placefigure[here]{Two figures next to each other} \startcombination[2*1] {\useMPgraphic{firstFig}}{(a)} {\useMPgraphic{secondFig}}{(b)} \stopcombination It can be seen that due to the dimensions in the figure, the figure is wider than the text. Is there a way to make the figure as wide as the text by setting some option of "\placefigure". \stoptext

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Chicago citations in endnotes; short titles in bibliographies
by Peter Park Nelson 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

I was just looking at the documentation for the Bibliography module and wondering if anyone has tried to implement the full-on Chicago Manual of Style "Author-Title" documentation format for endnotes/footnotes in books -- i.e. citations of the form "Author, Full Title, Publisher, page" followed in subsequent references by "Author, Short Title, page" plus support for "Ibid," "op.cit," and so forth. Seems like this would be hard, but there are a lot of books out there that follow this style (at least in the U.S.), especially in history/social sciences. To do so would require supporting a "\shorttitle" field and adding mechanisms to keep track of what has been cited (in order to implement switching between full and shortened reference forms and enable ibid/op.cit. ). As an editor, this is probably beyond my technical abilities. Even so, if I wanted to mess around with this, where would I start learning about the internals of bibliography support in Context (beyond the documentation for the bib module)? Thanks, PPN -- Peter Park Nelson peter.park.nelson(a)gmail.com

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MetaPost integration: default parameters
by Oliver Buerschaper 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hi, ConTeXt already passes quite a few length parameters on to embedded MetaPost code ... BodyFontSize, CurrentWidth etc. Would it be possible to add some more font/math related parameters to the default definitions? I'm thinking of exposing math OpenType parameters like AxisHeight FractionRuleThickness UpperLimitBaselineRiseMin UpperLimitGapMin LowerLimitGapMin LowerLimitBaselineDropMin etc. of the surrounding text to MetaPost as well. This would be very handy for me since I need to draw diagrammatic expressions to be used in formulas and I'd like them to adapt to the current math font and fontsize automatically. At the moment I set these variables manually... Also, is there a way to directly get the glyph outlines of, say, $ \bigotimes$ in MetaPost code and use it to derive some length unit from it? Oliver

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EnglishRule and Lua / Simplefonts module
by Charles Doherty 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Dear Hans and Wolfgang, I have started experimenting with the Lua engine through TeXShop. I use \EnglishRule in a Newsletter to separate major items. When I use it in the attached file it works as always when I use the ConteXt engine (TL2009) and in my minimals installation it works fine using MinimalsConTeXt engine and MinimalsXeConTeXt engine. When I switch to using the simplefonts module in MinimalsLua engine the \EnglishRule does not behave properly. Also the text switches to italic. I have attached a small file and if you comment out the lines and switch between the engines you can see what I mean. Thanks for any help, Best wishes, Charlie

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setuptex files broken in the latest release 2009-11-24
by Otared Kavian 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hi all, maybe more particularly Mojca, I noticed that in the latest release of the minimals (ConTeXt version 2009.11.24 10:13) something is broken: neither mkii nor mkiv work (actually this happened also with the release of Friday November 20, then it was solved with November 23 release and again it appeared today…). I could solve the problem by replacing the setuptex files coming with the latest release by those of ConTeXt version 2009.11.13 12:45: now I can typeset my files even with Math-Times and mkiv… (Working on a macBook Pro and Mac OS X 10.6.2). Has anyone else noticed this problem? Thanks in advance: OK

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Problems with wide floating tables in context mkIV
by Massimiliano Lambertini 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hello, all Maybe this problem has been already addressed before, but I didn't find anything about it in contextgarden and ML archives. So, here you are. I have a document laid out in two columns, and some wide tables laid out using Natural Tables syntax. These tables are then placed on the document this way: \placetable[top][table-1020]{Intersystem Travel Times}{\getbuffer[tablebuffer-id]} When I compile my files using XeTeX engine, the table is placed at the top of the page, spanning two columns. When I use the LuaTeX engine, the table is placed in the middle of a column and cut off by its page margin or overwritten by the neighbouring column text. I define column sections by using the \startcolumns...\stopcolumns directives. Do I have to switch to columnsets? A sample of the problem I depicted here can be found at: http://www.lambertini.org/testfloats.zip . The zip file contains two pdf (one compiled with XeTeX, another with LuaTeX) and the TeX source. Thanks in advance for your responses, Massimiliano Lambertini

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bib module problem with mkiv
by Chen Shen 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hi all, I was trying the following bib example on MkIV beta 2009.11.20 and luatex beta-0.44.0-2009103007. There isn't an apparent error message, but neither the bib reference or the publication list appears in the pdf. Observations: 1. In MkII, it works well. 2. In MkIV, if you use the [criterium=all] option, both bib ref and pub list show properly. Other criterium, e.g. [criterium=section] doesn't work. thanks a lot. regards, shenchen ========= test.tex =========== \usemodule[bib,bibltx] \setupbibtex[database=xampl] \starttext \cite[a] . \completepublications %\completepublications[criterium=all] \stoptext ============================ ========= xampl.bib =========== @Book{a, editor = {John D. Barnsford and Ann L. Brown and Rodney R. Cocking}, title = {{How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school}}, publisher = {National Academy Press}, year = {2000}, address = {Washington, DC} } ============================

