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Itemize, margins and nowhite
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

Hello, Strange, but if I specify margins for itemize, then "nowhite" losts its effect, and I need to specify it again in every itemize group. \setupitemize[1,leftmargin=1cm, rightmargin=1cm, nowhite] \startitemize[nowhite] %duplicate, but does not work without it \item a \item b \stopitemize Rgrds, Vyatcheslav

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[OT] How TeX Gyre small caps were generated?
by Khaled Hosny 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

I'm just wondering how TeX Gyre were generated, did they use some MetaType1 magic, or was it designed by hand. I've vague memories suggesting the former, but I can't find anything about this right now, nor I can find MataType sources of the fonts (if there are). I'd like to use such technique for XITS fonts, since STIX didn't provide small caps, and I'm not into hand designing hundreds of LGC small caps. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

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status message of mtxrun --ifchanged
by Aditya Mahajan 14 Jun '10

14 Jun '10

Hi, When I run mtxrun --ifchanged, it echoes the status messages on stdout. This makes it impossible to use mtxrun --ifchanged as part of a standard unix pipe. What is the right way to resolve this? * Output these messages to stderr rather than stdout? * Provide a --silent option mtxrun that suppresses all output? I can parse the generated output and remove the lines starting with MTXrun, but that is no fun. Aditya

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problem with \ref[t][...]
by Peter Münster 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

Hello, "\ref[t][...]" does not work as expected, or I expect the wrong thing: \starttext \startsection[title=Problem here, reference=sec1] Section text: \ref[t][sec1] \stopsection \startsection[title=Workaround] \reference[sec2]{Workaround} Section text: \ref[t][sec2] \stopsection \stoptext A related question: how can I get rid of the quotation marks of \about[]? Test file: \starttext \startsection[title=Section, reference=sec] Title: \about[sec] \stopsection \stoptext TIA for any help! Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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failure with "luatools --generate"
by Eythan Weg 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

Hi, I ran into trouble compiling beta of June 10. It seems to me that luatools is now a script run under mtxrun. Under linux I made executable the scripts scripts/context/stubs/unix/{mtxrun,context, luatools}. Now when I run luatools --generate I get MTXrun | forcing cache reload MTXrun | fileio: warning: no lua configuration files found MTXrun | MTXrun | MTXrun | the resolver databases are not present or outdated MTXrun | fileio: using suffix based filetype 'lua' MTXrun | fileio: using suffix based filetype 'lua' MTXrun | fileio: remembering file 'mtx-base.lua' MTXrun | fileio: using suffix based filetype 'lua' MTXrun | unknown script 'base.lua' or 'mtx-base.lua' MTXrun | MTXrun | runtime: 0.008 seconds What does it mean? I had no trouble with earlier versions of luatools Thank you. Eythan

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↦ in xits
by Yury G. Kudryashov 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

Hi! I use $x↦2x$ in xits, and it prints x→2x instead of x↦2x. The same file works with latin modern. It seems that xits-math contains U+21A6 (↦) symbol (at least, kcharselect displays this character in xits-math font), so it should be related to some meta-information.

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sgf package
by Ivo Solnický 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

Hi, what is the status of the SGF package? When I wanted to install it (extras="t-sgf"), the installation failed and it did not install even with the option extras=all. When I manually downloaded and installed it (version 1.0.5), a compilation of included examples ended with the following error: system : module go loaded (t-go.tex loading : Context User Module / Go Module system : module sgf loaded (t-sgf.tex loading : Context User Module / Go Module system : module deadstone loaded (t-deadstone.tex loading : Context User Module / Dead stone calculator for go (deadstone.mkiv<deadstone.lua>)) system : module sgf-generic loaded (t-sgf-generic.tex loading : Context User Module / Go extensions ! Undefined control sequence. <argument> \c!printable =\v!no \xprocesscommaitem #1,#2->\if ,#1 ,\@EA \xprocesscommaitem \else \if ]#1\@EAE... <argument> ...n =3, \c!printable =\v!no , \c!size =\v!big , \c!style =\v!sans \xdogetparameters #1]->\xprocesscommaitem #1 ,],\@relax@ \dosetupboard ...lse \getparameters [\????bd ][#1] \setupboardsize [\@@@@bdsi... <to be read again> \par l.97 ? Thanks. 2. After installing all the packages there is a t-layout directory (instead of layout) in "texmf-context\tex\context\third" and "texmf-context\doc\context\third". Probably mistake? Ivo

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Line Numbering (blank lines)
by David Abdurachmanov 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

Hi, How make ConTeXt to number blank lines? Blank lines by default are skipped. Especially when giving programming examples (source code) in ConTeXt documents, I would prefer blank lines still have number. david _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969

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bibtex sort mkiv
by Yury G. Kudryashov 12 Jun '10

12 Jun '10

Hi! I try to sort my bibliography by athor: \setupbibtex[database=these.bib,sort=author] \setuppublications[numbering=yes,sorttype=bbl] \starttext \completepublications \stoptext The .bbl file is sorted, but references in the resulting .pdf are sorted in citation order.

