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lecturer
by Thomas A. Schmitz 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

Just saw this on ctt. Does anyone know more about this? Thomas > Name of contribution: lecturer > Author's name: Paul Isambert > Location on CTAN: macros/generic > Summary description: On-screen presentations with PDF features for > (almost) all formats. > License type: lppl > Announcement text given by the package's contributor: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Lecturer creates slides for on-screen presentations based on PDF > features without manipulating TeX's typesetting process. The > presentation flow relies on PDF's abilities to display content step by > step. > Features include: > - Free positioning of anything anywhere in painted areas on the slide, > as well as in the main textblock. > - Numerous attributes to control the layout and the presentation flow, > from TeX's primitive dimensions to the visibility of steps. > - Feature inheritance from global to local settings, with intermediate > types. > - Basic drawing facilities to produce symbols, e.g. for list items or > buttons. > - Colors, transparency, shades, and pictures. > - Navigation with links, pop-up menus, and customizable bookmarks. > - Easy switch between presentation and handout. > - PDF transitions. > Besides the traditional documentation, the distribution includes a > visual doc (LecturerDemo-VisualDoc.pdf) and six demo presentations > ranging from geometric abstraction to classic style to silly video > game. > Lecturer is designed for all formats except ConTeXt MkIV (because of > clashes in management of PDF objects, probably), works only with > pdfTeX and LuaTeX for the time being, and requires texapi and yax, > both v.1.02.

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Re: [NTG-context] Minimals without rsync - again?
by Richard Stephens 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

> Does http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-2.htm help? > > -- > Vedran Miletić I used to update to the latest beta using download-2, but it doesn't contain new binaries and dll's etc. > There is also > http://minimals.contextgarden.net/pragma/ > > Maybe it doesn't contain the latest ConTeXt, but at least it should > work (I can update it at any time, but I have a feeling that it now > contains the latest "stable" release). > At the above address, there is a .zip file called mswin.zip which appears to contain binaries etc (dated 28-May-2010). Plus another one called mswincontext.zip which presumably contains everything else (dated 17-April-2008). How would I make use of these to install the full distribution? What would be really nice is a .zip file containing EVERYTHING needed to install ConTeXt for the latest stable release AND another .zip (produced, say, once a month) with the changes since the stable release! Or failing that, just a big .zip file with everything in it once a month or so. I can dream! > An alternative is to use ssh port forwarding, but I'm not sure how > this can be done (there have already been some discussions about that, > so it must be somewhere in archives). > > Mojca I've tried to understand all the ssh stuff in the mail archive and elsewhere but it makes my head spin! Thanks for your help, Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. http://www.converteam.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

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using \definebodyfont with multiple size declarations -- Why?
by Martin Althoff 29 Jul '10

29 Jul '10

As someone new to Context, I am trying to get to grips with font handling. Reading through a fair amount of documentation it is not always to clear to me what recommended practice in todays Luatex/MKIV enviroment is. My setup is "Minimals" updated 26.7.2010 (luatex 0.60.2, MTXrun 2010.07.22) setup on Mac OS X 10.6.4. I use it to produce documents I need in a language teaching environment. As I am starting of without legacy documents, there is no need for MKII or any other type of Tex. Confusing for me is the use of "\definebodyfont" in typescripts. I read in "co-fonts.pdf" (no release date, internal creation date 18/11/2009): "because Latin Modern comes in design sizes, there was a need to associate a specific font with each bodyfont size. You may find yourself in a similar situation when you attempt to create a typescript for a ‘professional' commercial font set." Looking at the example: \definebodyfont [10pt,11pt,12pt] [rm] [tfe=Serif at 48pt, ite=SerifItalic at 48pt] \tfe Big {\it Words}. What I simply don't understand is the need for multiple font size declarations. I can (kind of) see that it might be necessary (looking at typescripts), if the whole typescript resolves to "design sizes" where each point size is a single font file. But for ttf/otf fonts, ie. where the font is scaled? This minimal example, including a "special" font (TitleFont) works (almost) fine for me. % the only two statements to declare the fonts I want to use \usetypescriptfile[type-otf] % being default, I could even miss this declaration \setupbodyfont[pagella,10pt] \definefont [WonderFont] [BoldItalic sa 4.8] \starttext {\WonderFont The Big Title} \input aesop-de \stoptext I do get one consistant error (the "5pt" can vary depending on the size I give in "setupbodyfont"): {/Users/martin/contextMini/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/mkiv-px.map} virtual math > the mapping is incomplete for 'pxmath' at 5pt Though, the document looks fine. Does the error hint I am missing something? What is "good practice" in Luatex/MKIV to access the desired fonts? My questions: - when do I need to use the multiple point sizes at all in a Luatex/MKIV environment? - when would I need to provide that information in typescript files I need to create? (simplefonts is very slow to load fonts with phonetic symbols) Any tips to help my understanding would be appreciated!

