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Re: [NTG-context] bib module -- \completepublications inside \start|\stopbackmatter (FWD)
by Taco Hoekwater 11 Jan '07

11 Jan '07

ntg-context-bounces(a)ntg.nl wrote: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > Subject: bib module -- \completepublications inside > \start|\stopbackmatter From: <Robin.Kirkham(a)csiro.au> Date: Thu, 11 > Jan 2007 15:54:51 +1100 To: <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > > To: <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > > > Hi all, > > I've noticed that when using numerical citations, if the > \completepublications is inside the back matter (which is where I > would think it would normally be), then the citations themslves (in > the body matter) disappear from the text (they turn into empty > brackets, []). The reference list itself is correct. > > If you comment out the \start|\stopbackmatter, then everything works. > There seems to be no problem if you use author-date style citations, > either globally or for individual citations. > > Is this a bug or something I'm doing wrong (again)? The program below > produces the attached PDF. Just something you missed in the manual. You need \completepublications[criterium=all] (because the module also supports per-sectionblock lists) Best, Taco

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placing a tikz/pgf figure
by M.J. Kallen 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

Hi all, I'm trying to determine how to best insert a figure/graph created using the tikz/pgf module (I'm using v1.10). The attached sample file compares the result of just using \placefigure and \placefigure with \startcombination[1*1]. In the first case, the result is not centered (which should be default in ConTeXt, if I'm correct) but flushed left. Only if I place the figure inside a \startcombination by using \input, do I get the desired result. If I use \externalfigure inside the \startcombination, I again get an incorrect result. In theory, the first version should work but some special settings (using e.g. \useexternalfigure) may be required. I do not know why the second version does work. Does anyone have an idea? Thanks, Maarten-Jan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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rightframe=on
by andrea valle 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

Dear all, Consider this minimal example: \defineframedtext[container][width=local, corner=round, frame=off, rightframe=on ] \starttext \startcontainer test \stopcontainer \stoptext Substantially I copied it from cont-eni. It seems that it doesn't work. On my system I have no frame at all. ? Best -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea andrea.valle(a)unito.it

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bib module -- \maybeyear
by Robin.Kirkham＠csiro.au 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

Hi all, I'm using numerical citations and reference lists, and I have the bib module doing almost everything I want, except that the years in the reference list have a, b, c ... appended. On this mailing list, it was suggested that "maybeyear=off" as an argument to \setuppublicationslist should do it, but it does not seem to. The discussion on that topic seems unresolved. I've also tried \def\maybeyear#1{} in a few places, which does not help either. I'm using ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.02 13:44 MK II fmt: 2007.1.8 int: english/english. It's my first ConTeXt project. Am I doing something wrong? Program below. Robin \enableregime[utf] \setupoutput[pdf] \usemodule[bib] \setuppublications[ refcommand=num, sorttype=bbl, criterium=all, numbering=short ] \setupbibtex[database={../references},sort=author] \setuppublicationlist[ authoretallimit=100, artauthoretallimit=100, maybeyear=off ] \starttext \placepublications \stoptext

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Bug tracking (was: Re: Using vim's syntax highlighting in (TeX) publicaions (fwd))
by Taco Hoekwater 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

Hi, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > The documentation was incorrect due to a bug in texexec > > texexec --module --mode=color --color tex/context/third/t-vim.pdf > --result=doc/context/third/vim/vim-doc.pdf > > puts the result in the current directory rather than honoring the > --result= directive When someone finds such a thing, can you please also make a tracker item for it? When we were still using the collector at the literate solutions website, I tried to do all of that myself, but it is just too much work these days. As a gentle reminder for everybody, here are the urls: Bugs: https://foundry.supelec.fr/tracker/?atid=161&group_id=21 Feature requests: https://foundry.supelec.fr/tracker/?atid=164&group_id=21 Best, Taco

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Re: [NTG-context] rightframe=on
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 10 Jan '07

10 Jan '07

> grep for > > % a lot of weird corners > > in core-rul ... Hallo! I played a little with this and found some artefacts in the arc with rulethickness=2pt or 4pt (3pt is ok). \framed[corner=14, frame=on, framecolor=darkred, rulethickness=2pt]{\tttf TEST MORE~} Wolfgang

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[Fwd: Re: [Fwd: HZ and DVI]]
by Hans Hagen 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

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Header problem in project
by David Arnold 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Hans et all, We have a project call book.tex, a product in that called chapter1.tex, and a component in that called section1exercises.tex. We have blocks that we save and then place at the end of section1exercises.tex with a macro defined in our environment file: \def\placeanswers{% \bgroup \doifmodeelse{short} { \keepblocks[shortsubanswer,longsubanswer] \answers{Answers}\vskip 1em\startcolumnset[answers] \selectblocks[shortanswer][criterium=section] \stopcolumnset } { \def\headermarkleft{{\sc Chapter \headnumber[chapter]}} \def\headermarkright{{\sc{}Section \headnumber[section]}} \setupheadertexts[][\headermarkright][\headermarkleft][] \keepblocks[shortsubanswer,longsubanswer] \answers{Solutions}\vskip 1em \selectblocks[longanswer][criterium=section] } \egroup } The else part of the do above is an attempt to define a different header when we compile with --mode=long, but just for the pages on which we use \placeanswers. The other pages have a different header defined in the environment file. Those headers have page numbers as well with: \def\headermarkleft{\bold{\pagenumber}\headerskip{\sc\headerskip Chapter \headnumber[chapter]\headerskip\getmarking[chapter][current]}} \def\headermarkright{{\sc{}Section \headnumber[section]\headerskip \getmarking[section][current]}\headerskip\bold{\pagenumber}} The file section1exercises ends like this: %%% ENDTESTBANK %%%================================================ \stopquestions \placeanswers\kern0pt \stopcomponent When we compile section1exercises.tex with texmfstart texexec -- mode=long section1exercises, all is well until the last page, where the former header is used instead of the header defined in the \placeanswers macro. But we want to finish out the document from the point we put the \placeanswers with the second header. Any suggestions?

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bad page break
by David Arnold 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

All, We have a situation where we want to put in a page break to move some text at the bottom of the page to the next page. However, there is a float that hasn't been typeset yet, so the result of \page[yes] is to put the float at the top of a blank page, then page again to continue the running text. Anyway around this?

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Last page number
by David Arnold 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

All, How can I get the last page to have a page number in this example? \setupwhitespace[medium] \setupindenting[medium,yes] \definehead[answers][section] \setuphead[answers][page=right] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \starttext \chapter{Functions} \input knuth \section{Function Notation} \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth par} \answers{Answers} \dorecurse{10}{\input knuth par} \stoptext

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Strange ConTeXt - XeTeX problem
by Helin Gai 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Hi, I'm trying to learn about using XeTeX in ConTeXt. The problem is that when I compile a file using texexec --xtx filename.tex, I get the following error message *** fontmap psfonts.map not found; texmf.cnf may be broken *** font ec-lmtt10 not found in psfonts.map or host system; will substitute Helvetica glyphs But if I just use xdv2pdf filename.tex, everything turns out perfectly. I'm wondering what the problem could be. Thanks! Sincerely, Helin -- Helin (Colin) Gai Class of 2009, Duke University Box 96332 Durham, NC 27708 Phone: 919-943-6302 helin.gai at gmail.com hg9 at duke.edu

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Running Heads Question
by Helin Gai 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Hi all, I have some trouble setting up the layout in ConTeXt: 1. I'm trying to place the running head in the margin, 5 cm away from the top. My original idea is to use \setupheader[margin][...], but it turned out that this doesn't work at all - the header is not in the margin, and the setups in the second brackets are simply ignored. 2. I'm trying to use oldstyle for section numbers, so i specified numberstyle=\os, but the dot in the section number become a right-oriented triangle. 3. In LaTeX, I can use \thechapter to obtain the chapter number when defining something. So what's the equivalance in ConTeXt? Any input will be appreciated! Thanks!! Sincerely, Helin

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MPtoPDF Error ??
by Wim Neimeijer 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

I am getting the following error when recompiling my docs with the latest context. The docs run ok with the previous context version. Don't know what is wrong here, I hope someone has the answer. TeXExec | processing document 'cart.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file cart.top TeXExec | using randomseed 477 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.0-beta-20060213 (Web2c 7.5.5) \write18 enabled. (c:\CONTEXT\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./cart.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.04 17:37 MK II fmt: 2007.1.7 int: english/english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded ... metafun 2007-1-7 2:22 ) 1 output file written: cart-mpgraph.1 Transcript written on cart-mpgraph.log. TeXExec | runtime: 0.734 [MP to PDF] (./cart-mpgraph.1 ! Missing number, treated as zero. <to be read again> \@@MP42 \presetMPscale ...en 4 \zeropoint \dimen 6=\gMPs 2 \onepoint \dimen 8 \zeropo... \handleMPpathscale ->\presetMPscale \PDFcode {\gMPs 1 0 0 \gMPs 2 0 0 cm}\re... \dohandleMPpathB ...{\@@MP :P:\somestring }\relax \handleMPsequence l.31 B0.90909 1 s S Q ?

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ConTeXt 2007.01.02
by Taco Hoekwater 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

Hi all, Not even 40 hours into the new year, there is already a new ConTeXt release available for download from htp://www.pragma-ade.com . Bugfixes: * re-enable norwegian hyphenation patterns * footnote referencing fix * fix use of prime and underscore in math displays (that was already in 2006.12.27) New feature: * Use the low-level support for ToUnicode mapping in the (likewise brand new) pdftex 1.40, if possible. Wishing everybody all the best and lots of fun in 2007, Taco

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Image logo showing up with white background
by Fidel Viegas 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

Hello folks, I am using an image to embed the logo at the top of the document. The background of my document is gray, and when I render the document, the logo shows up with a white background, over the gray background. Something similar to the \frame command. My logo image was converted from PSD (Photoshop PSD) to PDF, and I have preserved the tranparent background so that I could layer it over a background and it picks the background color instead of the white background. How do I embed my image in the document so that the background stays the background color of the document? What am I doing wrong? \def\FuxionLogo% {\externalfigure[FT_LogoV2][height=1.5\headerheight]} \definelogo [fuxion logo] [top] [middle] [command=\FuxionLogo,state=start] \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuppagenumbering [location={bottom,middle}] \setupcolors [state=start] \definehead[title][title] \setuphead [title] [textstyle=cap, before=\hairline, after=\hairline] \setupinterlinespace [big] \setuplayout [width=middle, height=middle] \starttext \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=color, backgroundcolor=gray] Another question I have is regarding the positioning of the logo. The logo is really close to the top. I want it to have a space at the top. How do I achieve this? Thanks in advance, Fidel.

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wiki: linux installation updates
by Sanjoy Mahajan 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

I updated the Linux installation pages on the wiki, mostly the Debian one, but also the tetex 3.0 page and I added a short entry for Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy). The Debian page now describes how to install using Norbert's context packages. It describes a system-wide install based on those and the texlive packages. Let me know if you find errors or problems (or just correct the errors on the page). Sorry about the nightmare per-user install instructions I put there before. -Sanjoy `A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.' (Gibbon)

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\externalcommand?
by cormullion＠mac.com 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

I think there's something in ConTeXt called \externalcommand. Can this be used to hand over a section of source text for processing by an external program during the ConTeXt-ing of a document? How does it work, exactly? thanks again for help...

