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Questions regarding the bibliography
by Marco 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Hi, I've a bunch of questions regarding the bibliography. I didn't find much useful information somewhere, neither in the wiki, the manual or in bibmod-doc.pdf. If my questions are answered elsewhere feel free to point me to the right direction. 1) Why are there redundant keys in the publication list: \startpublication [ k=ram, t=book, a=Ramez Elmasri, % BTW: How to input many authors in this place? y=1981, % not taken into account u=http://foo.bar.com ] \author {Ramez}[R.]{}{Elmasri} % Is it OK to leave out the first bracket? \pubyear {2007} \biburl {http://foo.bar.com} \stoppublication I checked that the »y=1981« is not taken into account, in fact I can remove it without problems, if I remove \pubyear it doesn't work. What's »y=...« for? Same goes for \author vs. a=... Why two locations for the author and url...? 2) What about not valid entries? \biburl for example is not a valid BibTeX entry type, it's neither required, nor optional. Can I provide it without running into problems? Providing for example \country leads to problems with the year. But \biburl is not used in the style, \country is. 3) During testing I forgot to say \usemodule[bib] and it worked well. Is this line not needed any more? 4) How to specify the \edition entry? Use the attached file for testing. If I specify \edition {5} I get »5 edition« using the setup \setuppublications[alternative=num]. That's wrong, either 5th edition or edition 5. When I use \setuppublications[alternative=ams] I get 5th ed. That's correct. For this reason I cannot enter \edition {5th}. The correct input should be independent from the style used. 5) How to specify online sources? BibTeX has no proper data type for this. But BibLaTeX has the type »online« with the special field urldate (for the access date). Maybe there's a corresponding functionality in ConTeXt. Thanks in advance. Regards Marco

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Fonts
by Cecil Westerhof 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Is there a list of the standard fonts to use? I found: serif regular roman sans support sansserif mono type teletype handwritten cmr mm rm But none of them I find very pleasing. (And handwritten looks different as the name suggest.) How can I find out which fonts I can use? -- Cecil Westerhof M CLDWesterhof(a)gmail.com O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/

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startlocalfootnotes
by Andreas Harder 23 Sep '10

23 Sep '10

Hi, it seems that it is not longer possible to set options for local footnotes. \starttext \startbuffer \bTABLE \bTR \bTD one \footnote{\dorecurse{10}{abcd }} \eTD \bTD two \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD three fout five six seven eight nine \eTD \bTD ten \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stopbuffer \startlocalfootnotes[n=0,location={text,none}] \placelegend[n=2]{\getbuffer}{\placelocalfootnotes} \stoplocalfootnotes Has the syntax changed? Greeting Andreas

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\startchapter syntax
by Alan BRASLAU 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hello, What is the correct syntax to define a reference with \startstructure\stopstructure? \starttext \startchapter [ref] [title=My title] \stopchapter \stoptext Yields: check : missing or ungrouped '=' after 'ref' in line 2 (@@ns) Alan

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producing offprints
by Bowen Alan C. 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

I use a structure like \startproduct prd_JournalVolume \component c_A.tex \component c_B.tex \stopproduct to produce a single PDF file for the volume of a journal. Is there a way in MKII to adapt this so that instead of a single JournalVolume.pdf, I get c_A.pdf c_B.pdf where each component file has the proper pagination as well as functioning external and internal hyperlinks? Alan

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Update ConTeXt into TL2010...
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hello, Is there anyone who updated ConTeXt MkIV in TL2010? Is there more information about how this can be done safely? (where you copy and what to run ...) I am interested in the latest updates, but I do not want to get into trouble with a bad update. Last time I stopped in ConTeXt TL2009 quite work and I had to completely install TL2010. Thanks Jaroslav

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New typescript mechanism for weights/opticals?
by Marco 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hi, I like Mojcas idea for new typescripts: %%%%%%%%%%% \startsomenewfonttypescriptcommand [kepler] [width={condensed,semicondensed,*regular,extended}] [size={caption,*regular,subhead,display},switch={10pt,12pt,17pt}] [weight={light,*regular,medium,semibold,*bold,black}] ... %%%%%%%%%%% \switchtofontdimension[width=semicondensed,weight={light,medium}] %%%%%%%%%%% That would make different weight/opticals font handling much less cumbersome. At the moment its no fun dealing with weights/opticals. I really would appreciate that (or any other easy usable) solution that provides a standardized way to handle weights/opticals with not too much overhead. Regards Marco