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figures after columns
by Horacio Suarez 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

hello all: I want to add a figure after a balanced \startcolumns ... \stopcolumns. When the last page uses less than aprox half a page, the figure appears after the text ends, but if the page uses about half a page o more, the figure jumps to the next page. The figure is small enough to fit in any case. Thankyou in advance for your help. -------------------- Horacio Suarez

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Paragraph or item goes on a new page along with section (MkIV only)
by Vedran Miletić 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Consider the following code: \setuphead[section][style={\tfd}] \starttext \section{bla bla} \dorecurse{4}{\input tufte} This is just some text that shows what happens. \section{bla bla bla} \input tufte \stoptext In MkII, "This is just some text that shows what happens." goes on the first page (which makes sense), while in MkIV it goes on second just before section name. Itemize behaves in similar way, if it is used just before section, last item in the itemization list goes on second page. A bug? -- Vedran Miletić

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Re: [NTG-context] OT: equality (was Grammar)
by Alan BRASLAU 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

\startquotation Near Göttingen are two hills that are called Die Gleichen --``The Equals''. They were no doubt given this name because, when viewed from a certain angle, they look almost identical. It is reported that David Hilbert used to ask his students why these hills were so called. None of the obvious answers like ``equal height'' or ``equal shape'' satisfied this great scholar, who was a stickler for exactness. Finally he would give the answer himself: ``Because they are equal distances apart from one another.'' \stopquotation

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width of definetextbackground
by Armin Varmaz 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Hallo, I am wondering if there is an option in \definetextbackground to get the output over the entire width of a page? I mean to go over the width of the \textwidth (for example like \setlayout[width=\textwidth+\outermargintotal])? I played with \setuplayout before calling textbackground, but it did not work perfectly since the layout of the text after \definetextbackground was changed as well; \setuplayout[reset] before stopping the textbackground did not help. I read the solutions proposed by Aditya but they did not help. Have you any ideas how to get it? Armin

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Re: [NTG-context] Multi-line labels in MetaPost MKIV
by Richard Stephens 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

>>>> What is the recommended method for creating multi-line labels in MetaPost >>>> in MKIV, please? >>>> I have the following code: >>>> >>>> \definetextext[mplabel]{\framed[frame=off,align=middle]} >>>> \starttext >>>> \startMPpage >>>> input mp-tool; >>>> >>>> draw fullcircle scaled 5cm; >>>> label(\sometxt[mplabel]{One\\Two}, (0,0)); >>>> \stopMPpage >>>> \stoptext >>>> >>>> which gives a line feed between One and Two using MKII, but no line feed >>>> in MKIV. >>>> >>> >>> \defineframed[mplabel][frame=off,align=middle] >>> >>> \starttext >>> \startMPpage >>> draw fullcircle scaled 5cm ; >>> label(textext("\mplabel{One\\Two}"),origin)) ; >>> \stopMPpage >>> \stoptext >>> >>> Wolfgang >>> >> >> Thanks for the suggestion, but I still don't get a line feed! I am using >> ConTeXt from 15-May-2010, has something changed since then? > > in pack-rul.mkiv add \unexpanded here: > > \unexpanded\def\vboxednewline > {\endgraf\ignorespaces} > > \unexpanded\def\hboxednewline > {\unskip\normalspace\ignorespaces} > > and then remake the format > > (it's a side effect of nested framed usage) > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Thanks Hans, that works. Will this change be added to the next release, or do I have to re-apply it manually? Is \sometxt not recommended now? Should I be using textext throughout? Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. http://www.converteam.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

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Re: [NTG-context] Grammar
by Richard Stephens 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

> > On 26-7-2010 11:48, John Haltiwanger wrote: > > It seems the most successful/widely adopted form is to vary from 'he' >> to 'she' (so that in one sentence you use one, in the next another). >> Some authors even change the gender within a sentence. This method was >> adopted because 'one' (the "real" correct unisex pronoun) is just too >> awkward for extended use. The morphographic he/she/he/she method reads >> surprisingly well. >> > > maybe male authors could use he and female authors could use she > consistently (or we could get accustomed to 'it') > > Hans > > The trend that I have noticed (and which trips off the tongue most easily for British english-speakers) is to use the plural 'they' in place of the singular pronoun 'he' or 'she'. This avoids having to choose! For purists, it rankles, but then we have to accept that the language will change. Personally, for serious writing, I use the rather cumbersome, but grammatically correct, 'he or she'. I personally don't like 'he/she'. The use of 'one' as a pronoun in British english is pretty much dead and sounds very stilted to us - only the Queen and old school masters still use it! Using 'it' is not an option. Best regards, Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. http://www.converteam.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Hi, I uploaded a new beta that can deal with the new mplib. The biggest side effect of the new lib is that no longer formats are made and that the 'format related code' (read: metafun) is loaded at runtime. In the future I might optimize this but at the moment it's not needed. For a while both methods will be supported. The latest version of mplib can process the metafun manual without crashing or hanging which is a good sign. 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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Minimals without rsync - again?
by Richard Stephens 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Hi all, On the wiki at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals/FAQ is says: "Blocked Firewall port You are most probably behind a firewall. Make sure that port 873 is open. If you cannot make any changes yourself and if your admin objects, you probably won't be able to use rsync for the distribution." Yes, I am behind a firewall. No, port 873 is not open. No, I cannot make any changes, and yes, my admin objects :-( So what's the alternative to using rsync? I used to use the zip file at http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-4.htm but that doesn't exist any more! I've now managed to screw up my MKIV installation somehow, so I desperately need some way of getting the beta release re-installed without rsync. Help!! Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. http://www.converteam.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

