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\definecolorgroup with gray values
by Peter Rolf 19 May '03

19 May '03

I want to define a colorgroup of gray values, so I tried the following: \definecolorgroup[test][gray] [.1:.1:.1, .2:.2:.2] The result was: ---------------------------------------- ConTeXt ver: 2003.4.29 fmt: 2003.5.8 int: english mes: english ... ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \v!gray \p!compareprocessaction ...edaction \!!stringb {#1 }\ifx \!!stringa \!!string... \next1 #1,->\p!doprocessaction {#1} \doprocesscommaitem <argument> ...gray =>\edef \currentcolorspace {S}, \v!spot =>\edef \currentc... \processnextcommalist ...dodoprocesscommaitem #4#5 ,]\relax \global \advance ... \dodefinecolorgroup ...def \currentcolorspace {R}] \colorcount \zerocount \de... ---------------------------------------- Maybe there is a shorter way to define the gray values, so I tried \definecolorgroup[test][gray] [.1, .2] No luck. When I use rgb tables, all works fine. Has anyone an answer for that? Regards, Peter

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newbie question: greek in ConTeXt?
by Thomas A. Schmitz 18 May '03

18 May '03

After using LateX for a while, I became interested in ConTeXt and was immediately fascinated by the ease of use and the logical structure of commands. However, for my job, I need to typeset in ancient Greek (politoniko). There are a couple of packages for LaTeX that can do that (Teubner, psgreek e.g.), but can it be done in ConTeXt? I already stumble whenever I try to set the language to Greek; I get a couple of error messages (I use the standard teTex-distribution on a Mac with OS X 10.2). Can anybody point me to helpful documents or discussions? Thanks a lot! -- Thomas A. Schmitz Philologisches Seminar Universitaet Bonn Am Hof 1 e 53113 Bonn Germany

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over normal width tables
by Helmut Schwertner 18 May '03

18 May '03

Hello, sometimes I need over normal width tables. Is there any equivalent to "\sidewaystable" from LaTeX? If there is no way like "\sidewaystable" could somebody recommend an other solution to place width table? Thanks for every tip, kind regards, Helmut

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no problem more with \usemodule[chart] and MikTeX
by Helmut Schwertner 18 May '03

18 May '03

Hello Giuseppe, thank you very much for your advice. I moved the metafun.mem from >>d:\texmf\miktext\fmt<< to >>d:\texmf\miktext\mem<< and it works perfect. best wishes, Helmut > Friday, May 16, 2003 Willi Egger wrote: > WE> Hi Helmut, > WE> Though I a m not using Miktex it seems that you might have to make the > mem > WE> file (format file ) for metafun yourself. > WE> texexec --make metafun > WE> Keep in mind, that the mem-file is dumped into the directory where you > run > WE> the texexec command. > Worse :) In my MiKTeX distribution it's dumped where the TeX > formats are. It has to be moved where the other .mem files are - > Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Metafont and Context
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 18 May '03

18 May '03

Hallo! Has anybody written typescripts for one of the Metafonts available at CTAN and can send me an example or two? Wolfgang

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Calligraphy and Lucida?
by Maarten Sneep 18 May '03

18 May '03

Hi, I'd like to use the calligraphic typeface from the lucida set, but using the following setup, I don't get 'em. \setupbodyfontenvironment[default][em=italic] \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][hanging][pure] \setupalign[hanging] \setupbodyfont[lbr,9pt] \starttext {\cg This should be in the Lucida Calligraphic typeface --- but it isn't} \stoptext Any ideas? I'm running a current ConTeXt. Maarten Don't it ever get lonesome?

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German interface
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 18 May '03

18 May '03

Hallo! I have 'set UserInterface to de' in 'texexec.ini'. Given the following testfile: ------------------test.tex------------- \enableregime[windows] \mainlanguage[de] \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \starttext \chapter{Test} Bla. \stoptext ---------------------------------------- This runs ok! Why? Should'nt use texexec german interface here? Deleting the first three lines, texexec uses german interface and complains about \chapter{}, which should be \kapitel{}. Commenting the first three lines, I could not find any rule, it seems as if texexec uses randomly german or english interface. Is this normal behaviour? How can I use german interface in the above example? Wolfgang

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hyperbolic funtions in MP
by Peter Rolf 17 May '03

17 May '03

I have problems using the hyperbolic functions sinh and cosh (MetaFun manual page 204) in metapost. A simple call of sinh (with valid parameter) ct:= sinh(3) ; gives ---------------------------------------- This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.10b-2.1 (MiKTeX 2.3) ConTeXt ver: 2003.4.29 fmt: 2003.5.8 int: english mes: english ... >> xx-2 ! Unknown relation will be considered false. <to be read again> : **->if(EXPR1)=2: (EXPR0)*(EXPR0)else:takepower(EXPR1)of(EXPR0)fi <to be read again> ) exp->begingroup((mexp256)**(EXPR2)) endgroup <to be read again> ; sinh->begingroup.save.xx;xx=exp.xx; (xx-1/xx)/2endgroup <to be read again> ; l.152 ct:= sinh(3) ; ? ---------------------------------------- Same error for cosh. The functions sin, cos and asinh, acosh work. Please, could somebody test, if this is a general problem... Greetings, Peter

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more on texfont (ttf successes?)
by Adam Lindsay 17 May '03

17 May '03

Folks, I've been doing some testing on texfont, and it seems to *almost* support truetype (.ttf) fonts perfectly fine. Has anyone used it to install ttf files, and had it work perfectly? I think all that needs changing is where the mapfile gets written... the type1 extension ".pfb" is currently hard-coded. I'll experiment with a solution (that hopefully works better with .otf files too). Hans, has texfont.pl received any recent private changes that my OpenType patch has to be synched to? I don't want to create a bigger fork than necessary. Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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framed verbatim text
by Jedrzej Nasiadek 17 May '03

17 May '03

Hi, I'm trying to make a frame around the verbatim text. The approach that first came to my mind: \framed{% \starttyping quite a lot of multiline verbatim stuff \stoptyping} doesn't work. Any ideas how to achieve that (and still have possibility of applying background to that frame)? regards, Jedrzej

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problem with \usemodule[chart]
by schwertner＠t-online.de 17 May '03

17 May '03

Hello, I'd like to draw up a simple chart (\usemodule[chart]), but I get only the "text" (not really a document) and no "shape" on the PDF. I use a current version of Miktex total (Win) and the newest ConTeXt. What can I do? Thanks for any help, greetings, Helmut **********sample**********************************************++ \usemodule[chart] \setupFLOWcharts [nx=3, ny=3, dx=2\bodyfontsize, dy=2\bodyfontsize, width=12\bodyfontsize, height=7\bodyfontsize, maxwidth=\textwidth] \starttext \startFLOWchart[cells] \startFLOWcell \name {first} \location {1,2} \shape {singledocument} \text {not really a document} \stopFLOWcell \stopFLOWchart \FLOWchart[cells] \stoptext ********************************************************* Helmut Schwertner Schülperbaum 4 24103 K i e l phone: 0431 58 78 502 eMail: schwertner(a)t-online.de

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a typographic discover
by Pablo Rodriguez 17 May '03

17 May '03

Dear ConTeXticians, I had heard of http://www.apostrophiclab.com/, but yesterday I'd visited it and I'd downloaded about 60Mb of truetype fonts (in zip files). As far as I can remember almost all the fonts were also offered in type1 format. I can only recommend the visit. I hope you enjoy it (sorry if you already know it), Pablo

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Re: [NTG-context] problem with \usemodule[chart]
by Helmut Schwertner 17 May '03

17 May '03

Hallo Eckhart, vielen Dank für Deine Antwort. Ich habe mir daraufhin einige Installationshinweise (u.a. von fiee http://www.ramm.ch/fiee/texnique/) angesehen und insbesondere die sogenannten "Aufrufe" von MetaPost angesehen und diese in die entsprechenden Konfigurationsdateien auf enable gestellt bzw. hinzugefügt. Leider gehen die meisten Text nicht von Miktex (Win) aus (was ich ja gut verstehen kann), was aber dazu führt, dass bestimmte, genannte, Dateien so unter Miktex gar existieren. Das erleichtert mir als Sozialwissenschaftler, der noch nicht mal versteht, wie ein Kühlschrank funktioniert, aber dennoch schon jahrelang recht ordentliche Text mit latex bzw. pdflatex produziert, die Sache nicht gerade. Ergo: Trotz \write18 (miktex.ini) auf enable und weiteren Modifikationen leider kein Metapost. Ich erhalte folgende Hinweise beim Aufruf: texexec --pdf flowtest initexmf: don't know how to dump metafun cannot make metafun.mem I can't find the default mem file! Hast Du vielleicht noch eine Idee, der ich nachgehen könnte? Vielen Dank nochmal und herzliche Grüße, helmut > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 08:32:18PM +0200, schwertner(a)t-online.de wrote: >> I'd like to draw up a simple chart (\usemodule[chart]), but I get only >> the "text" (not really >> a document) and no "shape" on the PDF. I use a current version of Miktex >> total (Win) >> and the newest ConTeXt. What can I do? > Did you enable the \write18 feature? This allows tex to run external > programs, needed for inline metapost graphics like flow shapes. I don't > remember how to do this for miktex, but it is described in the > context installation manual, together with some more hints for a > context friendly setup. > -- > Eckhart

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Installing mf-font
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 17 May '03

17 May '03

Hallo! In order to learn understand fontinstallation, typescripts and so, I tried to install a Font (Metafont-source). Please have a look at the following fragment: ---------------------type-bunt.tex---------------------------- \starttypescript [handwriting] [bunt] [ec] \definefontsynonym [???] [???] [???] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [handwriting] [bunt] [name] \definefontsynonym [???] [???] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [handwriting] [default] [size] \definebodyfont [5pt,6pt,7pt,8pt,9pt,10pt,10.95pt,12pt,14.4pt,17.28pt,20.74pt,24.88pt] [hw] [default] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [Bunt] \definetypeface [Bunt] [hw] [handwriting] [bunt] [default] [encoding=\typescripttwo] \stoptypescript ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I have the following questions: 1. What is the differenz between hw and cg resp. handwriting and calligraphy? 2. Is the typescript for [handwriting], defined in 'type-siz.tex', the default, if the above typescript for size would be deletet? 3. Is there a good reason to use typescripts for such a one member family of fonts? 4. What is the 3. parameter in \definebodyfont for? 5. In 'type-siz.tex' the sizes are given with maximal 1/10 pr�zission. In a LaTeX fd-file I have used 1/100 pr�zission (10.95, not 11; 17.28, not 17.3), so I have used the same in the above typescript, just to be konsistent. Is this ok? 6. The namingshema of the source-files is 'bunt0900.mf, bunt1000.mf, bunt1095.mf ... What has to be written in the above [name] typescript to build these names? 7. What should I write for the 6. parameter of \definetypeface? The encoding [ec]? What means \typescripttwo? What with the encoding-typescript? Wolfgang

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columns and pictures
by Brian P.Templeton 16 May '03

16 May '03

(Warning: I'm a ConTeXt newbie. I started using ConTeXt specifically because this is quite difficult to do in LaTeX, along with some other DTP-ish things.) I'm trying to place pictures at a specific position on a page in a multicolumn document, something like this (T: text, P: picture): TTTTTTTTTT | TTTTTT PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP TTTTTTTTTT | TTTTTT PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP TTTTTTTTTT | TTTTTT PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP TTTTTTTTTT | TTTTTTTTTT | TTTTTTTTTT TTTTTTTTTT | TTTTTTTTTT | TTTTTTTTTT How can I do this in ConTeXt (if it's currently possible)? -- Brian P. Templeton <bpt(a)tunes.org> <http://bpt.tunes.org/> "The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!" -- Max Stirner

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units and decimal separators
by Sebastian Rooks 15 May '03

15 May '03

Hi ConTeXters, How can I get ConteXt to typeset numbers as it should be done in french in which we use a comma and not a point to separate units and decimals ? That is when I write \mathematics{5,3} I want to have 5,3 and not 5, 3 (with a small space between the comma and the 3), as it is when I use the english separator, a point. Cheers, Seb.

