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fontswitch
by Hans van der Meer 15 Nov '02

15 Nov '02

I think font-ini.tex(?) has a small error in it (working with the 23-okt beta). When switching to {\xi } something different from {\xii}, {\x} etc. happens; xi doesn't seem to work. I have looked into font-ini.tex but could not find the source of the problem. Hans van der Meer

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macros and buffers
by Matthew Huggett 15 Nov '02

15 Nov '02

Hi: Recently, I had some data I wanted set using tabulate but in 7 individual buffers. I wanted to use a macro to both create the buffers and do the \starttabulate...\stoptabulate stuff. I found that my macro could create the .tmp file for each buffer but that the files were all empty. Why would this happen, and is there a way to make this work? example: \define[5]\MyBuffers{ \startbuffer[#1] \starttabulate[|l|l|] \NC #2 \NC #3 \NR \NC #4 \NC #5 \stoptabulate \stopbuffer } Best Wishes, Matthew Huggett

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\setuplist[]
by Willi Egger 15 Nov '02

15 Nov '02

Hi everybody, Preparing a document with a adapted header and TOC layout I encountered the following problem: \setuphead[section][prefix=Gedicht] generates the following error: pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2c 7.3.7x) (format=cont-en 2002.10.20) ConTeXt ver: 2002.10.2 fmt: 2002.10.20 int: english mes: english ... section : 1 Spaanse versie ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \localkopprefix \setupreferenceprefix [#1]->\edef \@@rfprefix {#1 }\ifx \@@rfprefix \empty \l... \dodododosomekop ...renceprefix [\localkopprefix ] \fi \dosomebreak \nobreak ... l.22 \section{Spaanse versie} Using \def\Gedichthead%... and \setuphead[section][command=\Gedichthead] works fine. What is wrong with using the prefix operator? In the document also the TOC should be adapted: \setuplist[section][left=Ged.~,right=] There is no error on this statement. However the prefix of the line with 'Ged.' does not show. May be that I miss something in this approach? Please find attached a minimal test file. Cheers Willi

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colorful listings
by Johannes Hüsing 15 Nov '02

15 Nov '02

Greetings, unfortunately I cannot assign personal color palettes to my program listings. The following document, after processing, shows a colorful palet, then, unexpectedly, a B+W listing, then another colorful palet, and a colorful listing. What is wrong in the assignment of an own palet here? Best Johannes -----8-<----- \setupoutput[pdftex] \setupcolors[state=start] \definecolor [espresso] [r=.4, b=.1, g=.2] \definecolor [cacao] [r=.6, b=.2, g=.4] \definecolor [aulait] [r=.8, b=.4, g=.6] \definecolor [muckefuck] [r=.95, b=.65, g=.8] \definepalet [mokka] [ prettyone=espresso, prettytwo=cacao, prettythree=aulait, prettyfour=muckefuck] \starttext \showpalet[mokka] \setuptyping[PL][palet=mokka] \startPL #!/usr/bin/perl -w print "Hello, World!\n"; \stopPL \showpalet[colorpretty] \setuptyping[PL][palet=colorpretty] \startPL #!/usr/bin/perl -w print "Hello, Hasselt!\n"; \stopPL \stoptext ----->-8----- -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets hannes(a)ruhrau.de such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain

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Fun with \setuphead
by Idris S Hamid 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Dear coterie, I have defined another section: \definehead [SubNote][subsection] \setuphead [SubNote][style=bold, number=no] Now I want to do a certain operation on the argument of \subnote whenever it appears in the TOC. The argument should appear in the main text as expected: \SubNote{My Note} but it should appear as {\operation My Note} in the TOC. Put another way, I want to change/operate upon the lemma that's passed to the TOC. Is there a way I can wrap all this up in the \setuphead command? If not, what's the workaround? (For the curious: My main text (including headings) is fully accented. I have a command, "\onovocalize" which strips away all the accents. I want all my TOC entries to be\onovocalize'ed without affecting the rest of the text and need to setup my heads to reflect this.) Best wishes Idris -- Dr. Idris S Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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tables within tabulate
by Hans van der Meer 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Anybody knows why is seems impossible to put a table into a tabulate? this works: \starttabulate[|p|p|]\NC TEXT \NC TEXT \NC\NR\stoptabulate but NOT this: \starttabulate[|p|p|]\NC \starttable[|c|c|] \HL \VL Y \VL P \VL \SR \HL \stoptable \NC TEXT \NC\NR\stoptabulate Hans van der Meer