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Multi-line labels in MetaPost MKIV
by Richard Stephens 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Hello all, What is the recommended method for creating multi-line labels in MetaPost in MKIV, please? I have the following code: \definetextext[mplabel]{\framed[frame=off,align=middle]} \starttext \startMPpage input mp-tool; draw fullcircle scaled 5cm; label(\sometxt[mplabel]{One\\Two}, (0,0)); \stopMPpage \stoptext which gives a line feed between One and Two using MKII, but no line feed in MKIV. Thanks, Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. http://www.converteam.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

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Re: [NTG-context] using \definebodyfont with multiple size declarations -- Why?
by Martin Althoff 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

> indeed. in that case it's mostly the cpu caches that > matter Ah... Time to save some money for new hardware

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relative size of symbols
by Henning Hraban Ramm 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Hi ho, I need some symbols from a font, but they are too small in comparison to my text font. (It used to look right once, maybe now some font feature is handled different.) I know only the scaling options in type scripts, but how can I scale my glyphs in this setup? (minimals, latest beta, mkIV) \definefontsynonym [Symbola] [file:Symbola.otf] \def\UnicodeSymbol#1{\getglyph{Symbola}{\utfchar{#1}}} \def\born{\leavevmode\raise0.09em\hbox{\UnicodeSymbol{"2733}}} \definefontsynonym is missing in the command reference. 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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Semantic data in ConTeXt?
by Matija Šuklje 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

Hullo, this is something that's been bothering me for quite a while: Will ConTeXt support semantic meta-information? A few examples: * could ConTeXt automatically tag the PDF it creates e.g. via Nepomuk[1]? * could the bibliography be enriched with RDF triples? * by selecting an event or contact mentioned in a document made by ConTeXt, could you import that into your organiser or address book? * if a document made by ConTeXt was put online, could meta-data inside it reveal the semantic meaning of its contents and creator for easier searching? * ditto for local storage? From my understanding this depends on whether PDF can have RDF included and/or whether ConTeXt could output to ODF. Currently KOffice is leading the pace here with OOo just a bit behind it and AbiWord still needing to catch up. There's an interesting article[2] in Linux Magazine about how KOffice uses libferris to integrate RDF into ODF. With semantic web and semantic desktop creeping up at a fast pace, it'd be a pity not to make use of it IMHO. Cheers, Matija -.-.- [1] http://nepomuk.kde.org/ [2] http://www.linux-magazine.com/w3/issue/116/020-022_rdf.pdf -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: matija.suklje(a)gabbler.org

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Setting up protrusion, side-effects
by Martin Althoff 28 Jul '10

28 Jul '10

When setting up protrusion, I noticed it "disappearing" despite being defined/setup. In a text, when I changed the font from Palatino to Sabon (with \setupbodyfont[sabon]), protrusion stopped working. Changing back to palatino, with nothing else changed, protrusion appeared again. Note: getting the latest minimals update did not change anything: context: version: 2010.07.27 16:30, LuaTeX, Version beta-0.60.2-2010070117 on OSX 10.6.4 The following test file showed that if the \setupbodyfont takes place before \definefontfeature and \setupalign, protrusion fails completely. In the example 1 below it fails. Disabling the top \setupbodyfont and enabling the bottom \setupbodyfont gets it to work. However, it will fail for both Palatino and Sabon! I could not create an example for one font working and the other not. Is the order of declaration important? That would be unusual in context by what I have seen so far. Am I missing something? Example 1: \setupbodyfont[palatino] % protusion Einstellungen \definefontfeature [default][default][protrusion=quality,expansion=quality] \setupalign[hz,hanging] %\setupbodyfont[palatino] \showframe \starttext \input tufte \stoptext Possibly related is the following. Executing \showbodyfont for palatino with protrusion enabled messes up the text following it. The same done with Sabon is no problem. The Example 2 below illustrates the problem. I have attached the PDF to show the output. While this obviously not a real problem, as the \showbodyfont won't be in a final output, it might hint at an underlying problem, possibly related to the above problem. Example 2: % Set up protusion \definefontfeature [default][default][protrusion=quality,expansion=quality] \setupalign[hz,hanging] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] \showframe \starttext \showbodyfont \input tufte \switchtobodyfont[sabon,12pt] \showbodyfont \input tufte \stoptext