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Balancing error
by Nagy Bence 14 May '03

14 May '03

Hi all, I got the following error in \startcolumns...\stopcolumns environment: columns : balancing aborted after 100 steps I tried to insert pictures just with \externalfigure in columns (I made tests with \placefigure, but it made some misplaced graphics, the \startcolumnset...\stopcolumnset environment too). By this error I got a picture hanging out from the page. The command \column[preference] before all pictures helped not. How can I avoid this error message and force an automatical pagebreak in column mode? I'm using the latest beta. Greetings Bence

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: predefined fonts on TeXLive
by Patrick Gundlach 14 May '03

14 May '03

Good evening, > After downloading your typescript and putting it into local tree, > running test file > > \usetypescriptfile [adobekb] > \setupencoding [default=ec] > \usetypescript [adobekb] [\defaultencoding] > \usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding] > \setupbodyfont [palatino] > \starttext > > hello world. > > \stoptext This looks good. > gives following error: hmm, it works fine here (texlive 7, almost current ConTeXt, MacOS X) > > <snip> the beginning would be interesting. What ConTeXt version? What TeX-system? > )kpathsea: Running mktextfm pxr hmm strange, why does ConTeXt need math fonts here? And why is ConTeXt using pxr? Isn't this outdated? And now replaced with mathpazo? > What's wrong? IMO ConTeXt :) workaround: install px fonts. Patrick

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OT Best font for online viewing.
by John Culleton 14 May '03

14 May '03

built a document using the encoding for Palatino thus: \usetypescript[berry][ec] \usetypescript[palatino][ec] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] The good news is I got the Palladio version of Palatino according to Acrobat Reader 5.05. The bad news is that the characters are distorted. When I blow them up 400% then they look OK. In particular the capital T looks like someone trimmed part of the top bar with a router. But lc letters look funky as well. I know Lucida Bright is the favorite font for on-line use in pragma-nl. But is there a regular (like, free) Adobe Font that looks OK when used with Acrobat Reader? Or is there some other setup improvement I need to make? In GV the glyphs look a bit ragged but the artifacts like the chopped up capital T are not present. So it is an Acrobat weakness. But Acrobat Reader is the name of the game for e-books. ____________________________________________________________ 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] EC-Fonts
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 13 May '03

13 May '03

Hallo! >>>\usetypescript[aer] (top of file) >> >>I have not tested this, but if it does what it sounds like, it switchtes >>to cmr in an ec-like encoding, not to the ec-fonts by Jörg Knappen. > >hm, better wait for the new lm fonts (on ctan in a couple of weeks), real >ec non virtual type ones > >Hans Does this mean, that in the moment there is no way to access the ec-fonts in context? :-( Wolfgang

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mails
by Hans Hagen 13 May '03

13 May '03

Hi, I'm on the road for a couple of days, sorry for delays in answering mails 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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Mathematica fonts in ConTeXt
by Mikael Persson 13 May '03

13 May '03

Hello everybody, I wonder if someone has used the Mathematica math fonts in ConTeXt? If not, then maybe someone could give me a hint how to write the files needed to enable the usage of them (I have looked in math-tex.tex, math-lbr.tex and so on, but I don't understand how adding support for a new font is done with math fonts) I would really like to use them since they seem to go fine with times and since I am writing Mathematica stuff... Another problem may be that the fonts are available in .pfa format. I did convert them to .pfb's with pfa2pfb and the .pfb files got half the size of the .pfa files (maybe that is how it is supposed to be?) Any help is appreciated, Regards, Micke P

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predefined fonts on TeXLive
by Bill McClain 13 May '03

13 May '03

I'd like to add a section on using TeXLive fonts to my help page. First: listing those which are predefined in ConTeXt. Then: writing typescripts for the others. Since I don't want to write any unncessary scripts, please check this list to see if I've missed anything. This is what I see by looking at type-exa.tex and running some experiments: (1) The default, with no type specification, gives Bluesky Computer Modern. (2) This produces CM-Super Computer Modern: \usetypescript[modern][ec] \setupbodyfont[modern] (3) This produces Palatino (URW Palladio): \usetypescript[berry][ec] % or [8r] \usetypescript[palatino][ec] % \setupbodyfont[palatino] (4) This produces Times (URW Nimbus): \usetypescript[berry][ec] % or [8r] \usetypescript[times][ec] % \setupbodyfont[times] (5) These both produce Times, Helvetica (\ss) and Courier (\tt) from the URW Nimbus collection: \usetypescript[berry][ec] % or [8r] \setupbodyfont[pos] or \usetypescript[berry][ec] % or [8r] \usetypescript[postscript][ec] \setupbodyfont[postscript] * * * That's all I can find. type-exa.tex contains Lucida typeface definitions, but the corresponding tfm's don't exist on TeXLive. Is there some setting to make these work? Similarly, type-enc.tex contains many font synonyms, but the tfm's do not exist and there are no typeface definitions for them. For anything else, I'll have to produce typescripts, right? -Bill -- Sattre Press Pagan Papers http://sattre-press.com/ by Kenneth Grahame info(a)sattre-press.com http://pp.sattre-press.com/

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tagged pdf (again)
by Bruce D'Arcus 13 May '03

13 May '03

I'm not on the pdftex list, but I was just looking through their archives and came across this document on the PDF 1.5 spec: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/acrobat/docs/filefmtspecs/ PDFReference15draft.pdf The most notable point of interest to me is on the extensions to the tagged PDF spec (particularly starting on 10.7.4). PDF will now support structured markup for pretty much all of the common structures in ConTeXt, even citations! Any chance we'll finally see pdftex (and later ConTeXt) support this Hans? Bruce

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selecting encoding for Unicode
by Gour 13 May '03

13 May '03

Hi! I have problem in displaying characters which are not in default ConTeXt encoding, eg. amacron, Amacron, Imacron, imacron .. My input is utf-8 and converted to ConTeXt with dbcontext package. In ConTeXt file I have: \chardef\utfunihashmode=1 and \enableregime[utf] and everything is fine, except that I don't know how to switch encoding to Unicode, so that the characters which are defined in e.g. \unic-001.tex can be displayed. I have tried with \useencoding [uc] but it doesn't work. However, when I put {\amacron} it is properly displayed - I conclude that ConTeXt understands the glyph name, but when it has to decode the same character as utf-8, it doesn't recognize it. Any hint? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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Using \cal, \frak, \goth in math mode
by Giuseppe Bilotta 13 May '03

13 May '03

In ConTeXt, \cal, \frak and \goth (etc) are considered "text only" commands. To use them in math mode one has to use \gothing, \fraktur, \calligraphic etc, which make a temporary switch to text mode. This is contrary to the LaTeX expectations, where $\cal ABC$ makes all three letters calligraphic. How could such a thing be achieved in ConTeXt? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Toggle fields
by Sytse Knypstra 13 May '03

13 May '03

Dear ConTeXt users, In experimenting with (JavaScript) fields I tried the example on p. 11 in the up-to-date 1998/1 publication. I placed the check field not in the margin, but in the running text and discovered that \goto{Help}[JS(Toggle_Hide{Help})] does work if it is placed after \fitfield[Help], but that it does not work if it is placed before \fitfield[Help]. For the commands \goto{Hide Help}[HideField{Help}] and \goto{Show Help}[ShowField{Help}] their position relative to \fitfield[Help] does not matter. Would it be possible to make a command ToggleField, analagous to HideField and ShowField, whose position relative to \fitfield[Help} is not important? Thank you, Sytse %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Here is the complete example: \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \definefield[Help][check][Helpsetup][helpinfo][helpinfo] \setupfields[reset] \setupfield[Helpsetup][width=fit,height=fit,frame=off,option={readonly,hidden}] \definesymbol[helpinfo][\SomeHelpText] \def\SomeHelpText% {\framed [width=\leftmarginwidth,height=fit,align=middle,style=small, frame=on,background=color,backgroundcolor=white,framecolor=red] {Click on the hide button to remove this screen}} %\fitfield[Help] % if uncommented, all three \goto's work ok Now we can put the button somewhere and turn the help on or off by saying \goto{Hide Help}[HideField{Help}] or \goto{Show Help}[ShowField{Help}]. Although it's better to put these commands in a dedicated part of the screen. And try \goto{Help}[JS(Toggle_Hide{Help})]. \fitfield[Help] % \goto{Help}[JS(Toggle_Hide{Help})] does not work \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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Re: [NTG-context] Run ConTeXt from TexLive 7 CDROM and
by fa441907 13 May '03

13 May '03

I wrote >>To run Context, I made a WinShell User Defined Tool, as >>follows. In Options => General => Userdefined I did >> >> ... exefile = pdfetex >> ... cmd line = &cont-en Hans Hagen replied >maybe you need to change the pdfetex in texexec here, or better > > exefile = texexec > cmfline = --pdf --int=en > >given that you want to force the english interface, When I run the above (Win98, TeXLive 7) the WinShell reporting window says "TeXExec 2.8 ConTeX ... and WinShell then hangs, only closes on ctl alt del If I add "%s.tex" so the tool cmd-Line reads ... exe-File=texexec ... cmd-Line= --pdf --int=en %s.tex I get "There is no Main-TeX-Document! Please check the options!" I tried to learn from WinShell's own tool (F5) Which runs LaTeX out of the box. But a clone of that tool ... exe-File=latex ... cmd-Line=%s.tex Also gives "There is no Main-TeX-Document! Please check the options!" Conclusion - Looks like I dont understand WinShell either (I've cross posted the above to the WinShell bulletin board) Richard Hardwick

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Re: [NTG-context] EC-Fonts
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 13 May '03

13 May '03

Hi, >> \usetypescript[aer] (top of file) >> > > I have not tested this, but if it does what it sounds like, it switchtes > to cmr in an ec-like encoding, not to the ec-fonts by Jörg Knappen. You are right! No ec-fonts, just cm. Wolfgang

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ligatures?
by Adam Lindsay 13 May '03

13 May '03

TeXnicians, Once again, I'll stick my neck out showing my pure TeX ignorance. Are there ConTeXt commands for adding ligatures to the usual set (ff, fi, etc.)? Where in the chain are these characters (f + i) grouped and associated with the 'fi' character to be output? I'd like to be able to take advantage of some extended ligatures with my pro fonts, but it seems that if users have to enter the ligatures as \Thligature or whatever, they would be of very limited use. thanks in advance, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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Run ConTeXt from TexLive 7 CDROM and WinShell
by fa441907 12 May '03

