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t-bib: URL and '%'; spacing between number and text
by Tobias Burnus 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

Hi all, I have a .bib file which contains @article{foo, url = {http://..../a%bb%cc.html} i.e. an URL with % sign. I want to typeset it in the references using: \def\gotoURL#1{\useURL[foo][#1]\goto{\url[foo]}[url(foo)]} \unprotect \setuppublicationlayout[article]{% ... \insertbiburl{ }{.}{}% The problem is: If I do not escape the % signs, I get a TeX error. If I escape them with \%, both the link and the printed text show the backslash. What is the proper way of doing it? Another problem is that I have in the reference list, the space between "]" and the author name in [123]Author is too small (they overlap). Is there an easy possibility to make the spacing automatically right or does one need to tweek it manually? Tobias

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Footnotes set outside of columns when using columnsets
by Elliot Clifton 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

Hi, When using columnsets is it possible to have footnotes placed at the bottom of the page rather than in columns? I searched the documentation and haven't found a way to do this. Minimal examples. Using columnsets: \definecolumnset[twocolumn][n=2] \starttext \startcolumnset[twocolumn] \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth \footnote[footnote]{footnote}\par} \stopcolumnset \stoptext It produces footnotes in columns which isn't what I want. The behaviour I want is the that produced by this example using \startcolumns: \starttext \startcolumns \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth \footnote[footnote]{footnote}\par} \stopcolumns \stoptext I'd like to be able to take advantage of the addition feature offered by using columnsets but need the footnotes to be set at the bottomof the page outside of the columns. Advice on how to do this would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance, Elliot

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luatex on live is down
by Yue Wang 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

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solution for problem with m-chemic.tex
by Peter Münster 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

Hello, It's a repost, because version 2008.04.10 still fails: What about the integration of this patch from Wolfgang Schuster into the distribution: - Forwarded message from Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> - Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:57:37 +0100 From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] \chemical and MKIV On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Peter Münster <pmlists(a)free.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > The following test-file produces an error: > > % engine=luatex > \usemodule[chemic] > \starttext > \chemical{CO_2} > \stoptext This is tooo long. \usemodule[chemic] is enough to produce the error with mkiv. Replace the following lines in m-chemic \ifx\beginpicture\undefined \let\normalgrid\grid \let\normalaxis\axis \input pictex.tex \relax \let\pictexgrid\grid \let\pictexaxis\axis \let\grid\normalgrid \let\axis\normalaxis \fi with \ifx\beginpicture\undefined \let\beginpicture\relax \fi and the module works. Wolfgang ----- End forwarded message ----- -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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luatexing
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

Hallo, I have a few silly questions about tex.print() To produce $\sqrt{2}=1.4142135623731$ it should be enough to write tex.print("$\\sqrt{2}=" .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$") or better tex.print([[$\sqrt{2}=]] .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$") but that's both not working. The following instead does the job: tex.print("$\string\\sqrt{2}=" .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$") why? Another question: What is the differenz between 'tex.sprint()' and 'tex.write()'? Wolfgang

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mplib
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

Hallo, the following compiles ok, but gives me an status 3=fatal error. Can someone please point me to the error? \startlua mp = mplib.new ( { hash_size = 100000, main_memory = 2000000, param_size = 100000, } ) if mp then res = mp:execute( "beginfig(1) draw (0,0) .. (1,1) .. (2,1); endfig; bye;" ) tex.print("[" .. tostring(res.status) .. "]") mp:finish() end \stoplua Wolfgang

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new version luatex / mkiv
by Hans Hagen 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

Hi, There is a new version of luatex and mkiv. You need to update them together. The best place to get them is the contextgarden (which will probably have the new versions pretty soon). This release of is rather substantial: no longer is metaposts called, but mplib is used instead. This bring down metapost runtime and conversion to nearly zero. The user interface is the same, but the implementation is different. Tomorrow (or so) taco will make releasenotes. 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] new version luatex / mkiv
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Hallo, > > > This release of is rather substantial: no longer is metaposts > > > called, but mplib is used instead. is there or will der be a documented interface description for mplib. Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] staticMPfigure
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Hallo Hans, > >> the following example is a cooked down version of something I > found > >> on the net. Compiling this > >> > >> %------------------------------------------------ > >> \setupcolors[state=start] > >> > >> \forceMPTEXcheck{LABEL} > >> > >> \startMPinclusions > >> vardef LABEL@\#(expr s, p)= label@\#(textext("% > >> \framed[width=1.5cm]{" & s & "}"),p) > >> enddef ; > >> \stopMPinclusions > > > > I could not get this to work either. Something has changed > > in the MPinclusions parsing, maybe? (Putting the definition > > in a separate mp file prevents the error, of course) > > hm, i'll have a look, but in mkiv there will be no such checks > supported > anyway Have you had a look? Wolfgang

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new version
by Hans Hagen 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Hi, concerning the mplibrary in mkiv ... - it does not use the metafun mem file; when formats are generated a special mem file is made and put alongside the context format - however, this only happens when a new version is found (is the case with a new zip), or when an error is encountered in the format (compatibility issue) - in case of doubt, or when you patch metafun, you can say ctxtool --touch texexec --make i will try to make this more robust in the future the new mkiv mp graphics implementations is prepared for mixed usage, i.e. we can use multiple metapost formats; i'm still not sure about the interface, for instance: \startuseMPgraphic{metafun:bla} ... \startuseMPgraphic{mpost:bla} ... or so, more news later Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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mpost updating
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

Hallo, I have updated an older ConTeXt (ver: 2007.07.29 22:06 MKII) with a aktuell mpost. I have used 'http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/bin/metapost/mswin/bin/' as source. The command 'texmfstart texexec --autopdf --make --all' produces no metapost formats at all. Calling 'mpost.exe' I get a messagebox with the error: 'procedure entry point "kpse_record_input" in DLL "kpathsea356.dll" not found' (my translation from german). What is wrong here? Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] first steps
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

Hallo, > That's strange. Here this command gives: > 103 ~: luatools --all *qplr.* > /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/powerpc-darwin/luatools:4392: bad > argument > #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil) > > allthough: > > 104 ~: find /usr/local -name *qplr.* > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/public/tex-gyre/qplr.af > m > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/tex-gyre/cs-qplr > .tfm > /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/tex-gyre/ec-qplr > .tfm > .... > I got the same with texmfstart under Windows D:\context\wwl>texmfstart luatools --all *.qplr.* texmfstart luatools --all *.qplr.* ...t/tex/texmf-context/scripts/context/lua/luatools.lua:4392: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil) and without texmfstart D:\context\wwl>luatools --all *qplr.* no action at all. Wolfgang

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MetaPost 1.003 announcement
by Taco Hoekwater 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 1.003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The sources and a win32 package can be downloaded immediately from http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/ The source package should compile normally on all systems that are capable of compiling a modern web2c-based TeX distribution. The win32 package is intended for texlive or a similar web2c-based installation, and has been tested only with TeXLive 2007. These executables will *not* work for miktex, sorry. Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of the message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in version 1.003: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Polygonal pens now work better (bug #3 and #7 at supelec.fr). * When asking for a color part in a picture object, the color models now have to match each other, otherwise an error will be reported and the return value will be set to a 'black' part. * The Makefile fragment (metapost.mk) now defines a separate mpost target for better integration in TeXLive. * There was a bug in the internal handling of withprescript and withpostscript, resulting in incorrect output when paths using such scripts were stored in picture variables. * A newline was missing from the PostScript output when the procset internal variable was set, so the first line of that accidentally became a PostScript comment. * Applicable changes from Knuth's updates for MetaFont 2.718281 are incorporated. * Mpto did not play nice with %&<format> verbatimtex lines, it now automatically tries to detect comment-lines. * Dvitomp 1.003 has higher limits for some internal constants like the number of allowed fonts in DVI files. * The manual is improved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal notice / license / bug reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. The MetaPost home page is http://tug.org/metapost. MetaPost and related programs are in the public domain. The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Supelec, https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost; please report bugs and request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you can reach us through the <metapost(a)tug.org> mailing list as well. Have fun! Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, April 10, 2008.

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Mapping to SmallCaps for Latin Modern
by Wolfgang Schuster 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

Hi Hans, the mapping for the SmallCaps fonts from Latin Modern use the slanted version for upright and the upright version for slanted style. font-otf.tex: \definefontsynonym [LMRoman10-CapsRegular] [file:lmromancaps10-oblique] [features=default] % features=smallcaps? \definefontsynonym [LMRoman10-CapsOblique] [file:lmromancaps10-regular] [features=default] should be \definefontsynonym [LMRoman10-CapsRegular] [file:lmromancaps10-regular] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [LMRoman10-CapsOblique] [file:lmromancaps10-oblique] [features=default] The mapping for the Dunhill style seems to be wrong too. \definefontsynonym [LMRoman10-Dunhill] [file:lmromandunh10-oblique] [features=default] \definefontsynonym [LMRoman10-DunhillOblique] [file:lmromandunh10-regular] [features=default] Wolfgang

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first steps
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

hallo, I tried to make my first luatex-steps with the following wiki-example ------------------------------------- \usetypescript[palatino] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] effe fietsen 2: \input tufte $\sqrt{2}$ \eogonek \sc effe fietsen 2: \input tufte $\sqrt{2}$ \eogonek ------------------------------------- after adding a \start/stoptext pair I get in 4 runs the following error: ------------------------------------- ){d:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/tex-gyre/q-ec-sc.enc}fclose: No such file or directory fclose: No such file or directory ! Emergency stop. <*> tst3.tex ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! ------------------------------------- and in the 3. run I get ------------------------------------- fonts : using map file: original-youngryu-px [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.8 \stoptext ------------------------------------- I can not interpret this error. Can someone please explain! Wolfgang

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Leopard and ConTeXt
by Steffen Wolfrum 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi MacUsers out there, until yesterday I worked with 10.4 and a recent context: no problem (only mkII). Today I finally set up a new machine with 10.5. and MacTeX, run ctxtools --updatecontext. Running a context-file now gives me the right context-version but ends up with: "TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=5000]" Well, I remember this was something about texmf.cnf (or context.cnf?). So I changed the value to 10000, remade the format but still the echo mentions 5000. Some known problem with Leopard and ConTeXt? Maybe PATH stuff? =o( Please help!!! Steffen

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Short question regarding PDF bookmarks
by Dietrich Rordorf / MDPI 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi everybody, Default setting when creating pdf bookmarks (e.g. for \section, \subsection, etc.) seems that the bookmark points to the page (it zooms out to fit the whole page), rather than only going to the referenced object: E.g. try to click on a bookmark on this pdf (365 KB): http://www.mdpi.org/marinedrugs/papers/md6010001.pdf An example where the bookmark points to the object, and will not affect the current magnification/zoom: http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1741-7015-4-14.pdf Can this be realized in ConTeX? Looking forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Dietrich

