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Simplefonts, \setcjk....font has some side effect on verbatim typing
by 尹冠皓 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Did I miss anything? \usemodule[simplefonts] \setcjkmainfont[whatever] \starttext \type{'} % expect ', but get ’ \type{--} % expect --, but get – \stoptext

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Creation of PDF Oddly Differs on Ubuntu and Mac OS X
by Raymond LeClair 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

All, I am using ConTeXt to create a PDF for upload to Lulu.com. I am getting the following exception using the LuLu Python publication API on Mac OS X 10.6.6 with Python 2.6.6 or 2.7.1: ServiceError: Couldn't create Lulu project. '{"error_type": "LFilesystemException", "error_value": "shell command failed: rm -rf \'/opt/stable/stable/htdocs/items/volume_69/10290000/10290657\' 2>&1\\nrm: cannot remove directory `/opt/stable/stable/htdocs/items/volume_69/10290000/10290657/1/cover\': Directory not empty", "HTTPErrorCode": 500}' Oddly, the exact same code works fine on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with Python 2.6.5. I have track down the issue to the difference between the _cover_ PDF created on Ubuntu with ConTeXt ver: 2009.11.26 16:28 MKIV and on Mac OS X with ConTeXt ver: 2010.05.24 13:05 MKIV, although the cover PDF generated on either platform appears correctly in Preview. I have posted an archive that illustrates the issue at http://www.synterein.com/lulu_context_issues/lulu_context_issue_01.zip Any wisdom out there? What should I look for next? Ray. 978-621-5755

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Defining new head & grid problem
by Bart Wise 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

The code below prints out the word "Text:" in bold and then follows with the text. However, if I turn the grid on (as is coded below), the first line of the paragraph is printed, followed by a blank line, followed by the remaining text. The blank line after the first line should not be there. If I don't use the grid, I don't get the extra blank line. Is something broken (I'm using the latest beta), or am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Bart \setuplayout[grid=yes] \definehead[paragraph][subsubsubject] \setuphead[paragraph][ alternative=text, style=bold] \starttext \paragraph{Text: } \input knuth \stoptext

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Macro for acronyms
by Cecil Westerhof 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

At the moment I have I my document: {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf M}ust {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf S}hould {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf C}ould {\switchtobodyfont[1.25em]\bf N}ot now But I like to have a macro for this, so I could just do: \Acronym{Must Should Could Not~now} Is more readable and when I want a change (for example another color for the first letter), this is much easier to implement. How should I implement such a macro? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Some problems I experienced when using ConTeXt
by Cecil Westerhof 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

In my explorary journey into ConTeXt I bumped into a few problems. Attached my tex file and the generated PDF. I found a few problems while using ConTeXt. I did my best to reproduce them (the table problem was difficult to reproduce) and make a small sample document. There is a problem with the formatting of paragraps. This manifests itself when I set lefthyphenmin and righthyphenmin. Then sometimes sentences are to long. Would it not be better to have a lot of whitespace between the words, but keep the formating? In the document the third line of the first paragraph is to long and the fifth and sixth line from the second paragraph are to long. When I use a sentence like: In de boxen van de stam vul je voor iedere dag (maandag t/m zondag) een activiteit in die je op die dag afrond. I would prefer t/m kept together. It is, but the way it is displayed, it looks like there is (a) space between the '/' and the 'm'. Is there something that can be done about this, or have I to live with it? I found also an obscure problem with table. I had to dabble a bit to reproduce it. (For a moment I thought I had imagined it.) The table does not fit on the space that is left on the page, so it is moved to the next page. So far so good. But the text after the table is put on the current page and is now before the table. It is not that they can not be put on a page together, because when you uncomment the break, the table and text reside on the same page. Lastly a question about a long click-able email address. I would like it not to be broken up. But sometimes this can happen. See the end of the document.(Can of-course also happen with a short address, but will happen less often.) What is the best way to circumvent this? At the moment I just put it centered on its own line. At the moment I do not have a problem with this. But I do not know if this will be always the case. -- Cecil Westerhof

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cals tables
by R. Ermers 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

Dear All, I am struggling with the processing of cals tables in mkiv. I used the module x-cals, in different styles ([x][cals], etc.) but there is no effect, the table is not typeset. \usemodule x-cals.mkiv \xmlloaddirectives x-cals-test.cdx By way of experiment I also used the directives, but no avail either. Should I write an xmlsetup for each element, e.g. \xmlsetsetup{#1}{//thead}{xml:thead} \xmlsetsetup{#1}{//entry}{xml:entry} Can anyone help me out? Thanks in advance. Robert