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Strange nieuw directory after updating with first-setup.sh
by Willi Egger 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

Hi, I just updated the minimals and I see a strange directory: This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.60.1-2010042810 Current version: 2010.06.10 15:24 .../lua60.1 is the texroot. ../lua60.1/tex/lua60.1 ^^^^^^^ This subdirectory contains: ../lua60.1/tex/lua60.1/web2c ../lua60.1/tex/lua60.1/web2c/luatex ../lua60.1/tex/lua60.1/web2c/luatex/pdftex ../lua60.1/tex/lua60.1/web2c/luatex/xetex ../lua60.1/tex/lua60.1/web2c/luatex/metafun.mem This does not sound quite healthy? Further I am struggling with the fact, that Context does not find private fonts when they are in texmf-fonts/data/vendor/font. Only if I place them into texmf-local/fonts/afm/vendor/font, texmf-local/fonts/opentype/vendor/font etc they show up in the pdf. The strange thing is, that if the fonts are in texmf-fonts/data/vendor/font they are cached correctly and "mtxrun --locate Seravek-Regular.otf" reports the correct path to the font. Puzzled. Willi

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reference, ref, label, id, etc.
by Peter Münster 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

Hello, We have now \startsection[reference=...] and \reference[]{} and perhaps other such commands. Wouldn't it be better to call this "label" or "identifier" or "id" or similar instead of "reference" ? Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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marginrules vs. papersize
by Martin K. Petersen 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

I'm having a problem with marginrules. If the papersize is a4 they work just fine. When I switch to letter paper, however, the rules no longer line up with the paragraph. (This is TeX Live 2007 kit in Fedora, fwiw) Martin \setuppapersize[letter] \setupoutput[pdftex] \starttext \startmarginrule The sound of a duck is a good demonstration of how different people listen to a sound. Everywhere in Europe the sound is equal. But in every country it is described differently: kwaak||kwaak (Netherlands), couin||couin (French), gick||gack (German), rap||rap (Danish) and mech||mech (Spanish). If you speak these words aloud you will notice that in spite of the consonants the sound is really very well described. And what about a cow, does it say boe, mboe or mmmmmm? \stopmarginrule \stoptext

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Irregularity in a topspace a bottomspace?
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

Hi all. I was surprised that when I set up (in the MKII and MKIV too) topspace parameter to a nonzero value and the value of the bottomspace parameter to zero value, then the size of bottomspace is the same as topspace size. On the other side, if I set topspace to zero value and the bottomspace to nonzero value, ConTeXt behaves as I expected. Is this a normal behavior ConTeXt? Ie. when bottomspace is zero, then the paper has only the tops and not bottoms? Thanx Jaroslav My minimal example (watch showlayout): 1. topspace is nonzero, bottomspace is zero value: \setuplayout[ backspace=0cm, leftmargin=0cm, width=fit, rightmargin=0cm, cutspace=0cm, topspace=2cm, headerdistance=0cm, header=0cm, height=fit, footerdistance=0cm, footer=0cm, bottomspace=0cm ] \starttext \showlayout \input tufte \stoptext 2. topspace is nonzero, bottomspace is nonzero value too: \setuplayout[ backspace=0cm, leftmargin=0cm, width=fit, rightmargin=0cm, cutspace=0cm, topspace=2cm, headerdistance=0cm, header=0cm, height=fit, footerdistance=0cm, footer=0cm, bottomspace=1cm ] \starttext \showlayout \input tufte \stoptext 3. topspace is zero, bottomspace is nonzero value: \setuplayout[ backspace=0cm, leftmargin=0cm, width=fit, rightmargin=0cm, cutspace=0cm, topspace=0cm, headerdistance=0cm, header=0cm, height=fit, footerdistance=0cm, footer=0cm, bottomspace=1cm ] \starttext \showlayout \input tufte \stoptext

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problem with 'kpse.find_file'
by Li Yanrui (李延瑞) 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

'kpse.find_file' now can not work in MkIV (beta 2010.06.10 15:24). The attachment is a minimal example for this. When I compile it, I got the following error: LuaTeX error <main ctx instance>:2: attempt to call field 'find_file' (a nil value) stack traceback: <main ctx instance>:2: in main chunk. }inserted text> ...(kpse.find_file ("a", "lua")) \dodostartluacode ...d \directlua \zerocount {#1}} l.4 \stopluacode ? -- Best regards, Li Yanrui (李延瑞)

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problems with context beta and mtxrun
by Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz 11 Jun '10