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[OT] random Computer Science paper generator
by luigi scarso 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ it would be nice to have something in context. -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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page numbering question
by David C. Walden 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi, I have been searching contextgarden.net and the manuals at the Pragma website for more than an hour now, and I have yet to find a way to have ConTeXt decide in two-sided mode that the last page of a book chapter is a even numbered page without anything on it and therefore will also not have a page number. I probably can manually effect this by carefully inserting \setuppagenumber commands which start and stop the state, but that's not a very general solution. Will someone please point me to appropriate documentation or an example. Thanks, Dave -- home address: 12 Linden Rd., E. Sandwich, MA 02537; ph/fax=508-888-7655/4168 email address: dave(a)walden-family.com; website(s): http://www.walden-family.com/

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ConTEXt - produced book
by Jörg Hagmann 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Dear list members, My biochemistry textbook has been published by orell füssli as an UTB book. I would like to thank all the members of this list, and Hans in particular, for their help (acknowledgements in the "Thank you" section of the book as well). You'll find a few sample pages under: www.ogbasel.ch/context.html (2.5MB) Page and margin sizes prescribed by the publisher. The pages illustrate: p. 7: The use of inmargin text. p. 79: a "vignette", in the margin and partially in the text area. p. 110: The height of some margin figures was large, necessitating manual adjustments. p. 145: A framed box and a wide table. The large number of enumerations, figures, frames etc. made some typographical sins inevitable (e.g. last line on this page). p. 155: textbody and margin completely filled p. 190: I include this page for Willi and Thomas p. 235: Some chapters end with what students really need to know (red background). This is the end of the chapter on nutrition p. 239: The "Toolbox" contains framed figures without a legend. -- Prof.Dr.med. Jörg Hagmann-Zanolari Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics Centre of Biomedicine, University of Basel Mattenstrasse 28 CH-4058 Basel Switzerland Phone +41 (0)61 267 3565

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Scite startup script error
by Abhishek Seth 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi, It seems I have missing scite-ctx.lua. It is not present in the cont-tmf.zip which I had downloaded. I created an empty scite-ctx.lua to suppress the error message. Is this file meant to be created manually or a part of distribution (cont-tmf.zip)? Thanks > Abhishek Seth wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After reinstalling the Scite 1.76 and putting the support files in > > place, I am getting the following error: > > > > "attempt to call a string value > >> Lua: error occured while loading startup script" > > > > I don't know what it is. Can someone please help? > > probably related to scite using lua 5 now; did you update to the > scite-ctx from the context distribution? > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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] first steps
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

On 9 Apr 2008 at 10:25, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: Hallo, > > Just to make sure - what's the version of ConTeXt and LuaTeX > > you're using, and do you have the cont-sys.tex file? > > Werner said he had used: Wolfgang :-) > > > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip > > But perhaps something was left behind from an earlier install? I reinstalled the whole thing, exactly the same steps and now it runs. Usally I am switching off an existing MikTeX-Installation by renaming the MikTeX-Directory. This was a problem in the past. May be something went wrong with this step. -------------------------------------------------- rem switchmt.bat [on|off] @echo off set OTEX="E:\PROGRAMME\" set MTEX="MiKTeX 2.7" set XTEX="MiKTeX 2.7.closed" if %1h==h goto end if %1==out goto off if %1==on goto on goto end :on if exist %OTEX%%XTEX% rename %OTEX%%XTEX% %MTEX% goto end :off if exist %OTEX%%MTEX% rename %OTEX%%MTEX% %XTEX% :end -------------------------------------------------- Thank you, Wolfgang

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[OT] PDF/A conference
by luigi scarso 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

I will be in amsterdam for first pdf/a conference. Maybe someone too: if so we can manage to meet. But i will also in amsterdam saturday, and i would like to buy some books (in english) about typography , exp. arabic typography . Open to any suggestions (about titles and bookshop) -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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a sort of marking
by Andrea Valle 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi to all, I have a manual. It's A5 to be printed in A4 (so to cut in the middle the A4 page). I'd like to have a cue like a marking to be able to cut exactly in the middle. \setuplayout[marking=on] does not print anything useful for the case. I've thought about \showframe[text=off, margin=off] but it creates a green border all around. Ideas? Many thanks -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " Think of it as seasoning . noise [salt] is boring . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty " (Ken Perlin on noise)

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LuaTex error "attempt to index global 'lang' (a nil value)"
by Roland 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hi, I've been following Thomas Schmitz's great instructions at http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2007/027418.html to set up Luatex. All works fine and without errors but the last step: $ luatools --ini --verbose --compile cont-en LuaTools | version 1.1.1 - 2006+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT LuaTools | skipping configuration for /texmf-local/web2c from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/d80510d450a3fa2a64df4d3741825f1d LuaTools | skipping configuration for /texmf/web2c from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/3113242409ded67a0ad7bd508bd26609 LuaTools | locating list of /Users/rs/.texlive2007/texmf-config LuaTools | locating list of /Users/rs/.texlive2007/texmf-var LuaTools | locating list of /Users/rs/Library/texmf LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local LuaTools | locating list of /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist LuaTools | loading files for /Users/rs/.texlive2007/texmf-var from /tmp/luatex-cache/context/fcf214085bb2c4fcd9a0f9a9f0d0aecf/trees/f1bc347f62f0cb65067c428b92016cc8 [snip] loading : Context Attribute Macros / initialization systems : defining attribute mark with number 1 systems : defining attribute state with number 2 systems : defining attribute trigger with number 3 systems : defining attribute skip with number 4 systems : defining attribute penalty with number 5 systems : defining attribute colormodel with number 6 systems : defining attribute color with number 7 systems : defining attribute transparency with number 8 systems : defining attribute overprint with number 9 systems : defining attribute negative with number 10 systems : defining attribute effect with number 11 ) (/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/node-ini.tex loading : Node Support (initialization) ! LuaTeX error ...al/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/node-ini.lua:506: attempt to index global 'lang' (a nil value). \ctxluabytecode ...ode " .. "#1" .. str) end end } \registerctxluafile ...{\the \luabytecodecounter } \fi l.16 \registerctxluafile{node-ini}{1.001} ? Anybody have an idea what is wrong? I'm on Leopard 10.5.2. Thanks Roland

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first steps with XeTeX
by Henning Hraban Ramm 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Since I need to typeset some names with characters outside of ec encoding, I'm just checking out XeTeX. - first threshold: If you have \setupoutput[pdftex] in cont-sys.tex, it doesn't work. ;-) (Complains "you should use pdftex binaries".) - second threshold: Adapt your typescripts. Since I use TeX Gyre anyway, that was no problem. (Is there still no complete type-gyr.tex in the distribution? I couldn't find it.) - third threshold (standing there): XeTeX can't read tagged PDFs. For I typeset proceedings, I must include a lot of pages from presentation PDFs. And even if I'd call myself a PDF professional, I didn't find a way to delete all tags from a PDF. I could convert everything to EPS or even render the pages in Photoshop. But I'd prefer to stay with the PDFs. Any ideas? Tomorrow I'll try to use an additional PostScript font - is that even possible? Otherwise I must convert it to OpenType. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Re: [NTG-context] first steps
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

On 8 Apr 2008 at 12:00, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: > > I am using scite with the following command: > > texmfstart texexec --autopdf --luatex tst3.tex > > I simply have no idea. I do not understand why windows > would object to closing a file that doesn't exist (not even > how it could be possible for an opened file to not exist). > > It could be a simple matter of a missing file that somehow > luatex fails to check for during opening so it is not discovered > until it attempts to close the file, but even if that is true, > I have no idea how to debug anything on windows. > > It could also be a (more complicated) problem triggered by > disk synchronisation issues in Windows itself. We have been > bitten by those before (what is your windows flavour?) Windows 2000 > In either case, someone else has to come up with tests and/or > fix attempts. The only advice I can give is to reinstall > context using the new minimals and see if that helps any. > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals This is a fresh installation. I installed it using 'context-setup-mswin.zip'. After some trials, I found that the example compiles ok without the TWO \eogonek commands. There were TWO fclose attempts in the logs, too. Can this be a hint? Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] ConTEXt - produced book __ about typesetting, as an art, to print "Beautiful books"
by Giulio Bertellini 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Sitting in a Paris restaurant, equipped with WI/FI and after a couple of wine glasses. I really like your work. It would be interesting to see the sources and to learn the tricks (your used). The look is great. Thanks to Hans for the beautiful gift to the World. One final comment. I think the typesetting is fine, technically speaking, but, overall, the spacing is too tight. It is not relaxing. Readers should be more confortable. WHAT IS THE THINKING OF THIS COMMUNITY. I am not a typesetter, but setting type, good typesetting is difficult to express. It transcends words. It's about feelings and type. Personally, I think that Prof.Dr.med. should be typeset differently. How can we accept Prof, Dr. Med, with not spaces in between, perhaps thin spaces. Congratulations, however. Giulio Bertellini On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Jörg Hagmann <joerg.hagmann(a)unibas.ch> wrote: > Dear list members, > > My biochemistry textbook has been published by orell füssli as an UTB > book. I would like to thank all the members of this list, and Hans in > particular, for their help (acknowledgements in the "Thank you" section > of the book as well). > > You'll find a few sample pages under: > www.ogbasel.ch/context.html (2.5MB) > > Page and margin sizes prescribed by the publisher. The pages illustrate: > > p. 7: The use of inmargin text. > p. 79: a "vignette", in the margin and partially in the text area. > p. 110: The height of some margin figures was large, necessitating > manual adjustments. > p. 145: A framed box and a wide table. The large number of enumerations, > figures, frames etc. made some typographical sins inevitable (e.g. last > line on this page). > p. 155: textbody and margin completely filled > p. 190: I include this page for Willi and Thomas > p. 235: Some chapters end with what students really need to know (red > background). This is the end of the chapter on nutrition > p. 239: The "Toolbox" contains framed figures without a legend. > > -- > Prof.Dr.med. Jörg Hagmann-Zanolari > Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics > Centre of Biomedicine, University of Basel > Mattenstrasse 28 > CH-4058 Basel > Switzerland > Phone +41 (0)61 267 3565 > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ >

