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Re: [NTG-context] \footnotetext
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hallo! with new context the same error with mkiv (mkii is ok): ---------------------------------------------------------- >texmfstart texexec --autopdf --luatex tst.tex TeXExec | processing document 'tst.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file tst.top TeXExec | using randomseed 181 TeXExec | tex engine: luatex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.40.0-2009042221 (Web2C 7.5.7) \write18 enabled. (tst.tex ConTeXt ver: 2009.05.04 11:10 MKIV fmt: 2009.5.5 int: english/english system : cont-new loaded (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv) (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-mtx.tex)) system : cont-fil loaded (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : ConTeXt File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv)) (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv))) system : tst.top loaded (tst.top) fonts : preloading latin modern fonts bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : language en is active systems : begin file tst at line 1 references : unknown reference [][bla] ! Undefined control sequence. l.3 \footnotetext [bla]{blub} ? ---------------------------------------------------------- Am I the only one with this error? Wolfgang > in order to use footnotes in a table, I use \footnotetext and \note. > But it is not workink. The following test > > \starttext > Bla\note[bla]. > \footnotetext[bla]{blub} > \stoptext > > gives the following error: > > --------------------------------------------------------- > >texmfstart texexec --autopdf --luatex tst.tex > TeXExec | processing document 'tst.tex' > TeXExec | no ctx file found > TeXExec | tex processing method: context > TeXExec | TeX run 1 > TeXExec | writing option file tst.top > TeXExec | using randomseed 1433 > TeXExec | tex engine: luatex > TeXExec | tex format: cont-en > This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.40.0-2009042221 (Web2C 7.5.7) > \write18 enabled. > (tst.tex > > ConTeXt ver: 2009.04.29 20:23 MKIV fmt: 2009.5.4 int: > english/english > > system : cont-new loaded > (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex > systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex > (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv) > (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-mtx.tex)) > system : cont-fil loaded > (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex > loading : ConTeXt File Synonyms > ) > system : cont-sys.rme loaded > (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme > (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) > (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex > (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv)) > (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex > (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv))) > system : tst.top loaded > (tst.top) > fonts : preloading latin modern fonts > bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded > language : language en is active > systems : begin file tst at line 1 > references : unknown reference [][bla] > load otf | loading: > d:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman10-regular.otf > load otf | file size: 107188 > load otf | enhancing ... > load otf | saving in cache: > d:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman10-regular.otf > load otf | loading: > d:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman8-regular.otf > load otf | file size: 107404 > load otf | enhancing ... > load otf | saving in cache: > d:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman8-regular.otf > ! Undefined control sequence. > l.3 \footnotetext > [bla]{blub} > ? > --------------------------------------------------------- > > What is wrong here? > > Wolfgang

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How can I compare picture variables in metapost?
by Zhichu Chen 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hi all, I want to draw some paths that won't intersect with each other in metapost. Those paths are generated "randomly," e.g., draw 100 circles without any intersections. I use a very stupid way like: ============================================= % randomseed:= day + time*epsilon ; save minL ; numeric minL ; minL = infinity ; z[0] = origin; for i=1 upto 99 : z[i] = (uniformdeviate 1 , uniformdeviate 1 ) ; for j=0 upto i-1 : if abs(z[i]-z[j])<minL : minL := abs(z[i]-z[j]) ; fi endfor endfor for i=0 upto 99 : draw fullcircle scaled 2cm shifted (z[i] scaled (2cm/minL)) withcolor (i/100, (100-i)/100, abs(50-i)/100); endfor ============================================= The randomseed made me crazy, for one time it compiles fine and sometimes it just flows out which I think may due to the size of the picture becomes big enough. I think a better way could be like this: pick a random point, fill it with color, pick another point and use "clip currentpicture to somepath" and determine whether it is blank or not. But "if currentpicture=nullpicture" won't work, so I'm stunned. Thank you for your time. -- Best Regards Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------- Zhi-chu Chen | Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility No. 2019 | Jialuo Rd. | Jiading | Shanghai | P.R. China tel: 086 21 5955 3405 | zhichu.chen.googlepages.com | www.sinap.ac.cn ----------------------------------------------------------------