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How to get rounded corners and a thicker line with \startframedtext
by Cecil Westerhof 19 Mar '11

19 Mar '11

I am still dabbling with ConTeXt. There is a lot to learn, but it is worth it. ;-} At the moment I have (when finished I make a macro of it): \startframedtext[middle] \startalignment[middle] {\bf A goal properly set is halfway reached.} \stopalignment \blank[small] \startalignment[flushright] {\it Abraham Lincoln} \stopalignment \stopframedtext I want to use this to intersperse my document with citations. It is not bad, but I like to change two things: - I would like to use rounded corners - I would like to use a slightly thicker line to draw the box How could I accomplish this? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Fwd: The creation of a new Arabic typeface (funded by Google)
by Henning Hraban Ramm 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

From TeX-D-L: Google sponsors development of a screen-optimized Arabic font. > Graham Douglas weist in seinem Blog darauf hin, daß Google derzeit die > Entwicklung eines arabischen Fonts finanziert, der besonders für die > Darstellung auf Bildschirmen optimiert worden ist. Die Entwicklung des > Fonts wird im Blog fortlaufend dokumentiert. > > <http://www.readytext.co.uk/?p=924> > <http://shashafont.com/> Idris et al., perhaps you can teach them to include the proper OpenType magic? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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(RSFS) font installation
by Stefan Müller 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Hi, like others before, I tried to get the script alphabet from Ralph Smith's Formal Font to work in MkIV (minimals) and failed. There seems to be only outdated or unclear and unspecific information about where to start with fonts available. Or: there is information everywhere but I can't put it together. I downloaded a rsfs.zip from [1] containing .mf, .pfb, .afm, .pfm files and a .map file. It seems to be a type1 font. The manual [2] states, that a script texfont.pl can do install the font. Mojca said [3] on the mailing list that texfont is not the way to go, so I didn't try to go further in that direction. Do I need .tfm files? If so, how to get them? I put the "rsfs" directory with its subdirs from the .zip to the folder c:\context\tex\texmf-fonts\fonts\data\ as Wolfgang suggested [4] and ran "context --generate". I seems as if this did not install the font, but I have no idea. How can I check this? \definefont[rsfs][file:rsfs*default] \starttext \rsfs ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ \stoptext just gave me the alphabet in default font. Is there a way to ask ConTeXt which fonts (or does ConTeXt "know" typescripts?) it knows? In addition, I tried the example from Hans and Otared at [5] which crashes on my installation (error log appended at the end). I don't know how to proceed here. Hopefully someone from this list can assist me. Thanks in advance. Kind regards, Stefan [1] http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/rsfs/ [2] http://pmrb.free.fr/contextref.pdf [3] http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20101213.120015.795450f2.en.html [4] http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20101214.102347.a6a2216f.en.html [5] http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20100414.122529.bc3ba584.en.html mtx-context | warning: syntex is enabled mtx-context | run 1: luatex --synctex=1 --fmt="C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/cont-en" --lua="C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/cont-en.lui" --backend="pdf" "./rsfs_test.tex" This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.66.0-2011021923 (rev 4086) \write18 enabled. (rsfs_test.tex ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV fmt: 2011.3.16 int: english/english system > cont-new.mkiv loaded (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv system > beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv ) system > rsfs_test.top loaded (rsfs_test.top) fonts > latin modern fonts are not preloaded languages > language en is active (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv) (C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv){C:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{C:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map}{C:/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map} system > begin file rsfs_test.tex at line 41 backend > xmp > using file 'C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lpdf-pdx.xml' pages > flushing realpage 1, userpage 1, subpage 1 system > end file rsfs_test.tex at line 57 ){C:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/lm-mathsy.enc}{C:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/lm/lm-mathit.enc}<C:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman10-regular.otf><C:/context/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts/data/rsfs/type1/rsfs10.pfbType1: Could not understand Type1 font: C:/context/tex/texmf-fonts/fonts/data/rsfs/type1/rsfs10.pfb mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1

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[OT] VirtualWin
by luigi scarso 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista/Win7). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called 'workspaces'). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow. http://virtuawin.sourceforge.net/ -- luigi

