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\usepseudocaps
by Herbert Voss 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Also from the documentation: systems : begin file latex5 at line 2 error: ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/typo-cap.lua:100: attempt to call global 'copy_node' (a nil value) . system > error on line 6 in file latex5.tex: ? ... 1 2 \starttext 3 4 \userealcaps \Caps{Herbert Voß} 5 \usepseudocaps \Caps{Herbert Voß} 6 >> 7 \stoptext l.6 context minimal Herbert

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Ligatures on Linux Libertine Bold Italic
by Marco 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

Hello there. I'm pretty new to ConTeXt and I'm really impressed by your work. So a huge thanks is due. Anyway. Today I found that Linux Libertine Bold Italic doesn't create the ligatures. These work on XeTeX. I took a look at /tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv where the libertine typescript is defined, but I couldn't find anything wrong. The fonts are the one shipped with the latest updated TeXlive 2010 (they are correctly loaded). With other fonts the ligatures for Bold Italic are created, so I'm a bit lost. Is my setup broken somehow? Or the fonts are broken? Or is it a bug? Thanks in advance. %%%% start minimal example %%%%% \usetypescript[termes,libertine] \setupbodyfont[termes,12pt] \def\testtext{ The fi ffl ffi fluf \par {\it The fi ffl ffi fluf fi} \par {\bf The fi ffl ffi fluf} \par {\bi The fi ffl ffi fluf}\par} \starttext Termes: \testtext \switchtobodyfont[libertine,12pt] Libertine: \testtext \stoptext %%%%% end minimal example %%%%%% ConTeXt ver: 2010.11.03 19:42 MKIV fmt: 2010.11.8 LuaTeX, Version beta-0.63.0-2010091123 (From the latest minimal distribution) pdffonts output name type emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- --------- PHAMRR+TeXGyreTermes-Regular CID Type 0C yes yes yes 18 0 OOTVTU+TeXGyreTermes-Italic CID Type 0C yes yes yes 19 0 QEYIRB+TeXGyreTermes-Bold CID Type 0C yes yes yes 20 0 ONUACL+TeXGyreTermes-BoldItalic CID Type 0C yes yes yes 21 0 YFUCDN+LinLibertineO CID Type 0C yes yes yes 22 0 PYLANJ+LinLibertineOI CID Type 0C yes yes yes 23 0 LBBYDA+LinLibertineOB CID Type 0C yes yes yes 24 0 FBIQKN+LinLibertineOBI CID Type 0C yes yes yes 25 0 -- Marco

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[OT] xkcd & Knuth
by Mojca Miklavec 08 Nov '10

08 Nov '10

http://www.xkcd.com/816/

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\Cap
by Herbert Voss 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

The documentation says, that \cap converts the first letter of the word into a capital letter ... But it didn't \starttext \Cap{foo} \stoptext TeXLive and TLContrib Herbert

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TEI XML
by Daniel Grycman 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Hi list, used the example on the wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TEI_xml) but I didn't get any correct output. I used Mark IV. I want to use TEI for an project and use ConTeXt for the specific output. Is it a good choice? Daniel

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context export
by Manfred Lotz 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Hi Hans, On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:23:37 +0100 Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > Hi Manfred, > > some reading ... it should not be to hard to map the xml onto > html ... relevant details are in attributes > Hmm, but I would need to have a dtd or schema file in order write a transformation (xslt or so) to html. The other possibility would be to make the html creation an iterative process along the creation of the context document. I'd would prefer the first possibility, though. Instead of using xslt I also could code the transformation in Lua. What xml lib do you recommend to use in Lua? Currently, I have no time to code the xml --> htmp conversion. However, considering above ideas I could start with markdown as discussed in the other thread which has limitations but gives me a context source for free as a starting point. -- Thanks, Manfred

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\startmode and \startcomment inside of \def
by Vedran Miletić 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Hi, I would like to define something like this: \def\startSolution{\startmode[solutions]...} \def\stopSolution{...\stopmode} But when I use \startSolution and \stopSolution, and mode solutions isn't enabled, I get something like Runaway argument? aaa \stopSolution \stoptext ! File ended while scanning use of \dostopmode. system > error on line 0 in file : File ended while scanning use of \dostopmode ... What's the proper way of doing this? -- Vedran Miletić