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LuaTeX and xpdf
by Lutz Haseloff 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hi LuaTeX developers, LuaTeX after (including) Id: luatex.web 2366 2009-05-03 08:06:14 has a problem with pdf inclusion. I get an error: This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.40.0-2009050518 (Web2C 7.5.7) \write18 enabled. ... mplib : loading 'metafun.mp' from 'C:/contextminimal/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/28feea729d47a604679d2be4cb698c93/formats/cont-en-metafun.mem' !LuaTeX error: xpdf: reading PDF image failed ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! After switching back to LuaTeX, Version beta-0.40.0-2009042920 (Web2C 7.5.7) (btw with very nice format generating on the fly!!!) all works as expected. Greetings Lutz

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Remove spaces from string
by Wolfgang Schuster 06 May '09

06 May '09

Hi, I'm looking for nice and short ways to remove spaces from strings with font names. I found the \unspacestring command in the core to do what I want but prefer a alternative solution or a few tips for the following code. \starttext \bgroup \catcode`\ =9 \definedfont[name:TeX Gyre Pagella Regular]text \egroup \stoptext Wolfgang

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Fw: MPgraphic
by R. Bastian 05 May '09

05 May '09

It works with \startuseMPgraphic{fig1} draw (0.0cm, 0.0cm) -- (1.1cm, 1.1cm) ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{fig1} Is the "excursion" deprecated ? Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 10:47:25 +0200 From: "R. Bastian" <rbastian(a)free.fr> To: ntg-context(a)ntg.nl Subject: MPgraphic Salut tout le monde, I wrote ------------------------ [...] texte texte \startMPgraphic draw (0.0cm, 0.0cm) -- (1.1cm, 1.1cm) ; \stopMPgraphic [...] ------------------------- The compilation works ; I get an EPS-file with suffixe mpgraph.2 (visible with gv) but there is nothing in the PDF. I use the minimals from 23.04.09. What is wrong ? best regards, René B.

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replacement for \nolist ?
by Henning Hraban Ramm 05 May '09

05 May '09

Another command that disappeared from MkIV is \nolist (to exclude parts of a title from a table of contents). What's its replacement? Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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mkII with minimals
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hallo, I just installed the minimals and got the following error --------------------------------------------- >texmfstart texexec --autopdf --pdf antrag.tex TeXExec | processing document 'antrag.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file antrag.top TeXExec | using randomseed 768 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 7.5.7) \write18 enabled. (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/web2c/natural.tcx) I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'! kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt TeXExec | runtime: 2.794 >Exit code: 1 --------------------------------------------- luatex is working ok. Wolfgang

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MPgraphic
by R. Bastian 05 May '09

05 May '09

Salut tout le monde, I wrote ------------------------ [...] texte texte \startMPgraphic draw (0.0cm, 0.0cm) -- (1.1cm, 1.1cm) ; \stopMPgraphic [...] ------------------------- The compilation works ; I get an EPS-file with suffixe mpgraph.2 (visible with gv) but there is nothing in the PDF. I use the minimals from 23.04.09. What is wrong ? best regards, René B.

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How to prevent TeX ligatures in \starttyping..\stoptyping?
by Kevin D. Robbins 05 May '09

05 May '09

>From older posts to the mailing list, it seems that the way to prevent TeX ligatures, specifically -- and ---, in \starttyping...\stoptyping in MkIV is to 1. define a font feature with tlig=no 2. define a font synonym for the monospace font that uses this font feature 3. setup typing to use this font synonym Is this currently the best way to solve the problem? Thanks, Kevin

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\placelist
by Wolfgang Schuster 05 May '09

05 May '09

Hi Hans, \placelist produce no output in mkiv. \starttext %\placelistoffigure \completelistoffigures here \placefigure{dummy}{\framed{DUMMY}} \stoptext Wolfgang