12 May '03

Thank you to Maarten Sneep and Severin Obertuefer for help with my "Newbie cant get \externalfigure to work" It seems likely that problem arose because of some coding errors and also because I am using an old (1999) version of ConTeXt (part of 4TeX5.0 (NL Tug)). So I am trying to upgrade. I am now trying to run ConTeXt from TexLive 7 CDROM, TexLive says ... "Select a Tex-oriented editor" I chose WinShell To run Context, I made a WinShell User Defined Tool, as follows. In Options => General => Userdefined I did ... exefile = pdfetex ... cmd line = &cont-en When I run that tool I get One or more errors occurred! Please check the options! Now I am stuck again Your suggestions gratefully received Richard Hardwick

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BUG in latest ConTeXt beta?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 10 May '03

10 May '03

Hello, I just downloaded the latest ConTeXt beta (2003.4.29), and I spotted a bug in lang-grk: the headtexts are defined for s!fi, not for s!gr (also, the package subtitles reads "Uralic" instead of "Greek" languages) ... -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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some questions on fonts
by Pablo Rodriguez 09 May '03

09 May '03

Dear ConTeXticians, I'm learning to use ConTeXt and the main problems I have with ConTeXt are related to fonts. I need to use utf-8 for my documents, since it is the proper way to handle polytonic Greek, Spanish and German in a single document without having to use strange input methods. I was told that it is possible to use utf-8 in ConTeXt (although Greek isn't defined for utf-8 yet), but I don't know how to enable this feature. Which command can I use utf-8 in my documents? (I know \enableregime, but it doesn't work with option unicode). Another problem is the fontencoding: I'd like to use the cm-super fonts, but if I try to use \setupencoding[default=ec] I get a recursive error with some documents (but this is probably due to the wrong document syntax) or the document fonts are the standard cm fonts in OT1 encoding, what is probably related to the last problem. I cannot invoke other fonts than \setupbodyfont[ber,pos]. I use the MikTeX total distribution and with pdfLaTeX all installed fonts work fine. With ConTeXt if I use \setupbodyfont[palatino], either I get an error from maketfm that doesn't know how to make ec-uplr8a or in other documents the variant palatino for bodyfont seems to be unknown. I'm extremely confused about how ConTeXt works with the installed fonts (probably I don't have the required knowledge to understand it) and actually I don't know how LaTeX mangages the available fonts, but it works. The above question is not how to install new fonts or even how ConTeXt manages fonts. The only thing I'd appreciate to know is the most simple procedure to invoke each installed font on my TeX distribution within ConTeXt. Many thanks for your help, Pablo

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Magazine: OpenType Pro fonts in ConTeXt
by Adam Lindsay 09 May '03

09 May '03

Hi ConTeXters. I've finally documented some font support macros and typescripts that I've been working on. I collected the ideas in a MyWay magazine: <http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/OpenType.pdf> (782 Kb) The companion files are on the site as well: <http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/OpenType.zip> (25 Kb) A web page to hold all this stuff is forthcoming. The best way to describe what it does is with the abstract: This is a summary of issues encountered and solutions implemented in order to support some advanced OpenType features in ConTeXt. This article describes an accompanying package that addresses installation (using TeXFont), accommodating extended opticals families, and some ``pro'' font features. The extended character set afforded by pro fonts enables support for comprehensive small caps, old-style figures, and the use of greek glyphs to give workable math fonts. Although the typescripts and commands are described together, certain features (like variant encodings for TeXFont and the idiosyncratic method for creating new math fonts) can be used independently of the other features described. I hope this proves interesting, if not useful, to others. Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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Re: [NTG-context] Inclusion of flow chart
by emmanuel.rialland＠sgib.com 09 May '03

09 May '03

Thanks to all. That gives me some leads. I wanted to try something using your advice but in the mean-time decided to typeset my document in lucida instead of comp modern. My installation just won't do it. So I am struggling on this and leave the graphs to later. Emmanuel "Willi Egger" <w.egger(a)boede.nl To: <ntg-context(a)ntg.nl> > cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Inclusion of flow chart ntg-context-admin @ntg.nl 07/05/2003 18:42 Please respond to ntg-context > At 11:17 07/05/2003 +1100, you wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I have definitely not been flooded by answers. I am getting the impression > >that this forum might > >not have been the best one to ask (i.e. I have a practical problem which > >has little bearing with > >implementation aspects / bugs / new features of Context). > > hm, normally questions get answered (willy often does the flow chart ones, > but he may be off for a few days; begin may are also problematic days: many > holidays, national thingies and so; personally i'm just back from the > polish tex conference) > > i forwarded the mail to willy -) > > the best hack i can come up with is: > > % output=pdftex > > \usemodule[chart] > > \starttext > > \startFLOWchart[boxes] > \startFLOWcell > \name {a} > \location {1,1} > \shape {action} > \text {\ss A} > \stopFLOWcell > > \startFLOWcell > \name {b} > \location {2,1} > \shape {action} > \text {\ss B} > \stopFLOWcell > > \startFLOWcell > \name {c} > \location {3,1} > \shape {action} > \text {\ss C} > \stopFLOWcell > \stopFLOWchart > > \FLOWchart[boxes] > > \startFLOWchart[arrows] > \includeFLOWchart[boxes] > \startFLOWcell > \name {1-2} > \location {1,1} > \shape {none} > \connection[rl]{b} > \stopFLOWcell > \startFLOWcell > \name {2-3} > \location {2,1} > \shape {none} > \connection[rl]{c} > \stopFLOWcell > \stopFLOWchart > > \FLOWchart[arrows] > > \stoptext > > when i have time i'll think about some extension That is what I meant with my other reply. - I feel however that this is not quite what Emmanuel is looking for. I stand corrected, the idea is to have a basket with shapes and another basket with arrows. Pick on the fly the necessary pieces and assemble them in a chart, place the chart in a figure environment and put a numberd legenda underneath of it. -- Hm, I would not know how to achieve this without tweaking the sources... Willi _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context ************************************************************************** Have you checked our new corporate website at http://www.sgib.com ? The information contained herein is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). It shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Any unauthorized access, use, reproduction, disclosure or dissemination is prohibited. Neither SGIB nor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates shall assume any legal liability or responsibility for any incorrect, misleading or altered information contained herein. **************************************************************************

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Newbie cant get \externalfigure to work
by fa441907 09 May '03

09 May '03

Newbie cant get \externalfigure to work Just starting with Context I'm using 4TEX 5.0 (ver June 1999) I want to make a pdf document with some pictures In LaTex, this (postscript) works; \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx} \begin{document} \frame{% \includegraphics{DSCN0043.eps} }% Some text \end{document} I try the same thing in Context and I get an empty box with 3 lines of text "name: dummy" "file: DSN0043" "unknown" Heres my script: \setupoutput[pdftex] \useexternalfigure [appleblossom][DSCN0043] [type=eps,width=.4\makeupwidth] \starttext \startfiguretext [left] [fig:appleblossom] {none} {\externalfigure [DSCN0043] [type=eps,width=.4\makeupwidth,frame=on]} Some text \stopfiguretext \stoptext log file says ConTeXt ver: 1999.5.11 fmt: 1999.6.4 int: english mes: english ...snip... systems : begin file 2Context at line 23 figures : figure DSCN0043 can not be found Thank you for your help Richard Hardwick

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inverted (french) quotation marks for german documents
by schwertner＠t-online.de 09 May '03

09 May '03

Hello, I'm starting with Context and have the following question. I want to achieve the inverted (french) quotation marks for german documents. For example: >>househusband<< With latex or pdflatex I use ">househusband"< or \frqq househusband\flqq but this doesn't work in Context. Many thanks for any help, Helmut ********************************************************* Helmut Schwertner eMail: schwertner(a)t-online.de

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fillinfield
by Sytse Knypstra 09 May '03

09 May '03

Dear ConTeXt users, I just started to try \fillinfield as described in the up-todate manual 1998/1. For some names it worked properly, but for my own name it didn't. (ConTeXt ver: 2002.8.23 fmt: 2002.11.25 int: dutch mes: dutch) Here is the example: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \steluitvoerin[pdftex] \stelinteractiein [status=start] \starttekst Mijn naam is: \invulveld{Sytse} Zijn naam is: \invulveld{Wytse} \stoptekst %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Sytse Knypstra

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Re: [NTG-context] Magazine: OpenType Pro fonts in ConTeXt
by Bruce D'Arcus 09 May '03

09 May '03

Also, I've noticed odd kerning with apostrophes, in both Jenson Pro and, it seems, in your sample on page 1 where the word "Adobe's" looks quite odd. Any ideas what's going on with that? A mistake in the metric files? And how would this be corrected; go into the kerning pairs and adjust them for this glyph? Bruce

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Re: [NTG-context] Magazine: OpenType Pro fonts in ConTeXt
by Adam Lindsay 08 May '03

08 May '03

[copied to list] Bruce D'Arcus said this at Thu, 8 May 2003 16:13:12 -0400: >How would you deal with the margin-kerning hand-tuning favored by Bill >McClain and Achim? Would these just be separate files for each font >input into the main typescriptfile? I like good hanging (I prefer "punctuation", myself), too. Bill or Achim could define their own hanging preferences in their own fonthandling in a file that's input. They can then do a mass find/replace of "handling=pure" and put their own named font handling in. Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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Font h__ revisited.
by John Culleton 08 May '03

08 May '03

No virtuous deed goes unpunished. I have been using old-fashioned \font commands with Context because the other was just too confusing. But I htought it was time to ger religion. So I copied the following pretty much verbatim from a manual: \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Palatino] \definefontsynonym [Palatino][uplr8r] [encoding=default] \definebodyfont [14.4pt] [rm] [tf=Serif sa 1] ... \switchtobodyfont[14.4pt] ...and I get Computer Modern according to Acrobat Reader. ---------------------------------- But when I use this: \font\rm=uplr8r at 12pt \font\bf=uplb8r at 14.4pt \font\bs=uplbo8r at 17.3pt \rm I get the font I want where I want it. --------------------------------------------------- So what am I messing up in the first example? John Culleton ____________________________________________________________ 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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EC-Fonts
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 08 May '03

08 May '03

Hallo! What have I to do ,to use the EC-Fonts (from J. Knappen). I always get CM, even if I use ec-encoding. Grüße, Wolfgang

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makempy
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 08 May '03

08 May '03

Hallo! 'makempy' uses 'acroread' as default under Unix. How can I change this, when calling makempy indirectly by texexec. gruß, Wolfgang

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Modes
by varheit＠gmx.de 07 May '03

07 May '03

Hello, I compile a document with texexec --pdf --mode=<somemode> ..., and I want to access whatever is specified for <somemode> in the document as literal text. So if I run texexec --pdf --mode=screen ... I want something like "this document was processed in screen mode" to show up in the text. How can this be done? -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ Bitte lächeln! Fotogalerie online mit GMX ohne eigene Homepage!

