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switching to pfb-font of font
by R. Ermers 16 Jul '03

16 Jul '03

Dear Contex'ers, Do you by any chance know how to change to the postscript version of a given font? To be more specific: I am working with Arabtex, whose author K. Lagally, advises using the postscript fonts, made by Taco Hoekwater, but does not describe how. It should be easy, though. I have installed everything, ArabTex works perfect, the regular font is fine and works allright for modest purposes, but I need to produce high-quality output soon. Thanks for any help in advance. Kind regards, Robert Ermers

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symbols in CONTEXT
by Gonçalo Morais 15 Jul '03

15 Jul '03

I used to use in LaTeX the symbol with the code \mathbb{R} for representing the set of real numbers. I would like to know how can I do it when I am using CONTEXT. Thanks Gonçalo -------------------------------------------- IPLNet WebMail http://www.mail.ipl.pt -------------------------------------------- "Campus Virtual" do IPL - Aguarda aprovação! http://www.net.ipl.pt/index.html#WIRELESS --------------------------------------------

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samples with bibliography needed
by Gour 14 Jul '03

14 Jul '03

Hi! In order to try to provide *.bib support in dbcontext package, we need some good samples of ConTeXt files with biliography entries to see how the transformation from Docbook to ConTeXt via XSLT should look like. Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Gour ps. Of course, submitted material will be used for development purposes only. -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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Re: [NTG-context] bib module/cite (Context bug)
by Hans Hagen 14 Jul '03

14 Jul '03

At 15:01 11/07/2003 +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote: >Hi Martin, Hans, rest of the group, > >It took me a while to track down this bug. It is actually a bug in >the definition of \sortcommacommand in newer ConTeXt-es. > >Minimal example: > >\def\mylist{1,2,3} >\sortcommacommand[\mylist]\donumericcompare >\message{\sortedcommalist} % reports 1,2 !! Two patches are needed in syst-ext.tex: (1) change last line in: \def\docompareitems#1% {\doifnotempty{#1} {\@EA\comparecommand\@EA{\!!tempa}{#1}\relax \ifnum\comparedresult<2 \ifnum\scratchcounter=\commalistsize \@EA\@EA\@EA\def\@EA\@EA\@EA\sortedcommalist \@EA\@EA\@EA{\@EA\sortedcommalist\@EA,\!!tempa}% \fi \else % old element larger \@EA\def\@EA\newcommalistelement\@EA{\!!tempa,#1}% \replaceincommalist\sortedcommalist\scratchcounter \expandafter\quitcommalist \fi}% \advance\scratchcounter \plusone} % ! ! ! (2) handle n=1 case in: \def\sortcommalist[#1]#2% {\getcommalistsize[#1]% \ifnum\commalistsize>1 \let\sortedcommalist\empty \let\comparecommand#2% \processcommalist[#1]\dosortcommacommand \else \def\sortedcommalist{#1}% \fi} Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Newbie screwed up his installation
by Thomas A.Schmitz 14 Jul '03

14 Jul '03

Hi, I must have completely screwed up my Context installation--files that typeset OK yesterday now won't compile anymore, even for three-liners, I get this error: ! Undefined control sequence. \ejectinsert ...group \noftopfloats \plusthousand \nofbotfloats \zerocount \... \@@pe:last ->\ejectinsert \gotonextpageX \relax \doifbothsidesoverruled \naa... \next1 #1,->\executepagebreakhandler {#1} \doprocesscommaitem \doprocesscommalist ...item \gobbleoneargument #1, ]\relax \global \advance \... <argument> ...ecutepagebreakhandlers {\v!laatste } \egroup \firstofoneargument #1->#1 ... l.9 \stoptext I'm not aware of having installed or modified anything in my installation. Sorry, this is probably a stupid question, I must be missing someting obvious, but could anyone help? Thanks Thomas

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new trickery / acrobat 6
by Hans Hagen 12 Jul '03

12 Jul '03

Hi, Here are some new thingies for pdf freaks: \setupinteraction[state=start] \useattachment[whatever][test.tex] % \setupattachments[\c!symbool={symbol-normal,symbol-down}] \starttext \attachment[whatever] \stoptext This will embed a file and works ok in acrobat <=6. If you have acrobat 6, there is now some rudimentary support for pdf-layering. http://www.pragma-ade.com/temp/pre-dtp.pdf http://www.pragma-ade.com/temp/layers.pdf In acrobat 6, there is a layers tab on the left end of the screen. The pre-dtp file only has layers enabled on the page that talks about layers (fyi, this is the presentation i used for eurotex). Not to be redistributed! ... and of course a new beta, take your most complex document, process it with \showlayoutcomponents, and you'll get access to all text/graphic layers that are in there. Nice for debugging. 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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Runtime graphics
by Pierre VINET 11 Jul '03

