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Contest for ConTeXt?
by Otared Kavian 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

On 5 nov. 2005, at 9:03, Mikael Persson wrote: > Hello > > *snip* > > " What do you do with ConTeXT?" > > I am mostly playing around abit. However, since I work with math it is > mostly something that has to do with math. Some examples: Hi Mikael, I had a look at your nice sudoku example mentioned in your message to the thread "Mini survey...", that is: http://hurf.mine.nu/micke/tex/sudoku.pdf (with fill-ins) http://hurf.mine.nu/micke/tex/gp28aug.pdf (with solution steps) I saw that there is a distraction contest on the PracTeX journal for creating sudokus with TeX, and thought your solution using ConTeXt would be a very nice contribution. See http://tug.org/pracjourn/2005-4/distract/ Best regards: OK

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AMS-style bibliography?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 20 Nov '05

20 Nov '05

Is there a pre-rolled bibliography style that looks follows the AMS specs? (BTW, when trying out various alternatives= I found that only aps works, all of the others bomb complaining extra # marks. I'm using a September 2005 version of t-bib ... do I need to upgrade?)

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[BIB] Command names in author
by Giuseppe Bilotta 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

The following @article{frechet, author = "M. {Fr\'echet}", title = {Sur quelques points du calcul fonctionel}, journal = "Rendiconti Circ. Mat. Palermo", volume = 22, year = 1906, pages = "1--74" } produces an incorrect entry in the bbl file: \startpublication[k=frechet,t=article, a={{{Fr\'echet}}},y=1906, n=25,s={Fr\}06] \artauthor[]{M.}[M.]{}{{Fr\'echet}} \pubyear{1906} \arttitle{Sur quelques points du calcul fonctionel} \journal{Rendiconti Circ. Mat. Palermo} \volume{22} \pages{1--74} \stoppublication The defective s= key blows .bbl parsing. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Textblock does not match the layout parameters
by Willi Egger 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Hi, While developping a page-layout for a book I cam across the following strange behaviour: The textblock in the attached example is larger than the paramters in the layout section would indicate. The pagenumber in the footer however respects the layout-parameters. Showframe does print the correct layout as given in de layout section. To me it looks like a calculation error. Hans could you please comment on this? Thanks Willi % Test-file % \showframe gives the correct dimensions. % The textblock however is larger than it should be. Interestingly it is at left and right margin % the same amount. % The pagenumber in the footer is placed correctly. % Context file % filename: boek-zetspiegel.tex % Willi Egger % 17-11-2005 \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupbodyfont[rm,10pt] \definepapersize[Boek][width=125mm,height=200mm] \setuppapersize[Boek][A4] \setuppagenumbering[state=start,location={footer,marginedge},alternative=doublesided] \setuplayout [topspace=16.7mm, header=0pt, headerdistance=0pt, margin=8mm, backspace=10.4mm, textwidth=93.8mm, margindistance=1mm, footerdistance=3\bodyfontsize, footer=1.5\bodyfontsize, location=middle] \setuptolerance[tolerant] \starttext \showframe \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \blank[0.5cm]} \stoptext

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Font Introduction --- Or more of a reintroduction
by David Arnold 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

All, It's been some time since I've tried anything other than the computer modern fonts. I am aware of the manuals for font instruction in Context, but if I want to pick up the topic again, what links and/or manuals should I read, and in what order, to get up-to-date instruction on handling fonts in context? David

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RE: [NTG-context] Font Introduction --- Or more of a reintroduction
by Idris Samawi Hamid 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Hi David, >===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >It's been some time since I've tried anything other than the computer >modern fonts. I am aware of the manuals for font instruction in >Context, but if I want to pick up the topic again, what links and/or >manuals should I read, and in what order, to get up-to-date >instruction on handling fonts in context? Here is a good place 2 start: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Fonts For a quick trial install, try http://wiki.contextgarden.net/URW_Garamond and Hans' MyWay on Verdana Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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diacritics in Utopia/Fourier
by Alan Bowen 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

I am running the latest version of ConTeXt and ran into a problem with some diacritical marks using %Fourier/Utopia Expert \usetypescript[type-syn] \usetypescript[fourier][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[fourier,10.5pt] While \={\i} and \=a, for example, work as expected when the font is “italic” or bold, I get garbage when it is just roman. Is this a problem with the font encoding or is there something / different new that I must do to put macrons and so forth over letters in the roman typeface? Best, Alan PS A sample line— `Ibn Rushd: Critique d'Ibn S\={\i}n\={a} ou le retour \`a Aristote'.

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type-pre.tex
by Hans van der Meer 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Addition to my previous message re this subject: In the top of file type-pre.tex it can be read: %D This file is obsolete. We now have latin modern and proper %D typescripts. Forget about this file. However, tracing execution of \startformula[bold] shows it is still read then, whereas on \startformula (without the bold) it is not. Isn't this an anomaly? Just curious (I hope curiosity is permitted in this group). One more observation. The trace shows an underfull hbox inserted at the start of this file \readfilename ->type-pre (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-pre.tex Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 21--13 \hbox(0.0+0.0)x426.78743 .\glue(\rightskip) 0.0 ) disappearing when a put \endinput right at the start of the file. I hope this hbox doesn't play havoc with formatting? Hans van der Meer

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missing fontsynonym?
by Hans van der Meer 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

In file type-enc.tex I came across the fontsynonym \definefontsynonym [ComputerModernSans-Italic] [LMSans- Italic] However there is no further definition for LMSans-Italic. In contrast to for example LMRoman-Italic. Could this be a typo or a missing definition? Fontdefinitions like \definetypeface [mainface] [ss] [sans] [modern] [default] [ec] fail because of this. Hans van der Meer

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(no subject)
by Hans van der Meer 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

In the top of file type-pre.tex it can be read: %D This file is obsolete. We now have latin modern and proper %D typescripts. Forget about this file. However, tracing execution of \startformula[bold] shows it is still read then, whereas on \startformula (without the bold) it is not. Isn't this an anomaly? Just curious (I hope curiosity is permitted in this group). Hans van der Meer

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new feature / manual
by Hans Hagen 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hi, There is a new feature + manual, for those who love obscure mechanisms. http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xmanipulate.pdf Even if you dislike manipulations ... the manual mixes iwona and the new condensed latin modern monospace font. The preprocess feature is only supported by newtexexec. If you want to automatically run newtexexec instead of texexec, you need to set the environment variable TEXMFSTART_MODE to 'experimental' assuming that you use texmfstart as stub; for those who are not familiar with that: windows: texexec.bat @echo off texmfstart texexec.pl %* unix: texexec (shell script) #!/bin/sh texmfstart texexec.pl $@ (using texmfstart is a guarantee against changes in the policies of distributions with regards to scripts) Anyhow, the new feature concerns - preprocessing of files (e.g. recode for tex files or xslt-ing for xml files) - graphic manipulations (downsampling and beyond) 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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Table problem with ConTeXT 2005.11.16
by The Wizard 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

All - Just downloaded and installed 2005.11.16, and now a document which built fine under the 2005.10.27 version breaks. The code which fails is a simple table \starttext \placetable[here]{none} \starttable[|l|l|l|p(7.0cm)|] \HL \VL \bf Revision \VL \bf Date \VL \bf Author \VL \bf Description \VL \AR \HL \VL 0.9 \VL 11/04/2005 \VL Mark Almeida \VL Initial draft, for review and comment \VL \AR \HL \stoptable \stoptext The errors I get from texexec look like this floatblocks : 1 placed ! Undefined control sequence. \OTRONEsomeherefloat ...\dorechecknextindentation <argument> ... \placesomeherefloat [\v!here ,here] \else \dosavefloat \fi \fi \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 \dogetfloatbox ... \floatmethod \floatmethod }[#1] \fi \docompletefloat ...egroup \dofloat {#4}{}{#6}{#1} \else \doglobal \convertar... <argument> ...}{table}{here}{table}{none}\nextbox \else \docompletefloat {ta... ... l.9 \stoptable ? Anyone got any ideas? -- Mark Almeida mark.almeida(a)sun.com Solutions Architect (707)398-9524/x81132 Sun Client Solutions (707)429-0341 Home Office (707)480-5038 Cell Powered by Solaris 10_x86/Evolution 1.4.6

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manuals
by Hans Hagen 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hi, The following manual source trees are now available: allkind (some) columns (whole manual) details (whole manual) lua (experimental) magazines (all) metafun (whole manual) some of them use independent pdf files (as image) which need to be processed using the provides ruby 'runtools' script [runtools is my way of making it platform independent] some manuals may use commercial fonts when run here some manuals assume that you have texnansi metrics around [use texfont] don't redistribute manuals that you compiled yourself (i'd hate to run into manuals with the wrong fonts or errors dur to misconfigurations) we still need to figure out a way to deal with comments, additions, corrections, etc Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] Debian Install
by Jessica Holle 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hi, in the evening I want to install ConTeXt on my home system. It's Debian testing. It,s easy to install in debian I see. With apt-get it works. But now my question. In you documentation in the wiki is written that ConTeXt should be installed in ~/texmf But the structure is another as when I do it to /usr/local/teTeX . Must I do softlinks to this path to get context to work? Or do I only install teTeX like in the documentation and then install ConTeXt to /home/$USER/texmf and it works? Greetings Jessica

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Context 2005.11.16 Released
by Taco Hoekwater 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip If you have not updated your Latin Modern fonts in the past month, then you will need to fetch the latest redistribution of the LM fonts as well: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-lmt.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-lmt.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-lmt.zip The current release has version 2005.11.16. As usual, there is a page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2005.11.16 New features compared to the 2005.11.15 version: * As of this version, ConTeXt has a new zip archive: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-ext.zip http://context.aanhet.net/context/current/cont-ext.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-ext.zip This zip contains a selected set of the third-party stuff from the http://modules.contextgarden.net site. (currently, it contains only the 'ConTeXt Lettrines' module) Bugs fixed compared to the 2005.11.15 version: * some ongoing bugfixes to the new ruby scripts * \sqrt can now again be used in ToCs and captions (etc.) * \type can again be used in subcaptions of \startcombination * Some visualization macros no longer causes an eternal loop Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater PS Today's Motto: A release a day keeps the bit-rot at bay ;-)

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URLs and online contents with BibTeX in ConTeXt
by Giuseppe Bilotta 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

