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Postscript fonts: missing pfb files
by mari.voipio＠iki.fi 30 Jan '03

30 Jan '03

Hello, everybody! My fight with the fonts continues, I think I managed to debug most of my problems. However, I found out that my TeXLive installation seems to lack some of the very basic postscript font files (i.e they do not exist on my computer) and thus I still cannot install all the fonts mentioned in the type-tmf.bat file (of which I now have a version that really works with latest TeXLive+Windows, if somebody is interested). The TeXfont manual says (p. 4, under "Generating metrics") "Installation here comes down to copying the afm and pfb files, as well as generating the tfm and vf files." This sentence leads me to believe that I cannot generate the missing pfb files myself out of something else, so where can I find them? I lack the following: urw/helvetic: uhvb8an.pfb, uhvbi8a.pfb, uhvr8an.pfb, uhvri8a.pfb, uhvri8an.pfb (No wonder Helvetica has been giving me gray hairs all the way through!) bit/charter (NOT bitstrea/charter on TeXLive): bchb8a.pfb, bchbi8a.pfb, bchr8a.pfb, bchri8a.pfb urw/bookman: ubkb8a.pfb, ubkbi8a.pfb, ubkr8a.pfb, ubkri8a.pfb I seem to have all the .afm files for these fonts, just the .pfb:s are totally missing - any ideas of where I could get them and how? For the record: the combination I use just now is WinXP+TeXLive 7+(newest) ConTeXt, but I think the problem originates from TeXLive 7 full installation and is not system dependent. Thank you for any help, Mari from Finland

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PDF problem in newest context
by mari.voipio＠iki.fi 30 Jan '03

30 Jan '03

Hello! I'd messed up with my computer so I removed my old ConTeXt and installed the newest zip file instead (January 26 version). Unfortunately it declines to make pdf files, not even out of the example files from the web page. This compiles: --- \starttext Hello world \stoptext --- This doesn't: --- %output=pdf \starttext Hello world \stoptext --- The complaint I get is --- <clipeticlip> system : hello.top loaded (./hello.top specials : loading definition file tpd (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (c:/TeXLive/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4> ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \@@FDFflag \v!geencontrole \letvalue #1->\expandafter \let \csname #1 \endcsname l.912 \letvalue {\@@FDFflag\v!geencontrole} =\FDFflagDoNotSpellCheck ? --- With this speed I'll never get as far as to debugging my fonts. :-( Mari from Finland

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Tabulate and placing of chemical formulae
by Willi Egger 30 Jan '03

30 Jan '03

Hi Hans, Please find enclosed a file demonstrating some problems concerning: 1. chemical structures placed in a buffer which is typeset with the \placefigure environment. The chemical structure is not rezised. The running text starts far to the right at the same height as the figure starts. 2. a small tabulate which is intended to start with a \HL. \HL typeset before the first row of \NC ... \NC\NR, causes a fatal error with \noalign Could you please have a look at this? Thanks for your support, Willi

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headertexts
by Matthew Huggett 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Hi: I once knew how to turn off headertexts for the first page (so I don't have a title and header text on the same page), but now I've forgotten. How do I do this again? Thanks Matt

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How to do math in ConTeXt?
by Mikael Persson 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Hi everyone! I appologise if this question is answered before. I was trying to do some math in ConTeXt today, but failed. What I wanted to do was something similar to the \begin{cases}\end{cases} thing in LaTeX (amsmath?). For the non-LaTeX-math-users, its something like this: f(x)= \begin{cases} 0 & \text{if}\ x<0\\ 1 & \text{if}\ x\geq 0 \end{cases} and one gets something like this: / 0 if x<0 f(x) = < \ 1 if x>=0 I didn't find any commands that did this so I searched alittle in the maillist archive and didn't find any solution to it. Are the amsmath commands available in one or another way or are the implemented somehow? I found newmat and m-math but I didn't find a solution in either of them. Are there any docs about how to type math in ConTeXt? I am also interested in things that looks like eqnarray and other environments in LaTeX's amsmath... Thanks in advance, Micke P

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metapost/context
by Hans Hagen 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Hi From now on (also in the coming tetex) the metafun macros will be in /metapost/context/base (so, ther eis now a base oath) When updating, remove the files first else you get funny side effects) 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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Footnote numbering
by cohsb＠gmx.de 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Hi, is there a possibility to restart the numbering of footnotes? (i.e. i, ii, iii,... in the front matter, and then 1,2,3... in the body). I could switch to the roman numerals quite easily but I could not manage to let the new numbering start at 1. I also tried to use parts for that, which just led to funny page numbers but did not have any influence on the footnote numbering at all. Perhaps somebody knows a simple solution? Many thanks and cheers, Chris. -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen!

