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height and width of a figure
by Severin Obertuefer 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

hi all i included an external figure in a document with \useexernalfigure[fig] how can i get the width and the height of this picture so that i can make a frame that has exactly the same size as the externalfigure[fig]. thanks a lot for help greetings severin -- +++ GMX - die erste Adresse für Mail, Message, More! +++ Getestet von Stiftung Warentest: GMX FreeMail (GUT), GMX ProMail (GUT) (Heft 9/03 - 23 e-mail-Tarife: 6 gut, 12 befriedigend, 5 ausreichend) Jetzt selbst kostenlos testen: http://www.gmx.net

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tables within tabulate environment
by Frank 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hi, I am working on some documents which are based on a table which is part of the text flow and may break between pages. So I use the tabulate environment. However now I need to include a table inside a tabulate cell, but this does not seem to work. How can I get around this? Best regards Frank

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Re: [OS X TeX] Alternate/Swash Font in LaTeX, how?
by Steffen Wolfrum 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

William Adams <wadams(a)atlis.com> wrote: > Steffen asked about Adobe Garamond Swash Italic. > > Yeah, it's a non-standard encoding. You can either manually add it to a > .vf, or follow the instructions in Alan Hoenig's wonderful book, _TeX > Unbound_ > > I've samples of it up on my web site at > http://members.aol.com/willadams - check the portfolio section, and if > you go to the fonts page you should be able to follow the links to a > .vf which may or may not work for you. > > William Thanks William, but although I tried nearly every links on your address I couldn't find any link related to .vf. Couldn't you maybe pass me the URL directly? Thanks again Steffen

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new version
by Hans Hagen 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hi, The last hour I fixed a couple of things that came up during the recent dante/gutenberg tex conferences as well as added the table thingies discussed here. (for the split lovers: there was a small bug in the patch i sent earlier; actually the patch broke some of my existing files -) the main as well as the beta files have been upgraded 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] [NTG-context]
by ^Nitram^ 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hi, > layers, see details.pdf Thanks, but I tried examples from there and only \hskip\layoutcolumnoffset{2}{\red Text positioned in column 2!} works fine... Other examples does nothing - there is no errors on \setlayer but I didn't see any effect - no text is visible ;( PS. Sorry for empty subject of first post. -- Best regards Martin

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Re: [NTG-context] problems with embedded spaces in file paths (Win32)
by Hans Hagen 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

At 13:08 15/09/2003 -0300, you wrote: >I don't normally use Win32, but I want to convert our 4AllTeX addicts to >TeX Live 2003. In testing release candidates, I encountered a few >problems with context and texexec. The most recent tests were with the >Sept. 5 release candidate (using the "install" CD). > >1. on Win32, kpsewhich often fails to find texexec.ini. I created a >texexec.ini in texmf-var/context/config and verified that it is listed in >the ls-R. My conjecture is that this failure occurs if and only if the >final component of the nme of the current working directory contains an >embedded space, e.g., "C:\My Documents". Texexec takes a very long time >to run (searching the texmf trees on an unloved and unwanted PIII 300mhz), >so I haven't done a lot of testing/debugging. I haven't encountered any >other kpathsea failures. I can work around this by tweaking texexec.pl, >but it would be comforting to have an explanation. > >2. ConTeXt texexec uses $ENV{"HOME"} to set a value in filename.tmp, >e.g., on unix: > >$ cat try.tex >\starttext >\input story >\stoptext >$ texexec try >$ cat try.tmp >% try.top >\unprotect >\setupsystem[\c!gebied={/user/gwhite/}] %---- set from $ENV{"HOME"} >\setupsystem[\c!n=1] >\setupsystem[inputfile=try.tex] >\protect > >If, e.g. HOME="/x y", the formatted document gets an extra page containing >"y//cont-err". > >On Win32, it seems common to have spaces in "%HOME%". In particular, for >WinXP, a value appears to be constructed by the texexec.ini binary >(created using irun) if %HOME% is not set. I can work around this by >asking users to explicitly set HOME to something safe. can you check what happens when you add "" around the path? If i'm right, (i'll upload new binaries when some patch is done) the win binaries now accept \input "some path" (not sure if \input "some path"/somefile also works; can you test that?) 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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Newbie wants to make long tables
by Thomas Schrader 17 Sep '03

17 Sep '03

Hi everybody, I'm wondering how to break up long tables over several pages, automatically placing continuing headers and footers. Thanks much for any help Thomas -- mailto laborator at web de

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Does Bill McClain's TOC work?
by Steffen Wolfrum 16 Sep '03

16 Sep '03

Working on my first TOC I was looking at Bill McClain's "ConTeXt and pdfTeX Beginners Help Page", and its example on TOCs with different entries. I copied and pasted his example, but what should be like this: > Contents > > Introduction to the Annotated Edition * 5 > > Preface * 12 > > 1 * The Windows of Absolute Night * 15 is in fact: > Contents > > Introduction to the Annotated Edition * 5 > > Preface * 12 > > 3 * The Windows of Absolute Night * 15 <- "3" ! (the unnumbered headings *are* numbered) So I tried something different: \definehead[LevelOneEmpty][chapter] \setuphead[LevelOneEmpty][number=no] \definehead[LevelOne[chapter] \setuphead[LevelOne][number=yes] \definehead[LevelTwo][section] \definehead[LevelThree][subsection] \starttext \definecombinedlist [content] [LevelOneEmpty,LevelOne,LevelTwo, LevelThree] \setupcombinedlist [content][alternative=b,aligntitle=no,width=2.5em] \completecontent[way=bytext] \LevelOneEmpty{Introduction} ... \LevelOne{First real Chapter} But the result is the same: > Contents > > Introduction... > > 2 First real Chapter A last try with the following changed: \definehead[LevelOneEmpty][title] was even worse: "Introduction" doesn't appear at all in the TOC. So what is the right way? I'd be happy for any hint. Steffen

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parsetrees
by Matthew Huggett 16 Sep '03

16 Sep '03

//Ed Cashin wrote: >> I'm making some notes on English grammar for some students and I want >> to analyze a few sentences using parse trees. Is there a way to do >> trees in ConTeXt? I guess I'd need to use Metapost. Any pointers >> would be appreciated. >Please let us know if you find anything. I was in a linguistics class >and would have tackled this myself if there had been more time. >I don't think it would be too bad in MetaPost. I haven't quite gotten >the hang of ConTeXt's MetaPost integration to the degree where I'd >know how to make use of both their features in a practical way. I found the following manual but haven't had a chance to try anything out. www.cis.upenn.edu/~dchiang/software/trees-manual.pdf Matt

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[NTG-context]
by ^Nitram^ 16 Sep '03

16 Sep '03

Hi, I would like create some kind of template of first page - I try put a few text blocks in \startstandardmakeup - \stopstandardmakeup area but I spent a few hours but I did nothing. I can only do something like that: \framed[align=middle,width=broad]{some text} \blank[10*big] \framed[align=middle,width=broad]{some text} etc... but I think it is better solutions to put blocks there where I want ;). Could anybody give me any advice? -- Best regards Martin

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Table with metapost framing and colors
by Michal Kvasnicka 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Dear Mr. Hagen. I apologize that I bother you once more, but I really need your help (deadline for my document is quite soon). :-( I have to follow a rather complex document design. According to it tables must be framed with two different lines: The outer frame must be thick and the inner thin. Moreover, a part of the header (the first row) must be black. I didn't know how to do it, so I used Metapost in a company with the overlay mechanism provided with the ConTeXt. It works well, but: 1) When a cell has black background, it turns its frame from black to white. It's awfull. How can I switch this behavior off? 2) The frame of the first and last row doesn't fit precisely to frames of the rest rows. What's wrong? Are those cell of a different sizes? How can I improve it? Many thanks for your kind help. Your sincerely Michal Kvasnicka P.S. I include a minimal (but not a small, I apologize) example.

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Splitting floats
by Giuseppe Bilotta 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Hello, an interesting feature I would like to see in ConTeXt is the ability to split floats. There are at least two ways in which this might be interesting. One of the is that of having "floating" tables that span multiple pages. The other, more general, is that of having (usually textual) floating contents split in different blocks located in different parts of the text. An example of usage of this could be a text block that "flows" from a floating frame to another (IOW a set of linked floating frames containing a single textflow) Are there any chances of having this feature in ConTeXt? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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fonts and footnotes (again)
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Hi ntg! Some days ago I asked a question which looks to have an obvious answer... Unfortunately the answer isn't obvious for ConTeXt chick:-) I have a problem with font of footnote-numbers. I will try to describe some details because they may be important. I've defined some sans-serif font with my own styles and sizes: \definefontsynonym[tfMyFont][file_name1] \definefontsynonym[bfMyFont][file_name2] % I don't need neither italics nor math \definebodyfont[13pt,12pt,...,9pt][ss] [tfs=tfMyFont sa 0.75, % let's test alternative for tfxx tf=tfMyFont sa 1, .... bfs=bfMyFont sa 0.75, bf=bfMyFont sa 1, ....] \setupbodyfont[13pt,ss] Then I set styles for heads (chapters, sections etc.). The same for headers and footers. These setups work OK. I have a problem with footnotes though. I tried \setupfootnotes[style=\tfs] but it doesn't work (why?). With such settings default ss font -- cmss10 or plss10 (which is not my sweet sansserif) is used for footnote texts and numbers. I also tried \setupfootnotes[bodyfont=10pt]; it works good since ten-point font is defined in \definebodyfont. BUT numbers of footnotes still 'use' DEFAULT sansserif font. So I tried something like \setupfootnotes[...,numbercommand=\MyCommand], where \MyCommand set appropriate fontstyle (\tfs) and raise the number as a ^superscript (quite sophisticated way, isn't it?). This works for numbers of footnotes (below main text) Anyway I have still no idea how to setup correct font and style for footnote numbers appearing in text as a reference for footnote. 1. How to setup font-style and -size for footnotes text and/or footnotes numbers without giving the dimension directly? I mean why I have to setup \setupfootnotes[bodyfont=10pt] and I can't set \setupfootnotes[style=\tfxx]? What is do wrong in it? 2. How to setup font-style and -size for BOTH footnote reference (in text) and footnote numbers? Regards, Pawe/l

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Re: [NTG-context] 2 basic questions on placefigure options
by Steffen Wolfrum 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Hi Hans, did you find something into it? Steffen > > At 14:17 03/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: > > >After reading the different manuals two questions still stay unanswered: > > > > > >1. Is it true that a figure with text flowing around it (placefigure > > >option left/right) has always to start with a beginning of a paragraph, so > > >that it is not possible to place it in the middle of a text when it is > > >mentioned there? > > > > > >2. Isn't it possible to make a kind of combination between the placefigure > > >options top and left (for example), so that a small picture can have text > > >floating around it but it is placed at the top of the page (like big > > >landscape formats would be with the top option)? > > > > > >I hope I just missed something... > > > > > > 1. indeed > > > > 2. should not be too difficult, i'll look into it > > > > Hans > Great, thank you. > Then (2) could be a bit of a practical alternative to the missing of (1). > Steffen

