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Makempy example rotated
by John Culleton 20 May '03

20 May '03

I copied the "E=mc^2" example from the Makempy manual and had an unusual result. The text is rotated by -90 degrees! I tried reducing the scale factor to 5 but it still comes out that way. Is this a FAQ or have I managed to screw something up? -- John Culleton Able Typesetters and Indexers

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News for MikTeX hash size limit ?
by Sebastian Rooks 20 May '03

20 May '03

Hi Giuseppe, Do you have any news for the hash-size limit in MikteX ? There were some update recently but it still doesn't compile my files (see previous mails 2003-04-08). I tried to install TeXlive, and the resulting installation was not very "clean". But my files were compiled. As I should finish to write my thesis in roughtly two months from now, do you think I should forget MikTeX and go on with TeXlive ? Thanks a lot, Seb.

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digits
by Hans Hagen 19 May '03

19 May '03

Hi, In response on all this decimal discussions i posted a new magazine (mag-0003) about a feature that is maybe unknown. [btw, it is no problem to make digit handling language dependent, at least the presets; math/physics is another thing and needs more discussion] [i had also planned to upload a new beta but my internet connection is too slow today; adsl in a couple of month] 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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Bug in layer graphics recalculation
by Slawek Zak 19 May '03

19 May '03

It seems that either my ConTeXt installation is bugged or some bug sneaked in some late ConTeXt releases. The background graphics on each page are not recalculated as they should be, but only the first one is taken and set for speciffic layer. Following short example should make it visible: % output=pdftex \usemodule[pre-03] \starttext \TitlePage{How nice} \Topics{This is about ...} \Topic{The first one} \Topic{Another one} \stoptext It's been taken from s-pre-03.tex example code and doesn't work for me with latest beta and release version as well. The darker part of background ellipsis should be moving towards the endpoint on consecutive pages. It doesn't. Any thoughts? /S

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

19 May '03

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

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

18 May '03

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

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over normal width tables
by Helmut Schwertner 18 May '03

18 May '03

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

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

18 May '03

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

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

18 May '03

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

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Calligraphy and Lucida?
by Maarten Sneep 18 May '03

18 May '03

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

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German interface
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 18 May '03

18 May '03

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

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hyperbolic funtions in MP
by Peter Rolf 17 May '03

17 May '03

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

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

17 May '03

Folks, I've been doing some testing on texfont, and it seems to *almost* support truetype (.ttf) fonts perfectly fine. Has anyone used it to install ttf files, and had it work perfectly? I think all that needs changing is where the mapfile gets written... the type1 extension ".pfb" is currently hard-coded. I'll experiment with a solution (that hopefully works better with .otf files too). Hans, has texfont.pl received any recent private changes that my OpenType patch has to be synched to? I don't want to create a bigger fork than necessary. Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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framed verbatim text
by Jedrzej Nasiadek 17 May '03

17 May '03

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

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

17 May '03

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

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a typographic discover
by Pablo Rodriguez 17 May '03

17 May '03

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

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

17 May '03

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

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

17 May '03

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

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

16 May '03

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

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units and decimal separators
by Sebastian Rooks 15 May '03

15 May '03

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

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Balancing error
by Nagy Bence 14 May '03

14 May '03

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

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

14 May '03

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

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

14 May '03

built a document using the encoding for Palatino thus: \usetypescript[berry][ec] \usetypescript[palatino][ec] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] The good news is I got the Palladio version of Palatino according to Acrobat Reader 5.05. The bad news is that the characters are distorted. When I blow them up 400% then they look OK. In particular the capital T looks like someone trimmed part of the top bar with a router. But lc letters look funky as well. I know Lucida Bright is the favorite font for on-line use in pragma-nl. But is there a regular (like, free) Adobe Font that looks OK when used with Acrobat Reader? Or is there some other setup improvement I need to make? In GV the glyphs look a bit ragged but the artifacts like the chopped up capital T are not present. So it is an Acrobat weakness. But Acrobat Reader is the name of the game for e-books. ____________________________________________________________ Free 20MB Web Site Hosting and Personalized E-mail Service! Get It Now At Doteasy.com http://www.doteasy.com/et/

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

13 May '03

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

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mails
by Hans Hagen 13 May '03

13 May '03

Hi, I'm on the road for a couple of days, sorry for delays in answering mails Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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