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local environments
by Matthew Huggett 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Hi: I have a project with a few different types of documents, so I want to set up a few local environments in the same global environment file. Is the following a legitimate environment file? \startenvironment Layout ... some global settings ... \startlocalenvironment[Alternative] ... some local settings ... \stoplocalenvironment \stopenvironment If it is legitimate, how do I specify that a document use the global settings with specific settings from the local environment. I tried \environment Layout \localenvironment Alternative but any macros defined in the local environment are reported as undefined. Thanks, Matt

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Problem with letter landscape
by Erik George Hetzner 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

Hello, I have been trying to typeset on landscape oriented 8.5x11 size paper. However, pdftex keeps giving me the wrong size paper (11 x 11.69, according to Acrobat). If I run regular TeX, then dvips, then ps2pdf, I get the right size. I apologize if this is strictly a problem with pdftex, but I believe that somewhere it is perhaps a problem with Context. Here is a sample input: \setuppapersize[letter,landscape] \starttext \input zapf \stoptext Thanks for any help anybody can provide. -Erik Hetzner Here is one log: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10b-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) (format=cont-en 2003.3.1) 25 MAR 2003 11:03 entering extended mode **&cont-en test.tex (./test.tex{/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cf g} ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.31 fmt: 2003.3.1 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! system (E-TEX) : [line 726] \ifcsname ) system : cont-old loaded (/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/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 \openout2 = `test.tui'. system : test.top loaded (./test.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 1815] \ifcsname <unprotect 5> <protect 5> <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mprun.mp'. \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mprun.mp'. pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) systems : begin file test at line 2 (/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/tex/context/sample/zapf.tex) [1.1{/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/dvips/config/pdftex.map}] systems : end file test at line 4 ) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 742 strings out of 68091 11373 string characters out of 742447 4404762 words of memory out of 5520649 30475 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 10284 words of font info for 34 fonts, out of 500000 for 1000 62 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000 44i,16n,47p,200b,246s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,200000b,5000s 7 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 131072 0 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536 {/opt/local/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/dvips/tetex/f7b6d320.enc}</opt/l ocal/packages/teTeX-2.0.2/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr12.pfb> Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 10514 bytes). ---and here is another log from the beta Context: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20011114-ojmw-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7) (format=cont-en 2003.3.19) 25 MAR 2003 11:22 entering extended mode **&cont-en test.tex (./test.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.3.17 fmt: 2003.3.19 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (/usr/local/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 7:2-it-2 8:2-nl-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded \openout2 = `test.tui'. system : test.top loaded (./test.top specials : loading definition file tpd (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 1815] \ifcsname <unprotect 5> <protect 5> <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mprun.mp'. \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mprun.mp'. pdftex : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) (./test.tuo) systems : begin file test at line 2 (/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/sample/zapf.tex) [1.1{/usr/share/texmf/dvip s/config/pdftex.map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/maps/aachen.map}{/usr/local/s hare/texmf/dvips/maps/freestyle-script.map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/maps/r evue.map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/maps/university.map}{/usr/local/share/te xmf/dvips/maps/adobe-caslon.map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/maps/adobe-garamo nd.map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/maps/adobe-jenson-mm.map}{/usr/local/share /texmf/dvips/maps/adobe-wood-type.map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/maps/aldus. map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/maps/americana.map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dv ips/maps/amigo.map}{/usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/maps/andreas.map ... Cut out a bunch of errors because I have bad map fils ... systems : end file test at line 4 ) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 1183 strings out of 22865 17555 string characters out of 248340 408430 words of memory out of 1500001 30686 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+40000 10284 words of font info for 34 fonts, out of 400000 for 1000 62 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000 45i,16n,49p,200b,246s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,1500p,50000b,5000s </usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr12.pfb> Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 9944 bytes).