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Re: [NTG-context] Inclusion of flow chart
by Hans Hagen 07 May '03

07 May '03

At 11:17 07/05/2003 +1100, you wrote: >Hi all, > >I have definitely not been flooded by answers. I am getting the impression >that this forum might >not have been the best one to ask (i.e. I have a practical problem which >has little bearing with >implementation aspects / bugs / new features of Context). hm, normally questions get answered (willy often does the flow chart ones, but he may be off for a few days; begin may are also problematic days: many holidays, national thingies and so; personally i'm just back from the polish tex conference) i forwarded the mail to willy -) the best hack i can come up with is: % output=pdftex \usemodule[chart] \starttext \startFLOWchart[boxes] \startFLOWcell \name {a} \location {1,1} \shape {action} \text {\ss A} \stopFLOWcell \startFLOWcell \name {b} \location {2,1} \shape {action} \text {\ss B} \stopFLOWcell \startFLOWcell \name {c} \location {3,1} \shape {action} \text {\ss C} \stopFLOWcell \stopFLOWchart \FLOWchart[boxes] \startFLOWchart[arrows] \includeFLOWchart[boxes] \startFLOWcell \name {1-2} \location {1,1} \shape {none} \connection[rl]{b} \stopFLOWcell \startFLOWcell \name {2-3} \location {2,1} \shape {none} \connection[rl]{c} \stopFLOWcell \stopFLOWchart \FLOWchart[arrows] \stoptext when i have time i'll think about some extension 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] Inclusion of flow chart
by emmanuel.rialland＠sgib.com 07 May '03

07 May '03

Hi all, I have definitely not been flooded by answers. I am getting the impression that this forum might not have been the best one to ask (i.e. I have a practical problem which has little bearing with implementation aspects / bugs / new features of Context). I have gone through comp.text.tex, but it seems to be heavily oriented towards latex. Would you have any other direction I could go to and get some assistance? Thanks for showing a door (;-)), Emmanuel Thanks Hans. Apologies if the discussion doesn't flow very much, I am writing from down under. In fact, what I would ideally like to do is the following: 1- Define a template with the boxes without any arrows. 2- Write numbered lists describing arrows that would be generated on top of the template. The overview might look like the following (with some bogus macro names): % Somewhere in a template file % Template for the boxes: \StartMPTemplate[Boxes] % % ----- ----- ----- % ! ! ! ! ! ! % ! A ! ! B ! ! C ! % ----- ----- ----- % \startFLOWcell \name {a} \location {1,1} \shape {action} \text {\ss A} \stopFLOWcell \startFLOWcell \name {b} \location {2,1} \shape {action} \text {\ss B} \stopFLOWcell \startFLOWcell \name {c} \location {3,1} \shape {action} \text {\ss C} \stopFLOWcell \StopMPTemplate ------------------------------------------------------------------ % This creates the first chapter \startcomponent Right \Chapter{Every to the right} % Inserts a float with the proper figure and the proper arrows using the difinitions coming afterward \StartMPGraphWithTemplate[Right] \IncludeFLOWchartTemplate[Boxes] \StopMPGraphWithTemplate % Place the float \placefigure [here,force] [fig:chart1] {Chart One} {\framed{\FLOWchart[Right]}} % normal itemised text that will be numbered and will dynamically add tyhe arrows to the figure [Right] \startitemizeWithFLOWchart \arrow[labels=number,from=a,fromside=r,to=b,toside=l] This is the first arrow. \arrow[labels=number,from=b,fromside=r,to=c,toside=l] This is the second arrow. \stopitemizeWithFLOWchart % This is the result % % ----- ----- ----- % ! ! 1 ! ! 2 ! ! % ! A !---->! B !---->! C ! % ! ! ! ! ! ! % ----- ----- ----- % % The text should appear below the float as \startitemize would have done % 1 This is the first arrow. % 2 This is the second arrow. ------------------------------------------------------------------ % This creates the next chapter \startcomponent Left \Chapter{Every to the left} % Inserts a float with the proper figure and the proper arrows using the difinitions coming afterward \StartMPGraphWithTemplate[Left] \IncludeFLOWchartTemplate[Boxes] \StopMPGraphWithTemplate % normal itemised text that will be numbered and will dynamically add tyhe arrows to the figure [Right] \startitemizeWithFLOWchart \arrow[labels=number,from=c,fromside=r,to=a,toside=l] This is the top arrow. \stopitemizeWithFLOWchart % This is the result % !------------------------------ % ! ----- ----- ----- ! % ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! % -->! A ! ! B ! ! C !--! % ! ! ! ! ! ! % ----- ----- ----- % % The idea is that everything is dynamic: - if the template changes, all the graphs get redrawn with the boxes at their new place. The arrows get moved as needed. - if the itemised text is changed (say the 'second arrow' line is written before the 'first arrow'), then on the graph, the arrow from a to b would be numbered 2 and the arrow from b to c would become 1. What I tried is the definition you see at the top for the boxes. Then, to generate the first graph, I would have: --------------------------------------------------- \startFLOWchart[chart] % Inserts template \includeFLOWchart[template][x=1,y=1] % Additional information on top of cell a \startFLOWcell \name {a} \connection [rl] {b} \comment [t] {\ss 1} \stopFLOWcell % Additional information on top of cell b \startFLOWcell \name {b} \connection [rl] {c} \comment [t] {\ss 2} \stopFLOWcell \stopFLOWchart --------------------------------------------------- All I get is the template without any arrows. I thought about trying to generate massive metafun macros. But I want the itemised text to be text and not a graph. Bottom line: is it possible? realistic? I have been using MS Word so far to do that sort of thing. It has been quite tedious to reflect any change in the box structure: 10 charts means 10 charts to re-edit. As a bonus question that should be easier. Is it possible to draw other sorts of arrows: i would like to draw straght line arrows that could follow a diagonal (say go north-east instead of east first then north), or circular arrows like: % % ----- % ! ! % ! !<-- % ----- \ % \ % | % ----- / % ! ! / % ! A !<-- % ----- As usual any help is welcome. Emmanuel Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Sent by: cc: Emmanuel RIALLAND/au/socgen@socgen ntg-context-admin Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Inclusion of flow chart @ntg.nl 30/04/2003 05:17 Please respond to ntg-context At 18:49 24/04/2003 +1100, emmanuel.rialland(a)sgib.com wrote: >As you might have guessed, this breaks everything. > >Has anybody an idea as to how I could do that? can you make a minimal example? 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context ************************************************************************** Have you checked our new corporate website at http://www.sgib.com ? 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I came, I upgraded, I goofed.
by John Culleton 06 May '03

06 May '03

I was concerned that I may have over time messed with my system too much. So I reloaded the the 2002 version of the TeXLive CDROM. Things worked more or less. Then I was concerned that I should upgrade to the latest Context. So I downloaded cont-en.zip from the site and unzipped it in my /usr/TeX directory. This is a Linux system. Now if I sign on as an ordinary user when I run texexec I get a "file access denied" message. NO clue as to which file is denying access. And when I run texexec as root from a command line, then I get TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : pub output : standard interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) entering extended mode (./pub.tex{/usr/TeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2002.5.24 fmt: 2003.5.5 int: english mes: english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (/usr/TeX/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/TeX/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/TeX/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-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 : pub.top loaded (./pub.top) pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/TeX/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/TeX/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \@@FDFflag \v!geencontrole \letvalue #1->\expandafter \let \csname #1 \endcsname l.944 \letvalue {\@@FDFflag\v!geencontrole} =\FDFflagDoNotSpellCheck ? No pages of output. Transcript written on pub.log. run time : 11 seconds total run time : 11 seconds I can always back up to the TeXLIve version of Context but I hate to go back that far in time. Suggestions?? John Culleton ____________________________________________________________ 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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mptopdf
by Severin Obertuefer 05 May '03

05 May '03

hi i have miktex 2.2 installed and wanted to run mptopdf, but when I use the newest version of "mptopdf.pl" it dosent work. the following error apperas: eftm=mptopdf: unknown option if i replace the file by another version everything works fine. what could be wrong here? greets severin

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colo-ema defines X Window colors
by Peter Rolf 05 May '03

05 May '03

Hello Hans, I noticed that the color def file colo-xwi is part of colo-ema. After a look in the source of colo-ema it is now clear, that colo-ema defines the X window colors. I wrote this color defs a few years ago for latex and converted them to context without looking in the origin file again. Sorry for that... So I suggest to rename colo-ema in colo-xwi (but it's your decision). I append a slightly changed version. Regards, Peter

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horizontal scaling a glyph?
by Adam Lindsay 05 May '03

05 May '03

Hi. Again, I feel like I've failed, because I haven't found it in an hour's worth of looking through the source: Is there a nice ConTeXt-y way to define a glyph that's stretched a consistent amount? I'm not thinking of the letter-spacing \stretched macros, but rather a distorted character like the 'a' on page 427 of metafun-s (240 in metafun-p). I feel like I've looked at the definition before, but I'm coming up a blank. Thanks, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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Multi-line equation and placement of the number
by Maarten Sneep 03 May '03

03 May '03

Hello Context user, I'm trying to display a multi-line equation with a single number aligned with the last line. According to "The TeXbook" I should use \eqalignno{} for that. Unfortunately, this gobbles up the number. The other method of aligning th parts of my long equation (\eqalign) puts the number in the vertical center. How am I supposed to do this? Kind regards, Maarten Sneep The obligatory version info: ConTeXt ver: 2003.3.11 fmt: 2003.3.26 I found the following code, but I seriously do not understand this... %% from math-pln.tex in ${TEXMF}/tex/context/base \def\eqalignno#1% {\displ@y \tabskip\centering \halign to \displaywidth {\hfil$\@lign\displaystyle{##}$\tabskip\z@skip &$\@lign\displaystyle{{}##}$\hfil\tabskip\centering &\llap{$\@lign##$}\tabskip\z@skip\crcr #1\crcr}}

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Strange error while generating format
by Matt Gushee 03 May '03

03 May '03

Hello, all-- I am trying to set up a new version of ConTeXt (the latest stable version, I guess? I downloaded it from Pragma ADE yesterday). But when I run 'texexec --make en' I get the following error: (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/page-imp.tex loading : Context Core Macros / Pagebody Building system (E-TEX) : [line 736] \dimexpr ! Undefined control sequence. l.743 \setuppaper ? I say this is strange because I'm sure \setuppaper is defined--and if it weren't, surely it would have been noticed and corrected by now. I think all ConTeXt files are in their proper places ... at least, they are in the same places they were in a previous working installation. Some pertinent facts: TeX distribution: teTeX 1.0.2 Major addons: pTeX 2.0 (but as far as I know this doesn't replace core files) Platform: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 Maybe the files are getting loaded in the wrong order? But I can't think of any reason why that might happen. Or have I missed some important step? P.S.: I think there's something missing from the installation guide (minstall.pdf): teTeX users may need to edit $TEXMF/web2c/fmtutil.cnf in order to enable texexec to find 'cont-*.ini'. -- Matt Gushee When a nation follows the Way, Englewood, Colorado, USA Horses bear manure through mgushee(a)havenrock.com its fields; http://www.havenrock.com/ When a nation ignores the Way, Horses bear soldiers through its streets. --Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, trans.)