What is the preferred way to insert URLs and references to online contents with the bibtex module for ConTeXt? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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turquoise
by Idris Samawi Hamid 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Dear syndicate, This is a good standard color to add to the distribution: I got the following experimental cmyk values from a google search http://www.google.com/search?hs=gp9&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=opera&rls=en&… There is apparently no standard in this regard, and I would like to get suggestions for a better turquoise. Best Idris ==========turquoise.tex=============== \setupoutput[pdftex] \definecolor[turquoise][c=.71,m=0,y=.07,k=.12] % 71%, 0%, 7%, 12% \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext {\tfc\turquoise This is turquoise} \stoptext ===================================== -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Drawing oriented paths in MetaFun
by Giuseppe Bilotta 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Does MetaFun provide some macro to draw oriented paths? I would like it to basically add a small arrow *in the middle* of the path? Such a macro draworiented somepath somespecs ; would have to act like drawarrow firsthalf(somepath) somespecs ; draw secondhalf(somepath) somespecs ; Is it available already, or should I roll my own? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Color Separation with external figures and spot colors
by Pearson, Mark (Capita Symonds) 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Hi All, Does anyone know if/how I can take a grayscale JPG external figure and assign it to a spot colour channel. The Color Separation manual gives the following example: \externalfigure[graphic][split=c] for assigning such an image to the Cyan channel but I want to say something like: \definecolor [Spot1] [c=1,m=.05,y=0,k=.47,e=PANTONE 308 CV] \definecolor [Spot2] [c=.69,m=.07,y=0,k=0,e=PANTONE 298 CV] . . \externalfigure[graphic][split=Spot1] Is this possible? Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer :) Mark Pearson. ********************************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may be subject to legal privilege, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error or think you may have done so, you may not peruse, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message. Please notify the sender immediately and delete the original e-mail from your system. Computer viruses can be transmitted by e-mail. Recipients should check this e-mail for the presence of viruses. The Capita Group and its subsidiaries accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. ***********************************************************************************

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Re: bold math not mathitalic
by Hans van der Meer 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

I am trying to define bold math myself, but encounter a problem with the typescripts. Further probing into this matter (previous mail, see below) shows that the typescript delineated by ****'s is NOT USED AT ALL! (Calling \setupformulas[method=bold] makes no difference). It therefore does not seem a problem in the math family assignments in font-bfm.tex, as I first suspected. Is there some special invocation needed for hooking up a user defined font set into $\bfmath ...$? If have looked into font-bfm.tex and font-ini.tex but could not figure it out. Clearly I am misunderstanding the inner workings here, but I have no clue in which direction to look. > I am using the follwing (extracted) typescript lines for math in > the lucida fonts: > > \starttypescript [luc] > \definetypeface [luc][mm][math][lucidayy][default] > [encoding=texnansi] > \definetypeface [luc][mm][bfmath][lucidayy][default] > [encoding=texnansi] > \stoptypescript > > \starttypescript [math] [lucidayy] [default] > \definebodyfont [default] [mm] > [mr=MathRoman mo 1, mi=MathItalic mo 1, ....] > \stoptypescript > ************************************************************************ ****** > \starttypescript [bfmath] [lucidayy] [default] > \definebodyfont [default] [mm] > [mrbf=MathRomanBold mo 1, mibf=MathItalicBold mo 1, ....] > \stoptypescript ************************************************************************ ****** > \starttypescript [math] [lucidayy] [name] > \definefontsynonym [MathRoman] [LucidaBright] > \definefontsynonym [MathItalic] [LucidaNewMath-AltItalic] > \stoptypescript > > \starttypescript [math] [lucidayy] [texnansi,ec,8r] > \definefontsynonym [LucidaBright] [hlhr8y] > [encoding=texnansi] > \definefontsynonym [LucidaNewMath-AltItalic] [hlcrima] > \stoptypescript > > \starttypescript [bfmath] [lucidayy] [name] > \definefontsynonym [MathRomanBold] [LucidaBright-Demi] > \definefontsynonym [MathItalicBold] [LucidaNewMath-AltDemiItalic] > \stoptypescript > > \starttypescript [bfmath] [lucidayy] [texnansi,ec,8r] > \definefontsynonym [LucidaBright-Demi] [hlhb8y] > [encoding=texnansi] > \definefontsynonym [LucidaNewMath-AltDemiItalic] [hlcdima] > \stoptypescript > > Typesetting: > \starttext > \usetypescript[luc][texnansi]\setupbodyfont[luc,10pt]\lucidatrue > {$\sqrt{a^2 + b^2} = c + \mf\sin{}x\quad {\ma NZRC}$}\crlf > \stoptext > Gives me for the variables neatly LucidaNewMath-AltItalic. *** Changing the fonts in the above typescript does work *** > > But typesetting > \starttext > \usetypescript[luc][texnansi]\setupbodyfont[luc,10pt]\lucidatrue > {$\bfmath\sqrt{a^2 + b^2} = c + \mf\sin{}x\quad {\ma NZRC}$}\crlf > \stoptext > Gives me LucidaBright-Demi instead of LucidaNewMath-AltDemiItalic. > Everything else however (even the blackletters from ma) are in the > correct bold math font. > The font must be present, because substituting MathItalicBold for > MathItalic in the [math] script proves that. *** But not coming from my typescript I conclude from several experiments *** Hans van der Meer

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updates
by Hans Hagen 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

Hi, The next couple of weeks there will probably more 'updates' than normal; this is due to the fact that i'm adding long due features and such. I also want to move on to the ruby variants of texexec and texutil, so i want the latest versions to be available (for testers). Currently I'm uploading a version that - fixes a problem introduced when implementing the \currentvalue hack (side effect was that the non english interfaces behaved weird) - a long standing wish of g.b. dealing with indentation (i tried to provide a more or less robust solution); the following works ok here (gb/taco: \noindent does not work in such cases, one really needs to make a handler the last action taken after a stop...; btw, suppressing a next indendation is best done with \noindentation which is what the auto thing used deep down) \setupindenting[small,yes] \setupitemize [indentnext=auto] \setuptyping [indentnext=auto] \setupformulas[indentnext=auto] \starttext \input tufte \startitemize \item ccc \stopitemize \input tufte \startitemize \item ccc \stopitemize \input tufte \startitemize \item ccc \stopitemize \page \input tufte \starttyping ccc \stoptyping \input tufte \starttyping ccc \stoptyping \input tufte \starttyping ccc \stoptyping \page \input tufte \startformula a = b \stopformula \input tufte \startformula a = b \stopformula \input tufte \startformula a = b \stopformula \stoptext Hans

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font problems again
by Hans van der Meer 16 Nov '05

16 Nov '05

With the last release of context the problem of not getting cm fonts is over. These are now found. However, other font selections bring new difficulties. I tried various combinations but did not succeed. The simple program (using TeXShop): \starttext \setupbodyfont[tim,12pt] hello world \stoptext Fails and aborts with: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) ConTeXt ver: 2005.11.11 fmt: 2005.11.13 int: english mes: english .... ! Font \*times12ptrmtf*:=utmr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. Changing into \usetypescript[phv]\setupbodyfont[phv,12pt] ! Font \*postscript12ptrmtf*:=utmr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. No help from enabling in cont-sys.tex of: \usetypescript[adobekb] [\defaultencoding] (updmap.cfg contains URWkb for the LW35 fonts) then it starts asking for (non-existing) maps like: Warning: pdfetex (file ec-urw-helvetica.map): cannot open font map file If I use \setupbodyfont[lbr,12pt] then I get just lm-roman, although I have the YandY lucida fonts installed with their original YandY names (lb--.pfb) Here no help from changing between texnansi and ec default encoding. Any idea whats amiss? I ran this on a teTeX3 install with the context files unzipped into texmf-local. (I must confess I am tempted to give up on ConTeXt altogether, because of these many font troubles.) Hans van der Meer

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Context 2005.11.15 Released
by Taco Hoekwater 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip If you have not updated your Latin Modern fonts in the past month, then you will need to fetch the latest redistribution of the LM fonts as well: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-lmt.zip http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-lmt.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-lmt.zip The current release has version 2005.11.15. As usual, there is a page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2005.11.15 New features compared to the 2005.11.14 version: * A new key in \setupregister: prefix= This controls page prefixes in index ranges * New functionality: indentnext=auto Blank lines in the source are taken into account when indextnext=auto is in effect. A really short example of usage would be: \setupindenting[small,yes] \setupformulas[indentnext=auto] \starttext \startformula a = b\stopformula \input tufte % blank line => with indentation \startformula a = b\stopformula \input tufte % no blank line => no indentation \stoptext Bugs fixed since the 2005.11.14 version: * A bug in the new "extension of definitions inside assignments" feature in 2005.11.11 accidentally broke the non-english interfaces. Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater

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bold math not mathitalic
by Hans van der Meer 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

I am using the follwing (extracted) typescript lines for math in the lucida fonts: \starttypescript [luc] \definetypeface [luc][mm][math][lucidayy][default] [encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface [luc][mm][bfmath][lucidayy][default] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [math] [lucidayy] [default] \definebodyfont [default] [mm] [mr=MathRoman mo 1, mi=MathItalic mo 1, ....] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [bfmath] [lucidayy] [default] \definebodyfont [default] [mm] [mrbf=MathRomanBold mo 1, mibf=MathItalicBold mo 1, ....] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [math] [lucidayy] [name] \definefontsynonym [MathRoman] [LucidaBright] \definefontsynonym [MathItalic] [LucidaNewMath-AltItalic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [math] [lucidayy] [texnansi,ec,8r] \definefontsynonym [LucidaBright] [hlhr8y] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [LucidaNewMath-AltItalic] [hlcrima] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [bfmath] [lucidayy] [name] \definefontsynonym [MathRomanBold] [LucidaBright-Demi] \definefontsynonym [MathItalicBold] [LucidaNewMath-AltDemiItalic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [bfmath] [lucidayy] [texnansi,ec,8r] \definefontsynonym [LucidaBright-Demi] [hlhb8y] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [LucidaNewMath-AltDemiItalic] [hlcdima] \stoptypescript Typesetting: \starttext \usetypescript[luc][texnansi]\setupbodyfont[luc,10pt]\lucidatrue {$\sqrt{a^2 + b^2} = c + \mf\sin{}x\quad {\ma NZRC}$}\crlf \stoptext Gives me for the variables neatly LucidaNewMath-AltItalic. But typesetting \starttext \usetypescript[luc][texnansi]\setupbodyfont[luc,10pt]\lucidatrue {$\bfmath\sqrt{a^2 + b^2} = c + \mf\sin{}x\quad {\ma NZRC}$}\crlf \stoptext Gives me LucidaBright-Demi instead of LucidaNewMath-AltDemiItalic. Everything else however (even the blackletters from ma) are in the correct bold math font. The font must be present, because substituting MathItalicBold for MathItalic in the [math] script proves that. It seems that mibf has not been substituted, but instead used the mr typeface. Could this be a flaw in the (bold)math handling? For example a wrong fam chosen in the font switch? It seems weird that everything behaves neat except for the bold math italic. Hans van der Meer

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RE: [NTG-context] Context 2005.11.14 Released
by Idris Samawi Hamid 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >>fix for dvipdfmx map files? >> >>:-) >> >> >i sent you one which you were supposed to test -) > >that one is in ctxtools ok, i'll do it in the next day or so-) Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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indentnext question
by Taco Hoekwater 15 Nov '05

15 Nov '05

Hi, Am I missing something, or \setupitemize[indentnext=no] not working (anymore?) Greetings, Taco % demo file \setupindenting[big,yes] \setupitemize[indentnext=no] \starttext \startitemize \item one \stopitemize Not indented paragraph (hopefully). Indented paragraph. \stoptext

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RE: [NTG-context] Context 2005.11.14 Released
by Idris Samawi Hamid 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