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\footnotetext
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hallo, in order to use footnotes in a table, I use \footnotetext and \note. But it is not workink. The following test \starttext Bla\note[bla]. \footnotetext[bla]{blub} \stoptext gives the following error: --------------------------------------------------------- >texmfstart texexec --autopdf --luatex tst.tex TeXExec | processing document 'tst.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file tst.top TeXExec | using randomseed 1433 TeXExec | tex engine: luatex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.40.0-2009042221 (Web2C 7.5.7) \write18 enabled. (tst.tex ConTeXt ver: 2009.04.29 20:23 MKIV fmt: 2009.5.4 int: english/english system : cont-new loaded (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv) (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-mtx.tex)) system : cont-fil loaded (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex loading : ConTeXt File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/user/cont-sys.rme (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-siz.mkiv)) (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex (d:/context/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/type-otf.mkiv))) system : tst.top loaded (tst.top) fonts : preloading latin modern fonts bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : language en is active systems : begin file tst at line 1 references : unknown reference [][bla] load otf | loading: d:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman10-regular.otf load otf | file size: 107188 load otf | enhancing ... load otf | saving in cache: d:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman10-regular.otf load otf | loading: d:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman8-regular.otf load otf | file size: 107404 load otf | enhancing ... load otf | saving in cache: d:/context/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman8-regular.otf ! Undefined control sequence. l.3 \footnotetext [bla]{blub} ? --------------------------------------------------------- What is wrong here? Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] FiXme test file
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 04 May '09

04 May '09

> > there is now a test file to show the usage of the module. > > Nice. But under mkiv I get an empty list of corrections. Best, Vyatcheslav

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multi page TABLE and placetable
by Jos van Gisbergen 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hi, I'm using TABLE macros for typesetting tables. Since the tables I'm using may get very long, I set "split=yes". This works ... except if I surround a TABLE with \placetable: \placetable[here]{caption} { \bTABLE ... \eTABLE } In such a case a table that is too long to fit on a single page is truncated at page bottom and nothing is printed on the next page. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Jos

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Font and Typescript Questions
by curiouslearn 04 May '09

04 May '09

Can someone please help me with the following questions so that I can use some of the typescripts that Wolfgang and some others have so kindly made available. I will use font Bera as an example, since I would like to use it. I have a Mac OS X Version 10.5.6 (1) How do I know if I have font Bera? As in, where on my computer do I look to see if I have font Bera installed? (2) If I do not have the font, how do I install Bera? I see that there are files on ctan. Where should I save this? (3) Once I have installed the font and I have downloaded Wolfgang's type-bera.tex file, where do I save this file? Can I save it where I save the third-party modules. Once I save it, do I run the usual texhash, followed by luatools --generate followed by context --make (4) Once I have accomplished the top three steps, how do I use it in a document? Do I just type \usetypescript[bera] \switchtobodyfont[bera,12pt] OR, do I also have to type \usemodule[type-bera] I would really appreciate any help.

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Updating bug
by Yue Wang 04 May '09

04 May '09

receiving incremental file list sent 91 bytes received 205 bytes 53.82 bytes/sec total size is 4983273 speedup is 16835.38 MTXrun | fileio: variable SELFAUTOLOC set to C:/context/bin MTXrun | fileio: variable SELFAUTODIR set to C:/context MTXrun | fileio: variable SELFAUTOPARENT set to C: MTXrun | fileio: variable TEXMFCNF set to {$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/shar e,}/texmf{-local,.local,}/web2c} MTXrun | fileio: no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) MTXrun | using script: ./bin/mtx-update.lua 'uname' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\context\bin\mtxrun.lua:1611: attempt to call field 'env' (a table value) When you want to use context, you need to initialize the tree with: C:\context\tex\setuptex.bat C:\context\tex You can associate this command with a shortcut to the cmd prompt. C:\context>

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URL \href ... ?
by Mohamed Bana 04 May '09

04 May '09

Hi, Is there macro for typesetting a URL without defining it before hand? E.g., something as simple as, \href{www.google.com}, it'd also be great if \setupalign[hyphenated] \setupurl[space=yes,style=\ss,urlalternative=] also determined the way they are typeset. Mohamed