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Re: [NTG-context] local footnote (Tables) problem
by Bowen Alan C. 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Please excuse my persistence. The following is a minimal file illustrating a problem that I am having with a multipage table with local footnotes. Setting split=yes or split=repeat in \setuptables produces obviously unsatisfactory results. What I need is a multipage table that has good page divisions and puts the table's label on the last page only. I have been unable to find documentation that would help with this yet. I am using MK2 in today’s Context in the Context Minimals. Alan \showframe \starttext \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth\par} \start \setuptables [bodyfont=9pt, width=\textwidth, rulethickness=0.03em, distance=big, split=repeat] \placetable [split,top,nonumber] [tab:Table03] {Table 3} {\startlocalfootnotes[conversion=character,bodyfont=9pt] \placelegend {\startframedtext[frame=off,offset=none,width=fit] \starttablehead \HL[3] \NC \REF[c]{Column A} \NC \REF[c]{Column B} \NC\SR \HL \stoptablehead \starttable[|p(11.5pc)|p(11.5pc)|] \NC \REF[c]{1[4].341||345 [= F21.82||86]} \NC\REF[c]{6.29.3||4} \NC\SR \NC Text A\note[a] \NC Text B\note[b] \NC\SR \NC \input knuth \NC \NC\AR \NC \NC \input knuth \NC\AR \NC \input knuth \NC \NC\AR \stoptable \stopframedtext} {\footnotetext[a]{A local footnote.} \footnotetext[b]{Another local footnote.} \hskip2pc\mbox{\placelocalfootnotes}} \stoplocalfootnotes} \stop \stoptext

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Heros Condensed
by Wolfgang Murth 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi all, I need a condensed font and Heros Condensed came into my mind. But I haven't any clue how to use that font. How can I use that font with mkiv? Thanks for your help Wolfgang Murth

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Heros condensed and Font switching
by Wolfgang Murth 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi Wolfgang, Hi all, My last post regarding Heros Condensed leads me to another unsolved mystery. I'm working on converting my lecture papers from latex to ConTeXt, where I also use a condended font, but only for Excel formulas and not as main body font . For example > { > \changefont{cmss}{sbc}{n}\small% > \begin{tabbing}% > \hspace{1cm}\=\$E\$9:\$E\$13 <=\$D\$9:\$D\$13\\ > \> {\$F\$18:\$H\$18 >=0}\\ > \end{tabbing} > }% My question is how I can change a font only for a particular text. Not only normal->condensed, even change the complete font like using Zapf for a special markup in a Helvetica/Heros text. Thanks for you help. Wolfgang Murth

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Re: [NTG-context] Notepad++ calltips
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

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Fields and JS Calculations
by jeroen muskee 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

I want to calculate the pressure of a hydrostatic fluid column with p(psi)=0.052*density(lb/gal)*depth(ft) I have created a form with fields to enter the input, but I need somehow to pass the information entered to the JS calculation to display the result. How can you pass an entered field value to JS caluclation and show the result into another field. Thanks Jeroen \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \definefield[textdensity] [line] [linedensity] [] [] \definefield[textdepth] [line] [linedepth] [] [] \definefield[textpressure] [line] [linepressure] [] [] \setupfield [linedensity] [label,frame,horizontal] [frame=off] [height=18pt,width=15em,align=middle,frame=off] [height=18pt,width=20em,align=right,style=\tfx,,frame=on] \setupfield [linedepth] [label,frame,horizontal] [frame=off] [height=18pt,width=15em,align=middle,frame=off] [height=18pt,width=20em,align=right,style=\tfx,,frame=on] \setupfield [linepressure] [label,frame,horizontal] [frame=off] [height=18pt,width=15em,align=middle,frame=off] [height=18pt,width=20em,align=right,style=\tfx,,frame=on] \startJScode{presscalc} pressure=0.052*density*depth; \stopJScode Calculate the hydrostatic pressure in psi with p = 0.05194 x density x depth \blank \field[textdensity][Please enter Density (lb/gal):] \blank \field[textdepth][Please enter Depth (ft):] \blank \goto{Calculate Pressure}[JS(presscalc)] \blank \field[textpressure][Hydrostatic Pressure (psi):] \stoptext _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Make it easier for your friends to see what you’re up to on Facebook. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/so…

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hz off?
by Steffen Wolfrum 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi, I am running the current stable MkIV (ConTeXt ver: 2009.10.27 16:35 MKIV) but can't get hz/hanging with the old method (see below). Do we have some other way today? Steffen ------- \showframe \definefontfeature[default][default][mode=node,expansion=quality] \usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino] \setupalign[hz,hanging] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext

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help with math in context
by luigi scarso 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi all , I'm not a context math user at all, so I know practically nothing, and I'm starting some jobs that require a little of math. So I really appreciate any links (wiki, url, file) about math (but also mathml, etc) in context (I already start my search from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math of course) . TIA -- luigi

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Fonts disappeared after updating ConTeXt
by Mika Ritola 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Hello, I just updated ConTeXt to the latest version (2009.11.13 12:45), and now all the fonts I have installed on my system seem to have mysteriously disappeared from ConTeXt's sight. Running "mtxrun --script fonts --list" displays only the fonts that are installed in the ConTeXt directory. I'm using Linux and fontconfig finds all the fonts just fine. Until now, I haven't had any problems using the fonts on my system after an update without any further actions. I did, however, run luatools --selfupdate mtxrun --selfupdate luatools --generate context --make just to make sure that everything is up-to-date but that didn't make any difference. Have any font-related changes been made to ConTeXt in the past few weeks (the previous version that I used was from maybe a month ago) or what could be the cause of this? Mika

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Re: [NTG-context] simplefonts
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Hi Wolfgang, I just saw interesting commands: > \usemodule[simplefonts] > > \setmainfont[TeX Gyre Heros][weight=condensed] > Searching for wiki, I found the line "For instance, assuming the Delicious fonts <http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/delicious.html> are properly installed and recognized by ConTeXt, you can simply write....". What do you mean by "properly installed and recognized"? Can I just say \setmainfont[Times New Roman] and get Window's standard Times New Roman working? Regards, Vyatcheslav

