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switching layouts for a float
by Corin Royal Drummond 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hi Friends, Still working on having a travelogue with a text column on one side, and then a plate of color photos on the opposite page. Floats are working well for this with \startcombination[2*2]. My problem is that the text pages, have a wide margin to accommodate marginal graphics, and I don't know how to switch to a wide layout with tiny backspace and margin just for the combination floats. I'm trying: ... \definepapersize[wide][width=9in, height=7in] \setuppapersize[wide][wide] \setuplayout [location=middle, marking=on, topspace=.5cm, height=6.5in, width=4.5in, margin=3.5in, backspace= 2cm, footer=.9cm, header=.9cm] \definelayout [photopage][width=7.5in, margin=.5cm, backspace=1.5cm, ] ... \starttext ...lots of text in chapters... \setuplayout[photopage] \placefigure{none} {\startcombination[2*2] {\externalfigure[yucatan1][width=.5\textwidth]}{A old church on the way from Merida to Celestun} {\externalfigure[yucatan2][width=.5\textwidth]}{A gorgeous decaying hacienda} {\externalfigure[yucatan3][width=.5\textwidth]}{Typical Yucatecan thatched adobe dwelling} {\externalfigure[yucatan4][width=.5\textwidth]}{Thached house detail} \stopcombination} \setuplayout[reset] ...more text in chapters... \stoptext I suspect that this doesn't work because of the nature of floats, but then how to slap the float into a new layout setup with appropriate margins? Thanks, Corin Royal Drummond

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TeXshop instructions on Context Minimals (Mac installation)
by Curious Learn 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hello, I installed the stable version of Context Minimals and then followed the instructions given on the Context Minimals/Mac Installation page. When I choose ConTeXt-MKIV as my engine and try to typeset the document I get the following error. Users/Name/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ConTeXt-MKIV.engine does not have the executable bit set. This is when only "pdftex" is selected in the dropdown "Typeset" menu. It is true that the instructions on Context Minimals/Mac Installation page say that "Context" should also be selected in this dropdown "Typeset" menu. But if I try to do that, the engine automatically switches to "Context" that existed in the Engines menu, before I installed Minimals and before I added Context-MKII and ConTeXt-MKIV engines. This "ConTeXt engine is MKII. Can someone please help with this? Thanks.

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mkiv
by Hans Hagen 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hi, I want to switch to the new structure code in mkiv. This can result in some temporary problems (probably mostly commands that i forgot to port) but i need the switch in order to be able to optimize and cleanup that code. So best make a copy of your minimal. 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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current fontsize in both marks
by Peter Rolf 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hi, for my overprinting macro I need the actual font size (no overprinting if size is greater 23pt). After searching and a lot of tries I found \scaledfont (mkii) and \somefontsize (mkiv), which seem to show the right values. Both macros are bound exclusively to only one mark. Is there a better (more generic and mark independent) way? Peter -- "Es ist doch ein Trost, das Geldgier manchmal blöd macht." - Kottan in "Kottan ermittelt", Folge 9: "Die Einteilung" -

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Re: [NTG-context] Tikz updated in minimals but file does not compile
by Lutz Haseloff 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hi all, shame on me :-( The tikz problem solution was by: >From adityam at umich.edu Sat Mar 7 21:42:27 2009 From: adityam at umich.edu (Aditya Mahajan) Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 15:42:27 -0500 (EST) Subject: [NTG-context] luatex tikz problem Wolfgang and Aditya, please excuse my wrong citation. Lutz

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Let's Polish the math!
by Marcin Borkowski 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hi, how to do this: here in Poland we have some conventions as for typesetting math; for example, we don't use \leq, but \leqslant; we don't write "tan" for tangent, but "tg"; we don't write "arcsin", but "arc\,sin"; etc. Would it be possible to have such typographic conventions (I could provide a more comprehensive list, of course) enabled by \mainlanguage[pl]? A related problem is dashes; where the English use an em-dash without any spaces, the Polish use an en-dash with spaces of around 0.2em (the left one "unbreakable", i.e., with \penalty10000). Also, we put periods after section numbers, so no "1.2 Section", but rather "1.2. Section". What is the ConTeXt way to have such things for different languages? Regards -- Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.pl) This program is written in Perl. While stronger people find reading Perl code character-building, it should not be shown to people in their formative years. The author will not accept any responsibility for any moral grief caused. (The McKornik Jr. Public License)

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pinyin in context
by Bill Long 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

I input pinyin above Chinese character in bellow way: ------------------------------------------- \documentclass{article} \usepackage[overlap, CJK]{ruby} \usepackage{pinyin} \usepackage{CJK} \begin{CJK*}{UTF8}{song} \begin{document} \renewcommand{\rubysep}{.3ex} \renewcommand{\rubysize}{.5} \ruby{静}{\jing4} \ruby{夜}{\ye4}\ruby{思}{\si1} \end{CJK*} \end{document} ------------------------------------------------ but it has poor line break, Does contex support pinyin ? and how to implement? Thanks. -- 卷829_3 【怀香炉峰道人】贯休常思峰顶叟，石窟土为床。日日先见日，烟霞多异香。冥心同槁木，扫雪带微阳。终必相寻去，斯人不可忘。

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Re: [NTG-context] \startMPinclusions[+]
by Hans van der Meer 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

On 17 mrt 2009, at 20:14, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 13:19, Hans van der Meer wrote: >> In mkii this could be used to add material to metapost runs: >> \startMPinclusions[+] >> ..... >> \stopMPInclusions >> >> This stopped working in the latest stable version I have seen: >> ConTeXt ver: 2008.10.31 13:58 MKIV fmt: 2008.12.17 >> >> Is it already fixed? Or can a quick patch be given? > > What does the [+] do? I usually put multiple \startMPinclusions and > they are all respected (at least it mkii; in mkiv they were not, but > Hans probably fixed something in this respect two weeks ago; I did not > have a chance to test that yet). > > Mojca In january 2006 Hans Hagen wrote to me about the following he promised to include. Could it be this has been forgotten in the mean time? > Hans van der Meer wrote: > >> I thought to incrementally add to MPinclusions by successive blocks >> >> \startMPinclusions >> ...... >> \stopMPinclusions >> >> \startMPinclusions >> ...... >> \stopMPinclusions >> etc. >> >> But according to the generated mp-file it seems to incorporate the >> last one only. >> Is this correct and if so, is it an option to allow appending in >> the above manner? >> Or will that be too difficult to build. > > > (patch supp-mps.tex) > > \def\startMPinclusions > {\dosingleempty\dostartMPinclusions} > > \long\def\dostartMPinclusions[#1]#2\stopMPinclusions % document wide > {\doifelse{#1}{+} > {\@EA\long\@EA\def\@EA\theMPinclusions\@EA > {\theMPinclusions > \writeMPgraphic{#2}}} > {\long\def\theMPinclusions > {% \expanded ! > \@EA\expanded\@EA{\@EA\writeMPgraphic\@EA{\the\MPextensions;}} > % new > \writeMPgraphic{#2}}}} > > \def\MPinclusions > {\dosingleempty\doMPinclusions} > > \long\def\doMPinclusions[#1]#2% > {\startMPinclusions[#1]#2\stopMPinclusions} > > now you can say > > \startMPinclusions[+] .... > > i'll add this feature > > Hans > _______________________________________________

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type-win.tex
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hello, Can someone pls test my typescript? It defines the following standard Windows fonts: Arial Arial Black Comic Sans MS Courier New Franklin Gothic Medium Georgia Impact Lucida Console Lucida Sans Unicode Microsoft Sans Serif Palatino Linotype Sylfaen Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana Waiting for responses, Vyatcheslav

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Thumbtabs on edge of pages.
by John Culleton 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Apparently this facility exists in primitive form via some special styles in LaTeX. Is there any facility for same in Context? Ideally the thumbtabs would line up with the corresponding chapter entries in the first (summary) TOC. Of course one can always cobble something up, but I am hoping that someone has already done the cobbling. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

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\FlushStep in module s-pre-50 adds too much space
by Curious Learn 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hello, I tried using module s-pre-50 to get stepwise revelation of the content in my presentation today. I noticed that the command \FlushStep adds what seems to be too much space between successive items. Is there a way, I can prevent \FlushStep from adding this much space. Thank you.

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\startMPinclusions[+]
by Hans van der Meer 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

In mkii this could be used to add material to metapost runs: \startMPinclusions[+] ..... \stopMPInclusions This stopped working in the latest stable version I have seen: ConTeXt ver: 2008.10.31 13:58 MKIV fmt: 2008.12.17 Is it already fixed? Or can a quick patch be given? Hans van der Meer

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Which revision control system do you use?
by Wolfgang Schuster 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hi all, to start the threat here is what I use(d). On my old Windows machines I used Subversion because it was easy to use with TortoiseSVN but since I'm on my Mac I use Mercurial for my files. Wolfgang

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Problem of transfering bib to bbl in Chinese.
by Wei-Wei Guo 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hi everyone, I asked the question days ago. I find something new, so I submit it here and hope it can provide some useful information and, hopefully, can solve the problem. t-bib can transfer the following bib entry correct. @ARTICLE{c-article-full, author = {姓名一}, title = {文章题目}, journal = {某某杂志二}, year = 1986, volume = 41, number = 7, pages = "73--82", month = jul, language = "chinese" } but the following bib entry will be rubbish. @ARTICLE{c-article-full, author = {姓名一 and 姓名二}, title = {文章题目}, journal = {某某杂志二}, year = 1986, volume = 41, number = 7, pages = "73--82", month = jul, language = "chinese" } The difference is that there are multiple authors separated by 'and' in the second bib entry. Is it solvable? Best wishes, Wei-Wei

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Opposite Blocks or Spread Based Layouts
by Corin Royal Drummond 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi ConTeXt ComRaDes, Trying to design a travelogue book with photos on the left page, and text on the right. Tried \startopposite to get an opposite block, and turned it on with \setupoppositeplacing[state=start], to no discernable effect. Am I doing something wrong, or is there another way to do this? Any tips much appreciated. Corin Royal Drummond P.S. My poetry book is coming along nicely. I'll be sure to send along a link when it's finished.

