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Re: [NTG-context] how to get thick and thin borders working in tables (ConTeXt)
by Lars Huttar 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

On 12/11/2008 3:24 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 11.12.2008 um 18:05 schrieb Lars Huttar: > >> We center borders between the cells by using "enlarged" values -0.2 +/- >> k, i.e. center around -0.2. I'm not sure why -0.2 works better than >> zero, but it does... Doing this makes coincident border lines from >> adjacent cells look like ordinary single lines instead of being extra >> thick. We settled on k = 0.6 to get the desired distance between our >> double lines. Incidentally, I wish I knew how to put -0.2, 0.2-k, and >> -0.2+k into variables or something so that they could all be changed in >> one place, instead of hard-coded in many places. Maybe somebody can help >> me there. > > \startMPinitializations > numeric InnerFrame, MiddleFrame, OuterFrame ; > InnerFrame := 0.2 ; > MiddleFrame := 0.4 ; > OuterFrame := 0.8 ; > \stopMPinitializations Makes sense. Thanks... this will make the code clearer and more maintainable. > % 1 double side > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:Lrtb} % left double > draw OverlayBox leftenlarged MiddleFrame topenlarged -InnerFrame > bottomenlarged -InnerFrame rightenlarged -InnerFrame ; > draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -OuterFrame topenlarged -InnerFrame > bottomenlarged -InnerFrame rightenlarged -InnerFrame ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > >> An unexpected and potentially large benefit of this approach is that for >> each cell, we only generate one MPgraphic (apparently because we only >> use one overlay per cell), which should make the TeX run much faster, >> and avoid running over the maxnumMPgraphics limit. With the >> multiple-overlay-per-cell approach, we ended up using about 13,000 >> MPgraphics for our document, far beyond the default limit of 4000, and >> taking 15 minutes to run compared to 37 seconds for a similar document >> without the tables. > > Use the 'nomprun' switch for texexec > > texexec --nomprun --xtx file > > ConTeXt collects now all graphics and process them after the TeX run. Hmm... we tried this, but it doesn't seem to make any obvious difference. Is this supposed to give a speed improvement? or get around the maxnumMPgraphics limit? Thanks again for your help. Lars

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Re: [NTG-context] how to get thick and thin borders working in tables (ConTeXt)
by Lars Huttar 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

On 12/10/2008 4:05 AM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Lars Huttar <lars_huttar(a)sil.org> wrote: ... >> However, when I try to mix double frames with single frames, I'm having >> trouble. Here is what I tried, in order to get a cell with double frame >> on the left, and single frame everywhere else: >> >> \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:Lrtb} % left border is double >> draw leftboundary OverlayBox enlarged \the\dimexpr\linewidth*1\relax ; % >> outer frame >> draw leftboundary OverlayBox enlarged -\the\dimexpr\linewidth*2\relax ; >> % inner frame >> draw rightboundary OverlayBox enlarged -\the\dimexpr\linewidth/2\relax ; >> draw topboundary OverlayBox enlarged -\the\dimexpr\linewidth/2\relax ; >> draw bottomboundary OverlayBox enlarged -\the\dimexpr\linewidth/2\relax ; >> setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; >> \stopuseMPgraphic >> >> Now the graphic has double line on the left and a single line elsewhere. >> However, the lines are thicker than in the previous one... about twice >> as thick, too heavy for our requirements. And I can't tell why. This is >> true on all four sides. >> See http://www.huttar.net/lars-kathy/tmp/test-mp-tableframe.pdf, second >> table. >> >> Also, on the side that has double lines, the double lines don't go all >> the way to the top and bottom (see same pdf, second table), so that the >> double line is not continuous across multiple rows. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> The above graphic is used as follows... >> \start >> \setupTABLE[c][first][background={table:frame:Lrtb}] >> \getbuffer >> \stop > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:all} > draw OverlayBox enlarged -0.2 ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:leftdouble} > draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 2 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.2 > rightenlarged -0.2 ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \defineoverlay[table:frame:all][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:all}] > \defineoverlay[table:frame:leftdouble][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:leftdouble}] > > \starttext > > \startbuffer > \bTABLE[frame=off,offset=2ex] > \bTR > \bTD One \eTD > \bTD Two \eTD > \bTD Three \eTD > \eTR > \bTR > \bTD Four \eTD > \bTD Five \eTD > \bTD Six \eTD > \eTR > \bTR > \bTD Seven \eTD > \bTD Eight \eTD > \bTD Nine \eTD > \eTR > \eTABLE > \stopbuffer > > \start > \setupTABLE[background={table:frame:all}] > \setupTABLE[c][first][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:leftdouble}] > \getbuffer > \stop > > \stoptext > > Wolfgang > This fixes the problems I mentioned in my previous email. Thanks again for that! Unfortunately, when I generalize it, it takes us back to producing triple borders between adjacent cells. I think this is inevitable when overlaying a double frame (for certain sides) on top of a single frame for all sides, because a double side overlaid on a single side cannot be centered (or else the single line shows through separately from the double line). So my fix... which I'm posting here in hopes that someone may refine it, and for the benefit of others who may attempt similar things... is to center the double frames between the cells and avoid overlaying a double frame side over a single frame side. We center borders between the cells by using "enlarged" values -0.2 +/- k, i.e. center around -0.2. I'm not sure why -0.2 works better than zero, but it does... Doing this makes coincident border lines from adjacent cells look like ordinary single lines instead of being extra thick. We settled on k = 0.6 to get the desired distance between our double lines. Incidentally, I wish I knew how to put -0.2, 0.2-k, and -0.2+k into variables or something so that they could all be changed in one place, instead of hard-coded in many places. Maybe somebody can help me there. A cost of this single-overlay-per-cell approach is that we have to specify individually the 16 possible overlays (combinations of single and double edges) for any possible cell. But that's not too bad, as we only have to define them once. (In practice, we also had to define a couple of special cases where we needed some cells with open edges for a "faked rowspan". We haven't completely got those working yet.) An unexpected and potentially large benefit of this approach is that for each cell, we only generate one MPgraphic (apparently because we only use one overlay per cell), which should make the TeX run much faster, and avoid running over the maxnumMPgraphics limit. With the multiple-overlay-per-cell approach, we ended up using about 13,000 MPgraphics for our document, far beyond the default limit of 4000, and taking 15 minutes to run compared to 37 seconds for a similar document without the tables. Here is our working system... hope it's helpful to somebody: %%%% define MPgraphics for double-ruled tables % Lars Huttar, 2008-12-09 % Thanks to Wolfgang Schuster on NTG-list % Each MPgraph (and overlay) is named lrtb, with capitalized letters indicating which sides are double-ruled. % Adjacent cells must not define their common side differently, e.g. one cell define it single and one side % define it double; if that happens, it will appear triple (or a triple-thick line). % 0 double sides \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:lrtb} % all single draw OverlayBox enlarged -0.2 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic % 1 double side \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:Lrtb} % left double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.2 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.2 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:lRtb} % right double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.8 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged 0.4 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:lrTb} % top double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged 0.4 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.2 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.8 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.2 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:lrtB} % bottom double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged 0.4 rightenlarged -0.2 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.8 rightenlarged -0.2 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic % 2 double sides: adjacent \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LrTb} % left, top double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged -0.8 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.2 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged 0.4 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.2 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:lRTb} % right, top double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.8 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.8 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged 0.4 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged 0.4 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LrtB} % left, bottom double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.8 rightenlarged -0.2 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged 0.4 rightenlarged -0.2 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:lRtB} % right, bottom double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.8 rightenlarged -0.8 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged 0.4 rightenlarged 0.4 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic % 2 double sides: opposite \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LRtb} % left, right double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.8 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged 0.4 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:lrTB} % top, bottom double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.8 bottomenlarged -0.8 rightenlarged -0.2 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged 0.4 bottomenlarged 0.4 rightenlarged -0.2 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic % 3 double sides \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LRTb} % left, top, right double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged -0.8 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged -0.8 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged 0.4 bottomenlarged -0.2 rightenlarged 0.4 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LRtB} % left, bottom, right double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged -0.8 rightenlarged -0.8 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged -0.2 bottomenlarged 0.4 rightenlarged 0.4 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LrTB} % left, top, bottom double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged -0.8 bottomenlarged -0.8 rightenlarged -0.2 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged 0.4 bottomenlarged 0.4 rightenlarged -0.2 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:lRTB} % right, top, bottom double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged -0.8 bottomenlarged -0.8 rightenlarged -0.8 ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.2 topenlarged 0.4 bottomenlarged 0.4 rightenlarged 0.4 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic % 4 double sides \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LRTB} % all double draw OverlayBox enlarged 0.4 ; draw OverlayBox enlarged -0.8 ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic % Special cases for 'fake' rowspans: three double sides and one open side % Note that these do not look quite right: the borders are too thick \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LRTO} % left, right, top double; bottom open % draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged -0.8 bottomenlarged 0.0 rightenlarged -0.8 ; % draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged 0.4 bottomenlarged 0.0 rightenlarged 0.4 ; draw leftboundary OverlayBox enlarged 0.4; draw rightboundary OverlayBox enlarged 0.4 ; draw topboundary OverlayBox enlarged 0.4; draw leftboundary OverlayBox enlarged -0.8; draw rightboundary OverlayBox enlarged -0.8 ; draw topboundary OverlayBox enlarged -0.8; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:LROB} % left, right, bottom double; top open % draw OverlayBox leftenlarged -0.8 topenlarged 0.0 bottomenlarged -0.8 rightenlarged -0.8 ; % draw OverlayBox leftenlarged 0.4 topenlarged 0.0 bottomenlarged 0.4 rightenlarged 0.4 ; draw leftboundary OverlayBox enlarged 0.4; draw rightboundary OverlayBox enlarged 0.4 ; draw bottomboundary OverlayBox enlarged 0.4; draw leftboundary OverlayBox enlarged -0.8; draw rightboundary OverlayBox enlarged -0.8 ; draw bottomboundary OverlayBox enlarged -0.8; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuseMPgraphic %%%%% define overlays %%%%% % 0 double sides \defineoverlay[lrtb][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:lrtb}] % 1 double side \defineoverlay[Lrtb][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:Lrtb}] \defineoverlay[lRtb][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:lRtb}] \defineoverlay[lrTb][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:lrTb}] \defineoverlay[lrtB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:lrtB}] % 2 double sides: adjacent \defineoverlay[LrTb][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LrTb}] \defineoverlay[lRTb][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:lRTb}] \defineoverlay[LrtB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LrtB}] \defineoverlay[lRtB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:lRtB}] % 2 double sides: opposite \defineoverlay[LRtb][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LRtb}] \defineoverlay[lrTB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:lrTB}] % 3 double sides \defineoverlay[LRTb][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LRTb}] \defineoverlay[LRtB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LRtB}] \defineoverlay[lRTB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:lRTB}] \defineoverlay[LrTB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LrTB}] % 4 double sides \defineoverlay[LRTB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LRTB}] % Special cases for 'fake' rowspans \defineoverlay[LRTO][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LRTO}] \defineoverlay[LROB][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:LROB}]

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! Extra \else error
by Bart C. Wise 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

When I run the code below (via minimals), I get the following error, why? enter loop ! Extra \else. \@@plniterate ...\expandafter \@@plniterate \else \fi \myloop ...by 1 \ifnum \tempcnta >#1\else \repeat \fi \message {exit} l.16 \myloop{2008} Code: \newcount\startcnt \newcount\tempcnta \def\myloop#1{% \message{enter} \tempcnta=\the\startcnt% \loop \message{loop} \advance \tempcnta by 1 \ifnum\tempcnta>#1\else \repeat\fi \message{exit} } \starttext \startcnt=1800 \myloop{2008} \stoptext Thanks, Bart

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inconsistent TABLE and figure top-placement
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hi, I just go mad with a grid based document that contains several naturalTABLEs and figures. When I want to place those at the top of the page, their top edge is sometimes higher, sometimes lower than expected. Experimenting with different figure height (and different heights of the first row of the tables) showed that these values move the float up or down!! The result looks very bad (jumping up, jumping down) ... Thus, two urgent questions: 1) How can I force that the top edge is always exactly (!) at the same vertical position, same for ALL tables and figures? 2) If 1) is impossible: How can I manually move a textwidth table/figure the should be placed "top" a little bit vertically (like +/- 2pt)? Thanks, Steffen

