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dosetupidentity problem
by Christopher G D Tipper 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Hi friends, I've been using eXaMpLe for some years and I find that recently dosetupidentity stopped doing anything. (This is a setup for document headers in PDF). I was wondering if this was a bug, as I used to get Acrobat Document Properties and now I don't, simply from updating ConTeXt. I am using latest gwTeX on Mac OS X. (Web2C 7.5.6) (format=cont-en 2007.5.15) Sample code: \defineXMLenvironment [meta] {\bgroup \defineXMLpush[author] \defineXMLpush[subject] \defineXMLpush[head] \defineXMLpush[keywords]} {\dosetupidentity {\XMLpop{head}} {\XMLpop{subject}} {\XMLpop{author}} {TeX with the ConTeXt macro package} {} {\XMLpop{keywords}} \egroup} Many thanks, it's been a long time! Christopher

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prevent new paragraph when changing font
by zs 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Hello, is there any way to prevent ending the paragraph when changing the font? I want to keep this in one paragraph: Some text \switchtobodyfont[def]another text in different font. But when after typesetting I get: Some text<new paragraph> another text in different font. Thanks Zdenek

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Re: [NTG-context] Manual hyphenation
by Elliot Clifton 13 Jun '07

13 Jun '07

Thank you very much Taco. It works very well. It really is useful to be able to select less aggressive hyphenation when necessary. Cheers, Elliot

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Re: [NTG-context] Draw chess board
by Mojca Miklavec 12 Jun '07

12 Jun '07

On 6/6/07, Zhichu Chen wrote: > Hi > > I've tried to write a test file which can only handle ;B[??], ;W[??], > AB[??], AW[??] now, and I haven't added the interaction part. But it is a > good start. > > Any suggestions? Wow - that's really, really impressive! You indeed started parsing the strings in plain TeX! I've changed your source slightly, to give you an idea of yet another approach: using TikZ. It's main advantage over metapost might be: - you can draw more fancy stones (see the example - that could be made configurable of course), although teoretically the same could be achived with slightly improved smooth shading mechanism in mptopdf macros - might be easier to backport to (La)TeX - I can imagine your module to be a new, really nice TikZ package/module (that could be used in other flavours of TeX) + some fancy ConTeXt additions (user interface, javascript, ...). The main difference is that you need to store all the variables in TeX, not in metapost, so that part should be rewritten as well (which I didn't do). But simply forget about my stupid comments about (La)TeX for and do it your way now. Mojca (I have some other comments, but it's too early to speak about them, since the module is not ready/complete yet.) On 5/24/07, Zhichu Chen wrote: > Hi > > I love chess games, especially one kind of them which is generally called > Go. > > I know there is some file can store each details in one game: > http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/ > > AFAIK, there is no module available to draw chess in ConTeXt now. I wanna do > this by using MetaPost and fieldstack. But I don't know how to tell metapost > the details of the sgf file. Can anyone give me a suggestion? > > BTW, I don't like the name. It's invented by acient Chinese and it's called > Weiqi. I think we can call it Siege Chess in English. > > > -- > Best Regards > Chen

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Write once layout everwhere (?)
by Pepe Barbe 11 Jun '07

11 Jun '07

Hello, I have used ConTeXt in the past and I have been very pleased with it and the results obtained, much more than LaTeX. Now I am looking into a solution that would allow me to layout the content ConTeXt and in other formats that ConTeXt does not (Forgive my ignorance, if I am wrong) output, like HTML, Plain Text, or RTF (Those are the formats that I can think of that are interesting to me currently). Reading the Wiki one of those solutions would be XML, but I know very little about the subject, so this email is to ask about experiences in similar endeavors, other solutions for the same problem and how practical this is. I suppose that I would use this for general writing and for academic as well (Maths and engineering). Thanks, Pepe

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Weird Fieldstack problem
by Zhichu Chen 11 Jun '07

11 Jun '07

Hi, I've written the following test file: ====================== \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \setupinteraction [state=start] \starttext \MPdrawingdonetrue \startMPdrawing draw (0,0)--(2cm,2cm); \stopMPdrawing \definesymbol[aa][\getMPdrawing] \startMPdrawing draw (2cm,2cm)--(2cm,0); \stopMPdrawing \definesymbol[bb][\getMPdrawing] \startMPdrawing draw (0,0)--(2cm,0); \stopMPdrawing \definesymbol[cc][\getMPdrawing] \definefieldstack[somemap][aa,bb,cc][height=fit,width=fit,frame=on] \fieldstack[somemap] \goto{here} [JS(Walk_Field{somemap})] \stoptext ====================== It seems that the fieldstack does not work. Is there anything wrong? -- 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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Re: [NTG-context] Write once layout everwhere (?)
by Duncan Hothersall 11 Jun '07

11 Jun '07

Hi Pepe, If you want your content to remain maintainable and manageable for a long period (e.g. decades), if you can afford it, and if you have a sufficiently large amount of content, then I strongly recommend investing the time and effort in an XML-based solution. My experience is in large scale educational/commercial applications, in which managing content in XML and using tools like ConTeXt to create beautiful print output, and alternate tools to create web output from the same source, is a very good solution. I can certainly let you know the technology we use, but some of it is commercial and expensive, and other bits are just complicated! I did a talk at the user group meeting which was kinda about this: http://context.aanhet.net/epen2007/share/duncan/ The first question to ask yourself is how much effort is your content worth. The rest of the answers flow from that, in my experience. :-) Duncan > Hello, > > I have used ConTeXt in the past and I have been very pleased with it > and the results obtained, much more than LaTeX. > > Now I am looking into a solution that would allow me to layout the > content ConTeXt and in other formats that ConTeXt does not (Forgive my > ignorance, if I am wrong) output, like HTML, Plain Text, or RTF (Those > are the formats that I can think of that are interesting to me > currently). > > Reading the Wiki one of those solutions would be XML, but I know very > little about the subject, so this email is to ask about experiences in > similar endeavors, other solutions for the same problem and how > practical this is. > > I suppose that I would use this for general writing and for academic > as well (Maths and engineering). > > Thanks, > Pepe > >

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partial hz ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Jun '07

11 Jun '07

Hi, hz justification brings better results, sometimes (most paragraphs don't change), but the entire typesetting is generally slow down with hz almost by factor 2. Thus I'd like to have a a kind of "partial hz" that I can use on selected paragraphs only. I hoped it should work like this: \startfonthandling [stpure] \defineprotrudefactor endash 0 0.25 \defineprotrudefactor hyphen 0 0.5 \defineprotrudefactor / 0 0.5 \defineprotrudefactor , 0 0.5 \defineprotrudefactor . 0 0.5 \defineprotrudefactor : 0 0.5 \defineprotrudefactor ; 0 0.5 \defineprotrudefactor - 0 0.5 \defineprotrudefactor quotedblleft 0 0.25 \stopfonthandling \definefonthandling [stpure] [stpure] [type=hanging] definefonthandling [sthighquality] [hz,stpure] \setupfonthandling [hz] [min=20,max=20,step=5] \setupfontsynonym [Serif] [handling=sthighquality] \setupfontsynonym [SerifBold] [handling=sthighquality] \setupfontsynonym [SerifSlanted] [handling=sthighquality] \setupfontsynonym [SerifItalic] [handling=sthighquality] \setupfontsynonym [SerifBoldSlanted] [handling=sthighquality] \setupfontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [handling=sthighquality] \usetypescript[postscript][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt] \setupalign[block,hanging] ... and chosen paragraphs I'd wrap with a ... \setupalign[block,hanging,hz] But this doesn't make any improvement in speed. The only relevant change seems to be definefonthandling [sthighquality] [hz,stpure] When this is changed to definefonthandling [sthighquality] [stpure] then typesetting speeds up, of course. But this gives me no choice between main text without and selected paragraphs with hz... Any ideas? Steffen

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columnsets and footnotes
by Aditya Mahajan 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Hi, What do I need to get footnotes to work with columnsets. Somehow footntes have the wrong width. \definecolumnset [two] [n=2,balancing=yes,distance=0.2in] \starttext \startcolumnset[two] \dorecurse{10}{ \input tufte\footnote{\input zapf \endgraf} \endgraf} \stopcolumnset \stoptext Aditya

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\loadcurrentMPgraphic from metafun manual
by nicola 10 Jun '07

10 Jun '07

Hi, I have tried the following example (metafun-p.pdf, p. 112-3): \startMPgraphic draw unitsquare xscaled 5cm yscaled 1cm withpen pencircle scaled 2mm withcolor .625red; \stopMPgraphic \hbox \bgroup \loadcurrentMPgraphic{width=5cm,height=1cm}\placeMPgraphic \quad \loadcurrentMPgraphic{width=8cm,height=1cm}\placeMPgraphic \egroup but nothing is drawn unless I remove the setups in curly braces (in which case a rectangle 5cm x 1cm is drawn). Is there a different way to pass options to the figure inclusion macro? Nicola

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gwTeX problem
by David Arnold 09 Jun '07

09 Jun '07

All, After using i-installer to install "gwTeX Support : Context Updater," I now get the following message: FatalError : Your format does not match the base files! FormatVersion : 2007.01.02 13:44 MK II FilesVersion : 2007.04.17 12:51 How should I proceed?