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bug in mkii
by Yue Wang 04 May '09

04 May '09

hi, hans, this bug was introduced this year (last year's beta compiles fine). mkiv can produce the right result. mkii can't. \definemathcommand[Prob][nolop]{\mfunction{Prob}} \def\Pt{P_{\rm T}} \def\Timp{\tau_{\rm imp}} \def\Tp{\tau_{\rm p}} \def\Wt{w_{\rm T}} \def\Vp{V_{\rm p}^\prime} \starttext \placeformula \startformula \eqalign{ \Pt &= \Prob \left( {\Timp\over\Tp}>1 \right)\cr &=\Prob \bigg({\Wt\over\Vp} > \Tp \bigg)\cr} \stopformula \stoptext Yue Wang

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Re: [NTG-context] FixMe
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 03 May '09

03 May '09

Cannot figure out of the source, how to get the list of fixmes. Vyatcheslav

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Set document version
by Wolfgang Schuster 02 May '09

02 May '09

Hi Hans, ConTeXt has a command (\version[...]) to set the version of the document but as developer there is no way to get access to this value. Can you give us a defined register which can be used from other modules (e.g. fixme). I would even prefer a new command like \setupdocument where you can set the document version (passed down to \version), the name and authour (passed down to \setupinteraction) etc. Wolfgang

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ConTexT minimals problem
by Bowen Alan C. 01 May '09

01 May '09

The latest beta (Minimals) fails to compile and complains: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 7.5.7) \write18 enabled. (/Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf-context/web2c/natural.tcx) I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'! and context --version gets MTXrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' Alan

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How to update/install minimals
by Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini 01 May '09

01 May '09

Hallo, I wanted to update a minimal-installation under windows. The first attempt was to invoke: first-detup --keep (found at the garden) The result was the following output, nothing else happend: --------------------------------------------------------------------- receiving incremental file list ./ mtxrun.lua sent 2897 bytes received 2103 bytes 2000.00 bytes/sec total size is 4983352 speedup is 996.67 MTXrun | fileio: variable SELFAUTOLOC set to D:/context/bin MTXrun | fileio: variable SELFAUTODIR set to D:/context MTXrun | fileio: variable SELFAUTOPARENT set to D: MTXrun | fileio: variable TEXMFCNF set to {$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{- local,.local,}/web2c} MTXrun | fileio: no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) MTXrun | using script: ./bin/mtx-update.lua D:\context\bin\mtxrun.lua:1611: attempt to call field 'env' (a table value) When you want to use context, you need to initialize the tree with: D:\context\tex\setuptex.bat D:\context\tex You can associate this command with a shortcut to the cmd prompt. --------------------------------------------------------------------- What is the field 'env'? The second attempt was the reinstall context. I downloaded: http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-mswin.zip to a new directory and started first-setup. But the result was identical to the first. What I am doing wrong? Wolfgang

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Stable version
by Mohamed Bana 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Hi guys, How can i get a somewhat recent and stable version where things just work. I've tried --stable and --context=stable which both insist of getting luatex 0.40. mtxrun --verbose --script ./bin/mtx-update.lua --update --make --force --engine=all --context=stable --stable --texroot=$PWD/tex --extras="t-letter,t-mathsets,t-tikz,t-vim" $@ There's a lot of things broken in the current minimals, e.g., bib module, hanging, a error about front and I can't to even seem to use OT fonts. I think context should complain when a CLI options hasn't been spelt correctly: $ context --batchmoed Many thanks Mohamed

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What happened with sectionworld?
by Henning Hraban Ramm 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

