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project structure (bug?)
by Steffen Wolfrum 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi, does it make sense that eg \clubpenalty=10000 doesn't work when written in a project's environment file? It must be repeated at top of each single component in order to work. I am wondering what else works only when written in component (and is silently ignored although written in my environment-file) ... Steffen

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beta: image inclusion from xml database broken in mkiv
by Peter Rolf 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi Hans, can you have a look at the image inclusion from xml databases in mkiv? Compilation breaks, saying that it couldn't find the corrosponding <libname>.xml file. No problems with mkii. If you can't reproduce this with one of your figure databases, I can make a minimal example. Best wishes, Peter

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Chapter number conversion to words
by Bart C. Wise 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

I would like to display chapter headings spelling out the numbers into words. For example: Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three etc. I thought that I could put a conversion in the setuphead function; however, it doesn't appear to be supported. So how to I do the conversion? Thanks, Bart

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\noindent in startstop block is not working on the text that follows the block
by Bart C. Wise 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

I defined a startstop block. However, the text that follows the block I don't want to be indented. <Code> \definestartstop[Center][ before={\startalignment[center]}, after={\stopalignment\noindent} ] \starttext \startCenter This is some text! \stopCenter I don't want this paragraph indent; however, it ends up being indented. \stopText <\Code> However, the text that follows the block is indented. How to I declare a \noindent within the startstop block definition that will work when the block is exited? Thanks, Bart

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ConTeXt book
by Matija Šuklje 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hullo, I've been wondering ...does anyone know of any good (printed) book to learn ConTeXt? 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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PDF/A with ConTeXt
by Santy, Michael 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Records management systems prefer to receive their PDFs compliant with the PDF/A standard (subset of PDF 1.4). Is there any mechanism in ConTeXt/pdfTex to specify the PDF output should comply with PDF/A? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A Thanks, Mike

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%18 or 18% : incorrect placement of the percentage sign ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 08 Feb '08

08 Feb '08

Hi, I have often seen (in arabic newpapers) the percentage sign set left to the number "% 18". Recently I read an article (http://sehstoerung.sonance.net/pdfs/ TitusNemeth_dissertation.pdf) that calls this "... the incorrect placement of the percentage sign". Any native arabic speaker out there? Is it %18 or 18% ?? Thanks, Steffen

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ConTeXt installation in Vista
by Βασίλης Γκολφινόπουλος 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Has anybody installed ConTeXt in Windows Vista? I am running into problems. Vassilis

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!pdfTeX error: pdftex (file lmmi12): Font lmmi12 at 600 not found
by Mojca Miklavec 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hello, I don't quite understand why, but my distribution became broken at some random time point (I do not remember doing anything special in the meantime). I have installed ConTeXt from scratch, but the same problem persists: systems : begin file sqrt at line 1 fonts : needs map file: original-base fonts : needs map file: original-ams-base fonts : needs map file: original-public-lm fonts : needs map file: lm-ec fonts : needs map file: lm-math fonts : needs map file: lm-rm (/context2/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/sort-def.tex (/context2/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/sort-def.mkii)) (/context2/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/sort-lan.tex loading : Context Sorting Macros (languages) (/context2/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/sort-lan.mkii)) [1.1 pdfTeX warning: pdftex (file pdftex.map): cannot open font map file ] systems : end file sqrt at line 3 system : cont-err loaded (/context2/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-err.tex systems : no file 'cont-sys.tex', using 'cont-sys.rme' instead ) ) !pdfTeX error: pdftex (file lmmi12): Font lmmi12 at 600 not found ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! TeXExec | runtime: 0.773438 There is no pdftex.map, but there has never been one. It could be that I have screwed something up during LM fonts update, but I'm a bit clueless at the moment. More or less the same files seem to work OK on windows, the only difference are the binaries. > kpsewhich lm-math.map returns /context2/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map and there it is lmmi12 LMMathItalic12-Regular "enclmmathit ReEncodeFont" <lm-mathit.enc <lmmi12.pfb as well as > kpsewhich lmmi12.pfb /context2/tex/texmf/fonts/type1/public/lm/lmmi12.pfb and > kpsewhich lm-mathit.enc /context2/tex/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/lm-mathit.enc > pdftex --version pdfTeX 3.141592-1.50.0-alpha-20071218-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.6) kpathsea version 3.5.6dev Copyright 2007 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX). Kpathsea is copyright 2007 Karl Berry and Olaf Weber. There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and the Lesser GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING and the pdfTeX source. Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX). Kpathsea written by Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and others. Compiled with libpng 1.2.24; using libpng 1.2.24 Compiled with zlib 1.2.3; using zlib 1.2.3 Compiled with xpdf version 3.02pl2 > kpsewhich --version kpathsea version 3.5.6 Copyright 2005 Karl Berry & Olaf Weber. There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named GPL and LGPL. I have tried both beta and stable ConTeXt, but no difference. On windows the metafun format fails to generate at some conditions, but that's a completely unrelated problem (I need to figure out what goes wrong there). I could imagine that the problem could be caused by texmf.cnf, but I didn't change anything there: TEXFONTMAPS.dvipdfm = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{dvipdfm,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.dvipdfmx = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{dvipdfm,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.pdftex = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{pdftex,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.pdfetex = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{pdftex,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.luatex = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{pdftex,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.xetex = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{xetex,pdftex,dvips,}// TEXFONTMAPS.dvips = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{dvips,pdftex,}// TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map/{$progname,$engine,pdftex,dvips,}//;$TEXMF/{$progname,$engine,pdftex,dvips}/{config,}// (Though it makes no sense that xetex reads dvips maps as it cannot interpret them anyway, and some more polishing could be done, but that's something completely unrelated again.) Another thought is that I could have incompatible libraries, but I didn't change that recently (and it broke two days ago). I would be greatful for any hints about where to look for a solution, Mojca

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Unicode greek in Context
by Βασίλης Γκολφινό πουλος 07 Feb '08

07 Feb '08

Hello, I am evaluating context for using it to write long greek documents. So far I have not succeeded in typesetting unicode greek in live-context. I have tried scanning the documentation and mailing list archive with no success. I must admit I am not a very technical user. This is what I have tried so far (unseccessfuly): \enableregime[utf-8] \mainlanguage[gr] \starttext Hello world! Καλημέρα κόσμε! \stoptext Is there something wrong with that? Sorry if I am wasting your time -- if there is a good "RTFM" answer I would not mind. Vassilis

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\placeregister[index][compress=yes] BROKEN ??
by Steffen Wolfrum 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi, please have a look at following minimal: \starttext \placeregister[index][compress=no] \blank[5*big] \placeregister[index][compress=yes] \page test text \index{test index} \section{heading} more test text \index{test index} \section{heading} more test text \index{test index} %\page test text% <--- comment / uncomment this line \page \section{heading text \index{test index}} more test text \index{test index} \page test text \index{test index} \section{heading text \index{test index}} more test text \index{test index} \stoptext The "compress=yes" seems to be corrupt. Steffen (I am using vers. 2008.01.03)

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week of wiki 1: call for "installation instructions"
by Mojca Miklavec 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Dear ConTeXt felows, Wiki has been sleeping for a long time. Specifically, some topics change considerably over time, but wiki pages do not, and so newbie users are completely confused. I would like to announce "The First Week of Wiki: Improving the Installation Instructions" http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Category:Installation Take this page for example: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation It should more-or-less disapear (it may be left for historical reasons in quarantine, but other than that, it should not confuse people!!!) So, I have a little request: can we devote one week (or 10 days if neded) for improvement of installation instructions? This means: - improve a generic page (Installation) with links, general notes about dependencies (ruby, perl), general settings (\useMPTEXgraphicstrue, \preloadtypescripts, write18, texexec --make --all, ctxtools --updatecontext, ..), release notes - three (or slightly more) main pages: Windows Installation, Mac Installation, Linux Installation - Linux Installation may have links to Debian Installation or to Installation from source or similar, but we certainly do not need dozens of different pages for the same thing (Debian TeXlive install, Debian installation, TeX-live) - an template for obsolete stuff (what to do with Aleph? - it's not supported any more anyway) Etc. The topic to follow should probably be about fonts or hello world documents. But we should start somewhere. Mojca PS: here is some statistics about the top 5 pages visited on the wiki: /Main_Page 14.96% /Windows_Installation 2.82% /What_is_ConTeXt 1.78% /Special:Recentchanges 1.75% /First_Document 1.44%

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ConTeXt logo with cows
by Mojca Miklavec 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hello Taco (or other cow fans), What's the easiest way to get the ConTeXt logo with the cow font (possibly in mkiv, but not neccessary)? Do I need to use "low-level" (Lua) or is there already some kind of \getglyph{C_o_n_T_e_X_t} already available? Thanks a lot, Mojca

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halfline broken
by Steffen Wolfrum 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Since context version: 2008.01.28 up to now there is an error when running the file attached below: ! Undefined control sequence. \dodosetupwhitespace ...g \witruimteflexibelfalse \ctxparskip 1 \ctxparskip \... l.31 \setupwhitespace[halfline] ? Process aborted (In context version: 2008.01.03 it still works.) Steffen \chardef\baselinegridmode=1 % not the default ! \def\dodosetupwhitespace % can go in core (or cont-new) {\ifgridsnapping \witruimteflexibelfalse \ctxparskip1\ctxparskip \ifdim\ctxparskip>\zeropoint \ifcase\baselinegridmode \ctxparskip\baselineskip % normal ! ! ! ! !! \or \ifdim\scratchdimen=\baselineskip % maybe range \ctxparskip\baselineskip % normal ! ! ! ! !! \else \ctxparskip\numexpr \ctxparskip/\dimexpr.5\lineheight\relax\relax\dimexpr.5\lineheight\relax \fi \else \ctxparskip\baselineskip % normal ! ! ! ! !! \fi \fi \else \ifwitruimteflexibel \else \ctxparskip1\ctxparskip \fi \fi \parskip\ctxparskip} \starttext \setuplayout[grid=yes] \showstruts \showgrid \showgridboxes \setupwhitespace[halfline] \setuphead[section][grid=fit] \section{Heading One} \input tufte \input knuth \stoptext

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hash size calculating
by Jan Kraljič 06 Feb '08

06 Feb '08

Hi, i got to the problem that context file compile with PDFtex was not created because hash size is to big. OK, I increase hash size but my question is little different. The problem was on big table whisch was 11 pages long. Now my question is: is has size calculating over complete document or over element. So it I create 11 smaller tables there wont be such problem? Thx, Jan -- Macs are for those who don't want to know why their computer works. Linux is for those who want to know why their computer works. DOS is for those who want to know why their computer doesn't work. Windows is for those who don't want to know why their computer doesn't work.