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code weaving (solved)
by Steffen Wolfrum 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

Surprise, surprise: \def\setnotebodyfont {\let\setnotebodyfont\relax \restoreglobalbodyfont \switchtobodyfont[rm,9pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=9.8pt,height=.79,depth=.21]\setupalign[block,hanging,hz]\parskip2pt}% ... sometimes I wish I had administrative access to the mailing list in order to silently delete my own dump postings ... o( Steffen

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code weaving
by Steffen Wolfrum 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

Hi, my footnotes are nicely defined a such: \def\setnotebodyfont {\let\setnotebodyfont\relax \restoreglobalbodyfont \switchtobodyfont[rm,9pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=9.8pt,height=.79,depth=.21]\parskip2pt}% Now I have to set the entire text with hanging/hz – same for the footnotes. But the related command ... \setupfootnotes[align={block,hanging,hz}] ... is kind of overwritten/ignored by the syntax shown above. No matter where I place it. Could someone please show me how to weave the align-instructions into the given footnote definition? Thank you, Steffen

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endlinechar redefinition
by Vit Zyka 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

Hi Hans, Jaroslav Hajtnar (in czech TeX list) encountered the problem with \input primitive redefinition. He uses a macro package for comma separated value file (CSV) inclusion. It redefines some catcodes and \endlinechar before start reading such file by \input. The problem is that during reading CSV the reading is interrupted by reading another file like \readfilename ->pdfr-ec (c:/TeXLive2005/texmf-context-a/tex/context/base/pdfr-ec.tex ConTeXt macro \input takes care about catcodes but not about \endlinechar so in this situation the file pdfr-ec is read with wrong \endlinechar which causes error. We believe that system solution is the ConTeXt takes care about \endlinechar when automatically starts reading some standard files. Please Hans can you look at it? Thanks Vit ------------------ Minimal demo attached. As a result of this problem, see the '00000' in the lower left page corner. Actually it is character ^^X (0x18, part of per-cent/per-mil char) which is used as \endlinechar delimiter.

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How to make \framed ignore the width of the rule
by Aditya Mahajan 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

Hi, How can I make \framed ignore the width of the rule? I am trying to typeset internet protocol headers, but I cannot fully get what I want. Here is my attempt: \unprotect \makecounter{v!protocolheaderlength} \defineframed[protocolfieldheader] [location=lohi,height=3\lineheight,offset=none,strut=yes] \def\startprotocolheader {\dodoubleempty\dostartprotocolheader} \def\dostartprotocolheader[#1][#2]% {\getparameters[c!protocol][#1]% \let\field\protocolheaderfield \resetcounter{v!protocolheaderlength}% \vbox\bgroup % \ruledvbox\bgroup \removeunwantedspaces \dontleavehmode \protocolfieldheader[frame=on,width=\c!protocolbits\c!protocolunitsize]% {\let\\\crlf\bold #2}\crlf} \def\stopprotocoloheader {\egroup} \def\protocolheaderfield#1#2% {\doif{\countervalue{v!protocolheaderlength}}{\c!protocolbits} {\resetcounter{v!protocolheaderlength}\crlf}% \removeunwantedspaces \dontleavehmode \protocolfieldheader[width=#1\c!protocolunitsize]{\let\\\crlf #2\\(#1)}% \incrementcounter{v!protocolheaderlength}{#1}} \protect % \showstruts % \showboxes \starttext % Why should unitsize=1mm. Are things being scaled by another factor? \startprotocolheader[bits=16,unitsize=1mm][General MAC Headers] \field {1} {HT} \field {1} {EC} \field {6} {Type} \field {1} {ESF} \field {1} {CI} \field {2} {EKS} \field {1} {Rsv} \field {3} {LEN MSB} \field {8} {LEN LSB} \field {8} {CID MSB} \field {8} {CID LSB} \field {8} {HCS} \stopprotocoloheader \stoptext Notice that all the lines are not of the same size. It seems that the rules of framed are causing the frame to be of a larger width. Also am I missing a scaling factor in width= expressions above. Everything looks fine with unitsize=1mm, but the final figure is clearly larger than 16mm. I am confused as to what is happening. Is there any better way to do this? Thanks, Aditya

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Back to Metafun Manual
by David Arnold 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

All, I am wondering what is wrong with the following. On my system it produces the error that follows. \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \usetypescriptonce [map] [times,helvetica,palatino] [texnansi] \usetypescriptonce [serif] [times] [name,texnansi] \usetypescriptonce [sans] [helvetica] [name,texnansi] \usetypescriptonce [palatino] [texnansi] \setupbodyfont [palatino,10pt] \startbuffer[mpenv] \startMPenvironment \usetypescriptonce[map][times,helvetica,palatino][texnansi] \usetypescriptonce[serif][times][name,texnansi] \usetypescriptonce[sans][helvetica][name,texnansi] \usetypescriptonce[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt] \definefont[RotFont][RegularBold] \stopMPenvironment \stopbuffer \definefont[RotFont][RegularBold] \getbuffer[mpenv] \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \def\showMPline#1#2% {\startMPcode path p ; p := ((0,0)--(.5,1)--(1,0)) xscaled 2.5cm yscaled 1.25cm ; pickup pencircle scaled .75cm ; draw p withcolor .625white ; interim linejoin := #1 ; interim linecap := #2 ; draw p withcolor transparent(1,.5,.625yellow) ; \stopMPcode} \def\showMPtext#1#2% {linejoin=#1\par linecap=#2} \startbuffer \startcombination[3*3] {\showMPline{mitered}{butt}} {\showMPtext{mitered}{butt}} {\showMPline{mitered}{rounded}} {\showMPtext{mitered}{rounded}} {\showMPline{mitered}{squared}} {\showMPtext{mitered}{squared}} {\showMPline{rounded}{butt}} {\showMPtext{rounded}{butt}} {\showMPline{rounded}{rounded}} {\showMPtext{rounded}{rounded}} {\showMPline{rounded}{squared}} {\showMPtext{rounded}{squared}} {\showMPline{beveled}{butt}} {\showMPtext{beveled}{butt}} {\showMPline{beveled}{rounded}} {\showMPtext{beveled}{rounded}} {\showMPline{beveled}{squared}} {\showMPtext{beveled}{squared}} \stopcombination \stopbuffer \placefigure [here] [fig:joints] {The nine ways to end and join lines.} {\getbuffer} \stoptext \stoptext The error: (./meta-meta.tmp [MP to PDF] (./meta-mpgraph.1 ! Dimension too large. <recently read> \onebasepoint \handleMPboundingbox ...expr \MPury \onebasepoint -\MPlly \onebasepoint \rel... l.2 %%BoundingBox: -11 -11 82 25121 ?

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Beautiful source code
by David Arnold 07 Jun '07

07 Jun '07

Hans, I'm revisiting the metafun manual and I am marveling at the format of the source code. For example: \starttabulate[|lT|l|] \HL \NC \METAPOST\ code \NC mathematical equivalent \NC \NR \HL \NC (x,y) shifted (a,b) \NC $(x+a,y+b)$ \NC \NR \NC (x,y) scaled s \NC $(sx,sy)$ \NC \NR \NC (x,y) xscaled s \NC $(sx,y)$ \NC \NR \NC (x,y) yscaled s \NC $(x,sy)$ \NC \NR \NC (x,y) zscaled (u,v) \NC $(xu-yv,xv+yu)$ \NC \NR \NC (x,y) slanted s \NC $(x+sy,y)$ \NC \NR \NC (x,y) rotated r \NC $(x\cos(r)-y\sin(r),x\sin(r)+y\cos(r))$ \NC \NR \HL \stoptabulate Pasting into my email program does not do this code snippet justice, as in the Metafun source, all of the \NC's are aligned vertically, as are the \NR's. How do you do this? Does your editor align these for you, or do you painstakenly align them manually with the spacebar?

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non-interactive underlining
by Alan Bowen 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

How do I turn off interaction when using \startunderline... \stopunderline. Currently the underlining shows in blue, but I need it in the same color as the typeface (black). Is there something equivalent to \setupunderlining[interaction=off]? Thanks for any tips or clues. Alan

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questions about math formula
by fdu.xiaojf＠gmail.com 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

Hi all, I have two questions about math formula. 1) I'd like to use \startalign to typeset mathematical formulas since it is more convenient than \eqalign. But the formula number cannot be located between two lines just as \eqalign can. I hope following example can make me clear. \starttext \placeformula \startformula \eqalign{ a + b & = c + d\cr & = e + f\cr} \stopformula \placeformula \startformula \startalign \NC a + b \NC = c + d \NR[+] \NC \NC = e + f \NR \stopalign \stopformula \stoptext The number of equations in second formula can only be put on the first line or second line but not between them. My question is how to make the location of formula number in \startalign the same as it is in \eqalign ? 2) It seems that \left and \right cannot be used on separate groups. Here is a simple example: \starttext \placeformula \startformula \eqalign{ a & = \left(\frac{b+c}{d+e}\cr &\phantom{=~} + \frac{g}{h}\cr} \stopformula \stoptext If I change \left and \right to \big, it compiles successfully. But I think \left and \right are more convenient. Are there some solutions to use \left and \right in this situation ? Regards, Xiao Jianfeng

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Re: [NTG-context] something like \setnumber[chapter]{0}
by Duncan Hothersall 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

Hi Steffen: > Hi, > > I am looking for a number-reset-command for sections, comparable to > > \setnumber[footnote]{0} > \setupheadnumber[chapter][0] Duncan

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Acrobat crashes metafun manual
by David Arnold 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

All, Running Acrobat 7.0.9. In reading the metafun-s.pdf from pragma- ade.com, Acrobat every so often just shuts down. Anyone else experience that? Is this a known behavior with metafun manual?