11 Jun '10

Hi list, as read before there are some problems with mtxrun, now I got myself one too. After an Update of this afternoon context wouldn't compile anymore. The run of context --make delivers the following: $ context --make MTXrun | forcing cache reload MTXrun | fileio: skipping configuration file '/opt/context-minimals/tex/ texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' MTXrun | the resolver databases are not present or outdated MTXrun | fileio: using suffix based filetype 'texmfscripts' MTXrun | fileio: using suffix based filetype 'texmfscripts' MTXrun | fileio: remembering file 'mtx-context.lua' MTXrun | fileio: using suffix based filetype 'texmfscripts' MTXrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' MTXrun | MTXrun | runtime: 0.097 seconds but I now both files exist inside of the context path... Greetings -- --- Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz Auf dem Sattler 4 34516 Ederbringhausen Phone: +49 6454 799623 mobile: +49 176 63301749 Fax: +49 6454 e-Mail: scholz.m82(a)googlemail.com In Lexington, Kentucky, it's illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket. -- --- Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz Auf dem Sattler 4 34516 Ederbringhausen Phone: +49 6454 799623 mobile: +49 176 63301749 Fax: +49 6454 e-Mail: scholz.m82(a)googlemail.com In Lexington, Kentucky, it's illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket.

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MKIV and bib module
by Honza Pohanka 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Hallo, I have discovered a problem with bib module in MKIV. Using \completepublications command typesets only the heading and no bib items. Numbers in citations are missing too. \placepublications and MKII works fine. example \enableregime[utf] \mainlanguage[cz] \input pdfr-def.mkii % glyph to unicode \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database={stereo}] \setuppublications[alternative=num,autohang=yes] \setuppublicationlist[before=\blank] \setupexternalfigures[directory=./img] \starttext bla \cite[moltonetal1998] bla \cite[andersonetal2007] \setuppublications[alternative=ams] \completepublications \stoptext -- Tato zpráva byla vytvořena převratným poštovním klientem Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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ConTeXt expression evaluation in Lua
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

I apologize for maybe a trivial question, but I found it nowhere. It is possible in Lua to find value of counter (or dimension) that has been set in ConTeXt? Eg. \newcounter\mycount \newdimension\mydimen \mycount=5 \mydimen=12pt % It will be the parameterS of Lua function \startluacode LuaFunction("Filename.csv", VALUEOFCOUNTER("\\the\\mycount"), VALUEOFDIMENSION("\\the\\mydimen")) \stopluacode Thanx Jaroslav

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error in first-setup.sh
by luigi scarso 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

On my linux box32bit $>bash first-setup.sh stops with # bash first-setup.sh receiving file list ... done sent 37 bytes received 132 bytes 112.67 bytes/sec total size is 4450786 speedup is 26336.01 MTXrun | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTOLOC' set to '/opt/luatex/minimals-beta-2010/bin' MTXrun | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTODIR' set to '/opt/luatex/minimals-beta-2010' MTXrun | fileio: variable 'SELFAUTOPARENT' set to '/opt/luatex' MTXrun | fileio: variable 'TEXMFCNF' set to '{$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,.local,}/web2c}' MTXrun | fileio: fatal error: no lua configuration files found -- luigi

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Kerning messed up for Minion Pro in ConTeXt 2010.06.09
by Michael Murphy 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Hi all, it looks like the kerning has gone weird for Minion Pro in the latest ConTeXt (this is the only font I could find with the problem, all others looked fine). I've attached a PDF to show the effect. -- Michael Murphy

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XITS fonts - second beta
by Khaled Hosny 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

I just uploaded a second beta of XITS fonts, this mainly introduces XITS text fonts, regular, bold, italic and bold italic. No changes to the math font. This release features also a rudimentary user guide. The text fonts provide to features over STIX fonts: * oldstyle figures, through 'onum' feature * text fractions, through 'frac' feature As usual, it is available from github: http://github.com/khaledhosny/xits-math/downloads Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

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PDF Custom Page Numbering
by Andreas Schneider 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Hello, while reading through the PDF to ISO-9075-1 (SQL99), I noticed something I had never seen before in a PDF: the page numbers displayed by Acrobat matched exactly the ones in the document ... the beginning was even numbered with roman numbers and the actual content started again at "Page 1". From a quick research it seems that this functionality is in PDF since Acrobat 4 (that should be PDF 1.3, right?) and is most likely called "Custom Page Numbering". It would be amazing if ConTeXt/LuaTeX supports that too - especially if you produce documents for screen reading. Unfortunately I don't have access to the PDF Specification currently to give you more info - so I don't even know for sure how that feature is officially called. Anyway, I hope that idea/suggestion/wish finds positive reactions ... and I somehow hope that it isn't actually too hard to implement :-) Best Regards, Andreas.