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pageshifting
by Willi Egger 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Hi, it looks as of there is a bug in page-imp in MKIV. The problem does not show up in MKII. When using vertical and or horizontal pageshift lists while arranging an error occurs: ! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 27. system > tex > error on line 0 in file : Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 27 ... <empty file> <inserted text> \fi ... ! Emergency stop. Please refer to the attached minimal example Willi

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Is it possible to generate only a table of contents
by Cecil Westerhof 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Is it possible to generate only a TOC? (\completecontent) When creating a document I like to have the 'stakeholders' to have an indication of what is going on. For this a TOC is enough. I could create the document and cut out the TOC, but it would be simpler if that could be auto generated. -- Cecil Westerhof

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Difference between MKII, XeTeX and MKIV
by Cecil Westerhof 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

When installing minimals you have MKII, XeTeX and MKIV. I understand that you should normally use MKIV, but when are the other two used? -- Cecil Westerhof

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620 pages limit?
by Steffen Wolfrum 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Hi, in December we had 4000 pages limit, now I only reach 700 pages limit: pages > flushing realpage 615, userpage 619 pages > flushing realpage 616, userpage 620 PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (stack overflow (out of stack space)) mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 1 It's a book wih 7 chapters, each of it run fine. Only typesetting the entire project (not even with TOC) gives this error. Is there help? Steffen (ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV)

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Accents messed up
by Pau 18 Mar '11

18 Mar '11

Hi, This is TeXExec | version 6.2.1 - 1997-2009 - PRAGMA ADE/POD I am writing a presentation like this in French: \language[fr] \mainlanguage[fr] %\enableregime[utf-8] \enableregime[latin1] \usemodule[pre-fuzzy] \usemodule[amsl] \useMPlibrary[txt] my terminal encoding is set to UTF-8. Running texec on it yields a bunch of weird characters where the accents should be. What am I doing wrong? thanks, Pau

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Hoefler font in Mark IV
by Charles Doherty 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Dear all, I have been using Hoefler font successfully in a newsletter. I am now processing it in MarkIV but I don't get bold or bold italic. Italic is not quite the same either. I am using simplefonts. I have the .dfont and the .ttf on my system. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Charlie

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\writetolist spurious space in the first line hereafter
by Willi Egger 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hi all, I detected that after issuing \writetolist, that there is a unwanted space in the first line after this command. This occurs when indenting is on and off. Please refer to the attached minimal example. I am using ConTeXt 2011.02.25 22:03, LuaTEX beta-0.65.0-2010121316 Kind regards Willi

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symbols fail in mkiv
by Jean Magnan de Bornier 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hi all, The following file has the expected output with texexec but with mkiv the symbols are replaced by question marks in the output; all my other tests with symbols actually fail with mkiv. ...................... \starttext Hello world! \usesymbols[mvs] \symbol[martinvogel 2][PointingHand] \symbol[martinvogel 2][CheckedBox] \stoptext ...................... ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV fmt: 2011.3.15 -- Jean

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Boekplan books
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hello, I just received the "Fonts in ConTeXt"; thanks that such publication exists. One suggestion: - Wouldn't be good to offer both grey scale and coloured version of the book? The coloured version would be more expensive, indeed. But one would have a choice; and Hans and Taco's documents are very nice in choice of colours, too (I mean especially the documents which are freely available for download), and one may find the coloured version more "readable" or synoptic; and thus preferred. (The coloured cover can exude vision that the whole [printed] document will be coloured, which may not be true.) Best regards, Lukas -- Ing. Lukáš Procházka [mailto:LPr@pontex.cz] Pontex s. r. o. [mailto:pontex@pontex.cz] [http://www.pontex.cz] Bezová 1658 147 14 Praha 4 Tel: +420 244 062 238 Fax: +420 244 461 038

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What are the best fonts to use
by Cecil Westerhof 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

At the moment I use for my ebook: \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino,rm,12pt] Does not look to bad, but layout is not my forte. So if people have tips about the fonts to use, I like to hear them. Do you use other fonts when using a printed book? -- Cecil Westerhof

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setupinmargin?
by Hans van der Meer 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

The macro \setupinmargin doesn't seem to exist, although its is described in the Wiki: Minimal example: \starttext \setupinmargin[location=right] \stoptext error log: ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV fmt: 2011.3.13 int: english/english ! Undefined control sequence. system > tex > error on line 2 in file test.tex: Undefined control sequence ... 1 \starttext 2 >> \setupinmargin[location=right] 3 \stoptext 4 l.2 \setupinmargin [location=right] ? Process aborted

