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RE: [NTG-context] Activating urls (works now)
by Idris Samawi Hamid 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

Thank you Robert, it works now. I was missing the \from[], and \url[] only prints the url, it does not link to it. So the following works: ================================================= \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start,color=darkgreen] \setupurl [color=darkgreen] \useURL [Adobe] [http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5091.Design_MM_Fonts.pdf] [] [{\tt http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5091.Design\_MM\_Fonts.p…] \starttext \from[Adobe]. \stoptext ================================================= Thank you very much Robert (Nikolai too)! Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] Activating urls
by Idris Samawi Hamid 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

>===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >How are you viewing this? Perhaps your application doesnât support >hyperlinks, or they have been disabled in it?, Hi (and thnx 4 your advice), Upon compiling the following file, I get hyperlinks in the table of contents, I get colors for both contents and hyperlinks, but the url hyperlink still does not work. That is, Acrobat does not point out the link or allow me to click on it. Any idea what's missing? Is it a bug? I'm running the 3-16 mswincontext version. Best Idris =========================== % output=pdf interface=en \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start,color=darkgreen] \setupurl [color=darkgreen] \useURL [Adobe] [http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5091.Design_MM_Fonts.pdf] \starttext \placecontent \page \chapter{Test} \section{Test} \url[Adobe]. \stoptext =========================== ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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controlling space between paragraphs in list
by Paul Tremblay 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

According to the big ConTeXt manual, one should use \head for an item in a list with more than one paragraph: \startitemize \head first paragarph...\par second paragraph... \stopitemize Is there a way to control the amount of space *between* head paragraph that are part of the head? I know how to control the space between items, but what if you want a different space between the paragraphs in an item. (This is not so unusual a desire; you might want to less space to make things tighter.) Right now, I can do this: \setupwhitespace[8pt] \startitemize \item first paragarph...\par second paragraph... \stopitemize But then ConTeXt might not take care of the paragraphs nicely when breaking between pages. Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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RE: [NTG-context] Installing a non-standard encoding vector
by Idris Samawi Hamid 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

Hi Adam, >===== Original Message From "Adam Lindsay" <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> ===== >>What am I missing here? How can I can install this font with my own encoding >>so that \showfont will display it? > >Idris, > >You need to have precisely 256 glyphs in your encoding vector. Try >padding your vector out with 232 /.notdef tokens, and you *should* be in >business! Thnx very much for pointing this out! Also: I have a suggestion to you and Hans for the next version of texfont: Along with installing the pfb's and afm's into the texmf-fonts/fonts tree, it would be useful to also install the user-defined encoding files into /texmf-fonts/fonts/enc/dvips/<myfont-enc>/ whenever the --en switch calls for it. As it is now I have to install them manually. But thank you very much; I am indeed ""back in business"! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Activating urls
by Idris Samawi Hamid 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

Dear knights, How do I get url hyperlinks? The following does not work, so I am missing something: \starttext {\tt \useURL [Adobe] [http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5091.Design_MM_Fonts.pdf… ][] }. \stoptext Also, is there a manual that covers this topic? Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Installing a non-standard encoding vector
by Idris Samawi Hamid 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

Dear gang, I'm trying to install an expert font a with a non-standard encoding vector; can't use texnansi, ec, etc.. I tried the following: 1. I created an encoding file for my font (minion-o.enc), following the syntax /encminiono[ /ornament1 : /ornament23 /space ] def 2. I placed the encoding file in /texmf-fonts/fonts/enc/dvips/minion-o; 3. I ran TeXFont: ====================================================== encoding vector : minion-o vendor name : adobe source path : . font collection : minion-o texmf font root : c:\context\tex\texmf-fonts pdftex map file : minion-o-adobe-minion-o.map source path : . processing files : all on afm path locating afm files : using pattern * copying files : afm copying : pmnrp8a.afm copying files : pfb copying : pmnrp8a.pfb no map file at : c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-fonts/fonts/map/pdftex/context/min ion-o-adobe-minion-o.map font identifier : Minion-Ornaments -> text -> tfm + vf generating raw tfm/vpl : minion-o-raw-pmnrp8a (from pmnrp8a) ! tokens 3 to 257 in encoding must be literal names ] def ^ generating new vf : minion-o-pmnrp8a (from minion-o-raw-pmnrp8a) updating map file : minion-o-adobe-minion-o.map ====================================================== but \showfont does not show any of my characters. There appears to be one error: ====================================================== ! tokens 3 to 257 in encoding must be literal names ====================================================== The label says: ====================================================== name: minion-o-pmnrp8a encoding: minion-o mapping: minion-o handling: default ====================================================== What am I missing here? How can I can install this font with my own encoding so that \showfont will display it? I enclose the complete encoding vector. Best and Thnx Idris ====================================================== /encminiono[ /ornament1 /ornament2 /ornament3 /ornament4 /ornament5 /ornament6 /ornament7 /ornament8 /ornament9 /ornament10 /ornament11 /ornament12 /ornament13 /ornament14 /ornament15 /ornament16 /ornament17 /ornament18 /ornament19 /ornament20 /ornament21 /ornament22 /ornament23 /space ] def ====================================================== ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Textfont in math-formulas?
by Kai Straube 07 Apr '05

07 Apr '05

Hi There, I have a little problem with fonts in my document. I use the cm sans serif font in my text and want to have this in the tex-formulas to, but it worked not for me. Simple example: \enableregime[utf] \setupoutput[pdf] \mainlanguage[de] \language[de] \setuppapersize[A4] \setupbodyfont[ss] \starttext Some text, we can read it without serifs. But the formula: $ \frac{1}{x-2} $ is not in the same font. \stoptext BTW is there another way to have units like g/(cm^3) as to set them as tex-formula. I dont no if the module units do such things. Thanks, Kai

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customizing footnote numbers
by Paul Tremblay 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

Is there a way to manually set the number of a footnote rather than letting ConTeXt determining it? Something that works in the same way as \page[25]? For example, I might want to start footnote numbering at 1 at each chapter, *but I won't be using traditional ConTeXt divisions.* I've been searching the web and it seems that LaTeX has a way to reset counters, but I can't get this to work in ConTeXt. Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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off topic: acrobat and dde
by Severin Obertuefer 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

hi sorry for the off topic question, but perhaps there is someone here who can help me. i need a html page to bee converted into pdf and then to bee printed out (on a windows machine) without even open the acrobat reader (in the foreground). I think with dde this should be possible (right?). i searched some acrobat dde specifications on the net, but I didn't found anything useful, so is there a location to download them? if possible i plan to implement oll that stuff with python ... thanks for help severin

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Charts
by David Waller 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

Hello, I am using the charts module as part of context to produce flowcharts and I am having problems when the flowchart goes above a page in that I can't get the system to automatically split the chart. I have the following setup commands in my context file \usemodule[chart] \setupFLOWcharts[maxwidth=\textwidth, nx=4] \setupFLOWsplit[ny=9, before=, after=\page] based upon the manual. I then use the command \FLOWcharts [bigchart] later in the document and the flowchart does not split, instead it runs off the bottom of the page. I have also tried using \splitfloat with no success either. I am running TeXExec 5.2.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 Kpathsea released! texexec : TeXExec 5.2.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.3) context : ver: 2005.03.16 cont-en : ver: 2005.03.16 fmt: 2005.3.20 mes: english cont-cz : ver: 2005.03.16 fmt: 2005.3.20 mes: english cont-de : ver: 2005.03.16 fmt: 2005.3.20 mes: english cont-it : ver: 2005.03.16 fmt: 2005.3.20 mes: english cont-nl : ver: 2005.03.16 fmt: 2005.3.20 mes: dutch cont-ro : ver: 2005.03.16 fmt: 2005.3.20 mes: dutch cont-uk : ver: 2005.03.16 fmt: 2005.3.20 mes: dutch Any help please Thanks Dave Waller

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spacing of values and units & ^{-2}
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

Hi, concerning m-units, it would be nice to configure whether to use a full space or a thinspace between a number and its unit. Furthermore, some space is needed between adjectant units like in 1\Meter\Inverse\Second. I know there are some old threads concerning this topic, initiated by me. But have there been any recent changes to the module, or are such changes planned? Btw: How to get a power to the minus 2? Neither 1\Meter\Square\Inverse\Second nor 1\Meter\Inverse\Square\Second work. Greetings, -- Eckhart

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run external programs from tex
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

Hi, I wonder what would be the best way to use programs inline like it is possible for metapost. Are there already macros to set this up easily? I would like to use gnuplot, so something like [start|stop]GNUPLOTgraphic would be fine. Has anybody tried this or something similar? -- Eckhart

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Is startcombination ... stopcombination broken?
by Thomas A.Schmitz 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

I'm trying to bring two pictures next to each other by using \startcombination, but I always get this error (on my box + on contextgarden): ! Missing { inserted. <to be read again> \egroup l.5 \stopcombination ? ! Emergency stop. <to be read again> \egroup l.5 \stopcombination Minimal example: \starttext \startcombination[2] \framed{here} \framed{there} \stopcombination \stoptext I have tried with all kinds of braces in all possible places, to no avail. Or am I missing anything terribly obvious? Best Thomas

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Line numbering and drop caps
by Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de Sousa 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

It seems that the two don't go well together. If I use: %************************************ % interface=en tex=pdfetex output=pdf language=pt \enableregime [win] \def\MyDroppedCaps% {\DroppedCaps{}{Serif}{2\baselineskip}{0pt}{1\baselineskip}{2}} \setuplinenumbering[start=1,step=5] \starttext \startlinenumbering \MyDroppedCaps Text test prestou�se �s expans�es do parasita. L�via contemplava o noivo com adora��o. Para ambos eles o mundo inteiro havia desaparecido. Inteiro n�o; Viana fez casualmente alus�o a Raquel, e essa intempestiva recorda��o entristeceu a mo�a. Ela via que a sua felicidade era causa da desventura da amiga, e agora que a tinha quase realizado, sentia morder�lhe um piedoso remorso. \stoplinenumbering \stoptext then the dropped cap doesn't stay where it should. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance Marcus Vinicius __________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. http://www.advision.webevents.yahoo.com/emoticontest

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hyphenation within columnsets with background
by GEERT＠telefonica.net 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