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Relative references to floats
by Andreas Schneider 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Hello, is there currently (in MkIV) some way to have relative references to floats? I imagine something like "... as you can see \above[fig:somefigure]." which would print "... as you can see above." if the figure is above the current paragraph or "... as you can see below." if it is below. Maybe it's unusual to do that in books/papers, but I thought it might look better than to reference a page or a number if it is expected, that the figure is close by anyway. It would be nice if it could even go so far as to include page offsets ... "... as you can see on the next page" or "... as you can see two pages ahead". I have no real need to use this, it was just an idea to tidy up my text a bit (without risking wrong references when the layout changes and floats shift around). So if that is currently possible: awesome ... if not: no harm done :-) Best Regards, Andreas.

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Mutiple citations doesn't work with compress=no + interaction
by Michael Murphy 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

I know that if I want to have clickable hyperlinks for citations, I need to turn off 'compress' for the citation type: \setupcite[authoryears][compress=no] The problem is that this doesn't seem to work: I get an 'unknown reference' error. references : unknown reference [][Balachandran2008 references : unknown reference [][Balachandran2008 references : unknown reference [][Balachandran2008 Strangely, this only happens when I want to refer to multiple authors, e.g. \cite[ref1, ref2, ref3], and everything works fine if I just do \cite[ref1]. I've attached a minimal example. Where am I going wrong? -- Michael Murphy

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Inspecting font data with Lua
by Oliver Buerschaper 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

Hi everyone, this has probably been asked before: how can I use the Lua font loading mechanism to inspect an OTF font? I'm mainly interested in retrieving glyph data such as its shape or kerning properties... please advise :-) Many thanks, Oliver

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TeX macro to merge two lists, bit like Python's zip
by luigi scarso 09 Jun '10

09 Jun '10

J. Fine asked sometime ago something like python's zip tha merge two "lists" element by element, cfr. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/2c1feea4a… Here is the idea: a list is zero or more control sequence, ie {} is an empty list, \Alpha\Beta is a list with 2 elements, and so on. \zip{\Alpha\Beta}{\Gamma\Delta} gives \Alpha\Gamma\Beta\Delta \starttext % Hans's hint % \def\zipthem#1#2% % {\def\dozipthem##1{\def\dodozipthem####1{1\string##1 2\string####1}\handletokens#2\with\dodozipthem}% % \handletokens#1\with\dozipthem} \def\myzipthem#1#2% {\ctxlua{A = {}; B = {}} \def\dozipthemA##1{\ctxlua{table.insert(A,[[\string##1]])}}% \def\dozipthemB##1{\ctxlua{table.insert(B,[[\string##1]])}}% \handletokens#1\with\dozipthemA \handletokens#2\with\dozipthemB% \ctxlua{% for i=1,math.max(table.maxn(A),table.maxn(B)) do local a = "" local b = "" if A[i] then a = '\\string' ..A[i] end if B[i] then b = '\\string' ..B[i] end tex.sprint(a,b) end tex.print([[\blank]]) for i=1,math.max(table.maxn(A),table.maxn(B)) do local a = A[i] or "" local b = B[i] or "" tex.sprint(a,b) end tex.print([[\blank]]) } } \def\Alpha{A} \def\Beta{B} \def\Gamma{C} \def\Delta{D} \myzipthem{\Alpha\Beta}{\Gamma\Delta}%gives \Alpha\Gamma\Beta\Delta \myzipthem{}{\Gamma\Delta} \stoptext For ours bloggers. -- luigi

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<CRLF> is interpreted as a Greek letter in LuaLaTeX
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hi, When I want to write in LuaLaTeX by "tex.print" command some text string that is defined in an external lua-file, so <crlf> characters in LuaLaTeX appear as the Greek letter "omega". The Greek letter omega has in the font CM code 0x0A, which is a line feed. It seems that the end of the line is interpreted not as the end of the line, but a letter. When I define a text string directly in the source file, everything is OK. Please do not know how to solve this problem? Thanx Jaroslav My minimal example: A) If everything is in one source file for example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{luainputenc} \usepackage{luatextra} \begin{document} \directlua{ text=[[aaaaa bbbbb ccccc]] tex.print(text)} \end{document} so the correct typesets: aaaa bbbb cccc BUT B) Where part of Lua code is in an external file "externalfile.lua" whose content is as follows: text=[[aaaaa bbbbb ccccc]] then the LuaLaTeX source code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[utf8]{luainputenc} \usepackage{luatextra} \begin{document} \directlua{dofile("externalfile.lua") tex.print(text)} \end{document} typesets: aaaaaOMEGAbbbbbOMEGAccccc (where OMEGA is Greek character omega) PS: Use [[... ]] as a kind of "quotation marks" can bypass traditional "or simple '. The problem is that these strings must bet a backslash \\ . This character has a different meaning in LaTeX. Therefore I would prefer using [[ ... ]]