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Re: [NTG-context] Using MetaPost graphics in ConTeXt
by Hans Hagen 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

At 08:16 PM 3/24/2003 +0100, you wrote: >The macro \calculateexternalfigure seems to set the extension to empty >if the figure file name is the same as the jobname: > > % redo message, only filename > \doifparentfileelse\@@effilename > {\@EA\removefromcommalist\@EA{\jobsuffix}\figuretypes > \let\@@efextension\empty > \showmessage\m!figures9\@@effilename > \donefalse} > \donothing > >(core-fig.tex) > >Therefore it does not search for your nonstandard extension. the search for graphics is kind of fuzzy and dates from the time that we were still using dvi (different backends) - without suffix: try the best quality (depends on spec driver support) - with suffix: try that first, else locate alternative - same as parent file: try to avoid circular loading (keep in mind that tex code can be a graphic, i.e. buffers can be scaled) - all these are combined with a search over several paths, utilityfile, etc also, most of this is overloaded when using figure databases -) 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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Using MetaPost graphics in ConTeXt
by Giuseppe Bilotta 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

Hello, I'm trying to use some MetaPost-generated graphics with ConTeXt, but I seem to be unable to do so. I have a file test.1 in the same directory as the ConTeXt source, which is as minimal as: \starttext \input tufte \placefigure[left] {Esempio di settore circolare} {\externalfigure[test.1]} \input knuth \stoptext but it seems like it can't find the file test (no extension); I tried adding options [type=mps] or [method=mps] or both, but each fails with a different error: either it looks for test.mps or it looks for test.unknown ... What should I do (apart renaming the figure file)? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Re: Re[3]: [NTG-context] Using MetaPost graphics in ConTeXt
by Hans Hagen 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

At 10:07 PM 3/24/2003 -0500, Gary Pajer wrote: >I've tried to resist, but I have to ask. Why not write a simple batch file >that runs MetaPost *and* changes the extension? That's what I do. ... Are >you processing several MP scripts in one file ?? Remembering that i did look into it long ago, i took a look in the core-fig file; now, if you really want this kind of support, open core-fig.tex and search for: % new, test first uncomment the doifnumberelse lines and you'll have the support needed (a new format needs to be generated) 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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Q:Font ... not found
by Marko Schuetz 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

Running `texexec --pdf Skript.tex` I get a couple of warnings like the one below Warning: pdfetex (file eccc1000): Font eccc1000 at 720 not found and the file uses some replacement fonts that look unbearably ugly. How can I fix this? Thanks for your help. Marko

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context + MacOS + accents
by Jean-Pierre Le Narzul 25 Mar '03

25 Mar '03

Hi, I'm using ConTeXt on my iMac (teTeX distribution through I-installer program) Everything seems OK except for inputing accentuated characters ... If I type \'a I got the correct character (accentuated a) but if I type directly the accentuated character from the keyboard, I got no result .... I start my document with \useregime[mac] (or \enableregime[mac]) but it does not change anything .... Any idea ? thanks in advance jp

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Backgrounds
by Giuseppe Bilotta 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

Hello, I would like to discuss a few points about backgrounds (\startbackground ... \stopbackground). First of all, it would be nice to have "background classes", so that I can have different backgrounds for different things without having to reset it each time. (Think \definebackground[this][options=values], \setupthis, \startthis ... \stopthis, as usual.) The second point is about the splitting capabilities in backgrounds. This is incredibly nice to have, but needs a little finetuning, IMO: it should be possible to specify whether the various options that concern the "border" of the background (i.e. background corner, frame, frame corner, etc) should act at split time or not; example: assume that I set my background to have a frame (frame=on) If the background gets split across pages, I get two "boxed" text: the first in the first page, the second in the second page. Instead, to show that the block continues on the next page, it should be possible to turn this off. I suggest options like: splitframe, splitframecorner, splitbackgoundcorner analogous to topframe/bottomframe and the like, which defines the behaviour of frames and angles in the "split area". Moreover (now I'm getting picky, but while we're at it ...) it would be nice, even for generic framed text, to be able to specify the behaviour of each single corner separately (say, top left and top right rounded, bottom left and right rectangular). -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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MetaPost/Fun question
by Giuseppe Bilotta 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