:-) fix for dvipdfmx map files? :-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Context 2005.11.14 Released
by Taco Hoekwater 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip If you have not updated your Latin Modern fonts in the past month, then you will need to fetch the latest redistribution of the LM fonts as well: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-lmt.zip http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-lmt.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-lmt.zip New features compared to the 2005.11.11 version: * New key: align= now allows the keys from \setupalign, e.g.: \framed[align={normal,stretch,verytolerant}]{...} * The macro \uncompresslist is now in the core (from wiki) * US English hyphenation files are added to the distribution Bugs fixed since the 2005.11.11 * Use newer names for the CM/LM font reencoding files * A bug in conversion sets that became apparent when footnotes where numbered by page * Doubling the use of \setupindenting will no longer enable the indentation. FYI.: The correct way to enable indentation of paragraphs is: \setupindenting[medium,yes] The current release has version 2005.11.14. As usual, there is a page with more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2005.11.14 Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater

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alignment in cells without "alignmentcharacter"
by Mojca Miklavec 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hello, (A question for a coffee break for Hans or Taco while updating macros for tables, although it may already be implemented somewhere.) I have a table with one column for room names with an optional slash (see below). The case is equivalent to aligning floating-point & natural numbers (without comma) in the same column. I aligned the entries with alignmentcharacter=/, which works perfect except in the cases where there's no slash present (the real example did an even worse, extremely strange alignment, where those numbers were sticking out of the cells, but I'll investigate that a bit & post an example another time). % plain text aligned in the same way as I would like it to have in the result \setupTABLE[c][1][aligncharacter=yes,alignmentcharacter=/,width=3cm,align=middle] \bTABLE \bTR\bTD 01/1 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD 02/13 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD 03 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD 314/2 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD 315 \eTD\eTR \eTABLE Is there an elegant way which would align those numbers as if they had an additional slash on the right? I was thinking about placing a transparent slash behind those number, but there may be a a cleaner & more elegant solution for it. If not, it could be done approximately in the spirit of alignifnoalignmentcharacterpresent= absoluteflushleft / % according to the cell absoluteflushright / % according to the cell middle / relativeflushleft / % according to the aligned content % since remaining numbers may be aligned to the right or to the middle, % this would align just as left as the leftmost number with alignment character relativeflushright / leftofthealignmentcharacter / % I only need this one rightofthealignmentcharacter . Alternatively I could define something completely invisible like \alignmehere and then use: \setupTABLE[c][1] [aligncharacter=yes, alignmentcharacter={\alignmehere}, width=3cm,align=middle] \bTABLE \bTR\bTD 01\alignmehere/1 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD 02\alignmehere/13 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD 03\alignmehere \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD 314\alignmehere/2 \eTD\eTR \bTR\bTD 315\alignmehere \eTD\eTR \eTABLE but I don't know what the definition of "\alignmehere" could be so that it would work OK. (Useful for complex alignments; for aligning nubers the first solution would be cleaner and better.) Thanks for any suggestions, Mojca

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Not resetting chapter number on new part
by Giuseppe Bilotta 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

I would like the chapters across all my bodymatter to be numbered sequentially, even when they cross the part boundary. I.e, if I have \part{A part} \chapter{A chapter} \part{Another part} \chapter{Another chapter} I would like the latter to be numbered 2, not 1. I can of course do this by hacking \part, but I would like to know if there is a way to prevent number reset (something like resetchapter=no). -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Re: [NTG-context] Index
by Duncan Hothersall 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hans, many thanks for the recent fixes on index sorting in the new ruby scripts. Can I offer another test file in which some errors still show up, in the hope that these too can be ironed out? The following shows two problems, culled from a much bigger project. It should be clear from the output what the problems are, but basically 1. there are three separate spans (\startregister...\stopregister pairs) with the same term content ("these three separate spans coalesce") which get coalesced into one strange a-b-c-d span, despite having been given different sort keys (I added numbers to the end of the sort keys to differentiate them). 2. there are three refs and a span all with the same term content ("these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order"), and they get sorted into the wrong order in the output (the span comes before the refs, despite coming after in page order). So in my output, my index page at the back has the following content: these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order 1/12–1/13, 1/2, 1/10, 1/14 these three separate spans coalesce 1/1–1/2–1/5–1/7 whereas what I'd hope to see is: these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order 1/2, 1/10, 1/12–1/13, 1/14 these three separate spans coalesce 1/1–1/2, 1/3–1/5, 1/6–1/7 Really hope you can hammer out these two bugs, it would really help me! Thanks, Duncan ---- \defineregister[Index][Indices] \setupregister[Index][2,balance=no,distance=1em,partnumber=no,chapternumber=yes,pagestyle=,separator=/,indicator=no] \starttext \startbodymatter \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided}, location=bottom,way=bychapter,partnumber=no, chapternumber=yes,numberseparator={/}] \chapter{Economic Concepts, Issues and Tools} \input knuth\par {\bf ttssc span 1 starts} \startregister[Index][these three separate spans coalesce1]{these three separate spans coalesce}% \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth\par} {\bf ttssc span 1 stops} \stopregister[Index][these three separate spans coalesce1]% \input knuth {\bf tmrasaitwo ref 1} \Index[these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order1]{these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order}% \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth\par} {\bf ttssc span 2 starts} \startregister[Index][these three separate spans coalesce2]{these three separate spans coalesce}% \dorecurse{8}{\input knuth\par} {\bf ttssc span 2 stops} \stopregister[Index][these three separate spans coalesce2]% \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth\par} {\bf ttssc span 3 starts} \startregister[Index][these three separate spans coalesce3]{these three separate spans coalesce}% \dorecurse{5}{\input knuth\par} {\bf ttssc span 3 stops} \stopregister[Index][these three separate spans coalesce3]% \dorecurse{8}{\input knuth\par} \input knuth {\bf tmrasaitwo ref 2} \Index[these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order2]{these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order}% \dorecurse{8}{\input knuth\par} {\bf tmrasaitwo span 1 starts} \startregister[Index][these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order3]{these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order}% \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth\par} {\bf tmrasaitwo span 1 stops} \stopregister[Index][these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order3]% \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth\par} \input knuth {\bf tmrasaitwo ref 3} \Index[these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order4]{these mixed refs and spans are in the wrong order}% \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth\par} \stopbodymatter \startbackmatter \chapter{Index} \setuppagenumbering[numberseparator=/]\placeIndex\page[yes] \stopbackmatter \stoptext ----

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Literate programming & ConTeXt
by Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de So 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hi folks! Is it possible to use ConTeXt for literate programming? Marcus Vinicius __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com

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TeXexec and MikTeX
by Leon Di Stefano 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Greetings I have been trying to set up ConTeXt in Windows XP using MikTeX. I have been running LaTeX2e through TeXnic center fine. On the basis of the TeXexec manual, I ran "texexec --make en" I attempted to build a small file test.tex by running "texexec --pdf test" from the directory in which the file is located. It said that the default format file could not be found. I tried increasing the 'pattern memory ops' in the miktex.ini config file as you suggested to another TeXer; nothing happened. The following message occurs in the log: ... (C:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\symb-mis.tex) symbols : loading symbolset mvs (C:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\symb-mvs.tex) symbols : loading symbolset glm (C:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\symb-glm.tex ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=35000]. \definefontsynonym ...?ff \fontclass #1\endcsname \@@fontfile \doifnextchare... l.39 ...nonym [GuilSerifBold] [cork-lmbx10] [encoding=ec] If you really absolutely need more capacity, you can ask a wizard to enlarge me. Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 35451 strings out of 98461 549342 string characters out of 1219912 469342 words of memory out of 1048577 35000 multiletter control sequences out of 35000 7 words of font info for 0 fonts, out of 500000 for 1000 0 hyphenation exceptions out of 607 23i,2n,28p,276b,536s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,200000b,32768s 0 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 300000 1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536 No pages of output. ... Thanks, Leon

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from an other adress, getting old ConTeXt Version
by jessica Holle 14 Nov '05

14 Nov '05

Hi, I write from an other e-mail adress, hope it works. I want to install at home the same ConTeXt as at work, but there I've the version from 2005-08-31. Can I get the old version? Where can I find this? Hope his will work and somebody knows something about this. Nice weekend Jessica Holle

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missing enc file
by Hans Hagen 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Hi, Karl Berry and I just found out that on the coming tex live the cm*.enc files are missing (but lm-rep-cm* files are present); this can result in missing characters in math mode. Since it's too late to fix that ... I'll upload a release that has a map file referering to the lm-rep files (replicated files) so i assume that one has a recent lm installation; i have no idea to what extent those missing enc files will influence user's systems. I can add them to the context zip if needed. [cm mapping is needed for (1) math fonts and (2) including files that already have cm files; the context distribution has a file original-public-lm.map that -i hope- does an efficient inclusion -- has to do with pdftex being able to determins shared fonts] In any case, keep an eye on it when you install the coming tex live and miss chars. Hans

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Re: ntg-context Digest, Vol 16, Issue 60
by olivier Turlier 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

> 1. Re: learning path (Mojca Miklavec) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 00:31:33 +0200 > From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] learning path > To: ntg <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > Message-ID: <6faad9f00510281531u4c9884ees(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > olivier Turlier wrote: > >>>>Hi everybody, >>>> >>>>I wish to set up kind of a "learning path" (= "pedagogic" progression >>>>bar, like in http://www.dokeos.com/scorm_compliant_course_content.php) > > > /.../ > > >>Sorry for not being clear enough. >> >>"learning path" is an acronym I've found while using Dokeos elearning >>platform, as an equivalent to a course i guess. For creating a >>course/learning path you assemble differents documents in a l.p.. When >>the alumni/trainee reads this course, he will be able what he have to >>read next after the fisrt doc, and so on. I've made a graphic capture of >>the webpage for showing what elements are making a learning path in the >>Dokeos vision : list of doc allready readen, docs to read, progression >>bar, plus the breadcrumb trail; > > > for lists of already learnt documents: you can make a list of > chapters/sections/subsections somewhere on the page if you have enough > place. If you would like to get the chapter/section/subsection name, > you can get them with something like > \getmarking[chapter] $>$ \getmarking[section] $>$ \getmarking[subsection] > Perhaps some "if"s are missing to check if a section/subsection is > defined, but someone else has to help you with it. > > >>i don't want to put so much stuff in the pdfs made wit Context(apart >>putting an A4 text on an A3 page!) because i keep a printable A4 format >>for my courses, even i there interaction in it, for screen usage. > > > I'm not sure if I understood it properly, but if you need two > different versions of your documents with the same content, but > different layout, you can use modes > (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modes) > > >>So i wish to have only vertical progression bars + percentage in the >>inner margin. s-pre-01 "original" style show a bottom interaction bar >>filled with pagenumbers drawn as little rectangles. Maybe it's possible >>to draw a continuous bar with metapost, but for percentage ? >> >>Ideally, i wish to have 2 progression bars : one for project progression >>and second for product prog. > > > How would you calculate the project progression? The example below > calculates the percentage out of the number of pages in the current > document. > > Here's an example how to make an extremely simple and ugly progression > bar at the bottom of the page. Take a look into the .mp file produced. > You'll find many other variables thay you may use to position your > progression bar properly. > > \defineoverlay > [ProgressBar A] > [\useMPgraphic{ProgressBarA}] > \setupbackgrounds > [text] > [background={ProgressBar A}] > > \startuseMPgraphic{ProgressBarA} > barW = 5cm; > barH = .7cm; > > StartPage; > fill unitsquare xyscaled(barW*(PageNumber/NOfPages),barH) > withcolor .625red; > draw unitsquare xyscaled(barW,barH); > label.rt(textext("$" & decimal(round(100*PageNumber/NOfPages)) & > "\,\%$"), (barW,.5barH)); > currentpicture := currentpicture shifted > (LeftMarginWidth+LeftMarginDistance,2cm); > StopPage; > \stopuseMPgraphic > > \starttext > > first page\page > second page\page > third page > > \stoptext > > > I would suggest you to get familiar with metapost/metafun ("learning > metapost by doing", "the metapost manual", "metafun manual", ...) if > you aren't yet. It's a simple and great programming/drawing language > and you can do amazing things with it. > > Mojca > > > PS: just a note. Trying to execute the code written above under MikTeX > (on the "old" ;) ConTeXt version, 2005.08.31) leads to distrous > results and nothing worked as expected. It claims > \loadfontfileoncetrue to be undefined command, it complains about file > endings (it doesn't create .mpx files, so the label(textext ...) > doesn't work) ... and so on. It may be that something is wrongly > configured here, but I'm glad that I'm able to use the minimal ConTeXt > distr. as an alternative when something fails under MikTeX. Hi Mojca, Thanks a lot for your mp code, I got what i want but rightnow, I don't know how to use it exactly, maybe as follows attached (try to display a general progression thru advancement of each courses, and show on the same "pane" (inner margin)), list of each chapters. I'll try to cook a minimal but working example, as I got -- in a messy way -- almost everything for bring this new layout to life. -- Olivier TURLIER

