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#'s in MPinclusions
by Emil Hedevang Lohse 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

The following code results in an error. \startMPinclusions vardef a@#(text t) = @#(t) enddef; \stopMPinclusions \starttext Hello. \stoptext ! Illegal parameter number in definition of \theMPinclusions. <to be read again> ( <argument> vardef a@##( text t) = @##(t) enddef; \startMPinclusions ...tions ;}}\writeMPgraphic {#1 }} l.3 \stopMPinclusions I know that # is a special character in TeX, but is there a way to get abound this? What I actually trying to do, is to make a diagram drawing package that I wrote for Metapost, work in ConTeXt. So I would like to include the Metapost macros once and then use them later in drawings, that is, <include the Metapost macros in one way or another> \starttext ... we now have the following commutative diagram. \startuseMPgraphic <my code for the diagram> \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic \stoptext -- 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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interactive links with keyboard control
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Hi again, are there commands to control interaction via the keyboard? I have a field stack which can now be switched by clicking on a link, but I want to couple it to an event like, say 'key F1 pressed'. I have no idea how this could be done, so if there is no solution yet, I am grateful for hints where to start. In fact, when everything's finished, I would like to be able to control a presentation using a IR remote control via LIRC, and sending keypress events should be quite simple. Better solutions are welcome, it's just a raw idea at the moment. Btw, I'm asking many questions at present, but I promise to be modest again from next Tuesday on... Eckhart

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m-chart: bug? and questions
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

I'm using dummy flow cells to have both solid and dashed connections originating from the same cell in a chart. I have noticed that having several nodes with no \name{...} defined confuses the chart macros: all connections refer to the same node. Giving arbitrary names to the dummy nodes solves the problem. Then two questions: (1) I couldn't find any setup parameters to manipulate the default font chosen for the the cells. It is by far too small (I'm preparing a screen presentation). (2) Is the option for half-grid steps requested by GB some time ago available? If so, how to use it? Eckhart

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MPinclusions for drawing commands
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

In the following test file \setupcolors[state=start] \startMPinclusions drawoptions(withcolor \MPcolor{darkyellow}); \stopMPinclusions \startreusableMPgraphic{test} fill fullcircle scaled 1cm; \stopreusableMPgraphic \starttext \reuseMPgraphic{test} \stoptext I was hoping for a yellow circle, but it didn't work. I guess drawoptions are reset by beginfig? Is there a possibility to insert MP code for every figure in a document *after* every beginfig? Or how else could I set common drawoptions for all figures? Eckhart

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Slideshow
by Luis Neves 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Hi everybody, I just started with context and I was wondering: Is it possible to set timings into a context presentation so that we end up with an automatic slideshow? As far as I could see PDF allows this as one can do it with Acrobat Writer, and perhaps this is something obvious but I could not find any reference to it in the manuals. I tried to do with a little Javascript but my rudimentary knowledge of both Javascript and context prevented the achievement of any result. Best regards, Luís Neves P.S. I just subsribed the list and I didn't receive trhe confirmation message so, until then please CC to my personal adress.

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Typesetting Russian -- lost kerning
by Victor Figurnov 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

15/01/2003 Hans Hagen wrote to Pavel Stupin about 'Typesetting Russian': PS>> I installed the files, and now I can typeset russian. PS>> That's great. HH> Without any changes? Good, so it can go into the distribution? Russification of ConTeXt has been discussed in the russian TeX newsgroup fido7.ru.tex. Here are results. 1. Alexander Bokovoy (15/01/2003) said that russification by Olga Briginets (http://trash1.hotmail.ru) -- this is a russification discussed in NTG-ConTeXt -- is slightly obsolete. He modified it, and now it conforms 'teTeX-2.0 pretest-20030107'. Modified version is available at: http://people.altlinux.ru/~ab/tex/context-russian.tar.bz2 2. Vladimir Volovich (one of the authors of the cyrillic support in LaTeX) noticed that kerning in 8-bit fonts has been lost: "in Context the support of 8-bit encodings turned out to be so bad, that kerning is completely disappeared there. LaTeX is still not so bad, this thing is implemented much more neatly there." I installed the modified russification on MiKTeX 2.2 without any problem. But the kerning between russian letters is indeed lost. :-( In the same font, kerning between latin letters is retained. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are the installation instructions by Alexander Bokovoy (for teTeX 2.0 pretest (20030107)): 1. Expand russification archive to $TEXMF tree 2. texhash 3. Edit fmtutil.cnf to add 'cont-ru' and 'cont-ua' formats, similar to 'cont-en' 4. Rebuild formats. Making the pdf for the sample file: cd $TEXMF/doc/context/sample-cyrillic texexec --language=ru --pdf --format=cont-ru sample Presence of CM-Super is highly recommended. -------------------------------------------------------------------- My installation instructions for MiKTeX: 1. Expand russification archive to $TEXMF tree 2. Edit formats.ini (%TEXMF%\miktex\config\formats.ini) to add 'cont-ru' and 'cont-ua' formats, similar to 'cont-en' 3. (Optionally) In %TEXMF%\miktex\bin directory copy cont-en.exe cont-ru.exe copy cont-en.exe cont-ua.exe 4. Using "MikTeX Options" program, refresh the name database and rebuild formats. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Victor Figurnov

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\dots again
by Hraban 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

Ahoi Hans! While checking a book after installing the latest beta I recognized again that \dots{} does the wrong. The stops are taken from the *math* font, and that looks very ugly if there's no fitting math font for some text where I don't need any maths. (My text ist in ITC Berkeley, that has very tiny punctuations; CM or TX have rather fat dots.) I'd suggest to take the stops simply from the active text font -- or use the ellipsis character if the font has one. On the subject of spacing: The dots are too wide spread; Acrobat shows 1000 units, I'd suggest about 750 -- and about 500 before the first dot. Or did I misunderstand the whole thing, that I should use some other command for an ellipsis in text mode? Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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ConTeXt FAQ -- next generation?
by Hraban 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

Ahoi eXperts! I'd like to start another attempt for a ConTeXt-FAQ-o-matic. I'm too busy and too less able to do the whole work myself, so I'd be glad if the appropriate experts would take their part. We need... 1. a definition (Schema?) for the XML source 2. conversion patterns for ConTeXt (environment) and XHTML (XSLT?) 3. a web surface (with search engine, web edit form etc.) 4. last not least lots of entries I'd try to coordinate the whole project, will host the site, could care for 3 and help with the other, but first someone must take responsibility for 1 and 2. Any volunteers? Some requirements of the definition (1): - one XML file can contain all entries - an other file will contain redundant information like authors - each entry may contain several languages (I'd like to keep the door open for partly translations; I imagine that a web user sees his favourite language if available) - entry IDs must be in some way, that user contributions (files with several entries or corrections) can join in. - markup possibilities like WikiWeb (emphasis, enumeration, easy table, link) - proper code markup (e.g. for TeX, ConTeXt, shell, perl code) - additional (normally invisible) keywords for search engine (web) or index (TeX) - some flexible subject/subsubject structure - some versioning (also like WikiWeb: each user may change every entry, but an admin must be able to undo it) - someone suggested to use a DocBook subset; don't know if that's possible Requirement of the conversion (2): - easily adaptable to a new layout (web or print) - additional software must be open source and run on Debian Linux (SPARC) (web server) and MacOS X (my machine) Is anything of the above impossible? I suppose (1) will result in something like cookbook soups recipe id=hr-1 language lang=en original=yes title /title keywords /keywords ingredients item /item item /item /ingredients preparation much text with markup and code snippets /preparation /language language lang=de original=no title /title /language /recipe /soups desserts /desserts /cookbook Greets hoping for feedback and helping hands: Hraban. -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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Link dest in same document
by Patrick Gundlach 23 Jan '03

23 Jan '03

Hello out there, how do I let the destination of a hyperlink do not affect the zoom level? (I.E. not /Fit but /XYZ in destination) Patrick -- Mehr Buchstaben - mehr Spass

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Underlining URLs
by Patrick Gundlach 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Hello ConTeXt users out there, I'd like to underline a hyperlink to an url (with \goto), so that it is visible while reading with the acrobat reader but not visible when printed. The default appearance is boldface. There are a lot of examples of these kind of hyperlinks out there. For example the xml spec (iirc the url is http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006.pdf) Does anybody know how to accomplish this? Patrick

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frame madness
by Hans van der Meer 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Hi Hans, I got a strange result with framing, where changing the framecolor changes the alignment of the framed block on the line. Isn't this a strange effect? Here is the code: % USING THE GREEN PRESENTATION STYLE \Subject{test} % THIS ONE IS TYPESET CENTERED ON THE LINE \startframedtext[middle]ABC\stopframedtext % THIS ONE IS TYPESET TO THE LEFT WITH RED FRAME \startframedtext[middle,framecolor=red]ABC\stopframedtext \stoptext Hans van der Meer

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Re: \startfiguretext problem
by Hans Hagen 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