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Does MKIV take more time as MKII
by Cecil Westerhof 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

I installed the minimals and use MKIV. It seems that it is 1,5 to 2 times as slow as the MKII I used in texlive. Is this possible, or should there be something else that is responsible for this? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Ctx running once?
by Procházka Lukáš 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hello, is there a possibility how to let Ctx run just once, not three times (as usually), keeping in mind that TOC and/or page numbers may be wrong, just to check correctness of the document? - I have a longer document with enough MP code and I'm interested often just whether there is no error in the Ctx/MP code, so in this case a successful (= the first) run of Ctx is enough for me for that moment. - So is there a switch, e.g. "context.exe --err-check" or "context.exe --once" or something like this? Best regards, Lukas

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\expandoneargafter?
by Hans van der Meer 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

The ConTeXt system macro's used to contain a definition for \expandoneargafter (see Taco Hoekwater's article on this). What happened with it? It seems to have disappeared. A pity because I use it in my macros in several places. ! Undefined control sequence. l.3 \expandoneargafter \command{\abc} Someone who can help? Hans van der Meer

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Changes for setuptex
by Cecil Westerhof 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

To make the shell script setuptex more robust I would add at the beginning: set -o errexit set -o nounset function isVarSet() { if [[ ${#} -ne 1 ]] ; then fatal "${FUNCNAME} <VARIABLE-NAME>" return fi declare -p ${1} &>/dev/null return } And use: if ! isVarSet PS1 ; then instead of: if [ "x$PS1" != "x" ] ; then I use in my script that calls setuptex set -o errexit set -o nounset and that breaks the script. With my change there is no problem. -- Cecil Westerhof

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+ in file names
by Vedran Miletić 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

Consider two .tex files located at http://www.inf.uniri.hr/~vmiletic/art-pre/ with same content: context --mode=article art-pre.tex works right, context --mode=article art+pre.tex fails with ! Undefined control sequence. system > tex > error on line 7 in file art+pre.tex: Undefined control sequence ... Should + not be used? It seems to work ok without modes, but I haven't tested deeply. Regards, Vedran Miletić

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context does not have a parameter timeout
by Cecil Westerhof 15 Mar '11

15 Mar '11

When using texexec I used the parameter --timeout. With context this parameter does not generate an error, but it does not have the expected result. Does context not have this parameter? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Playing with minimals
by Cecil Westerhof 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

'texexec demo-mps.tex' works, but when trying 'context demo-mps.tex ' I get: <inserted text> ...re.mp ; fi ; ;;;;]===], false)} \processMPgraphic ...e ;\!!es , \MPaskedfigure )}} \egroup \placeMPgraphic \d... \dostartMPpage ...??mg ][#1]\processMPgraphic {#2} \dostopfittingpage l.21 \stopMPpage Is that correct, or am I doing something wrong? Also demo-xml.tex I have to process with texexec. -- Cecil Westerhof

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BASH script for installing minimals
by Cecil Westerhof 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Installing minimals is sometimes a problem. Because of this I wrote a BASH script to automate it. Attached is the script I wrote to easily install the minimals. It installs in ${HOME}/ConTeXt but because I work with DRY it is easily changed. It generate almost no output: 20:47:01: fetch script 20:47:02: first setup 20:53:23: generate MKII 20:54:07: generate XeTeX 20:54:49: generate MKIV 20:55:18: Installing/updating ConTeXt took 497 seconds 20:55:18: before using ConTeXt you have to run: '. /home/cecil/ConTeXt/tex/setuptex' But the output can be found in ${HOME}/ConTeXt/install.log if needed. -- Cecil Westerhof