Hello, I would like to know if it is possible in MetaPost (in particular MetaFun) to get all the possible intersection points of the paths, with some kind of simple command, with a syntax like, say: A[] := path1 intersections path2 (where the resulting list could be either a list of points or a list of time pairs, like for intersectiontimes). Another possible syntax could be path3 := path1 intersections path2 which would give a path for which times 0, 1, 2, 3, ... give the first, second, third, fourth, ... intersection point. Anything like this? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Alignment of graphs/metafun
by Maarten Sneep 24 Mar '03

24 Mar '03

Hello Context, I (intend to) use metapost/metafun and m-graph to make my graphs. The graph module of metapost puts the origin at the left-bottom of the graph area, and the tick-marks and axis-labels are at negative positions (i.e. to the left or to the bottom of the zero line). This is nice, and I'd like to use this. I'd like to achieve the following effect: The graph-area is left-aligned with the text (has the width of the text-column), while the tick-marks and vertical axis label stick into the (left) margin. Furthermore (but possibly even harder) I'd like the tick-marks (at least the unrotated ones...) to be aligned with the grid I'm using. I can change the height of the graphs to match the grid nicely, but do you have any clues where to start? The problem I have is that the amount to overlap into the left margin is highly variable. The vertical alignment is possibly even trickier. Kind regards, Maarten Sneep

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Re: [NTG-context] Re: setuphead(s), subject, alternative=inmargin
by Mathias Picker 23 Mar '03

23 Mar '03

Hi Patrick, Zitat von Patrick Gundlach <pg(a)levana.de>: > Mathias.Picker(a)virtual-earth.de writes: > > > Is this supposed to work?? > > It is working. What do you mean by this? It is putting the number of > the head in the margin. :-) Yes, but subject has no number... I want to put the subject (text!) across margin and text. I don't know if that is even possible..... It should look somewhat like the latex refart classes, e.g. margin|text My Subject header here with more and more text And the text here (more and more text) > > > How do I put a subject in the margin, > > [snipped example] > > Probably Hans comes up with some magic, but this might work as well. [snip] Hopefully :-) Thanks, Mathias ----- Ende der weitergeleiteten Nachricht -----

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some bugs and C++ typing
by Zeljko Vrba 23 Mar '03

23 Mar '03

Hi Hans! I'm typesetting an algorithms course in C++ and I came around to few bugs and personal wishes :) 1. I've "written" a verb-cpp.tex which knows C++ keywords. However, as you'll see from the attached example, it needs a few fixes: - the missing word if it ends with & (the bar& x argument) - & coloured in green alongside y (it should be grey since it's an operator) - &, +=, -=, *=, /=, %=, >>=, <<=, ->*, .* should be coloured like operators and must be considered as single tokens - I'd like the whole comment in a single color (not red start/end and black text). dark green would be ideal :) Since I know nothing about verbatim mechanism (I just took java environment and stuffed it with C++ keywords) how hard would it be to make those changes? I put '\input verb-cpp' into verb-ini.tex to make it work in my local installation. 2. As you can see from the example, I want to typeset text next to code. However, the footnotes within are not working. (context ver. 2002.10.23) 3. Multi-column paragraphs are not automatically broken across pages. If the paragraph doesn't fit on the current page, it will be moved to the next page leaving an ugly empty box at the bottom of the previous page. How can I achieve an effect similar to the attached example, but that will automatically break across pages not leaving empty boxes at the bottom? 4. Some time ago I reported \pseudoencodedDJ macros not working in itemize environment and you posted a fix to the list. Did you integrate the fix in the latest release? Thanks for your time!