Hi, I am preparing a rather large text, completely set in 3 columns, which has lots of text with grey backgrounds. During the preparation of this text, some questions came up : 1 - At first I put a grey background to my texts defining the following macros (they are used within columnsets): ===================================================================== %start setting the text with a light grey background \def\startlightgreybox{\setupframedtexts[frame=off, background=color, backgroundcolor=lightgrey, width=broad] \startframedtext {\bf Some frame title}} %stop setting the text with a light grey background \def\stoplightgreybox{\stopframedtext} ===================================================================== After a while, and to see what difference there was between both, I redefined both macros as : ======================================================================= = %start setting the text with a light grey background \def\startlightgreybox{\setupbackground[background=color, backgroundcolor=lightgrey] \startbackground {\bf Some frame title}} %stop setting the text with a light grey background \def\stoplightgreybox{\stopbackground} ======================================================================= == And to my surprise, I saw, that hyphenation works clearly better when my backgrounds are defined with the second set of macros, which is of course good news, especially when using 3 columns, but : is there an explanation for this behaviour ? 2 - Another problem I have with those backgrounds is the following : they seem to work well when the text spreads over several columns/pages, as long as I don't force a 'next column' in the text. The following piece of context causes a 'TeX capacity exceeded' error: \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolumnset[driekol][n=3] \setupbackground[background=color, backgroundcolor=gray] \starttext \startcolumnset[driekol] \startbackground this is the text I would like to have with a grey background \column and with a possibility to split columns ``manually'' when necessary \stopbackground \stopcolumnset \stoptext In the rare cases where I want to force a jump to the next column, I replace the \column command with: \stopbackground \column \startbackground Is this the only way to force column jumps when using backgrounds ? Thanks, Geert

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page on context and XML has moved
by Paul Tremblay 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

I had originally put up a web article on page layout, ConTeXt, and XML. As I said in my original email, the location of that webpage was only temporary. The new address of the webpage is: http://getfo.sourceforge.net/context_xml/index.html The webpage is far from finished. I plan to add many more sections and edit some of the existing ones. Just glancing over the pages, I see many typos. In a similar matter, I had originally started this documentation on the wikki. Can I now remove those pages? (I realize I probably don't need permisssion, but I don't want to remove a page and then have the wikki administrator put it back up.) The page on the wikki is out of date and incorrect in many instances. Also, someone on this email list was nice enough to include a link to the yahoo page. Could that person update the link, when he gets a chance? Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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Suppress routine messages.
by John R. Culleton 06 Apr '05

06 Apr '05

When I run texexec against a file with lots (101) chapters plus sections the messages to the console documenting each such subdivision seem to be slowing down the compilation. Is there a switch to suppress all the printout? run -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

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Split table across pages.
by John R. Culleton 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

-- If one has a long table that splits across several pages, and the first line of the table is really the headers for the columns, is there a convenient way to have the headers automatically inserted on each successive page that contains part of the table? I can do it manually of course. But I was looking for a more magic way. John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

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batch getafm conversion
by Idris Samawi Hamid 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Dear gang, I found a TeXLive utility, getafm, that generates an afm file from a pfb file. I need to generate a large number of afms, but I'm having difficulty getting this utility to work: getafm <myfont.pfb> > <myfont>.afm works fine, but getafm *.pfb > *.afm does not. There does not appear to be any help info for getafm either; getafm -h[--help] actually generates an on-screen afm listing(?) Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can do this? Thnx in advance Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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new command question
by Idris Samawi Hamid 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Dear musketeers, Instead of, say, \usetypescriptfile[type-ugm] \usetypescript[URWGaramond] \setupbodyfont[urwgaramond,10pt] I would like to define a single command as follows, using the ConTeXt option method instead of \def{}{}{}: \globalbodyfont[type-ugm][URWGaramond][urwgaramond,10pt] I would like to learn how to do this. Thnx in advance for your help. [Does ConTeXt already have a one line global command for this? or is there a better way?] Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] How to cook Garamond
by Idris Samawi Hamid 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Hi Peter, >===== Original Message From Peter Münster <pmlists(a)free.fr> ===== >> accented chars also? you dropped the (re)encoding ... > >No, you're right, only ASCII works... > >Here another try, that seems to work even with accented chars (but I do *not* >understand, what I do... ;) : >texnansi-raw-ugmm8a GaramondNo8-Med "TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont" <texnansi.enc <ugmm8a.pfb I'm curious: how did you figure this out? Where does the "TeXnANSIEncoding ReEncodeFont" syntax come from? (Just trying to learn...) I'm happy it's working for you now:-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Fixme replacement
by Robert Ullrey 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Hello, I am wondering if anyone knows of a similar macro in CoNTeXt to the LaTeX \Fixme package <http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/fixme.html>. What fixme allowed me to do that I have yet to figure out in context is make inline notes "\fxnote" or marks "\fxwarning" "\fxerror" that would then in draft mode print either margin or footnotes where the change was needed. It was very handy when, as an editor, wanting to make quick comments in proofing. Fixme also prints an index of all the fixmes. Any ideas? Thanks Robert Robert Ullrey Office of the President, Sacramento City College Academic Senate, Suite RN236 3835 Freeport Boulevard Sacramento, California 95822 (916) 558-2150 _____________________________________ http://web.scc.losrios.edu/asenate/ Senate email: sccacad(a)scc.losrios.edu Personal email: UllreyR(a)scc.losrios.edu

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defective change of page
by Vittorio Dema 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

I forgot to mention the context in which it happened: Win XP, Miktex 2.4.1704, texexec version 5.2.4 Ciao Vittorio --------------------------------- Nuovo Yahoo! Messenger E' molto più divertente: Audibles, Avatar, Webcam, Giochi, Rubrica Scaricalo ora!

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How to install latest version ConTeXt on a Slackware 10.1 system?
by R S Ananda Murthy 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Hello, I have Slackware 10.1 system with full tetex installation. How to install the latest version of ConTeXt on this system? Where can I find installation instructions? Thanks for your help, Anand

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btex-etex
by Jiri Polcar 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

Hallo, my ConTeXt ignore btex-etex command. It works as the btex-etex command is empty. No text on output. Simple example: \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{test} picture p; p := btex TEST etex scaled 5cm; draw p; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{test} \stoptext On output is only page number. In the 'mpgraph.mp' is (if a skip some definitions): ResetTextAreas ; SaveTextAreas ; ResetTextAreas ; if unknown context_core : input mp-core.mp ; fi ; local_multi_par_area:=false; ;; verbatimtex \global \loadfontfileoncetrue etex; let mprunend = end ; beginfig(1); picture p; p := btex TEST etex scaled 5cm; draw p; endfig; let end = mprunend ; end. If a extract a part with beginfig(1); picture p; p := btex TEST etex; draw p; endfig; end. and proccess it with mpost it works good. My ConTeXt comes from Fedora Core 3 distribution. Any suggestion how to solve it? -- JP

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RE: [NTG-context] How to cook Garamond
by Idris Samawi Hamid 05 Apr '05

05 Apr '05

>===== Original Message From Peter Münster <pmrb(a)free.fr> ===== >> I've had the same problem-) you need a separate map file for dvips (and >> dvipdfm). Ah, the TeX "font mess"... > >Do you know, how the content of this file should look like? >Cheers, Peter Try this: Add the line p +myfont.map to your local dvips.ps file, in /fonts/dvips/config syntax: =========myfont.map=========== plb10 PLB10 <plb10.pfb =========================== place in your local /fonts/dvips/config for dvipdfmx: add f myfont.map to your local /fonts/dvipdfm/config config file. dvipdfmx has a slightly different syntax, it includes encoding info: =========myfont.map.dvipdfmx=========== plb10 texnansi <plb10.pfb =========================== place in your local /fonts/dvipdfm/config This generally works for me. CAUTION: on Linux I've had problems because of precise spelling (capitals versus lower case). so your map file entries must match the case for your tfm files, etc. Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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howto \getbuffer inside of \startTEX ... \stopTEX
by VnPenguin 04 Apr '05

04 Apr '05

Hi all, I have a following code: ---------------------------------------------------------- \startbuffer \bTABLE \bTR \bTH title1 \eTH \bTH title2 \eTH \eTR \bTR \bTD data1 \eTD \bTD data2 \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stopbuffer \startTEX \getbuffer \stopTEX \getbuffer ---------------------------------------------------------- But I got exactly the line "\getbuffer" in \startTEX ... \stopTEX instead of its content. How to get buffer in this case please. Thank you, Q.

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Switching fonts (or font size) in columnsets
by Gilles Pérez-Lambert 04 Apr '05

04 Apr '05

Hello, With the example attached at the end of the mail (and that can be try on http://live.contextgarden.net) the page on which the font change occurs (be it the size or a new font) is moved up and the page is shorter... Is there a way to say that some text (here the items) are not to be aligned on the grid because they are smaller (or bigger)? Thanks! Gilles. % Example: \showgrid \setuplayout[grid=yes] \setupitemize[before={\switchtobodyfont[small]}] \definecolumnset[ex][n=2] \starttext \startcolumnset[ex] \dorecurse{4}{\input knuth\relax\placefigure{}{}} \startitemize[n,packed,intro] \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \item Un \stopitemize \stopcolumnset \stoptext

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RE: [NTG-context] How to cook Garamond
by Idris Samawi Hamid 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

>===== Original Message From h h extern <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >as soon as > >- dvipdfmx supports map file specials >- pdftex is updated around the world > >i will change a few defaults in context; currently what works well for new >versions of pdftex may fail in older ones; Is this related to why aleph complains that etex is too old? I know it's probably hopeless till Giuseppe comes back, but I'll ask anyway: Is there any way to compile a new aleph with the new eTeX and jonathan kew's bugfix for the extra mem_bot before Giuseppe returns? All the best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Brand new install on XP.
by Dirar BOUGATEF 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hi all, Following Hans instructions from a previous mail, am trying to setup context on a new machine without installing any distribution. I would like to use the minimal context tree. Here is the instructions from a previous post: an option is (assuming that you have rsync running): c: cd \ mkdir mytex rsync -r -v www.pragma-pod.com::mswin mytex cd mytex setuptex texexec --make --alone --all and voila you have a running system (like i have) (updating is then also rather efficient) c:\mytex\setuptex c:\mytex can then be used any time. rsync www.pragma-pod.com:: I have done all of this but when i type texexec nothing happeneds. Anything missing out there ? Thanks for your help.

