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where \xmlnofelements
by Hans van der Meer 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Here \xmlnofelements (seen in the refman) gives ! Undefined control sequence. \@@su:xml:case:processing ...fnum \xmlnofelements Has this macro disappeared? Best replacement? I would like to switch on a node having other nodes in it besides text content. Hans van der Meer ConTeXt ver: 2010.03.10 23:47 MKIV fmt: 2010.3.11 int: english/ english

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German ConTeXt Initiative
by Mojca Miklavec 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Hello, Two Germans suggested to start a forum in addition to the existing mailing list. Even though it might be a problem to get enough active people to participate, I see no reason for not enabling the forum on the garden as opposed to using some arbitrary web page. Any thoughts, ideas and comments about selection of software for running a forum are welcome. (I was also thinking about HyperNews which is a forum with "mailing list interface".) Mojca On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 20:41, Hannes Riebl wrote: > Hi Mojca, > > my name is Hannes. I've set up the german ConTeXt board on > http://context.pytalhost.de/. > > Yasser asked me to contact you because of our idea to start a german > community platform for ConTeXt. > > We both prefer a board instead of a mailing list because we think it's > easier to use especially for unexperienced users. Another reason is that I'm > not very experienced with mailing lists and have never set up one neither do > I know HyperNews. I personally like PunBB because it's lightwight and easy > to set up and administer. > > In order to have a centralized ConTeXt community you proposed to run the > board on contextgarden.net. I think that's a good idea. Would you provide a > subdomain? Could the board be installed on the same server on which the wiki > running on? At the moment it is running on a free webspace. Therefore we > have ads on the site. > > Waiting for your answer. =) > > Regards, > Hannes ... > We will not get any users for ConTeXt when there is no knowledge in germany. > And some good examples of documents createt with context. > > Our plan is more to write a german book on ConTeXt. Not a reference manual > (who are we to write it) but a step by step instruction how to write a > thesis. Academia and thesises is the main task to be targeted, so want to > write the according book. > > We want to organize it in this forum. To get users will be easy when we can > (I repeat myself here) get a link to the forum in the wikipedia article. I > hope that the responsible admins will include it. > > I hope you got what I meant.

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simplefonts
by Michael Saunders 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Thomas A. Schmitz: > That may be a lack of imagination on your part. If you want something that follows LaTeX rules, it might be a good idea to use LaTeX. It would have been a good idea to say so from the start instead of wasting my time. I'm going to try to go on using Context without wasting any more of your time. First, I have to figure out why your typescript gives me Latin Modern. -- m

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What do you miss in ConTeXt?
by Wolfgang Schuster 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Hi all, ConTeXt has many features but sometimes there is something missing, what feature or package do you miss which is already available in another TeX system or unavailable in any TeX system? Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 69, Issue 77
by Michael Saunders 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

Henning Hraban Ramm: >> \usetypsecript [GaramondPrem] > > Here's a typo. Yes, that was it, thank you. Now when I run it it gives me... ... Latin Modern. > ------------------------------ Hans Hagen: >> My guess is: >> <typeface> switch >> serif \rm >> sans \ss >> mono \tt >> math \mm >> ?? \hw >> ?? \cg >> and that Context only permits these six families? > > it can support as many as you want but only a few make sense If you say so! > you can combine such combinations in typefaces and mix then any way and > use multiple such mixtures in one document I'm sure it's easy if you know how. I'm just trying to find out how. >> (major axis: rm, it, sl, ui; minor axis: rg, ac, sc, sw, in, su, nu, >> de, po, pl, to, tl + ornaments, which handles all of the variations >> that Adobe makes, anyway). Maybe I'll be able to reproduce it once I >> get this working. > > sounds complex .. It's very easy to use, and it allows me to access any feature of my fonts with a digraph switch. Also, it keeps the different kinds of shapes on independent axes, so I can say: \it 123 \in 456 \bd 238 \rm 909 to get the numbers set in: italic; italic inferiors; bold italic inferiors; bold roman inferiors, because I also have the weight and width on separate axes. I can't imagine anything simpler to use. > it's more like: > > [typefaceone|typefacetwo|...| [rm|ss|tt|..] [tf|it|..] That looks like a much more complicated font switch. What command are those arguments to? > so if you want a smallcaps set, you'd best do something > > \definetypeface[Whatever] [....] > \definetypeface[WhateverSmallcaps][....] > > and then switch the lot to smallcaps using a typeface switch (which is > quite fast) instead of defining all kind of extra smallcaps instances > within the main typeface You are saying that putting: \definetypeface[WhateverSmallcaps] [undocumented argument] [undocumented argument] [some other typescript somewhere] in one file and then invoking it in another with (I think maybe?): \usetypescript[that other typescript from somewhere] \usebodyfont[WhateverSmallcaps] is easier than saying: \sc ?

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mtxrun.lua:2167: stack overflow
by views63 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

Hi all, I use ConTeXt MkIV version: 2010.03.10 23:47 withTeXworks,it doesn't work. the error message:E:\context\tex\texmf-mswin\bin\mtxrun.lua:2167: stack overflow tools configuration: name=ConTeXt MkIV program=mtxrun arguments=--autogenerate, --script, context, $synctexoption, $fullname showPdf=true

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Numbered descriptions
by Alain Delmotte 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

Hi! Going on with "ConTeXt an excursion". Using Windows XP, the minimals, TeXworks and *MkIV* I have a problem with the enumerated descriptions. With the following source (taken from the "Hasselt book" :-) ): ----------------------- \starttext Some text here \defineenumeration [remark] [location=top,text=Remark,inbetween=\blank,after=\blank] \remark In the early medieval times Hasselt was a place of pilgrimage. \subremark Nowadays the {\em Heilige Stede} is closed. Here some text before group 2. \remark In the early medieval times Hasselt was a place of pilgrimage. \subremark Nowadays the {\em Heilige Stede} is closed. Here some text before group 3. \remark In the early medieval times Hasselt was a place of pilgrimage. \subremark Nowadays the {\em Heilige Stede} is closed. Here some text. \stoptext ----------------------- I get the following numbering Remark 1 Remark 1.1 Remark 2.1 Remark 2.2 Remark 3.2 Remark 3.3 I would expect 1, 1.1, 2, 2.1, 3, 3.1 I f put: \setupenumerations[remark][headstyle=bold] \setupenumerations[subremark][headstyle=slanted] before group 2, I get Remark 1 Remark 1.1 Remark 1 Remark 1.1 Remark 2.1 Remark 2.2 numbering is reset starting with group 2 (I think this is normal) but still the following numbering is odd. Any explanation? Many thanks, Alain

