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new manual
by Hans Hagen 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Hi, http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mtexsync-p.pdf.pdf http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mtexsync-s.pdf.pdf Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NTG-context] Synchronization (.tex <-> .pdf)
by Hans Hagen 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

At 19:49 22/12/2003, you wrote: >On Dec 22, 2003, at 10:32 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > >>How is the position file that texshop wants formatted? > >don't understand the question. when you process a file, using the latex style file, how does the extra fiel with porisions looks like? i suppose that a file is used to communicate the locations, so there should be a file names jobname.whatever that has the info Hans

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Re: Synchronization (.tex <-> .pdf)
by Steffen Wolfrum 23 Dec '03

23 Dec '03

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 16:56 22/12/2003, you wrote: > >Now that would be a Christmas present! I didn't dare ask. > > hm, that gives me two days for a 5 minute module, should be doable -) (... and a new pair of placefigure keywords maybe ??) Steffen

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Synchronization (.tex <-> .pdf)
by Steffen Wolfrum 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

Hi, I don't now how many ConTeXt user are aware of the idea of synchronization. In the LaTeX area of TeX it has a kind of tradition (Textures, srcltx, ...) for dvi output. For PDF output Jérôme Laurens has now written a package (for use with iTeXMac and TeXShop) that makes the advantages from source-output synchronization also available for the todays standard PDF. But as so many things in the TeX world it is written as a "plug-in" for LaTeX. Does anybody has an idea how to use this great achievement also with ConTeXt? For those who would like to have a look at Jérôme's great work, I insert his code at the end of this email. Thank you very much, Steffen Wolfrum %%%% This is pdfsync.sty %%%% 2003-12-08: %%%% There is a bug in using everyvbox... novbox is now the default %%%% bug fixed: $0$ was no visible %%%% 2003-11-28: %%%% comment characters added to fix an error. Don't know exactly the cause... %%%% Default option is all... %%%% Could not use \everydisplay... (bug in eqnarray) %%%% 2003-11-19 %%%% first version %%%% usage: \usepackage[display,cr,vbox]{PDFSYNC} %%%% appends reference points before each \par and at each \hbox, inline math; %%%% optionally also at every displayed math, with the option [display] %%%% optionally also at every \cr, with the option [cr] %%%% optionally also at every \vbox, with the option [vbox] %%%% %%%% If you want additional files to be parsed, please use the command %%%% \include (which is redefined below) %%%% This file is due to Piero D'Ancona and jlaurens(a)users.sourceforge.net %%%% iTeXMac is supporting pdfsync %%%% Copy this file to ~/Library/texmf/tex/latex or ~/Library/TeX/texmf/tex/latex if available %%%% This file is distributed under the GPL and the "smart licence": please make things better if you can %%%% © 2003, jlaurens(a)users.sourceforge.net % \NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}% \ProvidesPackage{pdfsync}[2003/12/08 v0.3]% \newif\ifPDFSYNCOK% \newif\ifPDFSYNCStar% \newif\ifPDFSYNCPar \PDFSYNCPartrue% \newif\ifPDFSYNCMath \PDFSYNCMathtrue% \newif\ifPDFSYNCCr \PDFSYNCCrtrue% \newif\ifPDFSYNCHBox \PDFSYNCHBoxtrue% \newif\ifPDFSYNCVBox \PDFSYNCVBoxfalse% \newif\ifPDFSYNCExtra \PDFSYNCExtratrue% \newwrite\PDFPOS% \newcount\PDFSYNC@folio\PDFSYNC@folio=0% \newcount\PDFSYNC@rder\PDFSYNC@rder=0% \DeclareOption{nopar}{\PDFSYNCParfalse}% \DeclareOption{nomath}{\PDFSYNCMathfalse}% \DeclareOption{nocr}{\PDFSYNCCrfalse}% \DeclareOption{nohbox}{\PDFSYNCHBoxfalse}% \DeclareOption{novbox}{\PDFSYNCVBoxfalse}% \DeclareOption{vbox}{\PDFSYNCVBoxtrue}% \DeclareOption{noextra}{\PDFSYNCExtrafalse}% \DeclareOption{nothing}{\let\pdfsyncstart\pdfsyncstop}% \ProcessOptions\relax% \RequirePackage{everyshi}% \ifx\pdfsavepos\undefined% \wlog{Synchronization is only available with pdf. Use a dvi viewer instead.}% \let\pdfsyncstart\relax% \let\pdfsyncstop\relax% \let\pdfsync\relax% \let\@PDFSYNC\relax% \else% \def\pdfsyncstart{\global\PDFSYNCOKtrue}% \def\pdfsyncstop{\global\PDFSYNCOKfalse}% \EveryShipout{\@PDFSYNC\global\advance\PDFSYNC@folio by 1\immediate\write\PDFPOS{s\space\the\PDFSYNC@folio}}% \immediate\openout\PDFPOS\jobname.pdfsync% \immediate\write\PDFPOS{\jobname}% control info \immediate\write\PDFPOS{version 0}% control info \let\PDFSYNC@include\include% \def\PDFSYNC@@include#1{% \immediate\write\PDFPOS{(#1}% \PDFSYNC@include{#1}\immediate\write\PDFPOS{)}}% \let\include\PDFSYNC@@include% \def\@PDFSYNC{% \ifPDFSYNCOK% \pdfsavepos% \immediate\write\PDFPOS{l\space\the\PDFSYNC@rder\space\the\inputlineno}% \def\position{\the\pdflastxpos\space\the\pdflastypos}% \ifPDFSYNCStar% \edef\argument{{p*\space\the\PDFSYNC@rder\space\noexpand\position}}% \else% \edef\argument{{p\space\the\PDFSYNC@rder\space\noexpand\position}}% \fi% \expandafter\write\expandafter\PDFPOS\argument% \global\advance\PDFSYNC@rder by 1% \fi}% \def\pdfsync{\global\PDFSYNCStartrue\@PDFSYNC\global\PDFSYNCStarfalse}% \def\PDFSYNC@Extra{% % \let\PDFSYNC@maketitle\maketitle\def\maketitle{\pdfsyncstop\PDFSYNC@maketitle\pdfsyncstart} \let\PDFSYNC@newline\\\def\\{{\@PDFSYNC}\PDFSYNC@newline}% \global\let\PDFSYNC@verse\verse \global\def\verse{\PDFSYNC@verse\let\PDFSYNC@newline\\\def\\{{\@PDFSYNC}\PDFSYNC@newline}}% }% \AtBeginDocument{% \pdfsyncstart% \ifPDFSYNCPar\global\let\p@@r\par\gdef\par{{\@PDFSYNC}\p@@r}\fi% \ifPDFSYNCMath\everymath{{\@PDFSYNC}}\fi% \ifPDFSYNCCr\everycr {{\@PDFSYNC}}\fi% \ifPDFSYNCHBox\everyhbox {{\@PDFSYNC}}\fi% \ifPDFSYNCVBox\everyvbox {{\@PDFSYNC}}\fi%there is a bug here \ifPDFSYNCExtra\PDFSYNC@Extra\fi% }% \fi% \endinput

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\hyphenatedurl problem
by Tobias Burnus 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

Hi, I'm sure I miss something obvious but I have no clue what it is. I have: \def\gotoDOI#1{\hyphenatedurl#1} \gotoDOI{10.1016/S0009-2614(01)01361-6} \hyphenatedurl{10.1016/S0009-2614(01)01361-6} and I redefined supp-lan.tex's \scanurl to hyphenate at '(' and ')'. The strange thing is: Using gotoDOI the linebreak comes after the last '-' ('...01361-' // '6') while using hyphenatedurl it's '...(01)' // '01361-6' (the latter is desired). See attached test case. The real definition of gotoDOI will be: \def\gotoDOI#1{\useURL[doi][#1]\useURL[doiurl][http://dx.doi.org/#1]% \goto{\url[doi]}[url(doiurl)]} MERRY CHRISTMAS (or happy holidays) AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR! Tobias PS: Hans, can you include ( and ) as places where a hyphenation may happen?

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texexec changes drives
by David Arnold 21 Dec '03

21 Dec '03

All, I have Miktex and context installed on my F: drive (partition). My path: C:\Temp>path PATH=F:\MIKTEX\CONTEXT\PERLTK;F:\MIKTEX\MIKTEX\BIN;C:\GS\GS7.04\BIN;C:\GS\GS 7.04 \LIB;C:\PERL\BIN;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\YANDY\YANDYTEX\ ;E:\ MATLAB6P1\BIN\WIN32;C:\EMACS\BIN;;C:\GHOSTGUM\GSVIEW\;;F:\MSYS\1.0\MINGW\BIN ;F:\ IMAGINE\BIN;;E:\J2SDK1.4.0_02\BIN;E:\MATLAB6P5\BIN\WIN32 Look what happens every time I run texexec. C:\temp>texexec --version TeXExec 4.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 total run time : 1 seconds F:\Temp> The drive changes! I am using Miktex, have deleted texexec from /Miktex/bin, and have pointed my path at /Miktex/context/perltk as you can see above. Has anyone else experienced this strange behavior of changing drives?

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vertical spacing in tabulate
by Patrick Gundlach 20 Dec '03

20 Dec '03

Dear ConTeXt users, I'd like to reduce the vertical spacing in the following tabulation. How do I do this? I couldn't find an answer in the up-to-date (4). \starttext \tfxx \starttabulate[|r|l|r|] \NC 1\NC Testbild (Mittagspause)\NC 2:42\NC \NR \NC 2\NC Innenstadtfront (Mittagspause)\NC 1:11\NC \NR \NC 3\NC Risikofaktor 1:X (Male)\NC 1:31\NC \NR \stoptabulate \stoptext Patrick -- mon transistor j'adore

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bookmarks, accented caracters, breaking URLs
by Tobias Burnus 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

Hello, (first: Thanks, Hans for the answer, I added some space in \unknownreference and a $\blacktriangleright$, but otherwise I won't miss any reference anymore; fingers crossed.) (a) I fail somehow to produce bookmarks (or 'outlines') for the Acrobat Reader. I tried \placebookmarks[chapter,section,subsection] \starttext \chapter{foo} \stoptext but the outline is completely empty. This is with pdfeTeX (Web2C 7.4.5) 3.14159-1.10b-2.1, ConTeXt ver:2003.11.27 and acroread 5.0.5 for Linux. I don't insist on bookmarks, but I think they are nice if you get them for free. (b) Accented characters in bookmarks (I think) or the 'general info' dialog An {\"a} is shown as 'dobuildtextaccent char 127 a'. Having a 'ä' would be nice since then the indexer would find this. Since it is only 'Universität' (a proper name) this is not an important search term, though. (c) With some URLs in my literature reference list, I run into the problem that they are not (properly) hyphenized. I use \def\gotoURL#1{\useURL[foo][#1]\goto{\url[foo]}[url(foo)]} for this purpose. I would like to see a linebreak at '/' and in long words (with out printing a '-'). I get ('|' denotes the column width and the page width): | | DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2614(01)01361-6 | | | | http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CylindricalCoordinates. html. Tobias

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\loadfontfileoncetrue?
by David Arnold 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