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latest beta: trouble with font loading
by Thomas A. Schmitz 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Hi Hans, all, the two latest betas have trouble loading fonts from my own typescripts. All errors point to the same line in font-syn.lua. I don't have a minimal example yet, but here's a minimal command line that triggers the error on my box: mtxrun --script fonts --list --pattern="*gentium*" ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-syn.lua:706: bad argument #1 to 'next' (table expected, got nil) Any pointers? Thomas

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mtx-texworks.lua can't find TeXworks on linux
by Khaled Hosny 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

Running it gives: $ mtxrun -script texworks -start MTXrun | unable to locate TeXworks Though I've texworks on my path: $ which texworks /usr/bin/texworks I found that the file.split_path(os.getenv("PATH")) call returns a table with single member containing the full PATH variable (it assumes it is a semicolon separated list, but on linux it is a colon separated list). Even after getting around this, the executable name it is looking for is 'TeXworks' while it should be 'texworks'. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

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How to load a lua file into a named lua instance
by Kevin D. Robbins 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

Hi all, I have a module with lots of lua code, and I'd like to move most of the lua code to a separate file, say t-module.lua. I have written all of the lua code using \modulecode and \startmodulecode ... \stopmodulecode. But, when I move the lua code to t-module.lua and load it with dofile, it seems to load in the global instance instead of the third party module instance. Is there any method to load an external lua file in a named instance? Thanks, Kevin

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Sort register (index) by Bible book
by berend＠pobox.com 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hi All, I'm typesetting a book that has a register of Bible verses. I like to order them by Bible book as per the order the books are customarily listed. The index is created like \index{1 Samuel 1:1} and retrieved with \placeindex, so that's all standard. Are there any tools to sort this index? How can I make this part of the regular "build"? Or is this something you do once, at the end, by hand? -- Thanks for any pointers, Berend de Boer

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\completelistofacronyms does not typeset meaning, only repeats the acronym itself
by Kevin D. Robbins 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

In the latest beta from minimals, \completelistofacronyms does not typeset the meaning of the acronym, but just repeats the acronym. I've attached a minimal example that shows the problem. Kevin

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Re: [NTG-context] Notepad++ calltips
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

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Indent missed after \placefigure[inner]
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hello, I've asked about this issue already, but maybe my cry for help was missed ) After I include a grapichs with \placefigure[inner], the next paragraph is not indented. This looks very strange, because the figure floats at a side, and nothing suggests that new paragraph begins. I'm forced to issue \hskip0.7cm to imitate the indent. With \placefigure[middle], everything is OK because I use some magic setup kindly suggested by Wolfgang: \setupfloat[figure][indentnext=yes] Maybe I should expand this setup with other keywords? Pleaase, see attached image for illustration. This is an excerpt from my code: %-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Передбачається використання певної системи одиниць виміру, скажемо, метричної, так що одиниця довжини точно визначена. Відповідність між точками тривимірного евклідового простору і їхніх координат може бути задано або радіусом-вектором \startformula r = \overline {OP} = x{e_x} + y{e_y} + z{e_z}, \stopformula де ${e_x}, {e_y}, {e_z}$ — одиничні вектори осей, або матрицями: координатним рядком $[x, y, z]$ або координатним вектором-стовпцем $ \left| {\matrix{ x \cr y \cr z \cr } } \right|, $ причому координати $х$, $у$ і $z$ точки {\it Р} у цій системі координат задаються як довжини (з відповідним знаком) перпендикулярних проекцій вектора {\it OP} на вектори $i$, $j$ і $k$ (рис.2.4). \placefigure[inner]{ } {\externalfigure[image219.png][scale=900]} \hskip0.7cm У машинній графіці широко застосовуються однорідні координати, які дозволяють {\it n}--мірний об'єкт представити в $(n+1)$--мірному просторі, шляхом додавання ще однієї координати — скалярного множника. Однорідні координати є основними в проективній геометрії, у машинній графіці вони зручний штучний прийом, що дозволяє привести до лінійної форми перспективні зображення. Однорідні координати дають можливість записувати невласні (нескінченно вилучені) точки простору, а також виражати афінні перетворення в зручній матричній формі, уникаючи переповнення розрядної сітки ЕОМ за рахунок нормалізації чисел [2]. P.S. Is there a keyword that produces an indent? (like \makeindent) P.S. If no, how can I specify that I want big horizontal skip instead of a number as in \hskip0.7cm ? Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] texutil --purgeallfiles
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

On 19.11.2009 22:28, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: > My ruby dist seems to work well in a nominal context. Is texutil fully > functional for other debian 64 / minimals users? > Please, try texexec --purgeall or context --purgeall. Reagards, Vyatcheslav

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grid snapping (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi, is the 'grid={line,??pt}' functionality already implemented in mkiv? I use it in a multicolumn environment and all I get is snapping to the 'full' baseline. \setuphead[section] [%style={\SectionHeaderFont}, style={\switchtobodyfont[12.3pt]\ss\bf\setupinterlinespace}, % grid={high}, % ok grid={line,3pt}, % snaps to 'second' baseline after=, ] The creation of a minimal example depends on the answer... :) Greetings, Peter

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texutil --purgeallfiles
by Renaud AUBIN 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi, Trying to use the good old days texutil --purgeallfiles, I obtain: renaud@daneel:~/ConTeXt/notes/src$ texutil --purgeallfiles /usr/local/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/base/texutil.rb:1:in `require': no such file to load -- base/file (LoadError) from /usr/local/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby/base/texutil.rb:1 My ruby dist seems to work well in a nominal context. Is texutil fully functional for other debian 64 / minimals users? Renaud

