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ConTeXt manual
by TeXWorld 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hello, Where can I find the lastest version of ConTeXt the manual. Mine is november 12, 2001 Maybe there are better manuals today. Can you tell me please where I can find them. Thank you.

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metapost question
by Thomas A. Schmitz 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hi all, probably an easy question: for a presentation, I would like to have an area of my slide highlighted by placing a transparent grey layer on top of the slide and having one area of this layer completely transparent, a bit like this screenshot: http://debaday.debian.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/key3.jpg Any suggestions for the easiest way to achieve this effect? Thanks Thomas

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mtxrun
by Hans van der Meer 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Following the article "The luafication of TeX and Context" in the recent issue of the NTG-MAPS I tried the example given: mtxrun --script fonts and this should return the options list for this script. However, I get: 101 ~: mtxrun --script fonts cannot open : No such file or directory While otherwise a bare mtxrun returns info and thus was found as a runnable script: 102 ~: mtxrun MtxRun | version 1.0.2 - 2007+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT MtxRun | --script run an mtx script In my .bashrc I had the lua scripts in the path: 103 ~: echo $PATH ..:/usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/:.. And I had called luatools --generate to make the database plus I made certain the script has execute permissions: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/mtx-fonts.lua - rwxr-xr-x What is wrong or what I am doing wrong? Hans van der Meer

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Customizing layer stepping
by Wolfgang Schuster 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hi, how can I can change the stepper for PDF-Layers, the code from the presentation module 60 use InvokeStepper and makes with every step only the next layer visible but I want to hide also a few layers in certain steps. In my example in the steps one to seven the layer for each step should be shown but in the eight step layer eight should be visible and layer seven should be deactivated at the same time. You could also see what I want also in the PDF file but it use fieldstacks and is very slow for more than 100 fields for each graphic. \usemodule[pre-60] \setupinteraction[state=start,click=on] \def\addstone#1#2#3% {\StartLocalStep \position(#1,#2){#3}% \StopLocalStep \ignorespaces} \starttext \framed [width=3cm, height=3cm, background=invoke, offset=overlay] {\setuppositioning[unit=mm,factor=5,xoffset=-2.5cm,yoffset=-2.5cm] \startpositioning \addstone12X% show layer 1 \addstone42O% show layer 2 \addstone23X% show layer 3 \addstone33O% show layer 4 \addstone21X% show layer 5 \addstone31O% show layer 6 \addstone32X% show layer 7 \addstone22O% show layer 8, hide layer 7 \addstone00X% show layer 9 \stoppositioning} \stoptext Wolfgang

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French discussion about ConTeXt versus LaTeX
by Maurice Diamantini 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hello, There is a discussion about ConTeXt versus LaTeX on the french forum fr.comp.text.tex http://groups.google.com/group/fr.comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/af37f7… If any french ConTeXt user can share its experiment and argumentation... -- Maurice

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Unusual TOC
by Maurício 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

Hi, I'm typesetting a book where prose and verse alternate in chapters, i.e., you have one chapter of prose, one of verse, one of prose etc. I would like to generate a TOC for that book, but chapters have no name or numbers. I was told by the author that the usual thing to do is to take the first few words of each chapter and use those in the index. I know how to do that using a few small tricks, but I would like to know if there's a standard way to do that. Are you aware of any? Thanks, Maurício

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\startmode[*first]
by Peter Rolf 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

hi, just noticed that \startmode[*first] is ignored, if you use mtxrun. works ok with 'texexec --lua'. best wishes, peter

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TeXLive 2008
by Thomas A. Schmitz 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

Hi all, Hans, Taco, this is kind of a continuation of the thread about installers etc. I'm currently test-driving TeXLive 2008 and was wondering if we could make it a bit easier for new users to just try out ConTeXt. The binaries reside in <tl2008-directory>/2008/bin/<arch>; the installer gives the choice to put symlinks in system directories. Would it make sense to place some ConTeXt symlinks into the bin directory? For Unixoid systems, I am thinking of these: mtxrun -> ../../../2008/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/mtxrun.lua luatools -> ../../../2008/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/luatools.lua and maybe place the stub "context" into this bin directory as well. I don't know how this would work for widnoze. I'm thinking of a potential casual user who has just installed TeXLive and should be able to simply run a "Hello World" document by typing "context myfile." Does that make sense? Thomas

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

Hi, for the arabic users ... there is a new beta with improved bidi (it passes idris torture test) idris: also new bin in usual place (fixes bug) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Footnotes within "paragraphs in columns" have incorrect width.
by Daniel Pittman 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

G'day. While designing the layout for a cookbook I have used "paragraphs in columns" to place the ingredients and body text next to each other. In order to add some commentary to the body I have been experimenting with footnotes, to place comments at the end of the recipe without getting in the flow of the steps. In any case I seem to have found a bug: when I add a footnote inside the paragraphs environment it retains the enclosing width -- even if placed outside the space where it is defined. The following file demonstrates the issue. I expected to have the footnote full width across the page but, as you will probably see, it is constrained to half the width -- just like the running text. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- % demonstrate footnote width being crunched by paragraphs in columns \defineparagraphs[Para][n=2,rule=off,align=right] % left flush \starttext \startlocalfootnotes \startPara Hello, world. \nextPara This is some running text with a footnote, to demonstrate the way \footnote{This is a nice, long footnote which should spread text all the way across the page ... but doesn't, giving only the width of the enclosing block.} that the environment shrinks the footnote text flow. \stopPara \startPara I use multiple, consecutive paragraph environments ... \nextPara ... to lay out the ingredients for each step, and the steps sequentially, through the document. \stopPara \placelocalfootnotes \stoplocalfootnotes \stoptext --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I have ConTeXt from Ubuntu/Hardy, Texlive ConTeXt 2007.09.28-1, from the TeXlive 2007-13 packages supplied by the vendor. This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) ConTeXt ver: 2007.09.28 16:52 MKII fmt: 2007.12.19 int: english/english Is this a behaviour that I am stuck with, or can I get footnotes that expand to full width from within the two column environment? I am not wedded to the "paragraphs" model, and would be happy with a solution that would typeset with the same basic layout as the sample file does. Regards, Daniel

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problem with layer: corner doesn't work
by Uwe Koloska 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

Hello, still working on the CD Design, I tried to understand the layer mechanism. After some reading and trying I have found a problem with the parameter 'corner'. The following setting doesn't work with the corner parameter but only with numeric placement of the reference point: --------------------------------------------------------------- % engine=luatex \setuppapersize[CD][A4] \setuppagenumbering [location=,state=stop] \showframe[edge] \setuplayout[location=middle] \definelayer [layer1] [width=\paperheight,heigth=\paperheight] \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=layer1] \starttext \startstandardmakeup \setlayerframed [layer1] [corner={left,bottom}, %x=0cm,y=\paperheight, location={right,top}] [width=.5\paperwidth, height=.5\paperheight, background=screen] {BLOCK 1} \setlayerframed [layer1] [corner={right,top}, location={left,bottom}] [width=.5\paperwidth, height=.5\paperheight, background=screen] {BLOCK 2} \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext --------------------------------------------------------------- I use a current context-minimal and have made an update today. The luatex version is: > luatex --version This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.3-2008052302 ... This is build 0, created on 20080410T143312Z Context is: ConTeXt ver: 2008.06.11 22:25 MKIV fmt: 2008.6.15 int: english/english What is wrong here? Uwe Koloska

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man page(s) for context
by Mojca Miklavec 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

(from a conversation from dev-context) On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > While at it, I would like to place a vote for having as few > command names as is feasible. In the current situation I find > I often forget whether I need ctxtools or xmltools or textools > or ... While at it: any volunteers to write/update man pages for ConTeXt? Mojca

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Problem with Xetex
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

Probably I am the most troubled, unsuccessful beginner in this list (it's my <i>fado</i>), anyway: I have two installations of context: one in ~/texmf; another in ~/context to which I switch typing . ~/context/tex/setuptex ~/context/tex. The first one has a problem with 8bit output (\enableregiem[utf8]: it says in the log file: possible problem with 8bit output. Xetex hangs on with: kpathsea mktextfm lmroman... The second installation has another problem with xetex: "could not open config file dvipdfmx.cfg"

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fontscript for delicious?
by Uwe Koloska 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

Hello, does someone have a typescript (or what's now needed) for using the wonderful delicious font with context? http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/delicious.html It's available in opentype format. Thank you Uwe Koloska

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How could a typesetting system be today?
by Maurício 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

Hi, Just because I'm curious: how could a typesetting system like TeX be if it was created today? I've tried google and wikipedia, and all I found different from TeX is a system called 'Lout', but it seems dead. Does anyone knows about novel or interesting ideas that could be used if we would write a new typesetting system from scratch? Thanks for your thoughts, Maurício

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Fwd: (scientific) poster
by Andrea Valle 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

(originally bounced) -a- Begin forwarded message: > From: Andrea Valle <valle(a)di.unito.it> > Date: 13 June 2008 14:59:19 GMT+02:00 > To: vim.unix(a)gmail.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg- > context(a)ntg.nl> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] (scientific) poster > > > Hi Pau, > I have made a couple of posters with ConTeXt. > Here they are: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User:Andrea > > Code attached: > > > I have to say that for poster stuff where you have to control > visually the layout a GUI is not that bad. > So now I'm using ConTeXt for text-based projects (documents, books) > and Nodebox for visual related things (posters, presentations). > > Best > > -a- >

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Roll-Your-Own Stand-Alone (Was re. ConTeXt ultraminimals)
by Joel C. Salomon 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

I'm working on ConTeXt+SciTE-on-a-USB-Stick. A downloadable program is still far off, as is a version that can be put on PortableApps.com, but I've gotten to the point of mapping out the basic parameters: • We need to have a start-up program, which will set up the environment and start SciTE and/or a command prompt. • Legacy-free is nice, but if ConTeXt+XeTeX (which I'll call "mkiii" whether that's an official name or no) requires texexec then we need to include Ruby anyway, so we may as well keep PDFTeX (mkii), BUT: • Since my Windows machine already has Perl, Python, & Ruby, I'm going to defer working on that last point. • In fact, I'm going to defer including SciTE also, until I have a working stand-alone ConTeXt… I've put my rsync invocations on the wiki. (Since the calls are so closely tied to the directory structure of the Minimals, I added them to <http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals/Structure> as an example of how to use & customize them, but I'll move it if folks think it belongs elsewhere.) Also, the commands I'm using to generate my formats are on that page. Could someone please check them for sanity? --Joel

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Format does not match the base files
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

After updating my system with rsync to get the latest binaries of context I got this message: adsm@adsm:~> texexec --xtx greek_exp.tex system : cont-new loaded (/home/adsm/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex FatalError : Your format does not match the base files! FormatVersion : 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII FilesVersion : 2008.05.21 15:21 I have done texhash texexec --make --all --xtx texexec --make --all --pdftex Armando

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(scientific) poster
by Pau 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

Hi, I have googled, looked in the pragma site etc for a template (style) of an a0 poster. Doing this with latex is a bit of a nightmare and the result is not very appealing. I am looking for something in the size of a0 with embedded boxes with plots, equations etc. If such a file existed and was to be found somewhere I'd be grateful if you gave me a link. thanks