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font size in math mode
by Armin Varmaz 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

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help with startformulas and startalign
by Julian Becker 27 Jul '10

27 Jul '10

Hi everybody, I'm new to ConTeXt and need a little expert help. When I'm running the following 'test.tex' file ------------------------ \starttext \placeformula \startformulas \startformula \startalign \NC A \NC = B \NR[+] \NC C \NC = D \NR[+] \stopalign \stopformula \startformula E \stopformula \stopformulas \stoptext ------------------ I get the following errors: systems : begin file test.tex at line 1 ! Missing $$ inserted. <to be read again> \Ustopdisplaymath \stopformula ->\normalstopformula \egroup \Ustopmath \hss <argument> ...= D \NR [+] \stopalign \stopformula \startformula E \stopformula \dostartformulas ...la \egroup \Ustopmath \hss }#2 \egroup \stopdisplaymath \... l.12 \stopformulas ! You can't use `\Ustopdisplaymath' in horizontal mode pages > flushing realpage 1, userpage 1, subpage 1 systems : end file test.tex at line 14 Does anybody know how to do this right? Startformulas itself works allright, if I leave out the alignment part. I also tried startmathalignment instead, but it gave the same errors. Best regards, Julian

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strc-not.lua:87: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
by Peter Münster 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

Hello, Perhaps I don't use localfootnotes the right way? Example: \starttext blub\footnote{blub} bla \startlocalfootnotes blub\footnote{blub} \placelocalfootnotes \stoplocalfootnotes \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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[OT] Lua interface in VIM
by Mojca Miklavec 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

Hmmm ... maybe Hans will change his favorite editor? :) :) :) http://groups.google.com/group/vim_announce/browse_thread/thread/22eac70dd4… Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) version 7.3b BETA ... The biggest additions since 7.2: ... - Lua interface ... http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1763 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1291 I didn't test it yet, I haven't found any reference about what exactly it supports, but geeks may start playing around ... Mojca

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indenting and localfootnotes
by Peter Münster 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

Hello, Here an example with strange vertical alignment: \setupnotedefinition[footnote][location=left, text=Note~, distance=1em] \setupnote[footnote][numbercommand=, textcommand=, style=, textstyle=, bodyfont=] \starttext \startlocalfootnotes blub\footnote{blub} \placelocalfootnotes \stoplocalfootnotes \blank[3*big] \setupindenting[yes, big] \startlocalfootnotes blub\footnote{blub} \placelocalfootnotes% problem with vertical alignment \stoplocalfootnotes \stoptext TIA for any help! Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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Lua code inside database module
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 26 Jul '10

26 Jul '10

Hello all, Is there any possibility use Lua commands in \startseparatedlist[NaturalTable] ... \stopseparatedlist environment in database module? I would like using database module im my Lua application. Thanx Jaroslav Here is mimimal example: \usemodule[database] \defineseparatedlist [NaturalTable] [separator=comma, before=\bTABLE,after=\eTABLE, first=\bTR,last=\eTR, left=\bTD,right=\eTD] \starttext \startseparatedlist[NaturalTable] col1,col2,col3 \stopseparatedlist \startseparatedlist[NaturalTable] \directlua{tex.print("col1,col2,col3")} % here program fails \stopseparatedlist \stoptext

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[OT] just-in-time-things-we-can-only-do-with-luatex/
by luigi scarso 25 Jul '10

25 Jul '10

http://river-valley.tv/just-in-time-things-we-can-only-do-with-luatex/ -- luigi

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help
by Adam Fuller 24 Jul '10

24 Jul '10

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LuaTeX & printf() function ?
by Vnpenguin 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Hi, Here is my test: =================================================== \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \usetypescript[postscript] \setupbodyfont[palatino,12pt] \starttext \startformula K = \frac{\sigma_1}{\sigma_2} = \frac{355}{14}= \ctxlua{tex.print(355/14)} \stopformula \stoptext =================================================== It works well and give me result = 25,357142857143. In order to obtain 2 decimal number I tried: \startformula K = \frac{\sigma_1}{\sigma_2} = \frac{355}{14}= \ctxlua{tex.printf("%0.2f",355/14)} \stopformula But it does not work. Here is the error: tex.printf("\doplaceformulanumber \stopdisplaymath \global \let \gdef \ETC. ! File ended while scanning text of \zerocount. <inserted text> } <*> ./test-lua.tex ? Another try: \startformula K = \frac{\sigma_1}{\sigma_2} = \frac{355}{14}= \ctxlua{tex.print(string.format("%0.2f",355/14))} \stopformula gives me the same error. So is there really a function printf() in LuaTeX engine ? Thanks