Hmmm,... I haven't tried included graphics for a while, so I downloaded the new beta into my Miktex system, regenerated formats, and attempted to compile the code below. I got the following error: ! Undefined control sequence. l.1 \global \loadfontfileoncetrue % ! You can't use a prefix with `\shipout'. <to be read again> \shipout l.2 \shipout \hbox{\smash{\hbox{\hbox{% line 226 C:\temp\junk-mpgraph.mp [1] ) (see the transcript file for additional information) I have write18 enabled in miktex.ini, and adjusted cont-sys.tex: % Enabling run time \METAPOST\ (also enable \write18 in % texmf.cnf): \runMPgraphicstrue \runMPTEXgraphicstrue % This saves some runtime, but needs a format, which you can % make with 'texexec --make --alone metafun'. Make sure that % the mem files are moved to the used web2c path (locate with % 'kpsewhich plain.mem'). \useMETAFUNformattrue % Enabling nested pretty printing: \newprettytrue % This can be a way to get things working on system with % name clashes. (Some \TeX's tend do search system wide.) \protectbufferstrue Anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong? \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \section{Including the MPcode in the placefigure mechanism} \placefigure [here] [] {the label} {\startMPcode label.top(btex Some label 1 etex, (1cm,1cm)) ; \stopMPcode} \section{startMPgraphic -- placeMPgraphic} \startMPgraphic label.top(btex Some label 2 etex, (1cm,1cm)) ; \stopMPgraphic \loadcurrentMPgraphic{width=15cm} \placeMPgraphic \section{startuseMPgraphic -- useMPgraphic} \startuseMPgraphic{Label2} label.top(btex Some label 3 etex, (1cm,1cm)) ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{Label2} \section{startreusableMPgrpahic -- reuseMPgraphic} \startreusableMPgraphic{Label3} label.top(btex Some label 4 etex, (1cm,1cm)) ; \stopreusableMPgraphic \reuseMPgraphic{Label3} \stoptext

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Re: Active points on a ground plan (CD-ROM catalogue)
by Steffen Wolfrum 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Very nice, thank you Hans! Steffen Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 16:33 11/12/2003, you wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I'd like to make the CD-ROM catalogue (PDF) of an architectural exhibition > >in ConTeXt. > > > > > >In short the general idea is: > > > >- First you have a page with a map showing the locations of the different > >buildings. > >- Then you should point on location you are interested in and jump to the > >page where this particular building is described in detail. > >- Then again you should be able to jump back to the point (centered?) on > >the map where you have started. > > > > > >My main question now is: > > > >Is it possible in ConTeXt to locate/define on the map (one image) certain > >points/areas that will contain the links to respective the detail page? > > Ha, when i tried to locate that old code, i ran into a bug (\dosingleempty > is less tolerant than 5 years ago), so first a patch: > > \unprotect > > \def\dodostartfigure[#1][#2][#3]#4\stopfigure > {\doifelse\v!test\@@exoptie > {\teststartfigure[#1][#2][#3]#4\teststopfigure > \let\@@exhokjes\v!aan} > {\let\@@exhokjes\v!uit}% > \setvalue{\??ef\??ef#1}% > {\def\next{\placestartfigure[#1][#2][#3]#4\placestopfigure}% > \dosingleempty\next}% > \doifundefined{#1}{\setvalue{#1}{\getexternalfigure{#1}}}} > > \protect > > > Now you can do things like: > > \setupinteraction > [state=start] > > % \setupexternalfigures > % [option=test] > > \startfigure[TheProces][work016a][factor=200] > \referring (10.7,9.4) (4.3,2.3) [r:psfile] > \referring (16.5,16.5) (4.3,2.3) [r:pdffile] > \marking (10.7,9.4) (4.3,2.3) [m:psfile] > \marking (16.5,16.5) (4.3,2.3) [m:pdffile] > \stopfigure > > \starttext > > \title{Files} > > \placefigure > {Whatever files we use.} > {\TheProces} > > \title[r:psfile]{PostScrip Files} > > We're talking about PostScript files, see \in[m:psfile]! > > \title[r:pdffile]{PDF Files} > > We're talking about PDF files, see \in[m:pdffile]! > > \stoptext > > Uncommenting the test will provide you a suitable test bed. > > (Sorry for the bit oldfashioned code; it originates from the pre pdf time) > > Hans > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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pdf[e]tex formats
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Hi all! The question is not about ConTeXt, but... I need to generate non-standard pdf[e]tex format. To do so I prepared pro.ini file which contains: \pdfoutput=1 \input plain \input my-set-of-macros \dump \endinput Then I run pdftex with command: pdftex -ini -jobname=pro pro.ini The format has been successfully generated. However, when I use generated format, the following error message appears: Error: pdftex.exe (file pdftex.cfg): cannot open config file ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! I don't have such problem with any standard formats. Could somebody tell me what is wrong? Thanks, Pawe/l

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Re: [NTG-context] MP figures in the background
by Hans Hagen 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

>Hi Hans! >I'm in trouble with this method. (I supose the error is mine). >I can draw the MP graphic using \useMPgraphic, but when i use > >\defineoverlay[bihotzak][\useMPgraphic{bihotz}] >\setupbackgrounds[paper][background=bihotzak] > >I get the following error >systems : randomizer starts with 150693575 >[MP to PDF] (./mpgraph.1) >layout : calculating backgrounds >[MP to PDF] (./mpgraph.4000 >! Dimension too large. >\handleMPboundingbox ... 2 \advance \dimen 0 #4bp > \dimen 0=\MPxscale >\dimen ... >l.2 %%BoundingBox: -6 -141 --32768 --32768 strange, it works here; anyhow, you use very smalls numbers and (0.017mm) on the one end and big ones later on, and somehow you end up with a boundingbox of 32K bp which is pretty large, The solution is in changing some dimensions: roughly design at the size you want and use xysized(..,..) to scale thing sto proportions Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] MP figures in the background
by Hans Hagen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 09:24 15/12/2003, you wrote: >Hi, > >I'm doing a christmars card in ConTeXt!. I've the following setup > >\setuppapersize[CD][A4] >\setuplayout[marking=on,location=middle] > >\starttext >\startuseMPgraphic{dummy} >... >... >\stopuseMPgraphic > >\defineoverlay[backfigure][\useMPgraphic{dummy}] >\setupbackground[paper][background=backfigure] >\hbox{} >\stoptext >\starttext >\startuseMPgraphic{dummy} >... >... >\stopuseMPgraphic > >\defineoverlay[backfigure][\useMPgraphic{dummy}] >\setupbackground[paper][background=backfigure] >\hbox{} >\stoptext \defineoverlay[page][\useMPgraphic{dummy}] \setupbackground[page][background=page] \startstandardmakeup some text \stopstandardmakeup \setupbackground[page][background=] rest of text on next page or: \definelayer[page] \setlayer[page]{\useMPgraphic{dummy}] \startstandardmakeup some text \stopstandardmakeup rest of text on next page Hans (who right now is going to print this years christmas card -)

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Re: ConTeXt question
by Hans Hagen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 20:13 08/12/2003, you wrote: >Dear Mr. Hagen, > >I am looking for articles, books, dissertations, etc that were typeset >with ConTeXt. Is there an archive of such documents and their ConTeXt >source code? > >Thanks for any help you can provide. The best thing you can do is to post a message to the context list, i'm sure that there are users out there who can show you / point you to their work ... Hans

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Re: cont-doc module
by Hans van der Meer 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

On woensdag, okt 9, 2002, at 16:30 Europe/Amsterdam, Hans Hagen wrote: > At 03:54 PM 10/9/2002 +0200, Hans van der Meer wrote: >> Waar vind ik het bestand cont-doc.zip? >> Volgens MAPS 24 p.88 heb ik dat nodig om met texexec --module de >> documentatie te kunnen zitten. >> Ik kan deze module niet vinden in de context download en ook niet op >> de pragma site. > > these files are now in theregular distribution, so > > texexec --modu --pdf somedoc.tex > > should work > Well, I now type "texexec --modu --pdf font-ini.tex" (one of the files in the ConTeXt distribution) and this results in an execution that has to be finished with Control-D, the pdf produced puts Adobe Acrobate into an infinite loop. How can I produce the documentation if the recipe given does not seem to work (anymore). The above call gives the following output (the last series of lines only): > kleur : kleur wordt vertaald in grijs > interactie : actief > ) > systems : begin file texexec at line 4 > (./font-ini.ted > systems : randomizer starts with 1268411200 > This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5) > (texexec-mpgraph.mp [1] > metafun 2003-12-13 21:38 > ) > 1 output file written: texexec-mpgraph.1 > Transcript written on texexec-mpgraph.log. > [MP to PDF] (./texexec-mpgraph.1) > interactie : pdftex code tussengevoegd > [1.1{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/dvips/config/pdftex.map}{/ > Users/hans/Li > brary/texmf/pdftex/config/texnansi-yandy-lucida.map}{/Users/hans/ > Library/texmf/ > pdftex/config/texnansi-yandy-mathtime.map}{/Users/hans/Library/texmf/ > pdftex/con > fig/texnansi-adobe-courier.map}{/Users/hans/Library/texmf/pdftex/ > config/texnans > i-adobe-helvetic.map}{/Users/hans/Library/texmf/pdftex/config/ > texnansi-adobe-pa > latino.map}{/Users/hans/Library/texmf/pdftex/config/texnansi-adobe- > times.map}{/ > Users/hans/Library/texmf/pdftex/config/texnansi-adobe-utopia.map}{/ > Users/hans/L > ibrary/texmf/pdftex/config/texnansi-urw-courier.map}{/Users/hans/ > Library/texmf/ > pdftex/config/texnansi-urw-helvetic.map}{/Users/hans/Library/texmf/ > pdftex/confi > g/texnansi-urw-palatino.map}{/Users/hans/Library/texmf/pdftex/config/ > texnansi-u > rw-times.map}] > ! Argument of \next1 has an extra }. > <inserted text> > \par > <to be read again> > } > \expanded ...long \xdef \@@expanded {\noexpand #1} > \@@expanded > \executepagebreakhandlers ...cesscommacommand [#1] > > \executepagebreakhandler > \dopagebreak ...tes \executepagebreakhandlers {#1} > \else \flushnotes > \execute... > > \processnextcommalist ...doprocesscommaitem #4#5,] > \relax \global > \advance \c... > ... > l.12 ...yright={PRAGMA / Hans Hagen \& Ton Otten}] Someone knows what is the problem here? Thanks in advance. Hans van der Meer

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problem with nested tables
by Hans Hagen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi Willi, \unprotected \def\@@tblprefix{\@@tbl:\ifnum\TBLlevel>1 :\TBLlevel:\fi} is the magic line; some time ago i added yet another auto span detection trick and one of the internal variables clashes when a nested table is used; so the solution is in a more discriminating nested prefix Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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\goto with references which don't exist, how to spot?
by Tobias Burnus 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hello, I use something like \goto{chapter}[some-reference] where this chapter is not yet written (and thus I have later to check whether it is indeed called 'some-reference' and not by chance 'some-other-reference'). Unfortunally, ConTeXt writes 'chapter' and not e.g. chapter~{\bf ??} or chapter~$\blacksquare$ or something else which is easily spotable. (I like the square, a '\bf ??' is too easily be overlooked.). How can I make ConTeXt show such a sign if it cannot resolve a reference? Tobias