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Notepad++ calltips
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

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t-vim / minimals
by Renaud AUBIN 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi, I have just reinstalled ConTeXt after an HD crash with ./first_setup --extras=all and t-vim seems to contain an error since I obtain (with MKII): VIM - Vi IMproved 7.2 (2008 Aug 9, compiled Jul 30 2009 16:02:52) arguments en trop apr?s l'option: "-u NONE -e -C -n -c "set tabstop=8" -c "syntax on" -c "set syntax=rnc" -c "let contextstartline=1" -c "let contextstopline=0" -c "source /usr/local/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/third/vim/2context.vim" -c "wqa" "prd_note_rex_ngc-vimsyntax.tmp" " Plus d'info avec: "vim -h" ! I can't find file `prd_note_rex_ngc-vimsyntax.tmp-vimsyntax.tmp'. <to be read again> \relax \dodotypevimfile ...\input #2-vimsyntax.tmp\relax \egroup \@@vsafter l.142 \stopRNC (Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit) Please type another input file name: ! I can't find file `prd_note_rex_ngc-vimsyntax.tmp-vimsyntax.tmp'. <to be read again> \relax \dodotypevimfile ...\input #2-vimsyntax.tmp\relax \egroup \@@vsafter l.142 \stopRNC (Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit) Please type another input file name: It seems to be known since I have already found some topics on this issue. Using --noquotes for the mtxrun call used within the \runvimsyntax definition fixes the matter here. Does anybody could reupload for minimals? Best regards, Renaud

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\usemodule doesn't complain when module is not found?
by Matthijs Kooijman 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi all, I've been trying my first steps into the land of ConTeXt modules, without much success. What has been particularly annoying is that the \usemodule command seems to give no error or other indication that a particular module was not found. Consider below example: \usemodule{foobar} \starttext Foo \stoptext I would highly appreciate it if the above would fail with a "Module foobar not found" error (possibly even with locations where the module was looked for, but I'm not sure how that works exactly). Gr. Matthijs

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rotate a figure
by R. Bastian 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hello, is there a way to rotate a pdf-figure ? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Using_Graphics thanks, -- René Bastian www.pythoneon.org www.musiques-rb.org

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verbatim, reserved words, Python, MkII
by R. Bastian 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hello, I wish to write Python code with highlighted reserved words, but I dont find any modell in the context-garden: all verb-xxxx.tex are 'Unknown' http://source.contextgarden.net/verb-c.tex Unknown file or directory: verb-c.tex Thanks for your tips, -- René Bastian www.pythoneon.org www.musiques-rb.org

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Pstricks and Asymptote
by curiouslearn 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

I apologize if this has been asked before, but would appreciate if anyone could answer this again. (a) Is there an easy way to incorporate asymptote code in a Context document, like there exists in Latex. In latex you can include it between \begin{asy} \end{asy} (b) Is there an easy way to incorporate pstricks code in a Context document. If there is, does that way work both with MKII and MKIV or only with one of them. The reason I am asking is that eventually all the new Context features will be in MKIV. I want to know what graphics packages I can use with it other than Metapost. Thanks.

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Metapost Code works with MKII not with MKIV
by Curiouslearn 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hi, I am back to trying Metapost. I spent sometime yesterday and today learning about clipping, buildcycles etc. to fill areas with patterns. I think I will try to write a simple tutorial with it. Meanwhile, I just updated my installation of Context minimals. The following simple Metapost code does not compile with MKIV, but compiles okay with MKII. \setuppapersize[letter][letter] \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{Filling} u := 1cm; w:= 2pt; %Axes path xaxis; path yaxis; xaxis := (0,0)--(12,0) scaled u; yaxis := (0,0)--(0,12) scaled u; path demand; path AC; demand := function (1,"x","10-x",0,10,1) scaled u; AC := function(1,"x","2+8/x",1,10,0.1) scaled u; drawarrow xaxis withpen pencircle scaled w; drawarrow yaxis withpen pencircle scaled w; draw demand withpen pencircle scaled w withcolor 0.5red; draw AC withpen pencircle scaled w withcolor 0.5green; fill fullcircle scaled u shifted (4*u,5*u) withcolor 0.1[white,blue] ; label(btex \tfb S1 etex,(4,5)*u); \stopuseMPgraphic \midaligned{\useMPgraphic{Filling}} -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The LOG file is: This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.44.0-2009103007 \write18 enabled. (TestFile.tex ConTeXt ver: 2009.11.18 21:51 MKIV fmt: 2009.11.18 int: english/english system : cont-new loaded (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv)) system : cont-fil loaded (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : ConTeXt File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.mkiv)) (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv)) (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv))) system : TestFile.top loaded (TestFile.top) fonts : preloading latin modern fonts bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : language en is active color : system all is global activated systems : begin file TestFile at line 5 mplib : initializing instance 'metafun' using format 'metafun' mplib : loading 'metafun.mp' from '/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/3fc847143b06f084e10e73c8fbdf4ae2/formats/cont-en-metafun.mem' ) *