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Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope)
by Alan Stone 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

Hi, Yesterday WXP crashed and it took me a whole day to repair the thing and get it up and running again. Ha

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caption in TSV tables
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

Hi All ConTeXt lovers! I am studying physics at Örebro University in Sweden and often produce documents report from experiments. For Me it naturally fells in to use Context typesetting together with tools like octave and Gnuplot. The issue until now, has been when you need to transer data from octave output textfiles to a representable table in a context document. Hardwriting all \NC and \HL stuff together with cut and paste method is time consuming. But thanks to Hans, Wolfgang, Taco and Mojca I successfully manage to import experiment values from a textfile (that also Gnuplot can read and do graphic) to a nice table with caption so you can refer to it in the textflow. So I decided to contribute my successfull result in attached examplefiles. Thanks and all wishes! Jan-Erik Hägglöf

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Minimals and FreeBSD
by Dominique Dutoit 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

> MtxRun | skipping configuration for /texmf-local/web2c from > /home/diego/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/d80510d450a3fa2a64df4d3741825f1d > MtxRun | skipping configuration for /texmf/web2c from > /home/diego/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/3113242409ded67a0ad7bd508bd26609 > MtxRun | using script: ./bin/mtx-update.luareport >> state: loaded > report >> update: start > ./bin/mtx-update.lua:181: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, > got nil) For some reasons, os.currentplatform() returns "generic" under FreeBSD (tested on 7.0), which is not defined in the platforms table and creates this error. The workaround is to pass the platform name to first-setup.sh: ./first-setup.sh --platform=freebsd But near the end of the installation process, MtxRun fails to execute the binaries because it tries to find them in tex/texmf-generic. At this stage, I have used the source command to setup the environment and executed texexec --make --all to finish up the installation. So good so far, it seems to work, but I have no idea what's happening there. Bye, Dominique

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context command and the bbl file
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Hi all, I have a file with citations. Using: "context myfile" does not create the bbl file when needed (but reads it when it exists). "texexec --lua myfile" does the expected job. Is there a reason for that? -- Jean

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Where is the fonts Directory of OpenSuse?
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Can someone tell me please where the fonts directory of OpensSuse 10.3 (Kde) lies, so I can add my fonts to my bash profile? Thanks for your help. Armando

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color in drawoptions (mplib)
by Peter Rolf 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

hi, just encountered an expansion problem with color inside drawoptions... % engine=luatex \starttext \startuniqueMPgraphic{foo} begingroup save c ; color c[] ; c0:= red; drawoptions(withcolor c0); fill OverlayBox; endgroup; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[foo][\uniqueMPgraphic{foo}] \framed[width=10cm,background=foo]{} \stoptext regards, peter

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Rendering of ZWNJ and ZWJ
by Khaled Hosny 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Using Luatex engine, ZWNJ and ZWJ chars are rendered incorrectly. If the font has a glyph for it, it does the expected behaviour (force non-joining or joining respectively) but the glyph get rendered while it shouldn't. But if the font has no glyphs for it, it has no effect at all. See the attached example. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team

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TeXCalc
by Alan Stone 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

I downloaded Taco's TeXCalc script at http://tex.aanhet.net/utils/texcalc and installed the required perlTk thingie. Newbie question... How do you run this "silly script" (*) ? Using ActivePerl and sciTE. Thanks, Alan (*) No, no it's not me who said it first... Taco wrote it himself ! ;O)

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bibl-apa.tex wrong?
by Matej Barič 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Hello, This (http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/workshop/citapa.htm) and just about any other site I look at specifies publisher info as "<city, state>: <publisher name>", whereas bibl-apa.tex specifies it as "<publisher name>, <city, state>". Why is the file called bibl-apa.tex if it doesn't follow APA rules? Am I missing something thanks, Matej

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zero padding with itemize
by Peter Münster 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Hello, Is it already possible to get 0 padding with \startitemize: 01 02 03 and so on ? If yes, how? And if no, where is the magic point, where I could apply a patch (if it's not too difficult ;) Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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clipping bug [or the return of the long cat]
by Peter Rolf 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

hi, this time fully 'context live' approved, only with natural ingredients and even more tasty. yummy yum :D % engine=luatex \starttext \definelayer[stack] \setlayer[stack][x=0pt,y=0pt]{% \clip[hoffset=0pt,voffset=0pt,width=20cm,height=1cm]% {Clipping some layer text}} %\flushlayer[stack] \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{The cat was too long to fit in this small sentence.} \framed[offset=overlay]{\clip[hoffset=0pt,voffset=0pt,width=110pt,height=15pt]{\box\scratchbox}} \stoptext the second clip uses the width value of the prior clip (20cm). but if the layer is flushed, the second clip works nearly as expected (only frame is missing). interesting. there also seems to be some mess (or only a side effect?) with the setting of \setupsystem[\c!n=2,\c!m=2] sometimes the number one is used, sometimes the number two. must break, it's supper time. regards, peter

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ConTeXt manual question
by Alan Stone 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

I intend to print the http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-enp.pdf manual ( dated 2001.11.12 ). However, before proceeding... Is there's an updated version available ? Thanks, Alan

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unicode feature request
by Peter Münster 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Hello, Just as the signs <, >, + and −, it would be nice if also other signs such as ≤ (less-than or equal to, 2264) or ⇒ (rightwards double arrow, 21D2) worked in text mode and not only in math mode. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Howto fit text into a box
by Uwe Koloska 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Hello, for a CD-Cover I have to fit a given text into a fixed box. I have tried to achieve this with the help of mag-0010 "Good looking shapes" but was not successful :-( Can you help me with this? The conditions: - the text is of fixed length - the area is of given size (has a given ratio) - the text has to fit completely inside this area - the last line must be justified, too - the fontsize of the text is the variable that can be changed - I have the current minimal context installation and as an addition: - if possible the words should not be hyphenated at all or hyphenated at an arbitrary character without a hyphenation mark (the text consists of names) A possible algorithm (similar to the one from mag-0010) 1 start with a small box with the given ratio 2 fill the text into the box 3 if all text fits in with a small penalty we are ready 4 make the box a bit larger 5 goto 2 Unfortunately, I'm not able to understand the code from the mag nor can I code the algorithm in context ... I would appreciate any input on this problem! Thank you Uwe Koloska

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staticMPfigure
by bbvogel＠home.nl 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Hi, When I run the example below (current beta, pdftex, live.contextgarden.net) the generated pdf does not contain any pictures. Any suggestion how to solve this? Or is the command obsolete? Thanks, B. Vogel %test.tex \startstaticMPfigure{center} draw fullcircle scaled 2cm ; dotlabel.bot(textext("(0,0)"),origin) ; \stopstaticMPfigure \startstaticMPfigure{radius} draw fullcircle scaled 2cm ; drawarrow (0,0)--(1cm,0) ; label.bot(textext("$r$"),(5mm,0)) ; \stopstaticMPfigure \starttext Circle centered \usestaticMPfigure[center][width=1cm] at origin with radius \usestaticMPfigure[radius][width=1cm] $r=1\,\text{cm}$. \stoptext

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experimental feature
by Hans Hagen 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Hi, I uploaded a beta with an experimental mkiv feature: fallback fonts. \starttext \definefontfallback [whatever] [Slanted] [0x0060-0x007F] \definefontfallback [whatever] [Bold] [0x0080-0x00FF,0x00A0-0x00AF] \definefontfallback [whatever] [BoldSlanted] [0x00C0-0x00C7] \definefontsynonym[SerifPlus][Serif][fallbacks=whatever] \definefont[MySerif][SerifPlus] \MySerif \dostepwiserecurse{0}{255}{1}{% {\tttf\uchexnumbers\recurselevel:}\char\recurselevel\hskip10pt plus 5pt\relax } \stoptext specifications like [Bold sa 1.2] also work Future versions will provide multiple fallbacks, conditional fallbacks etc. For insiders ... no virtual fonts are used which means that that in principle features still work ok. BTW, In this beta OSFONTDIR is set automatically when unset, on windows (tested by me) and on macosx (tested by mojca); other platforms can be dealt with when we know what to set. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NTG-context] Problem with TSV tables
by Mojca Miklavec 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Jan-Erik Hägglöf wrote: > Hi! > > Life is much easier if everything is there, thanks it worked better. > Unfortunally it seems that the "heading" part not work as expected. Only > the first "values" line get the grey bg and bold font. You can see > attached files. You mean that you don't get this line? Time; Decay per second; Errorlimits To be honest - I do not understand a single line in the database module. A really dirty future-incompatible workaround is to duplicate the line. The first one will be swallowed and the lecond one will be typeset, but that's a bug in the module. Hans? Taco? Why is the first line ignored? It worked OK some time ago, and nothing has changed in the module itself, so it's a complete mystery. > Thanks for helping me! > > By the way... you did for a month ago send a working gnuplot module that > is working with Luatex. After a computercrash I lost it. Can you send > that once again?? I guess this is the file I have sent you some time ago, but it doesn't work any more. I suspect that this portion of code is "broken" (LuaTeX doesn't create a new file any more), but I need to test before saying anything; it might be some completely reason: \doifmode{*\v!first}{ \immediate\openout\scratchwrite=\GNUPLOTfile.plt \immediate\write\scratchwrite{set terminal \@@GNUPLOToutput\space\@@GNUPLOToptions}% \immediate\write\scratchwrite{load '\GNUPLOTfile.tmp'}% \immediate\closeout\scratchwrite } I wanted to say: "a dirty workaround is to run texexec with mkii before" since it does generate the file (mkiv doesn't) and then luaTeX would use that file, but even that seems to be broken now. Just in case that Hans can spot the reason of error, here it is, but I will try to find some minimal example to reproduce it. ! LuaTeX error ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/luat-log.lua:74: invalid option '%C' to 'format'. \processMPgraphic ... \MPuserinclusions ;\!!es ) } \global \settrue \METAFUNi... \handlereusableMPgraphic ...\processMPgraphic {#3} }\setxvalue {\@@MPG #1}{\n... \douseMPgraphic ... [#1][#2]}\getvalue {\@@MPG #1} \empty \elabelgroup <to be read again> } \redoloop ->\expandrecursecontent \endofloop <to be read again> { ... l.11 \stoptext ? Mojca

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Problem with TSV tables
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

Hi! Followed the "MyWay" creating tables using CSV..in order to create tables from datafiles in tab separated columns. A weird message "\line= ..." stop appears Can someone figure it out? Thanks in advance Jan-Erik Hägglöf

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Hi, There is a new beta; apart from a few fixes (mostly mkiv) the mathml interpreter now also mathml 3 (for as much as I could deduce it from the draft which is definitely a draft and not yet a reference). Provisional openmath is also part of the game but not that well tested. Something that we call 'calcmath' is available by default when the module is loaded. At the context conference Aditya has to plug some of the holes in my math knowledge in order to reach perfection. I also uploaded a new mmlprime.pdf document. Although I need to do a major cleanup x-mathml shows a bit how to deal with xml in mkiv. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Problem with '\ ' in math commands in current minimals
by Morgan Brassel 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Hi everyone, In the following example: \define[1]\com{com\ #1} \starttext \com{1} $\com{1}$ \stoptext the second call to \com (the one in math mode) seems to stop the compilation of the file. Is it a bug? It wasn't happening before. I'm using the latest minimals. Best regards, Morgan