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[OT] CTAN package update: pdftex 1.40.6
by luigi scarso 05 Feb '08

05 Feb '08

Just to propagate informations: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctan-ann@dante.de/msg01483.html -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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Sumary of current versions of Context
by John Culleton 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

I am becoming bewildered by the multiple versions of Context now being discussed. For some years now I have used Context for complex layouts with tables and so on. The texlive version works OK for me. But now I see. mkii mkiv XeTeX Luatex etc. etc. So what is the target audience for each of these branches? And what branch is best for me to keep track of for creating non-fiction books in English? And what is it called when I need to find and download it? I suspect mkii is the branch intended for lowly folk like me but confirmation would be comforting. Currently I run (per texexec --version): /usr/local/texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux/texmfstart:1838: /usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby/base/system.rb:16: TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD -- John Culleton Precision Typesetting Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com __________________________________________________ D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!" http://www.doteasy.com

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Pdf bookmark
by WN 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Hi, When I use \bookmark[chapter]{Some bookmark} the bookmark appears twice in the list of bookmarks but the bookmark also appears twice in the Table of Contents. Is this a known problem/bug or is there something I should do ? I am using ConTeXt ver: 2008.02.01 17:25 MKII fmt: 2008.2.4 int: english/english Kind regards Wim

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[OT] : CTAN Update: LM fonts v.1.106
by luigi scarso 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Just to propagate informations... http://www.mail-archive.com/ctan-ann@dante.de/msg01482.html -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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ConTeXt book
by Matija Šuklje 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

Hullo, I've been wondering ...does anyone know of any good (printed) book to learn ConTeXt? 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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Nested XML environments with MkIV
by Wolfgang Schuster 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

Hi, I tried to get the following example with ConTeXt's old XML macros in MkII with the new setup mechanism from MkIV. \defineXMLenvironment [section] {Section:\par} {} \defineXMLenvironment [p] \par \par \startbuffer <section> <p>text text</p> <section> <p>text text</p> </section> <p>text text</p> </section> \stopbuffer \starttext \processXMLbuffer \stoptext My code for MkIV looks like: \startxmlsetups xml:mysetups \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{section}{xml:section} \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{p}{xml:paragraph} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregistersetup{xml:mysetups} \startxmlsetups xml:paragraph \xmlflush{#1}\par \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:section Section:\par \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startbuffer[section] <section> <p>text text</p> <section> <p>text text</p> </section> <p>text text</p> </section> \stopbuffer \starttext \xmlprocessbuffer{main}{section}{} \stoptext What I want is to insert or execute a macro at the begin of every new section environment (I used the text "Section:") and this work fine with XML definition but not with setups, only the first envionment is executed and the rest is only read and flushed. Wolfgang

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XeTeX vs. luatex
by Gour 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

Hi! After moving to emacs I decided to settle on ConTeXt markup and want to use Unicode engine. Luatex is advancing very nicely and I wonder is there any reason to use XeTeX over luatex, i.e. what features are missing (if any) in regards to regarding font-handling in luatex in comparison with XeTeX? Sincerely, Gour

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spacing problem with mvs sybols
by Gour 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

Hi! I'm using muse for writing some astrological notes while studying and noticed there is problem with spacing after using symbols from 'mvs'. Here is the test file: \usesymbols[mvs] \setupsymbolset [astronomic] \setupsymbolset [zodiac] \starttext This is Mesha \symbol[Aries] and this \symbol[Cancer] is Kataka. Let's see \symbol[Sun] too. \stoptext Am I doing something wrong here? I tried with both mkii and mkiv, but the result is the same. Sincerely, Gour

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Indenting (again!): a real problem in indentnext=yes
by morgan.brassel＠free.fr 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Hi, Sorry but I'm going to talk about indenting again. This time, it seems to me that there is really something wrong with the indentnext=yes option. Look at the following example, it speaks for itself (or at least I hope so). \setupindenting[yes,medium] \setupformulae[indentnext=yes] \starttext This is my first formula: \startformula x = 1, \stopformula and this line should not be indented because it's still in the same sentence. There is no line skip in the source file, and no new paragraph created. This is my second formula: \startformula x = 2. \stopformula This line has to be indented (and it is!), as this is truely a new paragraph. \stoptext The option indentnext=yes does not handle properly the first situation. What do you think? Thanks for your answers, and sorry to bother you again and again! Morgan

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Re: [NTG-context] Using Postscript Type 1 fonts in ConTeXt/XeTeX?
by Roland 01 Feb '08

01 Feb '08

Hi Mojca, Thanks for your two answers. I guess updating my distribution is the first priority--perhaps that is causing all the errors I just posted in answer to Wolfgang's suggestion. I'll try your suggestion and then see if it works, will confirm to the mailing list once I know. Thanks Roland PS Is it always necessary to upgrade a fresh distribution immediately? I am a bit surprised that a fresh MacTex from December would already be so outdated... On 20/01/2008, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Roland, > > I forgot two things so I should better mention some before you ask. > > First: welcome to the ConTeXt community. > Second: you need a *recent enough* ConTeXt (anything between october > 07-january 08), but if you take the latest one, then you also need the > future version of LM :) And you need a recent version of XeTeX & > xdvipdfmx. > > If you're using TeX Live's version, then: > > a) update XeTeX binaries > > compile it from sources or take it from here (you can download it > manually from http or using rsync) and replace the old binaries with > these ones: > > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/bin/xetex/osx-intel/bin/ > or > rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/bin/xetex/osx-intel/bin/ > path-to-bins > > b) update ConTeXt > > many other ways to do it as well (you can take a zip from pragma) > > For example: > rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/context/2008.01.16/ > path-to-texmf-tree-with-context > you may replace 2008.01.16 with any version that you find here: > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/context/ > > 2008.01.16 requres new LM fonts already, older versions do not. > > c) update LM if you take too recent ConTeXt (otherwise, leave the > fonts alone) - these fonts are still a pre-release version, so you > should better take an older version of ConTeXt > > rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/fonts/new/fonts/opentype/publi… > path-to-LM > > Mojca

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latest beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi Hans, great: I now get Greek hyphenation with XeTeX as well! However, there's a problem with mkiv: none of my mkiv-typescripts works with it; I always get this error: This went wrong: ...al/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/luat- tmp.lua:121: attempt to call field 'is_writable' (a nil value) )))). <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.3 \setupbodyfont[MyAGaramond,12pt] It works with vanilla LatinModern, and the same typescripts work with yesterday's beta. All best Thomas

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Re: [NTG-context] latest beta
by Hans Hagen 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2008, at 10:43 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: >>> Hi Hans, >>> great: I now get Greek hyphenation with XeTeX as well! However, >>> there's a problem with mkiv: none of my mkiv-typescripts works with >>> it; I always get this error: >>> This went wrong: ...al/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base/luat- >>> tmp.lua:121: attempt to call field 'is_writable' (a nil value) >>> )))). >> >> file.is_writable >> >> seems that your l-file.lua is not loaded or bugged >> > > my l-file.lua only has a function file.is_readable, not file.is_writable. btw, the syntax for for zip files has been changd: zip:///somefile.zip?name=somefile.tex zip:////tmp/whatevere/somefile.zip?name=/place/inzip/somefile.tex the following registers a zip file as being a tex tree (with its search methods) \usezipfile[texmf-project.zip] this installs only the texmf-project sub path from the zip \usezipfile[tex.zip][texmf-project] in case of unknown paths ... \input */whatever.tex should work too (searches all registered trees) etc etc ... more documentation will follow; still somewhat experimental 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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\everymath and ' accent
by morgan.brassel＠free.fr 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi everyone, This topic has already been discussed on the list, but I didn't clearly understand the conclusion, so I'm asking again... It is not clear to me why the following \everymath{\displaystyle} \starttext \startformula \frac{1}{A'} \stopformula $\frac{1}{A'}$ \stoptext fails with ConTeXt (on the ' inside $.$), while \documentclass{minimal} \everymath{\displaystyle} \begin{document} \[ \frac{1}{A'} \] $\frac{1}{A'}$ \end{document} is ok with LaTeX. The use of \everymath is to blame here, but why? Thanks in advance! Morgan

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The point about theorems
by morgan.brassel＠free.fr 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Hi, I need to typeset theorems with ConTeXt, and I would like to get your advice before I begin. I read an interesting post about it on the dev list: Enhancements to core-des for theorems http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20070601.055815.50e07e4d.en.html But I was unable to understand the very conclusion of it... Are there some particular commands concerning theorems? or is \setupenumerations the only solution? Best regards, Morgan

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ConTeXt CALS table XML > pdf
by Tex User 31 Jan '08

31 Jan '08

Dear ConTeXt users, I am ConTeXt newbie. I want to typeset my table coded in CALS xml format to pdf. I am not sure how to define the spanning columns like <entry colname="c2" namest="2" nameend="3" align="center">bb cc</ entry> in \defineXMLnested [entry] \bTD \eTD please help. --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