At 11:09 AM 1/22/2003 +0000, you wrote: >Dear Hans, > >Again thanks for all your advice. I am still stuck. I have just sent the >message below to the list to see if someone out there has installed the >beta on a Mac and can offer help. Below is what I sent. the startfigure problem is solved in the next release, it had to do with added grouping in floats (needed for some fancy things); there will be more side float placement options, including half margin-text things, alignment, etc, also, backgrounds behind running text (the definetextbackground thing) will work in normal text as well as floats, tables and alike. 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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installing ConTeXt beta on MacG4
by Charles Doherty 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Dear All, Expecially those who use a Mac G4 OSX 10.2.3 and who have installed teTeX using Gerben's installer. Following a recent upgrade using Gerben's installer the command \startfiguretext no longer worked correctly. The console readout was as follows: TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : Silly output : pdftex interface : en current mode : none TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10a-devel-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.8) entering extended mode (./Silly.tex{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/pdftex/config/pdftex. cfg): invalid line in config file: `pdf_minorversion 4' } ConTeXt ver: 2002.12.20 fmt: 2003.1.4 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-2 3:2-uk-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2 7:2-it-2 8:2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : Silly.top loaded (./Silly.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 1783] \ifcsname <unprotect 5> <protect 5> <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map systems : begin file Silly at line 1 <./DurrowClon.pdf> figures : dimensions of ./DurrowClon.pdf loaded from figurefile itself ! Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } <to be read again> \endgroup l.8 ...lfigure[DurrowClon][width=.5\makeupwidth] } ? I have been in contact with Hans who was very patient and suggested I install the recent beta. I have had no success although I have learned a lot about Terminal in the process. I recently found help on installing ConTeXt on : http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/ I modified his instructions to suit (as I thought) my machine but I have still not been successful. Below is what I used: cd 'Download Folder' sudo mv cont-tmf.zip /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/* sudo unzip -a -L -o cont-tmf.zip # overwrites existing files! # SuSE wants the executables here... # Note: in SuSE 7.2 the files were placed in .../i386- # linux-glibc/ # As of SuSE 8.1, they are in .../i386-linux-libc6/ # # Also in 8.1, the links seemed incorrect to me, so # I have added # a few new steps to try to correct them. # # C.D. I have changed the paths below to follow the # structure on my machine. sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texshow sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texutil sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfont sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfind sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/fdf2tan sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/makempy sudo rm /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/mptopdf sudo cp context/perltk/texexec.pl /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec sudo cp context/perltk/texshow.pl /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texshow sudo cp context/perltk/texutil.pl /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texutil sudo cp context/perltk/texfont.pl /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfont sudo cp context/perltk/texfind.pl /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfind sudo cp context/perltk/fdf2tan.pl /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/fdf2tan sudo cp context/perltk/makempy.pl /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/makempy sudo cp context/perltk/mptopdf.pl /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/mptopdf sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texshow sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texutil sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfont sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texfind sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/fdf2tan sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/makempy sudo chmod +x /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/mptopdf # Edit texexec.ini afterwards? sudo cp /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/context/config/texexec.rme /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/context/config/texexec.ini # Edit cont-sys.tex afterwards? sudo cp /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex sudo texhash sudo texexec --make --alone en nl # en = english nl = # dutch sudo texhash exit # from "su root" I would be most grateful if someone could send me the instructions or overwrite the above to allow me to install the latest ConTeXt beta. Thank you, Charlie ************** Charles Doherty, Department of Early Irish History, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 Ireland Telephone +353 1 7168381

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no colors in pdf-output
by alkauffm＠rz.uni-potsdam.de 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

Hi all, if I put \setupoutput[pdf] \setupcolors[state=start] \setupcolor[rgb] \starttext \color[red]{asdf} \stoptext I get the text in the pdf-file without any color. Here is an extract from the log-file: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2c 7.3.7x) (format=cont-en 2002.12.23) 21 JAN 2003 11:35 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. ... color : system rgb is global activated ... Has anyone a hint? With many thanks in advance Albrecht

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marking and nup
by mickle＠escape.com 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

I am trying to setup a number of small pages (A8 size) to print on one letter size page, and I have been unable to determine how to accomplish my aim of seeing/printing crop marks, but not seeing/printing page numbers. I can't find the answer in the manuals, and I have failed in my attempts to manipulate \setuplayout and \setuppagenumbering successfully. Maybe someone can point the way to the solution... Following is my file: %output=pdftex \setuppapersize[A8,landscape][letter] \setupbodyfont[9pt] \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \setuplayout[topspace=2cm,location=middle,nx=2,ny=4,marking=on] \starttext {\hbox {\setupframed [align=middle,top=\vfill,bottom=\vfill, offset=overlay,frame=off]% \setupinterlinespace[height=.45,depth=.18,top=1.0,bottom=0.4,line=2.4ex] \setupunderbar[bottomoffset=.75ex] \framed {a few lines of text}}} \stoptext What I would like to obtain is something like: | | | | _ _ _ _ text text _ _ _ _ | | | | | | | | _ _ _ _ text text _ _ _ _ | | | | | | | | _ _ _ _ text text _ _ _ _ | | | | etc. What would also work would be: | | | _ _ _ _ text text _ | _ | _ | _ | | | text text _ | _ | _ | _ | | | etc. What I am getting, which doesn't work is: 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 _ _ _ _ text text 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 _ _ _ _ 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 text text etc. I can't get crop marks without numbers, sorry if the answer is obvious, but any help will be appreciated. pm

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Simple? PDF question
by Slawek Zak 22 Jan '03

22 Jan '03

I wonder if it's possible with PDFTex to obtain effect of document scrolling on every mouse click. I often find such mode in commercial documentation and it's really convenient. When it's enabled in PDF, the cursor changes into a hand with black arrow pointing downwards. I tried the PDFspec as well as the Acrobat JS guide, but cannot find anything similar. Ideas? :) Thanks, /S

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by Radim Uchac 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

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Problem on making mptopdf format file
by Zhenchuan Yang 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

Dear all, I am using ConTeXt under MikTeX 2.2 , but when I used "texexec --make" to make format file, I got the following error message. Could anyone give me some advice to fix it? Thanks in advance. --------------------- loading : Context Support Macros / PDF ) (C:\CTeX\texmf\tex\context\base\supp-mpe.tex loading : MetaPost Special Extensions ! Undefined control sequence. l.537 \appendtoks ? ! Undefined control sequence. l.541 \appendtoks ? ! Missing $ inserted. <inserted text> $ <to be read again> \to l.546 \to \MPstopresources ? ! Missing { inserted. <to be read again> \par l.547 ? ) Runaway text? \par \def \invokeMPshadespecial {\doifdefined {mps:Sh:\currentMPspec ! File ended while scanning text of \MPstopresources. <inserted text> } l.87 \input supp-mpe \MPcmykcolorstrue \MPspotcolorstrue .... --------------------------------------------------- Regards, Zhenchuan Yang,Mr. Instiute of Microelectronics Peking University Email:zcyang@vmails.net ___________________ 22:51:51 2003-01-21 -------------------

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ConTeXt and spell checkers?
by mari.voipio＠iki.fi 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

(Happy New Year 2003!) What are my options when I want to spell check my ConTeXt file? I only need American English (or "technical English" or "computer English") and the main idea is to check that I really use the American spelling for all words. I'm mainly using WindowsNT+GNUEmacs (from the TeXLive CD)+TeXLive 7, I also have access to the combination WinNT+WinEdt+TeXLive, but I prefer Emacs. I cannot be creative when writing scripts (=no programming skills), but I can follow a pattern for example when adding things to my .emacs file. And I will be installing all the systems with the English spell checker, so easy installation is not necessary as long as the instructions actually work. If there are free or cheap programs that spellcheck postscript or pdf files, that would work as well - i.e. I just need to check my file at *some* stage of the project, before it is finalized and copied. Regards, Mari Voipio

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Re: Re: IRC ConTeXt Channel
by Lazycode 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

> >Hans Hagen, > > As a main author of ConTeXt, can you give/get us the right > > to use the channel name "#context", or would you prefer us > > to create it under something else? > > go ahead and use the name #context #context has been registered on irc.freenode.net For those new to IRC Windows users: mIRC Linux users: irssi, xchat --tk

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Release naming
by Marko Schütz 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

I suggest to name releases differently: currently the most recent release is named cont-tfm.zip. Since I plan to make a NetBSD package for ConTeXt, I would very much like to have some release information in the name of the .zip-file: the release date or some other release numbers would be fine. This would also make it much more convenient to automatically check whether an installed version is the most recent version. Marko

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Interaction used in FLOWchart which is typeset with the \placefigure mechanism
by Willi Egger 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

Hi Hans, I got a couple of FLOWcharts, which are typeset with the \placefigure mechanism. The charts as such come out nicely as expected. However the charts also contain links to other parts of the document (\goto{text}[ref.]). - After placement of the charts there are still interactive spots, but these hot spots do not correspond with the text they belong to. Is it that I ask the impossible i.e. that there can't be interaction once the \placefigure mechanism is used or is there a similar problem as with the \placeformula (beforeyesterdays thread)? Thanks for looking into it. Willli

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Re: IRC ConTeXt Channel
by Lazycode 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

Hello, Berend de Boer, irc.freenode.net sounds good. Being able to "register" the channel is also a bonus. Last I checked (10:48 AM at -7 GMT time), the channel #context has _not_ been registered yet. :-) My main concern (and thus my hesistation), is whether it would be a violation of trademark to use "context" as the channel name. Perhaps we should use something like "context-unofficial" other suggestions/opinions? Or am I just being paranoid here since it's just a channel name, and it's running on a non-profit server. Hans Hagen, As a main author of ConTeXt, can you give/get us the right to use the channel name "#context", or would you prefer us to create it under something else? Thanks in advance, --tk

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Re: Conference Fee Sponsorship
by Hans Hagen 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

At 06:14 PM 1/20/2003 -0800, you wrote: >the money pays for the facilities. They don't make money on these >classes. hm, 20 * 400 = quite some money for a room that tug got for free -) >hm... this is the kind of p... news I don't know much about. >Everyone wants to make a fast buck/euro it seems. >Why they are so greedy is beyond me. Shall I write to the Lithuanian >group and ask them to make a donation? waste of energy, better go for the publishers who sell books; since so many tex users use / combine tex with things like perl and so ... do you know someone inside O'Reilly ? > > no, it's in the intermediate hands (mac millan and so; don't know them > that > > good, but they seem to be real large) > > really.... can't we get a website up to name names of >those able to donate? don't over estimate me, i have no contacts over there, (small company, few customers), you need people from the beginning of tex and/or publishing houses (they know where they go to) [maybe nelson know, since he knows everything related to tex] >The western and indian clocks don't seem to synchronize very well. ha, a few month ago i saw something on television: indian companies acting for usa companies, things like phoning people who don't pay their bills, they are masters in pretending to phone from texas (they also showed how they got classes in english, local history, texan accent, etc); so: they can sync -) serve the community better. I just can't seem to get anyone interested >in doing the sponsorhsip and website work. :-( Patricia promissed to do it, didn't she? Actually, the office should do it. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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IRC ConTeXt Channel
by Lazycode 21 Jan '03

21 Jan '03

Greetings! Is there an IRC (Internatl Relay Channel) for ConTeXt? If so, which server and channel name? If not, is one allowed to form an unofficial one? Thanks, --tk

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Re: Typeface Dolly installed on Linux system, but...
by Roef Ragas 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

