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math functions
by billet＠eurecom.fr 13 Aug '05

13 Aug '05

Hi, I would like to set the font used for math functions like \sin to be the body font. Of course, it should go for scriptsize when used in exponents. I tried without success to define \def\mfunction#1{{\tf\rm #1}} What is the conTeXt way to do this? Thanks for your help, Olivier

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A wee bit more about OpenType (Myriad Pro)
by David Wooten 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Greetings all & Adam, Having successfully installed Jenson & Minion Pro I've been trying to get Myriad Pro to install as a companion Sans (motivated in part by the fact that Adam has a nice typescript file for Warnock Pro with Myriad). I'm having some difficulties, which seem similar to difficulties I had earlier on…but apparently we finished our conversation off the list, so I can't locate what the solution was ;) (I believe it was "try updating to the latest version of LCDF from *EXPERIMENTAL*"). Before I display some error messages, I want to ask, Adam, why the Myriad Pro fontsynonyms in your typescript do not have any of the OpenType features—liga? kern? Is this due to Myriad Pro's particulars? [I've just checked, and it isn't only Myriad Pro that won't install.] I'm using Gerben's i-Installer, 2004 stable, ConTeXt updater, LCDF 2.26 (no longer in the "experimental" directory). I've also tried with the 2005 development set. The result is the same. In any case, here we go: sudo texfont --fo=/ME/texmf --ve=adobe --co=myriadpro --lcdf --pre -- ma --in TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 mktexlsr: Updating /Users/wooten/Library/texmf/ls-R... mktexlsr: Done. encoding vector : texnansi vendor name : adobe source path : . font collection : myriadpro texmf font root : /users/wooten/library/texmf pdftex map file : texnansi-adobe-myriadpro.map source path : . processing files : all on afm path locating afm files : using pattern ./*.afm locating afm files : using otf files converting : ./MyriadPro-Black.otf to ./MyriadPro-Black.pfb [etc.] font identifier : MyriadPro-Black -> text -> tfm processing files : otf -> tfm + enc otftotfm: /usr/local/Build/TeXLive.tl2003.development/share/lcdf- typetools/glyphlist.txt: warning: No such file or directory I had to round some heights by 14.5000000 units. I had to round some depths by 4.0000000 units. (if I install the 2005 teTeX it is identical, except says .../ TeXLive.tl2004.development/... —— In trying to texexec the generated sample file, I receive: texexec --pdf texnansi-adobe-myriadpro.tex TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 fixing engine variable : pdfetex executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : texnansi-adobe-myriadpro output : pdftex interface : en options: once current mode : compact This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx) output format initialized to DVI entering extended mode (./texnansi-adobe-myriadpro.tex ConTeXt ver: 2005.08.04 fmt: 2005.8.9 int: english mes: english [etc.] Warning: pdfetex (file texnansi-MyriadPro-BlackCondIt): Font texnansi- MyriadPro -BlackCondIt at 72 not found kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 72 --mag 1+0/72 --dpi 72 texnansi-MyriadPro-BlackCond mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font for texnansi-MyriadPro- Black. [etc.] …ending up with a big set of blank glyph charts. Thanks again for any advice, and for patience! David

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Data into arrays in Metapost
by David Arnold 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Hi, Is there a way to read an entire data set into an array in Metpost, something like: numeric coeffs[]; coeffs:=[1,2,3,4,5];

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\starttabulate vertical spacing
by Christoph Czarnetzki 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Hello! i want to put some space between lines in a tabulate environment. \starttext \starttabulate[|l|p(1cm)|] \NC Some Text \NC Other Text \NC\NR\HL \NC Some Text \NC Other Text \crlf\NC\NR \NC Some Text \NC Other Text \NC \stoptabulate \stoptext i did it with \crlf, but this is too much for me. \godown doesnt work either. Half of a line in space would be great. I tried that with starttable too, but the \HL command in tabulate works better. The text is aligned directly under the ends of the line. So i use tabulate. And the other problem is, crlf only works if tab is set to |p|. thanks! Christoph

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MPcolor problem (CMYK)
by Jin-Hwan Cho 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

In the MetaFun manual (metafun-p.pdf) p.117, you may see an example using the color ".5\MPcolor{cmyyellow}". But I could not generate the color. Could anyone check the attached sample? Best, ChoF. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** | Cho, Jin-Hwan == ChoF | ^ ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o | Dept. of Mathematics | --- | The University of Suwon | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | Korean TeX Users Group | | | http://www.ktug.or.kr | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | chofchof(a)ktug.or.kr | *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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\Shaped macro in MetaFun manual
by Jin-Hwan Cho 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

The third line in the page 145 in the MetaFun manual (metafun-p.pdf) says The \Shaped macro was defined as: .... some \inframed[background=Shape]{text} with a frame ... .... some \Shaped{text} with a frame ... It seems to be a typo. Let me know the exact definition of \Shaped macro. Thanks in advance. Best, ChoF. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** | Cho, Jin-Hwan == ChoF | ^ ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o | Dept. of Mathematics | --- | The University of Suwon | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | Korean TeX Users Group | | | http://www.ktug.or.kr | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | chofchof(a)ktug.or.kr | *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Clipping a path to a boundary --- Being more specific
by David Arnold 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

Hans et al, Let me try to be more specific. Here is a file which is very typical of the way I draw graphs for my mathematics classes. When you compile, you will see the graph of the absolute value of x-1. That is, it draws the graph of y=|x-1|, but only after clipping it to the cpath. What I would like to do is draw the graph with the drawdblarrow command so that the graph of the absolute value ends in arrowheads. So, I want to clip the graph to the bounding box, save the picture, null the picture, then somehow extract the path into the variable F in its clipped form (not the original path F that extends outside the clip path) so that I can replace the command draw pic with drawdblarrow F. beginfig(0); numeric a, c; a=1; % define function f(x)=|x-a| vardef f(expr x)= abs(x-a) enddef; % draw line with given point and slope path F; F:=(-5,f(-5)); for x=-5 step 1 until 5: F:=F--(x,f(x)); endfor; % initialize scale numeric u; 10u=3in; % the line F:=F scaled 1u; draw F withcolor blue; % clipping path path cpath; cpath:=(-5,-5)--(5,-5)--(5,5)--(-5,5)--cycle; cpath:=cpath scaled 1u; % clip and save current picture picture pic; clip currentpicture to cpath; pic:=currentpicture; currentpicture:=nullpicture; % erase currentpicture currentpicture:=nullpicture; % draw grid for k=-5u step 1u until 5u: draw (-5u,k)--(5u,k) withcolor 0.85white; draw (k,-5u)--(k,5u) withcolor 0.85white; endfor; % draw axes drawarrow (-5u,0)--(5u,0); drawarrow (0,-5u)--(0,5u); % label axes label.rt(btex $x$ etex, (5.2u,0)); label.top(btex $y$ etex, (0,5.2.u)); label.bot(btex $5$ etex, (5u,0)); label.lft(btex $5$ etex, (0,5u)); % redraw line draw pic; endfig; end.

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Mail troubles
by Taco Hoekwater 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

Hi, I just want to let everybody know that I am experiencing problems with email delivery since monday morning around 8 a.m. Hopefully, everything should return to normal during the day. I'm writing this because chances are that I've missed some mail addressed to me, esp. private off-list email. If you expect me to answer to something you sent, it is probably wisest to re-send it. Greetings, Taco

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List head colour
by Duncan Hothersall 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

Quick question. With "\startitemize[n][color=red]", "\item ..." gives me the item number in red, but "\head ..." gives me the item number in the default colour. With "\startitemize[n][headcolor=red]", "\head ..." gives me the whole line in red including the number. Is there any setup which can give me just the item number in red when using "\head ..."? Is it possible? Thanks all. Duncan

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Using latex font-packages
by Kai Militzer 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hello list, I am trying to use latex fonts (to be more precize: the allrunes font) downloaded from the ctan-ftp-Server and installed correctly in my texmf-tree, in context, but I now realise that it does not work as easy as I expected (i.e. just using the latex-commands). If anyone could help me or point me in the right direction how to do it, I would be very thankful, as I have a deadline at the end of the week at which it has to work ;) Best regards Kai

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\placelist disturbs grid?
by Vit Zyka 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hello Hans, Taco, and the next gurus, sorry for bother with another thing I can not understand. Very high glyphs like \v S disturb grid in the \placelist. The same glyph in the common paragraph with the same (intentionally) interline setting preserves grid: --------------------------------------- \setupbodyfont[10pt,rm] \setupinterlinespace[line=12pt] \setuplayout[grid=yes,width=8cm] \showgrid \writetolist[section]{}{See the next line:} \writetolist[section]{}{\v Sejba} \writetolist[section]{}{Another list line} \starttext \v Sejba\par Here grid is OK, but in \type{placelist}: \placelist[section] no! \stoptext ------------------------------------------ I was looking in definitions for some font-size dependent line setting, I also tried to \setuplist[section]{style=\baselineskip=12pt\lineskiplimit=-10pt} but without success to lounging on the grid. Can somebody help me, please? vit

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TABLE feature wishes
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi again, as dicussed some time ago, here comes the reminder of what context lacks concerning table typesetting. I will concentrate on \bTABLE .. \eTABLE, since it is much more powerful than the older ones (and I do not know much about linetables). In order to be able to typeset tables with satisfactory results, I personally need at least the following missing features: - Control over horizontal cell spacing and vertical row spacing, independently of each other. This can not be done currently, since the rulethickness parameter affects all frames of a cell. - Better support for horizontal rules, without affecting the actual cells. I would like to say e.g. \HL between rows to get a line. A command to span just a selection of columns is also necessary. Although I have tricked TABLE into doing what I want with dummy rows and metapost graphics, this is not a very nice solution. Concerning rules, I would suggest further options like trimming, but maybe this can be postponed to prevent this message from becoming too lengthy. For those interested, my ideal table in this respect is what the latex booktabs package provides: ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/booktabs.pdf. In addition, it would be highly desirable to have the possibility - to insert material before and after the entry of a cell, eg have \bTD[before=(,after=)]x\eTD typeset (x). - to have hooks which do something with entries, eg \bTD[hook=\framed]x\eTD gives a framed x. How are the chances that the above will be supported by context in the near future, or ever? Greetings, -- Eckhart

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multipage table in columns
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi all, I have to build a table which should split over several columns (probably two) and, if necessary, across pages. I have tried this with \starttext \startcolumns[n=3] \setupTABLE[split=yes] \bTABLE \bTABLEhead \bTR \bTD Head \eTD \bTD Head~2 \eTD \eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \bTR \bTD once \eTD \bTD once~2 \eTD \eTR \dorecurse{120}{% \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test~2 \eTD \eTR } \eTABLEbody \bTABLEfoot \bTR \bTD low \eTD \bTD low~2 \eTD \eTR \eTABLEfoot \eTABLE \stopcolumns \stoptext This does something at least similar to what I had in mind :-) Problems: - As soon a page break is involved, the balancing algorithm gets totally confused. For example, the code above gives me three pages, with a single cell on the second one. The head is repeated only on the third page. - How can I make a column break trigger head repetition instead of a page break? - How to get the footer repeated at the end of each column, too? Furthermore, there are some old messages concerning captions for multipage tables, but I could not find a satisfactory answer. How can I get a caption on the first page and something like "Table x cont." on the following ones? Thanks, -- Eckhart

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Czech sorting rules
by David Antos 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hello, I've tried to find something relevant about the terrible Czech sorting :-) The first thing to note is that there is a standard (from 1970 or so) that is not implementable in fact, it requires such stupid sorts like Karel IV < Karel III as one should sort it as the numbers were written in words (ctvrty, treti) :-) So in practice, there are more-or-less accurate approximations. Quite good intro is http://www.vitsoft.info/sortkit.htm The sorting is considered very reasonable if it conforms with order stated in http://www.fi.muni.cz/~adelton/l10n/cssort/cssort.table . Characters on a single line in the table are considered equivalent. Note the `ch' character that is sorted between h and i. This table contains accented letters that are not used in Czech (like crossed l, z dot above). It should IMHO be also completely OK for Slovak (as they, I hope, inherited the standard). I think that it would be completely OK to sort according to that table taking chars on single lines as equivalent. The modules the table is from implements a four-pass sorting algorithm that reflects pretty damn rules, see http://www.fi.muni.cz/~adelton/l10n/cssort/csort.c . An example of sorted sequences is http://www.fi.muni.cz/~adelton/l10n/cssort/sort.tab . The question is if it is reasonable to implement it internally in ConTeXt or to use an external module. An external Perl module was prepared by Tom Hudec once (he even modified the sorting table, he preferred all letters with `hacek (\v{})' to be greater than without \v. If you consider internal ConTeXt implementation feasible, I'd be happy if you commented the sorting macros a bit, so that I could contact native Czech users and fine-tune it. I'd like to consult it with our Czech TeX frieds, I don't feel myself to be a sorting expert (it's quite tricky, isn't it). Thanks, D.A. -- Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead. -- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic"

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RE: Figure captions with text in wrong language
by Roelof Langman 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hans, thanks. That's chapter 7 of the cont-enp manual on Language-Specific Issues. Roelof > Hi, I'd like my figures to have dutch captions when I write a text in > dutch. Unfortunately, context shows my captions with the text "Figure" > instead of "Figuur", which would be the dutch way. > > My code looks like this: > > \language[nl] \mainlanguage[nl] (\language is for a local switch)

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Figure captions with text in wrong language
by Roelof Langman 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi, I'd like my figures to have dutch captions when I write a text in dutch. Unfortunately, context shows my captions with the text "Figure" instead of "Figuur", which would be the dutch way. My code looks like this: % output=pdf \language[nl] \starttext \placefigure [here] [fig:uur] {Figuur een} {} \stoptext and the text shown is "Figure 1 Figuur een". I use texexec version 5.2.5 with cont-nl version 2005.03.16. I assumed setting the language to nl would give me dutch captions. What did I miss? Cheers, Roelof Langman

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ConTeXt-mode and AUCTeX
by rb 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

I recently switched from context.el to AUCTeX 11.55, with "built in context-mode". One feature from the original which I am unable to find within the AUCTeX version is the automatic prompt (open square bracket) for arguments with every \start... \stop... pair. In original I used C-c C-o (tex-context-block), in AUCTeX, I'm using C-c C-e (to insert any \start \stop pair), not the same command, but the original doesn't seem to be available. Is there a way to get the automatic prompt for arguments? Thank you --

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Re:[NTG-context] Presentation
by piskala upendran 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi, Jessica The context/base has so many modules s-pre-**.tex. At the end of the module you have the examples are given. copy the examples in seperate file and add the module no name from with the example was taken. \usemodule[pre-**] and compile the files. iam sure you can select your flavour. you can also tweat the colors to suit your requirement. thanks upendran __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Sorting index (in Spanish)
by Mari Voipio 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Dear Fellow-Contexters, I have been charged with editing a ConTeXt document in Spanish (of which I understand preciously little). This far I have gotten over the hurdles of hyphenation, labeltexts and the upside-down exclamation mark (and as far as we can tell, the Spanish hyphenation patterns get loaded, too), but now I have a problem sorting the index: the words 'ángulo' and 'índice' get sorted in the beginning of the index instead of among a and i. It tried putting something like the example below in a) the setup part of my document, b) just before the index (a bit like in the example at <http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2005/008346.html>, except that I use the command \placeindex and not \completeindex) and c) in the lang-ita.tex file. % Changes to sorting to fix the sorting of accented letters \startlanguagespecifics[es] \definesortkey {\´a}{a}{a}{\´a} % á sorted among 'a' \definesortkey {\´i}{i}{i}{\´i} % í sorted among 'i' \stoplanguagespecifics None of the options a)-c) worked and I'm thinking that this is more of a "stupid user" problem, i.e. as I cannot find any description on how \definesortkey works, I just don't understand how to use it properly. Any help??? Mari PS. Tried to find related info in contextgarden.net, but can't find much - if it isn't there, I can add stuff (*after* I solve this problem) if somebody tells me where I may start growing this flower of mine.