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problem with tabulate environment
by Willi Egger 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Hi Hans, Sorry for bothering you again. There seems to be a problem with the tabulate environment. When running the compilation stops with the following error> ! Misplaced \noalign. \TABLEnoalign ->\noalign \bgroup \let \noalign \relax \let \next = \HL ->\TABLEnoalign {\ifnum \noftabulatelines =\zerocount \@EA \FL \else \if... \tabulatecontent ->\HL \NC Klasse \NC Gruppe \NC Art \NC \NR \NC Verzierungs... \fulltabulatecontent ...respaces \tabulatecontent \ifx \tabulatetailcontent ... \processtabulate ...sa \crcr \fulltabulatecontent \crcr }\prevdepth \dp \str... l.41 \stoptabulate } Could you please hava a look into this? Kind regards Willi

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texutil purge
by Hans van der Meer 29 Jan '03

29 Jan '03

Hi Hans, Recently I became aware of a file "tmpgraph.bck" as the result of a context run that is not removed by the command "texutil --purge". I cannot remember after which ConTeXt-beta change this started. Is the texutil-script in need of updating? It is of course not a problem to remove this file by hand, but if texutil removes the rest it might is well remove this one. Hans van der Meer

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supp-box.tex generates an error...
by Patrick Gundlach 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

Hello out there, I just wanted to have a look at supp-box.tex, but texexecing it gives me: (./texexec-texexec.tmp) . [13.11] . . . . . . . . . [14.12] . . . . [15.13] . ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. \stopdocumentation ->\par \egroup \complexitem ...pitem []\ignorespaces \begstrut #2 \unskip \endstrut \par \st... l.982 (latest beta) Patrick

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piechartMP and context
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

Hi all, (especially Jens-Uwe) I just started to use the piechartMP package. I have succeeded in producing some quite nice charts using standalone metapost. But I am unable to convert these graphics to pdf via mptopdf, nor can I integrate them into context files. As soon as I try to switch to typesetting the labels using some TeX format, I get errors like 'Unable to make mpx file', or all labels simply show the same text, or... I have experimented with various setups, but I can't really locate the problem, sorry for this imprecise problem description. Can anybody provide me with some setup tips or a working setup? It would of course be best to have the labels typeset by context, respecting the MP environment of the document, but for the moment, a simply working setup would be a good start. Thanks, Eckhart

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math support for lbr
by Guy Worthington 28 Jan '03

28 Jan '03

After reading the mfonts manual, I still don't know how to install lbr math tfms. So far, I've: 1. Dumped all 41 of the lucida fonts (both .pfb and .afm files) in the directory c:\temp. A listing of the .pfb file follows: lbc.pfb lbd.pfb lbdi.pfb lbdsc.pfb lbh.pfb lbi.pfb lbki.pfb lbkr.pfb lbl.pfb lbma.pfb lbmad.pfb lbmd.pfb lbmdi.pfb lbmdo.pfb lbme.pfb lbmi.pfb lbmo.pfb lbmr.pfb lbms.pfb lbmsd.pfb lbr.pfb lbrsc.pfb lbsl.pfb lbtb.pfb lbtbo.pfb lbto.pfb lbtr.pfb lfd.pfb lfdi.pfb lfi.pfb lfr.pfb lsb.pfb lsbi.pfb lsd.pfb lsdi.pfb lsi.pfb lsr.pfb lstb.pfb lstbo.pfb lsto.pfb lstr.pfb 41 File(s) 1,473,502 bytes 0 Dir(s) 22,042,120,192 bytes free 2. Ran the command from c:\temp texfont type-buy.dat --fontroot=c:\Local\TeX\texmf-local --en=texnansi --ve=bh --co=lucida --expert 3. Ran the generated testfile. 4. Finally I ran the following file: %%-------------------------------------------------- \autoloadmapfilestrue \setupencoding[default=texnansi] \setupbodyfont[lbr] \starttext ,,German`` ``English'' << French >> >>Swedish<< \stoptext %%-------------------------------------------------- This generated the following log file: This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.14159-1.10a-RC3-2.1 (Web2c 7.4.1) (format=cont-en 2002.12.27) 27 JAN 2003 21:29 entering extended mode %&-line parsing enabled. **&cont-en Java_XML.ctx (./Java_XML.ctx{c:/Local/TeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} ConTeXt ver: 2002.12.20 fmt: 2002.12.27 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 = `Java_XML.tui'. system : Java_XML.top loaded (./Java_XML.top) \openout0 = `Java_XML-mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `Java_XML-mprun.mp'. \openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'. \openout0 = `mprun.mp'. (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-pre.tex typescript : [serif,sans,mono,math,handwriting] [lucida] [name,special,texn ansi] (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/math-lbr.tex)) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) typescript : [serif,sans,mono,math,handwriting] [default] [size] (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex) typescript : [map] [texnansi] [] (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-syn.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-enc.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-map.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-spe.tex) (c:/Local/TeX/texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-exa.tex)) ! Font \*7ptmmmi*=lbmo at 7.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found. <to be read again> \relax \xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier \let \localrelativefontsiz... \dodosetmathfamilyA ...amily \fontsize \endcsname \else \ifcsname \fontbody ... \dosetmathfamily ...athfamily \scriptscriptfont #1 \let \fontbody #3\dodosetm... <inserted text> ...\scriptscriptface \c!mi \empty \dosetskewchar \defaultske... \synchronizemath ...athfonts \the \mathstrategies \fam \mrfam \fi ... l.3 \setupbodyfont[lbr] ? x Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 657 strings out of 33848 10198 string characters out of 754309 4394604 words of memory out of 5512357 30170 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 11469 words of font info for 37 fonts, out of 500000 for 1000 56 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000 45i,1n,54p,283b,53s 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. Please help!