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problem using protrusion and hz
by David C. Walden 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hi, Adytia pointed me to some examples at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Protrusion I tried the following code with a couple of page test page, ----- \definepapersize[specialbook][width=5.5in,height=8.5in] \setuppapersize[specialbook][specialbook] \setuplayout[height=7.5in,width=4.5in,backspace=40pt,location=middle] %\usetypescript[serif][hz][quality] %line 1 %\setupalign[hanging,hz] %line 2 \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][hanging][pure] %line 3 \setupalign[hanging] %line 4 \usetypescript[modern-base][texnansi] %line 5 \setupbodyfont[reset] %line 6 \setupbodyfont[modern] %line 7 %\setupbodyfont[serif,11pt] \setupwhitespace[4.5pt] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupexternalfigures[directory={../marsh-slideshow}] \setupindenting[none] \setuphead[chapter][number=no] \setupheader[state=none] % Enable colors and activate hyperlinks \setupcolors [state=start] \setupinteraction [state=start, color=blue] \definecolor [darkRed][r=.5,g=.0,b=.0] \useURL[TPJ][{http://www.tug.org/pracjourn}][][{\it Prac\TeX{} Journal}] \useURL[mywebsite][{http://www.walden-family.com/dave}][][www.walden-family.com] \starttext ... \stoptext ---- and I get slightly different results if lines 1 and 2 versus 3 and 4 are in or out, or if both pairs of lines are commented out. If, however, I try this with the real 215 page book I am compiling rather than a smaller example, pdfTeX halts 200 or so pages in with a fatal error saying it has run out of space and saying something more about a hash table. If I comment out lines 5-7, I don't get the fatal error but also I don't think I see protrusion and font expansion happening. The real book doesn't have very much body text but is does have 215 images with code like \placefigure{none}{\externalfigure[#1.jpg][width=\textwidth]} where #1 comes from a macro call. Any thoughts? (I suppose I can split my source file in half and find a ConTeXt command to start the page numbering for the second half a 107 or so and then combine the two PDFs with Acrobat.) Best regards, Dave -- home address: 12 Linden Rd., E. Sandwich, MA 02537; ph/fax=508-888-7655/4168 email address: dave(a)walden-family.com; website(s): http://www.walden-family.com/

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analyzing type-otf.tex
by Henning Hraban Ramm 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

(1) Shouldn't these typescripts get splitted?: from \starttypescript [serif] [adventor,bonum,cursor,heros,pagella,schola,termes] to \starttypescript [serif] [bonum,pagella,schola,termes] \starttypescript [sans] [adventor,heros] \starttypescript [mono] [cursor] plus \starttypescript [calligraphy] [chorus] and from \starttypescript [serif] [pagella,termes,bonum,schola,chorus] [name] to \starttypescript [serif] [pagella,termes,bonum,schola] [name] \starttypescript [calligraphy] [chorus] [name] (2) This seems wrong to me (i.e. I don't understand it): \starttypescript [serif] [adventor,bonum,cursor,heros,pagella,schola,termes] \definefontsynonym [\typescriptprefix{n:\typescripttwo}-Regular] [file:texgyre\typescriptthree\typescriptprefix{f:\typescripttwo}- regular] [features=default] That defines e.g. TeXGyrePagella-Regular --> file:texgyre???pagella- regular Why is there \typescriptthree without a third parameter of the typescript? And what file means "file:texgyre\typescriptthree"? I thought, "file:" should be followed by a proper filename like "{n: \typescripttwo}-Regular"? Are the first and second parameters swapped? (3) I get (maybe from that): kpathsea: Illegal fontname `texgyrename,default,ec,specialschola- regular': contains ','! Font \*gyr- mix12ptrmtfrm*:=texgyrename,default,ec,specialschola-regular at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found. This is my setup: \usetypescriptfile [type-otf] \usetypescriptfile [type-urw] \starttypescript [fiee] [gyr-mix] \definetypeface [gyr-mix] [rm] [serif] [schola] [default] \definetypeface [gyr-mix] [ss] [sans] [urw-grotesk-narrow] [default] [encoding=ec] \stoptypescript \usetypescript [fiee][gyr-mix] \setupbodyfont [gyr-mix,rm,8pt] Where's my error? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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perl/Ruby dependency -- how deep?
by Joel C. Salomon 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Two questions came up when I was looking into putting ConTeXt on a USB stick (i.e., as a "portable app"): 1. Is perl still required for a ConTeXt installation (say, under Windows)? I know texexec is now written in Ruby, but are there other programs in Stand-alone or the Minimals that require perl? 2. I vaguely recall some mention of eventually replacing texexec with a Lua version. Is this actually being planned, and would that eliminate the external language dependencies of ConTeXt? --Joel

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A problem with HOMETEXMF
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hi all, I have set HOMETEXMF in my setupex file, and the path is normally recognized: 13:25 jean@boldair /home/jean % echo $HOMETEXMF /home/jean/texmf Luatex sees it: 13:25 jean@boldair /home/jean % luatools --expand-path HOMETEXMF /home/jean/texmf (not if I write $HOMETEXMF ??) But luatex does not find files there: 13:35 jean@boldair /home/jean % luatools --find-file t-tikz.tex <blank> I have tried to set TEXMFHOME but got the same result. Please can anybody explain these variables and how they work with luatex or point to some documentation? -- Jean

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Scite startup script error
by Abhishek Seth 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hi, It seems I have missing scite-ctx.lua. It is not present in the cont-tmf.zip which I had downloaded. I created an empty scite-ctx.lua to suppress the error message. Is this file meant to be created manually or a part of distribution (cont-tmf.zip)? Thanks > Abhishek Seth wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After reinstalling the Scite 1.76 and putting the support files in > > place, I am getting the following error: > > > > "attempt to call a string value > >> Lua: error occured while loading startup script" > > > > I don't know what it is. Can someone please help? > > probably related to scite using lua 5 now; did you update to the > scite-ctx from the context distribution? > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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luatex and interaction
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hi all, There had been a thread about it in august, but it seems part of the problem is still there: words or sentences appearing in interaction are split: here is a minimal example: .......................... \setupinteraction [state=start] \starttext L'un de ces documents \useURL[bb][http://junon.univ-cezanne.fr/bornier/BBMon/bbmm.html][][The Nature of Boehm-Bawerk's Capital Market]\from[bb]\footnote{http://junon.univ-cezanne.fr/bornier/BBMon/bbmm.html} a été présenté en 2004 æ€ûœ \stoptext .......................... Same problem with bibliographical references when interaction is activated. (Minimal version from minimals.contextgarden.net, up to date from yesterday.) -- Jean

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Widgets with luatex
by Lutz Haseloff 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hi Hans, Hi all, I try to use widgets with luatex and ConTeXt MKIV. If i try the example for a choice field from mwidget-s.pdf i get following error: javascript : loading script set fld (C:/context/texmf-context/tex/context/base/java-fld.tex) ! LuaTeX error .../context/texmf-context/tex/context/base/colo-new.lua:429: bad argument #3 to 'format' (string expected, got no value). \PDFcolor ...lormodel , \thecolorattribute {#1}))} \setFDFattributes ...space Tf\space \PDFcolor {#2} }\doifelsenothing {#3} {\g... \doFDFpresetchoicefield ...]\setFDFattributes [#5] \setFDFvalues [#7][#4]\set... \dopresetfield ...{preset\@@DriverFieldType field} \fi \fi \dosetupfield ...fieldoffset \hbox {\typesetfield }} \vss }}\ifShowFieldLabe... \dofield ...abel ,\v!frame ,\v!horizontal ][][][]} \iftrialtypesetting \else ... ... l.6 Text text \field[Ugly] t ext text. ? My minimal testfile is: % engine=luatex \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \setupfield [UglySetup] [width=6em, height=1.2\lineheight, location=low] \definefield [Ugly] [choice] [UglySetup] [ugly,awful,bad] [ugly] Text text \field[Ugly] text text. \stoptext I use ConTeXt ver: 2008.03.24 23:24 MKIV fmt: 2008.4.2 int: english/english and luatex Version snapshot-0.25.1-2008040121 (Web2C 7.5.6) What is the (probabely my) error? Greetings Lutz

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Re: [NTG-context] first steps
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

On 7 Apr 2008 at 20:22, ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: > > I tried to make my first luatex-steps with the following > wiki-example > > ------------------------------------- > > \usetypescript[palatino] > > \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] > > effe fietsen 2: \input tufte $\sqrt{2}$ \eogonek > > > > \sc effe fietsen 2: \input tufte $\sqrt{2}$ \eogonek > > ------------------------------------- > > after adding a \start/stoptext pair I get in 4 runs the following > > error: > > Exactly how did you run luatex? The canonical way is > > texexec --luatex tst3 > > but I expect you are using some editor interface? I am using scite with the following command: texmfstart texexec --autopdf --luatex tst3.tex If I try: 'texexec --luatex tst3' I get two runs with -------------------------------------------- {d:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/tex-gyre/qpl-ec.map} fonts : using map file: original-youngryu-px {d:/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original- youngryu-px.map} [1.1] systems : end file tst3 at line 8 ){d:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/tex-gyre/q-ec-sc.enc}fclose: No such file or directory fclose: No such file or directory ! Emergency stop. <*> tst3.tex ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! LuaTools | running command: luatex --fmt="d:/context/tex/texmf- cache/luatex- cache/context/c80dc1fd5292ec817c6e82c295beaf1e/formats/cont-en" -- lua="d:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex- cache/context/c80dc1fd5292ec817c6e82c295beaf1e/formats/cont-en.luc" "tst3.tex" "" LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 23.213 secondsTeXUtil | parsing file tst3.tui -------------------------------------------- Wolfgang

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patch for m-chemic.tex
by Peter Münster 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hello, What about the integration of this patch from Wolfgang Schuster into the distribution: - Forwarded message from Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> - Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:57:37 +0100 From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] \chemical and MKIV On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Peter Münster <pmlists(a)free.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > The following test-file produces an error: > > % engine=luatex > \usemodule[chemic] > \starttext > \chemical{CO_2} > \stoptext This is tooo long. \usemodule[chemic] is enough to produce the error with mkiv. Replace the following lines in m-chemic \ifx\beginpicture\undefined \let\normalgrid\grid \let\normalaxis\axis \input pictex.tex \relax \let\pictexgrid\grid \let\pictexaxis\axis \let\grid\normalgrid \let\axis\normalaxis \fi with \ifx\beginpicture\undefined \let\beginpicture\relax \fi and the module works. Wolfgang ----- End forwarded message ----- -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Scite startup script error
by Abhishek Seth 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Hi, After reinstalling the Scite 1.76 and putting the support files in place, I am getting the following error: "attempt to call a string value >Lua: error occured while loading startup script" I don't know what it is. Can someone please help?