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RE: [NTG-context] chancery font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

>===== Original Message From ciro(a)kavyata.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >My problem goes beyond fonts. What I think I need is a simple explanation >of the TeX-like package system. For instance: > >I see tetex,pdftex,contex, latex,web2c,...and so on, but I don't understand >their interrelation/dependency. teTeX, fpTeX, gwTeX, and MiKTeX are os-dependent distrbutions. LaTeX and ConTeXt are os-independent macropackages. Web2C is the Pascal-to-C translator that allows compilation of TeX on Unix, Windows, etc. /web2c is the directory that contains configuration files and os-dependent format files. But I don't know why it's called "/web2c" >Why the livetex tree is like it is? What is needed for a context user? ConTeXt has become so detailed and powerful, and changes so fast, that the os-dependent distrbutions can't keep up. I predict that one day ConTeXt will be completely independent of TeXLive. Some of the problems many of us have been facing ultimately boil down to the growing, but not yet complete, independence of ConTeXt from TeXLive. Personally, I think this a good thing, because ConTeXt is really a stand-alone system in the final analysis. mswincontext.zip is _almost_ there; maybe Hans could use volunteers to build and maintain independent Mac and Unix packages a la mswincontext.zip. Then we could contribute to a test/torture suite to make sure that everything runs identically on all os's. Each of us may have pet issues that concern us (I have my aleph work for example, there are fonts, xml, etc). >What are the steps to upgrade context with a cont-tmf.zip and a texlive2004? >Would it be possible to create an shell script that automize all this? I would get the tetex package from pragma, install it in its own tree, define your path so that your ConTeXt bin is searched BEFORE TeXLive's, and have your shell script initialize your tree (maybe there are instructions in the teTeX package). I modified my setuptex.bat so that my ConTeXt tree would search my TeXLive tree as well; I suppose you could do the same with setuptex.csh. > >Where are fonts registered/stored/mapped/encoded? There is a document somewhere on the TeX Directory Structure (tds), I think. Look in /texmf/doc/tds > >Most books on TeX,latex, etc, only explain how to use them, but not >the 'system administration' part, which must of us have to learn as well. There is an old book, Making TeX Work, that aimed to do just this. But it's 11 years old and woefully out of date. > >BTW, I used Idris instructions (without step4 because my texfont works) >and I have installed three different fonts so far. Actually, I >converted TTF fonts >to pfb/afm, then used the Idris steps, and I am happy. How did you convert ttf>pfb? I did this once using FontLab and I lost all my macron accents:-( But texfont and pdfetex work with ttf files so there is no need to convert:-) Now I hace to learn how >to build typescript files, and learn where to put them, What I did was just get one complete working typescript and model my other typescripts on that one. If type-ugm is working for you, just study that one. Five steps: % raw fonts %Names %Synonyms %maps %typefaces Note that you can mix and match fonts to create your own complete typefaces. I am enclosing a typescript I did for Times New Roman and Arial (type-tnr.tex) that I posted a few weeks ago. About placing type-* files: You can put them anywhere in your TeX path; I put mine, along with some other private configuration files, in /texmf-local/tex/generic/private, but you can put them anywhere you like under your TeX path. >and the mapping/encoding >business. I think you don't have to worry about this too much, except that texfont defaults to texnansi, while the fonts that come with TeXLive are mostly ec. So you should avoid use of \char as much as possible in your macros, and stick to character control sequences like \circumflex. Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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How to cook Garamond
by Idris Samawi Hamid 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Dear syndicate, [Garamond is a nice font. Now that there is a free version, this would be a nice default font to add to the next ConTeXt distribution. In the meantime:] How to cook Garamond (my apologies to the experts for the verbosity): 1. Download ftp://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/urw/garamond.zip (actually, you only need the pfb and afm files, unless your texfont does not work); 2. place ONLY the afm and pfb files in an empty temporary directory; 3. from /temp>, run texfont --ma --in --ve=urw --co=garamond --show you may verify the installation of your font by examining texnansi-urw-garamond.pdf. 4. If texfont does not work, you will have to do more work-> the zip package contains tfms etc, and here is a map file you will need: =============texnansi-urw-garamond.map============== % You need to add the following line to pdftex.cfg: % % map +texnansi-urw-garamond.map % % Alternatively in your TeX source you can say: % % \pdf {+texnansi-urw-garamond.map} % % In ConTeXt you can best use: % % \loadmapfile[texnansi-urw-garamond.map] texnansi-raw-ugmm8a GaramondNo8-Med 4 < ugmm8a.pfb texnansi.enc texnansi-raw-ugmmi8a GaramondNo8-MedIta 4 < ugmmi8a.pfb texnansi.enc texnansi-raw-ugmr8a GaramondNo8-Reg 4 < ugmr8a.pfb texnansi.enc texnansi-raw-ugmri8a GaramondNo8-Ita 4 < ugmri8a.pfb texnansi.enc ========================================================= If texfont works, ignore step 4; 5. Now write to file the following typescript: ==========================type-ugm.tex====================== % raw fonts \starttypescript[serif] [garamond] [texnansi] \definefontsynonym[Garamond] [ugmr8a] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[GaramondItalic] [ugmri8a] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[GaramondBold] [ugmm8a] [encoding=texnansi] \definefontsynonym[GaramondBoldItalic][ugmmi8a] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript %Names \starttypescript [serif] [garamond] [name] \setups[font:fallback:serif] \definefontsynonym[Serif] [Garamond] \definefontsynonym[SerifBold] [Garamond-Bold] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic] [Garamond-Italic] \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic][Garamond-BoldItalic] \stoptypescript %Synonyms \starttypescript [serif] [garamond] [texnansi] \definefontsynonym [Garamond] [\typescriptthree-ugmr8a] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym [Garamond-Bold] [\typescriptthree-ugmri8a] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym [Garamond-Italic] [\typescriptthree-ugmm8a] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \definefontsynonym [Garamond-BoldItalic] [\typescriptthree-ugmmi8a] [encoding=\typescriptthree] \stoptypescript % maps \starttypescript [map] [garamond] [texnansi] \loadmapfile[texnansi-urw-garamond.map] \stoptypescript% % typefaces \starttypescript [URWGaramond] \definebodyfontenvironment [urwgaramond] [default] [interlinespace=2.8ex] \definetypeface [urwgaramond] [rm] [serif] [garamond] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface [urwgaramond] [ss] [sans] [helvetica] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface [urwgaramond] [mm] [math] [palatino] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface [urwgaramond] [tt] [mono] [modern] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \stoptypescript =========================== If there are better/more aesthetic choices for sans and math, let me know-) 6. Test it out: =========================== % output=pdf interface=en \starttext \usetypescriptfile[type-ugm] \usetypescript[URWGaramond] %\setupbodyfont[urwgaramond,12pt] \definetypeface [garamond][rm][serif][garamond][default][encoding=texnansi] \switchtotypeface[garamond] \input knuth \stoptext =========================== You try \setupbodyfont instead of \definetypeface. Have fun with Garamond! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] chancery font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

>===== Original Message From ciro(a)kavyata.com ===== >Idris, >thank you very much for your explanations... they are very helpful. I'm happy 2 b of help, although I'm basically just packaging things that Hans, Adam, and others have said over the last month >BTW, how do you use a ttf font directly in context? There was a thread on TimesNewRoman that I started a few weeks ago that has the details. Check out the archives on pragma. Basically, its exactly the same as the Garamond procedure except that you do not use any afm files; just the ttf files. Also, Hans has provided a way to just access the windows font directory; me, I used a temp dir like before. Look at that thread... Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] chancery font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hi guys, Ok, I certainly did _not_ intend to start a flame war, was just dreaming out loud:-)) >===== Original Message From Paul Tremblay <phthenry(a)iglou.com> ===== <snip> >I think you can achieve the same thing with a well-written shell script, >which can be interactive and can test all sorts of variables. Wouldn't a >shell script do the job you want? I mean, imagine the best, most fancy >gui you can, one that does everything you want with fonts. Now just >imagine the same program in an ugly shell that would do the same thing, >with the same interaction, and wouldn't that do the trick? Something one could run from e.g. a WinEDT or SciTe gui shell would be fine (for now->) >===== Original Message From "Thomas A.Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz(a)uni-bonn.de> ===== >First: fonts are a complex business, and when you >venture outside of the normal Western character range, things start to >get really messy (I speak from experience I have even more difficult issues with Arabic;-) >To be honest: in my >personal opinion (and this is a very personal opinion), die-hard GUI >users who just loathe the command line should not be using TeX. Hmm, seems we've heard the same comment about Linux in the pre-KDE days:-) Seriously, there is room in the TeX world for a creative gui approach, and ConTeXt would be a much better candidate than LaTeX for that to work. Yes, this is just a dream for now... In the future, maybe many years from now, someone may design a well-thought-out gui interface for the ConTeXt of the future. I for one would buy it... >In a way, >the current state puts a gentle, but firm sign on font handling saying >"This might be a bit difficult. Be warned!" Firm, perhaps, but I don't know about "gentle":-)) But Paul's idea of an interactive shell script is practical and I'll shut up for awhile... Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] chancery font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

>===== Original Message From r.ermers(a)hccnet.nl, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Thanks Thomas for the manual. I have already printed it, and cannot wait >to give it a try. Which manual?? >In the mean time I welcome any other concrete tips for installing a new >font, step by step that is. Someone on this list did this a couple of years ago or more; does anyone remember the link to that? If you recall the earlier postings: my idea >would be to start with a new font consisting of only one pfb file. Try the Garamond experiment, then analyze type-ugm in light of the fonts manual. <snip> >In the end my ideal would be a context which typesets Arabic, Russian >and Turkish, plus transcription according to a code I developed myself. For transcription, you can use aleph. By the end of this year or sooner there should be a new advanced Arabic-script package. Hopefully, one day aleph will be integrated into pdfetex (long term) or at least the aleph-dvipdfmx combo will have all of ConTeXt's capabilities (short term). Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] How to cook Garamond
by Idris Samawi Hamid 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hi Peter, >===== Original Message From Peter Münster <pmlists(a)free.fr> ===== >On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > >> 3. from /temp>, run >> >> texfont --ma --in --ve=urw --co=garamond --show > >Hello Idris, >with this command, I get the following error (I'm using teTeX-3.0): >processing aborted : unknown tex root There is a unix script in mswincontext.zip that I suppose is also in the tetex package: setuptex.csh. I don't know how 2 use it (I still live in the Evil Empire for now-<) but usually I run setuptex.bat before starting the context utilities; otherwise I get errors like the above. > >Then I tried >texfont --fontroot=/opt/teTeX/texmf-dist/fonts --ma --in --ve=urw >--co=garamond --show > >This produces the following error: >(/opt/teTeX/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/s-fnt-01.tex) >kpathsea: Running mktextfm texnansi-ugmm8a >mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfzzz; mag:=1; >nonstopmode; input texnansi-ugmm8a >This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.4) > >kpathsea: Running mktexmf texnansi-ugmm8a >! I can't find file `texnansi-ugmm8a'. I'm not sure, did you texhash (although texfont should have done that for you)? Did TeXFont at least install the font for you, before trying to compile the show file? Check to see if it installed, e.g. the 8 tfms in e.g. /texmf-fonts/fonts/tfm/urw/garamond > >So I tried step 4: > >> 4. If texfont does not work, you will have to do more work-> the zip package >> contains tfms etc, and here is a map file you will need: > >I installed this mapfile in /opt/teTeX/texmf-dist/fonts/map/pdftex/context > >> % You need to add the following line to pdftex.cfg: >> % >> % map +texnansi-urw-garamond.map >> % >> % Alternatively in your TeX source you can say: >> % >> % \pdf {+texnansi-urw-garamond.map} > >I suppose, you mean \pdfmapfile Well, I just copied the map file created by texfont;-) <snip> >Perhaps I have to rename the tfm files? Yes, I just checked the garamond distribution; you will have to rename them. Not only that, but texfont creates 8 tfm files (four raw and four virtual fonts I presume): texnansi-raw-ugmm8a.tfm, etc texnansi-ugmm8a.tfm, etc So step four is really a nightmare, I should have actually tried it before recommending it, sorry.. <snip> >Do you have any idea, what could be wrong on my system? Ciro uses teTeX and got this to work; maybe he has some idea. My own suggestion is to make sure you are using the latest context tetex distribution (3-16-05 last I checked), setuptex.csh, hash, and get texfont working. Sorry I cannot be of more help... Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] chancery font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