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About itemize
by Idris S Hamid 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Dear posse, The itemize environment has a strange feature/bug: --------------- \startitemize \item Here is some text \stopitemize % Here is some text that SHOULD NOT be indented --------------- produces the same indentation as ---------------- \startitemize \item Here is some text \stopitemize Here is some text that SHOULD be indented ---------------- and even more puzzling: ---------------- \startitemize \item Here is some text\par \stopitemize\par Here is some text that should REALLY be indented ---------------- Could someone please explain how I can get text skipping a line after the itemize environment to automatically indent without a manual \indent every time? Sorry if I'm clueless here:-) Thnx in advance Idris -- Dr. Idris S Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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quote environment
by Idris S Hamid 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Dear crew, (Please forgive all the (perhaps) clueless questions: I've had to spend the last few months focusing on _content_ in my research as opposed to _form_ so I've gotten quite rusty:->) I have defined a quote environment as follows: \startnarrower[2*left,2*right]\noindent Some quoted text \stopnarrower I would like to define a more sophisticated \startquote \stopquote with the following features: 1. Assuming the quote is within a paragraph and is preceded and succeeded by text belonging to that same paragraph, the skips preceding and succeeding text should be the same as in the default itemize environment. Assuming itemize uses \medskip (how do I find out for sure (aside from digging into the code)?), I need the quote environment to do something like; ------------------------------------ Here is some preceding text \medskip % \startnarrower[2*left,2*right]\noindent Some quoted text \stopnarrower \medskip % Here is some succeeding text. ---------------------------------------- 2. Assuming the quote is within a paragraph and is preceded and succeeded by text belonging to that same paragraph, the succeeding text should NOT be indented. viz. ---------------------------------------- Here is some preceding text % \startquote Some quoted text \stopquote % Here is some succeeding text that should NOT be indented ----------------------------------------- 3. Assuming the quote is at the _end_ of a paragraph, I need the quote environment to do something like; -------------------------------------- Here is some preceding text \medskip % \startnarrower[2*left,2*right]\noindent Some quoted text \stopnarrower \medskip Here is some succeeding text that SHOULD be indented. -------------------------------------- Note also that the first par in a quote environment should not be indented: -------------------------------------- Here is some preceding text % \startquote Some quoted text that should NOT be indented Some quoted text that SHOULD be indented. \stopquote % -------------------------------------- Your help is greatly appreciated! Best wishes Idris -- Dr. Idris S Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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\switchtobodyfont[cmr] in Gamma
by Idris S Hamid 14 Nov '02

14 Nov '02

Dear team, I sent a similar question before but got no response. Hopefully I'll get better luck this time;-> In Gamma (and perhaps in regular ConTeXt as well but I have no other fonts to test there) \setupbodyfont[cmr] does not seem to work/behaves strangely: -------------cm-test.tex-------------- \input m-gamma.tex \input type-omg.tex \setupbodyfont[cmr,14pt] %\setupbodyfont[omlgc, 14.4pt] This is a test \switchtobodyfont[omlgc, 14.4pt] %\switchtobodyfont[cmr,14pt] This is a test \switchtobodyfont[cmr, 14pt] %\switchtobodyfont[omlgc, 14.4pt] This is a test \stoptext --------------------------- Results: First line in cmr14, second line in omlgc14.4 (OK so far) Third line in omlgc14 (This is wrong!) Now lets switch things: ------------------------------- \input m-gamma.tex \input type-omg.tex %\setupbodyfont[cmr,14pt] \setupbodyfont[omlgc, 14.4pt] This is a test %\switchtobodyfont[omlgc, 14.4pt] \switchtobodyfont[cmr,14pt] This is a test %\switchtobodyfont[cmr, 14pt] \switchtobodyfont[omlgc, 14.4pt] This is a test \stoptext ------------------------------- Results: First line in omlgc14.4 (OK so far) Second line in omlgc14 (instead of cmr14) Third line in omlgc14.4 (OK) As u can see, \switchtobodyfont[cmr] does not seem to work. Am I doing something wrong or is something else afoot? Note that I have not called any ocp lists so it's not an ocp interference. Thanks in advance! Best wishes Idris -- Dr. Idris S Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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special heading
by Idris S Hamid 12 Nov '02