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Re: [NTG-context] Need of a new global option for indenting?
by Henning Hraban Ramm 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Am 2008-01-30 um 19:53 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: >> Sorry to bother you with this question again, but I didn't get any >> definitive >> answer in the previous discussion: wouldn't it be useful to have a >> new option in >> \setupindenting that indents EVERY paragraph? I mean even after >> floats, >> formulae, heads, etc. > > This is a french typographical tradition thing, isn't it? Not, it's not only French. I already had (German) customers who demanded every paragraph to be indented. That doesn't mean that it makes sense, but one should be able to activate that behaviour rather easily. 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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Need of a new global option for indenting?
by morgan.brassel＠free.fr 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hi, Sorry to bother you with this question again, but I didn't get any definitive answer in the previous discussion: wouldn't it be useful to have a new option in \setupindenting that indents EVERY paragraph? I mean even after floats, formulae, heads, etc. It would be easier than to set every 'indentnext' option to 'yes'. My first thought was that it should be the role of the 'always' option. Is it silly? Best regards, Morgan

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header to register
by Henning Hraban Ramm 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Ahoi! For a songbook I need a alphabetically sorted TOC. As easy workaround I tried to use an register/index. But I'd like to get my headers into the index without typing \index all the time. But with my following setup I get only garbage numbers instead of my titles: \setuphead[Titel] [style={\hw\tfa}, page=yes, number=no, textcommand=\TitelFrame] \def\TitelFrame#1{\index{#1}% \framed[ width=\textwidth, height=7.5mm, frame=off, align={right,high}, after={}, before={}]% {\switchtobodyfont[12pt]\hw\tfa #1}% } My .tuo file contains lines like: \listentry{Titel}{2}{}{nihil ita ut videtur}{2--0-1-0-0-0-0-0--1}{3}% ... \registerpage{index}{,}{1}{\dowritetolist \@@koppeling {}{nihil ita ut videtur}\v!head }}\fi \executeifdefined {\??ko Titel\c! deeptextcommand }\firstofoneargument {nihil ita ut videtur}\endstrut } {2--0-1-0-0-0-0-0--1}% The 5th instead of the 4th parameter of \listentry is printed in the index. My fault or a bug? Versions: This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) ConTeXt ver: 2008.01.17 11:52 MKII fmt: 2008.1.17 int: english/ english 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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page=yes often ignored
by Mojca Miklavec 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hello, I often have problems with page breaks in ConTeXt (section titles are often placed at the bottom of the page, but changing anything there might lead to strange side-effects), but perhaps this specific problem is solvable somehow: \setuphead [section] [page=yes] \setuphead [subsection] [page=yes] \starttext \section{a} \input tufte % I would expect a page break here without having to say \page \subsection{b} \input tufte \stoptext Thanks a lot, Mojca

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Descriptions and headerwidth, distance and align
by Wolfgang Schuster 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

Hi all, I tried to use descriptions in a module from me and get a few unwanted and wrong results from the settings. In my first example I try to set the headerwidth to 3cm and the distance between the header and the text to 1cm. The result I get from this example is a 2cm wide header and 2cm between the header and the text. I know the real width for the header is the difference between width and distance and 2cm are correct but this is a stupid method, changing this will break many documents but a alternative solution would be to introduce a label headerwidth. The wrong distance between the header and the text is also a result from this method, the description macros reduce the headerwidth by the distance value and introduce a extra value between the headerbox and the text, this give me twice the distance width and is a bug for me. Another missing thing is a key headeralign, a workaround for moment is to misuse the text key but this should be implemented. \definedescription [test] [width=3cm, text=\hfill, % better headalign=flushright distance=1cm] \starttext \showframe \test{One} Text for the first description. \test{Two} Text for the second description. \stoptext My second example deals with the same problem as above (headerwidth is reduced by distance width) but it gives a completely broken output. I let ConTeXt calculate the width for the header and set a distance value of 1cm between the header and text. This works prefect but the text itself is placed in a box with the width "calculated textwidth - distance" and this is not enough room for the text and it is broken into two lines. \definedescription [test] [width=fit, distance=1cm] \starttext \test{First description} Text for the first description. \test{Second description} Text for the second description. \stoptext Greetings, Wolfgang

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Numbers in Tables
by Bart Wise 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

The code below defines a number and then on each row, displays then increments the number. The number is defined and reset to 0 before the table is declared. However, when the number is displayed in the table, it's not zero as expected, but some other number (usually between 3 and 9). The reset at reset point #1 does reset the number to 0, but it doesn't stay that way when the table is declared. The only thing I have found to work, is to define a row and column and put the reset there (see reset point #2). I would like to declare and reset the number outside of the table definition, but it doesn't seem to work. What am I doing wrong? \definenumber[MyNum] \starttext \resetnumber[MyNum] % reset point #1 \bTABLE % \bTR\bTD \resetnumber[MyNum] \eTD\eTR % reset point #2 \bTR\bTD \getnumber[MyNum]\incrementnumber[MyNum] \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD \getnumber[MyNum]\incrementnumber[MyNum] \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD \getnumber[MyNum]\incrementnumber[MyNum] \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD \getnumber[MyNum]\incrementnumber[MyNum] \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext

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missing MP shading
by Peter Rolf 30 Jan '08

30 Jan '08

hi list, i have some problems with reusing a picture in mp. the shading is missing, if the picture is shifted to another position (see minimal example). any help welcome. [program versions: the latest, the greatest..] greetings, peter \setuppagenumber[state=stop] \setupcolors[state=start] \startuniqueMPgraphic{test} save p,q; picture p; path q; q:= unitsquare xyscaled (OverlayWidth,.5OverlayHeight); p:= image(linear_shade(q,6,red,green)); addto currentpicture also p; addto currentpicture also (p yshifted .5OverlayHeight); \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[test] [\uniqueMPgraphic{test}] \starttext \framed[width=10cm,height=10cm,background=test]{} \stoptext

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update
by Hans Hagen 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Hi, i uploaded a fix for the reported problems; the uploaded version also uses lua for locating files that have to be included; this should work with the mkiv xml too (i forgot who asked for that but i needed it myself too) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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MKIV Chinese typesetting
by Yue Wang 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Dear Hans and other friends: I play a little bit on MKIV's Chinese support and find it is incomplete. It has some serious problems, and lack important features as well. Well, I know it from mk.pdf that Chinese support is under construction, so in this email I just want to give some Chinese horizontal typesetting suggestions for development (vertical typesetting are more frequently used in Hongkong, Taiwan and Japan, so maybe people from there are eager to help): first, a features many Chinese people like: a lot of Chinese users write essays using full-width punct (that is, a punct mark is as the same size as the Chinese characters) and I found that the puncts are compressed well in context with good penalty settings(although there are minor problems in the pdf). however, sometimes it is up to the publisher which kind of punct marks are to be used, and usually many scientific books and papers use half-width puncts. so I think a new feature should be added to map all the Chinese puncts into english while at the same time, a space should be added after the English punct marks. that is, changing 中文，中文 into 中文, 中文 notice the space in the second example there is an opentype feature called hwid, but it should not be used because: - it changes the English alphabets as well - most of the time the function in most Chinese fonts is missing or buggy - it does not automatically add the space These are the minor problems in the mk.pdf: - pp118, penultimate example, box 2, line1, the ' punct mark should not appear at the end of the line - pp118, ultimate example, box 2, line2, in fact, if you want do perfect Chinese typesetting, all the puncts which begin a line or end a line should be closed to the margin line which makes the type block look good (especially when watch the right or left edge of the type block closely) while this ' has many space before it. In English, it is quite easy and the good old tex does a good job because all the letters and puncts are designed carefully, but in Chinese things are much difficult because all the glyphs including the puncts in all the Chinese fonts have the same width, and which makes the problem worse is that different Chinese fonts have different positions for these puncts. So a dynamic way which calculates the most left edge and most right edge of a punct glyph should be used, and it is not available in luatex:( will it be added later? second, and the most important, on the bilingual typesetting: nowadays English words are frequently used in Chinese, so great care must be taken to handle it. many Chinese users write their manuscript in one of the two ways: 中文 English 中文 or 中文English中文 The first way looks good when using a editor with mono space font and the second way is convenient for one to type. So both users will happy if both ways get the same result in context. in MKII, users are forced to use such kind of expression which drives them crazy and should be avoided: 中文English\ 中文 A small skip should be left between Chinese and English which makes the result much better. usually the space is a quarter of a chinese character width. A TeX expression should like: \hspace{0.25em plus 0.125em minus 0.08em} but I think it is better to introduce a \setupxxxwidth for the user. The last important thing for English and Chinese bi-lingual typesetting is that: do not use English glyphs in Chinese fonts because: - recently English glyphs in most of the Chinese fonts are ugly - users have no right to modify the Chinese fonts - many other reasons so when set up a Chinese typeface, it is better to leave a feature for the user to choose the accompany english typeface. while typesetting, Chinese typography rules do not interfere with the english one, that is, chinese part and english part use their own line break model. here are two bugs in recent context: - 中文 English English English 中文will produce 中文EnglishEnglishEnglish中文, the spaces between english words are all missing. - the following script produce an error: Invalid field id penalty for node type glyph (1). Here is a sample: \definefontfeature[chinese][mode=node,script=hang,lang=zht,script=hani,lang=dlft] \definefontsynonym[songti][name:AdobeSongStd-Light][features=Chinese] \definefontsynonym[Serif][songti] definetypeface[song][rm][serif][songti] \setupbodyfont[song,12pt,rm] \starttext 中文 English: 中文 \stoptext third, indenting: Chinese paragraphs are indented with two Chinese characters, and we also indent the first paragraph. context is so powerful that it is easy to do these kind of things, thank you:) and i think it is better to write it into the Chinese typesetting module? Urgency: bi-lingual typesetting > fix the wrong panelty > map the english punct maps as an alternative > indenting > puncts should be close to margin lines. I am eager to see full support for chinese and other Asian languages (and I am eager to help too), and i hope my suggestions here are helpful to the developers. I am grateful to Hans, Taco and and many other guys (eg. Zhichu Chen) that did a very good job in recent MKIV Chinese support. Thank you for your time and effort for continuous contributions! Yue Wang