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Warning Trojan.Agent.EZ in texmfstart
by Willi Egger 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Hi, I know this has been asked before, only that I did not experience the problem ... Since months I use Bitdefender antivirus software. I never experienced any problem running texmfstart. However since three days Bitdefender thinks, that the executable texmfstart from 27-07- 2005 contains a Trojan. I checked the size of texmfstart.exe. I got an older version which is 580kB the one which gives problems has 596kB. Copying the older version into the tex-tree works fine and Bitdefender does not complain. First question is: which is the actual version and size of texmfstart.exe? Provided that there is nothing wrong with texmfstart.exe with the size of 596kB should I contact the Bitdefender developpers? Kind regards Willi

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new feature
by Hans Hagen 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Hi, A next release will support the setupalign options in align keys (as in \framed): hanging nothanging hz nohz spacing nospacing hyphenated nothyphenated tolerant verytolerant stretch \framed[width=5cm,align={normal,stretch,verytolerant}]{\input tufte } this also fulfils a request in the collectors with regards to a tolerance key Hans

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manuals under svn
by Hans Hagen 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

Hi, I'm (stepwise) going to put manuals under svn with read access for users. svn export svn://ctx.pragma-ade.nl/manuals consider it experimental (could be off line occasionally because it's an internal machine) Hans

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New PracTeX Journal issue
by Steve Peter 13 Nov '05

13 Nov '05

A new issue of the PracTeX Journal is now live, featuring two ConTeXt topics: 1. Michael Guravage uses ConTeXt to typeset a brochure 2. I explore a bit of MetaPost in my \starttext column http://tug.org/pracjourn/ Comments welcome. Steve

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first page puzzle
by Alan Bowen 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

The following code \setuphead[chapter][page=yes] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \setuppagenumbering[location={header, middle},state=nomarking] \installpagebreakhandler{last}{} \definehead[Item][title] \setupsectionblock[Item][number=no,page=right] \setuphead[Item][after={\blank[2*big]},alternative=middle,style={\tfa \rm}] \setuphead[Item][header=high,footer={}] \setupheadertexts[text] [{\sc\ItemTitle}] [\pagenumber] [\pagenumber] [{\it xxxxx}] produces no header or footer on the first page, just as I want, in a multi-page document. What I am not seeing is why the same code produces a header (“ItemTitle....pagenumber”) when the document is only one page in length. I realize that I can insert \setupheader[state=high] in the source file of my single-page documents to get what I want, but that would still leave me puzzled. Any suggestions/explanations would be much appreciated. Alan

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RE: [NTG-context] Context 2005.11.11 Released
by Idris Samawi Hamid 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Hi Taco, Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl>: >New features compared to the 2005.10.27 version: > > * Additional dvips map files for Latin Modern > * context-base.map removed > * support for Waldi's Symbols added > * support for intercolumn spaces in natural tables > * support for extension of definitions inside assignments > >Bugs fixed since the 2005.10.27: Once again: Have the ctxtools for dvipdfmx been fixed yet? :-)) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Context 2005.11.11 Released
by Taco Hoekwater 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Hello all, I am pleased to announce that the new ConTeXt release from Hans Hagen can be downloaded as of now from the Pragma ADE website or one of its mirrors. http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-tmf.zip If you have not updated your Latin Modern fonts in the past month, then you will need to fetch the latest redistribution of the LM fonts as well: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-lmt.zip http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-lmt.zip http://mirror.contextgarden.net/context/current/cont-lmt.zip In the course of the following days, both files will also become available from the regular CTAN nodes. New features compared to the 2005.10.27 version: * Additional dvips map files for Latin Modern * context-base.map removed * support for Waldi's Symbols added * support for intercolumn spaces in natural tables * support for extension of definitions inside assignments Bugs fixed since the 2005.10.27: * mptopdf sometimes had trouble starting the pdfetex executable * sometimes externalimage-s in metafun disappeared * EC encoded text in math mode should now be ok (\ccaron c.s.) * lots of small register (index) fixes to newtexutil * a bug in \type that prevented the compilation of the pdftex manual. * some other (minor) bugs The current release has version 2005.11.11. As usual, there is a page with much more detailed release notes available on the Wiki, see: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Context_2005.11.11 Happy TeXing, Taco Hoekwater

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Bug in footnote mechanism when compiling per chapter?
by Gerben Wierda 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

I had in my project file \definenote[endnote][location=none] \setupfootnotes[conversion=set 2,way=bypage] which I moved to my environment file. But wherever I have it, when I compile per chapter, the footnote mechanism fails because it runs out of symbols to use. When I compile the entire book. no such problem occurs. Is this a ConTeXt bug? G

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accents inside text mode inside math
by Mojca Miklavec 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Hello, thera were some problems concerning accented characters in math (mathml) a while ago (as far as I remember they were solved). But some tiny bugs apparently remained there. Minimal example: $\cases{&\ccaron}$ Mojca

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font havoc
by Hans van der Meer 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

Suddenly it seems, I am getting bad messages for quite normal math fonts: Warning: pdfetex (file cmsy8): kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / -- bdpi 72 --mag 1+7/72 --dpi 79 cmmi10 mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfzzz and resolution 72; ignoring mode. mktexpk: Can't guess mode for 72 dpi devices. mktexpk: Use a config file, or update me. (<<<< Why is this?) Font cmsy8 at 72 not found Warning: pdfetex (file cmmi10): Font cmmi10 at 79 not found {/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/psnfss/8r.enc}</ usr/local/te TeX/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/helvetic/uhvr8a.pfb></usr/local/ teTeX/shar e/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/urw/helvetic/uhvb8a.pfb></usr/local/teTeX/ share/texmf- dist/fonts/type1/urw/courier/ucrr8a.pfb> I am not aware having changed to resolution 72 for ljfzzz or doing something different from previous installations of new context versions. The mode for ljfzzz was set with texconfig. I was running the 2005-10-27 context version, but reverting tot 2005-08-31 did not solve the problem. What has happened to my fonts? Has it something to do with the fact that tetex and context seem to use directories .texmf-config and .texmf-var differently? Why does something that ran without a hitch suddenly is broken? Does someone know how to restore things to normal? Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] cont 2005.10.27 & t5-lmtt10 font problem (solved with 2005-11-09 release)
by VnPenguin 11 Nov '05

11 Nov '05

On 11/9/05, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > > there has been a bit of a mess in the last few month with regards to the > enc/map files for latin modern: new names, as well as a slightly > different naming scheme; unfortunately context paid the price because of > early adapting; by now (i'll upload a new distribution today) things > should work ok); Hi Hans & all, My problem (subject of this thread) was solved with release 2005-11-09 :-) Thank you, Regards, -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community

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Index
by Olivier 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Hi, is there a mechanism so that on is able to say \index[start from here]{great+topic} % we are on p3 blabla much material \index[stop there]{great+topic} % we are on p7 and the index will advertise the topic as great topic 3-7 Of course I don't want to put an \index at every page (I don't even know the page break when looking at the source file ;) This feature is especially nice when defining a concept in a manual. Many thanks in advance, Olivier

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fix for verbatim
by Hans Hagen 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

The following patch \unprotect \let\protectedfirsttype\string \bgroup \catcode`\[=\@@begingroup \catcode`\]=\@@endgroup \catcode`\{=\@@active \catcode`\}=\@@active \gdef\initializetypegrouping% [\catcode`\{=\@@active \catcode`\}=\@@active \let\normalactivebgroup{% \let\normalactiveegroup}% \def\activeleftargument% [\bgroup \let}\activerightargument \normalactivebgroup ]% \def\activerightargument% [\normalactiveegroup \egroup]% \let{=\activeleftargument \let}=\egroup ] \egroup \protect works ok for \setupcolors[state=start] \setuptype[option=color] \setuptyping[option=color] \setupwhitespace[big] \starttext \starttyping x\pdfoutput{xx} {nn} \pdfoutput{xx} {nn} \stoptyping \type{x\pdfoutput {xx} {nn}} \type{x\pdfoutput{xx} {nn}} \type{x\pdfoutput{xx} {nn}} \stoptext but no coloring here: \starttabulate[|l|] \NC \type{\pdfoutput {xx}{,,}} \NC\NR \NC \type{\pdfoutput{xx}{,,}} \NC\NR \NC \type{{xx}{,,}} \NC\NR \stoptabulate beware: since in tabulate args are passed, the { } in \type are seen as grouping tokens and disappear. i'll try to make up a solution (no way around space after \cs then, unless taco fixes tex -) Hans

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maximum of \externalfigure in MP
by andrea valle 10 Nov '05

10 Nov '05

Hi to all, I'm including many externalfigures in pdf in a MPgraphic (300 pdfs, more or less). The MPgraphic draws some arrows connecting the pdf fragments. (it is the musical project using lilypond we discussed some time ago). Till now, everything has always gone very well. Now I'm getting a little crazy. in fact, I'm having a strange behaviour I cannot explain. When I render the context file, as output I have the MP drawing, but all the (many) pdfs are replaced with blank spaces. I noticed that it seems that pdfs are not loaded (the console doesn't print their names in any way). I also checked the utility files (.mp, etc) but I'm not able to extract any useful info. If I comment out some of the lines requesting \externalfigure, (remaining) pdfs are again displayed. So, I'm guessing that is should be something related with a maximum of \externalfigure. I'm surprised because I generated examples containing many more pdf fragments than the present one, and I have never had any problem. Here's the zipped directory I'm working with: www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/nodi3-.zip Any hint/help is much appreciated Best -a- Andrea Valle DAMS - Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino andrea.valle(a)unito.it