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Is Minimals ready for non-developers to use? (Tom)
by Tom 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Thank you for explaining this, Mojca. Knowing that it will be fixed sometime before September gives me hope. In the meantime, I think I have a workaround that, although awkward, will create a correct PDF. What I will do is create a PDF that is correct except for the TOC that Context generates, create a correct TOC PDF with another tool, then create a new PDF with the good pages from the original PDF and the bad TOC replaced by the good one. Is there a list of known bugs somewhere? That would eliminate a lot of frustration and your having to deal with problems that are already being handled. Is it possible for one to create a new font style? For example, if I have a need for two different sanserif fonts (Iwona and Helvetica for the sake of argument) to be used sporadically throughout a document. It would be nice to be able to do something like \ss1 to select the first one and \ss2 to select the second one. \ss to select the first one and \aa (or two other letters) to select the other. Thanks, Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax blog: www.TomBenjey.com -----Original Message----- From: Mojca Miklavec [mailto:mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 2:56 PM To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Cc: Tom Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Is Minimals ready for non-developers to use? (Tom) On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 14:22, Tom wrote: > Dalyoung, > > To the contrary, You have been most helpful. Installing the latest version > of Minimals worked fine but I wonder why they even advertise that there is a > stable version to be downloaded. When minimals were created, a new "stable" version was released approximately once a week. It used to be a problem to get the beta version working since beta often depended on a new version of luatex (which was also released every two/three weeks, but often not synchronized with ConTeXt releases). Now Hans only releases a stable version twice a year or so. The problem is that minimals have not been designed with that in mind and there is only a single version of texmfcnf.lua and only a single version of luatex binary. Consequently minimals can only work either with beta or with current when the two versions diverge, but not with both and beta has priority. I need to change the way the distribution works entirely, from the grounds up (I have many parts ready, but not ready to publish yet). An easy solution would be to create another mirror and only provide a working current version there. > I guess they mean a stable version of MKII. > I had the same experience that you had with the Introduction not showing up > in the TOC. Do you know how to report a bug? You don't need to report it. I'm aware of that flaw. I could do a temporary fix, but I would prefer to fix it properly. I'm sorry that it alredy took me several years to address those issues, but I promise to fix it before the conference. Properly. You also need to keep in mind that even though it is advertized as stable, bugs won't be fixed (many project often have at least two branches of development - one for fixing the released version and one for real development; the released version should get bugfixes, but in context development that doesn't and won't happen unless some volunteer starts carefully checking the new code and only applies bugfixes to the stable version). So most people that use ConTeXt actively need bugfixes very often and the only way to get the bugs fixed is to use the latest version. Well, latest version comes with its own bugs, but at least you have a chance to get them fixed quickly. Mojca

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Minimals only a third from texlive
by Cecil Westerhof 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

I removed my distributions texlive from my system. This gave back 660 MB. Installing minimals took 223 MB. But I understood that minimals is more then texlive. So why is it a lot smaller? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Re: [NTG-context] lang-wrd.lua - howto count 1-, 2-, and 3-letter words?
by Reviczky, Adam 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

>> So I tried to set "words.threshold = 4" in context/base/lang-wrd.lua to smaller values but this does not change anything. You have to regenerate the formats too, after you changed the value. Otherwise you could use directly in your document: \ctxlua{languages.words.threshold=1} Adam

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Re: [NTG-context] Is Minimals ready for non-developers to use? (Tom)
by Jeong Dalyoung 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Dear Tom, I am sorry that my experience is not help for you. I am usning Mac OS X. I just downloaded first-setup.sh and run it. Then it installs minimal and makes formats well. Minimal's current version: 2011.02.25 22:03 This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.65.0-2010121316 However, I believe that Mojca's suggestion will relieve you from the install problem. Hope you succeed to install stable ConTeXt. Best regards, Dalyoung

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math spacing
by Hans van der Meer 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

It might be that I am missing something here. But I don not understand why in the math expression below the spacing behind the letters is different. With this behaviour it seems impossible to name a variable PYR and have it typeset as such. Hans van der Meer \starttext $\tfd Q,Y,N,P,Y,Z \quad PYR$ \stoptext ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV fmt: 2011.3.11 int: english/english

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Re: [NTG-context] Is Minimals ready for non-developers to use?
by Jeong Dalyoung 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Dear Tom, good to hear that minimal is working fine. > I had the same experience that you had with the Introduction not showing up > in the TOC. Do you know how to report a bug? I think that completecontent doesn't recognize the user defined "intro". It is all what I can tell you. If you have no special reason to define \intro, you may use \chapter to make it appear in TOC. This mailing list is a place to report a bug. If it is a real bug, then Hans will correct it, otherwise many experts who are watching mails suggest you a good solution. Thanks, Best regards, Dalyoung

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lang-wrd.lua - howto count 1-, 2-, and 3-letter words?
by Florian Wobbe 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hi, I'd like to ask an early question again in a different way: I need to count every word in a document but lang-wrd.lua counts only words with 4+ letters. So I tried to set "words.threshold = 4" in context/base/lang-wrd.lua to smaller values but this does not change anything. I don't know where to start looking. Also I am searching for a non-global solution without changing the core files. Thanks! Florian