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Re: [NTG-context] spanish
by Hans Hagen 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

At 11:20 05/12/2003, you wrote: >HI > >I have been reading lang-ita.tex to see how a language is >defined. There are some errors. I have compare the translation with those >done by Javier Bezos in >spanish for babel ( he has studied spanish typesetting to build the style) So, you suggest: \setupheadtext [\s!es] [\v!tabellen=Cuadros] \setupheadtext [\s!es] [\v!figuren=Figuras] \setupheadtext [\s!es] [\v!intermezzos=intermedios] \setupheadtext [\s!es] [\v!afkortingen=Abreviaci\'ones] \setupheadtext [\s!es] [\v!eenheden=Unidades] \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!tabel=Cuadro ] \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!figuur=Figura ] \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!intermezzo=intermedio ] % for instance some intermdiate (often framed) textual intermezzo \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!january=enero] \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!september=septiembre] \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!december=diciembre] Are there other spanish users out there who disagree? If not, i'll patch ... Hans

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Selecting a page as a figure from a pdf
by Nigel King 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

All, I am aware of \filterpages but I would like to be able to insert part of a single page from a multi page pdf and I have not been able to find anything on the list of manuals. (\clip does not seem to work with \filterpages). Does anybody have any ideas? TIA -- Nigel

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MP figures in the background
by Zunbeltz Izaola 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

Hi, I'm doing a christmars card in ConTeXt!. I've the following setup \setuppapersize[CD][A4] \setuplayout[marking=on,location=middle] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} ... ... \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[backfigure][\useMPgraphic{dummy}] \setupbackground[paper][background=backfigure] \hbox{} \stoptext I need the \hbox{} because there has to be something to typeset. The next thing i want to do is to have a second page. I use the \page[yes] command. The problem is that with this the background apears to in the second page, and i don't want that. How can i define a background figure only for certain page? Thanks in advance, Zunbeltz

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Converting Latex style files for use in Context
by Adam Tee 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

Hi all, I have an ebnf grammar which I need to put in a context doc and have a specific style file (ebnf.sty). Is there an easy way to convert it for use in context. Thanks Adam

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MetaPost with etex/btex
by David Munger 14 Dec '03

14 Dec '03

Hello, The following code results in no label output: \starttext \startMPcode label.top(btex Some label etex, (1cm,1cm)) ; \stopMPcode \stoptext I'm using ConTeXt 2003.12.12. By the way, why don't \startMPgraphic and \stopMPgraphic do anything? David

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texexec page selection changes output?
by karl＠freefriends.org 14 Dec '03

14 Dec '03

(Sorry if this is the wrong list, I could not find a better one.) I recently used texexec to select a given page from a file (attached) of three pages: texexec --pdfselect --selection=2 --result=cover2-tx.pdf covers.pdf It worked fine, but bnb noticed that the resulting cover2-tx.pdf was different then the original: it is offset to the right by a pica or so, and the "TUGboat" is moved down a similar amount. When I extract the same page from the same file with gs: gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=cover2-gs.pdf \ -dFirstPage=2 -dLastPage=2 covers.pdf -c quit the result is correct, i.e., the extracted page is identical (as far as I can tell) to the original. This happens with texexec 4.0 (and also with 2.8 and 3.1). This is just FYI in case it's a bug you want to fix ... karl

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psfrag
by David Munger 14 Dec '03

14 Dec '03

Hello, I know this topic was treated in the past years, but I couldn't find the answer in mailing list archives. So, is there any ConTeXt equivalent to LaTeX's \psfrag command? It would be very useful to process PostScript output from vector graphics drawing programs. David

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Struggles with the bTABLE eTABLE environment
by Willi Egger 13 Dec '03

13 Dec '03

Hi Hans, Currently I am using the following version under Windows: ConTeXt ver: 2003.11.26 fmt: 2003.11.27 int: english mes: english and pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 The attached code-sample breaks with an error of "missing number". Because I am sure, that this kind of table compiled previously I tried the following Next to the current installation I run on a linuxbox ConTeXt ver: 2003.7.3 fmt: 2003.7.7 int: english mes: english without problem and pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 The attached code compiles to expectation. Is there something changed in the bTABLE-eTABLE environment? Thanks for looking into it. Kind regards Willi

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quiz
by olivier Turlier 13 Dec '03

13 Dec '03

Hi ConteXers, Does somebody have done a quiz , like the ones found in "exerquiz " pdftex package (now bundled in "acrotex") from d.p. Story (info/exemples at http://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/acrotex/exemples/ (in french) or from the origin, in english at http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/acrotex.html) What interesting me a lot is the abilty for the reader to auto-evaluate himself. I wish to setup a whole course including theorical + exercises + auto evaluation, both (as possible) in screen and paper versions. Thanks for the tip. Olivier

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double lines in tables?
by William D. Neumann 12 Dec '03

12 Dec '03

Is there a way to create tables with double horizontal lines in ConTexXt? Using: \HL \HL Just causes ConTeXt to ignore one of them. William D. Neumann --- "Well I could be a genius, if I just put my mind to it. And I...I could do anything, if only I could get 'round to it. Oh we were brought up on the space-race, now they expect you to clean toilets. When you've seen how big the world is, how can you make do with this? If you want me, I'll be sleeping in - sleeping in throughout these glory days." -- Jarvis Cocker

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Can I compare with someone?
by David Arnold 12 Dec '03

12 Dec '03

All, I've recently installed tetex 2.0.2. I am having difficulty with Metapost and I am wondering if I have a good installation. If someone else out there is running tetex 2.0.2, could you try the following on your system and tell me if you get similar results. Also, if I'm making some sort of silly mistake, please let me know. I have a little file named junk.mp. beginfig(1); path p; p:=fullcircle scaled 100pt; draw p; endfig; end. It compiles much as I expect. [darnold@ps-114a-2k darnold]$ mpost junk This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5) (junk.mp [1] ) 1 output file written: junk.1 Transcript written on junk.log. No problems. Now I add a line to junk.mp. beginfig(1); path p; p:=fullcircle scaled 100pt; draw p; label(btex $x$ etex, center p); endfig; end. Now, when I compile, texexec seems to be invoked. Is this what happens on your systems? Is this correct behavior? [darnold@ps-114a-2k darnold]$ mpost junk This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5) (junk.mp TeXExec 4.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 metapost to tex : junk executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : tmpgraph output : dvips interface : en options : once nomp current mode : none This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./tmpgraph.tex{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.9.25 fmt: 2003.12.10 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-2 3:2-uk-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2 7:2-it-2 8:2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : tmpgraph.top loaded (./tmpgraph.top specials : loading definition file dvi (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-dvi.tex <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : tex loaded specials : loading definition file ps (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-ps.tex) specials : tex,postscript loaded specials : loading definition file tr (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tr.tex) specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded ) pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map [1.1] systems : end file tmpgraph at line 3 ) Output written on tmpgraph.dvi (1 page, 192 bytes). Transcript written on tmpgraph.log. return code : 0 run time : 0 seconds dvi to metapost : junk metapost : junk format : metafun This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5) (junk.mp [1] metafun 2003-12-10 14:21 ) 1 output file written: junk.1 Transcript written on junk.log. total run time : 0 seconds [1] ) 1 output file written: junk.1 Transcript written on junk.log. I now add another line to junk.mp. This is an attempt to get 10pt font size. beginfig(1); defaultscale:=10pt/fontsize defaultfont; path p; p:=fullcircle scaled 100pt; draw p; label(btex $x$ etex, center p); endfig; end. But when I compile, I still get 12pt. And the culprit seems to be: bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded I tried the following workaround by editing junk.mp. But, mpost junk produces this error message: ! Undefined control sequence. l.1 \documentclass [10pt]{article} So, I try: mpost --tex=latex junk But now my system tries to build cont-en.fmt. Toward the end, one message I get is: Sorry, I can't find the format `cont-en.fmt'; will try `context.fmt'. But this doesn't make sense, as cont-en.efmt is already built. [darnold@ps-114a-2k darnold]$ ll /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/*.efmt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4713749 Dec 10 14:22 /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/cont-en.efmt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4760442 Dec 9 07:38 /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/cont-nl.efmt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 756368 Dec 10 14:21 /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/elatex.efmt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 278813 Dec 10 14:21 /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/etex.efmt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 226652 Dec 10 14:22 /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/mptopdf.efmt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 765252 Dec 10 14:21 /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/pdfelatex.efmt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 288178 Dec 10 14:21 /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/pdfetex.efmt I am at a loss at how to proceed. Is this a bug?

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Re: ConTeXt Switcher?
by Christopher G. D. Tipper 12 Dec '03

12 Dec '03

> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:27:34 +0100 > From: Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta(a)iol.it> > To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > Subject: Re[2]: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Switcher? > Reply-To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > > Not that I see the purpose of using Word in the frist place. > Any decent editor has enough macro power to do the same. > > -- > Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta You missed the point. You markup and style your document using Word styles, and then XML is a matter of search and replace. I am not interested in Word per se, but I find using emacs to insert markup during document creation gets in the way of my thought processes. This way I can push markup worries to the editorial stage. People are fond of pointing out Words vices, and I wouldn't quibble with arguments about its stability, but it is about time OpenOffice and its ilk stopped resting on their laurels and started implementing some macro capability. I notice that AbiWord has a DocBook output format, but how well integrated this is I don't know. On Micro$oft's part if they had some real competition a real market in third-party templates might arrive. As it stands I have a 50% solution that handles footnotes and lists, but re-distribution is hampered by the way Word handles its templates and virus worries. Theoretically I could do tables and limited image markup using the same techniques. Leveraging the visual layout tools of a word-processor makes so much sense I wonder at the mentality of people still struggling with text-editors. I have emacs set up on my machine, but it really looks like back to the future from my point of view. I use WinEdt when I'm booted into Windows. btw you can use the same technique to generate native Context markup. It needs hand-editting, but as a rough draft, this works fine for me, and I don't have to re-invent the wheel every time I have a new document. Christopher

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placefigure for Christmas
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

Hi Hans, as it comes close to Christmas I'd like to tell you my biggest wish: "placefigure[top,left], placefigure[bottom,right]" (see below) Isn't there something that you could cook up for this special occasion? Steffen Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 14:25 17/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: > > > What is needed is a kind of extension to placefigure[top] where figures > are *still* placed top/bottom but *also* are surrounded by text (right or > left). > > this is kind of impossible in tex since it works per paragraph and during > that it has no concept of crossing a page boundary; i presume that i can > cook up something for a controlled situation but it's far from trivial > > Hans

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Active points on a ground plan (CD-ROM catalogue)
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

Hi, I'd like to make the CD-ROM catalogue (PDF) of an architectural exhibition in ConTeXt. In short the general idea is: - First you have a page with a map showing the locations of the different buildings. - Then you should point on location you are interested in and jump to the page where this particular building is described in detail. - Then again you should be able to jump back to the point (centered?) on the map where you have started. My main question now is: Is it possible in ConTeXt to locate/define on the map (one image) certain points/areas that will contain the links to respective the detail page? Thank you, Steffen