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Re: [NTG-context] Presentation
by piskala upendran 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

hello valle, I did test your example. It complained as you said. however, it works ok under miktex + winedt with the following changes. a. remove the small square in front of the \usemodule[pre-08]. b. \input reich changed to knuth because \citaat of reich is not decoded. I do not know the reason. Any contexpert can only tell.otherwise it compiled smoothly. you can try. regards upendran __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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[Fwd: Re: [NTG-context] \placelist disturbs grid?]
by Vit Zyka 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Hello, I was perhaps little descriptive in my last question. Let me discribe my real problem: I'd like to typeset a table of content as follows: ---------------------- Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 1 Section 2 Section3 Section with longer name 4 Section 5 Section 6 Chapter 2 Section 1 Section 2 ... .... ----------------------- Everything has to be on the grid. Problem is that 'Part 1' and 'Chapter 1' are typeset with bigger font (\bfa and \tfa respectively). And grid is too tight to fit \bfa/\tfa struts. But the character size is optically OK even preserving grid due to blank lines around bigger font. I do not want to use \placetogrid in this case since AFAIK it adds one blank line more. Solution: not to add struts to list items and set \lineskiplimit=-\maxdimen. I discovered that there is alternative 'none' that does not place struts. The only problem is that 'none' create one long line like ----------------------- Section 1 Section 2 Section3 Section with longer name 4 Section 5 Section6 ----------------------- oversized \textwidth. So the question is: How to typeset list items to paragraph without struts? Minimal test code is bellow. Thank you for replay Vit Hans Hagen wrote: > Vit Zyka wrote: > >> Hello Hans, Taco, and the next gurus, >> >> sorry for bother with another thing I can not understand. Very high >> glyphs like \v S disturb grid in the \placelist. The same glyph in the >> common paragraph with the same (intentionally) interline setting >> preserves grid: >> >> --------------------------------------- >> \setupbodyfont[10pt,rm] >> \setupinterlinespace[line=12pt] >> \setuplayout[grid=yes,width=8cm] >> \showgrid >> >> \writetolist[section]{}{See the next line:} >> \writetolist[section]{}{\v Sejba} >> \writetolist[section]{}{Another list line} >> >> \starttext >> \v Sejba\par >> Here grid is OK, but in \type{placelist}: >> >> \placelist[section] >> >> no! >> \stoptext >> ------------------------------------------ >> I was looking in definitions for some font-size dependent line >> setting, I also tried to >> \setuplist[section]{style=\baselineskip=12pt\lineskiplimit=-10pt} >> but without success to lounging on the grid. > > > > this is the default ratio: > > \setupinterlinespace > [height=.72, > depth=.28] Thank you Hans; after some experimenting I understood: - height and depth in \setupinterlinespace are baseline-ratio/size of struts (add description to tex-show) - some my chars (/,\v S, \tfa, ...) oversized \strut size of any ratio - list items are typeset with struts (perhaps all alternative) - only alternative without strut is 'none' with command=\Mycommand def So I do know how to preserve grid. But I do not know HOW TO TYPESET \Mycommand TO FIT THE PARAGRAPH WIDTH. It seem it is not in the restricted horizontal mode and continue on one long line. And another question/request: can the list distance param (alternative d,...) be glue instead of skip? For better line fitting. example: ------------------ \setupbodyfont[10pt,rm] \setupinterlinespace[line=12pt,height=.77,depth=.23] \setuplayout[grid=yes,width=8cm] \showgrid \setuplist[section] [style=\tfd,alternative=none,command=\MyListItem] \def\MyListItem#1#2#3{{\tfb (#1-#2-#3) }} \starttext \writetolist[section]{}{See the next line} \writetolist[section]{}{\v Sejba} \writetolist[section]{}{Another list line} \writetolist[section]{}{And the last one} \lineskiplimit=-10pt Line\par Anothet line of \v Sejba\par \placelist[section] \strut %% should be! why? After list line. \stoptext ------------------ Vit -- ======================================================= Ing. Vít Zýka, Ph.D. TYPOkvítek database publishing databazove publikovani data maintaining and typesetting in typographic quality priprava dat a jejich sazba v typograficke kvalite tel.: (+420) 777 198 189 www: http://typokvitek.com =======================================================

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Draw a line with Metafun
by Jessica Holle 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Hi, I want to draw a line myself with Metafun. This line should looks like in the module pre-05. I've copied a few lines and try to understand what there happend. But it failed. I've also read in the metafun.pdf, but it ist very hard to understand. I don't see the context between the numbers of x ond y. When I change the numbers the output varies but in no relation to the numbers. Can anyone help to explain this to me or has another documentation? so looks my test: \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor[back2][r=.6,g=.7,b=.8] \definecolor[back][s=.95] \starttext \startMPinclusions def random_hash_frame (expr width, height, offset, linewidth ) = def delta = ((uniformdeviate .5offset) + .25offset) enddef ; x1 := 0.5cm ; y1 :=0.5cm ; x2 := 16cm ; y2 := 3cm ; drawoptions(withpen pencircle scaled linewidth withcolor \MPcolor{back2}) ; fill z1--(x2,y1)--z2--(x1,y2)--cycle ; enddef; \stopMPinclusions \startuseMPgraphic{jessi} random_hash_frame(height,width, 0.5cm,0.5cm) \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{jessi} \stoptext Greetings Jessi

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Clipping a path to a boundary
by David Arnold 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

All, I'm looking for a new idea for something I need to do. I typically create a path on a domain [-5,5] as follows, a arbitrary. Then I randomly reflect the path about and axis, a line, or maybe rotate it. The result is that parts of the path may lie outside a bounding window. % define linear function f vardef f(expr x)= a*x*x enddef; % define paths for functions f, g, and h, respectively path P; P:=(-5,f(-5)); for x=-5 step .1 until 5: P:=P--(x,f(x)); endfor; % initialize scale numeric u; 10u=w; % scale and draw graph P:=P scaled u; draw P withcolor blue; % clipping path path cpath; cpath:=(-5,-5)--(5,-5)--(5,5)--(-5,5)--cycle; cpath:=cpath scaled 1u; % clip and save current picture picture pic; clip currentpicture to cpath; pic:=currentpicture; % erase currentpicture currentpicture:=nullpicture; Then I do some stuff I need to do and bring back the path at a later time with: draw pic; This works fine. However, what I need to do is somehow clip the path P to the bounding box, but retain the resulting cutpath in a path variable Q. That is, I need to cut off the parts of the path P that lie outside the bounding box cpath:=(-5,-5)--(5,-5)--(5,5)--(-5,5)--cycle and store the clipped path in the path variable Q. The difficulty is I have no advance knowledge if the path P lies entirely inside the bounding box or if it escapes through one of the sides. Any hints, tips, etc., would be very appreciated. Thanks.

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style in registers
by Vit Zyka 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Good evening, I have opened another topic. Why both Hans's page numbers are bold? -------------------------------------- \defineregister[Name][Names] \setupregister[Name][pagestyle=\it] \setupregister[Name][bf][pagestyle=\bf] \starttext Names: \Name[bf::]{Hans} \Name{Taco} \page[yes] \Name{Hans} \placeregister[Name] \stoptext -------------------------------------- vit

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encodings for Antiqwa
by Mojca Miklavec 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Hello, In the following example \Scaron and \Zcaron are taken from the font, while \Ccaron is constructed using C and caron (the difference is clearly seen in the result as Ccaron is originally composed using C and Caron; caron and Caron are different in Antiqwa). I understand that this is because I use the wrong encoding (texnansi), but ec/il2 don't seem to work. In Antiqwa documentation I saw cork and cs encoding, which are both be OK, but it seems that ConTeXt isn't aware of them. (Cork is even better as this seems to be the only encoding where \dstroke is present.) (I slowly begin to understand why the Croats deserved their own MacCroatian encoding [regime] :) \definetypeface[antykwa][rm][serif][antykwa-torunska][default][encoding=texnansi] \setupbodyfont[antykwa] \starttext \Ccaron\Scaron\Zcaron \dstroke\Dstroke % also composed :( \stoptext Can anyone point me to the proper way to access other characters in a font, not present in any standard encoding? I know approximately that a .map file has to be written, a typescript file, encoding has to be defined somewhere, but I have never managed to make all those files cooperate together. (An example: how to access edblgrave, udblgrave, odblgrave, ... possibly in such a way that someone could use my (set of) documents without hundred sites of documentation how to compile them on his own computer.) Thank you very much, Mojca (The more I know about the encodings, the more I hate them.)

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Verbatim with linebreaks sillyness
by Taco Hoekwater 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Hi, I saw this on the wiki: http://contextgarden.net/Verbatim_with_line_breaks and it seemed like a fun idea to play with for a bit. How's this? Cheers, Taco % % BREAK is a special pretty handler that auto-wraps lines % to fit the current hsize. \gdef\BREAKsetspecials% {\dorecurse{256}{\setpretty\numexpr \recurselevel-1\relax=10 }} \gdef\BREAKsethandlers% {\installprettyhandler 10 \BREAKtypeone } \newcount\BREAKcharcounter \newcount\BREAKmaxcharcount \def\BREAKtypeone#1% {\advance\BREAKcharcounter 1 \ifnum\BREAKcharcounter > \BREAKmaxcharcount \hfil\break \BREAKcharcounter=1 \fi \getpretty{#1}} \def\BREAKsetcounters% {\setbox\scratchbox=\hbox{0}% \BREAKmaxcharcount=\hsize \divide\BREAKmaxcharcount \wd\scratchbox \def\flushrestofverbatimline{\BREAKcharcounter=0 }% \BREAKcharcounter=0 } \gdef\setupprettyBREAKtype% {\def\prettyidentifier{BREAK}% \BREAKsetcounters \BREAKsethandlers \BREAKsetspecials} \installprettytype [BREAK] [BREAK] \starttext \framed [width=8cm, align=flushleft]{% \setuptyping[option=BREAK] \starttyping hööah:aloh/aa?lha llol!loh%lloh#allhal\lohhll;ohohal~loll ohalölo \stoptyping } \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] Presentation
by piskala upendran 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

hello Taco, thanks. Now i can use reich example also in future. cheers upendran piskala upendran wrote: > hello valle, > > I did test your example. It complained as you said. > however, it works ok under miktex + winedt with the > following changes. > > a. remove the small square in front of the > \usemodule[pre-08]. > b. \input reich changed to knuth because \citaat of > reich is not decoded. I do not know the reason. Any > contexpert can only tell.otherwise it compiled > smoothly. you can try. The file was never converted from dutch to english. \citaat should be \quotation Taco __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html

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RE: [NTG-context] tex vs etex
by Idris Samawi Hamid 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hi Hans, I only use aleph and pdfetex. I am concerned however, because aleph uses an older version of etex, and so there may be unintended consequences (& bad for me-<) Giuseppe is busy, but maybe he has some initial thoughts on this? Best Idris >===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Hi, > >Is anyone using tex i.e. not pdfetex/aleph/xetex? I'd likt to go etex >only which in the end is needed anyway since we run out of token list >registers (in etex more we're already past 255) ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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tex vs etex
by Hans Hagen 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hi, Is anyone using tex i.e. not pdfetex/aleph/xetex? I'd likt to go etex only which in the end is needed anyway since we run out of token list registers (in etex more we're already past 255) 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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mapping
by Hans Hagen 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hi, I'm a bit puzzled. Do you really get properly uppercased output while the mapping are actually wrong? With fixed mapping, \WORD works ok, which si actually what i expect because utf is fully expandabel to \namedglyphs which, givven the proper encoding, expand to characters, which can be uppercases. 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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enumerated lists
by Frank Grieshaber 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Dear all, I have a manuscript with long nested numbered enumerations and I want the numbers of all levels to be printed like: 1. one 1.1 one-one 1.2 one-two 2. two 2.1 two-one 2.2.1 two-two-one ... Using the following prints only the current level's number, not all levels: \startitemize[n,packed] \item \item \startitemize[m,packed] \item \item \stopitemize \item \item \stopitemize For Latex there is the package paralist.sty for doing the desired numbering, how can this be done with ConTeXt? Frank

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Re: [NTG-context] uppercasing accented characters, mappings and \WORD
by Mojca Miklavec 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > This works (but it is a bit ugly) > > \def\WORD#1{% > \bgroup > \the \everyuppercase > \let \smallcapped \firstofoneargument > \let \WORD \firstofoneargument > \pushmacro \dohandleaccent > \pushmacro \dohandlecommand > \pushmacro \dohandlecharacter > \keepencodedtokens > \edef\tempa{#1}% > \popmacro \dohandleaccent > \popmacro \dohandlecommand > \popmacro \dohandlecharacter > \expandafter \uppercase \expandafter {\tempa}% > \egroup } Thank you, Taco! I cannot judge about the elegance of the solution as I have never seen any elegant TeX macro definitions :), but it works (at least on my examples) which is the most important part. Also the cp1250 regime (where no mappings were defined) is now happy with it :) Just for fun, I also tried it on greek (just copy-pasted some letters from http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/multilingual1.html) It doesn't work there, but I didn't even expect it to work as I should probably provide the proper fonts and encodings first anyway. I've seen some strange Greek stuff a while ago, which could have been definitions of capitals, but as I neither understand Greek nor "TeX", I can't judge about it. > do you have a zipped example? Is this still relevant? Well, as it was only 11kb, I attached it anyway. Thank you, Mojca

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encoding comparison table
by Patrick Gundlach 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hi there, I have set up a small toy for those interested in TeX encodings: http://fun.contextgarden.net/encodingtable/enctable.rb?ec,texnansi,8r,8a You can change the table by selecting different arguments to the http query. Enjoy, Patrick (just a quick hack, so is not beautiful) -- ConTeXt wiki and more: http://contextgarden.net

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uppercasing accented characters, mappings and \WORD
by Mojca Miklavec 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hello, If I use the latin2 encoding (il2), \WORD works OK if I simply type accented characters. Under UTF-8, uppercasing \zcaron also works OK, but fails if I simply type 'ž'. I saw the \definemapping[il2] and I can write a mapping for windows-1250 regime as well, but how exactly is this done for unicode, where the character codes exceed 255? Could perhaps alternatively \WORD, \defineactivetoken or any other part of code be extended, so that \WORD would be happy with the typed accented characters as well? \Zcaron is already defined somewhere to be the uppercased \zcaron, so defining the same for every single regime/encoding manually seems redundant and error-prone. Thank you, Mojca (I don't have any editor to support latin2 under windows (except Mozilla), even for unicode vim and Windows are fighting against each other, so windows-1250 is the only reasonable thing that I can use comfortably.)