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How to use a true type font?
by Procházka Lukáš 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hello, I'm trying to use the BrickToBrick.ttf font. It can be freely downloaded from http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/klein05/pic05/brick2brick.htm. Problems are: 1) What's the best destination where the BrickToBrick.ttf should be placed? (Now, I've copied the file to c:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-local\BrickToBrick.ttf.) 2) How to make ConTeXt realize that a new (.ttf) font has been added to use? Is it necessary to run any special routine? 3) How to use the font? I tried: \definefont[BRICK][BrickToBrick.ttf at 30pt] \starttext {\BRICK abcdefghijklmnopqrtsuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRTSUVWXYZ 0123456789 } \stoptext But I got just letters and numbers. 4) Another thing is that there are only 14 pictures (= letters) in the font. So I don't know whether to use them via "a", "b", "c"... and what would happen for "z" as for 25th letter, or how. - I saw this font working - it was used in the thick "Book of Fonts III" by Pavel Stříž; it was used in the right bottom quarter at page 171. But the book was typeset by pdfLaTeX and I'd like to make it work in ConTeXt. Thank you in advance. Lukas

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ConTeXt mkiv and --autopdf option
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Hello all, Is it possible to open a PDF file (after compilation of ConTeXt) in other PDF viewer which is not the default setting? I mean change the default choice: context --autopdf file.tex to another, for example: context --viewer=PDFViewer file.tex I would like to retain the default browser settings, but I would like after ConTeXt compilation opened the files with something else. Thanx Jaroslav

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TEST
by Procházka Lukáš 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Please ignore this message - it's just a test due to some problems delivering e-mails to this conference. Lukas

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cow symbols don't work in MkIV
by Henning Hraban Ramm 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

This works in MkII, but not MkIV. Other symbol sets like mvs work (even with a list of error messages). \starttext \usesymbols[cow] \setupsymbolset[cownormal] \startTEXpage[align={middle,middle},width=210mm,height=297mm] \dontleavehmode\scale[width=\textwidth]{\symbol[CowConTeXt]} Cowboy Coder \stopTEXpage \stoptext Under MkIV I managed to get my hands on the Cows (text) font via \definedfont[Cows at 30mm], but not on CowLogos. Greetlings, Hraban

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Removing banner from mtxrun output
by Johan Sandblom 22 Sep '10

22 Sep '10

Greetings all! In the modernized version of the R module (attached), which makes it possible to interact with the statistical programming environment R (http://www.r-project.org) mtxrun is used to call R on saved buffers containing snippets of R code. Optionally, the output from R can be included using \typefile. However, mtxrun includes a banner in the output file, example below. MTXrun | MTXrun | executing: R -q --save --restore MTXrun | MTXrun |> sample(1:10) [1] 5 3 1 9 2 6 10 8 4 7 > sample(1:10, replace=TRUE) [1] 1 10 7 1 7 5 2 2 10 5 > If the results of the computations are to be included in the text, this banner is ugly and distracting. Question: is it possible to instruct mtxrun not to make such a banner? Or, alternatively, is there an easy way to remove it before the text is included? I am using MKIV exclusively. Regards, Johan -- Johan Sandblom, MD PhD m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell

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How to hide or remove chapter e section number in subsection head and in TOC subsection head?
by Aldo Lazich 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Hi to all. I don't want: 8.3.2 Subsection title 8.3.2 Subsebtion title.........page no % in TOC but I wish: 2 Subsebtion title 2 Subsebtion title.........page no % in TOC here my code (ConTeXt ver: 2010.09.09 23:45 MKIV fmt: 2010.9.12): --8<---------------------------- % chapter -----> capo % section -----> sezione % subsection --> articolo \definehead[capo][chapter] \setuphead [capo] [alternative=middle,ownnumber=yes] % yes, I need ownnumber=yes \definehead[sezione][section] \setuphead [sezione] [alternative=middle,ownnumber=yes] \definehead[articolo][subsection] \setuphead [articolo] [alternative=middle,ownnumber=yes] \starttext \placelist[capo,sezione,articolo][alternative=c] \capo{CAPO I}{TITLE CAPO I} \sezione{Sezione 1}{Title Sezione 1} \articolo{Art. 1}{Title Art. 1} text text text text \articolo{Art. 2}{Title Art. 2} text text text text \capo{CAPO II}{TITLE CAPO II} \sezione{Sezione 2}{Title Sezione 2} \articolo{Art. 3}{text Art. n.3} text text text text \stoptext ---8<-------------------------- About indipendent section numbering, code in "http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Chapters_headers#Chapter_headers" seems don't work Thanks Aldo

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How to start (again) with typescripts
by Patrick Gundlach 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