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trick
by Hans Hagen 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

The next trick is dedicated to Aditya ... % engine=luatex \unprotect \def\Hack#1#2% {\pdfliteral{/Span << /ActualText <\ctxlua{pdf.hexify(\!!bs\detokenize{#1}\!!es)}> >> BDC}#2\pdfliteral{EMC}} \protect \def\Formula#1{\Hack{#1}{$#1$}} \startTEXpage[offset=3pt] test \Formula{e + a = mc^2 + \alpha} test \blank[2*big] \Formula{e + a = mc^2 + \alpha} \blank[2*big] $e + a = mc^2 + \alpha$ \stopTEXpage \stoptext try to cut and paste the math ... (only acrobat and actually acrobat is a bit bugged in this respect but the idea is there) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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startconstants broken
by Hans van der Meer 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Upgrading seems to have broken \startconstants (and probably also \startvariables). The code below worked in cont-tmf version 2008-08-05 but no longer in 2008-10-31: \startconstants all spine: spine % etcetera \stopconstants \startvariables all % etcetera \stopvariables The error is: ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \c!spine =\v!none \xprocesscommaitem #1,#2->\if ,#1 ,\@EA \xprocesscommaitem \else \if ]#1\@EAE... <argument> ...=\v!cd ,\c!spine =\v!none ,\c!state =\v!draft ,\c! output =\v!p... \xdogetparameters #1]->\xprocesscommaitem #1 ,],\@relax@ l.162 ] Addition of "\def\c!spine{}" makes the error go away. So definitely something is broken in the latter release for the start- macro(s). Could there be given a quick fix sothat I can avoid reverting back to the earlier version or adding changes all ver the place? Hans van der Meer

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mptopdf
by David Arnold 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

All, I sent this to OS X TeX list, but perhaps I can get some guidance here? All, After installing MacTeX (textlve2008), mptopdf fails: pstricks $ mptopdf bruce This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) %&-line parsing enabled. [MP to PDF] (./bruce.0{/Users/darnold/Library/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/ updmap/pdf tex.map}) [1] kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 rm-lmr12 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for rm-lmr12. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. !pdfTeX error: pdftex (file rm-lmr12): Font rm-lmr12 at 600 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) %&-line parsing enabled. [MP to PDF] (./bruce.1{/Users/darnold/Library/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/ updmap/pdf tex.map}) [1] kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 rm-lmr12 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for rm-lmr12. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. !pdfTeX error: pdftex (file rm-lmr12): Font rm-lmr12 at 600 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! MPtoPDF 1.3.3 : bruce.* is converted to bruce-0.pdf + bruce-1.pdf I tried: tlmgr update context No good. Same error as above after update. Any suggestions? david

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\framed question
by Alan STONE 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hi, How do you get a frame's topframe overlap with the layout header "topframe" ? topspace -------------------------------------------- <--- frame's topframe = layout header "topframe" | header | -------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------- | | | text | -- Best, Alan * TeX engine = LuaTeX *ConTeXt minimals ver: 2008.11.10 21:40 MKIV fmt: 2008.11.21 int: english/english * Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

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texexec (and context) stops when using \externalocp
by Khaled Hosny 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

Trying to get some sort of 'implicit' bidi with luatex, I though of using an (extenal) OCP filter as it is much easier than messing with luatex nodes, and it respects TeX grouping. The attached example loads the do_bidi.py script as an \externalocp, it works fine with plain luatex, but not with 'texexec', using 'context' I get: MtxRun | fatal error, message: luatex: execution interrupted Any ideas? Is there a lua equivalent to \externalocp ? Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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Context doesn't work
by Michael Talbot-Wilson 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

I've installed Context and attempted $ texexec fig3_2.tex The response is: the file 'texexec.rb' is not found setuptex was run and TEXROOT is correctly set. texexec is: #!/bin/sh texmfstart texexec.rb "$@" There seems to be nothing there which would enable the script to be located. Does texexec have to be changed to state the full path to the script? Does that have to be done with anything else?

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Re: [NTG-context] how to get thick and thin borders working in tables (ConTeXt)
by Lars Huttar 10 Dec '08

10 Dec '08

On 12/9/2008 12:04 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > > Am 09.12.2008 um 17:48 schrieb Lars Huttar: > >> Hello, >> >> We are using ConTeXt (with XeTeX engine) to typeset some tables that >> have borders (rules) between cells. >> >> In the previous edition of the book (which was not done in TeX), some of >> the lines between table cells were double, others single. This was done >> to show grouping of columns and rows. We have been told that in TeX, or >> at least in ConTeXt, you can't do double rules (we'd be happy to be >> corrected on that point), so we have been trying to use thick and thin >> lines to show grouping. >> >> Thick or thin lines work fine if applied to whole tables or whole cells, >> but when there are cells with thick rules on some sides and thin rules >> on other sides, it gets confused. >> >> For example, we tried >> (a) \setupTABLE[c][4][leftframe=on,rulethickness=0.5mm] >> to set the left border of the fourth column to be thick. This worked. >> But then if we use >> (b) \setupTABLE[c][4][rightframe=on,rulethickness=0.25mm] >> to set the right border of the same column to be thin, it overrides the >> thickness of both left and right borders, so setting (a) is lost. >> >> In other words, we can't seem to get a given cell to have a thick border >> on one side and a thin border on the other side. (Well, we could fake it >> in some cases by setting rulethickness for an adjacent cell, but that >> adjacent cell would then have to have thick borders on all sides.) >> >> Does anybody know if it's possible to do this in ConTeXt? or in TeX? >> >> Thanks for any ideas, >> Lars >> >> P.S. >> Incidentally, if you set the bottom border of row 1 and the top border >> of row 2 each to be thick, the result is additive: you get a >> doubly-thick border. > > I can provide a patch for ConTeXt to draw rules with different > thickness on each side but I can't assure it will work in the future. > > With metapost you can nearly all types of borders you want. > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:double} > draw OverlayBox enlarged -\the\dimexpr\linewidth/2\relax ; % outer frame > draw OverlayBox enlarged -2pt ; % inner frame > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:all} > draw OverlayBox enlarged -\the\dimexpr\linewidth/2\relax ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:left} > linecap := squared ; > draw leftboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2 ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:right} > linecap := squared ; > draw rightboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2 ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:top} > linecap := squared ; > draw topboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2 ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \startuseMPgraphic{table:frame:bottom} > linecap := squared ; > draw bottomboundary OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2 ; > setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \defineoverlay[table:frame:double][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:double}] > > \defineoverlay[table:frame:all] [\useMPgraphic{table:frame:all}] > \defineoverlay[table:frame:left] [\useMPgraphic{table:frame:left}] > \defineoverlay[table:frame:right] [\useMPgraphic{table:frame:right}] > \defineoverlay[table:frame:top] [\useMPgraphic{table:frame:top}] > \defineoverlay[table:frame:bottom][\useMPgraphic{table:frame:bottom}] > > \starttext > > \startbuffer > \bTABLE[frame=off,offset=2ex] > \bTR > \bTD One \eTD > \bTD Two \eTD > \bTD Three \eTD > \eTR > \bTR > \bTD Four \eTD > \bTD Five \eTD > \bTD Six \eTD > \eTR > \bTR > \bTD Seven \eTD > \bTD Eight \eTD > \bTD Nine \eTD > \eTR > \eTABLE > \stopbuffer > > \start > \setupTABLE[background={table:frame:double}] > \getbuffer > \stop > \blank > > \start > \setupTABLE[background={table:frame:all}] > \setupTABLE[c][first][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:left}] > \setupTABLE[c][last][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:right}] > \setupTABLE[r][first][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:top}] > \setupTABLE[r][last][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:bottom}] > \setupTABLE[first][first][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:left,table:frame:top}] > > \setupTABLE[last][first][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:right,table:frame:top}] > > \setupTABLE[first][last][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:left,table:frame:bottom}] > > \setupTABLE[last][last][background={table:frame:all,table:frame:right,table:frame:bottom}] > > \getbuffer > \stop > > \stoptext > > Wolfgang > > > Thanks for the very detailed example! We should be able to apply this to our document. I'm copying it to the list because I think it would be valuable for posterity. Thanks to Aditya too for the reply. Regards, Lars -- Lars Huttar

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backward-incompatible behavior of Palatino and modern
by Sanjoy Mahajan 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

I texexec'ed a one-page file that I hadn't compiled for almost a year (preparing for the next offering of the course). The font sizes increased, resulting in a two-page PDF file. The one-page result, which is what I expected, came from ConTeXt 2008.01.02 (MkII), for which I had selected font sizes to fit it onto one page. I couldn't find that release in the museum, so it was probably 2007.12.31 with my patches. I downloaded the cont-tmf for 2007.12.31, and it too produced the expected one-page PDF file. Whereas current versions produce a two-page file, either with 2008.10.31 from the Debian packages and with 2008.11.10 on live.contextgarden.net. I'm not sure which behavior (2007 or 2008) is correct. Below is a minimal example testfile.tex producing only a few lines instead of a whole page, but it illustrates the differences. With the 2007.12.31 version, the lines fits within the frame (from \showframe). With the new versions, the "Approximation" extends outside the frame, and the "The Art" gets split onto separate lines. Commenting out the "\setupbodyfont [palatino,11pt]" line makes the two versions identical. But the original example uses Palatino text, so I cannot do that for the long-term solution. I've attached 'good' and 'bad' PDF files. If the new version is correct, I'll retune the font sizes to make it fit, and it's no big deal. But I'm reporting the issue in case the example has exposed an unexpected change in ConTeXt over the last year. -Sanjoy ======= cut here: testfile.tex ==================== \setuppapersize[letter,landscape][letter,landscape] \setuplayout[height=fit,margin=0pt,width=fit, backspace=0.7in,cutspace=0.7in,topspace=0in,bottomspace=-0.2in] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \usetypescript [palatino][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont [palatino,11pt] \showframe \starttext \raggedleft \setupbodyfont[modern,54pt]\ss {\bfa 6.055J/2.038J\hfill The Art of}% \break \baselineskip=19pt% \setupbodyfont[modern,50.7pt]% \bfd Approximation \stoptext ======= cut here: testfile.tex ====================

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how to get thick and thin borders working in tables (ConTeXt)
by Lars Huttar 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hello, We are using ConTeXt (with XeTeX engine) to typeset some tables that have borders (rules) between cells. In the previous edition of the book (which was not done in TeX), some of the lines between table cells were double, others single. This was done to show grouping of columns and rows. We have been told that in TeX, or at least in ConTeXt, you can't do double rules (we'd be happy to be corrected on that point), so we have been trying to use thick and thin lines to show grouping. Thick or thin lines work fine if applied to whole tables or whole cells, but when there are cells with thick rules on some sides and thin rules on other sides, it gets confused. For example, we tried (a) \setupTABLE[c][4][leftframe=on,rulethickness=0.5mm] to set the left border of the fourth column to be thick. This worked. But then if we use (b) \setupTABLE[c][4][rightframe=on,rulethickness=0.25mm] to set the right border of the same column to be thin, it overrides the thickness of both left and right borders, so setting (a) is lost. In other words, we can't seem to get a given cell to have a thick border on one side and a thin border on the other side. (Well, we could fake it in some cases by setting rulethickness for an adjacent cell, but that adjacent cell would then have to have thick borders on all sides.) Does anybody know if it's possible to do this in ConTeXt? or in TeX? Thanks for any ideas, Lars P.S. Incidentally, if you set the bottom border of row 1 and the top border of row 2 each to be thick, the result is additive: you get a doubly-thick border.