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Updating minimals
by Mojca Miklavec 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Morgan Brassel wrote: > > Thank you for this fast correction, Hans. By the way, I have a small > question about updating the minimals tree: which command must be used > preferably? > > * ctxtools --contextupdate > > or > > * first-setup.sh another time as suggested on > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals I still use first-setup.sh at the moment. In theory mtxtools --script update [options] should work and it might make sense to provide something like context --update in future. (where options need to be at least --update --force, but --make and --delete is also suggested) But there's a little problem - luatex cannot be updated if you use mtxtools --script update. At least on windows, that definitely reports an error. Mojca

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How to implement this document's navigational system ?
by Alan Stone 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Hi, Having discovered LaTeX a few weeks ago, I'm considering switching to ConTeXt instead. :O) Hence, while playing with ConTeXt, I'd like to know... How to implement this type of document navigational system/panel: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf ? Thanks, Alan

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Arabic with LuaTeX vs. XeTeX
by Otared Kavian 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Dear all, I just read the thread started by Burak Emir about "Typesetting Arabic today", and tried to typeset the sample sent by Idris Samawi Hamid. One of the Arabic or Persian fonts that I have and LuaTeX can find is Nadeem (working on Mac OS X 10.5.3), but what I get after typesetting is the following attached PDF: all the characters are typeset with their isolated form. However typestting the same text with XeConTeXt or XeTeX gives a nice result. So my question is, what should I add or subtract from the font features parameters to get a correct result? The source file is as follows: % engine=luatex \starttext \definefontfeature [test] [analyze=yes, mode=node, language=dflt, script=arab, aalt=yes, init=yes, medi=yes, fina=yes, isol=yes, liga=yes, mset=yes] \font\TradArabic = Nadeem*test at 18pt \startbuffer[paragraph] الحمدلله حمد معترف بحمده، مغترف من بحار مجده، بلسان الثناۤء شاكرا، ولحسن الاۤئه ناشرا؛ الذي خلق الموت والحيوة، والخير والشر، والنفع والضر، والسكون والحركة، والأرواح والأجسام، والذكر والنسيان. \blank اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ حَمْدَ مُعْتَرِفٍ بِحَمْدِهٖ، مُغْتَرِفٌ مِنْ بِحَارِ مَجْدِهٖ، بِلِسَانِ الثَّنَاۤءِ شَاكِرًا، وَلِحُسْنِ اٰلاۤئِهٖ نَاشِرًا؛ اَلَّذِيْ خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَالْحَيٰوةَ، وَالْخَيْرَ وَالشَّرَّ، وَالنَّفْعَ وَالضَّرَّ، وَالسُّكُوْنَ وَالْحَرَكَةَ، وَالْأَرْوَاحَ وَالْأَجْسَامَ، وَالذِّكْرَ وَالنِّسْيَانَ. \stopbuffer \start \TradArabic \pardir TRT \textdir TRT \getbuffer[paragraph] \stop \stoptext

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bidi
by Idris Samawi Hamid 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Dear gang, All interested in this matter shold read the first three links on http://www.yudit.org/bidi/ We should not slavishly imitate the bidi algorithm; we need a tailor-made model. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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fix of Kurier typefaces
by Vit Zyka 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Hi, there is a miscorrespondence between names of Kurier fonts (in type-one.tex and type-syn.tex) - missing 'Regular' or '-'. I propose to fix type-syn.tex as follows. Vit ----------------------------------------------- \starttypescript [sans] [kurier-light] [name] \setups[font:fallback:sans] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [Kurier-Light-Regular] %<- \definefontsynonym [SansItalic] [Kurier-Light-Italic] %<- \definefontsynonym [SansBold] [Kurier-Medium-Regular] %<- \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [Kurier-Medium-Italic] %<- \stoptypescript \starttypescript [sans] [kurier] [name] \setups[font:fallback:sans] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [Kurier-Regular] \definefontsynonym [SansItalic] [Kurier-Regular-Italic] %<- \definefontsynonym [SansBold] [Kurier-Bold-Regular] %<- \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [Kurier-Bold-Italic] %<- \stoptypescript \starttypescript [sans] [kurier-medium] [name] \setups[font:fallback:sans] \definefontsynonym [Sans] [Kurier-Medium-Regular] %<- \definefontsynonym [SansItalic] [Kurier-Medium-Italic] %<- \definefontsynonym [SansBold] [Kurier-Heavy-Regular] %<- \definefontsynonym [SansBoldItalic] [Kurier-Heavy-Italic] %<- \stoptypescript \starttypescript [math] [kurier-light] [name] \definefontsynonym [MathRoman] [Kurier-Math-Letters-Light] \definefontsynonym [MathItalic] [Kurier-Math-Letters-Light-Italic] %<- \definefontsynonym [MathSymbol] [Kurier-Math-Symbols-Light] \definefontsynonym [MathExtension] [Kurier-Math-Extension-Light] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [math] [kurier] [name] \definefontsynonym [MathRoman] [Kurier-Math-Letters-Regular] \definefontsynonym [MathItalic] [Kurier-Math-Letters-Regular-Italic] %<- \definefontsynonym [MathSymbol] [Kurier-Math-Symbols-Regular] \definefontsynonym [MathExtension] [Kurier-Math-Extension-Regular] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [math] [kurier-medium] [name] \definefontsynonym [MathRoman] [Kurier-Math-Letters-Medium] \definefontsynonym [MathItalic] [Kurier-Math-Letters-Medium-Italic] %<- \definefontsynonym [MathSymbol] [Kurier-Math-Symbols-Medium] \definefontsynonym [MathExtension] [Kurier-Math-Extension-Medium] \stoptypescript ----------------------------------------------

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How to make caption for nature table?
by Zhaopeng Xing 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Hi, I have a multi-page nature table and tried to give a caption by \placetable[here][tab:sample]{sample table}{ A nature table here } But it will run wrong. It seems multipage stuff can not be float. Is there any suggestion? Thanks. -- Zhaopeng XING Tinbergen Institute

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Bitstream Charter vs. Charis SIL
by Mojca Miklavec 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

>> (/home/diego/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-xtx.tex) >> ! Font \*map7ptrmscss*:=CharterBT-SmallCap at 6.64998pt not loadable: >> Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found. > > That's because of > > \definefontsynonym [Charter-Roman [name:CharterBT-Roman] % or: [bchr8a] > \definefontsynonym [Charter-Italic] [name:CharterBT-Italic] % or: [bchri8a] > \definefontsynonym [Charter-Bold] [name:CharterBT-Bold] % or: [bchb8a] > \definefontsynonym [Charter-BoldItalic] [name:CharterBT-BoldItalic] % or: [bchbi8a] > \definefontsynonym [Charter-Slanted] [name:CharterBT-Italic] % or: [bchri8a] > \definefontsynonym [Charter-BoldSlanted] [name:CharterBT-BoldItalic] % or: [bchbi8a] > \definefontsynonym [Charter-Roman-Caps] [name:CharterBT-SmallCap] % or: [bchrc8a] > > The fonts are on > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/charter/ > and I can add them, but there is still one problem. > > Since fonts are defined this way, you would need to configure > fc-config to look for fonts in that directory in order to find the > font. Or one would need to change the definition. > > Hans - what would be the implications for LuaTeX if > name:CharterBT-Roman > was changed into > file:bchr8a > ? Not suggesting that yet, only asking. Now that I'm looking at it again at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitstream_Charter: > This has resulted in derivatives of Bitstream Charter becoming available, including Charis SIL. What about adding http://scripts.sil.org/CharisSILfont to the distribution, possibly including TeX Live, and replacing the definitions to use CharisSIL in XeTeX/LuaTeX instead of Bitstream Charter? The same move that has happened with TeX Gyre? Any comments? Suggestions? Mojca

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context minimal install problem? luatex bug?
by Burak Emir 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

Hi all, Can you help me getting set up. My first half-successful run produced encouraging messages like * This can't happen (ext4). * I'm broken. Please show this to someone who can fix can fix Full log is below. I am using context minimals to try mkiv. My system is MacOS X. I am using the file test.tex I am using is the % engine=luatex \starttext Text \stoptext I expected `texexec test.tex' and `context test.tex' to produce a file test.pdf with PDF-Producer texlua or similar in its info. Instead I got a dvi, which has only a blank page. Thanks in advance for helping. Burak ----- ----- This is what I did: ----- cd /usr/local sudo mkdir context sudo chown buraq context cd context sync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/linux/first-setup.sh . sh first-setup.sh # have coffee export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/context/bin:/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-osx-intel/bin # ruby uses PATH to locate its scripts export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/ruby # educated guess on how to setup environment for all things TeX export TEXMF=/usr/local/context/tex/texmf export TEXMFMAIN=$TEXMF cd /tmp/testlua.1 texexec test.tex cd /tmp/testlua.2 context test.tex ----- ----- This is what I got: a file test.dvi and a suspicious log. Here is the log (same for `context' and `texexec') ----- (test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2008.06.03 19:55 MKIV fmt: 2008.6.7 int: english/english language : language en is active bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded specials : tex loaded system : test.top loaded (test.top specials : loaded ) (test.tuo) (test.tuo) systems : begin file test at line 2 fonts : needs map file: original-base fonts : needs map file: lm-math fonts : needs map file: lm-rm [1.1 ! This can't happen (ext4). \actualshipout ... \box \postponedcontent \box 0}} \else \message {[\ifarrang... \myshipout ... \fi {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} \gotonextrealpage \aftersh... \dofinaloutput ...gebody #1#2\setpagecounters }}}} \else \the \pageboundsetti... \finaloutput ...EAEAEA \dofinaloutput \fi \fi #1#2 \resetselectiepagina \incr... \sidefloatoutput ...e \else \finalsidefloatoutput \global \sidefloatvsize \n... <argument> ...\fi \else \the \defaultstreamoutput \fi ... l.4 \stoptext I'm broken. Please show this to someone who can fix can fix mkiv lua stats : used config path - /usr/local/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf mkiv lua stats : used cache path - /Users/buraq mkiv lua stats : modules/dumps/instances - 87/21/1 mkiv lua stats : input load time - 0.021 seconds mkiv lua stats : fonts load time - 0.799 seconds mkiv lua stats : xml load time - 0.000 seconds, lpath calls: 0, cached calls: 0 mkiv lua stats : lxml load time - 0.000 seconds preparation, backreferences: 0 mkiv lua stats : mps conversion time - 0.000 seconds mkiv lua stats : node processing time - 0.000 seconds including kernel mkiv lua stats : kernel processing time - 0.000 seconds mkiv lua stats : attribute processing time - 0.001 seconds mkiv lua stats : language load time - 0.005 seconds, n=2 mkiv lua stats : graphics processing time - 0.000 seconds including tex, n=0 mkiv lua stats : metapost processing time - 0.000 seconds, loading: 0.000 seconds, execution: 0.000 seconds, n: 0 mkiv lua stats : current memory usage - 43835128 bytes mkiv lua stats : cleaned up reserved nodes - 17 nodes, 8 lists of 100 mkiv lua stats : node memory usage - 68 hlist, 33 vlist, 3 rule, 130 glue, 6 kern, 10 penalty, 5 glyph, 135 attribute, 84 glue _spec, 66 attribute_list, 1 temp, 7 if_stack, 9 local_par, 7 dir, 2 pdf_literal mkiv lua stats : loaded patterns - en:en:pat:exc:2 mkiv lua stats : loaded fonts - file:lmroman10-bolditalic*default:otf file:lmroman10-italic*default:otf file:lmroman12-bo ld*default:otf file:lmroman12-italic*default:otf file:lmroman12-regular*default:otf file:lmroman7-bold*default:otf file:lmroman7-regul ar*default:otf file:lmroman9-bold*default:otf file:lmroman9-italic*default:otf file:lmroman9-regular*default:otf file:lmromancaps10-re gular*default:otf file:lmromanslant10-bold*default:otf file:lmromanslant10-regular*default:otf file:lmromanslant12-regular*default:otf file:lmromanslant9-regular*default:otf lmex10:tfm lmmi12:tfm lmmi7:tfm lmmi9:tfm lmsy10:tfm lmsy7:tfm lmsy9:tfm msam10:tfm msam7:tfm msbm10:tfm msbm7:tfm rm-lmr12:tfm rm-lmr7:tfm rm-lmr9:tfm mkiv lua stats : runtime - 1.143 seconds, 0 processed pages, 0 shipped pages, 0.000 pages/second -- Burak Emir -- http://burak.emir.googlepages.com