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Re: ntg-context digest, Vol 1 #581 - 7 msgs
by Christopher G. D. Tipper 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:27:34 +0100 > From: Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta(a)iol.it> > To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > Subject: Re[2]: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Switcher? > Reply-To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > > Not that I see the purpose of using Word in the frist place. > Any decent editor has enough macro power to do the same. > > -- > Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta You missed the point. You markup and style your document using Word stylesheets, and then XML is a matter of search and replace. A hold load better than a lame text-editor. If Word hadn't got such a stupid macro installation technology (templates have never been promoted properly by Micor$oft) this would be routine stuff. It would probably be a pain to automatically markup tables, and handling image properties is something I haven't investigated, but as a 50% solution it works for me. As for TOCs and bibliographies, use Context. btw exactly the same technique works for generating LaTeX commands. Context is just so much more elegant. Christopher

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\setuphead question (long section lines not wrapping)
by William D. Neumann 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

I'm trying to layout a paper for a conference that requires a format different from the standard latex layout, and for the most part context has been making this quite easy on me (excluding the four hours I spent trying to mimic the latex \thanks{} construct), however, I've encoutered a new problem that's confusing me. since I'm sure the problem stems from my lack of plain tex and context knowledge, I figured someone here would know what I'm doing wrong, and asking you for help is certainly more pleasant than banging my head for another four hours only to find another trivial solution... My problem is this: I needed to place a "." after the number in the section and subsection headings, so I included the following in my preamble: % setup section headings to include a . after the section number \setuphead [section] [command=\mysec, indentnext=yes] \def\mysec#1#2{#1. #2} \setuphead [subsection] [command=\mysubsec, indentnext=yes] \def\mysubsec#1#2{#1. #2} This works just fine as far as inserting the ".", however, it has the side-effect of not wrapping long section of subsection headings. For example, \subsection[longsubsec]{This is a really long subsection heading that won't wrap} gets typeset all on a single line, which is not good since the paper is set in two columns... So, is there either a better (more proper) way to insert the ".", or at least a better command to use for \mysec and \mysubsec Thanks, William D. Neumann --- "Well I could be a genius, if I just put my mind to it. And I...I could do anything, if only I could get 'round to it. Oh we were brought up on the space-race, now they expect you to clean toilets. When you've seen how big the world is, how can you make do with this? If you want me, I'll be sleeping in - sleeping in throughout these glory days." -- Jarvis Cocker

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Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Switcher?
by Christopher G D Tipper 10 Dec '03

10 Dec '03

> On Dec 8, 2003, at 2:33 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > > > Am Montag, 08.12.03, um 18:20 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Bob > > Kerstetter: > >> ConTeXt is very attractive because of its detailed control, layers, > >> colors, few or no packages(!!!!!), magical developers, and on and on. > >> It can obvious produce PDF. Can it also produce HTML and Word from > >> the same document? > > > > The normal way to get both PDF and HTML is using a XML source. > > You know of ConTeXts native XML mode? > > AFAIK you can import XML or HTML into MS Office, too, so you need no > > real Word DOC output. > > Or perhaps there's an other XML to RTF/DOC Konverter... > > I know XML source should work, but at least for me, creating XML source > is unproductive. I work with a text editor and find writing this: > > ``Hello world,'' says HAL. > > much more productive than writing this: > > <p>“Hello world”</p>, says HAL. > > Maybe I'm missing something, but for writing, XML's markup requirements > -- which are invisible to field-based data entry screen -- are way too > intense for hand-editing. TeX source is much less verbose. It is easier > to create, proof (both visually and audibly), spell check > troubleshoot, etc. I have not seen an editor capable of doing XML > source in a productive manner, like (La)TeX with text editor. This is probably taboo, but surely the smart thing to do is start from Word, generate some XML with macros, and produce some HTML with stylesheets, some PDF with ConTeXt. BTW you can generate some simple Context with VB macros and hand-edit -- saves a whole load of mundane stuff. I can go from a web page to PDF in under 15 minutes using the Word macros I have for Context. Christopher --------------------------------o00o-------------------------------- “Since light travels faster than sound, isn’t that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak” — Steve Wright

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texexec --mptex final (fwd)
by David Arnold 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

All, I am compiling a metapost file with first line: input mp-tool I have installed the latest version of teTeX on Red Hat Linux 9. I am getting this output during compile: [darnold@ps-114a-2k final]$ texexec --mptex final TeXExec 4.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 metapost to tex : final executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : tmpgraph output : dvips interface : en options : once current mode : none This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./tmpgraph.tex{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.9.25 fmt: 2003.12.9 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-2 3:2-uk-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2 7:2-it-2 8:2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : tmpgraph.top loaded (./tmpgraph.top specials : loading definition file dvi (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-dvi.tex <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : tex loaded specials : loading definition file ps (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-ps.tex) specials : tex,postscript loaded specials : loading definition file tr (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tr.tex) specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded ) pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] systems : end file tmpgraph at line 181 ) Output written on tmpgraph.dvi (90 pages, 6452 bytes). Transcript written on tmpgraph.log. return code : 0 run time : 0 seconds dvi to metapost : final metapost : final format : metafun This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5) (final.mp (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-tool.mp) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] metafun 2003-12-9 7:38 ) 22 output files written: final.1 .. final.22 Transcript written on final.log. total run time : 2 seconds I am particularly concerned with these three lines: pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map Should I add something to updmap.cfg and run updmap? -- David Arnold College of the Redwoods. Mathematics Department 7351 Tompkins Hill Road Eureka, CA 95501 Office phone: 707-476-4222 Fax: 707-476-4424 Home page: http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/

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(no subject)
by David Arnold 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

confirm 901767 -- David Arnold College of the Redwoods. Mathematics Department 7351 Tompkins Hill Road Eureka, CA 95501 Office phone: 707-476-4222 Fax: 707-476-4424 Home page: http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/

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texexec --mptex final
by David Arnold 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

All, I am compiling a metapost file with first line: input mp-tool I have installed the latest version of teTeX on Red Hat Linux 9. I am getting this output during compile: [darnold@ps-114a-2k final]$ texexec --mptex final TeXExec 4.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 metapost to tex : final executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : tmpgraph output : dvips interface : en options : once current mode : none This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./tmpgraph.tex{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.9.25 fmt: 2003.12.9 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-2 3:2-uk-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2 7:2-it-2 8:2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : tmpgraph.top loaded (./tmpgraph.top specials : loading definition file dvi (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-dvi.tex <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : tex loaded specials : loading definition file ps (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-ps.tex) specials : tex,postscript loaded specials : loading definition file tr (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tr.tex) specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded ) pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] [1.1] systems : end file tmpgraph at line 181 ) Output written on tmpgraph.dvi (90 pages, 6452 bytes). Transcript written on tmpgraph.log. return code : 0 run time : 0 seconds dvi to metapost : final metapost : final format : metafun This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5) (final.mp (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/mp-tool.mp) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] metafun 2003-12-9 7:38 ) 22 output files written: final.1 .. final.22 Transcript written on final.log. total run time : 2 seconds I am particularly concerned with these three lines: pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map Should I add something to updmap.cfg and run updmap? -- David Arnold College of the Redwoods. Mathematics Department 7351 Tompkins Hill Road Eureka, CA 95501 Office phone: 707-476-4222 Fax: 707-476-4424 Home page: http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/

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TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=35000]
by Sytse Knypstra 09 Dec '03

09 Dec '03

Hi, When using Hans' adaptation for typesetting bold math in a small example everything went fine. But when using it in a somewhat larger text I ran into the error: ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [hash size=35000]. I remember a discussion a few months ago about this problem in MikTeX. Is there any solution in MikTeX available? Thanks, Sytse

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Context-mode for Emacs 21.3
by Boris Hollas 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Hello, the contex.el from Berend de Boer does not work properly on Emacs 21.3. I assume this is because Emacs now has a fill algorithm that works independently of auctex. Is there another Context-mode for Emacs? Boris Hollas

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t-amsl and t-nath
by Boris Hollas 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Hello! I tried the modules t-amsl and t-nath. This is what I noticed or have questions about: 1. The bracket for \cases{} is too small when t-nath is used, as in this example: \usemodule[amsl] \usemodule[nath] \starttext We denote by \startformula 1_{ij} = \cases{ 1 & if $(i,j) \in \cal E$\cr 0 & else} \stopformula the {\em indicator function} of event $(i,j) \in \cal E$. \stoptext Without modules amsl and nath the brackets have correct size, but \cal has no effect. 2. Without module amsl, the above example produces an error message. 3. Module amsl uses \mathBbd{} for the blackboard fonts. I'm not sure if this is used in AMS-Latex, however neither amsmath nor amssymb introduce this command. Instead, there's a command \mathbb{} in amssymb for the blackboard fonts. 4. $\mathBbd{N}_0$ doesn't produce ${\mb N}_0$. Boris Hollas

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\currenttime ?
by lohmannt 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Hello all, I'm looking for a mechanism to insert the current time -- time of processing with texexec. Is there a similar command like \currentdate? Greetings Thomas Lohmann

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Re: footnote marker
by Steffen Wolfrum 08 Dec '03

08 Dec '03

Hi, now I have got a quite good working solution with all individual settings... \setupbodyfont[4pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=55pt] \defineconversion[HowAboutIt][\ss] \setupfootnotes[style=italic,conversion=HowAboutIt,numbercommand=] \def\setfootnotebodyfont {\let\setfootnotebodyfont\relax \restoreglobalbodyfont \switchtobodyfont[8.5pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=12pt]} \starttext \input tufte \input tufte \footnote{\input knuth } test {\bf bold test} {\it italic test}\footnote{normal footnote {\rm roman footnote} {\it italic footnote} {\bf bold footnote} normal footnote {\rm roman footnote} {\it italic footnote} {\bf bold footnote} normal footnote {\rm roman footnote} {\it italic footnote} {\bf bold footnote}} \stoptext ... BUT really annoying is this -- endless error messages; bodyfont : bodyfont xxxpt is defined (can be better done global) bodyfont : bodyfont xxxpt is defined (can be better done global) bodyfont : bodyfont xxxpt is defined (can be better done global) bodyfont : bodyfont xxxpt is defined (can be better done global) bodyfont : bodyfont xxxpt is defined (can be better done global) ... In documents with more than 1 page this is really horrible (thousands of error messages!!) How to avoid it?? Thank you, Steffen

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Re: footnote marker
by Steffen Wolfrum 07 Dec '03

07 Dec '03

Hi Hans, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 00:09 07/12/2003, you wrote: > >Hi, > > > >while desperately working on footnote markers I found this email from 9 > >months ago. > >Is there in the meanwhile some news for a kind of "\setupfootnotemarker"? > > what exactly do you want to achieve? one can influence footnote markers > using the conversion key > > \setupfootnotes[conversion=set 2] > > and alike; one can create his/her own set if needed > > Hans For example I would like to have footnote marker SansSerif. If I would do it with the conversion key like this... \setupbodyfont[4pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=45pt] \definefont [FNfont][Sans at 10.5pt]\def\setfootnotebodyfont{\FNfont\setupinterlinespace[line=13pt]} \definefont [FNXfont][Serif at 10.5pt]\setupfootnotedefinition[style=\FNXfont] \defineconversion[HowAboutIt][\ss] \setupfootnotes[conversion=HowAboutIt,numbercommand=] \starttext \input tufte \footnote{\input knuth } \input tufte \footnote{\input knuth } \stoptext ... then suddenly the number in front of the footnote text becomes 4pt. If I do it without conversion... \setupfootnotes[numbercommand=] ... then the number in front of the footnote text is 19.5 -- as defined in FNfont. That's why I felt the conversion key is not so reliable in this case. Steffen

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Avoiding ligatures by "| crashes TOC
by Steffen Wolfrum 07 Dec '03

07 Dec '03

Hi, I want to avoid wrong ligatures by using "| at the specific points. But this doesn't work with headings, resp.with the table of contents (see error log below). Using \/ instead of "| is no alternativ as it looks too close to ligatures. Does anybody know a workaround for this problem? Thank you, Steffen LOG: ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \bookmarktext \doPDFbookmark ... count \ifcase #5-\fi #2 \fi {#3 } \doPDFinsertbookmark ... \scratchcounter } open #5 \egroup <argument> \flushbookmark \dodoputbookmarkelement {EbeneDrei}{6}{2.1}{Auftr\... \secondoftwoarguments #1#2->#2 l.129 ...nenarchitektur}{1::0:I:2:1:0:0:0::14}{14} ?