>===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Rob Ermers said this at Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:03:24 +0200: > >>I completely agree. Context works fine but, like you, I have not >>succeeded in installing any new font thusfar. > >Okay, I get the message: there are quite a few frustrated would-be font >users out there. I see it as being something that someone can understand >(and explain) fairly well in the abstract, but the details throw up >distribution-specific problems. Not only that, Adam, but the configuration issues involve so much minutae that it is very easy to make simple mistakes that cause, e.g, typescripts to fail. As Ciro suggested, what what would be useful is a gui that completely automates the process and that asks all relevant questions and generates everything ConTeXt needs to install and run Latin fonts, including expert fonts like Minion.**** (Maybe oneday the gui can be extended for Chinese, Arabic, etc.) On the other hand, I did manage to get a virtual font created by fontinst (old style numeral cmr) to work in ConTeXt without using any of the ConTeXt-specific utilities. I wrote the typescript entirely from scratch, with optical scaling and all; if that complicated set of typefaces could work, any Latin font should work. But debugging this sort of thing may take time, which can be frustrating. ****Qt4.0 will be gpl, I'd love to see e.g., an elegant crossplatform Qt/Ruby application that does this:-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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supp-vis and pdfetex
by Patrick Gundlach 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

Hello, this is slightly off-topic: when using supp-vis in a plain-tex document, it runs ok with normal TeX, but not with pdfetex: \input supp-vis Hello \TeX! \bye -------------------------------------------------- Running `PDFTeX' on `test' with ``pdftex "\nonstopmode\input test.tex"'' This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./test.tex (/opt/tetex/3.0/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-vis.tex (/opt/tetex/3.0/texmf/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex loading : Context Support Macros / Miscellaneous (2004.10.26) ) loading : Context Support Macros / Visualization ! Missing { inserted. <to be read again> \def l.424 \unexpanded\def \ruledhbox Runaway text? \def \ruledhbox {\normalhbox \bgroup \dowithnextbox {\makeruledbox \nextbox \ET [....] -------------------------------------------------- Any way around this? Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net

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RE: [NTG-context] How to cook Garamond
by Idris Samawi Hamid 03 Apr '05

03 Apr '05

>===== Original Message From ciro(a)kavyata.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Idris, >I just noticed that your type-ugm.tex file has the italic and bold >faces swapped. >Just to let you know. Thnx, I'll fix it. Since you both use teTeX, maybe you could help Peter get his Garamond working too:-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] chancery font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

Hi Adam, >===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >And Idris, it's here: ><http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/urw/garamond/> Ah! From the ctan dates, it appears this font was added a while after my TeXLive version (from last summer; time to update:-<<). Thnx a lot for pointing out this location. Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] chancery font
by Idris Samawi Hamid 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

Hi again... >===== Original Message From ciro(a)kavyata.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Idris, >thank you for your interest. I don't have setuptex in my linux >system... maybe this is >a windows utility. there is setuptex.sh for Linux, I believe. > >Concerning Garamond, <snip> > I'll keep trying >and let you >know if find how to activate them... Thnx, please do;-) I scanned my TeXLive installation (from last July; I installed all font packages I think) and could not find any reference to Garamond at all. I even checked the TeXLive setup files. Anyway, Even if you have the afm files, I suspect you have to buy Garamond: http://semantics-online.org/geek/2003/09/how_to_install_adobe_garamond_for_… Adam Lndsay has some comments there; maybe he knows something about this? But if you find another way let me know! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Bug: \placefigure in \endnote
by Gerben Wierda 02 Apr '05

02 Apr '05

A \placefigure in \endnote results in a figure in the main text, not the end notes. G

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RE: My ConTeXt cannot use Type1 fonts...
by 李树钧 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Hi, Thank Idris Samawi Hamid and Geert for their help on clarifying this problem. Today I saw a solution from a Chinese TeXer, and now I understand why the Type1 fonts cannot be recognized. To make ConTeXt support Chinese, I maintain a file named tex\contex\user\cont-sys.tex, which is a modifed copy of texmf\tex\context\user\cont-sys.rme. In this file, there are the following codes: ....... \resetmapfiles \donefalse \ifx\pdftexversion\undefined \else \ifnum\number\pdftexversion>119 \donetrue \fi \fi \ifdone \loadmapfile[original-base.map] \loadmapfile[original-ams-base.map] \loadmapfile[original-public-lm.map] \else \loadmapfile[original-base.map] \loadmapfile[texnansi-base.map] \loadmapfile[ec-base.map] \loadmapfile[qx-base.map] \loadmapfile[t5-base.map] %loadmapfile[il2-base.map] %loadmapfile[pl0-base.map] \loadmapfile[8r-base.map] \loadmapfile[original-ams-base.map] \loadmapfile[original-ams-euler.map] \loadmapfile[original-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[texnansi-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[ec-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[qx-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[t5-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[pl0-public-lm.map] \loadmapfile[il2-public-lm.map] \fi ....... These codes let ConTeXt load the map files for pdftex, so psfonts.map is omitted by ConTeXt. As a result, we have two solutions to overcome this problem: 1. comment all the above codes, and let ConTeXt to read font maps via pdftex; 2. add a line "\loadmapfile[xxx.map]" to explicitly load the required map, just as we should do in the beginning of a tex file (Geert's solution). Hope the above information is useful for other ConTeXters. Shujun _________________________________________________________________ 与联机的朋友进行交流，请使用 MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com/cn

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Beginner's font flop fixed: fantastic!
by Paul R Martin 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Dear ConTeXters, This message is to record my thanks to Thomas A.Schmitz for the solution to my font flop, and to Otared Kavian and Hans Hagen for helpful comments. I've planted the solution in the context garden at <http://contextgarden.net/Talk:My_Way>. If I hear voices of encouragement I could write up the solution as a My Way. Would this sort of problem be common enough to make such a document useful for beginners, or should I just get back to more important things such as finding out what a_foekepot_ looks like? Yours, PRM

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scaling symbols
by Janko Hauser 01 Apr '05

01 Apr '05

Hello I followed Adams nice way, to include unicode symbols. Now I want to ask, how these can be scaled, so that they can be used more like small figures. Any hints? TIA, __Janko Hauser

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\newbibfield[help!] : Very quick question.
by David Wooten 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Greetings all, In working with the bib module, I've been trying to understand the addition of a field. There is a "\newbibfield" command, but it is not entirely clear where to declare it. E.g., I want to have a field called "yearnote". If I place this in the list of commands in the t-bib.tex file, and call for it with "\insertyearnote" in the \setuppublicationlayout, it works perfectly. But declaring \newbibfield[yearnote] yields me an "undefined control sequence". Is there a special place to declare the latter? — I've tried in my current file, before and after \starttext, in the .bbl file, before and after \setuppublicationlist… no luck! Regards, David

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Antykwa torunska en oldstyle figures
by Willi Egger 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hi, In the latest versions of the Antykwa Torunska fonts there are also oldstyle figures. Though I have no problem to get \os{3} typeset I am not able to have the date tpeset with oldstyle figures. How can I achieve that? \currentdate[dd,{.~},mm,{.~},year] KR Willi

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Re : My ConTeXt cannot use Type1 fonts...
by GEERT＠telefonica.net 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I had exactly the same problem today after updating from an older tetex/context to the latest version of tetex. Problem seems to be some modifications in pdftex. After moving my type1 fonts (that previously worked fine) with their tfm, afm and type1 files to the new $HOME/.texmf-var/fonts folder, putting the map files in $HOME/.texmf-var/fonts/map folder and including those mapfiles with updmap, texexec generated the pdf file with pk bitmap fonts. Although I believed that tex could find all necessary font files and mapfiles, it was only after explicitly adding \loadmapfile[myownfonts.map] in the tex file, that everything suddenly worked fine (this was not necessary in my old tetex/context setup). Don't know if this will work with your chinese fonts, but you could give it a try.... geert

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RE: [NTG-context] My ConTeXt cannot use Type1 fonts...
by Idris Samawi Hamid 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Recently I installed the latest stable version of ConTeXt under MiKTeX >(b20050215). >To use Chinese characters in ConTeXt, I installed some Chinese Type1 fonts >and related map/enc files. >However, I found "texexec --pdf foo.tex" cannot read Type1 Chinese fonts. >In this case, ConTeXt uses pk fonts (generated from ttf fonts), and finally >I got pdf files with very low quality. I use fpTeX, so I may be missing something... Question: Do you have both ttf and pfb versions of the same font? If so, try removing the ttf version (and refresh fndb). I think that it is much better to have separate map files for your add-on fonts, instead of adding them to psfonts.map (of course you will have to edit your dvips and dvipdfm configuration files as well if you do this). Make a dedicated map file for your font and place it in your local \fonts\map\pdftex\context. See, e.g., texnansi-urw-times.map for syntax. Refresh the fndb, and try again. If things still don't work, compile a very simple file that uses that font and send a copy of your log file to the list. Then somebody will be in a better position to determine what's wrong. A final possibility (but I'm not sure if this will work for Chinese or other non-Latin fonts): remove all reference to your font from your ConTeXt system (tfm's, map's, ttf's, pfb's, etc). See if texfont can install your font. Place the pfb's in a temporary directory and run texfont --ma --in --ve=<maker of your font> --co=<your typeface name> This should install the font for you, with proper map files, tfm's, etc. My only worry is that texfont may need some additional encoding information for Chinese. Don't give up! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Problem with the bib module (yeah, so what else is new)
by Nikolai Weibull 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