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ConTexT conversion to html/rtf/odt
by Manfred Lotz 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

Hi there, I'm in a situation where I have to do some documentation which should be available in html and rtf/odt (would be nice to have). I do not need any fancy stuff, just simple things: ordered, unordered lists, verbatim, tables etc. As a ConTeXt newbie I thought this might be a good idea to get into ConTeXt. However, I'm not quite sure how to create HTML from ConTeXt. What I tried so far: Created a simple document: \starttext \section{Some section} \startitemize[1] \item bla bla \stopitemize \stoptext Tried htcontext test.tex and got: ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> <dl class="dd-\itemlevel "> \HCode ...ode \leavevmode \fi \ht:special {t4ht=#1 }\fi \a:itemize-group ... {<dl class="dd-\itemlevel ">} \global \let \end:dd =\empty \dostartitemgroup ... {\dodostartitemgroup [#2][]} \fi <to be read again> \item l.6 \item bla bla ? Perhaps there is some stupidity from my side. If yes I appreciate any corrections. If no then htcontext from package tex4ht doesn't really work for ConTeXt and then I would like to know what other alternatives I have. Also regarding rtf or/and odt. -- Thanks, Manfred -- Manfred

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\margintext
by Herbert Voss 07 Nov '10

07 Nov '10

I have two questions to \margintext \setupinmargin[left][separator=:,width=2cm,line=2] \starttext %foo \margintext[left]{margin text} \input knuth \stoptext this works fine, but when I uncomment the line with %foo, then the marginal note is placed in second line of the following paragraph. Why? Must \margintext always be the first statement in a paragraph? I do not understand the meaning of the optional argument separator? TeXLive2010 with tlcontrib Herbert

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\margintext
by Herbert Voss 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

The documentation says, that this should work, but it didn't: \starttext \margintext{foo}bar baz \stoptext However, in the documentation the example also didn't show the margin text (p 64). Herbert

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Dotted leader in index entries
by Duncan Hothersall 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

[Reposting because I think my last message got mangled.] Hello all. I'm using Mk II. When I use the following setup to get dotted leaders between an index entry and its page number: \def\MyIndexTextCmd#1{#1\dotfill} \setupregister[Index][n=2,textcommand=\MyIndexTextCmd,distance=1em,alternative=A] it works okay producing output like this: Index entry.....123 except when the entry text is just long enough to fill up the horizontal space, pushing the number over onto the next line. What I get in that scenario is this: Index entry text... 123 This is no good. What I really need is for all page numbers to be at the right hand side, with leading dots. So I'd like a solution to produce either this: Index entry text... ....................123 or preferably this: Index entry text..............123 At the moment I'm putting forced line breaks before the last word to achieve what I need, but I would really like to automate this! Thanks for any help, hope the issue is clear. Duncan

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margintext in mkii and mkiv
by Vladimir Lomov 06 Nov '10

06 Nov '10

Hi. Consider the attached example. When compiled with mkii (texexec) I get text in margin while if I compile the file with mkiv (context) I get only text with nothing in margin. I'm using context minimal: $ context --version | grep version MTXrun | current version: 2010.11.03 19:42 Did I miss something? --- WBR, Vladimir Lomov

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Brejlov pictures
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

I finally managed to put my pics online: http://picasaweb.google.de/fiee.visuelle/ConTeXtMeeting2010# (first few are in Prague) Can't keep up with the quality of Frans' pictures, the colors are rather horrible (picture correction of iPhoto)... 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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a ghost in the columns ?
by Steffen Wolfrum 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Hi, please have a look at the minimal below (tex+pdf): We always have a kind of heading followed by a block of two columns. But suddenly on page 6, entry "Cassius Dio" has a much larger vertical space above than "Novellen" for example! Why? And how can this be avoided? Any help very much appreciated! Steffen (MkIV) -------

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Page layout: doublesided
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 05 Nov '10