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simplefonts
by Michael Saunders 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

Thomas A. Schmitz: Thank you, Thomas. I've been studying this closely. > A typescript file can contain a series of typeface definitions, e.g., one for serif, one for sans, one for mono, one for math, etc. hence the syntax \starttypescript [<typeface>] [<identifier>] I see! So, I'm guessing that it is this <typeface> which connects the typescripts to the font switching commands like \rm. My guess is: <typeface> switch serif \rm sans \ss mono \tt math \mm ?? \hw ?? \cg and that Context only permits these six families? > > In the typography manual, Hans says, > > "The third and fourth > > arguments to \definetypeface are pointers to already declared font > > sets; these are defined elsewhere." I think by "font set" he must > > mean a typescript like garamondprem, but I don't know where the font > > set (typescript?) "serif" is or why two font sets need to be pointed > > to. > ??? That's how I feel. The command in question was: \definetypeface [GaramondPrem] [rm] [serif] [garamondprem] [default] The typography document says that the "[serif] [garamondprem]" "are pointers to already declared font sets; these are defined elsewhere." I know now that "[garamondprem]" is the "font set" in your typescript. I don't know what font set "[serif]" points to or why. > The same typography document goes on to explain the fifth > argument: > "The fifth argument to \definetypeface specifies specific font size > setups (if any), these will be covered in section ?? in the next > chapter." > This is getting scary, but I'm hoping putting "[optical]" there will > solve everything. > I don't follow. http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-typography… says: "The fifth argument to \definetypeface specifies specific font size setups (if any), these will be covered in section ?? in the next chapter." If this chapter were inserted into the manual, the next chapter would be about color and backgrounds, so, no luck searching there. But, I noticed that that fifth argument was filled by "[optical]" at the bottom of this page: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Optical_Size so: "\definetypeface [minion-pro] [rm] [serif] [minion-pro] [optical]" > > I'm confused about how [GaramondPremUpper] and [garamondpremupper] > > seem to be getting associated with [rm] and [serif] after they were > > already associated with > > [GaramondPrem] and [garamondprem]. I don't see how, when I now use \rm, the > > machine is going to know whether I mean garamondpremupper or garamondprem. > > The rest of the file seems straightforward. > In ConTeXt, you are always within a certain bodyfont (the one defined with the \definetypeface command). A switch like \it or \rm will thus take the italic/roman from this bodyfont. Meaning: when you say \setubodyfont[GaramondPrem], it will use "normal" Garamond Premier, if you use \switchtobodyfont[GaramondPremUpper], it will use the superior numbers variant. Ahhh, okay. It wasn't intuitive to me, as a user, that a relatively small change (from, say, oldstyle to superiors) would take a much bigger switch (of the whole bodyfont) than would a relatively big change (from, say, roman to italic, which only needs a little \it). I wrote a set of font switches once (in LaTeX) that were all little digraph codes (major axis: rm, it, sl, ui; minor axis: rg, ac, sc, sw, in, su, nu, de, po, pl, to, tl + ornaments, which handles all of the variations that Adobe makes, anyway). Maybe I'll be able to reproduce it once I get this working. > > I get the error: > > !undefined control sequence > > <recently read> \usetypescript > > l.12 \usetypescript > > [GaramondPrem] > Then we will need your example - this is not normal behavior. okay: First, I put an almost exact copy of your file (with your comments commented out) in type-garamondprem.tex in C:\contextminimal\tex\texmf-local and ran luatools --generate, which seems to see the directory alright. Then I put the commands: \usetypescriptfile [type-garamondprem] \usetypescript [GaramondPremUpper] \usetypsecript [GaramondPrem] \setupbodyfont [GaramondPrem,12pt] in my preamble, with nothing else. When I try to run Context, the above error was returned. For the record, here is the exact contents of type-garamondprem.tex: %So we define a set of such features for the different font instances we want to define. %In my case, I want regular text with oldstyle figures, small caps with lining figures, and superior numerals. This goes into your typescript: \definefontfeature [myroman] [protrusion=pure,expansion=quality,script=latn,liga=yes,onum=yes,pnum=yes,kern=yes,tlig=yes,trep=yes] \definefontfeature [mysmcp] [mode=node,script=latn,language=dflt,liga=yes,onum=yes,pnum=yes,kern=yes,tlig=yes,trep=yes,smcp=yes] \definefontfeature [mysup] [mode=node,script=latn,onum=no,pnum=yes,sups=yes] %Next step: we set up the "normal" and smallcaps font: \starttypescript [serif] [garamondprem] \definefontsynonym [Garamond-Roman] [name:garamondpremierpro] [features=myroman] \definefontsynonym [Garamond-Bold] [name:garamondpremierprobold] [features=myroman] \definefontsynonym [Garamond-Italic] [name:garamondpremierproitalic] [features=myroman] \definefontsynonym [Garamond-Bold-Italic] [name:garamondpremierprobolditalicc] [features=myroman] \definefontsynonym [Garamond-SmallCaps] [name:garamondpremierpro] [features=mysmcp] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [garamondprem] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Garamond-Roman] [features=myroman] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Garamond-Italic] [features=myroman] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Garamond-Bold] [features=myroman] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Garamond-Bold-Italic] [features=myroman] \definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [Garamond-SmallCaps] [features=mysmcp] \stoptypescript %Finally, define your first typeface: \starttypescript [GaramondPrem] \definetypeface [GaramondPrem] [rm] [serif] [garamondprem] [default] \stoptypescript %Next step: defining a typeface with superior numbers for footnote references etc.: \starttypescript [serif] [garamondpremupper] \definefontsynonym [GaramondPremUpper-Roman] [name:agaramondproregular] [features=mysup] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [serif] [garamondpremupper] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [GaramondPremUpper-Roman] [features=mysup] \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Serif] \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Serif] \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Serif] \definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [Serif] \stoptypescript \starttypescript [GaramondPremUpper] \definetypeface [GaramondPremUpper] [rm] [serif] [garamondpremupper] [default] \stoptypescript %Save this typescript somewhere where ConTeXt can find it and run luatools --generate. To use these in your documents, you need these lines Thank you again, this has been a huge help.