11 Jul '03

Hi, I run this simple test file test.tex : %&cont-en \setupoutput[pdftex] \runMPgraphicstrue \starttext \startMPrun input graphserieA \stopMPrun \externalfigure[mprun.1] \externalfigure[mprun.2] % \startMPrun input graphserieB \stopMPrun \externalfigure[mprun.1] \externalfigure[mprun.2] \stoptext \end . In the logfile, I got the messages : figures : figureobject test-mprun.1 is reused figures : figureobject test-mprun.2 is reused and twice the figures of graphserieA.mp on test.pdf. Is there a way to avoid the re-use of test-mprun.1 and test-mprun.2, I mean a way to overwrite the files test-mprun.1 and test-mprun.2 ? Or a way to get different names for each metapost output as, for example, graphserieA-mprun.1, graphserieA-mprun.2 and graphserieB-mprun.1, graphserieB-mprun.2 ? I could also give a different number to each of the figures in all of the *.mp files, but this solution is not pacticable since I have plenty of metapost files to process, each of it containing a lot of figures already numbered with almost the same numbers. Moreover, those numbers can not be modified because the figures are elsewhere referenced by their number and by the name of the metapost file. Thanks, --pv

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Different behaviour Windows vs. Linux
by Willi Egger 10 Jul '03

10 Jul '03

Hello everybody, When I compile a MyWay (uses s-mag-*.tex) under Windows everything runs smoothly. When I compile the same file under Linux, where I got also a texlive7 tree installed, the \setupencoding[texnansi] is not read from the cont-sys.ini, though the file contains this statement. - As a consequence Context fails because it is looking for ec-uplr8a instead of texnansi-uplr8a. For the time being I edited the s-mag-00.tex and replaced the \usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding] by \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi], which solves the hick. Is this a specific Linux issue? Cheers Willi

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Defining your own custom numbered itemization
by Frank 08 Jul '03

08 Jul '03

For a simple manual I would like to setup a sort of customized enumerated list, but I don't see how to do this in ConTeXt. What I would like to do have something like \setupitemize[9][inmargin][before=\itemcolor, inbetween=\stopcolor] \startitemize[9] \item This is step 1. \item Followed by step 2 \stopitemize In which the text is set as a numbered list with the numbers in the margin and set in color to make them stand-out. However I don't want to make this the default of the default numbered list using \startitemize[n]. Anyone know the best way to do this? Regards, Frank

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: Texexec
by Hans Hagen 08 Jul '03

08 Jul '03

At 18:39 04/07/2003 -0500, Marshall Ward wrote: >[mdw162@twain tmp]$ texexec --pdfarrange --paper=letter*letter --print=2up >--result=out.pdf testcert10.pdf testcert11.pdf > >### Output attached as out.log ### > > >##### RESILT FILE INFO ##### > >[mdw162@twain tmp]$ pdfinfo out.pdf >Creator: TeX >Producer: pdfTeX-0.14h better update to pdftex 1.0 or higher ! At this point I'm not really asking for help, but trying to maybe help >point out a bug. It's texexec version 2.6, but if there is any other >info you need please let me know. Oh --- and I know you're probably not >the main developer/maintainer, but there wasn't one listed. So I'm going >through you. :-) can you download the latest beta? - make sure that you run the right texexec i.e. 3.2 - you need to regenerate the format but, forst, try the texexec i sent you (which is 3.2) (check symlinks) 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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How to set font for units
by Frank 07 Jul '03

07 Jul '03

Hello, How do I setup the font used by the SI-Unit abbreviations. I use something like the following: \usemodule[units] \setupbodyfont[pos,sansserif] \starttext The wavelength of the pulsed Nd:YAG laser is 1.064 \Micro\Meter. \stoptext The bodytext is in Helvetica, but the units are in times. How can I setup ConTeXt to use the sans-serif font for the units as well? Regards, Frank

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context2html ??
by Maurice Diamantini 07 Jul '03

07 Jul '03

Bonjour à tous, I know there is a (*big*) work for converting xml to context, But is there something (an executable or a context package) which would allow us to write some (basic) context file, to html ? I mean something like latex2html or hevea ? Cordialement, Maurice. -- Maurice.Diamantini(a)ensta.fr - ENSTA/LMA École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées http://www.ensta.fr/~diam

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Downloading page
by zaks＠prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl 07 Jul '03

07 Jul '03

Hi, For some time now I've been checking for new beta. It's still 2003-04-29. Has the downloading URL changed recently? /S

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Database....
by Willi Egger 07 Jul '03

07 Jul '03

Hi Contexters Is there anybody who has experionce with the database options as described in core-dat? I tried to setup an address-database. But I am unable to get it working. I get an error message saying "missing \endcsname" Please have a look at the enclosed testfiles. Cheers Willi