05 Nov '10

Hello, although I guess this is one of the really basic tasks, I'm not able to setup successfully page layout for double-sided printing. My idea is to have different free "space" leftwards and rightwards from the text area. I just want to get different width of the left/right area: 2.5 cm left (for binding) and 2 cm right (odd pages); and the same values mirrored for even pages. My code is: --- \setuplayout[location=doublesided] %\setuplayout[location=duplex] %\setuplayout[location=middle] \starttext \showsetups \showlayout \showgrid \dorecurse{1}{\input knuth\par} \stoptext --- You can see the result: 1. The left margin is "pushed" left, so only 2 cm of it is visible (but the margin should have 2.5 cm - see listed value of "leftmargin"). - And obviously there is 0.5 cm extra "space" rightwards from the right margin. Moreover, if any horizontal "pushing" is present, I'd expect shifting to the right to get a bit more space left, so that to allow binding on the left side. (I tried the horizontal shift to the left was the same for single- and double-sided setup.) 2. Horizontal "pushing" (shifting) is the same for even and odd pages. - I succeeded to remove horizontal "pushing" by setting the "backspace" value to 3 cm. But it's strange to me that one has to set this value explicitly, when keeping all other values default. - I'm still not able to provide switching the size of the left/right "space" for even/odd pages. So how to achieve this? Btw: Why the dimensions (<- \showsetups) are printed 5 times? Thank you for patience. 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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description
by Herbert Voss 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

>From the documentation page 236 ( ConTEXt reference manual ) %----------------------------------------------------- \definedescription [definition] [location=serried, headstyle=bold,width=broad, sample={icon}%% senseless here ] \starttext \definition{icon} What for some languages looked like a handicap has now become a feature. Thousands of words and concepts are already layed down in characters. These characters therefore can be considered icons. \par \stoptext %----------------------------------------------------- The setting location=serried is useless here in fact of the empty line after \definition{icon}. If I delete the line and add another entry like \definition{iconize} some text here then I can see that the setting sample={icon} has no meaning. It is only taken into account _without_ location=serried. Herbert

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Wiki: ConTeXt vs. LaTeX and others
by Jonas Stein 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

for many users it is interesting, to get an overview how problems are solved in ConTeXt compared to the other TeX-Flavours. I like the wikimatrix for Wikis and i thought it could be nice to have a simple matrix for TeX. I started a table in the wiki to collect this knowledge [2], but i am not very happy with this table yet. Perhaps do you have ideas, how to improve it? [1] http://www.wikimatrix.org/ [2] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/What_is_ConTeXt and discussion on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Talk:What_is_ConTeXt kind regards, -- Jonas Stein <news(a)jonasstein.de>

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Section number inside TABLE
by Vedran Miletić 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Consider the following code: %\setuphead[section][after={\hairline}] \starttext \bTABLE \bTR \bTD \section{my section} \input tufte \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stoptext There are two things that are worth mentioning: 1. When compiling with either MkIV or MkII, section number will appear as 3. 2. Uncommenting the setuphead line makes number appear as 4 in MkII, MkIV doesn't change. Any ideas? -- Vedran Miletić

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\setupquotation
by Herbert Voss 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

- Can I get the first line of the same length as the lower one? - \setupquote[style=bold] works, bit I thougth that \setupquote[style=normal] would set the text in upright?? - I do not understand the meaning of the optional argument location = TEXT margin for \setupquotation. \starttext \setupquotation[style=slanted,before=\hairline,after=\hairline] \setupquote[style=bold] Eine Zeile vor dem Zitat, die keinen weiteren Sinn hat.\par \startquotation Der eine wartet, dass die Zeit sich wandelt, der andere packt sie kräftig an und handelt. Und sagt \quote{So muss es sein}. \stopquotation \stoptext \starttext Herbert

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\quote
by Herbert Voss 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

the documation says, that \quote gives a single quote. Why do I get a double one for french? \starttext \language[nl]\quote{Nederlandse}, \language[en]\quote{English}, \language[de]\quote{Deutsch} oder \language[fr]\quote{Fran\cc ais}. \stoptext mkiv/TeXLive2010 Herbert

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Dotted leader in index entries
by Duncan Hothersall 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

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register sorting
by Steffen Wolfrum 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Hi, I just installed todays beta and I am not sure if regoster sorting is working properly. Eg. I modify (see below) the example from tricky-002.tex and I would like to achieve ... accession Action Plan association But none of the four methods (before, after, first, last) gives this result!! What is wrong? Steffen ------- \starttext \subject{before : Oo Öo oo öo} \placeregister[index][language=en,method=before] \par \subject{after : oo öo Oo Öo} \placeregister[index][language=en,method=after] \par \subject{first : Oo oo Öo öo} \placeregister[index][language=en,method=last] \par \subject{last : oo Oo öo Öo} \placeregister[index][language=en,method=first] \par \dorecurse {3} { \page \recurselevel: \index{Action plans} \index{association} \index{accession} \index{bOo} \index{bõö} \index{bõo} \index{boö} \index{oo} \index{öo} \index{Oo} \index{Öo} done } \stoptext