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the new minimal is broken
by Yue Wang 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hi, I see the Jan 26 version of context so I just want to upgrade my system. As what I did before, go to http://minimals.contextgarden.net/ and download the file, unzip it and run. after rsync, it cannot generate the mkiv format (other formats are fine) I run Debian on x86 intel machine. I had done this several times in the past month and everything is fine. btw, why is download speed so slow these days? after hours of rsync it finally began to generate the format.... here is the message. yulewang@yulewang-laptop:~$ luatools --generate LuaTools | skipping /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-local/web2c/texmf.cnf LuaTools | skipping /home/yulewang/tex/texmfcontext/web2c/texmf.cnf LuaTools | loading /home/yulewang/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf LuaTools | preparing configuration in ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/f11a54178c00c3cdaccd8417314427ac.tma LuaTools | saving configuration in ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/f11a54178c00c3cdaccd8417314427ac.tma LuaTools | compiling configuration to ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/f11a54178c00c3cdaccd8417314427ac.tmc LuaTools | locating list of /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-local LuaTools | locating list of /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-linux LuaTools | locating list of /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-project LuaTools | locating list of /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-fonts LuaTools | locating list of /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-context LuaTools | locating list of /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-extra LuaTools | locating list of /home/yulewang/tex/texmf LuaTools | scanning path /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-linux LuaTools | 91 files found on 9 directories with 0 uppercase remappings LuaTools | scanning path /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-context LuaTools | 1310 files found on 125 directories with 0 uppercase remappings LuaTools | scanning path /home/yulewang/tex/texmf LuaTools | 2381 files found on 71 directories with 60 uppercase remappings LuaTools | preparing files in ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/5ff63bc52b0899f5d4695d75d1c8514d.tma LuaTools | saving files in ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/5ff63bc52b0899f5d4695d75d1c8514d.tma LuaTools | compiling files to ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/5ff63bc52b0899f5d4695d75d1c8514d.tmc LuaTools | preparing files in ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/6e2168099f58cbef07851e598e514561.tma LuaTools | saving files in ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/6e2168099f58cbef07851e598e514561.tma LuaTools | compiling files to ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/6e2168099f58cbef07851e598e514561.tmc LuaTools | preparing files in ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/23216e94fb804835110a994ec20c8ebd.tma LuaTools | saving files in ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/23216e94fb804835110a994ec20c8ebd.tma LuaTools | compiling files to ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/23216e94fb804835110a994ec20c8ebd.tmc LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.118 seconds yulewang@yulewang-laptop:~$ luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en LuaTools | version 1.1.1 - 2006+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT LuaTools | skipping configuration for /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-local/web2c from ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/cf8deca617384693aab431d70cfbafb8 LuaTools | skipping configuration for /home/yulewang/tex/texmfcontext/web2c from ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/26df17777c855a551396d6656aab46d9 LuaTools | loading configuration for /home/yulewang/tex/texmf/web2c from ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/f11a54178c00c3cdaccd8417314427ac LuaTools | locating list of /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-local LuaTools | locating list of /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-linux LuaTools | locating list of /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-project LuaTools | locating list of /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-fonts LuaTools | locating list of /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-context LuaTools | locating list of /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-extra LuaTools | locating list of /home/yulewang/tex/texmf LuaTools | loading files for /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-linux from ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/5ff63bc52b0899f5d4695d75d1c8514d LuaTools | loading files for /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-context from ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/23216e94fb804835110a994ec20c8ebd LuaTools | loading files for /home/yulewang/tex/texmf from ///home/yulewang/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/63cdb1aecb6460757eca78b5141d56c4/trees/6e2168099f58cbef07851e598e514561 LuaTools | creating initialization file cont-en LuaTools | using library path : /home/yulewang/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base LuaTools | using lua libraries: l-string.lua l-lpeg.lua l-table.lua l-boolean.lua l-number.lua l-set.lua l-unicode.lua l-md5.lua l-os.lua l-io.lua l-file.lua l-dir.lua l-utils.lua l-tex.lua luat-lib.lua luat-inp.lua luat-tmp.lua luat-zip.lua luat-tex.lua LuaTools | using compiled initialization file cont-en.luc LuaTools | using lua initialization file cont-en.luc LuaTools | running command: luatex --ini "--lua=cont-en.luc" "/home/yulewang/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex" \\dump This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.2-2007121714 (Web2C 7.5.6) (INITEX) ! I can't find file `--lua=cont-en.luc'. <*> "--lua=cont-en.luc" "/home/yulewang/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/c... Please type another input file name: ! Emergency stop. <*> "--lua=cont-en.luc" "/home/yulewang/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/c... No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log. Yue Wang

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mktexlsr in minimals
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

Hi all, Having installed the minimal distro from http://minimals.contextgarden.net/ on my linux box (in my home directory) I added some own modules in /home/jean/lua/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/extra an tried various texhash and mktexlsr: mktexlsr lua/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/ texhash lua/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/ But these are still not found and I had to specify the complete path of the modules! This seems specific to the minimals -- Jean

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t-lilypond, placement of oversized lines.
by David Wooten 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

Greetings all, In tinkering around with the lilypond module, oversized lines of notation do not get adjusted into the left margin as this bit of code seems to be trying to achieve: ---> %D %D TODO: Get the relevant dimension directly from lilypond, %D to place the instrument name into the left margin for %D short snippets as well. %D If we are not in the middle of some text, we have to check %D whether lilypond created an image that is wider than requested: %D It places the instrument names in the left margin. %D \ifvmode \getfiguredimensions[\lily!filename.pdf]% \leavevmode% \newdimen\FigWidth \FigWidth=\figurewidth \ifdim\FigWidth>\localhsize \!!dimena=\localhsize \advance\!!dimena by-\FigWidth \noindent\hskip\!!dimena \fi \fi \externalfigure[\lily!img]% \egroup% }% <--- This includes lines which have an instrument name, as mentioned in the comments, and also includes piano notation, which has a special bracket on the left joining the two staffs. Can anyone help me out here? Best, David

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[OT] The ISO 32000 Standard (DIS)
by luigi scarso 27 Jan '08

27 Jan '08

Adobe has received word that the Ballot for approval of PDF 1.7 to become the ISO 32000 Standard (DIS) has passed by a vote of 13::1. http://blogs.adobe.com/insidepdf/ -- luigi ... it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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pdfsync / editsnc
by Steffen Wolfrum 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Hi, in the garden I read that editsnc in 2003 was regarded the successor of pdfsync. Anybody has experience with one of them? Or the other way round: I am interested in pdf/source sync. Any recommendations? Thanks, Steffen

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shading in metapost
by Thomas A. Schmitz 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Hi all, I have a somewhat silly question about metapost/metafun. To emphasize parts of a picture, I place a bright red arrow or circle/ellipse on top of the picture. I would like to make this arrow more visible by putting a shade beneath it (I attach a jpg that will hopefully show the desired effect). Right now, I simply draw the arrow twice with a transparent black color, once with a smaller pencircle, so the effect is like a shadow that is darker in the center than at the edges. However, I think the effect would be more dramatic if I could have a transparent area with a smooth grading. Is this possible at all in metapost? filling a path with a transparent AND shaded color? All best Thomas

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Bug: Messy results when using "table" in head and multi-page "tables" in text
by Carsten Fechtmann 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Dear ConTeXt experts, I have setup a page layout where I use "table" in the page-head for formatting quite a bit of stuff. (The example below is just a simple as can be basic idea, to show the overall effect) Now - as I can't prevent later users of this layout environment - to not use \starttables ... \stoptables I naturally would like for this to work in the text region as well. This works fine and as advertised (well mostly, see below) as long as the table does not spill over to the next page. In which case, things start to look very messy, indeed. From my (simple) point of view it looks like ConTeXt gets confused about which format to use for which table and tries to do them all at the same place or something. Any chance to get this fixed ? Thanks in advance Carsten P.S.: There is an additional bug (also concerning the single page version and not related to having a "table" in the pagehead), which puts in an extra (empty) gap in between the end of the tablebody and the tablefoot when the tablefoot starts with \HL (and there is no \HL at the end of tablebody). Things work when putting the \HL at the end of the tablebody, but then no \HL will be put on top of the foot for any intermediate pages of the table, which is certainly not what one would usually want in this case. Anyway, here a simple version of this to demonstrate the effect(s) \setuppagenumbering[location=] \setupheadertexts[\setups{pagehead}][][\setups{pagehead}][] \startsetups[pagehead] \SetTableToWidth{\makeupwidth} \starttable[|p(40mm)|p(60mm)|p(40mm)|] \HL \VL \leftaligned{left} \VL \midaligned{middle} \VL \rightaligned{right} \VL\SR \HL \stoptable \stopsetups \starttext \start \SetTableToWidth{\makeupwidth} \setuptables[split=repeat] \starttablehead \HL \VL Head \VL\SR \HL \stoptablehead \starttabletail \HL % This results in an additional bug, % i.e. an extra / unwanted gap \VL Foot \VL\SR \HL \stoptabletail \starttables[|p(.95\textwidth)|] \VL \input knuth \VL\FR %\dorecurse{1}{\VL \input tufte \VL\MR} \dorecurse{10}{\VL \input tufte \VL\MR} \VL \input knuth \VL\LR % \HL % putting \HL here does not introduce % that unwanted gap ...?!? \stoptables \stop \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] Module for svn info
by Robin Kirkham 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