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footnote marker
by Steffen Wolfrum 07 Dec '03

07 Dec '03

Hi, while desperately working on footnote markers I found this email from 9 months ago. Is there in the meanwhile some news for a kind of "\setupfootnotemarker"? Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 04:12 PM 2/14/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > >Hmm...maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me these commands have no effect on > >the in-text footnote marker; that they only apply to the footnote per se. > > > >OK, I found two private messages from Hans from awhile back on this, > >before I got back to dealing with this. The relevant parts are this: > > > >>>And to use your example of Frutiger, what font selection command do you > >>>use to get Frutiger Ultra Black in a chapter title? I still don't know > >>>how to use a medium small cap font in a document! > >> > >>\definefont[ChapterTitleFont][Frutiger-Ultra-Black] > >> > >>\setuphead[chapter][style=ChapterTitleFont] > >> > >>so, that's not for typescripts but for styles > > > >And this: > > > >>I'm not sure about hwo to deal with the footnote font; probably composing > >>a dedicate typeface is the best; of if it's only used for symbols, it > >>should be just a def and mapped onto a symbol (symb-*.tex) > > > >So, if there was a command to set the footnote marker, I'd need to do a > >\definefont for a special "FootnoteFont." > > > >However, there is no such command; right? Seems like it might be useful. > > > >I don't really understand the above comment, or how I operationalize > >it. Can someone (Hans?) explain? > > busy .... > > if you want, you can use the new footnote module (that i made for idris) > which gives you footnote classes that are configurable; i can more easily > add new features to that one, so let me know if you want to volunteer .. > > Hans Thank you, Steffen

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Floats in Columnsets
by Reimer Behrends 07 Dec '03

07 Dec '03

It appears as though \placefigure doesn't work very well with columnsets if the size of the floats isn't an exact multiple of the underlying grid. More precisely, \placefigure and friends, when used with any of the *tb and tb* options (tblr, tbrl, lrtb, rltb, fxtb) snap the bottom of the figure to the grid rather than the top. Of course, that means that most of the time figures will not be aligned at the top. (See below for an example.) Does anybody know of a fix or workaround for this problem? Reimer Behrends \showframe \showgrid \setuplayout[ backspace=0.75in,topspace=0.75in, width=7.0in,height=9.5in, header=0.0in,footer=0.35in] \setuppapersize[letter][letter] \definecolumnset[two][n=2,distance=12pt] \def\myfig#1{\placefigure[tblr]{none}{ \framed[offset=6pt,width=broad,align=right]{ \switchtobodyfont[10pt] #1 }}} \setupbodyfont[12pt] \starttext \startcolumnset[two] \myfig{\input knuth} \dorecurse{3}{\input knuth}\myfig{\input tufte} \stopcolumnset \stoptext

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Re: [pdftex] TeX output as Java graphic
by Hans Hagen 06 Dec '03

06 Dec '03

At 03:33 05/12/2003, Todd O'Bryan wrote: >How hard would it be to pull out the code from TeX that typesets small >snippets of text (the primitives, I guess it would be) so that I could >pass a string like "$x^2+y^2=25$" (or its MathML equivalent) and a >starting point and have that small image be typeset correctly at that >point. Is anyone aware of anybody doing something like this or leaning in >that direction? http://www.pragma-pod.com/ -> mathml processing (couple of years old but it still runs; not the latest version of context btw) In the context distribution is a more advance demo but that's too much off topic for this list. In context (roughly): \setupoutput[pdftex] \usemodule[mathml] % \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino] % \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[times] % \usetypescript[fourier] [ec] \setupbodyfont[fourier] \starttext \startTEXpage \startXMLdata <math> <apply> <eq/> <apply> <plus/> <ci> x </ci> <apply> <power/> <apply> <sin/> <ci> x </ci> </apply> <cn> 2 </cn> </apply> <ci> y </ci> </apply> <ci> y </ci> </apply> </math> \stopXMLdata \stopTEXpage \stoptext Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] news / bold math
by Hans Hagen 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

At 20:47 27/11/2003, you wrote: >this looks fine. I have used Wolfram's Mathematica fonts for a while, and >they have, among others, bold math. I give a link to two pdfs with some >examples. One can download the fonts from Wolframs site. can you give a pointer to those fonts? Hans

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spanish
by Zunbeltz Izaola 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

Hi to all! I am new to ConTeXt and list and i want to stay for log! I have been rading lang-ita.tex and I see some error. I have post in comp.text.tex and Giuseppe Bilotta has sugest to send a patch to this list. I don't know how can i send the patch (a diff output is enough). What is an intermezzo for? I don't know if the traslation is ok. I'm also interested in adding basque language. Basque is not a romance language, but the typesetting is very similar to spanish. Some differences: 1) Instead of Chpater 1 -- in basque ---> 1 Kapitulua (Chapter) 2) When hypenating a compound word in the hypen, in the next line a hypen is also necesary anai-arrebak is hypendated anai- -arrebak 2) What files have i to change to add support for basque? Thanks in advance Zunbeltz

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spanish
by Zunbeltz Izaola 05 Dec '03

05 Dec '03

HI I have been reading lang-ita.tex to see how a language is defined. There are some errors. I have compare the translation with those done by Javier Bezos in spanish for babel ( he has studied spanish typesetting to build the style) line 149 \setupheadtext [\s!es] [\v!tabellen=Tablas] instead of Tablas --> Cuadros line 156 \setupheadtext [\s!es] [\v!figuren=Ilustraci\'ons] ^^^ (liustraciones instead of Ilustraciones --> Figuras line 170 \setupheadtext [\s!es] [\v!intermezzos=intermedios] I don't know what is the propuouse of "intermezzos." Can you explain for what are used? (i can't find it in the manual) line 184 \setupheadtext [\s!es] [\v!afkortingen=Abreviaci\'ons] ^^^Abreviaciones line 198 \setupheadtext [\s!es] [\v!eenheden=Unidads] ^^ Unidades line 205 \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!tabel=Tablas ] Here i think is the singular for Tabla, but Javier recomended Cuadro instead of Tablas --> Cuadro line 212 \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!figuur=Ilustraci\'on ] instead of Ilustraci\'on --> Figura line 219 \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!intermezzo=intermedio ] intermezzo???? line 308 \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!january=jenero] jenero --> enero line 316 \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!september=septimbre] septimbre --> septiembre line 319 \setuplabeltext [\s!es] [\v!december=deciembre] deciembre --> diciembre This is all (for the moment :-), i've to read what are the meaning of the other things, for quotes and so on.) thanks in advance Zunbeltz

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NEWS: pdf output problem
by WHarms＠bfs.de 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

hi list, i have followed the discussion about the strage bug i found. It seems a acroead bug: i have tried with 5.0.6 as exspected i see return 1; while 5.0.8 on my notebook shows "return 0" but not the "return 1" a very strange bug. i will try xpdf today an see what will happen :) thx to all, walter

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pdf output problem
by WHarms＠bfs.de 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

Hi list, i found some strange effect with the Chart environment. This is part of a larger flowchart. \startFLOWcell \location {1,6} \name {end-auftrag} \shape {5} \text {DB freigeben ;\\ return 1;\\} \stopFLOWcell $ texexec --output=test --pdf modem.tex The resulting pdf file is missing the 1 from \text {DB freigeben ;\\ return 1;} changing 1 into 0 shows a 0. if i produce a dvi instead it works fine. any ideas ? walter ps: dvi has its own problem by writing the text and then filling the area :)

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Fwd: bibloigraphies
by Hans Hagen 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

Hi There are expert son that on the context mailing list so i forwarded your message. >X-Original-To: hagen-mail(a)localhost.pragma-net.nl >Delivered-To: hagen-mail(a)localhost.pragma-net.nl >Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:18:39 +0530 >From: Kaustubh Kalgaonkar <kaustubhkp(a)hotmail.com> >Subject: bibloigraphies >X-Originating-IP: [161.130.115.253] >X-Sender: kaustubhkp(a)hotmail.com >To: pragma(a)wxs.nl >X-Originating-Email: [kaustubhkp(a)hotmail.com] >X-Virus-Scan: Symantec CarrierScan Server featuring Symantec AntiVirus > Technology >Original-recipient: rfc822;pragma(a)wxs.nl >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Dec 2003 17:48:39.0697 (UTC) > FILETIME=[AF489010:01C3B9C5] >X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=7.5 > tests=none > version=2.55 >X-Spam-Level: >X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) > >hi, > How do i go about implementing Bibliographies using ConTeXt. is there a > documentation avaliable for that, please do let me know. > >kaustubh > >_________________________________________________________________ >Add zing to Hotmail. Get FREE newsletters. >http://server1.msn.co.in/features/general/Newsletters/index.asp Subscribe now! > >================================================================ >Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd >op virussen. >Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst >waar op wordt gecontroleerd. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: pdf problem
by WHarms＠bfs.de 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

acroread 5.0.8 rpm: acroread-5.08-43 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Patrick Gundlach <pg(a)levana.de> Subject: [NTG-context] Re: pdf problem Date: 12/04/03 12:41 <WHarms(a)bfs.de>(Walter Harms) writes: > Hi willi, > i run on a linux only box with a vanilla SuSE 9.0 > > texexec --version [...] since your pdf file was fine (included the 1), there are no problems generating the pdf. It is only a problem viewing it. What viewer are you using? Patrick -- You are your own rainbow! _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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Re: Re: [NTG-context] pdf problem
by WHarms＠bfs.de 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