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epstopdf oddity?
by Marko Schütz 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Dear All, I have some small diagrams I created with MetaPost in 2005. Just recently I wanted to re-run the build of the PDF. It produced a PDF but the typography looks awful. so I compared (diff) with the previous intermediate files and found that the EPS files produced by the mpost run are identical up to timestamps and that it's only the last step epstopdf that uglifies the output. I'm suspecting the fault to be with the ghostscript or the font installation. Maybe someone here has seen this and knows the fix? One of the diagrams is below. Thanks for all hints and best regards, Marko verbatimtex \documentclass{article} \begin{document} etex; defaultfont := "eurm10"; defaultscale := 10pt /fontsize defaultfont; prologues := 2; input mp-tool; input mp-spec; input boxes; input trees; def_nonterminal(lam, btex \texttt{function} $:: \alpha$ etex); def_nonterminal(app, btex @ $:: \alpha$ etex); def_terminal(fun, btex \texttt{exp}$_1$ $:: \beta$ etex); def_terminal(exp, btex \texttt{exp}$_2$ $:: \gamma$ etex); def_terminal(two, btex \texttt{2} etex); def_terminal(times, btex \texttt{(*)} etex); def_terminal(varx, btex \texttt{arg} $:: \beta$ etex); beginfig(2); app.root(fun, exp); drawtrees(root); endfig; end;

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Logos of Context (context-free-design github repo)
by Xan 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi all of you, After aproving of Taco and Mojca, I announce that I start a repository of ConTeXt logos: http://github.com/somenxavi/context-free-designs/ Now it has only the Taco logo that reproduce the contextgarden logo, but it's open to anyone who wants to put in any logo. Just send me the file. The only condition is that the license were free (public domain, Creative Commons, ....) I plan to put the logos in this repo in a Spreadshirt/Cafepress shop that I want to open in a medium time. But the main intention is to have a collection of ConTeXt logos freely distributable. Once I open the shop, the intention is not to earn money, else that "fans" of ConTeXt could have their t-shirts, cofee cups, .... . Surely I donor the few dolars I win to NTG, CTAN or something else. Sincerly, Xan.

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die if a module is missing
by Jesse Alama 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

I was recently debugging some presentation that I was working on in ConTeXt and found, to my surprise, that the problem was that I was using \usemodule[blah-blah] but there was no such module called blah-blah. The output does indeed say that there was no such module, but I didn't see that. Is there a way to set up modules so that, if a module isn't found, an error is generated and the TeX run is stopped? I would have discovered the source of my problem more quickly had I been able to set things up in that way. Thanks, Jesse -- Jesse Alama (alama(a)stanford.edu)

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horoffset & singlesided/doublesided
by Alan Stone 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi, \showframe \setuplayout[width=.65\paperwidth,hoffset=1cm,margin=0cm] \setuphead[chapter][page=right] %\setuppagenumbering[alternative=singlesided] % horoffset_ss.pdf \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] % horoffset_ds.pdf \starttext \dorecurse{2}{\chapter{Chapter #1}\dorecurse{8}{\input knuth}} \stoptext For - horoffset_ds.pdf and - horoffset_ss.pdf how do you define horoffset so that for the - odd pages the layout |horoffset|...|text|...| is - even pages the layout |...|text|...|horoffset| is Alan

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Re: [NTG-context] How to use my own BibTeX style (bst)?
by Wei-Wei Guo 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Thank you, Mojca and Taco. I finally get my t-bib working. Now I can continue working on my bibl style. Taco Hoekwater 写道: >> I don't know those styles get adapted automatically when language is >> changed. Taco should answer (I should take a closer look, but no time >> now). > > They do not. You have to give a setup command like > > \setuppublications[alternative=my-zh] % for bibl-my-zh.tex > >> I'm not sure if you can use different style for different books based >> on language the book was written in (maybe possible, but tedious, the >> style would have to be rewritten completely). > > With a suitable \setuppublicationlayout this should be possible: > you can decide based on the value of the current language, which is > set from the bibtex language field automatically. But I have never > actually tried to do this, so I have no example code available for you. > I'm still confused. Is it possible to use different bibl based on the value of \lang. Or I can only implement it with bunch of \if in *one* bibl file? Best wishes, Wei-Wei

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ConTeXt T-shirts?
by Xan 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Hi, Do you have any cafepress/spreadshirt acount for selling t-shirts, tea cups, etc.? I think it could be useful for "fans" of ConTeXt. Thanks in advance, Xan

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XeTeX font feature selection
by John Hughes 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

What is the correct way of selecting a font and using OpenType features? I have tried \definetypeface[linlib][rm][Xserif][Linux Libertine][features=oldstyle] \setupbodyfont[linlib, 12pt] but the output prints Computer Modern (and not with old-style numerals). The font seems to work without the "features=oldstyle", but I am not sure how to select the font and some OpenType features. I don't seem to be able to find any documentation. John

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beta
by Wolfgang Schuster 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Hi Hans, I discovered two problems with the beta. 1. \typescriptone is ignored in the typescripts and many fonts (e.g. can't be used) \starttypescript [termes,times] \definetypeface [\typescriptone] [rm] [serif] [termes] [default] \stoptypescript 2. The new feature \getcheckedparameters acts like \get*e*parameter in the lua code. Wolfgang

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inclusion of pdf figures
by Thomas A. Schmitz 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Excuse me if this has been reported before, but I couldn't find anything in the archive: has inclusion of pdf figures been broken in mkiv for longer or just in the most recent release? This works in mkii and fails in mkiv: \starttext \externalfigure[~/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/sample/cow] [type=pdf,width=5cm] \stoptext Thomas

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off topic: page numbering question
by WolfgangZ 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

Hi, my question is not directly related to context, so please excuse. In my document I have even before the abstract the summary in 2 languages. Then the TOC (table of contents), then list of symbols which is followed by the introduction. But where do I start with page number 1? - at the very beginning? - at the TOC (earlier pages get then numbered I, II, III, ... - at the introduction? A last question, is it common to add the two summaries in the TOC or to start with the "list of symbols"? Or are there no rules at all and I can do it as I like? Best regards Wolfgang

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betas
by Hans Hagen 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

hi, as fas as i can testm the current beta installs ok on vista, xp, osx and linux (which is not to say that nothing is broken in the macros themselves) 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] Simplified input for natural tables
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

> > In the same way as Hans wrote them in his exmple. Cool, but will it be included in context source? Or it is too early? Best, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] Installing custom fonts?
by Pierre Huyghebaert 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

> Am 13.03.2009 um 15:51 schrieb Pierre Huyghebaert: > >> Hello List, >> >> I'm also part of the design group Open Source Publishing (like Femke >> who ask about same entry to multiple registers a month ago). Our >> book is building, and it's now time to add our own custom open >> fonts. Quite new in the TeX field, and having traveled a bit through >> LaTex and Xetex, I couln't figure how to make it work. I guess that >> the TeX way of doing it is to write a map file, but maybe is it >> possible to avoid it, like with the Xetex shortcut? Thanks for these superquick answers! What a lively list! @Wolfgang : You remember me that and it's helpful in many cases. But my font sit in the list... Any other idea? ... DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique Liberation Serif:style=Bold Italic InitiationRitualFont:style=Regular Bitstream Vera Sans:style=Oblique Linux Libertine:style=Bold ... @Mojca : (yes for sure, you're right that I need a backup! Job for the week-end) Oh yes, I've forgot the version... I've install ConTeXt two months ago, not sure how to check the version of it : ctxtools --version CtxTools | version 1.3.3 - 2004/2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD And XeTeX 3.141592-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) kpathsea version 3.5.6 Copyright 2007 SIL International. Kpathsea is copyright 2007 Karl Berry and Olaf Weber. There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is covered by the terms of both the XeTeX copyright and the Lesser GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING and the XeTeX source. Primary author of XeTeX: Jonathan Kew. Kpathsea written by Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and others. Compiled with ICU version 3.4 [with modifications for XeTeX] Compiled with zlib version 1.2.3.3; using 1.2.3.3 Compiled with FreeType2 version 2.3.5; using 2.3.5 Compiled with fontconfig version 2.4.2; using 2.4.2 Compiled with libpng version 1.2.15beta5; using 1.2.15beta5 Compiled with libpoppler version 3.00 As you differenciate the low-level font switching commands and the high-level one (like Xetex), is the low-level the one that needs to write a map file ("tree")? Sorry for that question which may seem *very* basic! Pierre

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problem with two columns on a page
by Jelle Huisman 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi, I'm typesetting a dictionary using \startcolumns[n=2,balance=yes] to get balanced columns. I have 26 balanced columns with simple headers in between and a lot of situations with two columns on one page. (see example). As long as the number of lines of the first columns (AA) is fewer than a certain value around 20 the next columns (BB) will be placed on the same page, but if there are more lines from the first columns they push the second columns to the next page. Is there a way to control this behavior, I would like to be able to keep this second columns starting on this page even if there are only 5 lines of text available for it. (using MkII) \starttext \showgrid \startalignment[center] AA \stopalignment\blank \startcolumns[n=2,balance=yes] \dorecurse{40}{a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a } % << this works %\dorecurse{42}{a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a } % << this pushes columns (BB) to the next page \stopcolumns \startalignment[center] BB \stopalignment\blank \startcolumns[n=2,balance=yes] \dorecurse{100}{b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b } \stopcolumns \stoptext Thanks, Jelle