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Hairline in header
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Hello, how to add the hairline (or a kind of the horizontal rule) under the header area? I'd like to achieve something like in the 1.pdf (attached; created by LaTeX). My code till now: --- \setuppagenumbering[location=footer,middle] \setupheader[][style=small] \setupheadertexts[LLL][RRR] \starttext AAA \stoptext --- 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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letter module, backaddress placement
by Florian Wobbe 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

Dear Wolfgang, the default vertical placement of the backaddress is to high in dinb.nls. When I change the offset from \c!voffset=\dimexpr\letterstylevalue{\v!address\v!layer}\c!voffset-\letterstylevalue{\v!backaddress\v!frame}\c!height\relax] to \c!voffset=\dimexpr\letterstylevalue{\v!address\v!layer}\c!voffset+\letterstylevalue{\v!backaddress\v!frame}\c!height\relax] (addition instead of subtraction) everything is fine. Best wishes, Florian

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some symbols is abnormal
by views63 04 Nov '10

04 Nov '10

some symbols is abnormal the latest beta (MkIV) example: \starttext \startformula \bigcup_{n=1}^{\infty} A_n \in F \qquad |I|=\prod_{j=1}^n(b_j-a_j) \stopformula \stoptext -- Best Regards

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options for luatex
by Marius 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hello, how do I pass an option for luatex? I need something like this: context --nonstopmode --file-line-error --halt-on-error --output-directory=tmp file.tex Thanks, Marius

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beta
by Hans Hagen 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hi, I uploaded a new beta: - the usual fixes and extensions discussed on this list or within the dev group - there is some more low level cleanup in the lua code (in the process of documenting cld handling) - a few adaptions in the font loader (esp related to encodings cq. unicode, not that drastic but also a a prelude to some upcoming cleanup in luatex) - a bit extended and sped up context.* commands as well as using this mechanism at the lua end If no serious bugs / issues are reported there will be a new current pretty soon. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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luatex-fonts-merged.lua can not work
by Li Yanrui (李延瑞) 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hi Hans, It seems like the char-def.lua code is not merged into luatex-fonts-merged.lua. It causes: ! LuaTeX error ...-context/tex/generic/context/luatex-fonts-merged.lua:5690: attempt to index global 'characters' (a nil value) -- Best regards, Li Yanrui (李延瑞)

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Spanning in \start/stop-table?
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hello, just to confirm - - is it possible to span several columns (rows) in tables created by \starttable ... \stoptable? I cannot find such an example, so I guess it's not possible. - I mean something like what is done by \bTD[nc = 3] ... \eTD in \bTABLE ... \eTABLE. 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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[OT] Flash on IPhone and IPad
by luigi scarso 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/02/technology/skyfire/index.htm -- luigi

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Searching for ConTeXt made easier
by Matija Šuklje 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hullo, I'm not trying to advertise[1] anything, but since ConTeXt is a very generic name and not easy to search for on Google or other search engines, I decided to share my solution. Blekko is a new web search engine, which lets you set slashtags to limit your search. So I've made a slashtag to limit searching only on ConTeXt-related sites. E.g. http://blekko.com/ws/termes+/silverhook/context (= typing "termes /silverhook/context" in the search field) would search for the term "termes" on those sites only. The current list of sites that the slashtag "/silverhook/context" searches is available on: http://blekko.com/ws/+/view+/silverhook/context I hope it's of help to anyone. Cheers, Matija -.-.- [1] and have no affiliation whatsoever with Blekko other then I started using its search. -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org