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Garden unresponsive
by Oliver Buerschaper 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

Hi, it seems like a few areas of the garden are somewhat unresponsive. These include texshow source browser modules articles and perhaps others, too. Any idea what's going on? Oliver

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typesetting Arabic today
by Burak Emir 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

Hi, First of all, I'd wish to express my thanks to the makers of and contributors to ConTeXt - it is quite a pleasure to use so far. Now for my concern: I want to typeset Arabic. What would I use? I am aware of ArabTex, I haven't yet tried Omega... however, I followed some presentations for LuaTeX and typesetting Arabic was mentioned there as motivation. This is how I got to ConTeXt in the first place. Trying the documentation, I ended up on the following page which says "TODO" http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Arabic_and_Hebrew I also searched mail archives, but the mails I found on this subject were from 2003, so I thought it is worth probing for an update. Any news or hints appreciated. Thanks, Burak -- Burak Emir -- http://burak.emir.googlepages.com

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Re: [NTG-context] typesetting Arabic today
by Burak Emir 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

Selaam, On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid <ishamid(a)colostate.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:45:20 -0600, Burak Emir <burak.emir(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > Here is what I did, in detail > >> >> export OSFONTSDIR=/Users/buraq/Library/Fonts >>> ls $OSFONTSDIR/arabtype.ttf >>> >> /Users/buraq/Library/Fonts/arabtype.ttf >> >>> luatools --generate >>> mtxrun --script font --reload >>> texexec --luatex traditional_arabic-test.tex >>> >> ... >> define font | font with name arabtype is not found >> define font | unknown font arabtype, loading aborted >> ! Font \TradArabic=arabtype*test2 at 28pt not loadable: metric data not >> found or bad. >> > > I'm curious, does it work if you put the font in the current directory? > Yes, this worked! : D What a pleasure to see the fruits of debugging. Shukran : ) Can one tell "luatools --generate" to see which path it picks up from OSFONTSDIR? There are some nice arabic fonts that come with Mac systems (or maybe, they came with the KeyNote or Pages, I don't know) Burak -- Burak Emir -- http://burak.emir.googlepages.com

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last bookmark is wrong
by Peter Münster 07 Jun '08

07 Jun '08

Hello, The last bookmark is s3 instead of b3 (MKII and MKIV): \setupinteraction[state=start] \placebookmarks[section] \starttext \section{s1}\bookmark{b1} \section{s2}\bookmark{b2} \section{s3}\bookmark{b3} \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] modules maps fails
by Mojca Miklavec 07 Jun '08

07 Jun '08

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Diego Depaoli wrote: > >> I have added map files, but I doubt that that is enough. Please try >> and report whether it works. > > now, with --xtx switch, I get this error > > (/home/diego/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-xtx.tex) > ! Font \*map7ptrmscss*:=CharterBT-SmallCap at 6.64998pt not loadable: > Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found. That's because of ./tex/context/base/type-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [Charter-Roman] [name:CharterBT-Roman] % or: [bchr8a] ./tex/context/base/type-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [Charter-Italic] [name:CharterBT-Italic] % or: [bchri8a] ./tex/context/base/type-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [Charter-Bold] [name:CharterBT-Bold] % or: [bchb8a] ./tex/context/base/type-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [Charter-BoldItalic] [name:CharterBT-BoldItalic] % or: [bchbi8a] ./tex/context/base/type-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [Charter-Slanted] [name:CharterBT-Italic] % or: [bchri8a] ./tex/context/base/type-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [Charter-BoldSlanted] [name:CharterBT-BoldItalic] % or: [bchbi8a] ./tex/context/base/type-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [Charter-Roman-Caps] [name:CharterBT-SmallCap] % or: [bchrc8a] The fonts are on http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/charter/ and I can add them, but there is still one problem. Since fonts are defined this way, you would need to configure fc-config to look for fonts in that directory in order to find the font. Or one would need to change the definition. Hans - what would be the implications for LuaTeX if name:CharterBT-Roman was changed into file:bchr8a ? Not suggesting that yet, only asking. > and without --xtx switch this one > > (/home/diego/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-gyr.tex) > ! Font \*map7ptrmtfss*:=texnansi-bchr8a at 6.64998pt not loadable: > Metric (TFM) file not found. The files are under http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-fnt.zip Many of the files included there are obsolete now, that's why I didn't include them at the first place. But this one is not. Quick fix: unzip those files into texmf-local for example (or texmf, but you need to be careful not to use the --delete switch then). Proper fix - Hans, Taco, should I filter the useful files out of that zip and add them to the minimals? Which ones? Mojca

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Installed ConTeXt minimal... what's next ?
by Alain PIERRE 07 Jun '08

07 Jun '08

Hi, I installed - ConTeXt minimal http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip ( I first tried ContextMinimalInstall.exe but it hanged: texlua.exe application error ) After searching through wiki's, pdf's, (xetex and context) list archives, etc... I still have no clue whatsoever on - how to start *using* ConTeXt, ConTexT with XeTeX, and - with SciTE editor ( the "SciTE in ConTeXt" mscite-p.pdf manual seems a bit outdated: it mentions a SciTEUser.properties file which is nowhere to find ) Some advice on where to look and/or how to proceed would be utmost welcome. I'm missing some pieces of the puzzle. :O) Many thanks, Alan

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modules maps fails
by Diego Depaoli 07 Jun '08

07 Jun '08

Hi all, trying build the example at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modules/Maps I get the following cryptic error (/home/diego/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/home/diego/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-one.tex) (/home/diego/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) (/home/diego/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-gyr.tex) ! Font \*map7ptmmmrss*:=zeurm10 at 7.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \dodosetmathfamilyB ...amily \fontsize \endcsname \else \ifcsname \fontclass... \dosetmathfamily ...athfamily \scriptscriptfont #1 \let \fontbody #3\dodosetm... <inserted text> ...ptscriptface \c!mr \mrfallback \dosetmathfamily \mifam \t... \synchronizemath ...athfonts \the \mathstrategies \fi ... l.118 \setupbodyfont [map,10pt] ? ! Emergency stop. Something similar happens in live too. What I'm wrong? Regards -- Diego Depaoli

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Schedule in Bohinj
by Mojca Miklavec 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Gour wrote: >>>>>> "Mojca" == Mojca Miklavec writes: > > Mojca> But you can always consult about details in Bohinj :) > > Hey, what is this: > > Sunday (24.08.) Hard work all day (& night) long > > Not even a free Sunday? > > That's heretic ;) Sorry, I fogot to mention on the webpage that we start with a holly mess at 7am on Sunday. Participation obligatory. http://tinyurl.com/5qpf6n (I wanted to organise the even in a monastery at first, but the location was not so attractive.) Protestants will have a chance to celebrate 500 years from birth of the first Slovenian book writer Primoz Trubar (born on 9th June 1508, yesterday was a big celebration in Tübingen, Germany), but sorry - the rest of the world can only enjoy a "free saturday". Mojca

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ConTeXt ultraminimals (was re: Perl/Ruby dependency)
by Joel C. Salomon 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > luatex + context mkiv is indeed independent [of Ruby] > > - index sorting takes place in mkiv > - job control is done with mtxrun/mtx-context Now that I've been told the idea is at least possible, I've been thinking about how to generate a micro-minimal mkiv distribution: no fonts except the LM set, no engines except luaTeX, no kpathsea, & preferably no external dependencies (perl, ruby, &c.). So how to best go about this? I'm downloading the current minimals (or should I use the .zips at <http://www.pragma-ade.nl/download-1.htm>?); what can I cut out? --Joel

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mac install & page layout & numbered margin notes
by Joachim Kreimer-de Fries 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

Hello context-helpers for newbie: in the documents planned (in and over the Westphalian language) I wish to use many margin notes (word translations, exlanations etc.). The margin notes should be numbered with reference number (or other indication) in the text body. And I should be able to input utf-8 (because of umlaute and phonetical notations, IPA etc.). Therefore I installed some week ago => MacTeX on my MacBook Pro with OSX 10.4 (Tiger) and would like to use => ConTeXt, possibly within => TexShop (or elsewise, if better). But I need a lot of start-up help. Therefore I put the main questions of the moment here hoping, that some take pity with me and answer the one or the other of the following questions: 1. Installation of ConTeXt complete and actual? Has MacTeX braught me with it the main components of the ConTeXt system or should I update/complete it and how? texexec --version TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD 2. How to switch to the German commands in ConTeXt? (Perheps that might help me a little to learn and remember commands. Therefore I want to switch if possible now at the beginning.) 3. How to setup page/layout dimensions? Because of the work with margin notes as a form of ever present accompanying, helping side text for the reader and learner, I need say ==> the third width of the right page for the margin notes. I read the applying chapters and passages in Hans Hagen's "ConTEXt the manual" (November 12, 2001) several times, but I couldn't get it yet. 4. How to set up => numbered margin notes and, thereover, => prevent, that they are printed one over the other, when there is not enough space between the referenced words/phrases in the text body? 5. How to find and learn the possible options to the commands? The few commands and options I found yet were token from the manuals, but this was rather trial and error. I attach the (abbreviated) Example of my first Text with ConTeXt, so that you can better see, what my most needed help could be (fo to come to an output with bride (right) margin and automatically numbered margin notes). The attached TeX file gave the pdf output, but nevertheless texexec (or what ever) gives me a FAILED message in the TexShop Console: ### /usr/texbin/dvips -R -Poutline -o /tmp/altpdflatex. 1646-1211465898/LyraV-TShop-source-u.ps LyraV-TShop-source-u.dvi This is dvips(k) 5.96 Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) /usr/texbin/dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened. ### FAILED to generate /tmp/altpdflatex.1646-1211465898/LyraV-TShop- source-u.ps () Any help suggestions also for that? Thank you for reading my cry fore help, best wishes, "Met echt-westfälsken Gröiten" joachim -- Kreimer-de Fries, Berlin