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Re: [NTG-context] Help! ConTeXt crashed! (was: 2 basic questions on placefigure options)
by Steffen Wolfrum 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > At 23:05 14/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: > > >Hans, thank you - but now ConTeXt doesn't work anymore (see log below)! > > in that case you need the latest beta version (and on top of that the file > i sent you) OK, now it works. \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[left] {}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par} \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[right]{}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par} As far as I understood I have to count lines, right? My need is, for a huge amount of images, to say somthing like \placefigure[top,left] or \placefigure[bottom,right] regardless how many line befor/after this command may be - just like \placefigure[top]. To make sure the image still is at the top/bottom of a page even iv some changes in the text have to be made. And the only way to simlate this is by \hangsidefloat[x] with x being the lines above the image. There is no faster way, to just say place it left/right at the top or bottom of the textarea? The command \placefigure[top] looks so clear - there is no way to add a sidefloat behaviour for small figures, text floating around them? Steffen

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Interaction color in content
by Michal Kvasnicka 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Good morning. First of all: Many thanks for you last hints -- it solved a lot of my problems. But one more is still present. I want that the ``text'' in the content list to be ``clickable'' (interactive) and of some color. But the color make a problem. Why something like this causes errors? % output=pdf \setupcolors[state=start] \setupinteraction[state=start, color=interactioncolor] \definecombinedlist[content] [section, subsection] [criterium=all, level=subsection] \setuplist[section] [interaction=text] \starttext \placecontent \section{First} \input tufte \section{Second} \input tufte \section{Third} \input tufte \stoptext I got this very error message: (./int1.tuo ! Use of \@@lisectioninteractie doesn't match its definition. \doifvalue ...f \!!stringa {\csname #1\endcsname } \edef \!!stringb {#2}\ifx ... \dosomelijstelement ... #1\c!interactie }\v!tekst {\setlistparameter {#1}\c!... \dodolijstelement ...ment {#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6} \global \utilitydonetrue l.8 ...tion}{2}{2}{Second}{2::0:0:2:0:0:0:0::1}{1} With many greetings Michal Kvasnicka

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Help! ConTeXt crashed! (was: 2 basic questions on placefigure options)
by Steffen Wolfrum 15 Sep '03

15 Sep '03

Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > --=====================_34256828==_ > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > At 13:31 14/09/2003 +0200, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > >did you find something into it? > > hm, you are persistent -) > > \starttext > > \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[left] {}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par} > \hangsidefloat[2] \placefigure[right]{}{} \dorecurse{3}{\input ward\par} > > \stoptext > > i have to think about some way to feed such things into \place... directly, > no time now > > Hans > > PS. unzip the new.zip file in .../base and regenerate the format > PS. quite untested on special cases, so only use it in controlled situations Hans, thank you - but now ConTeXt doesn't work anymore (see log below)! What I did: Unzipped it in unzip the new.zip file in /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base and /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base for I don't know which one to use (I have Gerben's tetex distr. in stalled) Then I run sudo mktexlsr and sudo fmtutil --all That's all. Now ConTeXt does not do anything anymore. Help! Steffen TeXExec 3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : agaramond output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./agaramond.tex{/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.8.21 fmt: 2003.9.14 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/cont-loc.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ! Undefined control sequence. l.434 \long\@EA\def\csname\e!start\e!instellingen \endcsname#1 % ?

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\type doen't type -- with latin-modern fonts.
by Daniel Flipo 14 Sep '03

14 Sep '03

Hi all, See the following test file %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %interface=en output=pdftex %\definetypeface [myface] [tt][mono] % [computer-modern][default][encoding=ec] \definetypeface [myface] [tt] [mono] [latin-modern] [default][encoding=ec] \setupbodyfont[myface,sans,14.4pt] \starttext \starttyping TEXEDIT = emacsclient --no-wait +%d %s \stoptyping \type{TEXEDIT = emacsclient --no-wait +%d %s} \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \starttyping ... \stoptyping works fine, but \type{} typsets a "single dash" instead of two dashes. The "single dash" is also different (lower and shorter) than the two dashes. The same is true with the AEfonts (Computer-modern with EC ecoding), but not with the default fonts (true CM). Any fix for this? Daniel Flipo

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XML & ConTeXt -- handling many conventions
by Pawel Jackowski na WP 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

Hi! There is a lot of ways to build ConTeXt macro which can handle something like i.e: <chapter title="First Chapter"> ... or <chapter> <title>First Chapter</title> ... But is there any way to handle both conventions in one defnition? Regards, Paweł

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texexec doesn't finish
by Boris Tschirschwitz 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

Hi. I am writing a short note in the hope that someone else ran into the same problem and can tell me what to do before I have to start thinking: I am using ConTeXt for a few weeks now without major problems. Today I felt like updating to the latest version (Aug 21?). Now when I try to generate even the simplest document (like 'texexec --pdf test.tex), texexec never finishes and spawns huge numbers of perl jobs. Any hint what I did wrong?

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Re: file mlabels.pdf
by Hans Hagen 13 Sep '03

13 Sep '03

At 12:45 10/09/2003 +0100, you wrote: >Hello, > > I followed a link from your page to a file >/general/manuals/mlabels.pdf, but apparently the link it's broken. > >Can you help me? this is work in progress ... (i need th elink in my version of the docu environment) 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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double-lined Z for meaning "integers"
by Ed L Cashin 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

Hi. I am having trouble finding the right incantation for summoning the correct Z. There are some doubly-lined versions of N, Z, Q, and R, that are used often to signify the sets of natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, and reals, respectively. Does anyone know how to get those? Here's a pic of the Z and Q. Note that there's white between the lines -- not fill. ----- ------------------- -/ \- / / / | \ / / / | \ / / / | \ | / | | | / | / | \ / / | | | / / | | | / / | | | / / \ | / / / | | | | | \ | / / / \ \ / / / \ |\- / / -\ /- \ ------------------- ----- \ -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin(a)uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/

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Side floats starting in mid-paragraph
by Erik Hetzner 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

Hello, I'm just putting the finishing touches on this pamphlet, and I was wondering if it was possible now to start side floats midparagraph. \movesidefloat[+2*line] (is that syntax correct?) will push down the side float just right, except that the text at the beginning of the paragraph will not flow around the picture correctly. That is, xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx PPPP xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx rather than as desired: xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx PPPP xxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx Any sort of hacky solution would be welcome! Unfortunately, my best shots have not worked. I tried \hangafter and \hangindent, but they do not seem to work in Context. Thanks for all the help. Regards, Erik Hetzner

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: clubpenalty/widowpenalty ignored - a bug?
by Steffen Wolfrum 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

Jesus Christ! Now it works!! (Even without \brokenpenalty=0 ) Isn't that strange? TeX settings not in the preamble? But hey, this gives us the very useful advantage (compared to LaTeX) that we now can switch to different clubpenalty/widowpenalty values right in the text. And that's amazing - for in LaTeX you'd need to construct an environment for changing the clubpenalty/widowpenalty values that are set in the preamble! Wonderful. Somebody should write this in a ConTeXt manual. Steffen Thomas A. Schmitz <thomas.schmitz(a)uni-bonn.de> wrote: > I may be wide off the mark--but I tried the reverse (allowing clubs and > widows), and it didn't work until I inserted it AFTER /starttext. Maybe > you can try that! > Best > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context(a)ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

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My first week with ConTeXt
by Andreas Gschwendtner 12 Sep '03

12 Sep '03

Hello everyone, I have been using ConTeXt and reading this list silently for a week now. I am quite impressed by the features and the flexibility ConTeXt has to offer -- yet, I am still a little bit anxious to give up all the things I have got used to in LaTeX. What I am trying to do at the moment, is convert some LaTeX documents to ConTeXt. Some things have indeed been easier than expected, while others seem to be a lot of work and can be quite troublesome... I am sorry if anything I am about to ask has already been covered here or if the answer is in the manuals -- at the beginning it is sometimes quite hard to look in the right places. -- At first, a general request rather than a question: Learning ConTeXt would be _much_ easier if there were more example files around. At some points the manuals are hard to understand and some things are not even covered. I learned a lot in LaTeX, too, by taking some example file and modifying it to suit my needs. A read somewhere (although I can't remember where) that the sources to all documents available from pragma-ade.com "are or will be made public". This would be great! In the meantime I would appreciate any links to examples. How do other ConTeXt users realize Styles for their index and their bibliography? How do they set up headers, footers, chapter and section headings, pagestyles, etc... -- \placefigure (caption) question #1: For some of my figures I want to have captions _below_ the figure, but the caption should be wider than the figure itself (if the figure is 0.5\textwidth and centered, I want the caption to be 0.9\textwidth or even \textwidth). How do I do that? -- \placefigure (caption) question #2: Some of my figures are quite tall (= \textheight), so the caption cannot be below or above, but has to be _beside_ the figure. I want those figures to appear *left* on *odd* pages and *right* on *even* pages, and the captions vice versa. I don't want to have the caption in the outer margin, but rather the width of the figure plus the width of the caption should be equal to \textwidth. Thanks for any hints! Andreas

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Crop marks and Lightning Source
by John Culleton 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

A popular POD printer in the USA called LIghtning Source wants the finished page to be centered on an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper in the pdf file submitted to them. This can be done with \definepapersze and \setuppapersize. However this technique shows cropmarks and Lighting Source specifies "no crop marks." Question 1: How do I eliminate cropmarks yet still have the smaller page centered on the larger page? Second, my customer pointed out to me that on my finished pdf the cropmarks do not exactly delineate the specific size (in this case 5.5 x 8.5 inches.) On my laser printer they define a space about 1/32 inch shorter than the nominal dimension in both vertical and horizontal directions. This is about 2 or 3 points. Question 2. Why are the cropmarks apparently imprecise? All hints appreciated, as always. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com ____________________________________________________________ Free 20MB Web Site Hosting and Personalized E-mail Service! Get It Now At Doteasy.com http://www.doteasy.com/et/