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several details (maybe bugs)
by Henning Hraban Ramm 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

While typesetting some proceedings, I stumpled upon the following issues: (1) \setupheads seems to do nothing - I must set every option for every head separately. AFAIR this is broken "forever", at least it was the same in 2000. (2) \setuphead[chapter][header=none] should switch off the header only on that page where the chapter starts, shouldn't it? (It disables headers completely.) Or how else would I achieve that? (3) \startitemize[n] Numbered itemizations suddenly(?) start with 0 - as this may be suitable for programmers, but it's, ehm, a bit unusual in every other context. Hm, it works in the garden. (4) Is it possible to include footnotes in tables in the normal footnote numbering and placement? (At the moment I use localfootnotes to enable footnotes in tables at all, but that's unsatisfying.) (5) Is it possible to disable hyphenation in titles? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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scite properties enable utf8 and customizing
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI! I am trying to make Scite work in a context way by copying context.properties and friends, and it does work . The problem seems to be that make scite automatic be in utf8 mode. I have copying following parameters in the file .SciTEUser.properies by inserting following: LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 output.code.page=65001 but it seems not working when the program is restarted. All adjustments seems to be "forgotten" every time I restart. Thanks in advance! Janneman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH9k1m/zRis+sQPvARAp5WAKDtIsNohO0VWNwcuR2H4pj3uaYw8ACgs3gi yLIVTqs7QWh7RaWzhyY+GmQ= =/HKi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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References with or without interaction
by Morgan Brassel 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Hi everyone, I noticed what seems to be a lack of coherence when typesetting references with interaction enabled. Look at the example below: \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext See \in{figure}[fig:a]. {\it See \in{figure}[fig:a].} \placefigure [][fig:a] {A caption.} {HELLO} \stoptext When interaction is enabled, the two references are typeset bold and upshape. When it's not, the first one is upshape, the other is italic. This can lead to overfull hbox when turning on interaction, and this is quite unintuitive. Is there a reason why it is so in ConTeXt? Best regards, Morgan

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First document — problems with bib module and layout
by Matija Šuklje 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Hullo, I'm just making my first real document in ConTeXt and although I'm thinking more and more how this was a great idea. I also decided to simultaneously write an external document/module containing all definitions to fit the But as a newbie, of course, I stumbled upon some beginner's problems: 1. Chapter heading is not like I would expect — I would like to have the line above the chapter as long as the one below it 2. The empty page at the end of the document annoys me and doesn't want to go away. 3. The citations won't show any content, neither does the list of publications — I'm clearly doing something very wrong here. What I want is numbered citation with short references at the bottom and full references in the list of publications in the appendices. 4. If I want to include 'pf_ul.tex' and 'moja_bibliografija.bbl' into my user's local modules in Linux, where should I place the link to them? It's a bit annoying to have to place links to them in each directory where I make a new new file that uses them. And clearly, there will be many yet to come! If anything I just wrote doesn't make much sense, I excuse myself ...I'm tired, tried to learn and hack together this definitions the whole day today and didn't sleep much yesterday either. Cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 e-mail: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net www: http://matija.suklje.name aim: hookofsilver icq: 110183360 jabber/g-talk: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org msn: matija.suklje(a)rutka.net yahoo: matija_suklje

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mpost update in minimal windows
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Hallo, I tried to update my metapost executable in the Windows ConTeXt minimal. In the bin dir I found both mpost.exe (Version 1.000-rc1) and a mpost.dll In the archive 'metapost-1.002-windows.zip' there is mpost.exe (Version 1.002 (Web2C 7.5.5)) and no dll So I downloaded 'mplib-alpha-0.20-win32.zip' but there is an other exe newpost.exe (Version 1.002 (Cweb version 0.20)) and no dll So I wonder where I can find the matching dll and which exe above is the right one. There is an other strange thing: In the aktuell 'cont-win.zip' is a 'texmfstart.exe' dated 2007-08-07 with about 700 KB. But the 'texmfstart.exe' in my bin dir, which is installed 7 or 8 months ago ist dated 2007-08-08 and much bigger (~900KB). The next thing I wanted to do ist to update LuaTeX. Ohjeohje?! Wolfgang Musensturm-Verlag -- Postfach 1249 -- 36126 Gersfeld >>> http://www.musensturm.de

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Footnote in section: Compilation stops on TUO file
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

I don't understand this error: (/usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-tst.tex) interaction : active(./prd_05.tuo) (./prd_05.tuo! Improper alphabetic constant.<to be read again> \footnote <argument> \ifnum `\footnote =255 32 \else `\footnote \fi \utfdiv #1->\the \numexpr \ifcase \numexpr #1 \relax 0\else (#1- \utf@g )/\utf... \PDFunicodechar ...bers \@EA {\number \utfdiv {#1} }\@EA \lchexnumbers \@EA {... \nodoPDFuni ...ar {\ifnum `#1=255 32\else `#1 \fi } \doPDFuni \bookmarktext ...-?und?Erziehungsauftrag \footnote {H.?P.,? Humanist?R......l.176 ...ion for Europe}{2--0-7-0-0-0-0-0--49} {50} %? eNo pages of output. It seems to be caused by this line, i.e. by the footnote: \section{Bildungs- und Erziehungsauftrag\footnote{H. P., Humanist Road to European Citizenship, Zitate aus Verfassungen, 15.\,12.\,2007}} And in the TUO file there's: \mainreference{}{fnt:t:5}{2--0-6-5-0-0-0-0--45}{46}{}%\pospxywhd{text: 47}{47}{42.67912pt}{62.59607pt}{327.20668pt}{489.38742pt}{0.0pt}% \listentry{subsection}{76}{}{Baden-Württemberg}{2--0-6-6-16-0-0-0--46} {47}%\listentry{subsection}{77}{}{Bayern}{2--0-6-6-17-0-0-0--46}{47}% \listentry{subsection}{78}{}{Brandenburg}{2--0-6-6-18-0-0-0--46}{47}% \listentry{subsection}{79}{}{Berlin}{2--0-6-6-19-0-0-0--46}{47}% \listentry{subsection}{80}{}{Bremen}{2--0-6-6-20-0-0-0--46}{47}% \listentry{section}{81}{}{Bildungs- und Erziehungsauftrag\footnote {H. P., Humanist Road to European Citizenship, Zitate aus Verfassungen, 15.\,12.\,2007}}{2--0-6-7-0-0-0-0--46}{47}% \mainreference{}{fnt:f:6}{2--0-6-7-0-0-0-0--46}{47}{}%\listentry {subsection}{115}{}{Hessen}{2--0-6-7-34-0-0-0--46}{47}%\listentry {subsection}{116}{}{Mecklenburg-Vorpommern}{2--0-6-7-35-0-0-0--46} {47}%\listentry{subsection}{117}{}{Niedersachsen} {2--0-6-7-36-0-0-0--46}{47}% What's wrong? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Streams in two columns
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

I'm trying to typeset English and German texts in two columns. With the following example every bilingual section goes on a new page. How can I avoid that? (Using only "columns" instead of "columnsets" I get single-section pages with alternating languages.) %% setup \definecolumnset[twocol][n=2] \setuphead[chapter][page=no, number=no, align=right] \usemodule[streams] % example from the streams module % only enhanced by columnset \def\StartCouple{\page\startcolumnset[twocol]\SwitchToNormal} \def\StopCouple {\SwitchToNormal \SynchronizeLeftAndRight \FlushLeftAndRight\stopcolumnset} \def\Original {\SwitchToNormal\SynchronizeLeftAndRight\SwitchToLeft} \def\Translation{\SwitchToRight} %% text snippet \StartCouple \Original\de \chapter{Ein säkulares Europa -- der Weg zur europäischen Staatsbürgerlichkeit} \Translation\en \chapter{A Secular Europe -- the Road to European Citizenship} \Original\de Zum 50. Jahrestag der Unterzeichnung der Römischen Verträge der Europäischen Union hat die European Humanist Federation am 25. März 2007 die Brüsseler Erklärung veröffentlicht. Hierin wird nochmals bekräftigt, dass Europa auf einer Vielzahl von Kulturen und Traditionen beruht, und seine Bürger der Geschichtsklitterung vom christlichen Abendland entgegenwirken müssen. \Translation\en At the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Rome treaties which established the European Union the European Humanist Federation published the Brussels declaration. It affirms once more Europe’s foundation to consist of many cultures and traditions and reminds its citizens to work against the biased historical account of the Christian occident. \StopCouple Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Overlay caption placement
by Dave 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Hi all, I have a few pdf figures that I'm including in a large report that are essentially full page (portrait) diagrams. However, they each have blank space in the lower right corner and I was thinking that it would be nice to put the caption in this spot. Is there a way to overlay a caption on top of a floating figure? Ideally, I'd like to be able to provide an x,y offset location for these captions in cm. Is there something I'm missing in setupcaption? Cheers, Dave

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unknown reference fnt:f:50
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Hi! I have compiled my file but it stopped on page 14 with the log file (bottom of the message) saying "unknown reference" I remarked that hyphenation patterns for portuguese do this hypenation li-gar-am instead of li-ga-ram. How can I correct that? I remarked that hyphenation for pronominal verbs in portuguese is also incorrect (though wordprocessors do that as well) because when, say, this verb "amo-te" is broken across two lines it should be hyphenated this way amo- -te A fix will be very welcomed. armando i.t., there should be two hyphens sbreaks this ver) adsm@adsm:~/Documents> texexec --xtx augusto_eduardo_nunes31mart.tex TeXExec | processing document 'augusto_eduardo_nunes31mart.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file augusto_eduardo_nunes31mart.top TeXExec | using randomseed 1411 TeXExec | tex engine: xetex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) (WARNING: translate-file "natural.tcx" ignored) entering extended mode (./augusto_eduardo_nunes31mart.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.12 15:56 MKII fmt: 2007.9.22 int: english/english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded 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Various ConTeXt Questions
by Edd Barrett 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Hi there, I am taking a look at conTeXt as a means of typesetting documents with more advanced page layouts which otherwise would be produced with desktop publishing suites. I am very new to conTeXt, so I know very little about it. The only documentation I have been able to find on the internet is: ConTeXt Garden ConTeXt an excursion ConTeXt : The manual I have been sifting through these for a while, and whilst the documentation is good, I still have questions. I must apologise if I missed the answers in the docs or if the questions are just plain dumb. 1) Is there a way to make ConTeXt stricter? It seem that ConTeXt will not complain if you misspell the names of colours, layers, overlays etc. I would rather it did. 2) Is there a way to overlay many layers/overlays at one place. It seems using background= can only take 1 layer/overlay. Even better if I could offset the layer/overlay from an origin. 3) I have had difficulty pushing the whole layout including the margin to the right about 2cm. I have tried using setuplayout to alter leftedge, leftedgedistance and backspace. Is that not the way to do it? 3a) Similarly I would like to make the textheight longer so that the footer is about 1cm from the bottom of the page. I have had no luck in setting textheight using setuplayout. 4) Is there a module to parse CVS tags, like the RCS package for laTeX? 5) Can I use OpenType and TrueType fonts in ConTeXt? Ideally via fontspec. 6) Is there a book on ConTeXt for beginners aside from what I have already listed above? 7) Can I specify RGB colours in th 0 <= x <= 255 format? So far I have had to write a script to help me convert them. 8) Is anyone proficient with ConTeXt going to the Cork TeX User Group meeting? Thanks. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett