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Including lua files
by Philipp Gesang 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

Dear Lua Gurus, what's the preferred way of including files in Lua? When trying my module on a different machine I noticed that it fails because Lua's dofile() does not extend to files in the texmf tree. Thus I attempted to include the file with context.ctxlualoadfile() but it doesn't work either. Have a relaxed weekend, Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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Re: [NTG-context] Dezimalkomma
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

> > Hallo, > > > > I must do something wrong. It is not working for me: > > > > \setupmathematics[autopunctuation=yes] > > \starttext > > $0,1$ > > \stoptext > > maybe an too old version > As I wrote, I tested on the garden. This version is current enough I thinck. Wolfgang

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Super- and sub-script in text mode, or, fonts in math mode
by James Fisher 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

Hi, A minor problem: I'm trying to place superscripted text in the text body -- things like '2^nd March'. I can't see anything like 2{\sup nd}, so my only known solution at the moment is math mode: $2^{nd}$. Despite this not being 'math', I don't really have an aversion to it. However, there's a problem with it: the superscripted text appears in italic Computer Modern. I'm using Gentium Book Basic as my body font, using XeTeX. The Gentium typeface is used perfectly everywhere, including the '2' in '2^nd', with the exception of the superscripted text. So what solutions are to hand? Is there either (1) super/sub commands in text mode, or (2) a way of fixing this in math mode? (Also, would this be a problem with ConTeXt or with XeTeX?) James Fisher

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simplefonts
by Michael Saunders 13 Mar '10

13 Mar '10

Aditya Mahajan: > Have you read the chapter on typography in the new manual > http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-typography… Yes. Several times. And I took notes. ------------------------------ Hans Hagen: > > 1. What the first two arguments do. > the mode=base|node determines if we use traditional tex mechanisms > (base) or let mkiv do all work itself (node) > 2. What keys and values are available for the third, and what they mean. Thank you, but by "the first two arguments", I mean 1 and 2 of: \definefontfeature [1][2][3]. For example, in \definefontfeature[smallcaps][smallcaps][script=latn] I don't know what "[smallcaps][smallcaps]" is doing. > > 3. Once I have composed a \definefontfeature command, how do I use it > > in the text. > not in the text, only when defining fonts; although you can enable and > disable features in the running text (dynamicly) .. from the source: > % \startbuffer > % \definefontfeature[smallcaps][smallcaps][script=latn] > % \definefontfeature[oldstyle] [oldstyle] [script=latn] > % > % \definedfont[name:cambria at 15pt] > % > % Hello there {\setff{smallcaps}capped 123 \setff{oldstyle}123!} \blank > % Hello there {\addff{smallcaps}capped 123 \addff{oldstyle}123!} \blank > % Hello there {\addff{smallcaps}capped \subff{smallcaps}normal} \blank > % \stopbuffer > % > % \typebuffer \getbuffer Naturally, I don't know what any of this code means (which is why I seek a human language explanation), but I'm guessing that in \definefontfeature[oldstyle] [oldstyle] [script=latn] the first "[oldstyle]" creates a command or variable called "oldstyle", the second "[oldstyle]" relates this to something else (another command or variable, maybe a font file) which is also called "oldstyle", and the key-value pair "[script=latn]"qualifies this, selecting the only the Latin part of the second "[oldstyle]". (And, by the way, my font has Greek and Cyrillic as well---why disable oldstyle in them?) I think that leaves me with a command or variable or something called "oldstyle", which I could include in the text. My first guess would have been that it's "\oldstyle", but, later in your code snippet, I see "\setff{smallcaps}" and "\addff{smallcaps}". There's no telling what the difference is. So, I'm left guessing that \definefontfeature[oldstyle] [oldstyle] [script=latn] creates a possible argument for \setff{} and \addff{}, whatever they are. They might be the commands for font switching in the text. Since the code snippet isn't a human explanation, however, I can't tell--- I can only make wild guesses. > > 4. For example, I gathered that I needed a [default] [default] > > [...onum=yes...] to get oldstyle numerals by default, but what if I > > want to use some lining numerals here and there? > > \definefontfeature [lining] [lining] [...onum=no...] > > {\lining 123} > > doesn't do it. > lnum=yes I tried this, and \definefontfeature [lining] [lining] [lnum=yes] {\lining 123} still gives me "undefined control sequence" on \lining. I also tried {\switchtobodyfont [lining] 123}, which had no effect. > > 5. How I could use the superior and inferior shapes in my font---like > > for the footnotemarks, for example? > hm, with sups=yes,subs=yes i guess but better use \high{..} and \low{..} > as often such font features are rather limited and depend on the font I'll have to try that out (since I know which fonts have them), but: \definefontfeature [?] [?] [sups=yes,subs=yes] ? ------------------------------ Thomas A. Schmitz: > This is not to disparage Wolfgang's great simplefonts module, but I learnt setting up fonts the old-fashioned way (with typescripts), > so I will give a few explanations about this approach. Most of what you want can be achieved easily. I have Garamond Premier myself, and this is how I set it up: Thank you, this is very encouraging. I used to do this with otftotfm and .fd files, so it's not totally alien to me. I just need to grasp the syntax of the Context commands. I've been pouring over your example. There are a few points I still don't understand. ... > Next step: we set up the "normal" and smallcaps font: > \starttypescript [serif] [garamondprem] > \definefontsynonym [Garamond-Roman] [name:garamondpremierpro] [features=myroman] > \definefontsynonym [Garamond-Bold] [name:garamondpremierprobold] [features=myroman] > \definefontsynonym [Garamond-Italic] [name:garamondpremierproitalic] [features=myroman] > \definefontsynonym [Garamond-Bold-Italic] [name:garamondpremierprobolditalicc] [features=myroman] > \definefontsynonym [Garamond-SmallCaps] [name:garamondpremierpro] [features=mysmcp] > \stoptypescript > > \starttypescript [serif] [garamondprem] > \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Garamond-Roman] [features=myroman] > \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Garamond-Italic] [features=myroman] > \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Garamond-Bold] [features=myroman] > \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Garamond-Bold-Italic] [features=myroman] > \definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [Garamond-SmallCaps] [features=mysmcp] > \stoptypescript I don't understand the syntax of \starttypescript. It doesn't appear in the manual. It occurs twice in the "typography" document. In both cases the first argument appears to be the name of the typescript. In one example, there is only one argument, and in the other example, the second argument appears to be a list of encodings. Since everything is now utf-8, I guess that could be forgotten. So, in your example here, I take "serif" to be the name of both typsecripts, but I don't know what [garamondprem] is doing. It's never spelled out, but from looking at examples of \definefontsynonym [1][2] in the docs, I think it means something like "what we used to call 2 we can now call 1", i.e., telling the machine to replace instances of "1" with "2". If this is the case, your third arguments above just seem to apply your features to the fonts referred to, which makes sense. I don't see, though, why this has to be done twice, and with an extra layer of misdirection. E.g., instead of: \definefontsynonym [Garamond-Roman] [name:garamondpremierpro] [features=myroman] \definefontsynonym [Serif] [Garamond-Roman] [features=myroman] why not just: \definefontsynonym [Serif] [name:garamondpremierpro] [features=myroman]? I think the purpose of the above step is to connect identifiers like "Serif" to a qualified font file. > Finally, define your first typeface: > > \starttypescript [GaramondPrem] > \definetypeface [GaramondPrem] [rm] [serif] [garamondprem] [default] > \stoptypescript I think this is a typescript called GaramondPrem that contains a typeface called GaramondPrem. It seems a little redundant that they have the same name. I know that the typescripts are referred to by \usetypescript, but I don't know where typefaces are referred to, so maybe it's just a dummy argument. The "[rm]" seems to be what links this to the font switching command, and the "[garamondprem]" obviously refers to both the typescripts you defined above. I don't understand what the "[serif]" is doing. In the typography manual, Hans says, "The third and fourth arguments to \definetypeface are pointers to already declared font sets; these are defined elsewhere." I think by "font set" he must mean a typescript like garamondprem, but I don't know where the font set (typescript?) "serif" is or why two font sets need to be pointed to. The same typography document goes on to explain the fifth argument: "The fifth argument to \definetypeface specifies specific font size setups (if any), these will be covered in section ?? in the next chapter." This is getting scary, but I'm hoping putting "[optical]" there will solve everything. > Next step: defining a typeface with superior numbers for footnote references etc.: > \starttypescript [serif] [garamondpremupper] > \definefontsynonym [GaramondPremUpper-Roman] [name:agaramondproregular] [features=mysup] > \stoptypescript > \starttypescript [serif] [garamondpremupper] > \definefontsynonym [Serif] [GaramondPremUpper-Roman] [features=mysup] > \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Serif] > \definefontsynonym [SerifBold] [Serif] > \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Serif] > \definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [Serif] > \stoptypescript I think I follow you, up to the line: \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic] [Serif]. These last lines seem to say that if you're in bold or italic, that you should still use regular superior figures, but the font has its own bold and italic superiors. I think that's true of all the weight/shape/design size variations in the set. > \starttypescript [GaramondPremUpper] > \definetypeface [GaramondPremUpper] [rm] [serif] [garamondpremupper] [default] > \stoptypescript I'm confused about how [GaramondPremUpper] and [garamondpremupper] seem to be getting associated with [rm] and [serif] after they were already associated with [GaramondPrem] and [garamondprem]. I don't see how, when I now use \rm, the machine is going to know whether I mean garamondpremupper or garamondprem. The rest of the file seems straightforward. > OK so far? Thank you---that brought me a lot closer to understanding! after saving your example and running luatools --generate, I put the last lines in my test document and tried running Context on it in the usual way. I get the error: !undefined control sequence <recently read> \usetypescript l.12 \usetypescript [GaramondPrem] > 5. How I could use the superior and inferior shapes in my font---like > for the footnotemarks, for example? > > You have defined a font instance with superiors. To use it, set up your footnotes accordingly: > > \setupfootnotes[textstyle=normal, > textcommand={\switchtobodyfont[GaramondPremUpper]}, > numbercommand={\switchtobodyfont[GaramondPremUpper]}] > 7. Maybe \definefontfeature is how I should turn on hz? > With the fontfeature, we have defined to use protrusion=pure,expansion=quality . To enable it, put this in the preamble of your document: > \enableprotruding > \enableadjusting I'll try these when I get things working. Thanks again. ------------------------------ Wolfgang Schuster: > \setupalign[hanging,hz] Or maybe I'll try that. ------------------------------ Andreas Harder: >> 5. How I could use the superior and inferior shapes in my font---like >> for the footnotemarks, for example? > \definefontfeature [sups] [default] [sups=yes] > > \setupnote > [footnote] > [command=, % -> numbercommand > textstyle=, % -> textcommand > numbercommand=\setff{sups}, % use superscript-figures > textcommand=\setff{sups}] > > So you don't have to define GaramondPremUpper. Thank you. With this, the marks in the text look good, the ones at the bottom (with the footnotes) look absurdly small. I suspect this might be because they have been optically scaled down, not switched to the smaller design size, so they seem to evaporate. They might look better if they remain the same size as in the text, I'm not sure. ------------------------------ Wolfgang Schuster: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Optical_Size Ahhh, the rest of my weekend. Thank you. -- m