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French spacing before punctuation
by Peter Münster 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hello, what do I need to do, to get the new automatic spacing before punctuation with recent pdfetex? - What version of pdfetex? - What version of ConTeXt? - And what commands to configure this? TIA for any hint! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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wasy symbol set
by Henning Hraban Ramm 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi ho! I needed some symbols from the wasy fonts (known from the LaTeX package wasysym), and here's the whole set for you. ;-) The ZIP contains the module symb-was.tex, the font map original- wasy.map and a test tex file. (The wasy fonts live in http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/fonts/wasy2/, but they're part of most TeX installations.) I left out the mathematical operators and integrals for I don't know nothing about math and I guess that the stuff is already part of core math. symb-was.tex addresses only wasy10 (see below), but there are also wasy5-9 and wasyb10 (bold?) - how can I use these? (Don't know if that makes any sense.) \definefontsynonym [WaSy] [wasy10] \def\WaldiSymbol#1{\getglyph{WaSy}{\char#1}} If someone can tell if the math stuff is needed and if the font design size issue is fixed, I'd be happy if this module would make it into the core distribution. Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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long quotation problem
by Alan Bowen 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

I have been adapting some of my old Plain TeX macros to ConTeXt, using hints and suggestions from the ConTeXt wiki. What I have thus far works exactly as desired in the body text, but fails in the footnotes. I have appended some encoded text that shows the problem. Note the poor line-spacing and (unwanted) indentation in the first line of the quotation in the footnote: this quotation should look the same as the one in the body text. I realize that I could fix this simply by inserting a \noindent in the footnote, for instance. But I am trying to reduce the amount of thinking an coder has to do, and so would really like to define the startextract..\stopextract environment more effectively. Any pointers or suggestions for fixing this will be gratefully received. Cheers, Alan **************************** % Paragraph setup \indenting[big,yes] \setupwhitespace[medium] \setupparagraphs[tolerance=verystrict] %Footnote setup \setupfootnotes[conversion=numbers, way=bytext,location=page,rule=on,bodyfont=10.1pt,style=normal] \setupfootnotes[indenting=yes] \setupfootnotes[interaction=yes] \setupnotedefinition[footnote][indenting={big,yes}] % Extract setup \definestartstop[extract][ before={\godown[0.10pc] \indenting[next] \setupnarrower[left=1.5pc,right=1.5pc] \startnarrower[left,right]}, after={\stopnarrower \godown[0.25pc] \indenting[yes]}] \starttext Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sed pharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar odio lorem non turpis. Nullam sit amet enim. Suspendisse id velit vitae ligula volutpat condimentum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed quis velit. \startextract Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sed pharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar odio lorem non turpis. Nullam sit amet enim. Suspendisse id velit vitae ligula volutpat condimentum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed quis velit. Nulla facilisi. Nulla libero. Vivamus pharetra posuere sapien. \stopextract \noindent Nam consectetuer. Sed aliquam, nunc eget euismod ullamcorper, lectus nunc ullamcorper orci, fermentum bibendum enim nibh eget ipsum. Donec porttitor ligula eu dolor. Maecenas vitae nulla consequat libero cursus venenatis. Nam magna enim, accumsan eu, blandit sed, blandit a, eros.% \footnote{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Morbi commodo, ipsum sed pharetra gravida, orci magna rhoncus neque, id pulvinar odio lorem non turpis. Nullam sit amet enim.% \startextract Suspendisse id velit vitae ligula volutpat condimentum. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed quis velit. Nulla facilisi. Nulla libero. Vivamus pharetra posuere sapien. Nam consectetuer. Sed aliquam, nunc eget euismod ullamcorper, lectus nunc ullamcorper orci, fermentum bibendum enim nibh eget ipsum. Donec porttitor ligula eu dolor. \stopextract \noindent Maecenas vitae nulla consequat libero cursus venenatis. Nam magna enim, accumsan eu, blandit sed, blandit a, eros.}\ % Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed quis velit. Nulla facilisi. Nulla libero. Vivamus pharetra posuere sapien. Nam consectetuer. Sed aliquam, nunc eget euismod ullamcorper, lectus nunc ullamcorper orci, fermentum bibendum enim nibh eget ipsum. Donec porttitor ligula eu dolor. Maecenas vitae nulla consequat libero cursus venenatis. Nam magna enim, accumsan eu, blandit sed, blandit a, eros. \stoptext

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Header design
by Alexander Lazic 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi, i have now try to setup the CD pagedesign. Please can anyone help me to find a solution for this setup ;-) What i need is: Title_of_the_document | section on the left hand side in the header. I have found a solution for the headerrule but for the text ... I have added my solution on the bottom of this mail what i have also tryed: \setupheadertexts[text][{Title | \getmarking[chapter]}] from: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2003/003438.html which don't work because i get the following error: --- ! Argument of \next has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \doattributes ...name #1#2\@EA \endcsname \fi {#4} \dostopattributes \dosingletexts ...atetexts {#1#2#5}{#6{}{}{}}}}}}} \egroup <argument> ...?tk \v!header \v!text \c!righttext } \@@nmpos {\getvalue {\??tk... \dododoplacelayouttextline ...#2 #3}\hbox to #1{#4 }\stoplayoutcomponent \get... ... l.74 \section {sec2} ? --- Here know my texfile: --- \setuppapersize [A4][A4] \setupcolors[state=start] \setuppagenumbering[location={footer,right}] \setupheadertexts[][section] % Solution from http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20050515.201803.67299570.html \setupthinrules[color=red,height=1mm] \setupheader[text][after=\thinrule] \starttext \section{sec1} \page \section{sec2} \stoptext --- Thanks in advaned for our help ;-) Greetings al ;-)

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[Fwd: Re: [NTG-context] Problems with Natural Tables]
by Vit Zyka 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hello Hans, (I guess you are the only person who can specify your previous answer), so please, is the file 'core-ntb-new.tex' somewhere available? Actually what I want. I have plenty of natural tables. If I want to make closer interline space between table lines the only way I know is to make smaller value of offset param. But after that, columns are too close together (framed object as a core of natural table does not distinguish between vertical and horizontal offsets). So bellow mentioned \setupTABLE[c][1][distance=2em] would be nice solution. So ones more, is the new code available? Thank you in advance for the answer. Vit Hans Hagen wrote: > Adam Duck wrote: > >> Eckhart Guthöhrlein <eckhart.guthoehrlein(a)uni-bielefeld.de> writes: >> >> >> >>> Am Sonntag, den 14.08.2005, 17:17 +0200 schrieb Adam Duck: >>> >>> >>> >>>> - how do I set the spacing between a vertical line (between two >>>> columns) and the text inside that columns? I already used >>>> "framedoffest=-3pt", but the output is unacceptable. >>>> >>> >>> Spacing is a weak point of natural tables. Afaik, there is no good way >>> to tune spacing. I would try using dummy colums like >>> \bTD[width=1em]\eTD. >>> >> >> OK, That sounds reasonable. I'll try that. On the other hand this >> means many \bTD<something>\eTD ... but one can write a macro for that, >> I think. >> >> > a next release will support: > \input core-ntb-new.tex > > \starttext > > \showframe > > \setupTABLE[c][1][distance=2em] > \setupTABLE[c][2][distance=3em] I was looking for core-ntb-new.tex or 'distance' in current beta core-ntb.tex but have not been successful. Please, where I can find it? Thanks Vit > \bTABLE > \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR > \bTR \bTD[nx=2] test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR > \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD[nx=2] test \eTD \eTR > \eTABLE > > > \bTABLE[option=stretch] > \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR > \bTR \bTD[nx=2] test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR > \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD[nx=2] test \eTD \eTR > \eTABLE > > \stoptext

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RE: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
by Pearson, Mark (Capita Symonds) 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi All, I'm currently working in a team which is building a system for the automatic production of office stationery (business cards, letterheads and compliment slips) with ConTeXt at its heart. The system provides a web-application front end for selected users to create stationery orders. These orders are then processed to produce .tex files, which are processed by ConTeXt to produce press-ready PDFs. The PDFs are sent with order details straight to our in-house printing department. I was tasked with creating the PDF engine and chose ConTeXt because (a) I have a lot of experience with LaTeX and hence a great deal of respect for TeX's capabilities but (b) knew that controlling the layouts in LaTeX would be a pain. The following features of ConTeXt are used in this project: * Native support for OpenType fonts * Support for creation of high quality press-ready PDFs * Fine control over document layout, page design etc. * Support for embedding JPG, TIFF, PNG amd PDF images * Support for the use of named (PANTONE) spot colours The choice of ConTeXt was not an easy one having never used it before but my gut feeling was that it is a very powerful and flexible piece of software. It has met all my requirements so far but not without a fight, as the documentation can be very sparse! I will certainly contribute what documentation I can when I have more time. Mark ********************************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, and may be subject to legal privilege, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error or think you may have done so, you may not peruse, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message. Please notify the sender immediately and delete the original e-mail from your system. Computer viruses can be transmitted by e-mail. Recipients should check this e-mail for the presence of viruses. The Capita Group and its subsidiaries accept no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this e-mail. ***********************************************************************************

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font-switching oddities
by Thomas A. Schmitz 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi all, I'm having some trouble with bodyfont switching. It involves two fonts that I adapted myself, so it's difficult to make a minimal example. Both fonts are defined in typescripts (these are just examples, it works the same for every typescript I tried). First one is Adobe Caslon: \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] \starttypescript [serif] [caslon] [texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Roman] [texnansi-KERN-LIGA- DLIG-ONUM-ACaslonPro-Regularnoct] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Bold] [texnansi-KERN-LIGA- DLIG-ONUM-ACaslonPro-Boldnoct] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Italic] [texnansi-KERN-LIGA- DLIG-ONUM-ACaslonPro-Italicnoct] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Bold-Italic] [texnansi-KERN-LIGA- DLIG-ONUM-ACaslonPro-BoldItalicnoct] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Roman-SmallCaps][texnansi-KERN-SMCP- LNUM-ACaslonPro-Regular] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Caslon-Roman-OSF] [texnansi-KERN-SMCP- LNUM-ACaslonPro-Regular] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [caslon] [name] \usetypescript[serif][fallback] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Caslon-Roman] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Caslon-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Caslon-Bold] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Caslon-Bold-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [Caslon-Roman-SmallCaps] \definefontsynonym [OldStyle] [Caslon-Roman-OSF] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [Caslon] \definetypeface [MyCaslon] [rm] [serif] [caslon] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript Second one is one of my Greek fonts (doesn't matter which one): \starttypescript [serif] [greekgentium] [agr] \definefontsynonym [Greekgentium-Roman] [genagr-GentiumAlt] [encoding=agr] \definefontsynonym [Greekgentium-Italic][genagr-GentiumAItI] [encoding=agr] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [greekgentium] [name] \usetypescript[serif][fallback] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Greekgentium-Roman] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Greekgentium-Italic] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Serif] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Serif] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[GreekGentium] \definetypeface [MyGreekGentium] [rm] [serif] [greekgentium] [default] [rscale=\getvariable{Greek}{scale},encoding=agr] \stoptypescript The fonts are used thus: \setupbodyfont[MyCaslon,12pt] \switchtobodyfont[MyGreekGentium] Switching works when I set the bodyfont size to 9,10,11,12pt, but not if it is set to any other value. In that case, I get these messages in the log file Missing character: There is no a in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no > in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no u in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no t in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no o in font nullfont! etc. I must be missing something obvious about typefiles, but can't see what? Any help will be appreciated. All best Thomas