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Building tables at runtime via --mode= option
by Bart C. Wise 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

I'm trying to build a table in a project that will be built based on a commandline parameter. Currently, I'd like to use the "--mode=<>" command. However, I've run into a number of snags that I have attempted to solve without any luck. I've included some sample code of what I would like to do. I can do all of what I need using \doifmodeelse, etc. However, I'm looking for a more elegeant solution. Any hints/solutions are welcomed! Problems: 1) \currentmode: I cannot use this variable in my file, but it works in the source code. Question: Is the mode option okay, or is there a better way? 2) CellWidth (below) needs to be a floating point dimension, based the size of the paper. So I need to divide the size of the paper (\textwidth) by a number and make sure it stays as a dimension. 3) I tried to use \getnumber[Rounds] to span a number of columns ( \bTD[nc=\getnumber[Rounds]]) but this would not compile. Here's the error: Runaway argument? Rounds=\plusone \ifnum \tblny =\plusone \ifnum \currentcol >\maximumcol \ETC. ! Paragraph ended before \getnumber was complete. Sample: \definenumber[Rounds] \setnumber[Rounds]{6} % desire: \setupnumber[Rounds]{\currentmode} % and verify that it's a number between a given range. % \currentmode comes back as undefined \definenumber[TotalCol] \setnumber[TotalCol]{\getnumber[Rounds] + 2} \def\CellWidth{0.625in} % desire: based on textwidth: \textwidth / \getnumber[TotalCol] % Needs to be floating point \starttext Rounds: \getnumber[Rounds]\crlf TotalCol: \getnumber[TotalCol]\crlf CellWidth: \CellWidth\crlf \bTABLE[align={middle,lohi},strut=no,width=\CellWidth] % Row 1 \bTR[frame=off] \bTD\eTD \bTD[nc=6] Title\eTD %desire: \bTD[nc=\getnumber[Rounds]] Title\eTD \eTR %Row 2 \bTR \bTD\eTD \dorecurse{\getnumber[Rounds]}{\expanded{\bTD\recurselevel\eTD}} \bTD\eTD \eTR %Row 3 \bTR \dorecurse{\getnumber[TotalCol]}{\expanded{\bTD\recurselevel\eTD}} \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext Thanks! Bart

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Gentium package (was: minimals and greek font)
by Mojca Miklavec 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > Hello, > > What needs to be done to include greek fonts on top of the minimal > installation? Thank you. > > example: > \usemodule[greek] > \starttext > \greek{kalamos} > \stoptext Hello, Thomas has just prepared a new font package (before leaving for a few days) with support for Gentium: http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/gentium/ I'll add it to minimals, but you may play with it already. The contents of Greek module will be adapted once he comes back, but you can use it in standard ways. \usetypescriptfile[type-gentium] \usetypescript[gentium][agr] \setupbodyfont[gentium] \enableregime[...] \starttext ... greek text ... \stoptext Mojca

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Problem with fonts
by Mohamed Bana 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

i just updated the minimals and I can no longer typeset, even though $ mtxrun --script fonts --list shows the font ! LuaTeX error ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/luat-log.lua:75: bad argument #2 to 'format' (string expected, got table) stack traceback: [C]: in function 'format' ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/luat-log.lua:75: in function 'report' ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:1431: in function 'after' ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:895: in function 'load' ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:1845: in function 'otf_to_tfm' ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:2066: in function 'read_from_open_type' ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:333: in function <...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:315> (tail call): ? ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:250: in function 'read' ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:645: in function 'read' ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:752: in function 'command_2' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. \lowleveldefinefont ...s ", "\@@fontfallbacks " )} \edef \somefontspec {at \s... \xxdododefinefont ...efont {#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.148 \setupbodyfont[mainface,13pt] %should be 12pt, use 12.5pt for minion a... ? %%% test.tex %%% % engine=luatex \enableregime [utf-8] \def\sc{\setfontfeature{smallcaps}} \definefontfeature [default][default] [protrusion=quality,expansion=quality,mode=node,script=latn] \definefontfeature [oldstyle][default] [protrusion=quality,expansion=quality,mode=node,script=latn,onum=yes] \definefontfeature [smallcaps][default] [protrusion=quality,expansion=quality,mode=node,script=latn,smcp=yes] \usetypescript [serif] [hanging] [pure] \setupalign [hanging] \setfontfeature{oldstyle} \usetypescriptfile[type-folio] \definetypeface[mainface][rm][serif][warnockpro] [default] [features=default] \definetypeface[mainface][ss][sans][myriadpro] [default] [features=default] \definetypeface [mainface] [mm] [math] [palatino] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \setupbodyfont[mainface,13pt] \starttext {\tfa HELLO} {\tfb WORLD} \stoptext %%% type-folio.tex %%% \starttypescript [serif] [minionpro] \definefontsynonym [MinionPro-Regular] [name:minionproregular] \definefontsynonym [MinionPro-Bold] [name:minionprobold] \definefontsynonym [MinionPro-Italic] [name:minionproit] \definefontsynonym [MinionPro-BoldItalic] [name:minionproboldit] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [minionpro] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [MinionPro-Regular] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [MinionPro-Bold] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [MinionPro-Italic] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [MinionPro-BoldItalic] [features=default] % \definefontsynonym [SerifSlanted] [SerifItalic] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [Serif] [features=smallcaps] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [sans] [myriadpro] \setups[font:fallback:sans] % \definefontsynonym [MyriadPro-Regular] [name:MyriadPro-Regular] [features=default] % \definefontsynonym [MyriadPro-Bold] [name:MyriadPro-Bold] [features=default] % \definefontsynonym [MyriadPro-Italic] [name:MyriadPro-It] [features=default] % \definefontsynonym [MyriadPro-BoldItalic] [name:MyriadPro-BoldIt] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [MyriadPro-Regular] [name:myriadproregular] \definefontsynonym [MyriadPro-Bold] [name:myriadprobold] \definefontsynonym [MyriadPro-Italic] [name:myriadproit] \definefontsynonym [MyriadPro-BoldItalic] [name:myriadproboldit] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [sans] [myriadpro] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [MyriadPro-Regular] [features=historic] \definefontsynonym [SansBold] [MyriadPro-Bold] [features=historic] \definefontsynonym [SansItalic] [MyriadPro-Italic] [features=historic] \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [MyriadPro-BoldItalic] [features=historic] \definefontsynonym [SansCaps] [Sans] [features=latin-smallcaps] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [warnockpro] \setups[font:fallback:serif] \definefontsynonym [WarnockPro-Regular] [name:warnockproregular] \definefontsynonym [WarnockPro-Bold] [name:warnockprobold] \definefontsynonym [WarnockPro-Italic] [name:warnockproit] \definefontsynonym [WarnockPro-BoldItalic] [name:warnockproboldit] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [warnockpro] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [WarnockPro-Regular] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [WarnockPro-Bold] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [WarnockPro-Italic] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [WarnockPro-BoldItalic] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [Serif] [features=smallcaps] \stoptypescript Log; (report.tex ConTeXt ver: 2008.11.10 21:40 MKIV fmt: 2008.12.9 int: english/english system : cont-new loaded (/home/mbana/context-minimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (/home/mbana/context-minimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv) (/home/mbana/context-minimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-mtx.tex)) system : cont-fil loaded (/home/mbana/context-minimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (/home/mbana/context-minimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex (/home/mbana/context-minimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (/home/mbana/context-minimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/home/mbana/context-minimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded specials : pdftex loaded language : language en is active system : report.top loaded (report.top) color : mpcmyk color space is supported color : mpspot color space is supported color : system rgb is global activated interaction : active (report.tuo) (report.tuo) system : module bib loaded (/home/mbana/context-minimals/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/bib/t-bib.tex publications : loading formatting style from bibl-apa (/home/mbana/context-minimals/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/bib/bibl-apa.tex)) publications : wrote a new auxiliary file report.aux publications : loading formatting style from bibl-ssa (bibl-ssa.tex) (/home/mbana/context-minimals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/page-run.tex loading : Context Page Macros / Runtime Macros ) check : missing or ungrouped '=' after 'frame' in line 115 (@@ef) check : missing or ungrouped '=' after 'frame' in line 115 (@@ex) (type-folio.tex) load otf | loading: /media/sdb1/Fonts/Minion Pro/MinionPro-Regular.otf load otf | warning: The following table(s) in the font have been ignored by FontForge load otf | warning: Ignoring 'DSIG' digital signature table load otf | warning: Warning: Mac and Windows entries in the 'name' table differ for the Fullname string in the language English (US) Mac String: Minion Pro Windows String: MinionPro-Regular load otf | warning: The glyph named mu is mapped to U+00B5. But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+03BC. load otf | warning: The glyph named Delta is mapped to U+2206. But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+0394. load otf | warning: The glyph named Omega is mapped to U+2126. But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+03A9. load otf | enhance: patch load otf | enhance: before load otf | enhance: enrich load otf | enhance: registering tlig feature load otf | enhance: registering trep feature load otf | enhance: flatten load otf | flattening 'specifications' tables load otf | flattening 'anchor' tables load otf | flattening 'gpos' tables load otf | flattening 'gsub' tables load otf | enhance: analyze load otf | enhance: after load otf | replacing 'kerns' tables by 'mykerns' tables ! LuaTeX error ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/luat-log.lua:75: bad argument #2 to 'format' (string expected, got table) stack traceback: [C]: in function 'format' ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/luat-log.lua:75: in function 'report' ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:1431: in function 'after' ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:895: in function 'load' ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:1845: in function 'otf_to_tfm' ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-otf.lua:2066: in function 'read_from_open_type' ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:333: in function <...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:315> (tail call): ? ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:250: in function 'read' ...mals/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/font-def.lua:645: in function 'read' ...mals/tex

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Luatex beta 0.31 update warning
by Taco Hoekwater 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Hi all, Quick warning from me: if you update from the minimals this week, be prepared for some potential problems with opentype fonts in luatex. Because of the update of the embedded fontforge, there are some differences in the font table format that Hans and I have yet to sort out. While that will not take long, it will still mean the beginning of next week at the earliest (because Hans is teaching in Brno). Best wishes, Taco Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > Hi, > > I have just uploaded luatex 0.31.1, hopefully fixing a bunch > of compilation errors on various platforms, but with no other > visible changes.

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texexec ignores file order
by Ben Barrowes 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

exexec --pdfarrange --result=yujo_insurance.pdf yujo_insurance1.pdf yujo_insurance2.pdf yujo_insurance3.pdf yujo_insurance4.pdf yujo_insurance5.pdf yujo_insurance6.pdf yujo_insurance7.pdf yujo_insurance8.pdf yujo_insurance9.pdf yujo_insurance10.pdf yujo_insurance11.pdf yujo_insurance12.pdf After upgrading recently, I found that texexec no longer preserves the order of files passed to it. When I concatenate files with texexec, I often have more than 10 files I want to pass to texexec names filename1.pdf, filename2.pdf, ... filename12.pdf, etc. In the past, the following has worked to concatenate these in the correct order: texexec --pdfarrange --result=filename.pdf `ls -a -v filename*.pdf` Now, even if I pass filename10.pdf after filename2.pdf on the command line, texexec ingores this and puts filename10.pdf before filename2.pdf in the resulting concatenated file. Is there a fix for this, or is there a better way to concatenate pdf files? bb

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Re: [NTG-context] questions on ctxtools and line break.
by Dalyoung Jeong 09 Dec '08

09 Dec '08

Dear Mojca, Yue, and Hans, Thank you for the help. I updated ConTeXt and LuaTeX using rsync to the foler .../texlive/ 2008/../texmf-local. "texmfstart texexec --make (--xtx) --all" run smoothly, but luatools still has a cnf error. I'll do it again from the beginning when I have time. However, it works fine in ConTeXt-minimal. One day Mr. Wolfgang tried to do some work to set up standardization of CJK for MKIV. However, it is not easy because Korean use space between words. The rules of line break for Korean is simple in saying. We don't need any hyphenation inside word, so if it is longer than the \textwidth, just make a line break at that position. There may be a little adjustment to make it right flush. For the details of the line breaking system for Korean, I'll talked to the people in KTUG. Some experts in KTUG will answer how to do that. For ConTeXt, there is a font-kor.tex(by nomos) file which enable to use Korean in ConTeXt. So they know what and how to do. I hope that we find a good solution which is also good for the implementation in MKIV. Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung

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modernized and augmented m-r.tex
by Johan Sandblom 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