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xml question
by Wolfgang Schuster 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

Hi, I played with a little bit with the docbook syntax and came to a problem with headers. The text for chapter headers is written between the title elements, to get the text I use the \xmlfirst command but this did not prevent the text in the element to appear again in the normal document text. As a workaround I introduced the \ifheading to flush the content only in chapter headers, is there a better way to do this? It is also possible to place the title elements outside of the chapter group where it is used as a header by itself, I did this now by another test \ifchapter where I test if it called within a chapter or not but a better solution is welcome. My last question is what I the preferef method to define entities in MkIV, \defineXMLentity is a MkII command and did not fit in the MkIV xmlsetup commands. \startbuffer[test] <?xml version='1.0'?> <book> <title>Document with &ConTeXt;</title> <chapter id="first"><title>The first Chapter</title> <para>Normal Text.</para> <para>Normal Text.</para> </chapter> <chapter id="second"><title>Another Chapter</title> <para>Normal Text.</para> <para>Normal Text.</para> </chapter> </book> \stopbuffer \unprotect \startxmlsetups setup \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{title}{*} \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{chapter}{*} \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{para}{*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{setup} \newif\ifheading \newif\ifchapter \startxmlsetups title \ifchapter \ifheading\xmlflush{#1}\fi \else \title{\xmlflush{#1}} \fi \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups chapter \headingtrue \chaptertrue \chapter[\xmlatt{#1}{id}]{\xmlfirst{#1}{title}} \headingfalse \xmlflush{#1} \chapterfalse \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups para \xmlflush{#1}\par \stopxmlsetups \defineXMLentity [ConTeXt] \ConTeXt \protect \starttext \xmlprocessbuffer{main}{test}{} \stoptext Wolfgang

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markup format ---> ConTeXt
by Gour 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

Hi! At the moment I use Emacs Muse for writing my study notes which I then have to submit as *.doc file (muse --> html -> OO --> doc). I like it 'cause it enables me to combine all the notes and convert into ConTeXt later. However, the only disadvantage of it is that Muse markup is tied to Emacs editor and not so popular for those using other editors. Therefore I am considering some other 'easy' markup with the ConTeXt back-end. Some of the more popular markup-formats are AsciiDoc (http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/index.html) and reStructuredText (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html) but according to what I see both are missing ConTeXt back-end (latex only) :-( Any suggestion for 'popular' markup with ConTexT back-end? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Zagreb, Croatia | GPG key: C6E7162D ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Footer issue
by Diego Depaoli 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi all, why \setupheader[text][after=\thinrule] and \setupfooter[text][before=\textrule] both work, but \setupfooter[text][before=\thinrule] doesn't work? Cheers -- Diego Depaoli

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Re: [NTG-context] several warnings after updating ConTeXt and LM fonts
by Dalyoung Jeong 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Dear Mojca, Thank you for your instruction. After updating XeTeX binaries, warnings are disappeared but a new one. ** WARNING ** Could not open config file "dvipdfmx.cfg". I added the line "TEXFONTSMAPS.dvipdfmx = .;$TEXMF........" in texmf.cnf below the line TEXFONTSMAPS = .;$TEXMF/Font/,ap/..." However, the same warning message still remains. I checked the lm-math.map and lm-rm.map in the folder ../dvipdfm/ context/ as Wolfgang suggested. They are there. How to remove this new warning message? Thank you again. Best regards, Dalyoung

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xml in mkiv
by Hans Hagen 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hi, [if you never use xml or don't use mkiv, you can skip this message] Currently in mkiv, the mkii method of xml is active at the same time; however, this is not always what you want and eventually i suppose that mkiv xml usage will replace mkii usage (i'm thinking of at some point making the old stream based xml method a module for mkiv) anyhow, one of aspects we need to deal with is mixed usage of documents, more about that later the latest beta has a \setupxml command with the following options (there are a few more): \setupxml[\c!method=mkii] % mixed mkiv and mkii \setupxml[\c!method=mkiv,\c!default=] % mkiv only \setupxml[\c!method=mkiv,\c!default=\v!none] % mkiv only, undefined -> hidden \setupxml[\c!method=mkiv,\c!default=\v!text] % mkiv only, undefined -> text the tricky part is in dealing with entities. By default entities are resolved to utd code, which means that <, > and & are part if the normal text stream. This is tricky because in mkii a dangling < or & gives an error. However, in mkii mode (i.e. mixed mode), these three characters are remapped to some place safe (the location in the unicode table will change once we have active chars in the private planes). i used this test: % \defineXMLenvironment[y]{(}{)} % % \startxmlsetups x % /\xmlflush{#1}/ % \stopxmlsetups % % \startxmlsetups xx % \xmlsetsetup{main}{x}{*} % \stopxmlsetups % % \xmlregistersetup{xx} % % \startbuffer % <x>a <&><y>{b}</y> c</x> % \stopbuffer Another change is that 'context --env=bla whatever.xml' will use mkiv xml mode unless the --mkii flag is passed. The alternative is rather ugly and tricky overloading of the traditional XML macros, an option that i rejected. An example that demonstrates mkiv usage is: context --ctx=x-ldx l-dimen.lua this will produce the documentation of l-dimen.lua and does a transformation as defined in the ctx file. Eventually all those texexec goodies (--pdfwhatever) will become such scripts combined with styles. Much is experimental and I will add more control over specific documents. Take for instance (from x-ldx.tex): \usemodule[mathml] \xmlregisterdocumentsetup{ldx}{xml:mml:define} \xmlregisterdocumentsetup{ldx}{xml:ldx:define} \xmlregisterns{ldx}{ldx} \startxmlsetups xml:ldx:define \xmlgrab {\xmldocument} {ldx:*} {*} \stopxmlsetups This associates the ldx definitions to the document but also mathml. I'm converting all traditional xml handling used in the core into mkiv handling (e.g. clt handling is already converted; clt deals with remapping filesnames into the ones that come out of preprocessing, as for instance in the ldx module). Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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typebuffer extra line
by Hans van der Meer 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Exercising \typebuffer gives an extra blank line afterwards. See the following minimal example. How can I prevent this extra line? Using: ConTeXt ver: 2008.05.21 15:21 MKII fmt: 2008.5.24 int: english/english Example: \startbuffer[A] Contents of buffer A. \stopbuffer \startbuffer[B] Contents of buffer B. \stopbuffer \starttext \typebuffer[A]\typebuffer[B] \stoptext Output: Hans van der Meer

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TeX capacity exceeded
by M.guravage 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Greetings, While updating my minimal ConTeXt instance from version 2008.01.28 to 2008.05.21, the pdftex formats failed to build with the error: "./texmf-linux/web2c/pdftex/cont-en.log:! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pattern memory=250000]." Has anyone else experienced this, and can you suggest a correction? Thanks for your help. With kind regards, Michael A. Guravage

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several warnings after updating ConTeXt and LM fonts
by Dalyoung Jeong 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Dear all, Recently, I updated ConTeXt using "ctxtools". I also install latest LM otf fonts and some map file for dvipdfm. After teshashing and creating formats, I tried a simple file. It worked well in ConTeXt, but in XeTeX+ ConTeXt, I got several warnings related with map files as following. However, I got a PDF output. How do I remove those warnings? I am using TeXlive(MacTeX). Thank you Best regards, Dalyoung stdin -> newinstall.pdf [1 ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: rsfs7 rsfs5 <rsfs7.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="original- base.map", line=3. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: lmbsy5 LMMathSymbols5- Bold "enclmmathsy ReEncodeFont" <lm-mathsy.enc <lmbsy5.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="lm-math.map", line=7. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: rm-lmb10 LMRomanDemi10- Regular "enclmrm ReEncodeFont" <lm-rm.enc <lmb10.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="lm-rm.map", line=7. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: ucrb8t NimbusMonL- Bold <ec.enc <ucrb8a.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="ec-base.map", line=3. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: qcrb <qcr.enc <qcrb.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="qx-base.map", line=3. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: ucrr8v VnNimbusMonL- Regu "T5Encoding ReEncodeFont" <t5.enc <ucrr8v.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="t5-base.map", line=3. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: ucrb8r NimbusMonL- Bold <8r.enc <ucrb8a.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="8r-base.map", line=3. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: lasy5 LASY5 <lasy5.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="original-ams- base.map", line=1. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: euex10 EUEX10 <euex10.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="original-ams- euler.map", line=1. ** WARNING ** This .map file looks like a dvips format fontmap file. ** WARNING ** -- Current input buffer is: cmb10 CMB10 <lm-rep- cmrm.enc <lmb10.pfb ** WARNING ** -- Reading fontmap file stopped at: file="original- public-lm.map", line=68. ] 4818 bytes written Output written on newinstall.pdf (1 page). Transcript written on newinstall.log. TeXUtil | parsing file newinstall.tui TeXUtil | shortcuts : 169 TeXUtil | expansions: 308 TeXUtil | reductions: 0 TeXUtil | divisions : 0 TeXUtil | loaded files: 1 TeXUtil | temporary files: 0 TeXUtil | commands: 21 TeXUtil | programs: 0 TeXUtil | tuo file saved TeXExec | runtime: 5.159215

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Correction for \getbuffer
by Wolfgang Schuster 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hi Hans, The definition for \getBUFFER need to be changed because it use the undefined command \dodoprocessTEXbuffer. \def\dodefinebuffer[#1][#2]% {\iffirstargument % else problems \doglobal\increment\nofdefinedbuffers \letvalue{\??bu#1\c!number }\nofdefinedbuffers \letvalue{\??bu#1\c!paragraph}\v!no \setevalue{\e!start#1}{\noexpand\dostartbuffer [#1][def-\nofdefinedbuffers][\e!start#1][\e!stop#1]}% %\setevalue{\e!get #1}{\noexpand\dodoprocessTEXbuffer[#1][def-\nofdefinedbuffers]}% \setevalue{\e!get #1}{\noexpand\dogetbuffer [#1][def-\nofdefinedbuffers]}% \setevalue{\e!type #1}{\noexpand\dotypebuffer [#1][def-\nofdefinedbuffers]}% \getparameters[\??bu#1][#2]% \fi} Greetings Wolfgang

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standardmakeup, frontmatter, bodymatter & page numbering
by Mojca Miklavec 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hello, I have a document consisting of title page, some introduction which should have pages numbered with roman numerals, and finally the real content \setuphead[subject][page=odd,style=\ss\bfb] \setuppagenumbering[location=] \starttext \startstandardmakeup title page \stopstandardmakeup \startfrontmatter \setuppagenumbering[conversion=romannumerals] \setupfootertexts[page \pagenumber{}] \subject{some intro pages} \input tufte \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \setupfootertexts[page \pagenumber{} of \totalnumberofpages] \dorecurse{10}{\subject{real content} \dorecurse{\recurselevel}{\input knuth} } \stopbodymatter \stoptext Now the problems: 1.) The second page starts counting at 1, while counting should start at page 3. This can be solved by using another \startstandardmakeup\strut\stopstandardmakeup. 2.) The last page says "page 26 of 27" - the total page number is indeed 27, but counting started on the second page, so it never reaches the last number. 3.) I would like the page number on the first page of bodymatter to be "page 1 of 23" instead of "page 4 of 27", and the last one to ge "page 23 of 23" instead of "page 26 of 27" There is some way=bychapter setting for page numering, but in that case there are no suitable chapters/sections available. Any hints appreciated ... Thanks a lot, Mojca