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\setupcite[authornum][...] not working
by Stefan Müller 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hi, I'm using the ams-bibliography style and want to include "authornum"-cites in the document (so i want to input something like "in the paper by \cite[authornum][doe]" instead of "in the paper by Doe \cite[num][doe]". The \cite command works as intended, but I'm not able to change the typesetting properties with \setupcite[authornum][...]. The others, like \setupcite[num][...] and \setupcite[author][...] seem to work as they should, though. I provide a minimal example below, where to options set in line 4 are not used for typesetting the \cite[ref1]. I'm using the context minimals, MkIV. \usemodule[bib] \setupbibtex[database={test.bib}] \setuppublications[alternative=ams, refcommand=authornum] \setupcite[authornum][left={\&}, andtext={ foo }, namesep={ bar }] % just some random options, none of them works \starttext \cite[ref1] \completepublications[criterium=all] \stoptext I already tried apa style, the same there. In addition, the names of a citation placed with \cite[author] (e.g. "Doe and Fisher") are not typesetted as those of a citation placed with \cite[authornum] (e.g. "Doe,Fisher"), although I think (from a short glimpse at bibl-ams.tex) they should. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? Any help appreciated. Stefan.

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header/footertexts (sectioning)
by Alan BRASLAU 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hello, I am using: \setupfootertexts [chapter] \setupheadertexts [section] \setupheadertexts [][pagenumber] [pagenumber][] % doublesided to place the chapter title in the footer and the section title in the header. (Of course, I also use \setuphead [chapter] [header=nomarking,footer=empty,page=right] \setuphead [part] [header=nomarking,footer=empty,page=right] so that \chapter{} and \part{} begin on an odd page without a text header nor a footer.) However, a \chapter{} may begin with a long introduction (several pages) before seeing a \section{}. In this case, the header gets the title of the last section of the preceeding chapter. Similarly, a \part{} may begin with a long introduction (several pages) before seeing a \chapter{}. In this case, the footer gets the title of the last chapter of the preceeding part. This is incorrect. Is there some way to have the section text reset for each \chapter and the chapter text reset for each \part? (I would expect a "way=bychapter" and "way=bypart" type of option and also suggest that this be the default behavior). Alan By the way, there appears to be a (recent) bug in that \setupheadertexts [section] \setupheadertexts [][pagenumber] [pagenumber][] % doublesided works, whereas \setupheadertexts [][pagenumber] [pagenumber][] % doublesided \setupheadertexts [section] currently is broken (no page numbers occur).

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Problems using new beta
by Ivo Solnický 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

Hi all! I am just new to ConTeXt, I have played with it for one week. I have installed standard ConTeXt minimals installation and no other TeX distro is installed on my MS Vista computer. I use also TeXworks editor. On Sunday, after I installed new package, I realized, that my workflow is broken. I received next message in my TeXworks editor, the same for command line: MTXrun | run 1: luatex --fmt="C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/formats/cont-en" --lua="C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/formats/cont-en.lui" --backend=pdf "./dopis.tex" This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.60.1-2010060523 (Web2C 2010) (rev 3685) \write18 enabled. ! I can't find file `./dopis.tex'. <*> ./dopis.tex Please type another input file name: I have my documents in "C:\Users\Ivo\TeX" directory and ConTeXt worked fine until the new sync. When I tried to find what is wrong, I realized strange thing. When I move my document somewhere inside my TEXMF tree (C:\context\tex), it works. For example I copied dopis.tex into c:\context\tex\texmf-project and everything was ok. Maybe it is my mistake, but I am not experienced enough to find it. But it worked before. Maybe this is related to another problem I have. When I compile ConTeXt documents from my user directory, MTXrun said: MTXrun | warning: source mismatch (luv: 768743af5acbbfb6f306763f3da964ca <> bin: a6c26bf5f4881a58ccc3eed80ae65790), forcing remake MTXrun | fileio: loading configuration file 'C:/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmfcnf.lua' MTXrun | fileio: loading configuration file C:/context/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf MTXrun | fileio: preparing 'configuration' for 'C:/context/tex/texmf/web2c' MTXrun | fileio: 'configuration' saved in 'C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/trees/53ad5f8b88994bdd02baa17501789699.lua' MTXrun | fileio: 'configuration' compiled to 'C:/context/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/2fea56f92e5267d7cc9662e4d5f52e1e/trees/53ad5f8b88994bdd02baa17501789699.luc' MTXrun | fileio: locating list of '/texmf' .... and recompiled format every time I run Context. This is very time consuming. But this is not true when I compile documents inside my TEXMF tree, for example in c:\context\tex\texmf-project directory. Any help? I still have some questions about the ConTeXt itself, but first I would like to solve these problems. If you need any additional information I am ready to send it. Thanks. Ivo Solnicky