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How to make an epigragh?
by cidadaum＠sapo.pt 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Hello! I want to do an epigraph (a small quotation with an identationation of, say, 6 or more cm) the beginning of a chapter: How I can I do it? (sorry but didn't understand it from the manuals. Thanks Armando

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how to NOT reset subsection ONLY ??
by Steffen Wolfrum 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Hi, please have a look a this: \setupsection[section-2][conversion=numbers] \setupsection[section-3][conversion=numbers,previousnumber=no] \setupsection[section-4][conversion=numbers,previousnumber=no] \setupsection[section-5][conversion=numbers,previousnumber=no] \setuphead[section][resetnumber=no] \starttext \chapter{aa} \section{bbb} \subsection{ccc} \section{bbb} \subsection{ccc} \subsubsection{sss} \chapter{aa} \section{bbb} \subsection{(<-should be 3) ccc} \section{bbb} \subsection{(<-should be 4) ccc} \subsubsection{ddd} \stoptext trying to avoid resetting subsection by \setuphead[section] [resetnumber=no] fails: chapter resets everything! but chapter should only reset section and not subsection too!! any idea how to solve this problem (without fiddling with every appearance of subsection individually)?? Thank you, Steffen

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placecontent and arranging
by Andrea Valle 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

(Sorry, always me) I have such a structure \startproduct prd_tSCIRMA \project project_scMaterials \component licence \component prima {\switchtobodyfont[20pt] Sommario}\blank \placecontent \component c_00_introduzione \component c_01_scGrado0 \component c_03_oggetti % etc \stopproduct Everything works perfectly if I arrange one page for sheet, e.g. \setuppapersize[A5][A5] or \setuppapersize[A5][A4, landscape] If have more pages for sheet, \setuppapersize[A5][A4, landscape] \setuparranging[2*2] there's no table of content in the pdf. ? Many thanks Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong) -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " Think of it as seasoning . noise [salt] is boring . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty " (Ken Perlin on noise)

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staticMPfigure
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 03 Apr '08

03 Apr '08

Hallo, the following example is a cooked down version of something I found on the net. Compiling this %------------------------------------------------ \setupcolors[state=start] \forceMPTEXcheck{LABEL} \startMPinclusions vardef LABEL@\#(expr s, p)= label@\#(textext("% \framed[width=1.5cm]{" & s & "}"),p) enddef ; \stopMPinclusions \startstaticMPfigure{tst} LABEL.llft("Test", (1,1) ) ; \stopstaticMPfigure \starttext \midaligned{\usestaticMPfigure[tst]} \stoptext %------------------------------------------------ I got the following error: %------------------------------------------------ ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \@MPG@@@. <to be read again> ( <argument> vardef LABEL@##( expr s, p)= label@##(textext("\framed [width=1.5c... \dodostartuseMPgraphic ...useMPgraphic {#1}{#2}{#3 }}\elabelgroup \dodostartMPpage ...aphic {@@}#1\stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic {@@}\dostopf... l.14 endfig; \stopMPpage %------------------------------------------------ What is wrong here? Wolfgang

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properties file for gedit
by Jan-Erik Hägglöf 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI! Has anyone a clue how to make gedit texteditor contextable? Best Regards Janneman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH847Z/zRis+sQPvARApInAKCD/ilDNg0QnsdUMnKEGm4PtOmRkQCbBuNb iGN6XFB7VG3hlKiKphK4fGU= =xxt1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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ConTeXt meeting moved to October/November
by Mojca Miklavec 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hello, I'm sorry to inform you that due to some other unavoidable obligations at the faculty, I have been forced to move the ConTeXt meeting to 29th October - 3rd November, unless I will be able to find someone else to take over the organisation. More information to come in the following days. I'm really sorry for the incovenience, Mojca

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Converting counters?
by Zhichu Chen 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hi, I'm trying to convert the counter to Chinese character one on one, like 0->a, 1->b, etc., so 10 will be "ba" (I use a, b, c, . . . to denote the Chinese glyphs which makes more sense for you). I used some codes like: ====================================================== \def\ChineseZero {o} \def\ChineseOne {a} \def\ChineseTwo {b} \def\ChineseThree{c} \def\ChineseFour {d} \def\ChineseFive {e} \def\ChineseSix {f} \def\ChineseSeven{g} \def\ChineseEight{h} \def\ChineseNine {i} \unexpanded\def\zhnumber {\bgroup \catcode`\0=\active \uccode`\~=`\0 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseZero}% \catcode`\1=\active \uccode`\~=`\1 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseOne}% \catcode`\2=\active \uccode`\~=`\2 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseTwo}% \catcode`\3=\active \uccode`\~=`\3 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseThree}% \catcode`\4=\active \uccode`\~=`\4 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseFour}% \catcode`\5=\active \uccode`\~=`\5 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseFive}% \catcode`\6=\active \uccode`\~=`\6 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseSix}% \catcode`\7=\active \uccode`\~=`\7 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseSeven}% \catcode`\8=\active \uccode`\~=`\8 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseEight}% \catcode`\9=\active \uccode`\~=`\9 \uppercase{\let~\ChineseNine}% \loggingall \dozhnumber } \def\stripunwantedspaces{} \def\dozhnumber#1% {\expandafter\scantokens\expandafter {\detokenize{#1\stripunwantedspaces}}\egroup} ====================================================== It works fine with \zhnumber{15}, it gives "ae" which is exactly what I want. But it won't work in the following situation: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ \newcount\tcpageno \advance\tcpageno15 \zhnumber{\number\tcpageno} ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I know it's not weird, I just don't know how to expand the counter to number. Thank you in advance. -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Different os, different output (and other)
by Diego Depaoli 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

Hi all, compiling these instructions \defineenumeration[parte][location=left,text=Titolo,headstyle=bold,stopper=.,width=broad,number=yes,conversion=Romannumerals] \defineenumeration[articolo][location=left,text=Articolo,stopper=.,width=broad,number=yes] \defineenumeration[subarticolo][after={\blank[small]},before={\blank[small]},text=,location=inleft,width=broad] \defineenumeration[altec][location=left,text=Allegato,headstyle=bold,stopper=.t,width=broad,conversion=Characters] \defineenumeration[subaltec][after={\blank[small]},before={\blank[small]},text=,location=inleft,width=broad] only under ubuntu the result is as expected: I,1,1,A,1 while under opensuse and freebsd i get 1,1,1,1,1 Why this? Another little question If in defineenumeration[anenumeration] I specify text={\bfc Title} and \startanenumeration{\bfc The History}\stopanenumeration Title and The History are not properly aligned (The History is in higher position). What's wrong? Thanks in advance -- Diego Depaoli (very newbie)

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Pagenumbering in header-margin with outer-align
by Peter Schorsch 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hi, I am trying to put the pagenumber in the margin of the header. But I also want it outer-aligned - not inner-aligned, which seems to be the standart alignment of margin. But the inner-align of the body-margin should still be inner-aligned. So I tried following: \setuppagenumbering[conversion=Romannumerals,alternative=doublesided, location={header,margin},style={\setupalign[outer]}] but Context dont like this.. it stops converting. Does anyone know a working solution for this problem? Thanks, P.

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New Member Introductory Rant
by Corin Royal Drummond 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hello ConTeXt Users, I have become obsessed with ConTeXt since I found out about it while browsing through the TeX related software on my Ubuntu Linux box. I've been teaching myself web development in XHTML/CSS over the last couple years, and developed a passion for structured documents that separate presentation as much as possible. I'm starting to setup Drupal CMS installations for some friends in preparation for doing web publishing work for clients. It's been fun to learn, but so frustrating and difficult for my poor mind. I've long been curious about TeX but it seemed too ossified, fragmented, inflexible, and hard to learn. Later I discovered LyX and understood implicitly the style based markup idea, and it's power. I've always hated things like word, open office, and DTP programs. I'm fine doing the GUI for PhotoShop, but somehow I feel I should be able to just type text, and have it come out all pretty. ConTeXt seems to share that philosophy, so I'm giddy about it. I suppose I should learn InDesign too, but I don't really want to. I use a text editor for my web coding rather than dragging boxes around in DreamWeaver. I like that I can just cut & paste other people's code and learn what they did. GUI programs are harder to learn in that way since someone has to write a whole step-by-step tutorial rather than just show you their commented code. I've been working my way through the documentation, ConTeXt Garden, and whatever I can find on Google searches. I've worked my way up to making a letter head with my address, a graphic logo, and couple of font switches, and some hanging punctuation. I made another version for my journal with two columns under each section heading. I'm using Scite as my editor, but I haven't set it up anyway special. Kile didn't seem to like ConTeXt much, and it's command completion facility kept spitting out LaTeX code as I typed. I like Scite as it starts fast, has nice colors, and is easy to get around. TexFont doesn't work on Ubuntu. It craps out saying it can't find it's TeX root. Even when I set the FontRoot with the command line switch, it fails to find it's map files. I filed a bug with Ubuntu about it as it seems like some files like the font maps got put in /var/lib. So I'm completely frustrated by the font situation. Don't understand why I can't just point TexFont at my directory of OTF, TTF, and PFB fonts and have it suck up every last glyph and variant like Scribus, InkScape, and InDesign do. It should configure a reasonable set of typescripts, and tell me what's available. All the other TeX fonts should just work out of the box. Why do I have to wrestle so vainly just to get the damn fonts to be available. Also, I can't for the life of me figure out how to change typefaces in headers and footers. I can change to italics, or sizes with style=\it\x but have no clue how to switch a header to say the Zaph Chancery caligraphic. I can switch the body font to it, so I'm part way there. I'm pretty pissed off about the state of the documentation for ConTeXt. Out of date docs, that were never finished, and full of holes. Small set of MyWay articles, old dead links on the wiki, no roadmap, no bug database. It's 2008, there's things like SourceForge, and LaunchPad for these sort of things. I don't understand why Pragma can't sell support for ConTeXt like other open source projects. That way Hans can afford a staff to handle people's questions, he can focus on building what he likes (and we all love), new users can be brought in, and a virtuous cycle of new contributors, new features, and new users. TexShow is missing tons of commands I've read about in the manual, and doesn't bother to explain what any command or option does. Nor do I understand how options are chained or structured into more than simple switches. Where are the screencasts of gurus showing off how to do cool things? Where are the tutorials? Where are the contributed templates, so I can read other people's code to learn from? You'd think that people who make structured document typesetting systems would spend some more time on their documentation. I'd be glad to help, but first I'd need to learn the system. Since the docs are so incomplete, I'm not sure how I'd do that. Catch 22. I've gotten as far as letter writing, and I'm pretty happy with that. My goal is to typeset my housemate's pirate novel that she's writing. I'm going to stick it out and see how far I can get. I hope I don't have to go running back to LyX and the memoir class. I'm home sick with Hepatitis and Diabetes so I've got some quality time with my six year old Ubuntu laptop. If there are any Bay Area ConTeXt users around, I'd love to meet you. And if any one wants help setting up a better community website, I could help with that, knowing Drupal. Hope to speak with some of you soon. Regards, Corin Royal Drummond San Francisco, California corin(a)studiochango.com