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Using vim's syntax highlighting in (TeX) publicaions (fwd)
by Aditya Mahajan 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Hi, I forgot to announce the t-vim module here. So here is a copy of Mojca's announcement on the vim mailing list. Aditya From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 07:53:07 +0100 Subject: using vim's syntax highlighting in (TeX) publications Hello, just in case anyone is interested in typesetting publications using vim's syntax highlighter. This is a new module written in ConTeXt (a flavour of TeX) that can be used in documents: http://modules.contextgarden.net/t-vim The idea was "stolen" from 2html.vim (which converts any syntax to html): this one converts any syntax to something "TeX"-friendly; typesetting itself is done by TeX then. Mojca

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HZ with latest ConTeXt
by Peter Münster 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Hello, I've just seen the page about hanging and hz on the wiki, so I've tried the example for lm: \starttext \input tufte \page \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][hanging][normal] \setupalign[hanging] \usetypescript[modern-base][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[reset] \setupbodyfont[modern] \input tufte \page \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][hz][highquality] \setupalign[hanging,hz] %\usetypescript[modern-base][\defaultencoding] %\setupbodyfont[reset] %\setupbodyfont[modern] \input tufte \stoptext I can get hanging but no hz (no difference between 2nd and 3rd page). What is needed to get hz? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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dvipos outputs scaled points, which confuses context
by Sanjoy Mahajan 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

To stress-test things and because xdvi renders crisper text than any pdf viewer, I just tried 'texexec --dvi --nobackend notes'. It failed with: (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/sort-lan.tex) (./notes.tuo ! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted). <to be read again> - \pospxywhd ...fnum \positionanchormode =\plusone - \MPx \pageanchor \fi ... l.193 ...952663}{8880535}{334}{6216377}{134561832} The offending line in notes.tuo is: \pospxywhd{text:33}{33}{10952663}{8880535}{334}{6216377}{134561832} texexec works fine in PDF mode, where that line in the notes.tuo file is \pospxywhd{text:33}{33}{167.12437pt}{135.50621pt}{334.24875pt}{523.95755pt}{0.0pt} And 167.12437pt = 10952663sp. So dvipos (Version 20030628 (KPATHSEA)) is outputting the locations in scaled points (sp), but the results are being interpreted as printers points (pt), whereupon the dimension is absurdly large. [CtxTools | context version: 2007.01.02 13:44] -Sanjoy `A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.' (Gibbon)

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another problem with \starttables
by Peter Münster 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hello, shouldn't there be a line on the top of each page: \starttext \starttablehead \HL \stoptablehead \starttables[|l|] \NC test \NC\FR \dorecurse{100}{\NC test \NC\MR} \NC test \NC\LR \stoptables \stoptext ? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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error with metafun
by Peter Münster 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hello, with the latest ConTeXt on TeX-live 2007 and this input file: \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} draw fullcircle scaled 4cm withpen pencircle scaled 1cm ; setbounds currentpicture to boundingbox fullcircle scaled 4cm ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext I get the following error in dvi-mode: This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6) (test-mpgraph.mp [1] metafun 2007-1-4 11:2 ) 1 output file written: test-mpgraph.1 Transcript written on test-mpgraph.log. [MP as EPS ./test-mpgraph.1] [MP color conversion ./test-mpgraph.1 ! Argument of \dodohandleMPcolor has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \includeMPasEPS ...\the \!!heightb }\doinsertfile }\wd \scratchbox \!!widthb... \loadMPgraphic ...Pgraphics \insertMPfile {#1}{#2} \fi } \handleuseMPgraphic ....\the \currentMPgraphic }{} \placeMPgraphic \fi \deall... \douseMPgraphic ...s [#1][#2]\getvalue {\@@MPG #1} {}\elabelgroup ... l.6 \useMPgraphic{test} Could anybody help please? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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crash with pdftex-1.40
by Peter Münster 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hello, this is probably only related to pdfTeX and not to ConTeXt, but I'm too lazy to subscribe yet to another list... ;) While playing around with the new shell escaping in pdftex-1.40, I got the following crash: TeXExec | processing document 'test' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file test.top TeXExec | using randomseed 121 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.0 (Web2C 7.5.6) \write18 enabled. (/opt/TeX-live/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.02 13:44 MK II fmt: 2007.1.4 int: english/english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkii)) system : cont-old loaded (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (/home/peter/.TeX/cont-sys.tex (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)) (/home/peter/.TeX/dd-macros.tex loading : Macros for Delta Dore )) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns nl->texnansi:texnansi->1->2:3 nl->ec:ec->2->2:3 fr-> texnansi:texnansi->3->2:3 fr->ec:ec->4->2:3 de->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:3 de->e c:ec->6->2:3 it->texnansi:texnansi->7->2:3 it->ec:ec->8->2:3 pt->texnansi:texna nsi->9->2:3 pt->ec:ec->10->2:3 hr->ec:ec->11->2:3 pl->pl0:pl0->12->2:3 pl->ec:e c->13->2:3 pl->qx:qx->14->2:3 cz->il2:il2->15->2:3 cz->ec:ec->16->2:3 sk->il2:i l2->17->2:3 sk->ec:ec->18->2:3 sl->ec:ec->19->2:3 ru->t2a:t2a->21->2:3 en->ec:e c->22->2:3 uk->ec:ec->23->2:3 us->ec:ec->24->2:3 agr->agr:agr->25->2:3 da->ec:e c->26->2:3 sv->ec:ec->27->2:3 af->ec:ec->28->2:3 no->ec:ec->29->2:3 deo->ec:ec- >30->2:3 es->ec:ec->31->2:3 ca->ec:ec->32->2:3 la->ec:ec->33->2:3 ro->ec:ec->34 ->2:3 tr->ec:ec->35->2:3 fi->ec:ec->37->2:3 hu->ec:ec->38->2:3 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : test.top loaded (./test.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkii)) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) systems : system commands are enabled (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/sort-def.tex) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/sort-lan.tex) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/pdfr-def.tex) systems : begin file test at line 1 (./texcmd.tmp) (./texcmd.tmp) (./texcmd.tmp)TeXExec | runtime: 0.318195 *** glibc detected *** pdftex: free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0850f718 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6[0xb7dbe911] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x84)[0xb7dbff84] pdftex[0x80a54b9] pdftex[0x80774fe] pdftex[0x806b764] pdftex[0x807732e] pdftex[0x80a2d2d] pdftex[0x8059f1c] pdftex[0x80a6e3b] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xdc)[0xb7d7087c] pdftex[0x804a9e1] ======= Memory map: ======== 08048000-08145000 r-xp 00000000 fe:01 262328 /opt/TeX-live/bin/pdftex 08145000-0815c000 rw-p 000fc000 fe:01 262328 /opt/TeX-live/bin/pdftex 0815c000-08539000 rw-p 0815c000 00:00 0 [heap] b3a00000-b3a21000 rw-p b3a00000 00:00 0 b3a21000-b3b00000 ---p b3a21000 00:00 0 b3b13000-b3b1d000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 114396 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b3b1d000-b3b1e000 rw-p 00009000 03:02 114396 /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 b3b3b000-b7d5b000 rw-p b3b3b000 00:00 0 b7d5b000-b7e74000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 114286 /lib/libc-2.4.so b7e74000-b7e76000 r--p 00118000 03:02 114286 /lib/libc-2.4.so b7e76000-b7e78000 rw-p 0011a000 03:02 114286 /lib/libc-2.4.so b7e78000-b7e7b000 rw-p b7e78000 00:00 0 b7e7b000-b7e9e000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 114294 /lib/libm-2.4.so b7e9e000-b7ea0000 rw-p 00022000 03:02 114294 /lib/libm-2.4.so b7ea0000-b7eb1000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 114337 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3 b7eb1000-b7eb2000 rw-p 00010000 03:02 114337 /lib/libz.so.1.2.3 b7eb2000-b7ef0000 r-xp 00000000 fe:04 461393 /usr/lib/libpng.so.3.1.2.8 b7ef0000-b7ef1000 rw-p 0003e000 fe:04 461393 /usr/lib/libpng.so.3.1.2.8 b7f0a000-b7f0f000 rw-p b7f0a000 00:00 0 b7f0f000-b7f10000 r-xp b7f0f000 00:00 0 [vdso] b7f10000-b7f2a000 r-xp 00000000 03:02 114346 /lib/ld-2.4.so b7f2a000-b7f2c000 rw-p 00019000 03:02 114346 /lib/ld-2.4.so bfbda000-bfbef000 rw-p bfbda000 00:00 0 [stack] This is my input: \starttext \def\myCMD#1{% \immediate\write18{echo -n `#1`\letterpercent >texcmd.tmp}% \input texcmd.tmp } X\myCMD{date -d yesterday}X X\myCMD{echo -n Hello World}X \def\myCMD#1{% \input "\string|#1"\unskip } X\myCMD{date -d yesterday}X X\myCMD{echo -n Hello World}X \stoptext But this should be enough to reproduce it: \starttext \input "\string|echo -n bla" \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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staticMPfigure problem with \runMP[TEX]graphicsfalse
by Sanjoy Mahajan 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Not sure if the following are new behaviors or are the correct ones but I'm just misunderstanding. The following jjj.tex file doesn't correctly generate and include the static metapost figure unless I set \runMPgraphicstrue and \runMPTEXgraphicstrue in cont-sys.rme and set shell_escape = t. If \runMPgraphicsfalse and \runMPTEXgraphicsfalse but shell_escape = t, then the generated pdf figure is only 1pt wide but is included. If all settings are false, then there's a grey square saying 'dummy' etc. It all works fine if all three settings are true. But I thought that one can leave all three settings false, and texexec will still produce the same pdf just with more runs? This is with context 2006.12.27 (from the Debian context package), pdftex 1.40.0, metapost 0.993, plus mostly texlive 2005. =================== begin: jjj.tex ================== \starttext \startstaticMPfigure{fig:ellipse} path p; p := fullcircle scaled 2in yscaled 0.5; label(btex hello etex, origin); draw p; \stopstaticMPfigure \placefigure[right,none]{}{\usestaticMPfigure[fig:ellipse]} \input tufte \stoptext =================== end: jjj.tex ================== -Sanjoy `A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.' (Gibbon)

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Storing temporary files in a different location
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hello, Context places a bunch of temporary files into the same folder where my source and output files are. Is there a way to tell texexec to store temporary files in a different location, say, in a \temp folder? With best regards, Vyatcheslav

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engine should be pdftex
by Peter Münster 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hello, "texexec --make --all" puts the formats in the subdirectory "pdfetex" but I think it should be "pdftex" now. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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support for \starttables ?
by Peter Münster 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hello, is \starttables ... \stoptables still supported in recent ConTeXt? With \starttext \starttables[|l|] \NC test \NC\AR \stoptables \stoptext I get the following error: ! Misplaced \noalign. \TABLEnoalign ->\noalign \bgroup \let \noalign \relax \let \next = \insertTABLEtail ->\TABLEnoalign {\global \settrue \preventTABLEbreak \globa... \stoptables ...erepeattail \else \insertTABLEtail \fi \finishTABLE \egroup \... l.4 \stoptables Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Easy insertion of Unicode symbols?
by cormullion＠mac.com 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

I need to insert a few Unicode symbols...(Just the symbols for the solar system planets)... Is this going to be easy - doable inside ConTeXt with a few preparatory mystic runes, or will it require running scripts, moving files around, etc...? The wiki suggests: Use \enableregime[utf] in order to be able to typeset in unicode under ConTeXt. But is it as simple as it looks?