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Antwort: Re: [NTG-context] Presentation
by Jessica Holle 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hey, thanks for this information :-) I will look after these things to build my own presentations. Greetings Jessica

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Presentation
by Jessica Holle 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Hi, I've searching for a dokumentation how to build a presentation, like in Powerpoint but better :-) with ConTeXt. I haven't found somethink in the PDF's on the Pragma page and on the Wiki. Only the Raw Steps module, which I doesn't understand. Has somebody information to this theme? Greetings Jessica

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XY arranging ignores dx/dy
by Angus Lees 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

The XY arranging macro basically ignores dx/dy parameters by always padding out the space between "pages". Here's the existing ConTeXt macro for reference - removing \vss and \hss makes it do the right thing (imo). I'd give a simple patch, but I think the ideal behaviour might be to pad if (and only if) dx/dy were not specified, which is starting to push my TeX skills. \def\pusharrangedpageXY#1% {\doglobal\increment\arrangedpageN \reportarrangedpage\arrangedpageN \doglobal\increment\arrangedpageM \global\setbox\arrangedpageB\hbox \ifdim\@@ppwidth>\zeropoint to \@@ppwidth \fi {\ifvoid\arrangedpageB\else \unhbox\arrangedpageB\hss\hskip\@@ppdx\hss \fi \box#1}% \ifnum\arrangedpageM<\arrangedpageX\else \global\setbox\arrangedpageA\vbox \ifdim\@@ppheight>\zeropoint to \@@ppheight \fi {\offinterlineskip \ifvoid\arrangedpageA\else \unvbox\arrangedpageA\vss\vskip\@@ppdy\vss \fi \box\arrangedpageB}% \doglobal\newcounter\arrangedpageM \fi \ifnum\arrangedpageN<\arrangedpageT\else \poparrangedpages \fi} Minimal test, note the dx/dy distances: \definepapersize[label][width=30mm,height=20mm] \setuppapersize[label][A4] \setuppaper[dx=1mm,dy=1mm,nx=2,ny=6] \setuparranging[XY] \showframe[edge] \starttext \dorecurse{6}{test \recurselevel \page} \stoptext -- - Gus

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Scite spelling support
by Willi Egger 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi Hans, Yesterday I installed the support files you provided on the website. Interesetingly it worked with the version 1.62 of Scite. But not with version !.64 which I downloaded today. Though there are the CTX menue lines in the tools menue I can't get the spellchecker working. Anlike in the older version 1.62. There are no messages during starting Scite. So I am a bit puzzled. During my first tests with the older 1.62 Version I collected some remarks: Uk-wordlist Caps at the beginning of a word are not recognized e.g. "The" is underlined red indicating an error. The section "m" is uncomplete in the spell-uk.txt. It ends with meningo... NL-word-list The word "rug" misses in the Dutch word-list Dutch words are not recognized when starting with a capital letter. e.g. Betreft The article "de" misses in the Dutch word-list. Althogh the "De" is not recognized it is also not underlined with red. At line 8904 in de word-list: d\'eg‚n‚r‚ - Meaning? The word "mag" is not included in the Dutch word-list Otherwise it looks like we will have a nice tool! Willi

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mswincontext.zip
by Coydell Rivers 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Let me gladly, and openly report that the latest release of mswincontext.zip, had no files detected as a virus from AVG Free. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.9.9/62 - Release Date: 8/2/2005

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Antwort: Re: [NTG-context] Presentation
by Jessica Holle 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Thanks, this looks good :-) I try to build my own presentation. When someone has more detailed dokumentations, please let me know. I've found only the show-pre.pdf but when there are more dokus let me know Greetings Jessica

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new symbol font
by Hans Hagen 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

In a few hours i will upload a new zip, this one has a new symbol definition file: %D \module %D [ file=symb-jmn, ... %D This file defines a few navigational symbol vectors. The font used %D here is designed by Janusz M.~Nowacki, one of the Polish Font %D Gurus who made this font specially for me, hence the name. If you %D you want to meet its designer, come to Bachotek! In case you're %D not familiar with his work, take a look at the Antikwa, Iwona and %D Kurier fonts! %D %D \usesymbols[jmn] %D %D \showsymbolset[navigation 1] %D \showsymbolset[navigation 3] %D \showsymbolset[navigation 2] %D \showsymbolset[navigation 4] %D %D \page %D \showfont[NavigationNormal] %D \page %D \showfont[NavigationShadowed] %D \page The font is also in the zip (they are called hans.* and hans-sh.*). Many thanks to Janusz! 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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\obeyspaces
by Peter Rolf 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi all, I need to pass a short text as parameter to a defintion. My problem is, that the significant spaces are removed in this process. Hmm.....no clue. % interface=en output=pdftex \starttext \def\TextWithSpaces#1{\framed{\obeyspaces#1}}% % output is ok \framed{\obeyspaces{A gap from here to here!}} % no big gap between 'here' and 'to' \TextWithSpaces{A gap from here to here!} \stoptext Any help is welcome. Greetings, Peter

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Re: [NTG-context] Getting ToC to match page numbering
by Duncan Hothersall 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hans said: >>wikiable: And I said: > Will do; would be great to fix (or at least understand) the alignment > before I do though, for completeness. :-) I've added this to the wiki now, since having tested it out I don't think my alignment problems were anything to do with the issue at hand. To fix the alignment, I have now defined: \def\GenPagecommand#1{\hfill\llap{#1}} and said: pagecommand=\GenPagecommand for every setuplist except those which require prefixes. This allows me to have very large page numbers and long prefixes without seeing the page number alignment go all squiggly. The appendices now have: \def\AppPrefix#1{\GenPagecommand{A#1}} and: pagecommand=\AppPrefix in the setuplist, and the backmatter is done similarly. Possibly this leaves me exposed if a very long title runs over into the llap, but I'm hoping not to run into that. Is this the only solution here? Thanks again. Duncan

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[Fwd: [pdftex] pdftex 1.30.0]
by Taco Hoekwater 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [pdftex] pdftex 1.30.0 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 22:54:55 +0200 From: Martin Schröder <martin(a)oneiros.de> To: PDF-TeX mailing list <pdftex(a)tug.org> [http://sarovar.org/download.php/673/pdftex-1.30.0.zip] The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version: =========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.30.0 =========================================================================== This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.30.0 an extended version of TeX that can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the help of PDF. =========================================================================== Main changes of pdfTeX 1.30.0 =========================================================================== - pdfxtex (introduced with 1.20a) is gone; all extensions are now in pdf(e)tex. - Some primitives have been renamed; the old names will still work, but are deprecated and some give a warning that they are obsolete: \pdfoptionpdfminorversion -> \pdfminorversion \pdfoptionalwaysusepdfpagebox -> \pdfforcepagebox \pdfoptionpdfinclusionerrorlevel -> \pdfinclusionerrorlevel - pdftex knows two new units: - new Didot (1nd=0.375mm) - new Cicero (1nc=12nd) - New primitives: - Inclusion of pngs has been greatly improved: It now does - alpha channel and transparency (only if %!PDF >=1.4) - 16-bit colour (only if %!PDF >=1.5); this must be enabled by setting \pdfimagehicolor to 1. - gamma correction; this must be enabled by setting \pdfimageapplygamma to 1. The device gamma is taken from \pdfgamma. If no embedded value can be found in the png image, then the value of \pdfimagegamma is used instead. - fast direct embedding of png streams, if their structure allows this; the automatic fall-back is to decompress and re-compress as before. - pdfTeX now has an interface to the precise system time (if available) as an aid in benchmarking TeX macro code. - \pdfelapsedtime is a read-only integer that (initially) returns the amount of time passed since the start of this run. This amount is given in `scaled seconds': the value 65536 counts as one second. If more time has passed than 32767 seconds, (2^31)-1 will be returned. - \pdfresettimer updates the internal timer, such that subsequent calls to \pdfelapsedtime will restart from 0. - pdfTeX can now generate random numbers. - \pdfuniformdeviate <count> generates a uniformly distributed random integer value between 0 (inclusive) and <count> (exclusive). - \pdfnormaldeviate expands to a random integer value with a mean of 0 and a unit of 65536. - \pdfrandomseed allows access to the current seed value. - \pdfsetrandomseed <count> sets the random seed to a specific value. - \pdfnoligatures\f disables ligatures for the loaded font \f. - \pdfstrcmp{<a>}{} compares two strings and returns the strings "0" if <a> equals , "-1" if <a> is less than , "1" if <a> is greater than - \pdfretval is an integer that is either <0, 0, or >0; currently it's used by \pdfstrcmp. - Escaping strings: - \pdfescapestring{<a>} escapes the string <a> so that it can be used as PDF string. - \pdfescapename{<a>} escapes the string <a> so that it can be used as PDF name. - \pdfescapehex{<a>} converts the string <a> to uppercase hexadecimal representation. - \pdfunescapehex{} reverses the effect of \pdfescapehex - \pdfcreationdate expands to the date string that pdfTeX uses in the info dict as default. - \pdffilemoddate{<file>} expands to the modification date of <file> in the same format as \pdfcreationdate (PDF date format). - \pdffilesize{<file>} expands to the size of <file> as string. - \pdfmdfivesum{<abc>} or \pdfmdfivesum file {<file>} calculates the md5 sum (of a string or a file) and converts it to uppercase hexadecimal format (same as \pdfescapehex). - \pdfshellescape is a read-only integer that is 1 if \write18 is enabled, 0 otherwise. - \pdfxformname <object number>, which expands to the number in the corresponding form XObject name. - \leftmarginkern <box number> and \rightmarginkern <box number> tell the margin kern at the left and right side of the horizontal list stored in box <box number>. - \pdfpkmode is a token register that sets the MF mode for pixel font generation. The contents of this register is dumped into the format, so one can (optionally) preset it e.g. in part of pdftexconfig.tex. - \pdftracingfonts: An integer variable controlling the tracing of font expansion. It is zero by default; then we get a log (with fontexpansion) like this ...\tenrm t ...\tenrm (+20) e Without font expansion, this default should be compatible with TeX's original log output. If \pdftracingfonts is set to 1 (or greater), we get a more verbose log: ...\xivtt (cmtt10(a)14.0pt) t ...\xivtt (cmtt10+20(a)14.0pt) e See also bug 304. - \pdffiledump [offset <int>] [length <int>] <general text> Returns a hex dump of file, given in <general text>, starting at given offset or 0 with given length. - New experimental primitives: - \pdfmatch [icase] [subcount <number>}] {<pattern>}{<string>} Implements pattern matching using the POSIX regex. 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Re: [NTG-context] Getting ToC to match page numbering
by Duncan Hothersall 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

> \start > \setuppagenumbering[numberseparator=/] > \placecombinedlist[Xontents] > \stop Ah, I see, \placecombinedlist uses the value of numberseparator active at the time it is called! Thanks. > indeed, since left/right is cosmetics an dit's easier to add that than > to remov eit when you dont wan it, so: > > \setuplist[Appchapter][pagecommand=A] > > % or cleaner: pagecommand=\AppPrefix and \def\AppPrefix#1{A\enspace#1} I had experimented with that, and it certainly works (I chose the second option, but dropped the \enspace), BUT... the page numbers column in the table of contents is now mis-aligned. I've pasted my revised minimal test file below, and if you run that you can see that things have gone squiggly. The frontmatter and appendices are aligned further to the right than the chapters and backmatter. Weird. I looked at the source and as far as I can tell the default pagecommand is just \strut#1, so I don't understand how alignment has been changed by redefining it, but it certainly seems to have. > wikiable: Will do; would be great to fix (or at least understand) the alignment before I do though, for completeness. :-) Thanks, Duncan Minimal test, now mostly working thanks to Hans: ---- %% Tested on live.contextgarden \setupoutput[pdftex] %% change appendix numbering from Character to numbers \setupsection[section-2][appendixconversion=numbers] %% define new chapter-like heads for different sections \definehead[Frontchapter][chapter] \definehead[Appchapter][chapter] \definehead[Backchapter][chapter] %% set up individual content lists and labels \setuplist[Frontchapter][pagenumber=yes] \setuplabeltext[en][chapter={Module }] \setuplist[chapter][pagenumber=yes,chapternumber=yes,label=yes] \setuplabeltext[en][Appchapter={Appendix }] \def\AppPrefix#1{A#1} \setuplist[Appchapter][pagenumber=yes,chapternumber=yes,label=yes,pagecommand=\AppPrefix] \def\BackPrefix#1{I/#1} \setuplist[Backchapter][pagenumber=yes,pagecommand=\BackPrefix] %% set up the combined list \definecombinedlist[Xontents] [part,Frontchapter,chapter,Appchapter,Backchapter,section] [level=section,criterium=local] \setupcombinedlist[Xontents][alternative=b,aligntitle=yes,distance=4em] %% page numbering is output using the explicit \completepagenumber %% command in the footer because the final output has rather %% complicated footers which incorporate the page number. \setupfootertexts[text] [][{\inframed{\kern.3em\completepagenumber\kern.3em}}] [][{\inframed{\kern.3em\completepagenumber\kern.3em}\hfill}] \starttext \startfrontmatter %% page numbering is set up for each section \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided}, location=,chapternumber=no,partnumber=no,conversion=romannumerals] \title{Contents} \setuppagenumbering[numberseparator=/] \placecombinedlist[Xontents] \Frontchapter{Test Intro} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter %% for the body and appendices we prefix the chapternumber and a '/' \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided},location=, way=bychapter,partnumber=no,chapternumber=yes,numberseparator={/}] \chapter{Test Chapter} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \chapter{Another Test Chapter} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \stopbodymatter \startappendices \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided},location=, way=bychapter,partnumber=no,left=A,chapternumber=yes,numberseparator={/}] \Appchapter{Test Appendix} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \stopappendices \startbackmatter %% for the backmatter we just prefix I/ (it's going to be the index) \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided}, location=,way=bychapter,left={I/}] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \Backchapter{Index} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \stopbackmatter \stoptext ----

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Re: [NTG-context] Getting ToC to match page numbering
by Duncan Hothersall 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

I have three issues where page number formatting in the table of contents is wrong compared to the pages themselves: 1. The separator character in the actual pagenumbers is "/". In the ToC it displays as a "-". 2. I used "left=A" on the pagenumbering command in the appendices because appendices are numbered A1, A2 etc. This gives the required output for the actual pagenumbers, but there is no 'A' prefix in the ToC. 3. Similarly in the backmatter I have added a 'I/' prefix to the pagenumber ("left={I/}"), which works on the pages but is not reflected in the ToC. The overall question is how to get each of these page numbering features repeated in the table of contents? Thanks. Minimal file follows. Duncan ---- %% Tested on live.contextgarden \setupoutput[pdftex] %% change appendix numbering from Character to numbers \setupsection[section-2][appendixconversion=numbers] %% define new chapter-like heads for different sections \definehead[Frontchapter][chapter] \definehead[Appchapter][chapter] \definehead[Backchapter][chapter] %% set up individual content lists and labels \setuplist[Frontchapter][pagenumber=yes] \setuplabeltext[en][chapter={Module }] \setuplist[chapter][pagenumber=yes,chapternumber=yes,label=yes] \setuplabeltext[en][Appchapter={Appendix }] \setuplist[Appchapter][pagenumber=yes,chapternumber=yes,label=yes] \setuplist[Backchapter][pagenumber=yes] %% set up the combined list \definecombinedlist[Xontents] [part,Frontchapter,chapter,Appchapter,Backchapter,section] [level=section,criterium=local] \setupcombinedlist[Xontents][alternative=b,aligntitle=yes,distance=4em] %% page numbering is output using the explicit \completepagenumber %% command in the footer because the final output has rather %% complicated footers which incorporate the page number. \setupfootertexts[text] [][{\inframed{\kern.3em\completepagenumber\kern.3em}}] [][{\inframed{\kern.3em\completepagenumber\kern.3em}\hfill}] \starttext \startfrontmatter %% page numbering is set up for each section \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided}, location=,chapternumber=no,partnumber=no,conversion=romannumerals] \title{Contents} \placecombinedlist[Xontents] \Frontchapter{Test Intro} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter %% for the body and appendices we prefix the chapternumber and a '/' \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided},location=, way=bychapter,partnumber=no,chapternumber=yes,numberseparator={/}] \chapter{Test Chapter} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \chapter{Another Test Chapter} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \stopbodymatter \startappendices \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided},location=, way=bychapter,partnumber=no,left=A,chapternumber=yes,numberseparator={/}] \Appchapter{Test Appendix} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \stopappendices \startbackmatter %% for the backmatter we just prefix I/ (it's going to be the index) \setuppagenumbering[state=start,alternative={singlesided,doublesided}, location=,way=bychapter,left={I/}] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \Backchapter{Index} \dorecurse{3}{\input tufte\par} \stopbackmatter \stoptext ----

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Sparklines to be in ConTeXt?
by Tobias Wolf 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hey, what do you people actually think about E. Tufte's Sparklines?² They are a great and innovative thing in my mind; both in the information mediating and the typographic sense. There's a bare-bones LaTeX package on CTAN, but when I think about it, this technique could find a perfect place in ConTeXt's framework (say MetaPost, XML, Scripting and so on. There's even some kind of Ruby implementation³). - Tobias ² http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR&topic_id=1 ³ http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/sparklinesForMinimalists.html