Hello, having been absent from the One and Only True Typesetting System for quite some time I'd like to try to write my software-documentation in MK IV. Now I have several instances of a Frutiger font (ttf) and I guess I need to create a typescript. mtxrun --script fonts --list --all gives me frutigerce45light frutigercelight /Users/patrick/Library/Fonts/Frutiger CE 45 Light.ttf frutigerce45lightlight frutigercelight /Users/patrick/Library/Fonts/Frutiger CE 45 Light.ttf frutigerce55roman frutigerceroman /Users/patrick/Library/Fonts/Frutiger CE 55 Roman.ttf frutigerce55romannormal frutigerceroman /Users/patrick/Library/Fonts/Frutiger CE 55 Roman.ttf frutigercelight frutigercelight /Users/patrick/Library/Fonts/Frutiger CE 45 Light.ttf frutigerceroman frutigerceroman /Users/patrick/Library/Fonts/Frutiger CE 55 Roman.ttf frutigerlt45light frutigerltlight /Users/patrick/Library/Fonts/Frutiger LT 45 Light.ttf frutigerlt45lightlight frutigerltlight /Users/patrick/Library/Fonts/Frutiger LT 45 Light.ttf frutigerlt46lightitalic frutigerltlightitalic /Users/patrick/Library/Fonts/Frutiger LT 46 Light Italic.ttf frutigerlt55roman frutigerltroman /Users/patrick/Library/Fonts/Frutiger LT 55 Roman.ttf frutigerlt55romannormal frutigerltroman /Users/patrick/Library/Fonts/Frutiger LT 55 Roman.ttf frutigerltlight frutigerltlight /Users/patrick/Library/Fonts/Frutiger LT 45 Light.ttf frutigerltlightitalic frutigerltlightitalic /Users/patrick/Library/Fonts/Frutiger LT 46 Light Italic.ttf frutigerltroman frutigerltroman /Users/patrick/Library/Fonts/Frutiger LT 55 Roman.ttf Can I use this information to create a typescript? Where should I look for documentation on it? The wiki page (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TypeScripts) is MK II only. The font chapter from the reference manual confuses me, as it deals a lot with encodings and I have not found an instruction as "If you need to install a new font family, do this and this and that". Does such a list exist? Can someone point me to instructions? I know I should have asked last week... Patrick

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Re: [NTG-context] modify resume
by pol stra 21 Sep '10

21 Sep '10

2010/9/19 Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang(a)googlemail.com>: > http://pastie.org/1091180 > http://pastie.org/1091177 I renamed the first one into "cv.tex" and the second one into "moderncv.tex". When i run texexec cv.tex, i’ve got this message : > Runaway argument? > {{\margintext {##1} ##2 > ! Paragraph ended before \complexdefine was complete. > <to be read again> > \par > l.87 {{\margintext{#1} #2 \par > }} > i don’t understand why.

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Super Wolfgang !
by luigi scarso 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2010/talks/2010-09-17-closing/wolfgang-col… -- luigi

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Problems with the installation of the minimals on Win XP :-(
by Florian Baudach 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hi, after solving my problems with the minimals with Linux, I have now a problem with the Windows version. :-( My boss allowed me to use ConTeXt for a book project :-), unfortunately we work here with WinXP and the first-setup.bat fails with the following error: mtxrun.exe – Komponente nicht gefunden (mtxrun.exe – component not found) Die Anwendung konnte nicht gestartet werden, weil kpathsea60071.dll nicht gefunden wurde. Neuinstallation der Anwendung könnte das Problem beheben. (Couldn’t start the application. Couldn’t found kpathsea60071.dll. A new installation of the application could solve the problem.) I have installed ruby first. What could be wrong? Greetings Florian Baudach

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problem with tabulate header and footer
by Hongwen Qiu 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

\setuptabulate[footer=repeat] has no effect, so is this a bug or if something has been changed? And \setuptabulate[header=repeat] can only repeat a single row(see the minimal example below). So is this a bug or is it never been implemented or thought like this? TIA for any help or feedback. Minimal example: \starttext \setuptabulate[header=repeat, footers=repeat] \starttabulatehead \HL \NC A \NC B \NC C \NC \NR \NC D \NC E \NC F \NC \NR \HL \stoptabulatehead \starttabulatetail \HL \stoptabulatetail \startluacode context.starttabulate{"|c|c|c|"} for i=1,200 do context.NC() context("G") context.NC() context("H") context.NC() context("I") context.NC() context.NR() end context.stoptabulate() \stopluacode \stoptext The example and its output are attached.

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Problem with Schusters letter package
by Rolf Lindgren 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

I think I've managed to set ConTeXt to mkiv, things proceed relatively smoothly, and from the log file, it appears that the right files are read. I'm using the most recent version of Schusters's letter package. When compiling the example letter, the following error occurs: ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \@@@@lsoptionmethod the macro in question seems to appear in default.nli but is not defined anywhere. Any and all help appreciated. Thank you, -- Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren http://www.grendel.no/ http://www.elvetun.no/ +47 40061755

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Metapost and underscore
by Aditya Mahajan 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hi, Really bad things happen if the variable name in metapost contains an underscore. It took me quite a while to isolate this problem. Minimal example: \startMPinclusions input rboxes ; \stopMPinclusions \starttext \startMPpage rboxit.A (textext("A")) ; rboxit.B_1 (textext("B")) ; rboxit.C (textext("C")) ; A.c = origin ; xpart B_1.c = xpart C.c = xpart A.c + 3cm ; ypart B_1.s - ypart C.n = 1cm ; drawboxed(A,B_1,C) ; \stopMPpage \startMPpage rboxit.A (textext("A")) ; rboxit.B (textext("B")) ; rboxit.C (textext("C")) ; A.c = origin ; xpart B.c = xpart C.c = xpart A.c + 3cm ; ypart B.s - ypart C.n = 1cm ; drawboxed(A,B,C) ; \stopMPpage \stoptext See attached output. The label of box B is placed at origin rather than at the correct location! I am using 2010.08.17 and luatex 0.61 (too close to a deadline to update). Aditya