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colored column
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 13 Mar '10

13 Mar '10

Hallo, can someone explain how to write a table column in color, please? The following example worked in 2006 but is not working anymore: \starttext \starttable[o1|\{C{red}|] \VL red \VL\SR \stoptable \stoptext Wolfgang Schuster posted last year the following example: \NewFormatKey W#1% {\ReadFormatKeys b{\localstartcolor[#1]\{} a{\}\localstopcolor}} \starttable[o1|W{red}c|] \VL red \VL\SR \stoptable But this results in printing '{red}' in red, not 'red'! And this variant paints the following vertical line in red too: \NewFormatKey W#1% {\ReadFormatKeys b{\localstartcolor[#1]} a{\localstopcolor}} \starttable[o1|W{red}c|] \VL red \VL\SR \stoptable So, how can I do the job? Wolfgang

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simplefonts
by Michael Saunders 13 Mar '10

13 Mar '10

> This works > > \definefontfeature[default] [default] [mode=node,script=latn] > \definefontfeature[smallcaps][smallcaps][mode=node,script=latn] > > \usemodule[simplefonts] > > \setmainfont[garamondpremrpro] Thank you once again. That _did_ work, after I got rid of an \os (I used it because I saw it in the manual). The command \definefontfeature intrigues me greatly. I wonder if it could solve all my problems. I'd love to understand it so that I don't end up coming in here and asking you to write all my font setups line by line. I Googled it and found only a few scattered examples here and there, mostly from this list. I wish I could find an explanation of it written down somewhere. For example, I would very much like to know: 1. What the first two arguments do. 2. What keys and values are available for the third, and what they mean. 3. Once I have composed a \definefontfeature command, how do I use it in the text. 4. For example, I gathered that I needed a [default] [default] [...onum=yes...] to get oldstyle numerals by default, but what if I want to use some lining numerals here and there? \definefontfeature [lining] [lining] [...onum=no...] {\lining 123} doesn't do it. 5. How I could use the superior and inferior shapes in my font---like for the footnotemarks, for example? 6. Could I use \definefontfeature to set up the different design sizes of my font (I'm trying to use some standard Adobe fonts like Garamond Premiere Pro, which have design sizes), as well as its other features? 7. Maybe \definefontfeature is how I should turn on hz? I'm sure these things must be possible, but I'm stumped about how to find them out. -- m