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Re: [NTG-context] Sections, cross-references and separators
by Duncan Hothersall 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Taco wrote: > In this case it is easier to make the actual chapter number include > the 'A'. That way, you won't have to worry about "separator" at all > (which is good, because its use is confusing). > > Try this: > > @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ > -\setupheads[separator=] %<-- this can't be right > \setupreferencing[state=start,chapternumber=yes,global=yes] > -\setupsection[section-1][conversion=Characters] > -\setupsection[section-2][previousnumber=yes] > +\def\Mychapter#1{\convertnumber{Characters}{\getvalue{@@sesection-1}}#1} > +\defineconversion[MyChapter][\Mychapter] > +\setupsection[section-2][conversion=MyChapter] > Ah, thanks so much Taco, never thought of that approach - works like a charm. (I also thought that macros with @ in their names could only be used in protected mode, so that's two things I have learned for the price of one.) Do you think this is general interest enough to warrant wikifying? Thanks very much. Duncan

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Software manual template request
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Hello, Does anyone has a template for software manual? I have vague notion about how it should look like, but, well, I'll know when I see it. ;o) Most modern manuals have common design elements; I wish I had an environment which captures the spirit. Needless to say, untouched LuaTex envinroment gives too much academic look. Can anyone kindly suggest something? Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Sections, cross-references and separators
by Duncan Hothersall 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

Dear all, I am confused. Here is a minimal version of my problem: --- \setupheads[separator=] %<-- this can't be right \setupreferencing[state=start,chapternumber=yes,global=yes] \setupsection[section-1][conversion=Characters] \setupsection[section-2][previousnumber=yes] \setuphead[part][placehead=yes,resetnumber=yes,page=no] \setuphead[chapter][page=no] \setuphead[section][number=no] \setuppagenumbering[partnumber=no] \starttext \placelist[part,chapter,section][alternative=b,partnumber=no] \part[ptest]{Ptest} \chapter[ctest]{Ctest} \section[stest]{Stest} See \in{Chapter}[ctest] (should say A1) and \in{Figure}[ftest] (should say A1.1). \placefigure[here][ftest]{Ftest (should be called A1.1)}{} \stoptext --- What I am aiming for is a style where: Parts are labelled A, B, C [done], Chapters are labelled A1, A2, A3 [done, but...], Cross-references to Chapters call them A1, A2, A3 [not done: I'm getting A.1] Figures are labelled A1.1, A1.2 [not done; I'm getting A.11 (eek!)] Cross-references to Figures call them A1.1, A1.2 [not done: I'm getting A.11] It seems to me that the line \setupheads[separator=] can't possibly be right and is almost certainly causing the missing dot in the Figure number, but it was the only way I could find to remove the dot between the A and the 1 in the chapter label. I have toiled a little with the core-ref code and cannot fathom how any of the variety of uses of the word "separator" make sense, or indeed if they really have anything to do with it... :-) I'm testing on the garden, using pdfTeX. I'd be *really* grateful for some help with this one. Thanks, Duncan

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t-bib: URL and '%'; spacing between number
by Michael Green 01 Apr '08

01 Apr '08

I hit a problem in the same area. Taco's solution then worked for me, though I can't tell if it's the same as your problem. Here's the address of his answer to my question. http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/ 20070705.071416.5171d178.en.html

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Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant
by Corin Royal Drummond 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi Corin, Welcome. I will offer some brief comments, and maybe others will elaborate on things I skip, pass over, or inadequately discuss: Mojca is probably the main point person. Welcome again to ConTeXt and Best wishes Idris Dear Professor Idriss, and the Lovely ConTeXT Community, What a thoughtful and warm response to my late night introductory rant. You've most certainly gained a dedicated new user today. Your restraint and courtesy to my half-considered diatribe is most heartening. Amazingly, you managed to answer alot of questions I wasn't fully aware I was asking. Since I wrote to the list last night, I have continued learning ConTeXt at a frightening clip. Did my first drop caps, indentations, and messed around with setting width and height. I can't remember when my computer has brought me so much fun. I'm beginning to see that there is a fair amount of documentation, but it's sprayed all over and needs some TLC. I think what I'd like to contribute to ConTeXt is some more docs. I'm thinking of doing some web video screencasts (easy on Linux) showing off how to do specific things like Lettrines or multi-line headers, explaining the format of options and parameters, and generally helping people see and appreciate the ConTeXt way. I would seem that ConTeXt has a natural market in web developers who are used to writing structured documents for layout engines. Personally, I'd like to see a Drupal module that will ConTeXtify a person's website as a book or magazine for printing. How great would it be to have an automatically updating e-book for print and screen generated off your website's content based on your tags/taxonomy. Just add "FortheBook" tag to an article, and without one having to do any more, it will appear in the PDF available on the front page of your site. There is a LaTeX module for Drupal, but I haven't tried it. I think such a module would help to whet other web developer's appetite for ConTeXT. I think one of the joys of ConTeXt for me is that web development just sucks for typography. There are only a handful of fonts one can specify in any document unless you embed them in images (which God told me was a sin). By contrast, with ConTeXt, I feel like a kid in a candy store, with so many things I can do to my text. I nearly had a fit when I got hanging punctuation working. Thanks again for your kind counsel Idriss, I hope I can help you guys out by writing some new docs, and being an evangelist for ConTeXt. Never have I found a piece of software that so deserved wider recognition. I will definitely keep an eye out for Mojca and Luigi. Would be so excited to meet a local ConTeXt user. With deep gratitude, Corin Royal Drummond San Francisco

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\in strange behavior
by Andrea Valle 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Dear all, I'm having a strange behavior. I'm using \in to refer to figures, like in the following: %%%% La situazione è schematizzata in \in[structure]. \placefigure[][structure]{Struttura di SC.}{\externalfigure[img/ structure][width=.7\textwidth]} %%%% The code has always worked, but this morning the refs in the text are replaced by ?? (while img is correctly displayed, with correct numbering). Any hints? Thanks Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " Think of it as seasoning . noise [salt] is boring . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty " (Ken Perlin on noise)

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While wiki is down (1): footnotes question
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi all, I am pretty sure tha answer has to be on the wiki... I have this at the beginning of a paper in order to indicate my institution name, email, etc: \setupfootnotes [conversion=set 3] After that: \setupfootnotes [conversion=numbers] But the standard footnotes begin at "3" (there are two starred footnotes before) while I would like to see them beginnig at "1" of course. I searched the manual, honest! -- Jean

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wrong weekday with MKIV
by Peter Münster 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hello, According to MKIV, today is Wednesday: \starttext \doifmodeelse{mkiv}{MKIV}{MKII}: Sunday = \date[d=30,m=3,y=2008][weekday] ? \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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While wiki is down (2): itemize, head
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi all, When using \head within a itemize environment, with \setupitemize[headstyle=bold] in the preamble, I get a big bold point at the beginning of each line of itemization; how can I get rid of it? tia, -- Jean

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Offer of help with ConTeXt Wiki
by Corin Royal Drummond 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi Mojka and Everyone, Seems like the ConTeXT Wiki is down again. Judging from the list it would seem this was a regular problem. I'd really like to give back to the community by helping Context Garden grow into a one-stop shopping site for all ConTeXt seekers. Currently, things are a bit too haphazard for my tastes. I think it makes the learning curve harder than it really should be. I'm a Linux system admin, and web developer, so I could help with troubleshooting, upgrades, hosting (have my own shared server), categorizing content, soliciting articles, fleshing out the FAQ, moving some answers from the list archives to the Wiki, creating screencasts and tutorials, and stuff like that. Now would be a good time for me to work on this, as I've been ill and have lots of free time in bed. It would be wonderful to help ConTeXt's bid for world domination by crafting the best experience possible for new and experienced users to find what they need quickly. Please do contact me and let me know how I might be useful. With warmest regards, Corin Royal Drummond San Francisco

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Server Mirror
by Corin Royal Drummond 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Corin said: >> I'm a Linux system admin, and web developer, so I could help with > > troubleshooting, upgrades, hosting (have my own shared server), Arthur responded: > The problem is really hosting. For some reason, the machine, a > virtual server with approximately 20GB disk space, stops responding I'd certainly be happy to setup a US mirror with some help from you and Patrick. I'm not sure from your message whether the Context Garden itself is 20GB huge for some reason, or if the virtual server has 20GB of stuff from multiple customers clogging it up. I have Site5's Juggernaut plan, which gives me 1,500GB and 15TB of bandwidth a month. Hosting is cheap here. I think I paid a hundred dollars for a year. Can host unlimited websites & domains Since I can't get to the Wiki today, I don't know what software it's running. If you let me know I'll start looking into it's requirements. Cheers, Corin Royal Drummond

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further stubs
by Peter Münster 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hello, I suggest putting 3 further stubs into .../scripts/context/stubs/unix : 1.) luatools: #!/bin/sh texmfstart luatools.lua "$@" 2.) mtxrun: #!/bin/sh texmfstart mtxrun.lua "$@" 3.) context (same file as .../scripts/context/lua/context): #!/bin/sh mtxrun --script context $@ This has 2 advantages: - you can put .../scripts/context/stubs/unix in your PATH - you can type "texexec file" for MKII and "context file" for MKIV (same for MS-Win of course) What do you think? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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patch for m-chemic.tex
by Peter Münster 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hello, What about the integration of this patch from Wolfgang Schuster into the distribution: - Forwarded message from Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> - Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:57:37 +0100 From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] \chemical and MKIV On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Peter Münster <pmlists(a)free.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > The following test-file produces an error: > > % engine=luatex > \usemodule[chemic] > \starttext > \chemical{CO_2} > \stoptext This is tooo long. \usemodule[chemic] is enough to produce the error with mkiv. Replace the following lines in m-chemic \ifx\beginpicture\undefined \let\normalgrid\grid \let\normalaxis\axis \input pictex.tex \relax \let\pictexgrid\grid \let\pictexaxis\axis \let\grid\normalgrid \let\axis\normalaxis \fi with \ifx\beginpicture\undefined \let\beginpicture\relax \fi and the module works. Wolfgang ----- End forwarded message ----- -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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bug in modes
by Hans van der Meer 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

