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Disable Metapost rendering?
by SebastianSturm＠t-online.de 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Hi, I really like ConTeXt's MP processing features, but as soon as I include more than five or six MP graphics in a document, typesetting slows down to a crawl. As far as I know, the PSTricks package has some option to only process a given range of the figures defined in the TeX file and reuse the existing output for the other ones. Is there a similar function in ConTeXt? Some global command like \donotrerender[1-n] would be great, a processing tag for each figure like \startuseMPgraphic{...}[rerender=no] would be perfect. Best regards, Sebastian Sturm

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Re: unicode editor? [please forward]
by Giuseppe Bilotta 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

Monday, July 26, 2004 ishamid wrote: > [for forwarding to the list] > Dear knights of the round table, > I generally do my Arabic work in Aleph/eomega in Latin transcription mode, but > things are at a point now where I would like to code TeX using unicode (and a > unicode otp filter). Now I use WinEdT and really love it (I even designed > buttons for for a few functions), but the maintainer has indicated that it > will be quite some time before WinEdT supports unicode+right-to-left > typesetting. Are any of you aware of a good multi-platform (thinking of > switching to Linux again) unicode editor? (and no, at this time I'm not ready > to spend months (re-)learning/fighting/cursing XEmacs;-> (could never get MULE > to work anyway...)) I personally use ViM, even though its support for TeX & friends is very limited. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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RE: [NTG-context] unicode editor?
by ishamid 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

>What about Mined http://towo.net/mined/ ? >It's utf-8 and right to left. >Untested ;). Drat! it runs from a terminal:-(( Oh well, I'll try it anyway... Best Idris

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[Fwd: unicode editor? [please forward]]
by Hans Hagen Outside 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

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[Fwd: SciTE? [please forward]]
by Hans Hagen Outside 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

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[Fwd: \setuppagenumbering problem [Please Forward]]
by Hans Hagen Outside 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

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[Fwd: ocplist interactions [please forward]]
by Hans Hagen Outside 26 Jul '04

26 Jul '04

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Strange error ...
by Willi Egger 25 Jul '04

25 Jul '04

Hi, I got a simple drawing madeup in Metapost, which is then compiled into a pdf file with context. Now that I want to include this graphic in a text I stumble over the following: pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2c 7.5.2) ConTeXt ver: 2004.6.30 fmt: 2004.7.21 Error: PDF version 1.5 -- xpdf supports version 1.4 (continuing anyway) Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table... Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary Error: Couldn't read xref table subsubject : - De tekst op het Gabarit Error: pdfetex.exe (file ./gabarit.pdf): xpdf: reading PDF image failed ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! Does anybody have a clue what happens? Kind regards Willi

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Problems with left and right
by Matt Gushee 25 Jul '04

25 Jul '04

Hello-- I have noticed a couple of cases where ConTeXt macros seem to have confused left and right sides: 1) I want to format some text in two columns, where the left column is right-aligned and the right column is left-aligned. I found I had to do this: \defineparagraphs [ingredient] [n=2, before={\blank[small]},after={\blank[small]}] \setupparagraphs [ingredient] [1] [width=.16\textwidth,align=left,style=bold] 2) In order to format format headers for a book so that the book title appears on the left-hand page and the section title on the right, I had to do this: \setupheadertexts [] [section] [title] [] ... which, as I read the documentation, is in the opposite order to what it should be. Is this a bug in ConTeXt, or have I misconfigured something? -- Matt Gushee When a nation follows the Way, Englewood, Colorado, USA Horses bear manure through mgushee(a)havenrock.com its fields; http://www.havenrock.com/ When a nation ignores the Way, Horses bear soldiers through its streets. --Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, trans.)

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key=value parameters
by Vit Zyka 24 Jul '04

24 Jul '04

Hallo ConTeXters, I am playing with defining my own macro with key=value parameters. Please, consider definition: \def\setupField[#1]#2[#3]{\getparameters[Field!#1!][#3]} \setupField[name][mykey=value,textwidth=2cm] If you let ConTeXt to show the values by \message{ <mykey=\getvalue{Field!name!mykey}> <textwidth=\getvalue{Field!name!textwidth}> <tekstbreedte=\getvalue{Field!name!tekstbreedte}> } you obtain <mykey=value> <textwidth=\Field!name!textwidth > <tekstbreedte=2cm> While 'mykey' is OK, predefined keys (like textwidth, text, style, ...) lead to undefined parameter, that behave like \relax. I can imagine next solutions: 1) Do not use predefined keys in my macros, e.g. textWidth instead of textwidth [=user unfriendly]. 2) Use original (mostly Dutch) keys inside of my macros [=developer unfriendly]. 3) Define: \unprotect \def\getparametersALL{\dogetparameters\dosetvalueALL} \def\dosetvalueALL#1#2{\@EA\def\csname#1#2\endcsname} \protect and use: \def\setupField[#1]#2[#3]{\getparametersALL[Field!#1!][#3]} \setupField[name][mykey=value,textwidth=2cm] \message{ <mykey=\getvalue{Field!name!mykey}> <textwidth=\getvalue{Field!name!textwidth}> <tekstbreedte=\getvalue{Field!name!tekstbreedte}> } it gives: <mykey=value> <textwidth=2cm> <tekstbreedte=\Field!enname!tekstbreedte> Is there any other (more elegant and not-so-dirty) solution? Thankx Vit Zyka