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modify resume
by pol stra 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hi all, I like the result of the t-resume module, but i think it waste space so it is possible to modify layout ? I can’t make a two lines title (if too long overwrite adress field). I don’t want page numbering. The fact is i don’t know how module works and how to «fork» it for my own use. Thanks

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luatex-plain can not work with the beta (2010.09.18 12:08, linux x86)
by Li Yanrui (李延瑞) 20 Sep '10

20 Sep '10

Hi Hans, It can load cid fonts rightly now. But I found it can not generate MetaPost figure. For example, %filename: test.tex \setmplibformat{plain} \mplibcode beginfig(1); draw fullcircle scaled 10cm withcolor red withpen pencircle; endfig; \endmplibcode \end luatex output the log: This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.63.0-2010091123 (format=luatex-plain 2010.9.20) 20 SEP 2010 08:20 \write18 enabled. **test (./test.tex (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/generic/context/luatex-basics.tex \lastallocatedattribute=\count26 ) (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/generic/context/luatex-fonts.tex </opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/generic/context/luatex-fonts-merged.lua>(using cache: /opt/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/generic) ! ! Attribute 0 is reserved for ConTeXt's font feature management and has to be ! set to zero. Also, some attributes in the range 1-255 are used for special ! purposed so setting them at the TeX end might break the font handler. ! I am using the merged version of 'luatex-fonts.lua' here. If you run into problems or experience unexpected behaviour, and if you have ConTeXt installed you can try to delete the file 'luatex-font-merged.lua' as I might then use the possibly updated libr aries. The merged version is not supported as it is a frozen instance. <luatex-fonts.lua loaded in 0.037 seconds>) (/opt/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/generic/context/luatex-mplib.tex \mplibscratchbox=\box16 )<mplib: using format plain.mem><mplib: mp error: This is MetaPost, Version 1.502 (plain.mp >> $Id ! Isolated expression. <to be read again> : l.1 $Id: plain.mp,v 1.3 2005/04/28 06:45:21 taco Exp $ ! Extra tokens will be fl ushed. <to be read again> : l.1 $Id: plain.mp,v 1.3 2005/04/28 06:45:21 taco Exp $ >> base_name >> "plain" ! Equation cannot be performed (numeric=string). <to be read again> ; l.8 ...base_name, base_vers ion; base_name="plain"; base_version="1.004"; >> base_version >> "1.004" ! Equation cannot be performed (numeric=string). <to be read again> ; l.8 ...n; base_name="plain"; base_version ="1.004"; >> "Preloading the plain mem file, version " >> base_version ! Not implemented: (string)&(unknown numeric). <to be read again> ; l.10 ...he plain mem file, version "&base_ver sion; >> base_version ! Not a string. <to be read again> ; l.10 ...he plain mem file, version "&base_version; ) ! Attempt to close th e bottom level file!. l.576 defaultpen := savepen; no-error> ) No pages of output. PDF statistics: 0 PDF objects out of 1000 (max. 8388607) 0 named destinations out of 1000 (max. 131072) 1 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 10000 (max. 10000000) -- Best regards, Li Yanrui (李延瑞)

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\setupcombinedlist ignores `level' argument?
by Corsair 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

Hi all, If I understand this right, \setupcombinedlist[content][level=section] tells ConTeXt to list up to section level when doing \completecontent. But it seems no matter what I set for `level', \completecontent lists however deeply it can. Here is a minimal example: \setupcombinedlist[content][level=section] \starttext \completecontent \chapter{Level 0} \section{Level 1} \subsection{Level 2} \subsubsection{Level 3} \subsubsubsection{Level 4} \subsubsubsubsection{Level 5} \stoptext Is this a bug, or I did something wrong? -- There is no emotion; there is peace. There is no ignorance; there is knowledge. There is no passion; there is serenity. There is no death; there is the Force.