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Difference between \skip and \unskip
by Matija Šuklje 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hullo, can someone tell me what's the difference between \skip and \unskip and when to use them? I've already checked the wiki and the references, but cannot find a definition of either. Here's a use case that's giving me headaches for quite some time: In my bibliography I often have items that are missing one or two fields (e.g. legal texts with or without amendments etc.) and I have to tell ConTeXt to skip those. From trial and error I learnt that: * \skip leaves me with the punctuation and styling around the skipped field (e.g. a trailing ", ." or "( )") * \unskip seems to do what I want, but generates the following error every time 'context' reaches an '\unskip' entry: --8<------------------ l.1 ...al , št. \localissue /\localvolume \skip , \localspremembe . \currentnotedescriptiontext ...ptionnumberentry )} \handlenoteitself ... \currentnotedescriptiontext \endstrut \dostopstoreddes... \handlenoteinsert ...s }\handlenoteitself {#1}{#2} \egroup \the \everyafterno... \@@notemakedescription ...note \currentnotenumber \fi \fi \endgroup \fi \fi ... ... l.82 ...e Konvencija MOD št. 173\zakon[][MOD_173] (ter Priporočilo št. 18... ? help A number should have been here; I inserted `0'. (If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number, look up `weird error' in the index to The TeXbook.) ------------------>8-- The example code: --8<------------------ \def\zakon[#1][#2]% {\doifdefinedelse{zakonkratko:#2} {\zakonkratko[#1][#2]} {\bgroup \nocite[#2]% \getcitedata[title][#2] to \localtitle \getcitedata[kratko][#2] to \localkratko \getcitedata[journal][#2] to \localjournal \getcitedata[issue][#2] to \localissue \getcitedata[volume][#2] to \localvolume \getcitedata[spremembe][#2] to \localspremembe \footnote{\localtitle\ (\localkratko), \localjournal, št. \localissue/\localvolume\skip, \localspremembe.}% \egroup} \setvalue{zakonkratko:#2}{done} } \def\zakonkratko[#1][#2]% {\bgroup \nocite[#2]% \getcitedata[kratko][#2] to \localkratko \footnote{\skip#1 \localkratko.}% \egroup} \startpublication[k=MESL, t=zakon, y=1996 ] \title{Evropska socialna listina (spremenjena)} \kratko{MESL} \engtitle{European Social Charter (revised)} \organization{Svet Evrope} \journal{Ur. l. RS-MP} \volume{1999} \issue{7} \pubyear{1999}\month{04}\day{10} \yearfiled{1999}\monthfiled{04}\dayfiled{11} \biburl{http://www.uradni-list.si/1/objava.jsp?urlmpid=199920} \stoppublication ------------------>8-- -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org

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"Key" words translations
by Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hello, is there a file which defines translation of some words? E.g. when I use \mainlanguage[cz], ConTeXts gets to know to write "Kapitola" instead of "Chapter" etc. It would be nice if ctx knew also: "Table of Contents" = "Obsah" "Reference" = "Literatura" "Index" = "Rejstřík" I believe these word may be changed during \setup<...> routines (I did not do that yet), but it would be nice to have defaults translated... 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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Wiki: Searching for »Mac« gives no result.
by Paul Menzel 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Dear ConTeXt folks, as the subject says, searching for »Mac« does not find any results [1]. Searching for for example »linux« works though. Am I missing something? Thanks, Paul [1] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1&ns1=1&…

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Re: [NTG-context] How to put mark in right margin even for equation [SOLVED]
by Vladimir Lomov 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hi. 2010/10/29 Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl(a)gmail.com>: > Hi. > > Please consider the attached example. > > I want to put a mark (how many points will give the answer on a > question) on right margin. I define command '\pointsMark' to do that > but it fails if I put it inside > \start/stopformula. Could someone give advice how to put such mark on > right margin even for equation? > I tried to find a bit more information about margins but context manual don't provide details (I'll try later with sources). I also tried to see how to use 'plain' TeX commands for marginal material (I looked to "TeX by Topic") but didn't find appropriate section. Meanwhile I clarify for myself what I need from margins: I want to put a text on right margin (like in previous example) but want the text to be aligned to right (all text in right margin should have the same right edge). EDT: I found solution for this: <code> \setupimnargin[right][align=left] %%% Ok, I thought that align=left it to align to the left edge. </code> > I tried to find a bit more information about margins but context manual don't provide details "Look the source, Luke" :D Now the only question is how to put text on right margin within \start/stopformula. But this is matter of taste. P.S. The solution for the problem is much simpler than I use in LaTeX (tricks with lengths). --- WBR, Vladimir Lomov

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XML ConTeXt
by Daniel Grycman 03 Nov '10