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: clubpenalty/widowpenalty ignored - a bug?
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Hi Patrick, No, it didn't work. So please find a one-page example below. Thanks for your replies, Steffen Patrick Gundlach <pg(a)levana.de> wrote: > Hello Steffen, > > Steffen Wolfrum <xmailings(a)estfiles.de> writes: > > > Is this wrong - or is it a bug in ConTeXt? > > this looks fine. Play with > > \brokenpenalty=0 > > and if this does not work, please post a small example showing your problem. > > > Patrick \mainlanguage[de] \enableregime[mac] \setupbodyfont[9pt] \setupinterlinespace[line=3.5ex] \setupencoding[default=ec] \definepapersize[Gross][width=20.2cm,height=26.7cm] \setuppapersize[Gross][A4] \setuplayout [topspace=2cm,header=30pt,footer=0cm,footerdistance=0cm,margin=2cm,leftmargindistance=15pt,rightmargindistance=15pt,backspace=3cm,width=13.7cm,location=middle,marking=on,grid=no]%0.6782178217821782\paperwidth \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided,location={header,marginedge}] \setupfootnotedefinition[location=left,width=2\bodyfontsize,after={\blank[4pt]}] \setuphead[chapter][before={\blank[0pt]},after={\blank[3*line]}] \clubpenalty=10000%einzelne erste Zeilen unten \widowpenalty=10000%einzelne letzte Zeilen oben \displaywidowpenalty=10000 \brokenpenalty=0 \starttext \title{Einleitung} Bis in die j\"{u}ngste Vergangenheit hat der Name {\it Schmoll genannt Eisenwerth} im kunsthistorischen Zusammenhang immer wieder zu Verwechslungen gef\"{u}hrt, denn der aus dem sp\"{a}teren Mittelalter stammende Doppelname wird von mehreren Pers\"{o}nlichkeiten gef\"{u}hrt. Zu nennen sind zun\"{a}chst die vier im letzten Viertel des 19. Jahrhunderts geborenen Br\"{u}der, Josef Adolf (1877-1914), Karl (1879-1948), Gustav (1881-1916) und Fritz (1883-1963), die S\"{o}hne von Anton Adolph Schmoll genannt Eisenwerth (1834-1918), einem geb\"{u}rtigen Saarl\"{a}nder, der als versierter Br\"{u}cken- und Wasserbau-Konstrukteur erst in Frankreich, dann in Wien zu Ansehen gelangte. Nachdem der \"{A}lteste, der Ingenieur Josef Adolf, sowie der Zweitj\"{u}ngste, der Architekt Gustav, als Soldaten im Ersten Weltkrieg fielen, hatte sich besonders der Maler, Grafiker und Kunstgewerbler Karl schon fr\"{u}h einen Namen machen k\"{o}nnen, weshalb dieser in Fachkreisen bisher als der bekanntere der Schmoll-Br\"{u}der galt, bedingt auch durch seine Jahrzehnte w\"{a}hrende Lehrt\"{a}tigkeit in der Architektur-Fakult\"{a}t der Technischen Hochschule Stuttgart (1907-1946), der er 1927/29 auch als Rektor (und Jubil\"{a}umsrektor) vorstand.\footnote{Zu Karl SvE. vgl.: Clementine Schack von Wittenau: Karl Schmoll von Eisenwerth. Malerei, Graphik, Glaskunst. Ausstellungskatalog (Gem\"{a}ldegalerie Dachau, Museum K\"{u}nstlerkolonie Darmstadt, Kreismuseum Zons). Stuttgart 1995 (im Folgenden zitiert als: A.Kat. Stuttgart 1995). Wegen der pers\"{o}nlichen Beziehungen KSvE's war die Wanderausstellung au{\sz}erdem im saarl\"{a}ndischen St.Wendel (St\"{a}dtisches Museum) und im Ober\"{o}sterreichischen Landesmuseum Linz zu sehen. Durch diese Monographie, in der auch FSgE. erw\"{a}hnt wird, kam der Gedanke, sich im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit eingehender mit FSgE. zu befassen.} Mit einer zeitlebens geradezu bescheidenen und zur\"{u}ckhaltenden Wesensart stand dagegen der vier Jahre j\"{u}ngere Fritz Schmoll insbesondere w\"{a}hrend seiner fr\"{u}hen Schaffenszeit etwas im Schatten des \"{a}lteren Bruders, der mit seinen weiterreichenden Beziehungen die berufliche Laufbahn des J\"{u}ngeren zu unterst\"{u}tzen suchte. In M\"{u}nchen, das um 1900 im Kunsthandwerk f\"{u}hrend war, engagierte sich Fritz Schmoll im Sinne der hier von Hermann Obrist gegr\"{u}ndeten Debschitz-Schule rasch im Kunstgewerbe des Jugendstils auf nahezu allen Gebieten (Schmuck, metallene Tafelservice und Gebrauchsger\"{a}te verschiedenster Art, Textilien, M\"{o}bel). Daneben begann er mit kleinplastischen Arbeiten. Einen Schwerpunkt im Bereich des Kunstgewerbes stellten jedoch seine vielfach auch ausgef\"{u}hrten M\"{o}belentw\"{u}rfe. Fritz Schmolls bildhauerisches Wirken, das von den kleinplastischen Arbeiten im kunstgewerblichen Bereich (geschnitzte Elfenbeinanh\"{a}nger, Medaillen und Plaketten, fig\"{u}rliche Kleinplastiken, ausgef\"{u}hrt in Holz, Metall und Keramik) zu gr\"{o}{\sz}er dimensionierten Skulpturen und Plastiken gef\"{u}hrt hatte (rundplastische Portr\"{a}ts, figurative und ornamentale Bauplastiken, Brunnen, Denk- und Grabm\"{a}ler) war durch eine religi\"{o}se Haltung mit bestimmt, wie sie sich in vielen sakralen und sepulkralen Auftr\"{a}gen bekundet. Vom ersten Entwurf bis zum letzten Schliff f\"{u}hrte er bei seiner T\"{a}tigkeit f\"{u}r sakrale und memoriale Auftr\"{a}ge im Sinne eines mittelalterlichen Werkmeisters, der anonym schuf, zumeist auch alles eigenh\"{a}ndig aus. Dieser Haltung kam die nach dem Vorbild mittelalterlicher Bauh\"{u}tten anonyme Arbeitsorganisation des Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgr\"{a}berf\"{u}rsorge sehr entgegen, f\"{u}r den Fritz Schmoll seit den drei{\sz}iger Jahren bis kurz vor seinem Tod, 1963, t\"{a}tig war. In der Reihe der {\it Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth} ist au{\sz}erdem der Neffe der vier in Wien geborenen Br\"{u}der zu nennen, der Kunsthistoriker Prof. Dr. J.A.Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth, der im Februar 1915 in Berlin geborene Sohn des im August 1914 gefallenen Dr. Ing. Josef Adolf Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth.\footnote{Vgl. J.A.Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth: Epochengrenzen und Kontinuit\"{a}t. Studien zur Kunstgeschichte. Hrsg. v. Winfried Nerdinger u. Dietrich Schubert. M\"{u}nchen 1985. Im Anhang findet sich eine nahezu vollst\"{a}ndige Bibliographie des Autors bis 1984.} \stoptext

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Arabic-ConTeXt
by Idris S Hamid 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Dear gang, I still have not had time to prepare the new how-to on Arabic and ConTeXt, but I completely forgot that I already wrote one a year ago! Just compile the ConTeXt format with eOmega and read the following: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d97ost/omega-example.html http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d97ost/omega/gamma/ http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d97ost/omega/gamma/README The readme contains detailed instructions. Replace Omega1.15 with e-Omega1.15. Also do the following in your texmf.cnf file before compiling the format: buf_size.context = 200000 % needed for omega bug %extra_mem_bot.context = 4000000 % comment for omega/eomega extra_mem_top.context = 2000000 The second line should be commented as above (otherwise fpTeX will do strange things...) I can't believe I forgot all about this... More info: For global right-to-left use \textdir TRT\pardir TRT\bodydir TRT\pagedir TRT in your preamble. You will need to add a \hoffset=-8cm to compensate for an omega bug in \bodydir. For questions about any of this, please join the aleph mailing list and I'll help as best as I can. The following documentation is incomplete but helpful: http://omega.cse.unsw.edu.au:8080/roadmap/doc-1.12.ps http://omega.cse.unsw.edu.au:8080/papers/tsukuba-arabic97.pdf Best Idris

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Changes/bugs in the new Context
by Michal Kvasnicka 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Dear Mr. Hagen. I'm sorry I bother you, but I really need a help. Some time ago I uploaded and installed the new version of ConTeXt (ConTeXt ver: 2003.8.21). After that I was not able to compile some of my documents due to changes (bug?) in the new version (the changes may be older). I'd like to ask how should I handle the following two cases in the new version. 1) Changes in colors In some older version I could write things like this: \setupheader[style={\ss\bfb\red}] \setuphead[chapter] [textstyle={\ss\bfc\setupinterlinespace[line=24pt]\red}] \setupinteraction[state=start, style=\red] where \red is a color. Now it makes errors. How should I handle it now? In heads and headers I can use command option and \setupheadertexts respectively. But how sould I set the interactioncolor? (This is the real cause of the problem I have ask the last week -- by my mistake atributed to the content-lists.) 2) Chagnes (bug?) in references Some time ago command \reference[...]{...} expanded the term in the second (curly?) braces before writing to auxiliary files. Now it doesn't. I use this command in my macros like this \reference[#1]{\the\somenumber.\the\anothernumber}} Now the commands \the\somenumber.\the\anothernumber are placed to .tui/.tuo files without expansion. I had to redefine it in the following way: \global\let\OriReference=\reference \gdef\reference[#1]#2{% \edef\MyRefO{#2}% \def\MyRef##1!!{% \OriReference[#1]{##1}% } \expandafter\MyRef\MyRefO!!% } Is it a bug or a feature? How should I use it? Doesn't my solution interfere with the genious ConTeXt macros? Nonetheless I want to thank you very much for providing such a powerful macro package as ConTeXt is to all of us for free. The ConTeXt is really great. Thank you. Thank you very much for your kind help. Your sincerely Michal Kvasnicka

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: Two questions on \setupinterlinespace
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Patrick Gundlach <pg(a)levana.de> wrote: > Steffen Wolfrum <xmailings(a)estfiles.de> writes: > > > 1. If I define \setupinterlinespace at the beginning of my document > > then all "elements" (like bodytext,foonotes, chapter, section etc.) > > are affected. How can I define the interlinespaces for each > > individually? > > Does chapter 6 of "Fonts in ConTeXt" (mfonts.pdf) help? > > Patrick No, it doesn't - or at least my brain is too latexy to understand how this should look in ConTeXt: \renewcommand{\normalsize}{\fontsize{10pt}{13pt}\selectfont} \renewcommand{\footnotesize}{\fontsize{8.5pt}{10pt}\selectfont} \newcommand{\heading_1}{\fontsize{14}{20}\selectfont} \newcommand{\heading_2}{\fontsize{12}{14}\selectfont} Maybe you can help translating? Steffen

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Two questions on \setupinterlinespace
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Hallo, as a former LaTeX-user I am quite confused by \setupinterlinespace. Could you help me with two aspects, please? 1. If I define \setupinterlinespace at the beginning of my document then all "elements" (like bodytext,foonotes, chapter, section etc.) are affected. How can I define the interlinespaces for each individually? 2. I can use \setupinterlinespace[line=13pt] which gives a fixed interlinespace for all "elements" (like bodytext,foonotes or section headings) and I can use \setupinterlinespace[small] or \setupinterlinespace[medium] or \setupinterlinespace[big] which gives different interlinespaces relative to the fontsizes of footnotes, headings, text etc. with factor values from 1 to 1.5 (as it is written in the manual). How can I define other values - like 1.1 or 1.75?? Thank you for any reply, Steffen

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clubpenalty/widowpenalty ignored - a bug?
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Worst case became true: After spending lot of time on defining and setting up my first ConTeXt project I had to encounter that there are orphans and widows in my book. What I did: Just before \starttext I wrote \clubpenalty=10000 \widowpenalty=10000 \displaywidowpenalty=10000 Is this wrong - or is it a bug in ConTeXt? Kind of desperately, Steffen