Hi Patrick, Thanks for your help, although I'm sorry to say it's still not working. When I run texexec --pdf on your file, I'm getting the next error messages, using your type-dolly.tex. On the other hand: texnansi-uw-dolly.tex still turns out every nice letter of my Dolly font. --- kpathsea: Running mktextfm Dolly-Roman /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation D for Dolly-Roman. /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/share/texmf/fontname/special.map? mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Dolly-Roman This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.1) kpathsea: Running mktexmf Dolly-Roman ! I can't find file `Dolly-Roman'. <*> ...our; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Dolly-Roman --- Op zo 19-01-2003, om 23:31 schreef Patrick Gundlach: > Hi, > > this is 'dolly.tex' - the testfile > > \setupcolors[state=start] > \usetypescriptfile[type-dolly] > \mainlanguage[de] > \definetypeface [Dolly][rm][serif][dolly][default] [encoding=ec] > \definetypeface [Dolly][ss][sans][helvetica][default] [rscale=.9, encoding=ec] > \definetypeface [Dolly][tt][mono][computer-modern][computer-modern][rscale=1.1,encoding=ec] > \starttext > \setupbodyfont[Dolly] > %\showcharacters > %\showbodyfont > > some text > > \stoptext > > > > Attached is my type-dolly.tex. You need to change the filenames and > the encoding. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > Patrick -- Roef Ragas <info(a)roefragas.com> theJAYWALKCentre

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interactive content in header
by Patrick Gundlach 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

Dear ConTeXt users, I'd like to have an interactive table of content in the header (at least somewhere at the top of the page). It should have the current section highlighted. First I have defined an overlay and used it with \setupbackgrounds: \defineoverlay[toc][{\coloredcontent}] \setupbackgrounds[header][text][background=toc,frame=on,state=repeat] But the \coloredcontent behaves weired. \def\coloredcontent{A\par BB} gets typeset as ABB, \currentheadnumber always displays the same number (even with \determineheadnumber[section] before \getcurrentheadnumber) and \placecontent is completely ignored. It should look like this: -------------- section1 | section 2 | section 3 section 4 ------------- ---------------------------- the current page holds some paragraphs of section 2. Now you click on "section 4" and the display changes to: ------------- section1 section 2 section 3 | section 4 | ---------------------------------------- -- I hope it is clear what I'd like to get. How could this be done? Patrick

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What DTD for a thesis
by Tobias Burnus 20 Jan '03

20 Jan '03

Hi, I'm considering of writing a thesis using XML (instead of plain ConTeXt). What DTD is best suited? The main point is good output, but I want to be able to convert this document to e.g. HTML without too much hessle. I thought about using ContML + MathML, but I'd like to know whether you have a better suggestion. Tobias

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\setupitemize has no effect (beta)
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 19 Jan '03

19 Jan '03

I just noticed that \setupitemize seems to have no effect in the current beta (I haven't tried other versions): \starttext \startitemize[n,packed][stopper=)] \item this \item works \stopitemize \setupitemize[each][packed][stopper=)] \startitemize[n] \item no \item effect \stopitemize \stoptext Or is it used differently? -- Eckhart

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Re: [NTG-context] Underlining URLs
by Henning Hraban Ramm 19 Jan '03

19 Jan '03

Am Samstag, 18.01.03, um 23:53 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Patrick Gundlach: > I'd like to underline a hyperlink to an url (with \goto), so that it > is visible while reading with the acrobat reader but not visible when > printed. The default appearance is boldface. There are a lot of \startnotmode[handout] \setupinteraction [color=blue, style={\tf\underbars}] \setupunderbar [alternative=a, rulecolor=green] \stopnotmode \startmode[handout] \setupinteraction [color=black, style={\em}] \stopmode That implicites that you'll make two different PDFs; one for screen and one for print (--mode=handout). If you're looking for hoover links I can't help you. Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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ConTeXt and SQL
by Pavel Stupin 17 Jan '03

17 Jan '03

Hello, In the roadmap file (http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf) on page 6 ('How things relate' section) there's a figure showing that ConTeXt could exchange data with sql databases. I would like to know the details (e.g. I'm interested in importing data from MySQL databases), but didn't find anything relevant in manuals (cont-eni.pdf and ms-cb-en.pdf). Are there any manuals on that topic? Best wishes, Pavel.

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XML entities and PDF bookmarks
by varheit＠gmx.de 17 Jan '03

17 Jan '03

Hi, as it seems, XML intities do not get expanded correctly (see document below). In the example, the bookmark created displays as "About the getXMLentity{lt}chaptergetXMLentity{gt} tag". Am I missing something? Thanks Vik \defineXMLcommand[chapter][id=empty,title=empty] {\expanded{\chapter[\XMLpar{chapter}{id}{}]{\XMLpar{chapter}{title}{}}}} \defineXMLentity[lt] {$<$} \defineXMLentity[gt] {$>$} \setupinteraction[state=start] \placebookmarks[chapter] \starttext \completecontent \enableXML <chapter id="refid" title="About the <chapter> tag"> <?context-command \stoptext ?> -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen!

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\place figuretext
by Willi Egger 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

Hi Hans, thanks, after downloading the beta this works again perfectly. Groet Willi

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suppressing hyphenation
by Adam Lindsay 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

Hi all, Sorry if this has been covered before, but does anyone know a ConTeXt-y (i.e., elegant) way of suppressing hyphenation for a block of text? I'm dealing with long chapter headings, and I would rather set them ragged and without hyphenation. I've made tentative experiments with the techniques described here, but to no avail. I tried making a new language [zz] that grabs the zerohyph.tex hyphenation file. TeX complains about seeing a \pattern outside of initex, but it did have the effect of eliminating all hyphenation in my document, which was a bit more than I bargained for. Has anyone done this successfully? No? Should I continue trying the language? Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)1524 594 537 atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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\nomarking without dots?
by fiëé visuëlle 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

A happy new year! Hans, you planned to make \nomarking configurable, that one can use it with our without dots. Is it already in the beta? Actually I need it without dots. Further, I find the dots much too wide spread; the kerning should be about the half of the actual. Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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Re: \startfiguretext
by Hans Hagen 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

At 11:03 AM 1/15/2003 +0000, Charles Doherty wrote: >Dear Hans, > >Thanks again for your recent advice. > >I ran texexec --make --alone en nl and got efmt files in my current >directory. I then used kpsewhich plain.fmt and found >/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/plain.fmt >I used the mv command to place the efmt files in ...../web2c/ > >I ran \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \input tufte \stoptext and the >result is perfect. > >Problem is still with the \startfiguretext you need to update for this (get beta version) >At the risk of boring you to death with this below is my input file and >the readout from the console: I note that there is > >invalid line in config file: `pdf_minorversion 4' this is something new in pdftex, so there is a mismatch between your config (probably newer) and the pdftex version you run 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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Installation-problems
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

Hallo! I wanted to test the examples in 'metafun' from Hans Hagen: The first Example, just metapost ('red circle'), was translated in a PostScript-File. I viewed the output with bmv and got a blue quarter circle at the left lower origin. I viewed it then with gv and got a centered grey circle. The files rgb values are ok: 1,0,0 The second Example, with context, dosn't work. texexec couldn't find texexec.ini. I couldn't neither find texexec.ini nor texexec.rme, so I decided to install a new version of context. I unzipped cont-tmf.zip in /usr/share/texmf/ I missed the afm file for the included type1-font! I renamed texexec.rme to texexec.ini and edited the following two lines: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- set UsedInterfaces to de en nl metafun mptopdf set UserInterface to de --------------------------------------------------------------------------- then I renamed cont-usr.ori and cont-sys.ori to cont-usr.tex resp. cont-sys.tex texexec --make nl en de worked, but cont-de.efmt is copied to web2c cont-en.efmt and cont-nl.efmt is copied to /context/config (don't know if this was ok?) texexec --make metafun doesn't work (couldn't find cont-metafun) There is an other interface in UsedInterfaces in texexec.ini 'mptopdf' Should I make a formatfile for this too? There is an other way to make the formates with texconfig. Is that an alternativ way? I tried the above second example (named tst2.tex) and got: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- TeXExec 2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2000 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : tst2 output : standard interface : en current mode : all TeX run : 1 sh: cont-en: command not found run time : 0 seconds This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-14f-released-20000525-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1) ** ! End of file on the terminal... why? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- What happend? Why is cont-en used. I have selected 'de' as UserInterface in texexec. So I don't know what to do. Is there a fiendly answer to all of my questions? Wolfgang

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Typesetting Russian
by Pavel Stupin 16 Jan '03

16 Jan '03

Hello, Is it possible to typeset Russian texts in ConTeXt? I guess, the answer is 'yes', but I just don't know how to do that. Please advise me. Thank you in advance. Best wishes, Pavel.

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Xindy interfaced to Context
by John Culleton 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

I have completed my project to demonstrate the use of Xindy in conjunction with Context. The results are available in the following (identical) collections of files: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/culleton.zip http://wexfordpress.com/tex/culleton.tar.gz I look forward to a more elegant implementation by a more elegant programmer. But mine works for now. :-) Anyone who needs to index a non-English document in Context (or pdfetex or whatever) need only create an alphabet file and proceed onward. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters Rowse Reviews Culleton Editorial Services http://wexfordpress.com

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Installation Problem: "sh: cont-en: command not found"
by Pavel Stupin 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

Hello, I've downloaded the latest beta and tried to install ConTeXt following the steps described in minstall.pdf. So the format file was generated; however, 'texexec filename.tex' results in 'sh: cont-en: command not found' error message. What should I do to solve this problem? Thanks in advance. Best wishes, Pavel.