> Hi Ernesto, > hi Robin, > > thanks for your replies. > > The thing I like most with your solution is that svnversion provides a > modify flag, so I can see whether all changes have been cheched in. > Great. > > A little drawback is that all files under the current path are used to > determine the version. If theres a file in the path which is not part > of the document changes to this file will also change the revision of > the document. But I think this can be easily prevented by placing > every document into an own directory. > > What do you think of using: > > \def\SVNVERSION{svnversion -n > svnversion.tex} > > \ifeof18 > \installprogram{\SVNVERSION}% > \else > \executesystemcommand{\SVNVERSION}% > \fi That is nicer of course ... I just do it outside the document in a Makefile because I'm used to doing that sort of thing. I imagine the only uncompromised way to extract an svn revision (or revision range) that covers the whole document accurately is to write a script that extracts the source file names from the previous logfile (or somewhere), individually determines their revision using "svn status" (to get modified status), and constructs an overall result. I guess some embedded Lua could do that pretty easily and portably. It would also catch files that are often outside the immediate document directory (in particular, bib files). > Ernesto Schirmacher schrieb: >>> If your sources are in svn, then they actually have the same svn- >>> number, after a commit. But the numbers in the $Revision$ or >>> $Id$ tags of your working copies are not updated by svn commit. >>> However, if you do an "svn update" after the commit, it should >>> update the numbers. > > This is not true. The complete name of $Rev§$ is > $LastChangedRevision$. It's the revision of the last change to this > file. Quite right, my apologies. An "svn update" does however alter the output of "svnversion", for instance if it indicates a mixed revision (1234:3456), after an update it will be just 3456. Best, Robin

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Re: [NTG-context] Module for svn info
by Robin Kirkham 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Hi Markus, If your sources are in svn, then they actually have the same svn- number, after a commit. But the numbers in the $Revision$ or $Id$ tags of your working copies are not updated by svn commit. However, if you do an "svn update" after the commit, it should update the numbers. So, you shouldn't need to work out the maximum value. Here, we actually use the output of the "svnversion" command, save it automatically it in a file, and include it in the document. This way, the version number indicates if the document came from checked-in sources, modified sources, or mixed revisions. We don't have a module to do it, just a svnversion > svnversion.tex ; texexec document.tex in the Makefile, and on the document front page somewhere \doiffileelse{svnversion.tex}{ Subversion revision \ignorespaces \input svnversion\relax \removeunwantedspaces . \crlf }{} Cheers, Robin > Hi Aditya, > > thanks for your reply. It's a good starting point. > > One thing is missing in this solution. > > Our documents are structured into several files. > Every file has an svn-version. So I want to > calculate the max version. > > Do you know a small example where a max value > is calculated. I would try to integrate it into > the other example. > > Kind regards, > Markus

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JavaScript conflicts
by Zhichu Chen 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Hi, I was trying to make a report for my job last year. I did some javascript things to put a clock at each page of my presentation to make sure I'll finish it in time. But I found some tricky conflicting between my script and the one in java-stp.tex OK, here is my test file (it's a little too long): ================================ \usemodule [pre-60] \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \setuppagenumbering[state=start,location=] \setuptolerance[verytolerant,stretch] \setupinteractionscreen [option=max] \setupinteraction[state=start,click=no,menu=on] \startJSpreamble functions used now font.Digital = "Courier-Bold" ; function start_clock() { this.getField("time.clock").value = util.printd("HH:MM:ss", new Date()); this.getField("time.clock").readonly = true ; this.getField("time.clock").textColor = color.red ; this.getField("time.clock").textSize = 13 ; this.getField("time.clock").textFont = font.Digital ; this.dirty = false } var timeout = app.setInterval("start_clock()",1000); \stopJSpreamble % Field of clock \useJSscripts[fld] \definefield [time.clock] [line] [TimeLogo] \setupfield [TimeLogo] [horizontal,frame] [width=fit,height=25pt,background=, backgroundcolor=,frame=off] [width=5.2cm,frame=off] [width=5.2cm,frame=off,style=type] \dorecurse{\totalnumberofpages}{\copyfield[time.clock ][clock::\recurselevel]} \def\clock{\field[clock::\pagenumber]} \setupfootertexts[{\color[white]\tfxx \midaligned{\rlap{\currentdate} \hfill TITLE\hfill \llap{AUTHOR}}}] \setuplayout[bottomspace=.8cm, bottom=12pt] \startinteractionmenu[bottom] {\interactionbar[alternative=f,width=\makeupwidth,height=1ex]} \stopinteractionmenu \setupfooter[state=start] \starttext \field[time.clock] \field[clock::\pagenumber] page number is \pagenumber. % \StartSteps % \starttabulate % \NC test \FlushStep \NC test \FlushStep \NC \NR % \NC test \FlushStep \NC test \FlushStep \NC \NR % \NC test \FlushStep \NC test \FlushStep \NC \NR % \stoptabulate % \StopSteps \page \field[clock::\pagenumber] page number is \pagenumber. \page \field[clock::\pagenumber] page number is \pagenumber. \page \field[clock::\pagenumber] page number is \pagenumber. \stoptext ================================ This is just a test file, I will put those fields into \setupfootertexts or somewhere else to make every page a clock. If I uncomment the \StartSteps . . . \StopSteps part, some PDF layer kind of error will show and nothing is generated. Do I have to remove the clock to make the fancy stepwise thing or keep the clock but lost the stepwise function of ConTeXt? -- 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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porting database module to MK IV
by Mojca Miklavec 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Hello Hans (and Taco), In case you run out of challenges, there is one thing that might be handy to have in MK IV: the database module for typesetting tables (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/M-database, there is no hurry though.) The benchmark is here: http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/csv.tex but the first thing that fails is already \usetypescript [palatino][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont [palatino,10pt] inside s-mag-01.tex. Thanks a lot, Mojca

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

I uploaded a new beta: - aditya's math extension - more robust for \to in arguments - new hyphenatedurl (both mkii and mkiv) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Superscript text size
by morgan.brassel＠free.fr 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Hi, The superscript in expressions like $R^N$ seems to be typeset with a bigger font size in ConTeXt than in LaTeX. Is it the wanted behaviour? From the typographic point of view, which is the best of the two renderings? Thanks for your advice, Morgan

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Indenting with ConTeXt
by morgan.brassel＠free.fr 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Hi, I'm very new to ConTeXt and I've got some (probably naive) questions about indenting. 1. According to the ConTeXt Excursion, using \setupindenting[medium] should lead to indented paragraph. And actually, at least for me, it doesn't... I saw examples on the wiki with \setupindenting[yes,medium]: this actually works, but the 'yes' option is not documented for the \setupindenting command on texshow. What am I missing here? Is the \indenting command needed even to indent the whole document? It is not what I understood from the Excursion... 2. I have not been able to indent the first paragraph after a \section (or any other titling) command. Isn't it the role of the 'first' option for \setupindenting? Is a trick needed to have it work? Thanks in advance for your answers, Morgan \setupindenting[medium,first] \starttext This paragraph is not indented. It becomes indented when I add the (undocumented?) 'yes' option to \setupindenting. \section{A section} How to get this one indented (in the whole document)? \stoptext

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Bug with command \to in captions
by morgan.brassel＠free.fr 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Hi, The simple example: \starttext \placefigure[][]{$x \to 0$}{My figure} \stoptext does not compile, whether it's on my installation or on the live interface. It seems that there is a problem with using \to in captions... Or maybe I'm missing something... Morgan

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(Most) stable minimal for Mac Intel
by Oliver Buerschaper 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Hi folks, after hesitating for a while I've decided to take the plunge and dive into LuaTeX finally. I'm just a bit confused about what the most stable release of LuaTeX is at the moment and where to get it ... from Pragma or the garden? There is a minimal distribution dated 2007-08-08 at Pragma but it appears slightly outdated ... shall I still get this one or is there a later version which also runs more or less smoothly? I'd be glad if someone pointed me to the "right" minimal ... by the way, my machine is an Intel Mac equipped with Leopard. Thanks for your help, Oliver

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Re: [NTG-context] amsmath features
by Aditya Mahajan 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Peter I. Hansen wrote: > Hi, I'm sending you this off-list because of the attachment... > > Your patch works nicely for what I want it do do (The displaylimits), > but I'm a bit confused about the behaviour of the intext math in with > the third option (intlimitcode = 2). > Did I mess things up? > > Best, Peter I had made a mistake in the code. Here is a corrected version, which works for all three cases Aditya \chardef\intlimitcode\zerocount %0 nolimits 1 displaylimits 2 limits \def\intlimits {\ifcase\intlimitcode \nolimits \or \displaylimits \or \limits \fi} \definemathcommand [int] {\intop \intlimits} \definemathcommand [oint] {\ointop\intlimits} \def\repeatintegral#1% {\scratchtoks\emptytoks \let\dointlimits\donothing \let\dodointlimits\intlimits \dorecurse{#1}{\appendtoks \intop \dointkern \to \scratchtoks} \appendtoks \intop \dointlimits \dodointlimits \to \scratchtoks \edef\dodorepeatintegral{\the\scratchtoks}% \futurelet\next\dorepeatintegral} \def\dorepeatintegral {\ifx\next\limits \dointlimitcorrection \else \ifx\next\displaylimits \dointlimitcorrection \else \ifx\next\nolimits \donothing \else \ifcase\intlimitcode\else \dointlimitcorrection \fi\fi\fi\fi \dodorepeatintegral} \def\dointlimitcorrection {\mkern-7mu\mathchoice{\mkern-2mu}{}{}{}% \mathop\bgroup \mkern7mu\mathchoice{\mkern2mu}{}{}{}% \let\dointlimits\egroup} \starttext \startbuffer $\int_a^b f(x) dx$ and also $\iint_a^b f(x,y) dxdy$, $\iiint_a^b f(x,y) dxdy$, $\iiiint_a^b f(x) dx$ \startformula \int_a^b f(x) dx \quad \iint_a^b f(x) dx \quad \iiint_a^b f(x) dx \quad \iiiint_a^b f(x) dx \quad \stopformula $\iint\limits_a^b$ $\iint\nolimits_a^b$ $\iint\displaylimits_a^b$ \startformula \iint\limits_a^b \iint\nolimits_a^b \iint\displaylimits_a^b \stopformula \stopbuffer Default: \getbuffer Displaylimits: \chardef\intlimitcode\plusone \getbuffer Limits: \chardef\intlimitcode\plustwo \getbuffer \stoptext

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amsmath features
by Peter I. Hansen 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Hi, In context I would very much like to use the intlimits feature from amsmath. I LaTex this would be done by: \usepackage[intlimits]{amsmath} I've seached google and contextgarden but didn't find any related hint. Do any of you guys know? thanks, Peter