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local footnote (Tables) problem
by Bowen Alan C. 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Wolfgang— I adapted the file that you sent me so that the table extends beyond one page. But, as you will see, the table still prints on just one page. Moreover, if I set split=repeat, the header prints twice (?) more. Alan \showframe \starttext \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth\par} \start \setuptables [bodyfont=9pt, width=\textwidth, rulethickness=0.03em, distance=big, split=yes] \placetable [top,nonumber] [tab:Table03] {Table 3} {\startlocalfootnotes[conversion=character,bodyfont=9pt] \placelegend {\startframedtext[frame=off,offset=none,width=fit] \starttablehead \HL[3] \NC \REF[c]{Column A} \NC \REF[c]{Column B} \NC\SR \HL \stoptablehead \starttable[|p(11.5pc)|p(11.5pc)|] \NC \REF[c]{1[4].341||345 [= F21.82||86]} \NC\REF[c]{6.29.3||4} \NC\SR \NC Text A\note[a] \NC Text B\note[b] \NC\SR \NC \input knuth \NC \NC\AR \NC \NC \input knuth \NC\AR \NC \input knuth \NC \NC\AR \stoptable \stopframedtext} {\footnotetext[a]{A local footnote.} \footnotetext[b]{Another local footnote.} \hskip2pc\mbox{\placelocalfootnotes}} \stoplocalfootnotes} \stop \stoptext

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Remove bold face
by anuar lezama 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hello Everybody, My problem is the following: I'm creating chapter's titles with a mix of styles. For example. \chapter{ something {\bolditalic another thing}} This give me the result that I expect with my titles, but when I use this title's string to create a header, part of the header appears with the bold italic style on it and I would like to remove it. So far I have tried to define my header's style as normal but the bolditalic style keeps appearing on the "another thing" part. Is there a way to remove this bold style? Thank you in advance for the help -- Kind Regards Anuar

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[OT] Good and bad typography
by luigi scarso 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Luigi.scarso/craig_ward -- luigi

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framed items
by Thomas A. Schmitz 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi all, maybe there is already code for that, but I haven't found it: is it possible to have itemgroups where every single item is within a frame (this is something that may be interesting for presentations)? Just to give you an idea of what I want to achieve, here's a short example: \setuplayout[width=10cm] \starttext \setupframed[offset=2mm, corner=round, background=color, backgroundcolor=blue, foregroundcolor=white, frame=off, strut=no, align=normal, width=\textwidth] \startitemize[n] \item \framed{The text of this item is made very long because it is intended to show the effect of what happens when an item extends to more than just one line.} \item \framed{This item is relatively short, but also fills more than one line.} \stopitemize \stoptext The problem is the vertical alignment of the item number, which should be at the top of the frame. Is this possible? All best Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] the meaning of cutspace
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hello, > Don't use both backspace and cutspace at the same time. From http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout: backspace \backspace <javascript:show_command('backspace')> from left rim of paper to left rim of main text area cutspace \cutspace <javascript:show_command('cutspace')> from right rim of paper to right rim of main text area Either the description is wrong, or... the thoughts stop here :)) Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] spacing between floating figure caption and surrounding text
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hello Hans, > > sidespacebefore > sidespaceafter Yes, I played with them, but did not understand their logic. Is 'high' equals to sidespacebefore=0 'low' -- to sidespaceafter=0? In other words, how to duplicate the effect of 'low' using sidespace options? Vyatcheslav

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kpathsea510.dll couldn't be found
by Helmut Schwertner 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hello, if I try to update the contextmininals (command line method under windows) or to reinstall contextminimals I get the message "mpost.exe" could not found because kpathsea510.dll are not found. The same happens with "pdftex.exe". The update or the reinstall stopped. I started the update with "first-setup.bat --keep" (initialized the tree with C:\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\context\tex). On my contextminimals there ist no file named kpathsea510.dll. Only kpathsea500.dll etc. What can I do? Thanks, Helmut -- ******************************************************** Helmut Schwertner Kirchweg 154 28201 Bremen Phone: 0421 528 58 22 Mobil: 01577 195 37 78 eMail: helmut.schwertner(a)gmx.de

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spacing between floating figure caption and surrounding text
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hello, Another question about figures. How to get rid of big spacing between floating figure caption and surrounding text? In the following example, I want the spacing between "Figure 1" and the text below to be twice less. \starttext \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth \par} \placefigure [inner] {} {\externalfigure[cow][width=0.5\textwidth]} \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth \par} \stoptext Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Producing PDF x/1-a:2001 output.
by John Culleton 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

At least two commercial printers that I use prefer or insist on the format PDF X/1-a:2001 output. The only way I have found to produce such in TeX without a pass through Adobe Acrobat Distiller or the shareware program Pstill is via the package pdfx.sty authored by CV Radhakrishnan and Han The Thanh. This in turn uses some other files such as xmpincl.sty. I wonder if this setup could be incorporated into some flavor of Context? Or even pdftex? I prefer not to live within the strictures of pdflatex. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

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Re: [NTG-context] spacing between floating figure caption and surrounding text
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hello Taco > Normally, you would do \setupfloat[figure][after=] but that does not > seem to work very well for side floats, sorry. > Thanks for trying to help! :) Actually, I discovered from "It's in details" that \placefigure[inner, low]{ } is ok for my situation. Another questions is: how to setup "low" parameter for all figures globally? Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Context Live setup ?
by Vnpenguin 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hi, I would like to make a ConTeXt Live server in LAN for testing purposes, but I can not found any document for setup this kind of server. What are requirements ? Anyone could give me some help please ? Thanks,

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Re: [NTG-context] the meaning of cutspace
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hello Luigi, > I'm not sure, but what about > width=middle? > Yes! It works! I don't understand it; it's like another magic trick ) \setuppapersize [A5][A5] \setuplayout[topspace=2cm, header=0cm, footer=0.6cm, bottomspace=2cm, height=fit, backspace=1.5cm, cutspace=2cm, width=middle] @Taco: what's wrong with it then? Regards, Vyatcheslav

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local footnote (Tables) problem
by Bowen Alan C. 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

After further experimentation, I am still stumped; so I am resending this. The attached file will compile only if I comment out (a) header=2pc in \setuplayout or (b) \setupbodyfont[lmodern,rm,10.5pt] or (c) \placelegend or (d) \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth} I am running MK2 using the penultimate beta in the ConTeXt Minimals. There is no improvement when I run the file on the ConteXt wiki (latest beta). Any help will be greatly appreciated. Alan