OK, another one of those "hey, the bib module has an issue"-kind of mails. The problem is that \bibdoif and its relatives don't work. They always evaluate to true. I have tried to figure out why this is so, but I'm just not good enough at reading TeX macros (yet). The main problem is that I want to do something like this for my \setuppublicationlist: \doglobal\newif\ifBIBLoutputbeforesurname \global\BIBLoutputbeforesurnamefalse \def\BIBLwholename#1#2#3#4#5% {\bibdoif{#1}{#1\unskip\bibalternative\c!firstnamesep\BIBLoutputbeforesurnametrue}% \bibdoif{#4}{#4\unskip\bibalternative\c!firstnamesep\BIBLoutputbeforesurnametrue}% \bibdoif{#2}{#2\unskip\bibalternative\c!vonsep\BIBLoutputbeforesurnametrue}% \ifBIBLoutputbeforesurname \else \unskip% \BIBLoutputbeforesurnamefalse% \fi #3\bibalternative\c!surnamesep% \bibdoif{#5}{#5\unskip}} The problem is that one can't have \author[]{}[]{}{Organization} without extra spaces appearing before the Organization. Another issue is that extra spaces occur between the first and last name in the \normalauthor style, nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: minimalistic.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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My ConTeXt cannot use Type1 fonts...
by 李树钧 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hi all, I am a Chinese beginner of ConTeXt. Recently I installed the latest stable version of ConTeXt under MiKTeX (b20050215). To use Chinese characters in ConTeXt, I installed some Chinese Type1 fonts and related map/enc files. However, I found "texexec --pdf foo.tex" cannot read Type1 Chinese fonts. In this case, ConTeXt uses pk fonts (generated from ttf fonts), and finally I got pdf files with very low quality. As a comparison, "texexec foo.tex" + dvipdfm (or dvips+ps2pdf) works well to produce good pdf files. As we know, now pdftex.cfg cannot be used to load font map files. So I added the map file of Chinese Type1 fonts into miktex\config\updmap.cfg and run initexmf --mkmaps to insert the fonts to psfonts.map. This works well for pdftex, but doesn't work for ConTeXt. I don't know why and cannot go further. Can any one offer some help to solve this problem? Thanks in advance. best regards, Shujun Li http://www.hooklee.com/tex.html _________________________________________________________________ 免费下载 MSN Explorer: http://explorer.msn.com/lccn/

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Beginnner's question: fumbling with font finding failures.
by Paul R Martin 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Dear ConTeXters, I'm a newcomer to ConTeXt and to this congenial and obviously active list: please bear with me and read my story. I'll be much more succinct in future. Last week, I installed TeTex and ConTeXt [Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther"]. I'm working my way through the "Excursion" and "This Way/ My Way" documents. They are great documents, ConTeXt is a great package, and I've had some timely tips from Hans Hagen (Hail thee, Hans!). I've made some good progress. I have learned the difference between a _Hasselter juffer_ and a _Hasselter bitter_, but I'm still not sure what one does with a _foekepot_. I suspect that it's a percussion instrument, but that's beside the point. I have a history of user-level LaTeX formatting in my distant past. I've mostly been stuck in the dark, ragged, dreary, world of MS Office for the past decade, so you can understand my joy to see beautiful, colourful .pdf pages rolling up my screen, as a result of typing straightforward, comprehensible formatting commands in a plain text ascii file. As my fellow Australians would say: ** You little ripper! ** Now, I've managed to side-step some menacing signs of absent fonts as I progressed. My goals are straightforward (technical documentation and scientific writing), so I've been happy to accept the font fallback/replacement routines. Further, my glimpses into the pages and pages of information about font handling make me think that it's a kind of bad neighbourhood for a person like me to enter, just as it was when TeX and I were young. But now I've struck the following blockade in my quest to produce a 'My Way' document, which I did by simply 1) cutting and pasting the source code from the page 3 of My Way #0 [mag-0000.pdf] 2) changing the author name, and 3) saving the resultant text as [mwy-000-Test.tex], then 4) running the perl "texexec" script on it. OK, don't snicker, it may not be such a silly thing to try. I'm sure there are other people who might try this kind of approach. Here is the gist of the result -- ellipses mark my deletions. ------------------------------START--------------------------- [nvri-hayden:~/Documents/ConTEXt/MyWay] paulm% texexec --color --pdf mwy-000-Test TeXExec 5.2.4 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 ... system : macros of module mag-01 loaded ... (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type- akb.tex)kpathsea: Running mktextfm uplr8t mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input uplr8t This is METAFONT, Version 2.71828 (Web2C 7.5.3) kpathsea: Running mktexmf uplr8t ! I can't find file `uplr8t'. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input uplr8t Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input uplr8t Transcript written on mfput.log. grep: uplr8t.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input uplr8t' failed to make uplr8t.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ... ! Font \*palatino12ptrmtf*:=uplr8t at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file no t found. ... ---------------------------------------------FINISH------------------- [etc etc, I think that 'nonstopmode' might have been why this loop continued for the next 120 seconds. BTW I typed 'Q' in response to the input file name request above]. Now, it's obvious from the ContextGarden that I've probably missed some step in font configuration. But when I start to look in the numerous sources of advice, I strike the usual frustration. There are lots of statements (lots and lots of 'em!) about checking and un-commenting and configuring, but I can find no list of *prioritised* things for beginners to try, in the order which they should be tried, in order to solve what looks to be a simple and typical problem. Without such a set of instructions, I'm loath to change anything in my configuration, for fear that the cure might be worse than the disease. I'd love to try to understand the source of the error, and how to handle fonts professionally, and lots of other things as well. But I'm a busy scientist with many other commitments. As long as ConText is working I'm happy, but I can't devote much time to delving into errors. So I may not be a typical participant in this list. But if you help me, you will help to make ConTeXt more accessible to others like me, and this will be good for the cause, _nes pas?_ I'd be happy to write a my way document or contribute a Wiki page on this topic to encapsulate any good advice for myself and other neophytes. Yours, P. Paul R Martin National Vision Research Institute of Australia Tel: +613 9349 7481 prmartin(a)unimelb.edu.au

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presentation in ConTeXt
by 정 달영 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hi all, It is my first mail to this list. I am using XeTeX and XeTeX + ConTeXt environment for my most files for sometime. It worked fine and the output is really great. I'd like to use it to create a presentation instead of using LaTeX + beamer. I have seen many output samples of the presentation styles like s-pre-#.tex. But I didn't find how to use it in the ConTeXt manual. Recently, I googled and found some files for presentation including Hraban's source, but I didn't succeed. I try to compile it in the pure ConTeXt environment, texexec --pdf project_pdf-info.tex and got some error messages. ..... bodyfont : bodyfont 16pt is defined (can better be done global) bodyfont : bodyfont 16pt is defined (can better be done global) system : macros of module chart loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/m-chart.tex XML : loading flowchart support )) systems : end file env_pdf-info at line 3 systems : begin file prd_grundlagen at line 46 (./prd_grundlagen.tex ! Undefined control sequence. \StartTitlePage ...lign [right] \stelinterliniein \vfil \let \\=\vfil l.4 \StartTitlePage ? x No pages of output. ..... Now I am using OS X 10.3.8 and Gerben's installation. What should I do to remove this error? Is there any place or samples to show "how to create presentation"? I am sorry if it is too well known subject. Regards, Dalyoung

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figures move in newly installed contex/tetex
by GEERT＠telefonica.net 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hi, Up to now, I have been using a rather old version of context (2003, the one that comes with FC3 linux for instance). I decided to download the latest version of tetex (3.0) which also comes with pdftex 1.21a and texexec 5.2.4 After realizing the changes in pdftex and struggling for about a day to get my type1 fonts working again (I knew this would happen, it's simply part of the game.....) I saw another problem, and I'm rather clueless on this one : I have a 140 pages document with about 60 pictures in it. The whole document is in landscape and in 3 columns. I did place all the figures with the same command : \plaatsfiguur[forceer][reffiguur1]{}{\externfiguur[figuur1.jpg][breedte=6cm]} In my previous tetex/context version, all figures appeared exactly where I defined them. Since the upgrade, figures appear sometimes spread over two columns, sometimes the text in the column adjacent to the figure starts below the figure (but on the next column) instead of besides the figure..... Is there something new with the figures placing mechanism in this newer context version that I am not aware of ? Geert

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bibmodule requests
by Stefano 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I have been using the bibmodule for a couple of weeks now, and it works great! ... but, I have run into some situations that are not considered. (1) It would be nice to visually distinguish the cited author using a different font or style in the text. I was able to add \c!authorstyle to \setupcite and make changes to the appropriate areas in the t-bib.tex module. I suppose I could also add a \c!yearstyle as well to allow for old style figures. In my case, I set \c!authorstyle={\em} (2) Another situation arises when dealing with multiple references from the same author in the same year. The years have a lower case letter added, such as 1995a, 1995b, 1995c, etc. For example, let's say I have three entries: article1 ... 1995a article2 ... 1995b article3 ... 1995c These entries are labelled a,b,c when using BibTeX to process the .bib file to the .bbl file. Unfortunately, the .bbl file contains all entries, since the .aux file contains the line \citation{*}. If I cite article2 and article3 in my document, the publication list uses 1995b and 1995c and my citations use the same years, and doesn't start with 'a'. The only way I have found to remedy this situation is to create a .bbl file that only contains the BibTeX entries which I have cited. These cited entries are listed in the .tui file that texexec creates. Unfortunately, the .tui file requires the entire .bbl file in order to list the entries cited ... so I have devised the following process ... step 1) run BibTeX using an .aux file that contains the line \citation{*} step 2) run texexec document --once (this creates .tui with the list of cited entries) step 3) rename the .aux to ._au file step 4) use the ._au and .tui files to create a new .aux which only lists the entries cited instead of \citation{*} ... for example ... \citation{Smith2001} \citation{Jones1995} \citation{Smith1999} ... etc. step 5) run BibTeX again ... this will create a .bbl which only contains the cited entries, ensuring that the years are labelled correctly i.e. 1995a, 1995b, etc. step 6) run texexec document to create the final document Is there any consideration to having .aux file created by texexec based on the entries cited in the document? I ended up creating a batch file to do this so it's not really an issue for me. Is there a better way to do this? (3) Another issue I found is when using the \cite[year][label1,label2,label3,etc.] and I have years such as 1995a, 1995b, 1995c, etc. only one of those years is listed, while if I use \cite[author] or \cite[authoryear] or \cite[authoryears], all the required years are listed. Unfortunately, the grouped years are not in order i.e. 1995b before 1995a, but it looks like this depends on the ordering of the labels. (4) Another issue is with regards to the author names in the publication list. The first author is typically inverted (last name before first name), but all subsequent authors are normal (first name before last name) ... for example ... Smith, A.B, C.D. Jones, E.J. Doe, and J.T. Morgan ... The use of author styles such as \normalauthor \invertedshortauthor, etc. applies to the entire list of authors. Is there any way to specify one style for the first author and a different style for the second and subsequent authors? (5) Is it possible to have additional annotations with a citation? For example, if I want to refer to page 27 from Smith et al., I would have (Smith et al., 1995a, p. 27). Another possibility is to have (e.g. Smith et al., 1995a, p.27). I suppose I could blank out the brackets in \setupcite and do the following ... (e.g. \cite[smith1995], p.27) or create a custom \def such as \def\Cite[#1][#2][#3]{(#1 \cite[#2], #3)} and use it as such ... \Cite[e.g.][smith1995][p. 27] Any information is appreciated. Sincerely, Stefano

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How to check the version ConTEXt that is installed on my system?
by R S Ananda Murthy 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

Hello, Please tell me how to check the version of ConTEXt that is installed on my system. I am running Slackware 10.1. Thanks, Anand

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Multiple image directories
by Gerben Wierda 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

I tried to use two image directories, but that does not work. Can I do something like that? E.g. \setupexternalfigures[directory=../images,directory=../ mp,maxwidth=\textwidth] G