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Simplefonts
by Charles Doherty 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Dear Wolfgang, I sent an e-mail about problems with my simplefonts. I got no reply since my example had fonts that were probably not available to you. But the problem does not relate to the Gaelic fonts that I had been using. I am sending this file instead. The fonts below can be swapped about. The main font is always typeset as requested but the others are not. Am I doing something really silly? The readout from the console is below. I am using Context Minimals MarkIV on a Mac. Help would be appreciated. Thanks, Charlie \usemodule[simplefonts] % load the module \setmainfont[TeX Gyre Adventor] \starttext Hello World \blank[big] \simplefont[TeX Gyre Heros] \blank[big] \simplefont[Zapfino] Hello World \stoptext The argument "/Users/charlesdoherty/Documents/TestFolder/Untitled.tex" is not a valid TEXROOT path. (There is no file "/Users/charlesdoherty/Documents/TestFolder/Untitled.tex/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex") mtx-context | run 1: luatex --fmt="/Users/charlesdoherty/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/cont-en" --lua="/Users/charlesdoherty/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/cont-en.lui" --backend="pdf" "./Untitled.tex" This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.65.0-2010121316 \write18 enabled. (Untitled.tex ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV fmt: 2011.3.8 int: english/english system > cont-new.mkiv loaded (/Users/charlesdoherty/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv system > beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.mkiv ) system > Untitled.top loaded (Untitled.top) fonts > latin modern fonts are not preloaded languages > language en is active resolvers > modules > loaded: 'simplefonts' (/Users/charlesdoherty/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/third/simplefonts/t-simplefonts.tex loading > ConTeXt User Module / Simplefonts <+ /Users/charlesdoherty/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/third/simplefonts/t-simplefonts.lua>) fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes fonts > names > font database has matching configuration and file hashes (/Users/charlesdoherty/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv) (/Users/charlesdoherty/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv){/Users/charlesdoherty/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}{/Users/charlesdoherty/context/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map}{/Users/charlesdoherty/context/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-base.map} system > begin file Untitled.tex at line 5 backend > xmp > using file '/Users/charlesdoherty/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/lpdf-pdx.xml' pages > flushing realpage 1, userpage 1, subpage 1 system > end file Untitled.tex at line 20 )</Users/charlesdoherty/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmromanunsl10-regular.otf></Users/charlesdoherty/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyreadventor-regular.otf> mkiv lua stats > used config file - selfautoparent:/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua mkiv lua stats > used cache path - /Users/charlesdoherty/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e mkiv lua stats > input load time - 0.009 seconds mkiv lua stats > stored bytecode data - 275 modules, 56 tables, 331 chunks mkiv lua stats > loaded tex modules - 1 requested, 1 found (*-simplefonts), 0 missing mkiv lua stats > cleaned up reserved nodes - 33 nodes, 9 lists of 411 mkiv lua stats > node memory usage - 19 glue_spec mkiv lua stats > node list callback tasks - 6 unique task lists, 5 instances (re)created, 4069 calls mkiv lua stats > used backend - pdf (backend for directly generating pdf output) mkiv lua stats > loaded patterns - en::2 mkiv lua stats > callbacks - 4210 direct, 3743 indirect, 7953 total mkiv lua stats > randomizer - resumed with value 0.83236534513178 mkiv lua stats > lxml preparation time - 0.000 seconds, 0 nodes, 15 lpath calls, 0 cached calls mkiv lua stats > result saved in file - Untitled.pdf mkiv lua stats > loaded fonts - 16 files: stmary10.afm lmmono10-regular.otf lmroman10-bold.otf lmroman10-regular.otf lmromanunsl10-regular.otf lmsans10-regular.otf texgyreadventor-regular.otf eufb10.tfm eufm10.tfm msam10.tfm msbm10.tfm lmex10.tfm lmmi10.tfm lmmib10.tfm lmsy10.tfm rm-lmr10.tfm mkiv lua stats > fonts load time - 0.241 seconds mkiv lua stats > luatex banner - this is luatex, version beta-0.65.0-2010121316 mkiv lua stats > control sequences - 30184 of 165536 mkiv lua stats > current memory usage - 38 MB (ctx: 39 MB) mkiv lua stats > runtime - 0.886 seconds, 1 processed pages, 1 shipped pages, 1.129 pages/second system | total runtime: 1.175