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Placeformula environment
by BOEDE 15 Jan '03

15 Jan '03

Hi Hans, At this moment I am dealing with some chemical formulae. I ought to place them always in such a way that the may use the width of the textarea independent of the fact that the \placeformula may occur within an itemisation. - How to do this? Some of the formulae are broader than the paper-width. So I tried to place the formulae in buffers, which are put into place with \placefigure[left][fig:DEZ1]{none}{\externalfigure[DEZ1][type=buffer,width=\ textwidth]}. There arise two questions: 1. It looks like that the sizing mechanism does not quite what I expect, because the formulae still stick out into the margin? 2. Independently from the way the \placefigure mechanisme is used, there is a problem with the following paragraph? Could you please have a look into this matter. See attached file Groet Willi

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Re: Fwd: Re: [NTG-context] sharps and flats and Euler (was Re: typo in math-tex)
by Adam Lindsay 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

>>\def\Flat{\symbol[Flat]} >>\def\Natural{\symbol[Natural]} >>\def\Sharp{\symbol[Sharp]} >> >>Are there any better ways of doing this? > >maybe create a symbol set (did you look in symb-*.tex ?) I think some >standardization in naming is needed here I got started by looking at symb-eur.tex. I'll look further for a better approach. >in order to get that working the basic math text font should be euler as >well; Sorry. I don't know what exactly you mean by that. Do you mean manually setting the math roman(?) font to eurm10? > also, you need to code all you numbers in the source as math, so >"about 25 years ago" becomes "about $25$ years ago"; Is this a necessity? I'd prefer my text font's numerals in text, and the math numerals in formulae. > euler was made by >hermann zapf and used in "concrete math" (nice book by knuth cum suis) >combined with concrete romman (afaik no type 1 available) It's a nice font. I found it matched with Charter really well, and after that, found that other people on the net seem to agree with me. I had followed up this email with the attached minimal test. It doesn't give the glyphs I expect. I've tried all sorts of combinations to try to trigger the math symbols in math-eul, but I don't get any closer than this. Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)1524 594 537 atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Long section headings in footertexts
by Adam Lindsay 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

Hi all, I have a user who likes to have long \chapter titles, like {This is my title: with a whole lot of specific clarification}. When we set footertexts to be [chapter], it collides into the opposite footer (date, in this case). What I'd like to do is have some way of picking up the first part of the chapter title ("This is my title") and put only that into the footer text. I would call this a "subtitle" in a way. It's related to the second half of this complaint Bruce made back in August: Bruce D'Arcus said this at Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:55:16 -0400: >Subtitles. Aside from the fact that one often wants to format >subtitles differently than titles, generally speaking headers that >include titles should not also include subtitles (and there is what I >consider a bug with long titles such that they run into the header on >the other side, rather than breaking into two lines) My temporary solution is to define an \AltFooter macro in the current environment where the user can manually switch to a short version of the chapter heading. As it is, however, I need a matching \ResetFooter macro for the end of the chapter. Anyone have any hints? 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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More in lang-ger.tex and a MetaPost problem
by Mikael Persson 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

Hi, I added som changes in lang-ger.tex some week ago. As I mentioned I forgot one headtext in lang-ger.tex. \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!inhoud=Inneh\aring l] should have one more l, that is: \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!inhoud=Inneh\aring ll] I also read in lang-ger.tex that there are some \definesortkey's for the norwegian language. I don't know why they are commented out (obsolete?). I tried to uncomment them and make a register that contains these additional letters (\aa,\ae,\o) but they still end up before A in the index. If they are correct for the norwegian language, then the swedish counterparts should look like this: %% SWEDISH % % These three letters (in this order) are the % last in the swedish alphabet (and hence should % come after z in the latin alphabet). % I'm not sure about the syntax for % \definesortkey so I left some of it open ... % % \startlanguagespecifics[\s!sv] % % \definesortkey {\aring}{z}{b}{\aring} % \definesortkey {\Aring}{z}{b}{\Aring} % \definesortkey {\aumlaut}{z}{c}{\aumlaut} % \definesortkey {\Aumlaut}{z}{c}{\Aumlaut} % \definesortkey {\oumlaut}{z}{d}{\oumlaut} % \definesortkey {\Oumlaut}{z}{d}{\Oumlaut} % % \stoplanguagespecifics I also saw this with activecharacters... The swedish counterpart should here be: % \startencoding[texnansi] % \startlanguagespecifics[\s!sv]% % \defineactivecharacter å {\aring{}} % \defineactivecharacter Å {\Aring{}} % \defineactivecharacter ä {\aumlaut{}} % \defineactivecharacter Ä {\Aumlaut{}} % \defineactivecharacter ö {\oumlaut{}} % \defineactivecharacter Ö {\Oumlaut{}} % \stoplanguagespecifics % \stopencoding At last, some questions: 1) How should I do to get Å,Ä,Ö last in the index? 2) I can't make the example on page 236 of the MetaFun manual (the one with a framed text with the Zapf (1) label). I use the following code: \startuseMPgraphic{FunnyFrame} picture p; numeric w, h, o; p:=textext.rt(\MPstring{FunnyFrame}) ; w:=OverlayWidth; h:=OverlayHeight; o:=BodyFontSize; p:=p shifted (2o,h-ypart center p); draw p; drawoptions (widhpen pencircle scaled 1pt); draw (2o,h)--(0,h)--(0,0)--(w,0)--(w,h)--(xpart urcorner p,h); draw boundingbox p; setbounds currentpicture to unitsquare xyscaled(w,h); \stopuseMPgraphic \defineoverlay[FunnyFrame][\useMPgraphic{FunnyFrame}] \defineframedtext[FunnyText][frame=off,background=FunnyFrame,width=fit] \def\StartFrame{\startFunnyText} \def\StopFrame{\stopFunnyText} \def\FrameTitle#1% {\setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{\hbox spread 1em{\hss\strut#1\hss}}} \setMPtext{FunnyFrame}{}% Initiate. Instead of the text in the label box I get the text "unknown". I type \FrameTitle{Test} \StartFrame This is just a test. \StopFrame Regards, Micke P

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XML typesetting -- a bug?
by AlterEgo Qasars 14 Jan '03

14 Jan '03

Good morning. Some time ago I've uploaded and installed new ConTeXt (ConTeXt ver: 2002.10.23 fmt: 2002.12.4 int: english mes: english). With it my XHTML documents cannot be processed (it worked with some older version). Now I obtain this very error message: ! Missing \endcsname inserted. <to be read again> \def \parseXMLelement #1#2 #3>->\def \currentXMLarguments {#3}\if #1/\chardef \ki... l.2 <HTML> What's wrong? Is it my stupidness or a bug in a new version of ConTeXt? I include a minimal example file. Many thanks and greetings to you all. Michal Kvasnicka

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pdf viewers
by Matthew Huggett 13 Jan '03

13 Jan '03

Hi: Does anyone know of an alternative to Xpdf or Acrobat for Linux? Xpdf seems really slow and the fonts look bad, and Acrobat under Linux is just not as good as it is under Windows. Best wishes, Matt

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pdf from pstric module
by Mikael Persson 13 Jan '03

13 Jan '03

Hi Two questions about the m-pstric.tex file (version=1997.01.15). 1) When I try to use pstricks to generate a pdf file it stops when it tries to run dvips. It seems that it tries to run dvips without the -o flag. That works very well in Windows, but in Linux it will be sent to the standard printer and not to a .ps file that way (by default. When commenting out the o |lpr in config.ps it all works), so there is an error. The -o flag works in windows too (If my memory isn't to bad). So if there is a way to add that flag I would be happy. Adding the flags -G0 -Ppdf would be great to I think. That is, the command should be something like dvips -G0 -Ppdf file(.dvi) -o (file.ps) (where the things in () can be left out). 2) I also see in the m-pstric.tex file that only multido, pstricks and pst-plot are loaded. Is there a way to make it an option what packages to load. There are alot of nice pstrick packages I think (pst-3d,pst-fill,pst-char and so on...) For LaTeX users there is also a pst-all.sty that easily loads all pstricks packages. A similar pst-all.tex or an option to load them all would also be nice. Regards, Micke P

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Help startfiguretext weirdness
by Hans van der Meer 13 Jan '03

13 Jan '03

Help! After finally installing the dec14 update of ConTeXt I foind that \startfiguretext inexplicable misses a }. Before this update everything was OK. \startfiguretext[left]{none}{\externalfigure[Goejanverwellesluis][frame= on]} TEKST \stopfiguretext gives in the log: ! Undefined control sequence. \stopfiguretext ->\dostoptextfloat l.89 ^^I\stopfiguretext ? figures : dimensions of ./Goejanverwellesluis.jpg loaded from figurefile itself (./test.tuo) floatblocks : 1 limited ! Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } <to be read again> \endgroup l.87 ...rnalfigure[Goejanverwellesluis][frame=on]} ? How come? Hans van der Meer

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\startfiguretext environment
by BOEDE 13 Jan '03

13 Jan '03

Hi Hans, I would like to ask you wether you could have a look at the \startfloattext environment. I got different files, where this environment is used. However yesterday night I was unable to get texts where \startfiguretext ..\stopfiguretext is used compiled. Context complains about a } which was inserted: ! Missing } inserted. <inserted text> } <to be read again> \endgroup l.13 ...escription of the \quote{Reliure de Lyon}} A minimal file is attached. Thanks Willi

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(1) Setting top/header texts and (2) stopping page breaks
by Lazycode 13 Jan '03

13 Jan '03

Greetings! I've recently ran into two trivial tasks that I can't seem to get ConTeXt to do. If someone could (1) point out my mistakes or (2) point me to the peoper documentation, it would be very helpful and much apperciated. Task 1: Setting up Top/Header texts. I want to have a _multiline_ header. I tried using \setheadertexts and \settoptexts. Both _ignored_ the use of "\\" to break lines, and complained when I used \par. It looks like I can only have single line headers. I want something as follows: (best viewed with fixed width font) --------------------------------------------------- | Document Title Document Author | | ConTeXted On Document Version | | Section Number Chapter Number | --------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | Actual Text | | | | | | | | | I believe I know how to do the rest. Currently, I need to know how to do multi-line header/top texts. Task 2: Preventing annoying page breaks. I'm using the \setuphead from page 5 of the context manual. It reads as follows: \setuphead [myheader] [ -some unimportant stuff snipped out- before=\hairline\blank after=\nowhitespace\hairline] Once in a while, a page break occurs between the actual text and one of these two hairlines. I've tried: * before=\hariline\page[no]\blank * before=\hariline\blank\page[no] and * after=\page[no]\nowhitespace\hairline None of the above works. Any information, including a random command to learn and try, would be very helpful. Thanks in advance, --tk

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combinations and captions
by fiëé visuëlle 13 Jan '03

13 Jan '03

I wonder, why \setupcaptions doesn't work with combinations: \setupcaptions[number=no, style={\tfx\ss}, align=right] \setupcombinations[width=fit, align=right, style={\tfx\ss}] \placefigure[]{none}% {\startcombination[2] {\externalfigure[hammarskjoeld]}{Dag Hammarskjöld} {\externalfigure[kofi-dhf-grab]}{Kofi Annan am Grabe Dag Hammarskjölds} \stopcombination} "style" in \setupcombinations doesn't work, and it isn't inherited from \setupcaptions either. "align" would be superfluous in \setupcombinations, if a combination's subcaptions would use the \setupcaptions settings. Otherwise (less logical) \setupcombinations should support "style". Or is it my fault? Grüßlis vom Hraban! -- www.fiee.net/texnique/ www.ramm.ch/context/

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Weird frame with framedtext
by varheit＠gmx.de 12 Jan '03

12 Jan '03

Dear ConTeXt users, I have some trouble with the document below. It uses framing for some text blocks to make them stand out. In some cases (as with this document) a float preceding the framed text will be framed too. I am using the stable version (2002/12/02), the current beta does not process the document at all (seems to be some problem with \startfiguretext, I think this was discussed earlier). Does anybody know how to fix this strange behaviour? Thanks ---------- cut here ---------- \setupcolors[state=start] \defineframedtext[info] [frame=on, background=screen, width=\textwidth, framecolor=green] \starttext \title{Text} \dorecurse{20}{A paragraph\par} \startinfo \startfiguretext[left]{none}{\framed[width=0.8cm,height=0.8cm]{i}} Something important \stopfiguretext \stopinfo \reservefigure[width=\textwidth,height=\textwidth,frame=on][here]{Caption} \startinfo \startfiguretext[left]{none}{\framed[width=0.8cm,height=0.8cm]{i}} This text should be framed \stopfiguretext \stopinfo \stoptext ---------- cut here ---------- -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen!