The ConTeXt module for interaction with the statistical programming language R currently does not work with MKIV since buffers are not saved to file. The included file fixes this by calling \savebuffer on the buffer in case \ctxlua is defined (a trick gleaned from a discussion on the LilyPond module a while back). Also, all calls to R used to include a rather annoying proc.time() statement at the end, and a modified R call has fixed this. PATH must contain R or R.exe on Windoze. Should 'texmfstart' still be used for the R calls? A third modification involves being able to call \startRnoecho (which only echoes R output in the ConTeXt file) in addition to \startR (which echoes both input and output) and \startRhidden (which echoes nothing, useful for generating graphics) One further improvement would be to collect the R snippets and run them all at once. That would significantly reduce processing time since the R startup is on the order of a few seconds. However, that is beyond my knowledge of ConTeXt. Regards, Johan -- 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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anyway to treat placefigure as a frame?
by Yue Wang 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi, Hans: Is there some command to treat figure (both the caption and graphic) as a frame? setupfloats only deside what the graphics side should be like. I want to add a background to the caption+graphic. Yue Wang

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\recurselevel in a table
by Bart C. Wise 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

I'm trying to get the \recurselevel in a table; however, every time it's called, the number returned is zero. How do I get the recurselevel? \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \dorecurse{3}{\bTD Cell: \recurselevel\eTD} \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext Bart

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report: non-stretchable spaces after periods
by Alan Bowen 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

In a message some time ago, Wolfgang suggested that \def\ {\thinspace} would serve to get non-expanding or non-stretchable spaces after periods that occur within sentences and in bibliographies. When I discovered that, while this worked well in limited contexts, in a lengthy bibliography which relied on the period as the main form of punctuation it lead quickly to numerous line-breaking problems. So Wolfgang has now has kindly proposed \def\ {\hskip.1666em\relax} since \hskip is a TeX primitve and mentioned in every (plain) TeX manual. And I gratefully confirm that this works very well. Alan

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Sorting references
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi all, Using the bib module, I want my references to be sorted alphabetically; if I understood correctly the doc: \setuppublications[alternative=apa-fr,sorttype=bbl,criterium=cite] Then the alphabetical order is taken from the bibtex *keys*, and it doesn't always follows true alphabetical order... :-( And it seems that with bbl the whole bbl content is necessarily written in references. How can I do to have only cited material included in references? TIA, -- Jean

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question about rulethickness
by Jelle Huisman 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi all, It looks like rulethickness can only be applied to all 4 sides of a cell all at once, or is there a way to specify the thickness of left|right|top|bottom? As the example shows I get a thicker frame around the 2 rows, but I want to use the normal frame thickness inside the cells. \starttext \setupTABLE[r][1,2][rulethickness=1pt] \bTABLE \bTR\bTD[nc=3] long text \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD text \eTD\bTD text \eTD\bTD text \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD even \eTD\bTD more \eTD\bTD text \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext Thanks, Jelle

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Dangling lines.
by Bart C. Wise 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

I created an Author's note (code below). It is designed to print out a note, skip a line, and then follow with the Author's signature. The problem I'm having is that ConTeXt will break the page just before the author's signature leaving it dangling on the next page. If I use a \vbox, that has problems when the notes need to go more than the current page. How do I fix the code below? \definestartstop[AuthorNote][ before={ \bgroup \startnarrower \switchtobodyfont[10pt] }, after={ \vskip-0.2ex Author \stopnarrower \egroup \blank \noindentation }, ] Thanks, Bart

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How to get the total page number at startup in luatex?
by Zhichu Chen 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi, I've met a weird thing, I can't get \totalnumberofpages in the preamble. But it used to work. A simple test file is ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \dorecurse{\totalnumberofpages}{\setvalue{test::\recurselevel}{:\recurselevel:}} \def\test{\getvalue{test::\pagenumber}} \starttext \input knuth \page[yes] \input knuth \page[yes] This should be \quotation{:\pagenumber:}, but it's \quotation{\test} \stoptext ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Any suggestions about how to do that? I wanna define each page a macro. -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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calling a function with complex parameters
by Michail Vidiassov 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Dear All, I need to fill a lua table with data, and some values may be tables. How to supply that data from ConTeXt? The most straightforward way is to make user fill a string with lua code of table initiaiser and then use "loadstring". In this case the syntax is laconic, but resilence in case of errors is zero. The other way is to have the user to call series of functions, building the complex structure from ground up by making basic stuctures and adding them to final structure one by one. In this case the passed parameters can be scrutinized for correctness, but multiple calls like "addsmthtosmth", "setsmthinsmth" will make the result uneasy to read, to say nothing of writing. What is considered kosher in ConTeXt? Where can I found examples? Sincerely, Michail PS. data that has to be passed to function will look like (example is not lua): -------------- name = "3D surface"; toolbar = TRUE; // display 3D toolbar tree = TRUE; // display model tree views = ( { name = "DefaultView"; // first view (default) projection = { perspective = TRUE; // Perspective projection aac = 2.5; // View angle }; camera = { // Camera position, see movie15 manual for explaination coo = [ 0, 0, 0 ]; // Center of orbit - where the camera are pointed to c2c = [ 0, 0, 1 ]; // vector from coo directed to camera rot = [40, 0,60 ]; // rotatations of vector from coo directed to camera around Ox, Oy, Oz roo = 50; // distance from coo to camera roll = 0; // camera rotation angle }; bg = [ 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 ]; // Background color lights = "CAD"; // Lighting scheme nodes = ( ( "xlabel", 1.0, TRUE ), ( "ylabel", 1.0, TRUE ), ("Small box", 1.0, TRUE) ); }, { name = "CrossView"; // view with a crossection projection = { perspective = TRUE; // Perspective projection aac = 2.5; // View angle }; camera = { // Camera position, see movie15 manual for explaination coo = [ 0, 0, 0 ]; // Center of orbit - where the camera are pointed to c2c = [-1,-1, 0 ]; // vector from coo directed to camera roo = 50; // distance from coo to camera roll = 0; // camera rotation angle crossection = { point = [ 0, 0, 0 ]; normal = [ -1, -1, -1 ]; intersection = TRUE; transparent = FALSE; }; bg = [ 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 ]; // Background color lights = "CAD"; // Lighting scheme nodes = ( ( "xlabel", 1.0, TRUE ), ( "ylabel", 1.0, TRUE ), ("Small box", 1.0, TRUE) ); } } --------------

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can not include movie
by Michail Vidiassov 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Dear All, ConTeXt user manual says movies are just like figures, but when I process \starttext \placefigure[here]{none}{\externalfigure[demo.mov][width=0.7\textwidth, height=.7\textwidth, label=demo, preview=yes]} \stoptext with context filename.tex using the latest minimals without any custom settings I do not get movie included. What can be wrong? I am a ConTeXt newbie and fail to see any possible place for errors in the above test case. Sincerely, Michail

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luatex and javascript
by Zhichu Chen 08 Dec '08

08 Dec '08

Hi, I've searched the list and it seems that no one has been occurred to my problem. Has the javascript interface gone? 'cause I failed the following simplest file: ================================================================ \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext A few years back, \TEX\ could only produce \fillinfield [dvi] {DVI} output, but nowadays, thanks to \fillinfield {Han The Thanh}, we can also directly produce \fillinfield [pdf] {PDF}! Nice eh? Actually, while the first field module was prototyped in ACROBAT, the current implementation was debugged in \fillinfield [pdfTeX] {\PDFTEX}. Field support in \fillinfield [ConTeXt] {\CONTEXT} is rather advanced and complete and all kind of fields are supported. One can hook in appearances, and validation \fillinfield [JavaScripts] {JAVASCRIPT}'s. Fields can be cloned and copied, where the latter saves some space. By using \fillinfield {objects} when suited, this module saves space anyway. \stoptext ================================================================ It's copied from the mwidget-s.pdf My luatex is 0.30.3, and I just run "luatools --generate" and "ctxtools --update" today. The error message is: ================================================================ ! Undefined control sequence. \:j::j:fields_1 -> var visible_field = new Array() ; var visible_fields = 0... \docommand ...code {\getvalue {\r!java \r!java #1} }\ifoneJSpreamble \@EA \se... \next2 #1,->\docommand {#1} \doprocesscommaitem <argument> \relax fields_1, Do_Check_Answer \doprocesscommalist ...aitem \gobbleoneargument #1 ,]\relax \global \advance ... \presetJSpreamble ...[\allJSpreambles ]\docommand \ifoneJSpreamble \gdef \al... ... l.18 \stoptext ? ================================================================ -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Important: ConTeXt Minimals and --delete/--keep switch
by Mojca Miklavec 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Hello, This is a rather important notice for users of ConTeXt minimals. You might want to add --keep to ./first-setup.sh There are some options for which I'm not sure if they should be enabled by default or not. The script (mtx-update.lua and consequently the simplistic ./first-setup.sh script) provides two switches: --keep and --delete. The --delete switch deletes all the files that are not part of distribution. The --keep switch doesn't care about those files (that have been remove from distribution or that you added) and leaves them where they are. Your own files should go to texmf-local that update doesn't touch at all. Now the important info: if you want your files to be kept, you should use the --keep switch in ./first-setup.sh. --delete has been misfunctional for a while, and maybe it should not be kept as the default option. But as it stands now, it is the default. Recently there has been a new option added (--extras=list,of,context,modules), but I would like the option to be renamed to something more self-explanatory than --extras= (--modules= for example). You can test if fetching modules works OK, but I would like to rename the option. Mojca (Maybe we should add --cvs-exclude rule to rsync to prevent deleting kpathsea files and formats.)

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font dimen (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Hi, a space between the font dimension number and the unit breaks compilation. And before anyone asks... the space was inserted by chance. :) \definefont[FOO] [Sans at 30 pt] % ^ \starttext \FOO Hello world! \stoptext Best wishes, Peter

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questions on ctxtools and line break.
by Dalyoung Jeong 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Dear all, Here are two questions. 1. about ctxtools Recently, I updated TeXLive 2008 using "tlmgr". After that I try to update ConTeXt using "ctxtools --update". It downloaded cont-tmp.zip and extracting it. After mktexlsr, there was the first error but it proceeded without stop. ..... mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/ls-R... mktexlsr: Done. LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file LuaTools | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) LuaTools | to be replaced old script /usr/texbin/luatools LuaTools | unable to locate new script LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.003 seconds MtxRun | error unable to identify cnf file MtxRun | error unable to identify cnf file MtxRun | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) MtxRun | to be replaced old script /usr/texbin/mtxrun MtxRun | unable to locate new script LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file LuaTools | error unable to identify cnf file LuaTools | no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.002 seconds TeXExec | using search method 'kpsewhich' TeXExec | using existing database TeXExec | using tex engine pdftex TeXExec | using tex format path /Users/dalyoung/Library/texmf/web2c/ pdftex TeXExec | generating tex format cont-en This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) (INITEX) %&-line parsing enabled. (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (/usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex ..... I got a following error and I couldn't continue. ..... (/usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/core-fil.tex loading : Context Core Macros / File Support ) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/core-con.tex loading : Context Core Macros / Conversion Macros ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \??cv :\c!n :\v!one \setvalue #1->\expandafter \def \csname #1 \endcsname l.618 \setvalue{\??cv:\c!n:\v!one } {1} ? Is it OK to use ctxtools for updating? What is the best way to update ConTeXt in TL2008? 2. about line break for sentences in Korean. When I compile Korean text using XeTeX + ConTeXt or LuaTeX, there are many overfull errors because of the linebreaking. But by adding the command "\XeTeXlinebreaklocale[ko]" the overfull errors were cleared in XeTeX+ ConTeXt. Is there a similar command in LuaTeX to handle the overfull errors? If not, is it possible to add such a command? Thank you for reading. best regards, Dalyoung

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Additional arrows in flow chart
by Berend de Boer 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Hi All, Is there a way to specify additional arrows in a flow chart? Some people prefer to see a starting arrow (an arrow at the beginning of the line) instead of only one at the end. -- Cheers, Berend de Boer

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Disabling automatic hyphenation
by Wolfgang Schuster 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Hi Hans, I wan't to disable in a document TeX's automatic hyphenation and allow only manuell brackpoints with \- or settings in \hyphenation. The only working solution I found was to define new language in the core and add a file with empty patterns to the core files, my setting for the language is \def\s!empty{empty} \installlanguage [\s!empty] [\c!default=\s!en, \s!patterns=\s!empty, \c!state=\v!stop] I use now the patterns of this language in my document and set now my own hyphen points with \hyphenation. Can you add this to your own files or do you have a better solution for my problem. Wolfgang