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how to get hanging and hz?
by Peter Münster 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hello, once upon a time, I got hanging and hz with these commands: \starttext \input tufte \page \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono,mm][hanging][normal] \setupalign[hz,hanging] \definebodyfont[12pt][rm,ss,tt,mm][default] \setupbodyfont[12pt] \input tufte \stoptext But now, it does no more work. Is there a new way to achieve that? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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semi-smart quotes in verbatim text?
by cormullion＠mac.com 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

This is puzzling me. If i type this in a text editor: \starttext These are 'quotes'. \starttyping let a = 'quoted string' \stoptyping \stoptext I'm using dumb quotes (hex 27). ConText renders this as this: These are ’quotes’. let a = ’quoted string’ ie the quotes have been educated - although only half-educated, since the opening one should be an opening one, if you see what I mean. But I really don't want characters in the verbatim (typing) section to change...because when you copy them from the PDF into an editor, the code listings don't work! There must be some kind of switch somewhere that stops ConteXt changing them? thanks for any help

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\partial?
by Oliver Buerschaper 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hi all, how can I access the equivalent math symbol of LaTeX's \partial? Oliver

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Re: [NTG-context] Week number
by Taco Hoekwater 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hi all, I just posted this (the result of a rainy morning in Dordrecht, NL) to comp.text.tex. Someone here might be interested as well. Best, Taco ------------- Mads Munch Hansen wrote: > Hi all, and merry Christmas :) > > Is there a way to have LaTeX print the current week number, like the > \date command? I was feeling a bit bored today, so I came up with this. It is a plain e-TeX input file instead of a LaTeX package, but it should run without problems. Watch out: Dec 29 can be week 1 of the next year; and Jan 3 can be week 53 of the previous year. Best wishes, Taco %% calendarweek.tex %% 2006 (C) Taco Hoekwater, public domain %% %% Usage: %% \calendarweek{30}{12}{2006} %% \def\Expr#1{\the\numexpr #1\relax} \def\Modulonumber#1#2{\Expr{#2-((((#2+(#1/2))/#1)-1)*#1)}} \def\Divisionnumber#1#2{\Expr{(2*#2-#1)/(2*#1)}} \def\Mod#1#2{\Modulonumber{\Expr{#2}}{\Expr{#1}}} \def\Div#1#2{\Divisionnumber{\Expr{#2}}{\Expr{#1}}} \def\Jday#1#2#3% {\Expr{#1+\Div{((153*(\Expr{#2+(12*(\Div{14-#2}{12}))-3}))+2)} {5}+365*(\Expr{#3+4800-(\Div{14-#2}{12})})+ (\Div{\Expr{#3+4800-(\Div{14-#2}{12})}}{4})- (\Div{\Expr{#3+4800-(\Div{14-#2}{12})}}{100})+ (\Div{\Expr{#3+4800-(\Div{14-#2}{12})}}{400})-32045 }} \def\cwhlp#1#2#3% {\Expr{\Mod {\Mod {\Mod {\Expr {\Jday{#1}{#2}{#3}+31741-\Mod{\Jday{#1}{#2}{#3}}{7}}}% {146097}}{36524}}{1461}}} \def\calendarweek#1#2#3% {\Expr{\Expr{\Div{\Expr{\Mod{\cwhlp{#1}{#2}{#3}- \Expr{\Div{\cwhlp{#1}{#2}{#3}}{1460}}}{365}+ \Expr{\Div{\cwhlp{#1}{#2}{#3}}{1460}}}}{7} +1}}} \endinput

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Re: [NTG-context] definedescription and XML
by Johannes Graumann 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hans, Thanks so much for your help once again! Joh

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definedescription and XML
by Johannes Graumann 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hello all, After a good break I'm back at my XML obsession and am running into the following issue: my environment-file contains these definitions \defineXMLnested [reagentlist] [sample=] {\definedescription[definition][width=broad,distance=1em,sample={\XMLop{sample}}]} {} \defineXMLnested [reagent] [label=] {\startdefinition{\XMLop{label}}} {\stopdefinition} but in use, the definition-label-width is optimized for every single case, rather than for the 'sample', meaning I get One xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Twentyone xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx rather than One xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Twentyone xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Can anyone please enlighten me as to what I'm missing here? Thanks, Joh

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Problem using mptopdf with Metapost containing LaTeX
by Martin Buchmann 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hi, I am not really a ConTeXt user but use the mptopdf script to convert my mp drawings directly into pdf which was working great in the past. Yesterday and the day before i updated my TeX system using Gerben's i-Installer to the new gwTeX foundation and to the latest ConTeXt beta and since then I get an error if my Metapost file contains LaTeX control sequences: > MPtoPDF 1.3.2 : running 'texexec --mptex ' > TeXExec | processing graphic 'mp-minimal.mp' > TeXExec | using internal mptotex converter > TeXExec | processing document 'mp-minimal-temp.tex' > TeXExec | no ctx file found > TeXExec | tex processing method: context > TeXExec | writing option file mp-minimal-temp.top > TeXExec | using randomseed 1177 > TeXExec | tex engine: pdfetex > TeXExec | tex format: cont-en > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.0-rc4 (Web2C 7.5.5) > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/web2c/natural.tcx) > entering extended mode > (./mp-minimal-temp.tex > > ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.02 13:44 MK II fmt: 2007.1.3 int: english/english > > language : language en is active > system : cont-new loaded > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex > systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkii)) > system : cont-old loaded > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex > loading : Context Old Macros > ) > system : cont-fil loaded > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex > loading : Context File Synonyms > ) > system : cont-sys.rme loaded > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)) > bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded > language : patterns en->ec:ec->1->2:3 uk->ec:ec->2->2:3 de->texnansi:tex > nansi->3->2:3 de->ec:ec->4->2:3 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:3 fr->ec:ec->6->2:3 > es->ec:ec->7->2:3 pt->texnansi:texnansi->8->2:3 pt->ec:ec->9->2:3 it->texnansi > :texnansi->10->2:3 it->ec:ec->11->2:3 nl->texnansi:texnansi->12->2:3 nl->ec:ec- >>13->2:3 cz->il2:il2->14->2:3 cz->ec:ec->15->2:3 sk->il2:il2->16->2:3 sk->ec:ec > ->17->2:3 pl->pl0:pl0->18->2:3 pl->ec:ec->19->2:3 pl->qx:qx->20->2:3 loaded > specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded > system : mp-minimal-temp.top loaded > (./mp-minimal-temp.top > specials : loading definition file dvi > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/spec-dvi.tex) > specials : tex loaded > specials : loading definition file ps > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/spec-ps.tex) > specials : tex,postscript loaded > specials : loading definition file tr > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/spec-tr.tex) > specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded > ) > systems : system commands are disabled > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/sort-def.tex) > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/tex/context/base/sort-lan.tex) > systems : begin file mp-minimal-temp at line 42 > ! Undefined control sequence. > l.44 \documentclass > [12pt,a4paper]{article} > ? > ! Emergency stop. > l.44 \documentclass > [12pt,a4paper]{article} > No pages of output. > Transcript written on mp-minimal-temp.log. > TeXExec | runtime: 0.529086 > This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.5) > (/usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs/web2c/natural.tcx) > (mp-minimal.mp >>> mp-minimal.mp >>> mp-minimal.mpx > ! Unable to make mpx file. > l.9 label(btex > Test etex, (1,1) ); > Transcript written on mp-minimal.log. > TeXExec | runtime: 0.865779 > > MPtoPDF 1.3.2 : no filename matches mp-minimal Here is my minimal example: prologues:=2; verbatimtex \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} \begin{document} etex beginfig(1); label(btex Test etex, (1,1) ); endfig; end I tried to understand which script is actual called when i call mptopdf but got kind of lost in the sequence of shell script calling ruby scripts calling perl scripts, etc. So, I wasn't able to find out the right command line options, etc. for making mpost aware of calling latex instead of tex. Can someone help me out here? Best regards Martin -- If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?

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Hello, on html and LaTeX
by mario 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

hello, my first post. I am looking for tools to convert Html to LaTeX. It has been suggestd to me that ConTeXt could be used to do so. Is it the case? If yes, how? Thanks Regards mario ps pls. cc to my personal address below too. -- mario <chiari.hm(a)flashnet.it>

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Re: [NTG-context] Help --- Arithmetic Overflow: Weird error
by David Arnold 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Mojca, Attached. Meanwhile, I guess I should try to update my Context and see if that makes a difference. I found that I needed to update my installer and now I am realizing that I am a bit behind the times. In trying Context Updater in the update i-installer, I get this message: "You are now installing in the location for de deprecated gwTeX 2003-2005 i-Package in part based on teTeX. This is probably not what you want. I suggest you make sure you have the gwTeX i-Package based on TeX Live installed. Then the best thing is to reset this i-Package to its default package properties. It will then pick up the new default location. Looks like it wants me to install the latest tex. Any advice? On Jan 3, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 1/4/07, David Arnold <dwarnold45(a)cox.net> wrote: >> Mojca, >> >> Mac OS X 10.4.8. >> >> Gerben's GWTeX. >> >> LinearFunctions $ texmfstart texexec --version >> TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD > > (I also use gwTeX here.) > > Can you send me complete file+logs? > > Mojca

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[Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40]
by Taco Hoekwater 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hi, The next message probably also is interestering to a few of you that are not subscribed to the pdftex list. Best, Taco -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [pdftex] pdftex 1.40 Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:56:59 +0100 From: Martin Schröder <martin(a)oneiros.de> To: PDF-TeX mailing list <pdftex(a)tug.org> http://sarovar.org/download.php/1139/pdftex-1.40.0.tar.bz2 http://sarovar.org/download.php/1140/pdftex-1.40.0.tgz http://sarovar.org/download.php/1141/pdftex-1.40.0.zip http://sarovar.org/download.php/1142/pdftex-1.30.6-1.40.0.diff.gz The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version: =========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.40.0 =========================================================================== This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.0, an extended version of TeX that can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the help of PDF. =========================================================================== Main changes of pdfTeX 1.40.0 =========================================================================== - pdfetex (as a separate binary/program) is gone; all extensions are now in pdftex. The make files still know about the target pdfetex, but it's just a copy of pdftex - The sources of TeX, eTeX and pdfTeX have been merged into one file pdftex.web and one change file pdftex.ch. The sources of TeX and eTeX distributed are just there for reference - New features: - pdfTeX can now generate PDF 1.5 object streams, which leads to smaller PDFs. This is controlled by setting \pdfobjcompresslevel to a value >0 (3 compress everything, 2 don't compress /Info, 1 also don't compress embedded PDFs) and works only with PDF >=1.5 - pdfTeX now supports another image file format: JBIG2 files (.jbig2) - the memory allocated for objects and destination names now grows dynamically - pdfTeX now generates smaller PDFs since for char positioning the width of chars (/Widths) is stored with more precision and so the chars must rarely be positioned separately - the PK resolution is now taken from the "pk_dpi" parameter in texmf.cnf if it has not been set in the format file or by the user - pdfTeX now removes the generated pdf in case of a fatal error - pdfTeX now sets /ModDate and /Trapped in the InfoDict by default (the values can be overridden with \pdfinfo) - the format of warnings and errors issued by pdfTeX has been changed and unified - the output of -version has been extended and now includes information about the libraries actually used, which can be handy when using shared libraries - rules and their positioning on the page are now inside a qQ group - New primitives: - pdfTeX can now handle colourstacks. - \pdfcolorstackinit A stack is initialized by \pdfcolorstackinit. It expands to the number of the new stack. The common case, the traditinal color stack is already initialized as first stack: \pdfcolorstackinit page direct {0 g 0 G} The keyword "page" means that this stack is page based. At the start of the new page, the current stack value is automatically set. - \pdfcolorstack \pdfcolorstack <stack number> push {<new color>} pushes the current value on the stack and sets the <new color>. \pdfcolorstack <stack number> pop pops and sets the current stack value. \pdfcolorstack <stack number> current sets the current stack value without changing the stack. This is useful for stacks that are initialized without keyword "page". Thus the page start setting can be set manually. \pdfcolorstack <stack number> set {<new color>} The current value is set to <new color>. - Transformation matrices can now be manipulated more cleanly: Currently matrix changes are done and hidden inside \pdfliteral nodes; pdfTeX doesn't parse its contents and does not know the new settings of the transform matrix. Thus the new primitives to save pdfTeX from parsing \pdfliteral contents and to notify pdfTeX about matrix changes to use them in calculating link and anchor positions. - \pdfsetmatrix{<a> <b> <c> <d>} is the equivalent to \pdfliteral{<a> <b> <c> <d> 0 0 cm} - \pdfsave is the equivalent to \pdfliteral{q} - \pdfrestore is the equivalent to \pdfliteral{Q} - \pdfprimitive\TeX-primitive executes the original \TeX-primitive even if the command has been redefined since. E.g. \let\relax\undefined\pdfprimitive\relax expands to \relax. \ifpdfprimitive\TeX-primitive is true if \TeX-primitive has its original meaning - \ifpdfabsnum and \ifpdfabsdim are like \ifnum and \ifdim, but don't care about negative numbers - shell escape: if the first character of a filename for \openin, \openout \input is a pipe symbol (|), the filename is assumed to be a request for a pipe to a command line that is given in the rest of the filename - draftmode: With \pdfdraftmode=1 or the commandline switch -draftmode pdfTeX doesn't write the output pdf and doesn't actually read any images, thus speeding up compilations when you know you need an extra run but don't care about the output, e.g. just to get the BibTeX references right - \pdfpxdimen (introduced in 1.30) is now a real dimension parameter. It allows one base dimensions on pixels. 1px defaults to 1bp (or 72dpi), but can be changed with the \pdfpxdimen primitive: \pdfpxdimen=1in % 1 dpi \divide\pdfpxdimen by 96 % 96 dpi \hsize=1200px Now \hsize is (1in/96)*1200 - \pdflastlink returns the object number of the last \pdfstartlink - \pdfsavepos now works in DVI mode - Fonts: - support for subfonts: This creates all needed map entries for subfonts automatically and handles Unicode mappings - ToUnicode entries for Type1 fonts (patch 580) - HZ: - added patch 462: HZ font expansion in autoexpand mode now produces smaller pdf files, as it works by modififying the text matrix for single fonts instead of embedding many expanded font versions. Therefore HZ now can be used also for TrueType fonts and even for non-embedded fonts (e.g. Times-Roman) - Bugfixes: - the PDF statistics in the log are now correct - added JFIF detection patch to writejpg.c (bug 548) - bugfix: invalid pdf created if font name contains space (509) - bugfix: truetype OS/2 v3 fonts (594) - bugfix: Type1C (CFF) fonts of embedded pdfs didn't get replaced For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS =========================================================================== Legal notice / license =========================================================================== pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2007 Han The Thanh, <thanh(a)pdftex.org> pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) please look at http://www.pdftex.org/README =========================================================================== The files / installation =========================================================================== You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your distribution. If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org -- there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN. And some useful documentation. =========================================================================== Mailing lists / web pages: =========================================================================== Mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex Related web pages: http://www.pdftex.org http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/ http://www.tug.org/tex-live/ http://www.tug.org/tetex/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes http://www.dante.de/ http://tug.org/ http://www.pragma-ade.com/ Have fun and a happy new year! Martin Schröder (martin(a)pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, January 2007 _______________________________________________ pdftex mailing list pdftex(a)tug.org http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex