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\= in tables
by Idris Samawi Hamid 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Just in case this was missed-) On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:05:19 -0700, <ishamid(a)lamar.colostate.edu> wrote: Dear cartel, \= does not work in tables (I think that the TABLE macros define \= differently; why on earth would someone do that?!?). Is there a workaround? Idris =========================== % output=pdf interface=en \starttext \setupinterlinespace \setupfloats[location=center] \placetable [here][tab:test]{Test.} \starttable{|c|c|} \HL \VL macron ({\=a}) \VL accents ({\=a}) \VL\FR \HL \VL do not ({\=a}) \VL work ({\=a})\VL\NR \HL \VL in ({\=a}) \VL tables ({\=a}) \VL\LR \HL \stoptable \stoptext =========================== log: =========================== systems : begin file test4 at line 3 ! Misplaced \omit. \!ttLongHrule ->\omit \span \omit \span \!ttShortHrule l.11 \VL macron ({\= a}) \VL accents ({\=i}) \VL\FR =========================== -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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\typebuffer with typing name
by Vit Zyka 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Hi everybody, please consider: ----------------------------------- \definetyping[TEX] \setuptyping[TEX][option=TEX] \starttext \startbuffer[A] \somemacro[bla][obla=vbla] \stopbuffer \typebuffer[A] \stoptext ----------------------------------- It works perfectly. I would like to type buffer with options for typing, e.g. \typebuffer[A][TEX] but the second param is ignored. It seems to me, the definition of \typebuffer is preprepared for that, but not finnished. Or is there some solution that I omitted? (It is not crutial since I solved it by calling \typefile[TEX][]{\jobname-A.tmp} ) Thanks vit

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bibmodule: two small questions
by Thomas A.Schmitz 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

I've been playing with Taco's bibmodule, and I'm absolutely thrilled how easy it is to customize things. Once you've groked how things work, you can simply copy code from bibl-apa.tex and modify, it's just wonderful (OT: what does "apa" stand for in this abbreviation? For me, it's the American Philological Association, but I guess that's not meant here.) I even managed to typeset the numbers of my bibliography flushright in a \hbox and was very proud of myself. Two small questions remain: 1. Is there a general option to have the publicationlist typeset in a smaller font size? The default seems to be the general bodyfont, but I couldn't see where this could be modified. 2. The space between the items does not follow the normal interlinespace, but is fixed to a somewhat smaller value, which looks a bit bizarre. Is there any way to modify this behavior. But these are just cosmetic flaws, overall, the module works wonderfully. Very impressive! Best Thomas

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Greek in ConTeXt
by Thomas A.Schmitz 30 Mar '05

30 Mar '05

Gang, during the last weeks, I've been working on two modules to support ancient (polytonic) Greek. THey are finished now and will be ready for download at Patrick's site soon. They require the latest ConTeXt beta 2005.03.16 (actually, some parts from these modules have been integrated into the main distribution). Moreover, I've written a MyWay about the process. Even if you're not particularly interested in Ancient Greek (rumor has it that some people might not be), this may be useful for you as it explains how I enabled support for Unicode TrueType fonts and utf-input, so this should be valid for other Unicode vectors as well. Patrick has agreed to host this MyWay at his site: http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/GreekInContext.pdf Hope this will be useful to some of you! Best wishes Thomas

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Problem with \type in captions
by Nikolai Weibull 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

\starttext \placefigure {\type{0|}} {} \stoptext gives me ! Argument of \next has an extra }. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } <argument> ...p {\strutdepth }\begstrut \type {0|} \endstrut \endgraf \doattributes ...sname #1#2\@EA \endcsname \fi {#4 }\dostopattributes \putcompletecaption ...trut #3\endstrut \endgraf } \fi \dostopattributes \docheckcaptioncontent ...ecaption {#4}{#2}{#3}{0} }\ifdim \wd \tempcaptionbo... ... l.4 {} Remove the 0 and it works fine. Is there a quick fix?, nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: minimalistic.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}

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RE: [NTG-context] footnote placement
by Idris Samawi Hamid 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

>\setupnote[endnote][location=none] > >\starttext > >\dorecurse{100}{test \endnote{eee}\endgraf} > >\page > >\placenotes[endnote] > >\stoptext For the record, this also works:-) %\setupnote[endnote][location=none] \setupfootnotes[location=none] \starttext \dorecurse{14}{\ReadFile{tufte}\footnote{\ReadFile{tufte}}\par} \page %\placenotes[endnote] \placefootnotes[location=none] \stoptext It seems that \endnote is also new; nice-) Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] footnote placement
by Idris Samawi Hamid 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== > \starttext >> \startbuffer[tufte] >> \input tufte >> \stopbuffer >> \startbuffer[knuth] >> \input knuth >> \stopbuffer >> \dorecurse{100}{test \footnote{\typebuffer[knuth]} \endnote{eee}\endgraf} > >it's \getbuffer else you indeed get a verbatim buffer (which is what type does); > >\dorecurse{100}{test \footnote{\input knuth } \endnote{eee}\endgraf} So \endgraf (or \par) is needed here; I should have guessed-) >also works; put a space or \relax after \input, else tex keeps scanning; >alternatively use \ReadFile{knuth} or \readfile{knuth}{}{} I definitely prefer the \ReadFile option. I could not find it (or \readfile{}{}{}) in ConTeXt Commands or texshow; must be new... What's the difference between these two commands? Also: given the ConTeXt philosophy, shouldn't there be a non-cryptic replacement for \par or \endgraf, something like \paragraph or \endparagraph? Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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how to place figures next to each other
by Peter 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Dear list, How can I place two figures next to each other without using a \startcombination ... \stopcombination group? I now have this, but it is not what I want: \gebruikexternfiguur[kortoctaaf][cekort][type=eps,hoogte=30mm] \gebruikexternfiguur[gebrokenoctaaf][gebroken][type=eps,hoogte=30mm] \plaatsfiguur [hier] [fig:klavieren] {Enkele varianten van het groot octaaf} {\startcombinatie[2*1] {\kortoctaaf}{kort octaaf} {\gebrokenoctaaf}{gebroken octaaf} \stopcombinatie} I want to have the two figures numbered as seperate, independent figures, but when using a combination, the whole combination is treated as one figure and gets only one number and one label. XXXX XXXX X X X X XXXX XXXX fig.n fig.n+1 I've consulted the manuals and searched the list archives, but I have not found a solution. tnx in advance, Peter van Kranenburg

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Re: [NTG-context] Urgent index problem
by Duncan Hothersall 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

I wrote: > -- > \starttext > \startregister[index]{this term+in+particular} This term is discussed > from the start of this page.\page[yes] > Some more text about the term, and another page.\page[yes] > And the end of the info about that term. \stopregister[index]{this > term+in+particular}\page[yes] > A page unrelated to that term.\page[yes] > \index{this term+in+particular} And then another page on exactly the > same term.\page[yes] > \placeindex\page[yes] > Disaster! The entry on page 5 has been eaten! > \stoptext > -- I realise that there is a workaround for the sample above, using the literal ASCII string in [] which makes this specific example work. Unfortunately this doesn't make everything work correctly in a larger document. I'm now seeing two other specific behaviours as well: 1. When there is a range and a single entry, the range is sometimes listed first in the index, even if the single entry is many pages before it - i.e. 282-283, 170 2. On other occasions where a range and a single entry exist, I end up having a strange three-way range in the index - like 282-283-349. The last reference should be just a single one on its own. It's really difficult to post a minimal file for these because they only occur when the whole text is processed (several hundred pages). I have just synchronised my tree this morning and no difference is made. Any help, especially today, VERY gratefully received. Duncan

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line wrap marker
by Stuart Jansen 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

We have lines of text that shouldn't be wrapped. If one line must be wrapped onto the next, we'd like to insert a visual mark at the end of the line and (hopefully) indent the next line slightly. Obviously, there's the potential for wrapping over multiple lines. I've dug around TeX, LaTeX and ConTeXt, and none appear to support this yet. So far, ConTeXt has been the most enjoyable to work with, so I'm okay with a ConTeXt only answer. How hard will this be to implement? Where should I start looking to figure out how to do this? I'm hoping for an answer along the lines of "this set of macros will probably be helpful". -- Stuart Jansen <sjansen(a)gurulabs.com> Guru Labs, L.C.

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PDF Forms
by Bob Kerstetter 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi, Is there some way to create PDF docs (as forms maybe?) so end users can add their own contact information and logos just by using Adobe Reader, not Acrobat? These are one to four page documents. Right now I can do this by supplying them with Word docs. Thanks.

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OT: metapost question
by Gerben Wierda 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Is it ok in a .mp file to do something like for k=1 step 1 until N: beginfig(k); % some stuff endfig; endfor; Thanks, G

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Using metapost stuff in ConTeXt
by Gerben Wierda 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Suppose I have a .mp file foo.mp, which contains some shared definitions and two images: beginfig(1); % some stuff endfig; beginfig(0); % some other stuff endfig; If I run mptopdf on this file I get foo-0.pdf and foo-1.pdf. And that works fine. But can I somehow interface directly from within ConTeXt to these images without doing the mptopdf myself in a way that the ConTeXt tools maintain the mp->image process, that these images are only recreated when the .mp file has changed and not on every run? Thanks, G

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protruding in the margin
by Steffen Wolfrum 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi, if I have a text with footnotes in the margin - see below. How do I also define those footnotes to use protruding? Steffen P.S. I know we had this already - but I forgot it. Sorry. \usetypescript [adobekb][ec] \usetypescript[serif] [hanging] [normal] \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] \setupalign [hanging] \setupbodyfont[times,10pt] \definenote[mynote][way=bypage,location=text,width=4cm,rule=,before=,factor=1] \setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape] \setuplayout[backspace=6cm,leftmargin=4cm,rightmargin=0cm,margindistance=.5cm,width=middle] \showframe \startbuffer[sometext] \input zapf \stopbuffer[sometext] \startbuffer[moretext] \input ward \stopbuffer[moretext] \setuptexttexts [margin] [\setups{flushmynotes}] [] \startsetups flushmynotes \vbox to \textheight{\placenotes[mynote]\vfill} \stopsetups \starttext \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \mynote{\getbuffer[sometext]} \input tufte \mynote{\getbuffer[moretext]}} \stoptext

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Urgent index problem
by Duncan Hothersall 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

I am one night from a deadline and I have just noticed that my index is silently ignoring some entries... Help!! The following demonstrates the problem (tested on live.contextgarden.net) -- \starttext \startregister[index]{this term+in+particular} This term is discussed from the start of this page.\page[yes] Some more text about the term, and another page.\page[yes] And the end of the info about that term. \stopregister[index]{this term+in+particular}\page[yes] A page unrelated to that term.\page[yes] \index{this term+in+particular} And then another page on exactly the same term.\page[yes] \placeindex\page[yes] Disaster! The entry on page 5 has been eaten! \stoptext -- So we have the same terms referenced as a span over pages 1 to 3, and as a single entry on page 5. But only the span appears, not the second entry! The .tuo file contains: \registerentry{index}{t} \registerentrya{index}{this term} \registerentryb{index}{in} \registerentryc{index}{particular} \registerfrom{index}{,}{1}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::1}{1} \registerpage{index}{,}{3}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::5}{5} \registerto{index}{,}{2}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::3}{3} so it looks like the sorting of these by page numbers has broken, and ConTeXt thinks that page 5 is between pages 1 and 3. I hope someone can help... Duncan