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Buffers and commands with optional arguments
by Wolfgang Schuster 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hi Hans, I got yesterday a bug report for my letter module if the \startletter command takes no arguments. The following example show the problem without the module. \def\startletter {\dosingleempty\dostartletter} \def\dostartletter[#1]% {\dostartbuffer[letter][startletter][stopletter]} \starttext % This did work \startletter Text \stopletter \getbuffer[letter] % But this did create a error message from TeX \startletter Text \stopletter \getbuffer[letter] \stopletter One solution for the second text can be solved when I add a \relax after the \startletter command but I wanted a better solution. Because TeX mentions \flushbufferline in error message I tried to modify the macro and came to the following solution. %\def\flushbufferline#1% \long\def\flushbufferline#1% {\iftmpblockstarted \ifsegmentatebuffer \ifemptybufferline \immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string\stopbufferparagraph }% \immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string\startbufferparagraph}% \else \immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}% \fi \else \immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}% \fi \else \doifsomething{#1} {\tmpblockstartedtrue %\immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string#1}}% \immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}}% \fi} The macro has to be defined as long and the \string in the \write command has to be removed. I made a few short tests and saw no negative sideeffects from my changes. Another problem could arise with a few commands in the letter environment if no empty line is written after \startletter. The following result also in a error message. \startletter \dorecurse{2}{\input knuth\par} \stopbuffer With another modification of \flushbufferline also this example could work, my final patch was now: \long\def\flushbufferline#1% {\iftmpblockstarted \ifsegmentatebuffer \ifemptybufferline \immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string\stopbufferparagraph }% \immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string\startbufferparagraph}% \else \immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}% \fi \else \immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}% \fi \else \convertargument#1\to\ascii %\doifsomething{#1} \doifsomething\ascii {\tmpblockstartedtrue %\immediate\write\tmpblocks{\string#1}}% %\immediate\write\tmpblocks{#1}}% \immediate\write\tmpblocks{\ascii}}% \fi} Could my seond or at least my first patched version of the \flushbufferline macro integrated into core-buf.mkii because I won't force users of my letter module to put a \relax after \startletter only because they use MkII. Greetings Wolfgang

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InDesign/InCopy vs. TeX and friends
by Charles P. Schaum 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

I would say that TeX is a way in which a mathematician / theoretical computer scientist that is well-steeped in music, languages, art, literature, and other areas might approach the issue. InDesign is the way in which a large number in the design community might approach the issue. I use mainly InCopy because I'm an editor, but I work closely with the designers. Here's a few things I see that could stand some improvement: 1. What does it mean to have either an overfull hbox or vbox? You might think, duh! But overfull boxes and copyfitting issues are not sets of the same cardinality or topology in the problem domain. First of all, some do make a distinction between intraword and interword spacing, although this need not necessarily be made. It does become helpful, however, when setting Sperrdruck and noting the rules for commas, periods, etc. The soul package in LaTeX does well here, although if there were essentially two realms, intraword and interword, with different letterspacing controls for each, this could result in the following solution: If (overfull hbox) then Apply an algorithm taking into account aesthetic rules for adjusting intra- and interword spacing within tolerance n and produce a warning that says either: Spacing adjusted to fit copy in hbox on line nnnn or Copyfit warning for hbox in line nnnn Similarly, leading (interline spacing) ought to be considered, but horizontal spacing, especially when pagefitting copy to avoid widows and orphans, can be tied with interline spacing to get the desired result. Tweaking the font size is generally a poor solution. Boxes and glue is good if you are modeling classical typesetting. I believe that is what DEK was shooting for. In 1978, that made good sense because electronic means were not well-defined and were sometimes quite displeasing. For modern digital needs, boxes and glue may not be appropriate in every situation. InDesign and InCopy simply pop up a warning when you have copyfitting issues. Still, there must be a standard approach when a designer fixes such issues (apart from an editor doing some rewording) in order to give one's products a good look and feel. Even with InDesign, copyfitting issues are not a no-brainer. That's where generating a preview that would step through copyfitting issues and allow input for heuristics might be helpful. 2. The box or the text frame? Ever use LaTeX and BibTeX to do a bib and footnotes and all of a sudden your URLs go right off the line? How annoying is that? The text frame should have priority over the boxes in it and should trigger copyfitting rules to enforce that priority unless locally or globally suppressed. 3. Multi-author workflow InCopy works with InDesign to allow an editor to work with a "story" that may be in one text frame or spread over multiple frames. It allows check-out and check-in of a story and locks the story when checked out. Of course, this implies that the workflow happens off a central server. Nevertheless, this allows the document to be constructed in parallel with designers, substantial/copy editors, proofreaders, and so on working on different parts as needed. TeX may be batch-oriented, but it is also single-user oriented unless you have a master with lots of linked input. The problem is that InCopy and InDesign can show you your work in relation to the whole, giving a better idea of what you need to do to fit your work in harmony with the others. TeX cannot do that. 4. TeX is still better at some things. Kinda like GraphViz, TeX has its area where it just shines. Those schemata that I was doing are a major pain to do in something else. TeX's ability to intermix math mode and regular mode is probably unique. I would bet that one could do things like sentence diagrams and grammar theory much more easily in TeX than elsewhere. 5. Toward Generalization, but Keep the Good Stuff It would be neat to sit down with experienced designers or professors of design and see where DEK's solutions and those built on them work well for today's expectations and where they do not. Curiously, if you look at Wikipedia on page design, typography, and other design-related issues and TeX does not really show up in the external links. My design books are almost twenty years old. They are: Collier and Cotton. Basic Desktop Design and Layout Murphy and Rowe. How to Design Trade Marks and Logos Devall. Desktop Publishing Styleguide White. Graphic Design for the Electronic Age Craig. Designing with Type, 3rd ed. Still, one can see even there certain relationships of parts to whole that, in the main, ConTeXt has done better than any other TeX variant to address. I find the \setuplayout and related general layout, makeup, sectioning, and other features to be substantially superior to LaTeX, where the publishers do the styles and the scientists write the content, or plain, where you have to do everything (not always bad, but Herculean for a large project). Charles

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split cells ? world lost !
by Steffen Wolfrum 31 May '08

31 May '08

Hi, hope the answer to my question is not too obvious: How do I split not only TABLE but cells? Please, have a look at this minimal: \starttext \bTABLE[split=yes,option=stretch] \bTR \bTD \input tufte \input knuth Hello world ... \eTD \bTD \input tufte \eTD \bTD \input knuth \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD Test \eTD \bTD Test \eTD \bTD Test \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext (Hello) world lost? Thanks, Steffen

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Wiki page about emacs-muse updated
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 31 May '08

31 May '08

Hi all, The page on the wiki about emacs-muse and ConTeXt has been updated to show how you can use Thomas Schmitz's presentation module within muse: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_and_emacs-muse enjoy! -- Jean

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pdf forms
by Bernhard Boser 30 May '08

30 May '08

I wrote a simple context file for pdf form filling. Translates fine, but the resulting pdf simply shows text but no fillable forms. What's needed to actually get forms? Here's the tex code: % interface=en tex=pdfetex output=pdftex \starttext Field 1: \fillinfield[name]{text that defines field length} \definefield [Email] [line] [ShortLine] [] [pragma(a)wxs.nl] Field 2: \field [Email] [your email] \stoptext Thanks! Bernhard

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[Fwd: problem with context]
by Hans Hagen 29 May '08

29 May '08

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Out of office: ntg-context Digest, Vol 47, Issue 62
by rordorf＠mdpi.org 29 May '08

29 May '08

I am out of office and will return on Thursday, 29 May 2008. Kind regards, Dietrich Rordorf -- Mr. Dietrich Rordorf Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) Matthaeusstrasse 11, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland E-mail: rordorf(a)mdpi.org Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office) Tel. +41 76 561 41 83 (mobile) Fax +41 61 302 89 18

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American-style letters with t-letter?
by David Rogers 29 May '08

29 May '08

Hi all (but especially Wolfgang Schuster): I'd like to use Wolfgang's t-letter module to set up a very basic American-style letter. I see (by looking into t-letter.tex) that there are at least plans for this to be possible. Is there a little example anywhere of how to get started? (Really, for my purposes, the basic DIN example as given in lm.pdf is pretty good - just wondering what the other possibility looks like.) Thanks David

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mplib/metafun broken in latest beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 28 May '08

28 May '08

Hi Hans and Taco, it looks like mplib is broken in the latest beta. Simple file: \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} draw fullcircle scaled 5cm ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext produces no output. I tested on several different computers, so it doesn't look like a misconfiguration. My Macbook compiled the file fine with a context version from last week; after updating, a get an empty pdf. All best Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] Odd Behavior in pdftex/xetex
by Michael.Urban＠jpl.nasa.gov 28 May '08

28 May '08

text and non text and such > > If he use \retype the table works. > Thanks; and so does \asciistr I cannot find documentation on \retype, \asciistr, nor \simplifytype ; in which situations should these be used?