The following works mirabile dictu: \enablemode[b,c] \startallmodes[b,c] \type{\startallmodes[b,c]} done \stopallmodes \startnotallmodes[c] \type{\startallmodes[b,c]} not done \stopallmodes % <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< But the following gives an error: \enablemode[b,c] \startallmodes[b,c] \type{\startallmodes[b,c]} done \stopallmodes \startnotallmodes[c] \type{\startallmodes[b,c]} not done \stopnotallmodes % <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Runaway argument? \type {\startallmodes [b,c]} not done \stopnotallmodes \blank \par \stoptext ! File ended while scanning use of \dostopallmodes. <inserted text> \par <*> testmodes.tex \emergencyend I guess the pairing of \startnotallmodes with \stopnotallmodes is at fault. In core-var.tex 234-235 I see: \long\def\dostartnotallmodes[#1]% {\docheckforallmodes\dostopallmodes\donothing{#1}} should be: \long\def\dostartnotallmodes[#1]% {\docheckforallmodes\dostopnotallmodes\donothing{#1}} I checked this patch: ConTeXt ver: 2008.03.24 23:24 MKII fmt: 2008.3.29 int: english/english Hans van der Meer

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Wiki
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hi all, Is the contextgarden down? I only get a blank page today. My firefox has been upgraded yesterday but works as usual for other sites. -- Jean

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setuparranging issue
by Andrea Valle 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

Hi to all, I have an A5 paper size to be printed on an A4. Substantially, I'd like to have 2 pages on a paper sheet. Now, I can use \setuparranging[2*2]. Works fine if I want to print, cut and bind. 4 1 2 3 But I'd like also to have another option, simply a sequence of pages (for screen reading, printing and binding without cutting) This: 1 2 3 4 Sorry, I guess it's really easy, but cannot figure out... Thanks Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " Think of it as seasoning . noise [salt] is boring . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty " (Ken Perlin on noise)

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Minor error in code, core-tab.tex
by David 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

Hi I was reading core-tab.tex on http://source.contextgarden.net/core-tab.tex (trying to learn a little...) Sorry I have no line numbers, but about two-thirds of the way down that file, by chance I think I found an error: \bgroup \catcode`\|=\@@other \gdef\@@otherbar {|} \catcode`\"=\@@other \gdef\@@otherquite {"} \catcode`\|=\@@active \gdef\@@useotherbar {\let|\@@otherbar} \catcode`\"=\@@active \gdef\@@useotherquote{\let"\@@otherquote} \egroup The second \catcode line contains \gdef\@@otherquite, which I'm almost positive should be \gdef\@@otherquote . I hope this helps. David

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chapter heads not in bold
by Andrea Valle 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Hi to all, Sorry if it's stupid. In a large environment file I have this: \definetypeface[tSCIRMA][rm][Xserif][Palatino] \definetypeface[tSCIRMA][tt][Xmono][LM Typewriter Regular] \definetypeface[tSCIRMA][ss][Xsans][Lucida Grande] \setupbodyfont[tSCIRMA, 11pt] \setuphead[chapter] [before={\startframedtext[width=local, foregroundcolor=cirmaBlue, background=color, backgroundcolor=bgGrey, framecolor=cirmaOrange,offset=.25cm, rulethickness=0.05cm ]},after={\stopframedtext\blank[.25\textheight]\rm}, style=\ss\tfd ] Chapter heads results in bold, but I don't want it. What should I set? Many thanks -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> http://www.myspace.com/andreavalle --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- " Think of it as seasoning . noise [salt] is boring . F(blah) [food without salt] can be boring . F(noise, blah) can be really tasty " (Ken Perlin on noise)

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Applelaserwriter 360 - Any suggestion for good replacement?
by Giulio Bertellini 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

Dear Context List users: in the old days the AppleLaserwriter 360 was an exceptional printer with very good Postscript support for the Basic postscript fonts. I am now at a loss in deciding which Laser printer to purchase in a reasonable price range with postscript support, a reasonable amount of ram and network support. I would welcome hints from List users as to their recommendations and suggestions, also from the TeX and Context point of view. Color support is not the most important factor, while graphics is. Giulio Bertellini

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description fails on \if
by Hans van der Meer 27 Mar '08

27 Mar '08

There is the following problem on code that did work around july 2007, but no longer under the current context version (2008-03-11). Define a description, I did: \definedescription[answerblock][% \c!margin=\v!no,\c!location=\v!left,% \c!headstyle=\@@exmintrostyle,\c!style=\@@exmstyle,% \c!before=,\c!inbetween=,\c!after=,% \c!hang=\@@exmhang,\c!width=\questionblockwidth,% \c!text=\placeanswerstart] Typeset with this description inside the following macro: \def\shortanswer#1\par{% \par % be sure to end paragraph here \answerblock{}% % {} needed here in description call \ifanswers #1\else\dotfill\strut\fi % <<<<<< crashing on this if \par % final \par of description ... \par } The above code crashes with: ! Incomplete \ifx; all text was ignored after ... After some detective work in which Wolfgang Schuster had a large share and has found the most elegant workaround, the addition of a \relax just after the description call prevents the error: \def\shortanswer#1\par{% \par % be sure to end paragraph here \answerblock{}% % {} needed here in description call \relax % <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< \relax prevents crash on if \ifanswers #1\else\dotfill\strut\fi \par % final \par of description ... \par } The way \relax stops the error reminds me of the \relax that one places after a number in order to separate that from the code following. I did compare core-des.tex, both the last version and the archived from 2007-04-17. But I must admit, I did not succeed finding a clue among the differences about what could have happened. The code is a bit too intricate to just jump in and pinpoint the culprit -- at least for me. Allthough Wolfgang's workaround saves the day, I feel this problem deserves solving inside ConTeXt, not outside it. Someday somewhere another person will stumble on the same problem -- a situation that can and should be avoided, in my view. Therefore I explain the problem here as fully as possible hoping someone knowledgeable with descriptions <<we might need to fall back to Taco or Hans>> will find the best remedy. Hans van der Meer

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MKIV/LuaTeX roadmap
by Santy, Michael 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

I've been following the MKIV developments on the list, but don't have a good feeling for the overall stability/robustness/completeness of the new code. Can someone who has the high-level insight (Hans, Taco?) please add a page to the wiki that gives the community a general roadmap for new features and an eventual MKIV/LuaTeX stable release? Thanks, Mike

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textbar in mkiv
by Thomas A. Schmitz 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hi Hans, I just saw that textbar is not defined in char-def.lua (0x007C is defined as "bar," a math character). Is it possible to add this character, or can every unicode character be present only once? Would be nice to have it as a text character. Best Thomas

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(no subject)
by Horacio Suarez 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hello all, I have a stupid cuestion: I´m making a long 12 pages table. I´m using \setupfootertexts for the pagenumber. I don´t want page numbers in the header at all. header=hight or header=empty in the \title setup is not enough, I still have a page number centered in the header. How can I supress the page number or the header totally in the whole document? Thankyou in advance. -------------------- Horacio Suarez Editorial Antropofagia www.eantropofagia.com.ar _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE

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setupexternalfigures broken ?
by luigi scarso 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

setupexternalfigures seems broken on ConTeXt ver: 2008.03.11 23:55 MKIV fmt: 2008.3.18 int: english/english This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.25.0-2008031821 I'm only able to include images from current dir. -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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UTF-8 characters and gnuplot module
by Morgan Brassel 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hi everyone, I'm currently learning how to use the gnuplot module (thank you Mojca, and all the others, for this great tool!). I stick for now with the metapost terminal, as I'm not sure I'd be able to recompile gnuplot in order to add the context terminal. It seems that accents are not supported in gnuplot scripts. In the example below, both the methods to typeset accents fail. Is there a solution to this? Maybe there is something wrong with my settings... Best regards, Morgan \usemodule[gnuplot] \setupGNUPLOT[terminal=mp] \startGNUPLOTscript[sin] set xlabel "héllo h\'ello" plot sin(x) \stopGNUPLOTscript \starttext \useGNUPLOTgraphic[sin] \stoptext

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margins
by Peter I. Hansen 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hi I'm typesetting a document to be printed in book format. For this purpose I need the left margin of an odd numbered page to be larger than the right margin, and the right margin of an even numbered page to be larger than the left margin. However, the standard behaviour seems to be the opposite. Can any of you give me an example of how to reverse this? Thanks, Peter

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MKIV Chinese and English typesetting
by Yanrui Li 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Dear Hans and other friends: I am a Chinese user of ConTeXt. Recently, I tried ConTeXt MkIV and test its Chinese typesetting. I am very glad to see MkIV can access my linux OS TTF&OTF fonts and give a good face of my article about lines breaking. But on the bilingual typesetting, such as Chinese sentences and English words appearance in a article at the same time , I found there are no good methods to solve the problem of setting fonts for them respectively. Now I had to handle it in this way: %%%% \definefontfeature[chinese] [mode=node,script=hang,lang=zhs] \definefontsynonym[songti] [name:simsun] [features=chinese] \definefontsynonym[Serif][songti] \definetypeface[song][rm][serif][songti] \setupbodyfont[song,12pt,rm] \font\enfont=name:msyh \def\en#1{% \,\bgroup\enfont #1\egroup\,% } \starttext 我用英文进行\en{Hello World}测试。 \stoptext %%%%%%%% I am eager to see full support for chinese and other Asian languages in ConTeXt MkIV. I am grateful to the developers. Thank you for your time and effort for continuous contributions!