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my new page on layout
by Paul Tremblay 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

I've authored a new page on laying out pages in ConText. This page will be just one in a number of pages on using ConTeXt with XML. The new page can be found at http://www.geocities.com/paulhtremblay/context_xml/page2.html I would appreciate any feedback. I hope the page will be useful in helping others overcome some of the difficulty I had in trying to understand layout in ConTeXt. I believe it is very thorough. I hope it is clear (it contains many illustrations) and accurate. I put this page up on yahoo because it had so many graphics, and because trying to cut and paste the entire page to the wiki would have been too difficult. The yahoo location is just temporary. Probably I will create a sourceforge project to host the page. Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry(a)iglou.com * ************************

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lmr (texnansi vs ec)
by ishamid 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Dear gang, Why does lmr in ConTeXt use the ec instead of the texnansi encoding? I just noticed that all of my macros that use, e.g., \char'25 are now bringing up the wrong symbols. Shouldn't ConTeXt default to the encoding most consistent with cmr (surely I am not the only one who depended on the old TeX encoding->) Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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lmr / latest beta
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi all, since I haven't used it for a long time (in ConTeXt terms), I decided to update my context before starting a major project. As usual, I grabbed the latest beta from pragma and installed it. The first thing I noticed was that context defaults to latin modern now - great. Unfortunately, it complained a lot about missing fonts like "ec-lmr12". The list archive helped to correct this by installing the contents of the cont-lmt zip. However, the fonts still are not found by pdftex. The resulting pdf is very small (1,5k), and acrobat reader complains about missing fonts. I tried adding the contents of ec-public-lm.map to pdftex.map. This resulted in a larger pdf (4,5k), with the font embedded according to acrobat, but showing as a blank page. I am rather confused by now - I always tried to avoid that font stuff whenever possible. What am I missing? Greetings, Eckhart

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Re: [NTG-context] my new page on layout
by Duncan Hothersall 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

I appreciate the effort you've put into this, Paul, but > "This primary audience for this page is XML authors who want to use > ConTeXt to format an XML document." is still not enough of a disclaimer. I use ConTeXt as part of a large XML-based workflow, but don't use TeXML (nor do I use much of the built-in parser, except for MathML processing). There are very many ways to integrate ConTeXt into XML work, and it needs to be clear that this is just one of them. It is entirely worthwhile documenting it though, and thanks for doing that. [In case anyone is interested, we use a (commercial) programming language called OmniMark to process DocBook-based XML into pure ConTeXt + MathML, and then let ConTeXt produce pages from it. We also use OmniMark directly to produce HTML and databases from the same XML sources.] Duncan

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How to use Times Roman font for body text.
by R S Ananda Murthy 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

Hello, How to use Times Roman font for body text? Thanks for your help, Anand

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OT: looking for metapost/fun examples
by Gerben Wierda 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

I am trying to learn metapost/fun, inline in ConTeXt source. Some basic things are clear, but now the issue is metapost itself. For instance, I would like to plot a Fourier approximation of a block function. For instance, I would like to plot a gaussian spread. I am looking for examples on how to do this. I need to do a bit of programming here and these are my initial projects. Thanks in advance, G

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RE: [NTG-context] meaning of HASH?
by Idris Samawi Hamid 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> ===== >ishamid wrote: >> Dear crew, >> >> Sometimes a line like >> >> Opt=HASH(0x1c43ab4) executable : pdfetex > > > > is appended before a texexec job; what does this mean? > >It looks like a perl debug print statement, because >something like > > print STDERR "Opt=$Opt" ; # check value of $Opt > >would give this effect. Thnx 4 the explanation Does the appearance of this indicate some misconfiguration that I should be concerned about, or is it completely benign? Thnx Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] extra_mem_bot.context
by ishamid 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From "Adam Lindsay" <atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk> ===== >>This is a note for aleph users. In _both_ texmf.cnf files that come with the >>full ConTeXt distribution, you must comment the line >> >>%extra_mem_bot.context = 4000000 >>[\texmf\web2c, line 503] >> >>%extra_mem_bot.context = 2000000 >>[\texmf-local\web2c, line140] >> >>otherwise aleph will crash upon over/underfull >>boxes. >> >>This has actually been noted before; I don't know/remember if a solution was >>ever found. > >Now that's interesting. > >That same bug was plaguing XeTeX versions through 0.88. Jonathan Kew >tracked it down and quashed it. It's a little surprising that the same >thing appeared in e-Omega, as well. Perhaps Jonathan can help you track >it down. (And perhaps kill the bug at a common source?) This is wonderful news! Although, unless someone else can dive into the aleph code we will have to wait for Giuseppe to return from the purgatory of writing his doctoral dissertation (soon I hope->)... Any ideas for a workaround in the meantime? Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] lmr (texnansi vs ec)
by ishamid 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Vit Zyka <vit.zyka(a)seznam.cz> ===== >ishamid wrote: >> Dear gang, >> >> Why does lmr in ConTeXt use the ec instead of the texnansi encoding? I just >> noticed that all of my macros that use, e.g., >> >> \char'25 > >lmr is defined for both ec and texnansi encodings (and even for qx). But >ec is default. Use > \usetypescript[latin-modern][texnansi] > \setupbodyfont[latin-modern] Ok; it just seems strange that texnansi is not the default, since that's closer to Knuth's original. Maybe its because I (like Knuth) am in America where we don't have accents-) >Ishamid, \char is wrong approach since it is encoding-dependent >definition. Use glyph name instead, like \endash, \Aacute. Are those names defined in Plain TeX? But that's a good idea anyway; I'll just depend on the ConTeXt framework. >But ... your glyph number 25 is not defined in the texnansi. So what it is? TeXBook, page 427, character '025 (in ec, \char'10 or \textbreve) Best and Thnx! Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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meaning of HASH?
by ishamid 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Dear crew, Sometimes a line like Opt=HASH(0x1c43ab4) executable : pdfetex is appended before a texexec job; what does this mean? Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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extra_mem_bot.context
by ishamid 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Dear musketeers, This is a note for aleph users. In _both_ texmf.cnf files that come with the full ConTeXt distribution, you must comment the line %extra_mem_bot.context = 4000000 [\texmf\web2c, line 503] %extra_mem_bot.context = 2000000 [\texmf-local\web2c, line140] otherwise aleph will crash upon over/underfull boxes. This has actually been noted before; I don't know/remember if a solution was ever found. Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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\= in tables
by ishamid 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Dear cartel, \= does not work in tables (I think that the TABLE macros define \= differently; why on earth would someone do that?!?). Is there a workaround? Idris =========================== % output=pdf interface=en \starttext \setupinterlinespace \setupfloats[location=center] \placetable [here][tab:test]{Test.} \starttable{|c|c|} \HL \VL macron ({\=a}) \VL accents ({\=a}) \VL\FR \HL \VL do not ({\=a}) \VL work ({\=a})\VL\NR \HL \VL in ({\=a}) \VL tables ({\=a}) \VL\LR \HL \stoptable \stoptext =========================== log: =========================== systems : begin file test4 at line 3 ! Misplaced \omit. \!ttLongHrule ->\omit \span \omit \span \!ttShortHrule l.11 \VL macron ({\= a}) \VL accents ({\=i}) \VL\FR =========================== ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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hyper interactions
by ishamid 26 Mar '05

26 Mar '05

Dear syndicate, Are hyper interactions now restricted to pdfetex's pdf engine? Hyperlinks do not work in pdf produced by dvipdfmx, for either aleph of pdfetex dvi output. Idris =========================== % output=dvi interface=en \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start,color=darkgreen] \starttext \chapter[ch-test]{Test} \in[sc-test]\input tufte \page \section[sc-test]{Test} \in[ch-test]\input tufte \stoptext =========================== ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Columnsets problems
by Gilles Pérez-Lambert 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Hello, Following Hans's presentation on ConTeXt in EuroTeX 2005, I started to use columnsets. I'm really really impressed. Columnsets are easy to set up and wonderfully powerful. Nevertheless, I have some problems with columnsets... On the page: http://typo.free.fr/context/ you'll find the source file (Bogues.tex) and the output (Bogues.pdf) or a zip file of them. Some info on my config: texexec : TeXExec 5.2.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004 tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) context : ver: 2005.03.16 cont-en : ver: 2005.03.16 fmt: 2005.3.19 mes: english cont-nl : ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2005.3.19 mes: dutch Pages on the Bogues.pdf Description ---------- -------------------------------- 1 When a title (here: \Article{Le titre}) is inside a columnsetspan, header=empty doesn't work. 6 The right column continues in the footer. 10 Same problem. 17 a line from the left column is reported on the right column even if there is room for it on the left column. By the way, always in a columnsets context, is there a way to completely forbid floats on certain pages? I didn't find a way to tell placefigure not to allow figures to be renumbered during the placement. In other words, is there a possibility the follow the order in which I declare the figure, even if a page is less optimal like this... Thanks for your time! Gilles.