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\placelist is influensed by \completeregister ??
by Vit Zyka 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Dear Hans, Taco, ... I noticed strange behaviour. When I use \completeregister lists I have defined are ignored: ------------------------------ \defineregister[letter][letters] \definelist[somelist] \starttext Hello! \letter{Letter S} \writetolist[somelist]{List entry, part A}{List entry, part B} %\placeregister[letter] \completeregister[letter] \placelist[somelist] \stoptext --------------------------------- I discovered that the source of the bug is probably \headtext the line \expanded{\systemsuppliedchapter[\currentregister]{\noexpand\headtext{\currentregister}}}% in the \completeregister definition. Please can somebody have a look on it? vit ---------------------------------- \unprotect \def\docompleteregister[#1][#2]% {\iffirstargument \begingroup \edef\currentregister{#1}% % the expansion is needed because we don't want \v!'s in the tuo file (french) % \expanded{\systemsuppliedchapter[\currentregister]{\noexpand\headtext{\currentregister}}}% \placeregister[\currentregister][#2]% \page[\v!yes]% \endgroup \fi} \protect -- ======================================================= Ing. Vít Zýka, Ph.D. TYPOkvítek database publishing databazove publikovani data maintaining and typesetting in typographic quality priprava dat a jejich sazba v typograficke kvalite tel.: (+420) 777 198 189 www: http://typokvitek.com =======================================================

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Re: [NTG-context] Getting ToC to match page numbering
by Duncan Hothersall 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

> My guess would be (untested): > > \setuplist [part] [separator={/}] > \setuplist [chapter] [separator={/}] > \setuplist [section] [separator={/}] > \setuplist [subsection] [separator={/}] > \setuplist [subsubsection] [separator={/}] > \setuplist [subsubsubsection] [separator={/}] > \setuplist [subsubsubsubsection] [separator={/}] > > Taco Has no effect - tried this early on. Thanks for the suggestion. Seems like this *should* be the answer though... My current test file is a bit large, because I'm developing a whole style, but I'll work on a small one to demonstrate. Any other thoughts? Duncan

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Getting ToC to match page numbering
by Duncan Hothersall 01 Aug '05

01 Aug '05

Hello all. I have set up page numbering for the bodymatter and appendices of my document with: \setuppagenumbering[way=bychapter,chapternumber=yes,numberseparator={/}] so that \completepagenumber in my footer lines shows, e.g. 1/3 for chapter 1 page 3. This works well for the actual page numbering, but in the table of contents the separator is shown as the default '-' rather than '/', and I can't seem to change it using separator={/}, numberseparator={/} or anything I can think of. Can anyone tell me how to get the table of contents to match the pages? Thanks! Duncan

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new minimals
by Hans Hagen 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

I uploaded new minimals etc. 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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Non-square roots?
by Brooks Moses 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

LaTeX offers the following way to write a cube root: $\sqrt[3]{x}$. Is there a way to do this in ConTeXt other than the TeX way of $\root 3\of x$? Also, Hans, if there isn't a direct way to do this, the following code is pretty much how LaTeX implements it, with an extra line at the top to make it work in ConTeXt. Would it be reasonable to put something like this (or something that implements this syntax) in m-newmat? \let\sqrtsign=\sqrt \def\sqrt{\@ifnextchar[\@sqrt\sqrtsign} \def\@sqrt[#1]{\root #1\of} - Brooks

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A couple more suggestions for m-newmat.
by Brooks Moses 31 Jul '05

31 Jul '05

While I'm thinking about it, here are a couple more things from LaTeX's math stuff that might be useful to include in m-newmat: The \stackrel command is listed as "a disguise for plain TeX's \buildrel", much like \frac is a "disguise" for \over: \def\stackrel#1#2{\mathrel{\mathop{#2}\limits^{#1}}} There's also the \lefteqn command: \def\lefteqn#1{\rlap{$\displaystyle #1$}} The \lefteqn command is useful for doing partly-aligned equations, of the sort that get displayed as: long left-hand-side = long right-hand-side part 1 + long right-hand-side part 2 + long right-hand-side part 3 Essentially, you'd write that in an eqalign (or something like it), as: \placeformula \startformula \eqalign{% \lefteqn{long left-hand-side}\qquad & \cr &= long right-hand-side part 1 \cr &\quad {}+ long right-hand-side part 2 \cr &\quad {}+ long right-hand-side part 3 \cr } \stopformula As can be seen, \lefteqn lets the long left-hand-side overlap the alignment point, without shifting it excessively to the right. It's not perfect -- for one thing, if the left-hand-side extends farther to the right than the right-hand-sides, the equation won't be centered -- but it's a good start and works right most of the time. :) - Brooks

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Adding webpage to the bibliography entries
by Mojca Miklavec 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

Hello, (mostly) Taco, I don't know what the whole functionality of the urlbst (CTAN/biblio/bibtex/contrib/urlbst/) package is, but it offers an entity @webpage for bibiliography style, with url, author, title, year, lastchecked and note. I think it also adds a field url to every(?) other entity. It would be great to be able to use something like \cite[url][our nice garden], which would be equivalent to something like \useURL[bib:our nice garden][http://contextgarden.net][][http://contextgarden.net] \from[bib:our nice garden] and also add URLs to the list of publications (if requested) at the end of the file. Support would probably only make sense in the ConTeXt-wrapped bibliographies (actually is url often already present in usual bib files). Perhaps some other users have some more comments/suggestions about it. Mojca

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Re: [NTG-context] Adding webpage to the bibliography entries
by Elena Fraboschi 30 Jul '05

30 Jul '05

In the context of bibligraphies, I have been looking at two topics that were the subject of presentations at one of the last TUG meetings, namely, Bibulus MLBibTeX Bibulus interests me because it creates bibliographies directly in XML. MLBibTeX interests me because of its extended encoding (it is billed as "European style bibliography"). In either case, at this time they are for developers only: neither is ready for prime time use (though you can download packages and "play" with them). On the other hand, they seem to be getting *very* close to prime time readiness. Conclusion: if ConTeXt is going to undertake some work concerning "the bibliography", it might be a good idea to consider how that work might tie in with Bibulus or MLBibTeX, or both. This said as an after thought to what Mojca said. Best, elena

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Re: [NTG-context] \page[+2]
by Elena Fraboschi 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Thanks, Matthias and Hans, for the tip about \page[+2]. I have not yet studied a ConTeXt presentation (read, "slides") macros, so it may well be that that use is very practical. (In any of the slides packages I know in LaTeX, it certainly would be.) As for Hans's suggestion, that it might be used to "create two empty pages", say again I think it's great - it would be better yet if the functionality \page[-2] existed to erase the last two pages, say ;-) Thanks again, elena

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Regimes to be supported; Comments?
by Mojca Miklavec 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Hello, Some time ago there was a discussion about extending support for different regimes in ConTeXt. The list of (to-be-)supported regimes probably depends strongly on the implementation (ruby+iconv?). I collected a preliminary list of candidate regimes and possible synonyms (some synonyms are listed there for backward compatibility and have to remain there), leaving out most of eastern encodings (not because they shouldn't be on the list, but because I'm completely ignorant about that). Hans suggested to post this to the mailing list first to get some useful comments and suggestions. ##### The following question should probably go in a separate thread, but it's a very similar thematic. In July 2006 Ljubljana will host people from around 85 coutries of the world. One of the very ambitious organizers is dreaming for already a couple of years to print the participant names (on honourable mentions for example, ...) in both latinic transcription and as they are written in original (under an assumption that the names are properly entered in a UTF-8 database). This is probably not possible to do for every single obscure language, but does it in general sound like: a) Good luck (I don't want to be on your place)! b) Take a good (commercial) program c) If you're ready to invest the rest of your time (forget about hobbies!), it's probably doable in LaTeX or ConTeXt until then č) Forget about TeX - it will be possible to solve this problem one day with unicode & one of the new TeX engines. But until then, it's not worth the effort, because any effort you may invest will become obsolete in a couple of years. To be honest, even some people who will thanslate the materials into the native language, will probably do that with paper, pencil & scanner. ##### Mojca And here the encodings: # ISO ISO-8859-1 Western ISO-8859-2 Central European ISO-8859-3 South European ISO-8859-4 Baltic ISO-8859-5 Cyrillic ISO-8859-6 Arabic ISO-8859-7 Greek ISO-8859-8 Hebrew Visual ISO-8859-8-I Hebrew (???) What is that? ISO-8859-9 Turkish ISO-8859-10 Nordic ISO-8859-11 Thai ISO-8859-13 Baltic ISO-8859-14 Celtic ISO-8859-15 Western ISO-8859-16 Romanian \defineregimesynonym[il*][iso-8859-*], *=1-16\12 \defineregimesynonym[latin*][iso-8859-*], *=1-16\12 \defineregimesynonym[cp819][iso-8859-1] % I'm not sure that anyone needs these: \defineregimesynonym[iso-ir-100][iso-8859-1] \defineregimesynonym[iso-ir-101][iso-8859-2] \defineregimesynonym[iso-ir-109][iso-8859-3] \defineregimesynonym[iso-ir-110][iso-8859-4] \defineregimesynonym[iso-ir-144][iso-8859-5] \defineregimesynonym[iso-ir-127][iso-8859-6] \defineregimesynonym[iso-ir-126][iso-8859-7] \defineregimesynonym[iso-ir-138][iso-8859-8] \defineregimesynonym[iso-ir-148][iso-8859-9] \defineregimesynonym[iso-ir-157][iso-8859-10] \defineregimesynonym[iso-ir-179][iso-8859-13] \defineregimesynonym[iso-ir-199][iso-8859-14] \defineregimesynonym[iso-ir-203][iso-8859-15] \defineregimesynonym[iso-ir-226][iso-8859-16] % backward compatibility \defineregimesynonym[iso88595][iso-8859-5] (recode also recognises "arabic", "greek", "cyrillic", "hebrew" as an alias for those encodings: I don't if this is a good idea as there are other charset operating with the same language groups as well) # APPLE MacArabic MacCeltic MacCentralEuropean % CentEur, CentralEurope or CentralEuropean? or all of them? MacChineseSimplified MacChineseTraditional MacCroatian MacCyrillic MacDevanagari MacDingbats MacFarsi MacGaelic MacGreek MacGujarati MacGurmukhi MacHebrew MacIcelandic MacInuit MacJapanese MacKeyboard MacKorean MacRoman MacRomanian MacSymbol MacThai MacTurkish MacUkrainian \defineregimesynonym[MacCE][MacCentralEuropean] \defineregimesynonym[mac][MacRoman] \defineregimesynonym[maccyr][MacCyrillic] \defineregimesynonym[macukr][MacUkrainian] (I also need some help here: sometimes Mac encodings are defined using adjectives, sometimes using nouns, like Ukraine/Ukrainian. Should only one of them (which?) be used or both of them? On the unicode page, Mac encodings appear twice. The second time under Microsoft/Apple, containing MacCyrillic, MacGreek, MacIceland, MacLatin2, MacRoman, MacTurkish. I didn't really get the point for that.) # IBM % essentially the same as under Microsoft, with some minor changes (to be processed manually, if these are to be supported) # MICROSOFT EBCDIC % plenty of them are missing on the web cp037 cp500 cp875 cp1026 PC cp437 LatinUS cp737 Greek cp775 BaltRim cp850 Latin1 cp852 Latin2 cp855 Cyrillic cp857 Turkish cp860 Portuguese cp861 Icelandic cp862 Hebrew cp863 CanadaF cp864 Arabic cp865 Nordic cp866 Cyrillic - Russian cp869 Greek cp874 Thai WINDOWS cp874 Thai (repeats from some unknown reason) cp932 Japanese cp936 PRC GBK cp949 Korean cp950 Chinese cp1250 Central European cp1251 Cyrillic cp1252 Western cp1253 Greek cp1254 Turkish cp1255 Hebrew cp1256 Arabic cp1257 Baltic cp1258 Vietnamese \defineregimesynonym[cp125*][windows-125*], *=0-8 % backward compatibility \defineregimesynonym[windows][cp1252] % there are some other possibilities: % ms-ee, ms-cyrl, ms-ansi, as-greek, ms-turk, ms-hebr, ms-arab, ... % anyone thinks that they are needed? % It is not online in Unicode, but it is somewhere already: VISCII TCVN isoir111 \defineregimesynonym[isoir111][iso-ir-111] #### Some very confusing part (I should leave it out) #### # MISC (? probably none of them to be processed) AtariST cp424 Hebrew cp856 Hebrew cp1006 Arabic # NEXT NextStep (What's that???) next % Missing in Unicode mapping (online) TIS-620 Thai

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\parbox, \framed, ... (was: Strange behaviour of \bTABLE ... \eTABLE)
by Mojca Miklavec 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Hans Hagen wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > %%%%%% > > > > \documentclass{article} > > \begin{document} > > a box with a table: > > \fbox{\begin{tabular}[c]{l}1\\2\\3\end{tabular}}\par > > > > a midaligned parbox: \parbox[c]{1em}{1 2 3} > > \end{document} > > > > %%%%%% > > > ^^^^ watch the \\ ! ! ! ! Actually, "\\" is a part of \fbox{\begin{tabular}[c]{l}1\\2\\3\end{tabular}}\par while I was talking about typesetting a midaligned parbox: \parbox[c]{1em}{1 2 3} So I have to say: no, there's no "\\" present in "\parbox[c]{1em}{1 2 3}". But please forget about different line-braking than in LaTeX \parbox. It may be that different parameters for penalties are set anyway. I mainly wrote this because of the problems in live.contextgarden.net which is not fixed yet (see http://contextgarden.net/Vertically_centred) However, some other questions arised here: 1.) I saw \hbox, \vbox, \vtop, \lbox, \cbox, \rbox, \sbox, \tbox, \bbox on page 106 of cont-eni.pdf. But if I understand it properly, there's no alternative to LaTeX \parbox command. 1.1.) After grep-ing the LaTeX tree for "\parbox", my disk ran out of space 1.2.) \bTABLE ... \eTABLE seems too complicated to me to be used for such a simple thing as asking for a paragraph of a certain width, centered with regard to the current line. So would it be possible to implement \parbox in ConTeXt (or if someone can point me to an already existing command). The LaTeX definition is in tex\latex\base\latex.ltx, line 4692 (at least in my version). It does not have to have the same syntax, but at least the basic functionality. I also often need some stuff to be centered vertically, for example [big image] ----> some arrows and text ----> [big image] I use \bTABLE ... \eTABLE or \vcenter for that, but it's not the most perfect way of doing it. 2.) Is there any *neutral* version of a \framed command? To explain what I want to achive, an example is probably most illustrative: \starttext Hasselt $\displaystyle{\rm is: \matrix{\rm nice\cr\rm sunny\cr\rm domestic}}$, but the houses there \framed{$\displaystyle{\rm are: \matrix{\rm too\ high\cr\rm too\ bricky}}$} \stoptext Thank you, Mojca

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mswincontext.zip
by Coydell Rivers 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Hello Hans, Here is some info you need to know for ref. AVG Free Edition, todays update. Has labeled todays download of mswincontext.zip as being a Trojan horse AgentCJ. Since anything is possible, I will wait for your response before opening or to delete the detected file. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.9.7/60 - Release Date: 7/28/2005