\setupsectionworld is unknown in latest beta (at least since some betas before). Can I replace it with some other command? Here is some code using sectionworlds, that Wolfgang wrote for me in 2008, same as in http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Proceedings_style % with help from Wolfgang Schuster, 2008-04-15 % start WS \unprotect \resetvalue{\??sw\v!chapter} \startsetups chapter:list \def\\{{\nomarking{\unskip\nolist\crlf}}} \doiftextelse{\sectionworldparameter\c!author} {\expanded{\writetolist[\v!chapter] {\sectionworldparameter\c!author:\space \sectionworldparameter\c!text}{}}} {\expanded{\writetolist[\v!chapter] {\sectionworldparameter\c!text}{}}} \def\ChapterAuthor{% \doiftextelse% {\sectionworldparameter\c!author}% {\rm\tf\sectionworldparameter\c!author\crlf\vskip0.25em} {}% } \def\ChapterTitle{{\ss\bfb\sectionworldparameter\c!text}} \def\ChapterSubTitle{% \doiftextelse% {\sectionworldparameter\c!subtitle}% {\crlf\vskip0.2em\ss\bf\sectionworldparameter\c!subtitle}% {}% } \stopsetups \setupsectionworld [chapter] [setups={chapter:list}, author=] \def\ChapterCommand#1#2% {\vbox{\ChapterAuthor\ChapterTitle\ChapterSubTitle}} \let\ChapterAuthor\relax \let\ChapterTitle\relax \let\ChapterSubTitle\relax \protect % stop WS Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)

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Update bug under Windows not fixed yet
by Aaron Chen 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

I know it is fixed under Linux. Thanks. But on Windows, it is still broken: D:\Programs\context>first-setup.bat receiving incremental file list sent 91 bytes received 205 bytes 84.57 bytes/sec total size is 4983352 speedup is 16835.65 MTXrun | fileio: variable SELFAUTOLOC set to D:/Programs/context/bin MTXrun | fileio: variable SELFAUTODIR set to D:/Programs/context MTXrun | fileio: variable SELFAUTOPARENT set to D:/Programs MTXrun | fileio: variable TEXMFCNF set to {$SELFAUTODIR,$SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/shar e,}/texmf{-local,.local,}/web2c} MTXrun | fileio: no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) MTXrun | using script: ./bin/mtx-update.lua D:\Programs\context\bin\mtxrun.lua:1611: attempt to call field 'env' (a table va lue) When you want to use context, you need to initialize the tree with: D:\Programs\context\tex\setuptex.bat D:\Programs\context\tex You can associate this command with a shortcut to the cmd prompt.

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excuse me.
by Horacio Suarez 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Wolfgang and all, excuse me, I didnt know I was doing something wrong. I thought that is ok to reply a message changing the subject. It will not happen again. -------------------- Horacio Suarez _________________________________________________________________ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx

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Re: [NTG-context] FiXme module
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

What is this module for? (Sorry, I'm not from Latex world.) Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] BNF grammar for ConTeXt
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

> > "In a recent MkIV you even have the option to enable > a key-val-checkers which mention invalid keys on the terminal." > Oh, dear! How!?

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presentation module
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Let me start with a quote: "After using ConTeXt for a while, many users begin to think about producing their presentations with it, too. ConTeXt is ideally suited for this task. " In fact, I hate transitions :) And I don't need any animations. I just want professionally-looking pdf pages with rich image stuff to assist the speaker, and I believe that Context is well suitable for this. Where I can get simpleslides? I want to give them a try, and see what can be improved. I did not find simpleslides on the wiki, but instead found http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Presentations . Is it up-to date? http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Sample_documents contains good example of presentation by Brooks. IMHO, it beats any static PowerPoint presentation. Vyatcheslav

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FiXme module
by Wolfgang Schuster 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Hi all, for the people who're looking for a equivalent of the FiXme package for LaTeX, there is a first version only with the basic commands. I can extend the module if there is interest but I don't want to integrate margin notes and highlighted as the todonotes package has. URL: http://bitbucket.org/wolfs/fixme/ Wolfgang

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beta
by Hans Hagen 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

Hi, I uploaded a beta just before leaving for bachotek. Quite some structure (lua) code has been overhauled and i need to finish some bits. I can probably fix urgent failures but real fixes have to wait till next week. As I'm redoing the backend as well as cross referencing some interaction features might be broken but normally they are easy to fix (once i know what fails). So, best collect all bugs while i'm away so that i can deal with then at once. Hans Aditya ... math numbering formulas is somewhat broken but i'll fix asap; we will have multiple levels of numbering as well as captions for formulas that go to lists etc etc. For that i need to separate some code. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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simpleslides
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