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Fwd: Draw chess board
by Zhichu Chen 06 Jun '07

06 Jun '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Zhichu Chen <zhichu.chen(a)gmail.com> Date: Jun 6, 2007 8:51 AM Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Draw chess board To: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> Hi I've tried to write a test file which can only handle ;B[??], ;W[??], AB[??], AW[??] now, and I haven't added the interaction part. But it is a good start. Any suggestions? On 5/26/07, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On 5/25/07, Zhichu Chen wrote: > > Hi Mojca > > > > I original intention is: > > > > First, check the sgf file to decide how many rows and lines should be > used. > > For some instance, there is no need to draw the full 19x19 board, like > > conversion steps demostration---best choices around the corner of the > board. > > > > Second, I'd like to take advantage of PDF Javascript to show every step > by > > clicking on some area. > > Interesting idea! > > > \fieldstack seems to be a good choice. But if I use > > some script like sgf2mpost, I don't know how to if there is an easy way > to > > determine how many steps does the sgf include. > > I didn't mean using sgf2mpost script directly, but to use it as a help > when creating a new one [in ruby for example]. > > > If I solved the sgf problem, I think I can input a game manually by > using > > sgf syntax > > That's what I meant. > > Mojca > > > > On 5/25/07, Mojca Miklavec < mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com > wrote: > > > On 5/24/07, Zhichu Chen wrote: > > > > Thanks Wolfgang > > > > > > > > The first link is very useful. I will took its idea. I really want > to > > use > > > > metapost's scantoken to read sgf file directly, so it can easily be > a > > > > cross-platform solution. > > > > > > You can use either TeX or metapost to parse sgf file. But you can > > > forget about TeX, I suppose. Metapost is an option if you love > > > challenges, but it's not the only possibility if you're looking for > > > cross-platform solutions. > > > > > > In http://match.stanford.edu/bump/sgf2dg-4.026.tar.gz you > > have > > > sgf2mpost.c with 1000 lines of pure C code which parses the file and > > > generates metapost output. > > > > > > If I was in your place, I would write a ruby (or lua ;) parser (the > > > file above can help you, but you can probably parse the input in a > > > much more clever & efficient way with ruby) + metapost code generator. > > > > > > > Then you write a ConTeXt module with > > > > > > \startSGFscript{name} or \startSGFfile or \startSGFgame or > \startGOgame > > > .... the very special format of your game ... > > > \stopSGFscript > > > > > > You write the content into a file (you can also prepare external files > > > and tell ConTeXt which one is the source file), call "texmfstart > > > your-great-ruby-script file.sgf", which generates metapost output, and > > > then you include that one in the ConTeXt document. > > > > > > I'm really not sure if parsing SGF files with metapost can bring you > > > anything ... ruby scripts are fully portable, at least in ConTeXt. > > > > > > Mojca > > > > > > > > > > On 5/24/07, Wolfgang Schuster > > > > <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com > wrote: > > > > > 2007/5/24, Zhichu Chen < zhichu.chen(a)gmail.com>: > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > > > > > I love chess games, especially one kind of them which is > generally > > > > called > > > > > > Go. > > > > > > > > > > > > I know there is some file can store each details in one game: > > > > > > http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/ > > > > > > > > > > > > AFAIK, there is no module available to draw chess in ConTeXt > now. I > > > > wanna do > > > > > > this by using MetaPost and fieldstack. But I don't know how to > tell > > > > metapost > > > > > > the details of the sgf file. Can anyone give me a suggestion? > > > > > > > > > > > > BTW, I don't like the name. It's invented by acient Chinese and > it's > > > > called > > > > > > Weiqi. I think we can call it Siege Chess in English. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Best Regards > > > > > > Chen > > > > > > > > > > Hi Chen, > > > > > > > > > > if you mean Go take a look at the following page: > > > > > > > > > > http://match.stanford.edu/bump/go.html > > > > > > > > > > There are also two packages on CTAN for LaTeX: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html#gamesgo > > > > > > > > > > Wolfgang > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > > > > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an > entry > > to > > > > the Wiki! > > > > > > > > > > maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / > > > > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > > > > > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > > > > > archive : > > > > https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > > > > > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > 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 > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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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gwTeX ghostscript
by David Arnold 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

All, I anyone is running gwTeX on a mac, may I ask two questions: 1. Is the i-installer still running Context Updater properly? 2. How do I access ghostscript from the command line?

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setupindening and formulas
by Stepan Roucka 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hi, I have read this post http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2007/023752.html so I wonder if it is possible to create document with indented paragraphs and properly spaced formulas. I tried to set \parindent but it has similar consequences to setupindenting. It makes display formulas overlap. Thanks in advance Stepan Roucka

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How to format the line "Table of Contents" ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hi, maybe just a detail, but it never was really clear to me: To change the actual text of TOC's heading I use ... \setupheadtext [de] [content=Inhaltsverzeichnis] But how do I manually change the formatting (font, spaces etc.) for this line? Steffen

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something like \setnumber[chapter]{0}
by Steffen Wolfrum 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hi, I am looking for a number-reset-command for sections, comparable to \setnumber[footnote]{0} Someone knows the right syntax? ¡Muchas gracias! Steffen

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The paragraph follows the math equations doesn't indent
by fdu.xiaojf＠gmail.com 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hi, all, I found that the paragraph follows the math equations doesn't indent. Following is a demo: ------------------------------------- \setupindenting[big,yes] \setupheads[indentnext=yes] \starttext \subject{The paragraph follows the math equations doesn't indent} \input knuth \placeformula \startformula a + b = c \stopformula \input knuth \stoptext ------------------------------------- Is this behavior by design? How can I make all paragraphs to indent? Thanks. Xiao Jianfeng

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questions about indentation
by fdu.xiaojf＠gmail.com 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hi all, I'm using ConTeXt to typeset Chinese, and I am confused with indentation in ConTeXt. 1) I've searched the wiki and found several commands maybe relevant: \indentation, \indenting, \setupindentations, \setupindenting. My first question is what are the differences between "indentation" and "indenting" ? 2) In Chinese, most paragraphs start with an indentation of two characters. How to make the width of the indentation to be exactly two Chinese characters? I can achieve this approximately by using \setupindenting[big,yes] and \setupheads[indentnext=yes]. Thanks. Xiao Jianfeng

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drawarrowpath
by David Arnold 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

All, Doesn't look like drawarrowpath accepts options, as advertised in the metafun manual. Comments? \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \usetypescriptonce [map] [times,helvetica,palatino] [texnansi] \usetypescriptonce [serif] [times] [name,texnansi] \usetypescriptonce [sans] [helvetica] [name,texnansi] \usetypescriptonce [palatino] [texnansi] \setupbodyfont [palatino,10pt] \startbuffer[mpenv] \startMPenvironment \usetypescriptonce[map][times,helvetica,palatino][texnansi] \usetypescriptonce[serif][times][name,texnansi] \usetypescriptonce[sans][helvetica][name,texnansi] \usetypescriptonce[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt] \definefont[RotFont][RegularBold] \stopMPenvironment \stopbuffer \definefont[RotFont][RegularBold] \getbuffer[mpenv] \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startlinecorrection[blank] \startMPcode visualizepaths ; path p ; p := (0cm,1cm)..(2cm,2cm)..(4cm,0cm)..(2cm,1cm)..cycle ; drawarrowpath p withcolor .625red ; draw p shifted (7cm,0) dashed withdots withcolor .625yellow ; \stopMPcode \stoplinecorrection \stoptext On the other hand, drawpath does seem to accept options. \startlinecorrection[blank] \startMPcode visualizepaths ; path p ; p := (0cm,1cm)..(2cm,2cm)..(4cm,0cm)..(2cm,1cm)..cycle ; drawpath p withcolor .625blue withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; draw p shifted (7cm,0) dashed withdots withcolor .625yellow ; \stopMPcode \stoplinecorrection

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Contrast color in \setupinteraction
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 05 Jun '07

05 Jun '07

Hello, I use \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start] and after I place the contents somewhere, the links that refer to the same page where the content is are red but others are green. I want them to be just the same. I found that \setupinteraction[state=start, color=middleblue, contrastcolor=middleblue] solves my problem, but is it the most elegant way to do? Can I just turn off the contrast? Best, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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ctxtools --purgefiles
by David Arnold 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

All, Why does ctxtools --purgefiles meta miss the two files shown below (.keep is ignored and .tuo is not removed)? context $ ctxtools --purgefiles meta CtxTools | purging temporary files : meta CtxTools | checking files that match 'meta-*.*' CtxTools | checking files that match 'meta.*' CtxTools | removed : meta-mpgraph.mp CtxTools | removed : meta-mpgraph.mpo CtxTools | removed : meta-mpgraph.1 CtxTools | removed : meta.tui CtxTools | removed : meta-mpgraph.log CtxTools | removed : meta.log CtxTools | removed : meta-path.tmp CtxTools | removed : meta.tmp CtxTools | removed : meta-mpgraph.mpb CtxTools | not removed : meta.tuo CtxTools | removed : mpgraph.mp CtxTools | removed files : 10 CtxTools | kept files : 1 CtxTools | persistent files : 0 CtxTools | reclaimed bytes : 25817 context $ ls meta* meta-mpgraph.mp.keep meta.tex meta.pdf meta.tuo

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NTG bijeenkomst nr. 39 op 8 juni 2007
by Willi Egger 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Programma 39e bijeenkomst NTG Locatie: Universiteit Utrecht, faculteit Diergeneeskunde, afdeling Paard, Yalelaan 114. 09:30 Ontvangst met koffie en thee 10:00 Ledenvergadering met bestuursverkiezingen 10:30 Pauze 10:45 Jelle Huisman: Met TeX meertalig 11:30 Siep Kroonenberg: Lettertypen voor TeX: wat hebben we al in de kast liggen? 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Rondleiding 11:45 Sebastian Fuchs: Afhankelijkheden: fonts en afbreek-patronen 14:30 Arthur Reutenauer: An introduction to OpenType 15:30 Pauze 15:45 Hans Hagen en Taco Hoekwater: Implicaties van OTF voor een TeX- systeem 17:00 Einde van de bijeenkomst Bij elk onderwerp is tijd voor vragen en of discussie. Routebeschrijving: http://www.vet.uu.nl/viavet/viavet/departementen/paard/contact/ plattegrond Let op, sinds de laatste aanpassing van de website is er een en ander veranderd! Het thema 'fonts en talen' in tex is momenteel vrij actueel. Er worden TeX engines ontwikkeld (xetex en luatex) en er worden open type fonts ontwikkeld (latin modern en de tex gyre collection). Als jij een van de gebruikers bent die vaak meertalige documenten maakt, of die nog wel eens in de knoei komt met fonts en talen, kom dan vooral. Dit is je kans om aan te geven waar knelpunten liggen. We verkeren nu in de unieke situatie dat een aantal problemen in een klap kunnen worden opgelost in de nieuwe tex engines en fonts. Willi Egger Secretaris NTG w.egger(a)boede.nl