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acronyms and xml?
by Bruce D'Arcus 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

I want to author documents in XML so I can reuse the content. How should I deal with acronyms, such that if I output to HTML I get all-caps, but if I typeset using ConTeXt (maybe using Simon's DocBook thing) I'd get small caps? Is there an element for this in DocBook, for example? Bruce

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texexec --pages
by Willi Egger 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

Hi Hans, Today I decided to do some experiments with pdf. I tried the following command: texexec --pages=1:3,20 myfile.pdf texexec --pdfselect=1:3,20 myfile.pdf Both commands have identical failure: After starting the command, the 'myfile.pdf' is immediately renamed in texexec.pdf. Hereafter one should again type the input filename, which of course is not there anymore. - So texexec renames the input file while it still should load it with the original input-file name. Could you please have a look at this? Thanks and kind regards Willi

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nonstopmode
by Patrick Gundlach 27 Jan '03

27 Jan '03

Hello out there, I am currently writing some editor support for ConTeXt and I would like to get the `nonstop' mode for (pdf)tex working. So I edited the texexec.ini and changed for tetex set TeXBatchFlag to -int=nonstopmode (it was -int=batchmode) just for a test. With this file: \starttext \input tufte \thisdoesnotexist \stopttext and running texexec error.tex I get: ================================================== [...] ! Undefined control sequence. l.5 \thisdoesnotexist ? R OK, entering \nonstopmode... ! Undefined control sequence. l.8 \stopttext ) ! Emergency stop. <*> &cont-en error.tex No pages of output. ================================================== but now with --batch (that I have changed to nonstopmode) I get ================================================== [...] language : patterns 2:2-en-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : error.top loaded (./error.top run time : 1 seconds total run time : 1 seconds ================================================== So my question is: how do I get real nonstop mode (as with `R' above but from the beginning) and would you please add this option to texexec? Or is there any way to achieve this without (!) changing the tex file? Patrick

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ConTeXt doesn't accept some environments anymore
by Giuseppe Bilotta 26 Jan '03

26 Jan '03

Hello, I just noticed that the 2003.1.10 version of context doesn't read environments anymore, when they are in the previous directory; I have to put them in the same directory as the processed file, it seems. I tried adding a \usepath[..], but it still doesn't work. Any ideas? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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Buffers and grouping
by Willi Egger 26 Jan '03

26 Jan '03

Hi all, I thought that \startbuffer and stopbuffer would cause grouping within the buffer. e.g. \startbuffer[mybuffer] \switchtobodyfont[small] a bunch of text \stopbuffer \starttext \section{First} \getbuffer[mybuffer] \section{Second} \getbuffer[mybuffer] \section{Third} \getbuffer[mybuffer] \section{Fourth} \getbuffer[mybuffer] \stoptext Compiling the above example results in a fontsiye decreasing step by step. I am using: ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.10 fmt: 2003.1.18 int: english mes: english How should I reverse to the originally setup fontsize: \setupbodyfont[ss,12pt] \starttext \section{One} text text \section{Two} \switchtobodyfont[small] much more text with need to typset in [small] \switchtobodyfont[normal] <------ This does not result in what I need.. \section{Four} text text Thanks for hints! Willi

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presentation step
by Hans Hagen 26 Jan '03

26 Jan '03

Hi, There were quite some questions about this hackery mechanism. The problem is that it depends on pdf being reliable. I could reimplement it using some recent new trickery, but will look into that later (no time now). So, as a compromise, i made s-pre-50 to play with. I have no idea how well it works with the other styles, but at least it shows some trickery (as well as force GB into source-mode, i.e. reading core-box.tex -) I uploaded a new beta (this one also repairs a few bugs, as well as provides more extensive side float support (i hope things will not fail too much), on which i will upload an updates details.pdf somewhere next week. 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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presentationstep again
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 25 Jan '03