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Module for svn info
by Markus Bernhardt 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is there a module to access subversion tags in context documents (like svninfo or svnkw for latex). Kind regards, Markus - -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Markus Bernhardt Software Consulting Markus Bernhardt GmbH Spieljochstr. 34 81825 München Fon: +49-89-420903-0 Fax: +49-89-420903-20 www: http://www.scmb.de Geschäftsführung Markus Bernhardt Handelsregister AG München HRB 125966 USt-Id DE201885231 PGP: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x89C94989 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHkrMrdnooMonJSYkRAugkAJ92g2uZQO5LmpjLLS0q9MqZxS4eBACgnlfP TrJpQ5rKQt/fplaNbLg8B5M= =9KnS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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bug-tracker
by Peter Münster 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Hello, Is it still useful to add bug-reports to the bug-tracker on http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contexttest/ ? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Using Postscript Type 1 fonts in ConTeXt/XeTeX?
by Roland 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Hi, I am fairly new to both ConTeXt (and XeTeX) but I've already been very impressed with the active user community and the amount of documentation available, as well as with the sheer userfriendliness of ConTeXt when compared to LaTeX. Now I'm trying to get into fonts, but activating a Postscript Type 1 font seems to go beyond my abilities and the wiki documentation on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts_in_XeTeX . Perhaps anybody can help? I have a Postscript type 1 font family called Eco, consisting of Eco101Roman, Eco102Italic, Eco301Bold and some others. FontBook shows these names identically as PostScript name, Full Name and Family name (which means Fontbook is unaware that they are a family, but this is not the topic here). The fonts can be used with any Mac application and they also work fine in a LaTeX-fontspec-XeTeX combination: the following minimal LaTeX file produces the text as desired in Eco101Roman. 1 %!TEX TS-program = xelatex 2 %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode 3 \documentclass[12pt]{article} 4 \usepackage{fontspec} 5 \defaultfontfeatures{Scale=MatchLowercase} 6 \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Eco101Roman} 7 \setsansfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Skia} 8 \setmonofont{Courier} 9 \author{Roland} 10 \title{XeTeX test} 11 12 \begin{document} 13 \maketitle 14 \section{This is a new section} 15 Let's try to \emph{write} this. 16 17 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, 40 \end{document} On ConTeXt however, I cannot get the font to be recognised. Please see my testfile below, in which I tried to (a) compile it with a self-installed TrueType font (which works) (b) tried to select Eco101Roman directly (which produces a ** ERROR ** Invalid font) and (c) tried to select the font through a typescript (which produces a "Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found.") What am I doing wrong? How can I get these fonts to work (and make ConTeXt treat them as a proper family too?) Looking forward to your ideas! Roland 1 % ====================== 2 % = Various font tests = 3 % ====================== 4 5 %% TRUETYPE -- works fine 6 %\definetypeface[myfont][rm][Xserif][LegacySerifLT-Book] 7 8 %% TYPE1 without typescript 9 %\definetypeface[myfont][rm][Xserif][Eco101Roman] 10 %% Produces 11 %% 12 %% [1 13 %% 14 %% ** ERROR ** Invalid font: -1 (1) 15 %% 16 %% 17 %% 18 %% Output file removed. 19 20 %% TYPE1 with typescript 21 \starttypescript[serif][eco][uc] 22 \definefontsynonym [Eco-Roman]['Eco101Roman:mapping=tex-text'][encoding=uc] 23 \definefontsynonym [Eco-Italic] ['Eco102Italic:mapping=tex-text'][encoding=uc] 24 \definefontsynonym [Eco-Bold] ['Eco301Bold:mapping=tex-text'][encoding=uc] 25 \stoptypescript 26 \usetypescript[eco] 27 \definetypeface[myfont][rm][Xserif][Eco-Roman] 28 %% produces 29 %% ./hello.tex:35: Font \*myfont12ptrmtfrm*:=Eco-Roman:mapping=tex-text at 12.0pt 30 %% not loadable: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found. 31 %% <to be read again> 32 33 34 \starttext 35 \switchtobodyfont[myfont,18pt] 36 \section{Testing font} 37 This is plain text \bf{This is bold text} \it{This is bold italic text} 38 39 \stoptext

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Bibliography in luatex: another question
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Hi all, I encounter a strange behaviour with luatex: An entry of my bib file has this author's name: author = {Antoine {Destutt de Tracy}}, I enclose the complex name with {} to avoid confusion with the first name, as is usual with bibtex. But with a "\cite[author][destv]" command, the result in the pdf is: (Des- tutt de Tra- cy) which never happened with pdftex or xetex. Any idea? -- Jean

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place figures at the end of document
by Peter I. Hansen 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

Hi, Is there a way in ConTeXt to place figures (and other floats) at the very end of the document? More specifically I would like to keep on having to placefigure code at the relevant place in the text where I would normally typeset with the option [here], but sometimes readers want all figures moved to the end of the document and it would be handy if this could be done by changing a keyword. thanks, Peter

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[OT] Quick ref for Lua ?
by luigi scarso 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

Does anybody know or use about pdf/ppt quick reference for Lua as used in LuaTeX ? -- luigi ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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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file runs diferently on windows and linux
by Horacio Suarez 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

Hello all: can somebody tell me why can be possible that the same file runs ok on windows and in linux aborts with (both the last version): xxxxxxxxxx ERROR: TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [save size=5000]. --- TeX said --- \updatefontparameters ...a \fontfile \s!features } \edef \@@fontskewchar {\tr... \xxdododefinefont ...newfontidentifier \endcsname \autofontsizefalse \ifskip... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... \dosetcurrentfontxxxalternative ...endcsname }{#1} xxxxxxxx I don't know what to look foor. Thankyou very much. -------------------- Horacio Suarez Editorial Antropofagia www.eantropofagia.com.ar _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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tex gyre math
by Hans Hagen 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

Hi, The TeXGyre team is currently trying to get funding for the next stage of TeXGYre: unicode math coverage. As usual we first approach user groups, but i fear that this stage (some 40KEUR) is quite a burden on them. So, if you're working at an organization that uses teX, ans see opportunities of participating in this, let me know and i can send you a detailed proposal off list. (This is the second of TeX Gyre, the third stage will deal with a cleanup and redesign of current shapes that are not okay.) 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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ConTeXt mkiv on Ubuntu (Hardy alpha)
by Joel C. Salomon 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

...is still not working for me. For those of you who have used mkiv under Ubuntu (or Debian, I suppose), had it worked "out of the box" or is "some assembly required"? --Joel

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Movies
by David Arnold 18 Jan '08

18 Jan '08

All, Does anyone have any experience embedding Quicktime or other movies in Context? Either in the document itself or simply a URL that will play the movie in the the user's system player? Can anyone supply some sample code snippets? Appreciated. David Arnold http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold

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Bibliography and luatex
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi all, Using luatex from the minimals at minimals.contextgarden.net (linux), I am unable to have bibtex working: here is a minimal example: .............................. \usemodule[bib] \usemodule[bibltx] \setupbibtex [database=/home/jean/BIB/biblio.bib] \setuppublications[] \setuppublicationlist[] \setupcite[] \starttext Bonjour de luatex! \blank LUA \cite[year][destv] \startlua a = 1.5 b = 1.8 c = a*b tex.print(c) \stoplua \completepublications[criterium=all] \stoptext .............................. I see this in the messages: "publications : warning: cite argument destv is unknown on 139" pdftex and xetex engines find it without problem. What did I miss? -- Jean

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Hi, there is a new mkiv beta with a different lookup handler (chains and such) 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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2 further unix stubs
by Peter Münster 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hello, What about these 2 new stubs: stubs/unix/texmfstart: #!/bin/sh script=$(dirname $0)/../../ruby/texmfstart.rb exec $script "$@" # (or exec ruby $script "$@") stubs/unix/texsync: #!/bin/sh texmfstart texsync.rb "$@" # (Or is texsync now obsolete and replaced by another script?) Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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many columns and then one column on the same page
by Yvon Henel 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

hello all I've failed to find how I could put first some text in two columns and then other text in one column on the same page. After \stopcolumnsep my text goes on a new page. Any hint would be greatly appreciated Many thanks -- Yvon Henel

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composed chars
by Hans Hagen 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

new in the mkiv beta ... \starttext {\font\oeps=name:lmroman10regular*default at 10pt \oeps test \char7683} {\font\oeps=name:lmroman10regular*default at 30pt \oeps test \char7683} \definefontfeature[superdefault][default][compose=yes] {\font\oeps=name:lmroman10regular*superdefault at 10pt \oeps test \char7683} {\font\oeps=name:lmroman10regular*superdefault at 30pt \oeps test \char7683} \dontleavehmode\dorecurse{100}{\one{}\two{}} \stoptext compose=yes will add missing composed chars as virtual glyphs 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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Zapf Chancery and mkiv
by Aditya Mahajan 15 Jan '08

15 Jan '08

Hi, There is something wrong with the mappings for zapf chancery in mkiv. Minimal example \usetypescriptfile[type-gyr] \definetypeface [mainface] [rm][serif][pagella][default][encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface [mainface] [cg][calligraphy][chancery][default] [encoding=texnansi] \setupbodyfont [mainface,10pt] \starttext \cg test \stoptext Gives This went wrong: /home/adityam/texmf/tex/context/base/font-tfm.lua:141: attempt to index local 'tfmdata' (a nil value) error >> define font: font with name texgyrechorus-regular is not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... l.9 \cg test ? r OK, entering \nonstopmode... ! Font \*mainface10ptcgtfcg*:=texgyrechorus-regular*default at 10pt not loadable: metric data not found or bad. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... l.9 \cg test I get the same error on contextgarden. Only texgyrechorus-italicmedium.otf is availabe from tex-gyre website. But context is looking for texgyrechorus-regular and cannot find it. The same file works with mkii. Aditya

