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

07 Sep '03

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

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

06 Sep '03

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

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

06 Sep '03

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

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

05 Sep '03

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

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texfont / typescripts
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

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

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

05 Sep '03

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

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box, strut
by Patrick Gundlach 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

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

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\setupheadertexts
by John Culleton 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

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

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spacing in heads
by Patrick Gundlach 05 Sep '03

05 Sep '03

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

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ConTeXt project structure?
by Gerben Wierda 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

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

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strange itemize
by Patrick Gundlach 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

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

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

04 Sep '03

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

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\digits
by Patrick Gundlach 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

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

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MetaPost error
by ^Nitram^ 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

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

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

04 Sep '03

At 14:00 04/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Hello Mari, > >On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > > Mari Voipio <mari.voipio(a)iki.fi> writes: > > > Or something I should put around the command? > > > > You could put "math mode" ($\Omega$) around the command. But I am not > > sure if this will be taken from the default font. At least it is a > > workaround. > >I think, math mode is set up in the typescripts you use. If you use none >explicitely, you probably get computer modern (roman in text, math (italic?) >in math mode, so they are probably different). > >For the case you want the same style as in the text, and you know, which >font you are using, you can use something like the following to get a table >of available characters (to see, whether an Omega is available in your font, >and to note its character code) and then use its character code for the >macro \getglyph (first argument is the fontname, second the character >code). The following gets me an omega with the default font selection >(Serif is in this case cmr10): > >\starttext >\showfont[Serif] >The character: ''\getglyph{Serif}{10}'' >\stoptext this can be smoothed by: \definesymbol [omega] [\getglyph{Serif}{10}] ... \symbol[omega] ... in symb-*.tex you can see how to define symbols that adapt to the style; btw, such glyph calls also automatically scale with the font scaling mechanism Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: AW: [NTG-context] Re: Answer too obvious?
by Hans Hagen 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

At 16:07 04/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Patrick, > >I hope so, too. Thank's for looking into it. in cont-new.tex add: (after the \unprotect): \unexpanded\def\referencepagenumber[#1]% {\doifelsenothing{#1}{?} {\preparepaginaprefix\??rf\paginaprefix\??rf[#1]\translatednumber[#1]}} then in your doc: \setupreferencing [partnumber=yes] shpuld work (many other commands have thsi feature; somehow it got lost in refs Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Problems with ConTeXt - anybody can help ?
by Hans Hagen 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

At 11:49 04/09/2003 +0200, you wrote: >Hello > >I have miktex 2.3 - work fine with built-in ConTeXt... >When I updated ConTeXt from zip file occurs errors in every run of texexec - >I attached log file... > >Anybody help me ?... looks like you still use the old format with a new cont-new.tex; try to locate the format file (efmt), delete it and generate a new one Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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next dante / gutenberg meeting
by Hans Hagen 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

Hi, Next week at the dante meeting in Giessen (very nice place, see www.dante.de) there will be a tutorial on context (mainly by Patrick). A few days after that in france (gutenberg meeting) there will also be a tutorial. Coming saturday here is a whole day tutorial in Darmstadt (by me). So .. if you live near there and are desparate ... Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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A change in ConTeXt content-lists?
by Michal Kvasnicka 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

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

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

04 Sep '03

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

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

04 Sep '03

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

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Greek letters?
by Mari Voipio 04 Sep '03

04 Sep '03

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

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

04 Sep '03

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

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

04 Sep '03

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

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

04 Sep '03

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

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