12 Nov '02

Dear gang, I'm having trouble with a special heading. I have written a treatise where everything is numbered in sections, subsections, etc. I need an introductory section-like command, say, \definehead [introduction][section] where 1. "Introduction" is marked in the table of contents without a number, and 2. absolutely nothing is marked in the main text; 3. the first section is still marked as `1' in the main text and the TOC. Another possibility I'm considering: 1. "Introduction" is marked in the table of contents without a number, and 2. "Introduction" is marked centered in the main text without a number; 3. the first section is still marked as `1' in the main text and the TOC. Thnx in advance Idris -- Dr. Idris S Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523

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\definedescription[name] [location=hanging] bug
by Nigel King 12 Nov '02

12 Nov '02

I think there is a bug in the description system This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10a-devel-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.9) (format=cont-en 2002.11.7) 10 NOV 2002 18:45 ConTeXt ver: 2002.10.11 fmt: 2002.11.7 int: english mes: english ! Undefined control sequence. \@@definitiehanging ...\leftskipadaption \relax \8 ifdim\leftskipadaption =\z... \dodowithpar ...oordefinitie {ahanging}[]{dawkins} #1\@@stopdefinitie {ahanging} l.7 The minimum file that causes this error is ------- \definedescription [ahanging] [location=hanging] \starttext \ahanging{dawkins}\input dawkins\par \stoptext All the other settings for location appear to work. -- Nigel

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Fwd: [NTG-context] Strange error...
by Hans Hagen 11 Nov '02

11 Nov '02

>Hi Hans, > >while busy to develop more FLOWcharts, I get the following error, which does >not lead to fatal exit. The resulting pdf-file is according to my oppinion >o.k. > >Do you have an idea what is wrong? > >... >systems : end file cenj at line 244 >! pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier >(name{page:15}) h >as been already used, duplicate ignored ><recently read> fit > ><to be read again> > \egroup >\fakePDFpagedestination ...e:\realfolio }}\egroup > \fi \fi \fi >\actualshipout ...chbox \hbox {\the \everyshipout > \ifnum \realpageno >=\lastp... > >\myshipout ...pout {\thisisrealpage \realfolio #1} > \fi \gotonextrealpage >\nap... > >\dofinaloutput ...pagebody #1#2\setpagecounters }} > \fi \the >\everyaftershipou... >... >l.244 \stoptext > [16.15] ) > > >Groet Willi this is pdftex's way of telling you that you have a duplicate reference 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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(no subject)
by M. Canali 11 Nov '02

11 Nov '02

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Metapost
by Michał Morawski 11 Nov '02

11 Nov '02

I have tried to repeat the example in the file "Creating metapost examples" (mmakempy.pdf) and I receive result as below and empty place in my document. Can anyone give me a hint? This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2c 7.3.7x) (mem=metafun 2002.10.31) 31 OCT 2002 22:25 **&metafun mpgraph (mpgraph.mp {randomseed:=3603} (d:/TeXLive/texmf/metapost/base/graph.mp (d:/TeXLive/texmf/metapost/base/format.mp (d:/TeXLive/texmf/metapost/base/string.mp) (d:/TeXLive/texmf/metapost/base/texnum.mp >> d:/TeXLive/texmf/metapost/base/texnum.mp >> texnum.mpx ! Unable to make mpx file. l.14 init_numbers(btex $-$etex, btex$1$etex, btex${\times}10$etex, The two files given above are one of your source files and an auxiliary file I need to read to find out what your btex..etex blocks mean. If you don't know why I had trouble, try running it manually through MPto -tex, TeX, and DVItoMP. Thanks in advance Michal ############################################ ## Michał Morawski ## 95-200 Pabianice, Sempołowskiej 5 m 13 ## tel/fax ++48 42 2262228 ############################################ Zwykle niewinność jest wynikiem szczęścia a nie cnoty. Anatol France