03 Nov '10

Hello list, I'm working with XML in ConTeXt. Now I want parse a XML-File with the following structure, which is an export from a database. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <personal> <person> <Name></Name> <Vorname></Vorname> <Titel></Titel> <Bezeichnung></Bezeichnung> <Mail></Mail> <Raum></Raum> <Telefon></Telefon> </person> I'm using this ConTeXt script. \setuppapersize [A4,landscape][A4,landscape] \usemodule [simplefonts] \setmainfont[rubscalatz] \setsansfont[rubflama] \startxmlsetups xml:personen:base % associate setups with elements \xmlsetsetup{personen}{personal|person}{xml:personen:*} \stopxmlsetups \xmlregisterdocumentsetup{personen}{xml:personen:base} \startxmlsetups xml:personen:personal \title{Personalverzeichnis} \placelist[chapter] \page \xmlflush{#1} \stopxmlsetups \startxmlsetups xml:personen:personal:person % associate setups with elements \bTABLE \bTR \bTD {/Name} \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stopxmlsetups \starttext \xmlprocessfile{personen}{personen.xml}{} \stoptext The generated PDF-file only consists of one page with the chapter "Personalverzeichnis". Can anybody tell me, where the mistake is? Daniel

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Bug in mkiv with Times?
by Otared Kavian 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hi all, With the latest release (ConTeXt ver: 2010.11.01 12:14 MKIV), in mkiv the following gives a wrong size for \sum and the integral sign \int, and the bounds of the integral are wrongly placed: %%%% begin bug-times.tex \usetypescript[times] \setupbodyfont[times,12pt] \starttext The expansion of $u\in L^2(0,\pi)$ in the base $(\varphi_{k})_{k\geq1}$ is defined as \startformula u = \sum_{k\geq1} c_{k}(u) \phi_{k}, \qquad \mbox{where } c_{k}(u) := \int_{0}^\pi u(x)\varphi_{k}(x) dx, \stopformula \stoptext %%%% end bug-times.tex As far as I can say, this didn't happen before, but I cannot say from when this is broken. Using \usetypescript[termes] \setupbodyfont[termes,12pt] instead of times, does not change the result. Any idea what is going on? Thanks in advance for your attention and help.

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manipulate ttf-fonts loaded with luatex
by Ulrike Fischer 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hello, I'm currently a bit playing around with the idea to add some support in the (LaTeX) package "chessfss" (which handle chess fonts) for fonts loaded with the luaotfload package. As luaotfload use the context code to load the font I'm hoping that someone here can help me with some of my problems. Chess fonts are highly unstandard. The different authors of the fonts did put the chars quite randomly in the character table and also used various glyphs name. So in the psfonts.map almost every font has its own encoding vector: chess-pirat-lsf ChessFigurinePirat " ChessPiratFigEncoding ReEncodeFont " <chess-pirat-fig.enc <chess-pirat-fig-raw.pfb So to be able to use ttf/otf-fonts directly I must "reorder" the glyphs in the fonts (without changing the original fonts). As a first step I was able to substitute glyphs with a .fea-file: feature renc { substitute K by "glyph name of king"; } renc; But doesn't work all the time. E.g. the pirat font (http://www.enpassant.dk/chess/downl/pirat.zip) shows already some on the problems of the project: The king with the glyph name c140 is shown in fontforge on position 140 with a "å" above. The å is shown on position 229 with an "Å". luaotfload seems to think that there are two "aring" and so the temp-lua-file of the font contains in the unicodes table the enrty "c140={ 229, 140 }" and my substituation rule gets me an "å" instead of the King I want. I get the correct substituation if I manually change the entry "c140={ 229, 140 }" to "c140=140. So here the questions: 1. How can I make this change after the font has been defined? I tried to find table entries which do contain this setting and change them, but without luck. So either I didn't find the right table or I need to execute some "reload" funktion. 2. Is there another way to reorder the font than using .fea-files? E.g. by changing some font entries? 3. I can print the king by using its position with \char140. But how can I print the king in a document by using its glyph name (c140)? 4. Quite a lot chess fonts are incomplete. Is is possible to insert glyphs from other fonts? Btw: The font Alfonso (http://www.enpassant.dk/chess/downl/alfonso.zip) gives an error message. Probably the font is faulty somehow (I wouldn't be surprised) but perhaps it also indicates a hidden bug, so I'm mentioning it: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{luaotfload} \begin{document} \font\test={name:Chess Alfonso-X} \test \fbox{K} \end{document} ! LuaTeX error J:/MiKTeX2.9/tex/luatex/luaotfload/otfl-font-otn.lua:2398: table index is nil. <to be read again> \test -- Ulrike Fischer