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fonts and footnotes
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Hi! I have a problem with font of footnote-numbers. I will try to describe some details because they can be important. I've defined some sans-serif font with my own styles and sizes: \definefontsynonym[tfMyFont][file_name1] \definefontsynonym[bfMyFont][file_name2] % I don't need neither italics- nor math-style \definebodyfont[13pt,12pt,...,9pt][ss] [tfs=tfMyFont sa 0.75, % let's test alternative for tfxx tf=tfMyFont sa 1, .... bfs=bfMyFont sa 0.75, bf=bfMyFont sa 1, ....] \setupbodyfont[13pt,ss] Then I set styles for heads (chapters, sections etc.). The same for headers and footers. These setups work OK. I have a problem with footnotes though. I tried \setupfootnotes[style=\tfs]; it doesn't work (why?) -- footnotes are set with some ConTeXt-default ss font -- cmss10 -- which is not my beautiful sansserif:-). I also tried setup \setupfootnotes[bodyfont=10pt]; it works good since ten-point font is defined in \definebodyfont.. BUT numbers of footnotes still 'use' default sansserif font. So I tried something like; \setupfootnotes[...,numbercommand=\MyCommand], where \MyCommand set appropriate fontstyle and raise the number as a ^superscript (quite sophisticated way...). Anyway I have still no idea how to setup correct font and style for footnote-numbers. 1. How to setup font-style and -size for footnotes text without giving dimension directly? I mean why I have to set \setupfootnotes[bodyfont=10pt] and I can't set \setupfootnotes[style=\tfxx]? 2. How to setup font-style and -size for BOTH footnote reference (in text) and footnote number (in the bottom of the text area)? Pawe/l

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: Hot to calculate width=\textwidth - \bodyfontsize
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Thank you very much Patrick! May I ask you please for help also for another urgent problem? I still have no idea to setup the linespacing for the different elements like footnote, headings etc. In LaTeX it was quite easy (\fontsize{size_of_font}{linespacing}\selectfont): \renewcommand{\normalsize}{\fontsize{10pt}{13pt}\selectfont} \renewcommand{\footnotesize}{\fontsize{8.5pt}{10pt}\selectfont} \newcommand{\heading_1}{\fontsize{14}{20}\selectfont} \newcommand{\heading_2}{\fontsize{12}{14}\selectfont} But how to write this in ConTeXt (i.e. set up in pt not in ex)? Thank you again, Steffen Patrick Gundlach <pg(a)levana.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Steffen Wolfrum <xmailings(a)estfiles.de> writes: > > > how is the syntax for adding or subtraction, like > > width=\textwidth - 12pt > > if you are using etex and not afraid of strange examples: > > > \setuplayout[header=\dimexpr(\textwidth - 12pt)] > \starttext > \showsetups > \stoptext > > > Patrick

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Hot to calculate width=\textwidth - \bodyfontsize
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Hello, just an easy question now: As I can calculate width=0.5\textwidth how is the syntax for adding or subtraction, like width=\textwidth - 12pt ? Steffen

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Status update on e-Omega/Aleph
by Giuseppe Bilotta 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Hello people, I'd like to inform you on the current status and short-term forecast for e-Omega. The current official release is versioned 3.14159--1.15--2.1 (RC1) and is based on Omega 1.15 and e-TeX 2.1; even though it is just considered a Release Candidate, it's stable enough for production use. In fact, it has already been successfully used to publish in mixed-direction context. There will likely be at least one more release candidate, to solve a couple of direction-related bug, and probably two (the second featuring probably mostly a code clean-up). The e-Omega task force has decided for a name change for the project. From the first stable release onwards, the project (and the resulting program) will be called Aleph ($\Aleph$ in TeX notation). For those who missed the previous announcements, e-Omega (soon Aleph) is a user initiative, effectively started in November 2002, to merge two of the most important TeX extensions (Omega and e-TeX) to ensure that the wonderful enhancements in each would be readily available to users that need both of them. In its present state it was presented at the TUG2003 conference in Hawai`i this july. The focus of Aleph development is and will be: * providing a stable and reasonably fast extension to TeX containing most of the Omega enhancements (support for large fonts, multiple directions and character coding manipulations (OTPs/OCPs); the only unavailable feature is the support for SGML/XML) and many of the e-TeX enhancements (except for the bidirectional ones, surpassed by the more powerful multidirectional capabilities of Omega); * providing a development environment for middle-level users which would not grow obsolete in the short term, henceforth ensuring continued support for already-developed OTPs and similar companion tools; * providing a development environment for modern format developers (ConTeXt, and hopefully in the near future a new LaTeX as well) to support multidirectional typesetting in an easier-to-handle and more powerful programming environment. Both in the right-to-left world and in the CJK world work is already in progress to make sure these points are fully exploited. Thanks also to the excellent (independently developed) dvipdfmx DVI-to-PDF converter, support for the extended features of Omega and e-Omega/Aleph will not come at the cost of losing the option of easy PDF production (yes, we all would like to have PDF production directly integrated like in pdf-TeX, but don't expect that any time soon.) A note about the new name. Among the many reasons for the choice of the name there are: * the origins and purpose of the project: whereas Omega seeks to eventually offer the definitive answer to virtually all the problems of multilingual typesetting, Aleph has a more modest goal: to provide an immediately available and usable step in that direction. Since Aleph is the first letter of both the Arabic and the Hebrew alphabet (both of which need the multidirectional features offered by e-Omega), and as the project was started thanks to the initiative of Idris S. Hamid and Alan Hoenig (who are working on Arabic and Hebrew), choosing such a common name which connotes both "immediate" and "multilingual" was considered an appropriate choice. * also, Aleph is used in mathematics to denote transfinite numbers. This will allow "perverted" autoreferential tricks, like having a countable first stable release of Aleph ($\Aleph_0$); following major releases will be subsequent transfinite numbers ($\Aleph_1$, $\Aleph_2$, etc) and minor improvements/bugfixes will be cardinals ($\Aleph_0+1$, $\Aleph_0+2$, etc) A mailing list, graciously hosted by NTG, the Dutch TeX User Group, is available; its address is aleph at ntg dot nl. Since it is moderated, please subscribe before sending emails to it. Instructions on how to subscribe to the list are available at http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/aleph On behalf of the e-Omega/Aleph task force, I would like to thank Donald Ervin Knuth for giving us TeX; John Plaice, Yannis Haralambous and the rest of the Omega folks for their amazing achievements which gave us such a powerful base on which to build; Peter Breitenlohner and the NTS team for giving us the excellent e-TeX; all the distributions' maintainers for providing easy, integrated, interoperable and up-to-date systems; and everybody in the TeX community, for making it the wonderful environment that it is. My very personal thanks also go to Hans Hagen, Idris Hamid and Alan Hoenig, for convincing me to put my hands in the project, and to the distributions' maintainers, in particular Christian Schenk and Fabrice Popineau, for their essential help and neverending patience in bearing with a 'programmer' victim of his background as a mathematician which takes him to submit patches without testing them "because in theory they should work", and Olaf Weber and Thomas Esser, for making e-Omega/Aleph available under Linux as well. [Copies of this message have been posted to the comp.text.tex newsgroup and the ConTeXt and Omega mailing lists] -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Question on \setupencoding[default=ec]
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

Hallo, I have re-read the mailings in the archive concerning proper hyphenation and I saw that it is a known problem to have hyphenation in words containing cedilla, accent or umlaut. As it is solved in LaTeX with the [T1]{fontenc} package some people wrote that in ConTeXt the equivalent should be: \setupencoding[default=ec] But that's not true (at least for german Umlaute). A ConTeXt example: \language[de] \mainlanguage[de] \enableregime[mac] \setupencoding[default=ec] \starttext \showhyphens{alter} \showhyphens{früher} \stoptext doesn't recognize früher (frü-her): Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 8--8 [] /cmr10/al-ter Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 10--10 [] /cmr10/fr^^?uher (the whole log see below) While a LaTeX example \documentclass{book} \usepackage{german} \usepackage[applemac]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \begin{document} \showhyphens{alter} \showhyphens{früher} \end{document} brings the right hyphenation (frü-her) Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 8--8 [] /ecrm1000/al-ter Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 10--10 [] /ecrm1000/fr¸-her (the whole log see below) Don't ConTeXt and LaTeX use both the same hyphenation patterns? So what must be done in ConTeXt that it also works? Thanks for any reply, Steffen ********************************************* p.s. context and latex log files: ********************************************* TeXExec 3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : hypcontext output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extended mode (./hypcontext.tex{/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.8.21 fmt: 2003.9.6 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) 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 : hypcontext.top loaded (./hypcontext.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 1907] \ifcsname <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd 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 systems : begin file hypcontext at line 6 Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 8--8 [] /cmr10/al-ter Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 10--10 [] /cmr10/fr^^?uher systems : end file hypcontext at line 12 ) (see the transcript file for additional information) No pages of output. Transcript written on hypcontext.log. return code : 0 run time : 2 seconds sorting and checking : running texutil TeXUtil 7.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2003 action : processing commands, lists and registers option : sorting IJ under Y option : converting high ASCII values input file : hypcontext.tui output file : hypcontext.tuo passed commands : 8 remapped keys : 0 register entries : 0 -> 0 entries 0 references synonym entries : 0 -> 0 entries embedded files : 1 utility file analysis : another run needed TeX run : 2 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extended mode (./hypcontext.tex{/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.8.21 fmt: 2003.9.6 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) 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 : hypcontext.top loaded (./hypcontext.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 1907] \ifcsname <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd 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 (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) (./hypcontext.tuo) systems : begin file hypcontext at line 6 Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 8--8 [] /cmr10/al-ter Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 10--10 [] /cmr10/fr^^?uher systems : end file hypcontext at line 12 ) (see the transcript file for additional information) No pages of output. Transcript written on hypcontext.log. return code : 0 run time : 1 seconds sorting and checking : running texutil TeXUtil 7.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2003 action : processing commands, lists and registers option : sorting IJ under Y option : converting high ASCII values input file : hypcontext.tui output file : hypcontext.tuo passed commands : 8 remapped keys : 0 register entries : 0 -> 0 entries 0 references synonym entries : 0 -> 0 entries embedded files : 1 total run time : 5 seconds ********************************** This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./hyplatex.tex{/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} LaTeX2e <2001/06/01> Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, c zech, dutch, greek, italian, latin, magyar, russian, spanish, nohyphenation, lo aded. (/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/tex/latex/base/book.cls Document Class: book 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class (/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/tex/latex/base/bk10.clo)) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/generic/german/german.sty v2.5e 1998-07-08) (/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty (/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/tex/latex/base/applemac.def)) (/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (./hyplatex.aux) Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 8--8 [] /ecrm1000/al-ter Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 10--10 [] /ecrm1000/fr¸-her (./hyplatex.aux) ) (see the transcript file for additional information) No pages of output. Transcript written on hyplatex.log.