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How to use layers or other methods for precise positioning of items
by Kári Hreinsson 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hello, I have been trying to use ConTeXt for setting up a book with a list of students in my school, with pictures of them, phone numbers, emails and such. I thought I could use ConTeXt for the job since LaTeX gave me much trouble in trying to alter the layout and look of the page. I found the "layer" feature in ConTeXt which I found very interesting and thought I could use it to position items (such as text info, images and the layout) within these layers since they offer very precise positioning with a x-y grid like system. When I was trying to use this feature for multipage document it cut of all of the pages except the first. I found out that the layers weren't thought to be part of the content of the file but more like a background and I can't figure out how to use them on many pages without placing something like a dot on every page. Is there any way to do this? I discovered that the layers were "inserted" into the document via "\setupbackgrounds[page]" so I understand why it acts like this but I am asking if there is some way of getting layers working like I want? Maybe I am going in completely wrong way? Is there any other good way to do this, that is positioning items with x-y coordinates or something totally different that I am missing? Another thing I was wondering about is how to make items like images bleed (that is to go over the edge of the paper, to avoid white lines at the margin). Can I use negative values for positioning to achive that? All help is greatly appreciated since I am not understanding this and I haven't found much help on the internet regarding this subject (contextgarden had only one example page that had layers). I hope you understand my question, it's a bit complicated to explain. :/ Thanks in advance, Kári Hreinsson

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currentvalue
by Hans Hagen 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi, The \currentvalue module functionality written by Taco will be included in the kernel. However, instead of expanding (always) all assignments, Taco and I opt for using the less destructive \expanded: %D \startbuffer %D \getparameters[a][b=d] %D \expanded{\getparameters[a][b=c\currentvalue]} %D \framed{\ab} %D \stopbuffer %D \typebuffer %D %D Gives: \getbuffer Hans

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hoffset and voffset in \setupTABLE
by Peter Münster 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hello, here comes another feature request: independant horizontal and vertical offsets in TABLE-cells. Or even topoffset, bottomoffset, leftoffset and rightoffset. Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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extra page in presentation styles
by Hans van der Meer 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Context presentation style problem: I didn't use the (green-)presentation style for quite some time. Now I suddenly get an EXTRA PAGE before the first \TitlePage. See below for a minimal example and the output produced. Does somebody happen to what is wrong or where I am wrong? By the way, the upgrade of 27-10-2005 context did not change this. I do not include the pdf-output, because it makes this posting too big to post without special moderator approval. But in my system it gives a blank first page and then the TitlePage as sheet numbered 2. Thanks. Hans van der Meer % =============================================================== % % This example shows an extra blank page before the first real one. \usemodule[pre-green] % =============================================================== % \starttext % =============================================================== % \TitlePage{\vfill\vfill\bf Titlepage\blank \color[red]{Is SECOND instead of\crlf FIRST page!}\blank \tfxx\tfx This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.0-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) \blank ConTeXt ver: 2005.08.31 fmt: 2005.10.19 \vfill\vfill\vfill\bfxx \color[blue]{\currentdate}\hfill\null} % =============================================================== % \Subject{First subject} \vfill This is the first subject page. \vfill % =============================================================== % \stoptext % =============================================================== %

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xml, context and hyphenation
by Wolfgang Zillig 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hello, I have problems with hyphenation when german öäü are in these words. I'm processing xml files which are in unicode. The font encoding for the pdf is EC (as I was told there are problems with OT1 encoded fonts). Any suggestions? Wolfgang

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cont 2005.10.27 & t5-lmtt10 font problem
by VnPenguin 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi all, Just updated cont-2005.10.27 on teTeX 3.0 (build from tarball). I updated package "cont-lmt.zip" from http://www.pragma-ade.com. I follow step by step at page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation. Now I have: $ texexec --version TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) context : ver: 2005.10.27 cont-en : ver: 2005.10.27 fmt: 2005.11.1 mes: english total run time : 1 seconds I do a small test with vietnamese utf-8: ----------- begin test ---------------------------------- \language[vn] \mainlanguage[vn] \setuptyping [style={\switchtobodyfont[10pt]\tt}] \enableregime[utf] \setupencoding[default=t5] \setupbodyfont[reset] \usetypescript[berry][t5] \usetypescript[palatino][t5] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] \starttext Giả sử bạn có một loạt khá nhiều \setuptyping[option=PERL] \starttyping use OpenOffice::OODoc; # Giả sử bạn có một loạt khá nhiều if ((@ARGV <1) or (@ARGV > 2)){ print << "EOF"; Usage: blahblah EOF \stoptyping \stoptext ------------- end of test ------------------------------ On screen I see: ... systems : begin file test at line 18 (/work/apps/tetex/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/verb-pl.tex loading : Context Support Macros / Pretty PERL Verbatim ) (/work/apps/tetex/share/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/pdfr-ec.tex) fonts : needs map file: original-base fonts : needs map file: ec-public-lm fonts : needs map file: ec-base fonts : needs map file: t5-base fonts : needs map file: t5-urw-palatino fonts : needs map file: original-youngryu-px fonts : needs map file: t5-public-lm [1.1{/home/quy/.texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] systems : end file test at line 32 kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+5/72 --dpi 77 t5-lmtt10 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for t5-lmtt10. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ) Warning: pdfetex (file t5-lmtt10): Font t5-lmtt10 at 77 not found kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+5/72 --dpi 77 t5-lmtto10 mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for t5-lmtto10. Warning: pdfetex (file t5-lmtto10): Font t5-lmtto10 at 77 not found {/work/apps/tetex/share/texmf-local/fonts/enc/dvips/vntex/t5.enc}</work/apps/te tex/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/urwvn/uplr8v.pfb> Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 17698 bytes). Transcript written on test.log. ... PDF output is very strange: all font in typing mode are lossed ! (see screenshot: http://people.vnoss.org/~vnpenguin/pub/shots/cont-font-problem.png) PDF of the test is : http://people.vnoss.org/~vnpenguin/pub/test.pdf I missed some thing when updating ? Thank you in advance, Quy NGUYEN-DAI -- http://vnoss.org Vietnamese Open Source Software Community

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RE: [NTG-context] placing headings (solution on wiki)
by Idris Samawi Hamid 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi gang, Ok, I figured out a solution and have posted it here (bottom of page): http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Headers_and_Footers I have never edited the wiki before so I hope the maintainer will check to make sure I did not do something wrong-) If there is a way to improve my solution please let me know! I think this is a nice sample file... Best Idris ================================================ Dear gang, I am having difficulties with heading placement. Consider the following sample file: =================headings.tex================== % output=pdf interface=en \setuppapersize [A5][A4] \setuplayout[width=middle, height=middle, footer=3\bodyfontsize, header=0pt, headerdistance=\bodyfontsize, bottom=3\bodyfontsize, location={middle,doublesided}, marking=on] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, location={footer,middle}] \setupbottomtexts[pagenumber] \setupbottom[style=\tf,state=high] \setupfootertexts% [][section][chapter][] \setupfooter[style=\tf, state=high] \setuptexttexts% [margin][][section][chapter][] \setuptext[style=\tf, state=high] \setupinmargin[align=inner, style=\tfx\setupinterlinespace] \showframe \starttext \chapter{Ch. Knuth Knuth} \section{Sec. Knuth Knuth} \dorecurse{20}{\input knuth\par\ } \stoptext =============================================== This file should compile fine. Problem 1: I would like the headings in the footer to be flush with the top of the footer space instead of at the bottom; Problem 2: After making the footer headings flush with the top of the footer space, I would now like to mid-align the headings so each is just above the page number in the footer space (I thought this would be trivial but it's apparently not); Problem 3: I would like to have marginal headings: how do I i) keep the headings boxed within the margin width; ii) raise (or lower) the box containing the margin headings? Thnx in advance for helping me solve these problems! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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conTeXt distros on MACOSX
by andrea valle 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

(This derives form the thread about metafun.mem) As I have used till now only texshop, I was going to try the distro form pragma-ade. I downloaded it but I do not know what to do. As they are binaries I supposed I have not to compile anything. Should I simply put the folder in the right place? The Readme is quite vague. I put it in usr/local, tried to run from terminal the texexec bin but obtained: apples-Computer:/ apple$ /usr/local/tex/texmf-macosx/bin/texexec --h /usr/local/tex/texmf-macosx/bin/texexec: line 2: texmfstart: command not found What have I to do to use the most recent distro from pragma? More, I really cannot understand what's going on when I invoke "typeset context" form inside TeXShop. Luckily, something happens and I have my nice pdfs. This is default engine as stated by TeXShop. /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current If I go there, I find many binaries, and there's a texexec. If I invoke it directly form terminal I obtain: apples-Computer:/ apple$ /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin6.8/texexec -h `texexec.pl' not found. If I invoke texexec from terminal, default is located in sw/bin. It's 3.1 version: apples-Computer:/ apple$ which texexec /sw/bin/texexec apples-Computer:/ apple$ texexec -h TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 (I know virtually nothing of bash, I grabbed some commands here and there) I'm getting a bit depressed... -a-

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Interaction background
by Olivier 09 Nov '05

09 Nov '05

Hi, is there any way to disable the reverse color highlighting when using interaction mode? I'd like to access a next page button without the background being video reversed. Does anybody know how to achieve this? Thanks in advance, Olivier

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[Fwd: [Fwd: MetaPost to SVG Converter]]
by Tobias Burnus 08 Nov '05

08 Nov '05

-------- Original Message -------- -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: MetaPost to SVG Converter Datum: 7 Nov 2005 22:00:00 -0800 Von: tlhiv <thenders(a)gmail.com> Organisation: http://groups.google.com Newsgruppen: comp.text.tex For all that are interested, I've setup a page which described (in detail) the process of converting MetaPost output files to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). This page has a particular example as well as a *WEB TOOL* for doing the conversion. Please let me know if there are any issues with it. http://www.tlhiv.com/MetaPost/tools/mptosvg/ Thanks, Troy Henderson