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Macros for Croatian dj & DJ
by Gour 02 May '03

02 May '03

Hello Hans! Here I'm again :-) In order to completely solve the issues with typesetting Croatian texts with ConTeXt I've found a file with TeX macros which produce correct \DJ - you can see the attached file dj.tex I have also included snapshot (DJ.jpg) which shows dstroke & Dstroke produced with these new macros (default cmr font). I commented present definition for DJ in enco-mis.tex and replaced it with the following: \def\pseudoencodedDJ % like in babel, but safer {\leavevmode \rlap{\kern 0.05em\raise 0.76ex\hbox {\vrule height 0.10ex width 0.28em}}D} However, I hope that there is some room for improvement, but being not proficient in programming TeX, I am humbly asking you to use your TeX expertise to resolve this issue once and for all. Personally, I'm so exciting to be able to typeset Croatian with utf-8 encoding in ConTeXt (I'm also using dbcontext package to transform DocBook XML --> ConTeXt, but we need some ConTeXt help to achieve better transformation.) Please, excuse me for bothering you but I'm sure it is something to extend present ConTeXt usability. Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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incrementnumber of part vs. not showing up in table of contents
by Mark A. Lilly 01 May '03

01 May '03

Hi, When i \setuphead[part][incrementnumber=no] so that all the chapter numbering will be continuous, the part doesn't show up in my Table of Contents. when i change it to 'yes' or remove incrementnumber, the part shows up in the ToC, but the chapters are now reset to 1 at each part break. I want to have the parts show up in the ToC, but not have chapter numbers reset to 1 at each part. %%%%%%%%sample, change incrementnumber=yes | no \setuphead[part] [incrementnumber=no] \setuphead [chapter] [number=yes] \placecontent \starttext \part{one} \chapter{c1} \input tufte \chapter{c2} \input tufte \part{two} \chapter{c3} \input tufte \stoptext %%%%%%%end test thanks, mark ps - is there a difference for this list between using \input tufte and \input knuth?

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Docbook In Context: new version uploaded
by Simon Pepping 01 May '03

01 May '03

Hi, I have uploaded a new version of DocbookInContext. This version has an implementation of attribute actions on an experimental basis; see the file Customization for an explanation and details. Of course the release also contains numerous new small features and fixes. The release has been tested with the Context version of 4 March 2003. Known problem of this release: Sometimes Context inserts a spurious pagebreak; this seems to be connected with the use of backgrounds. I have noted a similar problem with the Index. You can find DocbookInContext at http://www.hobby.nl/~scaprea/context/. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping(a)scaprea.hobby.nl

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repetition of table headers with nattab
by Gour 01 May '03

01 May '03

Hi! Is it possible to achieve repetition of table headers with natural tables model? I also have problem to get split tables by using \setupTABLE[split=yes]. It's only possible with \bTABLE[split=yes] as I've found in ml archive. My version of ConTeXt is: ConTeXt ver: 2003.4.22 fmt: 2003.4.29 int: english mes: english Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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small font size for figure captions
by Ed L Cashin 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

Hi. I am having trouble finding how to get a smaller font size for the text like, "Figure 1.1 Dinosaurs are Fun". I can change the font size for "Dinosaurs are Fun" manually, but then "Figure 1.1" stays big, which looks funny. I didn't see a setupfigures command, but I bet I'm missing something like that. -- --Ed L Cashin PGP public key: http://noserose.net/e/pgp/

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Installation problems
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

Hallo! I don't understand fontinstallation and fontselection at all. I tryed the following: ---------------------------------------------- \setupbodyfont[ppl] \starttext Blub. \stoptext ---------------------------------------------- First the tfm for 'ec-uplr8a' is not found. Why? What have I to change? Then I used Patricks 'adobekb' and the two lines: ---------------------------------------------- \usetypescriptfile[adobekb] \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] ---------------------------------------------- in cont-sys.tex I get an error from dvi-viewer, that an pk-file for 'pplr8t' is missing. There is neither an vf-file with this name. Then I tried to change the encoding and changed cont-sys.tex to: ----------------------------------------------- \setupencoding[default=8r] \usetypescriptfile[adobekb] \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] ----------------------------------------------- This time, the pk-file for 'pplr8r' is not found. An equivalent vf-file is missing too. This is the second installation of tetex, the first was debian original, this is TeX Live 7. What can I do, to make the whole thing running? Tired, Wolfgang

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numbering of floats
by Martin Kolařík 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

Hi all, I had (have) a problem with numbering of floats. I use three kind of floats, generic figure and table and mine inherited graph. Of course, tables and graph are numbered separately. When the floats would be renumbered (in my case I had "table 3" in the document before "graph 2") the floats are renumbered badly -- result was "graph 3" before "table 2". So floats and their captions ar OK, but numbers not. Any ideas? Thanks and have a nice day, Martin -------- Martin Kolarik Moravske Pristroje, a.s., Masarykova 1148, Zlin 76302 tel. +420 603 498 498, fax +420 577 107 171 web: http://www.mii.cz -------- e-mail: kolarik(a)mii.cz e-mail: kolarik(a)click.cz tel. +420 603 535 593

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Natural tables alignment
by Martin Kolařík 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

Hi all, before some time I asked if there is some way to define alignment of bTABLE if it is used onside text, not as an float. Hans answered me, if I remember, it needs new option. Was not made some advance? I cannot enclose table into hbox, because this solution denies automatic table splitting (over pages). Thanks, Martin -------- Martin Kolarik Moravske Pristroje, a.s., Masarykova 1148, Zlin 76302 tel. +420 603 498 498, fax +420 577 107 171 web: http://www.mii.cz --------H e-mail: kolarik(a)mii.cz e-mail: kolarik(a)click.cz tel. +420 603 535 593

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Re: [NTG-context] Inclusion of flow chart
by emmanuel.rialland＠sgib.com 30 Apr '03

30 Apr '03

Thanks Hans. Apologies if the discussion doesn't flow very much, I am writing from down under. In fact, what I would ideally like to do is the following: 1- Define a template with the boxes without any arrows. 2- Write numbered lists describing arrows that would be generated on top of the template. The overview might look like the following (with some bogus macro names): % Somewhere in a template file % Template for the boxes: \StartMPTemplate[Boxes] % % ----- ----- ----- % ! ! ! ! ! ! % ! A ! ! B ! ! C ! % ----- ----- ----- % \startFLOWcell \name {a} \location {1,1} \shape {action} \text {\ss A} \stopFLOWcell \startFLOWcell \name {b} \location {2,1} \shape {action} \text {\ss B} \stopFLOWcell \startFLOWcell \name {c} \location {3,1} \shape {action} \text {\ss C} \stopFLOWcell \StopMPTemplate ------------------------------------------------------------------ % This creates the first chapter \startcomponent Right \Chapter{Every to the right} % Inserts a float with the proper figure and the proper arrows using the difinitions coming afterward \StartMPGraphWithTemplate[Right] \IncludeFLOWchartTemplate[Boxes] \StopMPGraphWithTemplate % Place the float \placefigure [here,force] [fig:chart1] {Chart One} {\framed{\FLOWchart[Right]}} % normal itemised text that will be numbered and will dynamically add tyhe arrows to the figure [Right] \startitemizeWithFLOWchart \arrow[labels=number,from=a,fromside=r,to=b,toside=l] This is the first arrow. \arrow[labels=number,from=b,fromside=r,to=c,toside=l] This is the second arrow. \stopitemizeWithFLOWchart % This is the result % % ----- ----- ----- % ! ! 1 ! ! 2 ! ! % ! A !---->! B !---->! C ! % ! ! ! ! ! ! % ----- ----- ----- % % The text should appear below the float as \startitemize would have done % 1 This is the first arrow. % 2 This is the second arrow. ------------------------------------------------------------------ % This creates the next chapter \startcomponent Left \Chapter{Every to the left} % Inserts a float with the proper figure and the proper arrows using the difinitions coming afterward \StartMPGraphWithTemplate[Left] \IncludeFLOWchartTemplate[Boxes] \StopMPGraphWithTemplate % normal itemised text that will be numbered and will dynamically add tyhe arrows to the figure [Right] \startitemizeWithFLOWchart \arrow[labels=number,from=c,fromside=r,to=a,toside=l] This is the top arrow. \stopitemizeWithFLOWchart % This is the result % !------------------------------ % ! ----- ----- ----- ! % ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! % -->! A ! ! B ! ! C !--! % ! ! ! ! ! ! % ----- ----- ----- % % The idea is that everything is dynamic: - if the template changes, all the graphs get redrawn with the boxes at their new place. The arrows get moved as needed. - if the itemised text is changed (say the 'second arrow' line is written before the 'first arrow'), then on the graph, the arrow from a to b would be numbered 2 and the arrow from b to c would become 1. What I tried is the definition you see at the top for the boxes. Then, to generate the first graph, I would have: --------------------------------------------------- \startFLOWchart[chart] % Inserts template \includeFLOWchart[template][x=1,y=1] % Additional information on top of cell a \startFLOWcell \name {a} \connection [rl] {b} \comment [t] {\ss 1} \stopFLOWcell % Additional information on top of cell b \startFLOWcell \name {b} \connection [rl] {c} \comment [t] {\ss 2} \stopFLOWcell \stopFLOWchart --------------------------------------------------- All I get is the template without any arrows. I thought about trying to generate massive metafun macros. But I want the itemised text to be text and not a graph. Bottom line: is it possible? realistic? I have been using MS Word so far to do that sort of thing. It has been quite tedious to reflect any change in the box structure: 10 charts means 10 charts to re-edit. As a bonus question that should be easier. Is it possible to draw other sorts of arrows: i would like to draw straght line arrows that could follow a diagonal (say go north-east instead of east first then north), or circular arrows like: % % ----- % ! ! % ! !<-- % ----- \ % \ % | % ----- / % ! ! / % ! A !<-- % ----- As usual any help is welcome. Emmanuel Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Sent by: cc: Emmanuel RIALLAND/au/socgen@socgen ntg-context-admin Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Inclusion of flow chart @ntg.nl 30/04/2003 05:17 Please respond to ntg-context At 18:49 24/04/2003 +1100, emmanuel.rialland(a)sgib.com wrote: >As you might have guessed, this breaks everything. > >Has anybody an idea as to how I could do that? can you make a minimal example? 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context ************************************************************************** Have you checked our new corporate website at http://www.sgib.com ? The information contained herein is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). It shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security. 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mails
by Hans Hagen 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

Hi, I'm as usual behind with mails and now going to bachotek for a few days; if you feel that some pending urgent problem is pending ... resent 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] Inclusion of flow chart
by Hans Hagen 29 Apr '03

29 Apr '03

At 18:49 24/04/2003 +1100, emmanuel.rialland(a)sgib.com wrote: >As you might have guessed, this breaks everything. > >Has anybody an idea as to how I could do that? can you make a minimal example? 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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What is the status of the bibliography module?
by Maarten Sneep 28 Apr '03

28 Apr '03

Hi, I've searched the mailing list archives on the bib module. There are no really recent entries, so I'm wondering what the current status is. More specifically: I am trying to get the bibliography module to work like I want it to work. Does anyone have a bibl-???.tex lying around that formats for a common physics journal (say Physical Review or similar? I'll give an example of what I want below.) I need mostly articles and some books, not much else (incomplete support is not a problem), I'm not picky, if you have something that uses numerical references and cite order in the final list, I'm a happy camper... Sorted by citation order, a journal entry should look like this: Initials Name, Initials Name and Initials Name, \quote{Title}, Journal {\bf Volume}, pagestart (year). If there are more than 3 authors, use {\em et al.}. For a book: Author(s), \crlf {\em Title,} (editors) \crlf edition, Publisher, City, year Thanks for the help, Maarten > fortune bash: fortune: command not found

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Widows and Orphans in columns
by John Culleton 28 Apr '03

28 Apr '03

Do the normal controls \widowpenalty and \clubpenalty work with Context? Do they work with ordinary columns? Do they work with columnsets? Are there higher level Context constructs I should be using for this purpose in columns? John Culleton ____________________________________________________________ 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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latest beta
by Martin Kolařík 28 Apr '03