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Preventing hyphenation?
by Mari Voipio 11 Sep '03

11 Sep '03

I know this has been on the list earlier, but I don't seem to be able to parse the old messages enough to implement anything... My current (urgent) project has a bunch of words/codes with a hyphen: K-Patents PR-23-XX etc. These should not get a line break at the hyphen, i.e. not K- Patents but K-Patents or K-Pa-tents. As far as I understand it, the beginner's manual and the full manual only talk about how to tell ConTeXt where the proper hyphenation points are, but not, how to prevent hyphenation altogether. The trick can be awkward to type, as there's a limited number of problem codes, so I can use the synonym mechanism, if necessary. Any ideas? In the end of project frenzy, Mari

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Greek font
by Thomas A.Schmitz 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Please excuse this long post. I was/am fiddling with fonts, "probably the most complicated aspect of TeX," to quote Hans... I feel I'm almost there, but I still need some help and would be very grateful if anybody could give me a hint. Thanks to Giuseppe Bilotta's help, I managed to typeset classical Greek with the CB-Greek fonts. Everything works, the accents are in the right places etc., yet the original CB-Greek doesn't look very good in pdfs. I have a very beautiful Greek font that comes with the LaTeX "psgreek"-package; it works in LaTeX and is, according to the manual, encoded with the same map as CB-Greek (in LaTeX, the encoding is called lgrenc.def, but I couldn't find any useful imformation in that file). I wrote a typescriptfile to use it in ConTeXt. The font works, all the glyphs are there, as I can see with a \showfont, but they're not in the right slots, which means that it doesn't build the correct ligatures for displaying accents etc. I assume I need to write a new encoding file to reassign the glyphs to their new position. I'd be willing to do this by hand (there aren't too many of them, after all), but how do I go about that? What I have got about this font (it's called "GreekOxonia," and in my eyes, it's the most beautiful typeface that's out there for classical Greek): greeoxon.pfb greeoxon.sfd greeoxon.sfd~ greeoxon.afm greeoxon.tfm a map file psgreek.map and a couple of accompanying .vf, .ovf and .ofm-files (all of them containing just a few characters of gibberish when I try to open them). Can anybody give me a hint where I could start? Any help would be most appreciated! Best Thomas

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finding external figures
by Pawel Jackowski na Onet 10 Sep '03

10 Sep '03

Hello! I'm afraid the answer wiil be 'no' but... I've just tested two, let say 'normal', ways of including external figures: -- settings in texmf.cnf (that is obvious) -- relative path in \useexternalfigure (that is obvious only for ConTeXt users :-) Is there any way to use absolute path for external figure in ConTeXt code? Is there any way to use environment variable in ConTeXt code? Regards, Paweł

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Pagenumber & Footnotenumber -> inmargin
by Steffen Wolfrum 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

Hi, ConTeXt seems to have two different interpretations of "inmargin: \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided,location={header,inmargin}] isn't the same as \setupfootnotedefinition[location=inmargin] How can I place the footnote's number into the margin the same way as the pagenumber is? (I mean to place both numbers above/under each other on even pages) Thank you, Steffen

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Footnote's gap
by Steffen Wolfrum 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

Sorry, I've just asked to fast. Today I have found the \definedescription section ;-) Everything works fine now. Steffen After playing with the various options of \setupfootnotes I still wonder how to set up the gap between the footnote's number and the actual footnote text? And: Does the number has to be outside the textwidth? Somebody knows? Thank you Steffen

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open doc action / for john
by Hans Hagen 09 Sep '03

09 Sep '03

Hi Jonh C wants to know how to open a doc in specific modes: \setupinteraction[openaction={firstpage,FitHeight},state=start] % or FitWidth \starttext \input tufte \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Footnote's gap
by Steffen Wolfrum 08 Sep '03

08 Sep '03

After playing with the various options of \setupfootnotes I still wonder how to set up the gap between the footnote's number and the actual footnote text? And: Does the number has to be outside the textwidth? Somebody knows? Thank you Steffen

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Bold and SemiBold
by Steffen Wolfrum 08 Sep '03

08 Sep '03

I am using the AGaramond font - including both bold AND semibold typefaces. Is there an easy command, or an other easy way, to address both in my document - like \bf and \sb (LaTeX)? Thank you Steffen

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texfont batch mode: looks for texfont.pl instead of $0
by Christopher Creutzig 07 Sep '03

07 Sep '03

Hans, texfont type-tmf.dat --en=texnansi --fontroot /Users/ccr/Library/texmf/ fails with Can't open perl script "/Users/ccr/bin/texfont.pl": No such file or directory batch line : --en=texnansi --ve=public --co=antt --so=auto etc. Now, /Users/ccr/bin/texfont is a symbolic link to texfont.pl in the installation, so this can't work. The problem is here: my $own_path = "$FindBin::Bin/" ; $FindBin::RealScript =~ m/([^\.]*)(\.pl|\.bat|\.exe|)/io ; Either use $FindBin::RealBin in the first line or use $FindBin::Script in the second line. Mixing the tweo breaks as soon as symbolic links are involved that change the suffix. regards, Christopher Creutzig

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m-newmat
by Christopher Creutzig 07 Sep '03

07 Sep '03

Hello everyone, I have three comments wrt m-newmat.tex, version 2000.11.16: I had to change a \startypen into \starttypen to get a typeset version. At the end of the file, Hans was looking for applications of subarrays: $$\sum_{\startsubarray[c] 1\leq i \leq 10\crcr 1\leq j \leq i \stopsubarray} i^j = 11567154195$$ (Actually, I think \\ should work in place of \crcr, too.) The definition of substack looks broken to me: first of all, there is no \simplestartsubstack and secondly the command should not be named \start... since there is no corresponding \stop... command. Suggested code: \def\substack {\startsubarray[c]#1\stopsubarray} (Since the argument will be typeset anyway, I think it should be given in {}, right?) Usage: $$\sum_{\substack{1\leq i \leq 10\crcr 1\leq j \leq i} i^j = 11567154195$$ regards, Christopher Creutzig

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Problem with setuptyping and interline space...
by ^Nitram^ 07 Sep '03

07 Sep '03

Hi, In document I have: \setupinterlinespace[medium] and I would like to have different interline space when I use: \starttyping ... \stoptyping I tried: \setuptyping [typing] [blank=each_possible_value_from_manual] ;) but there is no effect. What is wrong ?... -- Best regards Martin

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distribution of type files for MS fonts
by Henning Hraban Ramm 06 Sep '03

06 Sep '03

Helmut asked about a complete distribution of TeX files for Microsoft's standard fonts, and here it is: http://www.fiee.net/texnique/?menu=0-1-4&lang=en http://www.ramm.ch/fiee/texnique/material/microsoft-fonts4context.zip Unzip the archive in your TeX root (texmf-local or where you installed ConTeXt). You must copy the TTF files to the appropriate place yourself, they're not contained (that would be illegal). Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

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ConTeXt, XML and verbatim
by Pawel Jackowski na WP 06 Sep '03

06 Sep '03

I. I'm working on some documentation writen in XML. This documentation contain many nested XML files. To process XML I use simple ConTeXt construction \processXMLfilegrouped{file.xml} (or) \starttext \processXMLfilegrouped{file.xml} \stoptext In XML source nested files are involved by <nested/> tag. To process nested XML files I have defined something like this: \defineXMLcommand [nested] {\processXMLfile{\XMLpar{nested}{src}{}}} It works good. I want to treat each 'newline-char' as a space (in the whole document). For that purpose I use: \catcode`^^M=10 The problem is that it DOESN'T work for nested XML files. How can I set someting like this for the whole XML structure, not only for file processed just 'under' ConTeXt? It works only for the file processed directly by the command \processXMLfile{...} II. Meybe someone knowns how to 'translate' verbatim environments for XML code? I mean how to define environment which I can use in this way <verbatim> .... </verbatim> to get literal content of such XML tag? Thanks, Paweł Jackowski

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Re: MetaPost error
by ^Nitram^ 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Hello >Some more information would be useful: >do ConTeXt files (without metapost stuff) work correctly? Yes - thank You for Your time - now everything looks good. I fixed it by following: -install miktex (large version but I will experimental with small version) -unzip new version of ConTeXt -remove cont-en.efmt file if exists -generate format en -generate specific language format -update and refresh MikTeX database -generate metafun format -copy mem file from fmt folder (where is stored after generate) to /mem/ folder(s) -update and refresh MikTeX database And everything looks good ;) I had some problems with generate metafun format - there I couldn't find mem file on hard disk. Maybe first time I forgot '-update and refresh MikTeX database' ;) This the point for new users: after each operation do it ! ;) I used: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (MiKTeX 2.3) (preloaded format=cont-en 2003.9.4) 4 SEP 2003 23:12 and: ConTeXt ver: 2003.8.21 fmt: 2003.9.4 int: english mes: english Best regards Martin

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texfont / typescripts
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Ahoi! Hans, texfont seems to have a little bug: If one installs TrueType fonts, it complains about missing pfb (I can ignore that), but the map file maps only to pfb, not ttf. My install-font script fixes that, but I suppose it's no problem to fix that in texfont. I didn't try OpenType yet, but guess the same problem. And I'd suggest to let texfont write a sample typescript, as my script does. (Then I could drop it.) BTW: There's now a typescript for Microsoft's standard TT fonts in my collection. (http://www.ramm.ch/fiee/texnique/material/typescripts.zip) Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/

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Re: [NTG-context] 2 basic questions on placefigure options
by Steffen Wolfrum 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Hallo Hans, did you already have some time to have a look in question number 2? I am asking because next week I could typeset a book that has about 80 smaller figures which need to be included in the text - textpages with one image top/left and another bottom/right (with text flowing around both). And since your answer I have hope again that it is possible to be done in ConTeXt. (Otherwise I'd have to use another program like FrameMaker which I try to avoid.) Thank you very much, Steffen At 14:17 03/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: >After reading the different manuals two questions still stay unanswered: > >1. Is it true that a figure with text flowing around it (placefigure >option left/right) has always to start with a beginning of a paragraph, so >that it is not possible to place it in the middle of a text when it is >mentioned there? > >2. Isn't it possible to make a kind of combination between the placefigure >options top and left (for example), so that a small picture can have text >floating around it but it is placed at the top of the page (like big >landscape formats would be with the top option)? > >I hope I just missed something... 1. indeed 2. should not be too difficult, i'll look into it Hans Great, thank you. Then (2) could be a bit of a practical alternative to the missing of (1). Steffen

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box, strut
by Patrick Gundlach 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Hello, could someone please explain the following result? \starttext \setbox0=\hbox{fg}\showbox0 \setbox0=\hbox{\strut fg}\showbox0 \stoptext gives > \box0= \hbox(8.33331+2.33331)x9.46518 ./cmr12/f ./cmr12/g ! OK. l.3 \setbox0=\hbox{fg}\showbox0 > \box0= \hbox(10.41603+4.05064)x9.46518 .\hbox(10.41603+4.05064)x0.0 ..\rule(10.41603+4.05064)x0.0 ..\glue 0.0 plus 1.0fil minus 1.0fil ./cmr12/f ./cmr12/g ! OK. l.4 \setbox0=\hbox{\strut fg}\showbox0 OK, the first box is easy. The second one gives me a slight headache: why is the rule 10.4 + 4.1 pt? (14.46667 total) the definition of strut(box) is \setbox\strutbox=\hbox{\vrule height8.5pt depth3.5pt width\z@} so where do the other 2.46667 point come from? Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

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\setupheadertexts
by John Culleton 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

I want to have chapter names in the header text and I want them in boldface. This works: \setupheadertexts[text][{\bf My book}][chapter] but this: \setupheadertexts[text][{\bf my book}][\bf chapter] just shows the literal word "chapter". So how do I do this? John Culleton

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spacing in heads
by Patrick Gundlach 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

Hello ConTeXt-hackers, why is there so much space above the word hello? Anybody know how to get rid of it? \starttext \setuphead[section][textcommand=\framed,before=] \hbox{\framed[width=5cm,height=5cm,align={middle,high}]{\section{Hello} why is there so much space above the word hello??}} \stoptext Patrick

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ConTeXt project structure?
by Gerben Wierda 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

It is probably my lack of brain cells, but I do not understand chapter 2 of the ConTeXt manual at all. Suppose I have a manual-like document and I want to produce different PDF-files out of it: 1. The book 2. The book in another layout 3. The book in screen format with navigation 4. A simple presentation with bullet points, one or more pages per chapter As I understand it I will need 4 environments: .../foo/bookenv.tex .../foo/book2env.tex .../foo/bookscreenenv.tex .../foo/presentation.tex and I can put each chapter in a component file, i.e. chapter1.tex, chapter2.tex etc. .../foo/chapter1.tex .../foo/chapter2.tex But here my understanding stops. - Should I create a project file for each of the 4 modes above? And put these in different subdirectories as in: .../foo/book/book.tex .../foo/book2/book2.tex etc.? Or do I use multiple environments in one project and I can get 4 PDF's as a result? Or are these multiple products (I would guess this, but how then to set it up)? Should my chapter files contain \startcomponent \stopcomponent and does that mean they are independently compilable? I have been reading and re-reading this, but the relation between project, environment, component and product keeps escaping me. Is there a good example somewhere?