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presence of xml-attribute
by H. van der Meer 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

In order to differentiate between the case of an absent or an empty attribute on an xml-element I now use the following macro to set a TeX- \if: % #1=node #2=attribute #3 defaultvalue: execute \attributetrue/false \def\setFlagToAttribute#1#2#3{% \doifnot{\xmlattdef{#1}{#2}{NOTPRESENT}}{NOTPRESENT}% {\doifelse{\xmlatt{#1}{#2}}{\empty}% {\xmlvalue{choice}{#3}{\iftrue}}% {\xmlvalue{choice}{\xmlatt{#1}{#2}}{\iftrue}}% \csname#2true\endcsname\else\csname#2false\endcsname\fi }% } I find the use of the NOTPRESENT not very elegant. Is there a path expression and function that can tell the presence or absence of an attribute, just as its value can be filtered with a/b[@option==value]? Hans van der Meer

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xml path expression
by H. van der Meer 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

I would like to combine the xml path search of two different levels. An example, the xml can be either case #1: <main> <a> <b><c/></b> <b><c/></b> </a> </main> or case #2: <main> <b><c/></b> <b><c/></b> </main> Now I want to process the <c> elements from the <main> level and loop through them with the position function: \xmlfilter{#1}{/(a/b|b)/name/position(\the\scratchcounter)} This however does not work, I tried various path expressions, for example with * but to no avail. Is there a path expression that can select either /a/b or /b ? Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] Removing Introduction section number
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 08 Jun '10

08 Jun '10

+1 for \section [number=no] {Introduction} This was my first guess to try, and it is so convinient! :) -- Best Regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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\definetextbackground - problem with footnotes
by Alan BRASLAU 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi, I use \definetextbackground to create an environment that is set-off from the main text. This (now) works correctly, except in the particular case when the backgrounded text wraps to a second page and the first page contains a footnote. In this particular case, the footnote also gets the background, which is not the desired behavior. Is this a bug or am I not using \definetextbackground correctly? Alan Minimal example (see also attached pdf): \definetextbackground [example] [location=paragraph, background=color,backgroundscreen=middlegray, leftoffset=0.5cm,rightoffset=0.5cm, topoffset=.25ex,bottomoffset=.25ex, before={\blank[small]\switchtobodyfont[script]}, after={\blank[small]}, frame=off] \starttext \input tufte\footnote{Do we ever get tired of this text?}\par \dorecurse{3} {\input tufte\par} \startexample \input knuth \stopexample \input tufte \stoptext

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Clipping of text (or something equivalent)
by Erik Margraf 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi all, I'd like to achieve in context something like I did in the attachment (context.pdf). My idea was (and that's the way how I did this in Inkscape): - Create Text - Double the text - Clip one for the upper half, clip the other for the lower half - Connect the two halves. My (probably naive) approach to clipping text in context was: ----- \starttext \startuniqueMPgraphic{context} draw btex \bf Context etex xyscaled (4.0, 4.0) withcolor .8white ; clip currentpicture to unitsquare; \stopuniqueMPgraphic \null\dontcomplain \uniqueMPgraphic{context} ----- (Without the "clip" - line, the string "Context" is displayed. With clipping, nothing is displayed.) Any hint in the right direction towards clipping or maybe a better way to achieve this is appreciated. Thanks Erik

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referenceformat MkIV
by Yury G. Kudryashov 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi! I try the following: \definereferenceformat[ineq][left=(,right=),text=Equation] \starttext \placeformula[first] \startformula 2=2 \stopformula In \in[first] ineq \ineq[first] in \in[first]. \stoptext The result is: 2 = 2 (1) In 1 ineq (1) in (1). It seems that \ineq doesn't clear some variables, and the next \in uses the previous format.

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Script to automatically generate typescripts
by Michael Murphy 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi all, after spending many hours on a typescript only to accidentally delete it, I thought that there should be a better way to write them. Hence I wrote a python script to do just that. It started out as a private project, but I thought that since it might be useful to others, I'd make it available publicly. You can get hold of it here: http://github.com/murphy-md/otftsmrk Note that it currently only works on Adobe .otf fonts (and this likely won't change), and that you need to be using LuaTeX with MkIV, since I don't do any of the encoding stuff. Please send me bug reports / feature requests if you use it! -- Michael Murphy

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git repo is not updated?
by Marius 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hello, I see that context minimals is at 2010-06-05 version, hovewer git repo [1] is last updated on 2010-05-29. http://contextgarden.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/news-from-the-git-repository/ Marius

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Cyrillic in Mark IV
by Yury G. Kudryashov 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

Hi! How can I typeset Russian in Mark IV? None of the examples from wiki work. I found "TeXGyre and (no) Cyrillic" thread, but there are no instructions, just "Cyrillic doesn't work with TeXGyre anymore".