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background of a table and fillinlines
by Jessica Holle 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Hi, today I have real questions :-) I have a picture for the background which is defined in this way: \definelayer[BackLayer][state=start] \setupbackgrounds[text][background=BackLayer] \setlayer[BackLayer][x=9cm,y=9cm]{\externalfigure[back]} and a table, which is defined like this: \bTABLE \setupTABLE[column][1][width=2.8cm,align={middle,lohi}] \setupTABLE[column][2][width=2cm,frame=on,rightframe=off,align ={middle,lohi}] \setupTABLE[column][3][width=10.3cm,align ={right,lohi},leftframe=off] \setupTABLE[column][4][width=1.9cm,align={middle,lohi}] \bTR \bTD {\bf Tag} \eTD \bTD[nc=2] {\bf \midaligned{Ausgef"uhrte Arbeiten, Unterricht usw.}} \eTD \bTD {\bf Stundenanzahl} \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD {\bf Montag} \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \startitemize \tx \item \item \item \item \stopitemize \eTD \bTD 7,7 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD {\bf Dienstag} \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \startitemize \tx \item \item \item \item \stopitemize \eTD \bTD 7,7 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD {\bf Mittwoch} \eTD \bTD \eTD \bTD \startitemize \tx \item \item \item \item \stopitemize \eTD \bTD 7,7 \eTD \eTR \eTABLE This table varied in its height. One week there are more items and one week the are less items. Now to my problem. I want to have this graphic in the back of the table. Always in the middle of the table. The width of the table is always the same. I can place the background but I shouldn't have a absolute position. The position should vary concerning to the height of the table. Is this possible? I've found nothing in the PDF's to this problem. Another thing are fillinrules: can I define the look of the line? Now it is always a line, but I want a thinner line or points. Like I can define in \setupunderbar but in \setupfillinrules I did't find this option. Hope somebody can help... Big thanks Greetings Jessica

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\page[+2]
by Elena Fraboschi 29 Jul '05

29 Jul '05

Dear All: This is like going to school: every evening I study a very narrow topic in ConTeXt, the idea being "Si va piano, si va lontano" ("go slow and you'll get far"). So last night I was to study cross-references, and that was simple enough EXCEPT... I could not come up with a practical application for \page[+2] or \page[-2]. I understand the concept (I think): it is two pages ahead, or two pages back, relative to the current page. But could anyone tell me in what context (sorry for the pun) would that be used? I must be missing something. How could I possibly know what's on page "current + 2" or "current - 2" unless I compile, in which case the notation would be equivalent to inserting cross-references manually? As I said, I am missing something, but what. Thanks in advance, elena

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custom itemize bullet
by Stuart Jansen 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

I've added a custom font and defined symbols from it: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \loadmapfile[texnansi-glambats.map] \definefontsynonym [GlamoconRetrobats][texnansi-glambats][encoding=texnansi] \def\GlamoconRetrobatsSym#1{\getglyph{GlamoconRetrobats}{\char#1}} \startsymbolset[Glamocon Retrobats] \definesymbol[GuruBullet][\GlamoconRetrobatsSym{121}] % other symbols \stopsymbolset \starttext \symbol[Glamocon Retrobats][GuruBullet] \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% This produces the right symbol. But I can't figure out how to use that bullet in an itemized list. I don't think I can use \usesymbols because in some lists I want the regular bullet, and in others I want the custom bullet. Any tips would be appreciated. -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C.

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Insufficient symbol fonts
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Hi, preparing a presentation, I am into errors like ! Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol fonts. l.67 \symbol[psi]\low{\tfx{\it i\/}+1} $-$ 120, again and again. Admittedly, my font knowledge is probably the worst of my tex skills. Is there a way to increase the number of available symbol fonts? A quick hack would do, since I am kind of under pressure... Thanks, Eckhart

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Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [NTG-context] Update to the newest ConTeXt version
by Jessica Holle 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

I 've done the think with texmfstart texfont.pl ..... but there I get an error I think it is a path error in the texmf.cnf the path looks right: TEXMFMAIN = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf I haven't the folder texmf-local in my directory, but I've read this doesn't matter. At the end is my texmf.cnf file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/context/data # texmfstart texfont.pl type-tmf.dat --en=ec --fontroot=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf --install --makepath TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 processing batch file : type-tmf.dat batch line : --en=ec --ve=public --co=antp --so=auto --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/public/antp --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=urw --co=helvetica --so=auto --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/helvetica --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=urw --co=courier --so=auto --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/courier --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=urw --co=zapfchan --so=auto --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/zapfchan --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=urw --co=times --so=auto --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/times --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=urw --co=times --so=auto --ca =* utmr8a --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 caps factor : 0.800 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/times --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=urw --co=times --so=auto --sl =* utmr8a --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 slant factor : 0.167 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/times --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=urw --co=times --so=auto --sl =* utmb8a --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 slant factor : 0.167 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/times --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=urw --co=palatino --so=auto --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/palatino --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=urw --co=palatino --so=auto --ca=* uplr8a --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 caps factor : 0.800 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/palatino --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=urw --co=palatino --so=auto --sl=* uplr8a --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 slant factor : 0.167 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/palatino --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=urw --co=palatino --so=auto --sl=* uplb8a --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 slant factor : 0.167 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/palatino --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=adobe --co=utopia --so=auto --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/adobe/utopia --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=adobe --co=utopia --so=auto --ca=* putr8a --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 caps factor : 0.800 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/adobe/utopia --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=adobe --co=utopia --so=auto --sl=* putr8a --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 slant factor : 0.167 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/adobe/utopia --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=adobe --co=utopia --so=auto --sl=* putb8a --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 slant factor : 0.167 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/adobe/utopia --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=adobe --co=utopia --so=auto --ro=TEXMFEXTRA TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 checking root : TEXMFEXTRA processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/adobe/utopia --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=adobe --co=utopia --so=auto --ca=* putr8a --ro=TEXMFEXTRA TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 caps factor : 0.800 checking root : TEXMFEXTRA processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/adobe/utopia --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=adobe --co=utopia --so=auto --sl=* putr8a --ro=TEXMFEXTRA TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 slant factor : 0.167 checking root : TEXMFEXTRA processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/adobe/utopia --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=adobe --co=utopia --so=auto --sl=* putb8a --ro=TEXMFEXTRA TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 slant factor : 0.167 checking root : TEXMFEXTRA processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/adobe/utopia --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=bitstrea --co=charter --so=auto --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=bitstrea --co=charter --so=auto --ca=* bchr8a --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 caps factor : 0.800 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=bitstrea --co=charter --so=auto --sl=* bchr8a --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 slant factor : 0.167 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter --help : show some more info batch line : --en=ec --ve=bitstrea --co=charter --so=auto --sl=* bchb8a --ro=TEXMFMAIN TeXFont 2.2.1 - 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ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 slant factor : 0.167 checking root : TEXMFMAIN processing aborted : unknown subpath ../fonts/afm/urw/ncntrsbk --help : show some more info texmf.cnf: % The tree containing the runtime files closely related to the specific % program version used: TEXMFMAIN = $SELFAUTODIR % The main distribution tree: TEXMFDIST = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf-dist % A place for local additions to a "standard" texmf tree. % This tree is not used for local configuration maintained by % texconfig, it uses TEXMFCONFIG below. TEXMFLOCAL = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf-local % TEXMFSYSVAR, where texconfig-sys stores variable runtime data. % With teTeX-3.0 or later, this must be set. % For sharing this tree with $TEXMFMAIN: % TEXMFSYSVAR = $TEXMFMAIN % For using a separate tree: % TEXMFSYSVAR = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf-var TEXMFSYSVAR = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf-var % TEXMFSYSCONFIG, where texconfig-sys stores configuration data. % With teTeX-3.0 or later, this must be set. % For sharing this tree with $TEXMFMAIN: % TEXMFSYSCONFIG = $TEXMFMAIN % For using a separate tree: % TEXMFSYSCONFIG = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf-config TEXMFSYSCONFIG = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf-config % User texmf trees can be catered for like this... % This used to be HOMETEXMF. TEXMFHOME = $HOME/texmf % TEXMFVAR, where texconfig stores variable runtime data. % With teTeX-3.0 or later, this must be set. % For sharing this tree with $TEXMFMAIN: % TEXMFVAR = $TEXMFMAIN % For using a separate tree: % TEXMFVAR = $HOME/.texmf-var TEXMFVAR = $HOME/.texmf-var % TEXMFCONFIG, where texconfig stores configuration data. % With teTeX-3.0 or later, this must be set. % For sharing this tree with $TEXMFMAIN: % TEXMFCONFIG = $TEXMFMAIN % For using a separate tree: % TEXMFCONFIG = $HOME/.texmf-config % For using a separate tree: % TEXMFCONFIG = $SELFAUTOPARENT/share/texmf-config TEXMFCONFIG = $HOME/.texmf-config % Now, list all the texmf trees. If you have multiple trees you can % use shell brace notation, like this: % TEXMF = {$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN} % The braces are necessary. % % For texconfig to work properly, TEXMFCONGIG and TEXMFVAR should be named % explicitly and before all other trees. TEXMF = {!!$TEXMFCONFIG,!!$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFDIST} % The system trees. These are the trees that are shared by all the users. SYSTEXMF = $TEXMFLOCAL;$TEXMFMAIN;$TEXMFDIST % Where generated fonts may be written. This tree is used when the sources % were found in a system tree and either that tree wasn't writable, or the % varfonts feature was enabled in MT_FEATURES in mktex.cnf. VARTEXFONTS = /var/tmp/texfonts % Where to look for ls-R files. There need not be an ls-R in the % directories in this path, but if there is one, Kpathsea will use it. % % Remove $VARTEXFONTS from TEXMFDBS if the VARTEXFONTS directory is below % one of the TEXMF directories (avoids overlapping ls-R files). TEXMFDBS = $TEXMF;$VARTEXFONTS % It may be convenient to define TEXMF like this: % TEXMF = {$TEXMFHOME,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN,$HOME} % which allows users to set up entire texmf trees, and tells TeX to % look in places like ~/tex and ~/bibtex. If you do this, define TEXMFDBS % like this: % TEXMFDBS = $TEXMFHOME;$TEXMFLOCAL;$TEXMFMAIN;$VARTEXFONTS % or mktexlsr will generate an ls-R file for $HOME when called, which is % rarely desirable. If you do this you'll want to define SYSTEXMF like % this: % SYSTEXMF = $TEXMFLOCAL;$TEXMFMAIN;$TEXMFDIST % so that fonts from a user's tree won't escape into the global trees. % % On some systems, there will be a system tree which contains all the font % files that may be created as well as the formats. For example % TEXMFVAR = /var/lib/texmf % is used on many Linux systems. In this case, set VARTEXFONTS like this % VARTEXFONTS = $TEXMFVAR/fonts % and do not mention it in TEXMFDBS (but _do_ mention TEXMFVAR). %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Usually you will not need to edit any of the other variables in part 1. % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % WEB2C is for Web2C specific files. The current directory may not be % a good place to look for them. WEB2C = $TEXMF/web2c % TEXINPUTS is for TeX input files -- i.e., anything to be found by \input % or \openin, including .sty, .eps, etc. % Plain TeX. Have the command tex check all directories as a last % resort, we may have plain-compatible stuff anywhere. TEXINPUTS.tex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{plain,generic,}// % Other plain-based formats. TEXINPUTS.amstex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{amstex,plain,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.csplain = .;$TEXMF/tex/{csplain,plain,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.eplain = .;$TEXMF/tex/{eplain,plain,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.ftex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{formate,plain,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.jadetex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{jadetex,plain,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.mex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{mex,plain,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.texinfo = .;$TEXMF/tex/{texinfo,plain,generic,}// % LaTeX 2e specific macros are stored in latex/, macros that can only be % used with 2.09 in latex209/. In addition, we look in the directory % latex209, useful for macros that were written for 2.09 and do not % mention 2e at all, but can be used with 2e. TEXINPUTS.cslatex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{cslatex,csplain,latex,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.platex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{platex,latex,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.latex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{latex,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.olatex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{latex,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.latex209 = .;$TEXMF/tex/{latex209,generic,latex,}// % Fontinst needs to read afm files. TEXINPUTS.fontinst = .;$TEXMF/{tex,fonts/afm}// % MLTeX. TEXINPUTS.frlatex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{french,latex,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.frtex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{french,plain,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.mllatex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{latex,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.mltex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{plain,generic,}// % e-TeX. This form of the input paths is borrowed from teTeX. A certain % variant of TDS is assumed here, unaffected by the build variables. TEXINPUTS.elatex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{latex,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.etex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{plain,generic,}// % pdfTeX. This form of the input paths is borrowed from teTeX. A certain % variant of TDS is assumed here, unaffected by the build variables. TEXINPUTS.pdfcslatex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{cslatex,csplain,latex,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.pdfcsplain = .;$TEXMF/tex/{csplain,plain,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.pdfjadetex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{jadetex,plain,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.pdflatex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{latex,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.pdfmex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{mex,plain,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.utf8mex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{mex,plain,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.pdftex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{plain,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.pdftexinfo = .;$TEXMF/tex/{texinfo,plain,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.pdfamstex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{amstex,plain,generic,}// % pdfeTeX. TEXINPUTS.pdfelatex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{latex,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.pdfetex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{plain,generic,}// % pdfxTeX. TEXINPUTS.pdfxlatex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{latex,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.pdfxtex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{plain,generic,}// % XeTeX TEXINPUTS.xelatex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{latex,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.xetex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{plain,generic,}// % Omega / Aleph TEXINPUTS.lamed = .;$TEXMF/tex/{lamed,lambda,latex,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.lambda = .;$TEXMF/tex/{lambda,latex,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.omega = .;$TEXMF/tex/{plain,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.aleph = .;$TEXMF/tex/{plain,generic,}// % Context macros by Hans Hagen: TEXINPUTS.context = .;$TEXMF/tex/{context,plain,generic,}// % odd formats needing their own paths TEXINPUTS.lamstex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{lamstex,plain,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.lollipop = .;$TEXMF/tex/{lollipop,plain,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.platex-pl = .;$TEXMF/tex/{platex,latex,generic,}// TEXINPUTS.pdfplatex = .;$TEXMF/tex/{platex,latex,generic,}// % Earlier entries override later ones, so put this last. TEXINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/tex/{$progname,generic,}// % Metafont, MetaPost inputs. MFINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/metafont//;{$TEXMF/fonts,$VARTEXFONTS}/source// MPINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/metapost// % Dump files (fmt/base/mem) for vir{tex,mf,mp} to read (see web2c/INSTALL), % and string pools (.pool) for ini{tex,mf,mp}. It is silly that we have six % paths and directories here (they all resolve to a single place by default), % but historically ... TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,} MFBASES = .;$TEXMF/web2c MPMEMS = .;$TEXMF/web2c TEXPOOL = .;$TEXMF/web2c MFPOOL = .;$TEXMF/web2c MPPOOL = .;$TEXMF/web2c % Device-independent font metric files. VFFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/vf// TFMFONTS = .;{$TEXMF/fonts,$VARTEXFONTS}/tfm// % The $MAKETEX_MODE below means the drivers will not use a cx font when % the mode is ricoh. If no mode is explicitly specified, kpse_prog_init % sets MAKETEX_MODE to /, so all subdirectories are searched. See the manual. % The modeless part guarantees that bitmaps for PostScript fonts are found. PKFONTS = .;{$TEXMF/fonts,$VARTEXFONTS}/pk/ {$MAKETEX_MODE,modeless}// % Similarly for the GF format, which only remains in existence because % Metafont outputs it (and MF isn't going to change). GFFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/gf/$MAKETEX_MODE// % A backup for PKFONTS and GFFONTS. Not used for anything. GLYPHFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts % A place to puth everything that doesn't fit the other font categories. MISCFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/misc// % font name map files. TEXFONTMAPS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/map// % support non"k"-xdvi: PKFONTS.XDvi = .;$TEXMF/%s;$VARTEXFONTS/pk/{%m,modeless}// VFFONTS.XDvi = .;$TEXMF/%s PSHEADERS.XDvi = .;$TEXMF/%q{dvips,fonts/type1}// TEXPICTS.XDvi = .;$TEXMF/%q{dvips,tex}// % BibTeX bibliographies and style files. BIBINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/bibtex/bib// BSTINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/bibtex/bst// % MFT style files. MFTINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/mft// % PostScript headers and prologues (.pro); unfortunately, some programs % also use this for acessing font files (enc, type1, truetype) TEXPSHEADERS = .;$TEXMF/{dvips,fonts/{enc,type1,type3}}// TEXPSHEADERS.gsftopk = .;$TEXMF/{dvips,fonts/{enc,type1,type3,truetype}}// % PostScript Type 1 outline fonts. T1FONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/type1// % PostScript AFM metric files. AFMFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/afm// % TrueType outline fonts. TTFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/truetype// % Type 42 outline fonts. T42FONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/type42// % Ligature definition files. LIGFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/lig// % Dvips' config.* files (this name should not start with `TEX'!). TEXCONFIG = $TEXMF/dvips// % Makeindex style (.ist) files. INDEXSTYLE = .;$TEXMF/makeindex// % Font encoding files (.enc). ENCFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/enc// % CMap files. CMAPFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/cmap// % Subfont definition files. SFDFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/sfd// % Opentype outline fonts. OPENTYPEFONTS = .;$TEXMF/fonts/opentype// % pdftex config files: PDFTEXCONFIG = .;$TEXMF/pdftex/{$progname,}// % Used by DMP (ditroff-to-mpx), called by makempx -troff. % The path given is correct for GROFF on Linux installed under /usr. % Originally: TRFONTS = /usr/lib/font/devpost TRFONTS = /usr/share/groff/current/font/devps MPSUPPORT = .;$TEXMF/metapost/support % For xdvi to find mime.types and .mailcap, if they do not exist in % $HOME. These are single directories, not paths. % (But the default mime.types, at least, may well suffice.) MIMELIBDIR = $SELFAUTOPARENT/etc MAILCAPLIBDIR = $SELFAUTOPARENT/etc % TeX documentation and source files, for use with kpsewhich. TEXDOCS = .;$TEXMF/doc// TEXSOURCES = .;$TEXMF/source// % Web and CWeb input paths. WEBINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/web// CWEBINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/cweb// % Omega-related fonts and other files. The odd construction for OFMFONTS % makes it behave in the face of a definition of TFMFONTS. Unfortunately % no default substitution would take place for TFMFONTS, so an explicit % path is retained. OFMFONTS = .;{$TEXMF/fonts,$VARTEXFONTS}/{ofm,tfm}//;$TFMFONTS OPLFONTS = .;{$TEXMF/fonts,$VARTEXFONTS}/opl// OVFFONTS = .;{$TEXMF/fonts,$VARTEXFONTS}/ovf// OVPFONTS = .;{$TEXMF/fonts,$VARTEXFONTS}/ovp// OTPINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/omega/otp// OCPINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/omega/ocp// % Some additional input variables for several programs. If you add % a program that uses the 'other text files' or 'other binary files' % search formats, you'll want to add their variables here as well. T4HTINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/tex4ht// % Architecture independent executables TEXMFSCRIPTS = $TEXMF/scripts// %% The mktex* scripts rely on KPSE_DOT. Do not set it in the environment. % KPSE_DOT = . % This definition isn't used from this .cnf file itself (that would be % paradoxical), but the compile-time default in paths.h is built from it. % The SELFAUTO* variables are set automatically from the location of % argv[0], in kpse_set_progname. % % The TETEXDIR stuff isn't likely to relevant unless you're using teTeX, % but it doesn't hurt. % % For security reasons, it is better not to have . part of the path. % TEXMFCNF = {$SELFAUTOLOC,$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT} {,{/share,}/texmf {-local,}/web2c}:$TETEXDIR:/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c # $progname; kpathsea v. 3.5.3 or later overwrites this at runtime. To # avoid empty expansions from binaries linked against an earlier # version of the library, we set $progname and $engine to something # non-empty; progname = unset engine = unset % Part 2: Non-path options. % Write .log/.dvi/etc. files here, if the current directory is unwritable. % TEXMFOUTPUT = /tmp % If a dynamic file creation fails, log the command to this file, in % either the current directory or TEXMFOUTPUT. Set to the % empty string or 0 to avoid logging. MISSFONT_LOG = missfont.log % Set to a colon-separated list of words specifying warnings to suppress. % To suppress everything, use TEX_HUSH = all; this is currently equivalent to % TEX_HUSH = checksum:lostchar:readable:special % To suppress nothing, use TEX_HUSH = none or do not set the variable at all. TEX_HUSH = none % Enable system commands via \write18{...}? shell_escape = t % Allow TeX \openin, \openout, or \input on filenames starting with `.' % (e.g., .rhosts) or outside the current tree (e.g., /etc/passwd)? % a (any) : any file can be opened. % r (restricted) : disallow opening "dotfiles". % p (paranoid) : as 'r' and disallow going to parent directories, and % restrict absolute paths to be under $TEXMFOUTPUT. openout_any = p openin_any = a % Allow TeX, MF, and MP to parse the first line of an input file for % the %&format construct. parse_first_line = f % Enable file:line:error style messages. file_line_error_style = f % Enable the mktex... scripts by default? These must be set to 0 or 1. % Particular programs can and do override these settings, for example % dvips's -M option. Your first chance to specify whether the scripts % are invoked by default is at configure time. % % These values are ignored if the script names are changed; e.g., if you % set DVIPSMAKEPK to `foo', what counts is the value of the environment % variable/config value `FOO', not the `MKTEXPK' value. % % MKTEXTEX = 0 % MKTEXPK = 0 % MKTEXMF = 0 % MKTEXTFM = 0 % MKTEXFMT = 0 % MKOCP = 0 % MKOFM = 0 % What MetaPost runs to make MPX files. This is passed an option -troff % if MP is in troff mode. Set to `0' to disable this feature. MPXCOMMAND = makempx % Part 3: Array and other sizes for TeX (and Metafont and MetaPost). % % If you want to change some of these sizes only for a certain TeX % variant, the usual dot notation works, e.g., % main_memory.hugetex = 20000000 % % If a change here appears to be ignored, try redumping the format file. % Memory. Must be less than 8,000,000 total. % % main_memory is relevant only to initex, extra_mem_* only to non-ini. % Thus, have to redump the .fmt file after changing main_memory; to add % to existing fmt files, increase extra_mem_*. (To get an idea of how % much, try \tracingstats=2 in your TeX source file; % web2c/tests/memtest.tex might also be interesting.) % % To increase space for boxes (as might be needed by, e.g., PiCTeX), % increase extra_mem_bot. % % For some xy-pic samples, you may need as much as 700000 words of memory. % For the vast majority of documents, 60000 or less will do. % main_memory = 1000000 % words of inimemory available; also applies to inimf&mp extra_mem_top = 0 % extra high memory for chars, tokens, etc. extra_mem_bot = 0 % extra low memory for boxes, glue, breakpoints, etc. % ConTeXt is a memory hog... extra_mem_top.context = 2000000 extra_mem_bot.context = 4000000 main_memory.context = 1500000 main_memory.mpost = 1500000 % Words of font info for TeX (total size of all TFM files, approximately). font_mem_size = 500000 % Total number of fonts. Must be >= 50 and <= 2000 (without tex.ch changes). font_max = 2000 % Extra space for the hash table of control sequences (which allows 10K % names as distributed). hash_extra = 50000 % Max number of characters in all strings, including all error messages, % help texts, font names, control sequences. These values apply to TeX and MP. pool_size = 1250000 % Minimum pool space after TeX/MP's own strings; must be at least % 25000 less than pool_size, but doesn't need to be nearly that large. string_vacancies = 90000 % Maximum number of strings. max_strings = 100000 % min pool space left after loading .fmt pool_free = 47500 % Hyphenation trie. As distributed, the maximum is 65535; this should % work unless `unsigned short' is not supported or is smaller than 16 % bits. This value should suffice for UK English, US English, French, % and German (for example). To increase, you must change % `ssup_trie_opcode' and `ssup_trie_size' in tex.ch (and rebuild TeX); % the trie will then consume four bytes per entry, instead of two. % % US English, German, and Portuguese: 30000. % German: 14000. % US English: 10000. % trie_size = 262000 % Buffer size. TeX uses the buffer to contain input lines, but macro % expansion works by writing material into the buffer and reparsing the % line. As a consequence, certain constructs require the buffer to be % very large. As distributed, the size is 50000; most documents can be % handled within a tenth of this size. buf_size = 200000 hyph_size = 1000 % number of hyphenation exceptions, >610 and <32767. nest_size = 500 % simultaneous semantic levels (e.g., groups) max_in_open = 15 % simultaneous input files and error insertions param_size = 5000 % simultaneous macro parameters save_size = 5000 % for saving values outside current group stack_size = 1500 % simultaneous input sources % These are Omega-specific. ocp_buf_size = 20000 % character buffers for ocp filters. ocp_stack_size = 10000 % stacks for ocp computations. ocp_list_size = 1000 % control for multiple ocps. % Parameter specific to MetaPost. % Maximum number of knots between breakpoints of a path. % Set to 2000 by default. % path_size.mpost = 10000 % These are pdftex-specific. obj_tab_size = 300000 % PDF objects dest_names_size = 300000 % destinations % These work best if they are the same as the I/O buffer size, but it % doesn't matter much. Must be a multiple of 8. dvi_buf_size = 16384 % TeX gf_buf_size = 16384 % MF % It's probably inadvisable to change these. At any rate, we must have: % 45 < error_line < 255; % 30 < half_error_line < error_line - 15; % 60 <= max_print_line; % These apply to Metafont and MetaPost as well. error_line = 79 half_error_line = 50 max_print_line = 79