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typo in math-tex
by Adam Lindsay 12 Jan '03

12 Jan '03

Hi, There's a small typo in math-tex.tex (line 220 in my version): \definemathsymbol [flat] [ord] [sy] ["5B] ...should be... \definemathsymbol [flat] [ord] [mi] ["5B] Now to figure out how to get that symbol to show up within euler. Anyone know how to determine the symbols in a given font? adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)1524 594 537 atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Row spacing in tables
by mari.voipio＠iki.fi 12 Jan '03

12 Jan '03

As the TABLE manual is not very easily available (and may be not even applicable here), I hope that somebody can answer to my question... I had to make a floating table. After a good deal of investigation in the Beginner's Manual and the list archives I've gotten everything else into place but the row spacing. My table (shortened version) is built like this: \setuptables[bodyfont={9pt,ss},distance=small] \placetable[here,force][table:specs]{Specifications} \starttable[|l|lw(8cm)|l|] \HL \VL \bf Abbrev. \VL \bf Product name \VL \bf Code \VL \SR \HL \VL bog. \VL Bogus text for testing \VL -X \VL \SR \HL \VL bog. \VL Bogus text for testing \VL -X \VL \FR \VL bog. \VL Bogus text for testing \VL -X \VL \LR \HL \VL bog. \VL Bogus text for testing \VL -X \VL \FR \VL bog. \VL Bogus text for testing \VL -X \VL \MR \VL bog. \VL Bogus text for testing \VL -X \VL \LR \HL \stoptable I managed to make the lines come somewhat tighter together by \setuptables[distance=small] but they are not close enough. I tried replacing \MR with \NR and other variants thereof, but that wasn't really a satisfying solution. So, how do I tell my ConTeXt how small I want "distance=small" to be (without affecting the text in the document)? The only document setting that may affect this is \setupwhitespace[medium]; in connection with this I've tried the commands \startpacked, \stoppacked and \nowhitespace, \whitespace (probably real dumb anyway), neither of them worked. Any help will be appreciated, Mari Voipio PS. Any easy way to color/shade a table cell/row?

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Font problem with ConTeXt
by cohsb＠gmx.de 11 Jan '03

11 Jan '03

Hi all, after trying to solve the problem myself for several hours, I now seek your help. I'm trying to typeset a document in Times-Roman, the plain one. I did that with Context 2 years ago just by saying \setupbodyfont[pos], if I remember right. But this time, it does not work. See the the output below. Interestingly, I get the same result both on MikTeX and on SuSE Linux 8.1. - pdftex.cfg is in place and contains a reference to pdftex.map - pdftex.map is in place and contains Times-Roman and associated fonts, but I can't see if this file is sourced - the big document I'll produce is typeset correctly using Computer Modern fonts - the test document (just one line, with no environment except the setupbodyfond command) makes trouble as well - the Times-Roman font as well as others work correctly in TeX and LaTeX I'd really be happy if someone has an idea. Many thanks in advance, Cheers, Chris. Output (Linux box) : ~/InstInvUK/cvs/InstInvUK> texexec InstInvGBPaper TeXExec 2.6 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2001 executable : pdfetex format : cont-en inputfile : InstInvGBPaper output : standard interface : en current mode : all TeX run : 1 This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20011114-ojmw-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7) entering extended mode (./InstInvGBPaper.tex{/var/lib/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2002.1.24 fmt: 2003.1.6 int: english mes: english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2-en-2 2-uk-2 2-de-2 2-fr-2 2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : InstInvGBPaper.top loaded (./InstInvGBPaper.top) (./InstInvGBPaper.tuo) (./InstInvGBPaper.tuo) (./InstInvGBPaper.tuo) (./InstInvGBPaper.tuo) (./InstInvGBPaper.tuo) (./InstInvGBPaper.tuo) (./InstInvGBPaper.tuo) (./InstInvGBPaper.tuo) (./InstInvGBPaper.tuo) (./InstInvGBPaper.tuo) (./InstInvGBPaper.tuo) pdftex : needs map file: pdftex.map (./InstInvGBPaper.tuo) (./InstInvGBPaper.tuo) systems : begin file InstInvGBPaper at line 5 (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-pre.tex typescript : [serif] [times] [name,default] (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) typescript : [sans] [helvetica] [name,default] (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) typescript : [mono] [courier] [name,default] (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) typescript : [serif,sans,mono] [default] [size] (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) typescript : [map] [default] [] (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-map.tex pdftex : needs map file: original-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-ams-euler.map pdftex : needs map file: original-ams-logo.map pdftex : needs map file: original-micropress-informal.map ) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex))kpathsea: Running mktextfm Times-Roman /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation T for Times-Roman. /var/lib/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update /usr/share/texmf/fontname/special.map? mktextfm: Running mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Times-Roman This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3.7) kpathsea: Running mktexmf Times-Roman ! I can't find file `Times-Roman'. <*> ...our; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Times-Roman Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. <*> ...our; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Times-Roman Transcript written on mfput.log. mktextfm: `mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input Times-Roman' failed. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log. ! Font \*12ptrmtf*=Times-Roman at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not fo und. \lastfontname ->Times-Roman at \scaledfont \donoparsefontspec ... #1\endcsname \lastfontname \relax \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#2}\newfontidentifier \doresetrelativefontsize \... \fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname \tryingfontfalse \fi <inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr... \synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies \relax \fi \ifskipfontchar... ... l.6 \setupbodyfont[pos] -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. 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.fd files
by Bruce D'Arcus 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

Question: Why can't ConTeXt read LaTeX font definition files? Shouldn't it? Bruce

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Euler's numerals
by Adam Lindsay 10 Jan '03

10 Jan '03

Hi all. I'm trying to get the euler math font to work right. It simply won't display the numerals 0-9 correctly--they get picked up from computer modern instead. What follows is a minimal test file, showing that at least one other glyph seems not to be correctly picked up from math-eul, either. I know I must be missing something, somewhere, but I've experimented all over the place to no avail. thanks in advance, adam -snip- ---- \setupbodyfont[eul,12pt] \starttext 129 is the text number\crlf $129 \Rightarrow \int n+(a+b)/ \aleph$\crlf I should see \getglyph{eurm10}{\char57} as nine, and \getglyph{eusm10}{\char64} as aleph. Now if I do showmathtoken, I get: \showmathtoken{aleph}...which is confusing, because the collection seems right, but the visualisation of the glyph seems wrong. \stoptext -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)1524 594 537 atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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Announce: etexshow, texshow for emacs
by Patrick Gundlach 09 Jan '03

09 Jan '03

Dear ConTeXt hakers, I am happy to announce the very first version of etexshow, a texshow clone for my favorite os: emacs. You can download it from http://levana.de/emacs/etexshow/etexshow.tgz If you are fast enough, you can smell the fresh, oven-warm bytes of the new tgz-archive. It is rather small (something around 30 k). See inside etexshow.el for info. This has been tested under emacs 21.* on Linux and MacOS X. Since this is an alpha version, there are some minor problems. See file todo. Patrick

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typo in math-tex
by Adam Lindsay 08 Jan '03

08 Jan '03

Hi, There's a small typo in math-tex.tex (line 220 in my version): \definemathsymbol [flat] [ord] [sy] ["5B] ...should be... \definemathsymbol [flat] [ord] [mi] ["5B] Now to figure out how to get that symbol to show up within euler. Anyone know how to determine the symbols in a given font? adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=note-new-mobile-number-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)7812 125 229 atl(a)alum.mit.edu 1 Crofters Fold, Galgate, Lancaster, LA2 0RB, UK http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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emails
by Hans Hagen 08 Jan '03

08 Jan '03

Hi, I'm behind with answering mail, will try to catch up asap 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] Re: texexec returns 0 when generating format file
by Hans Hagen 04 Jan '03

04 Jan '03

At 10:38 PM 1/3/2003 +0100, you wrote: > > $Problems = system ( "$cmd" ) ; > > and see if it changes things. > >It did and thank you. Could this (or anything like this) go into >distribution? ok, i added this $Problems = ... Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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texexec returns 1 when generating format file
by Patrick Gundlach 03 Jan '03

03 Jan '03

Dear ConTeXt hackers, when issuing the command 'texexec --make --alone en' the cont-en format gets generated. Everything is nice except that texexec returns status code "1", which on unix systems means failure. Is there any way to get a "0"? Patrick

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Wrong bookmarking, please help
by varheit＠gmx.de 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