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Feature request: list of abbreviations
by Otared Kavian 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Dear Hans, Some time ago you said it would not be difficult to have the list of abbreviations listed in the opposite order, that is The full form the short form and you told me to remind you later about this feature request. That is what I am doing now… If one considers the minimal example: % ----- begin abbrev-test.tex \definesynonyms[abbreviation][abbreviations][\infull][\inshort] \starttext \abbreviation{LCTVS}{Locally Convex Topological Vector Space} \abbreviation{EEG} {Electroencephalogram} \abbreviation{ERP} {Event-Related Potentials} \abbreviation{TVS}{Topological Vector Space} Test inshort: \inshort{EEG}, \inshort{ERP}, \inshort{TVS}, Test infull: \infull{EEG}, \infull{ERP}, \infull{TVS}, \infull{LCTVS} \completelistofabbreviations \stoptext % ----- end abbrev-test.tex Is it possible to obtain, beside the list of abbreviations, another ordered list in which the full variant is in the first column while the short variant is in the second column? That is a new command, or an option in the \setupListOfAbbreviations, resulting in Electroencephalogram EEG Event-Related Potentials ERP Locally Convex Topological Vector Space LCTVS Topological Vector Space TVS Thanks in advance for any help or insight. Best regards: OK

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Animations
by Wolfgang Schuster 02 Nov '10

02 Nov '10

Hi Hans, this is a feature request regarding fieldstack based animations. Since i want to use fieldstacks in one of my modules i’m looking for a simple to use interface to produce animations, for the moment i create a symbol for each frame and put them together with a fieldstack. For latex there is a package called animate [1] which provides a environment to produce animations with buttons for navigation (just a take a look at the examples in the manual, code is not relevant for us). I wrote now a short dummy module [1] to demonstrate how this could look in context, the first file [1] contains a few example, the environment is inspired by \startoverlay/\stopoverlay but it needs a alternative method to allow loops (look at the third example in this file). The second test file shows which navigation buttons i want for such a module, the are “first frame”, “previous frame”, “play” and “stop” animation, “next frame” and “last frame”. As a alternative one can produce a animation with a overlay button only with a symbol on the first frame to indicate a interactive element. [1] http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/animate/animate.pdf [2] http://bitbucket.org/wolfs/animation/src/tip/files/ [3] http://bitbucket.org/wolfs/animation/src/tip/files/animation-1.tex [4] http://bitbucket.org/wolfs/animation/src/tip/files/animation-2.tex Wolfgang

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math chars
by Oliver Buerschaper 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hi, I'm trying to access a few glyphs: --- \usetypescript [cambria] \setupbodyfont [cambria] \starttext n-ary summation (base), U+02211: \char"02211 n-ary summation (next), U+F0419: \char"F0419 n-ary summation (next), U+F041A: \char"F041A cyrillic capital letter ka, U+0041A: \char"0041A set minus, U+02216: \char"02216 mathematical script capital a, U+1D49C: \char"1D49C minus sign with falling dots, U+02A2B: \char"02A2B \stoptext --- but the summation substitutes as well as the script letter fail :-( Their numbers I took from: --- \usemodule [fnt-25] \usetypescript [cambria] \setupbodyfont [cambria] \starttext \showmathfontcharacters \stoptext --- I also tried --- \starttext \showfont[cambria.ttc][all] \stoptext --- but apparently there are no summation glyphs in the table at all. What am I missing? Best, Oliver

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Re: [NTG-context] Simpleslides module is broken?!
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Thank you all for help! I managed my task and can confirm that the subject is not valid -- Simpleslides module is operational! :) -- Best Regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Pragma-ade website update
by Taco Hoekwater 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hi, Hans uploaded a new beta. Interesting new/updated files on the website besides the update proper: -------- Original Message -------- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 13:01:13 +0100 (CET) context/latest/cont-tst.7z context/scite/cont-sci.zip general/manuals/cld-mkiv.pdf Best wishes, Taco