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current beta gives error with m-subsub
by Steffen Wolfrum 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Hi, since summer I didn't update context, today I did. Unfortunately this results in an error (when using module m-subsub): system : module m-subsub loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/m-subsub.tex system : mark subsubsubsubsubsection defined [subsubsubsubsubsection] system : mark subsubsubsubsubsectionnumber defined [subsubsubsubsubsec tionnumber] ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \v!subsubsubsubsubsubsection What's wrong? Steffen

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bug in minimals: dvipdfmx.dll not found
by Yue Wang 07 Dec '08

07 Dec '08

Mojca: I think you forgot to put the windows version of dvipdfmx.dll in the minimals tree. also: mp help tools like mpto and dvitomp are not needed anymore. you can safely remove them. Yue Wang

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chapter-like headings with separate numbering
by Sanjoy Mahajan 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

I'm experimenting with making a heading that is like a chapter in format but has its own numbering (or lettering). The purpose to have an interlude, or extended example, every few chapters. The following almost-minimal example almost does so. However, the second interlude is numbered with 'A' instead of 'B'. Is there a missing key=value pair, or is the approach completely wrong? \definesection[nc] \setupsection[nc][conversion=Characters] \definehead[interlude][section=nc,default=chapter] \setuphead[interlude][incrementnumber=yes] \starttext \title{Contents} \placelist[chapter,interlude] \chapter{Chap 1} \interlude{Interlude 1} \chapter{Chap 2} \interlude{Interlude 2} \stoptext

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How to define such a function in lua? Sorry I don't have a name on it.
by Zhichu Chen 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Hi, I'm learning to use luatex these days, one day actually. It's very interesting. Although reference manuals are available, I still don't know how to implement my designation. The thing is, I know there's a "self" variable for object-oriented programming, like ================================================================== \startluacode testdata = { a = 0, b = 0, c = 0, plus = function (self) self.c = self.a + self.b end } mytest = testdata mytest.a=10 mytest.b=100 mytest:plus() tex.print(mytest.c) \stopluacode ================================================================== OK, but what if I wanna do something more, like substract? I would like to use another object, like ================================================================== \startluacode testdata = { a = 0, b = 0, c = 0, calc = Calc } Calc = { plus = function (self) self.c = self.a + self.b end, substract = function (self) self.c = self.a - self.b end } mytest = testdata mytest.a=10 mytest.b=100 mytest.calc:plus() tex.print(mytest.c) \stopluacode ================================================================== Of course this won't work, for the "self" in Calc refers to mytest.calc rather than mytest. How to implement things like that? Thanks in advance. -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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\translateinput and discretionaries
by Wolfgang Schuster 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Hi, the \translateinput command has a problem with discretionaries in the replacement text. In the following example \usemodule[translate] \translateinput[Auflage][Auf|*|lage] \starttext Auflage \enableinputtranslation Auflage \stoptext I get a error message. ! Undefined control sequence. l.11 Auf\CCC :4:124 *\CCC:4:124 lage I could prevent the message after I protected the | signs with \translateinput[Auflage][Auf\string|*\string|lage] but can't this be done in the \translateinput macro itself. Wolfgang

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hz option
by Yue Wang 06 Dec '08

06 Dec '08

Hi: I read the context manual --- typography (by Taco Hoekwater) and found that if I want to enable hz and margin kerning, I should add a line like: \setupalign[hanging] however, when I read the style.pdf document, it said something like this: \setupalign[hanging,hz] and compiling a document with or without hz option will result in different line breaks. So I think one of the manuals should be corrected? Yue Wang

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Movie control buttons?
by Matthias Weber 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Dear all, has somebody created simple control buttons (play, pause, etc) for included movies (for instance using metapost) which I could borrow? Thanks, Matthias

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Gnuplot should now work on MKIV
by Mojca Miklavec 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

Hello, since Aditya was asking yesterday: I finally patched the gnuplot module to work with mkiv. There are still some parts for which I'm almost sure that they don't work (I didn't test, but at least an average gnuplot run should not need those features): 1.) colored labels ... Because withcolor doesn't work; but now that I intercept textext, maybe I can do some dirty tricks there. 2.) drawing points with TeX \setupGNUPLOTterminal[context][points=tex] \defineconversion[gnuplot:pointset][x,+,$\circ$] ... Because I first need to rewrite some code that used some dirty tricks with \startTeXtexts. 3.) changing font with gnuplot commands set title "Nice Title" font "iwona,20" ... Because Aditya wrote a patch that enables two arguments in \sometxt and that patch doesn't work in mkiv any more. Mojca PS: despite switching to mkiv, "reports still don't get written by themselves" :) :) :)

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formula label
by Steffen Wolfrum 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Hi, this code \setupformulas[location=left] \placeformula \startformula K = V + W(V) × S (Gleichung 1) \stopformula gives, as expected: (1.1) K = V + W(V ) × S But I need the following label ("Gleichung" means "formula"): (Gleichung 1) K = V + W(V ) × S How can this be done (in Mk II) ? Thanks, Steffen.

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making format fails at "setinterfacevariable"
by Henning Hraban Ramm 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

In my minimal installation on OSX, making formats fails, whether I try first-setup, context or texexec: loading : Context Multilingual Macros / Initialization (/usr/local/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mult-def.tex (/usr/local/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mult-en.tex ! Undefined control sequence. l.5 \setinterfacevariable {Addition}{Addition} What's wrong? Greetlings, Hraban

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File fails to compile
by Charles Doherty 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Dear all, I made a poster about two months ago. Today I cloned it to make a different one. I am using MacTex 2008 distribution and XeConTeXt . I am using fonts such as Hoefler, Gentium, Junicode etc. The original file and the new one stick at the console readout below. I uninstalled 2008 distribution completely and reinstalled but I get the same result. The files give me pdf output if I use just ConTeXt but of course I do not get the fonts. I would be most grateful if anyone could offer advice. 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(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-config/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-xtx.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns nl->ec:ec->1->2:3 fr->ec:ec->2->2:3 de- >ec:ec->3->2: 3 it->ec:ec->4->2:3 pt->ec:ec->5->2:3 hr->ec:ec->6->2:3 pl->ec:ec->7- >2:3 cz->e c:ec->8->2:3 sk->ec:ec->9->2:3 sl->ec:ec->10->2:3 ru->ec:ec->12->2:3 en->ec:ec- >13->2:3 uk->ec:ec->14->2:3 us->ec:ec->15->2:3 agr->ec:ec->16->2:3 da- >ec:ec->1 7->2:3 sv->ec:ec->18->2:3 af->ec:ec->19->2:3 no->ec:ec->20->2:3 deo- >ec:ec->21- >2:3 es->ec:ec->25->2:3 ca->ec:ec->26->2:3 la->ec:ec->27->2:3 ro- >ec:ec->28->2: 3 tr->ec:ec->29->2:3 fi->ec:ec->31->2:3 hu->ec:ec->32->2:3 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : ThemePoster.top loaded (./ThemePoster.top specials : loading definition file dpx (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/spec-dpx.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkii)) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,dpx loaded specials : loading definition file xet (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/spec-xet.tex) specials : fdf,dpx loaded ) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-xtx.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) 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(/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-xtx.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-xtx.tex) kpathsea: Running mktextfm lmtypewriter10-regular mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input lmtypewriter10-regular This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (Web2C 7.5.7) kpathsea: Running mktexmf lmtypewriter10-regular Process aborted Terminated Terminated

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Optical scaling
by Michail Vidiassov 04 Dec '08

04 Dec '08

Dear All, among advertised advantages of TeX there used to be "optical scaling", when text in the same font but in different sizes has different shapes of glyphs. That used to be the feature of metafont fonts and derived PostScript ones (like cm-super). But it seems now, with TeX Gyre becoming the default free fonts set, it seems the idea is dropped. Is it really so or one just needs some commercial OpenType font family to use it (Adobe Opticals)? Sincerely, Michail

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definepagebreak: problem at the end of front, body & backmatter
by Bart C. Wise 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

In the sample code below, I defined the document to be doublesided and that chapters should open on the right. If the chapter ends on an odd page, I want to leave the even page completely blank (no headers, footers, page numbers, etc.). The code below works except for the last chapter in the frontmatter, bodymatter, and backmatter. For the last chapter in those divisions, the page is not blank, but has the header & footers. How do I get definepagebreak to work at the end of a division? \setupheadertexts[][chapter][Deluxe Header][] \definepagebreak [ChapterPageBreak] [yes,header,footer,right] % works! except for last page in a division \setuphead[chapter][ header=empty, footer=empty, number=yes, page=ChapterPageBreak, ] \setuplayout[location=doublesided] \setuppagenumbering[ location={footer,middle}, alternative=doublesided, option=doublesided, style=\em\tfx, way=bytext, ] \starttext \startfrontmatter \completecontent \chapter {Introduction} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {Second Introduction} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter {First Chapter} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {Second Chapter} \dorecurse{9}{\input tufte } \chapter {Third Chapter} \dorecurse{8}{\input tufte } \chapter {Fourth Chapter} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter \chapter {First Appendix} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \chapter {Second Appendix} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte } \stopbackmatter \stoptext Thanks, Bart

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metapost code fails to work in mkiv
by Mojca Miklavec 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hello, A while back I wrote this dirty code (read as: hack) in attachment that allows multiple optional parameters in metapost functions, for example: draw_text("text"); draw_text(angle(30),"text"); draw_text(angle(30),align(right),"text"); draw_text(align(center),"text"); The code compiles fine with mkii, but not with mkiv. I would be grateful for any hints about how to fix this. I get the error: mplib | mp terminal: ! Missing `,' has been inserted. <to be read again> , textext->...etextext(SUFFIX2)(rawtextext((EXPR3)), origin)else:thetextext(SUF... dummy->begingroup(TEXT2) endgroup gp_put_text->...tt)=tt.enddef;pict:=dummy((TEXT1)) ;let,=@;endgroup;draw(gp_t... <*> ...m, 1cm), angle(30), textext.drt("rotated")) ; ; ! An expression can't begin with `;'. <inserted text> 0 <to be read again> , textext->...etextext(SUFFIX2)(rawtextext((EXPR3)), origin)else:thetextext(SUF... Thanks a lot, Mojca (The code is taken out of http://dl.contextgarden.net/modules/t-gnuplot/metapost/context/third/gnuplo… and I'm slowly plucking up my courage to port the code to mkiv.)

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muse, pandoc and context
by Jörg Hagmann 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Dear list members, Despite using a text editor (emacs) and context almost exclusively, I need a way to communicate with other members of the institute. I'm evaluating two possibilities: 1. Writing in markdown and using pandoc for conversion to either context or something openable by a word processor. 2. Writing in emacs muse and publishing to -- see above. I would like to know the following: - Has anybody done the same and come to a conclusion? Reasons? - Is my impression correct that with muse one has fewer possibilities such as sub/superscripts? I'm aware of the threads in the archive, but would like to have an updated, concise opinion. Slightly off topic, but thanks for your answers, Jörg

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Re: [NTG-context] How to use Minion Pro
by Fengnan Gao 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

>Feedback welcome. Well, actually Yue Wang was right about my problem, it's the bug that Hans fixed a few days ago caused my problem, and now after update my Minimal, the original code works quite well. But any ways thanks for your reply, I would check your code if any other problem pops up. BTW, thanks, Yue Wang. -------------------- Cheers Fengnan Gao

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...ui
by Peter Rolf 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

was technisch so alles möglich ist. java löscht doch jetzt tatsächlich die alte version beim update. nobelpreisverdächtig :D

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How to use Minion Pro
by Fengnan Gao 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