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references and mis-ordering
by Adam Lindsay 23 Mar '03

23 Mar '03

hi folks. I'm still in the process of debugging this (so details and a minimal example aren't ready yet), but I'm wondering if anyone knows of circumstances that would cause table and figure numbers to be out-of- order and swapped. For example, the numbers from my \placelistoftables run in this order: 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.5 8.9 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.10 *** **** While \placelistoffigures gives 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.5 8.8 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 8.13 *** **** This is disturbing and hard to debug. The person whose thesis this is didn't make it easy, with very long and minimally different identifiers. I've tried purging the directory, including making sure the .tuo file is completely rebuilt. I've tried changing reference names, and it *has* had an effect on the order, but it hasn't fixed it yet. I'm trying to avoid panic, but the doctoral thesis where we're running into this needs to be bound on thursday. :) thanks for any hints, 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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db2context package - beta release
by Gour 22 Mar '03

22 Mar '03

Dear ConTeXt users, I'm happy to be able to announce first beta release of db2context package. What is db2context? Db2context package transforms your SGML/XML DocBook documents to DVI, PostScript or PDF by translating them in ConTeXt as a first process using XSLT processor. Unlike DocBookInConteXt package which transform DocBook source document on-the-fly, db2context packages uses XSLT as a transformation language to convert DocBook source document into ConTeXt document which can be further customized using all the available ConTeXt commands. You can download the first beta release from the Sourceforge. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dblatex) The author of the package is Nicolas Marsgui (marsgui(a)users.sourceforge.net) but since he is not subscribed to the ConTeXt mailing list you can also post your feedback and/or wishes to my email address. Eagerly awaiting your feedback in order to improve db2context. Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour(a)mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493

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table page breaking
by Michael Wiedmann 22 Mar '03

22 Mar '03

Is there support for automati<c page breaking for long tables in current ConTeXt (ver: 2003.3.4)? Simon and I noticed that long tables don't break automatically to the next page but nstead are simply cut at the end of the 'first' page. Michael -- mw(a)miwie.in-berlin.de http://www.miwie.org mw(a)miwie.org

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values relative to \textwidth etc.
by Matthew Huggett 22 Mar '03

22 Mar '03

Hi: Is it possible to specify a value relative to a variable like \textwidth or \pageheight etc. For example, is there a way to get 1/3 of \textwidth? thanks Matthew

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Displayed material, again
by Giuseppe Bilotta 22 Mar '03

22 Mar '03

Hello list, I wish to bring the discussion again on displayed material. Display material is material that conceptually belongs to a paragraphs but typographically breaks it. After the display, the paragraph can continue or not. In ConTeXt, there are many things which should be considered displayed material: formulas, enumerations and other itemgroups, quotations, etc. Every start/stop pair that begins a new paragraph should actually be a displayed area. In ConTeXt, one can achieve such result by using [intentnext=yes] or [indentnext=no] on a case-by-case basis, depending on whether the start/stop pair is supposed to start a new paragraph or not. Of course, this "manual" way to do the thing goes against the general principle that the computer is supposed to do as much of the job as possible, by itself. I therefore wish to urge Hans to implement a new indentnext option, "auto", which should give a behaviour similar to the one shown on this example: === BEGIN displayed.tex === \setupindenting[medium] \definestartstop[display][before=\initdisplay,after=\terminatedisplay,style=italic] \def\initdisplay{\ifvmode\else\endgraf\noindent\fi \bgroup\advance\leftskip2\parindent\advance\rightskip2\parindent\ignorespaces} \def\terminatedisplay{\par\egroup\afterassignment\checkifpar\let\ispar=} \def\checkifpar{\ifx\ispar\par\else\noindent\expandafter\ispar\fi} \starttext The purpouse of this document is to practically show how display material should behave: display material is material that conceptually belongs to a paragraphs but typographically breaks it After the display, the paragraph can continue or not. We now quote Knuth: \startdisplay \input knuth \stopdisplay and continue the paragraph right after. The following quote will instead end the paragraph: \startdisplay \input tufte \stopdisplay This text belongs to a different paragraph: note that it's being indented (differently from the previous snippet). This paragraph has no quotations. Instead, the next paragraph will start with a quotation (display material at the beginning of the paragraph) and have some text after~it. \startdisplay \input knuth \stopdisplay is again a quote from Knuth. Observe that this way the source obeys the \TeX\ convention of empy lines to terminate paragraphs, and that it is not necessary to manually specify the intentnext option for the single cases. \stoptext === END displayed.tex === The paragraph-wise behaviour of \initdisplay and \terminatedisplay+\checkifpar (i.e. excluding the left-/rightskip adaptments, which have only a visual purpouse) should be the behaviour in case indentnext=auto. -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Different margins
by Nagy Bence 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