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schimpscheut
by K.H. Wesseling 10 Nov '02

10 Nov '02

Niet al te gemakkelijk antwoorden graag. Het is me wel eens opgevallen dat de rode reus uit redmond zich weinig gelegen laat liggen aan logica of wiskunde of systematiek maar daarentegen juist erg goed is in marketing. Dus het opzetten van de facto standaarden zou ik persoonlijk liever niet aan ze overlaten, terwijl HP en die andere clubs op die punten wel aan mijn elementaire eisen voldoen of deden. Die foto is leuk maar wie is het. Nee niet jij. Jou herken ik wel, maar de non? Ik ben inmiddels aardig op streek in de "non-designers type book" dat je me ooit aanbeval en dat ik Zaterdag kon ophalen. Is leuk. Veel weetjes, veel definities en veel voorbeelden. Aardig op mijn niveau (door de vele voorbeelden). Maar typografisch blaft en brult iedere pagina je aan. Nooit eerder zo'n typografische schreeuw, gezien zou ik bijna schrijven, gehoord. En dat terwijl een van de aanbevelingen in het boek is het rustig te houden. Snap je weer beter hoe hoog de kwaliteit van Siep's werk bijvoorbeeld ligt. Dus dank voor de tip heh...Karel.

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Re: [NTG-context] Fwd: ConTeXt FAQ format, XML with DTD
by Simon Pepping 10 Nov '02

10 Nov '02

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 10:22:56AM +0000, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Hello again! > > JM's proposal of FAQ format is only for one FAQ entry. > The following one may contain the whole thing: several "recipes" (FAQ > entries), > each in more than one language. Your DTD has a number of problems. I have skipped most of this discussion, so I do not know what you want. But the content models are very vague: ANY for question and answer, and it seems you assume ANY for code as well. If you do not specify this more precisely, too much will be possible and nobody knows what to expect. A content model like %text;, declared as (#PCDATA|p|code)+, would be better. Schemas have some extra facilities here, but otherwise I am not sure why they would be preferable. The id in %person should be CDATA, as already remarked. Note that this assumes a tightly organized set of documents. You say nothing about the author or editor, so you assume that the id resolves into an entry in another document, and that the renderer knows which document so that it can generate a hyperlink. You might also use XLink language: xlink:href="author#hraban", which already indicates that the author can be found in the document author in the same directory, with the ID hraban. OTOH, this is less flexible w.r.t. the organization of the document set. Note that Docbook has provisions for QandA: qandaset, question, answer. I think docbook is a prime example of too wide a DTD. But it is useful to try and devise a DTD that is a subset of Docbook. It would make your documents processable with generic Docbook tools. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping(a)scaprea.hobby.nl

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problem: long descriptions
by Zeljko Vrba 09 Nov '02

09 Nov '02

Hi! I'm writing reference manual for a C/C++ library and I have the following problem: When I define a description, long prototypes are not line-broken. For example, I've set up \definedescription [methref] [location=top,headstyle=\tt] When I have \startmethref{a very long prototype.........................} blah blah blah \stopmethref the argument is not line-broken and it goes out of the page boundary. The text shows properly only in the next line. I have something like the following in mind, but I don't know how to do it: I'd like the typeset layout to look something like this a very long prototype proto.. Text describing the method proto proto proto proto proto Text describing the method proto proto Text describinb the method More text describing the method. More text. More text More text. Prototype may be framed. The text widths should be 0.5 and 0.5 of textwidth for both the prototype and the description. I hope you understood what I want :) I was thinking something like typesetting prototype in the box and then using floating mechanism (\startXXXleft, would that work at all?), but is there a more straightforward way? Another unrelated question: is there a bold typewriter (CM) font somewhere?