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preset for max spacewidth ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Hi, in some projects the regular " " (empty space) becomes quite wide, in some justified paragraphs. I guess there is a preset somewhere describing the range how far the space can be shrinked/stretched. So, in these projects I'd like to have the maximum spacewidth set a bit narrower. Just, where is this definition? Steffen

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Ubuntu pkgs: new edgy backports
by Sanjoy Mahajan 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

I just updated the Ubuntu edgy backports of the texlive packages (for i386) and have been running them on my feisty laptop for half an hour and they pass my usual 'compile textbook in ConTeXt' test. The 'context' package provides version 2007.04.17 12:51. They are recompilations of the latest Ubuntu gutsy (7.10) packages, which are Norbert's latest Debian packages with maybe a couple additions (on the other hand, Ubuntu and Debian look like they are in sync right now). Let me know if you have problems. To use the packages, add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://web.mit.edu/download/sanjoy/texlive-backports/ edgy/ deb-src http://web.mit.edu/download/sanjoy/texlive-backports/ edgy/ To add my key (to use the security features of apt-get): wget http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/sanjoy.asc sudo apt-key add sanjoy.asc Then apt-get update apt-get install cm-super texlive-fonts-recommended \ context context-nonfree context-doc-nonfree ('cm-super comes from the universe repositories) If you've been using them before, you don't need the install line with explicit pkgs. Instead just update with apt-get upgrade -Sanjoy gpg DSA: 0x3FCDAAA3 gpg fp: 9722 56B0 F787 12A9 164E 34B7 09C9 E543 3FCD AAA3

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Bold Math (slightly improved solution)
by Aditya Mahajan 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Hi, I needed to use \boldsymbol recently, and studied the different solutions that have been posted on the mailing list. Using a \hbox wrapper seems to be the easiest way, but none of the definitions using \hbox took care of spacing around the symbols. Since ConTeXt now has equivalents of amsmath's \binrel@ and \binrel@@ commands, here is an improved definition of \boldsymbol. \definetypeface [boldmath] [mm] [boldmath] [latin-modern] [modern] [encoding=texnansi] \unprotect \def\boldsymbol#1% {\preparebinrel{#1}% \currentbinrel {\mathchoice {\hbox{\switchtoformulabodyfont [boldmath]$\m@th#1$}} {\hbox{\switchtoformulabodyfont [boldmath]$\m@th#1$}} {\hbox{\switchtoformulabodyfont [boldmath,script]$\m@th#1$}} {\hbox{\switchtoformulabodyfont[boldmath,scriptscript]$\m@th#1$}}}} \protect \starttext $a \times b$ $a \boldsymbol{\times} b$ \stoptext This is equivalent to \boldsymbol of amsbsy.sty. I have added this to the wiki, Aditya

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Enabling write 18 via texmfstart and texexec
by David Arnold 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

All, Is there a way to enable write18 via command line when compiling with texmfstart texexec filename?

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Prepare exams with ConTeXT
by batela 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Hello to all: I need to prepare an exam. The layout must be the following one: Questions ____page Scores ____page Answers For example: \startquestion In a body with mass=2 kg is applied a force of 2N. Which is the body acceleration? \startanswer write F = m a \score[5] solve a = F/m \score[4] find and write correctly a = 1 m/s2 \score[1] \stopanswer \stopquestion The result should be: Question 1: In a body with mass=2 kg is applied a force of 2N. Which is the body acceleration?. Question 2: Question 3: __________ Page___________ Scores Question 1 ..................... 10 points Question 2 ...................... 20 points Question 3 ...................... 20 points ___________Page____________ Criteria Question 1 write F = m a ........................................................ 5 points resolve a = F/m....................................................4 points find and write correctly a = 1 m/s2 ................... 1 points are there any way to make this a easy task? thanks a lot Have a nice day.

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Changing separator after chapter {or section) numbers
by Elliot Clifton 03 Jun '07

03 Jun '07

Hi, I need to change the separator after the number I tried: \setuphead[chapter][separator=.] \starttext \chapter{Chapter Title} \input knuth \stoptext But got: 1 Chapter Title Not the expected: 1. Chapter Title I also tried setting the separator using \setupheads[separator=.] Is the separator option broken, or am I doing something wrong? TIA, Elliot

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Plural Name on definefloat?
by David Arnold 03 Jun '07

03 Jun '07

All, Under what circumstances would you use the plural form of: \definefloat[figure][figures] ? Thanks.

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split rotated TABLE
by Henning Hraban Ramm 02 Jun '07

02 Jun '07

This was asked, but not answered before... I've a big TABLE that needs to be rotated to fit width, but must break over two or three pages. Caption should stay horizontally (but that's not important). I tried several attempts, some didn't display anything, none breaks the table, e.g.: \placetable[here,90][tab:religionen]{Götter}% {\framed[width=\textheight, height=\textwidth]{\getbuffer[tab- religionen]}} % rotation included in the placetable parameters; with "page" instead of "here" it didn't display anything. % another failed attempt: \rotate[width=\textheight, height=\textwidth, rotation=90]{% \placetable[here][tab:religionen]{Götter}{\getbuffer[tab-religionen]}% } As you can guess, the whole table is in a buffer: \startbuffer[tab-religionen] \bTABLE[split=repeat] \bTABLEhead \bTR[bottomframe=on]\bTH Land \eTH\bTH Aspekt \eTH\bTH Aspekt \eTH \bTH Aspekt \eTH\bTH Aspekt \eTH\bTH Aspekt \eTH\bTH Aspekt \eTH\bTH Aspekt \eTH\bTH Aspekt \eTH\eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody ... \bTABLE[width=\textheight] sets the width of the first column to \textheight - WHY? 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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footnotes not fit in page
by Hector Palacios 31 May '07

31 May '07

Hello I have the following problem with footnotes. I want the footnotes at the end of the document, and i have footnotes very long. But the footnotes placed with \placefootnotes not fit it in the page. I tested the next example in the live.contexgarden: %%%--------------------- \setuppapersize[S6][S6] \setupfootnotes[location=text] \starttext Hello world! \dorecurse{6}{ \input tufte \footnote{\input knuth\relax} } \placefootnotes \stoptext %%-------------------------- Thanks by your atention -- Héctor -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kanns mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger

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updated Ubuntu edgy texlive+context backports
by Sanjoy Mahajan 31 May '07

31 May '07

I just updated the Ubuntu edgy backports of the texlive packages (for i386) and have been running them on my feisty laptop for half a day. The 'context' package provides version 2007.04.17 12:51. They are recompilations of the latest Ubuntu gutsy (7.10) packages, which are Norbert's latest Debian packages with a couple additions. Let me know if you have problems. To use the packages, add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://web.mit.edu/download/sanjoy/texlive-backports/ edgy/ deb-src http://web.mit.edu/download/sanjoy/texlive-backports/ edgy/ Then apt-get update apt-get install cm-super texlive-fonts-recommended \ context context-nonfree context-doc-nonfree ('cm-super comes from the universe repositories) Sorry, no dapper (6.06) backports yet! A few tricky package-version obstacles remain. -Sanjoy

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brace in TABLE
by Henning Hraban Ramm 31 May '07

31 May '07

How do I get a combining brace over the first 5 table rows in this example before "je +8": \bTABLE[split=no] \bTR\bTD Sehen \eTD\bTD[nr=5, align=lohi] je +8 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD Hören \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD Riechen \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD Schmecken \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD Tasten \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD Sechster Sinn \eTD\bTD Zt/25 \eTD\eTR \eTABLE 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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multipars?
by David Arnold 31 May '07

31 May '07

All, I see an example of the use of multipars in a background developed in "It's in the Details," but I can't find any explanation of what multipars represents (or multilocs or friends). Can someone steer me to an explanation of what these things represent and how to use them? Thanks. David.