Hi all, I'm learning how to use ConTeXt recently, and I find difficulty using Minion Pro, which can be fully accessed using XeTeX. Here is how I use Minion Pro, and as far as I can see, there is no problem with the setup. \starttypescript[all][myfont][name] \definefontsynonym[Minion][MinionPro-Regular] \definefontsynonym[MinionBold][MinionPro-Bold] \definefontsynonym[MinionItalic][MinionPro-It] \definefontsynonym[MinionBoldItalic][MinionPro-BoldIt] \definefontsynonym[Myriad][MyriadPro-Regular] \definefontsynonym[MyriadBold][MyriadPro-Bold] \definefontsynonym[MyriadItalic][MyriadPro-It] \definefontsynonym[MyriadBoldItalic][MyriadPro-BoldIt] \stoptypescript \definefontfeature[minion][language=dflt, script=latn, mode=node, frac=yes, onum=yes, kern=yes, liga=yes, dlig=yes, protrusion=quality, expansion=quality] \definefontfeature[minionsmcp][language=dflt, script=latn, mode=node, frac=yes, onum=yes, kern=yes, liga=yes, dlig=yes, smcp=yes, protrusion=quality, expansion=quality] \definefontfeature[myriad][language=dflt, script=latn, mode=node, frac=yes, onum=yes, kern=yes, liga=yes, zero=yes, protrusion=quality, expansion=quality] \starttypescript[serif][myfont][name] \definefontsynonym[Serif][Minion][features=minion] \definefontsynonym[SerifBold][MinionBold][features=minion] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic][MinionItalic][features=minion] \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic][MinionBoldItalic][features=minion] \definefontsynonym[SerifSlanted][MinionItalic][features=minion] \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldSlanted][MinionBoldItalic][features=minion] \definefontsynonym[SerifCaps][MinionBold][features=minionsmcp] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[sans][myfont][name] \definefontsynonym[Sans][Myriad][features=myriad] \definefontsynonym[SansBold][MyriadBold][features=myriad] \definefontsynonym[SansItalic][MyriadItalic][features=myriad] \definefontsynonym[SansBoldItalic][MyriadBoldItalic][features=myriad] \definefontsynonym[SansSlanted][MyriadItalic][features=myriad] \definefontsynonym[SansBoldSlanted][MyriadBoldItalic][features=myriad] \definefontsynonym[SansCaps][Myriad][features=myriad] \stoptypescript \definetypeface [myfont] [rm] [serif] [myfont] [default] \definetypeface [myfont] [ss] [sans] [myfont] [default] \usetypescript[myfont] And I found there problems with the font. 1). Even though I tried to access the otf features (as you can see in my code), but I cannot access that (but I have successfully accessed the Minion Pro font) 2). I cannot use ``--'' to produce an *endash*. 3). I cannot use *``* to produce an leftquote and *''* an right quote. Can someone help me? Thanks. --------------------------- Cheers Fengnan Gao

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Centering an image in framed.
by Bart C. Wise 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

I am using framed and externalfigure commands. I want to put a rule around the image; however, the image has space around all sides. It appears that the top, right, and left sides has the same gap. However, the bottom side has a huge (by comparison) gap. So I can't use a negative offset to fix the problem. How do I center the image & place a border? \framed[location=middle,height=fit,width=fit,rulethickness=1.0pt]{% \externalfigure[image-01.png][maxwidth=3cm,maxheight=4cm] } Thanks, Bart

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context minimals on OpenSolaris 2008.11
by "Michael Krauß" 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Hello list members and ConTeXt gods, this question is more technical than TeXnical but none the less ConTeXt releated. Today I am investigating if I can replace linux with OpenSolaris, so I am testing every, even exotic, software that I use on my linux box on OpenSolaris. Looking into first-setup.sh there seem to be support for Solaris on Intel hardware called "sunos-intel". But if I try to install ConTeXt it doesn't work: mickraus@gandalf:~/context$ ./first-setup.sh /usr/bin/rsync /usr/bin/ruby receiving file list ... rsync: link_stat "/setup/sunos-intel/bin" (in minimals) failed: No such file or directory (2) done sent 4 bytes received 9 bytes 26.00 bytes/sec total size is 0 speedup is 0.00 rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1385) [receiver=2.6.9] ./first-setup.sh: line 68: mtxrun: not found Next I tried to build the binaries myself by checking out the sources from Subversion: svn co http://svn.contextgarden.net/minimals-src/build-binaries And running ./build-binaries.sh afterwards. But this doesn't work either: mickraus@gandalf:~/context/build-binaries$ ./build-binaries.sh [ ... tons of make output removed ... ] ar cru ../kpathsea/.libs/libkpathsea.a tex-file.o absolute.o atou.o cnf.o concat.o concat3.o concatn.o db.o debug.o dir.o elt-dirs.o expand.o extend-fname.o file-p.o find-suffix.o fn.o fontmap.o getopt.o getopt1.o hash.o kdefault.o line.o magstep.o make-suffix.o path-elt.o pathsearch.o proginit.o progname.o readable.o rm-suffix.o str-list.o str-llist.o tex-glyph.o tex-hush.o tex-make.o tilde.o truncate.o uppercasify.o variable.o version.o xbasename.o xcalloc.o xdirname.o xfopen.o xfseek.o xfseeko.o xftell.o xftello.o xgetcwd.o xmalloc.o xopendir.o xputenv.o xrealloc.o xstat.o xstrdup.o error.o filename.o home.o lookcmd.o string.o system.o time.o user.o volume.o ranlib ../kpathsea/.libs/libkpathsea.a creating ../kpathsea/libkpathsea.la (cd ../kpathsea/.libs && rm -f libkpathsea.la && ln -s ../libkpathsea.la libkpathsea.la) ./ctangle ctangle make: ./ctangle: Command not found make: *** [ctangle.c] Error 127 cp: cannot stat `build/texk/web2c/mpdir/mpost': No such file or directory Reverted 'VERSIONS' -e Sorry, there have been some failures: - build of xetex on sunos-intel - build of luatex on sunos-intel - build of metapost on sunos-intel -n No svn commit! Please press enter to continue! There are three executables named ctangle in the minimals directory: mickraus@gandalf:~/context/build-binaries$ find . -name ctangle ./src/current/pdftex/build/texk/web2c/ctangle ./src/current/luatex/build/texk/web2c/ctangle ./src/current/xetex/Work/texk/web2c/ctangle How should I proceed from here? What is the status of Solaris support for context minimals? Kind regards, Michael Krauss -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger

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Gedit in Ubuntu as a ConteXt editor
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

HI ConTeXt friends! I've been using Gedit on my ubuntu system for quite some time and is very much happy with it. Here are some advantages: * UTF-8 encoding by default (which is in mind for LuaTeX). * highly configurable code snippets. reading xml-files. * Defining your own typesetting commands and associate it with some keycombination. Drawbacks * Syntax highlighting for LaTeX but works for context-specific also * I'm not sure if it is portable to windows * Some learning curve to learn how to create special ConTeXt plugin like this http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/LaTeXPlugin I've recently tested texworks but it seems missing the snippets capabilities. Is it someone out there who has experience in Gedit? Janneman -- TeX Engine : LuaTeX current version: 2008.10.31 17:32 OS : Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

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widow/orphan control in columns?
by Lars Huttar 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Hello, We have a document with a 2-column layout where we have section headers that keep ending up at the bottom of columns. E.g. \startsectionheading{2. Foo bar baz}\stopsectionheading where \startsectionheading is defined by: \definestartstop [sectionheading] [before={ \startalignment[middle]}, after={\stopalignment \bigskip}, style={\switchtobodyfont[...,...]}] In order to make sure this section heading gets followed by a line or two of actual text, I saw on web pages [1] and [2] that you can use \testpage[n] to check whether there is room for n more lines, and if not, to produce a page break. I checked the manual [3] and command reference [4] but couldn't find information about \testpage. Is there a corresponding command to conditionally produce a column break? Thanks, Lars [1] http://getfo.org/context_xml/page4.html [2] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Layout [3] http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf [4] http://texshow.contextgarden.net/

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UTF-8 Problems with the minimals
by Florian M. Baudach 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Hi, after reinstalling the minimals (my HD crashed), I have got the following problem: texexec doesn't recognize UTF-8 any more :-(. I didn't change my tex-files and enabled UTF-8 with: \enableregime[utf-8] Surprisingly "context file.tex" works. I have no idea what is wrong with my MKII. Any suggestions? Thx. Greetings FloMo

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vertical alignment in footer
by Zoho Vignochi 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Hello: I am a recent convert from LaTeX to conTeXt. kudos to all the developers! I have read through the wiki and as many tutorials/manuals as I can find. My problem is that I have a footer which includes a logo. I would like all the elements in the footer to be vertically centred, where as now they are aligned along the bottom. Here is my code: \startsetups footer \hfill \pagenumber \hfill \llap{\externalfigure[logo]} \stopsetups Thanks, Zoho

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acroread shows error msg 'Could not find the XObject named 'Fm1'
by joshua lee 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Hi All, Attached file is the sample test file which can not be viewed by acroread, any advice? Thanks a lot. -- Best Regards, Joshua

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Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt + BibTeX problem
by Taco Hoekwater 02 Dec '08

02 Dec '08

Mohamed Bana wrote: > Hi Taco, > > 1. How do I get coloured citations? E.g., \cite[jacky:critial] should > produce a coloured link. \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupcite[compress=no] > 2. If is possible to get the list of pages an item was cited at? Sorry, no. The backreferences are in saved in the tuo file, but I never got around to writing the integration code for it. In case someone is interested in writing that, it needs a loop like this one: \unprotect \def\getpagelist#1% {\let\pagelist \empty \def\currentbibitem{#1}% \doloop {\doifdefinedelse{\r!cross cite-\jobname-\recurselevel} {\doifreferencefoundelse {cite-\jobname-\recurselevel} {\ifx\currenttextreference\currentbibitem\relax \doglobal\addtocommalist {cite-\jobname-\recurselevel}\pagelist \fi } {}} {\exitloop}}% % \pagelist is now the list of backreferences for #1 \message{\pagelist}% } \protect Best wishes, Taco

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minimals: cannot find cmsy10.pfb
by Sanjoy Mahajan 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

While testing Norbert's latest Debian packages, I ran across the following font problem with the recent ConTeXt minimals. The following test file: ========= cut here ============= \usetypescript[palatino][ec] \definetypeface [palatino] [mm] [math] [euler] [euler] [rscale=1.03] \setupbodyfont[palatino,11pt] \starttext $\equiv$ \stoptext ========= cut here ============= fails with: !pdfTeX error: pdftex (file cmsy10.pfb): cannot open Type 1 font file for readi ng ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! Among the many map files that are read in, only original-public-lm.map mentions cmsy10.pfb, and it contains this mapping: cmsy10 CMSY10 <cmsy10.pfb Since cmsy10.pfb isn't in the minimals, I tried to fake it by symlinking to the texlive fonts and running mktexlsr, but that didn't work. The ls-R database contained cmsy10.pfb, but kpsewhich cmsy10.pfb wouldn't find it. Another workaround that I tried was to add this line \pdfmapfile{+pdftex.map} to the start of the test file. But that trick only produced errors about duplicated fontmap entries. I'm using Debian GNU/Linux i386, context minimals 2008.11.10 w/ MKII. I tested it with the 2008.10.31 minimals but found the same problem. I can also test it with other versions. Is there a list of available dates to feed the --context=YYYY.MM.DD switch? -Sanjoy

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Times New Roman
by Alan Bowen 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

I am running the ConTeXt Minimals of 11/10 and am trying to access Times New Roman using the script \usetypescript [timesnewroman][ec] \definetypeface[timesnewroman][rm][serif][timesnewroman][default] [encoding=ec] \definebodyfont[9pt,11pt][rm][default] \setupbodyfont[timesnewroman,rm,11pt] I am not sure what I getting and I am puzzled by the log file , hence, my question: Is Times New Roman distributed with the minimals and is this the way to access it? Thanks for any help or suggestions. Alan

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difference between TeX behavior and ConTeXt
by Lars Huttar 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Hello, I've been reading through the TeXbook to solidify the foundations for TeX programming. In an exercise on roman and italic text, ConTeXt seems to behave differently from what the book specifies (Plain TEX) at a fairly fundamental level. Exercise 4.1 says, "Explain how to typeset a roman word in the midst of an italicized sentence." I wrote, and the solution in the appendix says, {\it Explain how to typeset a\/ {\rm roman} word in the midst of an italicized sentence.} But when I typeset this using texexec, the word "roman" appears in italic, just like the rest of the sentence. I tried this on both Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux, with both PDFTex and Xetex engines. On Windows I'm using ConTeXt minimal, and on Linux I'm using ConTeXt from the TeXLive 2008 CD. The result is the same in all cases: all the text is italicized. Does this difference in behavior represent a known "feature" of ConTeXt? If so, is it a difference in the defined behavior of \rm? When I put \show\rm in the .tex file to display the definition of the \rm macro, and run texexec, I get: > \rm=\protected macro: ->\setcurrentfontstyle {rm}. l.7 \show\rm By contrast, according to http://webpages.charter.net/davidlha/.trm/trmi.html, "Plain TeX defines \rm to be `\fam=0 \tenrm'." So clearly the definition of the \rm macro is different in ConTeXt than it is in Plain TeX. I could understand ConTeXt possibly changing the details of \rm's definition, e.g. a change in default font family; but it would really be surprising to find that the logic of \rm's behavior has been changed. Please help me understand if this is a bug or if there is a design principle of ConTeXt that I should be aware of... Thanks, Lars