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strange itemize
by Patrick Gundlach 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Dear ConTeXt hackers, I try such a simple itemize, but I do get a warning: check : missing or ungrouped '=' after 'serried' in line 6 (@@opitemiz but the documentation says: \startitemgroup[...][...,...,...][...,...=...,...] ... \stopitemgroup [...] <name> [...,...,...] a A KA n N m r R KR <number> continue standard broad serried packed stopper joinedup atmargin inmargin intro columns [...,...=...,...] see \setupitemgroup (1) And this is what I try: -------------------- \starttext \defineconversion[patrick][\numbers] \startitemize[patrick][serried] \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \item item \stopitemize \stoptext -------------------- Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

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naming and distribution of typescripts
by Jens-Uwe Morawski 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Hi, Walter Schmidt has made the font DayRoman from Apostrophic Labs available to TeX. Currently the support package doesn't contain any ConTeXt support, i.e. typescripts. I've made for me a typescript for these fonts and now Walter is interested in including ConTeXt support in his package. His package is distributed as zip-file that can be directly unpacked in a texmf-tree. Thus, where should the typescript-file be located? In my private texmf-tree i use TEXMF/tex/context/user/typescripts/ and the file names start with "cts-" (i.e. cts-dayroman.tex). Is there some standard how to name typescripts and locate them in a texmf-tree, so that distribution of typescripts is possible in a controled way? BTW, i would prefer that \usetypescriptfile[dayroman] first tries to load dayroman.cts and if it is not available it tries dayroman.tex. Then we can use the extension "cts" for ConTeXt TypeScripts in the future. Best, Jens

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\digits
by Patrick Gundlach 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Hello, while browsing the source, I came across the very nice \digits macro. But I have some comments: In my opinion some characters don't look right \starttext \digits 123.222,= % short, OK \digits 123.222,== % should be em dash (?) \digits +123.222,22 % OK \digits -123.222,33 % too small \stoptext The + and - should be the same size. Any comments? Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

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MetaPost error
by ^Nitram^ 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Hello I'm very newbie in ConTeXt and I can't generate any document with MetaPost... For example: \startFLOWchart etc. I generate: makemem metafun I did texexec --make --alone metafun and I still have error: initexmf: don't know to dump metafun I can't find default mem file! Where I can set it or something else do to fix this ?... Best regards martin

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: Greek letters?
by Hans Hagen 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

At 14:00 04/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Hello Mari, > >On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > Mari Voipio <mari.voipio(a)iki.fi> writes: > > > Or something I should put around the command? > > > > You could put "math mode" ($\Omega$) around the command. But I am not > > sure if this will be taken from the default font. At least it is a > > workaround. > >I think, math mode is set up in the typescripts you use. If you use none >explicitely, you probably get computer modern (roman in text, math (italic?) >in math mode, so they are probably different). > >For the case you want the same style as in the text, and you know, which >font you are using, you can use something like the following to get a table >of available characters (to see, whether an Omega is available in your font, >and to note its character code) and then use its character code for the >macro \getglyph (first argument is the fontname, second the character >code). The following gets me an omega with the default font selection >(Serif is in this case cmr10): > >\starttext >\showfont[Serif] >The character: ''\getglyph{Serif}{10}'' >\stoptext this can be smoothed by: \definesymbol [omega] [\getglyph{Serif}{10}] ... \symbol[omega] ... in symb-*.tex you can see how to define symbols that adapt to the style; btw, such glyph calls also automatically scale with the font scaling mechanism 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: AW: [NTG-context] Re: Answer too obvious?
by Hans Hagen 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

At 16:07 04/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Patrick, > >I hope so, too. Thank's for looking into it. in cont-new.tex add: (after the \unprotect): \unexpanded\def\referencepagenumber[#1]% {\doifelsenothing{#1}{?} {\preparepaginaprefix\??rf\paginaprefix\??rf[#1]\translatednumber[#1]}} then in your doc: \setupreferencing [partnumber=yes] shpuld work (many other commands have thsi feature; somehow it got lost in refs 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: Problems with ConTeXt - anybody can help ?
by Hans Hagen 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

At 11:49 04/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Hello > >I have miktex 2.3 - work fine with built-in ConTeXt... >When I updated ConTeXt from zip file occurs errors in every run of texexec - >I attached log file... > >Anybody help me ?... looks like you still use the old format with a new cont-new.tex; try to locate the format file (efmt), delete it and generate a new one 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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next dante / gutenberg meeting
by Hans Hagen 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Hi, Next week at the dante meeting in Giessen (very nice place, see www.dante.de) there will be a tutorial on context (mainly by Patrick). A few days after that in france (gutenberg meeting) there will also be a tutorial. Coming saturday here is a whole day tutorial in Darmstadt (by me). So .. if you live near there and are desparate ... 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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A change in ConTeXt content-lists?
by Michal Kvasnicka 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Good evening. Some time ago I've typeset a rather complex document. Now I wanted to make some changes in its content (the text) but I wasn't able to compile it. The new version of ConTeXt/texutil/texexec ( ConTeXt ver: 2003.8.21, TeXExec 3.3) is probably slightly different. The first problem (\white in the textstyle of \setuphead) I have already fixed, but there is still one more problem. Can some of you help me? My problem is in the content-list. The first processing of the documnet is all right. In the second run I get this error message: (./dso_casove_rady.tuo ! Use of \@@lisectioninteractie doesn't match its definition. \doifvalue ...f \!!stringa {\csname #1\endcsname } \edef \!!stringb {#2}\ifx ... \dosomelijstelement ... #1\c!interactie }\v!tekst {\setlistparameter {#1}\c!... \dodolijstelement ...ment {#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}{#5}{#6} \global \utilitydonetrue l.42 ...zy časových řad}{2::0:1:2:0:0:0:0::11}{11} I also get many warnings like this: references : duplicate reference [][high] on page 1 (dso_casove_rady) Can some of you hint me where the bug (in my macros, not in ConTeXt) can be? I'm totally lost. Many thanks for your kind help. Michal Kvasnicka

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AW: [NTG-context] Re: Answer too obvious?
by "Höppner, Dierk" 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Patrick, I hope so, too. Thank's for looking into it. Dierk > It seems as if there is no way [1] to setup this kind of reference > easily. > > > [1] this is probably wrong. I just can't find any obvious solution. > Perhaps Hans sees this message and looks into his bag full of ConTeXt > magic and reveals the magic spell.

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Re: [NTG-context] 2 basic questions on placefigure options
by Steffen Wolfrum 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

At 14:17 03/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: >After reading the different manuals two questions still stay unanswered: > >1. Is it true that a figure with text flowing around it (placefigure >option left/right) has always to start with a beginning of a paragraph, so >that it is not possible to place it in the middle of a text when it is >mentioned there? > >2. Isn't it possible to make a kind of combination between the placefigure >options top and left (for example), so that a small picture can have text >floating around it but it is placed at the top of the page (like big >landscape formats would be with the top option)? > >I hope I just missed something... 1. indeed 2. should not be too difficult, i'll look into it Hans Great, thank you. Then (2) could be a bit of a practical alternative to the missing of (1). Steffen

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Greek letters?
by Mari Voipio 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

This is probably FAQ stuff but I'm in the middle of the end-of-project frenzy and don't have much time to hunt for an answer (especially when my computer arranged for a full day of extra work by busting the hard disk - at least I now can handily install our TeXLive+ConTeXt publishing system...). I would need a capital Omega. I thought this is a piece of cake and found the command \Omega on the TeX quick reference sheet. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work, I just get blank spot in the file. My font settings are: \enableregime[il1] %makes ConTeXt Windows compatible \usetypescript[berry][ec] %magic to make fonts work at all \setupbodyfont[pos,10pt] %my chosen fonts and font size Is there a module I should load to get the Greek? Or something I should put around the command? Or is it just the combination of encoding and regime that does this? Help will be deeply appreciated, Mari from Finland (with an end-of-project irritated boss)

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AW: [NTG-context] Re: Answer too obvious?
by "Höppner, Dierk" 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Patrick, > could you provide a minimal file? here it comes. I could send to you directly my resulting PDF if that helps. I use MikTex an fetched the full Context distribution from pragma. I also followed the make steps mentioned in the readmes an installation instructions. Perhaps I missed some 'setup' things? Greetings Dierk ------------ 8< ------------- %% Do not care about the Umlauts. %% Der Teil-Titel soll angezeigt werden, ganz groß und mittig, auf einer %% eigenen Seite \setuphead[part] [placehead=yes, style=\tfd, alternative=middle, after=\page] %% Hier fängt der Text an \starttext \startfrontmatter \setuppagenumbering[conversion=romannumerals] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \completecontent \stopfrontmatter %% Haupttext \startbodymatter \setuppagenumbering[conversion=numbers] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \part[allgemeines]{Allgemeines} \chapter{Grunds"atzliche Festlegungen} blah blah blah %% this should be referenced \chapter[FarbenGrundsaetzlich]{Farben} Auf den HTML-Seiten soll die Farbe der grafische Balken auf {\tt \#4A73A5} enstspricht den Farben R=74, G=115 und B=165. \part[formulare]{"Anderungen an den Formularen} \chapter{Allgemeine Bemerkungen} blah blah %% here is the reference \chapter{Farben} Die zu benutzende Farbe findet man in \in{Kapitel}[FarbenGrundsaetzlich] \atpage[FarbenGrundsaetzlich]. {\em What I want to have here is:} Die zu benutzende Farbe findet man in Kapitel 1-2 on page 1-3. \stoptext vim: tw=75

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Answer too obvious?
by "Höppner, Dierk" 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Hello, after some more experimenting I still dont't get what I want. Could someone please answer with at least an RTFM _and_ a page number? Thank you and many greetings. Dierk Höppner > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Höppner, Dierk > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. August 2003 09:47 > An: 'ntg-context(a)ntg.nl' > Betreff: Newbie: referencing and Page numbers > > > Hello all, > > a basic question: I have a document with three parts. The > pagenumbers display correctly like 1-2, 2-2, 3-2 etc. But > referencing Chapter 2 from Part 1 in Part 3 with > > See \in{chapter}[colours] on \at{page}[colors] ... > > results in > > See chapter 2 on page 3 ... > > I want: See chapter 2 on page 1-3 ... > > How to achieve this? > > Thanks and greetings > > -- > Dierk Höppner > Technische Informationsbibliothek > Universitätsbibliothek Hannover (TIB/UB) > EDV > Welfengarten 1b > D-30167 Hannover > Tel.: 0511 / 762 - 4067, Fax: 0511 / 762 - 5881 > http://www.tib.uni-hannover.de >