Hi willi, i run on a linux only box with a vanilla SuSE 9.0 texexec --version TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 rpm: te_cont-2.0.2-48 pdftex --version pdfTeX (Web2C 7.4.5) 3.14159-1.10b kpathsea version 3.4.5 Copyright (C) 1997-2003 Han The Thanh. rpm: te_pdf-2.0.2-48 xdvi --version xdvik version 22.40v Copyright (C) 1990-2002 Paul Vojta and others. rpm:tetex-2.0.2-48 hope that helps. The xdvi display is more or less useless because i dont see text inside the boxes. BUT i can use the lens to read it :). walter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Willi Egger <w.egger(a)boede.nl> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] pdf problem Date: 12/03/03 19:04 Hi Walter I tried to reproduce your faulty behaviour on a WindowsXP machine with the TeX Collection 2003 and the latest beta of ConTeXt installed. 1. The resulting pdf does not miss the 1 from \text {DB freigeben ;\\ return 1;\\} 2. The resulting dvi file, viewed with windvi has correct text typeset, but there are no shapes drawn. Interestingly the file you have in the .tar does show the 1 in Acrobat 5 and 6! Windvi is not able to display the charts correctly, the text is typeset to expectation, no shapes are drawn. Do you work on a Linux box? Which version of PDFTeX do you use? Which version of ConTeXt do zou use? Kind regards Willi At 17:34 03.12.2003, Walter wrote: >Due to popular demand: > >1. i have added the tex files >2. the resulting dvi and pdf for comparison > >use: >texexec --output=text --pdf modem.tex _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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Recommendation for creating, XHTML and PDF versions of single document
by Frank 04 Dec '03

04 Dec '03

Hi, I have been very happy to use ConTeXt and LaTeX to create documents for printed media or onscreen PDF. Currently I am working with some documents that I want to publish in XHTML and PDF (print and screen). What would be the best way to achieve this? - Write in ConTeXt and convert it to XHTML - Write in some XML format like docbook and convert that to XHTML and PDF? I am leaning toward authoring in XML as it is the most flexible, but it is also very verbose and probably requires much more effort in the toolchain to create the output format's I want. Please let me know your experiences and recommendations. Best Regards, Frank

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pdf problem
by WHarms＠bfs.de 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

Due to popular demand: 1. i have added the tex files 2. the resulting dvi and pdf for comparison use: texexec --output=text --pdf modem.tex

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Updated Nath/AmSL modules
by Giuseppe Bilotta 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

Hello guys, for those among you who need to do math stuff, I updated the nath and amsl modules, fixing a couple of bugs (no new features yet). Let me know how they fare.

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Absolute positioning
by Gilles Pérez-Lambert 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hello, I didn't find a way to put text at specific locations on the page. It must be something obvious! :-) I try to design a screen document where every notes are, say, typeset on the lower half of the page and appear only when clicking on their number in the text (with layers I think). Thnaks in advance, Gilles. PS for Hans: I didn't forget the note problem we've discussed in Mâcon. I'll build a test file.

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: installing context with tetex
by WHarms＠bfs.de 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hi patrick, just to explain WHY i got confused. I was looking at knuth.tex as a simple example. An *this* example contains no \startX or \stopX . So i got the impression that contex may not need them. And when you see the examples in "typesetting flow charts" no hint either. It would enought to add \starttext \FLOWchart[grid] \stoptext on page 2. Then you have a (working) example; problem solved. btw: any document describing something should have a complet working example. when you start with something totaly new, you have no ide where to look for an error. a simple typo can cause havoc distracing you from the real problem. regards, wh - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Patrick Gundlach <pg(a)levana.de> Subject: [NTG-context] Re: installing context with tetex Date: 12/01/03 16:27 Hello Walter, > thats it :) > i was unaware of the \starttext \stoptext :( You should alway start with a simple document and then extend it. > > Hallo hans ? > can you please adjust the "typesetting.." document ? So at least at start > it should have a full example. Which document are you talking about. Can you give the filename or the full title? If this is a specialized document: You should do some steps with pure ConTeXt first. Patrick -- You are your own rainbow! _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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page arrangement
by Vit Zyka 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Hallo ConTeXt list members, I'd like to arrange A5 landscape pages to A4 in this order ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- | 1 | | 2 | | 5 | | 6 | | 9 | | 10 | ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- | 3 | | 4 | | 7 | | 8 | | 11 | | 12 | ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- for doublesided printing. I'd tried to set \setuparranging[2DOWN] or \setuparranging[2TOP] but it is not desired arrangement. I also experimented with \pusharrangedpage... \poparrangedpages... \handlearrangedpage... macros but I wasn't succsessful. Please, can somebody help me? Send answer also to my private address vit.zyka(a)seznam.cz since my dial up connection due to long time traveling does not enable to be member of the lively conference. Thanks, Vit Zyka

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(no subject)
by Severin Obertuefer 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

hi I defined e new head like this: \definehead[class][subject] \setuphead[class][placehead=no] in the text I defined a head as \class{TRANSLATOR\_APPLICATION} in my header I want to have the follwoing output: "Exercise 5 - TRANSLATOR_APPLICATION" i tried \setupheadertexts[Exercise 5 - class] but then the output is: "Exercise 5 - class] how can I get what I want? if I only type \setupheadertexts[class] then the output is "TRANSLATOR_APPLICATION" thx for help severin -- HoHoHo! Seid Ihr auch alle sch�n brav gewesen? GMX Weihnachts-Special: Die 1. Adresse f�r Weihnachts- m�nner und -frauen! http://www.gmx.net/de/cgi/specialmail +++ GMX - die erste Adresse f�r Mail, Message, More! +++

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V 1 @ G R A ---> 75% Cheaper Today! gsoikmce
by Damon Flanagan 01 Dec '03

01 Dec '03

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immediate write
by Willi Egger 01 Dec '03

01 Dec '03

Hi, I ought to write information to a temporary file using immediate write .... The information concerned is placed on more than one line, but afterwards the info in the temp-file will have a single line only. So I loose all my new-line commands. Is there a way to keep those new-lione commands while using immediate write? Kind regards Willi

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Re: Re: [NTG-context] installing context with tetex
by WHarms＠bfs.de 01 Dec '03

01 Dec '03

hi list, thats it :) i was unaware of the \starttext \stoptext :( Hallo hans ? can you please adjust the "typesetting.." document ? So at least at start it should have a full example. regards, walter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Willi Egger <w.egger(a)boede.nl> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] installing context with tetex Date: 11/30/03 22:45 Hi Walter did you issue the following command at the beginning of the file: \usemodule[chart] At 20:28 30.11.2003, Walter wrote: >hi list, >thanks for the hint with te_cont i was looking for *tex* so i never found >anything. > >So, i have installed all missing packets and the sample works fine. > >Then i tried the first example from "typsetting flow charts". > >\setupFLOWcharts[...] >\startFLOWchart[grid] >\stopFLOWchart to typeset the chart you have to issue the following command \setupoutput[pdftex] \usemodule[chart] \setupFLOWcharts [option=test, nx=3, ny=3] \startFLOWchart[grid] \stopFLOWchart \starttext \FLOWchart[grid] \stoptext >What is the mentioned "testmode" ? where i can see grid ? When the option=test is set, the grid of the chart is drawn. >the second example is the definition of a cell but i am unable to create >any output because: >no legal \end found >but where ? the examples contain no end (in the sense >\begin{} \end{} ) > >Can i download the examples somewhere ? No not that I know Other example: \setupFLOWcharts [option=, nx=1, ny=2] \startFLOWchart[Walter] \startFLOWcell \name {first} \location {1,1} \shape {singledocument} \text {Name: Walter} \stopFLOWcell \stopFLOWchart \starttext \FLOWchart[Walter] \stoptext This code works here.... Success Willi _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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Re: [NTG-context] installing context with tetex
by WHarms＠bfs.de 30 Nov '03

30 Nov '03

hi list, thanks for the hint with te_cont i was looking for *tex* so i never found anything. So, i have installed all missing packets and the sample works fine. Then i tried the first example from "typsetting flow charts". \setupFLOWcharts[...] \startFLOWchart[grid] \stopFLOWchart What is the mentioned "testmode" ? where i can see grid ? the second example is the definition of a cell but i am unable to create any output because: no legal \end found but where ? the examples contain no end (in the sense \begin{} \end{} ) Can i download the examples somewhere ? regards, walter

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german hyphenation patterns
by Patrick Gundlach 30 Nov '03

30 Nov '03

Hi out there, I'am not sure if this is a ConTeXt problem (I doubt it slightly) but I am a bit confused: How can I activate german hyphenation patterns? I have used \mainlanguage[de] in my document and it was OK some time ago. Meanwhile I have updated ConTeXt and my TeX (current texlive). Where should I start to check? The output of my context run is: [...] language : language en is active [...] bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-2 loaded specials : fdf,tpd loaded Patrick -- You are your own rainbow!

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Re: Re: [NTG-context] installing context with tetex
by Peter Münster 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 WHarms(a)bfs.de wrote: > i run a vaniall SuSE 9.0 and have installed: tetex-2.0.2-48 > There is no 'texexec':( Hello Walter, tetex is perhaps not enough. Did you install te_cont, te_etex and te_pdf? Especially te_cont! Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ------------------------------------ Film Search site: http://f-s.sf.net/

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references to external documents
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

Hi all! I'm working with huge XML documents which are compiled to PDF (with ConTeXt) and converted to HTML (with XSLT and others). These XML documents contain references to external files (images). References are mapped to paths with XML code; i.e. <imgref id="cow" src="./images/cow.png"/>. Translating such a map to ConTeXt is rather obvious. But how to implement simmilar mechanism for external XML documents? In example I would like to use command \useexternaldocument[intro][introduction.xml] and than process 'introduction.xml' on the base of is ID reference ('intro'). Is it possible? Does ConTeXt suport referencing documents as well as figures? Regards, Pawe/l

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Re: Re: [NTG-context] installing context with tetex
by Hans Hagen 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

At 09:50 28/11/2003, you wrote: >google tells me pdfetex is something like pdftex (what i have installed) >can i use that ? indeed, te better one, actually, pdfetex should be on each system that comes with pdftex Hans

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Re: Re: [NTG-context] installing context with tetex
by WHarms＠bfs.de 28 Nov '03

28 Nov '03

hi tobias, i run a vaniall SuSE 9.0 and have installed: tetex-2.0.2-48 There is no 'texexec':( ls /usr/bin/tex* /usr/bin/tex /usr/bin/texdoctk /usr/bin/texhash /usr/bin/texlinks /usr/bin/texconfig /usr/bin/texfind /usr/bin/texi2pdf /usr/bin/text2sf /usr/bin/texdoc /usr/bin/texfont /usr/bin/texinfo2man ok i have created a texexec #!/bin/sh perl $(kpsewhich -progname=context -format='other text files' texexec.pl) ${1+"$@"} that fails with sh: line 1: pdfetex: command not found google tells me pdfetex is something like pdftex (what i have installed) can i use that ? walter - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - - From: Tobias Burnus <tobias.burnus(a)physik.fu-berlin.de> Subject: Re: [NTG-context] installing context with tetex Date: 11/27/03 18:37 Hi, On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:46:42AM +0100, Walter Harms wrote: > i downloaded the cont-tmf.zip und installed into a (working) tetex. > i did a texhash but i still cant find texexec. Try kpsewhich -progname=context -format='other text files' texexec.pl there is this PERL file. (Besides: If you have a newer teTeX you should already have a /usr/bin/texexec (which is a shell script that basically calls perl `kpsewhich -progname=context -format='other text files' texexec.pl` \ ${1+"$@"} ) Tobias