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externalfigure not finding figures in other directories?
by Sanjoy Mahajan 31 May '07

31 May '07

externalfigure is not finding figures in other directories, and I'm not sure if it's something I've messed up while compiling and testing new Ubuntu edgy backport packages. If I have fig.1 (a metapost eps file) in the current directory, then this test file works fine \starttext \externalfigure[fig.1] \stoptext But context won't find 1/fig.1 even if fig.1 is in the 1/ directory. This test file \starttext \externalfigure[1/fig.1] \stoptext produces this error in the log file systems : begin file test at line 1 figures : figure 1/fig.1 can not be found and a dummy figure. ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.17 12:51 MKII fmt: 2007.5.30 (on Ubuntu/i386) If you have any thoughts or have seen this behavior, let me know. -Sanjoy

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capacity exceeded
by Henning Hraban Ramm 31 May '07

31 May '07

Compilation of a document with some big tables (partly floats) fails, see below. Is it really a capacity problem, or must I search for some recursion error or the like? What does the "emergencyend" at the beginning of the logfile mean? --- logfile --- This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) (format=cont-en 2007.5.30) 31 MAY 2007 00:30 entering extended mode (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx) **prd_geburt.tex emergencyend (./prd_geburt.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.02 13:44 MK II fmt: 2007.5.30 int: --- ... --- ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=60000]. \setvalue ...xpandafter \def \csname #1\endcsname \settbltxt ...ong \setvalue {\@@tblprefix #1:#2:t} {\doifdefined {\@@tblprefi... <argument> ...\handleTBLcell \celltag []{\strut }} \fi \firstofoneargument #1->#1 \redorecurse ->\expandrecursecontent \dodorecurse <to be read again> { ... l.233 \eTABLE If you really absolutely need more capacity, you can ask a wizard to enlarge me. Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 20315 strings out of 57405 236675 string characters out of 540060 4906676 words of memory out of 6334956 60000 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 149413 words of font info for 116 fonts, out of 2000000 for 2000 192 hyphenation exceptions out of 5000 53i,21n,63p,538b,16975s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,6000p, 200000b,50000s ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! --- 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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TABLE split
by Henning Hraban Ramm 31 May '07

31 May '07

I've a long TABLE in a 2-columns environment. Is it possible to split the table (if needed) at discrete rows? At the moment the left columns contains some text, about the half of the following table would fit in, but starts on top of the right column and is broken onto the next page. Further it contains some inbetween sub-headers (sections), and I'd like it to break before one of them. page 1: text table text table t-sect table t-sect page 2: table text table text text text text text text text should become: text t-sect text table t-sect table table table table 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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A Muse tag for pgf/tikz graphics
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 30 May '07

30 May '07

Hi all, For those who could be interested by using of Emacs-Muse: I have written a file to create a "tikz" tag for Muse, allowing you to insert tikz code in a muse file, ang obtain the corresponding graphic when publishing documents with LaTeX, ConText, html/xhtml or xml-based styles. You can get the file with a README and an example at: http://jm.bornier.free.fr/contex/ttp/ A good procedure to see how it works would be to read the README (how strange) and run e.g. the pdf and html style on the example provided. The choice of pgf may seem arbitrary, but it seemed easier to implement than pstricks or metapost (I wanted the tag to work as well with muse-contex as with muse-latex, which is not quite effective by now, so my investigations are not quite over). Cheers, -- Jean

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EuroBachoTeX2007
by luigi scarso 30 May '07

30 May '07

Are there any pdf/slides about EuroBachoTeX2007? The only thing that i have found is program, see http://www.gust.org.pl/BachoTeX/EuroBachoTeX2007/prog.html thanks in advance -- 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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math font definitions in XeConTeXt
by Dalyoung Jeong 30 May '07

30 May '07

Dear all, For korean sentences, I am using XeConTeXt with korean otf font as the bodyfont. In that case, greek capital letters in math mode are not displayed wit the warning message "** WARNING ** Glyph for CID 18168 missing in font "YoonMyungjoM/H". YoonMyungjoM is the name of the korean font. If I set english font as the bodyfont, they are displayed well. I think that korean font override the greek capital letters. Hence, I'd like to know the followings: (1) Is there a math font which can be used in XeConTeXt? (2) Is there a way to not to override greek capital letters in math mode? Thank you. Regards, Dalyoung

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[OT] dblatex
by luigi scarso 30 May '07

30 May '07

http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/ DocBook to LaTeX/ConTeXt Publishing Does anyone know something about it ? -- 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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Re: [NTG-context] incorrect hyphenation
by Hans Hagen 29 May '07

29 May '07

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > Dear Hans, Taco, > > I'm getting bad English hyphenation all over the place with the recent > ConTeXt that comes with luatex: > > In the sample, look at the hyphenation of `near'. Did not send this to > the list because I don't know if this is an > official context release I'm dealing with. However, I'm using pdftex > mode, not luatex. \def\sethyphenationvariables {\lefthyphenmin 0\languageparameter\s!lefthyphenmin \relax \righthyphenmin0\languageparameter\s!righthyphenmin\relax \lefthyphenmin \numexpr\lefthyphenmin +\hyphenminoffset\relax \righthyphenmin\numexpr\righthyphenmin+\hyphenminoffset\relax} wrong in the beta Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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lilypond snippet in the wiki
by Piotr Kopszak 29 May '07

29 May '07

Hello all the lilyponders on the list, When I run the snippet from the wiki in a slightly modified form: \usemodule[lilypond] \starttext There are some notes\lilypond[clef=no, time=no, staffsize=6]{ \relative{bes a c b} } embedded in this line. \stoptext I'm getting desired result except for the fact that the staff starts in the new line. Is it possible to obtain the staff in the same line as the words "There are some notes" followed immediately by "embedded in this line"? Piotr

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lilypond newbie
by Steffen Wolfrum 29 May '07

29 May '07

Hi, just out of curiosity I wanted to check whether my context could typeset music. I found lilypond mentioned on the list, downloaded lilypond-2.10.23-1.darwin-x86.tar.bz2 from lilypond.org, t-lilypond.pdf from ctan and t-lilypond.tex posted by Henning here. When I typeset texexec test.test this test file ... \usemodule[lilypond] \starttext \startlilypond % Telemann, TWV 40:11 \version "2.6.3" \relative c’ { \set Staff.instrument = flute \key fis \minor \time 3/4 \partial 4 r8 fis’8 | fis4. cis8 a cis | fis, a cis fis a fis | b, d fis b d b | eis,, gis cis eis gis b, | a fis’ gis, fis’ cis eis | fis,4 r8 a’ gis fis | e gis, a e’ fis cis | d fis, gis b e d | cis4 \trill r8 cis b a | b dis e gis cis, b | a e’ dis fis b, a | gis4 \trill r8 } \stoplilypond \stoptext ... the result is ... name: dummy file: lilypond_2-lilypond-1 state: unknown What is missing? Steffen [OSX 10.4.9, Intel; ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.12, TeX-Live2007]

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Forcing a TABLE page break
by T.W. Burton 29 May '07

29 May '07

Is there a way to force a page break in a natural table? I tried the sample in the source code and it doesn't seem to work under MikTeX or under the standalone windows distribution. \starttext \bTABLE[split=yes] \bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR \bTR[after=\page] \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR \bTR \bTD left \eTD\bTD right \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext T.W. Burton

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testing for broken links to external documents
by Matthias Weber 29 May '07

29 May '07

Dear all, is there a simple TeX/ConTeXt way to test in a TeX file whether a link to an external document is broken so that I get an error message if not? I am using numerous links to external files (on my hard drive) and I'd like to make sure that none of the links are broken without going manually trough them. Though not an issue at this point, and probably more complicated: Can one also check for broken links to web pages? I don't even know whether that's possible in Acrobat or whether there are tools out there that do that. Thanks, Matthias

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Ruby version requirements
by Oliver Buerschaper 28 May '07

28 May '07

Hi all, I'm in the middle of putting together a native Mac OS X edition of ConTeXt Minimal ... for this I need to know which version of Ruby is minimally required by the latest ConTeXt release. (It wouldn't hurt though to know this for older ConTeXt versions, too ;-) Any help appreciated. Thanks, Oliver

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Re: [NTG-context] Scite folding
by Zhichu Chen 28 May '07

28 May '07

Hi instanton, I think the following commands should be added: 1, \startXXX...\stopXXX pair 2, \ifYYY ... \else ... \fi structure 3, \chapter, \section, \subsection, \title and \subject, \topic, etc. IMHO, I'd like to folder \def\XXX#1% {...} and some \setupZZZ, \defineZZZ's. I hope you can provide some mysterious folding symbols, like %%--{{ something i like to be folded. %%--}} On 5/28/07, soft_share <soft_share(a)126.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I don't know much about lua so I'm afraid that I cannot do much about the > code-folding via lua script. However there are some built-in pseudo-TeX > commands like %\StartFolding %\EndFolding in NotePad++ and the unofficial > SciTE I'm using which can be used to manually control where text fold should > apply. At present I can only add a minimum scope of ConTeXt commands in the > souce code which controls TeX folding. Which commands would you suggest to > add? > > > soft_share(a)126.com > 2007-05-28 > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From: *Zhichu Chen <zhichu.chen(a)gmail.com> > *To: *soft_share <soft_share(a)126.com> > *Sent: *2007-05-28, 06:49:23 > *Subject: *Re: [NTG-context] Scite folding > > Hi, instanton > > Is there any possibility that you can make an addon lua script to do the > folding function that we can add syntax by ourselves? Because I wanna keep > the official SciTE. > > > On 5/28/07, soft_share <soft_share(a)126.com> wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > > > Just come across this thread. The TeX folding feature in NotePad++ was > > adapted by me and originally the adaptations was made in SciTE. As I am not > > a ConTeXt user, I am not aware of the structure of sectioning commands in > > ConTeXt. Could anyone of you let me know of a minimum list of sectioning > > commands in ConTeXt so that I can modify the source code to make the TeX > > folding in SciTE and NotePad++ work also for ConTeXt documents? > > > > Bests > > > > > > instanton(a)ctex.org <+instanton(a)ctex.org> > > 2007-05-28 > > > > > > > > -- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- 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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Problem with setuphead and textstyle or numberstyle
by Tim Stone 28 May '07