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Create pseudo small caps.
by John Culleton 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

I am using Bitstream Charter following the directions on Bill McClain's page for typescripts. Now I want to use \sc in both regular and expanded form. What is the best way to add a \sc typeface to my file? -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

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\c!gebied
by Patrick Gundlach 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

Dear ConTeXt hackers, what is this \setupsystem[\c!gebied={/Users/pg/}] doing in my .tmp file? What is the purpose of the setting? How can I overwrite this (if it is useful for anything)? Patrick

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Hyperlinks to locations in other documents
by Nigel King 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

Hi, I am trying to get a group of documents to link together. The references to the other document work but the hyperlinks only open the document on the first page. What am I doing wrong? The linktest1 has links to testdoc2. For those trying them you may need to change the font part since my fonts are non standard (subject of other problems). Key lines from testdoc1.tex are \useexternaldocument[testdoc][testdoc2][This document is a test link] \goto{contents}[testdoc::contents] And key lines from testdoc2.tex are \page[yes] \section[contents]{Contents List} TIA -- Nigel

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2 basic questions on placefigure options
by Steffen Wolfrum 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

After reading the different manuals two questions still stay unanswered: 1. Is it true that a figure with text flowing around it (placefigure option left/right) has always to start with a beginning of a paragraph, so that it is not possible to place it in the middle of a text when it is mentioned there? 2. Isn't it possible to make a kind of combination between the placefigure options top and left (for example), so that a small picture can have text floating around it but it is placed at the top of the page (like big landscape formats would be with the top option)? I hope I just missed something... Thank you for any reply, Steffen

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Concrete outline fonts
by Adam T. Lindsay 03 Sep '03

03 Sep '03

Hi folks. This is what happens when you're fighting insomnia in a foreign land. I started investigating the TeXLive tree, and came up with at least a partial solution to something that keeps getting asked about here. Mark Ainsworth said this at Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:48:55 +0100: >On another track, is there any way of getting pdftex to use the pfb concrete >fonts, rather than the bitmap versions without a major hack of my map files? >Has someone written a simple little routine to do the patching >automatically. They print out ok, but the on-screen versions are really >naff. The computer concrete fonts *do* exist in a type1 version, albeit only in pl0 encoding. They probably only get installed when you choose the polish language/fonts package in TeXLive. CTAN appears to have these files at: <http://www.ctan.org/getfile/?filename=language/polish/cc-pl.zip&action=/ tools/filesearch> Anyway, by creating some simple font synonyms to fonts already referred to by ConTeXt's built-in typescript, you can access the fonts fairly easily: %% use the Polish cc-pl type1 files that come with TeXLive7 \definefontsynonym [ccr10] [pcr10] [encoding=pl0] \definefontsynonym [ccti10] [pcti10] [encoding=pl0] \definefontsynonym [ccsl10] [pcsl10] [encoding=pl0] \definefontsynonym [cccsc10] [pccsc10] [encoding=pl0] \setupbodyfont[con] \starttext \input knuth \showaccents \stoptext In addition, if you install the type-eul.zip files, you can use the fonts with euler math, as well: % http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/EulerContext.zip % replace \setupbodyfont[con] with \usetypescriptfile[type-eul] \setupbodyfont[con,eul] Hope someone finds that interesting. adam [I sent this to the list whilst travelling from an alternate email account. I guess it didn't get seen b/c of all the email viruses flying around.] -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ----------------- End Forwarded Message ----------------- -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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\setuplayout parameters
by John Culleton 02 Sep '03

02 Sep '03

I want to set up a book 5.5 x 8.5 with .5in margins left and right. During the development process I want to be able to print it on US standard 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. Here is my current prologue (I have tried several): \setupoutput[pdftex] \definepapersize[bok][width=5.5in,height=8.5in] \setuppapersize[bok][letter] \setuplayout[marginwidth=.5in,location=middle] \showframe When the resultant pdf is printed via Acrobat Reader I find the following anomalies: Total width of page outline: 5 7/16 in. Width of actual text block: 4.5 in approx. (this is OK.) Width of text block outline: 3 29/32 in (text overlaps block outline.) And so on. There are gaps between the margin outlines and the text block outline. The margin outlines are the wrong size. When I put the document in final form with \setuppapersize{bok][bok] and comment out \showframe Then the text block is not quite centered: the left margin is smaller than the right margin. Using Xpdf instead of Acrobat Reader shows the same anomalies. Changing marginwidth to margin shows the same anomalies. and so on. -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Stumped on Field
by darnold＠northcoast.com 02 Sep '03

02 Sep '03

All, In s-mag-01.tex, I am completely baffled by: \startusableMPgraphic{text} StartPage ; for i=Header,Text,Footer: for j=LeftEdge,LeftMargin,Text,RightMargin,RightEdge: draw Field[i][j] withpen pencircle scaled 0.5pt; endfor; endfor; StopPage; setbounds currentpicture to Field[Text][Text] ; \stopusableMPgraphic I can find no references of Field anywhere, not in s-mag-01, nor in any files in my texmf tree, nor in documentation, ... Huh? Anyone have a clue?

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searchable mailinglist archive
by Patrick Gundlach 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

Hello out there, is there a searchable mailinglist archive anywhere on the internet? Slaveks archive seems to be really outdated (http://ml-archives.mini.pw.edu.pl/) Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

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no Type1 fonts in ConTeXt?
by Steffen Wolfrum 01 Sep '03

01 Sep '03

I used to use PostScript font under MacOSX working with Gerben Wierda's tetex distributution. The pfb tfm etc. files I put in the texmf tree as Gerben suggested (~/Library/texmf) Everything works fine with LaTeX. Today I installed the uptodate ConTeXt files, followed by sudo mktexlsr and sudo fmtutil --all, and started experimenting. But whenever I want to use something different then CM, for example with \definetypeface [palatino] [rm] [serif] [palatino] [default] [encoding=ec] \switchtotypeface [palatino] [12pt,rm] \starttext A test W test Q test R \stoptext I get only errors (see below). What did I do wrong? Problems with the texmf paths? What is the right way? Other commands for using PS fonts? Thank you for any help, Steffen Wolfrum TeXExec 3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : test3 output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) entering extended mode (./test3.tex{/Users/himmelblau/Library/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.8.21 fmt: 2003.8.31 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/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 : test3.top loaded (./test3.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 1907] \ifcsname <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd 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 fonts : [palatino] [rm] [serif] [palatino] fonts : [map] [ec] [] (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-map.tex pdftex : needs map file: original-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-ams-euler.map pdftex : needs map file: ec-adobe-utopia.map pdftex : needs map file: ec-bit-charter.map pdftex : needs map file: ec-public-antp.map pdftex : needs map file: ec-public-antt.map pdftex : needs map file: ec-urw-bookman.map pdftex : needs map file: ec-urw-courier.map pdftex : needs map file: ec-urw-helvetica.map pdftex : needs map file: ec-urw-palatino.map pdftex : needs map file: ec-urw-times.map pdftex : needs map file: ec-urw-zapfchan.map pdftex : needs map file: original-youngryu-px.map pdftex : needs map file: original-youngryu-tx.map pdftex : needs map file: ec-bh-lucida.map ) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) fonts : [serif] [palatino] [name,default,ec,special] (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex) fonts : [serif] [default] [size] (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/context/base/type-akb.tex)kpathsea: Running mktextfm ec-uplr8a /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map typeface abbreviation c- for ec-uplr8a. /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/fontname/special.map? mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-uplr8a This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.4.5) kpathsea: Running mktexmf ec-uplr8a ! I can't find file `ec-uplr8a'. <*> ...jfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-uplr8a Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...jfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-uplr8a Transcript written on mfput.log. mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ec-uplr8a' failed. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \*palatino12ptrmtf*:=ec-uplr8a at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \let \xxdododefinefont ... {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsize \de... \fontstrategy ...me \fontclass #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \iftryingfont \... <argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle } \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if... ... l.2 \switchtotypeface [palatino] [12pt,rm] ? X No pages of output. Transcript written on test3.log. return code : 256 run time : 18 seconds total run time : 19 seconds

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Re: [NTG-context] CJK support in ConTeXt
by Hong Feng 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

> > It's time to discuss the topic "CJK support in ConTeXt" in a more public > > place. > > Agree! The currently ConTeXt release support UTF-8, CJKV locales can all be represented in UTF-8, so the mechanism is already done. IMHO, the real one work to do is to make the sets of typesetting conventions (typesetting rules) for each locale of CJKV (like the Chinese package did), that would varies quite much from locale to locale, all all of them are based on the same underlayed mechanism. Best, Hong _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 启用电邮帐号，领会雅虎通[身临其境聊电影]的动感魅力，还有网络摄像头+雅虎通收音机等你来拿 http://cn.rd.yahoo.com/mail_cn/tag/?http://cn.messenger.yahoo.com

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\dosetupsystem ????!
by Matthew Huggett 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

Hi: Can anybody tell me what might cause this error: > Runaway argument? > \c!gebied ={\setupsystem [inputfile=rice.tex] \protect > ! File ended while scanning use of \dosetupsystem. > <inserted text> > \par > <to be read again> > \relax > \dodoreadfile ...normalinput \readfilename \relax > \the > \everyafterreadfile > <everyjob> ...file \openutilities \loadoptionfile > \checknotes > \initializeMPg... Everything was running smooth a few days ago. Now every document I process causes the same error. What actions does \dosetupsystem carry out? Thanks, Matt

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Re: [NTG-context] CJK support in ConTeXt
by Tim 't Hart 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

Jin-Hwan Cho wrote: >It's time to discuss the topic "CJK support in ConTeXt" in a more >public place. I couldn't agree more! :-) >The current version of ConTeXt supports Chinese only. But the same >mechasism enables Korean too. The remaining language is Japanese. >In some sense, it is possible to support Japanese in the current >subfont mechanism. But several issues (e.g. Japanese kerning system >as explained by Okumura) may occur. Could you explain what these issues are? For the past couple of months I've been busy writing Japanese support for ConTeXt, based on the Chinese module. I'm not an expert in this, so I'm sure the method I used for writing Japanese support is wrong and can be improved. But for my own personal use it has already proven to be quite useable. If anyone else is interested in what I've produced so far, please let me know. I would like to know what the issues with Japanese kerning are. I do not know a lot about Japanese typography and would like to know what the limitations of code based on the Chinese module are. >My suggestion for supporting CJK characters in ConTeXt is to write a >new module using e-Omega. Even though e-Omega does not produce PDF >format directly, there are not much problem with DVIPDFMx. When I first tried to use Japanese with ConTeXt, I first looked at e-Omega. The reason I gave up and tried to adapt the Chinese module was that e-Omega was unstable on my machine. Version 1.23 crashed immediately (got stuck in a loop producing [] characters). I tried 1.15 because I heard that was more stable. I got some Japanese output with this version, but when I tried creating more than a paragraph, it locked as well. But this was all a few months ago. Does anybody know if things with e-Omega have improved recently? Anyway, I would like to see a common CJK module for ConTeXt, where Chinese, Korean and Japanese are based on the same base code. It doesn't matter to me if it's implemented using subfonts or on using e-Omega, as long as it's stable and useable. Therefore, I would like to offer my help in creating CJK support. My best, Tim