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streams
by Philipp Gesang 13 Mar '10

13 Mar '10

Hello all, the streams module could help typesetting my current work but all the examples fail in mkiv. (The output from mkii is impressive, though.) The snippets I tried are from the comments of http://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/base/m-streams.tex and another one from the wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Columns#Streams Here are the ConTeXt error messages, seems that \FlushLeftAndRight is the culprit but I don't really know where to start looking because the command sequences are not legible in this truncated form. (Is there some switch that prevents ConTeXt from shortening the names at least in the log file?) -8<---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! Undefined control sequence. \checkedfullsplitfirstmarks ...litfirstmarknumber #1\else \normalsplitfirstm... \fetchmark ...sname \??mk \??mk #3\endcsname {#1}} \fi \fi \erasemarknotes ...fetchmark [mn:#1][column:first] }\edef \lastmarknote {0\fe... \flushoutputstreams ...:\firstoutputstream :reset} \directsetup {stream:\seco... \@@ar@@1 ...lushoutputstreams [\v!left ,\v!right ] \ifvoid \outputstreamtag \... \redoloop ->\expandrecursecontent \endofloop ... l.20 \FlushLeftAndRight ? ! Emergency stop. \checkedfullsplitfirstmarks ...litfirstmarknumber #1\else \normalsplitfirstm... \fetchmark ...sname \??mk \??mk #3\endcsname {#1}} \fi \fi \erasemarknotes ...fetchmark [mn:#1][column:first] }\edef \lastmarknote {0\fe... \flushoutputstreams ...:\firstoutputstream :reset} \directsetup {stream:\seco... \@@ar@@1 ...lushoutputstreams [\v!left ,\v!right ] \ifvoid \outputstreamtag \... \redoloop ->\expandrecursecontent \endofloop ... l.20 \FlushLeftAndRight ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!MTXrun | fatal error: return code: 1 -8<---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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\xmlstrip?
by Hans van der Meer 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

I encounter difficulties in stripping the leading and trailing whitespace from a node. The following does not work for me, typesetting \CAST delivers an empty result: \def\Cast#1{\def\CAST{#1}} \startxmlsetups xml:case:cast \Cast{\xmlstrip{#1}{}} \stopxmlsetups nor do variants like: \Cast{xmlstrip{#1}{*}} \Cast{xmlstrip{#1}{/}} \Cast{xmlstrip{#1}{/cast}} What does work is: \Cast{\xmlflush{#1}} How do I proceed? Hans van der Meer

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Antykwa Toruńska and dashes
by Philipp Gesang 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

Hi again, when using Antykwa Toruńska I have problems getting dashes rights. Example: -0<---------------------------------------------------------------------------- \usetypescript[antykwa-torunska] \setupbodyfont[antykwa] \starttext asdf -- adsf\par asdf --- adsf\par asdf--asdf\par asdf---asdf\par \stoptext -0<---------------------------------------------------------------------------- In output here (MkIV as of yesterday) the double/triple dashes are not concatenated to en/em dashes. Everything works fine with latin modern, schola, bonum etc. What's wrong? Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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interlinespace confusion (MkIV)
by Steffen Wolfrum 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

Hi, I am totally confused by interlinespace usage in mkiv ... Please have a look at this torture test below: Setting bodytext to a tight interlinespace works by \setuplayout[grid=both]. But \chapter doesn't get right: Either you use \setuplocalinterlinespace, then you might get an extra space between the first and the second chaper line, or you use \setupinterlinespace, then the bodytext interlinespace gets disturbed. [btw: and how do I get a tight interlinespace in \chapter too?? here grid=both doesn't work ...] Could someone please help?! Steffen ----- \usetypescript[postscript] \definetypeface[postscript][rm][serif][times][default] \mainlanguage[de] \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=9pt] \def\MyChapter{% \switchtobodyfont[rm,13pt]\bf \setuplocalinterlinespace[line=16pt]% <- spurious space between 1. and 2. line % \setupinterlinespace[line=16pt]% <- bodytext interlinespace disturbed } \setuphead[chapter] [grid=both,style=\MyChapter] \setuplayout[grid=both] \starttext \chapter{Éç\\Éç\\Éç\\Éç} Éç\par Éç\par Éç\par Éç \stoptext

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Why is the figure not centered
by Curiouslearn 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

Can someone please tell me why the code below does not (horizontally) center the figure? The caption is in the middle but the figure is not. Thanks. \usemodule[pgfplots] \starttext \placefigure[here][fig:demand]{Demand Curve} {\starttikzpicture \startaxis[line width=1pt, axis x line = bottom, axis y line =left, xmin=0,xmax=60, ymax=120] \addplot[mark=none] coordinates {(0,100) (50,0)}; \stopaxis \stoptikzpicture} \stoptext

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[OT] Experiences in ConTeXt
by luigi scarso 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

Nice http://www.danielstender.com/granthinam/?p=769#respond -- luigi

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simplefonts
by Michael Saunders 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

> Add > > \definefontfeature[default] [default] [mode=node,script=latn] > \definefontfeature[smallcaps][smallcaps][mode=node,script=latn] > > before \setmainfont. Thank you, Wolfgang, but this has no effect. -- m

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Transliterator module, 2nd revision
by Philipp Gesang 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

Hi again, the transliteration module has been reworked following sunday's discussion on the list. The table groups now come in separate files and are loaded / created only on demand. The module now provides a \[start|stop]transliterate environment, credits for it go to Wolfgang. The most valuable suggestion came from Thomas: the former substitution functions that were using string.gsub() have been entirely replaced by LPeg, which proves to be surprisingly fast. (Under some circumstances, it is faster than not transliterating at all.) I have opened a bitbucket account in order to not to clutter the mailing list with archives. The tip revision can be found here: http://bitbucket.org/phg/transliterator/get/2fc2b5fbbd46.gz and the precompiled manual over here: http://bitbucket.org/phg/transliterator/downloads/transliterator.pdf Happy TeXing! Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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\completepublications does not create index entry
by Tom 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

\completepublications creates a satisfactory bibliography but doesn't create an index entry. Is there a parameter that I don't know about that makes this happen? Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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simplefonts
by Michael Saunders 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