Hi all, is it possible to give a different layout (different margins) for a small part of a page or pages (like a negative narrower)? I should set texts in narrow columns and pictures in wide columns on the same page. Greetings, Bence Nagy

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Re: mathpple-a-like for ConTeXt?
by Patrick Gundlach 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

Magnus Lie Hetland <magnus(a)hetland.org> writes: Hello, > Can the tfm file be generated from these using texfont, or is uplr8t > something completely different from uplr8a (as might seem to be the > case)? In that case, is the uplr8t files (and related files) available > somewhere? you can use an alternative to the berry typescript. Get adobekb.tex from http://levana.de/context and use \setupencoding[default=8r] \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] \usetypescript[palatino][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[palatino] There is no need to install new fonts. HTH, Patrick PS: let us move this discussion to the context mailinglist, since it is not pdftex related

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PDF bookmark
by Guo Yang 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

Hi, all Excuse me if this is well known, but I couldn't find on the manual. I have several questions: 1. How to add an entry to the PDF bookmark? I tried placebookmarks[title,chapter,section] but it doesn't work. 2. How to add an entry in the list of contents if I use subject instead of section, and how to add this in the bookmark. I tried define a new list and changed the content compinedlist but nothing happened . 2. How to add a pair of '[' ']' around the number of footnotes? Thanks, Guo

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setuphead(s), subject, alternative=inmargin
by Mathias.Picker＠virtual-earth.de 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

Is this supposed to work?? I'm using ver: 2003.1.31 and try to do the following, right out of the handbook: \setupheads[alternative=inmargin] \subject{Some Text} and expected the subject to start in the margin. It does not, and I found out that this seems to work only for numbered heads like section et al. How do I put a subject in the margin, possibly while using a command to make it white on black (I can do that, only it's not in the margin....) Thanks for any help Mathias -- virtual earth Mathias Picker Geschäftsführer Gesellschaft für Wissens re/prä sentation mbH Mathias.Picker(a)virtual-earth.de Fon +49 89 / 540 7425-1 Fax +49 89 / 540 7425-9

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alternative setting of comments
by Adam Lindsay 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

I was wondering if anyone who works with the verbatim environments has tried to set comments in a different style. It would be ideal to be able to set comments in \tf text font or some variant. I'm not really interested in colors at the moment. The immediate need is for working with a Pascal-like language, but I've been a bit baffled as to how to grab and process XML comments also (though I haven't look at that recently). Thanks in advance for any hints, 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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Latex Fonts as per adobekb.tex
by Nigel King 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

I have been forced to redo my font allocations because of Gerbens i-installer for MacOSX no longer seems to allow texfont to work. fontroot is not set correctly and then when I put in the correct setting the font subpaths are not found even though they are clearly there. Patrick has lead me to the delights of Latex Fonts via his script adobekb.tex which works well for most of my existing documents. However, I have a small problem with graphs in metapost the following startup is used but the fonts for the scales do not come out. input metafun ; verbatimtex \usetypescriptfile[adobekb] \setupencoding [default=8r] \usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding] \usetypescript[times][\defaultencoding] \setupbodyfont[times] \starttext etex input graph init_numbers (textext("$-$"), textext("$1$"), textext("${\times}10$"), textext("${}^-$"), textext("${}^2$")); Fe_base := textext("$10$") ; prologues:=2; Any help is most welcome -- Nigel