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the meaning of cutspace
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hello, I need to set up 1.5cm/2cm page borders. Backspace in layout setup gives me expected result (distance from page to the text). According to the wiki, cutspace should do the same for opposite side of the page, but it doesnt. So, I cannot get the meaning of cutspace. \setuplayout[topspace=2cm, header=0cm, footer=0.6cm, bottomspace=2cm, height=fit, %leftmargin=1.5cm, rightmargin=2cm, backspace=1.5cm, cutspace=2cm, width=fit] \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,middle}, alternative=doublesided, style=\tfx] \showlayout\showsetups\showframe \bye Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Context changelog
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hello, Weird, but I cannot find Context changelog on the wiki. Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] Indent missed after \placefigure[inner]
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hello Wolfgang, >> > I've asked about this issue already, but maybe my cry for help was missed ) >> > Your chance to get an answer will be bigger when you provide a short and working example. > > Sure. This is minimal example. \setupindenting[big,yes] \setupfloat[figure][indentnext=yes] \starttext \dorecurse{1}{\input knuth \par} \placefigure [inner] {} {\externalfigure[cow][width=0.5\textwidth]} \dorecurse{1}{\input knuth \par} \stoptext >> > P.S. Is there a keyword that produces an indent? (like \makeindent) >> > Read Adityas TuGboat article about indenting and you will know \indentation is what you want. > Thanks. Actually, i tried \indent to produce indent, but it was treated as wrong keyword. Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] setupsystem command with an example
by Curiouslearn 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

The following is an example. Randomization occurs with MKII, but not with MKIV. \setupsystem[random=123] \starttext \startitemize[a,random] \startitem This is item 1 \stopitem \startitem This is item 2 \stopitem \startitem This is item 3 \stopitem \startitem This is item 4 \stopitem \stopitemize \stoptext On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:42 PM, curiouslearn <curiouslearn(a)gmail.com>wrote: > I wanted to bring this to your attention. It seems that > setupsystem[random= ] > command does not work with MKIV. If I use different numbers for [random= ] > option the arrangement of items changes when compiled with MKII but do not > change when compiled with MKIV. > > I tried emailing the above message with my email, but it bounced everytime > I > sent it. Do you know what might have happened. > > Thanks. > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ >

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mailing list question/problem
by Bernhard Rosensteiner 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hello all, i´m new to the mailing list. i posted a few questions on the mailing list for a while but got never an answer. The last thing i posted was in the [NTG-context] BibTeX/Publications thread: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20091115.194137.4395932d.en.html it seems that i make something wrong with posting because i get always ignored (see following discussion on in the mail...). Please can somebody write back only that i can by certain that my messages become properly posted - thanks. best regards Bernhard

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BibTeX/Publications
by Andreas Harder 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi all! I've two or more problems with bibliographies: 1) look at the attached attachment, the first brace. 2) @book{b, title={B Titel B}, author={Brüser}, % error -> ü!!! year={2000}, publisher={VS Verlag} } 3) I want "just get a typeset version of the used database" (without \cite[a,b,c,d]), how to achieve this? Many thanks and greetings Andreas

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texexec for latex?
by Adam Megacz 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hello folks, Does anybody know if there is something like "texexec" for latex users? Specifically, I'm hoping for a single command that runs the pdflatex/bibtex combination as many times as is required to reach a fixed point. Thanks, - a

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Indent missed after \placefigure[inner]
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

Hello, I've asked about this issue already, but probably my cry for help was missed ) After I include a grapichs with \placefigure[inner], the next paragraph is not indented. This looks very strange, because the figure floats at a side, and nothing suggests that new paragraph begins. I'm forced to issue \hskip0.7cm to imitate the indent. With \placefigure[middle], everything is OK because I use some magic setup kindly suggested by Wolfgang: \setupfloat[figure][indentnext=yes] Maybe I should expand this setup with other keywords? Pleaase, see attached image for illustration. This is an excerpt from my code: %-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Передбачається використання певної системи одиниць виміру, скажемо, метричної, так що одиниця довжини точно визначена. Відповідність між точками тривимірного евклідового простору і їхніх координат може бути задано або радіусом-вектором \startformula r = \overline {OP} = x{e_x} + y{e_y} + z{e_z}, \stopformula де ${e_x}, {e_y}, {e_z}$ — одиничні вектори осей, або матрицями: координатним рядком $[x, y, z]$ або координатним вектором-стовпцем $ \left| {\matrix{ x \cr y \cr z \cr } } \right|, $ причому координати $х$, $у$ і $z$ точки {\it Р} у цій системі координат задаються як довжини (з відповідним знаком) перпендикулярних проекцій вектора {\it OP} на вектори $i$, $j$ і $k$ (рис.2.4). \placefigure[inner]{ } {\externalfigure[image219.png][scale=900]} \hskip0.7cm У машинній графіці широко застосовуються однорідні координати, які дозволяють {\it n}--мірний об'єкт представити в $(n+1)$--мірному просторі, шляхом додавання ще однієї координати — скалярного множника. Однорідні координати є основними в проективній геометрії, у машинній графіці вони зручний штучний прийом, що дозволяє привести до лінійної форми перспективні зображення. Однорідні координати дають можливість записувати невласні (нескінченно вилучені) точки простору, а також виражати афінні перетворення в зручній матричній формі, уникаючи переповнення розрядної сітки ЕОМ за рахунок нормалізації чисел [2]. P.S. Is there a keyword that produces an indent? (like \makeindent) P.S. If no, how can I specify that I want big horizontal skip instead of a number as in \hskip0.7cm ? Regards, Vyatcheslav