I gave a try to Simple slides... It seems to be very nice, but a few questions raised immediately 1) I get warnings (in mkiv): (c:/contextminimal/texmf-context/tex/context/third/simple-slides/simpleslides-f-default.tex simpleslides : loading default font setup fonts : beware: fontclass ignored (if needed use: [fontclass][size][settings]) fonts : beware: fontclass ignored (if needed use: [fontclass][size][settings]) fonts : beware: fontclass ignored (if needed use: [fontclass][size][settings]) )) 2) How to use arbitrary fonts (e.g., specified in type-win)? Best, Vyatcheslav

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Re: [NTG-context] What happened with sectionworld?
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Wolfgang, your script in mkiv produces "It's not as hard you think, just show him a few nice things and he is happy. See section 1 at page *11.1*." I don't understand why \at{page}[sec:happy] outputs section number. Vyatcheslav

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installing minimals
by Jörg Hagmann 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Hi, I don't know whether the following is related to what is being discussed at the moment, but when trying to install a new version of minimals (in a separate, fresh directory), compiling a test file fails with the following message: On the Mac (Leopard): Setting "/Users/bonasia/contextexp/tex" as TEXROOT. bonasa:contextexp bonasia$ cd ~/Documents/alectoris/archives/talks/medges/longlife/ bonasa:longlife bonasia$ texmfstart texexec handout_longlife TeXExec | processing document 'handout_longlife' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file handout_longlife.top TeXExec | using randomseed 553 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 7.5.7) \write18 enabled. (/Users/bonasia/contextexp/tex/texmf-context/web2c/natural.tcx) I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'! TeXExec | runtime: 0.073803 On ubuntu (9.04): Setting "/home/tetrao/newtex/tex" as TEXROOT. tetrao@tetrao:~/Desktop/test$ texmfstart texexec test TeXExec | processing document 'test' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file test.top TeXExec | using randomseed 1368 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en pdftex: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory TeXExec | runtime: 0.035289 The old Minimals, which I kept, are still working on both computers. Thanks for suggestions, Jörg

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presentation module
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Hello everybody, What module can you suggest to create promo presentation? Best, Vyatcheslav

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Updating the minimals: is something broken?
by Otared Kavian 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Hi all, in particular Mojca, Since yesterday updating, or installing anew, the minimals via the CLI does not work anymore. Here is the output I get: %%%%%%%%% begining of the transcript MacKavian:context-minimal kavian$ sh first-setup.sh receiving file list ... done sent 37 bytes received 132 bytes 48.29 bytes/sec total size is 5787294 speedup is 34244.34 MTXrun | fileio: variable SELFAUTOLOC set to /Volumes/OK-10.4/context- minimal/bin MTXrun | fileio: variable SELFAUTODIR set to /Volumes/OK-10.4/context- minimal MTXrun | fileio: variable SELFAUTOPARENT set to /Volumes/OK-10.4 MTXrun | fileio: variable TEXMFCNF set to {$SELFAUTODIR, $SELFAUTOPARENT}{,{/share,}/texmf{-local,.local,}/web2c} MTXrun | fileio: no cnf files found (TEXMFCNF may not be set/known) MTXrun | using script: ./bin/mtx-update.lua MTXrun | state: loaded MTXrun | update: start ./bin/mtx-update.lua:266: attempt to get length of global 'individual' (a nil value) %%%%%%%%% end of the transcript (My own installation and update works fine but when I wanted to install the minimals on a friend's machine, I noticed the above strange behaviour). The question is: is something broken or has the procedure changed? Thanks in advance: OK

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sagemath in context
by curiouslearn 29 Apr '09

29 Apr '09

Hi, I know that Context is developing rapidly and the top guys here are all very busy with these development efforts. But I thought I would just float this idea. There is an open source mathematics software system called sagemath which aims to be a viable substitute to Mathematica and Maple. The link is http://www.sagemath.org/ There exists a latex package called sagetex, which allows using sagemath functions from within latex. The following link on ctan has some examples http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/sagetex/ Do you think it is possible to do a similar thing in Context? It would be really cool if this functionality is added to Context. What do the experts here think?