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old cont-tmf.zip
by Hans van der Meer 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

I am looking for a few cont-tmf.zip versions dating before july 7, 2007. I tried to find the archive on the contextgarden and the pragma site but was unable to spot their location. Can someone give me the address? Thanks in advance. Hans van der Meer

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typesetting documentation
by Hans van der Meer 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

I kept this answer to my question in 2002 on typesetting the documentation: > these files are now in theregular distribution, so > > texexec --modu --pdf somedoc.tex > > should work > > Hans [Hagen] Trying it today (through texmfstart or directly texexec) I get: No pages of output. Searching for "typeset documentation" in the ConTeXtWiki gives no clues. The texexec documentation there lists --module as the option to use: so I am baffled. How to typeset ConTeXt documentation today? Hans van der Meer

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Fwd: Chaos TV #122 «Typesetting»
by Henning Hraban Ramm 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

If you're interested in historical typesetting, here's a documentary about line-o-type typesetters from the 1960s. (Italian production in English, see last link) Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > Von: Martin Wilhelm Leidig > Datum: 24. März 2008 17:58:13 GMT+01:00 > An: TEX-D-L(a)LISTSERV.DFN.DE > Betreff: FYI: Chaosradio Express #80 «Geschichte der Typ ographie», > Chaos TV #122 «Typesetting» > > Chaosradio Express beschäftigt sich in der Ausgabe CRE080 mit der > Geschichte der Typographie, Untertitel «Die technische Entwicklung > des Buchdrucks von Gutenberg bis heute» -> <http:// > chaosradio.ccc.de/cre080.html> bzw. <http://chaosradio.ccc.de/ > archive/chaosradio_express_080.mp3> (121,4 MByte). > > Dazu passend gibt’s im Chaos TV einen Lehrfilm aus dem Jahr 1960 > über den Aufbau einer Linotype-Bleisatzmaschine -> <http:// > chaosradio.ccc.de/ctv122.html> bzw. <http://chaosradio.ccc.de/ > media/video/typesetting.mp4> (MPEG-4 H.264 Video 320x240, 169,5 > MByte). Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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proper filereading
by Hans van der Meer 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

What is the proper way in ConTeXt to include a file? Just "\input filename" ignores the \enableregime[] setting and thus mistreats accented characters. \usemodule[] shows the same behaviour. Hans van der Meer

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Command \NN in table?
by Morgan Brassel 24 Mar '08

24 Mar '08

Hi, I'm currently trying to typeset tables of digits. I read in This Way #3 that the tabulate environment has digits support with \NN. Would it be possible to had the same feature in the table environment? By the way, I'd like to congratulate Hans for the \digits command: it really saved me so much time! It don't need to retype numbers from my numerical outputs anymore. And I can switch very easily from english to french number format. It's great! Best wishes, Morgan

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Clash in itemize options?
by Morgan Brassel 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

Hi everyone, I am wondering about the effects of the 'margin=yes' option in itemize environments. It seems to be incompatible with the 'packed' option. In the following example, the third itemize doesn't get packed, even if the 'packed' option is present. Is it a feature? In this case, how can I modify the margin without introducing vertical spaces? Best regards, Morgan \starttext One \startitemize[packed] \item text \item text \stopitemize Two \startitemize[margin=yes] \item text \item text \stopitemize Three \startitemize[margin=yes, packed] \item text \item text \stopitemize \stoptext

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getbuffer now fails
by Hans van der Meer 23 Mar '08

23 Mar '08

I had this code working (it was in an article I submitted for NTG-MAPS a while ago, july 2007). Now this same code gives an error on getbuffer. What happened to getbuffer? Is it possible a \fi has disappeared in the getbuffer code between now and last july? Is there a quick patch because now I get stuck on work that has to be finished. The error message from TeX: ! Incomplete \ifx; all text was ignored after line 6. <inserted text> \fi <to be read again> \relax \dodoreadfile ...d \relax \fi \dodoreadfileindeed \relax \the \everyafterrea... \mkdobuffer #1->\beginrestorecatcodes #1 \endrestorecatcodes \dodobuffer ...dcsname \else #2\fi }\mkdobuffer #1 \popmacro \currentbuffer \dodogetbuffer ...}\dobuffer {16}{#2}\mkgetbuffer \getvalue {\??bu #1\c!after } ... l.111 \question[number=1][buffer]{\getbuffer} The relevant part of the code, not working is the call to \@exmbuffer: ... \doifelse{#2}{\v!buffer}% {\def\filename{buffer}\def\thefile{#3}\let\@@exminput\@exmbuffer}% {.....}% \@@exminput\thefile \endgroup} % reading the file better outside the doif \def\@exminput#1{\input#1\relax} \def\@exmbuffer#1{#1} Help is appreciated. Hans van der Meer

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texexec s-pre-04.tex
by Pau Amaro-Seoane 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

Hi, I am a total newbie to ConTeXt; I have been "playing" with it since yesterday. I am trying to modify a bit s-pre-04.tex but I have realised that I cannot even compile it! http://source.contextgarden.net/s-pre-04.tex texexec s-pre-04.tex will yield -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (.....) (/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)) color : mpcmyk color space is supported color : mpspot color space is supported color : system rgb is global activated interaction : active system : mark Topic defined [chapter] system : mark Topicnumber defined [chapternumber] system : mark Nopic defined [title] system : mark Nopicnumber defined [titlenumber] system : mark Subject defined [section] system : mark Subjectnumber defined [sectionnumber] ) *^Cx ! Interruption. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why is that? Thanks, Pau

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ConTeXt Float Positioning (Figures and Tables) After Paragraph
by Dietrich Rordorf / MDPI 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

Dear ConTeXt Collegaues, Float Positioning (Figures and Tables): Explained at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Floating_Objects place[here] will preferably place the float "here" (usually the ConTeXt code for the figure/table is placed at the end of a paragraph which refers to this figure/table). However, if it does not fit onto the page, it will be moved to the top of the next page. This is not always wonderful, as it splits paragraphs into two parts (the paragraph starts on page n-1, then the float is placed on top of page n, and the same paragraph continues on page n, after the float). This is very annoying to read, as you expect the paragraph text to continue when you turn, or in the digital, pdf-world, move to the next page. Is there any possibility to automatically place floats after/before a paragraph without splitting a paragraph into two parts? Instead of moving the float to the top of page n, ConTeXt should first try to place it on the top of the paragraph which refers to it, if the float still does not fit, ConTeXt should try to place it after the next paragraph, but not in the middle of a paragraph. We have been using ConTeXt on an experimental workflow to produce scientific journal articles. A sample PDF produced with ConTeXt can be found at the http://www.mdpi.org/marinedrugs/papers/md6010025.pdf link. Please note the figure/table placement. These floats have been placed manually. Looking forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Dietrich -- Mr. Dietrich Rordorf MDPI Center Matthaeusstrasse 11 CH-4057 Basel Switzerland E-mail: rordorf(a)mdpi.org Skype: d.rordorf Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office) Tel. +41 76 561 41 83 (mobile) Fax +41 61 302 89 18

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On compiling latest luatex
by luigi scarso 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

ctangle is needed to compile latest luatex . It's not a problem, but justtex.zip and linuxtex.zip from pragma don't have ctangle (maybe in minimals ?) , so they are a bit incomplete. -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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Compiling error \subpagenumber
by Willi Egger 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Hi, I got a series of files, which are organized in a project-structure. With the following versions I get the desired output: ConTeXt ver: 2007.12.18 19:11 MKII fmt: 2008.3.19 int: english/english ConTeXt ver: 2008.01.11 12:09 MKIV fmt: 2008.1.11 int: english/english Since the update lately the project does not compile anymore: ConTeXt ver: 2008.03.11 23:55 MKII fmt: 2008.3.15 int: english/ english Undefined controlsequence <write> ...ubpage }{\newnofsubpages }{\oldsubpage} <inserted text> }\endwrite \actualshipout ... \box \postponedcontent \box 0}} \else \message {[\ifarrang... \myshipout ... \fi {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} \gotonextrealpage \aftersh... \dofinaloutput ...agebody #1#2\setpagecounters }}} \fi \the \everyaftershipou... \finaloutput ...EAEAEA \dofinaloutput \fi \fi #1#2 \resetselectiepagina \incr... ... l.84 \stopfrontmatter Hans, could you have a look into this? Kind regards Willi

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MKIV: context.tex not found
by Peter Münster 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hello, Any news about this one? Am I the only one having this problem? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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externalfigure sizing problem
by Santy, Michael 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hello, I've noticed that the images included with externalfigure appear at about 95% of their specified size on a printed page. The example below can be compiled on contextgarden to replicate the behavior. This problem is nothing new and has existed for at least a couple of months. Is there something that I'm not specifying correctly, or it this a bug? Thanks, Mike \starttext \placefigure{6.0in x 3.0in}{ \externalfigure[blah.jpg][width=6.0in, height=3.0in] % Comes out 5.6in x 2.8in } \placefigure{15.0cm x 9cm}{ \externalfigure[blah.jpg][width=15.0cm, height=9cm] % Comes out 14.1cm x 8.45cm } \stoptext

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Some BibTeX questions
by Jeff Smith 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hi! A couple of questions regarding BibTeX and ConTeXt. :-) 1) For various reasons I want to make my own .bbl file. Do I understand correctly that I therefore don't need to use \setupbibtex in my document? I wouldn't see the point in linking to my original .bib file if I don't want the system to generate the .bbl in the first place. However, is this the command which generates the .aux file? What purpose does this one have? 2) In an automatically generated .bbl file, the \setuppublicationlist command seems to have as a value for the samplesize parameter the very first s-key of the list, .i.e that of the first publication in the database. These labels are clearly generated from the first three characters of the first Author data, and the last two character of the Year data. For example, in my database, the author being Achinstein and the year being 1975 for the first entry, the generated s-key is Ach75. This is the value \setuppublicationlist[samplesize] as well. What is the purpose of 'samplesize' exactly? And what is the use of the s-key in the first place? Is it mandatory? The answer to this is unclear to me. Hic et nunc, I wouldn't even know where to use them; not in the way I cite references in my document. I would use a and y exclusively. 3) All the a-keys with author lastnames in my generated bbl file contain the names in brackets {}, excluding the normal delimiting brackets of the key itself. For example, for my first publication, you read a={{Achinstein}}. With more than one authors, I have for example a={{Bromberger},{Halle}}. However, in Taco's documentation (bibmod-doc), there are no such brackets in the sample entry: a=Hoekwater. Are the brackets absolutely necessary? With more than one name, perhaps? Many thanks in advance for your answers! As always I'm ever grateful for the great help this list provides. Jeff Smith

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figure libraries (mkiv)
by Peter Rolf 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hi Hans, Looks like I'm the only one using resource libs. I have tried to solve the problem with figure inclusion, but my lua is still too bad (coroutines). At least I have found the place where things go wrong. function figures.bases.find(basename,askedlabel) [..] if base[2] and base[3] then for e, d, k in xml.elements(base[3],"/(rlx:library|figurelibrary)/*:figure/*:label") do page = page + 1 if xml.content(d[k]) == askedlabel then t = { base = file.replacesuffix(base[2],"pdf"), format = "pdf", name = xml.filters.text(e,"*:file"), -- always empty page = page, -- wrong pagenumber (far too high) } -- tex.sprint(table.serialize(t)) figures.bases.found[askedlabel] = t break end end end [..] And what is the correct namespace for resource libraries? You use rlx for the <library> element, and a joker for <subelements>. The example in x-res-04.tex should be updated then (uses rl for all). For testing I have changed the prefix to rl (as my test databases use rl). I can send you a small 7z with my test files. Peter

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