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Partially moving from LaTeX to ConTeXt
by Vittorio 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

At last, I 'almost' made up my mind about using ConTeXt to write generic document (for me and my daughters' school), report and manuals at work. The only snag at this very moment is that - being my Company M$-Windows addicted, specifically as far as Word is concerned - I don't know if there is any free software to translate a document from ConTeXt to word, even partially (something like the katex2rtf package for latex).

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latest Beta
by Guy Worthington 21 Mar '03

21 Mar '03

ConTeXt is barfing on my code : ----- %output=pdf %% chapter head layout \setupcolors[state=start] \setuplist[section] [style=boldslanted, align=right, interaction=all, symbol=1, width=1em, pagenumber=no, before=, after=] \setuphead[chapter] [header=empty, numberstyle=ChapterTitleNumberFont, textstyle=ChapterTitleTextFont alternative=command, command=\ContentsHead, page=right, after={\blank[2*big]}] \definefont[ChapterTitleTextFont][Serif at 24.9pt] \definefont[ChapterTitleNumberFont][SerifBold at 40pt] \def\ContentsHead#1#2% {\setupframed [frame=off]% \framed [width=\hsize,offset=overlay] {\placesidebyside {\doifelsenothing{#1} {\framed [width=.6\hsize]{}} % dummy {\framed [width=.6\hsize,offset=1em,strut=no,align=right, background=screen] {\vi In this chapter: \blank \placelist[section][criterium=chapter]}}} {\framed [width=.4\hsize,strut=no,align=left] %% Typeset Chapter Number {\hbox{\vbox to 24.9pt{% height ChapterTitleTextFont \vss #1}}} \vfilll} }% %% Typeset Chapter Title \llap{\lower24.9pt\hbox{#2\hskip0.5em}}} \showmakeup \starttext \chapter {Berend} \section {Botje} \section {Botje} \section {Botje} \stoptext ----- Attached is the log: This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.14159-1.10a-2.1 (Web2c 7.4.5) (format=cont-en 2003.3.20) 20 MAR 2003 16:54 entering extended mode \write18 enabled. %&-line parsing enabled. **&cont-en tryOreillyHead.ctx (./tryOreillyHead.ctx{c:/Local/TeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2003.3.17 fmt: 2003.3.20 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> system : cont-new loaded (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex! ) system : cont-old loaded (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys loaded (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns 2:2-en-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 \openout2 = `tryOreillyHead.tui'. system : tryOreillyHead.top loaded (./tryOreillyHead.top specials : loading definition file tpd (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> system (E-TEX) : [line 1815] \ifcsname <unprotect 5> <protect 5> <protect 4> <protect 3>) specials : fdf loaded <unprotect 3> <protect 3>) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) \openout0 = `tryOreillyHead-mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `tryOreillyHead-mprun.mp'. \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mprun.mp'. pdftex : using map file: original-context-symbol.map pdftex : using map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map pdftex : using map file: original-vogel-symbol.map color : system rgb is global activated check : missing or ungrouped '=' after 'textstyle' in line 21 (@@kocha pter) systems : begin file tryOreillyHead at line 46 ! Extra \else. \dodododosomekop ...section {#1}{#3}{#4}\fi \else \getvalue {\??ko #1\c!tuss... l.47 \chapter {Berend} ? exit Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 760 strings out of 67881 11732 string characters out of 747287 4407533 words of memory out of 5520295 30740 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 10582 words of font info for 35 fonts, out of 500000 for 1000 56 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000 31i,8n,26p,188b,301s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,5000p,200000b,40000s 0 PDF objects out of 300000 0 named destinations out of 131072 0 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536 No pages of output. ---- My attempt at trying at tracing the error have been futile.

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