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(no subject)
by Matt Gushee 24 Jul '04

24 Jul '04

@havenrock.com Subject: Re: [NTG-context] new mailinglist archive Message-ID: <20040724152852.GB18318@swordfish> Reply-To: Matt Gushee <mgushee(a)havenrock.com> References: <m2k6wtd6up.fsf(a)levana.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <m2k6wtd6up.fsf(a)levana.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: <mgushee(a)havenrock.com> On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 12:42:22PM +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > I have also setup yet another mailinglist archive. I am currently > testing it. Thank you! I'm sure this will be a great help. -- Matt Gushee When a nation follows the Way, Englewood, Colorado, USA Horses bear manure through mgushee(a)havenrock.com its fields; http://www.havenrock.com/ When a nation ignores the Way, Horses bear soldiers through its streets. --Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, trans.)

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new mailinglist archive
by Patrick Gundlach 24 Jul '04

24 Jul '04

Hello again, I have also setup yet another mailinglist archive. I am currently testing it. It is located at http://archive.contextgarden.net Why yet another archive? * all (?) messages from May 1 1998 upto now are archived * searchable * quick the ntg archive is not searchable and has only the newest messages, gmane seems to have only the recent messages (but has a nice user interface) and Slavek Zak's one has only very old messages. If anybody has messages from 1997 to May 1998, please contact me off list. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net texshow-web: http://texshow.contextgarden.net

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new wiki
by Patrick Gundlach 24 Jul '04

24 Jul '04

Dear ConTeXt users, I have started the new wiki. All pages from the old one have moved to the new location, except for some user-pages (still to be done). Also, there is a new location for texshow-web. (as usual, please send me *any* kind of comment). Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net texshow-web: http://texshow.contextgarden.net

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side figure and typing
by jimarin＠bayesinf.com 24 Jul '04

24 Jul '04

Hi all ! let us imagine we have defined the following command: \def\SideFigure#1#2#3#4#5% { \placefigure[#1]{#2}{\externalfigure[#3][width=#4\makeupwidth]} #5 } which can be used to put a figure aside a companion text... but, what happens if the text is to be typed... ?? I guess this won't work: \SideFigure{right}{pack2}{../figures/tcltk/pack2.jpg}{0.25} { \starttyping pack .ok .cancel .help -side top \stoptyping } How can I make it to work? thanks ! ------------------------------------------------- Jose Ignacio Marín Alberdi Bayes Inference, S.A. c/ Gran Vía, Nº39, 5º, E-28013 MADRID Tfn (91) 532.74.40, Fax (91) 532.26.36 ------------------------------------------------- email: jimarin(a)bayesinf.com -------------------------------------------------

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More about that footnote problem...
by Idris Samawi Hamid 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

Dear crew, Here is a concrete example that illustrates the footnote problem. As usual, just compile a ConTeXt format under eomega: ===============mix-dir-foot.tex=========== \input m-gamma.tex \input type-omg.tex \setupbodyfont[omlgc,12pt] \starttext \dorecurse{5}{\input knuth\footnote{test}\par} \startarab \dorecurse{3}{hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN\footnote{hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN}\par} \blank[big] \dorecurse{3}{hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN% \footnote{% \startarab % hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN % \stoparab} \par} \blank[big] \setupfootnotes[numbercommand={\switchtobodyfont[omarb]}] \dorecurse{3}{hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN% \footnote{% \startarab % hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN % \stoparab} \par} \stoparab \stoptext ========================================== Again, the document is globally left-to-right, but for right-to-left documents I want the footnote markers in the right margin, and the rule flush right as well. The relative local eomega direction commands are \textdir TLT (LR text) \pardir TLT (LR paragraphs) \textdir TRT (RL text) \pardir TRT (RL paragraphs) though they are not really needed to create parameter options that give me what I want. I played around with some of the macros in core-not.tex but that stuff is way over my ahead and I could not make any progress:-( NOTE: in the second set of RL footnotes, note that the footnote markers get pushed into the textblock. In the third set of RL fotnotes, we get Arabic markers using \setupfootnotes[numbercommand={\switchtobodyfont[omarab]}] but then we lose the default \setupfootnotes[numbercommand=\high] and the Arabic-script numerals are again pushed into the textblock. I look forward to your suggestions Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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More about that footnote problem...
by ishamid 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