25 Jan '03

Now that \presentationstep seems usable, I have another problem. I'm using a color gradient in the background: \startuniqueMPgraphic{Gradient} path p; p=unitsquare xscaled \overlaywidth yscaled \overlayheight; linear_shade(p,1, \MPcolor{BackgroundColor},\MPcolor{TextBackgroundColor}); \stopuniqueMPgraphic \defineoverlay[Gradient][\uniqueMPgraphic{Gradient}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=Gradient,offset=3pt] The problem is, of course, that the presentationshield is coloured uniformly and covers the background. And since - text would have to be above the background but below the shield - the shield would have to be above the text but below the background I have no idea how to do it. Just sticking to plain backgrounds? Ok, that's not really bad. But those in the audience who are not interested in what you say anyway are often easy to impress by a fancy background - at least. Eckhart

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Conditional Text
by Lazycode 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Greetings! Is it possible to have parts of the ConTeXt file processed conditionally? I'm hoping to be able to do something like: (in ConTeXt file) Question: What is the derivative of $e^{sqrt{x}}$\\ \some-command-start Answer: $\frac{d}{dx} e^{sqrt{x}} ... $ \some-command-end So that, in the command line, if I run "texexec --pdf quiz01.tex" then it will NOT include the answer section, but if I run "texexec --pdf quiz01.tex -some-other-command" it WILL also include the answer section. I'm confident this can be done through an if or if-defined construct. However, I could not find such commands/macros in the ConTeXt manuals (both the beginners and the detailed manual). Thanks in advance, --tk

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Justifying paragraphs.
by John Culleton 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

I receive many MSWord documents which I then convert to plain text or LaTeX etc. Typically all the characters in a paragraph are crowded onto one line. This makes editing a bore. I can use: gqap to change an individual paragraph to a series of lines of standard length. But I haven't found a global way to do it to all paragraphs. There is/are one or more blank lines between paragraphs. Is there a colon command string that will accomplish this task? -- John Culleton Subscribe now to "Self Publisher's Newsletter!" No hassle! Send email to mailto:selfpub@wexfordpress.com.

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\presentationstep: recent changes?
by Eckhart Guthöhrlein 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

A couple of months ago, Hans posted the attached example in response to a desperate request for a working \presentationstep. I remember having tried it, and it worked at that time. With my current context (2003.1.10), this is no longer the case. The whole text area is covered by the presentationshield, and clicking the Whatever-Button has no effect. I guess there have been changes to the \presentationstep mechanism. Since I would (maybe) like to use this for a publication soon, I'm wondering how to get it working with a recent context. Eckhart

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Justifying paragraphs
by John Culleton 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

PLease ignore previous post. Somehow it went all over the place. -- John Culleton Subscribe now to "Self Publisher's Newsletter!" Nose ignor hassle! Send email to mailto:selfpub@wexfordpress.com.

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Automatic selection of font shape depending on size
by Victor Figurnov 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Dear All! Is there in ConTeXt an equivalent of LaTeX2e automatic selection of font shape depending on font size? For example, the following LaTeX statement (from type1ec.sty): \DeclareFontShape{OT1}{cmr}{m}{n}{ <-6> cmr5 <6-7> cmr6 <7-8> cmr7 <8-9> cmr8 <9-10> cmr9 <10-12> cmr10 <12-17> cmr12 <17-> cmr17 }{} means: for cmr family in OT1 encoding (series=medium, shape=normal) LaTeX will use: for font sizes < 6pt use (scaled) external font cmr5 for font sizes >= 6pt and < 7pt, use (scaled) external font cmr6 for font sizes >= 7pt and < 8pt, use (scaled) external font cmr7 . . . for font sizes >= 12pt and < 17pt, use (scaled) external font cmr12 for font sizes >= 17pt, use (scaled) external font cmr17). For example, if 5,5 pt font size of cmr font family in OT1 encoding (series=medium, shape=normal) is needed for typing text or math, LaTeX will automatically use external font cmr5 (cmr5.tfm), scaled to 5,5pt design size. For 24 pt font size -- external font cmr17 scaled to 24pt design size, etc. Is there in ConTeXt something like this? --------------------- Victor Figurnov

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Footonotes and footnote references not appearing on the same page
by Gilles Pérez-Lambert 24 Jan '03

24 Jan '03

Hello, I have a problem with footnotes: the references and the footnotes do not fall on the same page as soon as there is numerous footnotes on a page (something that happens frequently in my work). You'll find a source example and a PDF on: http://typo.free.fr/context/ Maybe is there something I'm doing that I should not. Environment: > TeXExec 3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002 > > executable : pdfetex > format : cont-en > inputfile : test > output : pdftex > interface : en > current mode : none > TeX run : 1 > > This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x) > entering extended mode > (./test.tex{/usr/local/teTeX/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg} > > ConTeXt ver: 2003.1.10 fmt: 2003.1.21 int: english mes: english Thanks, Gilles.

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