28 Apr '03

Hi all, after installing the latest beta (the one with colmunsets) I have found problems with heads -- heads on all levels and sublevels use style of the top level (chapter or title). Another settings like spacing etc. works fine. I tried compile the beta three times (:-), twice at home, once at office). Maybe I do any systematic error, but now I do not know which... Thanks, Martin -------- Martin Kolarik Moravske Pristroje, a.s., Masarykova 1148, Zlin 76302 tel. +420 603 498 498, fax +420 577 107 171 web: http://www.mii.cz -------- e-mail: kolarik(a)mii.cz e-mail: kolarik(a)click.cz tel. +420 603 535 593

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Re: Bad post
by John Culleton 27 Apr '03

27 Apr '03

Please ignore my post to Shel Horowitz It is not list business. Apologies of course. John Culleton ____________________________________________________________ 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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Fwd: Re: [Indy_Publishers] Digest Number 101
by John Culleton 27 Apr '03

27 Apr '03

Sorry about that! I had made a post and silly me I forgot about digest-lag. Here is the post, in answer to yours which answered... John C. ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: [Indy_Publishers] Digest Number 101 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 09:45:34 -0400 From: John Culleton <john(a)wexfordpress.com> To: Indy_Publishers(a)yahoogroups.com, Shel Horowitz <shel(a)frugalfun.com> On Sunday 27 April 2003 07:33 am, Shel Horowitz wrote: > >I'm having a "discussion" with my VA. I designed a flyer about my > >book to send to writing conferences. She says that most verbiage on > >flyers is ignored. Just to stick with graphics. > > Thank goodness most of the rest of the world disagrees! Otherwise, as > a marketing copywriter, I'd have to find a different way to make a > living.<g> And we wouldn't want that! Actually as a book reviewer I fold the blurb in two, stick it between the covers, and refer to it for any specifics not covered in the book itself (like where to order it etc.) Often those sheets get lost and I only have the book to work from. But the book is what I am reviewing, not e.g., Shel's deathless prose which in fact may be better written than the book :-=) OTOH there is one publicist out there whose cover sheet is so bad it turns me off on the book. He takes a standard form letter and sticks in one paragraph relating to the actual book. Often that paragraph is a long, run-on sentence fragment. So while a good blurb may not turn me on an ungrammatical one will turn me off. I'll write Shel separately with the name of the publicist, to protect the names of the guilty :-) John Culleton Rowse Reviews (among other things) ------------------------------------------------------- ____________________________________________________________ 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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Spacing problems with units
by Maarten Sneep 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

Hi, I have a spacing problem with the units module. the sample code below shows the problem: an extra space is inserted before the unit when used in mathmode. Any suggestions? Kind regards, Maarten Sneep %% start sample code \usemodule[units] \unit[Wavelength] {\mathematics{\lambda}} {\Nano \Meter} \starttext \dots It is defined as $1/\Wavelength$ with \Wavelength\ the wavelength in vacuum, expressed in \Centi \Meter \dots. Notice the extra space before the $\lambda$ in the first paragraph. It should have come out as $1/\lambda$. \stoptext %% end sample code

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database
by LEGUEDOIS, Frederic 25 Apr '03

25 Apr '03

Hello, I'm new user of ConTeXt (for one week) and I would like to connect ConTeXt with a database(Oracle, PostegreSQL, MySQL...). Is it possible or must I write a PERL script to export datas in XML files ? I found this in mail archive : \startSQL my_query \stopSQL but I don't know how to use this (how to use the result of the query, where I write database connection's parameters...). Do you know where can I find a manual or any help? Thanks in advance, P.S. : I'm French and my English isn't very good. I'm sorry about this. Frederic Leguedois ########################################### This message has been scanned by F-Secure Anti-Virus for Microsoft Exchange. For more information, connect to http://www.F-Secure.com/

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incrementnumber of part vs. not showing up in table of contents
by Mark A. Lilly 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

Hi, When i \setuphead[part][incrementnumber=no] so that all the chapter numbering will be continuous, the part doesn't show up in my Table of Contents. when i change it to 'yes' or remove incrementnumber, the part shows up in the ToC, but the chapters are now reset to 1 at each part break. I want to have the parts show up in the ToC, but not have chapter numbers reset to 1 at each part. %%%%%%%%sample, change incrementnumber=yes | no \setuphead[part] [incrementnumber=no] \setuphead [chapter] [number=yes] \placecontent \starttext \part{one} \chapter{c1} \input tufte \chapter{c2} \input tufte \part{two} \chapter{c3} \input tufte \stoptext %%%%%%%end test thanks, mark ps - is there a difference for this list between using \input tufte and \input knuth?

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hyphenation
by Zeljko Vrba 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

I'm typesetting something in Croatian language. In cont-en.tex I put an \installlanguage, and properly configured the hyphenation tables (which languages to include/exclude). In my main project file, I put \mainlanguage[hr]. Is this enough for Context to use Croatian hyphenation rules? Is there a way to check by which rules does it hyphenate? (I myself am not too familiar with my own language's hyphenation :), but some words do appear hyphenated strangely nevertheless.. so I'd just want to check it)

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subpagenumber
by Samuel Pelletier 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

Hi, I want to use sub page numbering in a document but I cannot get it to work. I put these commands in my tex file: \setupsubpagenumber[state=start] \setupfootertexts[][Page \subpagenumber de \numberofsubpages] \starttext \part {Part 1} ..... \part {Part 2} I got this message on my console: ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> Page {\subpagenumber } de \numberofsubpages {}{}{} I'm using ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2003.4.23 int: english mes: english Any clues will be appreciated! BTW, is there any samples available of context source files? Samuel

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Inclusion of flow chart
by emmanuel.rialland＠sgib.com 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

Hans, Thanks for the answer on the section and paragraph signs. I tried \definesymbol[yen][\getglyph{\char165}] to have a yen sign, but it didn't work. How should I do it otherwise? Now, I have another brainteaser. I have a number of charts which a very similar one to another. They all have the same boxes, with the same texts. The only difference from one chart to another is the arrows: I am drawing different arrows with different comments from one chart to another. To be more efficient, I created a chart containing all the shapes without any arrows. Then for each chart, I use the example given at the top of page 8 on the chart doc: \includeFLOWchart[][] (this works perfectly) and I then try to define the arrows. \connection mentions where the arrows goes to, but not where it comes from (which is given by the surrounding cell definition). So I tried the following \startFLOWcell \name[name1] \connection[name2] \stopFLOWcell where name1 and name2 are cells defined in the generic chart. As you might have guessed, this breaks everything. Has anybody an idea as to how I could do that? Thanks, Emmanuel ************************************************************************** Have you checked our new corporate website at http://www.sgib.com ? The information contained herein is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). It shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Any unauthorized access, use, reproduction, disclosure or dissemination is prohibited. Neither SGIB nor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates shall assume any legal liability or responsibility for any incorrect, misleading or altered information contained herein. **************************************************************************

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Custom definition of a bodyfont (and using it)
by Maarten Sneep 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

Hi, I'm trying to make my own headings, and it doesn't really come out the way I want. I'll describe what I'm trying to do, and maybe someone has something that can help me. I'd like to have the chapter number really big, in a (light) colour in the background. The title should go over the number. If possible/needed, the number may end up (partially) under the text. I think I can get the positioning correct (in metapost/metafun if I have to), but defining the (huge) font in ConTeXt proves a hurdle I cannot tackle. My attempts (copied rather directly from the manual) are below. Thanks for your time, Maarten %% This generated no error, but not a really large font either \definebodyfont[9pt][rm][tfe=LucidaBright at 36pt] \definebodyfont[9pt][ss][fte=LucidaSans at 36pt] %% after the following definition, TeX claims it cannot find %% \MyChapNumLetter %\definebodyfont[MyChapNumLetter][LucidaSans-DemiItalic sa 4] %% this example also comes from the manual \def\MyChapterHeadingCommand#1#2{\hbox to \hsize\bgroup% \setupframed[offset=.5em,frame=off]% \tbox{\framed{{\color[MyChapNumColor]{\fte\ss\bf #1}}}}% \tbox{\framed[width=8cm,align=right]{{\tfa\ss\bf #2}}}% \egroup} %% the obligatory version info: %% ConTeXt ver: 2003.3.11 fmt: 2003.3.26 int: english mes: english %% (on texlive 7)

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m-unit and extra information for a unit.
by Maarten Sneep 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

Hi TeXnicians, I'd like to have an extension to the units module (I don't mind cooking something myself, but a pointer where to start would be great). In my thesis I will encounter some weird units (one is displayed below, it not the worst, but it comes close). I'd like to produce a list of units, but just the symbol and the actual unit is not really enough, I need room for a description. Ideally this description should be given at the definition of the unit. What I have now is sort-of in between, code shown below. Since the unit module is based on synonyms, I probably have to extend those, but I'm afraid that I really don't understand that code... My current method should work, but it requires a double definition (unless someone comes up with an idea how to define (double if I have to) in one place, and put the resulting list in another location). Ideas? Maarten Sneep %% begin sample code \usemodule[units] %% taken from the latex.ltx source \def\ensuremath{% \ifmmode \expandafter\MyFirstOfOne \else \expandafter\MyEnsuredMath \fi} \long\def\MyEnsuredMath#1{$\relax#1$} \long\def\MyFirstOfOne#1{#1} % units \def\PowerFour {\dimensionpower{4}} \def\PowerFive {\dimensionpower{5}} \unit[Molecule]{molecule}{molecule} \unit[AbsorptionCrossSection]{\ensuremath{\sigma}}% {\Square \Centi \Meter \Inverse \Molecule} \unit[CollisionInducedAbsorptionCrossSection]{\ensuremath{\kappa''_{sq}} }% {\PowerFive \Centi \Meter \ISquare \Molecule} \defineparagraphs[unitdescription][n=3,before=,after=,distance=1.4ex] \setupparagraphs[unitdescription][1][width=.08\textwidth] \setupparagraphs[unitdescription][2][width=.2\textwidth] \def\DescribeUnit#1#2{% \startunitdescription \csname #1\endcsname \unitdescription \unitmeaning{#1} \unitdescription #2 \stopunitdescription } \starttext \DescribeUnit{AbsorptionCrossSection}{The equivalent surface area of a single molecule} \DescribeUnit{CollisionInducedAbsorptionCrossSection}{The absorption of the collision complex} \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 7 / question for THOMAS / OLAF
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 24 Apr '03

24 Apr '03

Thank you! Problem is solved, after adding swap-space, though I wonder myself why pdfetex could run under my old (debian original) configuration? Anyway, it works now. Wolfgang

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About Big-5 Traditional Chinese
by Edward G.J. Lee 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

Dear all, ConTeXt has Big-5 Traditional Chinese build-in(thanks :), but I can't let it work normally. Because of the `\' and `}' character in Big-5 charset. For example, Big5-0xB35C(uni8A31), Big5-0xA55C (uni529F) and Big5-0xB67D(uni958B). I use ttf2pt1 to produce *.tfm, *.enc and *.map file for ConTeXt, and use default Poorman's Chinese encoding, I can let the pdfetex grasp TTF directly, but I don't know how to escape `\' and `}'. My system, Slackware Linux 8.1 teTeX-1.0.7 pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.7) 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211 ConTeXt: TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 I change font-chi.tex to use \TraChi default, and change to my Arphic public font`bsmi00lp'. I attach a simple test file(in Big-5 encoding). Did I miss something? Thanks for the help. Edward

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column sets / preliminary manual
by Hans Hagen 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

Hi, I uploaded a not yet complete manual on column sets: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/columns.pdf there is also an accompanying new beta 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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Why isn't my space a space?
by Guy Worthington 23 Apr '03