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\normalsize
by Peter Münster 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Hello, is there a command, that switches to the normal font size (body-font)? I tried \tf, but it affects only the shape, not the size. TIA for any hint, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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bib: potential range of bibliography styles?
by dw＠trichotomic.net 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Greetings all, I'm leaning towards experimenting with the bib module to see if I can arrive at a usable "Semiotics Society of America" reference section, which is a historically layered style, along the lines of: --- PEIRCE, Charles S. 1859. "An Essay on the Limits of Religious Thought Written to Prove That We Can Reason Upon the Nature of God", MS 53, in W1:37-40 1982. Writings of Charles S. Peirce: a Chronological Edition, ed. Max Fisch, Peirce Edition Project. Five volumes. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982-98). TEILHARD de Chardin, Pr. P. 1961. (posthumously). Hymn of the Universe (New York: Harper & Row Torchbooks, English Edition, 1965). 1957. (posthumously). The Divine Milieu (New York: Harper & Row Colophon Books Edition, 1968). --- Aside from all the niggling details (which I'm sure could be worked out), is this kind of layout in general possible—all citations going by year underneath a single instance of the author? …or am I doomed to forever make these by hand? ;) Regards, David

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\showlayout curiosity.
by John R. Culleton 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

The following code should, by my calculations, generate two pages. However it generates five, one for \ShowLayout and four for \showlayout. Remove the t-layout module and the \ShowLayout statement and it still generates four. This is an inconvenience and not a deal breaker but I am curious about why the extra pages are created. ------------------------------------------- \setupoutput[pdftex] \definepapersize[bok][width=5.5in,height=8.5in] \setuppapersize[bok][letter] \setuplayout[width=middle,location=middle] \usemodule[t-layout] % \starttext \ShowLayout[units=in] \showlayout \stoptex ------------------------------------------ John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

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Are there any ready-to-use book layouts in ConTEXt?
by R S Ananda Murthy 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Hello, Are there any ready-to-use book layouts available in ConTEXt like Komascript-Book Class in LaTeX? Thanks for your help, Anand

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Headers and footers in backmatter
by Duncan Hothersall 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Dear all, I have noticed that when I set my index as a \chapter within the \startbackmatter...\stopbackmatter structure of a document, my headers and footers, including page numbers, disappear. Even the backgrounds disappear. The only commands I can find which seem to influnce the sectionblock behaviour are \setupsectionblock and \setupsection, but neither of these has a setting for page numbering or headers/footers. Looking through the sources hasn't helped me either. Can anyone shed any light on the mechanism for adjusting this behaviour? Thanks Duncan

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spilling endnotes
by ishamid 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Dear syndicate, Just a reminder: Even with the latest patch, the endnotes spill over the page (I double-checked that core-not was replaced and the format regenerated): =========================== % output=pdftex interface=en \starttext \dorecurse{100}{test \footnote{test} \endnote{eee}\endgraf} \page \placenotes[endnote] \stoptext =========================== Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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2 questions about texexec.ini
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Dear musketeers, 1. I just noted that texexec.ini for mswincontext.zip defaults to tetex, not fptex. Is that intentional? 2. Can I configure texexec.ini so that texexec --make generates the aleph format in addition to the pdfetex formats? (Of course this assume we can solve the search-paths-for-formats problem.) Thought: Knowing absolutely nothing about texexec's internals, I was thinking that one possible solution to the aleph format subdirectory problem is make another executable, say TeXExecutable2 and then set TeXExecutable2 to aleph A related possiblility is renaming the formats, say: co-al-en.fmt for aleph co-tx-en.fmt for tex etc. Just a stab in the dark from someone who know virtually nothing; never know when you might hit something... Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Path searches (good news!)
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Dear cartel, I've been trying to control the search paths with C:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-local\web2c\texmf.cnf, but I just realized that setuptex.bat overrides texmf.cnf. The way I found out is interesting: Upon running mktexlsr I get the line mktexlsr: c:/CONTEXT/tex/texmf-project is not a directory. Skipping... But in \texmf-local\web2c texmf.cnf has, not `texmf-project', but rather `texmf-projects' (with plural). And setuptex.bat is the only file that mentions `texmf-project';-) So now I have configured setuptex.bat to search TeXLive. The only hassle is that I must remember to back up my copy the next time ConTeXt updates. In case anyone else needs to do this (until Hans provides a better way;->) =========================== set TEXMFMAIN=%TEXPATH%texmf set TEXMFLOCAL=%TEXPATH%texmf-local set TEXMFFONTS=%TEXPATH%texmf-fonts set TEXMFEXTRA=%TEXPATH%texmf-extra REM set TEXMFPROJECT=%TEXPATH%texmf-project set TEXMFOS=%TEXPATH%texmf-mswin set VARTEXMF=%TMP%\texmf-var set HOMETEXMF=c:/TEXLIVE/texmf set HOMETEXMFVAR=c:/TEXLIVE/texmf-var <snip> REM set TEXMF={$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFPROJECT,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFEXTRA,!!$TEXMFMAIN ,$HOMETEXMF} set TEXMF={$TEXMFOS,$TEXMFFONTS,$TEXMFLOCAL,$TEXMFEXTRA,$TEXMFMAIN,$HOMETEXMFVAR,$ HOMETEXMF} =========================== If I'm missing something or if there is a better/saner way please let me know. Now on to those other 3 problems in my previous email;-> Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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dvipdfmx/dvips and a summary
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Dear folks, The dvips/dvipdfmx problem is not limited to aleph in the latest ConTeXt: ===========test-3========== \setupoutput[dvi] \starttext abc \stoptext =========================== gives =========================== $>dvipdfmx test3 test3.dvi -> test3.pdf [1** Fatal error: Could not locate a virtual or a physical font file for 'ec-lmr 12'. ** ERROR ** $>dvips test3 This is dvips(k) 5.94b Copyright 2004 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) dvips: ! Couldn't find header file tex.pro =========================== I suppose that the transition to lmr is at the root of this. Anyway, I think my own problems have been reduced to the following 4: 1. supp-dir needs to be modified or made into an optional module (e.g. m-xetex) (so I don't have to modify it every time I update ConTeXt); 2. aleph needs to be taught;-) to look for its format in its own subdirectory (related: an aleph.ini should be included so that the plain aleph.fmt can be compiled. I also think the minimal context should support plain.fmt, which helps in testing etc. right now manfnt is missing); 3. dvips/dvipdfmx need to be taught how to find lmr (and perhaps other fonts? a complete font torture test before every release and for users to do their own testing is desperately needed I think. ); 4. In order to use Gamma, either i. the basic omega files (with aleph replacing omega.exe) should be included in mswincontext.zip; or ii. I need to know how to get the \ConTeXt tree to properly search the \TeXLive tree for the omega files (and for other fonts like cmr, etc). Strangely, I was able to get \TeXLive\...\texmf.cnf configured to read the \ConTeXt tree, but I was not able to get \ConTeXt\...\texmf.cnf to be able to read the \TeXLive tree. Any idea why? Many many thnx to Hans for all his hard work; I look forward to a reliable ConTeXt:-))) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeXt (confirmed)
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

>===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >ishamid wrote: > >> lines all over the place in my work that compiled fine with the old ConTeX, >> and I suspect that XeTeX may be responsible. Is there a way to completely >> isolate the new stuff because I'm going to lose a lot of time trying to track >> down every situation where my previously well-behaved stuff now gives errors >> because of this. > >just put \endinput atthe topmost lin eof supp-dir.tex and remake the format Those problems I told you about in a private email are still being caused by supp-dir, even after \endinput. I played around with supp-dir and thise following works;-) ========================================================== \unprotect \chardef\inlinedirection\zerocount % 0==notset 1==LR 2==RL \beginETEX \beginL % \def\pardir#1#2#3% messages end up in a higher level command % {\global\TeXXeTstate\plusone % \if#2L\chardef\inlinedirection\plusone\else % \if#2R\chardef\inlinedirection\plustwo\fi\fi % \checkinlinedirection} % needed / added %\appendtoks \checkinlinedirection \to \everypar % see core-ini.tex \def\checkinlinedirection {\ifcase\inlinedirection\or\beginL\or\beginR\fi} \endETEX \protect \endinput ========================================================== It seems that the \checkinlinedirection is still needed or I get other errors. I hope that you and Adam can up with something that won't kill me next time:-) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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Re: [NTG-context] Going crazy with font conversion (macron)!
by Steffen Wolfrum 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Taco Hoekwater <taco(a)elvenkind.com> wrote: > Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > BTW: > > > > Is there also a command to translate TFM (and VF) files to AFM or > > another human readable format and back again? > > There exist the Knuthian programs tftopl (for tfm only) and > vftovp (for virtual fonts) that convert to 'property list' > format. The format is an ASCCI representation, but Whether or > not you think this is human readable depends on what kind of > human you are ;-) > > Anyway, the commands should be part of your installation already. > > Taco The idea was to translate TFM (and VF?) in a readable format, and back again, in order to be able of making little kerning adjustments: When the font is already Tex-installed and in use, but finally there is one kerning pair that doesn't look good enough, I wanted to be able to make this particular adjustment in the kerning table without starting from AFM and going the whole conversion and installation way again. Steffen

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RE: [NTG-context] New List: SemiTeX (*Tex for the Semitic Languages)
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi Fred, This is very interesting and, certainly, I'd like to join (though your email address in hidden in this particular posting->) Also consider merging this with the aleph list, because the aleph list was also intended to discuss most of the same issues, even multilingual TeX issues that do not pertain to aleph directly. I hope that the XeTeX people (Hi Adam!) will post their bidi developments to the aleph list as well, so we can all be in better sync in the future:-) The aleph list is low volume and can certainly easily handle the issues you mention without boring anyone;-) I'm also working on an advanced replacement to ArabTeX, scheduled for release later this year. I can send you some samples (just send me your email address) Eventually I'd like to see the aleph capabilities merged into pdfetex, which will make my ConTeXt life much easier (Hi Hans;->) We live pretty close to one another; I'd be happy to stay in touch, talk, or even meet sometime. Take care Idris >===== Original Message From mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> ===== >Hi, > >(My apologies for cross-postings) > >I would like to announce a new mailing list that I have created called >"SemiTeX." > >This is intended to be a forum for people concerned with typesetting >Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac, Amharic, and any other Semitic and/or >right-to-left languages using the various flavors of *TeX (LaTeX, >XeTeX, ConTeXt, etc). ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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RE: [NTG-context] bug in latest ConTeXt (confirmed)
by ishamid 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi Hans, >===== Original Message From Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> ===== >at the moment the best way of dealing with is is to use texexec's engine handler; > >locate texexec.ini (or rme) and set > >set UseEnginePath to true > >after that pdfetex, aleph, xetex, mpost etc will end up on their own path. I have done that previously and, yes, I do get the subdirectories. But that's not the problem. The problem is that aleph is searching for its format in pdfetex's subdirectory: This is Aleph, Version 3.141592-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (Web2c 7.5.3) \write18 enabled. Copyright (c) 2002--2004 the Aleph task force ---! c:\CONTEXT\tex\texmf-mswin/web2c/pdfetex/cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex How do we make aleph search its own subdirectory? Just to be sure, texexec --verbose gives setting : 'UseEnginePath' to 'true' for 'all' Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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New List: SemiTeX (*Tex for the Semitic Languages)
by Frederick Hoyt 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Hi, (My apologies for cross-postings) I would like to announce a new mailing list that I have created called "SemiTeX." This is intended to be a forum for people concerned with typesetting Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac, Amharic, and any other Semitic and/or right-to-left languages using the various flavors of *TeX (LaTeX, XeTeX, ConTeXt, etc). Issues that I foresee being relevant include (but are not limited to): - Font issues related to the Semitic languages - Formatting issues related to formatting right-to-left text - Issues related to editors useful for right-to-left languages I have created the list because I thought it would be useful to have a forum in which people can feel free to ask detailed questions specific to typesetting Semitic without having to worry about boring others, and in the hope that having a forum like this might help create some critical mass of interest for creating an coherent approach to using the Semitic languages in TeX. The list is currently configured as "closed" (the list owner - myself - adds subscribers, in order to eliminate spam as much as possible), "unmoderated" (postings go straight out to subscribers), "digested" (you can get messages in daily digest form if you choose), and "archived" (the archives are currently available only to subscribers). If you wish to join, please send me an email including the email address you wish to be subscribed under, as well as the name you wish to have used. Thanks, Fred Hoyt Frederick M. Hoyt Linguistics Department University of Texas at Austin

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