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parameter mechanism
by Peter Rolf 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

Hello all, I have problems to understand the command (parameter) mechanism of context. My experiments with \getparameters didn't work, so I used \xdescgetparameters from Giuseppe Bilotta (t-xdesc.tex). In my eyes they look the same, but \xdescgetparameters works with my sample code, \getparameters don't. Mhhh.... % t-xdesc.tex \def\xdescsetvalue#1#2{\expandafter\def\csname#1#2\endcsname} \def\xdescgetparameters{\dogetparameters\xdescsetvalue} % syst-gen.tex \def\dosetvalue#1#2% #3 {\@EA\def\csname#1#2\endcsname} % {#3}} \def\getparameters {\dogetparameters\dosetvalue} This leads me to my two questions: What must I change, to make my test example run with \getparameters? Where is the error in my \docommand? All parameters but [height] work and the tracing output at this parameter (\OTRSETshowstatus) says nothing to me. Thanks for any help, Peter P.S.: using miktex 2.3, context version 21.08.2003

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Re: [NTG-context] CJK support in ConTeXt
by Hans Hagen 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

At 09:15 27/08/2003 +0200, you wrote: >quite useable. If anyone else is interested in what I've produced so >far, please let me know. can you put together a zip with (1) fonts, (2) macros (3) examples - also in pdf, so that i can have a look at it? 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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Texexec changing directories
by David Arnold 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

All, I need some help with an annoying feature that has cropped up after an update of Miktex and Context. D:\NSFGRANT\MultiCalc\VecMat>texexec --version TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 total run time : 0 seconds F:\PuTTY> Note how the drive letter has changed. This is not just a minor annoyance, because if I have a "make" file such as make.bat defined by texexec --pdf --mode=screen --suffix="-s" Context-VecMat texexec --pdf --mode=letter --suffix="-p" Context-VecMat texexec --pdf --mode=screen --suffix="-s" Context-VecMat texexec --pdf --mode=letter --suffix="-p" Context-VecMat After the first run, the process stops because it can no longer find Context-VecMat on the f: partition. Help!

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CJK support in ConTeXt
by Jin-Hwan Cho 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

It's time to discuss the topic "CJK support in ConTeXt" in a more public place. The current version of ConTeXt supports Chinese only. But the same mechasism enables Korean too. The remaining language is Japanese. In some sense, it is possible to support Japanese in the current subfont mechanism. But several issues (e.g. Japanese kerning system as explained by Okumura) may occur. So, alternative way is to use ASCII pTeX for Japanese. Basically looks no problem but I worry eTeX extension features. Is it possible to run ConTeXt without eTeX extension features, Hans? My suggestion for supporting CJK characters in ConTeXt is to write a new module using e-Omega. Even though e-Omega does not produce PDF format directly, there are not much problem with DVIPDFMx. Best, ChoF. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** | Cho, Jin-Hwan == ChoF | ^ ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o | Research Fellow | ~~~ | School of Mathematics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Korea Institute for Advanced Study | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | chofchof(a)ktug.or.kr | | http://free.kaist.ac.kr/ChoF/ | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Sidebar
by Paulo Ney de Souza 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

Dear ConTeXt hackers, Is is possible (simple) to do a "sidebar" in Context ? Sidebar is an insert on a page, that stands out, in general to the sides, not following the normal justication of the paragraphs around it, and containing a completely separate paragraph structure like in example below: Paulo Ney de Souza ------------------------------- | | | ..................... | | ..................... | | ..................... | | ..........|--------------|| | ..........| xxxxxxxxxxxx|| | ..........|xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|| | ..........|xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|| | ..........|xxxxxxxxx || | ..........| xxxxxxxxxxxx|| | ..........|xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|| | ..........|xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|| | ..........| xxxxxxxxxxxx|| | ..........|xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|| | ..........|xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|| | ..........|xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|| | ..........|--------------|| | ..................... | | ..................... | | | -------------------------------

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MPtoPDF problem: metafun.mem error
by Andreas Steiger 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Hi, I'm trying to setup Metapost on my computer using Miktex (version 2.2.6) but when I try to execute mptopdf.pl I get the following error message: <snip> TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGME ADE 1997-2003 metapost : G:\metapost\height format : metafun initexmf: don't know how to dump metafun cannot make metafun.mem I can't found the feault mem file! total run time : 0 seconds MPtoPDF 1.2 : error while processing mp file </snip> I tried already different things (like changing paths) but nothing worked :(. How could I solve my problem? -- Best regards, Andreas mailto:anstei@ksk.ch

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\footnote and \note
by John Culleton 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

I do \footnote[bene]{Here is a footnote} and later, Mumble mumble\note[bene] The \footnote works OK but \note does nothing. What am I doing wrong? -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com

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Newbie: referencing and Page numbers
by "Höppner, Dierk" 27 Aug '03

27 Aug '03

Hello all, a basic question: I have a document with three parts. The pagenumbers display correctly like 1-2, 2-2, 3-2 etc. But referencing Chapter 2 from Part 1 in Part 3 with See \in{chapter}[colours] on \at{page}[colors] ... results in See chapter 2 on page 3 ... I want: See chapter 2 on page 1-3 ... How to achieve this? Thanks and greetings -- Dierk Höppner Technische Informationsbibliothek Universitätsbibliothek Hannover (TIB/UB) EDV Welfengarten 1b D-30167 Hannover Tel.: 0511 / 762 - 4067, Fax: 0511 / 762 - 5881 http://www.tib.uni-hannover.de

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problem using bibtex
by Dave Bailey 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

Hi--- I've been trying to get an @InProceedings bibtex entry to format. The original entry looked like this: @InProceedings {aapga, author = {Williams, Jeffery and Schaefer, Marv and Landoll, Douglas }, title = {Pretty good assurance}, booktitle = {New Security Paradigms Workshop}, year = {1995}, publisher = {ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control} } When bibtexed, the authors appear in the .bbl file, but they do not appear in the references list. The references list entry begins at "(1995)." If I change the bibtex entry to an Article, as follows, all the information appears in the reference list. @Article{aapga, author = {Williams, Jeffery and Schaefer, Marv and Landoll, Douglas }, title = {Pretty good assurance}, journal = {New Security Paradigms Workshop}, year = {1995}, note = {ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control} } Is there a problem with the InProceedings entry type, or have I done something wrong? ---Dave Bailey

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Index sorting
by Michal Kvasnicka 26 Aug '03

26 Aug '03

Good morning. I'm sorry that I bother you all once more with the same thing as a half year ago, but I was unsuccessful. So: How works the mechanism that sort items for the index? I have to write down my own sorting system for the Czech language. (Mr. Hagen sent me some files for customizing the ConTeXt for the Czech language, but it didn't include index sorting.) Well, I would appreciate some example, since the task is not so easy. In the Czech for example `a' and `acaron' go under the same item `A', but `acaron' is sorted after `a'. On the other hand, `ccaron' has its own item in the index (under the item for `c'). And to be even more complex, `ch' is one letter in the Czech, having its own item in the index. Many thanks for any hint. (And one more apologize for bothering you once again.) Michal Kvasnicka

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problem using Bibtex
by Dave Bailey 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Hi--- I've been trying to get an @InProceedings bibtex entry to format. The original entry looked like this: @InProceedings {aapga, author = {Williams, Jeffery and Schaefer, Marv and Landoll, Douglas }, title = {Pretty good assurance}, booktitle = {New Security Paradigms Workshop}, year = {1995}, publisher = {ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control} } When bibtexed, the authors appear in the .bbl file, but they do not appear in the references list. The references list entry begins at "(1995)." If I change the bibtex entry to an Article, as follows, all the information appears in the reference list. @Article{aapga, author = {Williams, Jeffery and Schaefer, Marv and Landoll, Douglas }, title = {Pretty good assurance}, journal = {New Security Paradigms Workshop}, year = {1995}, note = {ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control} } Is there a problem with the InProceedings entry type, or have I done something wrong? ---Dave Bailey

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how to integrate graphics flexibly?
by Steffen Wolfrum 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Hi I am thinking about to switch from LaTeX to ConTeXt. The main reason for me is the need of "embedded" graphics (I'm not sure about the technical term typographically. In german it is "eingespiegelte Bilder".) The task could be like: - typesetting a book on art history - 450 pages A4 - 150 pictures included - all pictures should be placed close to the first time they are mentioned in the text - the shouldn't be more than two pictures per page. We will have three possibilities: a) Some pictures are in landscape format - they can be set width to textwidth. b) Others are moderate portrait format - in this case the title/caption can be set next to it (right/left) and both together can be set width to textwidth as well. c) But others are extreme portrait format (maybe height to width four to one). They need to be included into the text (with text floating around at one side). As a) and b) are set either at the top or at the bottom of a page it is necessary that also the graphics of case c) can be set this way. So I need to set figures with the following options: - ability to float - placing option top/bottom of page - placing option left/right respectively inner/outer edge of page - can be set to whole textwidth - can be alternatively included into the text (but floating, not only into the paragraph were they are mentioned)). Which TeX mode (LaTeX/ConTeXt) or which additional package can do this job? Thank you, Steffen Wolfrum Berlin, 25. August 2003

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parse trees
by Matthew Huggett 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Hello: I'm making some notes on English grammar for some students and I want to analyze a few sentences using parse trees. Is there a way to do trees in ConTeXt? I guess I'd need to use Metapost. Any pointers would be appreciated. Best wishes, Matt

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TeXExec patch
by Tobias Burnus 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Hi, I played a bit around with --pdfarrange and found out that I couldn't do: texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5*a4,landscape --print='2UP,doublesided' file.pdf Since: paper becomes [A5][A4,LANDSCAPE] and /.*2UP.*/ becomes [2UP,doublesided,rotated] and I don't want to have it rotated. The attached patch makes TeXExec a bit more flexiable. Hans, please apply. Tobias

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Re: Labeling of axes
by Christopher Creutzig 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

Hans Hagen wrote: > beginfig(1) ; > > numeric u ; u = 1.0cm ; > > for i=-10 upto 10 : > if not (i=0) : > draw textext.lft("$" & decimal i & "$") shifted (i*u,0) ; > fi ; > endfor; > > endfig ; > > end > > given that you have configured texexec well: > > texexec --mptex thisfile.mp > mptopdf thisfile.1 With ConTeXt 2003.8.15, I get (\000) in thisfile.1, which mptopdf does not handle: ! Undefined control sequence. l.14 (\0 00) cmsy10 11.95514 fshow These seem to be the minus signs. Regards, Christopher Creutzig

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combined list and spacing
by Alexander Klink 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

Hi, I've defined a combined list as my table of contents as follows: \setuplist[artikel][alternative=c] \definecombinedlist[content][chapter,artikel] \placecontent Now that my document nears 75 pages, the list is too full to go on one page. So I thought I might get rid of the spacing between the next chapter and make the chapters bold instead. Could anyone be so kind and explain to me how I would do this? I've seen \setuplist in the manual but I couldn't figure out where the spacing part was. TIA, Alex

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LaTeXDB equivalent for ConTeXt ?
by Jules Colding 22 Aug '03

22 Aug '03

Hi, Is there anything like LaTeXDB: <http://privat.hgesser.com/software/latexdb/> in ConTeXt? The short story is that LaTeXDB makes it possible to include SQL queries in a LaTeX document. Best regards, jules

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