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New beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi all, the new beta has been so quietly accepted that I'm wondering if I'm the only one who can't use it. With every file, I get this error: MtxRun | loading configuration for /Users/tas/context/tex/texmf/web2c from /Users/tas/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/ 408a90c432ceda2c1e4a80ad5d0e5350/trees/168418f5ffa37b7a35ee75166c53fe90 ...ex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-metatex.lua:64: invalid option '%%' to 'format' All the others are having success using this beta? Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] Installing custom fonts?
by Pierre Huyghebaert 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

>Am 13.03.2009 um 17:42 schrieb Pierre Huyghebaert: > >> Thanks for these superquick answers! What a lively list! >> >> @Wolfgang : You remember me that and it's helpful in many cases. >> But my font sit in the list... Any other idea? >> ... >> DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Bold Oblique >> Liberation Serif:style=Bold Italic >> InitiationRitualFont:style=Regular > >You tried \definetypeface[InitiationRitualFont][rm][Xserif] >[InitiationRitualFont]? > >> As you differenciate the low-level font switching commands and the >> high-level one (like Xetex), is the low-level the one that needs to >> write a map file ("tree")? Sorry for that question which may seem >> *very* basic! > >No, she means \font\initiation="InitiationRitualFont". > >Wolfgang Wow, thanks again Wolfgang! It works! So simple, that low-level one for all of us that don't need the family concept at some point (titles, etc.) \font\initiation="InitiationRitualFont" \starttext \initiation Hello World! \stoptext Curious, I just have tried my previous code on the machine of Femke, with a more recent Ubuntu, and it works also! Ok, I'll upgrade my Ubuntu! \definetypeface[InitiationRitualFont][rm][Xserif][InitiationRitualFont] \setupbodyfont[InitiationRitualFont, 12pt] \starttext Hello World! \stoptext So for most of us, the two solutions seem to work. (Apart of the family concept problem, is there advantages/disadvantages to use one solution or another?) Pierre

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Installing custom fonts?
by Pierre Huyghebaert 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hello List, I'm also part of the design group Open Source Publishing (like Femke who ask about same entry to multiple registers a month ago). Our book is building, and it's now time to add our own custom open fonts. Quite new in the TeX field, and having traveled a bit through LaTex and Xetex, I couln't figure how to make it work. I guess that the TeX way of doing it is to write a map file, but maybe is it possible to avoid it, like with the Xetex shortcut? I'm using texexec or texexec --xtx to compile my files (without problems) on Ubuntu Gutsy. I'm also able to use the font in other software, Inkscape by example. But when I add this code : \definetypeface[InitiationRitualFont][rm][Xserif][Initiated] \setupbodyfont[InitiationRitualFont, 12pt] \starttext Hello List! \stoptext I've this error returned : ! Font \*InitiationRitualFont12ptrmtfrm*:='"mapping=tex-text at 12.0pt"' not lo adable: installed font not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.2 \setupbodyfont[InitiationRitualFont, 12pt] I've tried with : - different names - different places - with or without the extension in the name - with ttf or otf version of the font - with other fonts But maybe the problem is elsewhere and I clearly not well understand the intrications Context - Xetex - pdftex - TeX - texexec... I've search in the mailinglist archive and in the Wikigarden... Maybe to use something different than texexec? Many thanks. http://www.ospublish.constantvzw.org -----------------------

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Command "show" in Metapost/Metafun
by Curious Learn 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi, I am trying to learn Metapost using Context. I tried a few examples for drawing things and they worked well. But the "show" command does not seem to work. For example, the code \startuseMPgraphic{GridDots} u=1cm; pickup pencircle scaled 8pt for i = 0 upto 2: for j = 0 upto 2: draw (i*u,j*u); endfor endfor \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{GridDots} from John Hobby's manual works great. However, the following code gives no output in the PDF file. Am I doing something wrong? \startuseMPgraphic{LinearEq} a+b = 2a - b = 3; show a,b; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{LinearEq} I am using the following version from Texlive ConTeXt ver: 2008.05.21 15:21 MKII fmt: 2008.10.1 int: english/english Thanks for your help.

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paragraph question (the return :O)
by Alan Stone 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi, Re: files in attachment Why is step 3 typeset in chapter 2's first paragraph instead of chapter 1's first paragraph and how to correct ? -- Alan

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Incorrect bookmark title of \completelistofabbreviations and no abbreviations are listed
by Nikolai Weibull 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi! Long time no post. Anyway, I’m writing a document where I’m using abbreviations. In neither --lua nor --xtx do I get a list of abbreviations with \completelistofabbreviations. The bookmark text is \headtext {abbreviations} for both. With --pdf I get a list of abbreviations and the bookmark text is abbreviations. Here's a minimal example: \setupheadtext[en][abbreviations={Abbreviations Used in This Document}] \abbreviation{CSS}{Cascading Style Sheets} \setupinteraction [state=start, menu=on] \placebookmarks[chapter] \starttext \startbodymatter \CSS\ stands for \infull{CSS}. \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter \completelistofabbreviations \stopbackmatter \stoptext

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Official diary of countries, EU, regions, etc.
by Xan 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi, I have to use BIBTEX for putting official diary entries (for example the official diary of EU: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOIndex.do?ihmlang=en) Typically it has Title, Day, Month, Year, Number of Entry, Type of diary (Official diary of EU, Boletín Oficial del Estado (boe.es), ...). I want to bibtex display this items, like "title", type of diary (day, month, year). Number of entry. How can I achieve this? With options, I think @misc is the best option, but I don't know how to put and format this items. Thanks a lot, Xan.

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problem with t-bib module
by Lutz Haseloff 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hi Taco, hi all, trying to use the bibliography module I get following error when I use \placepublications[criterium=all]. Without it, citation works like expected. My file: ------------------- \usemodule[bib] \startpublication[k=me, t=manual, a=Hoekwater, y=2006, s=TH2006, n=1, u=http://contextgarden.net/Bibliography] \author{Taco}[T.]{}{Hoekwater} \title{\CONTEXT\ Publication Module, The user documententation} \pubyear{2006} \note{In case you didn’t know: it’s the document you are reading now} \pages{14} \stoppublication \starttext \input knuth \cite[me] \input knuth \placepublications[criterium=all] \stoptext ------------------- Error message: ------------------- (C:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/sample/knuth.tex) (C:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/sample/knuth.tex) ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \alltoclevels \doifdefinedelse #1->\edef \p!defined {#1 }\ifcsname \detokenize \@EA {\p!def... \filllocalpublist ...fdefinedelse {\alltoclevels } {\let \dosetfilterlevel \... \typesetpubslist ...fsortbycite \filllocalpublist \iftypesetall \let \locala... \dodoplacepublications ...sttrue \typesetpubslist \inpublistfalse \endgroup l.21 \placepublications[criterium=all] ------------------- What do I wrong? I use latest mkiv beta interface=xp, LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.35.0-2009030810, build 1950 I tested the t-bib from the pragma beta zip and the newer version from contextgarden. Greetings Lutz

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Re: [NTG-context] Simplified input for natural tables
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hello Hraban, Simplified table syntax is much appreciated! Thank you for http://wiki.contextgarden.net/wikitable. However, I cannot understand how to use it. :) Best, Vyatcheslav

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lists in mkiv
by Johan Sandblom 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