I couldn't get Context running from within TexnicCenter again, so I'm running it from a batch file. After pouring over all the mentions of typescripts here and there, I can't make sense of them. For example, I used to be able to write font definition files that would automatically shift between different design sizes depending on what font size was called for. How to do that here? Not a clue. Finally I settled on trying simplefonts. The two lines of documentation in Context Garden are: \usemodule[simplefonts] % load the module \setmainfont[Delicious] % set Delicious as main (serif) font I tried this at home: \usemodule[simplefonts] \setmainfont[garamondpremrpro] and, indeed, it loads Garamond, but normal ligatures (e.g. ffi) are broken, TeX ligatures (e.g. ---) are broken, small caps are broken, etc. It doesn't even take advantage of the superior figures for the footnote marks, which are now tiny, spindly things. The documentation that comes with the module is one line long: \simplefont[<font>][..,..=..,..] followed by a list of OpenType features. So, I tried it: \simplefont[garamondpremrpro] [features=liga] It doesn't seem to do anything. Even standard ligatures don't work. -- m

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lpath question
by Hans van der Meer 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

In xml processing I have the following element: <abc> <xyz>contents</xyz> <xyz>contents</xyz> </abc> In the code it seems to make no diffence if I write /xyz or xyz without the / for the xyz-node. {\xmlindex{#1}{/xyz}{1}} {\xmlindex{#1}{xyz}{2}} In the reference manual I find the / used, as for example in {\xmlfirst{#1}{/caption}}. My question therefore: what exactly causes this behaviour? is it good coding practice to always use /xyz in this case? Hans van der Meer

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Re: [NTG-context] Dezimalkomma
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hallo, I must do something wrong. It is not working for me: \setupmathematics[autopunctuation=yes] \starttext $0,1$ \stoptext tested on the garden. Wolfgang

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Prettyprinters broken in MkIV
by Andreas Schneider 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hi, since several weeks pretty printers are broken in MkIV (minimals). I posted it already to the bug tracker, but it didn't receive any attention so far, which leads me to believe, that the mailing list is still the prefered spot to report problems. Anyway, a detailed description with minimal example is available there: http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=337 Best Regards, Andreas.

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how to set \lineskiplimit-\maxdimen
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hi, controlling the lineskip in the old-fashoined way "\lineskiplimit-\maxdimen" doesn' work in mkiv anymore! Please have a look at the example below. Attached you may find the resulting PDFs, set with mkii resp. mkiv. Steffen --- \usetypescript[postscript] \definetypeface[postscript][rm][serif][times][default] \setupbodyfont[postscript,20pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=12pt]\lineskiplimit-\maxdimen \setuplayout[grid=tolerant] \definestartstop[quotetest] [before={\startnarrower\switchtobodyfont[8pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=7pt]\lineskiplimit-\maxdimen},after=\stopnarrower] \starttext \input tufte \par \startquotetest \input tufte \par \stopquotetest \stoptext --------

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sometimes \rightaligned
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hallo, I have an other problem which was asked for years if I remember right. But I can not find it. In the following \starttext \startnarrower Und Gott der Herr machte Adam und seinem Weibe Röcke von Fellen, und kleidete sie. \RA{\tfx (Genesis 3, 21)} \stopnarrower \stoptext I want \RT a macro which does nothing if there is enough space on the right to set the whole argument and puts the argument in a new line, rightaligned otherwise. Can someone remember who has asked this before, or a fresh solution alternativly. thank you Wolfgang

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how to setup local interlinespace
by Steffen Wolfrum 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hi, setting up interlinespace in a local environment (eg. a quote) does not show any effect in mkiv anymore? Please have a look at this example: \usetypescript[postscript] \definetypeface[postscript][rm][serif][times][default] \setupbodyfont[postscript,10pt]\setupinterlinespace[line=12pt] \setuplayout[grid=tolerant] \definestartstop[quotetest] [before={\startnarrower\switchtobodyfont[8pt]\setuplocalinterlinespace[line=16pt]\setupwhitespace[0pt]\setupindenting[0em,yes]},after=\stopnarrower] \starttext \input tufte \par \startquotetest \input tufte \par \stopquotetest \stoptext Steffen

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How to align a STEPchart?
by Otared Kavian 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hi all, Sorry for asking again an elementary question… How is it possible to have a STEPchart be midaligned, or right-aligned, as one may do this with figures, tables, and FLOWcharts? An example is here: \usemodule[steps,mathml] \starttext \startbuffer[test-chart] \startSTEPtable \cell {$c=2a+3b$} \text {with $a=5$} \cell {$c=10+3b$} \text {and $b=6$} \cell {$c=10+18$} \text {we get} \cell {$c=28$} \stopSTEPtable \stopbuffer How can one center this STEPchart? \getbuffer[test-chart] \stoptext I should add that \startalignment[middle], or \placefigure do not have any influence on the alignment of the above example. Best regards: OK

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stack overflow
by Michael Saunders 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

> can you run with --track=resolvers.* and see where it goes wrong It seems to get hung up looking for context.lua (which is there, in C:\contextminimal\tex\texmf-context\context\data\textadept). It ends up in an infinite loop, saying: context> MTXrun | fileio: file '\context.lua' is not readable over and over. I tried updating context minimals by saying: first-setup.bat --keep but this didn't fix it. -- m