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placing headings
by Idris Samawi Hamid 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Dear gang, I am having difficulties with heading placement. Consider the following sample file: =================headings.tex================== % output=pdf interface=en \setuppapersize [A5][A4] \setuplayout[width=middle, height=middle, footer=3\bodyfontsize, header=0pt, headerdistance=\bodyfontsize, bottom=3\bodyfontsize, location={middle,doublesided}, marking=on] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided, location={footer,middle}] \setupbottomtexts[pagenumber] \setupbottom[style=\tf,state=high] \setupfootertexts% [][section][chapter][] \setupfooter[style=\tf, state=high] \setuptexttexts% [margin][][section][chapter][] \setuptext[style=\tf, state=high] \setupinmargin[align=inner, style=\tfx\setupinterlinespace] \showframe \starttext \chapter{Ch. Knuth Knuth} \section{Sec. Knuth Knuth} \dorecurse{20}{\input knuth\par\ } \stoptext =============================================== This file should compile fine. Problem 1: I would like the headings in the footer to be flush with the top of the footer space instead of at the bottom; Problem 2: After making the footer headings flush with the top of the footer space, I would now like to mid-align the headings so each is just above the page number in the footer space (I thought this would be trivial but it's apparently not); Problem 3: I would like to have marginal headings: how do I i) keep the headings boxed within the margin width; ii) raise (or lower) the box containing the margin headings? Thnx in advance for helping me solve these problems! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Trying to use Avant Garde - output font in very low resolution
by Kári Hreinsson 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

Hello, I was trying to use a new font (not Computer Modern) in my tex file and all I get is the font in a very low resolution (see http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp4.pdf) This output was the result of the following files: type-garde.tex: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/type-garde.tex flipp4.tex: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp4.tex I created the typescript file according to the information in "ConTeXt and pdfTeX Beginners help file" (http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#selectfont) The interesting thing is that I can get the fonts with good quality if I only use TeX. The output of running the file flipp3.tex: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp3.tex * with pdftex: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp3.pdf * with texexec --pdf: http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp5.pdf So it seems that texexec is doing things a bit differently then pdftex but I can't figure out where or how to fix it. I also tried having the font inclusion in the same tex file and not in a typescript file with the same results: * http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp6.tex * http://www.nfmh.is/~kari/pub/context/flipp6.pdf Then there came one strange thing. When I tried the same thing with the Bitstream Charter Bold font as he did in the beginners help file I got a low resolution font when the inclusion was inside the same but that worked fine with the online texexec program (live.contextgarden.net) However, when I used the typescript file as he did in the help file I got good quality on the bistream font. I am quite lost now so any help is very appreciated! Output of texexec --version: TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) context : ver: 2005.08.31 cont-en : ver: 2005.08.31 fmt: 2005.10.16 mes: english Thanks in advance, Kári Hreinsson

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[Fwd: [dev-context] custom page number format]
by Taco Hoekwater 07 Nov '05

07 Nov '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [dev-context] custom page number format Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:50:15 -0600 From: Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Organization: Guru Labs, L.C. To: ConTeXt Development Mailing List <dev-context(a)ntg.nl> I've scoured the list archive and the wiki trying to figure out how to create an interactive table of contents that includes the chapter number as part of the page number. I'm looking for a solution that given something like: ===== \starttext Table of Contents \placelist[...] % full TOC \chapter{One} \placelist[...] % local TOC \section{a} \section{b} \section{c} \chapter{Two} \placelist[...] % local TOC \section{c} \section{d} \starttext ===== produces something like: ===== Table of Contents One 1-1 Two 2-1 a 1-2 d 2-2 b 1-3 e 2-4 c 1-7 One % page 1-1 a 1-2 b 1-3 c 1-7 a % page 1-2 b % page 1-3 c % page 1-7 Two % page 2-1 d 2-2 e 2-4 d % page 2-2 e % page 2-4 ===== I've found solutions to print the page number on individual pages using the chapter-pagenumber format. I can get \placelist to produce the format I want. It's easy to produce interactive lists using the pre-defined formats. But I haven't been able to produce an interactive custom formatted list. And at any rate, my solutions are kind of ugly leading me to believe there's probably an easier way I've missed. How should I be doing this? -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C. _______________________________________________ dev-context mailing list dev-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/dev-context

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Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
by olivier Turlier 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

> What do you do with ConTeXT? I started informatic at 33 when coming back to studies : 2 years later i've done my thesis with latex (took me 2.5 years!). Now i try to teach buiding technics and design, with the help of paper and electronic courses made with Context. Hopefully, my boss doesn't know that it took me sometimes 2 days for writing a one morning course! I must recognise that sometimes I think of having a good dtp software, but after some test, I come back to Context. In the next decades, I'll try to succeed in quizz making and/or nice looking book. I wish to meet people using Context one day. Thanks Hans and all others on the list . -- Olivier TURLIER

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ConTeXt update for teTeX
by Peter Münster 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Just a small helper script: http://pmrb.free.fr/work/OS/ConTeXt/updateConTeXt.sh Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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RE: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

>===== Original Message From ciro(a)kavyata.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >I wrote my novel using ConTeXt. Inside figures with metapost, >the cover layout with Scribus. I downloaded the first chapter; it is beautiful-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
by Hans van der Meer 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

I use ConTeXt for the presentations in my lectures on Cryptography at the University of Amsterdam. I am considering changing my lecture notes (some 300 pages) from LaTeX into ConTeXt, especially because the ease of incorporating MetaFont pictures into the text. Also for small documents as for example cd-covers. Hans van der Meer

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RE: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 05 Nov '05

05 Nov '05

> What do you do with ConTeXT? We may divide this into present activities, planned activities, useful, and needed features: Present activities: I use ConTeXt to a) typeset an academic journal b) typeset my own books Planned or in-progress activities: I am striving for a) advanced critical edition support b) advanced Arabic-script support, including complicated scripts like Nastaliq: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00xcallig/coloniallate/nastali… I already have a working Arabic module; though experimental, it produces some of the best classical Naskh Arabic script one can find in digital typography-) c) related to b) I would like to see an integration of aleph and pdfetex (for full left-to-right and right-to-left typesetting) Useful present or needed features: The best feature over LaTeX is its predictability and integratedness (no 1001 packages to sift through). NEEDED: a) A COMPLETE CONTEXT IDE, maybe even a lyx-like application b) More streamlined way to setup fonts c) Complete independence from the TeX distributions (almost there-)) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
by Taco Hoekwater 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Hi all, For the next issue of the ntg's Maps journal, Hans and I believe it would be nice to publish the collected responses to this simple question: What do you do with ConTeXT? We think it would be nice to see all the various ways in which people experience ConTeXt. We are not looking for articles, in fact we really want just a small amount of text per user, nothing longer then you would normally type in an email message. One, perhaps two paragraphs that simply tell about your personal experience using (or playing with) (or fighting with) (or yelling at) (or staring at in bewilderment) (or revelling in) (or running away from) ConTeXt. If you like this idea, just reply to this message. I will then collect and merge the responses, and finally put a pdf on-line somewhere. Don't be shy! Taco

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Re: Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
by Duncan Hothersall 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

> What do you do with ConTeXT? I have a repository of learning materials which are marked up in (DocBook-based) XML. They are in a few different languages (majority English, with Spanish, Dutch and recently Chinese) and belong to several different universities/training organisations on whose behalf we maintain them. I convert the XML into ConTeX code in a batch process using a text processing language, and then use ConTeXt to typeset the result into books and booklets of different styles. We also produce web versions of a lot of the materials, and I use ConTeXt (plus ImageMagick) to create equation GIFs for maths that can't be rendered in pure HTML. We probably have about 30 million words and 10,000 figures under management, all held in the same XML structure, and need to run several releases a day. As a result, all of the processes involved in publishing, including the ConTeXt parts, are part of a batch workflow on a server, and I rarely see the ConTeXt code itself (cos it usually just works). Thanks Hans! Duncan

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adding value to key
by Peter Münster 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hello, again a feature request: sometimes it's useful to add a value to key, without replacing it. Example: \setupexternalfigures[directory={\figurepathlist,another/dir}] -> \setupexternalfigures[adddirectory=another/dir] Or, if there is already some background (from an environment-file for example), and you want to add another: \setupbackgrounds[page][addbackground=Draft] Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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(Re)installing mswintex
by Sytse Knypstra 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Dear ConTeXt users, Yesterday I reinstalled the minimal ConTeXt under Windows XP. I carried out the following steps: 1. Rename the old directory C:\tex into C:\old_tex 2. Download mswintex.zip from Pragma 3. Unzip into C:\ (all files and directories are now under C:\tex) 4. Start a CMD shell and run the commands: > cd c:\tex > setuptex.bat > mktexlsr > texexec --make --alone nl en metafun Then I tried a minimal example and it gave me the following warnings: [1.1 Warning: pdfetex.exe (file pdftex.map): cannot open font map file ] and, in the end: Warning: pdfetex.exe (file ec-lmr12): Font ec-lmr12 at 72 not found What did I do wrong? Sytse Knypstra

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TeX & chemistry (was: alignment of figures)
by Mojca Miklavec 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Jörg Hagmann wrote: > I use "Chemdraw", save as .pict and finish it in Illustrator. I will > eventually look into PPCHTEX, but at the moment struggling with > ConTEXt is all I can do. There is a problem with my method: the > formula saved as .pict look awful (bonds shifted, atoms not aligned > etc.) and I have to correct everything by hand in Illustrator. I am > sure PPCHTEX would do a better job. On the other hand, if I switch > the formulae should look the same (bondlength, thickness, font etc.) > as the ones I already did (and don't want to do again). I suppose > that's feasable? I may be wrong, but I doubt that PPCHTEX would satisfy your needs. It's a complicated notation which is not flexible enough (I gave up since there were quite some cases for which I wasn't able to draw what I wanted to.) XymTeX is more powerful, but not supported by ConTeXt (although you can still draw single formulas in LaTeX and import them into ConTeXt as pictures) and still with very complex notation. (I would say that all you need is a better export from Chemdraw, but as this is a proprietary software I doubt that there are any specifications how to write an exporting module. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I wish I were.) I'm playing a bit with drawing formulas in metafun, but my question is: are there any guidelines about how a nice formula should look like? (Yes, I have problems to decide how thick the lines have to be, how to draw a triple or a steric bond properly, which size of letters to use). Knuth did a marvellous job with drawing math formulae in TeX, there are many books about typography, but I've never seen anything about chemistry and I haven't found anyone who could answer me this question. Mojca

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strange (?) exporting from pdf
by andrea valle 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Hi to all, I was trying to convert form pdf to rtf in order to share docs with non-conTeXt people. Acrobat 7.0 allows with "save as" to export to many formats. When I convert a pdf created with MSword (or something like: I tried also with some on-line pdfs) I have substantially no problems. But when I convert pdfs created with context or latex I have no blank spaces in the output rtf. Also, accents became autonomous ' (like in source). This seems to be systematic: same behavior with conversion to doc or html, same behavior if I use Trapeze converter instead of Acrobat. E.g.: pdf in --> out (rtf, doc, ...): questo è un test --> questo`euntest I suppose it depends on pedf source generation. Any hints? Thanks a lot -a- Andrea Valle Laboratorio multimediale "G. Quazza" Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione Università degli Studi di Torino andrea.valle(a)unito.it

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Hans: requested reminder on texutil extension
by Christopher Creutzig 03 Nov '05

03 Nov '05

Salve Hans, you asked me to remind you of the following proposal: I'd like to have a way of making texexec/texutil run a program *after* the *last* TeX run. \doifmode{*last}{\installprogram{...}} does not work, because \installprogram is only honored between two runs. regards, Christopher