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The rules of Chinese breaking lines don't work
by Yanrui Li 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Hi, Today when I updated the newest beta, I found that Chinese breaking lines failed. This is a simple test file: %% \definefontfeature [zh][mode=node,script=hang,lang=zhs] \definefontsynonym [SongTi][AdobeSongStd-Light][features=zh] \definefont [song][SongTi at 12pt] \starttext \song 天下事有难易乎？为之，则难者易易也。不为，则易者易难也。蜀之鄙有二僧，其一贫，其一富。贫者语于富者曰：吾欲之南海何如？ \stoptext %% The attachment with this mail is the PDF file which I got by compiling the example as above. I noticed that the font-ini.mkiv was modified in newest beta (because I manage the beta with git in my machine). Maybe the problem is related to it. -- Best wishes, Li Yanrui

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Re: [NTG-context] TeXworks
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

HI! Just as the tip showed up I did the build on my ubuntu-system and along the way I also installed TL2008 and LuaTeX according to wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV On running typeset in texworks it typesets and a pdf file is created but following error-message at the bottom end occurs. I did the same on a command line but there it did not show up. The errormessage inside texworks log window: mkiv lua stats : runtime - 5.414 seconds, 7 processed pages, 7 shipped pages, 1.293 pages/second ! I can't find file `./'. <*> ./ Please type another input file name: Is there something missing in preferences window? Now I have in tool configuration dialog Name: ConTeXt program: context Arguments: $fullname Thanks in Advance Janneman

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ConTeXt + BibTeX problem
by Guilherme P. de Freitas 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

Hi everybody. I have two files: "texfile.tex" and "references.bib". They are attached and also copied in the bottom of the email. There is one citation. The **problem** is: the citation appears correctly in the body of the text in the PDF, but the References list is empty. However, if one changes line 14 \subsection{Top trading procedures} to \subsubject{Top trading procedures} then everything works: the citation appears correctly *and* the reference appears in the References list. I don't know why. Any ideas? Here are the files: \\---------- texfile.tex ---------- \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database={./references}] \setuppublications[ refcommand=authoryear, sort=auhor] \starttext Let $X = \{h_{1}, \ldots, h_{n} \}$ and $D$ be all the unitary subsets of $X$; $N = \{1, \ldots, n\}$ and preferences given by linear orders (complete and strict rankings) over $D$. This is the housing market introduced by \cite{shapley_cores_1974}. \section{Procedures} \subsection{Top trading procedures} % \subsubject{Top trading procedures} % If we use "subsection" instead of "subsubject", the References disappear. In the classic housing assignment problem, Gale's {\em top trade cycles} (TTC) algorithm yields an efficient allocation that is in the core. \completepublications \stoptext ---------------------------------// And the BibTeX file: \\---------- references.bib ---------- @article{shapley_cores_1974, title = {On cores and indivisibility}, volume = {1}, journal = {Journal of Mathematical Economics}, author = {Lloyd Shapley and Herbert Scarf}, month = mar, year = {1974}, pages = {23--37} } ------------------------------------// -- Guilherme P. de Freitas http://www.gpfreitas.com

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Weighted colors in MkIV
by Wolfgang Schuster 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

Hi, in MkIV there is a problem when I set tints for a color. This is a complete minimal example of my setup: \setupcolors[state=start,rgb=no,cmyk=yes,spot=yes] % rgb= no needed in MkII \setupcolor [hex] \definecolor[PantoneOneEightSeven][h=C40F2F,e=Pantone 187 U] \definespotcolor[dtkred] [PantoneOneEightSeven][p=1.0] \definespotcolor[dtkredlight][PantoneOneEightSeven][p=0.7] \starttext \blackrule[width=4cm,height=4cm,color=dtkred,] \blackrule[width=4cm,height=4cm,color=dtkredlight] \stoptext I could also reproduce it with a short setup: \setupcolors[state=start,rgb=no] % rgb= no needed in MkII \definespotcolor[dtkred] [red][p=1.0] \definespotcolor[dtkredlight][red][p=0.7] \starttext \blackrule[width=4cm,height=4cm,color=dtkred,] \blackrule[width=4cm,height=4cm,color=dtkredlight] \stoptext With the setting rgb=yes the color dtkred is correct in the output but dtkredlight is darker than dtkred, with the setting rgb=no dtkred is black in my document. Wolfgang

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MkIV gobbles text in xml files
by Wolfgang Schuster 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

Hi, I was able to reproduce Thomas problem with xml files. Part of his text was missing because he had a space after his <sln/> element in the file which caused ConTeXt to gobble the following text till the end of the paragraph. In the following text the second line in the second paragraph has a space at the end of the line and the two lines with b's did not appear in the output (test files are attached). <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <document> aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa bbbb bbbb bbbb bbbb bbbb bbbb aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa aaaa bbbb bbbb bbbb bbbb bbbb bbbb </document> Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] TeXworks
by Peter Wüsten 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

> > > have you seen that [TeXworks]? Anyone tried it with ConTeXt? > > > > http://code.google.com/p/texworks/ > > Nice idea, built on FreeBSD > Unfortunately ConTeXt engine results: > 'Unknown error' > > I actually found it to work nicely (on windows XP) as long as all the ConTeXt-related environment-variables are set, *and* given that the path to the context-executables has been set in TeXworks' properties dialogue. Cheers, Peter

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TeXworks
by Marcin Borkowski 29 Nov '08

29 Nov '08

Hi all, have you seen that? Anyone tried it with ConTeXt? http://code.google.com/p/texworks/ Greets -- Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.pl) Lecz choćby nawet matka zapomniała o swym dziecku, Ja nie zapomnę - Ja nie zapomnę Ciebie! Popatrz: na Moich dłoniach mam Cię wypisaną!

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Re: [NTG-context] MAPS
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi, Sorry, but how to get fresh MAPS magazine discussed here? Is it printed, and if printed, will it be posted to NTG members (as me)? ;) Best, Vyatcheslav

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MAPS 37
by luigi scarso 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

I must make my *complimenti* for this number . Hans,Taco,Mojca,Arthur,Willi, Norbert and also Hans van der Mer, Jonathan Kew make it a really special number . Particularly, I really appreciate The TeX-Lua mix (it should be wikified) and Punk Fonts by Hans and Taco, and also hyphenation patterns in UTF by Mojca and Arthur. Really happy to conTEXing with you . Thanks again -- luigi

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font feature is not working now.
by Yue Wang 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi, Hans: This is a serious bug, and actually this is why chinese is not working in LiYanrui's mail. Yue Wang

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Re: [NTG-context] [Dev-luatex] Luatex beta 0.30.3 released
by Yue Wang 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi, > I have just uploaded the archives for luatex 0.30.3. > This release matches SVN revision #1587. FreeBSD-i386 version of LuaTeX 0.30.3 (released today) and MetaPost 1.100 (released yesterday) should be in the minimals distribution in a few hours (I have already sent those files to Mojca). Yue Wang

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xml parsing
by Thomas A. Schmitz 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

Hi all, Hans, this is a terribly inaccurate bug report, and I apologize for its form, but it's something you and other people might want to look at. Or maybe I should change my files, I don't know. Here comes: SUMMARY The new mkiv xml parser sometimes "eats" parts of my xml files when they are typeset. It appears to skip parts of text between two tags. DESCRIPTION I have no minimal example, just a description: for my lectures, I have defined a counter to tell me when I want to show the next slide: \definelabel[SlideNumber][headstyle=normal,way=bytext] \define\sln{\color[red]{ [\nextSlideNumber]}} For my xml files, I have wrapped this into a xml command: \startxmlsetups xml:sln \sln \stopxmlsetups This works wonderfully in most cases. To make my source file more readable, I usually code foo <sln/> bar In this case, the xml parser SOMETIMES (not reproducibly, unfortunately) skips the "bar" part up to the next paragraph tag. When I take away the line break and write foo <sln/> bar the "bar" part appears normally. ANECDOTE I write my lectures in xml so I can put them on a website for my students, and I deliver them from typeset notes. This happened to me last Tuesday. I had typeset and printed my notes, and then while lecturing realized that an entire paragraph was missing. I could ad- lib it, but this is not something you want to happen at an important job-talk... ALl best Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] a question about ConTeXt + AUCTeX
by Thomas A. Schmitz 28 Nov '08

28 Nov '08

On Nov 28, 2008, at 2:00 AM, Mohamed Bana wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > I was just browsing the ML looking for a solution to my problem. > > 1. I'd like to customise the commands used for 'ConTeXt' and > 'ConTeXt Full' found in the 'Command' menu, e.g., I like to use > 'context <thefile>' for the 'ConTeXt' command. > 2. Can I bind these to certain shortcut keys? > > Thanks alot > Mohamed > I'm not sure what your question is. Have you tried the solution I've given? Is it working? If you use the customize command, this will write to your .emacs file. Thomas > Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: >>> >>> >> I don't use Aquamacs precisely because I find customizing it more >> difficult than other Carbon Emacsen, but you can try this: >> M-x customize-variabel <Return> >> TeX-command-list <Return> >> in the list, scroll down to ConTeXt and change the Command to >> texmfstart texexec %t. You have to make sure yourself that >> texmfstart is in your $PATH and that Aquamaces knows about this >> $PATH. You can also add other commands, I have "LuaConTeXt mtxrun >> --script context %t" and "XeConTeXt texmfstart texexec --xtx %t". >> HTH >> Thomas

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End Notes and Minimals
by Bart C. Wise 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

I've tried several things to get end notes working with the Minimals distribution (MkIV). However, nothing seems to work and what worked for MkII does not work now. Is there a new method for getting end notes in MkIV? Thank, Bart

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bug in mkii xetex: mp figure is not in the right position
by Yue Wang 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

hi: it seems that mpfigure will be in the wrong position using the xetex engine. here is the sample file: % engine=xetex \starttext \setupcolors [state=start] \startMPpage path p ; color c[] ; p := fullsquare scaled 4cm ; c[0] := transparent(1,.5,red) ; c[1] := transparent(1,.5,green) ; c[2] := transparent(1,.5,blue) ; for i = 0 upto 2 : fill p rotated (i*30) withcolor white ; endfor ; for i = 0 upto 2 : fill p rotated (i*30) withcolor c[i] ; endfor ; addbackground withcolor transparent(1,.5,cmyk(0,0,1,0)) ; \stopMPpage \stoptext Yue Wang

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Re: [NTG-context] Apa-fr
by Taco Hoekwater 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > Le 27 novembre à 13:34:11 Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> écrit notamment: > > | Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > | > Hi all (mostly Taco), > | > > | > Using bibl-apa-fr.tex for bibliography, I encountered a "chapter" on line 111 > | > which should (I think) be changed to "Chapitre" (I did that on a file at > | > home and it works well); my context is TL2008 so if the file has been modified > | > since september I have not seen that yet. > | Chapitre with capital? > > No, it is after a comma (sorry I was confused this morning) I uploaded a new version to modules.contextgarden.net, thanks for the report. Best wishes, Taco

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printing tab in lua: print('a\tb') fails
by Mojca Miklavec 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hello, Here's a tiny question. The following command complains about undefined control sequence. \starttext \startluacode print('a\tb') \stopluacode hello \stoptext There is a workaround: print(string.format('a\t%s', 'b')) but I find it weird. Even if the line above gets commented out with two dashes it still complains. I understand approximately why this happens, but is that intended? Should I be using something else than \startluacode in the plethora of different lua triggering commands? Thanks, Mojca

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Centering the page
by Mohamed Bana 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