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Passing a string via texexec
by John Culleton 09 Nov '02

09 Nov '02

This is more of a convenience feature than a necessity, but here goes. I plan to personalize copies of an ebook in pdf format by putting the string: "This copy prepared for Joe Smith" on the page, perhaps in a footer. This means I have to recompile the book for each separate customer. It would save a minute if I could just pass a named string to pdfetex in the same way one passes a mode to the program. I am looking for something like: texexec --mode=ebook --string="Joe Smith" mybook.tex ...and then have a way to pick up that string in the TeX file and use it. All this does is save me from editing the file in every instance. If it is too big a deal forget it. -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters, Rowse Reviews, Culleton Editorial Services http://wexfordpress.com

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Is your ConTeXt too slow?
by Jens-Uwe Morawski 09 Nov '02

09 Nov '02

Hi all (or mainly the users of Unix-like systems) after i've bought a new notebook and installed the recent Redhat Linux system i found that an updated ConTeXt runs very slow. First i thought that Hans had too much time and implemented a few thousand new features that need their time, but ... ... it is a queerer story. Here are the run times of an example document (many inline MP graphics, 18 pages, many terminal messages !!) on different terminal programs for X-Windows: gnome-terminal: 2 min 18 sec konsole (KDE-terminal): 1 min 30 sec xterm: 1 min 5 sec directly on the console (no X-Windows): 58 sec Normally i use the first. Hmm... ;-( Don't ask me for reasons, but if your ConTeXt is too slow, ask yourself if you run it on the right terminal -) Jens

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Tabulate and vertical spacing
by mari.voipio＠iki.fi 09 Nov '02

09 Nov '02

Hello! This is a YASQ (Yet Another Stupid Question) that might well have an answer in the mail archives, but they still don't cooperate (at least I cannot find any links to a working archive)... How do I change the vertical line spacing in a tabulation? My default setting is \setupwhitespace[medium], nothing else. Most of my tabulations are fine with this, but in one certain set I'd need to bring the lines vertically closer together - how do I achieve this? BTW, how does ConTeXt understand lines of a tabulation - are they altogether one block or is each line equivalent to a block? (Windows analogy: Word handles the text in each cell as a separate paragraph; but Word isn't exactly a good typesetter, anyway.) Thanks for your patience, Mari Voipio Finland

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Re: [NTG-context] Tabulate and vertical spacing
by Hans Hagen 08 Nov '02

08 Nov '02

At 04:45 PM 11/8/2002 +0200, mari.voipio(a)iki.fi wrote: >Hello! > >This is a YASQ (Yet Another Stupid Question) that might well have an >answer in the mail archives, but they still don't cooperate (at least I >cannot find any links to a working archive)... > >How do I change the vertical line spacing in a tabulation? My default >setting is \setupwhitespace[medium], nothing else. Most of my tabulations >are fine with this, but in one certain set I'd need to bring the lines >vertically closer together - how do I achieve this? \noalign{\vskip-4pt} >BTW, how does ConTeXt understand lines of a tabulation - are they >altogether one block or is each line equivalent to a block? (Windows >analogy: Word handles the text in each cell as a separate paragraph; but >Word isn't exactly a good typesetter, anyway.) \starttabulate \NC test \NC test \endgraf test \NC \NR \noalign{\vskip-3pt} \NC test \NC test \endgraf test \NC \NR \stoptabulate ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Why does \struct affect line breaking?
by Bill McClain 08 Nov '02

08 Nov '02

This is perhaps more of a TeX question, and I'll take it to comp.text.tex next. But I encountered a problem when using \index in ConTeXt. I had my doc formatted exactly the way I wanted. But after I added \index entries throughout, I found that the line-breaking of some paragraphs had changed. The text became "looser", not packing quite as densely. Small changes, but significant to my layout. Experimentation showed that substituting "\strut" for "\index{...}" had the same effect. These should be invisible, and I don't see anything added, but the line-breaking is changed. I'm reading Eijkhout's chapter on "Line Breaking" in "TeX by Topic" but am not sure how to interpret it. Have I introduced "glue preceded by a nondiscardable item"? Would that be less breakable than the simple space that was there before? -Bill -- Sattre Press The King in Yellow http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers info(a)sattre-press.com http://kiy.sattre-press.com/