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Re: [NTG-context] InDesign
by Charles P. Schaum 28 May '08

28 May '08

On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 08:24 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > how do they deal with non compatible new features; for instance, at > bachotek i learned that some otf features that are not supported in > older versions are supported in new ones (or are supported > differently); > is there some compatibility mode (i.e. is the old behavior still > present > and the ID/IC version number stored in the document?) > I asked those wiser than I and this is what professional expectations tend to be: 1. Versioning within a document (track changes) basically becomes a non-entity by production; that is local and removed within a production cycle and tends to be wholly separated from version issues. Also, product cycles are generally tagged to a version of a program and therefore multiple versions need to be able to coexist in the case where the new version may not be backward-compatible with the old. With Quark, one could only count on backward compatibility over one version bump. After that, compatibility would diminish so that Quark 4.0 would not open Quark 1.0 docs. Makes Microsoft's format versioning seem positively user-friendly by comparison. The firm I work for has only started with the current InDesign/CS3 suite and relies on the quark plugin to do the work. Especially in Quark, third-party plugins were the most fragile. We expect, however, that Indesign will probably follow Quark in failing to be too bacwardly-compatible, opening well only the prior version docs and then saving them as current. That's one of the things that drove my personal computing away from Windows to Linux/FreeBSD. I was using an English firm's Creative Suite knock-off product (Serif) and realized that their business plan called for making shoddy products and substituting version bumps for bugfixes. I can only bleed so much to sate someone's greed and I found OSS to be far friendlier regarding version compatibility, bugfixes and robustness. AFAIK no real pressure for a compatibility mode exists in the commercial DTP sector. senecadesign.com has good InCopy resources and archives. Charles

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mapper and xml
by luigi scarso 28 May '08

28 May '08

hi, from mail "Greek in luatex" (Date: 2007-09-13 19:24:15 GMT ) following snippet works good, but I'm not able to make it work under xml processing with \startxmlsetups mynode .... \stopxmlsetups In particulary, I have \u2022 unicode char utf-8 encoding which I would like to map to \item. Replacing \u2022 with \item in xml source cause a literal \item to appear in text node, and hence in pdf output. Using mapper above produce only a literal \stopbabelgreek with no text at all. Thanks in advance \defineremapper[babelgreek] \remapcharacter[babelgreek][`a]{\alpha} \remapcharacter[babelgreek][`b]{\beta} \remapcharacter[babelgreek][`c]{\gamma} \remapcharacter[babelgreek][`d]{OEPS} \starttext [\startbabelgreek a b c some stuff here \blank[big] oeps b d \stopbabelgreek] [\babelgreek{some stuff here}] \stoptext -- luigi

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Out of office: ntg-context Digest, Vol 47, Issue 59
by rordorf＠mdpi.org 28 May '08

28 May '08

I am out of office and will return on Thursday, 29 May 2008. Kind regards, Dietrich Rordorf -- Mr. Dietrich Rordorf Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) Matthaeusstrasse 11, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland E-mail: rordorf(a)mdpi.org Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office) Tel. +41 76 561 41 83 (mobile) Fax +41 61 302 89 18

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Struggling with luatools and MacTeX
by Jin-Hwan Cho 27 May '08

27 May '08

For the first step to luatex, I tried to use luatools as written in Hans Hagen's MK manual. 1. Compiled a recent luatex and it was put in "/usr/texbin/luatex" and linked to "/usr/texbin/texlua". 2. Downloaded the current beta and construct my "$HOME/share/texmf- context". Of course, the line in /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/web2c/ texmf.cnf was changed as follows. TEXMFHOME=$HOME/share/texmf-hyperref;$HOME/share/texmf-lm;$HOME/share/ texmf-context 3. Made a new "/usr/texbin/luatools" to use luatools.lua directly. The contents of the file was #!/bin/sh export SELFAUTOLOC=/usr/local/texlive/2007/bin export SELFAUTODIR=/usr/local/texlive/2007 export SELFAUTOPARENT=/usr/local/texlive/2007 export TEXMFCACHE="$HOME/share" texlua "$HOME/share/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/luatools.lua" "$@" 4. Finally tried "luatools --generate" and it seemed that everything went smoothly. But I found that luatools did not cache the $TEXMFHOME directories because it consisted of more than one TEXMF directories. It's not a bug but here is a patch to solve this problem. --- luatools.lua 2008-05-26 07:36:20.000000000 +0900 +++ luatools.lua.new 2008-05-26 07:59:17.000000000 +0900 @@ -3811,7 +3811,7 @@ return { } else local t = { } - for _,v in ipairs(string.splitchr(str:gsub("^\{(.+)\} $","%1"),",")) do + for _,v in ipairs(string.splitchr(str:gsub("^\{(.+)\} $","%1"):gsub(";",","),",")) do t[#t+1] = (v:gsub("^[%!]*(.+)[%/\\]*$","%1")) end return t 5. Now tried "luatools cmr10.tfm" but no anwer. However "luatools cmr10.tfm*" showed the proper answer. It seems that this problem is related to the behavior of "luatools --ini plain" which says "LuaTools | no tex file with name plain.tex". Is there something what I missed? Best regards, ChoF.

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on the fly TeX typesetting
by Olivier 27 May '08

27 May '08

Hi all, I'm just wondering how TeX labels in metapost pictures are generated when using mplib: if the set of pictures are all build through the library which saves loading time and hd read/writes, it would be strange to launch another TeX compiler. At the same time, if it were possible to have a set of defines (some macros, like for instance a set up of fonts) for TeX and be able to typeset, say, a vbox on the fly (that is, without having to deal with pages and so on), it would allow several application to take advantage of the typesetting capabilities of TeX. Any plan for a texlib? Olivier

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Re: [NTG-context] bibl-apa.tex wrong?
by Matej Barič 27 May '08

27 May '08

> Originally (years ago already), I reverse-engineered apalike from > latex. It is quite possible I made a error there (or even that > apalike had it wrong) but if no-one reports a bug it is not noticed. > Also, I've had quite a few incorrect bug reports about the styles, so > I am no longer all that eager to change them at a single bug report. > Two questions: do you have a definitive source somewhere? and are > there any other problems you see in bibl-apa.tex I see... well I'd be glad to go through whole APA style recommendation and test bibl-apa.tex, but I'm no expert and currently I am really busy for a few next weeks. I don't have a definitive source, but just about any source I have seen (including Wikipedia and my faculty rules) says bibl-apa.tex is wrong in that case. As I've started using ConTeXT just a few days ago I couldn't have seen any other problems so far but I will collect them if I find them and do a little more research on them. So for now don't bother, but sometime in future I will definitely contact you again if I have some more things to fix. Thanks, matej

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Out of office: ntg-context Digest, Vol 47, Issue 56
by rordorf＠mdpi.org 27 May '08

27 May '08

I am out of office and will return on Thursday, 29 May 2008. Kind regards, Dietrich Rordorf -- Mr. Dietrich Rordorf Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) Matthaeusstrasse 11, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland E-mail: rordorf(a)mdpi.org Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office) Tel. +41 76 561 41 83 (mobile) Fax +41 61 302 89 18

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 26 May '08

26 May '08

hi, i uploaded a new beta (mostly cleanup and more robust texmf variable expansion) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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fonts and typescripts
by Charles P. Schaum 26 May '08

26 May '08

Thanks, Wolfgang. Now it's all good. Typescripts are a little opaque to me. I need to learn a lot more, to be sure. I want to thank the ConTeXt team for the great work on the product and the docs. I do respect that TeX has a culture and one cannot design a product that is alien to that. I have some thoughts where a few spots in the docs could be friendlier for someone coming from a standpoint of general design and typography. Sort of like "here's how you think with DTP" and "here's how it's done in ConTeXt." I might also suggest a couple of features; I was, however, able to Google for much that I needed (e.g., with character spacing). Yet I'm not one to just butt into people's workflow, given their time and investment. In general I find ConTeXt to be superior in many regards for my needs. Unfortunately, I am not a scientist. I have a bachelor's degree in computer science with a minor in Germanistik, and I have two master's degrees in theology, having studied in Germany and the US. So I want to edit books that celebrate the history of thought and typography. ConTeXt is the best positioned to make beautiful, modern books, surpassing many generally available commercial products. Here's an interesting point: InDesign creates ligatures, but irrespective of what is going on in the actual font. So, unless you use Unicode Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, or whatever, the older style fonts that still inhabit the commercial multilingual industry get mangled. TeX and friends are smart and don't do that. They can handle some complicated typography more robustly than many others. InDesign and InCopy use a version control system where one can "check out," "check in," and track changes in a parallel workflow. Grep searching has also been integrated. It seems to me that if something like Scribus had a means to interlink with ConTeXt, cvs / svn or the like, and had a means of automatically generating code and previews, you would have a typesetting system that could compete feature for feature with InDesign and InCopy, and surpass it in some cases. Charles

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XeTeX in ConTeXt
by Charles Doherty 26 May '08

26 May '08

Dear all, I have tried to upgrade ConTeXt using sudo ctxtools --updatecontext followed by sudo texmfstart texexec --make en and sudo texmfstart texexec --make --xetex en Following the upgrade a normal ConTeXt document runs perfectly but when I run XeConTeXt through TeXShop I get the readout below. When I go back to the TeXLive download of TeX everything works. Any advice would be welcome. Thanks, Charlie TeXExec | processing document 'SocialSpace.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file SocialSpace.top TeXExec | using randomseed 80 TeXExec | tex engine: xetex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. entering extended mode (./SocialSpace.tex ConTeXt ver: 2008.05.21 15:21 MKII fmt: 2008.5.23 int: english/ english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkii) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-mtx.tex)) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex) (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/type- xtx.tex))kpathsea: Running mktextfm lmromanslant10-regular mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input lmromanslant10-regular This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.6) kpathsea: Running mktexmf lmromanslant10-regular ! I can't find file `lmromanslant10-regular'. <*> ...; nonstopmode; input lmromanslant10-regular Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...; nonstopmode; input lmromanslant10-regular Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: lmromanslant10-regular.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input lmromanslant10-regular' failed to make lmromanslant10-regular.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded ! Font \*7ptrmslrm*:=lmromanslant10-regular at 7.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \dodosettextfamilyA ...amily \fontsize \endcsname \else \ifcsname \fontbody ... \dosettextfamily ...ttextfamily \scriptscriptfont \let \fontbody \scriptface... <inserted text> ...y \c!bf \dosettextfamily \c!sl \dosettextfamily \c! it \do... \synchronizetext ...athfonts \the \textstrategies \fi ... l.1 \definetypeface[Hoefler][rm][Xserif][Hoefler Text] ? x No pages of output. Transcript written on SocialSpace.log. TeXUtil | parsing file SocialSpace.tui TeXUtil | shortcuts : 169 TeXUtil | expansions: 308 TeXUtil | reductions: 0 TeXUtil | divisions : 0 TeXUtil | loaded files: 1 TeXUtil | temporary files: 0 TeXUtil | commands: 25 TeXUtil | programs: 0 TeXUtil | tuo file saved TeXExec | runtime: 100.320881

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A question about the node library in luatex
by Jin-Hwan Cho 26 May '08

26 May '08

I am trying a few tests with luatex. 1. Made a format file "luaetex.fmt" by "luatex --ini etex.ini" and a lua file "luaetex.lua" containing just one line "node.types()" 2. Test file "test.tex" is as follows: \directlua0{node.types()} \bye 3. Run "luatex --fmt=luaetex.fmt test". Then there is no problem. 4. Instead, "luatex --lua=luaetex.lua --fmt=luaetex.fmt test" causes an error. Why don't we use the node library in the lua file "luaetex.lua"? Thanks in advance, ChoF.