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Chapter-author in TOC
by Andreas Harder 19 Sep '10

19 Sep '10

Hi all! I’m using the structureuservariable to set an author on a per chapter basis. But I would also like to have them in the table of contents, so I tried the following: \setuplist[chapter][alternative=MyListItem] \definelistplacement[MyListItem][none]#1#2#3% {#1 #2 (\structureuservariable{author}) #3} \starttext \placelist[chapter] \startchapter[title=Quote from Tufte][author=Tufte] \input tufte \stopchapter \startchapter[title=Quote from Knuth][author=Knuth] \input Knuth \stopchapter \stoptext … without success. I appreciate any help. Greeting Andreas

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installing minimals
by Charles Doherty 18 Sep '10

18 Sep '10

Dear all, I had installed minimals in a folder 'context' in my home directory. I am using a Macbook 10.6.4. I have been using MarkIV successfully for a number of months. I recently decided to update but I get the result below. I followed the instructions on Contextgarden as before in the ConTeXt Minimals page. I finally trashed the folder and did everything from scratch. I use TeXshop as my editor. I would be very grateful if anyone could give me the steps to get ConTeXt Minimals working again on my Mac. Thanks, Charlie TeXExec | processing document 'Purser.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file Purser.top TeXExec | using randomseed 519 TeXExec | tex engine: luatex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en MTXrun | using format name: /Users/charlesdoherty/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/e580c8be7dcf42f3c6968188a08f16d6/formats/cont-en.fmt MTXrun | no luc/lua with name: cont-en TeXUtil | parsing file Purser.tui TeXUtil | shortcuts : 0 TeXUtil | expansions: 0 TeXUtil | reductions: 0 TeXUtil | divisions : 0 TeXUtil | loaded files: 0 TeXUtil | temporary files: 0 TeXUtil | commands: 0 TeXUtil | programs: 0 TeXUtil | tuo file saved TeXExec | runtime: 0.132344

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Strange optical scaling
by Florian Wobbe 18 Sep '10

18 Sep '10

Dear all, I was about to adapt the type-optical module to include Semibold and Condensed when I noticed that optical scaling is not working as expected. To be more precise only downscaling works. Let me give you a short example of what I did: \usemodule[type-optical] \usetypescript[minion] \setupbodyfont[minion,12pt] \starttext \title{Title} \section{Section} Text \tfxx tfxx \tfx tfx \tfa tfa \tfb tfb \tfc tfc \tfd tfd \stoptext This document is composed of various font sizes: \tfxx to \tfd scale to 7.2, 9.6, 14.4, 17.28, 20.736, and 24.888pt. According to the definitions in type-optical \tfxx should be set in MinionPro-Capt, \tfx and \tf in MinionPro-Regular, \tfa and \tfb in Subhead and the rest is Display size. Looking at the resulting PDF file with pdffonts indicates that MinionPro-Regular and MinionPro-Capt are the only fonts used. Not so Subhead or Display sizes. Changing the bodyfont to [minion,14pt] results in MinionPro-Subh and MinionPro-Regular to be included. I was curious and tried the same thing with Latin Modern: \setupbodyfont[8pt] \starttext \title{Title} \section{Section} Text \tfa tfa \tfb tfa \tfc tfa \tfd tfa \stoptext Same problem: Only LMRoman8-Regular is used. By including the lines \tfxx tfxx \tfx tfx LMRoman5-Regular and LMRoman6-Regular are included in the PDF. Again not the larger sizes. I'm quite puzzled about this strange behaviour and would apreciate any help. Best Florian PS.: I'm running Tex Live 2010 (MacTex) with a recent update from rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/.

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\centercolon and friends with PX-fonts
by Andreas Harder 18 Sep '10

18 Sep '10

Hi all, because \left(…\right) and \sqrt{…} is broken with OpenType math fonts I had to switch to the PX-fonts but there the colon is eaten if one uses the \centercolon commands. \setupbodyfont[palatino] % \setupbodyfont[euler] % OK % \setupbodyfont[cambria] % OK % \setupbodyfont[asana] % OK \starttext \startlines \formula {A \centercolon B} \formula {A \colonminus B} \formula {A \minuscolon B} \formula {A \colonequals B} \formula {A \equalscolon B} \formula {A \colonapprox B} \formula {A \approxcolon B} \formula {A \colonsim B} \formula {A \simcolon B} \formula {A \coloncolon B} \formula {A \coloncolonminus B} \formula {A \minuscoloncolon B} \formula {A \coloncolonequals B} \formula {A \equalscoloncolon B} \formula {A \coloncolonapprox B} \formula {A \approxcoloncolon B} \formula {A \colonsim B} \formula {A \simcoloncolon B} \stoplines \stoptext Greeting Andreas

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[xits] \sqrt not work properly
by Hongwen Qiu 18 Sep '10

18 Sep '10

The \sqrt is not work properly in Mkiv. The following is the minimal example, and the result is attached \setupbodyfont[xits] \starttext \startformula \sqrt{abcde} \stopformula \stoptext

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Small bug in current beta (references)
by Mari Voipio 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

My new ConTeXt Mark IV hangs at the first \in it encounters, this is the error message: ! LuaTeX error ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/strc-ref.lua:656: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value) stack traceback: ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/strc-ref.lua:656: in function 'resolve' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/strc-ref.lua:735: in function 'identify' ...text/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/strc-ref.lua:947: in function 'doifelse' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. system > error on line 31 in file intro/intro.tex: LuaTeX error ... If I comment out all references, the file compiles without problems. Mari