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DIC EuroTeX presentation online
by Simon Pepping 06 Jul '03

06 Jul '03

Hi, At the EuroTeX2003 Conference in Brest (France), I gave a presentation on Docbook In Context, and I contributed an article to the Proceedings. Both the presentation and the article are now available online; see http://www.hobby.nl/~scaprea/context/index.html#eurotex2003, or http://www.hobby.nl/~scaprea/context/DIC-EuroTeX-presentation.pdf and http://www.hobby.nl/~scaprea/context/DIC-EuroTeX-proceedings.pdf. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping(a)scaprea.hobby.nl

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Re: Texexec
by Hans Hagen 05 Jul '03

05 Jul '03

At 23:01 01/07/2003 -0500, you wrote: >I'm trying to combine multiple PDF files. When I run > >"texexec --pdfarrange *.pdf" > >it works fine except for one thing: the input is in letter format and the >output appears to be in A4. A little bit of the right side gets cut off. > >I've tried --mode=letter and a bunch of other options but nothing seems to >force texexec to output in letter. > >Can you help me? texexec --help pdfarrange TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003 --pdfarrange arrange pdf pages --addempty add empty page after --background =string : background graphic --backspace inner margin of the page --markings add cutmarks --noduplex single sided --paper paper format --paperoffset room left at paper border --textwidth width of the original (one sided) text --topspace top/bottom margin of the page --paper=letter*letter --print=2up or if you run a recent context --paper=A*B being letter on doubleletter - which is actually non existent - (there is an experimental gui for page imposition; will update/post that one soon) 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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Setup footertexts
by Willi Egger 04 Jul '03

04 Jul '03

Hi, Could someone have a look at the attched test.tex? When I try to setup the footertext including a small tabulate-table I get an errormessage on a missing '}' pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2c 7.3.7x) (format=cont-en 2003.6.19) 3 JUL 2003 22:36 entering extended mode ConTeXt ver: 2003.4.29 fmt: 2003.6.19 int: english mes: english Thanks Willi

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Fonts again..
by Willi Egger 03 Jul '03

03 Jul '03

Hi, I'm a bit stummied. This is not the first font I install, however this one gives problems I do not know how to tackle: Frutiger pfrl8a and pfrb8a After runnig texfont, all files are in the expected directories. Kpsewhich finds the texnansi-raw-pfrl8a.tfm Pdftex loads the texnansi-adobe-frutiger.map When running a test file I get the following log (extraction): This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2c 7.3.7x) (format=cont-en 2003.6.19) 3 JUL 2003 17:32 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. **&cont-en testbrief.tex (./testbrief.tex{c:/mytex/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.4.29 fmt: 2003.6.19 int: english mes: english ... {c:/mytex/texmf-var/pdftex/config/texnansi-adobe-frutiger.map}] systems : end file testbrief at line 66 ) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 1819 strings out of 33215 28455 string characters out of 998689 4426059 words of memory out of 12037214 31858 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+65535 23616 words of font info for 78 fonts, out of 500000 for 1000 54 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000 68i,23n,83p,267b,646s stack positions out of 30000i,500n,5000p,200000b,40000s 15 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 131072 5 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536 Warning: pdfetex.exe (file pfrl8a): Font pfrl8a at 864 not found Warning: pdfetex.exe (file pfrl8a): Font pfrl8a at 600 not found <c:/mytex/texmf-local/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmssbx10.pfb> Warning: pdfetex.exe (file pfrl8a): Font pfrl8a at 360 not found Warning: pdfetex.exe (file texnansi-raw-pfrl8a-capitalized-800): Font texnansi- raw-pfrl8a-capitalized-800 at 480 not found Warning: pdfetex.exe (file texnansi-raw-pfrl8a-capitalized-800): Font texnansi- raw-pfrl8a-capitalized-800 at 600 not found Output written on testbrief.pdf (1 page, 7658 bytes). Any hints? Cheers Willi

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Sample letter layout, replacement for NTG brief style
by Frank 02 Jul '03

02 Jul '03

I currently use the Dutch NTG letter style with LaTeX, which I would like to replace with a ConTeXt based system. Even though LaTeX works fine, I think that I can better spend my time on learning ConTeXt as this will not limit me so much in future projects. So I was wondering if any ConTeXt users have already created a layout file to write letters, with the appropriate placement of the Address, logo's, folding stripes, etc.. If not than I would like to solicit some pointers on how to do two things: 1. place a logo at an exact XY position on the paper 2. exact placement of the address block (as this needs to fit with standard envelope windows). Regards, Frank

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Resetting an enumeration
by Adam Tee 02 Jul '03

02 Jul '03

Hi, In my source I have defined a new enumeration using the following \defineenumeration [mwfr] [location=left, text=MWFR] what I want to do is reset the number and specify the number. i.e. MWFR 1 - text MWFR 2 - text MWFR 3 - text MWFR 1 MWFR 2 MFWR 4 Is the solution straight forward. Thanks Adam

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Whatever happened to the "correspondence" Manual.
by Mark Ainsworth 01 Jul '03

01 Jul '03

Only asking 'cos I clicked on the link in the show-all.pdf and it comes back with an error. If it is still around anywhere I would like to have a read. Or is it simply a dream with a real front page? Rgds Mark. PS. thanks to those who helped with my palatino font question last week. When are the docs going to get updated so the old [ppl] references disappear and the real methods are mentioned?