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startregister produces strange page range ("1-2-3")
by Sanjoy Mahajan 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

With the following minimal file, the index entry for Knuth has the strange page range "1-2-3" rather than "1-2, 2-3". Adding \input knuth a few times in between the two start..stopregister stanzas gives a correct page range (so maybe that change hides the problem). I'm using ConTeXt 2008.10.31 (Mk II) from the Debian unstable packages. The live context (2009.03.06) produces a blank index with the pdftex engine, so I'm CC'ing Patrick in case that problem is separate. \starttext \startregister[index][Knuth]{Knuth} \dorecurse{5}{\input knuth } \stopregister[index][Knuth] \startregister[index][Knuth2]{Knuth} \dorecurse{5}{\input knuth } \stopregister[index][Knuth2] \completeindex \stoptext -Sanjoy

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beta
by Hans Hagen 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

Hi i uploaded a beta with a few structure fixes; upcoming mkiv betas will also have an experimental new vertical spacing mechanism (which also demands some adaptions to structure related code) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Footnotes inside section title
by Khaled Hosny 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

With the latest minimals, in the following example footnote text don't show up. \starttext \section{hello\footnote{world}} \stoptext Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer

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Letter module – new feature (mkiv only)
by Wolfgang Schuster 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Hi, with the latest version of my module you get a overview of the loaded files at the end of the log file, be aware this is a mkiv only feature i will not implement this for mkii. To show you how this looks like here is the output from my test document: correspondence : t-correspondence.tex: 2009.04.27 correspondence : t-letter.tex: 2009.02.13 correspondence : default.nli: 2009.03.31 correspondence : dinb.nls: 2009.02.14 correspondence : default.nls: 2009.03.27 correspondence : label.nle: 2009.02.13 correspondence : addrentry.nle: 2008.12.26 Wolfgang

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Re: [NTG-context] [OS X TeX] PSTricks in Context
by Wolfgang Schuster 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Dear Mr. Arnold, questions regarding ConTeXt and modules for ConTeXt are better asked on the ConTeXt mailing list and if you would have done this I could have given you the following answer. The default output format for ConTeXt is PDF since about three years while PSTricks needs the files in PostScript format which requires a intermediate DVI file. To get a DVI file with ConTeXt you could set it either with \setupoutput[dvi] in your document or you use the backend switch on the command line, because the code between the PSTRICKS-environment is written in a external file which is converted to dvi, ps and pdf you have to do this in the pstric-module and not in your document. In my own installation I made a copy from the file m-pstric.tex and added the \dostartTEXapplication macro from the page-app.tex file where I now changed the line \executesystemcommand{texexec --once --batch \bufferprefix \@@texapp.tex}% to \executesystemcommand{texexec --once --batch --backend=dvips \bufferprefix\@@texapp.tex}% and switched from ps2pdf command to pstopdf %\executesystemcommand{ps2pdf \bufferprefix\@@texapp.ps \bufferprefix\@@texapp.pdf}% \executesystemcommand{texmfstart pstopdf \bufferprefix\@@texapp.ps \bufferprefix\@@texapp.pdf}% to get a cropped page for the image. As a last change I added the following two definition to m-pstrics.tex because pstricks.tex use them but are not defined in ConTeXt: \letvalue{@unused}\plussixteen \letvalue{alloc@}\gobblefivearguments After these changes I was able to produce PSTricks images in ConTeXt but people had use never given enough time on the ConTeXt list to answer their questions and fix the problem and so PSTricks support is broken since a long time and this will not change. Best regards, Wolfgang Schuster