Dear all, Below I have included a document source which causes a lot of trouble. It includes a split table, which seems to corrupt the bookmarking. If you click on the links in the bookmark tab in acrobat reader, it takes you to the wrong pages. I noticed the ext4 warning produced by pdftex (see log excerpt below), but I have no idea how to fix this. In addition, I would like to make the table float. Could somebody tell me how to set this up with \splitfloat? I tried nearly every setup I could think of, but without any succes so far. Any hint would be greatly appreciated. Best regards Vik \setupinteraction [state=start] \setupcolors [state=start] \setupTABLE [split=repeat] \placebookmarks [chapter] \starttext \completecontent \chapter{First chapter} \bTABLE \bTABLEhead \bTR \bTH Name \eTH \bTH Favorite color \eTH \eTR \eTABLEhead \bTABLEbody \dorecurse{80}{\bTR \bTD Marvin \eTD \bTD yellow \eTD \eTR} \eTABLEbody \eTABLE \chapter{Second chapter} some text \stoptext -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2c 7.3.7x) (format=cont-en 2002.9.9) 20 DEC 2002 23:24 entering extended mode **&cont-en longtab.tex (./longtab.tex{f:/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2002.8.23 fmt: 2002.9.9 int: english mes: english ... chapter : 1 First chapter ! pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{page:0}) ha s been already used, duplicate ignored <recently read> fit <to be read again> \egroup \fakePDFpagedestination ...e:\realfolio }}\egroup \fi \fi \fi \actualshipout ...chbox \hbox {\the \everyshipout \ifnum \realpageno =\lastp... \myshipout ...pout {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} \fi \gotonextrealpage \nap... \dofinaloutput ...pagebody #1#2\setpagecounters }} \fi \the \everyaftershipou... ... l.25 \eTABLE [1.2] [2.3] [3.4] chapter : 2 Second chapter

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something new, user-interfacing to context
by Hans Hagen 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

Hi, I uploaded a first version of the lightweight eXaMpLe framework. Think of a user interface to: - interactive page imposition (more extensive than texexec, including test bed; more documentation will follow) - an interface to pstopdf, a script on top of ghostscript, which provides a couple of goodies. Processes like these are driven bij xml-data streams and handled by a service on localhost (more extensive distributed processing is under construction). The example things are distributed in a separate zip: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/beta/cont-tmf.zip http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/beta/cont-exa.zip you can unzip both in your local tree and generate formats as usual. If you launch .../context/examplap/gui/examplap.pdf and browse a bit around, you'll get an idea what is happening. In order for it to really work, a couple of things are needed: (1) you need to install ruby and have ruby in your bin path (2) you need to launch exampler.rb --continue more can be found in http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/ex-gui.pdf There will be a lot more, for instance interfaces to the figure library, correspondence, etc. The low level things are under construction, so don't start building on it yourself before eximple.pdf and example.pdf go public (manuals). I tested in with fptex/windows; later i will make it miktex ready (waiting for input from mr bigfoot); linux works here, but probably also needs some work. 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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syllabus module
by Bruce D'Arcus 02 Jan '03

02 Jan '03

Has anyone come up with a good syllabus module for ConTeXt? Bruce -- http://fastmail.fm - Faster than the air-speed velocity of an unladen european swallow

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a recent change in double-sided pagination?
by Bill McClain 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

It seems that the behaviour of \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided] has changed in the last couple of months. Jobs that once correctly produced an even count of pages now produce an odd count. In viewing a two-page spread in Acrobat, the first page is correctly a right-hand page, but the last page is a bogus one, also a right-hand page. The document should end on the left. I'm using ConTeXt ver: 2002.12.20 from the beta download page. -Bill -- Sattre Press Curiosities of the Sky http://sattre-press.com/ by Garrett Serviss info(a)sattre-press.com http://csky.sattre-press.com/

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Midaligned text above columns
by Willi Egger 30 Dec '02

30 Dec '02

Hi Hans, I tried to use columns. I wanted to have a headerline midaligned above the columns. Whatever I try the headerline is only partially centered.... If I compile the test file without using columns, then the headerline is nicely centered above the text. Do I make a mistake? Best regards Willi

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typescripts, bodyfonts, hanging puncuation
by Bill McClain 27 Dec '02

27 Dec '02

I need a clue, please. I don't understand the relation between typescripts for font definitions and bodyfonts or bodyfontenvironments. I began with typescripts when I started using Context and never learned much about the underlying mechanism. I've studied "Fonts in Context" (mfonts.pdf), but I still don't get it. I define typescripts for my fonts. They have no size specification. I understand that when I declare something like: \definetypeface [Sabon] [rm] [serif] [sabon] [default] [encoding=texnansi] that typescript "[serif] [default] [size]" in type-siz.tex will be used for the size info, but I don't know what that gets me. That typescript has: \definebodyfont [4pt,5pt,6pt,7pt,8pt,9pt,10pt,11pt,12pt,14.4pt,17.3pt] [rm] [default] I don't know what that list of sizes means. I can use \setupbodyfont and \switchtobodyfont to specify any arbitary full or fractional point size and all works well. But: now and then I hit a problem which is caused by missing definitions of some sort. For example, the hanging punctuation in this job: \usetypescriptfile[type-sabon] \usetypescript [serif] [hanging] [sabon] \usetypescript[Sabon] \setupbodyfont[Sabon,9pt] \setupalign[hanging] \showframe \starttext \dorecurse{5}{\input knuth \input tufte } \par \stoptext Note that I have the typescript "[serif] [hanging] [sabon]" and it declares the hanging parameters. With 9pt: no hanging. But it does work if I specify 12pt, 10pt, 8pt, or even 9.1pt. What is special about 9pt? I presume I should be specifying size info somewhere, but I don't what or where. -Bill -- Sattre Press The King in Yellow http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers info(a)sattre-press.com http://kiy.sattre-press.com/

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\boldmath
by Sytse Knypstra 27 Dec '02

27 Dec '02

How do I get boldface greek symbols in math mode (and especially with lucida bright)? The following does not work: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \usetypescript [lucida] [texnansi] \switchtotypeface [lucida] [9pt] \starttext $\alpha {\boldmath \alpha } \alpha$ \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Siep Kroonenberg supplied me with the following partial solution: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \usetypescript [all] [lucida] [name] \usetypescript [lucida] [texnansi] \definetypeface [boldmath] [rm] [serif] [lucida] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface [boldmath] [tt] [mono] [lucida] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface [boldmath] [ss] [sans] [lucida] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface [boldmath] [mm] [boldmath] [lucida] [default] [encoding=texnansi] \switchtotypeface [lucida] [9pt] \def\pmb{\switchtotypeface [boldmath]} \starttext $\alpha {\pmb \alpha } \alpha$ {\pmb $\alpha$} $\alpha$ {\pmb $\alpha$} \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% But here in the first line \pmb appears not to be working within math mode. Sytse Knypstra S.Knypstra(a)eco.rug.nl

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DocbookInContext: new version uploaded
by Simon Pepping 23 Dec '02

23 Dec '02

Hi, I have uploaded a new version of DocbookInContext. This version has an implementation of blockquote, epigraph and attribution. After the long thread on customization on this list, I dived into Context's customization API. I have succeeded to use it and enable customization for blockquote, epigraph and attribution. See the file Customization.xml for details. This does not include the type of customization for attribute values, that was also discussed on this list. That would require much more work, so I put it on some stack. :-) 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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University of Twente mirror down
by Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen 23 Dec '02

23 Dec '02

Hi ConTeXt fans, Due to maintainance, the University of Twente mirror was brought down. The whole machine will be upgraded to apache 2.0.43 and the latest linux stuff. All hardware will be upgraded, and the new machine setup will be more fault-tolerant, since it is a clustered linux solution. I will try to bring it up before christmas, and since my boss encouraged me not to make any more hours this year for the University, I am pretty confident it will work.... Greetings, Gilbert. --- A TeX a day keeps word perfect away

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update swedish in lang-ger.tex?
by Mikael Persson 21 Dec '02

21 Dec '02

Hi there! I had a look at lang-ger.tex and it seems to need a update for the swedish language in the setuphead names. \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!tabellen=Tabellen] should be \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!tabellen=Tabeller] \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!figuren=Figuren] should be \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!figuren=Figurer] \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!grafieken=Grafiskt] should be \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!grafieken=Grafik] \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!intermezzos=Intermezzot] should be (I think) \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!intermezzos=Intermezzon] \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!index=Index] should be \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!index=Sakregister] \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!afkortingen=F\oumlaut rkortningen] should be \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!afkortingen=F\oumlaut rkortningar] \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!logos=Logo] should be (I think) \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!logos=Loggor] \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!eenheden=Enheten] should be \setupheadtext [\s!sv] [\v!eenheden=Enheter] \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!grafiek=Grafisk ] should be \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!grafiek=Grafik ] \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!regels=raden ] should be \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!regels=rader ] Then there were also some things that didn't have any swedish parts: \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!pagina=Sida ] \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!oppagina=p\aring\ sida ] \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!hierboven=se ovan] \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!hieronder=se nedan] \setuplabeltext [\s!sv] [\v!zie=se ] That was all I guess. I hope this makes sense, so I'm not looking in an obsolete file or something like that (I started learn ConTeXt just a week ago...). I also have some questions: 1) When I want to load swedish (so I get Innehållsförteckning instead of Contents and so on), how do I do? I read the manaual, but I didn't really understood how to do. I have tried this: * run texexec --lang sv en and then * \language[sv] in the file * \installlanguage[sv] But no luck. 2) Is there a way to make multiple pdf files output from one file. Say, I want to get one pdf for every page I have. (The reason I want this, is that I want to typeset some pictures in ConTeXt and then include them in my LaTeX project. I don't want to "convert" my LaTeX project (about 200 pages) into ConTeXt) So, what I want is something like: \starttext \startpdfpage[picture1] Stuff that will appear in picture1.pdf \stoppdfpage \startpdfpage[picture2] Stuff that will appear in picture2.pdf \stoppdfpage . . . \stoptext =========== Since this is my first post, I would also like to thank you for making ConTeXt available for free. If I could help with some swedish tranlations or similar I would be glad to. Regards, Mikael Persson

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Problem with figuretext in recent betas
by Michael Guravage 21 Dec '02

21 Dec '02

I have encountered a problem while compiling a document with figuretext; I have attached a small example that demonstrates the problem, and its accompanying log file. The problem occurs in the current beta: 2002.12.17, and the beta from 2002.12.01. The problem does not occur in the beta from 2002.10.23. Though it's only a minor annoyance, any advice would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Michael

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Re: [NTG-context] update swedish in lang-ger.tex?
by Hans Hagen 20 Dec '02

20 Dec '02

At 02:17 PM 12/20/2002 +0100, Tobias Burnus wrote: > > 2) Is there a way to make multiple pdf files output from one file. Say, > > I want to get one pdf for every page I have. (The reason I want this, is > > that I want to typeset some pictures in ConTeXt and then include them in > > my LaTeX project. I don't want to "convert" my LaTeX project (about 200 > > pages) into ConTeXt). > >Hmm. Maybe something like > >gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite >-sOutputFile="pdffile-%d.pdf" -c save pop -f pdffile.pdf > >is the fastest possibility. if you use pdftex, you can include any page from a pdf file, so there is no need to split the file, i'm sure that latex has something similar to \externalfigure[whatever.pdf][page=34] 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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UTF8 problems with Hangul Syllables
by Cho, Jin-Hwan 20 Dec '02