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installing context with tetex
by WHarms＠bfs.de 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

Hi list, i was impressed with the charts style and have installed comtext. i downloaded the cont-tmf.zip und installed into a (working) tetex. i did a texhash but i still cant find texexec. any hints want went wrong ? regards, walter

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beta / pdftex
by Hans Hagen 27 Nov '03

27 Nov '03

The latest version assumes the most recent pdftex, i'll fix this; if you run into troubles, add this to cont-new.tex: \ifx\pdfoptionpdfinclusionerrorlevel\undefined \newcount\pdfoptionpdfinclusionerrorlevel \fi \pdfoptionpdfinclusionerrorlevel=0 \ifx\pdfoptionpdfminorversion\undefined \newcount\pdfoptionpdfminorversion \fi \pdfoptionpdfminorversion=4 Or patch this in spec-tpd.tex (there is an \else in that file that shoul dnot be there) The mentioned v!synchroniseer problem has to do with a new cont-new.tex being used with an old context; texexec --make --alone may help here. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Colors changing when applying "transparent"
by Willi Egger 25 Nov '03

25 Nov '03

Hi, I would like to use transparnt colors in one of the documents. However the resulting color is different with transparent color. Could anyone try the following code twice setting the %-sign in front of the fill-statement: \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \setupcolors[state=start] \startuseMPgraphic{tBG} path p ; p := unitsquare xscaled \overlaywidth yscaled \overlayheight ; fill p withcolor \MPcolor{white}; % With normal colors, everything is fine (blue is really RGB(0,0,1) % fill p withcolor transparent("normal",.5,\MPcolor{white}); % This however results in fading of ALL of the colors... \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[textBG][\useMPgraphic{tBG}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=blue] \setupbackgrounds[text][background=textBG] \input tufte \stoptext I would expect that the optical appearance of blue shoud not change after application of the transparent color to the gray areq. Regards Willi

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Re: Strange offset
by Tobias Burnus 25 Nov '03

25 Nov '03

Hi, I get this stange result: The second page (p.3-4) of each embedded file have the wrong offset, for the other pages (p. 6-\infty) they are ok. Any ideas? This is with pdfeTeXk, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) (format=cont-en 2003.10.6 and the TeX code from below. Tobias ------------------------------------------------------------------------- % format=english \setupoutput[pdftex] \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] \setuppapersize [A4,landscape] [A4,landscape] \setuplayout [height=210mm,width=297mm, header=0pt,footer=0pt, topspace=0.2cm, cutspace=0cm,backspace=1cm] \newcounter\DirtyTrickCounter \startsetups[verydirtytrick] \doglobal\increment\DirtyTrickCounter \ifodd\realpageno \ifodd\DirtyTrickCounter \hbox to \overlaywidth{{\hskip0mm}\foregroundbox} \else \hbox to \overlaywidth{{\hskip-1.3cm}\foregroundbox} \fi \else \ifodd\DirtyTrickCounter \hbox to \overlaywidth{{\hskip10mm}\foregroundbox} \else \hbox to \overlaywidth{{\hskip-0.3cm}\foregroundbox} \fi \fi \stopsetups \defineoverlay [verydirtytrick] [\setups{verydirtytrick}] \starttext \combinepages [main.pdf] [nx=2,ny=1, background=verydirtytrick, frame=off] \combinepages [out.pdf] [nx=2,ny=1, background=verydirtytrick, frame=off] \stoptext

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bold math
by Sytse Knypstra 23 Nov '03

23 Nov '03

Ahoj, On November 11 I asked the list how I could generate bold greek math symbols (I have the lucida family installed). Until now I didn't get a response, so maybe I should be more specific. Let me put it this way: On page 12 of the `Fonts in ConTeXt' manual I find the footnote: `Bold math is already prepared in the core modules, so normally one can do with less code.' Can anybody tell me what code I have to add and where? I would like to get the following line $\theta = {\bfmath \alpha' x}$ with \theta in normal math and \alpha and x in math boldface? Sytse Knypstra

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Examples for letters, articles, books?
by Ralph Pöllath 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

Please forgive me if this is a FAQ, but since I just subscribed and the archives aren't searchable, I thought I'd ask. I've been a casual LaTeX user for a couple of years, and now I'd like to give ConTeXt a try. The one thing I'm missing in the docs is a set of examples for common documents, such as letters, articles, books and so on. Could anyone please point me in the right direction? Thanks, -Ralph.

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Re: [NTG-context] Permission denied
by George N. White III 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Idris S Hamid wrote: > Thnx Ed and Giuseppe 4 your help & direction. > > Question: When backing up to cd is there any way to maintain > write-permission upon retransfer to hard disk? I use Nero for back-up. > This is getting off-topic I know... I assume you use Win32. Create an archive (.zip) or use a backup utility. I use Norton/Symantec ghost, which can make an image of a disk partition onto a set of CD's, a different drive/partition, or via network on another machine's local disk. There is a utility like windows explorer to view the contents of an image fileset and copy out individual files. -- George N. White III <aa056(a)chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Permission denied
by Idris S Hamid 20 Nov '03

20 Nov '03

Hi guys, just reinstalled things, and eomega plus gamma gives me the following: This is e-Omegak, Version 3.14159--1.15--2.1 (Web2c 7.4.5) %&-line parsing enabled. Copyright (c) 2002 the e-Omega task force eomega.exe: context.fls: Permission denied Any idea what I'm missing? best Idris

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Problems with table and Division Line
by Bernd Militzer 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

Hi all, using \DL[2] only once in a row, the function works well, but using \DL[2] twice in a row, I get a error-message: +---------- ! Extra alignment tab has been changed to \cr. <template> \endtemplate \!ttLongHrule ->\omit \span \omit \span \!ttShortHrule \normalTABLEmultirule ...{#1}\normalTABLElongrule & \complexTableDL ...handleTABLEerror \fi \fi \next \fi l.31 \DL[2] \DC \DC \DL[2] \DR ? ! Emergency stop. <template> \endtemplate \!ttLongHrule ->\omit \span \omit \span \!ttShortHrule \normalTABLEmultirule ...{#1}\normalTABLElongrule & \complexTableDL ...handleTABLEerror \fi \fi \next \fi l.31 \DL[2] \DC \DC \DL[2] \DR End of file on the terminal! +---------- \starttext \starttable[|c|c|c|c|c|c|] %\starttables[|c|c|c|c|c|c|] % \HL \NC one \NC two \NC three \NC four \NC five \NC six \NC\AR % \DL[2] \DC \DC \DC \DC \DR \VL \TWO{one + two} \VL three \NC four \NC five \NC six \NC\AR % \DC \DC \DC \DL[3] \DR \NC one \NC two \NC three \VL \THREE{four + five + six} \VL\AR % the next line does not work!! \DL[2] \DC \DC \DL[2] \DR % \VL \TWO{one + two} \VL three \NC four \VL \TWO{five + six}\VL\AR \stoptable \stoptext What ist here to do? Any hints will be welcome! Bernd

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ANN: updated bib-module
by Taco Hoekwater 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

Hi all, I just uploaded a new version of my bibliograhic module to http://tex.aanhet.net/bib/ New in this (update)release: Support for APS-style citations, DOI's, Oxford comma's and "et.al.". Of course, there are some bugfixes as well, so everybody who uses my m-bib module is urged to update ASAP. Happy TeXing, Taco

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\combinepages with negative distance
by Tobias Burnus 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

Hi, I have a A5 document (as PDF file) which should be nx=2,ny=1 placed on a landscape A4 paper. The problem is that I want to have more whitespace on the left side for stapleing/punching which can easiest be done by letting the included pages overlap. I tried distance=-4cm but it didn't work as expected. Desired result: +---+-------------+------------+ | | first a5 . | second a5 | | | . | | | | . | | | | . | | +---+-------------+------------+ | ^^^ - included pages overlap | extra wide margin I tried: \setuppapersize[a5,landscape][a4,landscape] \combinepages[main.pdf][nx=2,ny=1,frame=on,distance=-4cm] Tobias

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Re: How to nicely print XHTML to PDF
by Thomas Schrader 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

Thank you for helping Janko, >> ... really simple to make XHTML from HTML? > ... practically it can be a huge effort. THAT effort does not put me off at all ... >> How to style output? > A tool can decide with the help of the css > definitions in the tags which layout macros > it should use. That layout macros you're talking about: are they capable to separate content from layout in ConTeXt, too? By it's own means? So, IS it actually possible to directly transform CSS into ConTeXt layout macros and let the XHTML untouched? I agree, that XHTML might be too complex, but with some pre-print tidy up complexity can be reduced very well. Unfortunately I've no idea yet what to do with all that scripting stuff in pages. Anyway, there's also be the problem to establish a page model within XHTML. > ... I do not think, that this approach is the > equivilant to the print function of the modern > browsers. After all, I dare say you're right (sigh). It's an illusion to introduce real typesetting here, is it? Best regards, Thomas Schrader -- mailto laborator at web de

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Installing Garamond
by John Culleton 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

I tried to install my newly purchased Adobe AGaramond following the example in Bill McCLain's _Beginner's Guide_. I keep getting warning messages like: Warning: pdfetex (file texnansi-raw-LT50567): Font texnansi-raw-LT50567 at 600 not found Warning: pdfetex (file texnansi-raw-LT50566): Font texnansi-raw-LT50566 at 600 not found </u/usr/TeX/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr6.pfb> Warning: pdfetex (file texnansi-raw-gdsc): Font texnansi-raw-gdsc at 600 not found the only change I made ot the fonts was to change the suffixes from AFM to afm and PFB to pfb (I run LInux.) then I ran texfont with the following statement: texfont.pl \ --fontroot=/u/usr/TeX/texmf-local \ --sourcepath=/tmp/fonts \ --vendor=adobe \ --collection=agaramond \ --makepath --install I put a reference to the generated map file in pdftex.cfg and linked that mapfile to the same directory as pdftex.map. The tfm, vf etc files all exist. Any hints? any debugging tricks? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Problems with superscripts and macros
by Frank 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Hello I am having some big problems with superscripts. When I type: -20$^\circ$C I get the expected 20 degrees Celcius (-20oC) However if I put the same sequence in a macro \def\celcius{$^\circ$C} -20\celsius\ Dewpoint -20\celsius Dewpoint I get as result: -20 oCDewpoint -20DoCewpoint Where o symbolizes the degree symbol. What is going on, and more importantly how to solve it. Best Regards, Frank