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Mplib problem of latest beta on luatex 0.40
by Wei-Wei Guo 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Dear developers, Here is the example and warnings. Example: \startuseMPgraphic{mpos:par:columnset:textuline} \iftracepositions show_multi_pars \else draw_multi_pars \fi ; path p ; p := boundingbox currentpicture ; currentpicture := currentpicture shifted (0,-0.3*StrutDepth) ; setbounds currentpicture to p ; \stopuseMPgraphic \definetextbackground [underline] [location=text, alternative=1, mp=mpos:par:columnset:textuline, background=, frame=off] \starttext \underline{blurblur} \stoptext The compiled result has no underline and ConTeXt complains during compilation: mplib : making 'metafun.mp' into '/var/cache/texmf/luatex-cache/context/b51cb04348b3b14d1dfc7333fc9b63f2/formats/cont-en-metafun.mem' mplib : problems with 'metafun.mp' from '/var/cache/texmf/luatex-cache/context/b51cb04348b3b14d1dfc7333fc9b63f2/formats/cont-en-metafun.mem' Best wishes, Wei-Wei

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new beta
by Hans Hagen 27 Apr '09

27 Apr '09

Hi, I uploaded a beta matching luatex 0.39 (+ some fixes) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

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Why searching fonts in xetex is so slow?
by Yue Wang 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

Hi, When I use XeTeX, font searching through texmf- tree is very slow. search font through fontconfig is very fast. plain TeX or LaTeX does not have that problem. why is that? anyway to improve it? Yue Wang

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Textbackground bug [repost]
by Diego Depaoli 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

[I got no answers to my previous post] With page imposition, in luatex, background overrides text \setuppapersize[A4][A3,landscape] \setuparranging[2SIDE] % <--bug here \setupcolors[state=start] \definetextbackground[intro] [backgroundcolor=gray, backgroundoffset=.25cm, offset=.5cm, frame=off, location=paragraph, color=white] \definetextbackground[subintro] [backgroundcolor=texcolorfour, backgroundoffset=0pt, offset=0pt, frame=off, location=text, color=blue] \starttext \starttextbackground[intro] A rather common way to draw attention to a passage, is to add a background. In this chapter we will therefore discuss how to enhance your document with \starttextbackground [subintro] colorful areas that either or not follow the shape of your paragraph. \stoptextbackground\ Be warned: this chapter has so many backgrounds that you should consider wearing sunglasses. \stoptextbackground \dorecurse{5}{\input tufte} \stoptext Regards -- Diego Depaoli

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converting Word to Context
by Roger Mason 25 Apr '09

25 Apr '09

Hello, There was thread a while ago about converting Word docs to Context. Did anyone make progress in setting up a workflow? Cheers, Roger

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Officina Sans?
by Yue Wang 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Hi, Hans: in order to use officina, I should type something like \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] \definetypeface[officina][rm][serif][officina][default][encoding=texnansi] \definetypeface[officina][ss][sans] [officina][default][encoding=texnansi] \setupbodyfont[officina,rm,10pt] can you change type-buy like lucida so that only these three lines are needed. \usetypescriptfile[type-buy] \usetypescript[officina][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[officina,rm,10pt] Thank you Yue Wang

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third party module "lettrine"
by Jörg Hagmann 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Hi, I need the lettrine module (used to have it, not any more). I tried installation according to the wiki: . first-setup --extras="t-lettrine" It did something but it doesn't work. (\lettrine not recognised) I find t-lettrine.tex in tex/texmf-context/tex/context/third/lettrine/t-tettrine.tex I also tried all kinds of mktexlsr, texexec --make --all (using Mk II). Thanks for your help, Jörg

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texexec slow
by R. Bastian 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Hi, I am new on this list. I use pftex and would use ConTeXt installed with texlive/2007. 'ruby' and 'pdftex' work fine, but 'texexec' (texexec.rb "$@") is very slow. Where con I get the doc or what shall I do ? Thanks, -- René Bastian 1 rue du Presbytère F-67160 Wissembourg

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page area state evaluation
by Alan Stone 24 Apr '09

24 Apr '09

Hi, How do you evaluate, for example, a page's header state (normal, start, stop, empty, high, none, nomarking, name) in order to if header state = x do this else do that endif Thanks, Alan

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