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description: whitespace between head and text
by Jan Pohanka 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Hello, \definedescription [definition] [headstyle=bold, inbetween=, headcolor=TheColor, location=top] \definition{AAA} AAA is an aglorithm .... \par which parameter controls the white space between the description title (at top location) and the description text. greetings Jan -- Tato zpráva byla vytvořena převratným poštovním klientem Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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beta
by Hans Hagen 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Hi, I uploaded a beta. This is a prelude to an end-of-the-month current that will be released along with luatex 0.61. This release supports tagged pdf, but it will go unnoticed if you don't have full acrobat. Tagging is enabled with: \setupstructure[state=start] Normally tagging takes place automatically but you can add your own using \startelement[whatever] ... \stopelement and labels can be changed with \setuptaglabeltext [en] [elementname=yourfavourite]. 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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Different printing positions on cards
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Hello all... I am looking for problem in my example but without success. As you can see in my minimal example, that any printing positions on any cards are diferent. I want to print always started at the same place! Someone knows a solution? Forgotten that any gaps? Thanx Jaroslav \newcount\countofhor\countofhor=3 \newcount\countofvert\countofvert=4 \newdimen\paperedge\paperedge=0.5cm \newdimen\disthor\disthor=2mm \newdimen\distvert\distvert=2mm \newdimen\cardheight\newdimen\cardwidth \newcount\countofcardsonpage\countofcardsonpage=\countofhor \multiply\countofcardsonpage\countofvert \definepapersize[BC][width=\cardwidth,height=\cardheight] % not change! %\setuppapersize [BC][A4] \setuppapersize [BC][A4,landscape] % Calculate only: \cardheight=\dimexpr((\printpaperheight-2\paperedge-\distvert*(\countofvert-1))/\countofvert) \cardwidth=\dimexpr((\printpaperwidth-2\paperedge-\dimexpr(\disthor)*(\countofhor-1))/\countofhor) \definemeasure[topspace] [\dimexpr(\printpaperheight-(\cardheight + \distvert)*\countofvert+\distvert)/2\relax] \definemeasure[backspace] [\dimexpr(\printpaperwidth-(\cardwidth + \disthor)*\countofhor+\disthor)/2\relax] \setuppaper [topspace=\measure{topspace},backspace=\measure{backspace},bottomspace=\measure{topspace},cutspace=\measure{backspace}, dx=\disthor,dy=\distvert,nx=\countofhor,ny=\countofvert] \setuplayout [page] [topspace=\measure{topspace},backspace=\measure{backspace},bottomspace=\measure{topspace},cutspace=\measure{backspace}] \setuplayout [location=middle, marking=on] \setuparranging [XY] \setuppagenumbering [alternative=doublesided,location=, state=stop] \defineoverlay[pozadifront][{\externalfigure[file1.jpg][width=\cardwidth,height=\cardheight]}] \defineoverlay[pozadiback][{\externalfigure[file2.jpg][width=\cardwidth,height=\cardheight]}] \startbuffer[Front] \leftaligned{\recurselevel\ - Front}% \stopbuffer \startbuffer[Back] \leftaligned{\recurselevel\ - Back}% \stopbuffer \def\printactionpageone{% \setupbackgrounds [page][background={pozadifront}]% \getbuffer[Front]\page% }% \def\printactionpagetwo{% \setupbackgrounds [page][background={pozadiback}]% \getbuffer[Back]\page% }% \showframe[edge] \starttext \dorecurse{\countofcardsonpage}{\printactionpageone} \dorecurse{\countofcardsonpage}{\printactionpagetwo} \stoptext

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Damage of installation of context mkiv
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 23 Jul '10

23 Jul '10

Hallo all, When I tried to update the new version of ConTeXt into texlive 2009 (uploading new files to BIN directory and run commands ctxtools --update, texexec --make --all and luatools --generate), then ConTeXt MKIV stopped working and I failed to return original state. What happened and how to fix?? I get this message, when I run context: MTXrun | forcing cache reload MTXrun | resolvers: warning: no lua configuration files found MTXrun | resolvers MTXrun | resolvers MTXrun | the resolver databases are not present or outdated MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua' MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua' MTXrun | resolvers: remembering file 'mtx-context.lua' MTXrun | resolvers: using suffix based filetype 'lua' MTXrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' Thanx, Jaroslav

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xmldoiftext
by H. van der Meer 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