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Re: [NTG-context] Feature request
by Steffen Wolfrum 28 Jul '05

28 Jul '05

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > it would be great if the \placefigure macro could be extended to > > combinations like > > > > \placefigure{top,left} > > > > or > > > > \placefigure{bottom,outer} > > > > > > The reason for this request is that we use ConTeXt a lot for > > typesetting books from "arts and humanities". > > > > There we often have to place a lot of (more then 100) figures at > > "fixed" positions like top-outer and bottom-inner, wrapped by text. > > > > I guess it's not a trivial feature to be implemented in TeX's > > paragraph processing, but I know it might be worth the effort: > > ConTeXt's way to deal with fonts and text is so superior that it > > should be also accessible for disciplines that besides text also rely > > on images - as the arts and humanities do. > > not trivial indeed, although it is more or less doable when you >accept some limitations, e.g. if you have only text and graphics, >use a grid, and have no other tricky stuff that can interfere >(display math or so) > > > ok, agreed! > > > > But figure labels are needed (do they interfere?) > > > figure labels are part of the float > > Hans so, if it's more or less doable ... there is at least hope that we can expect this feature in the next time, right? Steffen

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Figure / table caption format
by Stefano 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hi, I've been looking into the various ConTeXt resources to figure out how to place a colon between the figure number and the caption text within the document, as follows: Figure 1: This is a figure caption Unfortunately I have not yet found it and am wondering if anyone can provide a clue as to how this is accomplished. Also, how can I left justify the caption text within the document as follows: Figure 1: This is a figure caption that is too long to fit on a single line of text Any help is appreciated ... Sincerely, Stefano

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Ligature handling for PDF searching.
by Brooks Moses 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

(This came up on comp.text.tex in a question about LaTeX, but it also applies to ConTeXt, and the proposed solution for LaTeX doesn't apply.) Consider the following document: \starttext Some ligature tests: ff, fi, ffi, fl, ffl. \stoptext If I process that with texexex -pdf, load it into Acrobat 5, and then copy-and-paste the text from the PDF into a text editor, the fi and fl ligatures are correctly treated as two letters, but the ff, ffi, and ffl ligatures are treated as single (unknown) characters. Similarly, searching for "f" within the document only finds the fi and fl ligatures; it doesn't find the others. Searching for "ff" finds nothing. This is a fairly significant problem in the on-screen usability of ConTeXt-created documents. In LaTeX, there is apparently a solution in the cmap.sty package (though it currently only works for T1 encoding): http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cmap/ Is there a similar solution for ConTeXt? (Has this perhaps been solved with a later version of ConTeXt than I have on my computer?) Thanks, - Brooks

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Antwort: Re: [NTG-context] Update to the newest ConTeXt version
by Jessica Holle 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

I think I'm a little bit stupid this week I've done everythink like on this site : http://contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation I've only a softlink to texhash in /usr/sbin looks like: texhash -> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/texhash and a softlink to texmfstart texmfstart -> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb and a softliink to mktexlsr -> /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/mktexlsr because when I'm doing fmtutil-sys --edit like in the doku explained, this was expected. The scripts in the folders /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/scripts/context/ruby /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/scripts/context/perl are executable Because of this output I've thought mktextfm must have an sl to /usr/sbin Now I've canceled all softlinks in /usr/sbin except the sl's I've said up in my mail and the kpse* rzvlabwks:/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf # texmfstart texexec.pl --version TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr12 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr7 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr9 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx7 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx9 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx12 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro9 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro12 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri9 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri12 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: No such file or directory tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2005.07.21 cont-en : ver: 2005.07.21 fmt: 2005.7.27 mes: english kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr12 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr7 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr9 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx7 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx9 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx12 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro9 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro12 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri9 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri12 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: No such file or directory kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: No such file or directory cont-nl : ver: 2005.07.21 fmt: 2005.7.27 mes: dutch total run time : 2 seconds

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Antwort: Re: [NTG-context] Update to the newest ConTeXt version
by Jessica Holle 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hi, I've done everything you told me and like its written in the howto. But look at the output. I think its a fontproblem so I tried to make this command: texmfstart texfont.pl type-tmf.dat --en=texnansi --fontroot=/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf --install --makepath But this doesn't help, I get always an error. Has anybody an advise for me? Greetings Jessica rzvlabwks:/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf # texmfstart texexec.pl --version TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr12 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr12 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmr12.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr12' failed to make ec-lmr12.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr7 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr7 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmr7.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr7' failed to make ec-lmr7.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr9 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr9 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmr9.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr9' failed to make ec-lmr9.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx7 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx7 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbx7.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx7' failed to make ec-lmbx7.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx9 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx9 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbx9.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx9' failed to make ec-lmbx9.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx12 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx12 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbx12.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx12' failed to make ec-lmbx12.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmro10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro10' failed to make ec-lmro10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro9 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro9 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmro9.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro9' failed to make ec-lmro9.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro12 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro12 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmro12.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro12' failed to make ec-lmro12.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmri10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri10' failed to make ec-lmri10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri9 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri9 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmri9.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri9' failed to make ec-lmri9.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri12 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri12 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmri12.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri12' failed to make ec-lmri12.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxo10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10' failed to make ec-lmbxo10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxo10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10' failed to make ec-lmbxo10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxo10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10' failed to make ec-lmbxo10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxi10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10' failed to make ec-lmbxi10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxi10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10' failed to make ec-lmbxi10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxi10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10' failed to make ec-lmbxi10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmcsc10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10' failed to make ec-lmcsc10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmcsc10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10' failed to make ec-lmcsc10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmcsc10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10' failed to make ec-lmcsc10.tfm. tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2005.07.21 cont-en : ver: 2005.07.21 fmt: 2005.7.27 mes: english kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr12 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr12 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmr12.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr12' failed to make ec-lmr12.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr7 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr7 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmr7.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr7' failed to make ec-lmr7.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmr9 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr9 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmr9.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmr9' failed to make ec-lmr9.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx7 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx7 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbx7.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx7' failed to make ec-lmbx7.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx9 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx9 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbx9.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx9' failed to make ec-lmbx9.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbx12 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx12 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbx12.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbx12' failed to make ec-lmbx12.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmro10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro10' failed to make ec-lmro10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro9 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro9 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmro9.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro9' failed to make ec-lmro9.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmro12 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro12 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmro12.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmro12' failed to make ec-lmro12.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmri10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri10' failed to make ec-lmri10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri9 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri9 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmri9.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri9' failed to make ec-lmri9.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmri12 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri12 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmri12.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmri12' failed to make ec-lmri12.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxo10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10' failed to make ec-lmbxo10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxo10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10' failed to make ec-lmbxo10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxo10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxo10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxo10' failed to make ec-lmbxo10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxi10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10' failed to make ec-lmbxi10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxi10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10' failed to make ec-lmbxi10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmbxi10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmbxi10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmbxi10' failed to make ec-lmbxi10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmcsc10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10' failed to make ec-lmcsc10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmcsc10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10' failed to make ec-lmcsc10.tfm. kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-lmcsc10 mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10 /usr/sbin/mktextfm: line 96: mf: command not found grep: ec-lmcsc10.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-lmcsc10' failed to make ec-lmcsc10.tfm. cont-de : ver: 2005.07.21 fmt: 2005.7.27 mes: german total run time : 64 seconds