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wrong heights in TABLE
by Peter Münster 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hello, I don't know, what I'm doing wrong here. The number of rows in each column is only correct, when adding a seventh column: \startbuffer \setupTABLE[r][2,3,4,5,6,7][height=6ex] \bTABLE[width=0.125\textwidth] \bTR \bTH 1. col\eTH \bTH 2. col\eTH \bTH 3. col\eTH \bTH 4. col\eTH \bTH 5. col\eTH \bTH 6. col\eTH \doifmode{seven}{\bTH 7. col\eTH} \eTR \bTR \bTD[nr=6]6 rows in 1. col\eTD \bTD[nr=2]2 rows in 2. col\eTD \bTD[nr=6]6 rows in 3. col\eTD \bTD[nr=2]2 rows in 4. col\eTD \bTD 1 row in 5. col\eTD \bTD[nr=2]2 rows in 6. col\eTD \doifmode{seven}{\bTD\eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[nr=2] 2 rows in 5. col\eTD \doifmode{seven}{\bTD\eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[nr=2]2 rows in 2. col\eTD \bTD[nr=2]2 rows in 4. col\eTD \bTD[nr=4]4 rows in 6. col\eTD \doifmode{seven}{\bTD\eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[nr=2] 2 rows in 5. col\eTD \doifmode{seven}{\bTD\eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD[nr=2]2 rows in 2. col\eTD \bTD[nr=2]2 rows in 4. col\eTD \doifmode{seven}{\bTD\eTD} \eTR \bTR \bTD 1 row in 5. col\eTD \doifmode{seven}{\bTD\eTD} \eTR \eTABLE \stopbuffer \starttext \getbuffer\blank \enablemode[seven] \getbuffer \stoptext Where could be the problem? TIA for any hint! Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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clds and nesting
by Philipp Gesang 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hi all, how do I get proper nesting with clds? Consider this: --8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------- context.placefigure( "none", function() context.framed( { frame="on", align="middle" }, function() context.input("knuth") end ) end ) context.par() function text () context.framed( { frame="on", align="middle" }, function() context.input("knuth") end ) end context.placefigure( "none", function () text() end ) --8<-------------------------------------------------------------------------- in both cases the text is displayed but framed() doesn't seem to be evaluated. What did I miss? Thanks for any hints, and big thanks to Hans for creating the cld interface. Philipp -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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Problem with lilypond module
by Lutz Haseloff 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hi Mojca, Christopher, Hraban, Wolfgang, since a couple of days the lilypond module doesn't work anymore. Testfile: \usemodule[lilypond] \starttext There are some notes \lower 8.2pt\hbox{\lilypond[fragment=true]{\relative c' {c d e fis}}} embedded in this line. \stoptext Context creates a file "&1" with 0 Byte and a file "lilypond-1" in the current directory. In the log i find: !LilyPond ERROR : File 'lily1-lilypond-1.tmp' was not written! Processing file "lilypond-1" directly with lilypond works. Greetings Lutz

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stack overflow
by Michael Saunders 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Thank you, Taco. I'm still going over the font docs. Today: \starttext test \stoptext results in: mtxrun.lua:2167: stack overflow It worked yesterday.

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Dezimalkomma
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hallo, if I write $0,8$ the distance between the ',' and the '8' is too big. I can write $0,\!8$ or an other kern, but I don't see how I can write a macro to avoid the extra effort. Shouldn't be this gap in german (\mainlanguage[deo]) as big as $0.8$ in US? Is there a switch I have overseen? ------------------------------------------- \mainlanguage[deo] \starttext $0,8$ $0.8$ $0,\!8$ \stoptext ------------------------------------------- Thank you Wolfgang

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underbar/underbars interchanged?
by Hans van der Meer 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

In the (old) ConTeXT manual one finds for \underbar{} an example giving underlining of its whole argument. In contrast \underbars{} should not underline the spaces, as demonstrated by the example given. However, the actual behaviour seems just the opposite. Or has the role of these macros changed in the meantime? The wording (singular versus plural) indicates to me the opposite of the behaviour shown. By the way, quoting breaks the underline flow! A minimal example: \starttext \underbar{These words are done with \quote{underbar}}\crlf \underbars{These words are done with \quote{underbars}}\crlf \stoptext result: ConTeXt ver: 2010.03.02 12:34 MKIV fmt: 2010.3.8 int: english/english Hans van der Meer

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Math setups
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hello Wolfgand and other ConTeXties, You are welcome to watch and expand new wiki page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Math_setups Vyatcheslav > \setupmathematics[autopunctuation=yes]

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About Thomas Schmitz My Way
by Otared Kavian 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Dear Thomas, Many thanks for your My Way about « Getting Web Content and pdf-Output from One Source »: first of all I must say that you are « un grand pédagogue »! Thanks to you, I dared to begin to learn how to use the same file on the web and as a ConTeXt source, and had a look to the manual written by Hans, xml-mkiv.pdf, which is indeed great, like all other manuals written by him. (By the way, without participating to the thread on ConTeXt documentation, when I was reading Hans' manual on xml-mkiv, I noticed that only on my computer there are more than 80 different manuals, ranging from manuals for beginners to high level documentation for experts... For all everyday matters these manuals contain what I, or an ordinary user, may need). Regarding the tutorial you have written, although the typo may be corrected by any cautious reader, I think that, on page 2, lines 5 and 6 of your My Way it should be </body> </html> I don't know whether the following observation is correct or not: I had to add at the beginning of the file « ourenvironment.tex » which must contain the xml setups, the command \startenvironment ourenvironment and at the end of that file: \stopenvironment before being able to get what you describe. The curious thing is that even when I didn't add \startenvironment ourenvironment but I did add \stopenvironment the xml file was processed by ConTeXt. For beginners like me, I think this should be said clearly somewhere. Also, in order to have a better PDF in your examples, at some point I understood that in order to have appropriate white space between paragraphs and tables one could, or should, add the tag for preformatted text: <pre> </pre> and transform it into \blank by ConTeXt. To this end one has to add the tag pre to \xmlsetup: \xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{html|body|h1|h2|p|em|q|b|table|tr|th|td|pre}{xml:*} and then \startxmlsetups xml:pre \xmlflush{#1}\blank[big] \stopxmlsetups to the environment. Finally a qusetion: is there a way to obtain an xml file from a rather simple TeX source, written with ConTeXt commands? Here by simple I mean something which contains text and math formulas, such as a list of problems and exercises. Best regards: OK

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problem with mp-form.mp while updating minimals
by Jelle Huisman 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hi all, I'm updating my ConTeXt (minimals) installation (on Linux-64) and get this error: (/home/jelle/context/tex/texmf-context/metapost/context/base/mp-form.mp ! I can't find file `string'. l.81 input string Please type another input file name: Eventually I did Ctrl-C, but both ConTeXt and MetaPost seem to work, so... (I also installed the minimals from scratch, but get the same error.) Jelle

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bibtex problems
by Tom 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

I am now trying to create a bibliography database and have, I think, followed the documentation but to no good result. Myfile.tex contains the following: \setupbibtex[database=myfile] \starttex \startpublication ... \stoppublication \stoptext texexec --once myfile processes myfile then returns "no ctx file found" and ends with "nothing to process" What am I missing? Tom Benjey 717-258-9733 voice 717-243-0074 fax Twitter: @TomBenjey

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smaller-bigger fontsize
by Hans van der Meer 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

ConTeXt fontsizing has \tx to make the current font style one step smaller, then another \txx does that again. For makeing the size bigger I cannot see anything other than the series \tfa \tfb \tfc \tfd. It would however be nice to also have a similar cumulative effect here. Can there be something like "\tsmall" available to reduce the font size one step (to a certain minimum, not just \tx\tx = \txx)? And similar \tbig to enlarge the font size one step? It will make the equivalent of HTML's <small> and <big> tags easy to implement for typesetting my xml data. Or are there already such things? Hans van der Meer