28 May '07

I'm trying out the chapter heading method used in "In the Details" in chapter 7. I'm using exactly (I think) the code from the booklet (except that instead of \BigText and \BigNumber I'm using {\definedfont[Sans sa x]}. The style parameter to \setuphead works but neither textstyle nor numberstyle has any effect on the result. I've included the code I'm using below and would be most grateful to know what daft error I've made and can't spot. Many thanks, Tim Stone =====Code snippet below ============ \setuphead [chapter] [placehead=empty, header=chapter, style={\definedfont[SansText sa 3]}, %% This is the only one that is working - if removed, reverts to normal sized Serif textstyle={\definedfont[SansText sa 4]}, %% This isn't working - FIX ME numberstyle={\definedfont[SansText sa 5]}] %% This isn't working - FIX ME \definetext [chapter] [header] [\setups{chapter}] [] \startsetups chapter \setups[chapter:title] \setups[chapter:number] \setups[chapter:finish] \stopsetups \definelayer [chapter] [width=\dimexpr(\makeupwidth+\cutspace), height=\headerheight] \startsetups chapter:title \setlayerframed [chapter] [x=\dimexpr(\makeupwidth+\cutspace), location={left,bottom}] [height=\headerheight, foregroundcolor=white, background=color, backgroundcolor=darkblue, frame=off, offset=none, align={right,lohi}] {\hbox spread 0.5\cutspace {\hss \doiftextelse{\placeheadtext[chapter]}% {\placeheadtext[chapter]}% {\placeheadtext[title]}% \hss} \space \vskip .5cm} \stopsetups \startsetups chapter:number \setlayerframed [chapter] [x=\dimexpr(\makeupwidth+\cutspace), y=\vsize, location={left,bottom}] [width=\dimexpr(\cutspace-\rightmargindistance), height=\dimexpr(\cutspace-\rightmargindistance), foregroundcolor=blue, background=color, backgroundcolor=yellow, frame=off, offset=none, align={middle,lohi}] {\hbox to \hsize {\hss \doifmode{*bodypart}{ \placeheadnumber[chapter] }% \hss} } \stopsetups \startsetups chapter:finish \framed [width=\makeupwidth, height=\headerheight, background=chapter, frame=off] {} \stopsetups

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button for Fullscreen
by Héctor Palacios 27 May '07

27 May '07

Hi context'users Please, i need a button for FullScreen mode. \but [FullScreen] Pantalla-completa but this not works. Thanks in avance. -- Héctor

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Re: [NTG-context] Test whether variable has been set
by Elliot Clifton 27 May '07

27 May '07

Hi Peter, Thanks for your reply. I think I may have misunderstood the variable section on the wiki. I been using \setvariable to both declare and assign variables from my component files. When I should have been declaring them in the environment file first, right? \setvariable[namespace][key=DefaultValue], right? So how do I test for a (Default)Value? Sorry, I'm just beginning TeX programming I don't understand how to do this. Elliot

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Scite folding
by soft_share 27 May '07

27 May '07

Dear all, Just come across this thread. The TeX folding feature in NotePad++ was adapted by me and originally the adaptations was made in SciTE. As I am not a ConTeXt user, I am not aware of the structure of sectioning commands in ConTeXt. Could anyone of you let me know of a minimum list of sectioning commands in ConTeXt so that I can modify the source code to make the TeX folding in SciTE and NotePad++ work also for ConTeXt documents? Bests instanton(a)ctex.org 2007-05-28

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Reverse itemize
by Aditya Mahajan 27 May '07

27 May '07

Hi, Is it possible to have a reverse key for itemize, so that \startitemize[n,reverse] \item one \item two \item three \stopitemize gives 3. one 2. two 1. three I thought that this should be easier than random items, but I can not figure how random key works. Aditya

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Test whether variable has been set
by Elliot Clifton 27 May '07

27 May '07

Hi, How can test whether a variable has been set? I couldn't find any reference to this in the wiki? TIA, Elliot

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Multiple Search/Replace in one script?
by Steffen Wolfrum 26 May '07

26 May '07

Hi, I am looking for a way to automate (and also archive) my most common ten or twenty search/replace runs. I have to admit, I have no idea about scripting. But I guess there should be a way in Applecript/Perl/Rupy/Whatever to write down several entries with... ... what should be the search string ... what should be the replace string ... what kind of search should be opeated (regulr expression, case sensitive, etc.) Any recommendations? Steffen

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Ubuntu edgy/feisty: texlive and context packages
by Sanjoy Mahajan 26 May '07

26 May '07

I made texlive and context packages for Ubuntu edgy (6.10) and feisty (7.04). They are compiled on edgy (in a clean chroot) and should work on both. I haven't tested them on an edgy system, but I use them on my feisty laptop with no problems so far. Let me know of any problems. Here are the two lines for /etc/apt/sources.list (which supercede the ones in my last email): deb http://web.mit.edu/download/sanjoy/texlive-backports/ edgy/ deb-src http://web.mit.edu/download/sanjoy/texlive-backports/ edgy/ Then apt-get install context or apt-get install context context-doc-nonfree context-nonfree Would many users would like packages for Ubuntu dapper (6.06)? I'm not optimistic whether the backport from gutsy will work that far back, since library versions get farther apart. But if there's interest, I'll try it. -Sanjoy

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Header height & multipage Text.
by iscope GmbH // Oliver Siegemund 25 May '07

25 May '07

hi, we have a dokument with a multipage Text. For this dokument we set a firstpage Header and a header for all following Pages. This Headers had different heights. The problem is, the height off the text. It is at all pages the same, so on the second Page and all following the Text is placed higher but it does not fill the Page till footerheight. We've tried setting the textheight in the second Header bigger but without effects. An Example ist attached. Can someone help us? Thanks Oliver -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ::iscope gmbh osnabrück, berlin, lingen ::oliver siegemund, servertechnik / php - programmierung ::kollegienwall 17 ::49074 osnabrück ::tel 0541 350286-0 fax -5 ::osiegemund@iscope.de ::http://www.iscope.de || http://produkte.iscope.de

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Draw chess board
by Zhichu Chen 25 May '07

25 May '07

Hi I love chess games, especially one kind of them which is generally called Go. I know there is some file can store each details in one game: http://www.red-bean.com/sgf/ AFAIK, there is no module available to draw chess in ConTeXt now. I wanna do this by using MetaPost and fieldstack. But I don't know how to tell metapost the details of the sgf file. Can anyone give me a suggestion? BTW, I don't like the name. It's invented by acient Chinese and it's called Weiqi. I think we can call it Siege Chess in English. -- 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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Re: [NTG-context] Manual hyphenation
by Elliot Clifton 24 May '07

24 May '07

On 2007-05-23 17:28 -400 Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: >\document\-ation I've tried that. Unfortunately it only seems to work if hyphenation turned on. Elliot

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Re: [NTG-context] Latin Modern bug in lm-texnansi-os.enc
by bop＠bop.com.pl 24 May '07

24 May '07

Hi, > On the ConTeXT mailing list, Idris posted some messages because he was > trying to use oldstyle numerals in the latest Latin Modern release, > and was experiencing two pretty big problems: > > * really bad kerning around the oldstyle numerals We would be grateful if we could get more details (which font, which tfm, which encoding, pdftex or tex/dvips, on the screen or on the paper, etc.) My first guess is that proportional figures were used with tabular metrics... > * pdftex generated errors for the typewriter fonts, complaining > "glyph `one.oldstyle' undefined" etc. Yeah... This is the result of our decision to comply with the currently obeying naming conventions (better to say: fashion). The oldstyle figures that appear in ts1 (text companion) encoding are actually *.taboldstyle; the names *.oldstyle are reserved for proportional glyphs. We included also proportional oldstyle figures in LMs (and in the TeX Gyre fonts). > The implementation of 'automatic' oldstyle numbers in ConTeXt uses a > set of encoding files that used to ship with LM (lm-xxxxxx-os.enc). > By way of a map file fragment, this allows to switch the fonts > 'en masse' from lining to oldstyle (and back) without the need for > special metric files, which is a pretty nice feature. Don't understand -- the vertical oldstyle digits, in general, have different metric data (tabular digits differ only with respect to vertical dimensions). So, the replacement of the encoding implies the replacement of TFMs. Or I misundersood something. > Those encoding files now apparently obsolete: they still refer to > glyphs named e.g. `one.oldstyle', whereas in the current release of > the LM fonts it really should be `one.taboldstyle'. Yes, as I explained above. > While writing a bug report, I noticed that these encoding files are no > longer in the font distribution No. We have a lot enough of TFMs and I'd be reluctant to add more. The only resort I can see is to use OTFs... > Is this trick to get oldstyle now officially unsupported? Rather not, I've just learned about it. ;-) > because there are no oldstyle-using TFM files in the LM > distribution either ... There are. As I mentioned, ts1 encoding contains oldstyle tabular figures. Perhaps accessing them needs other tricks, but as long as 256-glyph fonts are to be used, some glyphs must be accessed clumsily. e.g., proportional digits (normal and oldstyle). Cheers -- Jacko

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Text following columns sometimes pushed into next page
by Elliot Clifton 24 May '07

24 May '07

Hi, I'm typesetting a journal in two columns. I want the correspondence address to come at the bottom of the last page outside of the columns. As in: ---------------------------- ####### ####### ####### ####### ####### ####### Addresss ---------------------------- But even when there is room the address is often put on the next page. If possible (i.e. if there's space) I need ConTeXt to keep the address on the same page. Is it possible to do that? Here's an example: \setuptolerance [verystrict] \showframe %\setuppagenumbering [location=inleft, alternative=doublesided] \definelayout[test][% backspace=1in, cutspace=0.8in, width=middle, header=5mm, headerdistance=10mm, topspace=20mm, footer=5mm, footerdistance=10mm, bottomspace=15mm, height=middle, ] \setuplayout[test] \starttext \startcolumns[n=2] \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth} \stopcolumns %following line outside of columns often (but not always) pushed into the next page, even when there's room for it. \blank Address for correspondence: address ... \stoptext This has been annoying me for a while so your help is appreciated. TIA, Elliot

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Re: [NTG-context] Creating PDF files which are editable in Adobe Reader
by Elliot Clifton 24 May '07