23 Apr '03

Hello, I'm trying use pretty printing Java inline. To get my keywords in a slanted typeface, I've found out that I need a space before and after the statement I'm typesetting. I'm trying to automate the space in a macro \Java[], but am having no success. I believe I'm typesetting a space before and after my statement, but the space isn't acceptable to the \type macro: ----- \definetype [typeJV] [option=JV,palet=graypretty,style=\ttx,icommand=\sl] \def\Java[#1]{\typeJV{ #1 }} \setupcolors[state=start] \starttext This statement should have inserted spaces, in order to trigger the slanted behaviour in the `import' keyword: \blank[medium] The ``\Java[import java.io.File;]'' statement \blank[big] This is the type of typesetting I would like to automate: \blank[medium] The ``\hskip-0.5em\typeJV{ import java.io.File; }\nospace{}'' statement. \stoptext -----

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about encodings and fonts
by Pablo Rodriguez 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

Hi ConTeXticians, I'm new to ConTeXt, after almost two years of experience with LaTeX, and also new to the list. I use W98SE as aperitif system and the MikTeX total distribution. My questions are rather simple: -which command should be invoked to set the input enconding to utf-8 (if this is possible)? -how can I make that the output is generated using T1 fonts? I mean the ConTeXt equivalence to LaTeX \usepackage [T1] {fontenc}. -after above questions, I'd like to know whether it is any kind of documentation that explains ConTeXt to LaTeX users. -I don't know why, but my ConTeXt installation seems not to be able to use another font than cm. (I know that MikTeX has change the font map maintenance file early this year.) Is it required to install the fonts 'twice': once for the TeX system and another time for ConTeXt? (I mean, what am I doing wrong?) -after having read the mtexfont.pdf, I wonder whether it is possible to use TrueType fonts directly with ConTeXt? (I'm mainly interested in Unicode fonts that also have Greek and polytonic Greek, which I also need to use.) Thanks for all, Pablo

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bug report: eth & thorn
by Adam Lindsay 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

Hi ConTeXters, I found a couple minor regime/encoding bugs in current (and past) ConTeXt. In the files regi-il1 and xtag-ent, \THorn should be replaced with \Thorn . In the file enco-ans (for texnansi), Eth is missing. It's in the same place as with ec: \definecharacter Eth 208 \definecharacter eth 240 If I understand casemaps correctly, then enco-ans should include eth and thorn also: \definecasemap 240 240 208 \definecasemap 208 240 208 \definecasemap 254 254 222 \definecasemap 222 254 222 ...but following the ec example, I think something like the following will help catch most characters, and clean up the file (untested): \definecasemaps 192 to 214 lc +32 uc 0 \definecasemaps 216 to 222 lc +32 uc 0 \definecasemaps 224 to 246 lc 0 uc -32 \definecasemaps 248 to 254 lc 0 uc -32 tsjiers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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How to prevent a page break before a \startformula, and more
by Emil Hedevang Lohse 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

Hello. I many of my documents I use \startformula and \stopformula to get displayed mathematics. But I would like to be able to discourage ConTeXt to insert page breaks just before \startformula. Is there any easy way to do this? Also, how do I make \lim behave as \lim\nolimits in inner math (between $ and $) mode and as \lim\limits in displayed math mode (between \startformula and \stopformula)? I known that the following code works. \let\oldlim\lim \def\lim{\ifinner\oldlim\nolimits\else\oldlim\limits\fi} But is there some other way? Perhaps I can change something in \definemathcommand [lim] [limop] {\mfunction{lim}} ? -- Emil Hedevang Lohse <http://home.imf.au.dk/emil/> Alle spørgsmål er lige dumme. Og spørgsmålet "Kan ænder flyve?" er ikke dumt.

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Re: [NTG-context] Symbols
by Hans Hagen 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

At 18:33 22/04/2003 +1100, you wrote: >Coming from a latex education, I am trying to insert the following symbols: > >section (\S) >paragraph (\P) \symbol[P] \symbol[S] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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The Context styles library.
by John Culleton 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

I am going through the Context styles library (colo-ini.tex and friends) to figure out what the various files do. A portion of them come with sample demo code and a smaller portion of the demos work on my system. Am I reinventing the wheel? Is there a document somewhere that says: ``This is what these examples are all about''? I know that there are comments at the head of each file but these can be a bit terse. Not a priority question :-) John Culleton

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Symbols
by emmanuel.rialland＠sgib.com 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

Coming from a latex education, I am trying to insert the following symbols: section (\S) paragraph (\P) yen (\yen) Are they already defined in Context? Is there a standard way to access them? Thanks in advance. Emmanuel ************************************************************************** Have you checked our new corporate website at http://www.sgib.com ? The information contained herein is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). It shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Any unauthorized access, use, reproduction, disclosure or dissemination is prohibited. Neither SGIB nor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates shall assume any legal liability or responsibility for any incorrect, misleading or altered information contained herein. **************************************************************************

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: Metapost problems
by emmanuel.rialland＠sgib.com 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

Apologies for not posting what was going wrong: the doc is big: I found it too long to either post everything or try to isolate a minimum non-working example. To summarise, I have no idea what was going wrong. But now everything works perfectly. Thanks to all for the help. Emmanuel Patrick Gundlach <pg(a)levana.de> To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Sent by: cc: ntg-context-admin Subject: [NTG-context] Re: Metapost problems @ntg.nl 17/04/2003 19:19 Please respond to ntg-context emmanuel.rialland(a)sgib.com writes: Hi, > The draft still doesn't appear. How should we know what is going wrong? > Another question: > - how to change the font of the logo text? \startMPenvironment[+] [fontswitch] \stopMPenvironment ([+] is for setup of MP *and* TeX text, not needed for MP only) Patrick "please post minimal working examples" Gundlach _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context(a)ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context ************************************************************************** Have you checked our new corporate website at http://www.sgib.com ? The information contained herein is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee(s). It shall not be construed as a recommendation to buy or sell any security. Any unauthorized access, use, reproduction, disclosure or dissemination is prohibited. Neither SGIB nor any of its subsidiaries or affiliates shall assume any legal liability or responsibility for any incorrect, misleading or altered information contained herein. **************************************************************************

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XML and active characters...
by Martin Kolařík 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

Hello, I am exploring possibilities of different expansion of parts of XML source in ConTeXt. I need to have some characters active (in document), and not active (in some XML attributes). So I need either different active-characters contexts for attributes and for text either some switching/hook mechanism to control active characters manually (e.g. switch \catcode when reading attribute), or some another mechanism (what now I do not know). Is there some way to hook start and stop of reading attribute in ConTeXt XML parser?, or another way to achieve described behaviour? Thank you very much, Martin -------- Martin Kolarik Moravske Pristroje, a.s., Masarykova 1148, Zlin 76302 tel. +420 603 498 498, fax +420 577 107 171 web: http://www.mii.cz -------- e-mail: kolarik(a)mii.cz e-mail: kolarik(a)click.cz tel. +420 603 535 593

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Need help : Fatal mem file error; I'm stymied
by lihb 22 Apr '03

22 Apr '03

Hi, I just start using conTeXt for a week, I found this problem when i try to compile a *.tex file. my file look like this: \usemodule[pre-03] \starttext hello \stoptext compile with texexec --pdf filename.tex and I saw this : ..... This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.1) (Fatal mem file error; I'm stymied) ..... This error message exist as long as there is \usemodule[pre-xx] with xx is one of 01-06...etc I use tetex-1.0.7-57 with RedHat8.0, Thanks lihb(a)phys.sinica.edu.tw 2003/04/21

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Fonts and Textelements
by alkauffm＠rz.uni-potsdam.de 21 Apr '03

21 Apr '03

Hi all, I want to typeset some texts with palatino fonts. Of course, all elements of the text on the page including pagenumbers, equationnumbers, footnotes and so on should be typesetted with Palatino. With the following testfile I get only the maintext and the equations with the right fonts. The other elements are typesetted with cmr-fonts. What Do I wrong? With many thanks for any hint Albrecht \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupfontsynonym [Serif] [handling=punctuation] \setupfontsynonym [Sans] [handling=punctuation] \setupfontsynonym [Mono] [handling=punctuation] \usetypescript [berry] [ec] \definetypeface [postscript] [rm] [serif] [palatino] [default] \definetypeface [postscript] [ss] [sans] [helvetica] [default] [rscale=.9] \definetypeface [postscript] [tt] [mono] [courier][default][rscale=.9] \definetypeface [postscript] [mm] [math] [palatino] [default] [encoding=ec] \switchtotypeface [postscript] [11pt] \setupalign [hanging] \starttext \input tufte {\sc Tufte}\footnote{abcdefgh {\sc Tufte}} \placeformula $$E=mc^2$$ \placeformula $$\Delta E=\Delta mc^2$$ \ss \input tufte \tt \input tufte \stoptext

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Re[2]: [NTG-context] Backgrounds
by Hans Hagen 21 Apr '03

21 Apr '03

At 07:52 PM 3/24/2003 +0100, you wrote: >Actually I did have a look at it (assuming you're talking about >textbackgrounds), but I found their behaviour to be rather >different from that of backgrounds even when location=paragraph. >For example, setting frame=on doesn't give me a frame, and it >doesn't seem to support rounded corners for neither the background >nor the frame. Also, setting a largish offset "covers" the text >that precedes the background, and this isn't nice at all. I think >that textbackgrounds and backgrounds serve different purpouses. > >And what about the other requests? (Behaviour at splits, different >corner styles) \starttext \setupcolors[state=start] \definetextbackground[gb][state=start] \startuseMPgraphic{mpos:par:columnset} for i := 1 upto nofmultipars : fill multipars[i] enlarged 5pt cornered 5pt withcolor green ; draw multipars[i] enlarged 5pt cornered 5pt withcolor red ; endfor ; \stopuseMPgraphic \input tufte \blank \starttextbackground[gb] \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte \par} \stoptextbackground \blank \input tufte \stoptext they split, can have corners, lay behind the text, ... only some spacing issues need to be solved (working on that on and off) 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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old style numerals
by Idris S Hamid 21 Apr '03