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palet option in typing not working
by Berend de Boer 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi All (especially Hans :-) ), It seems user palets don't work (anymore?), just downloaded the new version but still has the same problem as the version I used before (aug 2006). Sample file: - -------------------------------------------------- % interface=en \setupbodyfont [postscript,16pt] \setupcolors [state=start] \setupalign [hyphenated] \definepalet [MYcolorpretty] [prettyone=colorprettyone, prettytwo=colorprettytwo, prettythree=colorprettythree, prettyfour=colorprettyfour] \setuptyping [TEX] [palet=MYcolorpretty] \starttext \startTEX \this \is \a \test \stopTEX \stoptext - -------------------------------------------------- As you will see, there are no colors anymore. My tex and context versions: This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3) (format=cont-en 2007.1.4) 4 JAN 2007 20:14 entering extended mode ConTeXt ver: 2007.01.02 13:44 MK II fmt: 2007.1.4 int: english/english - -- Live long and prosper, Berend de Boer PS: This email has been digitally signed if you wonder what the strange characters are that your outdated email client displays. PGP public key: http://www.pobox.com/~berend/berend-public-key.txt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFFnKnoIyuuaiRyjTYRAv+VAJ0VIYai3VEQ+dJAAz2QSWFXJYXwLwCg6Pcx rA6PYx8/DeeCsLHXjLMGwdU= =8DU/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [NTG-context] cdwincontext
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

> Has anyone modified the batch file in cdwincontext so that it will > run on Windows98? If so, can I get a copy of the batch file? Yes, I have done this in the past. But I have updated my windows and deleted the old stuff. If nobody else has working files I can summarize, what I have done. Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] Help --- Arithmetic Overflow: Weird error
by David Arnold 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Mojca, Looks like I did it. Thanks for the help. All is well at the moment. On Jan 3, 2007, at 8:19 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 1/4/07, David Arnold <dwarnold45(a)cox.net> wrote: >> OK. >> >> I am starting anew. I uninstalled the old. >> >> Now, I do have some stuff in ~/Library/texmf, and I am at a point in >> the installation where I am getting this message: >> >> "I found (a) personal configuration file(s) for user(s): David >> Arnold. These users will not fully use system-wide settings and their >> TeX configuration is not fully covered by this system-wide >> configuration phase." >> >> I suspect they are related. >> >> However, I don't want to just "delete" these as some would be hard to >> recover. Can I put them in a tmp directory somewhere? And, after the >> installation completes, is thre a proper new place to move them to? > > I did > mv texmf texmf2 > You can recover them later if needed by copying single files or > folders back. In my case there were only format files. > > I had to do that because I got "format file mismatch" - there were > ConTeXt formats in there, but they were older as they should be. > Probably it would be OK if I just regenerated the formats again. Don't > bother too much. If something causes you troubles, just rename the > whole tree. > > Mojca

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Re: [NTG-context] Help --- Arithmetic Overflow: Weird error
by David Arnold 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Mojca, Well, I just finished installing gwtex, the newer version. It is in / usr/local/gwTeX. I am just finishing installing CM Super fonts. I'll then do Freetype, libwmf, and ImageMagick and ghostscript. Then I'll do the contextupdater. There's something about a preference pane but I haven't found that yet. At the moment, from my command line, I am finding the old tex. darnold $ which pdflatex /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex Advice welcome as I proceed. On Jan 3, 2007, at 7:45 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 1/4/07, David Arnold <dwarnold45(a)cox.net> wrote: >> Mojca, >> >> What is "ctxtools --contextversion" > > It tells you the version of ConTeXt rather than the version of > texexec. > > Perhaps you need to use > texmfstart ctxtools --contextversion > (before upgrading) > > Evn if you uninstall tex.ii2, you can still install it agin if > something fails. The problem might be that if you don't uninstall > tex.ii2, context might install under tetex and then you won't be able > to update context itself (although the version should be OK) > > Mojca

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GWTEX -- Uninstall before installing the new?
by David Arnold 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

All, GWTeX has some serious updates. Should I uninstall the deprecated tex before installing the new? Or can they both be installed at the same time (in case the new doesn't work well with my old files).

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Re: [NTG-context] Help --- Arithmetic Overflow: Weird error
by David Arnold 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Mojca, Mac OS X 10.4.8. Gerben's GWTeX. LinearFunctions $ texmfstart texexec --version TeXExec | version 6.2.0 - 1997-2006 - PRAGMA ADE/POD On Jan 3, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > <david.pdf>

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Re: [NTG-context] Help --- Arithmetic Overflow: Weird error
by David Arnold 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Mojca, Does the code I sent crash on your system with an overflow error? On Jan 3, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Btw: use > \sometxt{$\tfx x-2y=4$} > instead of > btex $\tfx x-2y=4$ etex > > It's much more efficient. > > Mojca

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Help --- Arithmetic Overflow: Weird error
by David Arnold 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

All, Anyone see what I am doing wrong here? \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[gridlines][s=0.7] \startMPinclusions color mygridcolor; mygridcolor=\MPcolor{gridlines}; \stopMPinclusions \starttext \startbuffer[one] % initialize scale numeric u; 10u=4cm; % draw grid for k=-5u step 1u until 5u: draw (-5u,k)--(5u,k) withcolor mygridcolor; draw (k,-5u)--(k,5u) withcolor mygridcolor; endfor; % draw axes drawdblarrow (-5.2u,0)--(5.2u,0); drawdblarrow (0,-5.2u)--(0,5.2u); % label axes label.rt(btex $\tfx x$ etex, (5.2u,0)); label.top(btex $\tfx y$ etex, (0,5.2.u)); label.bot(btex $\tfx 5$ etex, (5u,0)); label.lft(btex $\tfx 5$ etex, (0,5u)); %draw the given line and the parallel line drawdblarrow (-5u,-4.5u)--(5u,0.5u) withcolor blue; label.bot(btex $\tfx x-2y=4$ etex, (-5u,-4.5u)); %pairs pair Q, R; R:=(4u,0u); Q:=(0u,-2u); %labels dotlabel.lrt(btex $\tfx R(4,0)$ etex, R); dotlabel.lrt(btex $\tfx Q(0,-2)$ etex, Q); \stopbuffer \startbuffer[two] % initialize scale numeric u; 10u=4cm; % draw grid for k=-5u step 1u until 5u: draw (-5u,k)--(5u,k) withcolor mygridcolor; draw (k,-5u)--(k,5u) withcolor mygridcolor; endfor; % draw axes drawdblarrow (-5.2u,0)--(5.2u,0); drawdblarrow (0,-5.2u)--(0,5.2u); % label axes label.rt(btex $\tfx x$ etex, (5.2u,0)); label.top(btex $\tfx y$ etex, (0,5.2.u)); label.bot(btex $\tfx 5$ etex, (5u,0)); label.lft(btex $\tfx 5$ etex, (0,5u)); %draw the given line and the parallel line drawdblarrow (-5u,-4.5u)--(5u,0.5u) withcolor blue; label.bot(btex $\tfx x-2y=4$ etex, (-5u,-4.5u)); drawdblarrow (-4u,5u)--(1u,-5u) withcolor blue; %pairs pair P, Q, R; P:=(-3u,3u); Q:=(-3u,1u); R:=(-2u,1u); draw P--Q--R withpen pencircle scaled 1pt withcolor red; label.lft(btex $\tfx \Delta y=-2$ etex, 0.5[P,Q]); label.bot(btex $\tfx \Delta x=1$ etex, 0.5[Q,R]); %labels dotlabel.urt(btex $\tfx (-3,3)$ etex, P); \stopbuffer \startbuffer[combined] \startcombination[2*1] {\processMPbuffer[one]}{(a)} {\processMPbuffer[two]}{(b)} \stopcombination \stopbuffer \startlinecorrection[blank] \midaligned{\getbuffer[combined]} \stoplinecorrection %\startlinecorrection[blank] %\midaligned{\processMPbuffer[two]} %\stoplinecorrection \stoptext I am getting this error: ! Arithmetic overflow. <recently read> \@@raggedskipb \setraggedness ...e \@@raggedskipa \@@raggedskipb \hyphenpenalty \@@raggedsk... \raggedcenter ->\setraggedness \middleraggedness \setraggedskips 2 \middlerag... \@@align@@middle ...gedcenter \else \raggedcenter \fi \fi \next2 #1,->\dodosetupalign {#1} \doprocesscommaitem \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1, ]\relax \global \advance \... ... l.3 {\processMPbuffer[two]}{( b)} ? It doesn't seem to be the Metapost code, because if you uncomment and comment the last few lines like this: %\startbuffer[combined] % \startcombination[2*1] % {\processMPbuffer[one]}{(a)} % {\processMPbuffer[two]}{(b)} % \stopcombination %\stopbuffer % %\startlinecorrection[blank] %\midaligned{\getbuffer[combined]} %\stoplinecorrection \startlinecorrection[blank] \midaligned{\processMPbuffer[two]} \stoplinecorrection It compiles fine. So does this: I'm stymied.