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OT: PDF word counts?
by Adam Lindsay 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Sorry for going a bit off-topic, but does anyone here know of good tools for doing a word count directly on existing PDFs? cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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"Smart" \in
by Giuseppe Bilotta 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hello all, I have a document which is split into separate \parts. I would like the \in command (& friends) to automatically add the "part" reference when cross-referencing across parts. Example: """ \part[part:one]{Part one} \chapter[ch:one]{Chapter one} \chapter[ch:two]{Chapter two} As seen in \in chapter[ch:one] \part[part:two]{Part two} \chater[ch:2-1]{Chapter two} As seen in \in chapter[ch:one] """ The first \in would say chapter~1, the second chapter~1, part~1. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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graphics paths
by M.guravage 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

Hello, I keep a few pieces of code and pdf graphics in a private TEXMF tree from where I include them in various documents. I reference a graphic by its filename sans the suffix, e.g. \externalfigure[logo]. A glance at the log reveals that the filename resolves to the exhaustive pathname of the graphic in my private TEXMF tree, and the graphic appears in the document - until today that is. I revisited this document today which I last typeset with context version 2005.02.15. Today I used the version from 2005.08.31, and the graphics are missing. The log, not surprisingly, says, 'figures: figure logo can not be found.' A simple work around is to copy the graphic into the same directory as the document, which suggests it is a path problem. Has anyone else experienced this behavior and can suggest a more elegant solution. With kind regards, Michael Guravage

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Request for joing mailing list
by krishan gopal goswami 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Dear Sir, I am impressed with ConTeXt features. I want to join the mailing list to get updated on developments. Kind Regards Krishan Gopal __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com

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Problem with special first page of chapter setup
by Gerben Wierda 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

I have this setup in my environment file: ================================================= \setuphead [chapter] [page=, before=\setups{chapter:before}, after=\setups{chapter:after}] \startsetups chapter:before \page[left] \noheaderandfooterlines \startalignment[left,nothyphenated] \startnarrower[4*left] \noindent \em \setups[chapter:quote] \stopnarrower \stopalignment \resetsetups[quote:text] \page[right] \noheaderandfooterlines \blank[force,2*big] \stopsetups \startsetups [chapter:after] \blank[3*big] \stopsetups =============================================== But when I call it =============================================== \starttext \startsetups [chapter:quote] Lee Chong's is to the right of the vacant lot (although why it is called vacant when it is piled high with old boilers, with rusting pipes, with great square timbers, and stacks of five-gallon cans, no one can say).\crlf {\tf John Steinbeck} --- Cannery Row\crlf \crlf Doc explained patiently, ``Both players know exactly the same things. The game is played in the mind.''\crlf ``I don't get it.''\crlf ``Well, look! You can't cheat in mathematics or poetry or music because they're based on truth. Untruth or cheating is just foreign, it has no place. You can't cheat in arithmetic.\crlf {\tf John Steinbeck} --- Sweet Thursday \stopsetups \chapter[h:foo]{Foo} =============================================== I get that every word that is in the input file at th eend of a line is glued (no whitespace) to the word that is on the next line of the input line. How can I solve this? Thanks G

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interline space in setupparagraphs
by Gerben Wierda 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

I have: \setupinterlinespace[medium] \defineparagraphs [mypar][n=2,before={\blank[small]},after={\blank[small]}] \setupparagraphs [mypar][1][width=.15\textwidth,style=bold] \setupparagraphs [mypar][2][width=.85\textwidth] But the lines in mypar are closely packed while others have medium inteline spacing. What should I do? G

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a{tokens} and b{tokens} for TABLE
by Peter Münster 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hello, I have a feature request: something like a{tokens} and b{tokens} (in TaBlE) for \bTD...\eTD. Greetings, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Par break/justification problem
by Giuseppe Bilotta 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

I have a paragraph that is formed by two parts: these are normally run together, except when the last line of the first part ends at less than a certain amount max_amount from the right margin. In this case, there should a 'seamless line break', i.e. a line break with the text still fully justified to the right margin. Example: First part of the paragraph: second part is run in and then the text continues. Second example: This is still the first part of the pagrah: second part will now be put on the next line but the last line of the first part should be fully justified. What kind of hskip/penalty/whatever combo should I put between the first and last part for this to happen? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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3 problems with framed
by Peter Münster 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

Hello, I've 3 problems with framed: \starttext \section{Linebreak, when \tex{framed} is the first letter} A\framed{B} % here it's ok \framed{A}B % here is a problem \section{More vertical space with \tex{Numero}} \setupframed[align=flushleft,location=top] \hbox{\framed{% \startlines A \Numero \stoplines }% \framed{% \startlines A N \stoplines }} \section{More vertical space with \tex{startlines}} \framed[align=flushleft, top=\vskip-1.9\lineheight,bottom=\vskip-0.75\lineheight% workaround... ]{% \startlines Ag \stoplines } \stoptext Could anybody help, please? Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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How can I minimize the vertical space taken by a \textrule
by Gerben Wierda 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

I have a after={\textrule} in my \setupparagraphs but it takes too much space for my purpose. What can I do about that? Thanks, G

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Insufficient symbol fonts error
by Alan Bowen 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

I am getting some puzzling errors when I try to use the Greek fonts in math formulae (to represent Greek numerals as written in mss.) In a short file, both \overbar{\grk{kj}} and $\overline{\hbox{\grk{kj}}}$ work as expected, even when they occur in Greek text. But in a long, complicated file with lots of Greek etc. and the same environment file, I get ! Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts. \stopmathmode ->$ \dodounderbar ...nderbar {-\dimen 0}{\dimen 2}{#1} \egroup \processisolatedwords ...dwordsfalse #2{\unhbox 0} \else \isolatedwordstrue \... \redounderbar ...sisolatedwords {#2}\dodounderbar \egroup l.1 ...-n'o\-menoc <hmer\-~wn \overbar {\grk {kj}} ka`i pr'wtwn <exhkost~wn ... \rescanwithsetup ...\scantokens {#2\ignorespaces } \egroup l.81 ...wn >embol'imwn <hmer~wn d/ >ep'ages\-jai.} [8.44] \grk {<'ojen o>u de... I am note really sure what this error message means or how to deal with it. Any suggestions will be gratefully received. I am running the latest ConTeXT on the latest teTeX distribution. Best, Alan

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RE: [NTG-context] ConTeXt release of october 27.
by Idris Samawi Hamid 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

Hi Hans and Taco, >===== Original Message From Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> ===== >I've created a wiki page for the new release Hans made last >thursday: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes Before I try to upgrade: Were the ctxtools fixed? (I already hacked many of the map files by hand and don't want to do it again->) Best Idris ==================Oct. 15 05=================== Dear Hans and the rest of the gang, This is just a friendly reminder for the next ConTeXt version. There is a bug in the ctxtools. Consider the original-public-lm.map. Lines such as cmbsy10 cmbsy10 cmbsy5 cmbsy5 cmbsy6 cmbsy7 should become either cmbsy10 default cmbsy10 cmbsy5 default cmbsy5 cmbsy6 default cmbsy7 partucularly when the name of the tfm and pfb do differ; or just cmbsy10 cmbsy5 cmbsy6 where the name of the tfm and pfb do NOT differ. Otherwise dvipdfmx will fail-( Probably easier to just do <tfm> default> pfb> for all such cases... ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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ConTeXt release of october 27.
by Taco Hoekwater 31 Oct '05

31 Oct '05

Hi, I've created a wiki page for the new release Hans made last thursday: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes Cheers, Taco

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Re: [NTG-context] learning path
by olivier Turlier 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

Mojca Miklavec wrote: > 2005/10/17, olivier Turlier <o.turlier(a)free.fr>: > >>Hi everybody, >> >>I wish to set up kind of a "learning path" (= "pedagogic" progression >>bar, like in http://www.dokeos.com/scorm_compliant_course_content.php) > > > The page doesn't exist. Perhaps send also the names of Hans's > documents to the list that you would like to mimic. Would you provide > the percentage or would you like to be automatically generated. I > guess it should be done with metafun (see s-pre-xx.tex files, although > you are not requested to understand them (yet)), but you first need to > tell how it should look like (the link above cannot help). > > Mojca > > Sorry for not being clear enough. "learning path" is an acronym I've found while using Dokeos elearning platform, as an equivalent to a course i guess. For creating a course/learning path you assemble differents documents in a l.p.. When the alumni/trainee reads this course, he will be able what he have to read next after the fisrt doc, and so on. I've made a graphic capture of the webpage for showing what elements are making a learning path in the Dokeos vision : list of doc allready readen, docs to read, progression bar, plus the breadcrumb trail; i don't want to put so much stuff in the pdfs made wit Context(apart putting an A4 text on an A3 page!) because i keep a printable A4 format for my courses, even i there interaction in it, for screen usage. So i wish to have only vertical progression bars + percentage in the inner margin. s-pre-01 "original" style show a bottom interaction bar filled with pagenumbers drawn as little rectangles. Maybe it's possible to draw a continuous bar with metapost, but for percentage ? Ideally, i wish to have 2 progression bars : one for project progression and second for product prog. Thanks for listening. -- olivier Turlier -- Olivier TURLIER

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suggestion for \startitemize.
by John R. Culleton 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

It is possible to nest \startitemize sequences, But each level requires a different parameter in the \startitemize statement. OTOH the \orderedlist command in eplain.tex uses 1,2,3 for the outside list, then a,b,c for the first nest, roman numerals for the next nest and finally "*" for the innermost list. A similar automatic sequence or sequences would be useful in Context. -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf

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Please add Fraktur to the math fonts
by Giuseppe Bilotta 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

The Fraktur fonts are missing from the standard math definitions. Currently, I have this kind of hack in t-amsl: \definebodyfont [17.3pt,14.4pt,12pt,11pt,10pt,9pt] [mm] [mc=eufm10 sa 1] \definebodyfont [8pt,7pt,6pt] [mm] [mc=eufm7 sa 1] \definebodyfont [5pt] [mm] [mc=eufm5] Basically, for what I can see, the problem is that mc= is not defined in the default typescript files. Adding it would be as simple as replicating the mi lines into mc lines, at least for computer-modern & similar, since the actual font used is the same. Could this please be done for the official distribution? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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margin kerning problem
by Alan Bowen 26 Oct '05

26 Oct '05

Sorry for the flurry of questions. But here’s one about margin kerning now. I see that by using \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono,mm][hanging][normal] \setupalign[hz,hanging] I can get margin kerning in the body text, but not in any footnotes/ endnotes. What else is needed to get margin kerning throughout the notes too? As ever, any advice will be gratefully received. Alan

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alignment of figures
by Jörg Hagmann 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Dear list members, I want to have figures arranged as follows: 1. Figures smaller than 0.5 textwidth at the inner margin, text flowing arround figure. 2. Between 0.5 and 1*textwidth in the middle, no text flowing. 3.Figures wider than textwidth aligned with the inner margin of the textblock and sticking out into the (wide) outer margin. I found out how to do the first 2 (from "Details") but couldn't figure out the last one. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot. Jörg

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