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context on TeXLive2010
by Herbert Voss 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

with the context update with tlmgr from today I get voss@shania:~/texte> context zzzz.tex .../2010/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua/mtx-context.lua:675: attempt to call field 'locate_format' (a nil value) Herbert

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pdfcrop
by Herbert Voss 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

I have installed context minimal and TeXLive2010. When I run pdfcrop on a created context source, I get: ---------------------------------------------------- voss@shania:~/texte> pdfcrop --luatex 04-02-5.pdf PDFCROP 1.31, 2010/09/17 - Copyright (c) 2002-2010 by Heiko Oberdiek. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt luatex.fmt /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-linux/mktexfmt: Zeile 395: /opt/context/tex/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. !!! Error: LuaTeX run failed! ---------------------------------------------------- the same happens whithou --luatex, the it tries to create the pdftex format file. Is this a problem with pdfcrop or context minimal? Herbert

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hyperlink TOC->section broken?
by Steffen Wolfrum 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hi, while the new PDF feature (jump from section heading to TOC) is working, the traditional way (jump from a TOC entry to its respective page) does not work! Please try attached minimal: \setupinteraction[state=start] \setuphead[chapter][interaction=list] \placelist[chapter][criterium=text,interaction=all] \starttext \chapter{test} \stoptext Steffen

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greek letters in itemize
by Herbert Voss 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Do I need some additional settings to get lower greek letters in the example? I get only a dot for g \starttext \startitemize[g] \item foo \item bar \item baz \item baz \stopitemize \startitemize[G] \item foo \item bar \item baz \item baz \stopitemize \stoptext MTXrun | current version: 2010.10.29 18:15 Herbert

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print many cards (pages) on one A4 paper
by Jonas Stein 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hi, i want to print many (lets say 2 x 4) file cards on one DIN A4 paper. I played around with the BusinessCard[1] example. Thats close to what i need, but all cards are cloned there. How can i gain the same with 2x4 or 2x5 different cards on one side? (Sorry for the stupid question its my first context document) Kind regards, -- Jonas Stein <news(a)jonasstein.de>

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Re: [NTG-context] Simpleslides module is broken?!
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 01 Nov '10

01 Nov '10

Hi, > I added the following two lines > > \usemodule[simplefonts] > \setmainfont[Minion Pro] > > and I got the attached output. Thank you very much, indeed! But in my output the font is smaller (I need it bigger), and the image still does not 'fit'. Source and output are uploaded here (too big for an attachment): http://rapidshare.com/files/428217689/1.zip -- Best Regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Simpleslides module is broken?!
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 31 Oct '10

31 Oct '10

Hi, Please, help me a.s.a.p with Simpleslides module. I have a project sucessfully compiled a year and a half ago, and now it is broken. Reduced script of my presentation: \usemodule[simpleslides] [font=Gothic, style=Swoosh] \language[ua] \setupalign[stretch,hanging,hz] \setupinteraction[state=start] \setuppagetransitions[random] \setupinteractionscreen [option=max,delay=10] \setupcaptions[location=] \setupTitle [ title={\\ \bfa Кафедра \\ Авіаційних Комп'ютерно-\\ Інтегрованих Комплексів}, author={Факультет \\ Аерокосмічних Систем Управління}, date={}] %\usemodule[t][fixme] \defineoverlay [simpleslides:background:title] [{\externalfigure[Airbus-wing-over-sea-blue-sky-JR][factor=fit]}] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \starttext \placeTitle \SlideTitle {Спеціальності} Кафедра проводить пiдготовку спеціалістів за напрямом 0502 Автоматика та управління -- \bf 6.050202 автоматизація та комп'ютерно-інтегровані технології \tf %\bf компьютерно-итегрированным технологическим процессам и производствам. \tf { \startitemize \item автоматизоване управління комп’ютерно - інтегрованими \\ системами повітряних суден \item автоматизоване проектування комп’ютерно - інтегрованих комплексів \item технічний моніторинг комп’ютерно-інтегрованих комплексів. \stopitemize } \stoptext Problems observed when compiled today (I use the latest beta with --extra option): * No Russian (Ukrainian) letters at all, only numbers and punctuation signs. * The background image on the first page (the plane) is not fit to the page, but leaves blank stripes. Don't know where to fix, please help me -- my boss expects updated presentation tomorrow! Regards, Vyatcheslav

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