20 Dec '02

Here is my comment and question on the new feature of ConTeXt supporting the UTF8 encoding. Actually I tried to test the following short ConTeXt document containing two Korean characters. At the second line I used the Bitstream Cyberbit font and the corresponding TFM files were generated by ttf2tfm with Unicode.sfd (the same way as the UTF8 support in CJK-LaTeX). \enableregime [utf] \definefontsynonym [UnicodeRegular] [cyberb] \chardef\utfunihashmode=1 \starttext ^^eb^^bf^^a1 ^^ec^^80^^80 \stoptext Here, ^^eb^^bf^^a1 = U+BFE1 and ^^ec^^80^^80 = U+C000. 1. Without the third line (\chardef\utfunihashmode=1), I could not see any characters. Why? 2. After enabling \utfunihashmode, I could see the first character. But not the second character. The difference was that the value of \unidiv were 191 for the first character and 192 for the second character. In fact, all characters with \unidiv >= 192 and \unidiv <= 223 (from U+C000 to U+DFFF; half of Hangul Syllables) were not shown correctly. Why? Anyway, it is now possible to get a PDF file containing several different languages with ConTeXt + dvipdfmx. Furthermore, the texts in the PDF file can be searched and extracted. Bookmarks and text annotations too! I used the following map entry (usually in cid-x.map) for dvipdfmx. cyberb@Unicode@ Identity-H :0:cyberbit.ttf Best, ChoF. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** | Cho, Jin-Hwan == ChoF | ^ ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ o | Research Fellow | ~~~ | School of Mathematics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | Korea Institute for Advanced Study | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | chofchof(a)ktug.or.kr | | http://free.kaist.ac.kr/ChoF/ | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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DocBookInConTeXt customization?
by Gour 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

Hi! I'm interested how one can customize output when using DocBookInConTeXt module? With XSL DocBook stylesheets, one can pass certain parameters or build his own customization layer on the stylesheets, and thereby customize output. In README file it is stated: "The mapping translates the XML file internally to a context ..", so I'm interested (pls. excuse me if it's a stupid question) is it possible to just convert DocBook input file into ConTeXt format or/and how isone supposed to tailor output according to his/her preferences? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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Total sectioning number
by scarso luigi 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

Is there any mode to get the total number of chapters (or sections inside a chapter etc) as a counter, ie \newcount\TotalChapterCount \TotalChapterCount=..... ? (I need this to make some operations with \textwidth and other dimensions) thanks

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Bib bug
by Nigel King 18 Dec '02

18 Dec '02

The citations in my latest document show [56] for the number of the reference. This happens to be the number of documents in my bib file. The relevant commands in my various sources are:- \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database=/Users/nigelk/Library/texmf/tex/context/Nigel] \setuppublications [alternative=apa] \def\refwithbrackets#1{[#1]\quad} \setuppublications [numbering=yes,% refcommand=num,% numbercommand=\refwithbrackets,% sorttype=cite,% criterium=used,% autohang=yes,% align=right] \setuppublicationlist [after={\blank[medium]},% strut=yes,% offset=0pt] And in the document \cite[abc:01] And \placepublications The bib file is a standard old style bib file generated by bibdesk Is there something that I have done wrong? TIA -- Nigel

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Reference + footnote = bug
by Giuseppe Bilotta 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

... and a rather odd bug, too! \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext Some text \goto{text with footnote\footnote{here it is} showing the bug}[hook] \page[yes] Some text \reference[hook] referenced from before. \stoptext See how the word "footnote" is superscripted ... it's an odd bug indeed, and it almost seems the footnote can detect the previous word ... -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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\placecontent
by Willi Egger 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

Hi everybody, I am struggling.... Previously it was possible to place a toc with the command \placecontent within a block. Currently I am using: ConTeXt ver: 2002.12.2 fmt: 2002.12.9 int: english mes: english With the above mentioned version there is only a toc if placed outside the block. - Is there something changed or broken? Please see attachment. Kind regards Willi

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ConTeXt & poster
by Serge Stinckwich 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

Hi all, i would like to make a research poster (A1) with ConTeXt. Maybe someone here has already done it and got some examples ? Thanks! -- Serge Stinckwich -< ) multiagent.com Université de Caen>CNRS UMR 6072>GREYC>MAD /~\ squeak.org http://www.iutc3.unicaen.fr/serge/ (/ | zope.org Smalltalkers do: [:it | All with: Class, (And love: it)] _|_/ debian.org

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Re: shadowed frame in ConTeXt
by Hans Hagen 17 Dec '02

17 Dec '02

At 03:36 PM 12/17/2002 +0800, you wrote: >Is there any options to set shadowed frame (like the \usepackage{shadow} in > >(the \shadowbox in latex sets the shadow under the bottom and to right side >of the frame, sometimes we need to set the shadow in another place, >for example, right side and under the bottom, or over the top and right >side.) Take your choice \starttext \startbuffer \framed[background=shadow,frame=off]{Does it work} \vskip1cm \framed[background=shadow,frame=off,align=right]{Does\\it\\work} \vskip1cm \stopbuffer \defineoverlay[shadow][\uniqueMPgraphic{shadow}] \startuniqueMPgraphic{xshadow} linejoin := butt ; fill OverlayBox shifted (2pt,-2pt) withpen pencircle scaled 2pt withcolor .7white ; fill OverlayBox withcolor white ; draw OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2pt withcolor .3white ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox enlarged 4pt ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \getbuffer \startuniqueMPgraphic{xshadow} linejoin := butt ; draw (urcorner OverlayBox -- lrcorner OverlayBox -- llcorner Overlaybox) shifted (2pt,-2pt) withpen pencircle scaled 2pt withcolor .9white ; draw OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2pt withcolor .3white ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox enlarged 4pt ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \getbuffer \startuniqueMPgraphic{shadow} linejoin := butt ; linecap := squared ; draw (bottomboundary OverlayBox & rightboundary OverlayBox) shifted (2pt,-2pt) withpen pencircle scaled 2pt withcolor .9white ; draw OverlayBox withpen pencircle scaled 2pt withcolor .3white ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox enlarged 4pt ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \getbuffer \stoptext ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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chinese font setup
by Matthew Huggett 16 Dec '02

16 Dec '02

A few weeks back, there was a short exchange on this list regarding utilities for preparing chinese fonts for ConTeXt. One of the postings provided a link to some new utilities. I've since downloaded the file there (gbkfonts-linux-0.2.tar.gz) but am unsure as to how to proceed. If anyone with experience in this area could provide some advice, I'd appreciate it. Thanks, Matt -- ------------------------------------ Matthew Huggett Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken Japan mhuggett(a)zam.att.ne.jp

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context on solaris
by Tomasz Kosinski 16 Dec '02

16 Dec '02

Hope this is the right place to ask...I have used, very gratefully, ConTeXt for the past few years on my Debian GNU/Linux system, and sometimes, when possible, I have installed it on client's/employer's Windows computers, using MikTeX. Maybe I have to change my OS from Debian to Solaris, on an Intelx86 machine, and so I would like to know if anyone has been using ConTeXt in that environment, or, if there is any reason to expect that it might or might not work. I noticed in the teTeX download page: http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/search/tetex.html that pre-compiled binaries are available for Solaris running on Sparc computers, but it doesn't say anything about x86 machines. Any thoughts would be very much appreciated - non-programmer, end-user writing. By the way, my occupation is architect (buildings) and I use ConTeXt for all kinds of document preparation - office work, correspondence, presentations, etc. I recently received a reply to a proposal which I submitted, which included the following: > Thanks, I'll be back in touch. > Robin > PS most beautiful proposal ever! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Maybe the enthusiasm is a bit exaggerated, but, to the extent that there is truth in the sentiment, credit is largely due to ConTeXt, ConTeXt's author, and to the many on this list who have helped out over the years. Regards, rb

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Re: block the header and footer on the first page of a chapter
by Hans Hagen 16 Dec '02

16 Dec '02

At 04:22 PM 12/16/2002 +0800, you wrote: >How to block the header (and footer) setting in the first page of a chapter? >I designed my own >header, but the header texts and footer texts are still there, if they are >blocked, >then the layout will be nice. \setuphead [chapter] [header=empty, footer=empty] 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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Chinese font files
by Matthew Huggett 16 Dec '02

16 Dec '02

Hi, I've installed the simplified chinese fonts from ftp.ctex.org (ttf,tfm,enc and map file), and TeX seems to be able to find the .enc files but pdftex complains about not being able to open the ttf files. What's the correct location in the texmf-local tree for the ttf files? Below is my context log file: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.3.1) (format=cont-en 2002.12.13) 16 DEC 2002 11:44 entering extended mode **&cont-en ChinTest.tex (./ChinTest.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ... specials : fdf,tpd loaded system : macros of module chinese loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/s-chi-00.tex encoding : coding gbk encoding : coding big5 encoding : coding gbk encoding : coding big5 (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/type-pre.tex) bodyfont : variant chi is loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/font-chi.tex loading : Context Font Macros / Chinese encoding : coding chi is loaded (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/enco-chi.tex encoding : coding big5 encoding : coding gbk ))) system : no macros found in module chi-simplified encoding : coding gbk encoding : coding big5 encoding : coding gbk encoding : coding big5 (./ChinTest.tuo) (./ChinTest.tuo) systems : begin file ChinTest at line 5 [1.1{/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map): invalid entry for `rtxphvbo': SlantFont/ExtendFont can be used only with embedded T1 fonts Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map): invalid entry for `rtxphvro': SlantFont/ExtendFont can be used only with embedded T1 fonts Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map): invalid entry for `rtxptmbo': SlantFont/ExtendFont can be used only with embedded T1 fonts Warning: pdfetex (file /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map): invalid entry for `rtxptmro': SlantFont/ExtendFont can be used only with embedded T1 fonts }{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/gbk.map}] systems : end file ChinTest at line 13 ) ... {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-b8.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-c2.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-c3.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-ba.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-c4.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-c8.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-b9.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-d6.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-ca.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading {/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/chinese/enc/Gbk/GBK-ce.enc} Warning: pdfetex (file htsong.ttf): cannot open TrueType font file for reading </usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr12.pfb> Output written on ChinTest.pdf (1 page, 7263 bytes). thanks, Matt -- -------------------------------------- Matthew Huggett Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken Japan mhuggett(a)zam.att.ne.jp