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Re: [NTG-context] Removing Introduction section number
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 07 Jun '10

07 Jun '10

> There are two cases: > 1. You want Introduction in the table of contents. Then you should copy > section to another head, and setup it with number=no (have no time to test): > > \definehead[secnonum][section] > \setuphead[secnonum][number=no] > \secnonum{Introduction} > > 2. You don't want Intruduction in the table of contents. Then just use > \subject{Introduction}. Thank you too! I do want Introduction to be in the contents! Maybe, its easier to setup \subject so that it will be included, then to invent new keywords? -- Best Regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Lua in LuaLaTeX is diferent??
by Jaroslav Hajtmar 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

Hi, I did a Lua application for ConTeXt, and now I wanted to adapt it to work even LuaLaTeX. On what needs to be careful? Compiling by LuaLaTeX specific messages appear as if the Lua in LuaLaTeX didnt know some Lua commands (i.e. split, find .... ). On what needs to be careful generaly when programming applications for LuaLaTeX? Thanx Jaroslav

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updating context don´t work anymore on mac os x snow leopard
by Bernhard Rosensteiner 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

Hi all, today i tried to update context and also updated first-setup.sh and now i get in terminal: Bernhards-MacBook-Pro:ConTeXt Bernhard$ rsync -av rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh . receiving file list ... done sent 37 bytes received 91 bytes 256.00 bytes/sec total size is 3573 speedup is 27.91 Bernhards-MacBook-Pro:ConTeXt Bernhard$ . /Applications/ConTeXt/first-setup.sh receiving file list ... done sent 37 bytes received 132 bytes 112.67 bytes/sec total size is 5363753 speedup is 31738.18 /Applications/ConTeXt/bin/mtxrun:1932: bad argument #1 to 'osgetenv' (string expected, got boolean) When you want to use context, you need to initialize the tree by typing: . /Applications/ConTeXt/tex/setuptex in your shell or add "/Applications/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin" to PATH variable if you want to set it permanently. This can usually be done in .bashrc, .bash_profile (or whatever file is used to initialize your shell). i don´t know where the problem lies (obviously mtxrun is complaining). the last update i did worked normal (ConTeXt ver: 2010.05.24 13:05 MKIV fmt: 2010.6.1) Please help! best regards Bernhard

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dodosetreference undefined
by Yury G. Kudryashov 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

Hi! \dodosetreference is not defined, but \dododosetreference is defined twice in strc-ref.mkiv. This breaks \pagereference, hence t-fixme. I think that the first definition should be replaced with \def\dodosetreference.

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Re: [NTG-context] 3. Re: \MPpos, pxy, initialize_box(), oh, my! (Hongwen Qiu)
by Adam Fuller 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

hmm, that's interesting. the source of the metafun manual is a logical place to look... hadn't thought of that, but where can i find it? i searched the source browser for metafun and metafun.tex to no avail. the challenge of learning a new system like context is like cooking out of someone else's kitchen: everything you need is probably there somewhere, it's just a matter of knowing where to look. yes, i'd like to know how this family of macros---\fpos, \tpos, mpos:box and mpos:par and friends, etc.---work, and what information you can get from them. the only mention of these on this mailing list seems to be that bunch of messages you forwarded, which was back in 2008. if i can get a bit of a kickstart toward figuring them out, i'd be compelled to put the basics in the wiki. assuming mpos:box and mpos:par were some sort of built-in MPgraphics, i compiled the following short context document, where mpos:box and mpos:par had no effect :( \setupMPvariables[mpos:box][linecolor=darkred] \setupMPvariables[mpos:par][linecolor=darkred] \startpositionoverlay{testing_paragraph_outline} \setMPpositiongraphic{pos1}{mpos:box}{self=pos1} \setMPpositiongraphic{pos1}{mpos:par}{self=pos1} \stoppositionoverlay \defineoverlay[mylayer][\positionoverlay{testing_paragraph_outline}] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=mylayer] \starttext \fpos{pos1}Something special.\tpos{pos1} \stoptext On 6/06/2010 12:34 a.m., ntg-context-request(a)ntg.nl wrote: > Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:12:28 +0800 > From: Hongwen Qiu<qiuhongwen(a)gmail.com> > To:ntg-context@ntg.nl > Subject: Re: [NTG-context] 3. Re: \MPpos, pxy, initialize_box(), oh > my! (Hongwen Qiu) > Message-ID:<4C0A311C.6010808(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" > > ? 2010?06?05? 10:56, Adam Fuller ??: >> > my initial post had a mistake: i meant to refer to the/Metafun/ >> > manual, not the Metapost manual. that probably didn't help. > Actually, I know that you mean the/Metafun/ manual. >> > i guess what i should have said is, i know that pxy can give me the >> > bounding/box/ (the rectangle with the maximum horizontal and vertical >> > extents of its contents, be they set in horizontal or vertical mode), >> > but can it give me the subset of that, the bounding/path/, if you >> > will, when the contents are text which flows over several lines. the >> > bounding/path/ may not be rectangular, although it will be something >> > like the union of the bounding boxes of the text's individual lines. > So now, I understand what mean. >> > i think if you look at the correct reference, the difference of the >> > effects is clear. i think the challenge is that you don't know where >> > the line breaks will occur until you typeset it. --adam > And the source code from the manual may help you: > > \setupMPvariables[mpos:box][linecolor=darkred] > \setupMPvariables[mpos:par][linecolor=darkred] > > \startpositionoverlay{backgraphics} > \setMPpositiongraphic{A-3}{mpos:box}{self=A-3} > \setMPpositiongraphic{A-4}{mpos:box}{self=A-4} > \setMPpositiongraphic{b:A-5}{mpos:par}{self=A-5} > \setMPpositiongraphic{b:A-6}{mpos:par}{self=A-6} > \stoppositionoverlay > > \fpos {A-5} Because the text must be laid on top of > the graphic, the graphic must precede the first word in the > typeset stream or it must be positioned on a separate layer. > In the latter case it can be calculated directly after the > paragraph is typeset, but in the former case a second pass > is needed. \tpos {A-5} > > Given the above code, I think you can get some information about the > horizontal and vertical pos of texts from \fpos and \tpos. And the > mpos:par is defined in anch-pgr.mkii and anch-pgr.mkiv. But I haven't > dig into the code which implement mpos:par. Hope you can find useful > information there. > > And hope the following message I just searched out will help you too: > > http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20080107.024554.314d9fee.ca.html >