24 May '07

Alas, as has already been said, the LiveCycle feature is proprietary and not free. So you won't be able to use it from ConTeXt. One alternative on Windows maybe Foxit PDF Reader which is available for free, and can do some of what you want with low-cost add-ons. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php The 'pro-pack' allows annotation: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader_2/addons.htm#advanced And there is also a Foxit PDF editor as well, but that is more expensive. You might also look at PDFill http://www.pdfill.com/ Of course neither solutions is as convenient or as effective as being able to send annotatable and fill-able files to anyone with Adobe Reader. But this software may still be of interest. Elliot

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metafun.mem on texlive
by Andrea Valle 24 May '07

24 May '07

Hi to all, I have to extended the memory used by metafun. On my old PPC macosx with gwtex it was here: The right metafun.mem (the effective one with TeXShop): /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/ Now, I have texlive, but cannot find that file. (I tried a find form bash, but no way) Any help is much appreciated Thanks Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong)

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Manual hyphenation
by Elliot Clifton 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hi, I found that my text, which is set in two columns, looks better with auto-hyphenation disabled using: \setupalign[nothyphenated] There are however several over-hanging words that I will need ConTeXt to hyphenate. I've searched the mailing list and manual and have found no information on how to do this. The info I did find was about how to influence the automatic hyphenation. How do I manually indicate to ConTeXt that a word should be hyphenation. For example if I wanted to manually force a page break or column break I would use \page and \column respectively, but what about hyphenation? At the moment I'm using: ... document-\crlf ation ... to manually create a hyphenation. Is there a better way? TIA, Elliot -- " By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately, and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist. " Robert Bringhurst (1946-)

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Re: [NTG-context] \setuplayout doesn't set bottomspace
by Elliot Clifton 23 May '07

23 May '07

On 2007-05-23 18:08 +100 Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >give us next time a example that make it possible for us to reproduce >your problem, I don't know how your setup is defined. > Sorry. >The following setting give me a topspace and a bottomspace with 2cm, >the values a correct in the output. You can try to replace my >dimensions with yours. > >\setuplayout >[topspace=2cm, >bottomspace=2cm, >%header=0cm, >%footer=0cm, >height=fit] Anyway that helps, I can see that I must have forgotten the height declaration. I just didn't see it was missing -- oops! Thanks, for the reminder. Elliot -- " By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately, and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist. " Robert Bringhurst (1946-)

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Creating PDF files which are editable in Adobe Reader
by Tobias Burnus 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hi, does anyone know how to enable the editing functionality in PDFs files? Adobe Reader 8.x seems to be able to edit PDFs which have been marked as such. (Editting: Highlighting and adding comment boxes + saving the modified files. See: http://www.adobe.com/products/reader/ -> e.g. Feature tour) I actually failed to find a description for this in http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html (It might be hidden in TABLE 3.20, p. 123. I'm not good at reading standards and I'm sure Adobe won't make this feature too obvious.) Tobias, who finds Adobe Reader 8 a slow resource hog

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\setuplayout doesn't set bottomspace
by Elliot Clifton 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hi, ConTeXt is ignoring my bottomspace dimension, all other dimension are set correctly. What can I do to set the bottom margin? I wanted a dimension of 25mm but it is currently set to 34.1mm. Thanks, Elliot -- " By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately, and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist. " Robert Bringhurst (1946-)

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Multipage tables - repeating header
by The Wizard 23 May '07

23 May '07

All - I have created a table similar to the example in the wiki \starttext \setuptables[split=repeat] \starttablehead \HL \VL {\bf Head1} \VL {\bf Head2} \VL \AR \HL \stoptablehead \starttables[|l|l|] \dorecurse{50}{% \VL SomeText \VL SomeText \VL \AR \HL} \stoptables Problem: top margin on first page is bigger. \stoptext The header repeats as expected, and the table extends properly across multiple pages. The problem is, the last row on each page is missing the bottom horizontal line, except for the very last row in the table. I have tried numerous variations of "\starttabletail ... \stoptabletail", and none seem to have the desired effect. Is there an easy way to get the bottom "\HL" on the last row of each page to appear? I have tried this both on my system and on the live area of the wiki with the same result; my install is TeXExec | current distribution: web2c TeXExec | context source date: 2007.04.17 12:51 TeXExec | format path: . /home/markea/.texmf-config/web2c /home/markea/.texmf-var/web2c /home/markea/texmf/web2c /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config/web2c /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/web2c /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/web2c /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/web2c TeXExec | start of analysis TeXExec | processing document 'texexec' TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | writing option file texexec.top TeXExec | using randomseed 1319 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./texexec.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.17 12:51 MKII fmt: 2007.5.3 int: english/english Output written on texexec.pdf (1 page, 21611 bytes). Transcript written on texexec.log. TeXExec | runtime: 0.638854 TeXExec | end of analysis TeXExec | TeXExec | TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD TeXExec | TeXUtil | version 9.1.0 - 1997-2005 - PRAGMA ADE/POD TeXExec | CtxTools | version 1.3.3 - 2004/2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD TeXExec | TeXExec | testing interface en TeXExec | pdfTeX Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) TeXExec | ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.17 12:51 MKII fmt: 2007.5.3 int: english/english TeXExec | TeXExec | testing interface nl TeXExec | pdfTeX Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) TeXExec | ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.17 12:51 MKII fmt: 2007.5.3 int: dutch/dutch Mark Almeida

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an ugly bug
by Idris Samawi Hamid 23 May '07

23 May '07

Dear syndicate, This is an ugly bug; The right kerning of the the numeral '1' is really bad: ======================= \usetypescript[modern-base][texnansi] % a simplified latin-modern typescript \usetypescript [map] [latin-modern-os] [texnansi] \setupbodyfont[reset] \setupbodyfont[modern,11pt] \noheaderandfooterlines \starttext 1932 19 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 21 31 41 51 61 71 81 91 01 \stoptext ======================= pdf attached. Uses ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.26 Has anyone else noticed this? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid 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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oldstyle bug
by Idris Samawi Hamid 22 May '07

22 May '07

Dear gang, Using global oldstyle: ================= \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][hanging][hz,normal] \setupalign[hz,hanging] \usetypescript[modern-base][texnansi] % a simplified latin-modern typescript \usetypescript [map] [latin-modern-os] [texnansi] \setupbodyfont[reset] \setupbodyfont[modern,11pt] ================= When I use \type, I get lots of messages like: ================= pdfTeX warning: pdftex.exe (file c:/ConTeXt/tex/texmf/fonts/type1/public/lm/lmt t10.pfb): glyph `eight.oldstyle' undefined ================= This did not used to happen before. Not sure if this is a ConTeXt or Latin~Modern bug. I tried ================= \def\TYPE{% \usetypescript [map] [latin-modern] [texnansi] \switchtobodyfont[modern,11pt]} \setuptyping[style=\TYPE] ================= but this did not work. Please advise! Workarounds welcome-) Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid 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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margins at a cover page
by Gerhard Kugler 22 May '07

22 May '07

Hi, I think it is not appropriate to have a smaller left than right margin at a cover page. But my tries to achieve this are not successful. My relevant expressions: \setuplayout[header=0mm,location=middle] \definelayer[bild][x=0mm, y=0mm, width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight] \setlayer[bild][]{\externalfigure[cover4a1.pdf][]} \defineoverlay[cover][{\placelayer[bild]}] \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \setuppagenumbering[alternative=singlesided] \setupnumbering[place=] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=cover] \startstandardmakeup[doublesided=no] Gerhard -- Gerhard Kugler Psychotherapeut Bensheim (Germany) http://www.psychotherapie-kugler.de

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Ubuntu 7.04 texlive and context packages backported
by Sanjoy Mahajan 20 May '07

20 May '07

Here are not well untested texlive and context packages backported to Ubuntu 7.04: deb http://web.mit.edu/sanjoy/texlive-backports/ feisty/ deb-src http://web.mit.edu/sanjoy/texlive-backports/ feisty/ I use these packages on my laptop with no problems so far (half a day of testing), but let me know if you find anything broken. They are based on the version in Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy), and the context-nonfree and context-doc-nonfree packages are directly from Norbert's repository. Quickstart: Put the above two lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list (replacing the lines for Norbert's repo) then hopefully just these two commands: apt-get update apt-get install context By 'not well tested', I mean that I learnt only yesterday how to turn rebuilt packages into a public repository, so something will go wrong. But I can recompile my textbook after installing those packages, so metapost and pdftex and context are working reasonably well. -Sanjoy

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How to stop \setuppagenumbering forcing chapter to start on right?
by Elliot Clifton 18 May '07

18 May '07

Hi, How can I stop \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] from forcing chapters to start on the right? I don't want any blank pages. Thanks, Elliot -- " By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately, and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist. " Robert Bringhurst (1946-)

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date format in Chinese environment
by fdu.xiaojf＠gmail.com 18 May '07

18 May '07

When I was trying to typeset date in Chinese environment(\usemodule[chinese]) using the commond \currentdate, the date format was strange: "2007 五月 18"(the month was in Chinese). What I want is 2007.5.18 or 2007-5-18(the month should not be in Chinese). How to achieve this? Thanks !