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Problem with „kpathsearch510.dll“
by Helmut Schwertner 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hello, I'm using contextminimals with win7 64bit. Since a few days i get the following two messages when I try to update or to do a new install of contextminimals. The message (error report) for two times is: pdftex.exe – Einsprungpunkt nicht gefunden Der Prozedureinsprungpunkt „sfseek64“ wurde in der DLL „kpathsearch510.dll“ nicht gefunden. Sorry, I'm not able to translate this. Context (mkiv) is working ; texexec (mkii) is broken. What can I do? Thanks, Helmut helmut.schwertner(at)gmx.de

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xml content and tweaked pdf output
by Steffen Wolfrum 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hi, very carefully I am trying to make first steps towards XML and ConTeXt (with MkIV). Thus, I have enjoyed reading Thomas' MyWay "Getting Web Content and pdf-Output from One Source": I only kept wondering, how to keep control over the pdf-Output in terms of fine-tuning the actual typesetting? A quick search in the archive gave me the answer that is attached below: by using XMLentities. But coming back to Thomas' issue "Getting Web Content and pdf-Output from One Source": What about the other branch, getting web content? Doesn't the XML source gets "spoiled" by these inserted XMLentities that only make sense when following the pdf-Output branch? Or will these XMLentities be silently ignored when feeding the XML source in a CMS system or processing further to web content? Apologies for asking such basic questions... Any help or tips to deal with this hybrid will be greatly appreciated Steffen Am 13.04.2008 um 11:54 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: > Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: >> Hi gang, >> >> speaking of xml... I have two easy questions, but can't find an >> answer. It's about tweaking the pdf-output I get: >> >> 1. How do you add an additional hyphenation to a word? How would I >> enter the equivalent of super\-duper in an xml-file? I tried >> super&addhyphen;duper with this definition: >> \defineXMLentity[addhyphen]{\-} >> >> in my environment, but this doesn't seem to work. > > Needs an example file, because > > \defineXMLentity[addhyphen]{\-} > \starttext > \hsize 1in > \startXMLdata > I tried super&addhyphen;duper > \stopXMLdata > \stoptext > > works in both mkii and mkiv. > > >> 2. Similar question: how to prevent an unwanted ligature, esp. in >> German? In TeX, I write Kauf{}laden. What would be a good way to do >> this in xml? I was thinking of Kauf&nolig;laden and >> \defineXMLentity[nolig]{\kern0pt} > > That should work, but probably better is: > \defineXMLentity[nolig]{\prewordbreak\kern0pt\postwordbreak} > because the \kern will disable hyphenation, otherwise. > > In mkii, just > \defineXMLentity[nolig]{{}} > also works (but not in mkiv, and that is a feature). > > Best wishes, > Taco > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context(a)ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________

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no space after \note[]
by Peter Münster 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hello, The space after \note[test] is eaten: \starttext bla\footnote[test]{bla} bla\note[test] bla \stoptext Bug or feature? Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/

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unwanted space in front of table
by zs 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hi, I found a space between character and table. Is it intended behavior or bug? Zdenek Sample code: \starttext \setupTABLE[background=color,backgroundcolor=yellow] This is OK: a% \setupTABLE[column][1][width=20mm]% \setupTABLE[column][2][width=20mm]% \setupTABLE[column][3][width=20mm]% \bTABLE% \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \eTABLE% b Here we have space: a \setupTABLE[column][1][width=20mm] \setupTABLE[column][2][width=20mm] \setupTABLE[column][3][width=20mm] \bTABLE% \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \eTABLE b ... and thinner space here: a \setupTABLE[column][1,2,3][width=20mm] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \eTABLE b \stoptext

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Re: [NTG-context] ntg-context Digest, Vol 69, Issue 49
by Michael Saunders 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

> The question is: what have you set OSFONTDIR to, and does that > location actually contain the system fonts? Thank you, Taco. Double checking, I find that I have set OSFONTDIR to C:\Windows\Fonts, which does indeed contain my 1074 system font files, 970 of them open type. The slightly different string you put on the webpage: mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=* now seems to find them. That was the problem. My next problem is to make sense of what lies under the heading "The standard way: Typescripts". It's clear that the instructions don't mean "typescript" in the ordinary English sense of the word (a typewritten document), but some new, undefined thing. From other bits of documentation here and there, I've gotten the idea that typescripts are files that contain commands. I know that there are examples of typescripts given elsewhere, but without explanation, I couldn't decipher them. I don't suppose there is a syntax of the typescript language written down anywhere. The first instruction stymies me: "1. Copy the typescript files into either $TEXMF/tex/texmf-fonts/tex/context/user $TEXMF/tex/texmf-project/tex/context/user" What typescript files? Where? Also, the two directories don't exist in my distribution of Context Minimals. Are we supposed to create them? I look ahead for clues as to where the typescripts for my fonts might be. A little farther down there is a heading, 'Where to find existing typescripts', but it doesn't talk about where to find typescripts. It does hint at what typescripts are though---it says, 'Each of the typescripts below...' and then, below, there is a list of lines like the following: Latin Modern (typescript name: modern; this is the default font set) Maybe a line like that is a typescript. Who knows?

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unwanted space in front of table
by zs 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hi, I found a space between character and table. Is it intended behavior or bug? Zdenek Sample code: \starttext \setupTABLE[background=color,backgroundcolor=yellow] This is OK: a% \setupTABLE[column][1][width=20mm]% \setupTABLE[column][2][width=20mm]% \setupTABLE[column][3][width=20mm]% \bTABLE% \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \eTABLE% b Here we have space: a \setupTABLE[column][1][width=20mm] \setupTABLE[column][2][width=20mm] \setupTABLE[column][3][width=20mm] \bTABLE% \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \eTABLE b ... and thinner space here: a \setupTABLE[column][1,2,3][width=20mm] \bTABLE \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \bTR \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \bTD test \eTD \eTR \eTABLE b \stoptext

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Mac installation-file not found error
by Curiouslearn 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hi, I tried updating my context minimal installation today (on Mac OSX 10.5.8) using the command sh ./first-setup.sh --extras=all Somewhere during the installation process the terminal gave me an error saying something like file \loadmarkfile{node-mig} not found. Enter another file name. I did not know what to enter so I pressed (Ctrl-C) and then installation process continued. I compiled a simple file and it compiled without any problems. Should I be worried about that file? Thanks.

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