For a small manual-type document I am trying to include a phone directory. I would like it to be sorted. The following produces no output other than "test". Shouldn't it? Johan Sandblom \starttext test \definesorting[telefon][telefoner] \setupsorting[telefon][criterium=all] \telefon{Milad El Segaie, 0746231022} \telefon{Carina C, 33050} \placelistoftelefoner \definesynonyms[Phone][Phones][\PhoneName][\PhoneNumber] \setupsynonyms[Phone][criterium=all] \Phone{Milad El Segaie}{0746231022} \Phone{Carina C}{33050} \placelistofPhones \stoptext -- Johan Sandblom, MD PhD m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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Simplified input for natural tables
by Wolfgang Schuster 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hi Hans, natural tables are perfect to create tables with a fixed size for the cells but the syntax requires sometimes a lot of typing for small content and takes to many lines of code in the document. I wrote a while ago a simple wrapper to use a table/tabulate like syntax for the input, what I don't like is to load a extra module for just a few lines of code and I think they can be integrated in the core-ntb code. Wolfgang %D \module %D [ file=wolf-tab, %D version=2007.01.26, %D title=\CONTEXT\ User Module, %D subtitle=New Tables, %D author=Wolfgang Schuster, %D date=\currentdate, %D copyright=Wolfgang Schuster] \writestatus{loading}{Context User Module / New Tables} \unprotect %D This module provides an easy way to use natural in a similiar %D way as the older table module (based on the \TABLE\ macros) and %D the newer tabulate module. %D %D You can see the advantage in the following table, once created %D with the new macros and once with the normal macros provided %D with the natural table module. %D %D Let us start with the original macros: %D %D \starttyping %D \bTABLE %D \bTR %D \bTD Text 1 \eTD %D \bTD Text 2 \eTD %D \eTR %D \bTR %D \bTD Text 3 \eTD %D \bTD Text 4 \eTD %D \eTR %D \eTABLE %D \stoptyping %D %D and now with my new macros: %D %D \starttyping %D \startTABLE %D \NC Text 1 \NC Text 2 \NC\NR %D \NC Text 3 \NC Text 4 \NC\NR %D \stopTABLE %D \stoptyping \def\startTABLE {\dosingleempty\dostartTABLE} \def\dostartTABLE[#1]% {\bgroup \def\NC{\parseNC} \bTABLE[#1]} \def\stopTABLE {\eTABLE \egroup} \def\parseNC#1\NR {\bTR \processNC#1\stopNC\NC} \def\stopNC{\stopNC} \def\processNC#1\NC% {\def\temp{#1}% \ifx\temp\stopNC \eTR \else \bTD#1\eTD% \expandafter\processNC \fi} % shorter but did not work when external files are loaded in the table, % e.g. \bTD \input knuth \eTD. % %\def\parseNC#1\NC\NR % {\bTR % \processseparatedlist[#1][\NC]\processNC % \eTR} % %\def\processNC#1% % {\bTD#1\eTD} %D I used the same mechanism as in \type{core-ntb.tex} to allow different %D headers on the first and the following pages. The only changes ist that %D I renamed the commands from \tex{bTABLE...} to \tex{startTABLE...} and %D from \tex{eTABLE...} to \tex{stopTABLE...} to match the start and stop %D pair at begin and end of the table. \long\def\startTABLEhead{\dosingleempty\dostartTABLEhead} \long\def\startTABLEnext{\dosingleempty\dostartTABLEnext} \long\def\startTABLEbody{\dosingleempty\dostartTABLEbody} \long\def\startTABLEfoot{\dosingleempty\dostartTABLEfoot} \long\def\dostartTABLEhead[#1]#2\stopTABLEhead{\appendtoks \doTABLEsection[#1]{#2}\to\TBLhead} \long\def\dostartTABLEnext[#1]#2\stopTABLEnext{\appendtoks \doTABLEsection[#1]{#2}\to\TBLnext} \long\def\dostartTABLEbody[#1]#2\stopTABLEbody{\appendtoks \doTABLEsection[#1]{#2}\to\TBLbody} \long\def\dostartTABLEfoot[#1]#2\stopTABLEfoot{\appendtoks \doTABLEsection[#1]{#2}\to\TBLfoot} %D \startbuffer %D \startTABLE %D \NC Text 1 \NC Text 2 \NC\NR %D \NC Text 3 \NC Text 4 \NC\NR %D \stopTABLE %D \stopbuffer %D %D My example from the begin of this module %D %D \typebuffer %D %D looks like this: %D %D \startlinecorrection %D \getbuffer %D \stoplinecorrection \protect \endinput

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Design for Translation
by John Devereux 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hi, I am wondering how best to go about creating an evolving document that will need translation. This is a manual that will probably need to be produced - and maintained - in around 6 languages. For what it is worth, I have come up with two approaches, which follow. But I would really appreciate any insights anyone may have. ... 1) Just translate the file -------------------------- - Obey formatting rules in document tex file so as to most easily visually separate commands from text. - Distribute the files for translation with instructions. This will work until we need to modify the file, then how to communicate the modifications? An english diff? I think this may be the best solution, but there is also 2) Using blocks --------------- The "excursion" manual briefly describes an alternative (which I think may be too cumbersome). The idea would be to totally separate the text from any tex commands (except for a single type of begin/end sequence). Conceptually :- manual-env.tex: \defineblock[EN,de,it] \setupblock[EN][file=EN] \setupblock[DE][file=DE] \setupblock[IT][file=IT] \doifmode[EN]{\def\lang{EN}} \doifmode[DE]{\def\lang{DE}} \doifmode[IT]{\def\lang{IT}} manual.tex: \environment manual-env.tex \useblocks[\lang][installation-1] \useblocks[\lang][installation-2] EN.tex: \beginEN[installation-1] This is how to install the product type 1 \endEN \beginEN[installation-2] This is how to install the product type 2 \endEN DE.tex: \beginDE[installation-1] (german text here) \endDE \beginDE[installation-2] (german text here) \endDE IT.tex: \beginIT[installation-1] (italian text here) \endIT \beginIT[installation-2] (italian text here) \endIT -- John Devereux

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matrices with horizontal and vertical delimeters
by Jiří Cigler 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hello, I have problems with typesetting of matrices with delimiters. I need the same functionality like in the following LaTeX example: \begin{displaymath} \left(\begin{array}{c|c} 1 & 2 \\ \hline 3 & 4 \end{array}\right) \end{displaymath} but in ConTeXt I can't find method how to do that. My best result is \startformula \startmathmatrix[left={\left(\,},right={\,\right)}] \NC 1 \NC \vl \NC 2 \NR \NC \hl \NC \vl \NC \hl \NR \NC 3 \NC \vl \NC 4 \NR \stopmathmatrix \stopformula But the result is not ok. In addition, I would prefer dashed lines. Thanks, Jiri Cigler

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pdftex error
by Fengnan 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

When I updated my context minimal earlier today, at the end of the update process, the cmd window pops up a error message box which says "Unable to find kpathsea357-dev.dll, so this program cannot be started" ( I translate from Chinese). Just pure guess, did Mojca forget to put the file in the right place? Fengnan Gao <fnsteed(a)hotmail.com

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modife the style of taspresent
by Bill Long 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Dear All, anybody can help me on this problem? As most of the ppt file's background are graphics, but I don't know how to do it by modify the sytelefile. for example bellow style: --------------------------------------------- %D \module %D [ file=t-horizontalblue, %D version=2007.07.17, %D title=\CONTEXT\ Style File, %D subtitle=Presentation Module horizontalblue, %D author=Thomas A. Schmitz, %D date=\currentdate, %D copyright={Thomas A. Schmitz}] %C %C Copyright 2007 Thomas A. Schmitz. %C This file may be distributed under the GNU General Public License v. 2.0. %D This file provides the \quotation{horizontalblue} style for the presentation %D module. It is loaded at runtime. The look of this style was inspired by the %D \quotation{Copenhagen} theme of the \LaTeX\ {\tt beamer} package. \writestatus{loading}{module newstyle} \startmodule[newstyle] \unprotect %D The taspresentation module provides a skeleton into which different styles %D can be hooked. It uses a number of variables and macros which have to be set %D beforehand. Some parts are optional. We begin with the necessary definitions: %D We start colors: \setupcolors[state=start] %D These macros are used for placing figures/pictures: \define\NormalHeight{.97\textheight} \define\NormalWidth{.476\textwidth} \define\PictureFrameHeight{.97\textheight} \define\PictureFrameWidth{.476\textwidth} %D The page layout: \setuplayout [width=fit, margin=0cm, height=14.7cm, header=1.75cm, footer=1.2cm, topspace=1cm, backspace=1cm, location=singlesided] %D The macro for typesetting the Slidetitle; this is adapted from a sample %D document that Brooks Moses published on the wiki: \definelayer[slidetitle] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight, x=10mm] \define[1]\Slidetitle{\page\setlayer[slidetitle]% {\framed[frame=off,width=\textwidth,height=2.2cm,offset=0pt,top=\vss,bottom=\vss]{\switchtobodyfont[\Titlesize]\color[c]{#1}}}} %D The macro \tex{Maketitle} produces a default title page with the author, the %D title of the presentation, and the date. Using it is not mandatory. \define\Maketitle{% \titback \null \vfill \framed[frame=off,width=\textwidth,height=.75\textheight,top=\vss,bottom=\vss,align=middle]{\switchtobodyfont[\Titlesize]\color[c]{\bf \getvariable{taspresent}{title}}\switchtobodyfont[\Normalsize]\blank[line]\getvariable{taspresent}{author}\blank[2*line]\currentdate} \vfill \null} %D The following parts are optional; if you don't use backgrounds and are %D content with CONTEXT's default itemization, you don't have to set these %D macros. %D We define our colors: \definecolor [a] [s=.95] \definecolor [b] [r=.58,g=.58,b=.82] \definecolor [c] [r=.2,g=.2,b=.73] \definecolor [Item] [r=.2,g=.2,b=.73] %D We let Metapost calculate the background: \startuniqueMPgraphic{vertical} StartPage ; pair zd[] ; path pb[] ; fill Page withcolor \MPcolor{a} ; z.d1 = ulcorner Page shifted (0,-5pt) ; z.d2 = urcorner Page shifted (0,-5pt) ; pb[1] = ulcorner Page -- z.d1 -- z.d2 -- urcorner Page -- cycle ; z.d3 = llcorner Page shifted (0,5pt) ; z.d4 = lrcorner Page shifted (0,5pt) ; pb[3] = llcorner Page -- z.d3 -- z.d4 -- lrcorner Page -- cycle ; pb[4] = pb[3] shifted (0,.75cm) ; fill pb[1] withcolor \MPcolor{b} ; fill pb[3] withcolor \MPcolor{b} ; fill pb[4] withcolor \MPcolor{b} ; StopPage ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \startuniqueMPgraphic{horizontal} StartPage ; pair zd[] ; path pb[] ; z.d1 = ulcorner Page shifted (0,-5pt) ; z.d2 = urcorner Page shifted (0,-5pt) ; pb[1] = ulcorner Page -- z.d1 -- z.d2 -- urcorner Page -- cycle ; pb[2] = pb[1] shifted (0,-2cm) ; fill pb[2] withcolor \MPcolor{b} ; StopPage ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic %D We define these backgrounds as overlays: \defineoverlay [lecbackground] [\useMPgraphic{horizontal}] \defineoverlay [picbackground] [\useMPgraphic{vertical}] %D We define the footer \setupfooter[color=c,style={\switchtobodyfont[10pt]},strut=yes] \setupfootertexts[{\framed[frame=off,height=.45cm,width=\textwidth]{\getvariable{taspresent}{title}\hfill \pagenumber \ of \lastpage}}] %D These are shortcuts to switch backgrounds: \define\lecback{\setuplayout[header=1.75cm]\setupfooter[state=start]\setupbackgrounds[page][background={picbackground,lecbackground,slidetitle}]} \define\titback{\setuplayout[header=1.75cm]\setupfooter[state=stop]\setupbackgrounds[page][background={picbackground,lecbackground}]} \define\picback{\setuplayout[header=0cm]\setupfooter[state=start]\setupbackgrounds[page][background={picbackground}]} \define\noback{\setupbackgrounds[page][background=nobackground]} %D We use combinations for placing vertical pictures and text side by side, and %D we want a distance of 1.1 cm between both. \setupcombinations[distance=1.1cm] %D The symbol for the first level of itemizations. \definesymbol[1][\useMPgraphic{ItSquare}] \setupitemize[1][color=c] \protect \stopmodule \endinput ----------------------------------------------------------- I try to modify \defineoverlay [lecbackground] [\useMPgraphic{horizontal}] to something like \defineoverlay [lecbackground] [\externalfigure[figure]] but it doesn't work. any idea? I need for example a.png on right top. and b.png bottom. -- 卷548_80 【送沈单作尉江都（一作许浑诗）】薛逢炀帝都城春水边，笙歌夜上木兰船。三千宫女自涂地，十万人家如洞天。焰焰花枝官舍晚，重重云影寺墙连。少年作尉须矜慎，莫向楼前坠马鞭。