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Position margin text block near previous paragraph
by Eugene Toporov 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hello! This time I have a task like this: I have margin text blocks (like Note, Tip) that follow some paragraph in my document flow. In the produced document I get them in margin, but vertically they are just below the paragraph (as in text flow) I really need then to start exactly where the previous paragraph starts (vertically). I.e. I need to move them several (unknown number) lines higher. My realization: \setupinmargin[style=\sl\tx\setupinterlinespace,location=left,align=right] \def\Note#1{ \strut \inmargin{ \em{#1} } \strut} \starttext This is the para with unknown length that can be any number of lines high. And I have a note below it that should be located to the left of this paragraph and not just below it. That's the case. \par \Note{ And here is the note that should be in margin.} \stoptext The easiest would to put it above the target paragraph, but that's not the solution for me as the same text is rendered to HTML where no margins exist. Can I do it plainly in tex code? Thanks a lot. I appreciate your help -- Regards. Eugene Toporov

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"Very dirty" localisation request for a rainy evening
by Mojca Miklavec 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hello Hans, Today I saw a webpage of someone, who is very active in the field of translation and localisation of free software into Slovenian. It astonished me the way he numered the items on his webpage: (a) approximation ... (b) Gauss ... (c) numerical solutions ... (č) solving parabolic ... % [\ccaron] (d) ... This should actually be the only proper way to number items in Slovenian, but you can imagine that nobody is able to use that since the beginning of computer era. (Another example is the usage of quotation marks: most people use the American quotation marks instead of the German ones just because MS Word defaults to that.) However, those people who really care, use the Slovenian alphabet when enumerating (manually, of course). I'm proud, for example, that I was in the class "1.Č" in the high school. Not right away, but any time in the future when unicode, fonts and similar will be updated/reimplemented/fully supported and when it will be raining cats and dogs and nothing interesting will be on TV: can you think on this this tiny request to switch to local enumeration if \mainlanguage[sl] (or any other language with a similar request) is selected? In a similar way as the sorting rules are applied in this kind of documents. (I'll take the response for "backward compatibility" issues (documents that now use enumeration a, b, c, d would use another enumeration afterwards) - if anyone would complain, he would have to talk to me first!!!) I don't know if there is any special agreement in case there are more than 26 items in the list, but sometimes a, b, ... x, y, z, aa, ab, ac, ... zz, aaa, aab, aac, ... is used. I never needed that many items until now, but the issue could theoretically be interesting for the others. Trying to use more than 26 items results in an arror at the moment. Thanks, Mojca

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Re: [NTG-context] Strange behaviour of \bTABLE ... \eTABLE
by Elena Fraboschi 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Dear Mojca: I think I see what the problem is. If, instead of typing >\bTR\bTD > a midaligned parbox: >\eTD\bTD[offset=0pt,width=1em] % 1em wide paragraph > 1 2 3 >\eTD\eTR you type 1\ 2\ 3\ you get what is wanted, namely, 1 2 3 My guess is that there is a built-in bias not to split a line but, rather, give you an overfull \hbox. I "forced" the issue by defining each column to be less than 1em (because "1" is a very narrow char that surely takes less than 1 em), and by adding a typescript space after each number. It might even be possible to eliminate the typescript space and simply define each column to be 0.25em, say, but I did not try it. Best, elena P.S. Let me know if I missed the boat entirely. This is the first issue I attempt to answer. Here is what I ran in LiveContext: \starttext \setupTABLE[frame=on] % only for debugging reasons \setupTABLE[c][each][align=lohi] % to center vertically (any better way?) \bTABLE \bTR\bTD[offset=0pt,width=0.5em] % 1em wide paragraph 1\ 2\ 3\ \eTD\eTR \eTABLE \stoptext >Hello, > >On the wiki (http://contextgarden.net/Vertically_centred) a while ago >someone asked how to do the following in ConTeXt: > >%%%%%% > >\documentclass{article} >\begin{document} >a box with a table: >\fbox{\begin{tabular}[c]{l}1\\2\\3\end{tabular}}\par > >a midaligned parbox: \parbox[c]{1em}{1 2 3} >\end{document} > >%%%%%% > >I don't know if this would be the proper solution, but for the second >case (\parbox[c]{1em}{...} which should make a paragraph 1 em wide and >center the paragraph box vertically) I tried the following: > >%%%%%% > >\setupTABLE[frame=on] % only for debugging reasons >\setupTABLE[c][1,2][align=lohi] % to center vertically (any better way?) >\bTABLE >\bTR\bTD > a midaligned parbox: >\eTD\bTD[offset=0pt,width=1em] % 1em wide paragraph > 1 2 3 >\eTD\eTR >\eTABLE > >%%%%%% > >My ConTeXt version is 2005.06.27. >See the vcenter-context-old.png for the result. > >The strange thing is that the number 2 is still in the first line, >although it is too wide. > >Even more strange, I tried the same on live.contextgarden.net. See >vcenter-context-new.png for the result. > >vcenter-latex.tex is what the result should be. > >------------------------------------------------------------------- > >This also results in a mess on the live.contextgarden.net: > >\bTABLE >\bTR\bTD > {\bTABLE > \bTR\bTD whatever \eTD\eTR > \eTABLE} >\eTD\eTR >\eTABLE > >Mojca

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Re: [NTG-context] Position margin text block near previous paragraph
by Elena Fraboschi 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Just a quick comment, since I cannot try anything in LiveContext right at this time: What you want is the equivalent of LaTeX's \marginpar , which is really a \vtop whose beginning coincides with the beginning of the paragraph being \note[d]. I am thinking that this would be a good test case for Brooks Moses' LaTeX-to-ConTeXt set of macros. I will experiment with it tonight unless someone beats me to the punch :-) Best, elena

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PDF output versions?
by Brooks Moses 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

I just noticed that when I compile ConTeXt files with texexec -pdf, my copy of Acrobat 5 complains about "the PDF version of this file is too new for this viewer", but when I compile LaTeX files with pdflatex, I don't get that complaint. Is there some way to set ConTeXt and texexec to create PDF files of the earlier version? (I'll upgrade Acrobat eventually, but I have the full version and use the editing features a fair bit, and I gather that having the full version of Acrobat 5 and the free version of Acrobat 7 on the same machine causes lots of headaches.) - Brooks

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Re: [NTG-context] Feature request
by Mojca Miklavec 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > Hi, > > it would be great if the \placefigure macro could be extended to > combinations like ... 1.) This is not exactly the same thing, but if we're talking about graphics: is it possible to include a figure (\externalfigure, perhaps withing \placefigure) in such a way that it fills exactly the remaining avalable space? factor=fit does almost exactly what I want, but it doesn't consider the space already taken by the preceeding text. If I wanted a figure to span over the whole presentation sheet, than factor=fit usually resulted in a caption on one page and a full-page figure on a new page. (I tuned the figure sizes manually, but that is not the proper way.) 2.) This is also something else, but what's the best way to write on pre-printed sheets of paper? Like honourable mentions and stuff like that. The lines are already given, so I would like the baseline (with name & surname for example) to be 0.5 mm above the line printed on paper, centered on that line (not necessary in the middle of the paper) I use \setupframed [align=middle, frame=off] \setlayerframed [page] [voffset=13.3cm, preset=leftbottom] [width=\paperwidth] {\MainFont #1} for that, but it doesn't take the baseline into consideration, so it has to be manually tuned for every line, every font & every font size (printed and compared if it looks OK). Yet another (probably doable, but more difficult to implement) request: there are for example five lines printed, with the distance of 13 mm and the width 10 cm (not necessary centered on the page). I would like to typeset a paragraph on them, so that the baseline of this text would be about 0.5 mm above the lines. I volunteer to write a MyWay if someone can help me with that. Thank you, Mojca

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Re: [NTG-context] Feature request
by Steffen Wolfrum 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > it would be great if the \placefigure macro could be extended to > > combinations like > > > > \placefigure{top,left} > > > > or > > > > \placefigure{bottom,outer} > > > > > > The reason for this request is that we use ConTeXt a lot for > > typesetting books from "arts and humanities". > > > > There we often have to place a lot of (more then 100) figures at > > "fixed" positions like top-outer and bottom-inner, wrapped by text. > > > > I guess it's not a trivial feature to be implemented in TeX's > > paragraph processing, but I know it might be worth the effort: > > ConTeXt's way to deal with fonts and text is so superior that it > > should be also accessible for disciplines that besides text also rely > > on images - as the arts and humanities do. > > not trivial indeed, although it is more or less doable when you >accept some limitations, e.g. if you have only text and graphics, >use a grid, and have no other tricky stuff that can interfere >(display math or so) > > Hans ok, agreed! But figure labels are needed (do they interfere?) Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] Position margin text block near previous paragraph
by Elena Fraboschi 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Thank you, Hans: I do like it when someone "beats me to the punch" :-) I learned something, and on top of it I didn't have to spend any time :-) (You got us all spoiled rottin, though) Best, elena P.S. And I do prefer the ConTeXt way of doing things rather than using ConTeXt to do LaTeX (except when absolutely unavoidable).

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music typesetting for ConTeXt
by Henning Hraban Ramm 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hi there! Here is another suggestion for something that I'd like to do with ConTeXt but can't hack myself: There's a nice music typesetting program called GNU LilyPond (www.lilypond.org) in opposite to some years before it now engraves really beautiful music sheets. (MusiXTeX seems to be no alternative, it seems to be stuck with bitmap fonts and other uglities.) LilyPond has also a nice integration with LaTeX to typeset songbooks, educational material etc. Have a look at http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.6/Documentation/user/out- www/lilypond/LilyPond_002dbook.html I'd like to see (and use) a similar integration with ConTeXt - I guess it's similar to MetaPost integration: - support for inline code, i.e. \startLilyPond (LilyPond code) \stopLilyPond or \LilyPond{short code sample} - support for complete files (there's \lilypondfile in the LaTeX variant, like \import) For LaTeX the integration runs via a preprocessor (lilypond-book) that typesets the LilyPond parts and replaces them with graphics (as fas as I understand). I guess if one could use similar techniques like for the MetaPost integration, the LP integration in ConTeXt could be even tighter (and more comfortable) than for LaTeX. As far as I understand, LilyPond natively writes PostScript code and (usually) calls GhostScript to make a PDF. (Before it produced DVI, but they dropped it.) Does this sound like an interesting job for someone? I'd even offer a small bounty to get it done. Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net

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Re: [NTG-context] Feature request
by Steffen Wolfrum 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > it would be great if the \placefigure macro could be extended to > > combinations like > > > > \placefigure{top,left} > > > > or > > > > \placefigure{bottom,outer} > > > > > > The reason for this request is that we use ConTeXt a lot for > > typesetting books from "arts and humanities". > > > > There we often have to place a lot of (more then 100) figures at > > "fixed" positions like top-outer and bottom-inner, wrapped by text. > > > > I guess it's not a trivial feature to be implemented in TeX's > > paragraph processing, but I know it might be worth the effort: > > ConTeXt's way to deal with fonts and text is so superior that it > > should be also accessible for disciplines that besides text also rely > > on images - as the arts and humanities do. > > btw, do you know this trick? > > \starttext > > \hangsidefloat[2] > \placefigure[left][]{}{} \dorecurse{10}{\input zapf \par} > > \stoptext > yes I know. you once told me (as for the first time I asked for this feature two years ago...). true, it's a nice trick. and I used it in smaller publications. but it is not practicable with a lot of images (and this cases are the regular ones, unfortunately). typesetting with a lot of images wrapped by text is still a quite problematic task in ConTeXt/TeX . Steffen (P.S. actually my motivation to move to ConTeXt years ago was the hope that this image handling might be possible there. well, it wasn't ... )

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Feature request
by Steffen Wolfrum 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hi, it would be great if the \placefigure macro could be extended to combinations like \placefigure{top,left} or \placefigure{bottom,outer} The reason for this request is that we use ConTeXt a lot for typesetting books from "arts and humanities". There we often have to place a lot of (more then 100) figures at "fixed" positions like top-outer and bottom-inner, wrapped by text. I guess it's not a trivial feature to be implemented in TeX's paragraph processing, but I know it might be worth the effort: ConTeXt's way to deal with fonts and text is so superior that it should be also accessible for disciplines that besides text also rely on images - as the arts and humanities do. Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] Update to the newest ConTeXt version
by Jessica Holle 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Under Windows is TextPad the best way to look after I think... (See attached file: jessi.zip) hope you can help greetings Jessica ----- Weitergeleitet von Jessica Holle/InfoTL am 26.07.2005 13:14 ----- Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind. An: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> com> Kopie: Gesendet von: Thema: Re: [NTG-context] Update to the newest ConTeXt version ntg-context-boun ces(a)ntg.nl 26.07.2005 12:16 Bitte antworten an mailing list for ConTeXt users Jessica Holle wrote: > Hi, > > I've done everything like described on the page you tell, but there > is a problem too > > rzvlabwks:/usr/sbin # texexec --version > Can you show me the output of texexec --make --all please? Something went wrong at that stage, it seems. Taco _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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Re: [NTG-context] Update to the newest ConTeXt version
by Jessica Holle 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hi, I've done everything like described on the page you tell, but there is a problem too rzvlabwks:/usr/sbin # texexec --version TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt fmtutil: no info for format `cont-en'. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt fmtutil: no info for format `context'. tex : unknown context : ver: 2005.07.21 cont-en : unknown total run time : 4 seconds rzvlabwks:/usr/sbin # cd /home/jessi/test/neu/ rzvlabwks:/home/jessi/test/neu # texexec bericht.tex TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 fixing engine variable : pdfetex executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : bericht output : standard interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) \write18 enabled. (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt fmtutil: no info for format `cont-en'. Sorry, I can't find the format `cont-en.fmt'; will try `context.fmt'. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.fmt fmtutil: no info for format `context'. I can't find the format file `context.fmt'! return code : 256 run time : 2 seconds total run time : 3 seconds I think the file cont-en.* is missing. This I have erased before like it is written down in the manual you told. greetings Jessica ----- Weitergeleitet von Jessica Holle/InfoTL am 26.07.2005 11:14 ----- Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind. An: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> com> Kopie: Gesendet von: Thema: Re: [NTG-context] Update to the newest ConTeXt version ntg-context-boun ces(a)ntg.nl 26.07.2005 10:00 Bitte antworten an mailing list for ConTeXt users Jessica Holle wrote: > Hi, > > I'm very new at the context section. > I've installed teTeX 3.0 from the sources and in the way it is > explained here: > > http://tug.org/teTeX/tetex-src/QuickInstall > > Everything works fine, I can compile my files. > > Now I want to update my version 2005-01-31 to 2005-07-21 > > texexec --version give this output: > > texexec --version > > TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 > > texexec : TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE > 1997-2005 > texutil : tex : pdfeTeX, > 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) > context : ver: 2005.07.21 > cont-en : ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2005.7.26 mes: You now have a new distribution of context but are still using the old format files from teTeX. You have to follow these steps quite closely: http://contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation Esp. see "Fix texmf.cnf" and "Cleanup fmtutil" Good luck, Taco _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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inline MP refresh problem
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hi all, when I change inline MP graphics, these are not recreated during the subsequent texexec run. I need to call texexec once again to have them refreshed. I have just installed a new box, but I think I have thought of the usual stuff in texmf.cnf and cont-sys.tex, and I am a little clueless at the moment. So thanks for any hints what might be the problem. My versions: pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) from tetex 3.0 ConTeXt ver: 2005.07.21 fmt: 2005.7.25 int: english mes: english Greetings, Eckhart