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\setuphead and n*serried
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

Hi friends, I like [n*serried] option very much. Why I cannot use it in \setuphead instead of distance, too? %works \setuphead[subsubject][ alternative=text, style=\bf, distance=0.7ex] %does not work \setuphead[subsubject][ alternative=text, style=\bf, 1*serried] Regards, Vyatcheslav

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Drawing vertical and horizontal lines inside a matrix
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

Hello, Can I draw vertical and horizontal lines inside a matrix? I get ugly result by underlining and "sidelining" the elements, but what I neeed is to underline the whole row and draw a line next to the whole column. \startformula T = \left[ {\matrix{ a & b & {c |} & p \cr d & e & {f |} & q \cr {\underline h } & {\underline i } & {\underline j |} & r \cr l & m & {n |} & s \cr } } \right].\stopformula The attached picture shows how it looks now. Vyatcheslav

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setupsystem command
by curiouslearn 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

I wanted to bring this to your attention. It seems that setupsystem[random= ] command does not work with MKIV. If I use different numbers for [random= ] option the arrangement of items changes when compiled with MKII but do not change when compiled with MKIV. I tried emailing the above message with my email, but it bounced everytime I sent it. Do you know what might have happened. Thanks.

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Re: [NTG-context] itemize / text indent
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

On 15.11.2009 17:08, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: >> 2) How can I control the distance between the mark and item text? The space seems too big. >> > Use the 'width' and 'distance' keys. > > Wolfgang > > > Thank you! Actually, "n*serried" works excellent, as in my final setup: \setupitemize[each][1,joinedup,intext,1*serried][indenting={yes,first,big}] Regards, Vyatcheslav

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mkiv math delimiters and <|>
by Mojca Miklavec 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

Hello, I have tried to compile an old document (written in mkii times). Among other problems that I yet need to isolate, the following minimal example doesn't want to compile: $\bigl| x \bigr>$ since <|> aren't recognized as candidates for delimiters. There is a workaround of course (using \langle, \rangle, ... instead of <>), but the three characters are just way too handy to use. I suppose that the behaviour in mkii comes from these lines: \definemathcharacter [<] [nothing] [sy] ["68] [ex] ["0A] \definemathcharacter [>] [nothing] [sy] ["69] [ex] ["0B] But I'm not sure where mkiv could be changed. I have tried to use adobename="greater", ... mathspec={ { class="binary", name="gt" }, { class="close", name="rbrace" }, }, but without any success. Mojca

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Re: [NTG-context] itemize / text indent
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

Hello Wolfgang > there had been a question on the list from Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky how to get indented text > inside of itemize Thank you very much! It works like charm now. 1) Will this fix be applied to core files? 2) How can I control the distance between the mark and item text? The space seems too big. Thankfully, Vyatcheslav

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footnote-number-alignment
by Achim Jander 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

Hello, after struggling some weeks to get everything to work, i'm now nearly satisfied with typsetting via context. But there is one problem left for that i cant find any solution, even after googling for hours. I am typesetting documents with a large amount of footnotes, and want to have the footnote-number aligned to the correct decimal place. The footnotes appear in an "numbered-list" style. To explain: page one has footnotes 1 to 8, numbers are left-aligned, everything is good ----- 1 footnotetext 2 footnotetext 3 footnottext .... 8 footnotetext page two has footnotes 9 to 12, so I want to have 9 footnotetext 10 footnotetext ... but i only get: 9 footnotetext 10 foootnotextex. I think, there is no easy solution, but maybe someone can give me a push to the direction how i can realize that behaviour (btw same problem is with numbered lists, and to make it really complicated, i do need the behaviour even with multicolumn footnotes) Any hint is welcome, Thanks a lot Achim Jander

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itemize / text indent
by Wolfgang Schuster 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

Hi, there had been a question on the list from Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky how to get indented text inside of itemize and after i spent a few hours on this problem the answer is it's not possible. His example (simplified from me) was: \setupindenting[yes,big] \starttext text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text \startitemize[text][indenting={yes,first,big}] \item text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text \item text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text \item text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text \stopitemize text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text \stoptext and as you can see the second and all following items are indented but this has nothing to do with indenting and is a side effect of the 'text' option which is meant for inline items where no blank line is expected between the '\item'’s because the should be all in the same paragraph as in: \setupindenting[yes,big] \starttext text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text \startitemize[text] \item text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text \item text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text \item text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text \stopitemize text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text \stoptext Even tough the 'text' option is wrong here (because 'joinedup' gives the same output but without indentation) we should take care of this and insert the distance between the items only in horizontal mode. To do so change in the definition for \complexdoitemgroupitem the following line: \else \ifconditional\textlistitem % was bugged: \inlinelistitem \removeunwantedspaces\hskip\emwidth\!!plus\interwordstretch\!!minus\interwordshrink\relax % new per 2006/10/20 \else \iteminbetweencommand \fi \fi to \else \ifconditional\textlistitem % was bugged: \inlinelistitem \ifhmode \removeunwantedspaces\hskip\emwidth\!!plus\interwordstretch\!!minus\interwordshrink\relax % new per 2006/10/20 \fi \else \iteminbetweencommand \fi \fi and while we already change this make the space between the items changeable, e.g. with (old feature request in the list archive) \else \ifconditional\textlistitem % was bugged: \inlinelistitem \ifhmode \processaction [\getitemparameter\currentitemlevel\c!space] [ \v!none=>\let\textitemdistance\zeropoint, \s!unknown=>\assignvalue\commalistelement\textitemdistance{.5\interwordspace\!!plus.5\emwidth}{\interwordspace\!!plus\emwidth}{\emwidth\!!plus\interwordstretch\!!minus\interwordshrink}]% \removeunwantedspaces\hskip\textitemdistance\relax \fi % new per 2006/10/20 \else \iteminbetweencommand \fi \fi The next point is to enable the indenting parameter which isn't functioning at all because at the start of each item command (\dolistitem) a \noindent command prevents it from working. One way to fix is to replace \noitem with \checkindentation\ifindentation\indent\else\noindent\fi and \indentationfalse to startitemgroup. When these changes are done one could indent the text in itemize with: \setupindenting[yes,big] \starttext text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text \startitemize[joinedup,intext][indenting={yes,first,big}] \item text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text \item text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text \stopitemize text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text \stoptext Wolfgang