Dear crew, Here is a concrete example that illustrates the footnote problem. As usual, just compile a ConTeXt format under eomega: ===============mix-dir-foot.tex=========== \input m-gamma.tex \input type-omg.tex \setupbodyfont[omlgc,12pt] \starttext \dorecurse{5}{\input knuth\footnote{test}\par} \startarab \dorecurse{3}{hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN\footnote{hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN}\par} \blank[big] \dorecurse{3}{hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN% \footnote{% \startarab % hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN % \stoparab} \par} \blank[big] \setupfootnotes[numbercommand={\switchtobodyfont[omarb]}] \dorecurse{3}{hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN% \footnote{% \startarab % hAdhA 'iimtiHAnuN % \stoparab} \par} \stoparab \stoptext ========================================== Again, the document is globally left-to-right, but for right-to-left documents I want the footnote markers in the right margin, and the rule flush right as well. The relative local eomega direction commands are \textdir TLT (LR text) \pardir TLT (LR paragraphs) \textdir TRT (RL text) \pardir TRT (RL paragraphs) though they are not really needed to create parameter options that give me what I want. I played around with some of the macros in core-not.tex but that stuff is way over my ahead and I could not make any progress:-( NOTE: in the second set of RL footnotes, note that the footnote markers get pushed into the textblock. In the third set of RL fotnotes, we get Arabic markers using \setupfootnotes[numbercommand={\switchtobodyfont[omarab]}] but then we lose the default \setupfootnotes[numbercommand=\high] and the Arabic-script numerals are again pushed into the textblock. I look forward to your suggestions Best Idris

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How to read syntax descriptions
by Salman Khilji 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

In the beginner's manual, we have for \startitemize the following: \startitemize[..,..,..][..,..=..,..] ... \stopitemize I was wondering how do you read this in english? Based on the examples, am I correct to say the following? 1) The \startitemize is optionally followed by a comma separated list of parameters enclosed in brackets. 2) Then a set of key-value pairs enclosed in brackets follows. Again this is optional. If this is correct, then what about \setupitemize?. It says \setupitemize[.1.][..,.2.,..][..,..=..,..] So again let me guess .1. stands for a number The third set could be key-value pairs What about the set in the middle? Can we have an explanation for these please. Salman

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\definelinefield
by Vit Zyka 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

Hallo Hans, according to widget manual and logic of the rest fields I think that definition of \definelinefield (in core-fld.tex) should be \def\definelinefield#1#2#3#4#5% {\setfield{#1}{#2}{}{}{\@@DriverFieldKids}{#3}{\@@DriverFieldMode\@@DriverFieldFree\@@DriverFieldAuto}{}{#5}} instead of \def\definelinefield#1#2#3#4#5% {\setfield{#1}{#2}{}{}{\@@DriverFieldKids}{#3}{\@@DriverFieldMode\@@DriverFieldFree\@@DriverFieldAuto}{}{#4}} (it means #4 -> #5, dafault form value is in the #5 parameter not $4) Vit Zyka

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continuous numbering over components?
by Marko Schütz 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

Hi, I have a project containing products containing components. For one of the products I want to achieve a continuous numbering (as I get when `texexec`ing the product file) but I want a single pdf per component. I expect that there is an elegant solution, but didn't find it yet. So any hint is appreciated. Thanks, Marko -- Dr. Marko Schütz Lecturer University of the South Pacific Dept. of Mathematics and Computing Science Suva, Fiji Islands Phone office: +679 3212325 fax: +679 3303544 mobile: +679 9292044 schutz_m(a)usp.ac.fj

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Re:
by Ishamid 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

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ftp mirror
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Hi all, I've been away from context for a while - is there currently an ftp mirror of pragma-ade.com? The old ones mentioned in the list archive don't work anymore. Regards, Eckhart

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Re:
by Ishamid 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

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FLOWlines with offset to shapes
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Hi, is there a way to let connection lines in FLOWcharts start and end not directly at the shape border, but with a certain offset. I tried \setupFLOWlines[offset=...], but without effect. -- Eckhart

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Re: [NTG-context] Problem with Figures (Fixed)
by skhilji＠tampabay.rr.com 19 Jul '04

19 Jul '04

----- Original Message ----- From: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban(a)fiee.net> Date: Saturday, July 17, 2004 9:08 am Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Problem with Figures (Fixed) > > > That's because you use \placefigure - it must know what your > figure is. > In this case, this bug or typo ought to be fixed in the beginner's manual.

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How to use m-cweb module
by skhilji＠tampabay.rr.com 17 Jul '04

17 Jul '04

I was looking at the CWEB demo off the pdfTeX page. Can someone please tell me how I would use the m-cweb package on TeX, the program web file. The first step would be to create the tex file itself using 'weave tex.web' Than I suppose I have to create an input file for conTeXt. What would be the contents of this file and mods do I have to make to tex.tex before I run it through texexec? Also I am interested in the screen optimized version of it. Salman

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