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type-win.tex beta version
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Hello, Please, take a look at my type-win. All Western fonts shipped with XP are included. (Vista fonts are described by Wolfgang in other file.) Only Palatino Linotype does not work. \definetypescriptprefix [f:palatino] [Palatino Linotype] "Palatino Linotype" seems to be used already. Best, Vyatcheslav

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starttypescriptcollection
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Hello, What is the effect of "starttypescriptcollection"? How and when the name given to the collection is used? (Unspecified on wiki, btw.) Vyatcheslav

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titles question
by Alan Stone 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

With \setuphead[section][number=yes/no] how do you test whether what's being typeset is in a section or not ? Using \determineheadnumber[section] \currentheadnumber is only relevant when number=yes. -- Alan

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t-bib cannot do with Chinese.
by Wei-Wei Guo 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Dear all, My .tex and .bib files are at the end of the email. The commands I run are context bibtry && context bibtry The first `context bibtry` is ok but no .bbl file generated. The second one complains publications : loading database from bibtry.bbl (bibtry.bbl ! Text line contains an invalid utf-8 sequence. l.22 n=2,s= åååå86] Can t-bib do with Chinese bib entry? or is it just a problem of bibtex? I'm using MkIV(current trunk) and t-bib(march 2, 2009). BTW. Is only absolute path can be used in \setupbibtex? Thanks. Best wishes, Wei-Wei Guo ============ bibtry.tex =========== \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database=~/mytry.bib] \starttext English Bibliogrphy \cite[article-full]. 中文文献 \cite[c-article-full] 。 \completepublications \stoptext ================================== ============= mytry.bib ========== @ARTICLE{article-full, author = {L[eslie] A. Aamport and L[eslie] A. Aamport and L[eslie] A. Aamport and L[eslie] A. Aamport}, title = {The Gnats and Gnus Document Preparation System}, journal = {\mbox{G-Animal's} Journal}, year = 1986, volume = 41, number = 7, pages = "73--83", month = jul, note = "This is a full ARTICLE entry", } @ARTICLE{c-article-full, author = {姓名一 and 姓名二 and 姓名三 and 姓名四}, title = {文章题目}, journal = {某某杂志二}, year = 1986, volume = 41, number = 7, pages = "73--82", month = jul, note = "This is a full ARTICLE entry", language = "chinese" } ====================================

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minimals broken ?
by luigi scarso 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

# ./first-setup.sh # cd tex; . setuptex ; cd .. # luatools --generate # luatools --make cont-en # # context test.tex MtxRun | unknown script 'metatex.lua' or 'mtx-metatex.lua' # luatex This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.35.0-2009022702 (Web2C 7.5.7) What is wrong ? -- luigi

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hyphenation patters for Ukrainian
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hello, What bout hyphenation patters for Ukrainian? \language[ru] seems to work, but \language[ua] does not. Best, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] protrusion and \quotation{…}
by Andreas Harder 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Thank you very much. Curious, with \hfill\quotation{…} there is still no protrusion on the right side (in regular text, without \hfill, it works as expected). Andreas

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PDF grayscale conversion (OT)
by Alan Bowen 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

I have used to ConTeXt to generate a hefty PDF file with b/w text and color images. Is there a way to convert this file to a PDF file with b/ w text and grayscale images (256 shades)? I know I could always convert the images first and then reset the book, but I was wondering if there was a simpler more direct way before I start doing that. (There are over 70 images.) Best, Alan

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font-win.tex
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Is there a script which can be called font-win.tex, which describes all OS-shipped fonts on Windows platform? If not, why? :o) Best, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] A few minor questions (Taco Hoekwater)
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Thanks a lot, Taco, for your definition of my abstract. However, I'd prefer to use it like \Abstract{No more then one paragraph inside} How its definition could look like? Best, Vyatcheslav

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My printer vs. Times New Roman
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hello again, Sorry for asking so many questions at a time, but i'm really intrigued. I have Samsung ML-1615 laser printer. When I print an MS Word document typesetted in Times New Roman, the printer uses internal (hardware) font resource, and hardcopy is very smooth and nice. When I print a pdf generated by ConTexT, the same font becomes rasterized and looks a bit ragged on a paper. Is there a way to instruct Acrobat and printer that I use authentic Time New Roman? (The typescript I currently use is: \starttypescript [serif] [timesnr] \definefontsynonym [TimesNRRegular][file:times][features=default] \definefontsynonym [TimesNRItalic][file:timesi][features=default] \definefontsynonym [TimesNRBold][file:timesbd][features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [timesnr] \definefontsynonym [Serif][TimesNRRegular][features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic][TimesNRItalic][features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold][TimesNRBold][features=default] %\definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic][][features=default] %\definefontsynonym [SansBoldSlanted][SansBoldItalic][features=default] %\definefontsynonym [SansCaps][Sans][features=smallcaps] \definefontsynonym [SerifSlanted][SerifItalic][features=default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [timesnr] \definetypeface[timesnr][rm][serif][timesnr][default] \stoptypescript ) Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] font-win.tex
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

> It would be nice if there was a volunteer I'm the one, but for Windows XP at the moment. Then I will add Vista fonts. IMHO, the previous versions of Windows are not worth to consider. Vyatcheslav

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Bibliography module and ibid./ebd.
by Andreas Harder 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hello again, is it possible to achieve with the t-bib-module that the second (third, … ) of two or more consecutive \cite-command with the same tag will be replaced with ebid. (ebd. in German)? I found an older posting http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20020903.072930.995836b4.en.html on this list, but in the actual manual it's mentioned nowhere … Thank you in advance Adreas

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protrusion and \quotation{…}
by Andreas Harder 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hello, is it volitional/known that there is no protrusion if one using \quotation{…} (under mkiv)? \definefontfeature[protrusion][default][protrusion=quality] \definefont[test][Serif*protrusion at 24pt] \setupalign[hanging] \starttext \showframe \test\setupinterlinespace \quotation{Hello World}\hfill \quotation{Hello World}\crlf “Hello World”\hfill “Hello World” \blank \de \quotation{Hello World}\hfill \quotation{Hello World}\crlf „Hello World“\hfill „Hello World“ \quote{Hello World}\hfill \quote{Hello World}\crlf ‚Hello World‘\hfill ‚Hello World‘ \blank \setuplanguage [de] [ leftquote=\rightsubguillemot, leftquotation=\rightguillemot, rightquote=\leftsubguillemot, rightquotation=\leftguillemot] \quotation{Hello World}\hfill \quotation{Hello World}\crlf »Hello World«\hfill »Hello World« \blank \setuplanguage [de] [ leftquote=›, leftquotation=», rightquote=‹, rightquotation=«] \quotation{Hello World}\hfill \quotation{Hello World}\crlf »Hello World«\hfill »Hello World« \quote{Hello World}\hfill \quote{Hello World}\crlf ›Hello World‹\hfill ›Hello World‹ \blank \hfill |<|Hello World|>|\crlf \null\hfill –~Hello World~– \stoptext Greetings Andreas

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Consistent row spacing in TABLEs
by Thomas Floeren 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hello, I have a problem to get consistent row spacing in TABLEs when the whitespace in the document is set to any other than 'none'. Example: % coding: utf-8 \enableregime[utf] \setupwhitespace[medium] % \setupwhitespace[none] %% with this it works fine \setupTABLE [spaceinbetween=7pt,split=yes] \starttext \bTABLE \dorecurse{50}{\bTR \bTD table cell \eTD \bTD table cell \eTD \eTR} \eTABLE \stoptext The row spacing after the page break seems to be correct, but on the first page the vertical space is heavily reduced (as it is in one-page TABLEs). The only solution I found was to change the whitespace setting to none before each table. Is there any other workaround? Or am I doing something completely wrong? ConTeXt ver: 2009.02.25 14:43 MKII Thanks in advance Thomas

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A few minor questions
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hello, 1) I use \setupindenting[yes, big]. How to make the first paragraph (after the section title) to be indented too? 2) I made a command for abstracts (a few lines in the beginning of the paper, one paragraph only). Please, look at my definition, i'd like to know how to implement it in more elegant, ConTeXt way. \define[1]\Abstract{ \startalignment[middle] \switchtobodyfont[11pt] {\it #1} \stopalignment \blank[big]} Example usage: \Abstract{Присвячено практичному застосуванню алгоритмів параметричної ідентифікації для визначення параметрів технологічного процесу гідроструйного різання} Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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Help with book of poetry
by Corin Royal Drummond 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