I have a comment on the name of macro "\xmldoiftext". The name as is, seems specifically to point to something like: <node>some_text</node> Luckily the manual mentions here "when .. node has some content" and this implies the {yes}-branch will be taken also in case of the presence of subnodes, even if these lack text content: <node><subnode/></node> I am happy to find that this is indeed the behaviour, because it is what I need. Thus I am inclined to consider "\xmldoifcontent" as a better descriptive name instead of "\xmldoiftext". Or is it already too late to change its name? Hans van der Meer

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problem with publication lists in mkiv
by Thomas A. Schmitz 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hi all, since a few betas ago, I'm experiencing the problem that some commands add unwanted vertical space in mkiv. I think this is the case with \writetolist, but I need to prepare an example for that. I have prepared an example for publication lists: the following code produces the expected output in mkii. In mkiv, it adds vertical space for every item that is added to the bibliography. Maybe some unescaped line-endings somewhere in the code? All best Thomas \startpublication[k=intertestualita,t=book, a={intertestualita},y=1995, n=2552,s=int95] \pubyear{1995} \title{Atti del convegno internazionale \quotation{Intertestualit{\`a}}: il \quotation{dialogo} fra testi nelle letterature classiche: Cagliari, 24--26 novembre 1994} \city{Amsterdam} \pubname{Hakkert} \stoppublication \startpublication[k=gibsonlearning,t=article, a={gibsonlearning},y=2004, n=991,s=gib04] \pubyear{2004} \arttitle{Learning Greek History in the Ancient Classroom: the Evidence of the Treatises on Progymnasmata} \journal{Classical Philology} \volume{99} \pages{103--129} \stoppublication \startpublication[k=ackrillaristotle,t=book, a={{Ackrill}},y=1981, n=305,s=Ack81] \author[]{J.~L.}[J.~L.]{}{Ackrill} \pubyear{1981} \title{Aristotle the Philosopher} \city{Oxford} \pubname{Oxford UP} \stoppublication \setuppublications[state=start] \starttext \section{Edited Volumes} test test test test test test test test test test test test test test \nocite[intertestualita,gibsonlearning,ackrillaristotle] \placepublications[criterium=cite] \stoptext

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Missing symbol for itemize[4] (MkIV only)
by Vedran Miletić 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Minimal nonworking example: % Taken from the wiki \starttypescript [Bonum] \definetypeface [Bonum] [rm] [serif] [bonum] [default] \definetypeface [Bonum] [ss] [sans] [adventor] [default] [rscale=0.887] \definetypeface [Bonum] [tt] [mono] [cursor] [default] [rscale=1.163] \definetypeface [Bonum] [mm] [math] [euler] [default] [rscale=1.050] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[Bonum] \setupbodyfont[Bonum,12pt] \starttext \startitemize[4] \item bla \item bla \stopitemize \stoptext It's actually independent of the font used, same thing happens if roman font is replaced with palatino or modern. Regards, -- Vedran Miletić

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two problems for bib module
by Li Yanrui (李延瑞) 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hi all, I have the following problems when I use the bib module. 1. For the cite of 'authoryear', how to make it being clickable link? This is a minimum example: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% filename: test.tex \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupbibtex[database=ref] \setupcite[authoryear] \setuppublications[refcommand=authoryear] \starttext A: \cite[zixuwuyou]. \title{References} \placepublications[criterium=all] \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% filename: ref.bib @article{zixuwuyou, title={{Several problems for bib module}}, author={Zhou, Y. and Suri, S. and Yanry, L.}, journal={Journal of Bala bala}, volume={46}, number={6}, pages={833--857}, year={1999}, publisher={Bala Bala} } 2. In .bib file for Chinese (maybe cjk more exact) references, because the 'and' separator can not work, we have to use some Chinese punctuations as separator, such as Chinese comma. In this case, the cite of author's "et.al." can not work. The following is an example (needed AdobeSongStd-Light.otf). %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% filename: test.tex \starttypescript[serif][zhfont] \definefontsynonym[western][name:latinmodernromanregular] \definefontfallback[song][name:adobesongstd][0x00400-0x2FA1F] \definefontsynonym[fbsong][western][fallbacks=song] \definefontsynonym[Serif][fbsong] \definefontsynonym[SerifItalic][fbsong] \stoptypescript \starttypescript[myfonts] \definetypeface[myfonts][rm][serif][zhfont] \stoptypescript \usetypescript[myfonts] \setupbodyfont[myfonts,rm,11pt] \setupinteraction[state=start] \setupbibtex[database=ref] \setupcite[authoryear][andtext={，}] \setuppublications[refcommand=authoryear,sorttype=bbl] \starttext A: \cite[谢2008] \title{References} \placepublications[criterium=all] \stoptext %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %% filename: ref.bib @article{谢2008, title={中国工业生产率的增长与收敛}, author={谢千里，罗斯基，张轶凡}, journal={经济学(季刊)}, volume={7}, number={3}, pages={809--826}, year={2008} } -- Best regards, Li Yanrui (李延瑞)