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problem with mathaligned in MkIV
by Chen Shen 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

Hi all, I was using the following macro from Aditya's Mathalign "My Way". It worked great with MkII and old versions of MkIV. However, it failed in recent versions of MkIV (e.g. 2009.11.2). Apparently, the \makesectionnumber and \rawreference macros have be removed. I wonder if anyone can give pointers on how to fix this. Thanks a lot. best regards, shenchen %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% begin %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%\def\placesubformulawithnumber{% \dodoubleempty\doplacesubformulawithnumber} \def\doplacesubformulawithnumber[#1][#2]%#2 gobbles spaces {\incrementnumber[formula] \makesectionnumber[formula] \iffirstargument \rawreference{for}{#1}{\composedsectionnumber} \fi\placesubformula} \placesubformulawithnumber \startformula \startalign \NC a_1 x + b_1 y \NC = c_1 \NR[+][a] \NC a_2 x + b_2 y \NC = c_2 \NR[+][b] \stopalign \stopformula %%%%%%%%%%%%%%% end %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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Drawing rectangles
by Cecil Westerhof 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

I would like to make something like the folowing in ConTeXt (you need a monospaced font to see it correctly): +------------------------------+ | | | | | | +------------------------------+------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | +--------------+---------------+--------------+---------------+--------------+---------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | +------------------------------+---------+----------+---------+------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +__________+ How could I do this? -- Cecil Westerhof

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shorthands for hyphens with \penalty, \allowbreak, breaking up ligatures etc.
by Oliver Heins 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

In LaTeX with babel option german there are several shortcuts needed for typesetting german texts with their large amount of composita. Some of them are defined in Context, too, but not all (maybe I didn't find them yet). In typesetting german there is the need of breaking up some ligatures, too. Here are some examples of what I'm talking about: composita | line break | Babel shortcut | pure TeX-Code ---------------|------------|-------------------|------------------------ (Kinder-)Armut | (Kinder-) | (Kinder"~)""Armut | (Kinder\protect10000 | Armut | | -)\allowbreak Armut | | | Bundestag und | (...) und | (...) und "~rat | (...) und \hbox{-rat} -rat | -rat | | [\protect1000 doesn't | | | seem to work here] ----------------------- breaking up ligatures --------------------------- Auffassung | Auffassung | Auf"|fassung | ??? (babel code: | (not | | \textormath{\penalty\@M | Auﬀassung) | | \discretionary{-}{}% | | | {\kern.03em}% | | | \allowhyphens}{}%) Is there any context way to define these kind of shorthands? (Babel has the \declare@shorthand internal command.) TIA, olli -- Oliver Heins heins(a)sopos.org http://oliverheins.net/ http://blog.overheins.net/ F27A BA8C 1CFB B905 65A8 http://scriptorium-adp.de/ 2544 0F07 B675 9A00 D827 1024D/9A00D827 2004-09-24 -- gpg --recv-keys 0x9A00D827 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Wiki pages for Scite and Notepad++
by richard.stephens＠converteam.com 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

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ragged right in a simplecolumns environment
by Oliver Heins 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

How can I swith to ragged right in a simplecolumns environment? (I have to use it for some reasons.) \startsimplecolumns[n=4,align=right] does not work. TIA, olli -- Oliver Heins heins(a)sopos.org http://oliverheins.net/ http://blog.overheins.net/ F27A BA8C 1CFB B905 65A8 http://scriptorium-adp.de/ 2544 0F07 B675 9A00 D827 1024D/9A00D827 2004-09-24 -- gpg --recv-keys 0x9A00D827 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Re: [NTG-context] a few questions
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Thank you, Bernard! Your snippet works perfectly, I just replaced prefixconnector with '.' \definestructureprefixset[figureprefix][section-3] \definestructureseparatorset [septest][--,--,--,---][?] \setupstructurecountering[way=bysection, prefixset=figureprefix, prefixseparatorset=septest, prefixconnector=.] For third question, I already found the answer in the manual: \setupheadnumber[section][1] %The next section will have number 2 Concerning my first question "how to setup itemization so that the first line were indented too?" -- I disappointed very much because nobody can help me with it. I understand that it may outside of area of interest at the moment, but itemized list looks ugly, and my work cannot be done without fixing it. Regards, Vyatcheslav

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A few questions
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hello, I have a few (I suppose easy) questions: 1) asking about this again and again... how to setup itemization so that the first line were indented too? 2) how to setup figure captions so that they include section number, like <sectionNumber>.<figureNumber> (no sub-sub-subsections)? 3) How to start section numbering from, say, second section? Regards, Vyatcheslav

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How to know the text was to big
by Cecil Westerhof 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

I want to create a pdf-document which has severall frames in which user supplied data has to be put. I have two questions about this: - How can I use parameters to fill the boxes? - When one or more of the supplied texts does not fit its frame the pdf document is 'corrupt'. How can I see that at least one of the texts did not fit its frame? -- Cecil Westerhof

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