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Out of office: ntg-context Digest, Vol 47, Issue 55
by rordorf＠mdpi.org 26 May '08

26 May '08

I am out of office and will return on Thursday, 29 May 2008. Kind regards, Dietrich Rordorf -- Mr. Dietrich Rordorf Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) Matthaeusstrasse 11, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland E-mail: rordorf(a)mdpi.org Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office) Tel. +41 76 561 41 83 (mobile) Fax +41 61 302 89 18

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interim fix for aesc-like macro
by Charles P. Schaum 25 May '08

25 May '08

I found an interim fix for the \ae macro in the schemata: put the word with the macro in an hbox, and the problem goes away. I wonder what the mechanics behind that are. I tend to have weird documents with dead languages. Who knows, maybe I want to cite Aelfric using Old English letters or Sir Gawain or whatever Middle High German with a yogh or similar glyph. Come to think of it, Gothic would be cool, too. So, figuring out the mechanics would be helpful. Thanks, Charles

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Thanks for the boxes with schems
by Charles P. Schaum 24 May '08

24 May '08

Thanks, Hans, for the suggestion. It works quite well, except the \ae{} macro starts producing a lowercase j. My guess is this refers to an encoding issue, since I found that using \sc tends to not do small caps except for using Computer Modern. I did RTFM, but I'm just not making the connection. If someone can point me to a document on fonts that I can work through ... the section in the manual left me a little confused. After using Pagemaker, Quark, and InDesign, I kinda get the approach but it seems to be a culture shock like Metafont was and remains. I copied the examples from the manual when I did a book mock-up for work and that worked real well. Everyone was impressed by what ConTeXt could do, although the official workflow will remain Incopy and InDesign. Still, I uotdid an experienced graphic designer using Adobe CS3 with my little bit of code for schemas. ConTeXt and friends have some unique benefits. So if I could solve the font mystery, I would be grateful. I have some books, for example, that I would like to reproduce with ConTeXt by scanning the Fraktur and OCR'ing with tesseract, then doing the layout with ConTeXt. I have an Ernestine Bible (Das Weimarische Bibelwerk) for which the binding is shot but the pages are good. This way will take much less than scanned images, although some images will remain. Ultimately I would like to make something like yfonts, but with unicode or some standard encoding to allow either umlauts or superscript e. In my own library I have books from the early eighteenth century on, and Google books has more, so there's no lack of subjects to scan into Fontforge. Charles

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luaTeX and on-the-fly MetaPost compilation
by Stephan Hennig 24 May '08

24 May '08

Hi, I didn't have the opportunity to touch luaTeX yet, but let me ask one question in advance: Since luaTeX has a built-in MetaPost interpreter, is it possible to refer to a certain figure in a MetaPost source file for inclusion, instead of a compiled figure? As an example, I would like to say in a TeX document (syntax may differ) \includeMetaPost{foo.2} and this should not refer to the pre-compiled file foo.2 but to section figure(2); ... endfig; in file foo.mp and compile it on-the-fly. Would that be possible? Rationale: I do not want to mix TeX and MetaPost code. Probably, I'll stick with compiling .mp files prior to the TeX run anyway, but I'm curious about this option. Best regards, Stephan Hennig

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Odd Behavior in pdftex/xetex
by Michael.Urban＠jpl.nasa.gov 24 May '08

24 May '08

The following specimen was run on live.contextgarden.net with each of the three typesetters: \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \input knuth \bTABLE \bTR [align=middle]\bTH Range\eTH{}\bTH Value\eTH{}\eTR \bTR \bTD \type{<} 12\eTD{}\bTD 3\eTD{}\eTR \bTR \bTD 12--16\eTD{}\bTD 2\eTD{}\eTR \bTR \bTD \type{>}16\eTD{}\bTD 1\eTD{}\eTR \eTABLE \input knuth \stoptext In the case of pdfTeX and XeTeX, the table is given a width equal to the textwidth; in the caes of LuaTeX, it is typeset correctly with natural widths. When \setupcolors is removed, both pdfTeX and XeTeX also produce the correct result. This sounds like a bug to me (and took me forever to isolate \setupcolors - of all things! - as the culprit).

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Ramistic schemata
by Charles P. Schaum 23 May '08

23 May '08

Greetings, I have been using ConTeXt since April, plain TeX since March, and LaTeX/LyX for about a year. I have been working on multilingual texts and, until the recent permutations of Word, no WYSIWYG product, with the possible exception of Mellel for Hebrew, did any good job. Now I don't like WYSIWYG anymore but use such products for work. I have been able to create near-optimal reproductions of Ramistic schemata using ConTeXt because the \showboxes toggle is most helpful in showing where I need to put whitespace. The following may indeed be crude, i.e., not computing box height and other sophisticated stuff, but I'm a n00b and have not read the TeXbook through, although that and TeX by topic are both a vade mecum. Here's the code, FWIW. Use it as you like. It started out as plain TeX using Kile on Ubuntu, migrated to ConTeXt in TeXshop/MacTeX, and came back to Kile after I found an xml file for katepart that allowed for proper syntax highlighting. Charles -----Cut Here----- \def\schema#1#2#3{\hbox{$\vcenter{#1}\left\{\vbox to #2{\vfil}\right.\vcenter{#3}$}} \def\altschema#1#2#3#4{\hbox{$\vcenter{#1}{\left\lmoustache\vbox to #2{\vfil}\right.\atop\left\rmoustache\vbox to #3{\vfil}\right.}\vcenter{#4}$}} %\showboxes \starttext \tfx {\tfa I. SCHEMA}\par \schema % top level schema { \hbox{Subjectum theolo-} \hbox{gi\ae{} est Notitia} \hbox{Dei. Considerat} \hbox{ergo, Dei, vel} } {13ex} { \blank[big] \schema % first nested schema { \hbox{{\sc Essentiam}, in} } {5ex} { \hbox{Unitate natur\ae{}.} \hbox{Trinitate personarum.} \hbox{Operibus ad intra.} } \blank[medium] \schema % second nested schema { \hbox{{\sc Voluntatem},} \hbox{manifestatam in} \hbox{operibus ad extra;} \hbox{ut in} } {12ex} { \hbox{Creatione.} \hbox{Sustentatione natur\ae{} laps\ae{}.} \hbox{Reparatione.} \hbox{Conversione.} \hbox{Justificatione.} \hbox{Sanctificatione \&} \hbox{Glorificatione ejusdem.} } } \page {\tfa II. SCHEMA}\par \altschema % { \blank[7*big] \hbox{Subjectum \&} \hbox{summa univer-} \hbox{s\ae{} Scriptur\ae{},} \hbox{est {\sc Cogni-}} \hbox{{\sc tio} vel} } {29ex} {10ex} { \altschema % { \hbox{{\sc Dei}, qua-} \hbox{lis sit, aut} } {10ex} {2ex} { \blank[big] \schema % { \hbox{{\sc Per se}:} \hbox{scilicet.} } {3.1ex} { \hbox{Unus in essentia.} \hbox{Trinus in personis.} } \blank[medium] \schema % { \hbox{Ad hominem} \hbox{quem vel} } {13ex} { \hbox{Accusat \& terret, {\sc Per Legem},} \hbox{Consolatur \& erigit, {\sc Per Evangelium}.} \hbox{Salvat, {\sc Per Christum}.} \hbox{Renovat, {\sc Per Spiritum Sanctum}.} \hbox{Sanctificat, {\sc Per Verbum} \& {Sacramenta}.} \hbox{Castigat, tentat \& exercet, {\sc Per Crucem}.} \hbox{Glorificat {\sc Per Resurrectionem Carnis}} \hbox{{\sc Ad Vitam \AE{}ternam}.} } } \altschema % { \blank[6*big] \hbox{{\sc Hominis},} \hbox{qualis sit} } {22ex} {3ex} { \altschema % { \hbox{{\sc Per se}:} } {6ex} {1ex} { \blank[2*big] \hbox{Ante lapsum.} \blank[big] \altschema % { \hbox{Post lapsum:} } {5ex} {2ex} { \hbox{Ante Regenerationem \&} \hbox{Renovationem S. Sancti.} \blank[small] \hbox{Post Regenerationem \&} \hbox{Renovationem S. Sancti.} \blank[2*small] } \blank[big] } \schema % { \hbox{Ad} } {18ex} { \schema % { \hbox{{\sc Deum}} } {14ex} { \hbox{P\oe{}nitentia agens, agnitis peccatis \& ira} \hbox{Dei cognita {\sc Ex Lege}.} \hbox{Erigens se {\sc Voce Evangelii}.} \hbox{Credens {\sc In Christum Salvatorem}.} \hbox{Non repugnans {\sc Spiritui Sancto} impellenti.} \hbox{Audiens {\sc Verbum}: \& utens {\sc Sacramentis}.} \hbox{Patienter \& constanter sufferens {\sc Crucem}.} \hbox{Sperans \& expectans glorificationem {\sc In}} \hbox{{\sc Resurrectione Carnis Ad Vitam \AE{}ternam}.} } \blank[medium] \schema % { \hbox{seipsum ratione} } {3.1ex} { \hbox{Anim\ae{} vel} \hbox{Corporis} } \schema % { \hbox{Proximum,} } {6ex} { \blank[medium] \schema % { \hbox{Amicum ratione vel} } {7ex} { \hbox{Religionis.} \hbox{Politic\ae{} \& Oeconomic\ae {}.} \hbox{Cognationis.} \hbox{Agnationis.} } \hbox{Inimicum.} \blank[3*big] } \blank[big] } } } \stoptext

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[LUATEX] uname() volunteers needed
by Taco Hoekwater 23 May '08

23 May '08

Hi all, This is a little offtopic (it deals with luatex only) but as Mojca said: there are many more luatex-using people here than on dev-luatex. In a discussion with Yue Wang he convinced me that it would be better to use uname() for finding os.name instead of the current jungle of #ifdefs. Because I do not want to alter the lua return values, that means I will have to interpret the contents of the returned structure a bit. To do that, I would appreciate it if the people on a non-linux32intel platform would compile and run the attached minimalistic C file. Thanks in advance, Taco

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font tables
by Idris Samawi Hamid 22 May '08

22 May '08

Dear gang, Is there an available ConTeXt utility for creating font tables for luatex? \ShowFont does this for 256-char encodings but we need something to create a matrix in pdf through luatex for unicode fonts. Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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bug with hyphenatedurl
by Steffen Wolfrum 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hi, please have a look at the following minimal example (ran with mkii): -> \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding] \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \enableregime[utf] Test text\footnote{{Z4300, Stand: 1.{|DuennRaum|}Januar\;2002, einsehbar unter \hyphenatedurl{http://www.thw.de/thw‑inland/ grundlagen/rechtsgrundlagen/abr\_rili.htm}}} \stoptext <- Just shortly before handing the PDF to the printer I saw that the part "thw‑inland" surprisingly became "thw\dochar␣{45}inland" (at least on my machine)! Is there a fix? Steffen

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The cat was too long (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 21 May '08

21 May '08

hi, 'minimal' example for clipping bug in mkiv: % engine=luatex \starttext \setbox\scratchbox\hbox{The cat was too long to fit in this small sentence.} \framed[offset=overlay]{\clip[width=110pt,height=20pt]{\box\scratchbox}} \stoptext final text should be "The cat was too long". mkii does it right, mkiv gives "The cat wa". mkiv made the cat fit somehow, but it's not the way i want it :) best wishes, peter

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inclusion from image database broken (mkii+mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 20 May '08

20 May '08

hi, when i try to include an image from one of my databases i get the following error messages: mkii: !pdfTeX error: pdftex.exe (file ./lib/test-db.pdf): xpdf: reading PDF image failed (0) ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! mkiv: !luaTeX error: xpdf: reading PDF image failed ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! i looked into the mkiv sources, but didn't succeed. the lua part (db only) is clear to me, but i couldn't find the point in tex, where \externalfigure is mapped to this somehow. either i have missed something or there is some code missing. mh, probably the first one :) regards, peter ps: any news about the \string{\{} problem in mkiv?

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[OT] dante meeting
by luigi scarso 20 May '08

20 May '08

http://granthinam.blogspot.com/search/label/Conference report ok, at least one photo of Martin Schröder -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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