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Update to the newest ConTeXt version
by Jessica Holle 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hi, I'm very new at the context section. I've installed teTeX 3.0 from the sources and in the way it is explained here: http://tug.org/teTeX/tetex-src/QuickInstall Everything works fine, I can compile my files. Now I want to update my version 2005-01-31 to 2005-07-21 texexec --version give this output: texexec --version TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texexec : TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2005.07.21 cont-en : ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2005.7.26 mes: english total run time : 1 seconds Everything looks fine for me, but, when I want to compile my file, which works before the update to the new version, I get such a mistake: texexec bericht.tex TeXExec 5.4.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 fixing texformat path : .: {!!/root/.texmf-config,!!/root/.texmf-var,/root/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-config,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local,!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist}/web2c/ $engine,} fixing engine variable : pdfetex executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : bericht output : standard interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) \write18 enabled. (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./bericht.tex ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2005.7.26 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex color : palette rollover is available system (E-TEX) : [line 1068] system (E-TEX) : [line 1123] ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex ! Undefined control sequence. l.14 \starttypescriptcollection [synonyms] ? ! Undefined control sequence. l.697 \stoptypescriptcollection and so on... But I don't know what my problem is. The cont-sys.tex I've already replaced by the original file which I have in my backup of teTeX3.0 I followed this intructions when I updating the version: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#install I hope somebody can help me. Thanks Greetings Jessica

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installing context
by Stuart Jansen 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Okay, I give up. What's the most correct, easiest way to install ConTeXt on Linux? There's so many different instructions floating around I'm not sure what is authoritative. Some make it look like texsync is a good idea, now it looks like it isn't being updated. Grabbing linuxtex.zip seems easy, but it also looks like it isn't kept up-to-date. I've been trying to follow minstall.pdf to install cont-tmf.zip, but that isn't working either. Before I debug it anymore, I'd like to know: how should I be making sure I have the latest version on Linux? -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C.

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Basic question on Unicode and ConTeXt
by Steffen Wolfrum 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hi, now and then I saw threads on this list dealing with specific problems of using various languages with utf-8 input in ConTeXt (processing with pdftex, NOT xetex). I know there is \enableregime[utf] but what else I needed that the output equals my utf-8 input? Could some maybe give a short and usable How-To on common examples: Greek Russian an East European language and an Asian language? (If the platform makes a difference, I'd be interested in OSX.) Thank you, Steffen

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New ConTeXt and chinese module
by Lutz Haseloff 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hi Hans, hi all, the latest ConTeXt Version (21.07.05) doesn't automatically process font-chi.tex after "\usemodule[chinese]" i have to add "\input font-chi" to every ConTeXt file. Is this a bug or a feature? Greetings Lutz

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Strange behaviour of \bTABLE ... \eTABLE
by Mojca Miklavec 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Hello, On the wiki (http://contextgarden.net/Vertically_centred) a while ago someone asked how to do the following in ConTeXt: %%%%%% \documentclass{article} \begin{document} a box with a table: \fbox{\begin{tabular}[c]{l}1\\2\\3\end{tabular}}\par a midaligned parbox: \parbox[c]{1em}{1 2 3} \end{document} %%%%%% I don't know if this would be the proper solution, but for the second case (\parbox[c]{1em}{...} which should make a paragraph 1 em wide and center the paragraph box vertically) I tried the following: %%%%%% \setupTABLE[frame=on] % only for debugging reasons \setupTABLE[c][1,2][align=lohi] % to center vertically (any better way?) \bTABLE \bTR\bTD a midaligned parbox: \eTD\bTD[offset=0pt,width=1em] % 1em wide paragraph 1 2 3 \eTD\eTR \eTABLE %%%%%% My ConTeXt version is 2005.06.27. See the vcenter-context-old.png for the result. The strange thing is that the number 2 is still in the first line, although it is too wide. Even more strange, I tried the same on live.contextgarden.net. See vcenter-context-new.png for the result. vcenter-latex.tex is what the result should be. ------------------------------------------------------------------- This also results in a mess on the live.contextgarden.net: \bTABLE \bTR\bTD {\bTABLE \bTR\bTD whatever \eTD\eTR \eTABLE} \eTD\eTR \eTABLE Mojca

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RE: [NTG-context] \placecontent problems
by Idris Samawi Hamid 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Hi Hans, >===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >by default the list >commands give a local list, so in your appendix you need: > >\placesynopsis[criterium=text] % or all \startbuffer[synopsis] \appendix{Synopsis of Principles} \placesynopsis[criterium=text] \stopbuffer \startappendices \getbuffer[synopsis] \stopappendices As always a lifesaver: THNX!!! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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scite
by Hans Hagen 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Hi, I made a spell checking extension (tex/xml aware), wrapper and some more stuff for scite. Should work with any recent scite version. Of course the challenge is to get it working for all kind of encodings. Is there any interest for this kind of things? Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead command
by Elena Fraboschi 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Wonderful, nikolai, many thanks. I'll test tonight what you says happens automatically (gobbling up whitespace at the top of a new page). I'll use a grid to make sure that that's the case: to the naked eye, it seemed as though there was an awful amount of whitespace at the top of the page, but we'll see: I could be wrong. However, you have solved at least two of my three problems. Thanks a lot, elena

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indentaion
by Hans Hagen 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Hi, In the process of fixing odd/even indentation (handy for verse) i also cleanup the code a bit. I'm wondering if we can make \setupindenting and \indenting equivalent. Is anyone using \indenting[no] to suppress the next indentation? 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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\placecontent problems
by Idris Samawi Hamid 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

[Dear syndicate: I sent this Saturday with no response yet. Sorry 4 being a pest, but I've got to get this (much-delayed) book to the publisher this week; hope someone can help...:-)] Dear gang: I have a \placecontent-type problem. I want to collect all the subsections and subsubsections of the main bodymatter of a book into a list, then place that list into an appendix (conversion=Characters): \definecombinedlist[synopsis][subsection,subsubsection][textstyle=\tf] \setupcombinedlist [synopsis][alternative=c,textstyle=\tf] There are two problems: 1. If I place the content list within a chapter, the list disappears. It works if I place it before the chapter heading. Thus, I need a way to do \placesynopsis beneath a chapter heading; 2. \start-\stopappendices begins a new sectionblock, therefore \placesynopsis does nothing, even if I do not place it within a chapter/appendix. Thus (assuming we can solve problem 1) I need a way to change the conversion to Characters on the fly within the bodymatter sectionblock. I need, e.g. 1. A Chapter 2. Another Chapter A. An Appendix within the same sectionblock. Is this possible? I notice that conversion=Characters appears to be defined for the global sectionblock, but not for local headings. It would be nice if I could do something like \definehead[appendix][chapter] \setuphead[appendix][conversion=Characters] with the first instance of \appendix starting with `A' (i.e., decoupled from the chapter numbers). See the attached file for some experiments. Best Idris ======================================================== \setupoutput[pdftex]% \definecombinedlist[summary][chapter][textstyle=\tf] \setupcombinedlist [summary][alternative=c,textstyle=\tf] \definecombinedlist[synopsis][subsection,subsubsection][textstyle=\tf] \setupcombinedlist [synopsis][alternative=c,textstyle=\tf] \starttext \startbodymatter \placesummary \page \placesynopsis \chapter{This is a test.} \subsection{This is a subtest.} \subsubsection{This is a subsubtest.} \chapter{This is another test.} \subsection{This is another subtest.} \subsubsection{This is another subsubtest.} \chapter{Synopsis} \placesynopsis \stopbodymatter \startappendices \placesynopsis \chapter{Synopsis} \placesynopsis \stopappendices \stoptext ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead command
by Elena Fraboschi 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Hi nikolai, Many thanks for the hint in re right and left. (The next one to ask about this, I'll relieve you from the burden of having to answer and will answer it myself! :-)) So I now have only two questions left unsolved, which are (1) any ConTeXt command to gobble-up unwanted vertical space before a section header, when the section header appears right at the top of a new page? (2) any ConTeXt way to do a \setuphead such that the text following the header will be run-in text? Many thanks. Best, elena P.S. ok ok, I'll try to adopt your way of writing square bracketted expressions...

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Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead command
by Elena Fraboschi 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Dear All: I amhaving my own private warfare with the \setuphead command, and I wonder whether anyone can give me a hint. I have three problems, which I describe in detail below. They are: (1) how to setup run-in text after a subhead, (2) how to align the section, subsection, ... headers left or right (I am not talking of the running heads here) (3) vertical whitespace before a section header when it falls at the beginning of a new page What is *not* wanted :-) ==================== If the solution is use command=\mycommand, fine, I can do that. just please tell me that that's the only solution. I really am not asking about how to write a "Plain" or "LaTeX" command. Rather, what I'd like to know is if there is a ConTeXt-ish way to do these things, and by that I mean [something=something]. Description of my problems ========================== (1) At the Indiana Univ. Math. J. we use three levels of headings, let's call them \section, \subsection, and \subsubsection. The last two use run-in text. In Plain, the corresponding command might be something like this: \def\mysubsection#1{\vskip14pt\indent{\tenbfsl#1}.~} The outcome is this: My cat Inca. Inca is a beautiful black cat though she is now approaching her "golden" years. I could not come up with a [...=...] way to do run-in text after a heading. The only thing I did not try is something that occurred to me while walking to work - would this work? \setuphead[subsection][ after={\blank[none]} ] (2) Horizontal alignment. This problem is almost funny. Consider these two setups: \setuphead[section][ align=middle ] \setuphead[subsection][ align=left, ] The section will appear just fine, centered between the left and the right margins. The subsection head will appear flush RIGHT! If, instead, you write \setuphead[subsection][ align=right, ] the subsection head will appear flush LEFT. Hmmm... Hans, are you dyslexic? :-) (just in case, here comes another one :-)) I was able to obtain a subsection header as I wanted it by writing \setuphead[subsection][ align=left, command=\doglobal ] The problem is that, even though it works, I do not want to learn ConTeXt the wrong way. I do not want to "hack" it if there are set, orthodox ways to do what I want to do. (3) Plain TeX had some setup commands (have to re-acquaint myself with The TeXBook - have not done Plain in years) such that you could insert vertical whitespace before a section (subsection...) header, as wanted, but if in the course of writing that section header happened to fall at the top of a new page, then the vertical whitespace before it would be gobbled up. The reason is very simple: you do not want to have a "ragged top". My question is this: Is there any built-in thing like that in ConTeXt? Is there a command to "gobble up" vertical whitespace when a page break sends a heading to the top of the next page? Many thanks for any and all help. Best, elena (I wore thin the LiveContext interface this weekend - what a great thing to have!)

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Re: [NTG-context] \setuphead command
by Elena Fraboschi 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Dear all: I just conducted some follow up experiments on my previous questions, and found out that... (1) In re producing run-in text following a subsection header: neither [after={\blank[none]},] nor [after=\nowhitespace,] have any impact: I still get the subsection header on one line, and the text on the next line. (2) In re horizontal alignment, I guess there is some sort of inheritance going on here? In the setup below, I had hoped to obtain the section header in the middle, and the subsection header flush left, since "subsection" had not be re-defined at all. However, once I define section to be [align=middle,], the remaining headers follow suit, even when no \setuphead command is written for them: \setuphead[section][ align=middle, ] \starttext \section{Will this work?}Hello world! So here comes a subsection that, not having been defined, would ideally display at the default location, which is flush left. \subsection{Is this flush left?}No, it isn't. \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] bug / feature portal
by Steffen Wolfrum 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

Still not accessable - though the site learnt English meanwhile (see below). Steffen Site error This site encountered an error trying to fulfill your request. The errors were: Error Type AttributeError Error Value portal_transforms Request made at 2005/07/25 06:38:24.765 GMT-4 Steffen Wolfrum <context(a)st.estfiles.de> wrote: > Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > > > in addition to the wiki there is now a portal for tracking bugs and > > feature requests > > > > http://context.literatesolutions.com/ > > > > I tried to place a request there: > http://context.literatesolutions.com/forums/context/forum_add_topic_form > > but was rejected by a (German?) error message: > > > > Site Fehler > > Es ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. Die Fehlermeldung lautet: > > Fehlertyp > AttributeError > Fehlerwert > portal_transforms > Anfrage erfolgt um > 2005/07/24 10:57:37.342 GMT-4 > > > > > Something wrong at the server side? > > Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] aquamints symbols
by Henning Hraban Ramm 25 Jul '05

25 Jul '05

> can some native >english sea wolf check the symbol names >Especially I not sure with appropriateness of fattree, seaegg, and geoarrow. I'm no native either, but... fattree is some palm. tortle -> turtle seaegg is a sea urchin shell (I guess) geoarrow is a wind rose (compass card, compass rose) sadmaur: I'd call this a mask Hraban

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Re: [NTG-context] bug / feature portal
by Steffen Wolfrum 24 Jul '05

24 Jul '05

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > in addition to the wiki there is now a portal for tracking bugs and > feature requests > > http://context.literatesolutions.com/ I tried to place a request there: http://context.literatesolutions.com/forums/context/forum_add_topic_form but was rejected by a (German?) error message: Site Fehler Es ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. Die Fehlermeldung lautet: Fehlertyp AttributeError Fehlerwert portal_transforms Anfrage erfolgt um 2005/07/24 10:57:37.342 GMT-4 Something wrong at the server side? Steffen

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\placecontent problems
by Idris Samawi Hamid 23 Jul '05

23 Jul '05

Dear gang: I have a \placecontent-type problem. I want to collect all the subsections and subsubsections into a list, then place that list into an appendix (conversion=Characters): \definecombinedlist[synopsis][subsection,subsubsection][textstyle=\tf] \setupcombinedlist [synopsis][alternative=c,textstyle=\tf] There are two problems: 1. If I place the content list within a chapter, the list disappears. It works if I place it before the chapter heading. Thus, I need a way to do \placesynopsis beneath a chapter heading; 2. \start-\stopappendices begins a new sectionblock, therefore \placesynopsis does nothing, even if I do not place it within a chapter/appendix. Thus (assuming we can solve problem 1) I need a way to change the conversion to Characters on the fly within the bodymatter sectionblock. I need, e.g. 1. A Chapter 2. Another Chapter A. An Appendix within the same sectionblock. Is this possible? I notice that conversion=Characters appears to be defined for the global sectionblock, but not for local headings. It would be nice if I could do something like \definehead[appendix][chapter] \setuphead[appendix][conversion=Characters] with the first instance of \appendix starting with `A' (i.e., decoupled from the chapter numbers). See the attached file for some experiments. Best Idris ======================================================== \setupoutput[pdftex]% \definecombinedlist[summary][chapter][textstyle=\tf] \setupcombinedlist [summary][alternative=c,textstyle=\tf] \definecombinedlist[synopsis][subsection,subsubsection][textstyle=\tf] \setupcombinedlist [synopsis][alternative=c,textstyle=\tf] \starttext \startbodymatter \placesummary \page \placesynopsis \chapter{This is a test.} \subsection{This is a subtest.} \subsubsection{This is a subsubtest.} \chapter{This is another test.} \subsection{This is another subtest.} \subsubsection{This is another subsubtest.} \chapter{Synopsis} \placesynopsis \stopbodymatter \startappendices \placesynopsis \chapter{Synopsis} \placesynopsis \stopappendices \stoptext ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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