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request from Poland
by Jacek Kmiecik 30 Jun '03

30 Jun '03

Dear Hans, I need Your help... I would like to typeset bibliography of our University staff using CONTEXT. On this web site is actual version of this bibliography, which I had typeset with the use of pdf-tex, with my hand-made macros...: http://regent2.uci.agh.edu.pl/bpp/pdf/bppagh.pdf I found your file maps.pdf, it looks excellent!!! This is transcendent example!!! I had read pre-maps.pdf, but it is not enough for me to learn CONTEXT, unfortunately... I have a problems with references, links, interactive menus... If it is possible, please send me excerpt of maps.pdf sources... only for educational purposes... Then I hope I will better understand CONTEXT idea. Best regards! --jk PS. Sorry for my english... :-( - Jacek Kmiecik ------------------------------------ jk(a)agh.edu.pl -- Uczelniane Centrum Informatyki, tel. (0-12) 617-34-77 Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza, Kraków C-1, IVp., pok. 420 --------------------------------------------------[+48 501 494 601]--

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layers and XML
by kopszak＠mnw.art.pl 29 Jun '03

29 Jun '03

Hello, I am having trouble with popping XML elements onto a new layer. Preferably I would like to use elements "datowanie","datowanie-projektu" and "architekci" inside \framed which would be inside \setlayer. <info-w-ramce> <datowanie>1927--38</datowanie> <datowanie-projektu>1926</datowanie-projektu> <pelny-adres>Aleje Jerozolimskie 3, Warszawa</pelny-adres> <architekci>Architects: Tadeusz Tolwinski, E. Oczkowski, Antoni Dygat</architekci> </info-w-ramce> Has anyone tried anything similar? Thanks in advance for any help Piotr

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Wrap-around.
by John Culleton 27 Jun '03

27 Jun '03

Context will place figures right or left. However Context will not AFAIK fit text to an irregular illustration, or around an arc etc. TheTeXbook describes a very tedious command: \parshape (p101) which could allow one to fit the lines to an illustration, arc etc. by hand. But the typesetter must calculate the distances beforehand. Is there a higher level solution in Context? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters & Indexers http://wexfordpress.com

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Re: [NTG-context] Table of Contents
by John Culleton 26 Jun '03

26 Jun '03

On Friday 20 June 2003 01:52 pm, Idris S Hamid wrote: > > Here is what my customer want:s: > > 1. A TOC > > 2. No chapter or section numbers anywhere. > > I think we've solved these two; > > > 3. Certain blocks of text which occur before the TOC to be listed in the > > TOC with the correct page number. > > What's the difference between 1 & 3? Could you explain 3 a bit more:-) > As I explained before, whenever a TOC item appears in the source file before the actual TOC the whole TOC becomes blank. This is true whether the item is a chapter and included automatically or I use the "write" commands to do it manually. Here is a dummy file: \pdfoutput=1 \starttext \chapter{foo} \completecontent \chapter{bar} \stoptext When I run the above file the TOC will have a header but no contents. If however I comment out \chapter{foo} then chapter bar appears in the contents. I have also tried the write etc. commands and if they appear before the \completecontent command then the TOC blanks out. This may be a function of The general TeX procedure to write out the items on one pass and bring them in on the next. The write to \chapter{foo} may reinitialize the external file when it is encountered on the second pass. According to the TeXbook the write occurs when the page is shipped out. So \chapter{foo} probalbly clobbers the external file. Still the TOC mechanism should be developed in a way that it is possible to incorporate items occurring before the TOC in the TOC. This is not an uncommon requirement. A cure might be to move the external file to a different file name at the end of each pass in texexec, and bring in that copy of the file instead of the original external file to create the actual TOC.. That way any premature references would not go to the copy but to a new original. Pehaps Hans could rewrite the texexec or the Content macros themselves to do this. In pseudocode of sorts it would work like this: \starttext \chapter{foo} =write to filea \placecontent= read from fileb \chapter{bar}=write to filea \chapter{alpha}=write to filea (etc.) \stoptext. copy filea to fileb end -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers

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