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cannot generate format with XeTeX
by Peter Münster 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hello, with XeTeX 3.141592-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) and ConTeXt-2007.1.2 I get the following error when issuing "texexec --make --xtx en": ) (/opt/TeX-live/texmf-context/tex/context/base/enco-pfr.tex loading : Context Encoding Macros (pdf) ! Undefined control sequence. l.63 \ifcase\pdfgentounicode \else \expandafter \endinput \fi Do you have a solution? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Re: [NTG-context] A couple of questions on heads.
by Elliot Clifton 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

> Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:32:30 -0500 (EST) > From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam(a)umich.edu> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] A couple of questions on heads. > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.0.81.0701031230390.3452@nqvgln> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Elliot Clifton wrote: > > > > > > > Message: 8 > > > Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 20:20:31 -0500 (EST) > > > From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam(a)umich.edu> > > > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] A couple of questions on heads. > > > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > > > Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.0.81.0701021955230.1764@nqvgln> > > > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > > > > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Elliot Clifton wrote: > > > > > > > I'm typesetting a journal. I use \chapter to divide it into articles. > > > > I've defined my own heads, and I need to redefine \appendix, however > > > > despite reading the manual I cant get them behave as I want. > > > > > > > > Problems: > > > > > > > > 1. Each article may have appendices. I've tried defining my own > > > > 'appendix' head to replace the default one, but I can't decide which > > > > to use, should I derive from chapter or section? The problem with > > > > using section as the base, is that the count from my previous sections > > > > is inherited. I don't want numbers of the form 1.1, 1.2, etc, either. > > > > I want to number my appendices independently, starting from 1 without > > > > the chapter number. Also, I would like to use roman numerals. > > > > > > You can separate the appendices by a section block. For example > > > > > > % appendix is already a section block. By default, a section > > > % block starts a new page, you may not want that in a journal > > > \setupsectionblock[appendix][page=] > > > > > > > > > % Change the conversion for sections in appendices. > > > \setupsection > > > [section-3] > > > [appendixconversion=Romannumerals] > > > > > > > > > \starttext > > > > > > \section{Test} > > > > > > \startappendices > > > \section{An Appendix} > > > \stopappendices > > > > > > \stoptext > > > > > > > > > > > > HTH, > > > > > > > Yep. Thanks. > > > > I am now using section blocks to create meta-sections, so that inside > > the body-matter sections have no numbers whilst the appendices do. It > > works great. > > > > One minor problem though. I need the appendices to have labels, like: > > Appendix I, etc.. > > > > \setuplabeltext[appendix=Appendix] does not work in this situation > > what is the correct way of doing it? > > You also need to tell context to use the labeltext, by saying > > \setuphead > [section] > [appendixlabel=appendix, > placehead=yes] > > % Make sure that \setuplabeltext[section=] is empty. > % By default it is empty. > Thanks. That does the trick.

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ConTeXt, hyphenation
by Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

I've upgraded to the most recent version of ConTeXt now. I try to set Norwegian hyphenation by saying \language[no] \setuplanguage[no] however, as opposed to in the previous version, there are no hyphenations at all. I wonder if it is to do with the pattern file used – how do I set that? and how can I make sure that the correct patterns are used? -- Rolf Lindgren roffe(a)extern.uio.no

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Re: [NTG-context] A couple of questions on heads.
by Elliot Clifton 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

> > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 20:20:31 -0500 (EST) > From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam(a)umich.edu> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] A couple of questions on heads. > To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Message-ID: <alpine.WNT.0.81.0701021955230.1764@nqvgln> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Elliot Clifton wrote: > > > I'm typesetting a journal. I use \chapter to divide it into articles. > > I've defined my own heads, and I need to redefine \appendix, however > > despite reading the manual I cant get them behave as I want. > > > > Problems: > > > > 1. Each article may have appendices. I've tried defining my own > > 'appendix' head to replace the default one, but I can't decide which > > to use, should I derive from chapter or section? The problem with > > using section as the base, is that the count from my previous sections > > is inherited. I don't want numbers of the form 1.1, 1.2, etc, either. > > I want to number my appendices independently, starting from 1 without > > the chapter number. Also, I would like to use roman numerals. > > You can separate the appendices by a section block. For example > > % appendix is already a section block. By default, a section > % block starts a new page, you may not want that in a journal > \setupsectionblock[appendix][page=] > > > % Change the conversion for sections in appendices. > \setupsection > [section-3] > [appendixconversion=Romannumerals] > > > \starttext > > \section{Test} > > \startappendices > \section{An Appendix} > \stopappendices > > \stoptext > > > > HTH, > Yep. Thanks. I am now using section blocks to create meta-sections, so that inside the body-matter sections have no numbers whilst the appendices do. It works great. One minor problem though. I need the appendices to have labels, like: Appendix I, etc.. \setuplabeltext[appendix=Appendix] does not work in this situation what is the correct way of doing it? Thanks, Elliot

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debian context updates
by Norbert Preining 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi all! I have uploadedanother repetition, this time with new package splitting: package context: all the normal stuff as before package context-nonfree currently only the cowfonts package context-doc-nonfree all the pdf documentation from below, plus style.pdf and details.pdf which Hans suggested. So the context package has changed as it now suggests both context-nonfree and context-doc-nonfree. The tarball for context-nonfree has changed, as it only contains the cowfonts. And context-doc-nonfree is new. On Fre, 22 Dez 2006, Norbert Preining wrote: > aleph.pdf mfonts.pdf mtexfont.pdf show-dem.pdf show-pap.pdf > cont-eni.pdf minstall.pdf mtexutil.pdf show-exa.pdf show-pre.pdf > cont-enp.pdf mmakempy.pdf mtexwork.pdf showfont.pdf showunic.pdf > eppchtex.pdf mp-cb-en.pdf roadmap.pdf show-gra.pdf tiptrick.pdf > example.pdf mp-ch-en.pdf setup-en.pdf show-mag.pdf > metafun-p.pdf ms-cb-en.pdf show-art.pdf show-man.pdf > metafun-s.pdf mtexexec.pdf showcase.pdf show-not.pdf I will upload the stuff to Debian now, as it seems pretty stable,and etch is frozen anyway. In the meantime, it is available at the usual place. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining(a)logic.at> Università di Siena Debian Developer <preining(a)debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IPSWICH (n.) The sound at the other end of the telephone which tells you that the automatic exchange is working very hard but is intending not actually to connect you this time, merely to let you know how difficult it is. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff

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debian context updates 2007.01.02
by Norbert Preining 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi all! New context and context-nonfree based on 2007.01.02 release are on the TUG server. I will leave the current versions available in the Debian NEW queue and hope that the pass. After the inclusion I will upload new packages (which don't have to go through the NEW queue). Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining(a)logic.at> Università di Siena Debian Developer <preining(a)debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LITTLE URSWICK (n.) The member of any class who most inclines a teacher towards the view that capital punishment should be introduced in schools. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff

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citation by number
by Gerhard Kugler 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi, I want to cite by numbers. Till now it get only empty brackets. My file contains: \setuppublications[criterium=all,autohang=no,numbering=bib,refcommand=serial,sorttype=bbl] with "refcommand=num" it was the same result. Gerhard -- Gerhard Kugler Psychotherapeut http://www.psychotherapie-kugler.de

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A couple of questions on heads.
by Elliot Clifton 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi, I'm still a relative newbie. I enjoy using ConTeXt and have achieved some great results with it, but some issues still trip me up. I'm typesetting a journal. I use \chapter to divide it into articles. I've defined my own heads, and I need to redefine \appendix, however despite reading the manual I cant get them behave as I want. Problems: 1. Each article may have appendices. I've tried defining my own 'appendix' head to replace the default one, but I can't decide which to use, should I derive from chapter or section? The problem with using section as the base, is that the count from my previous sections is inherited. I don't want numbers of the form 1.1, 1.2, etc, either. I want to number my appendices independently, starting from 1 without the chapter number. Also, I would like to use roman numerals. 2. I derived \Author from \section with expectation that \setupheadertexts[Papertitle][Author] would yield a header containing the author's name and the paper's title, however I get the title of the most recent section instead of the author. What can I do about this? thanks, Elliot

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Manual (English) Update soon?
by Douglas Philips 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hello again, I've just recently tried to "get up to speed" on ConTeXt by reading what I could find on the web, including cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). Recent activity on this list, discussing the Debian packaging, says (and I commented on this a few days ago in another thread): "ConTeXt is developed rapidly, often in response to requests from the friendly user community." And so I am wondering if ConTeXt is still too fresh... and if I'll have any chance of figuring out what/how to use it without having been on this list for the past 4+ years... (IIRC, Hans is also a core team member of LuaTeX, so perhaps I should just suck it up with LaTeX until LuaTeX is viable?) Advice, comments, etc. appreciated... --Doug

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cdwincontext
by David Arnold 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

All, Has anyone modified the batch file in cdwincontext so that it will run on Windows98? If so, can I get a copy of the batch file?

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2007
by Hans Hagen 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Hi, For those who haven't seen it yet ... http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-gra.pdf#page=23 Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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ConTeXt upgrade blues
by Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

OK, so the ConTeXt that comes with the TeX distribution I use (until eariler today, MacPorts, and as from later today, fink) is ancient. now, with good old LaTeX that's not much of a problem - just put the most recent release in the few relevant places in texmf-local, rebuild the formats, and off you go. with ConTeXt, that's, er, not so simple. the first attempt I made was to pull dowm the most recent version of the base files and then run sudo texmfstart ctxtools --update which seemingly worked, pulled the updates to texmf-local, and complied with no error messages. however, the new ConTeXt failed to compile documents, giving lots of error messages about undefined commands. texexec test.tex (which used to work) gives mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr12' failed to make ec-lmr12.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \*12ptrmtfrm*=ec-lmr12 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. ruby `kpsewhich --format=texmfscripts texmfstart.rb` texexec test (which is in essence what the recommended shell script does) gives ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2006.12.30 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/sw/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex ! Undefined control sequence. l.16 \newcontextversion {2006.12.27 11:34} now, according to several web pages, ec-lmr12 can be found on pragma's web, but it's not there. any suggestions? -- Rolf Lindgren roffe(a)extern.uio.no

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Re: [NTG-context] Page numbering
by Elliot Clifton 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Hi Peter, Thanks. Ooops... I should read the syntax spec more carefully! :) Elliot Peter Rolf wrote: >you need the keyword 'number' to pass your page number.

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Page numbering
by Elliot Clifton 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

Hi, I need to set the start number for the pages in my journal so that the numbering continues from the previous issue in the volume. After reading p77 of the manual I understand that I can use \setuppagenumber[number] to set the start number. Unfortunately, nothing happens and numbering starts from 1 as usual. What am I doing wrong? thanks, Elliot

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Where is ifforwardreference defined?
by Mike Bird 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

\somewhere sometimes prints the wrong text. To track down the problem I tried to find the definition for \ifforwardreference. I can see where \iffowardreference is declared to be a \newif but I can't find where the algorithm is defined: $ grep -r ifforwardreference . ./tex/context/base/core-ref.tex:\newif\ifforwardreference ./tex/context/base/core-ref.tex:\def\doifforwardreferenceelse#1#2% ./tex/context/base/core-ref.tex: {\ifforwardreference#1\else#2\fi} ./tex/context/base/core-ref.tex: {\ifforwardreference ./tex/context/base/core-ref.tex: \ifforwardreference Binary file ./web2c/pdfetex/cont-de.fmt matches Binary file ./web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt matches Binary file ./web2c/pdfetex/cont-it.fmt matches $ Does anyone know where \ifforwardreference is defined? Thanks, --Mike Bird

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Making a verbatim file for another language
by cormullion＠mac.com 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

I'm going to try to make a 'verbatim- module' (don't know what the right word is) for another language. I've found: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/verb-pl.tex and can probably have a go at making a version of this. Some questions occur: 1: where should i put my file? 2: do I have to do anything else to get Context to recognise and use it? cheers

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texfont doesn't refresh MiKTeX database
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Hello, I use MikTeX. When I run texfont script, it always fails to do FNDB refresh at the end, saying generating : ls-r databases initexmf: This utility does not accept non-option arguments. It seems like a bug in the script. -- Best regards Vyatcheslav