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Tracking down error in publication list
by Richard Stephens 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hello, I am preparing a document with a publication list generated from BibTeX but I get the following error: ! LuaTeX error .../context/texmf-context/tex/context/base/bibl-tra.lua:83: attempt to compare nil with number stack traceback: .../context/texmf-context/tex/context/base/bibl-tra.lua:83: in function <.../context/texmf-context/tex/context/base/bibl-tra.lua:80> [C]: in function 'sort' .../context/texmf-context/tex/context/base/bibl-tra.lua:93: in function 'flush' <main ctx instance>:1: in main chunk. \typesetpubslist ...hacks.flush("\@@pbsorttype ")} \doendoflist \dodoplacepublications ...sttrue \typesetpubslist \inpublistfalse \endgroup ... <to be read again> Is there a way I can narrow down what and where the problem is? At the moment I'm stumped. I've tried removing some of the \cite commands recently added, but to no avail. Is the problem in the BibTeX file or in my document? Any help would be much appreciated. Regards, Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. http://www.converteam.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

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slightly OT: tablets
by Thomas A. Schmitz 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hi all, this is slightly OT, but maybe someone here has a helpful suggestion: since the announcement of Apple's iPad, tablets have become the rage. I am somewhat underwhelmed by this type of computer, but I see one area where it might be interesting to have one of those babies, and that's presentations. What I'm dreaming about: a tablet that would be able to show my manuscript (of course, a pdf produced with ConTeXt) on it's own screen and drive a presentation (again, pdf) on an external screen/digital projector. That way, I would need only one technical device, no paper etc. for my presentations. I even called Apple, but they said there is no app yet for doing this on an iPad. Do any of you have any insights: is there anything on the market yet that would make this possible? Is it at all feasible? Does it sound like a reasonable idea? All best Thomas

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lua args or how to identify the interpreter
by Philipp Gesang 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hi all, what would be an elegant way to make out the current interpreter from inside lua? For now I'm branching things at the top of the script like this: ···8<·········································································· if arg[-1] == "texlua" then utf=unicode.utf8 else require "lpeg" utf=string end ···8<·········································································· because I have neither slnunicode nor a built-in lpeg on my system's lua installation. The problem is that luatex has arg[-1] == nil but arg[0] == "luatex", and context sets all args to nil, so my crude way of determining the interpreter by cl args fails with both. I tried something like "local string = utf or string" as well, but this works only in context which has utf==unicode.utf8 or something. Thanks for your help Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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how to prevent page-break after \blank
by Peter Münster 22 Jul '10

22 Jul '10

Hello, How is it possible to prevent a page break after the \blank? \starttext \dorecurse{730}{text } \blank[small] \page[no] % does not work bla bla bla \stoptext TIA for any help, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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back from section to TOC
by Steffen Wolfrum 21 Jul '10

21 Jul '10

Hi, \setupinteraction enables links from a TOC entry to its respective page. But how do I do the "jump back"? (ie. from a section heading to its entry in the TOC) Steffen

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component key for \framed
by Wolfgang Schuster 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

Hi Hans, the 'component' for \framed does not work, looking at the source reveals that it can be used to hide the framed content in the document by disabling the corresponding pdf layer but the following example shows there is no layer for the frame. \showlayoutcomponents \setupinteraction[state=start] \starttext \setlayoutcomponentattribute{text}{wolf}\hbox \layoutcomponentboxattribute \bgroup wolf\egroup \framed[component=wolf]{wolf} \stoptext Wolfgang

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Creating PDF Bookmarks
by marfin 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

I am looking for additional bookmarks but \bookmark[…]{…} has no effect (mkiv). What is going wrong? \setupinteraction [state=start] \setupinteractionscreen [option=bookmark] \placebookmarks[chapter,section][chapter,section] \starttext \bookmark[chapter]{TOC} \title{Table of contents} \placecontent \chapter{Chapter} \input tufte \section{Section} \input tufte \stoptext Sincerely, Markus

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Re: [NTG-context] unusable PDF bookmarks
by hagen＠ntg.nl 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

On Monday 28/06/2010 at 4:50 am, Steffen Wolfrum wrote: > > Hi, > > > is there a way to avoid bookmark entries like this? > > > With language is german and encoding utf8 MkII compiles this ... > > \section{Test~–~Nummer §\,613\,a} \startsection[...,bookmark=....]