%%% Document %%% % engine=luatex \enableregime [utf-8] \mainlanguage[uk] \language[uk] \setuppapersize [A4] [A4] \showframe %\showlayout %\setuplayout[width=middle] \setupwhitespace [medium] \starttext \input knuth \input zapf \input tufte \stoptext Look at http://filebin.ca/rzjruz/test.pdf or http://filebin.ca/rzjruz, you'll notice a reasonably sized gap on the right hand side, how do I get rid of it? The work around seems to be \setuplayout[width=middle] But this isn't want I want as the width of the text betters slightly bigger, see; http://filebin.ca/ttufjc/test.pdf or http://filebin.ca/ttufjc . Thanks

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Apa-fr
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Hi all (mostly Taco), Using bibl-apa-fr.tex for bibliography, I encountered a "chapter" on line 111 which should (I think) be changed to "Chapitre" (I did that on a file at home and it works well); my context is TL2008 so if the file has been modified since september I have not seen that yet. cheers, -- Jean

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Figures are misplaced with \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT
by Khaled Hosny 27 Nov '08

27 Nov '08

Figures are shifted to the right (the left edge is where right edge should) when I set \pagedir TRT\bodydir TRT. See the attached example. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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columnset running into footer when using \setupheader[state=high]
by Jelle Huisman 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hi all, I have a fairly standard setup with the usual code to move the pagenumber to the footer on the first page of the chapter. This works fine, except when I place the text in a columnset, in which case the columnset on page 2 (and all following pages) runs into the footer area. I'm fairly certain that \setupheader[state=high] interferes with way columnset counts the number of lines it can fit into each column, resulting in columns that run into the footer area. This code shows the problem: % columnset running into footer area \definelayout[1][] \setupheader[state=high] \definetext[footerpagenumber][footer][pagenumber] \setuphead[chapter][page=yes,header=high,footer=footerpagenumber,number=no,align=middle] \definecolumnset[columnl][n=2] \showgrid \showframe \starttext \chapter{One} \startcolumnset[column] \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth} \stopcolumnset \stoptext Looking in the mail archive it looks like this is an old problem (see: http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060516.092742.d455b795.en.html ) but I'm wondering about a solution. Any thoughts? Thanks. Jelle

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setup/switchtobodyfont question
by Alan STONE 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

The main manual mentions (ch 5 Typography, pg 92): "In most cases, the command \setupbodyfont is only used once: in the styledefinition. Fontswitching is done with \switchtobodyfont. Don't mix these two up because this may lead to some rather strange but legitimate effects." What's recommended when using a product meta-structure (standardmakeup-frontmatter- bodypart-appendices-backmatter) where the bodyfont (and in some cases also the top, header, footer, bottom fonts change) from one to the other ? Declare one (1) setupbodyfont and switchtobodyfont from one meta-structure element to the other or use a dedicated setupbodyfont for each ? -- Best, Alan * TeX engine = LuaTeX * ConTeXt minimal ver: 2008.11.10 21:40 MKIV fmt: 2008.11.25 int: english/english * Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

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Re: [NTG-context] How to overlap two figures?
by Dalyoung Jeong 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Thank you for all the suggestions. I have tried your suggestions and they worked well. Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung

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exported figures from DIA to Metapost including in document
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hi All! I'm in beginning to write a thesis in physics(undergraduate level) and one of many things I wanna do is, cause I create much illustrations in DIA http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ and the program can export to figure.mp, to include these in my document. I've read the instructions on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mpgraphic I do not get this working. How is the best way to accomplish this? The reason is why I want to do in this way is to input tex code in the figure (especially math and symbol definitions) and optionally place them in specific places inside the figure. By this method I can even do better illustrations, hopefully. My workflow has been like this: 1. Create the desired figure in DIA and choose the export option. TeX metapost *.mp(see attached file ). 2. Tryed to do inclusion in a TeX-document like this \startstaticMPfigure{magflux} the code in the attached file \stopstaticMPfigure \starttext Here is my figure \usestaticMPfigure[magflux][width=0.8\textwidth] \stoptext But it fails with errormessage: !Paragraph ended before \startstaticMPfigure was complete ..... Should I place part of the code in some definitions? 3. To input textlabels in mathnotation optionally anywhere I want inside the figure. And also do something like \placefigure[][fig:metapostfigure]{Here is the figure I made in DIA converted to metapost}{\usestaticMPfigure[magflux][width=0.8\textwidth]} so it also can be referred to in the text. All best and thanks in advance! Janneman -- TeX Engine : LuaTeX current version: 2008.10.23 17:32 OS : Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

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Re: [NTG-context] modifying URL wrapping rules
by Lars Huttar 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

On 11/21/2008 2:22 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > i leave it to others to react on the rest of your mail (some users have > been tuning the mechanism too) > > Hans On 11/21/2008 9:45 AM, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > Am 21.11.2008 um 16:35 schrieb Lars Huttar: > >> >> Hello, >> >> Did either of you, Aditya or Steffen, have success modifying how URLs >> are wrapped? Did you do it by using \sethyphenatedurlbefore/etc.? >> >> I'm trying to finish a production project and am stuck on this problem. >> >> Thanks, >> Lars > > > Hi Lars, > > ... no, I am still hoping for a fix for that. > > As far as I have seen also Mojca asked for "How to influence hyphenation > points in URLs?" > And even her got no answer! That's a bad sign ;o) > > Steffen On 11/21/2008 9:52 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > No, I had a deadline and in the end, I did URL breaking by hand, using > \break at appropriate places. But it was a short article (4/5 pages). > > Aditya So as far as we know, nobody has successfully used \sethyphenatedurlbefore/after/etc. to tune the url-breaking mechanism. Has anybody else on the list done this? If not, maybe the mkii implementation has never worked for that purpose... it's possible, since urls are breaking after hyphens when lang-url.mkii says to break before hyphens. If this is the case (\sethyphenatedbefore/after in mkii is broken), then rather than awaiting a fix for the soon-obsolete mkii implementation, maybe I can do a workaround. I need help with the tex details though, please, as I am still very much a tex newbie... We are generating our tex document, so verbosity is not a problem, but irregularity would be. Rather than inserting \break in various places manually, which would have to be redone often, I could automatically insert \discretionary or \allowbreak before/after the appropriate characters in the tex document. Would that work? How would I suppress hyphenation at other points -- \dontleavehmode or something like that? Thanks again, Lars

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Minimals, Linux & OSFONTDIR
by Bart C. Wise 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

I have more that two path for my fonts: - /usr/local/share/fonts -/usr/share/fonts When I do one path, it works fine; however, if I put two paths as follows: export OSFONTDIR=/usr/local/share/fonts:/usr/share/fonts it does not pick up the fonts in both directories. Admitedly, this is my fault, but could someone help out? Thanks, Bart

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line of text after a table
by Steffen Wolfrum 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hallo Albrecht, hast Du diese (siehe Anhang) beiden Antworten übersehen? MfG, Steffen. Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > Von: Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> > Datum: 24. November 2008 09:20:32 MEZ > An: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] line of text after a table > Antwort an: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > > Albrecht Kauffmann wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> would it be able to write a line after a table or figure (e.g.: "Data >> source: ...") that will be handled as a part of the float object? >> > > Just do > \placefigure[]{}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf]\crlf Data source: .. } > > Best wishes, > Taco > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > Von: "Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> > Datum: 24. November 2008 09:32:19 MEZ > An: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Betreff: Re: [NTG-context] line of text after a table > Antwort an: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:20 AM, Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> > wrote: >> Albrecht Kauffmann wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> would it be able to write a line after a table or figure (e.g.: >>> "Data >>> source: ...") that will be handled as a part of the float object? >>> >> >> Just do >> \placefigure[]{}{\externalfigure[cow.pdf]\crlf Data source: .. } > > \placefigure[]{}{\placelegend{\externalfigure[cow.pdf]}{Data > source: ...}} > > Regards, > Wolfgang > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________

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Re: [NTG-context] How to overlap two figures?
by 그래프 수학과 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Dear Yue, Thank you for the reply. > > > why not process the base file figure each time before process each > figure. > Yes, That is what I did. I am curious if there is a way of shorten the length of code which is less important. Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung

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Minimals & \placefootnotes
by Bart C. Wise 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

I have loaded the minimals packaging on my system. In running through some code I'm finding that \placefootnotes does not appear to be working (or at least it's different than MkII. With the minimals, the footnotes always appear at the bottom of the page, not where the \placefootnotes command is placed. Is this a bug, or do I need to make some changes? \setupfootnotes[location=text] \starttext Here is a footnote.\footnote{Here's the first footnote} And yet, another. \footnote{The second.} \placefootnotes Here is some more text, with another footnote.\footnote{The third footnote.} \placefootnotes \stoptext Thanks, Bart

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How to overlap two figures?
by 그래프 수학과 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Dear all, I'd like to two figures in one place. There is a base figure, and I'd like to put other figures on the base figure case by case. base file + figure 1, base file + figure 2, ... The figures are created using metafun. Thank you for help. Dalyoung

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how can I write mongolian in context
by Ardi 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hello all, I would like to write some words in Classical Mongolian in Latex. Is it possible to use the old Montex package of Oliver Corff in Context? Regards, bozon42

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patterns for German in mkiv
by Thomas A. Schmitz 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Hi all, something fishy is going on with hyphenation patterns for German in mkiv. Here's a minimal test file: \starttext {\de \hyphenatedword{sich}} \stoptext please compile with mkii and mkiv and see the difference. The word should of course not be hyphenated. All best Thomas

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Error with ctx=x-ldx in char_cmp.lua
by luigi scarso 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

context --ctx=x-ldx char-cmp.lua fails with {/opt/luatex/minimals/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/iwona/iwona-ex.map} [1.1] [2.2] [3.3] Illegal parameter number in definition of \!!stringa. <to be read again> 1 \doprocesscommalist ... \commalevel \endcsname ##1 ,{#2{##1}\doprocesscommait... \expanded ...long \xdef \@@expanded {\noexpand #1} \@@expanded l.1 \xmlsetup{764}{ldx:function} \xmlflush #1->\ctxlua {lxml.flush("#1")} \doifelsenothing #1->\edef \!!stringa {#1 }\ifx \!!stringa \empty \expandafte... ... l.2 \xmlprocess{\xmldocument}{./char-cmp.lua}{} -- luigi

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Setuphyphenmark is not working again
by Yue Wang 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

Hi, Hans: \setuphyphenmark[sign=-] is not working again, it still gives en-dash between ||. would you please have a check? Yue Wang

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Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: What is the command to define the behavior of \goto?
by Aditya Mahajan 24 Nov '08

24 Nov '08

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008, Yue Wang wrote: >> This is called referencing in ConTeXt. You can search the excursion and >> the main manual for some more details. > > still go to the page, not go to the specific place. see the attachment. > > what I want is the feature that can go to certain area in the pdf document page. Ah. The link is actually going to a specific place in a page, but the pdfviewer shows the entire page due to the default value of focus. It can be changed using \setupinteraction[focus=standard] > for example, in CTAN, there is a document typesetted in LaTeX (using > hyperref package) called A Survey of Free Math Fonts for TEX and > LATEX, you can find it in CTAN/documentation/Free_Math_Font_Survey/. > Go to page 1 and see Contents. If I click Core Postscript Fonts, it > will not only go to page 8, but also place the title at the top of the > reader window. Obviously this is different compared to the hyperlink > feature in ConTeXt. ConTeXt behaviour is not perfect in this regard. Sometimes the link jumps higher or lower than the actual section title. But I could never determine if it was the fault of the pdf viewer or ConTeXt. Aditya

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Re: [NTG-context] bug reporting
by Peter Münster 23 Nov '08

23 Nov '08

On Sat, Nov 22 2008, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> What's the best to do with unanswered bug-reports / feature-requests on the > >> mailing list: > >> - reposting on the list > >> - posting to the tracker on http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contexttest/ > >> - other? > > > > when urgent (showstopper): repost > > else: tracker > > But ConTeXt has a new tracker now: http://tracker.luatex.org Oh! What does this mean exactly: - Is the tracker on foundry.supelec.fr now obsolete? - Should I move open items from foundry.supelec.fr to luatex.org? - Is tracker.luatex.org only a temporary solution, or will it be used for a not too short time in the future? Thanks, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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