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Hanging punctuation with Type 1 fonts
by Wolfgang Schuster 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi, is it possible to use hanging punctuation in MkIV with Type 1 fonts, I tried the Lucida fonts but it did not work. I made also a simple test I and converted "LucidaBright" (the Regular style} into OpenType format and it worked then. Wolfgang

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beta: \vi (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Hi, currently trying the latest(?) beta from 08.03.2009. No problems with colors so far... But a simple font size switch like '\vi' has no effect here. \starttext Regular size and {\vi six point}? \stoptext Also the 'lazy' \z@ has vanished (too many sideeffects?). RIP. Best wishes, Peter -- "Es ist doch ein Trost, das Geldgier manchmal blöd macht." - Kottan in "Kottan ermittelt", Folge 9: "Die Einteilung" -

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luatex tikz problem
by Mohamed Bana 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

hi, why does this fail with luatex? also, try \enableregime[utf-8] i got another error message when that's enabled. $ luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.31.3-2008123108, build unknown $ context --version MtxRun | main context file: /home/mbana/context-minimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.tex MtxRun | current version: 2009.01.18 14:39 texexec --lua test.tex ! Missing \endcsname inserted. <to be read again> \edef \tikz@finish ...\the \pgflinewidth }\fi \fi \edef \tikz@temp {\noexpand \pgf... <argument> ...linewidth {\begingroup \tikz@finish }\global \pgflinewidth =\p... \pgfutil@secondoftwo #1#2->#2 <argument> ...l \pgflinewidth =\pgfutil@tempdima } \pgfutil@ifundefined {pgf@... \pgfutil@secondoftwo #1#2->#2 ... l.52 ...ft:$s_0$] {$p,q$}; ? %\enableregime[utf-8] \usemodule[tikz] \usemodule[pgfplots] %\usetikzlibrary[fit] % ConTEXt \usetikzlibrary[arrows,automata,fit] \starttext \starttikzpicture[->,>=stealth',shorten >=1pt,auto,node distance=4cm, semithick] \tikzstyle{every state}=[fill=grey,draw=none,text=white] \node[state] (s0) [label=left:$s_0$] {$p,q$}; \node[state] (s1) [below right of=s0,label=right:$s_1$] {$q$}; \node[state] (s2) [below of=s0,label=right:$s_2$] {$q$}; \node[state] (s3) [below left of=s0,label=left:$s_3$] {$p$}; \path (s0) edge [loop above] (s0) edge (s1) edge (s3) (s1) edge [bend right] (s3) (s2) edge [loop below] (s2) edge (s0) edge [right] (s1) (s3) edge [right] (s1) edge [right] (s2); \stoptikzpicture \stoptext

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Ambitious project (Font Folio)
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Hello everybody, I have an ambitious project in mind. I'm in position to make typescripts for the whole Adobe Font Folio 11. By now, I'm only concerned with Western/Cyrrilic Fonts (490+ fonts), and MKIV engine. The benefit is that users will be able to use most popular fonts out-of-the-box, thus giving the ConTeXt strong advantage in professional typesetting world. I think my effort will require some support from NTG ;o), but before applying I'd like to hear your response. Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Columnspan in table no possible
by Wolfgang Schuster 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Hi, the last beta gives a error message for columnspans in tables. \starttext \starttable[|l|l|] \NC one \NC two \NC\AR \NC \TWO three \NC\AR \stoptable \stoptext Runaway argument? \ifnum \mscount >\plusone ! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning use of \!thLoop. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> \endtemplate <template> \endtemplate \next ...\!thLoop \ifnum \mscount >\plusone \span \omit \advance \mscount \m... l.5 \NC \TWO three \NC\AR Wolfgang

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Hi, There is a new beta: a few additions to math as well as a prelude to new cjk support, now to be triggered explicitly (since the methods differ too much we cannot share them) \setscript[hangul] \setscript[hanzi] % arthur, is this the right name? 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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Bib module...
by Willi Egger 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Hi, I should typeset an article... Now I tried out different approaches but I do not get a complete list of references. I am puzzled why I do get only Taco's reference in the list and why there is no journal mentioned in Taco's reference. Here is a minimal example: \setuppublicationlist[totalnumber=2,criterium=all] \startpublication [k=me, t=manual, a=Hoekwater, y=2006, s=TH2006, n=2, u=http://contextgarden.net/Bibliography] \artauthor{Taco}[T.]{}{Hoekwater} \arttitle{\CONTEXT\ Publication Module, The user documententation} \note{In case you didn’t know: it’s the document you are reading now} \pages{14} \journal{MAPS} \pages{100-114} \pubyear{2008} \stoppublication \startpublication[% k=Allan-eighty, t=article, a=Allan et al., y=1980, n=1] \artauthor[]{}[E.M.]{}{Allan} \artauthor[]{}[H M.]{}{Pirle} \artauthor[]{}[P. M.]{}{Msolla} \artauthor[]{}[I.E.]{}{Selman} \artauthor[]{}[A.]{}{Wiseman} \arttitle{The pathological features of severe cases of infectious bovine rhinotracheitis} \journal{Vet. Rec.} \volume{107} \pages{441-445} \pubyear{1980} \stoppublication \setuppublications[alternative=ams, refcommand=num] \setupcite[num][pubsep={,},left={[},right={]}] \starttext Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet\cite[me], consectetuer adipiscing elit. Ut venenatis, ipsum a ultricies molestie, arcu quam mollis arcu, id facilisis dui justo nec purus. Vivamus vitae est a dolor consequat pellentesque. \unknown Aliquam posuere scelerisque ipsum. Sed eget risus. Cras blandit risus in lorem\cite[Allan80]. \bank[1cm] \placepublications[criterium=all] \stoptext Thanks for enlightening me! Willi

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Hi, I uploaded a new beta (mkiv): -- some optimizations to color literals; i might have introduced problems there so keep an eye on color -- beter definition for virtual lm math (design sizes etc) and a fix for undefined sizes -- taco and i also tracked down some accuracy problems with cirtual glyphs in luatex itself; it's not that critical unless you have eyes that can zoom in to .05pt so ther eis no real need to upgrade luatex now -- there are a few more optimizations but don't expect too much speed improvements in the future next comes integration of the new structure stuff (quite some impact) and further split of mkii/mkiv code 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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Two questions - Cross Referencing (Automated label generation + Random items)
by Curious Learn 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

As I mentioned earlier, I am trying to use Context to make a multiple choice test. I have two questions. (1) Suppose I want to get a list of answers to the the multiple choice questions. One way I can think of doing this is by assigning a label to the CORRECT answer as done in the following code and then referring to that label. Is there a way these labels can be generated automatically, instead of hardcoding them as I have done below? defineenumeration[problem][text= ,location=inleft] \setupenumerations[problem][stopper=)] \defineitemgroup[choices][levels=1] \setupitemgroup[choices][1][a,packed] \nextrandom \starttext \problem This is the first question. \startchoices \startitem This is incorrect answer 1. \stopitem \startitem This is a wrong answer too. \stopitem \startitem[1] This is the CORRECT answer. \stopitem \startitem Yet another wrong answer. \stopitem \stopchoices \problem This is the second question. \startchoices \startitem[2] This is the CORRECT answer. \stopitem \startitem This is a wrong answer too. \stopitem \startitem This is not a correct choice. \stopitem \startitem Yet another wrong answer. \stopitem \stopchoices Answers to the questions \in[1] \in[2] \stoptext (2) When I add the option "random" to the itemgroup (\setupitemgroup[choices][1][a,packed,random]) then as expected the choices are listed in a random order. However, the label does not change with the choice listing. I want the reference to be attached to the CORRECT answer, which changes its position with random option. Is there a way to have the reference reflect the letter corresponding to the correct answer. Thanks in advance for your help. I really appreciate it.

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How to use my own BibTeX style (bst)?
by Wei-Wei Guo 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Dear all, I have both English and Chinese citations in my paper. Because Chinese citation has some special requirements, such as using "等" instead of "et al". I made a bst file to solve the localization problem. But after reading the manual of t-bib and searched in garden and mailing list, I find it might be tricky to make t-bib use my own bst file. Could you tell my how to do it? Thanks a lot! Best wishes, Wei-Wei Guo

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\dorecurse and \recurselevel in Natural Tables
by Curious Learn 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Can someone please explain why the second example below works but the first does not work? Thanks very much. \starttext \bTABLE \dorecurse{5} {\bTR \bTD \recurselevel. \eTD \bTD \recurselevel \eTD\eTR} \eTABLE \dorecurse{2} {\recurselevel. \recurselevel\crlf} \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] How to increase weight of a font?
by Wei-Wei Guo 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi Hans, Do you mean \definefontsynonym[ZhSerif][name:SimSun][properties=???] Could you tell me how to do? Thank you! Best wishes, Wei-Wei Guo ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl 写道: > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:13:16 +0100 > From: Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] How to increase weight of a font? > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Message-ID: <49AFFA1C.8040605(a)wxs.nl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Wei-Wei Guo wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> >> I need to increase the eight of a Chinese font to make it look like a >> bold font. Is there anyway to do so? > > properties > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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Howto make a handy script to handle dia exported *.mp files
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