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no independent PDF bookmarks?
by Steffen Wolfrum 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

Hi, given you have a context project with a preface in frontmatter: In the printed "table of contents" you don't want the preface be listed. But in the PDF bookmark the preface should be listed and the table of contents, too. How to achieve this?? Steffen

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associating setuptex.bat with cmd shortcut
by Michael Goerz 20 Jul '10

20 Jul '10

Hi everyone, at the end of the context essentials installation on Windows, it says > When you want to use context, you need to initialize the tree with: > > C:\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\context\tex > > You can associate this command with a shortcut to the cmd prompt. What does that mean, and how do I do that (associating the command with a shortcut to cmd)? Sorry, haven't had to do anything serious on Windows for years... Thanks, Michael

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mode *last in mkiv
by luigi scarso 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hm, I have no clue on how enable *last mode in mkiv \starttext \startmode[*last] LAST \stopmode #> context --final test.tex doesn't work -- luigi

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Float objects problem (was TABLE in Header ?)
by Vnpenguin 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 09:21, Hans Hagen <pragma(a)wxs.nl> wrote: > On 18-7-2010 4:14, Vnpenguin wrote: >> >> Hi, >> It's possible to put TABLE within header ? I'm looking for an example >> in Wiki but I can not found yet. > > sure, best put the table in a buffer and then call that buffer > > (actually, your page can be a table itself ... see example in page-plg.*) > > Hans > Thanks, It works with TABLE within header. But I have another problem with float image. In fact, I have a logo in a cell of my TABLE which is found in header. Here is the code : %%====================================================== \startsetups[myheader] \bTABLE[setups=mytable-header] \bTR \bTD[nr=2] \placefigure[here,force]{none}{\externalfigure[logo][width=22mm]} \eTD \bTD {\tfb Foobar} \eTD \bTD[nr=2] Right1\\ Right2 \\ Right3 \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD {\tfa Title \\ Sub-title} \eTD \eTR \eTABLE \stopsetups \setupheadertexts[{\setups[myheader]}] %%============================================ I got some page OK with this logo[1]. But there are also some bad pages where I can not found my logo at all [2], or there are many logo in the page [3]. Is this problem of float objects ? How to fix this ? All files of my test are downloadable at : https://my.vnoss.net/pub/context/ ConTeXt source file : https://my.vnoss.net/pub/context/test.tex PDF created by context : https://my.vnoss.net/pub/context/test.pdf I use ConTeXt 2010.06.23 on Windows XP. E:\tex> context --version MTXrun | main context file: C:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/context.tex MTXrun | current version: 2010.06.23 12:45 Thank you in advance, Links: [1] https://my.vnoss.net/pub/context/screenshot-ok.png [2] https://my.vnoss.net/pub/context/screenshot-ko-1.png [3] https://my.vnoss.net/pub/context/screenshot-ko-2.png

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Publishing matlab figures
by Jan Pohanka 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hello, I'm used to use LaTeX for scientific publishing mainly because many conferences offers an article template in this language. I'd like to use Context to typeset my thesis, but I miss one important feature from LaTeX. Psfrag package can be used to replace selected marks in an eps figure (generated by Matlab) with a text typesets with TeX engine. There is also an alternative package which converts thess psfragged figures to pdf and full work can be processed by pdftex. Is there any similar way how to do this in Context? It would really help me. I can of course use a workaround with preparing pictures with LaTeX and using generated pdfs lately, but it is not an ideal solution. greetings Jan -- Tato zpráva byla vytvořena převratným poštovním klientem Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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underbar/overbar to long with one character in mkiv
by Stefan Müller 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hi, there was an earlier issue with \underbar{b} http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20091109.094902.baf77ffc.en.html which seems somewhat related to my problem. When providing only one character as argument to \underbar or \overbar and a following space (or paragraph ending) the line is also under/over that space. Is this intended? Example: \starttext \underbar{b} \overbar{b} \underbar{b} $\underbar{b} = \overbar{b} = \underbar{b}$ \stoptext A fix for this would be to use \underbars{b} or \overbars{b} instead, btw. Best wishes, Stefan

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TABLE in Header ?
by Vnpenguin 19 Jul '10

19 Jul '10

Hi, It's possible to put TABLE within header ? I'm looking for an example in Wiki but I can not found yet. Thanks in advance,

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[OT] FreeType 2.4 now free from patent restrictions
by luigi scarso 18 Jul '10

18 Jul '10

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.0/NEWS/view I. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Since May 2010, all patents regarding the TrueType bytecode interpreter have expired worldwide. Consequently, we now define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER by default (and undefine TT_CONFIG_OPTION_UNPATENTED_HINTING). Formally a big step, practically most linux distro have bytecode interpreter enabled from long time. -- luigi

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Windows GUI Installer problems
by Pradeep Silva 18 Jul '10

18 Jul '10

Hello list, I needed to install ConTeXt minimals on my Windows XP machine. The GUI installer progresses, downloads a few files via the command terminal and rsync but then I get a couple of dialog boxes with Make failed and Update failed. I used the command line installer instead and it installed successfully. Pradeep

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