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context stub
by Peter Münster 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hello, Shouldn't the script scripts/context/lua/context be rather in scripts/context/stubs/unix/ ? And it seems, that "mtxrun --script context file" does not work, the option "--run" is needed. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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ConTeXt on Ubuntu
by Joel C. Salomon 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Has anyone had success running ConTeXt as packaged with Ubuntu? I can't get texexec --lua to find the ConTeXt format files, nor can I figure out how to generate the format files for luatex. XeTeX is similarly flaky. I'm running Ubuntu Hardy alpha in hopes of getting more up-to-date packages; is this a vain hope? --Joel

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multi-page table numbering
by Santy, Michael 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hello, By default, ConTeXt numbers the table on each page in a multi-page table with a different number (e.g., 1a, 1b, 1c for a three page table). I don't see this as a problem except for that each page of a multi-page table will be called out in the list of tables. Does anybody know how suppress the printing of each page of a multi-page table in the list of tables? Cheers, Mike

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showframe - showgrid = 2pt ??
by Steffen Wolfrum 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hans, I know I've asked you this before ... I just can't find the answer anymore ;o( Look at line 43: \newdimen\XVertikal \XVertikal=12pt \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=\XVertikal] \setuplayout [width=113mm,height=\the\dimexpr48\XVertikal-2pt\relax, backspace=20mm,topspace=15mm, header=\XVertikal,headerdistance=0.5\XVertikal, footer=3.5\XVertikal,footerdistance=0pt, location=middle,marking=on,grid=yes] \showframe \showgrid \starttext bla \stoptext ... when "height" is made 2pt smaller then it fits: \newdimen\XVertikal \XVertikal=12pt \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=\XVertikal] \setuplayout [width=113mm,height=\the\dimexpr48\XVertikal-2pt\relax, backspace=20mm,topspace=15mm, header=\XVertikal,headerdistance=0.5\XVertikal, footer=3.5\XVertikal,footerdistance=0pt, location=middle,marking=on,grid=yes] \showframe \showgrid \starttext bla \stoptext Does this difference has a specific purpose? Would you recommend *not* to use the second? Steffen

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active strings in luatex?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Dear Hans and Taco, This may be of general interest to the Europeans (and indirectly relates to the \sh@ft email): I need the following: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH TILDE;004C 0303 LATIN SMALL LETTER L WITH TILDE;006C 0303 The proposal is still under consideration for lithuanian and not yet in unicode. In luatex can I make a definition such that such that the string U004C U0303 (l ̃) is always treated as l with tilde above, taking into account italics and without using \~l (which does not work in, eg, footnote)? Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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typesetting underscore
by Gour 14 Jan '08

14 Jan '08

Hi! Yesterday I played a bit with emacs' muse mode which has option to 'publish' to ConTeXt, but its output was wailing when texeexec-ing due to use of \textunderscore (option in muse). Today I discussed the issue on muse mailing list, got help and the following remark: '...Context gurus don't seem to imagine you can use "_" elsewhere than in math mode btw'. I looked at ConTeXt docs (excursion and manual), as well as wiki on contextgarden, but was not able to find more about what is the status of underscore '_' char in ConTeXt and is the above remark true? My usage of '_' in muse document was for preparing tables of some library functions and, as it is often the case in software, there is usually some prefix for all library functions as eg. gtk_xxxxx for GTK+ toolkit. Sincerely, Gour

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Bug or feature? Strange counter behaviour in macro
by Carsten Fechtmann 13 Jan '08

13 Jan '08

Hello everyone, first off: I am new to ConTeXt (even if not so new to LaTeX) and would like to transfer some of my old macros to ConTeXt... I am well aware, that this means re-programming (most) of them. So be it. Furthermore, I am not sure if this is really the right way (read ConTeXt Way) to do it. It just looked like a good idea at the time ... However, I just hit a snuff with the following: If one places \NewIssue[Some Time] somewhere in the text, it should result in a new (issue / timestamp) to be generated, which can then placed in a list of issues / changes. I also want to be able to make use of the last value Issue to be placed in the header, same goes for the last timestamp Now this is how I went out to do this in ConTeXt (maybe wrongly so?) following the manual and some examples on contextwiki %--------------- code below ----------------------- \definesynonyms[Issue][issues][\IssueText][\IssueDate] \setupsynonyms[Issue][criterium=all] \newcounter\IssueCounter \definenumber[IssueNumber] \def\TempIssueText{% %% This was the (seemingly) only way to get any value beside 0 %% from \getnumber within doAddIssue %% Original place for \incrementnumber[IssueNumber] Issue~\getnumber[IssueNumber]: } \def\NewIssue{\dosingleargument\doNewIssue} \def\doNewIssue[#1]{% \increment\IssueCounter % This one works correctly. %% Alternative place for %\incrementnumber[IssueNumber] %% if placed here instead of in \TempIssueText %% a DIFFERENT, but still wrong result comes out %% that is: Debug shows the right progression, %% but ALL "Issue x" Numbers are set to the last one Debug: \IssueCounter / \getnumber[IssueNumber]% %% but alas I can't seem to make this work with the following lines :-( \doifempty{#1}{\Issue[\IssueCounter]{\TempIssueText}{\currentdate}} \doifnotempty{#1}{\Issue[\IssueCounter]{\TempIssueText}{#1}} %% Note: Using \dofiemptyelse gives the same result, %% I just wanted to make sure here that I am /really/ not calling it twice, %% somehow, by being able to disable each case, separately and definitely. -- \IssueCounter / \getnumber[IssueNumber] \crlf } % -- -- -- -- -- -- \starttext \NewIssue[January 9, 2008] \NewIssue[January 10, 2008] \NewIssue % January 11, 2008 List of issue \# and dates: \placelistofissues \blank \IssueDate{\IssueCounter} % produces correct result in either case \stoptext %--------------- code above ----------------------- Result as printed out by original version ---------------------------------------------- Debug: 1/ 0 – 1/ 0 Debug: 2/ 0 – 2/ 0 Debug: 3/ 0 – 3/ 0 List of issue # and dates: Issue 2: January 9, 2008 Issue 4: January 10, 2008 Issue 6: January 11, 2008 January 11, 2008 ------------------------------ So while \IssueCounter is updated correctly and used with the right values, \getnumber[IssueNumber] always sees / reports the original value However, the value in \placelistofissues are twice what they should be?! This is changed if one places \incrementnumber[IssueNumber] INSIDE of \doAddIssue Here, \getnumber[IssueNumber] does report the right value (same as IssueCounter) However, in that case the result looks like this: Result as printed out by alternative version ---------------------------------------------- Debug: 1/ 1 – 1/ 1 Debug: 2/ 2 – 2/ 2 Debug: 3/ 3 – 3/ 3 List of issue # and dates: Issue 3: January 9, 2008 Issue 3: January 10, 2008 Issue 3: January 11, 2008 January 11, 2008 ------------------------ In short, while now the value of \getnumber[IssueNumber] is correct before and after, its value in \placelistofissues is always the last value, i.e. equal to the total number of issues. And this does NOT even change, when one replaces Issue~\getnumber[IssueNumber]: Issue~\IssueCounter: in \TempIssueText So for some reason, \TempIssueText is called twice ? How? Where? Unfortunately, my ConTeXt.foo is not yet good enough to make it over the TeX.bar here as I haven't found a way to make this work (preferably with \IssueCounter as all this \XXXnumber stuff does not seem to work the way I think it should, anyway...) And yes, ANY help with this is very welcome by now Sincerely Carsten P.S: Context version is 2007.01.12 15:56 / TeXlive / OS X

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Unicode.otf
by luigi scarso 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

>There is a better font if you need only symbols, choose the "Unicode > Symbols" link on the following page. > > http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ > I'm trying to use Unicode.otf from http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d I just copied it into texmf/fonts/opentype/unicodesymbols/Unicode.otf run luatools --generate and test %%%test0012.tex \definefont[WhatEver][Unicode] \starttext \WhatEver Hello \stoptext with texmfstart texexec --luatex test0012.tex Result: !luaTeX error (file /opt/texlive/ContextMKiv/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/unicodesymbols/Unicode.otf): can't find table `CFF ' ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! (I'm using This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.2-2007121721 (Web2C 7.5.6) ConTeXt ver: 2008.01.02 14:18 MKIV fmt: 2008.1.10 int: english/english ) Hence, I saved Unicode.otf as UnicodeSymbols.otf with fontforge (saved as Opentype CFF) %%%test0012.tex \definefont[WhatEver][UnicodeSymbol at 100pt] \starttext \WhatEver Hello \stoptext now works . Do I have make some mistake ? And How can I quicky access symbols like U+25c9 ? -- luigi it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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Installing Type 1 fonts into ConTeXt
by Pascal de Bruijn 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hi, I'm trying to install Type 1 fonts into ConTeXt, I'm using texfont, and all but one font properly generate: Good: \starttyping \definefontsynonym[Humanist777BT-BoldB][texnansi-hum777b][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[Humanist777BT-BoldItalicB][texnansi-hum777bi][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[Humanist777BT-ItalicB][texnansi-hum777i][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[Humanist777BT-RomanB][texnansi-hum777n][encoding=texnansi] \stoptyping Bad: \starttyping \definefontsynonym[][texnansi-zhu601bi][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[ZapfHumanist601BT-Bold][texnansi-zhum601b][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[ZapfHumanist601BT-Italic][texnansi-zhum601i][encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[ZapfHumanist601BT-Roman][texnansi-zhum601n][encoding=texnansi] \stoptyping (Complete file attached) Does anybody have a clue why the first define went sour? Which tool is used to extract the metadata from the .pfb files? Also, I'm currently installing in ~/texmf, however, say I'd want to make these fonts available system-wide, what would be the correct place to move them? And texfont creates a series of .tex files (containing the above text), what is the properly location to put them? I don't want to copy these files into each project directory. Regards, Pascal de Bruijn