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DocbookInContext: new version uploaded
by Simon Pepping 15 Dec '02

15 Dec '02

Hi, I have just uploaded a new version of DocbookInContext. This version enables input with latin-1 and utf-8 encodings and has an implementation of blockquote. epigraph will come later. The distribution can be found at the usual place, www.hobby.nl/~scaprea/context/. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping(a)scaprea.hobby.nl

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cont-sys.tex or cont-sys.rme?
by Emil Hedevang Lohse 14 Dec '02

14 Dec '02

In the installation manual (minstall.pdf) it is said that if I want to change the defaults, I have to edit the 'cont-sys.tex' file to, say, enable '\setupoutput[pdftex]' as default. However, I cannot find the file. I am using teTeX from Debian 3.0, and when I run 'locate cont-sys' (after a 'updatedb') I get emil:~# updatedb emil:~# locate cont-sys /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-sys.ori /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme Is this a bug in the installation manual? Note that it make the changes suggested in minstall.pdf in the cont-sys.rme file; is this the correct thing to do? Regards, Emil -- 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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lucida
by Siep 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

How do I turn on Lucida Bright for an entire document? The TeX-installation contains hl... and lb... tfms and lb... pfbs. -- Siep Kroonenberg siep(a)elvenkind.com

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ConTeXt or Omega?
by Matthew Huggett 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

Hi: I know that some people are using ConTeXt with Omega. What's the benefit to using Omega instead of a native ConTeXt module? Is it better to develop ConTeXt's language handling capablilities (as with the Chinese package) or use Omega OTPs? Thanks, Matt

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page breakes in \bTD \eTD / \chapter in \bTD
by Tobias Burnus 13 Dec '02

13 Dec '02

Hi, I try to HTML->PDF some HTML pages using ConTeXt. Unfortunally, some of them contain tables for layout reasons. Seemingly there is no pagebreak possible within a \bTD. Any ideas what to do in this case? An additional problem is that <td><h2>foo</h2></td> appear. which gets translated as: \defineXMLsingular[h2] \section \defineXMLenvironment[table] \bTABLE \eTABLE \defineXMLnested[tr] \bTR \eTR \defineXMLnested[td] \bTD \eTD \defineXMLnested[th] \bTH \eTH How should I define "h2" in order to get a section (bookmarks, table of contents) within that bTD ... eTD, currently 'foo' is rendered in the normal textsize. Tobias PS: If you want to play with the very premature version: http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/~tburnus/html2pdf-2/?url1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.p… -- This above all: To thine own self be true / And it must follow as the night the day / Thou canst not then be false to any man.

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About texmf.cnf
by Eduardo Cassiraga 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Hi: My latex-context installation have not the "texmf.cnf" file so I can´t to enable \write18 in order ti run the presentation's styles correctly. Is this a problem of my system? If the "texmf.cnf" must be on my PC, where could I get it, please? Thank you very much. Eduardo F. Cassiraga Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente Universidad Politécnica de Valencia C/. Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia - SPAIN Tel: +34 963 879 613 Fax: +34 963 877 618 E-mail: efc(a)dihma.upv.es

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MPOST enabled
by Eduardo Cassiraga 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Hi: I am trying to compile the follow file with context: \usemodule[pre-03] \starttext \TitlePage{A simple presentation} \Topics{Hola1} \Topic{Hola2} \Topic{Hola3} \Subject{Hola4} \Subject{Hola5} \stoptext And the results are not good. The *.log file is the attachment. I can read some "error" sentences about a mpost. Could somebody give me an advise, please? Thank you very much. Eduardo F. Cassiraga Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente Universidad Politécnica de Valencia C/. Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia - SPAIN Tel: +34 963 879 613 Fax: +34 963 877 618 E-mail: efc(a)dihma.upv.es

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m-bib: simple references not working
by Rob van Swol 11 Dec '02

11 Dec '02

Hi, I am trying to get my document references right using the m-bib module. All kind of options I played with are doing fine except for the most simple one, which happens to be the one I prefer. Consider de following test document: \setupoutput[pdftex] \usemodule[bib] \startpublication[k=r1] \artauthor[]{Peter}[P.]{}{Peters} \arttitle{Document 1} \stoppublication \startpublication[k=r2] \artauthor[]{Jan}[J.]{de}{Vries} \arttitle{Document 2} \stoppublication \setuppublications[numbering=yes,refcommand=num] \setupcite[num][compress=no] \starttext This is reference two: \cite[r2]. And this is reference one: \cite[r1]. Both references: \cite[num][r1,r2]. \placepublications \stoptext It produces: This is reference two: [2]. And this is reference one: [2]. Both references: [2, 2]. 1 de Vries, J..Document 2. . 2 Peters, P..Document 1. . I always get a reference to document n where n is the number of documents referred to. This is the tui file: c \thisissectionseparator{:} c \thisisutilityversion{1998.12.20} f b {bibtest} c \initializevariable\usedcolorchannels{} c \listentry{pubs}{1}{1}{\typesetapublication {r2}}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::1}{1} c \listentry{pubs}{2}{2}{\typesetapublication {r1}}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::1}{1} c \mainreference{}{r2}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::1}{1}{\bibcounter } c \mainreference{}{r1}{2::0:0:0:0:0:0:0::1}{1}{\bibcounter } f e {bibtest} c \initializevariable\lastpage{1} c \initializevariable\lastpagenumber{1} c \initializevariable\totalnumberofMPgraphics{0} c \initializevariable\totalnofpositions{0} c \initializevariable\totalnofparbackgrounds{0} c \initializevariable\currentstrategypass{1} Do we have a bug here or is it something that I don't understand? Regards, Rob -- _____________________________________________________________ Rob W. van Swol National Aerospace Laboratory NLR Tel. +31 527 248252 P.O. Box 153 Fax +31 527 248210 8300 AD Emmeloord E-Mail vanswol(a)nlr.nl The Netherlands http://www.neonet.nl/

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extra spacing
by Hans van der Meer 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

With math followed by a \crlf extra spacing is introduced in the math. For example: Test \crlf (1) inverse $b\rightarrow b^{-1}$ \crlf (2) inverse $b\rightarrow b^{-1}$\hfill\null \crlf (3) inverse $b\rightarrow b^{-1}$ In line (1) extra white is introduced around the white arrow. In line (2) the fix is given, allthough not a problem ii is a nuisance. In line (3) one sees it is the \crlf that lets the math expand because here no extra white. Is this a feature or has this phenomenon escaped attention hitherto? Hans van der Meer

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utf 8 / test file
by Hans Hagen 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Hi, I posted http://www.pragma-ade.com/temp/titus.pdf now, one thing with unicode (utf) is that support needs to have an associated font / language switch. Traditionally, tex font mechanisms have been complicated by the fact that there are many shapes per font and math has to be dealt with. If we're dealing with say sanskrit, is it then safe to assume that (1) we can switch to the language (if not yet done) when we encounter a unicode from the associated char/glyph range (2) can we assume that a relatively simple font mechanism is used (normal,bold,slanted) (3) can we assume that only a few (possibly derived from unicode) fonts are used, or at least one main type of font per language (4) can we standardize on utf-8 [and assume some preprocessor if not] [let's try to deal with the practical, so what's the practical usage] 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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Presentation that use metafun
by Eduardo Cassiraga 10 Dec '02

10 Dec '02

Hi: I have generated all formats with: texexec --make --alone Now, I am trying to compile the presentation that Hans include in context distribution. The results with original style are perfect but those style that include metafun graphics didn't work. I uncomment the line \runMPgraphicstrue in the cong-sys.tex file (as indicate in the presentation user's guide) but the results are not good. ¿Which is the rigth site of conf-sys.tex file? ¿c:\textmf\context\config\? Thanks a lot. Eduardo F. Cassiraga Departamento de Ingeniería Hidráulica y Medio Ambiente Universidad Politécnica de Valencia C/. Camino de Vera, s/n 46022 Valencia - SPAIN Tel: +34 963 879 613 Fax: +34 963 877 618 E-mail: efc(a)dihma.upv.es

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how to use system fonts?
by Michael Na Li 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

I've read the relevant docs (mfonts.pdf, etc) but still can't figure out how to switch fonts in context. In LaTeX, I just use \usepackage{times} or \usepackage{utopia} to switch fonts (just the basic ones came with tetex). I expect something similar in ConTeXt but that is not the case. This compiles but doesn't have any effect on fonts, (unknown variant times and utopia). \setupbodyfont[times] \starttext This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \switchtobodyfont[utopia] This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \stoptext If I follow the instruction on http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html and I can create some type-x.tex file for the fonts, like \usetypescriptfile[type-charter] \usetypescriptfile[type-utopia] \usetypescript[Charter] \usetypescript[Utopia] \setupbodyfont[MyCharter] \starttext This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \switchtobodyfont[MyUtopia] This is roman, {\bf bold}, {\it italic}, {\bi bold-italic}, {\tfa bigger} and {\tfx smaller}. \stoptext But shouldn't those typescripts be already set up? I'm not installing new fonts here. I can see the names 'times', 'helvet', 'palatino' etc in the system type-*.tex file and those files are read during the compilation. How can I use them? I have \usetypescript [map] [default,\defaultencoding] \usetypescript [berry] [\defaultencoding] in my $TEXMF/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex file. Thanks, Michael -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Na Li Email: lina(a)u.washington.edu Department of Biostatistics, Box 357232 University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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texexec
by Matthew Huggett 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

Hi: I just re-installed TeX (fpTeX) and I have a question about running texexec. I've followed the instructions in the texexec manual--i.e., customized and copied texexec.rme to texexec.ini-- but I still get the following error when I run texexec: locating ini file : not found by kpsewhich locating ini file : not found by searching locating ini file : no environment variable set locating ini file : not found in own path warning : texexec.ini not found, did you read 'texexec.rme'? the context/perltk directory is in my path. Any ideas as to what I'm missing? thanks in advance Matt

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Latest beta killed cross-referencing?
by Giuseppe Bilotta 09 Dec '02

09 Dec '02

Hello, I just downloaded the latest beta --and it seems it won't generate cross refs anymore. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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