21 Apr '03

Dear fraternity, With Alan Hoenig's help, I have created virtual fonts for cmr5--cmr12 that make oldstyle numerals the default (cmros*.vf). I am having trouble fitting them into my cmr setup. Here is my file (there was some bug in the default ConTeXt setup that messed up font switching so I made my own that works;->): =================type-cmr.tex============ %%% Names and synonyms \starttypescript [roman] [knuth] [name] \usetypescript [serif,sans,mono,math] [computer-modern] [name,size] \stoptypescript %%% Sizes \starttypescript [roman] [knuth] [size] \usetypescript [serif,sans,mono,math] [computer-modern] [size] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [MyCMR] \definebodyfontenvironment [mycmr] [default] [interlinespace=2.8ex] \definetypeface [mycmr] [rm,ss,tt,mm] [roman] [knuth] [knuth] \stoptypescript ====================================== I need to adjust the serif settings to get cmros instead of cmr. That is, I need to replace all the [serif] options with something else. The typescript following this email should play a role but so far my attempts to get this working fail. I'll be happy to send the oldstyle cmr vf's and tfm's to anyone that wants them. Thnx 4 your help Idris ===================================== \starttypescript [serif] [computer-modern-oldstyle] [size] \definebodyfont [12pt] [rm] [tf=cmros12, bf=cmbx12, it=cmti12, sl=cmsl12, bi=cmbxti10 at 12pt, bs=cmbxsl10 at 12pt, sc=cmcsc10 at 12pt] \definebodyfont [11pt] [rm] [tf=cmros10 at 11pt, bf=cmbx10 at 11pt, sl=cmsl10 at 11pt, it=cmti10 at 11pt, bi=cmbxti10 at 11pt, bs=cmbxsl10 at 11pt, sc=cmcsc10 at 11pt] \definebodyfont [10pt] [rm] [tf=cmros10, bf=cmbx10, it=cmti10, sl=cmsl10, bi=cmbxti10, bs=cmbxsl10, sc=cmcsc10] \definebodyfont [9pt] [rm] [tf=cmros9, bf=cmbx9, it=cmti9, sl=cmsl9, bi=cmbxti10 at 9pt, bs=cmbxsl10 at 9pt, sc=cmcsc10 at 9pt] \definebodyfont [8pt] [rm] [tf=cmros8, bf=cmbx8, it=cmti8, sl=cmsl8, bi=cmbxti10 at 8pt, bs=cmbxsl10 at 8pt, sc=cmcsc10 at 8pt] \definebodyfont [7pt] [rm] [tf=cmros7, bf=cmbx7, it=cmti10 at 7pt, sl=cmsl10 at 7pt, bi=cmbxti10 at 7pt, bs=cmbxsl10 at 7pt, sc=cmcsc10 at 7pt] \definebodyfont [6pt] [rm] [tf=cmros6, bf=cmbx6, it=cmti10 at 6pt, sl=cmsl10 at 6pt, bi=cmbxti10 at 6pt, bs=cmbxsl10 at 6pt, sc=cmcsc10 at 6pt] \definebodyfont [5pt] [rm] [tf=cmros5, bf=cmbx5, it=cmti10 at 5pt, sl=cmsl10 at 5pt, bi=cmbxti10 at 5pt, bs=cmbxsl10 at 5pt, sc=cmcsc10 at 5pt] \definebodyfont [4pt] [rm] [tf=cmros10 at 4pt, bf=cmbx10 at 4pt, it=cmti10 at 4pt, sl=cmsl10 at 4pt, bi=cmbxti10 at 4pt, bs=cmbxsl10 at 4pt, sc=cmr10 at 4pt] \definebodyfont [14.4pt,17.3pt,20.7pt] [rm] [tf=cmros12 sa 1, bf=cmbx12 sa 1, it=cmti12 sa 1, sl=cmsl12 sa 1, bi=cmbxti10 sa 1, bs=cmbxsl10 sa 1, sc=cmcsc10 sa 1] \stoptypescript

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Context archives.
by John Culleton 21 Apr '03

21 Apr '03

While searching in my Context folder for something else I found this searchable archive: http://ml-archives.mini.pw.edu.pl/ntg-context.html Problem is, the background to the html pages is dark gray, rendering the archive almost unreadable. I can access it in Lynx but then navigation gets tricky. Is there another searchable archive that is easier for old folks to read? John Culleton ____________________________________________________________ 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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A surprising interaction
by Nigel King 19 Apr '03

19 Apr '03

Dear ConTeXtnicians, I have found a problem constructing my front and back cover for a user manual. In the program below I use the setupexternalfigures line below setting the maximum horizontal and vertical size in in order to simplify the inclusion of figures. It has the undesired side effect of reducing the size of the front and back cover. In the program below the first page of the document is smaller than the subsequent page. \showframe \setupexternalfigures [maxwidth=\textwidth,maxheight=0.8\textheight] \starttext \startMPpage StartPage; fill Page withcolor 0.5white; StopPage; \stopMPpage \input tufte \stoptext Clearly I can set this line after the first page. Presumably I need to set the line to \pagewidth and \pageheight before the back cover. A further surprise is that the body page background does not seem to be effected. \startuseMPgraphic{bg} StartPage; fill Page withcolor 0.5white; StopPage; \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[page][\useMPgraphic{bg}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=page] regards -- Nigel

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\frac, \eqalign and \usemodule[newmat]
by Emil Hedevang Lohse 19 Apr '03

19 Apr '03

I have encountered a problem when using \fac, \eqalign and \usemodule[newmat] at the same time. I like the newmat module since it gives me the \QED command, but when using \frac inside \eqalign I get an error I cannot understand. \usemodule[newmat] % This works fine. \starttext \startformula \frac12=\frac24 \stopformula % Uncomment to get error. %\startformula %\eqalign{\frac12={}&\frac24\cr} %\stopformula % This works fine. \startformula \eqalign{{1\over2}={}&{2\over4}\cr} \stopformula \stoptext The log file is attached. -- Emil Hedevang Lohse <http://home.imf.au.dk/emil/> Alle spørgsmål er lige dumme. Og spørgsmålet "Kan ænder flyve?" er ikke dumt.

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Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 7
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 19 Apr '03

19 Apr '03

> run > > kpsewhich texmf.cnf > > locate the context section > > decrease some mem values (main mem for instance) > > regenerate formats with texexec --make (optionally --alone) > > see if there's a change in the malloc message > > Hans ok! If I decrease main_memory from 1500000 to 1000000 then pdfetex needs only 56000008 Bytes (60000008 bevor) this is a factor 8! Why 8? If main_memory is given in words (longwords) I would expect a factor 2 (4), but not 8! ok, let it be quadwords! Then I decreased further mem_bot from 4000000 to 3000000 pdfetex now needs 48000008 Bytes this is a factor 8 too! The remaining 48000008 Bytes divided by 8 means 6000000 words? I have to set everything to zero then!? It looks as if there is no memory at all! In what units are all the memory entrys given? ??? Wolfgang

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Definition of new fonts
by Christoph Bachmann 18 Apr '03

18 Apr '03

Hi, I try to use a font, which is not packaged with TeX or ConText. I already used the texfont script to install it (successfully). But I can't make the system USE the font. Below is the snippet. The commands do (in the end) have no influence at all. The text is typeset in Computer Modern. If I activate the (now commented) "\starttypescript [xxx]" command, I get an "unknown variant - xxx" error in the log. Does anybody have an idea? Unfortunately, the mfonts.pdf didn't help me much. Thanks a lot and happy easter holidays, Chris. \starttypescript [map] [ec] \loadmapfile [ec-adobe-lucidaserif] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[serif][adobelucida][name] \definefontsynonym[Serif][Lucida] \definefontsynonym[SerifBold][Lucida-Bold] \definefontsynonym[SerifBoldItalic][Lucida-BoldItalic] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic] [Lucida-Italic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[sans][adobelucida][name] \definefontsynonym[Sans][LucidaSans] \definefontsynonym[SansBold][LucidaSans-Bold] \definefontsynonym[SansBoldItalic][LucidaSans-BoldItalic] \definefontsynonym[SansItalic][Lucida-Italic] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[mono][adobelucida][name] \definefontsynonym[Mono][LucidaSansTypewriter] \definefontsynonym[MonoBold][LucidaSansTypewriter-Bd] \definefontsynonym[MonoBoldItalic][LucidaSansTypewriter-BdObl] \definefontsynonym[MonoItalic][LucidaSansTypewriter-Obl] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[alb] \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][adobelucida][name] \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][default][size] \usetypescript [map] [ec] \stoptypescript %\starttypescript [xxx] \definetypeface [xxx] [rm] [serif] [alb] [default] \definetypeface [xxx] [ss] [sans] [alb] [default] [rscale=.9] \definetypeface [xxx] [tt] [mono] [alb][default][rscale=.9] \definetypeface [xxx] [mm] [math] [alb] [default] [encoding=ec] %\stoptypescript \setupencoding[default=ec] % or EC, if you prefer \usetypescript[xxx] \setupbodyfont[xxx] \setupalign [hanging] \starttext \input tufte {\sc Tufte}\footnote{abcdefgh {\sc Tufte}} \placeformula $$E=mc^2$$ \placeformula $$\Delta E=\Delta mc^2$$ \ss \input tufte \tt \input tufte \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] TeX Live 7
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 18 Apr '03

18 Apr '03

> > >This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C > >7.3.7x) > > > >fatal: memory exhausted (xmalloc of 60000008 bytes). > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >Should I really increase memory to run an one-word job? > > > >There must be an other error. > > > > > > this is an OS problem, if you run some old windows (95/98), make sure > >that > > > there is enough non fragemented disk space left on your c drive (or the > > > disk where the virtual mem file resides); it may help to increase your > > > virtual mem; tex needs some 16-32 M per job (kind of fixed) > > > > > > Hans > > > >I run tetex on linux (debian). > >I have compared the memory settings in the context section of both TeX Live > >6 and 7, they are identical. > >Do you have any ideas? > > the message is not a tex one (say: too less font mem, or hash exceeded) but > an operating system one; this may happen when you rmem settings in the > texmf.cnf file don't match the values stored in the format file; did you > regenerate the format? > > i also wonder where the 60 meg of mem request comes from > > Hans I made the following little experiments with 'simple.tex': ------------------simple.tex---------------- \starttext Test. \stoptext ------------------------------------------------- I hope, that the following command ist �quivalent to 'texexec simple' > pdfetex --efmt cont-en simple This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) entering extended mode (./simple.tex Error: pdfetex (file pdftex.cfg): cannot open config file (The former xmalloc-error is not reported, but 'pdftex.cfg' could not opened!?) > pdfetex This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) **\relax entering extended mode {/usr/TeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} *\end No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log. (Here, 'pdftex.cfg' is found and opened!! ) I created an further pdftedx.cfg in my user-tree and I get: > pdfetex --efmt cont-en simple This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) entering extended mode (./simple.tex Error: pdfetex (file pdftex.cfg): cannot open config file > pdfetex This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) **\relax entering extended mode {/home/wwl/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} *\end No pages of output. Transcript written on texput.log. Is this ok or wrong? Is this the same error as bevor or a second error? Obviously this is format dependend. The format is newly made with: texexec --make en The new format is written to /usr/TeX/texmf-var/web2c/cont-en.efmt Timestamp looks ok! Wolfgang

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placing an accent
by Idris S Hamid 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

Dear gang, A bug or feature? \t oo does not work in ConTeXt! `\t' is undefined. Anyway, I need something else. I want to place an accent midway over two letters. I looked at page 356 of the TeXBook for ideas but I can't seem to get things right. I want to place an extended tilda (\textfont3\accent"65 in Plain TeX) over the character pair `al'. I need a macro like \t{al} that places this character exactly midway over the `al', or any other pair of characters. The procedure analogous to the one Knuth uses for \t \def\t#1{{\edef\next{\the\font}\the\textfont3\accent"65\next#1}} does not work here. Aside: Can TeX be tricked into reading the ahead two characters so I can write \t al ? I realize that Knuth's \t does not really do this but takes a character from an italic font to give the illusion that it does. Thnx 4 your help Idris

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Missing PageNumber in s-pre-03
by David Antos 17 Apr '03

17 Apr '03

Hello, I've used the s-pre-03 style and I encountered a problem with the generated graphics. The graphics depends on the page number and reads the page number from the PageNumber variable. Nevertheless, the variable does not get updated, it is initialized to 1 in the beginning of mpgraph.mp. It can be solved by putting PageNumber := \realfolio ; into the code, but this is a really ugly hack. Can you please track down where the PageNumber in Start/StopPage MP environment has been eaten? I expect this problem affects any generated graphics that depends on page numbers. Thank you, D.A. -- Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein

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