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macro \verticalchineseunicodeglyph may not satisfy the vertical Chinese typeset
by Zhichu Chen 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hi, ConTeXters I'm playing some Chinese vertical typesetting. Mr. Wolfgang Shuster helps me a lot about it. In vertical typesetting, the top of each leading Chinese characters at each column are aligned horizontally. But if we changed the size of the bodyfont of some characters and they could wrap to the next column, then the top of the wrapped texts are not aligned with the other columns. So we can give them a raise, but it is not so easy to calculate the dimension to be raised, for ConTeXt will give every Chinese a \strut and makes the original height and depth unavailable. Since we can aligned the \strut-ed characters precisely, the real characters are not. Can Hans or other TeXperts give me a nice solution? In fact, I think in vertical Chinese, we should move the baseline to the top of the character. and make it with height=0pt and depth=width -- Sincerely yours, 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] Forward of moderated message (Why It Is So)
by Taco Hoekwater 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hi Geoff, (Your messsage was too large, I dropped the attachments) From: geoff.moyle(a)gmail.com: > Thanks > > This problem has been with my version of Contex which is running on windows > XP since I first started maybe 2 years ago and has never bothered me as I > was doing simple jobs. The version is kept up to date and I have in fact > downloaded the base distro again on 14 Dec and updated. I am guessing that > it may be in the parameters given to pdftex which I have just noticed from > googling for something else. Like Luigi said: there is no problem. This is absolutely how it is supposed to look. I do not know what you want precisely, but apparently you are unhappy with the standard ConTeXt page layout. That is fine, after all, it is only a default. Just play with \setuplayout until you are happy (try \showlayout if you want to see all of the currently used parameter values). But there is definately no bug in your installation. Best, Taco > I am happy to test this but I am unsure how > > "\pdfpagewidth (dimension) > This dimension parameter specifies the page width of the pdf output (the > screen, the paper, etc.). pdfTEX reads this parameter > when it starts shipping out a page. After magnification has been changed by > the \mag primitive, check that this parameter > reflects the wished true page width. > If the value is not given, the page width is calculated as wbox being > shipped out + 2 × (horigin + \hoffset). When part of the page > falls off the paper or screen, you can be rather sure that this > parameter is > set wrong." > > On 12/30/06, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 12/29/06, geoff.moyle(a)gmail.com <geoff.moyle(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> > Gday >> > >> > I know there must be a fundamental answer, but I cannot fathom why >> > everything is shifted left on the page. >> > >> hmm, I don't see anything wrong;this is the standard setup. >> You can play with >> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%5 >> \setuppapersize[A4][A3] >> \setuplayout[location=middle,marking=on] >> \showlayout >> \starttext >> \input tufte >> \stoptext >> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >> or >> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% >> \setuppapersize[A4][A4] >> \setuplayout[horoffset=3cm]%%% bang ! >> \showlayout >> \starttext >> \input tufte >> \stoptext

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Newbie: font sizes
by Elliot Clifton 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hello, I've read the fonts manual, but I don't understand how to change sizes. How can I change the sizes referred to by the sizes selectors \tfx etc... Thankyou, Elliot

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PSTricks
by Mojca Miklavec 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

(was: Manual (English) Update soon?) For Hans: please read further, some things need to be fixed. On 12/29/06, John R. Culleton wrote: > > Jut FYI PSTricks (which runs on Plain TeX as well as LaTeX) can be run as part > of Context. It requires loading a module and an extra pass. Like many of > the "undocumented" modules there is actually documentation in the module > itself. I suspect that if all the documentation in the source code were > collected and organized in some way we would have a new Context Manual. Thanks for the hint! I really like the example with \dorecurse mixed with PSTricks; although they have their own mechanisms for that, \dorecurse is more familiar and easier to use for me. (I doubt that I'll return to PSTricks now that I've learn metapost and now when TikZ is available and more portable, but it's nice to know that I may use my old code there and for some cases PSTricks are still an easier approach.) I knew that there was something about pstricks available, but I always had a feeling that it's only conditionally working (I never heard anyone talking about PSTricks on the mailing list). However: you're probably running the module with perl-based texexec, right? I just tried it and had the following problems: - filename-texapp.tex has been created (and can only be deleted manually), but instead of dvi it resulted in an empty pdf file - I processed that file manually, so I got the dvi, but then dvips failed - the second was probably "my fault" (dvips sent the result to lpr), but it's how it's set up on the system by default; using -Ppdf switch helped, although I have no idea why/how it works exactly So it would really help a lot: - if the intermediate file would result in .dvi, not in .pdf - if dvips would be called with -Ppdf or perhaps some other more appropriate switch to assure slightly more "works-out-of-the-box" cases (- if temporary files could be deleted with ctxtools if needed) It would also help a lot for tex4ht if the switch --dvi could work as intended (and without unneded dvips run afterwards). Mojca PS (in a joke): why didn't you tell me that before I wrote support for gnuplot ??? Gnuplot can already output PSTricks code which could be read by ConTeXt then.

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Why Is It So
by geoff.moyle＠gmail.com 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Gday I know there must be a fundamental answer, but I cannot fathom why everything is shifted left on the page. TIA Geoff Moyle Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?

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Font for enumeration
by Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

consider the following setup: \startitemize[m] \item this \item that \item the other \stopitemize this should give enumeration using oldstyle numbers. now, I have created my own typescript file that sets everything to Sabon, except the oldstyle numbers in question, which are set using computer modern's oldstyle numbers. what do I do to get the base font here? I have set up my typescript file so that {\Var[osf] 123} are set using the base fonts oldstyle numbers. -- Rolf Lindgren roffe(a)extern.uio.no

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Re: [NTG-context] Newbie: font sizes (Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky)
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Hello Elliot, I'm a newbie too but I change font sizes as follows. {\tfa Big text} {\tfa\bf Big and bold} ... Font size selectors from the smallest to the biggest are \tfxx \tfx \tfa \tfb \tfc \tfd You told about a manual, but there are a lot of manuals around. -- With best regards Vyatcheslav mailto:yatskovsky@gmail.com

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Elevated text blocks
by Gerhard Kugler 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Hi, in the book which I'm translating there are many exercises which should be elevated. The original sets grey bars at the beginning and the end. My solutions tends to light grey background over the whole text block. Partially the exercises exceed a page. If possible they should kept as wholes. What is the suitable logical isolation of these blocks in context? Framedtexts? Textblocks? Gerhard -- Gerhard Kugler Psychotherapeut http://www.psychotherapie-kugler.de

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Fwd: Re: Manual (English) Update soon?
by John R. Culleton 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon? Date: Thursday 28 December 2006 20:58 From: "John R. Culleton" <john(a)wexfordpress.com> To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Cc: "Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> On Thursday 28 December 2006 19:43, Mojca Miklavec wrote: then I finally discovered PSTricks which became > kind-of-obsolete with pdfTeX or XeTeX. The same story with just about > any package for creating slides or changing page layout, headers, > footers (and they all took a lot of time to learn how to use them), > not to mention the changes in base LaTeX (documentstyle -> > documentclass{article} -> Komma script) and the fact that most > packages become unmaintained after they have been written. Jut FYI PSTricks (which runs on Plain TeX as well as LaTeX) can be run as part of Context. It requires loading a module and an extra pass. Like many of the "undocumented" modules there is actually documentation in the module itself. I suspect that if all the documentation in the source code were collected and organized in some way we would have a new Context Manual. > > And so I am wondering if ConTeXt is still too fresh... If I have a simple job I use pdftex. If the layout gets complicated at all, or I need to impose a smaller page on a full size page, or anything else like that I turn to Context. > It's always full of surprizes. But what do you mean with "too fresh"? > If you're worried that your colleagues don't have the latest version > of ConTeXt installed (and thus won't be able to compile your code) > then you're probably right. (But if you want to use the latest packeg > from LaTeX, there's even more chance that they won't have it. In > ConTeXt you know at least that downloading one thing should suffice.) The bad thing about Context is that many errors in parameters etc. are simply not reported when you compile a document. One of the many good things is that the elaborate structure is there but not required. Most plain TeX (the old stuff) documents will run under Context. Make a file with: Hello world \bye and run it through Context. It will work. But with LaTeX you must have a LaTeX specific statement or two or it won't work. > > and if I'll > > have any chance of figuring out what/how to use it without having > > been on this list for the past 4+ years... I store all messages on this list forever in a directory. It is more convenient for me to search that directory than on the wiki. My earliest is dated in April 2002. Font handling is a bear but font handling in any version of TeX more complex than plain is a bear. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com ------------------------------------------------------- -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com

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Re: [NTG-context] Installing Cyrillic font
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

Hello all, Thanks to everybody, but I've already written the asked typescript for my installed Cyrillic font (NimbusRomanNo9L). Look at my script, if you interested in. --- \enableregime[cp1251] \loadmapfile [t2a-urw-timescyr.map] \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] \starttypescript [serif] [timescyr] [name] \usetypescript[serif][fallback] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [NimbusNo9L-Roman] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [NimbusNo9L-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [NimbusNo9L-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [NimbusNo9L-Bold-Italic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [timescyr] [t2a] \definefontsynonym [NimbusNo9L-Roman] [t2a-n021003l] [encoding=t2a] \definefontsynonym [NimbusNo9L-Bold] [t2a-n021004l] [encoding=t2a] \definefontsynonym [NimbusNo9L-Italic] [t2a-n021023l] [encoding=t2a] \definefontsynonym [NimbusNo9L-Bold-Italic] [t2a-n021024l] [encoding=t2a] \stoptypescript \definetypeface [myTimesCyr] [rm] [serif] [timescyr] [default] [encoding=t2a] \setupbodyfont[myTimesCyr] --- Ukrainian works as good as Russian; font variants could be selected as well. I haven't tested the script as a separate file yet. Suggestions are welcome! -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav mailto:yatskovsky@gmail.com

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Re: [NTG-context] Installing Cyrillic font
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Hello all, I've made some progress with your help. (and esp. Mojca's) Following the guidelines from http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html, I 've defined the Regular font as \enableregime[cp1251] \loadmapfile [t2a-urw-timescyr.map] \definefontsynonym[NimbusRomanNo9L-Regu][t2a-n021003l][encoding=t2a] \definefont[TimesCyr][NimbusRomanNo9L-Regu at 15pt] \starttext \TimesCyr ... and it works OK unless I need Bold or Italic. Now that I define the font in 'proper' way, using typescripts, \enableregime[cp1251] \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] \loadmapfile [t2a-urw-timescyr.map] \starttypescript [serif] [NimbusNo9L] [t2a] \definefontsynonym [NimbusNo9L-Roman] [t2a-n021003l] [encoding=t2a] \definefontsynonym [NimbusNo9L-Bold] [t2a-n021004l] [encoding=t2a] \definefontsynonym [NimbusNo9L-Italic] [t2a-n021023l] [encoding=t2a] \definefontsynonym [NimbusNo9L-Bold-Italic] [t2a-n021024l] [encoding=t2a] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [timescyr] [name] \usetypescript[serif][fallback] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [NimbusNo9L-Roman] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [NimbusNo9L-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [NimbusNo9L-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [NimbusNo9L-Bold-Italic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [TimesCyr] \definetypeface [TimesCyr] [rm] [serif] [timescyr] [default] [encoding=t2a] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[TimesCyr] \setupbodyfont[TimesCyr] \starttext .... the texexec fails and I cannot figure out why. The log file says me ! Font \*TimesCyr12ptrmtf*:=NimbusNo9L-Roman at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TF M) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.32 \setupbodyfont[TimesCyr] ? -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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List of special characters?
by cormullion＠mac.com 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

Is there a list of special characters anywhere (eg \percent, \upperleftsingle6quote, etc) ? I'm trying to insert a "|", at the moment, but I can't find a list...