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grid typesetting with Mark IV
by sebastien-listes＠edilibre.net 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Hi, I don't get the expected result when I compile the following code with context minimal (ConTeXt ver: 2010.09.14 23:27 MKIV). With mk II (ConTeXt ver: 2010.09.14 23:27 MKII) it's ok -- lines are well aligned on the grid. Any clue? Here's the code: \setuplayout[grid=yes,marking=on] \showgrid \showframe \setuphead[chapter][% before={\blank[force,2*line]}, after={\blank[1*line]}] \starttext \chapter{test} \input tufte \stoptext PS : thanks for the nice pics and slides of the context meeting! PS II : to Idris, I'd be *very* happy to contribute to a translation of your forthcoming book into french. -- Sébastien Mengin Édition et logiciels libres < Mise en page avec LaTeX > http://edilibre.net tél. : 06 84 88 49 17 jid. : sebastien-mengin(a)jabber.org

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Minimals fail to install on SunOS x86
by Marco 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Hi, I was trying to install the minimals on my SunOS remote server (to have access to MkIV everywhere). But first-install.sh reports the following errors: remote-1 ~/bin/usr/share/context:>./first-setup.sh receiving incremental file list sent 31 bytes received 126 bytes 104.67 bytes/sec total size is 4834848 speedup is 30795.21 ld.so.1: texlua: Schwerer Fehler: Verschiebungsfehler: Datei /storage3_l0/home1/std11815/bin/usr/share/context/bin/texlua: Symbol asprintf: referenziertes Symbol nicht gefunden ./first-setup.sh: line 103: 6759 Killed (Abgebrochen) mtxrun --verbose --script ./bin/mtx-update.lua --update --make --force --engine=all --context=beta --platform=$platform --texroot=$PWD/tex $@ remote-1 ~/bin/usr/share/context:>uname -a SunOS remote-1 5.10 Generic_127128-11 i86pc i386 i86pc Is SunOS x86 not supported? On the luatex home page I see there are binaries available. best regards Marco

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intertext is broken
by Andreas Harder 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Hi all, the intertext-environment seems to be brkoken (at leas in MkIV). \starttext \startformula \startalign \NC ab+cd \NC= ab+cd \NR \startintertext test \stopintertext \NC a + a \NC= 2a \NR \stopalign \stopformula \stoptext Greeting Andreas

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offset for enumeration counter
by Philipp Gesang 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

Hi all, some specification requests that a numbered list start at arbitrary counter values. I'm using the following line after “\startitemize[...]” to accomplish this: ··8<····························································· \setnumber[itemgroup:itemize]{42} ··8<····························································· Now I'd rather avoid this kind of brute interference with context internals so I'd like to ask whether there is a recommended high-level mechanism that I could use instead? Thanks for your help, Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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slides from ConTeXt meeting
by Mojca Miklavec 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

For those who were unable to attend - the slides from the marvellously organized meeting are being collected here: http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2010/talks/ They will be linked from the main meeting page, but at the moment you can just browse through them. Mojca

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HOWTO: Typesetting Poetry in ConTeXt
by John Haltiwanger 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

I thought I'd give the mailing list a small change of pace---instead of asking how to do it, I will show you :) The short answer is: \starttext My Concrete Poem \startlines All the white space will print ! \stoplines \stoptext However, \startlines..\stoplines is not available when defining a macro. I've documented the solution to this situation on my blog: http://drippingdigital.com/blog/2010/09/typesetting-poetry-in-context/ Thanks to Wolfgang Schuster for helping me work it out!

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Designing a ConTeXt thesis template
by Vedran Miletić 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Hi guys, I'm designing a student BSc and MSc/MEd thesis template for our department[1]. Our student volunteered to help me by doing his thesis in ConTeXt, so I could really see what we have to fix or work around. We actually managed to figure out lots of things thanks to mp-cb-en.pdf, but we still have some problems (MkIV only, in MkII it seems to work OK). 1) Footnotes and other references' colors alternate between red and green (eg. page 7). 2) One footnote from TABLE, gets lost, while the other one appears normally (eg. page 28). 3) Reference in PDF bookmarks to 4.3 Konsolidacija doesn't get created properly. Same for 6.3. 4) Last figure in list of figures's link is broken (page 13), and so are almost all links in list of tables (page 11) PDF is here: http://www.inf.uniri.hr/~vmiletic/context/d-thes-inf-diplomski.pdf Source is here: http://www.inf.uniri.hr/~vmiletic/context/d-thes.zip (ignore the lack of bibliography, it doesn't affect anything mentioned above) Thanks in advance for any help. -- Vedran Miletić [1] http://www.inf.uniri.hr/

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Greetings from ConTeXist from Brejlov - CTM 2010
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

Hi Everybody... Everyone who can not be with us physically today in Brejlov, we send a few pictures to bring the atmosphere conferencing. Photos are continuously met through Sunday. http://www.kostverlorenvaart.nl/context2010/ Autor: Frans Goddijn. With greetings Jaroslav and all of Brejlov

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\big has no effect in Mkiv with opentype math fonts
by Hongwen Qiu 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

\big \bigg \Big and \Bigg has no effect in Mkiv with opentype math fonts.