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startTEXapplication and music?
by Adam Lindsay 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

Hi ConTeXters, Here's another oddball question to see what's possible. I'm trying to get musictex (or musixtex, if the first one is a success) to work from within ConTeXt. Musictex code like that at the bottom of my message doesn't work directly in ConTeXt, and I don't feel the pressing need to make it work. However, it works fine when fed through pdftex. While doing a quick grep through the source files, I came across the \startTEXapplication and \startTEXpage macros used in the pstricks module, and they look like they handle the spirit of what I'm trying to accomplish. However, the pass through texexec again (and to some extent the dependency on ps2pdf, which I need to get from ghostscript and isn't in my TeXLive) means that ConTeXt fails on a tmp file, right? Would this be a good time to learn about buffers? Should I copy-paste the definitions involved with TEXapplication and modify them to something to my needs? Is there something that exists already that runs a simple pdftex on a code block and inserts it as a figure? thanks, adam musictex code follows: \input musicnft \input musictex \def\nbinstruments{1}\relax % a single instrument \generalmeter{\meterfrac{4}{4}}\relax % 4/4 meter chosen \debutextrait % starting real score \normal % normal 12 pt note spacing \temps\Notes\ibu0f0\qh0{cge}\tbu0\qh0g\enotes \finextrait % terminate excerpt -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)1524 594 537 atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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MP graph auto axes
by Adam Lindsay 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

Hi Folks. This is not strictly a ConTeXt problem, but I was hoping there were enough MetaPost experts on the list that I might get an idea of what's going on, or at the least, where to go for more information. I think the MetaPost graphing features are fantastic. It produces very nice output, and automatically handles a lot of axis labelling that other packages don't bother with. However, it auto-labels the y-axis on the following three graphs very differently. I was wondering if this is a strict limitation in the axis ranges that MetaPost deals with gracefully, or if it might be a bug. I haven't seen any reference to the correct range for graph axes. I've tried many ranges, and some work, some don't. Would the MetaFont list be able to help? \usemodule[graph] %% This one works as it should. \startMPcode draw begingraph(130mm,35mm); setrange(0,0,10,22000); glabel.lft(btex {correct 0--22000} etex rotated 90, OUT); autogrid(itick.bot,grid.lft) withcolor .75white ; endgraph; \stopMPcode %% This one gives output, but yields incorrect labels \startMPcode draw begingraph(130mm,35mm); setrange(0,50,10,22000); glabel.lft(btex {wrong 50--22000} etex rotated 90, OUT); autogrid(itick.bot,grid.lft) withcolor .75white ; endgraph; \stopMPcode %% This simply gives up. \startMPcode draw begingraph(130mm,35mm); setrange(0,110,10,22000); glabel.lft(btex {failed 110--22000} etex rotated 90, OUT); autogrid(itick.bot,grid.lft) withcolor .75white ; endgraph; \stopMPcode Thanks in advance, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Adam Lindsay +44(0)1524 594 537 atl(a)comp.lancs.ac.uk http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/atl/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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grid and formulas
by Leif Albers 07 Nov '02

07 Nov '02

Hello again, I have the impression you can basically forget about the grid mode when using formulas. I started writing a simple text containing lots of math. When I turned on grid mode I basically saw ... well ... not at all what I expected. A simple example is: (watch the last line) -------------------- SNIPP -------------------- \setuplayout [grid=yes] \showgrid \starttext x \startformula x \stopformula x$\tilde I$ \stoptext -------------------- SNIPP -------------------- Note that in normal Text $\tilde I$ is correctly aligned. The combination with the big formula is a problem. But it is clearly not the only situation in which problems with grid and formulas occur. Leif Albers P.S. Is this list the correct place for bug reports?

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