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Beside blank with 1 or 2, how to do it with 1.5
by Cecil Westerhof 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

I would like to do something like: \setuphead[section][before={\blank[1.5*big] \testpage[12]}] This does not work. I get: to be read again> * <argument> 1.5* big \addaskedblankskip ...nce \blankskip #1\dimexpr #2 \relax But I can do: \setuphead[section][before={\blank[2*big] \testpage[12]}] How to implement what I want? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Using bookmarks
by Cecil Westerhof 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

I am using: \placebookmarks[part,chapter,section][part,chapter] \setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark] When I have the PDF file displayed fill window width and I click on a section. The page where this section is on, is displayed in full page. I would prefer the zoom level would stay the same and the start of the section would be displayed at the top of the page. Is this possible? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Why does bookmarks show also sections
by Cecil Westerhof 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

I use: \placebookmarks[chapter,section][chapter] \setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark] As I understand it there should be bookmarks generated for chapters and sections. When opening the document only the bookmarks for chapters should be shown. But all bookmarks are shown. What is going wrong? -- Cecil Westerhof

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Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?
by Henry House 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Procházka Lukáš wrote: [...] > > 5) how to better promote context to new/latex users? > > For LaTeX incomers: it would be good to provide a sample setup (module?) which would make Ctx generated .pdf looking very closely to that been generated by LaTeX. > > Now, if you see a .pdf document and you are familiar with LaTeX, you recognize immediately whether or not it was generated by LaTeX (Word's signature is also unmatchable). > > If you create a first document with ConTeXt (moreover when migrating from LaTeX), you probably won't be satisfied with the default look (letters too big, heads not bold, spacing before/after heads too different from LaTeX's; and the LaTeX default document looks very "symphonic" in my opinion) (but also I can imagine that many Ctx defaults cannot be changed due to backward compatibility reasons). > > The perfect feature of ConTeXt is that all these features may be systematically altered (often [almost] impossible in LaTeX) but you must search enough and study (and maybe ask the forum) to get the result which would fulfil your aesthetic requirements. I strongly agree that sample set-up code (ideally well-commented so that it also serves as a tutorial of sorts) to reproduce the style of LaTeX would be helpful. The appearance of LaTeX documents isn't perfect but it produces reasonably high-quality results suitable for complex technical documents right out of the box of the box without any tweaking, whereas ConTeXt requires (at least it did for me) some trouble to set it up for the first time. To some extent this is not because of the merit of the LaTeX design itself but the fact that it is familiar and therefore highly readable to someone used to reading it. It is also the point of departure for a LaTeX user wanting to convert to using ConTeXt; hence, i would imagine many such people would prefer to tweak a LaTeX-like document appearance to better suit their needs rather than starting with something quite different. Certainly, this was the case for me; being basically satisfied with my LaTeX documents but wanting more control and the option to use the advanced features of ConTeXt. Having sample set-up code that emulated LaTeX would have eased the initial transition for me.

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Putting citations in an e-book
by Cecil Westerhof 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

I am making my first e-book. And am now seriously using ConTeXt. But I have a lot to learn. In my ebook I want to use citations. In two different way. For starters I want to let every chapter start with a citation. At the moment I think that this does not need to be fancy. Just a little bigger font and a different color and white-space after it. But if there is a better way, I do not mind to hear it. The trickier part is in the text itself. I would like to use citations near the text itself. For example: when I write that you need to set goals to fulfill your potential, I like to have nearby the citation from Abraham Lincoln: 'A goal properly set is halfway reached'. I have this seen done in several way: with and without a surrounding box. With and without flowing text, etc. What is the best way to do this? On one side concerning the medium. (I think that an e-book asks for something else as a normal book.) On the other side concerning the best way to implement it in ConTeXt. -- Cecil Westerhof