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shading with stitching functions
by Mojca Miklavec 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Hello, I'm still trying to get shading in MetaPost as the one in the attached eps file, but I don't manage to decipher the way how other shandings are done. There's a .tex file attached with a failed (hardcoded) example tries ... but I don't know where to explore further. I would appreciate any hints, Mojca

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' undefined inside \startformula .. \stopformula
by Sanjoy Mahajan 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

I just noticed this test file failing: \starttext $f'(x)$ \startformula f^\prime(x)\quad f'(x) \stopformula \stoptext It gives: ! Undefined control sequence. l.4 f^\prime(x)\quad f' (x) As you can see from lack of complaint about $f'(x)$, the ' still works in inline math mode. So somehow the ' active charcode setting didn't make it into display-math mode? I couldn't get any tests to produce a PDF file on the live context, so I didn't test it there. But I'm using: ConTeXt ver: 2006.12.20 23:52 MK II fmt: 2006.12.25 -Sanjoy `A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does not proceed to the last extremes of injustice and oppression.' (Gibbon)

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spurious space in figurebase graphics
by Peter Rolf 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Hi all, even with the today's version I get a spurious space in front of every figurebase graphic. Can someone please confirm this. I have made a small test file (7zip,38k), but it's still too big for the list. So if you are interested, please mail me off list and I send you the file. Or you can change the attached tex code from the example, so that it fits your figurebase. Thanks in advance. BTW: Is there a way to upload some file to ConTeXt Live, so that things like this can be tested on 'neutral ground'? Greetings, Peter \usemodule[fig-base] \usefigurebase[windows-xp-icons] \setupexternalfigures[directory=..] \starttext \ss Graphics from a figure database have some spurious space. \blank[big] from a database: \framed[offset=overlay]{\externalfigure[computer][width=10mm,height=10mm]} \framed[offset=overlay]{\externalfigure[computer]} from a single picture file: \framed[offset=overlay]{\externalfigure[computer_24bpp-48x48.png][width=10mm,height=10mm]} \framed[offset=overlay]{\externalfigure[computer_24bpp-48x48.png]} \stoptext

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\ifshellescape
by Mojca Miklavec 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Hello, is there any command to test for write18/shell escape available in ConTeXt? In one of the LaTeX packages I saw: \newif\ifShellEscape ... \ifShellEscape \def\tmpfile{/tmp/w18-test-\the\year\the\month\the\day\the\time} \ifmiktex \immediate\write18{rem >"\tmpfile"} \else \immediate\write18{touch \tmpfile} \fi \ifmiktex \IfFileExists{\tmpfile.}{\ShellEscapetrue}{\ShellEscapefalse} \else \IfFileExists{\tmpfile}{\ShellEscapetrue}{\ShellEscapefalse} \fi \fi Thanks a lot, Mojca

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pb inserting multipage documents
by olivier Turlier 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Hi everybody, I'm experiencing pb with the latest stable version : insertion of multipage external document leads to the rendering of only the first page, with this command : \getfiguredimensions[doc-guidecstb-sol-tecnic-rt2000-gobck.pdf] \dorecurse{\noffigurepages}{\externalfigure[doc-guidecstb-sol-tecnic-rt2000-gobck.pdf] [width=\textwidth,height=\textheight][page=\recurselevel]} If you are interested, you can test source and see differences at this url : http://tebcado.free.fr/context-quest/01/ TIA for the answers. -- olivier Turlier

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Re: [NTG-context] Installing Cyrillic font
by Mojca Miklavec 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

On 12/27/06, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky wrote: > > > I might have missed the point completely, but do you set the file > > encoding anywhere, such as \enableregime[cp1251] (= windows-1251) > > anywhere? I didn't try your examples, but unless you set this > > somewhere cyrilic glyphs unlikely to work properly. > > Thank you, Mojca. > > No, I didn't set the encoding and let me explain why. > > When I put \enableregime[cp1251] (I use that very encoding) at the top of my > script, the output represents transliterated text (all Cyrillic glyphs are > replaced with corresponding Latin letters). I didn't consider it strange > until you pointed that to me. Here the .log file of the 'transliterated' That's "normal". The problems is that you didn't specify the proper encoding of your font, so TeX doesn't know that your font is cyrillic. \font\myfirstfont=t2a-n021003l \myfirstfont is a plain TeX command, you have to use a ConTeXt command for that. This is a way to go then: \starttypescript [map] [timescyr] [t2a] \loadmapfile [\typescriptthree-urw-timescyr.map] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [timescyr] [name] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [...] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [timescyr] [t2a] \definefontsynonym [...] [\typescriptthree-progbot] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [t2a] \definetypeface [...] [rm] [serif] [timescyr] [default] [encoding=\typescripttwo] \stoptypescript That's only a rought sketch. If you don't get any further using the existing documentation and wiki, and if nobody else is willing to help, I can try to complete the definitions if you ask again, but someone is willing to do that instead ... I won't object. (Although I suspect that there is a shorter way to tell to TeX which encoding is being used for a specific font.) Mojca

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Re: [NTG-context] Installing Cyrillic font
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

> I might have missed the point completely, but do you set the file > encoding anywhere, such as \enableregime[cp1251] (= windows-1251) > anywhere? I didn't try your examples, but unless you set this > somewhere cyrilic glyphs unlikely to work properly. Thank you, Mojca. No, I didn't set the encoding and let me explain why. When I put \enableregime[cp1251] (I use that very encoding) at the top of my script, the output represents transliterated text (all Cyrillic glyphs are replaced with corresponding Latin letters). I didn't consider it strange until you pointed that to me. Here the .log file of the 'transliterated' document: ConTeXt ver: 2006.07.14 12:08 fmt: 2006.12.25 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex color : palette rollover is available ) system : cont-old loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\user\cont-sys.rme (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-exa.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-syn.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-enc.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-siz.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-map.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-spe.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-akb.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns en->ec:ec->1->2:3 uk->ec:ec->2->2:3 de->texnansi:tex nansi->3->2:3 de->ec:ec->4->2:3 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:3 fr->ec:ec->6->2:3 es->ec:ec->7->2:3 pt->texnansi:texnansi->8->2:3 pt->ec:ec->9->2:3 it->texnansi :texnansi->10->2:3 it->ec:ec->11->2:3 nl->texnansi:texnansi->12->2:3 nl->ec:ec- >13->2:3 cz->il2:il2->14->2:3 cz->ec:ec->15->2:3 sk->il2:il2->16->2:3 sk->ec:ec ->17->2:3 pl->pl0:pl0->18->2:3 pl->ec:ec->19->2:3 pl->qx:qx->20->2:3 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : test7timescyr.top loaded (D:\~~\test7timescyr.top specials : loading definition file tpd (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\spec-fdf.tex) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) systems : system commands are disabled encoding : coding cp1251 is loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\regi-cp1251.tex) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\sort-def.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\sort-lan.tex) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) systems : begin file test7timescyr at line 14 fonts : resetting map file list fonts : using map file: lm-texnansi fonts : using map file: original-base fonts : using map file: ec-public-lm fonts : using map file: ec-base fonts : using map file: 8r-base fonts : using map file: t5-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler fonts : using map file: original-public-lm fonts : using map file: t2a-urw-timescyr (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\pdfr-ec.tex) [1.1{original-empty.map}{lm-texnansi.m ap}{original-base.map}{ec-public-lm.map}{ec-base.map}{8r-base.map}{t5-base.map} {original-ams-base.map}{original-ams-euler.map}{original-public-lm.map}{t2a-urw -timescyr.map}] systems : end file test7timescyr at line 26 system : cont-err loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\cont-err.tex > User file 'cont-sys.tex' not found, 'cont-sys.rme' has been used instead. < ) ) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 1337 strings out of 57725 21657 string characters out of 577460 590834 words of memory out of 1079821 40050 multiletter control sequences out of 60000 76275 words of font info for 39 fonts, out of 1000000 for 2000 192 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191 51i,18n,51p,264b,540s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,32768s PDF statistics: 11 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 300000 5 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000 {t2a.enc}<E:/texmf/fonts/type1/urw/timescyr/n021003l.pfb>{lm-ec.enc}<E:/MiKT eX/fonts/type1/public/lm/lmr12.pfb> Output written on test7timescyr.pdf (1 page, 32893 bytes). -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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Fwd: Re[2]: Installing Cyrillic font
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

> I might have missed the point completely, but do you set the file > encoding anywhere, such as \enableregime[cp1251] (= windows-1251) > anywhere? I didn't try your examples, but unless you set this > somewhere cyrilic glyphs unlikely to work properly. Thank you, Mojca. No, I didn't set the encoding and let me explain why. When I put \enableregime[cp1251] (I use that very encoding) at the top of my script, the output represents transliterated text (all Cyrillic glyphs are replaced with corresponding Latin letters). I didn't consider it strange until you pointed that to me. Here the .log file of the 'transliterated' document: ConTeXt ver: 2006.07.14 12:08 fmt: 2006.12.25 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex color : palette rollover is available ) system : cont-old loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\user\cont-sys.rme (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-exa.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-syn.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-enc.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-siz.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-map.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-spe.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-akb.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns en->ec:ec->1->2:3 uk->ec:ec->2->2:3 de->texnansi:tex nansi->3->2:3 de->ec:ec->4->2:3 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:3 fr->ec:ec->6->2:3 es->ec:ec->7->2:3 pt->texnansi:texnansi->8->2:3 pt->ec:ec->9->2:3 it->texnansi :texnansi->10->2:3 it->ec:ec->11->2:3 nl->texnansi:texnansi->12->2:3 nl->ec:ec- >13->2:3 cz->il2:il2->14->2:3 cz->ec:ec->15->2:3 sk->il2:il2->16->2:3 sk->ec:ec ->17->2:3 pl->pl0:pl0->18->2:3 pl->ec:ec->19->2:3 pl->qx:qx->20->2:3 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : test7timescyr.top loaded (D:\~~\test7timescyr.top specials : loading definition file tpd (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\spec-fdf.tex) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) systems : system commands are disabled encoding : coding cp1251 is loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\regi-cp1251.tex) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\sort-def.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\sort-lan.tex) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) systems : begin file test7timescyr at line 14 fonts : resetting map file list fonts : using map file: lm-texnansi fonts : using map file: original-base fonts : using map file: ec-public-lm fonts : using map file: ec-base fonts : using map file: 8r-base fonts : using map file: t5-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler fonts : using map file: original-public-lm fonts : using map file: t2a-urw-timescyr (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\pdfr-ec.tex) [1.1{original-empty.map}{lm-texnansi.m ap}{original-base.map}{ec-public-lm.map}{ec-base.map}{8r-base.map}{t5-base.map} {original-ams-base.map}{original-ams-euler.map}{original-public-lm.map}{t2a-urw -timescyr.map}] systems : end file test7timescyr at line 26 system : cont-err loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\cont-err.tex > User file 'cont-sys.tex' not found, 'cont-sys.rme' has been used instead. < ) ) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 1337 strings out of 57725 21657 string characters out of 577460 590834 words of memory out of 1079821 40050 multiletter control sequences out of 60000 76275 words of font info for 39 fonts, out of 1000000 for 2000 192 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191 51i,18n,51p,264b,540s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,32768s PDF statistics: 11 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 300000 5 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000 {t2a.enc}<E:/texmf/fonts/type1/urw/timescyr/n021003l.pfb>{lm-ec.enc}<E:/MiKT eX/fonts/type1/public/lm/lmr12.pfb> Output written on test7timescyr.pdf (1 page, 32893 bytes). -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] Installing Cyrillic font
by Taco Hoekwater 27 Dec '06

27 Dec '06

Hi Vyatcheslav, (I intercepted your message because it was a bit too big for the list) From Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <yatskovsky(a)gmail.com>: > > This is the INF file for my Times-Roman: > > FontName (Times-Roman) > FullName (Times Roman) > AppleName (Times) > AppleFONDID 20 > FamilyName (Times) > version (001.007) > isFixedPitch false > CharacterSet (isoadobe) > Encoding (StandardEncoding) > ItalicAngle 0 > CapHeight 662 > UnderlinePosition -100 > UnderlineThickness 50 > StemWidth 84 > Serif true > Pi false > SuperiorBaseline 270 > MSMenuName (Times) > VPMenuName (Times Roman) > WORDMenuName (Times) > VPTypefaceID 14 > VPStyle (N) > PCFileNamePrefix (TIR__) > PCLTypefaceID 20485 > PCLStrokeWeight 0 > PCLStyle 0 I am sorry to say that this really looks like the INF of the standard Times-Roman font that does not have cyrillic glyphs (and the same was true of your log file). Can you explain to the people on the list how you could successfully use cyrillic, what operating system you are using, and in which previewer exactly? I myself am lost as to what is going wrong exactly, but I find it hard to believe that the previewer is using tir_____.pfb, from the information you have provided so far. Best, Taco