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sunset showoff
by Henning Hraban Ramm 16 Sep '10

16 Sep '10

try this: \starttext \setupcolors[state=start] \definedfont[SansBold at 35mm] \baselineskip 0pt % switch off the space between the stripes \lineskip 0pt \def\MyLogo{\vbox{\hbox{\CONTEXT}\null}} % null is necessary for the whole bounding box \def\Number{30} \dorecurse{\Number}{\definecolor[Col:\recurselevel][c=0,m=\ctxlua{tex.print(\recurselevel/\Number)},y=1,k=0]} \dorecurse{\Number}{ \clip[ny=\Number,y=\recurselevel]{\color[Col:\recurselevel]\MyLogo} } \hbox{\dorecurse{\Number}{\clip[nx=\Number,x=\recurselevel]{\color[Col:\recurselevel]\MyLogo}}} \stoptext (With the help of Taco, Piotr and Wolfgang - thanks!) Have fun! Hraban

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Re: [NTG-context] Forcing \about to give the full title
by Duncan Hothersall 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

> \setupreferencing[width=] Thanks Wolfgang, much appreciated, did the trick. Duncan

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Forcing \about to give the full title
by Duncan Hothersall 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hi folks. Just hit a strange feature using \about to give me the title of a referenced section. When the title is long, there seems to be an automatic cut-off, as if some form of \nomarking had been used on the last words of the title. So with a section somewhere in the text like \section[sect0101]{Residence and domicile and the taxation of overseas income} a later reference of the form See \about[sect0101] for further details gives me See 'Residence and domicile and the taxation of overseas ... ' for further details What I would like is for the full title to be output, however long. I have had a look through the sources but not managed to identify where any default cut-off is defined. Can someone help. Oh, and my apologies, I haven't upgraded to MkIV yet, so this is a MkII question. Thanks very much, Duncan

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Impostion to make a scroll
by Arild Syme 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

I am trying to string 10 pdfs together onto one very wide page so I can print it as a scroll. I've tried using texexec as follows: $texexec --combination=10*1 --pdfcombine infile.pdf but what I get is 10 pdfs at the top of an A4 sheet. How do I make a custom page size 1480mm x 210 mm? I've also tried using a tex file like the following: \definepapersize [scroll][width=1480mm, height=210mm] \setuppapersize[A5][scroll] \setuppaper [topspace=0mm, backspace=0mm, dx=1mm, dy=0mm, nx=1, ny=10, margin=0, width=148mm, height=210mm] \setuplayout [topspace=0mm, backspace=0mm, margin=0mm, width=1480mm, height=210mm, header=0mm, footer=0mm] \setuparranging[XY] \starttext \insertpages [input.pdf] \stoptext I get the right sized pdf sheet, but all the input.pdf pages are stacked on top of one another in a big mess all on the right hand side. Thanks for any help, Arild

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itemize no indentation from the second line
by Zhaopeng Xing 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Dear All, I am trying to get an itemization like this (1) This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. (2) This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. This is a test. i.e., for each item, there is no indentation from the second line. I tried \setupitemize[left=(, right=), stopper={}, indentnext=no] But got no effect. Can anyone help me with it? Thank you. Regards, Zhaopeng Xing China Economic Monitoring and Analysis Center, National Bureau of Statistics of China

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formula: placeformula messes with margins
by Peter Schorsch 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hi, I also ran into a problem with placeformula and margins. The attached example runs fine with the margins. But as soon the placeformula is uncommented the left and right margins are messed up. And if not all paragraphs have at both side a marginnote is get worse. Is there a way to solve this? Thanks --------8<------------------- \starttext \inmargin{inmargin}\inothermargin{othermargin}\input tufte \inmargin{inmargin}\inothermargin{othermargin}\input tufte %\placeformula \startformula c^2 = a^2 + b^2 \stopformula \inmargin{inmargin}\inothermargin{othermargin}\input tufte \inmargin{inmargin}\inothermargin{othermargin}\input tufte \inmargin{inmargin}\inothermargin{othermargin}\input tufte \inmargin{inmargin}\inothermargin{othermargin}\input tufte \inmargin{inmargin}\inothermargin{othermargin}\input tufte \stoptext

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formla: listing and subnumbering
by Peter Schorsch 15 Sep '10