HI ALL! According to an earlier post that was very much helpful, I now wish to know how to write a shell script or similar to automate this exporting process. http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20081124.122842.38fee2f4.en.html I discover it is a lot of typing work to get these work as expected in ConTeXt and specially mkIV. Here is what i wish: Just type in the ubuntu terminal ./mp2context figure.mp figure.tex Inside the file mp2context it replaces all the latex related like verbatimtex bla bla etex with \startuseMPgraphic{figure} and replaces textareas from btex { latex font definitions ..text..} etex to \sometxt{..text..} I saw Aditya mentioned in the earlier post about some regexp but I don't know what do do with it. Finally you just for example in main document do \startproduct \component figure \placefigure[here][fig:myfig]{Here is my picture done in dia}{\scale[width=\textwidth]{\useMPgraphic{figure}}} \stoppproduct Thanks in Advance! Janneman using Minimals current version: 2009.01.18 14:39 This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.35.0-2009022416 (Web2C 7.5.7)

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Re: [NTG-context] New LilyPond module
by Wei-Wei Guo 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

It comes right in time. Thank you! Is it possible to make the temp lily file in the format of PNG instead of PDF? MkIV here cannot insert PDF figure properly recently. Best wishes, Wei-Wei Guo ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl 写道: > Dear music lovers, > > I just uploaded a new version of the LilyPond module, see > http://modules.contextgarden.net/t-lilypond > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LilyPond > > It works now with LilyPond 2.12 and fixes some bugs - i.e. all > settings should work now, and with > > \lilypond[fragment=yes,time=no,clef=no]{c''8 d'' e'' f'' g''} > > it should now produce proper fragments (snippets). > > > Greetlings from Lake Constance! > Hraban

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New LilyPond module
by Henning Hraban Ramm 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Dear music lovers, I just uploaded a new version of the LilyPond module, see http://modules.contextgarden.net/t-lilypond http://wiki.contextgarden.net/LilyPond It works now with LilyPond 2.12 and fixes some bugs - i.e. all settings should work now, and with \lilypond[fragment=yes,time=no,clef=no]{c''8 d'' e'' f'' g''} it should now produce proper fragments (snippets). Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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paragraph question
by Alan Stone 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi, How do you access the first paragraph of each chapter ? I guess with... \setuphead[chapter][after=\PlayWithFirstParagraph] \def\PlayWithFirstParagraph... How to fill in the dots ? Alan

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overprint and \currentcolorname in mkiv
by Peter Rolf 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi Hans, the subject is re-used from an older mail http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080912.160921.cb5bba9d.en.html >> Currently I try to adapt some mkii code to mkiv. Overprinting should >> only be enabled if >> - a given maximum font size is not exceeded and >> - the current text color is black. >> >> So I also need \currentcolorname (or something similar) for that test. >> >> [colo-new.mkiv:] >> \def\currentcolorname{\s!black} % todo You were so kind to add \doifblackelse in mkiv, but without a working \currentcolorname it is pretty useless at the moment. I want to closure the (inconvenient) prepress topic and overprinting is the last unsolved problem. Any chance that this will be implemented in the near future? Best wishes, Peter -- "Es ist doch ein Trost, das Geldgier manchmal blöd macht." - Kottan in "Kottan ermittelt", Folge 9: "Die Einteilung" -

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boldstyle for numbers in defineenumeration
by Xan 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi, Is it possible to put "numerstyle=boldstyle" in this enumeration?: \defineenumeration [exercici] [text={\startcolor[middlecyan]Exercici\stopcolor},headstyle=bold,between=\blank,titledistance=0em,textdistance=1em, stopper={.\space},location=serried,titleleft=(,titleright=),width=fit,headstyle=\ss] For the other hand, is it possible to make it's a framed? Thanks a lot, Xan.

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the other blog (chemical stuff)
by Hans Hagen 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi aditya, some comments on the other bog item ... (others may wikify it) you can do a quick and dirty solution as well (tested in mkiv): \def\MoleculeC#1{$\enablesupersub\tf#1$} now, concerning the lua solution, it looks pretty clean and ok, but there is some room for improvement ... the following version supports nested braces and numbers (we can let this evolve in a proper chemical subsystem if needed since eventually i will replace ppchtex anyway) \startluacode local molecule = { } local format, sprint = string.format, tex.sprint function commands.justtext(one) sprint(tex.ctxcatcodes,one) end function commands.low(str) sprint(tex.ctxcatcodes,format("\\low{%s}",str)) end function commands.high(str) sprint(tex.ctxcatcodes,format("\\high{%s}",str)) end function commands.lowhigh(one,two) sprint(tex.ctxcatcodes,format("\\lohi{%s}{%s}",one,two)) end function commands.highlow(one,two) sprint(tex.ctxcatcodes,format("\\hilo{%s}{%s}",one,two)) end local lowercase = lpeg.R("az") local uppercase = lpeg.R("AZ") local plus = lpeg.P("+") local minus = lpeg.P("-") local digit = lpeg.R("09") local sign = plus + minus local cardinal = digit^1 local integer = sign^0 * cardinal local leftbrace = lpeg.P("{") local rightbrace = lpeg.P("}") local nobrace = 1 - (leftbrace + rightbrace) local nested = lpeg.P { leftbrace * (nobrace + lpeg.V(1))^0 * rightbrace } local any = lpeg.P(1) local subscript = lpeg.P("_") local superscript = lpeg.P("^") local content = lpeg.C(nested + integer + any) -- could be made more efficient local lowhigh = subscript * content * superscript * content / commands.lowhigh local highlow = superscript * content * subscript * content / commands.highlow local low = subscript * content / commands.low local high = superscript * content / commands.high local justtext = lpeg.C((1 - somescript)^1) / commands.justtext local parser = (sometext + lowhigh + highlow + low + high)^0 function commands.molecule(string) parser:match(string) end \stopluacode \def\molecule#1{\ctxlua{commands.molecule("#1")}} \molecule{H_2SO_4^-2} \molecule{H_2SO_4^{-2}} \molecule{H_2SO_4^{-2{x}}} 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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[Fwd: Re: math preview in emacs]
by Mohamed Bana 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

has anyone else looked at providing math preview with ConTeXt?

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Eliminate space between float and caption
by Michael Bynum 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

I am trying to find a way to reduce/eliminate the space between a figure and a caption. The default amount looks rather large to me: larger than the spacing between the caption and the body text. I tried to use the inbetween option in \setupcation, but I can only seem to increase the space between the figure and caption and not reduce it. I saw a reference to details.pdf in the mailing list about more advanced examples of captions, but when I went to www.pragma-ade.com/temp the page no longer exists and I couldn't find details.pdf. Thanks, Mike

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Re: [NTG-context] experimental repository in mtx-update
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

> > afaik beta is the real beta and experimental often alpha > > OK, can I download experimental version using mtx-update? The code comment says 'experimental is not implemented'. Is it? Vyatcheslav

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overarc
by David Arnold 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

All, How can I place an overarc over some text, such as in \overarc{AB}? D.

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MKIV: problem with synonyms
by Peter Münster 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Hello, \completelistof... does not work with MKIV (ConTeXt 2009.01.18 and LuaTeX snapshot-0.31.3-2008123108): \definesynonyms[Acro][acronymes] \Acro{HTML}{HyperText Markup Language} \Acro{PDF}{Portable Document Format} \starttext \HTML\ and \PDF \completelistofacronymes \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] Up the contents of table
by Wolfgang Schuster 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Am 05.03.2009 um 09:09 schrieb Xan: > Thanks, Wolfgang, but I refered to contents of the table not the > caption of the table. The contents of this table are: pictures in up > and text in bottom. I want to put all together in the "up" of the > table. Sorry but with your question only there is no way to understand what you mean, I texed now your example (please add next time \starttext ... \stoptext and load all required packages) and saw what you mean. The two pictures and the text in the middle column should align at the top of the table. Natural tables are better suited for this kind of table because you can use the 'align' key. \bTABLE [frame =off,align=middle,width=4.5cm,background=color,backgroundcolor=gray] \bTR \bTD[nx=3,foregroundstyle=\ssbf] Com s'identifica una funció mitjançant la seva representació gràfica? \eTD \eTR \bTR[topframe=on,bottomframe=on] \bTD <graph 1> \eTD \bTD <text> \eTD \bTD <graph 2> \eTD \eTR \eTABLE Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] Up the contents of table
by Xan 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

En/na Wolfgang Schuster ha escrit: > > Am 05.03.2009 um 16:57 schrieb Xan: > >> Lohi? >> What it means? >> Can you translate me the dicctionary: >> valign = middle --> lohi >> valign = bottom --> ? >> valign = up --> ? > > Natural tables and \framed have only 'align' key which you can use > to control horizontal *and* vertical alignment of the text. > > \starttext > \bTABLE[height=2cm] > \bTR > \bTD[align=low] text \eTD > \bTD[align=lohi]text \eTD > \bTD[align=high]text \eTD > \eTR > \eTABLE > \stoptext > > o 'low' positions the text at the bottom of the box, > o 'high' positions the text at the top of the box and > o 'lohi' centers text vertical in the box. > > You can combine settings like 'align={lohi,middle}' to get vertical > and horizontal centered text in the box. > > Wolfgang > Thanks. A lot, Xan. PS: I CC context mailing list because I don't find this explanation nowhere. It could be useful for someone.