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new debian context, upload to Debian
by Norbert Preining 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

Hi all! context 2006.12.17-0.1 is available from the usual place: deb(-src) http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ context/ I want to upload this package to Debian proper soon. Please give suggestions/remarks/comments! Thanks a lot Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining(a)logic.at> Università di Siena Debian Developer <preining(a)debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BURLESTON That peculiarly tuneless humming and whistling adopted by people who are extremely angry. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff

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ConTeXt on Debian: The wiki entry
by Frank Küster 26 Dec '06

26 Dec '06

Hi everybody, this mail has a double purpose. At the end, there's a call for testers of a new (planned) Debian ConTeXt package that would be updated more frequently than now (at least in unstable and testing), where ConTeXt is tied to teTeX's or TeXlive's release cycles. But first, I'd like to talk about http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Debian_installation Are some of the people around who wrote this? I found some information in it misleading and in part just wrong (this has already been pointed out two weaks ago by "plink"), and have started to edit the page to change the parts that give us, the Debian TeX maintaines, most headache. But in the lower part, "Steps to finish a first context upgrade", I felt lost. If these steps are really needed, then there's something seriously wrong in Debian's (and probably upstream's) packaging of ConTeXt. Therefore I didn't just change the text to reflect how I think it should work. Instead, we should try to figure out together whether it in fact does not work as it should, and then fix the Debian packages (hopefully still possible for etch). So the specific question I have are: - Is it intended that context formats end up in $TEXMF/web2c/pdfetex/? If yes, why is that so? If not, we should rather find out why it happens and fix it. - Why does it make a difference if the formats are created by fmtutil instead of texexec (Except for the output directory)? Should the upstream packaging be changed so that fmtutil is never used, but texexec, or should fmtutil be fixed to produce the same as texexec? Finally, here comes Norbert Preining's Call for Testers: Dear all! We = Debian TeX maintainers searching for users of the Debian Operating Systems which are also using ConTeXt. Currently Debian etch (testing) and sid (unstable) contains packages for TeX live 2005. But this contains a bit old ConTeXt version, so users are asking us to update ConTeXt. We have prepared a updated ConTeXt package for Debian, based on the latest released version (2006.08.08), and would ask you to help use testing, as we are not experienced in ConTeXt type settings. I checked some simple documents from the ConTeXt Garden, and they worked, but more detailed testing would be nice. If you have interest, please contact us at debian-tex-maint(a)lists.debian.org or, if you have a bit experience, you can straight away add deb http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ context/ to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and install context. After this, please tell us our experiences/failures/suggestions. Thanks a lot and all the best Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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Spacing after defined word: beginner's question
by cormullion＠mac.com 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

This must be a beginner's question, but I can't find the answer to it in the manuals... Take this ConTeXt source: -- \def\Acme{% {\ss\sc ACME}} Welcome from \Acme. \Acme make fine products. -- When this is made into a PDF, it looks like this: -- Welcome from ACME. ACMEmake fine products. -- - because I didn't have a space in the definition, I don't get a space in the second sentence, but the period didn't interfere with the execution of the first occurrence. But if I put a space in the definition after the 'E', I get this: -- Welcome from ACME . ACME make fine products. -- - and there's a space after the first 'E', which I don't want, even though there is now a space after the second... What am I doing wrong?

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Installing Cyrillic font
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 25 Dec '06

25 Dec '06

Hello I'm looking for help with installing the Adobe Times font with Cyrillic support. I have TIR_____.PFB and all other companion files. It surely contains Cyrillic glyphs because I can type Russian using a font viewer. I run the texfont utility as follows texfont -fontroot=e:/texmf --sourcepath=. --vendor=adobe --encoding=t2a --collection=timescyr --makepath --install and it performs good. But created t2a-adobe-timescyr.pdf test file shows no Cyrillic glyphs (it seems like there are vacant empty spaces from 192 to 255). Also I cannot make use of Russian in my context scripts. (Latin goes well) I'm ready to send any additional relevant info. Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Re: [NTG-context] \hairline in the header and column rule
by Jeong Dalyoung 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Dear Aditya Thank you for your tip. After adding the line "\setupbackgrounds[header][text] [bottomframe=on,topframe=on]", I got lines of whole length. However, [rule=on] option only draw vertical line as long as the paragraph not to the bottom. Please test once more using a short paragraph(3-4 lines) instead of \knuth. Thank you again. Regards, Dalyoung

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mails
by Hans Hagen 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

sorry for being a bit slow on answering mail .. the usual end of year deadlines and such delay me 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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new debian context and debian-nonfree 2006.12.21-1
by Norbert Preining 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Hi all! Again, after all the helpful comments from Taco, Hans, Mojca, Aditya, I have redone all the packaging: context: everything but the cow fonts and the tipsandtricks.pdf context-nonfree: cow fonts a long list of pdfs from the web site: aleph.pdf mfonts.pdf mtexfont.pdf show-dem.pdf show-pap.pdf cont-eni.pdf minstall.pdf mtexutil.pdf show-exa.pdf show-pre.pdf cont-enp.pdf mmakempy.pdf mtexwork.pdf showfont.pdf showunic.pdf eppchtex.pdf mp-cb-en.pdf roadmap.pdf show-gra.pdf tiptrick.pdf example.pdf mp-ch-en.pdf setup-en.pdf show-mag.pdf metafun-p.pdf ms-cb-en.pdf show-art.pdf show-man.pdf metafun-s.pdf mtexexec.pdf showcase.pdf show-not.pdf So I hope this should give a quite complete and useful base for context. I also extended the copyright file to include the statements by Taco, and some more remarks. Still I hope that one of the next releases of ConTeXt will contain some sort of MANIFEST.foobar as I suggested. The wording is also improved I hope, so now for all the Debian guys: Can you please take a look at the package, what you think, as I plan (as you see from the version number) to upload it soon. Usual location. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining(a)logic.at> Università di Siena Debian Developer <preining(a)debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rome wasn't burned in a day. --- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

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new debian context and debian-nonfree 2006.12.21-0.1
by Norbert Preining 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Hi all! I re-repacked the stuff and now there are 2 packages: context context-nonfree the content is quite easy: Everything from cont-tmf, cont-fnt, cont-ext, cont-img is in context, BUT the list of files attached in MANIFEST.nonfree which are in context-nonfree. context suggests context-nonfree I plan to add a lot of documentation files from the website to context-nonfree. Files can be moved around at will, let me know. Description of context a bit shortened and less commercial. Otherwise no changes. Same location as usual. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining(a)logic.at> Università di Siena Debian Developer <preining(a)debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ARTHUR It probably seems a terrible thing to say, but you know what I sometimes think would be useful in these situations? LINT. What? ARTHUR A gun of some sort. LINT.2 Will this help? ARTHUR What is it? LINT.2 A gun of some sort. ARTHUR Oh, that'll help. Can you make it fire? LINT. Er... F/X DEAFENING ROAR LINT. Yes. --- Arthur and the Lintillas gaining the upper hand, Fit the --- Twelfth. --- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

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Question \completepublications
by Wim Neimeijer 22 Dec '06

22 Dec '06

Hello All, My project looks like this and all looks well. \usemodule[bib] \startproject cart \mainlanguage[nl] \input cartbiblio % contains \start..\stoppublication \startbodymatter \component cart8 % contains main text *\completepublications % this works* \stopbodymatter \startappendices \completeindex \stopappendices \stopproject However when I move the \complepublications to the \start..\stopappendices like this \usemodule[bib] \startproject cart \mainlanguage[nl] \input cartbiblio % contains \start..\stoppublication \startbodymatter \component cart8 % contains main text \stopbodymatter \startappendices *\completepublications % this does not work* \completeindex \stopappendices \stopproject * *all the references made by \cite are empty ? The log of this run indicates that cart.bbl is not found but in the working example it does not need a cart.bbl file ? Kind regards Wim

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\placeformula and $$ doesn't work anymore
by Hubertus Schmidt 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Hi all, for some weeks I need to tex formulas again and tried the way I used to do it: \placeformula $$ f(t)={1\over2\pi}\int_0^\infty e^{i(\omega t-kx)} dx $$ It didn't work anymore?!? It doesn't place a number nor does it do the spacing properly. It does work the "context" way using \placeformula \startformula f(t)={1\over2\pi}\int_0^\infty e^{i(\omega t-kx)} dx \stopformula but to be honest that's quit a lot to type. "$$" is just nice and short and all the old documents I wrote wont work anymore... I run This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (format=cont-en 2006. 12.4) 4 DEC 2006 21:46 ... ConTeXt ver: 2006.11.29 09:55 MK II fmt: 2006.12.4 int: english/english I would be very glad for some hints. Many thanks in advance. Hubertus

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Context style macros for metapost
by Aditya Mahajan 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Hi, There are certain things that I do not like about metapost (it is not possible to specify drawoptions and filloptions separately, it lacks some of the features of tikz, etc.) and I was playing around trying to implement them. Being used to the ConTeXt way of things, I wanted to write macros in metapost the same way (define.... setup.... etc.) This is my first attempt --- a replacement for dashpattern macro. delimiters [[ ]] ; def definedash suffix @# = dodefinedash.@# enddef ; vardef dodefinedash@#[[text t]] = save on, off, w ; let on = _on_ ; let off = _off_ ; w = 0 ; picture @# ; @# := nullpicture t enddef ; definedash [[myeven]] [[on 3 off 3]] ; beginfig(1) draw (0,0)--(100,100) dashed myeven ; endfig ; end; Is there a better way to do this in metapost? Aditya

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ConTeXt 2006.12.20
by Taco Hoekwater 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Hi, There is a new ConTeXt release: 2006.12.20. This release fixes a few of the most recently reported problems: * Another \quotation patch, should be OK now * A few redefined accents in unicode encoding * Empty lines in pdf font resources are now ignored * Two-line TABLE tables had spacing problems * Make \placeformula $$ .. $$ work again Best, Taco

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\hairline in the header and column rule
by Dalyoung Jeong 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Dear all, I'd like to ask about drawing a line in the header and a line between columns. 1)I'd like to add hairlines in the header using before and after in \setupheader, but the lines was drawn from the leftend of the leftmargin with the textwidth only. So, there is no line at the right end of the header. How to make the lines start from the left end of the text area? 2) I setup [rule=on] in column setup, but the length of the line depends on the length of the text. How to draw the separation line from the top to bottom? Thank you for reading. Regards Dalyoung Here is the code and output. ******************************* \setupheader[][before=\hairline, after=\hairline] \setupheadertexts[][text for the header] \setuppagenumbering[location=footer] \starttext \startcolumns[rule=on, n=2]

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Something about vertical Chinese typesetting
by Zhichu Chen 21 Dec '06

21 Dec '06

Dear Texers, I am typesetting some traditional Chinese articles. They are typesetted in vertical, and the reading order is from right to left. This can be done by Hans' \startvertical . . . \stopvertical pair. But as shown in the attached file, there are some famous notes, descriptions and explanations to these articles. The traditional way, in Chinese, to typeset these notes is rather to insert them in some small fonts (say, half size of the \bodyfontsize) right below the word to be explained, than to use footnotes which is common in English. I've tried some ways, e.g., use \startcolumnsetspan . . . \stopcolumnsetspan to put the body text across the note text, but all failed. Can anyone give me some clue? -- Sincerely yours, 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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EUROTEX2006 - hartmut-talk.pdf -
by luigi scarso 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Very good to me hartmut-talk.pdf, so I've made www.logosrl.it/context/pdftex/hartmut-talk.html luigi

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Context -> Tex
by Paul Jones 20 Dec '06

20 Dec '06

Hello, Is there some way that I can convert my context file into tex? I am just pondering how much faster running straight tex through pdftex would be than using context. Is there some way to run it through texexec and get tex out of it instead of a pdf/dvi? Or are there stats about this kind of thing somewhere that I can lookup? Thanks, paul

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