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ConTeXt unit testing
by Yury G. Kudryashov 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

Hi! Are there any automatic unit test for ConTeXt distribution? At least the bug with referenceformat can be catched using something like context test pdftotext test.pdf test.txt diff test.txt test.txt-good And the bug with broken footnote can be catched using just "context test". If there are unit test, where can I find them (I'd like to add more)? If there are no, any objections against adding them, and testing before releasing new beta?

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\reference fails in the new beta
by Michael Saunders 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

\starttext \reference[test]{test} \stoptext Has the syntax of \reference changed?

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Re: [NTG-context] Wrong spacing before and after commas in math(?)
by Warrence 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, "Aditya Mahajan" wrote: > Does > > \setupmathematics[autopunctuation=no] % or yes > > give better result? (Are you using MKIV or MKII)? > > Aditya \setupmathematics[autopunctuation=no] seems to fix the spaces before the x, but "...," is still bit ugly. I'm using MkIV, sorry for not mentioning it. > the default setup is for coordinates > > eventually we will have layer that implements settings for specific > fields as each demand their own rules (same for symbols) > > Hans Do you mean coordinates like "a vector (x,y,z)"? I still think that the extra space before "y" and "z" would be appreciated. But nevertheless, different settings for different needs sounds like a good idea. Thank you, Stefan.

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

Hi, I uploaded a new beta to the website (will be synced with the garden minimals). I'm in the process of removing old code that is no longer needed (after all, luatex evolves). As part of the process there has been some changes in the generation of the format. It works ok on my machine (windows 7) and Taco's (linux). It might be that some things are broken but I see no immediate problems. Keep in mind that as we're now in beta mode again, we also need luatex > 0.60 and we will deviate from the tex live current. Best not drop files from the beta into the upcoming tex live but use a separate tree. The next current will be around the context meeting when we also plan to have luatex 0.70+. 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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Re: [NTG-context] Keeping margin note on the same line
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

No, no, your idea is exactly what I missed! :) Thanks! > I somehow feel that this is not what you want: > > \def\chorus#1{\startnarrower{\itx CHORUS}\doiftext{#1}{\inmargin{#1}}\stopnarrower} > \starttext > \chorus{} > > \chorus{B} > \stoptext > -- Best Regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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macro beginner question
by Bernhard Rosensteiner 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

Hello all, in the process of learning macro programming in context i encountered the following problem (minimal example is attached): When i have \setuphead[section][color={red}] the color key influences in a strange way my „novice macro“ (see the text which should be black but is red). Further more the \ruledhbox in my macro stops at some point the red color (with a normal \hbox all the text in the section is red). what i´m doing wrong here? I don’t expect such a behaviour best regards Bernhard

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Keeping margin note on the same line
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 05 Jun '10

05 Jun '10

Hello, Please, advise me. Is there a way to keep margin text and body text on the same line in the following situation? \define[0]\chorus{\startnarrower{\itx CHORUS}\stopnarrower} \starttext \chorus \chorus \inmargin{B}\chorus \stoptext Now "B" is above "CHORUS", I want it to be exactly on the same line. Regards, Vyatcheslav

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