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Re: [NTG-context] Am not getting Roman numeral page numbers in MKIV
by Jeong Dalyoung 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Dear Tom, > > What version are you using? > I am using minimal not TeXlive2010. Of course, there are some bugs in beta. But it would be fixed soon. Moreover, you can have more than one Minimal folder. So it is easy to use stable version if the beta has bugs. > > BTW, where did you read to use front part instead of frontmatter? > There was a thread whose title is "Roman Page numbers". And among the mails on 2009. 2. 4, there was a sample written by Wolfgang . \definestructureconversionset[frontpart:pagenumber][][romannumerals] \definestructureconversionset[bodypart:pagenumber] [][numbers] \setuplist[chapter][pageconversionset=pagenumber] \startstructureblockenvironment[frontpart] \setupuserpagenumber[numberconversion=romannumerals] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \stopstructureblockenvironment \startstructureblockenvironment[bodypart] \setuppagenumber[number=1] \stopstructureblockenvironment \starttext \startfrontmatter \completecontent[criterium=all] \chapter{Intro} \input tufte \stopfrontmatter \startbodymatter \chapter{knuth} \input knuth \stopbodymatter \stoptext Mailing list is a good place for me to learn ConTeXt. There are so many things which are not described in the manual. I cannot give you a solution. But many experts who are reading this list will give you a solution. Cheers, Dalyoung

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change interwordspace twice
by Steffen Wolfrum 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Hi, one time it works, the second it doesn't: \starttext \interwordspace 20.7pt Big Space \par \interwordspace 2.7pt Big Space \par \interwordspace 20.7pt Big Space \stoptext Does someone can explain how and when interwordspace is successfully set? Thanks a lot, Steffen (on Mark IV)

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$n\choose k$-issue with OpenType math fonts
by Andreas Harder 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Hi all, I'm (re)tying to draw some attention to the $n\choose k$-issue with OpenType math fonts. I've made some test files: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/151837/OpenType-Math.7z The best output is generated by LuaLaTeX (at least for Asana and Cambria). Would it be possible to correct the ConTeXt output as well? Regards Andreas

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why this error?
by Hans van der Meer 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Not so long ago no problems with typesetting. OK in ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.05 11:37 MKIV fmt: 2011.2.5 int: english/english Now in: ConTeXt ver: 2011.02.25 22:03 MKIV fmt: 2011.3.11 int: english/english an error: (.././literature.tex resolvers > modules > loaded: 'bib' (/Users/hans/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/m-obsolete.tex ! Undefined control sequence. system > tex > error on line 3 in file .././onderwijs.tex: Undefined control sequence ... 1 % $Revision: 43 $ $Date: 2011-02-15 14:31:42 +0100 (di, 15 feb 2011) $ 2 % Project file voor cryptografie onderwijsprodukties. 3 >> 4 \startproject onderwijs 5 6 % environment setup for all products 7 \environment mainsetup % algemene macros 8 \environment literature % citation setup 9 10 % environment setup for specific products 11 \startlocalenvironment[college] 12 \writestring{THIS IS FOR THE PRESENTATIONS ONLY} 13 \enablemode[screen] <argument> writestatus("\m!systems ",\!!bs skipping obsolete module\!!es ) \ctxcommand #1->\directlua \zerocount {commands.#1 } l.3 ...estatus\m!systems{skipping obsolete module} ? Process aborted Who can tell where this comes from and how it can be repaired? Hans van der Meer

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hanging on missing picture
by Hans van der Meer 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Requesting a non-existing picture does not produce a warning message, but makes ConTeXt hang. An abort is the only thing that helps. It would however be nice if a "missing file" warning is given. A minimal example that shows me the hang: \starttext Hello a picture?\par \externalfigure[./Figuren/figure.xxx] \stoptext

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Portable Context
by Siep Kroonenberg 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

For a usb stick install, it would be nice if there were no hard-coded paths anywhere. A texmfcnf.lua with content return { TEXMFCACHE = kpse.var_value('TEXMFSYSVAR') } appears to be read but ignored. Moreover, the fndb lua files under luatex-cache/context/xxx/trees contain hard-coded paths. Is there any way to avoid hard-coded paths? -- Siep Kroonenberg

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Re: [NTG-context] Verbatim text: intext & colors (mkiv)
by Reviczky, Adam 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

>> I’m Sorry, I missed the intext part. For MkIV you need “location=text” to move the numbers in the text. Yeah, I just figured it out, though there's still a "% todo: text" in page-lin.mkiv, but it works. >> Wolfgang Thanks again. Adam

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Re: [NTG-context] Verbatim text: intext & colors (mkiv)
by Reviczky, Adam 12 Mar '11

12 Mar '11

>> "Line numbers in the text" as well as > Works here with the last beta. I'm using the latest beta too. Attached is my PDF, do you get something different? I want to have intext numbers (inside the frame), not outside. As I said, works with mkii though. > /BTEX … /ETEX (for colors) don't work. > “option=commands” is now “escape=yes” Thanks, I've tried that too, but had another typo in there. So that's working now, thanks. Adam

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