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Debian repository
by Alex Lubberts 18 May '07

18 May '07

Hi all, Seems like the apt source "deb http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ context/" stopped working. Does anybody know what's going on? Regards, Alex

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Can't get header repetition with multipage table
by Jean-Philippe Rey 17 May '07

17 May '07

Hello folks, I can't get repeated headers in a multipage table. I tried the following: %------------------------------------------------ \starttext \starttablehead \HL \VL Column 1 \VL Column 2 \VL\SR \HL \stoptablehead \starttabletail \HL \VL Column 1 \VL Column 2 \VL\SR \HL \stoptabletail \starttables[|l|l|] \dorecurse{100}{\VL value \VL value \VL\SR} \VL value \VL value \VL\SR \stoptables \stoptext %------------------------------------------------ I get a multipage table, but the header appears only at the beginning of the table and doesn't repeat itself on each page. Same for the tail part. I believe I am using the last ConTeXt version: TeXExec | TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD TeXExec | TeXUtil | version 9.1.0 - 1997-2005 - PRAGMA ADE/POD TeXExec | CtxTools | version 1.3.3 - 2004/2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD TeXExec | ConTeXt ver: 2007.04.03 13:01 MKII fmt: 2007.4.7 int: english/english This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) I tried first http://live.contextgarden.net/ but ConTeXt live seems to be down at the moment, I always get the message "the file 'texexec' is not found". Any help most welcome. -- Jean-Philippe Rey Professeur informatique - École Centrale Paris jean-philippe.rey(a)ecp.fr 92295 Châtenay-Malabry Cedex - France

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verbatim on wiki
by Andrea Valle 17 May '07

17 May '07

Hi, I've added the discussion of the approach I used for the recently posted doc on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Verbatim_text As it is a bit "heretical" and I don't want to widespread bad practices :) please let me know if it is of some interest or if I have to move it on another place etc Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong) -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong)

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ConTeXt release 2007.04.17
by Taco Hoekwater 17 May '07

17 May '07

Hi all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip The current release has version 2007.04.17 As usual, there is an html page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes Highlights: * mptopdf and texexec (once again) support the handling of LaTeX files * allow blocking of installed programs for texutil * fix the handling of external graphics in xetex * various low-level fixes and extensiosn for multicolumn handling * bugfix for disappearing footnotes * support for TeX-Gyre Hermes * For some other small changes, see the wiki page Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater

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ConTeXt on Excursion: translations in the Garden
by Vit Zyka 16 May '07

16 May '07

Hi all, there is a new plant in the Garden: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_on_Excursion%2C_translations It gathers translations of the beginner's manual ConTeXt on Excursion (authors Ton Otten and Hans Hagen). Currently there exist Dutch, English, and Czech versions. Czech version is a team work of translators (Ján Buša, Jiří Hrbek, Martina Plachá, Petr Tesařík, and Vít Zýka) supported by Czechoslovac TUG (CSTUG). We use as a model the English version (although the original is the Dutch one). A reader can find several additional sections dealing with localization and information sources. Non Czech readers have also some benefic as a side effect of this project. The English version was slightly actualized and fixed some bugs. All versions are acompanied by actual macro syntax and listed in the command index. Sources of all three versions are stored on the public SVN repository as a part of the ConTeXt manual project (https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextman/) administrated by Taco. There is a makefile for an easy manual generation. It is ready for adding new stuff/actualizing/fixing bugs and even for new language translation. On the Garden page we can find breaf instructions for that. If you have any question, please do not hesitate to ask me. Best reading Vit

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texexec message suppression.
by John R. Culleton 15 May '07

15 May '07

for some time now I have been fussing over the volume of uneccessary (to me) informational messages spewed forth by texexec, in particular the long list of font scripts repeated sometimes 8 or 9 times. Since I don't even use most of these scripts I wonder why they show up on every pass of every compile. The --silent parameter to texexec should suppress some or all of these message, or so the manual says. But it doesn't. I get the same long list of messages, repeated over and over. Ideally I could suppress informational messages but keep the warning messages, per the traditional unix > and 2> output routings for sysout and syserr. But texexec does not appear to make the distinction. Routing all output to /dev/null is a trick that I use sometimes, but if the run errors off then it just hangs with no message. Are there any clever workarounds I have missed? Is there a setting somewhere in my texlive instllation that I can tweak? Should I do surgery on texexec itself? (Never fooled with Ruby, but there is always a first time.) -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com

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XYPic
by Dirard Mikdad 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hallo, I want to convert my thesis (which I wrote in plain tex) to ConTeXt. Unfortunately the process fails because my documents contain some commutative diagrams made in Xypic. Is it possible to convert xy code to something that ConTeXt can understand? Thanks, Dirard

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Underline the headertext with a thinrule
by Bert Trüger 15 May '07

15 May '07

Hi again, luigi, thanks for your tips. I simply want to put a \thinrule underneath the headertext in textwidth. My setup is: \setupheadertexts[chapter][\pagenumber][section][\pagenumber] \setupheader[after=\thinrule] \setuphead[subsubsection][number=no,alternative=text,indenttext=yes,textstyle=bold] \definetext[chapter][footer][pagenumber] \setuphead[chapter][header=high,footer=chapter,page=yes] \setuphead[blank][state=empty] This way I get a \thinrule starting in the left margin in textwidth under an odd page. I would like the headertext with chapter and pagenumber underlined with \thinrule on every odd page, except it is blank or the beginning of a new chapter, and the same with section and pagenumber in the header for every even page, except it is blank or the beginning of a new chapter -- a simple underlined headtext like in many books. Thanks for your help Bert

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non-integer bodyfont size
by Sanjoy Mahajan 14 May '07

14 May '07

I'm a bit confused about font sizes. I had a bunch of missing \Delta symbols in inline math (e.g. $\Delta x$), which I tracked down to \setupbodyfont[10.5pt] The non-integral point size works for text but not for math (the \Delta turned into a backquote). How to fix that? type-siz.tex has several sections to which I could add \definebodyfontenvironment or \definebodyfont lines. Which sections would I add to? Or can I put the additions outside of that file? And, most crucially, what are the magic lines :-) Thanks for suggestions, which I'll wikify. -Sanjoy

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39e NTG bijeenkomst
by Willi Egger 14 May '07

14 May '07

Beste leden, De NTG bijeenkomst op 8 juni in de Faculteit Diergeneeskunde in Utrecht komt dichter bij. We zullen de dag besteden aan aspecten rond fonts en taal. Onderwerpen zullen zijn: - Fonts/ taal -- XeTeX - Fonts -- TeXlive - Fonts -- LuaTeX - Font features in OTF - Inventarisatie van problemen in connectie met fonts en taal De volgende bijeenkomst is de gelegenheid bij uitstek, om informatie op te doen maar ook om ter plekke ervaringen met elkaar te delen. Bijv. welke fonts gebruik je, wat zou je verbeterd willen zien, wat zijn je verwachtingen. Dit is een kans om wensen kenbaar te maken. Een korte presentatie, waarin jou probleem uiteengezet wordt kan een uitstekende ophanger zijn, om de inventarisatie van verbeter punten te illustreren. Voor vragen en aanmeldingen: meld je bij de secretaris! Willi Egger Secretaris NTG w.egger(a)boede.nl

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live broken & partially fixed (was: Can't get header repetition with multipage table)
by Mojca Miklavec 14 May '07

14 May '07

On 5/14/07, Jean-Philippe Rey wrote: > > I tried first http://live.contextgarden.net/ but ConTeXt live seems to > be down at the moment, I always get the message "the file 'texexec' is > not found". Thanks for report (and many special thanks to those who read all the messages on the list and come up with ideas how to fix it - they know who they are ;) Next time simply CC to one of the gardeners. Live is fixed now, but I figured out that wiki is broken as well ... but since nobody submits anything to it anyway, there is really no need to hurry ;) Mojca

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Add a headrule to the header and reduzie interlinespacing in narrower
by Bert Trüger 13 May '07

13 May '07

Hi, I have two problems. Firstly, I'd like to insert a headrule in textwidht under the headertext and secondly I am using the narrower-environement for citation, but instead of big interlinespace I'd prefer medium interlinespace for the citation. Probably it is the wrong way to use narrower for citations, what would be better? Further it would be fine, if I could disable indenting in the citations. Kind regards and thanks in advance Bert

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hotkey definitions again
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 13 May '07

13 May '07

Hello, I have following two definitions for hotkeys \def\hotkey#1{\inframed[corner=00, offset=0pt]{\ #1\ }} \def\hotkey#1{\inframed[corner=00, offset=0pt]{\enspace#1\enspace}} The first is my favorite since it looks compact, but one-letter hotkeys look odd (the frame's height is more then width). \hotkey{Ctrl} - nice \hotkey{T} - not nice The second definition works better for one-letter hotkeys. \hotkey{Ctrl} - not nice \hotkey{T} - nice My question is: can I set the MINIMUM width of a box to have boxes not less then, say, squared. -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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linking to txt files
by Andrea Valle 11 May '07

11 May '07

Dear all, I've written an introduction to SuperCollider with ConTeXt. http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/sw/sc/prd_tSCIRMA.pdf I'm really happy of the result. Now, it has been suggested to have the included code accessible in some "cleaner" way (i.e. the supercollider source code as it is). My idea would be to add a link on something (e.g. a title of the code fragment) so that clicking on it in the pdf would open via a txt editor (or a browser, that's the same) the related sc source file. Something like opening movies or audio files, but with a text file. I guess it's simple but until now I found no way, Thanks a lot Best -a- -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong) -------------------------------------------------- Andrea Valle -------------------------------------------------- CIRMA - DAMS Università degli Studi di Torino --> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/ --> andrea.valle(a)unito.it -------------------------------------------------- I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information. (Annabel Chong)

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in text enumeration?
by Michael 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi, I'd like to define a 'enumeration' so I can type \doc, \doc, which expands to 'Document A', 'Document B' (so I don't have to keep track of the A/B/C. A defineenumeration does almost what I want except I want the 'Document A' to be part of a sentence rather than a special heading. (There is no 'intext' option in the 'location' parameter.). Plus, how can I have the A/B/C instead of 1/2/3? [conversion=Character] doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions are welcome. Cheers, Michael

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embedded fonts
by Jörg Hagmann 09 May '07

09 May '07

Dear list members, I have a possibly off-topic and certainly naive question. But unfortunately it's urgent, and a systematic search would take too long: I just finished a 84 page document and sent it to the printer. They say the fonts are not embedded. Is there a switch that allows me to do that? If not, what else can I do? Thanks a lot, Jörg

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