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How to increase weight of a font?
by Wei-Wei Guo 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Hi everyone, I need to increase the eight of a Chinese font to make it look like a bold font. Is there anyway to do so? Thanks, Best wishes, Wei-Wei Guo

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setupsynonym: 2 questions on width
by Michael Bynum 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

1.) I have a list of synonyms that I need to print in an aligned list. Is there a way to align the synonym definitions with the longest synonym entry (width=? option maybe)? Here is a small example where the entries do not align. \definesynonyms[nomenclature][nomenclatures][\infull] \setupsynonyms[nomenclature][criterium=all,width=broad] \nomenclature[a]{a}{This is the letter a} \nomenclature[b]{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz}{This is the alphabet} \nomenclature[c]{c}{This is the letter c} \starttext \placelistofnomenclatures \stoptext 2.) Also, if the width in setupsynonyms is set to a value smaller than the length of the longest entry, the entry tries to wrap around, but it writes over top of the next entry. Obviously this is not desirable. Is there a way to have the next entry below the "wrapped" long entry instead of on the same line? An example of this issue. \definesynonyms[nomenclature][nomenclatures][\infull] \setupsynonyms[nomenclature][criterium=all] \nomenclature[a]{a}{This is the letter a} \nomenclature[b]{abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz}{This is the alphabet} \nomenclature[c]{c}{This is the letter c} \starttext \placelistofnomenclatures \stoptext Thanks, Mike

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some minor Problems
by Lutz Haseloff 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Hi Hans, hi all, First: in the last 2 Betas (today and yesterday) the parameter --interface for texexec seems not to work anymore. my log: >texmfstart texexec --interface=xp --autopdf --luatex ligtest.tex TeXExec | processing document 'ligtest.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: false TeXExec | tex engine: luatex TeXExec | tex format: false TeXExec | runtime: 0.86 >Exit code: 0 context --make xp builds a format cont-xp without error messages. The format cont-en runs well with: texmfstart texexec --autopdf --luatex ligtest.tex Second: The command || like in knuth.tex seems not to work properly in mkiv. Even with enabled liga feature it builds two hyphens. Last: I can't enable fontfeatures for the "Vista-Fonts" for instance Cambria. They are simply ignored. They are OTF with TTF extensions, ist this the reason? Greetings Lutz ---------- Proud member of the NTG

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Up the contents of table
by Xan 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Hi, Is there any way of "upping" the contents of a table? I have this example: \startframedtext[background=screen,frame=off,width=broad] \startalignment[center] {\ssbf Com s'identifica una funció mitjançant la seva representació gràfica?} \stopalignment \placetable[here,none] [taula] { } { \starttable[|l|xw(4.5cm)p(4.5cm)|l] \HL \NC % Una relació que no és funció 1 \starttikzpicture[scale=0.8] \draw[very thin,color=gray] (-0.1,-1.1) grid (3.9,3.9); \draw[->] (-0.2,0) -- (4.2,0) node[right] {$x$}; \draw[->] (0,-1.2) -- (0,4.2) node[above] {$y$}; \path coordinate (start) at (0,4) coordinate (c1) at +(5,3) coordinate (c2) at +(5,1.75) coordinate (slut) at (2.7,.5) coordinate (top) at (4.2,2); \draw[color=red,important line] (start) .. controls (c1) and (c2) .. (slut); \stoptikzpicture \NC Si algun valor de $x$ li correspon més d'un valor de $y$, aleshores la gràfica no correspon a una funció. Sinó sí que correspon a una funció. \NC % Una relació que no és funció 1 \starttikzpicture[scale=0.8] \draw[very thin,color=gray] (-0.1,-1.1) grid (3.9,3.9); \draw[->] (-0.2,0) -- (4.2,0) node[right] {$x$}; \draw[->] (0,-1.2) -- (0,4.2) node[above] {$y$}; \path coordinate (start) at (0,4) coordinate (c1) at +(5,3) coordinate (c2) at +(5,1.75) coordinate (slut) at (2.7,.5) coordinate (top) at (4.2,2); \draw[color=red,important line] (start) .. controls (c1) and (c2) .. (slut); \stoptikzpicture \LR \HL \stoptable} \stopframedtext and the text is bottom the table. Thanks in advance, Xan. PS: Please, CCme.

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1/2 symbol
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Hello, Easy question: how to get 1/2 symbol without entering math mode (using Minion Pro font)? Best, Vyatcheslav

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extra offsets
by Hans Hagen 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Hi, concerning the offsets in framed .. - we cannot use leftoffset etc as name because these are already used in mechanisms that build on top of framed and it would add quite some extra code (and probably bugs) to those mechanisms - adding additional rulethickness variants is non trivial since the rulethickness is also used elsewhere (rounded corners etc) and the code would become rather messy; also, we can use mp for special frames (after all, extra thickness makes no sense without extra colors) so, as an experiment i added support for extra offsets but these work *on top* of the existing offset; they have names like loffset, roffset, toffset and boffset; the speed penalty is neglectable (only mkiv because it has a more clever inheritance model for derived framed mechanisms) Hans ps. for quite a long time there is a command \offset which takes leftoffset cum suis plus some more ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Switching off Header only on a particular page
by Curious Learn 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Hi, Is there a way to switch off just the header on a particular page? The Context manual gives the command \noheaderandfooterlines to switch off both. However, I want the page number (which is in the footer) on the first page, but no headers on the first page. Thanks.

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Update script does not work
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Hello, When I use mtxrun.cmd --script mtx-update.lua --update --force --engine=all --platform=windows --context=beta --texroot=C:\contextminimal the rsync ends up with something like "destination and source locations are the same". I had many problems with updating this way, but when downloaded cont-tmg.zip directly from pragma and unpacked it into tree they all has gone . Definitely, something wrong with the mtx-update script or garden folders. Who can look into it? Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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PhD Thesis in ConTeXt
by Piotr 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Hello, I have spent some time with google in order to find an answer to the following questions. Unfortunatly, I was not satisfied with the answers, which I now hope to find here. It is my plan not to use the MS Office suite for the production of my PhD thesis (in chemistry). I have used Miktex some years ago during my studies for some project reports, and I remember beeing quite satisfied with the results. My Master thesis, on the other hand, I wrote in word.. and although I remember not having too many difficulties, there were some nasty obstacles to be overcome. Obstacles which I simply do not want to risk having repeated a second time on a much bigger scale. I this mailing list I read several reports of people who either had written their thesis in Latex or ConTeXt. There was a mention of Latex beeing designed for mathematic purposes, while ConTeXt was said to be better suited for the intergration of graphics or larger/more complex layout changes. 1) Finding the right context For now I had quite some difficulties to find that proper Latex distribution - a problem that actually led me to the existence of ConTeXt. I am wondering which latex distribution I should choose in order to work with ConTeXt? I am running Windows Vista (64-bit). Or is there a ConTeXt stand alone package that will absolutely satisfy my me in my needs? In principle, all I need is 2) The right editor What is the preferred editor for ConTeXt? for such a project? Is there any loss in functionality when using Texniccenter with ConTeXt than with MikTex instead? 3) I have seen some thesis templates/examples in this mailinglist. Can anyone point me to additional sources regarding the creation of a PhD Thesis with ConTeXt? What is the advantage over Latex, what are the disadvantages? Is there a win-win distribution somewhere on the table? 4) Has anyone used a typesetting suite like ContTeXt with CVS? 5) Is the ConTeXt reference system compatible with Endnote? Is there any point to have latex installed, when context can do the trick? Or lets ask the devils advocate the other way around: What is the point of installing context, when latex could do the trick? Apart that I have to re-learn latex anyway.. what is better with Context? Regards, Piotr Jakubowicz

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experimental repository in mtx-update
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

In mtx-update, there is --context=beta switch. What about --repository=experimental? And how these two interfere with each other? This is crucial for me to know to update the installer. Best, Vyatcheslav

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problem with defineitemgroup command
by Curious Learn 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

I am trying to define an itemgroup to list the answers for multiple choice questions. When I try to change the stopper using the option stopper=), the list changes from an alphabetical one to a bulleted list. Please see the difference between "choices" and "options" below. \defineitemgroup[choices][levels=1] \setupitemgroup[choices][1][a,packed] \defineitemgroup[options][levels=1] \setupitemgroup[options][1][a,packed,stopper=)] \starttext \startchoices \startitem This is choice 1. \stopitem \startitem This is choice 2. \stopitem \stopchoices \startoptions \startitem This is option 1. \stopitem \startitem This is option 2. \stopitem \stopoptions \stoptext Q. How can I change the stopper in this itemgroup.

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latest beta - Math error
by Thomas A. Schmitz 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Sorry, I don't have a minimal example yet, but processing some of my xml files dies with this error: ! Math error: parameter \Umathquad\crampedscriptscriptstyle is not set. \XML:ent:approx ->$\approx $ l.2 ≈ \xmlflush #1->\ctxlua {lxml.flush("#1")} \@@su:xml:content #1->\xmlflush {#1} \par l.1 \xmlsetup{292}{xml:content} \xmlfirst #1#2->\ctxlua {lxml.first("#1","#2")} ... or ! Math error: parameter \Umathquad\crampedscriptscriptstyle is not set. \mathematics #1->\relax \ifmmode #1\else $#1$ \fi \XML:ent:lt ...ies \string <\else \mathematics {<} \fi l.5 < \xmlflush #1->\ctxlua {lxml.flush("#1")} \@@su:xml:content #1->\xmlflush {#1} \par l.1 \xmlsetup{880}{xml:content} I haven't succeeded in narrowing down the error, but what does \Umathquad and \crampedscriptscriptstyle mean? I couldn't find it in the source. Thomas

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beta again
by Hans Hagen 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Hi, - the problem with creating formats is related to changes in texexec (and other rb modules) that rely on ruby 1.8 and had to be adapted to 1.9; because incompatibilities in library calls are nicely catched (begin .. rescue ... end) we never see problems unless we explicitly issue an error message or warning which in most cases is more bound to the expected behaviour than to the method missing ... as such, i would not be surprised if more problems show up, but on the other hand, in the end only texexec remains as ruby script - the problem with hz/protruding was due to a typo in one of the lua scripts but even then, the posted example would now show the effects as one has to explicitly turn it on: \setupalign[hz,hanging] i'll upload a new beta 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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