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beta & math
by Hans Hagen 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hi, I uploaded a beta. (1) feature inheritance, example: \definefontfeature[default-a][tlig=yes] \definefontfeature[default-b][liga=yes] \definefontfeature[default-c][default-a,default-b][mode=node] \starttext \definedfont[Serif*default-c at 60pt]fiets -- \stoptext (2) unicode math this is work in progress and i need a few volunteers for building definition lists; all info goes in char-def.lua and math mappings are generated automatically; there will still be math vectors (like math-tex.tex) but using lua tables; an example is in math-ini.lua; for math stuff not in unicode we will use private unicodes in char-def; just a dumb test ... \starttext [[[\utfchar{8194}]]][[[\utfchar{8195}]]] \par $[[[\utfchar{8194}]]][[[\utfchar{8195}]]]$\par $\alpha\char945 \utfchar{945} abc 123$ \startXMLdata <oeps>((( )))</oeps> \stopXMLdata \stoptext 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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last version of context 2007
by Hans Hagen 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hi, At 31/12/2007 we uploaded an end-of-year release .. http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2007.12.31 we could not update the wiki in time, so here is a delayed happy new year Taco & 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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Opportunity to include ConTeXt code into a LaTeXe environment
by cyberplaque 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hi @ all, I'm glad about the opportunities ConTeXt gives me to create Coverpages. Now that I have a working example of a coverpage my question is, if it is possible to include that ConTeXt-code into Latex to create a book. If yes, how is the procedure to do so. Kind regards Martin

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Tables and misplaced \noalign
by Jürgen Strass 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hi, when I'm trying to use tables (\starttables ... \stoptables), I'm often getting the following error: --- ! Misplaced \noalign. \TABLEnoalign ->\noalign \bgroup \let \noalign \relax \let \next = \insertTABLEtail ->\TABLEnoalign {\global \settrue \preventTABLEbreak \globa... \stoptables ...erepeattail \else \insertTABLEtail \fi \finishTABLE \egroup \... l.148 \stoptables --- On the mailing list archives, I already found some code posted by Hans Hagen that solves the issue in case of the "\starttable ... \stoptable" command. I had to insert the following code in my cont-new.tex file: \def\stoptable {\chuckTABLEautorow % before the tail \insertTABLEtail \TABLEnoalign{\globalletempty\@@TABLEhead}% \TABLEnoalign{\globalletempty\@@TABLEtail}% \finishTABLE \doifelsenothing\@@tiframe {\ifinsidefloat\else \stopbaselinecorrection \goodbreak % compensates all the nobreaks \fi} \stopframedcontent \egroup} For the "tables" commands it doesn't work though, even not after changing "\def\stoptable" to "\def\stoptables". Does anyone have an idea what to do about it? ctxtools gives the following details about my context version under WinXP: CtxTools | context version: 2007.01.12 15:56 (c:/TeXLive2007/texmf-dist/tex/cont ext/base/context.tex) CtxTools | context version: 2007.01.12 15:56 (c:/TeXLive2007/texmf-dist/tex/cont ext/base/cont-new.tex) Thanks in advance for any help, Jürgen

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Windows installer updated
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hello, I've updated the Windows installer for ConTeXt, which can be found at http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-installer/ContextMinimalIns… Now it provides four separate options: - Get latest setup files (recommended) - Get latest distribution files (recommended) - Make format files (recommended) - Set environment vars globally (recommended only if no other TeX systems are installed) Please, send me any comments. Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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latest beta (2008-01-09 19:58)
by Thomas A. Schmitz 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hi Hans, there seems to be a problem with the latest beta; compilation stops with several of these warnings: error >> define font: font with name lmromanslant12-regular is not found error >> define font: name: lmromanslant12-regular, loading aborted ! Font \*12ptrmslrm*=file:lmromanslant12-regular*default not loadable: metric data not found or bad. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \dodosettextfamilyA ...amily \fontsize \endcsname \else \ifcsname \fontbody ... \dosettextfamily ... \dodosettextfamily \textfont \let \fontbody \savedfontb... <inserted text> ...y \c!bf \dosettextfamily \c!sl \dosettextfamily \c! it \do... \synchronizetext ...athfonts \the \textstrategies \fi (and the document in question doesn't even use Latin Modern...) Best Thomas

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problem with small cyrillic yo
by Oleg Kolosov 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hi all! I've noticed that some documents lacks small cyrillic letter yo (ё) when typeset with input files in utf encoding. It's encoded as \cyrillicyo everywhere but as \cyrillicio in uni-0004 (line 100). I've changed this and didn't noticed problems so far. Maybe these files are autogenerated somehow, so please fix this where appropriate. BTW capital yo is coded as \cyrillicYO everywhere and typesets right. -- Best regards Oleg

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ConTeXt meeting: preliminary registrations open now
by Mojca Miklavec 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hello dear ConTeXt enthusiasts, First of all I would like to thank to all of you who have replied to my first mail. (It's really a pity that quite some people whom I was hoping to see or get to know will not be able to participate this year.) I have put the meeting page online now (not perfect yet, but it serves the basic needs): http://meeting.contextgarden.net/ The registration form should be working now (I hope so at least - two have registered already). I had two locations in mind, but I have chosen the nicer and cheaper one, which consequently means that it is fully booked months in advance. Even though it could host two such meetings, I cannot take the risk of booking and paying for too many empty beds, or vice versa: it would be stupid to decline people just because of too few reservations. Why to come? - meet ConTeXt fellows - present your work - solve your problems quickly - not every software can offer you direct contact with its authors: you will be proud to say that you have met two among the most important TeX-ies around the world (then you will be only one step away from Don E. Knuth) - spend nice holidays next to the biggest Slovenian lake (swimming, if the weather will still permit) - if it will be too cold or rainy, you may continue your trip to the Croatian coast - some last year participants on the list could name you other reasons as well :-) So - if you're thinking about visiting this tiny, but wonderful piece of Europe in August, please register right away on http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2008/register.shtml (and choose "I will come for sure" :) Mojca

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permissions in luatex-cache
by Peter Münster 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hello, What directories in luatex-cache should be world writable? It seems to me, at least some sub-dirs in $TEXMFCACHE/luatex-cache/context/XXX/fonts And do these world writable directories present any security risk? (For example: user A writes some evil code into file $TEXMFCACHE/luatex-cache/context/XXX/fonts/otf/file.otf that makes user B remove all his files when running "texexec --luatex document.tex") Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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xindy
by Gour 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hello! After several days spent lying in a bed, I got up few hours before and saw a long-waited announcement on xindy ml that (finally) xindy-2.3 is out. Let's t hope it will make it in new TexLive... For now, I'm interested whether and/or how one uses xindy in ConTeXt? Wiki is empty in regards :-( Sincerely, Gour

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Context Minimal Linux installation on MAC Leopard
by Giulio Bertellini 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

I thought I could install the Context Minimal Linux installation also ona Mac with Leopard. I did not succeed. Has anybody tried it. What is the suggested minimal distribution for Context to install on a Mac with Leopard? All suggestions are welcome. Giulio Bertellini

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Weird behavior about metafun
by Zhichu Chen 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hi Hans and Wolfgang, I'm just trying to make some illustrations about the Chinese typesetting features. So I choose the way which is described in Chapter 5 of the metafun manual. And I wanna draw a line from the text I wanna comment on to the marginal notes which my comments lay on. To highlight them, I drew an underline below the contexts which is to be commented and put a square around the comments. Everything is under control except I put \fpos and \tpos around the comments, the framed box is not exactly what I want. It seems that metafun still thought it's in the main text so it drew the bounding around the body. I found the mpos:par was defined in core-pgr.tex and it used show_par or draw_par which are defined in mp-core.mp. I don't think it's a good way to define another MPpositiongraphic called like mpos:marginpar to match my case. Do you think it's possible to change some of the core codes to make metafun recognize where she is. -- 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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Footnotes in PDF bookmarks
by Marco Costa 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hello I'm having a problem: footnotes that I've placed in chapter titles are appearing in PDF bookmarks (after the title text). The Table of Contents is OK, the footnotes are ignored there. Is there some way of making the footnotes not appear in PDF bookmarks? (I'm using XeTeX). Thanks.

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symbols in luatex?
by Thomas A. Schmitz 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hi all, first, a very happy new year 2008 to all of you! May ConTeXt continue to prosper and develop at a brisk pace :-) What better way to start the new year than asking a stupid question on the list? Here comes: I must be missing something really obvious here. I have a font (otf) with a number of (metrical) symbols which I use in a module. In mkii, I defined an encoding within this module to address the symbols: \startencoding[metr] \definecharacter metricbreve 66 \stopencoding so I can use the symbold with \metricbreve. Works great in mkii. But how do I do this in mkiv, which doesn't seem to read and use the encoding anymore? All best Thomas

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latest beta
by Thomas A. Schmitz 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hi all, Taco, Hans, this combination of latest betas: This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.20.2-2007121721 CtxTools | context version: 2008.01.03 16:25 gives me output without the usual TeX ligatures (fi etc.). I'm uncertain whether it is worth reporting such things or whether, given the rapid change of luatex and mkiv, you think this is unnecessary? All best Thomas

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ConTeXt 2008.01.02
by luigi scarso 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

At pragma site last release is ConTeXt 2008.01.02 , while at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes last release is Context 2007.12.31 -- luigi .... it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org

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weird (italic) math braces in antt
by Mojca Miklavec 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Hello, I don't understand why I get italic braces in the following example. The font itself seems to be OK (and if I recall correctly, this has already worked OK in the past). \usetypescript[antykwa-torunska][ec] \starttext $\{a\}$ \showfont[lmex10] \setupbodyfont[antykwa,16pt] $\{a\}[]$ \showfont[ex-anttr] \stoptext Thanks a lot, Mojca

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Module documentation under MarkIV
by Wolfgang Schuster 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Hi, the documentation module x-set-11 did currently not work work under MarkIV, the entries from the xml-file are written as normal text in the output and is not interpreted in xml mode. \usemodule[set-11]\loadsetups \starttext \setup{setuplayout} \stoptext Wolfgang

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