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Re: page backgrounds
by Thomas A. Schmitz 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Patrick, Otared, Adam, thanks for looking into this. Adam's solutions works, wonderful!! Now I'll be able to have lots of "annoying texts" as watermarks. But those were a lot of changes to config files. Though I feel confident on the command line, I must admit I never bothered to look into minstall.pdf; I figured I had a working installation. Adam, you're definitely right: it would be nice if we could have gwtex's standards set to something more useful! Thanks everybody, another satisfied customer! Thomas

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reset \use[sub]path
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Hi all! Lets consider the following situation. There are 3 catalogs; ./lofo1, ./lofo2, ./lofo3, each of them contains files 'aqq.xml' and 'cow.png' for example. Filenames are the same, but they may have different content. I need to include all these files into one PDF document WITHOUT giving absolute paths in TeX code. I tried something like \usepath[lofo1] \processXMLfilegrouped{aqq.xml} \usepath[lofo2] \processXMLfilegrouped{aqq.xml} \usepath[lofo3] \processXMLfilegrouped{aqq.xml} but in this example the same file (./lofo1/aqq.xml) will be processed 3 times and that is not what I need. Actually the situation is even more complicated; I have quite big XML tree with hunderts of files and images, with dozens of catalogs. I wrote a perl script which change current directory for each process and run texexec in changed one. And it works OK since I want to have separate PDF document from each `lofo?' catalog. But how to make one PDF document in such situation using \use[sub]path texnique? In other words, how to reset settings from \usepath and \usesubpath commands? And how to do the same for externalfigures? Thanks in advance, Pawe/l

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hide navigation menu in pdf presentations
by Patrick Gundlach 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

Hello out there. I'd like to have a navigation menu in a presentation (Acrobat Reader). But I want to make it visible only when I move the mouse to the area of the menu. So something like "onMouseOver do showThisMenu". What approach should I take? Patrick -- You are your own rainbow!

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How to nicely print XHTML to PDF
by Thomas Schrader 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

Hi everybody, would you please put this right, if I'm mistaken. Isn't ConTeXt capable to typeset XML? And isn't it really simple to make XHTML from HTML? So, is there any obstacle against using ConTeXt as customizable quality-typesetting backend for (readjusted/simplyfied) (X)HTML pages? What about power/complexity? How to style output? I tried Gecko but it's not what I call user-friendly. What is your opinion? Kind regards Thomas Schrader -- mailto laborator at web de

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Re: REQ: ConTEXt - Using external figure
by Hans Hagen 14 Nov '03

14 Nov '03

At 16:19 13/11/2003, you wrote: >Dear Sir or Madam, > >REQ: ConTEXt - Using external figure > >I would be grateful if you could help me. >I want to use an external figure in my logo. The figure exists in >several types. >The best quality I get with the type eps, the worst with png. ConTEXt >is choosing png and I can not force it to choose instead eps. these things depend on the driver; it looks like you don't use pdfetex (which is currently the best choice); in that case, you can convert the eps to pdf and include that. Otherwise, try: \useexternalfigure [fig-logo-geoport] [logo3-geoport.eps] [scale=500] Hans

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Indenting all lines in a paragraph, first line excluded
by Tim 't Hart 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

Hello, I'm busy writing a paper using ConTeXt that includes a bibliography. I'm designing the layout of this bibliography and I need a special paragraph style. I want the first line of the paragraph to appear normally, and the second and all consecutive lines to be indented. So basically you can also say that I want an 'inverted' paragraph; instead of an indented first line, I want all the other lines to be indented instead. Is there a simple way to achieve this? I've read the manual looking for clues but so far I haven't been successful. Any hints on where to look? My best, Tim

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interaction with radio buttons
by Johannes Hüsing 12 Nov '03

12 Nov '03

Dear all, using the example of radiobuttons in uptodate 1998-01, I fail to get the buttons interactive. When using the pdf doc with Acrobat Reader, the buttons are there but the cursor won't give me the finger when it hovers over them, nor does clicking have any effect. Is there anything I fail to observe? Groetjes Johannes \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupcolors[state=start] \useJSscripts[fld] \definesymbol [yes-a] [$\times$] \definesymbol [yes-b] [$\star$] \definesymbol [nop-a] [$\bullet$] \definesymbol [nop-b] [$-$] \definefield [example-1] [radio] [setup 1] [ex-a,ex-b,ex-c] [ex-c] \definesubfield [ex-a,ex-b,ex-c] [setup 1] [yes-a,nop-a] \clonefield [ex-a] [ex-p] [setup 2] [yes-b,nop-b] \clonefield [ex-b] [ex-q] [setup 2] [yes-b,nop-b] \clonefield [ex-c] [ex-r] [setup 2] [yes-b,nop-b] \copyfield [ex-a] [ex-x] \copyfield [ex-b] [ex-y] \copyfield [ex-c] [ex-z] \setupfield [setup 1] [width=1cm,height=1cm,framecolor=red] \setupfield [setup 2] [width=.75cm,height=.75cm] \starttext \hbox to \hsize {\field[ex-a]\hfil\field[ex-b]\hfil\field[ex-c]\hfil\hfil \field[ex-p]\hfil\field[ex-q]\hfil\field[ex-r]\hfil\hfil \field[ex-x]\hfil\field[ex-y]\hfil\field[ex-z]} \stoptext -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets hannes(a)ruhrau.de such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain

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Fwd: voor de context lijst
by Hans Hagen 12 Nov '03

12 Nov '03

(for dutch users) >Beste mensen, > >Op verzoek van onze NTG-secretaris Willi Egger wijs ik de lezers hier nog >een keertje op de bijzondere NTG-bijeenkomst die aanstaande donderdag >plaatsvindt in het Hotel Haarhuis direct tegenover het NS-station van >Arnhem. > >Het instructieve en leuke programma staat op >http://www.ntg.nl/bijeen/bijeen32.html > >Deelname aan de dag is in principe gratis, mogelijk vraagt de penningmeester >wel een bijdrage voor de lunch en het diner in Haarhuis is voor eigen >rekening. > >Naast de gebruikelijke TeX-lezingen van hoge kwaliteit is er een gastspreker >van de Werkplaats Typografie van de Arnhemse kunstacademie, Sanne Dijkstra. >Zij zal spreken over de typografische beslissingen die een vormgever maakt >bij het opzetten van verscheidene documenten. > >Werd de vorige bijeenkomst in Zeist sfeervol afgesloten met muziek, ook nu >is er een muzikale culturele uitsmijter, vanzelfsprekend met een link naar >TeX: Willi Egger heeft enkele van de liedteksten met behulp van ConTeXt >fraai op papier gezet. > >En dat is nog niet alles. > >Belangrijkste is dat wie zich nog niet heeft aangemeld, dat nu doet, opdat >we anders teveel of juist te weinig stoelen en boterhammen en koffiekopjes >hebben. > >Meld je aan bij ntg-secretaris(a)ntg.nl > >Namens deze, groet, > >Frans Goddijn > >================================================================ >Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd >op virussen. >Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst >waar op wordt gecontroleerd. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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countproblem
by Bernd Militzer 12 Nov '03

12 Nov '03

Hi all! what is wong? % % % ad the points of each question \def\getPunkte[#1]{\advance\summeP by \number#1} % % show the points on the right side \def\showP[#1]{\inright{\hfill(#1 P.)}} % % handle the points \def\pkt[#1]% {% \showP[#1]% \getPunkte[#1] } % Using this macro in normal text like TestQuestion \pkt[5] it works!!! But when I use this macro in combination with enumeration I run in a problem example: % \defineenumeration[question][location=inmargin,text=,width=fit] % \question\pkt[5] TestQuestion\par nothing ist count in this case! Thanks for any help. Bernd

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letter style
by Janko Hauser 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

Hello, my name is Janko Hauser, I'm a new context user, after many years of LaTeX :-) I want to use context for two different projects. 1. Produce styled PDF documents from a web-content-managment-system. This will be web-page based but also complete sets of pages to generate longer documents. One conceptual idea is to have something like a clip-board of visited pages, which can be printed as one document. Ok, this Zope-based site will be an effort going into the next year. I mention it only for background for the coming questions in the next months. 2. I want to generate my invoice and business-letters with context. I searched the mailinglist but the only note I got was a reference to "the last MAPS" which should contain an article about this. Ah and Hans has mentioned that there is something in the making :-) Is there already something to look at? Does someone know a direct link to the mentioned MAPS-article? Thanks in advance, I'm really looking forward to using context. __Janko

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bold math
by Sytse Knypstra 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

Hi all, I would like to use bold greek math symbols (I have the lucida family installed). In the `Fonts in ConTeXt' manual I concluded from page 12 that this should be relatively simple. However all my attempts failed: either I got the normal math symbols or I got all (roman and greek) symbols bold, whereas I want to use them alternately. I tried the description on the pages 13 and 14, but I couldn't get it working. I simply inserted `,boldmath' in the lucida typescript in the file type-exa and it gave me all symbols bold. I must admit that I don't understand much of what is written in the `Fonts in ConTeXt' manual. Can anybody give me a solution of how to achieve this? BTW. Shouldn't this feature be a standard one in ConTeXt? Thanks Sytse

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Easy lucida font use
by David Arnold 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

All, There was an easy way shared to use the Lucida fonts without having to do any special font or map generation via texfont. Something involving Adobe KB or some such thing. Can someone remind me?

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resolution
by Severin Obertuefer 10 Nov '03

10 Nov '03

Hi I made a context-file that contains a lot of *.jpg pictures. The file is very big now, because the pictures are in good quality. I'll use the document for the web and I think there you can see no more then 72dpi (I'm not shure with that) Is there a command to set down the resolution of the whole document (including the pictures) ?? or do I have to reduce the resolution of each jpg graphic with a graphic-program. severin -- NEU FÜR ALLE - GMX MediaCenter - für Fotos, Musik, Dateien... Fotoalbum, File Sharing, MMS, Multimedia-Gruß, GMX FotoService Jetzt kostenlos anmelden unter http://www.gmx.net +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++

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Simple problem using texexec to combine pdfs
by Martin Buchmann 10 Nov '03

10 Nov '03

Hello, i am rather new to ConTeXt but i had to try it after i met Hans in a little workshop about his system in Darmstadt this year. Thanks again for the insights Hans :-) Now i found out that texexec is also a pretty nice tool for combining single pdf files into one. So i tried: texexec --pdfcombine --combination=1*1 --result=felix.pdf *.pdf to combine all pdfs in the wd to felix.pdf. That's working fine besides the fact that a footnote is added to each page containing the file name and the date. That's maybe pretty handy sometimes but not for me at the moment. I checked the texexec manpages and the manual but i did not find the right command/switch to do it. May be i'm just missing some rooky stuff. Could someone help me out here? BTW: I'm using the latest TeXlive installation on RedHat. Best regards Martin P.S.: I know that i could change the temporary texexec.tex by hand and rerun that file. But that's a bit to clumsy for such a sophisticated system, isn't it?

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backgrounds
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 10 Nov '03

10 Nov '03

Hi all! Could You give me some hint how to setup different backgrounds for even and odd pages? Lets say I would like to have something like \setupbackgrounds[footer][rightmargin][background=screen] % for even pages and \setupbackgrounds[footer][leftmargin][background=screen] % for odd pages Thanks in advance, Pawel

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