15 Sep '10

Hi, in my work I have a lot of formulas inkl. subformulas. Doing the examples at the wiki two questions came up: a) how to generate a table of formulas? b) what is the right/better way for subnumbering? a) I tried the example for generating a table of formulas from the wiki (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math/Display#List_of_Formulas) but instead of a list I get in the pdf a »no list method«. What do I missed here? b) I found two descriped ways how to create formula (sub-)numbering: 1) using \formulanumber and \subformulanumber (third example from http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math/Display#The_Manual_Method) But context always reports here: ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> ...^{\vfrac {1}{2}} &\subformulanumber {b}\cr a^2 + b^2 &= c^2 &\... 2) using the \NR[..] like it is described on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Multiline_equations#Working_with_equation_num… and http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/mathalign.pdf. This way compiles through. But which way is the future context way? In which way can I combine subnumbering and including to list some (not all) subformulas? Thanks for your help

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xml/fo typesetting with ConTeXt/foXet?
by Mica Semrick 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Hi list! I am hoping that someone can point me towards some more information on typesetting FO (Formatting Objects) with foXet and ConTeXt. I've read the threads on the foxet mailing list (and I assume that's dead, last post in 2005), and the wiki provides pretty sparse information. There are some files listed in the manual, but it doesn't say how to load them (or I missed that part, very possible). I can parse my .FO file, but the content is just flowed into PDF, there are no line breaks, or headings, or anything-- it just strips out the xml tags. Thanks for any help/directions! Best, Mica

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font sizes
by Henning Hraban Ramm 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Ever wondered about what exact size is some relative "name" like \tfa? I did some calculations for you, enjoy: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Font_Sizes Please anyone explain where we need "script/small/big" sizes. Greetlings, Hraban

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(Xe)ConTeXt and CJK support
by S Barmeier 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

Dear ConTeXt users, I am trying to write a document (grammar notes) in English and Japanese and so far have used XeTeX (for Unicode support) with tikZ (for graphics) quite successfully. However, I wish to convert to (Xe)ConTeXt in order to have more control over the page design. At the moment I am stuck at trying to define English and Japanese fonts. In XeTeX I used \usepackage[BoldFont]{xeCJK} \setCJKmainfont{IPAMincho} \setCJKsansfont{IPAGothic} \setCJKmonofont{KanjiStrokeOrders} in order to set the three different Japanese fonts I am using. I haven't found any documentation on how to implement something equivalent in ConTeXt and would be most grateful if someone could outline how I would best go about converting my XeTeX document to ConTeXt. Many thanks. Kind regards, Severin P.S.: If you think I'm crazy for trying to mix XeTeX, ConTeXt and tikZ, please tell me now... =) Also, it feels like ConTeXt MkIV with LuaTeX would be the best choice (if the project were just already beyond the beta stage), but I don't really know an awful lot about that either. Any thoughts on how successfully I might be able to implement the above in LuaTeX would also be much appreciated. I have attached a page illustrating how I have been using XeTeX and tikZ.

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install beta
by Hans van der Meer 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

I didn't update my context beta for some time and now I seem to have missed an important(?) change. This is my current installation script and running it always worked without a hitch: #!/bin/bash CONTEXTVERSION="beta" CONTEXTDIRECTORY=/Volumes/ALDARAN/TeX/ConTeXt/$CONTEXTVERSION rm -rf $CONTEXTDIRECTORY-old mv -n $CONTEXTDIRECTORY $CONTEXTDIRECTORY-old mkdir -p $CONTEXTDIRECTORY/tex cd $CONTEXTDIRECTORY ln -s $HOME/Library/texmf tex/texmf-local curl -o first-setup.sh http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh sh ./first-setup.sh >first-setup.log cd tex echo "luatools --selfupdate" luatools --selfupdate echo "mtxrun -selfupdate" mtxrun -selfupdate echo "installation context $CONTEXTVERSION minimals done" However today the following error messages appear: luatools --selfupdate /Users/hans/Bin/contextbeta: line 13: luatools: command not found mtxrun -selfupdate /Users/hans/Bin/contextbeta: line 15: mtxrun: command not found installation context beta minimals done Am I missing something important here? Help would be appreciated. Hans van der Meer

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urgent bottom line problem (thin paper)
by Steffen Wolfrum 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hi, before getting the train to Praha there is an urgent last problem to be solved: The bottom line of body text and footnote text need to be absolutely at the same height (due to a very thin paper used)! I tried to fine-tune the height of layout by 1pt up-and-down, but the difference stays: at least 1mm. Is there a "...skip" that's needs to be adjusted? (using grid mode is a no-go!) Help please!! Steffen [2010.09.05 13:23 MKIV] === \definepapersize[stw][width=15.7cm,height=23.2cm] \setuppapersize[stw][stw]% <- Format \usetypescript[postscript] \definetypeface[postscript][rm][serif][times][default] \setupbodyfont[postscript, 10pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=12pt] \setuplayout [width=113mm,height=532pt, backspace=20mm,topspace=15mm, header=12pt,headerdistance=6pt, footer=0pt,footerdistance=0pt, location=middle] \starttext \dorecurse{20}{{\dorecurse{5}{\input tufte \input ward \input ward \par}} \footnote{\input tufte\par} \input ward \par} \stoptext

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